tonight moscow wants more involvement in investigating out adopted russian child died while the u.s. still awaits the autopsy results nearly a month after the boy's tragic that. prescribes to hold another nation wide stoppage with labor unions and parking on yet another strike in protest of a crippling austerity measures. the majority of british people do not trust their country's journalists only politicians fare worse apparently in a nationwide poll this hour we ask why. alone a very good evening chief who just joined us this is r.t. international is kevin owen here in moscow tonight very good to have you company

our top stories you just heard the russian investigators want an active role now in the u.s. probe into the death of the young boy adopted by an american family and it's almost a month since three year old died russian officials believe he was fatally abused by his adoptive american mother but u.s. authorities say they're still waiting for autopsy results. in the family's hometown in texas where this tragedy unfolded. russian officials are outraged at yet another case of the death of a russian child living an adoptive family in the united states we're standing outside the home of alan and laura shadow parents two three year old max shadow known in russia as mean the three year old boy after suffering severe bruises to his legs head and internal organs had died in january this year just a few weeks after his third birthday right now his parents are not making any statements if you call their voice mail it says if you're a reporter or news agency we have no comment now according to russian officials the

investigation that they're conducting they're saying allegedly was the mother of the child that was behind his death they're saying not only was the child severely bruised but had also been fed for a long time i am tired psychotic drugs meant to treat sky it's a free media in adults a drug that is sold by prescription in the united states we do know that the younger brother of much continues living with the family here at the county sheriff's office an investigation is currently ongoing in cooperation with russian officials and local child protection services on the afternoon of january twenty first the local police department had received a call from a local hospital emergency room while a police officer was on his way there the three year old boy had already died unfortunately these kind of this particular kind of calls for. every day. somebody has had a heart attack we don't put pressure. we have a child that's been injured in an a.t.v.

we don't put a pressure unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it wasn't a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and then all developed from talking to the parents the people that lived there it just took a little more time for us to develop. currently an autopsy is underway. and the police is not really releasing any further details in terms of what they can tell us about this case what we do know is according to them the autopsy results may come any time from a month from now tell us that there are no suspects in this case as of yet and no arrests have been made and. after county texas. the children want to moscow says russia has the right now to demand the return of the other child who's adopted by the american family if it is proved that they caused the death of his brother despite the really post from the foundation against child trafficking it told me the u.s.

adoption system lack supervision. and national competitions i mean the u.s. is at state level the company so it's not the u.s. state department can you hear this is. actually said like any other children in the u.s. like children of their parents and so the state level cannot interfere about children in russia who are in jail. in child protection in supervised care. fired by rights out there from official from the state want to child abduction and you basically get the pride of family and it's like any other child so there's nobody supervising it there's nobody not for anything you post adoption rate for. russia very. i don't you go. oh by the. adoption agency. i love to. say anything about you know.

who are of the children who work with her and work towards reintegration into the family. with traffic cull to school shots and hospitals desperately understaffed labor unions in greece are embarking on yet another twenty four hour strike over the country's crippling austerity around forty thousand people have marched in athens angry spending cuts and tax hikes police say there were some clashes but no arrests or injuries maybe even to the money the government gets rid of the bailout agreement altogether which requires further severe austerity measures meanwhile the e.u. struck a deal empowering the european commission to verify the budgets of the blocs members documentary filmmaker just a follow says greece is turning into debt all chrissake when you have huge dead leg the one that greece and other countries of the european very very are facing if you start losing levels of democracy and i'm afraid that's how the don't forget

that one year ago we had nothing like the prankster and after the election we have a government that promised to read to see the dead but never did something they only invest in riot police and in unconstitutional. and we both more spirit in the country i'm afraid that we are. becoming a third world country not only as far as the economy is closer but also as far as democracy useless or europe was one of the major players that destroyed the greek economy by forcing business through the measures only countries that said that we not follow the orders of the i.m.f. or big financial institutions managed to survive. this crisis and i don't even own countries like argentina or iceland who didn't know any of the proposals of the big financial institutions or the you or the governments. over seventy

percent of people in britain do not trust their country's journalists sievers of parliament did better according to a nationwide poll although other politicians did come out worse tony gosling is an investigative journalist he told me it's not the reporters but it's media bosses who are the. first thing i'll say is this probably expect me to say this is not the fault of journalists because the people actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy bosses vaal papers the senior staff well it is actually and it's the owners as well i mean it's been one of the byproducts of the financial crisis has been very handy for some because the it's been become much much easier to hire and fire journalists and so what's happening is the media is concentrating if you are a few hands on these owners are basically using their outlets to push peddle their own political line the idea being basically if you're a journalist like me you know don't rock the boat you might end up on the dole you

know you've got wife and kids to feed ok right so generally just stunning but for this people feel that media is all too frequently lying to them study as you see it in britain is that a fair assessment or is it overblown. well i think it's overblown to say the law it's just that we're not told the entire truth i mean for example in denmark about ten years ago one of the news presenters was actually sacked for being on the news and saying at the end of the news that is what we decided to tell you tonight as a bit of a joke but you know there is a lot that isn't being said in our media i mean the b.b.c. is losing its credibility slowly ever since really the one nine hundred ninety s. because of the way it's been being managed not through the fall of the journalist but i mean for example the moment we've got the chairman of the b.b.c.'s chris patten he's a former senior conservative cabinet minister you know he's coming from a very specific point of view i mean i don't really think he should have people with that political persuasion or any x.

you know senior politicians running the b.b.c. and of course the results being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody has actually been sacked for that. high fuel prices are hitting pockets all of us around the globe are the root causes ranging from the rest of the middle east to recession and that's why the movers and shakers them from the world's energy sector and london to say trying to find a way through it all in the future ought t. was there we've got more on that later on the printer that could really give us almost after the break the scientists on the verge of developing a machine to reproduce a living tissue on the cloning conserves their full surrounding. well into the future to the finish as world class athletes ascend on sochi brand new olympic venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion

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russia's ready i was talks between the syrian rebels and the government indications

that the situation is moving out of its current dead end that optimism is from the foreign minister sergey lavrov is due to meet his syrian counterpart on monday but the opposition leader also expected to visit the russian capital although it's not known when more from oprah's called off. earlier the leader of the syrian opposition for the first time said that they're really to negotiate with the government but only on condition that the release one hundred sixty thousand prisoners will be claimed have been jailed because of their political views the government on its head and said that it's ready to talk but without any preconditions or clearly there are still major sticking points including the fate of president assad but russia's foreign minister says that there is room for potential progress now moscow has been saying that it's not taking sides in this conflict but is calling on the international community to acquire you apply equal pressure on them in order to begin a political process in syria you knew they didn't until recently that there were those who discouraged the opposition from participating in dialogue but the regime

just as far as i understand now the situation is changing and so it's important that this readiness of the syrian opposition's leadership be met with the government's response that they are willing to do the same in the meantime of the situation in syria continues to deteriorate and on tuesday russian emergencies ministry's plane evacuated around one hundred russian and c.i.s. citizens and there's also speculation that several russian navy ships have been sent to the mediterranean to assist possible further evacuations evil piskun off now is a question how do you ensure your allies of the future well one way possibly is to educate them in your own country while the there are a fair few potential foreign leaders currently in fact in america's education system getting insight from luminaries including former secretary of state hillary clinton who signed on now with a public speaking agency and it's gonna change she can has been finding out is seems to be a strategy this bearing fruit. the u.s.

is investing in potential for invaders by educating them in america convinced that back in their home countries when the time comes most of them will side with u.s. interests impair our future generations of political leaders who've had a positive american experience and they are more likely to be global partners leave us mahmoud jibril could be one example having studied in the us he went on to become the head of leave us transition government he's now the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties there's little doubt which country he would favor when it comes to dividing lucrative oil deals in the future u.s. foreign service officers had their eye on him even before the revolution broke out a leaked diplomatic cable from november two thousand and nine written by the u.s. ambassador to libya gene credits described mr general as quote a serious interlocutor who quote unquote gets the u.s. perspective and of course mr gibril is not the only one who gets the u.s.

perspective i'm not going to measure how many kids were really just on a program what i'm going to do is look at where they are five years later and you know what ninety two percent of the people who go on u.s. government exchanges go on to work in civil society positions in the parliament or in an ngo sariah took a two year course in public diplomacy in two thousand and six at the university of south in california in this particular program this was every single lecture has a state department member this. so you know that you're not really learning public relations that you. had to implement with the u.s. trade and development agency an offshoot of the state department's usa id claims that what they call aid is actually investment agencies deputy director says every one dollar they invest they get eight dollars back in u.s. exports america's officials maintain that it's hard to overestimate the benefits of

investing in public diplomacy the investment i do not call it spending it's an investment it's absolutely an investment and there's a return on investment. it is very hard to quantify that return completely but i can tell you that you could quantify it in troops but you don't have to send somewhere so i never pursued a career with the training. it was interfering other countries i mean i may not be fond of the government in iran but i said. it's not pretty and i was sitting last. lectures and people saying how do we think the market i'd be underminded the government so for me it was a real challenge to see the programs through this age it was their lead definitely that the soviet union like in two thousand and seven when i was in their program

they had already started the push towards africa diplomacy is good business as has been made clear by the state department time and time again getting foreign leaders and their advice theirs to think in english and to subsequently favor the united states and their policy is much cheaper than bombing their country so the state department will certainly be more forceful in their efforts at exercising some power in washington i'm going to shake them. now if you're a small you know there's an app for just about everything these days would tell you online tonight though that now there's one future post post-mortem tweets through i'm a cob out on to twitter to keep your online spirit alive long enough to really blow your mind one of them will also the two most interesting reports of poland just mysteriously dropped its charges of a secret cia prisons well qaeda suspects with allegedly detained and tortured.

high fuel prices a bit of burden for many consumers but even those now working in the industry say it's holding the world but from a coverage making it worse of the sanctions on iran and the ongoing uncertainty in the middle east more than two thousand key players than from their own a gas industry and outrun a fresh air the problems and try to find solutions in london sarah first been hearing from the ex. thousands of oil and gas professionals from the well the world have gathered here in london for the annual international petroleum week listened to talks from senior industry figures last year and the buzz around sanctions on iran dominated the talks these sanctions were supposed to bring iran to the negotiating table with their nuclear program that the sun and the sanctions could have come at a worse time a loss of production in south sudan in yemen in the middle c. and now in syria has been driving prices higher for the reigning queen still in demand in asia with the u.k.'s problem with millions of pain struggling with fuel

poverty being echoed all across the european union right now is it the european consumer has been hardest hit by these sanctions we've been speaking from industry insiders to find out what they think so obviously you've got the private companies then sort of carrying out political decisions are having very tough economic or would he say today looks like the oil and gas companies sort of in bed with the government i don't i don't see that we are taught i think the politicians around the world have to make the decisions companies have to get on with business technology business commercial business and now we see with that with iran oil being used as a political weapon i would use that sort of phrase i mean i think it's always the case served as as years go by governments around the world surpluses on trade and other things become part of the company's job is to acquire the best technology in the best commerce to comply with whatever the environment is at the time to get the best deal for can seem is ultimately ultimately that's the job yes it can seem is

it saying right now there are gas and oil prices through the roof of the best think yes you're right on the best thing we can do is invest so i unfortunately the age of easy all and cheap oil i think is past but we're finding more oil the technology is getting better and better what we've got to do is to ensure it doesn't keep on the best thing that we can do is to get the technology. deployed get the best work practices get the financing and get additional oil production because that's the best thing the companies can do to dampen say it right the potential rising prices thank you very much joining us thank you sir well sanctions in iran have reduced its oil exports and investors will keenly watch next week's nuclear talks for signs of a shift in the seated tensions remain in the west we suspects to run of developing atomic weapons back in two thousand and seven the white house came close indeed to launching military action against iran but was stopped led by a national intelligence report saying iran had halted its covert program we've spoken to it's all. the judgment that we made was that it was

a political decision to halt the weaponization portions of its program or continued to fizzle material fizzle material was the pacing element is that the. at the time required to go from physical material to what. we did it was shorter than a dime fissile material on it but they've halted it. for. terminology we used was because of international scrutiny and pressure but that center was a political decision it wasn't a matter of a technical problem. or a change in geo political situation they still lived in a tough neighborhood. that they could turn this program back on again at any time and we also said in that release part we weren't sure we would know if they turned it back on.

and we want you to watch full interview with the former chief of the u.s. national intelligence council on air in twenty minutes time tonight here on out a. quick look now at some of tonight's top stories to bring up to speed with starting with the ongoing violence in syria the footballers' been killed and several other players injured after a mortar bomb hit the stadium in damascus two shells landed in the sports facility in the center of the city where a home space team was training at the time just a day earlier two mortars exploded near the presidential palace in the syrian capital causing damage but no casualties. france's far right leaders bring to britain but got a less than warm welcome bring lappin was invited to cambridge university to a debate about the e.u. and french politics police clashed with around two hundred ninety fascist demonstrators outside the venue the panel is often criticized in france for her views came third in last year's presidential election and has been the euro impi for nearly a decade. gary's tired governments resigned after

a series of nationwide protests reached its peak public anger was initially over soaring at the city prices understeer it emerges that later took an anti-government twist the prime minister of the country said he could not therefore stay in power amid such while and saying quote every drop of blood is a shame for us. now these days with no computer printers that can bring this vivid color and even photo quality of course nothing new there but how about one which prints human organs well it's in development now and scientists working on it think it will prove a watershed moment for medicine although of course fears over human cloning could make so-called people printing hard to sell is very important for r.t. . major universities corporate laboratories and biomedical engineers are printing experimental heart valves need cartilage is bone implants kidney cells and even healing tissue now three d. bio printing essentially squirts of the living cells to build up to shoot structure

eventually biomedical engineer is hoped to print out taylor tissue suitable for surgery and entire organs that can be used in transplants experts say that ideally they would like to create organs for those that are on lists waiting for organs and possibly you know in life circumstances in dire life circumstances so pioneers of this bio printing believe it will be a huge benefit to to the public and to the medical community to i could essentially use photographs of you and then create a three d. image of you which is quite scary because with these three d. printing we don't know how far will go how far will develop and to know that a stranger can find a piece of your hair or your cigarette but if you smoke or a glass that you drank out of or even a few pictures of you and create a three d.

facial structure of you is is a bit terrifying i mean forget about surveillance and privacy issues knowing that a stranger could do something like that view it doesn't mean it doesn't keep a sense of calm within the public and this is just the start of it who knows how it will develop five years from now maybe a person can be cloned or a parent person can be replicated between their photographs between the hair and their d.n.a. and between them and also add to that the virtual identity that most people have created for themselves online through social media through uses of skype through e-mail essentially there's a footprint of someone everywhere be through your hair or your activity online and that could essentially be duplicated with all this new software and technology that's pioneering right now. kind of scary stuff in that press freedom has become

one of the key roadblocks to turkey's e.u. membership a journalist rights watch of report says the country's become the world's number one media prison in fact many reporters are detained under anti-terrorism laws and of being held without charge for prolonged periods of time ditto smarties relinquished. it's because of people like me near that turkey who is the number one spot in the world for the number of journalists in jail nadeem was arrested and held for two hundred days his charge up to mean classified documents and insulting government officials he suspects it was because he published a book investigating the death of another journalist which unnerved government officials. the main reason the government arrests journalists just to stifle voices of disagreement the best way to do that is to silence the journalists who speak out against the government then their audience will also fall silent that's the main reason behind the imprisonment of journalists it's not just journalists you get put in jail doctors students labor union leaders the risk of people being thrown in

jail in turkey. his words are backed by research from the committee for protection of journalists which claim turkey's or cake laws for journalists for writing anything their thirty's might consider on turkish on par with terrorists the problem with press freedom in turkey stands mainly from the legal framework it has to be reformed and it has to be fundamentally reformed in order for turkey to stop conflating terrorism with journalism turkish officials promised last november at proposal to parliament that laws be changed to improve the treatment of journalists at the time the country's news agency is quoted the turkish deputy prime minister who responded to this report for us the number is not important we are greatly saddened even by one journalist being jailed for their rights and drawings journalism activities most jailed reporters have been incarcerated over

their legit connection to organic on a deeply secret anti government organisation most of whose members have never been identified and which exist many believe only in official papers turkish jerk. say affiliation with or unicon is just one of many clever ways the government gets away with locking them up. the government say is. just carte enough to qualify as journalists. and that's of course a primitive reply. which befits will there be a prime minister who said to said that all night people. because. treason bribery by now that had prescott's journalism is about a popular career choice for young people in turkey the country boasts numerous newspapers and a plethora of to be channels but in the current circumstances every reports could

end up being a one way ticket to jail. because i teach journalism in a university families of my students tell them go learn journalism but don't become journalists still a lot of young people feel it's a good way to express their view on the government the disagreement so it's a popular career but a dangerous one this c.p.g. says turkish officials use all their legislative powers not just incarcerate journalists but also scare them from reporting anything the government doesn't like a tactic that won't deter people like nadine. there's no fear my trial continues i may be out of jail but i'm still facing a fifteen year term and in turkey anything can happen the police can accuse me of anything but being a member of a terror group for example someone can send them an anonymous letter mail use it as evidence and i'll be back behind bars. in turkey. i t. . scumming up to term here moscow time thanks ever so much being with us now there

are moscow it's cover no one here in cape overjoyed us of all the calls for the business now we've spoken about this before another year we're talking about it again illegal cash flow of money going out of rush or illegally it's still a big problem isn't more to it i mean it's a recurring theme as you say always here in russia where is the cash going to why is it leaving in such high abundance but now we're looking at nearly fifty billion dollars leaving illegally because of russia's central bank has recently said that it could be due to one single collective group of people taking this cash and that's what animals yeah exactly so it's a bit of conspiracy going on so more details in the business but i think given. good leverage. to build a. mission

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hello there welcome to business i'm katie pilgrim thank you indeed for joining me now more than a hall full of russia's nearly fifty billion dollar illegal capital outflow in twenty twelve could be down to one single organized group lots exactly what the

chairman of russia's central bank is suggesting quite an accusation considering this staggering amount accounts to two point five percent of the country's g.d.p. in total all of which left the russian borders illegally so these transactions can be anything from drug smuggling to tax evasion and if we look at how much cash has that she escaped over the last three years it's no wonder the russian government want it back or at least stop money from escaping at a way so. you should be able to see that capital outflow has been a problem for a fair few years now twenty twelve when it is forty nine billion jumping the border twenty eleven that was the worst with eighty one billion existing in total and twenty ten nearly forty billion went on

a foreign holiday earlier today i spoke to ben areas from business new europe on the central bank's suggestion. not see if there is not very media. isn't a very high media profile and so these comments of doubly so in coming from him because he's usually quite quiet and started in conservative central bankers there and here he is making headlines around the world with these you know he's saying in effect that sixty percent of the money that's going out of the country comes from crooks and this is an official statement by the center. which is not what we're used to hearing from the kind of how to take the timing of the message if that because ignites he was going to leave his position he's certainly going to leave with a bang i mean he's to to be replaced he has to step down the end of his term in june but at the same time i mean if you step back for the moment this comes in the context of what i see is

a rapidly expanding greece and more serious and see corruption and drive to the deputies and i don't really have foreign bank accounts nor foreign assets and the deputy that quit today because it was discovered he and thirty million dollars worth of property in florida and florida he didn't he didn't declare that this isn't a view that exactly what you have at the central bank is talking about talking about officials who were hiding money overseas and you know these these deals these properties. under the table because they don't want to credit here in russia because it's embarrassing and here's one pretty good quote and it's got sacked what kind of signal does this message sound to the markets to the investment community to the world and russia is being criticized for its corruption is a serious problem and has been for a long time but as i say i think the. political will to do something. has been growing steadily stronger ever since the defense minister was sacked in

november and since then we've seen a raft and then on a weekly basis some new action taking place do you see the. worth finally turning into real action they have to because the russian budget is sort of just about breaking even and the days of massive surpluses lots of extra cash to spend and going forward the government's now focused very much on controlling the system and stopping them. and i think it serious comments are very much in that context for us or ignore the corruption problem for most of the last decade because there's just this complete feet everywhere and suddenly when the cash disappears state being goaded into doing something. that you could argue i think i can insinuate that it's a bit late or rather they're coming to very late they should have started this all . in two thousand and five in the middle of the bill and now they're doing it when

the economy is already slipping into stagnation which is not right and it makes it's because you're asking people to make very painful changes at a time when it's already quite difficult to operate in that well we have to wait and see i mean it means everything's down to the reform program now and they're really going to make it work and it's provided the political will they should have before on the basis of conviction now that political will is being driven on the basis of a necessity. i'm moving on to the markets and us stocks are falling from recent five year highs and that's because of we could have expected u.s. housing construction zayton all the main event over on wall street today is the release of the minutes from the federal opening market committee see another was silly the meetings of the january meeting will be coming out so really investors on full alert for that want to see if more stimulus measures will be taken by the central banks more from the shift policy europe that unemployment in the u.k.

fell once again and the number in work reached a record high of the london games probably not surprisingly mind you my nine europe was down three tenths of a cent for the diets that speak is of we couldn't expect to eurozone consumer confidence data that really disappointed despite that though we had french business confidence that was doing rather well today big event this week of course we've got the italian elections over the weekend so investors really watching that want to see how the ruble got on the russian currency it managed to finish up mix so it's lower against the u.s. dollar that managed to gain against the common currency that they actually markets here in moscow then both the r.t.s. and the might they finish the day in negative territory so the go to red color there so six tenth's down for the r.t.s. and seven for the my six we did have some gain as though we had agreed to be the second biggest lender here after of us as we're all managing to gain better than the market so it was an all bot. now moving on britain could face crippling fuel

bills off the warnings to consumers from energy watchdog often the chief executive . is also raising fears of a nine hundred seventy style blackout because of a slowdown in coal and oil production or he warns that as much as a million homes could be affected by these large power cut off early today i spoke to professor of global energy from work business school frederick wellman on what this means for britain's poorest citizens in mentioning the government tends to call fuel poverty or the very first that people from low income brackets are excessively. challenged by these conditions where energy prices tend to hit them much more the than perhaps others more and more affluent consumers and so it is is in the it is in the interest interest of the government as well as the industry energy industry to look at ways and means of helping those. consumers

that are most heavily affected by those prices. and. there are a number of initiatives already under going but it would help if if consumers increase the pressure if if if the organizations that look after people and their interest to keep those for and poor income brackets that they get the support they need from from or from a wide range of sources and i'll be back in lessons who hours time as promised artie's exclusive interview with america's former chief of national intelligence council on how his report helped save also a military slowdown with iran a few years ago.

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with me today is thomas finger a former chairman of the national intelligence council and a man who many say played a big part in preventing the us from taking military action against iran by boldly claiming it had halted its nuclear weapons program well if we could just start by talking about what happened back in two thousand and seven he was over saw a national intelligence estimates on iran's nuclear program at the time your government was posturing for war he was claiming that it was trying to develop a nuclear weapon but your report effectively blew that out of the water was it difficult to get the truth and the reality with in the government was almost universally. this is really good work. the focus was on the quality of the intelligence collection efforts

that have been successful and the quality of the clarity of the analytic process and judgments there were people outside of the government that did not like the conclusion of the implicit conclusion diplomacy had worked if diplomacy had worked it might work again. and that. the tactic they adopted was not to attack the substance which they couldn't do because they hadn't seen it classified for the last summary and. because it became clear very quickly that the trade craft initialing was good could you couldn't say it was a sloppy is the iraq. so it became an ad homonym these evil incompetent individuals who oppose the president dash this off with all to

repurpose side given what you've said is the sky full feature whistle blow if i could call you that for someone to come forward with an opinion that's different there was no political blowback. that me not from within the government from outside of the government but. is that the. you know members of congress read newspapers are affected by what their constituents read in the newspapers. one needs only to watch the. criticism of susan rice at the possibility of she would be announced of chuck hagel. that. is this is ludicrously unfair of course it is of course is. but that's

also part of the reality of living in a political environment so six years on g. think iran is still after a nuclear weapon in your opinion whether the judgment that we made was that it was a political decision to halt the weaponization portions of its program it continued to fizzle material fizzle material was the pacing element is that that the. at the time required to go from physical material. we did it was shorter than the time that fissile material. on but they halted it. terminology we used was because of international scrutiny and pressure but that sense it was a political decision it was a matter of a technical problem. or a change in geo political situation they still lived in a tough neighborhood. that they could turn this program back on again at any time

and we also said in that release part we weren't sure we would know if they turned it back on a more about intelligence is the intelligence good enough today to ascertain whether iran actually does one see producing nuclear weapon or whether it has started well i've you know i'm outside of the. government and the access to that but. the. director of national intelligence must give an annual report to the congress it's called the worldwide threat assessment part of the budget process every year and there are both classified unclassified version of that report and the unclassified version of the report continued to reaffirm the judgments in the two thousand and seven estimate. that leads me to judge after all the years of experience since they cannot say something

different in public than it would say in a classified version that the. either there is no intelligence to reverse that judgment or not adequate dodges to reverse meant judge or the intelligence is there reaffirming. i don't know which it is but i know it comes out in the same place is this guy for this intelligence to be manipulated in any way for example using the case of iraq it was claimed it was trying to produce weapons of mass destruction that prevnar not to be tricked. is there a fear that each intelligence could be a manipulated for a case against iran. no i really don't because the iraq there are a lot of things wrong with iraq asked of it and my name is one of the ones on i was part representing the bureau of intelligence and research we were the dissenters on the nuclear portion of it there was not evidence of reconstituted nuclear program

which was the only one that really mattered but there were there were many many flaws and problems in that estimate in the process has changed in the years sensed two to fix that kind of problem there was not pressure there that led to any skewing there was interpretation. of what the intelligence said. by politicians that went beyond what the intelligence community judgments were example of the vice president referring to the relationship between saddam and al qaeda. and the intelligence community he kept asking the cia which was the piece asked. for to

look into this and they kept saying that no evidence. no conclusive evidence no persuasive evidence and he asked many times he didn't say the intelligence community says there's a link he says the incentives community has given me thirteen reports on saddam's connection with al qaeda and when he says that how did you feel you angry frustrated it's not a prudent thing for politicians to do because the intelligence community is presenting the same judgments to members of congress members of congress can ask do you agree with what. the answer would be i don't know specifically with no that's not the judgment of the intelligence community. so that i back to your original question and i worried

overly about politicisation about the deliberate distortion i'm not i think that. the number of instances of political distortion of intelligence intelligence community caving in to political pressure from people who have done this work recent books by paul paul or. joshua roven or both look at this in summers there's not very many examples in their decade sweep they've got basically the same examples and if my memory of both books is correct all of the examples are of the director of central intelligence not lower level it's at that level a position that straddles the boundary of the divide between analysts intelligence and policy makers the members of the national security they're supposed to be

policy guides as well one of the last fourteen years we have seen to a large extent becoming an agent the u.s. and nato led interventions from you could slavia three to iraq and then mali do you feel that this sort of intervention is aiding the fight against terrorism mali though it's a lot of it is depicted in. counterterrorist terms and part of you know the u.s. and other support of the or mali an army i think that the. if there's any upsurge in terrorist activity directed at. the west in general because french now u.s. supported with the air airlift capacity it would be pretty small. well given what you said in the west's reaction is we're going to come and get the do you think that we're not going to see war interventions in the future i would doubt it

i would doubt it that and i if i understand what president obama. is the tempting to do. to. scale back u.s. involvement scale back the assumption that the u.s. is no nine one one if you've got any problems. in the world. that we'll be less assertive in doing it. other developed countries. we. don't have the military capacity and it's a very much harder calculation in a totally interconnected world transparent world communications that

changes are going to come they're going to come internally. and most of it to six i think the prevailing mood is if you try to help insiders. conduct a revolution against a knock yourself or a terry and incompetent regime you taint them you taint them and you taint yourself . so you. hope for the best sometimes you provide some assistance you come in after they've got. some motive come of success so that's my sense of the way the wind is blowing your trajectory of the world so i was thinking thank you very much time thank you for the questions and the time.

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