the latest news and the week's us top stories here on our team the hunger strike at one time will be a pos as the one hundred day mark with most inmates are still starving themselves over the indefinite detention without charge. there was government seizes the phone records of over one hundred journalists from the associated press and spot the media outrage but the white house insists it was unaware of the probe. a syrian government forces take the fight to the rebels in a key town near the lebanese border seen as an entry point for smuggled weapons and mercenaries. and them all spies in disguise so a russian security expert is a cia spy chief in moscow as u.s. intelligence it's led red place again getting poured red handed trying to recruit

a russian agent. a warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our t.v. it's the weekly with me to bomb would say more than one hundred days as since the mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay began there's still no sign that any of the protestors are willing to back down well over half of the people detained there without charge protesting the indefinite plied with no hope of release some inmates are say they seeking freedom through death but the u.s. military is force feeding them to make sure that doesn't happen as granted as you can reports. after years of inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation one tunnel detainees have finally got

the president's attention i'm going to go back out this they've heard these words before as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and if you go to the geneva conventions and now again it needs to be closed now congress and again as many times before the white house if it were sponsibility to congress there's much he can do administrative leave without congress without having a legislative act even under current restrictions the administration has the power to use national security waivers to release many of these men which it hasn't used it's the charge that well the fear that if you release some of these prisoners that have been accused of being terrorist in the past and and they do something else or you find them going into terrorist organizations you will pay a heavy political price for that so many of these men have fallen victim not just

to their wrongful capture but also to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future but you can't you can't will people to maybe you know this is a we're not future police here so far the administration's only response to the crisis have gone part of all has been to force feeding troops down detainees nostrils the fact of the matter is that when an individual makes a decision of sound mind makes a decision to refuse food as a political protest then as we said in a joint statement it is not open to the states in a second chance to force them to do each. and the full speeding here involves the insertion of a tube of some significant down on the diameter through the nasal passages and into the stomach in the most horrible of circumstances the un special rapporteur on human rights also told me that he was encouraged to hear the. once again express commitment to close the infamous prison president of united states has kuantan him as a problem and yet on the ground for some reason the camps to treat these men and humanely

and to deny them basic dignity for years the administration is engaged in verbal and legal acrobatics to justify its inaction on guantanamo and still not clear how long before people there start dying but one thing is clear the elephant in the room just got too big to ignore in washington i'm going to shut down. the u.s. military recently requested tens of millions of dollars to renovate the budget to keep it open indefinitely maintaining the dettori of scams already costing america a considerable sum let's take a look at those numbers right now nine hundred thousand dollars that's the price of keeping just one detainee the four year and there's one hundred and sixty six inmates at guantanamo many of whom have been held without charge for more than a decade because much less and some twenty five thousand per year to house a convicted prisoner in the u.s.

are g.'s a bill dodd told to guantanamo spokes man and navy captain robert drawn to denied abuse of the facility. they get what we call a full frisk which is a pat down search not unlike you'd experience going through airport security if you are selected for secondary screening in the united states it's quick it's full clothing on and it's noninvasive it's not the detainees job to tell the truth the lawyers just repeat what the detainees say that all of the allegations are false and let me ask you about the allegations about the unsafe and inhumane force feeding all those prisoners who are on hunger strike do you deny that the policy of the united states and its drugs are of life or lawful means we have currently thirty who are doing and carolyn said that's using a liquid nutrition supplement most of them when they are ordered to do that go compliantly and take it a percentage about a third need to be taken to their cheating it's

a procedure that's done in hospitals and nursing homes every day it's not done to harass them but it's done to sustain life to sustain life but we've been hearing from the medical justice network who is saying that don't deserve accused of colluding in torture that at the camp and that's been agreed on by the world medical association and the u.n. the u.s. and we disagree with them it's a matter of national policy our courts have upheld that. sustaining life you lawful means lawful we have a medical protocol where we evaluate detainees based on their weight loss and co-morbidity we allow them to hunger strikes that if they get below eighty five percent of body weight some damage could be down we will do the involuntary feeding all of those allegations are false they're not they're not being subject to extreme temperatures they're not being denied food and water the conditions are as good as they can possibly be they had satellite television and they had communal living

that all kinds of good things were transparent facility. lawyers for the detainees are strongly disagree with captain durant's assessment they claim the captives are being held in the unbearable conditions and i subjected to daily harassment clive stafford smith represents several of the hunger strike there's a says they're being false to keep silence about the truth let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call with me last i heard you can smuggle anything in and out on the telephone and so the idea that they threaten the prisoners with full body and i won't go into the really graphic but it's basically a sexual assault is just a threat to try to get them not to talk to us and frankly the reason for this is fairly obvious that there's been an awful lot of information coming out of guantanamo bay that doesn't suit the authorities last friday two of my clients refused to have called with me for the simple reason that they did want to go

through that process i had one of the other lawyers from reprieve was at the base last week and twice prisoners didn't want to come out for a visit because of what they'd been threatened with in order to and negotiate an end to the strike we have to give justice to these prisoners and we're talking about as you well know eighty six of one hundred sixty six prisoners have been cleared for release that's fifty two percent of men third in most of the people i represent there's only one way and this strike fairly and that's to take the prisoners who have been cleared for release and set them free. and that's how things are right now over the guantanamo bay hunger strike now get yourself up to speed on the events of the past one hundred days at our dot com big you'll find complete and comprehensive coverage with comment and analysis from u.s. officials and lawyers even from some of the former detainees of went on the it's all online day. the u.s. justice department got embroiled in another surveillance scandal this week after it

sees two months of phone records of editors and journalists who are country's biggest news gathering service the associated press this whole has the details. it's being called an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the associated press and its reporters. a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda they arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this was

a very serious. a very serious leak and a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since nine hundred seventy six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that never see it put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole eric holder announced he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation the prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two month period provide a roadmap to news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know now the a.p. is asking for an explanation as to why the government pulled reporters' phone

records without notifying them the worries the effect the news will have on the media and its sources i think the effect on the media has already been felt i mean you have sources that are being shut down. no doors just being shut in people's faces now that was probably the intention the intention was to scare. the turn off the faucet in other words from leaks in the wake of the controversy white house press secretary jay carney reiterated the obama administration's dedication to transparency he believes strongly in the need for the press to be unfettered in its pursuit of investigative journalism he also believes strongly as a citizen and as president in the need to ensure that classified information is injure our national security interests there's a balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going after whistleblowers prosecuting more people for

leaking classified information than any other administration combined and washington is wall r.t. . and investigative journalist the tony gosling says that this probe has the whole craft of journalism in danger individuals who whistleblowers etc people with stories cannot know can no longer trust the journalists so if they go with confidential information to those journalists and have confidential phone conversations they are not no longer guaranteed those journalists can keep those conversations secret because the justice department is coming into a massive trawl only hold two months one can understand it maybe if it's a small investigation over a couple of days or so particular phone line possibly but this is a fishing operation and it is an appalling attack really on the freedom of the press in america by a government in the us which is out of control and ultimately this is the wrong is effectively a kind of police state where the government thinks it can do what it wants what is

erosion of some of the basic civil liberties that we've said for the last thirty forty years this is what we hold dear we're saying that all these terrible. trying to take those civil liberties away well calderón taking away our own governments or taking them away. some countries also may show other governments in the loop when they need to move off the latest technology developed in the u.k. was used against me activist who's now taking legal action she tells a story right here on. america's promise is true you walk all the new dawn to ring hollow while the country's corrupt oil. scavenging in the trash all that and more off to the. pakistanis have gone to the polls and they look to the new parliament what will the new government do domestically and in the area of foreign policy particularly

washington's drone war with growing economic dislocations in a very threatening taliban ok and should pakistan move forward and move the military continue to walk on the sidewalk. leave.

thank you you're watching r.t. . right now in syria government forces have reportedly fought their way into the heart of a key rebel stronghold with at least fifty eight people said to have been killed in the ongoing battle the town of near the lebanese border is allegedly of vital hub for the smuggling of arms into syria let's get the latest now from the local journalism delamont is in we joins us live now from damascus. right. let's just start with what is the situation inclusive at the moment who's got the upper hand right now. it's. government forces were managed to control seventy percent of the city now. on the north an area of the city that

is the full control over the east in western. side of the city the jewish was dated the center of simplicity is debated and even a surprise is under the control of the government from the from the noon we have up to now more than one hundred percent one hundred. five where from a position around two hundred one most of them are from out of. government side we have something like seven people or seven soldiers were killed and twenty five one to. the city is fully control we can say seventy percent of said under the control the fighting is still going on the north an area we are waiting for. a few next hour in order to know exactly how we is going to end this operation has been there for. something like twenty five days the syrian army

managed to. make a full circle around the city fighting the opposition position fight is all around the towns and villages around the city in order to control it and then they are now they are going on inside what the syrian government by taking set. main achievement is to stop that line of supply chain between given and syria that's not going off weapon and of course. it has become a simple of a position has become the capital of position after a strong fighting going on in most of the fighters gathered from different areas and syria in order to gather in course said become the capital of pollution now it's fully controlled there will be a kind of buffer zone between lebanon and syria to stop the smuggling of of

supply and weapons from lebanon to syria and this by this they can control the middle of the country as a whole they can make a stronger up to control from damascus and up north and coming from two other cities the rebels are reportedly on the defensive across the country but they were the ones on the move just weeks ago what happened. this operation moved very slow but it was for these studies traditionally speaking they managed to make first they started from the west from the western side of the of the city and then wouldn't they control this with some fighters from lebanon some extremist group were preparing to go to go into syria to fight with that upholds they're going to make they were going to make a kind of a bigger front in order to fight and expand. the fighting line between government

and opposition by this now we have limited the five to one city or one to one part of the city and live from damascus there was syrian journalist abdullah any giving us an update right there from the city of qusayr. fresh fears of syria's conflict breaching its borders grew this week when protesters clashed with police in neighboring turkey demonstrate is that angry had ungar a support for the rebels and say the turkish people are paying the price for the involvement of the protests in istanbul and the capital to get some clouds in a turkish border town which was the scene of a deadly double bombing a week ago thank you again syria for the attack which it strongly denied and pointed the finger at radical rebels important the aim of the an innocent man while i often try to he's probably the syrian crisis extensively says take his aggravating the conflict by backing the insurgency. straight to the turkish people

is upset because of what is happening on the turkish side it's their full right because it's like to let me say to invite a firestarter into your house because you want to send to me later to your neighbors and then you wonder the firestarter starts putting fire on your own house we have to see that turkey has a nine hundred kilometer long border to syria and we have to see that turkey doesn't do anything to prevent terrorists and mercenaries crossing the border from turkey to syria in contradiction turkey even supports those terrorists training camps. turkey is giving supplying a lot of means and turkey is right now and being like a hostile power towards the moscow's say the so-called. more moderate rebels claimed a couple of times in the past that they consider the jihadists from the you know stuff thrown into. the troops as their comrades in the fight against hamas this so

if the winds so tell us now or in turkey says we support the moderate rebels it's not true because nobody can assure a gun comes from the hand of a so-called moderate rebel in the hand off a so-called extremist rebel i think we should start to distinguish finally because this is a big lie. twenty three years of pods and finally reunited we've got an amazing story for you on our website the only tool that held the chinese man the locate his home and family two decades after being kidnapped was yes it google them. but also while you're online the pentagon's pulled the plug on an ambitious space project is by blowing over two hundred million dollars on it already we'll tell you why online. humiliated and

expelled cia spy ryan fogle has now left russia after being busted offering a million dollars to a russian security agent in return for assistance this week saw a red faces at the american embassy in moscow as their identity was also revealed of the cia bureau chief working under the guise of a diplomat but in a question about takes up the story ryan fogle was caught in the act trying to recruit a russian special services agent to work for the americans now russia's federal security service has released a photo of technical equipment and some other items that were found when he was detained including a compress a map of moscow a large amount of cash and even two weeks to allegedly use as disguises now this is suspected cia agent was offering one million dollars a year for passing on classified information and that was revealed to you know why a taped telephone conversation between full girl and the security agent he was

trying to recruit made public by russia's federal security service. you're going to the store it's a warden to give us more. talk of the warden you know what the store clerk yes because of the mortgages on the bottom right there was a million little old you and yes. some no no i did. full has been handed over to the american authorities and now faces deportation the f.s.b. told r.t. that was not the first case and recent years since two thousand and eleven there have been in fact four other similar cases one case involved and other american embassy employee who was trying to recruit a russian employee of national anti terror committee the ad says b. says that there is a striking resemblance to the focal scase and that the cia has gone too far with this spying operations. we were particularly outraged at the actions of the

american spy dylan benjamin he tried to convince an employee of the russian national counter-terror committee to hand over classified documents of this department to the cia like mr he was deported from russia we hope the cia would listen and something like that would never happen again so we decided not to release the information about dylan to the public but apparently they didn't learn that lesson in fogel's case the crossed a red line so we have to react according to official instructions. and as average with a juicy spy story at hand the exposure of a cia spy in moscow got the media animated with a mixture flat for and disbelief at their alleged spies quite clumsy recruiting techniques but that's quite a common reaction to the stories like this but still it doesn't make them a new last her last three member of the previous scandals for instance back in two thousand and six russian t.v. showed a documentary exposing several british am-i six agents working in moscow and here

is the high cost. they used rocks at that time the media laughed at what was considered a conspiracy theory until a high ranking adviser to the prime minister admitted it's true so rocks weeks compresses and maps and sends james bond doesn't exactly have much competition right now. and to all activists brian baca has been closely following the spy scandal and says the u.s. is running a continuous vet of ration in russia the russian government is calling attention to the fact that the us is doing something of a full court press on russia a shadow war so to speak they have the using the n.g.o.s and the penetration of russian society by us soft power through the n.g.o.s at one level trying to carry out many many intelligence operations to get russians to defect kind of trading

russian society i think also you watch the u.s. media very favorable coverage to the russian opposition any protest that takes place in russia even if it's small it's enormous front page coverage while here protest movements in the united states get almost no coverage you see the general scenario being played out of hostility to the russian government even if there is still a magic overtures at another level. britons have been taken to task for failing to keep a close watch on how its spine technology is used the rise activist says her repressive government use u.k. made equipment to keep tabs on her she's now taking the issue to london's high court the manufacturers and says are the devices are designed for criminal investigations birgitte privity campaigners say the system's abuse is rife now here's what we know about the program is called fin spying and it can perform a wide range of surveillance operation it works my inflecting your computer and

then recording your skype conversations or social media activity you can also take screen shots without your knowledge and access information on your hard drive. shahabi you file the court documents told me that digital surveillance has been spreading in bahrain since former high ranking u.k. police officer john yates became security adviser. the e-mails were disguised as if they were from journalists and were from other activists and then after we discovered after two months investigation of a technical analysis to try and. investigate what kind of information on what this software actually does we discovered there was a company called gamma international which sells this software to foreign governments so we assumed and we given the circumstances in which i received the e-mails and the nature of the e-mails this was a suspect this was sold to the bahraini government but we also know that the

servers. received this information from the software is actually based in bahrain so the servers are currently in bahrain and they're being updated in bahrain which means that this is further evidence over the past two years particularly british advisor john yates joined the bahrain security services we have noticed the increase in the use of surveillance in the use of c.c.t.v. and the use of digital surveillance and there are very targeted arrests and influence infiltration amongst protests activists that are happening using the latest technology technologies and this is all happened since following on from the hiring of the recruitment of john yanks and most of these companies that provide all of this technology are british now we know of at least thirty six. be maintained worldwide so now that this is a global operation gamma international has sold this software to at least twenty five governments and the use seems the use of the software seems to have no any

type of restriction so this is turning into a global phenomenon and it's run by the private sector so we're looking increasingly at the commercialisation of digital surveillance which is even scarier because it's very difficult to regulate. iraq is now the eighth most corrupt country in the world ten years after the invasion which was supposed to restore the country millions of dollars are headed out in fake contracts while locals contend with poverty toxic water and daily paul blackouts. reports it is the land between twin rivers ancient day in mesopotamia modern day iraq and in baghdad there's no shortage of ways in which water is used to wash cars to clean shop fronts to store freshly caught fish before their gutted for sale everything it seems except drinking it nobody drinks the city because we know it's not clean

since. what comes out of it happens contaminated it makes us sick how can we drink can't. water is just one of the many services that still lagging in post-war iraq despite years of promises and billions of dollars spent on reconstruction many neighborhoods lack sewage systems there's no trash collection in some settlements there are barely any streets iraq's central power is sometimes on for as little as two hours a day this mess of wires is a common scene all across iraq it connects homes to private generators people have to buy electricity to cope with the hours of daily blackouts ten years after the war it's a symbol for much of what's wrong with the rock a crumbling infrastructure a libel services and a tangled web of the walker sea and corruption. the energy crisis has meant more work for album area and electrician who says he now earns about four times as much as he did before the war the grid is in shambles

and breakdowns are frequent but he says the government is simply not serious about fixing it. it's the citizens who suffer in the end not the government the services are so bad the power system has really deteriorated there were billions spent on fixing the grid but there's little to show for it. the government has promised improvements in public services but officials say it's a monumental task force structure has been put to the neglected end of the previous games and the damage is enormous there is a need to rebuild everything that's required is tens of billions of dollars but the dollars are flowing along with and largely because of oil that's what accounts for most of the revenue in iraq's one hundred nineteen billion dollar budget here at the college were fine reproduction more than doubled in the here and lower than that it was higher growth while industry had been out at one of the right country at that point by violence and of rampant corruption transparency international

ranks iraq as the most corrupt country in the world which in part helps to explain why services are still lagging most of the reconstruction money was squandered through fraud and abuse just one example the government awarded one point seven billion dollars worth of fake electricity contracts it's a paradox that frustrates many iraqis theirs is one of the wealthiest pieces of land on earth but its people are some of the poorest. nowhere is that contrast more stark than here the landfill on the edge of baghdad many of the families living here have been displaced by the war but now they're waging a daily battle just to survive services are simply nonexistent are the conditions a horrible there are no schools for the kids who have no electricity no real houses to get a drink of water we have to travel for columbus's it's very difficult to live here for now they must remain among the refuse uncertain like the rest of iraq as to

what will come on the winds of change lucy catherine of r.t.e. baghdad iraq. the new renegade currency big taking a bit of a hit as america's financial heavies make a move on its developers look at what makes a people switch from conventional currencies just fine but money. and flows a new build a british sobs are raising eyebrows and will spend three of the u.k.'s defense budget turning into a multi-billion pound a black hole. that. they're ready to come into work and not get paid for it. people from all over the world that. want to take to become a volunteer at russia's premium museum why do the son of the movie's director come

here. from one of the camps do. behind the scenes of the. move. and. it is time for. this question about britain. david cameron's under increasing pressure to guarantee a vote on the u.k.'s future in the new episode of britain's european partners fear that such a divorce could destroy the. welcome

back you're still watching our team it's been a turbulent week for the digital currency big coin which has seen the funds of its major operators seized by the us government because has been on market roller coaster recently increasing about eight times in value in april before slowly deflating to its current price of one hundred twenty two dollars per unit now if yes how the cut side of a currency actually works uses much for us is still a virtual wallet onto a computer or a cell phone device they can then transfer big coins from one user to the nags saw for small or no charge and without the banking mediators from a distance it may resemble the pay pal system but a kid difference is and not name a team all transactions i encrypt it and untraceable this aspect is the subject of many debates with some fearing that big coin could be used by those selling weapons and drugs economics professor richard wolfe us says mistrust in traditional

currencies is what drives people to the digital money. i think the fear is that conventional methods of finance are show corrupted and soul are looked upon with a negative mentality that masses of people are inventing ways and there are dozens of them to get around to evade to avoid some of them are of course the criminals they want to avoid for those research but the majority of people involved are really expressing a sense of economics out of control of an economic system that isn't working that is making the inequality unbearable and everyone is looking for something that will allow them to escape the real lives as they are some of today's a world news and now a young protester has diving tunisia's capital where police clash with supporters of a hardline islamist back south klyde them descended into tunis and another central

city defying a government ban on the rally riot police were deployed and used tear gas to break up the protests the un so sorry a movement is the most a radical to emerge in tunisia says the twenty eleven arab spring uprising imposes a test to the moderate islamist government. the leader of one of pakistan's main parties the cricket legend imran khan is blaming a key political rival in the murder of his party's vice president sarah reducing who was killed outside her home in karate by a gunman on a motorcycle imran khan says with the head of the m.p. who i am which is corrupt as most popular political movement has previously openly threatened with parties members in public profile. british m.p.'s a wonder this week is that the country may not be able to bear the brunt of its inflated defense equipment budget london's plan is to spend almost one hundred and

sixty billion pounds on military hardware in a decade much of that is being splashed out on a new class of nuclear submarines even though the vessels leave much to be desired sar for its reports. the cutting edge in military technology. every decade tens of billions of pounds in the making these of britain's new class of hunter killer submarines and they've been making waves that lead to. serious problems from ground to. corrosion this is. the astute and. the damning description is a far cry from what persons ministry of defense has hailed as one of the most technologically advanced machines in the world as impressive as she sounded on paper. launch into the public sphere it's not been an easy one the series of leaks intelligence has become clear that the problems could run deeper.

is that. if. the design started in the mid ninety's. you know electronics. with all the electronics. present time to try and keep up with that then you need to think about replacing equipment. as complete problem with. simple things. in the northeast of england in barrow in furness is now the only site in the u.k. that designs builds and test submarines and that work forms the backbone of the economy here the current owner of the shipyard is a defense systems that shrouds itself in secrecy and it didn't disappoint when it

came to addressing the alleged catalogue of errors with the submarine program having been beset by these design for allegations we asked to give us their side of the. but they declined to comment. is perhaps a nice surprise with the government order a seven astute class submarines only two are in the water with one still being built any one of the things that the can play a part of obviously the people be. very protective of the stuff and you preach. about the problems and that sort of look on information that. it is difficult for you come to expect an understanding and there's a distinction between the protectiveness and secretiveness of local people compared to seek to the north of the company and that's because in terms of the local people and power of people there protecting them because this is their heritage state

history and from be perspective you understand that they are being like that because the commercialism that's that's the reason that they're being paid x. amount of money to build and design something the local pride here in the submarines is evident i think that even the ministry of defense is being forced into embarrassing admissions about what they've turned teething troubles really house the spam burke and so do we continue to produce in this part of submarines or do we. get it right and then start again the problem here is this is if they stop. short of submarine attack submarine. and that means that strategy. really is quite serious with the launch of the third class submarine still some way off the next couple of years for this project. sink or swim time. r.t. baron furnace in the north of england. the next largest piece a former u.s.

diplomat on america's foreign policy in iraq. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average ball garion and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen god see

a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to bulgaria and protesters claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace is perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the better bogey areas chances believe me but that's just my opinion. more news today. these are the images. from

history canada. showing up for a show through today. well . technology innovation all the developments from the round russia we are going to the future covered. but with me now is brady case playing a former u.s. diplomat who resigned over the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and since written a book called diplomacy lessons really isn't for an unloved superpower thank you very much for joining us here the title of your book an unlove superpower how has that changed for america since the publication it's clear that over the past six

years the image of the united states in the world has improved quite a bit a lot of that as the election of barack obama a man who. could who obviously reflected more of the better side of of america's diversity a second element was the growing obviousness of the fact that the problems of the world are not created by the united states the united states contributes to some problems contribute to solving other problems but this the shrinking role of the united states as a sole superpower has made the u.s. more popular rather than the us i think well since your resignation over the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three there's been a lot of u.s. led intervention around the world this being the instances of libya pressure has been put.