tom is just a figurehead for corporate america he's more interested in their interests and. it's hard to hard to dispute that based on policy let's look at immigration reform he has deported more people than all prior presidents combined and he's only partway through his second term ok so what kind of policy is likely to come out i mean this is charade that goes on that this is a compromise american politics i know is the world are in to people outside of the united states you don't have ideological differences between the parties there is wage issue. you know matters that you know i have audio i cycle to do pretty frustrated because there's a serious are you serious you don't have audio magic observations about what we need to demonstrate why anyone who remembers about now you can't be you she had confidence in serious late wait listen said chet listen and the rest of the world

the range of ideological differences goes from basically libertarianism to socialism and not republicans calling barack obama a socialist because he wants to give somebody a quarter with their cup in the corner but will the workers on the means of production of socialism the state is owned by the workers socialism that listen let me finish that's the range of ideological and we have to have major if you have a major you have to be savvy frantically you have major enemies that have threat or rejected socialism don you know i know how much i like the task of assessment of design you don't want to have me even exist i want to spread out rat out a list so you have socialism all right what i write i mean can't be ready for come let me let me jump in but i'm gonna let me interest charge and i mean we have to we have to take in account i think this is what chant was getting to is the tea party now they are very ideologically i would go ahead i would add president putin what do you think is not a political party i would ask president putin what do you want. the citizen you

have missing the point you're missing the point chet the point i was making is that elsewhere in the world the political parties are organized around different ideological perspectives and in the united states these share the ideological perspectives fundamentally that large corporations are allowed to exist that flight finance is allowed to control the political system that whenever there is an approach we have to maintain the largest military in the world by far and that's appropriate that we have to maintain the largest prison system in the world by far these are all areas by the way for example the prison industrial complex barack obama hasn't lifted a finger you have a young black man being killed like every thirty eight hours in this country has actually gotten worse since he became president and he has he's not doing anything about it not nothing there's a million issues like that that's really you know if their constituents parties are

going to go on if the parties if the parties themselves are so so similar if the parties are so much of a lie then why is it that we would have to look at why is it i mean it's the contradiction why is it that we have this then i know i'm not you can have two you can have two guys trying to break into your house to steal your t.v. set but one of them will block the other because he wants it ok that doesn't mean that there are any different they're both quirks ok but all right gentlemen once they get a little longer faslane running out of time i want to change gears here one of the great criticisms of barack obama today is that he's not respected around the world america's enemies don't respect him and america's friends don't respect him anymore chad how do you react to that. see that is the great criticism very respected and. you see this enthusiasm with people.

not only. look to him for leadership but also respect him greatly. ok don but i think you know one of his when he was making a stop in europe right after his election he was welcome as a rock star i don't think chad he's welcomed as a rock star in germany today but you agree he blew he blew it why don't i don't know unity i don't know of anyone who came into my home suppose that sort of rock star status would such is the time. ok chad i'm sorry john go ahead. yeah just very quickly when barack obama came into office he had the opportunity particularly among third world countries of really showing a you know a different side of america and what he has done instead by pursuing more aggressively than the last president as that president did before and going back it's the imperial policy of the united states in africa if you look at the way he dealt with while margaret safiya look at what nelson mandela said about what

markets off he held them out as a hero if you look all around the third world at the position the united states has been staking out under obama in central and south america and how the people feel in those places where he could have done tremendous outreach and they were giving him the benefit of the doubt the problem is that he wasted it because he pursued the interests that put him into power just like everyone before came running to for chante i want to give. the last word on the program to be fair three years what kind of bomb a accomplish in the last three years of his second term go ahead the first the first and foremost duty of the person foremost duty of the american president is to serve the american people and he did that with the delivery of health care reform he did that so it is it is for me it is it is just unfathomable you could say did he has no major accomplishment and he does ok we still twenty seconds don go ahead yeah one that actually comes into effect you could say that much except

for the twenty five to thirty million people that are still not called. ok gentlemen thank you for a fascinating debate many thanks to my guest today in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here see you next time and remember topples. is a. lead .

why is the price of gold so high right demand global demand do you think gold is money. know the value of the only plays we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to people i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to be. we're not going to drink oh well clearly one of my all is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say there for any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into

the global financial system. with a heart. to a political economic system that's extremely exploitative. first of all the question will even be carried out all the good can be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's was resources. those are pretty sure it's gross troops mining is not what a moment it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states. breaking news in r.t. pussy riot member maria lock in at least prison following

a presidential amnesty while the punk bands in the data to lock and is expected to walk free saying. welcome back we do apologize for the technical problems we've had earlier but we do seem to resolve those so back to our breaking news story pussy riot band member maria has walked free and is now having a meeting with human rights activists her lawyers have reported that it's a few days after the punk band was granted amnesty under a law approved by the russian parliament the state duma another band. is expected to be released soon too they'd been serving time for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred following a stand in moscow's main cathedral bring you more information as we get it now for the people of iraq this year has become the deadliest since two thousand and eight marred by deepening sectarian divide more innocent lives being lost as a result more than nine thousand people have been killed this year sectarian

violence has claimed up to one hundred. five years in the decade since the u.s. led invasion while seeking to undermine the shia government sunni insurgents have attacked civilian targets in different parts of the country bringing the total number of suicide bombings to four fires and the northern city of cool is often caught in the crossfire lying close to al qaeda strongholds and being claimed by both the iraqi government and the autonomy this could stand artie's lucy caffein all found out how people back with the daily violence. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here into your kook. this oil rich city has been described as iraq's fault

line a symbol for the country's most intractable woes escalating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups and the fight over iraq's resources. getting there was our first challenge a group of kurdish soldiers had agreed to take us in both baghdad and the kurds lay claim to care kook and are sparring over control aside from the danger those entering from the kurdish side need special permission to get past the iraqi checkpoints when have it. roadblocks and concrete barriers define the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the household they're also frequent target of attacks for us it was a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much at war. inside your kook we drive quickly to avoid danger we're told to look out for a black b.m.w. apparently they've become a favorite for iraq's insurgents who didn't pick the best day to come to roadside bombs exploded here earlier that morning around the same time that baghdad was

rocked by a series of deadly blasts but coupe has been a flashpoint for years now and in the city center it's clear that life doesn't stop just because of the threats we were expecting empty streets but people continue to go about their business as normal vendors and busy families did their shopping beneath the surface there are scars today kirkuk continues to be an incredibly dangerous place for thinking about it after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks have happened at any time in any place in fact it's not really safe to stay here for too long so let's get inside. we need car wanted his family there kurds who say they're happy that saddam is gone but their fear of political repression has been replaced by fear of the unknown. we don't know who the enemy is where women next bomb will go off but it's a daily fears we've got used to it i do small things to feel safer like driving with all the car windows down that way if there's

a blast at least the glass won't hurt us. such precautions didn't help sixty year old fellow mahmoud who says that a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle for the body and. i guess what benefit did the war bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnappings people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back a lot of the soldiers you know it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's book the black. oil and behind this oil is the hidden interests of politicians pawns in a political game playing with their livelihoods and lives for conflicts not of their own making the iraqis we met didn't hate their neighbors or care about who

controls the oil just like fall they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive lucie county r.t. iraq. the us led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three marked a clear start to what would be a very bloody period in the country's history in this day the carnage shows no sign of stopping as the president of the arab lawyers association told us. this is much worse than it was two thousand and three because there is no security there is no infrastructure the total failure of the infrastructure of the society the health education the teachers and there have been either assassinated or emigrated you have a situation where four million refugees outside the country of almost two million displaced in the country within the country and the killing is continuing on a daily basis that it is unprecedented so this situation is much worse now despite

all the propaganda made by both the government of iraq and the western powers who created the situation and they still want to say it was a success but it wasn't and r.t. has created a special online project on a website which does bring together detailed reports on the diet scale of the violence in iraq so i d take a look at that and for more of the big events of the year our series y twenty will be running all this week here on r.t. . these locals to be. braving the elements in order to stand on u.s. soil giants. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up the gulag of our times.

is an undeclared global battlefield in which young and just one of the front lines . today the u.s. federal reserve has one hundred candles to blow out on its birthday cake founded to prevent boom and bust economics in its first centuries faced many challenges from double digit inflation to need depression so on and on and on its anniversary did seem not the right thing to do is to ask is the fed actually working miniport the experience. secretive powerful wealthy and now it's got a birthday america's central bank wields enormous and almost unchecked power over the world's largest economy for sure. underneath and that means basically that it.

is the. other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take the country has seen as many as eighteen recessions since the fed was created leading many to argue it has singularly failed to end the boom and bust economics that it was designed to prevent it's been a failure it's been a dismal failure in promoting prosperity. sustainable prolonged prosperity and raising the living standards of americans. the past thirty years have produced the biggest growth of income inequality wages for the low and middle class have remained stagnant while the fed has allowed banks to double in size accounting for forty percent of the u.s. economy the fed has twelve regional banks and this one in new york is not only the largest it's also the closest to wall street as salaries profits and bonuses have

all grown over the past century one thing has shrunk the value of the u.s. dollar has declined a reported ninety five percent since i'm erika's central bank was created following the two thousand and eight financial crisis millions of jobs in homes were lost. but wall street went on to make a record breaking profits courtesy of the fed's quantitative easing program done is it's basically taking a lot of the credit that was on wall street's balance sheets and it's onto its own balance sheets and so it's playing this huge support function in the economy andrew sar who spearheaded the first quarter of q.e. has apologized to americans for what he calls a backdoor bailout for the big. banks most americans can't really get credit after the financial crisis still to this day even though wall street's been stabilized and so we have this long term decline in the economic prospects of the average american and yet a lot of our leadership both in washington and within the fed specifically are

really focused on trying to put humpty dumpty back together again in terms of wall street and resists resuscitate a system that i think is a working less and less for for the person on the street for one hundred years america's currency and economy has been run by unelected and virtually unaccountable central planners and while the fed has helped the rich get richer the gap between the top one percent and the rest. is the largest it's been since the great depression marina r.t. new york. every day americans have little chance to influence the federal reserve despite its enormous impact on their finances as professor of political economy jack russell says the way the fed is designed will hardly ever make it in the interests of the people. even today it's very much determined by the big banks themselves if you can get

a nomination and become the director of the new york fed without the ok of the big banks themselves and in fact people aren't aware that the banks actually pay for the operating expenses they did day of the federal reserve itself so it's always relatives attention for the bankers and you know it's really a bit of a misrepresentation to say that the fed is going to stimulate the economy by pumping money into the economy what's happened is that money ends up in the hands of the investors and speculators but because that money is not getting into the real economy mom and pop business you know stimulating the real investment united states we don't see any real recovery in the real economy for real folks here in the united states now some good stuff in a web site right now including a great respect for germany that's what edward snowden says is driving him to help investigate and it's a spying activities on its soil but with one tiny condition to find out what do you

had to r.t. dot com also their natures extravagant gift to canadians he will tell my staff to celebrate christmas in the dark soft a heavy snow storm spotted beast of a country dog on to a website the pictures of this pretty festive disaster. right see. first for you and i think you're. on the record with. me and. i was supposed to be the season of goodwill but local authority in the u.k. is not exactly been getting into the spirit in fact is artie sarah has been finding out there are claims he's acting like the grinch. well it's the festive season but

the tenants in one part of london in the talk spain will say much about his coming down your chimney a bit about what's coming through your letter box how dismissive fullam council has sent this message out to seventeen thousand homes warning people to pay their rent and asking them not to even into old age now the council have defended their actions saying that there's more than forty six percent of the tenants in rent to raise and that is the time of year when people will be spending less and this is a straightforward message as part of a hard hitting campaign but with the cost of living crisis in the headlines in britain at the moment and others have branded this message disgusting we've been talking to some of the people who live in this part of london to find out what they think i think. the reaction is will probably leave you go to. people are caught between a rock and push you know they want to enjoy christmas and play you run. more

impressive people should obviously be paying their rent and it's pretty explicit he says if you're having trouble. presumably this is where you could go you know i think that's such a course of goodness to church you know it's christmas just goes to show you know charlie i mean pay your rent maybe boxing. day i'd like clever with your money because you're going to have a bit of fun for like a day or two and then you're just going to have a whole year just so hard. no i don't think so i think they should get rid of those princes so for us the london thanks for being with us this morning we're going to take a quick break now and i'll be back with headlines in five minutes time. big bucks but. over. did you know the price is the only industry

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value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive is not compared to bill i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to bait with gold. we're not going to drink what clearly what amal is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say there for any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with hard. geo political economic system that's extremely exploited to. the first was a question whether mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment and so on you know

those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states.

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breaking news an arts a pussy riot my memory a log in a nice prison following a presidential amnesty while the punk bands and the patient. is expected to walk free sitting. while the new me free. steps into the media spotlight he pledges to fight for the release of his associates we take a look at their cases and why they are still behind bars. the us federal reserve marks one hundred years since its foundation conceived as a tool to stabilize the economy critics say there's little to celebrate about its century of money printing. and this week when i look back at the big stories of twenty thirteen for iraq it becomes the deadliest in the past five years with over nine thousand killed in bloody sects.