because you don't states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flak i mean globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america and as a guy who lives in moscow i could say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing a new national idea new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but twice in the twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after glorious victory now you see why people here are exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is

a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but sadly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should i say against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion.

good to have you with us they mounting on the ice is slowly but surely open access to the vast resources of on topped oil and gas and the composition for exploration rights is getting fi is as five countries with borders in the region vying to strengthen their claims with some even landing their troops on the north pole as marina port in our report. melting ice caps in the arctic have ignited a military build up over the world's smallest ocean and the royal riches buried beneath it the arctic circle is believed to contain thirty percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and fifteen percent of its oil the future of the world

economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia and canada the united states and norway and denmark are very interested in exploiting these resources last month canada abruptly claims that it owned the north pole while the united states with its alaskan outpost has plans to boost its military there claiming it lacks operational experience and needs to police the thinning ice as it's replaced by fuel filled maritime traffic but that's not all. actually u.s. submarines are deployed not too far away off the norwegian coast it would take us missiles sixteen to seventeen minutes to get from there to moscow so we really hope that with all the things that have been happening in the world over the past few decades we put the cold war confrontation behind us in all five countries bordering the arctic sovereignty rights to resources within two hundred nautical miles of

their territorial waterways but a growing habitate for a bigger slice of the pie is what many fear can inevitably spark a twenty first century cold war in the frozen waters are also unexplored resources that we don't know yet to which country belongs which could be of course of interest to many countries i do think that smaller things could spark both tension and maybe more tension that we would like to see marina portnoy r.t. new york. and the arctic is not only resource rich it also an alternative trade route from russia and asia to europe due to the thawing ice ships will soon be able to navigate it without the help of icebreakers the oxy crude is almost twice as fast as this southern route across the indian ocean and through the suez canal and christopher perry is a strategic for costa and for one british navy officer and things arctic countries

won't be the only ones to join any regional dispute where i think we could have some disputes is there a number of other interested countries such as india china korea japan all getting very interested not just in the northern sea route but also in the resources that exist out there in the arctic already the chinese. greenland and places like that and i think there will be a scramble by some of the other countries for some of those resources when the ice does recede so you're not just going to have the northern sea route across the top russia. northwest passage across canada you're also going to have a route around twenty fifty straight across the top of the north pole so that means the countries in the cost of face each other across the north pole but only see what he's going to who was a record a few months of the year and that will introduce different perspectives different jorma trees you're going to see kind of the you know it was also venturing into the

arctic so it's going to be an interesting situation going to be probably around twenty forty five twenty fifty people will be getting ready for that who will sit in the years leading up to the. u.s. winning actions were dealt another blow after u.s. forces reportedly killed eight civilians most of them children and in time of a nine to raid the incident has complicated washington's attempts to persuade kabul to sign a security deal with the u.s. they agreement would allow a portion of american troops to stay behind in the troubled country after the bulk of forces of withdrawals this yeah some experts say afghanistan should demand reparations from the u.s. and set of signing the agreement. that's always the argument that the foreign powers make they always make it sound like they're invading a country just because they care so much about the people that are under attack but all over the world you can see the fruits of u.s. foreign intervention in these kind of massacres are really built in to foreign interventions you can see it wherever this happens whether in the middle east

africa asia or anywhere the result is poverty and misery suffering they've never improve the lives of the people of the people have the right to run their own country a president karzai if he represents the afghan people should be demanding that reparations be paid to the people of afghanistan for the so many crimes that have been committed there for all the people killed for all the lives lost for all the poverty and misery created by u.s. intervention and those reparations shouldn't come from ordinary working class americans it ought to come from halliburton it ought to come from general electric and all the military contractors that made so much money off of the destruction of the people in afghanistan and so many other countries in the world and. take a closer look at this debate and dropped the document allows fifteen thousand u.s. troops to stay in afghanistan mostly to support local forces the catch is that the you are still wants its soldiers to carry out attacks and raid afghan homes while being totally immune from prosecution president karzai is reluctant to approve the deal demanding an end to airstrikes as a precondition for any agreement. france holland is on here play the luckiest

politician this week the unpopular french president largely unscathed following questioning by journalists over an alleged affair and the country's dire financial situation but critics still wonder if he knows how to deal with either crisis as are more f. international reports. so that they can just wave my girl this video clip mocks francois announced tax policies which are among the major reasons he's become the least popular president in france as more than history really could hold on to or to do much more together with belgium france's tax grab is the highest in the euro zone the one place where she where for. the last two hours french i was able to fill in your taxes where there are two thirds of the country's population of clear type so i don't write eighty percent of the president's criminal profiler

so is misguided i don't inefficient gianluca is among those eighty percent and entrepreneur he was forced to close his business down after taxes became too big to bear a second if you're sick you know this is a vicious circle my business has stopped working which means i can to provide jobs for others and i can pay taxes to my country to help its development it's like everything falls apart. the current excision policy was part of the finance strategy chosen by the french government to fight economic crisis but almost two years later critics say it simply hasn't worked the country's credit rating has been caught the unemployment level all those table recently is still at its highest in almost sixteen years and for twenty fourteen the european commission for costs just zero point nine percent g.d.p. growth in france against one point seven percent in germany and two point two percent in britain people and businesses alike. oh my god another tax and another

it's not that they're too high but there are too many and a combination of all these taxes makes it really heavy taxes today really break an economy it seems that's also finally beginning to dawn on the country's leader examples out of new rule all taxes became having to have a usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address ponce were around sounded rather concerned. the economic crisis turned out to be a longer and deeper than we could have predicted the socialist leader pledged some truly liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new or loaned and new hopes of the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they say all arms plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late notion r.t.

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moving from a company in saudi arabia. pretty fruit it's a fruit company and they were sending money to. the leading members of the muslim brotherhood in yemen so this is what we see is allowing that in facilitating the that to happen here that causes political instability in the region and that causes i mean that's fine it's treason it's financing our enemies and what's crazy about it is that each p.c. admitted to the department of justice and to the world they've made it treason financing the enemy if you plead guilty to financing the enemy i don't think you should just walk with a fine that's not fine and let's kill. u.s.

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play. up to mama so hesitation pressure from its western bach is a sewer is main opposition group will at times peace talks in geneva aimed at finding a political way out of the conflict also in the stories that shaped this week. the forms are proposing today should give the american people greater confidence that their rights are being put up to the american president promises to restrain the surveillance habits of the n.s.a. but critics say the proposed reforms one change a thing. criminal court may soon see told british military officials in the dock with a fast time in history of the allegations a with crimes committed by troops during the iraq war.