g. eight. festival as i think you could call it in france it looks very very impressive but is it just really just a talking shop do they ever really decided anything and in the year two thousand and eleven is the g eight powerful enough to drive the global agenda a lot of questions and seaside or a couple of days at the seaside i think you know if it is only a talking shop talking shops are quite important it's important that these guys should get together. talk informally amongst themselves after all that's how this group actually originated in the first place twenty years ago so i don't think that's a road that's irrelevant itself it has a value but certainly the g eight has been squeezed on the one hand the important countries in the world these days are the united states and china which is the g two or the g twenty or perhaps even the g thirty to bring in some of the really important developing countries so the g. eight is more symbolic than anything else paul do you agree with that is it'

g. eight is less. is less of a challenge for them it's interesting jeff if i can go to you in toronto how do you come out on this just a talking shop and if it is a talking shop as it is and you point out an important talking shop. it may be a talking shop but i think for anything more than that it's increasingly dysfunctional and he relevant i think we're going to is ations like the g eight or the g twenty probably had their zenith of influence after the last recession where of course we saw massive coordinated fiscal policy but none of those governments have the financial wherewithal to ever do that again and moreover many of those governments like europe china and the u.s. are moving in very disparate and contradictory ways so i don't think that we're going to see anything substantive out of it but i think as your line of questioning indicates expectations of these kind of events have fall in dramatically in the last couple of years and if i can go to you i mean in researching this program it's ofte

around the world as the crisis really becomes more pronounced around the world nobody in any of the g eight or g twenty countries is doing the right thing which would be to start to negotiate a new bretton woods agreement and to recalibrate the world's currency and for the dollar to take a massive devaluation against all these other currencies nobody's going to do that yet they're going to let the crisis you know as naomi klein calls it disaster capitalism they're just let the disasters happen and then they try to grab as much as they can after the disaster is happened there is no proactive policies whatsoever barack obama is the perfect poster child for disaster capitalism is that taking one proactive action at all is just letting this thing collapse which is great for bankers on wall street because it increases their fees it increases the debt load and it just makes them a part of this emerging kleptocracy billionaires really at the expense of everybody else yes that's another thing bill gross had said earlier which was that america's only dealing with the numerator not the denominator th

g. eight of the headline making club is reported to have reached an agreement to sign me feel that maybe cut chalo gonzalez from belgian side standard b.h. they're trying to cheer oh plays internationally for morocco and could set the diet stand side back an estimated eight dollars would be a challenge in dallas increasingly with a need to spot the last day but rejected that offer i was rich angie son cameron superstar by the sun and see him in from a lengthy last three russian unity cheerful from chelsea it's not speaking for brazil like the perfect in february. twelfth and she isn't the only club to make a last gasp before the transfer window closes on wednesday twice former champions through theatre also reports to be on the verge of signing the now mickey head and finishing midfielder grow my beard i mean catch a twenty four year old russian and finish it since he has been a regular in finance national squad for over four years his deal is reported to be worth around nineteen million dollars. fiber in england after selling key midfielder said probably gas and some imaginary as well i

killing and corruption but a wary public says the revolution is not over yet as a replacement for the g eight with me today a month. just across the border it is for a quarter of a million people have rallied against the government this last week and they're developing better living conditions and say they are ready to do what it takes. to watching r.t. for a mask. hello and welcome to the sports news and these are the headlines. gave you the season spartak moscow miss a penalty but come from two goals down and made a floodlight failure to a four to a ten runs out there in a russian premier league thriller. plus that is why their champions manchester united come from two goals down to beat rivals manchester city three two in stoppage time to win the community shield. and lives to reach russia come back from three goals down to beat three thousand and six for the crown european beach soccer champions. refers to a convention of world war and an unconventional match having missed a penalty and endured a break for a flop like they spot that moscow came back from two goals down to win four two at

g. eight in two thousand and four well in seven years and. this is part of a long planned scenario all the pentagon is involved in at the state department is involved in it i think the reason that we're seeing these these riots the i.m.f. cause the food crisis in tunisia just at the time that the hedge funds and wall street were pushing prices up using the bio diesel and the harvest failures in russia and such things but the there's a geo political trigger to this that is coming out of washington they're trying is there one person in washington permit creative destruction in the middle east to upset the chessboard and make sure that in fact what has been happening since two thousand and one is many of these arab countries are fed up with washington's militarization of the middle east they're fed up with the mess in iraq they're fed up with the heavy handedness that's coming out of washington and they're looking to china they're looking to russia they're looking to the european union for an alternative to the dollar and that i think is why we'

what he would be replacing them with we're seeing see an exact situation now we need to be at the g eight the international council is a hodgepodge of groups and we are going to be in conflict with one another civil war is almost inevitable because the more i conclude you can see colonel gadhafi really originating presidential nominee was kind of. foreign is needed for a new show because it's the european more oil companies that have the most at stake in libya so this is really more of the you know you scratch my back in afghanistan and iraq some extent and so now i'm going to say that if it looks like the european standards even most. we've spoken to a bell about to be up one here at is an arabic newspaper based in london i think that he will definitely fall but the question is whether the rebels will be able to govern the country. yeah. i think state like what happened in afghanistan and nobody can predict what will happen after that we know of that would be more fun because he and i actually need to understand he hasn't got a couple of things but the big question is you know what that

wrote hormones like r b g eight and numerous herbicides like roundup monsanto also gave us agent orange which was used extensively as well they called it a fully integrated jungle by the u.s. military during vietnam it was responsible for the deaths of four hundred thousand vietnamese and cause five hundred thousand vietnamese children to be born with birth defects just for fun let's tell you what it did it to one vietnamese soldier who survived exposure and in case you were wondering about the severity of the birth defects we're talking about here so it didn't come as no surprise that exposure to u.s. service members also caused a wave of cancer wave of cancer and miscarriages as well. of course soldiers were told agent orange was completely safe and the department of veterans affairs has denied all but four hundred eighty six of the thirty nine thousand four hundred one thousand claims that have been filed to the agent orange exposure in one thousand eight hundred one center became the first company to successfully genetically modify a plant cell and in one nine hundred eighty seven t

review process the g j rock process which looks at threats versus resources and something called the g eight with a process now i've been all of these back when i was inside as a planner these are complex processes which take years to accomplish and no politician is going to do something to make a decision that would cut the budget and so any substantial way even if it's a backstop even if it's arbitrary because no one either side wants to be held accountable for making a bad decision if something goes wrong that's the bottom line so to me this is all just smoke and mirrors and no one is going to make it hard decisions so what i think on the face of it you and i would agree there's tons of programs redundancy and effective programs that i know of several myself which are totally waste just just people briefing each other and being paid a lot of money to do it i mean literally that program exists in our government i know about it directly i think all i did last i get to it is i'll get a lot of calls probably thought about his we'll talk about are you going to try to level twenty five and what

your own program but by your own guidelines and the department of defense it says, again, section eight, item g, for a jrotc program to remain viable, it must retain at least 100 students or 10% of the eligible high school population. i'm looking at our numbers here and i see that be a hamlin condoleezza rice high school, well -- abraham lincoln high school has less than 100, local has 77 and george washington has of a. -- has 56. so george washington, only 6.4% of its population are in your program and at local only 8.8%. so you're in violation of not having a viable program by the department of defense standards . so we are attempting here to meet the minimum standards that you state here, however your program doesn't even meet the minimum standards set by your own department of defense guidelines. so i just don't see why -- quite frankly when i see at local 77 students and you plan on hiring another instructor for local you're going to have two teachers for 77 students, out of how many sections that are taught a day? that seems as though it is not excessive but it may be what all of our scie