about six out of ten have a favorable view of the united states. there is a sense that u.s. the u.s. remains a superpower. there's even stronger public support for americans around the world. and while i can't dispute that some of the criticism of the united states are accurate in terms of the way it's acted around the world i think we can't discount the fact that publics around the world still generally not in every country have a very positive view of the united states well bruce lee as you know when you say hold on when you say that when you say that. good point is that american foreign policy is an american culture is that mcdonald's is that disney i mean can you flesh it out a little bit with that it's a crime it's across that it's across the board i mean there is widespread appreciation for americans sense of protection of liberties for example the end. of the spying on america i mean but it's luck but it's it's all relative right i mean if you ask a question say just china or iran and or the united states how do you feel about they how how they protect liberties americ

the united states actually does matter. and i don't agree with 100% of the things that the previous speakers said, and they're not going to agree with 100% of the things i said. but the great thing that unites us is that we have the first amendment that allows us to have that disagreement and to have an active discussion so that our nation can move forward. now, we don't always move forward. sometimes we move backwards as we've discussed. but each time we do that, we find a way to move forward. this can't happen in a country we're going to talk about now, china, because despite anything else they might be doing, they are not allowing freedom of speech. so i've got a display over on the side. who here knows what 61398 is? okay. you've probably seen the news story about the chinese government hacking american corporations, right? anybody? so 61398 is a signal core unit in the people's liberation army in china. this is a division of the chinese military run and financed by the chinese government. a company put out a really bril

britain ceased to be the dominant power and there was in the legion of power from great britain to the united states will we see something like what happened when holland was the great power but how holland shared power within lenin later england will the united states will the coincidence of economic interests lead to a kind of u.s. chinese alliance that would then dominate the world and if so would the world's people be able to challenge such great powers and how would they do that ok and challenge would likely do you think that is the. stream lee unlikely that would be a scenario. i think first of all i think america still the dominant military power you know world even china i think become superpower i agree that the clash between the residents. and the existing power will be intensified history have told us that. there's always happen more likely it's going to happen again and the most recent example is the u.s. and soviet union cold war and their world and up in the more dangerous position so i think china. and also china's. chinese dream is their party state dream and their party state only c

the united states has not gone so far with snowden as to allege that he's actually helped the enemy of course were he to go to the united states one just doesn't know what might happen but at the moment the charges against noton are under the espionage act and for theft three charges under the espionage act one for theft because finally the predicaments facing manning and mail snowden is suggesting perhaps the law is really going to crack down on these people and other whistle blows in the future is that it will whistleblowers now shut up because the law is going to really be very severe. well the united well they're not they're not shutting up for the moment i mean we've already seen what's happened to manning we've already seen what's happened to a sanj and yet here is mr snowden nonetheless in spite of all of that going ahead and being a whistleblower the simple fact is the u.s. authorities are taking very vigorous steps against whistleblowers. there are concerns about the way they're going about doing that but at the moment that doesn't seem to be preventing people from coming forw

seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the difference populate i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad her first it won't go ahead ok fine. well i mean i think there's a lot more to the pivot to asia than simply containment of china i think that that's a very simplistic rendering of the idea and i wouldn't be i also wouldn't be overly sanguine about the ceiling issue fact that there is never been a threat to the sea lanes doesn't mean that there never could be a threat and i think the united states has a legitimate interest in protecting the sea lanes in global commerce and it isn't just washington's interest you also have to consider several of the other count

i think if the united states had done that in a very simple way the united states would now be in a stronger position. we would be discussing the conditions for resuming aid and we are in a situation now the united states didn't respect its own hall so that diminishes respect for the united states. i don't think just cutting off a little bit of aid here or there is going to fundamentally change the calculations and egypt and these discussions are not incredible because the united states didn't suspend aid at the moment it should have. my third point devotees i think as we try to understand the u.s. influence correctly a lot of people are going to the opposite conclusion which is that the united states has no influence at all which i also think is incorrect. tamara mengin for instance gulf assistance and a lot of people said well what difference does it make if the united states would suspend military assistance to egypt when the gulf countries are coming with billions in assistance and so forth? this is a very superficial understanding of the whole assistance question. egypt has been a count

your bootstraps nonsense but again ask the people of the united kingdom what the what the thatcherite policies did ask the people of the united states what reagan's policies did which destroy unions drove down wages and made the conditions for what we see today the casino economy did not exist until the right wing neo liberal consensus took power the washington consensus continues to dominate and it dominates both parties it dominates the so-called liberals the so-called conservatives democrats republicans it dominates the entire spectrum of debate so all of this this free trade all of this we know we've seen it's been discredited and yet you still come on here spouting that ideology i find it foolish and kind of embarrassing ok come on even come on air even even the great hero of the left paul krugman is arguing that free trade is one of the greatest tools that we have here pretty so sorry you need to go yeah well you need to go out and take a look at the people who win the nobel prizes for socialist policies even they have given up on the old argument against free trade excuse me you were a target of a bomb related nobel prize and

your bootstraps nonsense but again ask the people of the united kingdom what the what the thatcherite policies did ask the people of the united states what reagan's policies did which destroy unions drove down wages and made the conditions for what we see today the casino economy did not exist until the right wing neo liberal consensus took power the washington consensus continues to dominate and it dominates both parties it dominates the so-called liberals the so-called conservatives democrats republicans it dominates the entire spectrum of debate so all of this this free trade all of this we know we've seen it's been discredited and yet you still come on here spouting that ideology i find it foolish and kind of embarrassing well come on even come on air even even the great the hero of the left paul krugman is arguing that free trade is one of the greatest tools that we have. pretty so sorry you need to go yeah well you need to go out and take a look at the people who win the nobel prizes for socialist policies even they have given up on the old argument against free trade excuse me one hundred times that of a bomb really the nobel

to intervene in the affairs of other nations i mean it was the united states were really the gulf states under the umbrella in the aegis of the united states and other western countries that poured arms into syria and turning this into a terrible violent civil war real morass of desperation and ultimately it's these broader the broader impulse lying behind these policies the desire to push these core geo strategic interests no matter what the cost to the people of any particular region that we have to stand up against we have to fight against to give the syrian people and other people a chance to reclaim their own future and destiny because if we don't we can almost be sure to expect the same thing that's happened iraq libya all these countries we really do need to stand up against the military industrial complex and their takeover of the planet thank you so much you didn't hear organizer for the answer coalition always happy to be here thank you. don't go away guys when we come back we'll fill you in on everything alec anniversary convention in chicago. well the british. mark

that breech statement, he encopslated the profound, intellectual, and cultural ties that binds the united states and britain. in 1940, the fate of the world hung on the united states, and that summer, republicans and democrats would hold their conventions in preparation for the november presidential election. what are conventions? bands playing, parades, cheering, and politicians speaking. both of the conventions that took place in the summer of 1940, there was an elephant in the hall. not the republican elephant, but the nazi's elephant with an uninvited guest, and his name was adolf hitler. the question on everyone's mind was whether fdr wanted the party no , nomination again in 1940, and he refused to give a clear answer. mr. president, would you tell us now if you'd accept a third term, one reporter asked him point-blank? put on a dunce cap and go stand in the corner, fdr replied with a laugh. not even the members of his own family knew what his real intentions were. of course, one question was whether fdr deserved another four years in the white house. his attorney general, robert jackson,

certainly understood the treatment of bradley manning was affecting international opinion of the united statesthe last thing the united states stayed was another controversy involving detention issues, even one involving one of our own soldiers. >> i want to play part of an exchange now bradley manning that happened between associated press reporter matt lee and state department spokesperson jen psaki when he asked her to comment on the verdict in the case. >> we have seen the verdict, which i know just came out right before i stepped out here. i would be on that and refer you to the department of defense. no further comment from here. >> for the entire trial, this building had said he wouldn't comment because it was pending, it was a pending case. now that it is over, you still are not going to comment? wax that is correct. >> can i ask why? >> because the department of defense has been the point agency -- >> but these were state department cables. they were your property. >> we just don't have any further comment. i know the verdict just came out and i don't have anything more for you. >> ar

we are the united states of america. we are the country that has tried, not always successfully, always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscience, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us and it matters to who we are and it matters to leadership and our credibility in the world. it matters if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel confident and gratified we are not alone in our condemnation and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. the world is speaking out. many friends stand ready to respond. the arab league pledged "to hold to the syrian regime fully responsible for this crime." the organization for islamic cooperation said we needed "to hold the syrian government legally and morally accountable

and iran to say look this is the united states. committing these crimes against iran and so we can deal with them. but again you know there are. just as on both sides there are crimes of the committed on both sides and. the hope is that these historical grievances don't serve as. an obstacle or something that sabotages what i really think is an opportunity right now for the u.s. and iran to begin in gauging in very serious timely negotiations to discuss some of the the really serious things that are happening right now and let's talk about this new opportunity that you're speaking about of course our own has a new president so go ahead and talk about how what role he plays in iran and the opportunities that he might offer to the united states in terms of finding those that those frayed relations yeah i mean given everything that we're seeing in the region. in the recent recent weeks been sort of a rare beacon of hope for news iran held an election in june. tune in which. has an rouhani one overwhelmingly one of the first round of th

another war being fought is a bronc saying that we used to have a kid payback's of the united states can't win a war whether it's iraq or afghanistan whether it's libya whether was vietnam so the people have lost faith in the military aspect of the government the policing as specs of the government and so they realize on the economic end that they're on their own only the too big to fail are there to be say. deposits you know when they move them they take them if you want your money in your own possession you don't have your money here this is a fact when nine eleven happened i know this personally i try to get my money out of certificates of deposit c.d.'s. and i call the fleet bank their gun now they fleeted away i got exe citi group or one of them bank of america bought them out and i wanted my money transferred to my local bank and they said no you can't get it i got shifted by m.f. global's scam when jon cause i'm brought down the company and they stole my money out of my segregated account so the first thing is the golden rule if you don't have any gold you're not going to rule

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and its allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and the attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this date there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washington.

investigators have the access that they require we're just hearing however from the united states who says that this comes too late we are however hearing from the u.n. that they will regardless begin their investigation come monday now this comes as the united states says it has very little doubt that damascus was behind this chemical strike the u.s. intelligence basing these claims on the number of reported deaths we're hearing that upwards of one hundred a hundred people were in fact killed. it's claims on the type of injuries and on eyewitness reports these kind of discussions are emerging from a meeting of the american president barack obama with his security advisers we know that he's been prevented with a review of possible options in terms of american response if indeed there has been the use of chemical weaponry president obama has repeatedly said that if assad uses chemical weapons that would be a green light that would be a red line in terms of which american and foreign intervention would be justified now this comes as the united states moves its naval forces in the medite

or below the poverty line what is the poverty line of the united states to take a look at in global terms the people who are on the poverty line in the united states have cell phones they have two cars they have microwaves they have refrigerators so the free market system that america. provides allows even the poor people in the united states which i don't think there's anyone who believes that you could ever eradicate all poverty but that you want to raise the standards of living across the board capitalism means that as the rich get richer the poor get richer too and more people have more opportunities for more jobs so i think that if we were going to do things to help the poor we would do things like we would create you know we would deregulate a lot of our system and we would put into place more institutional regulations such as free market regulations or tort reform to do things like give incentives to people to actually help right now what happens is we when we create big government policies to help out poor people you have lots of unintended consequences and what happen

we want to welcome back our viewers in the united states and around the world. the president of the united states announcing he will, in fact, seek formal congressional authorization from congress, from the house and the senate before using military action against targets in syria. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been torn on this issue. joining us now, one veteran lawmaker in the house of representatives, the democratic congressman charlie rangel from new york. your reaction, congressman, to what the president said, that he has authorized the use of force, but before giving that execution order, he wants congress to debate the issue and to formally pass resolutions. >> i'm half satisfied. at least i know that the president of the united states is coming to the american people before he executes something that obviously he said he's already decided. it's the constitutional thing to do. the american people have to support him. how do they do that? they do it through the congress. so i don't see where america is threatened, i don't see where our national

he could have pursued his interest in a way that doesn't undermine the national security of the united states. when we have our sources and methods known by our enemies, we undermine the national security of the united states. i would say it's easy since we have not, thank god, had an attack on american soil since september 11th, to minimize the threat, but it's real. and the terrorists only have to get lucky once. we have to do it right 100% of the time. that's a tough standard. >> and a key member of your committee from california who's chair of the subcommittee dealing with russia seems to have sympathy with edward snowden. this is him yesterday on c-span. >> i thought he was being loyal to the rest of us by letting the american people know that the government was getting out of hand. accepting him for asylum, i think, was not as hostile an act as its being portrayed. >> do you agree with those views on edward snowden and russia? >> no, i do not. and we have to keep in mind here that the conundrum we're in is one in which al-qaeda is learning how we track them, and second, you know, with t

unfair lack of justice and unfair treatment at the hands of the united states that these returned and i think that's totally valid i think russia has done exactly the right thing the u.s. has done it many times from people from other countries and now that we know that the united states tortures people that it takes people like manning like it did with u.s. citizen jose padilla earlier and bradley manning you know puts them in jail holds them. in solitary for a year's time deprives them of you know all sensory deprivation for months these kinds of her ific things that you used to associate with the worst dictatorships and the u.s. does it to selected targets including its own citizens so i think russia did exactly the right thing and that's why the united states is so irate is that they've been called on their lack of it here and to the rule of law and just very briefly u.s. will make as they seem to be split fifty fifty on whether to condemn or condone the n.s.a. that committees but actually not a lot of tangible vocal support for snowden that. well it's well it's interesting you kno

i think if the united states has done that right at that time, we -- the united states would now be in a stronger position. we would be discussing what would be the conditions for resuming aid. i think we are in a situation where the united states didn't respect its own law and so that the ministers respect for the united states. understand.o i don't think that just coming off a little bit of egg here or there is going to fundamentally change the calculations of egypt. these discussions are cutting off aid are not very credible because the united states didn't suspend aid at the moment it should have. my third point is that i think as we try to understand u.s. influence correctly, a lot of people are going to be -- to the absolute absolute -- opposite condition. it is also incorrect. tamara mentioned gulf assistance and a lot of people have said, what difference does it make? if the united states would suspend military assistance to egypt when gulf countries are coming in with billions. this is a very superficial understanding of the whole assistance question. egypt has been a country

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

there is no appetite for that in the united states. good to hear from you once again. thanks very much for joining us. >>> so you just heard him say the united states should not go at it alone in syria. what about the u.s. congress? what's the fallout if president obama orders military strikes? i'll talk to a key member of the house foreign affairs committee when we come back. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really? [ male announcer ] this summer, savor every second of vacation. but get your own cookie. enjoy a fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie at check-in and more, with rates as low as $99 per night at a doubletree. book now at doubletree.com/getaway. >>> the plan of attack threatens our national security interest by violating well-established international norms against the use of

or below the poverty line what is the poverty line of the united states to take a look at the in global terms the people who are on the poverty line in the united states have cell phones they have two cars they have microwaves they have refrigerators so the free market system that america provides allows even the poor people in the united states which i don't think there's anyone who believes that you could ever eradicate all poverty but that you want to raise the standards of living across the board capitalism means that as the rich get richer the poor get richer too and more people have more opportunities for more jobs so i think that if we were going to do things to help the poor we would do things like we would create you know we would deregulate a lot of our system and we would put into place more institutional regulations such as free market regulations or tort reform to do things like give incentives to people to actually help right now what happens is we when we create big government policies to help out poor people you have lots of unintended consequences and what hap

the and i. the states are how many how many herbs do we have in the in the united states congress right now one matthew before we enter the program what's the future create what's the future of christians in the arab world. twenty seconds i mean if the general trend if the trend continues we're going to see less and less of them unless you know that things change quickly i'm not optimistic i'm sorry to say ok looks like we're into age of intolerance in this region many thanks today to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember process talk rules. i grew up near me airbase. i dreamed of becoming a pilot ever since i was a child. and are going to approach the agro clarisse him in oh my. i love this place and by amongst. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living. i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king. now right here on r.g.p. question more. blood bath

you can look you can make the example the united states how many blacks do we have in the united states or how many how many arabs do we have in the in the united states congress right now one matthew before we enter the program what's the future create what's the future of christians in the arab world. twenty seconds well i mean if the general trend if the trend continues we're going to see less and less of them unless you know that things change quickly i'm not optimistic i have i'm sorry to say ok looks like we're into age of intolerance in this region many thanks today to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. you next time and remember probably talk rules. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. slowly slowly but. surely legal will. explain that even though the speech. as you know. her or her. wishes are. all things are misleading but. we. just see them on the minimum. amount of rainham

he's returned to the united states. >> he's a private citizen, he returned to the united states, and beyond that, nothing, ed that nada, zip. the trail goes cold, gone again. this guy who naturally we do not even have a real picture of, this former cia spy has disappeared yet again. he's still a wanted man in italy, as are the 22 other americans, or at least the 22 other american names convicted alongside him. even though he has now disappeared again, reportedly somewhere in the united states, we're not getting any explanation. now one of his colleagues in the cia who was convicted alongside him has come forward to tell her side of the story. her name is sabrina, she was also convicted in that italian court. she says that she and the other americans convicted in absentia in 2009 did not cook up this abu omar plan on their own. another cia in italy, the one who got immunity at that trial. the rome station chief, he was the u.s. official who was hell bent on that. misled their bosses that he was back in d.c. the rest of them, she says, officers like her were thrown under the bus. left

would not be doing himself favors with the rest of the world, certainly not with europe and the united states if protesters continue to be massacred in the streets, so how do you soften those blows? that being said, i think that the united states ultimately has an interest in seeing his government succeed. we do not want to have the brotherhood return to power. we saw repressive tendencies by the brotherhood. those would become hyperrepressive if they get back -- >> imagine if the brotherhood had killed people on the open street. yes, the brotherhood was not very democratic often. but killing hundreds of people is not very democratic either. >> right. no, it's terrible. we should -- we should stress that. and if the brotherhood had -- look, the brotherhood would have reacted in the same way. we saw there was a clear tendency in the way the morsi administration had been conducting itself until the point it was deposed. it's not for nothing that 14 million people came into the streets. on the whole, though, i think that this is one, and this might surprise you, this is one country and one area

the united nations. why that is so important is because members of the international community are pressing the united states and united kingdom to see what the report says. what the findings are. more importantly, once the report is submitted to united nations security council, uk parliament wants it wait and see how the reactions go from there. however, british prime minister says there is a legal basis, a humanitarian clause that allows countries of the interfaingsa will commune it to intervene militarily if there is a humanitarian reason to do so. meanwhile across the region here, the situation remains very tense. thousands of syrian refugees continue to pour across borders. more than 13,000 in the past 24 hours into lebanon alone. against the backdrop, still more anxiety. iranian government threatened, saying if there was a u.s. attack, it would be the second vietnam for the u.s. and more importantly, engulf the region in a war that would not end favorably to the united states and its allies. thank you, bill. >> all right, ayman, thank you for staying light for us to night, my friend. >> we continue it

putin support for edward snowden has escalated in fact across the world and specifically in the united states people see edward snowden as a cert as a person who is exposing criminal activity in the part of the united states government in fact gran greenwald international in the guardian has exposed again in a most recent article a program called x. keyscore that allows intelligence agencies to carry out everything from dragnet service survey aliens to the reading in the content of all individual e-mails a program called prism and key score are a spying operation on a scale never before imagined in flagrant violation of the fourth amendment to the united states constitution the public does not support that and increasingly understand it the government is isolated in these operations the war on terror and these alerts and certainly embassies are designed to frighten people and to deflect their support from edward snowden from bradley manning or from those who have the courage to expose criminality and part of the ruins of the united states all right appreciate your thoughts on the subject alwa

is so full of burdened by old grudges and negative stereotypes as the one between russia and the united states and yet when it comes to doing business why did you samples of homer sounds prevailing. a combination of why country russians and americans just stick to the mantra nothing personal just as in this well to discuss that i'm now joined by a. president of the american temper of commerce thank you very much for the time mr summers we often hear that since the united states is the largest consumer of energy and russia is the largest producer of energy in the synergies between the two are obvious but really so obvious. the may not be obvious but there's great center g. already not just in energy but in many other sectors of the global economy who are americans are investing in russia making a lot of money and expanding their operations this is a completely different world in the geo political world that we read about and business is focusing on making money but whether we look at the trade between the two countries and last year it was just under forty billion dollars it's not so impressive

you can look you can make the example the united states how many blacks do we have in the united. states are how many how many arabs do we have in the in the united states congress right now one matthew before we enter the program what's the future create what's the future of christians in the arab world. twenty seconds i mean if the general trend if the trend continues we're going to see less and less of them unless you know that things change quickly i'm not optimistic i'm sorry to say ok looks like we're into age of intolerance in this region many thanks today to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember proper talk rules. i grew up near me airbase. i dreamed of becoming a pilot ever since i was a child. when you approach the grease him and. i love this claim but. most of these voices the couple little all for violence were thefts. when we drove the window climbed in and tried studded. we pushed it a little way and here we were drunk. and soon who you're an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless