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encouraging them and that's simply unprecedented it's unprecedented interference in the in the sovereign nation and it's all blamed on this new protest law and this protest law is virtually identical to any law you would see here in the united states for example you're not allowed i'm here in d.c. you're not allowed to wear a mask at a protest in washington d.c. you're not allowed to erect a tent you saw what happened to the occupy protests violently torn down you're not allowed to have foreign funding of your political organization here in the u.s. it's illegal in poland one of the most arrogant of the countries interfering in ukraine condemning this new law well if you libel a politician in poland you can go to jail for two years so there is an enormous amount of the parker see involved here far right groups are getting momentum in ukraine spurred by the anti-government protests and they're making it clear that they do not favor a peaceful resistance nationalist factions are insisting that the government will only listen to the language of force but meanwhile washington has responded to ukrai

be here max all right this is a very exciting story you want to make big coin the sovereign currency of your indian nation tell us about the plan we should plan is pretty comprehensive knocks on am pretty simple it's simple we. educate people reserve the word a slogan so people understand what coin is and why they should use. a lot of us getting the merchants on board and which actually is helping is some of the big department stores oh you're in the united states had a major breach of security so we're doing we're using that to showcase security features. pretty much you know it's nowhere to scamper of course when i first heard about this it seemed remarkably. appropriate for the indigenous people of america to embrace bitcoin because one of the features of the block chain of bitcoin is that all the contracts are embedded in the block chain and there is no ability to go back and change the blotching so people cannot claim that what was on the block chain was not there to begin with and i think what's going to a lot of people's minds is that the history of the american army and the indians is one of buste

is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common waterfalls shared by several sovereign nations there's always the possibility of a clash of religious conflicts that should be manageable was put out of control and examples of possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bill today egypt. recently expressed concern if a country is using the up and now to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east is a prize more precious than diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to follow but this is a region that very seldom needs an excuse for war and water shortages might just tip the balance police here r.t. in the golan heights. as paul mentioned in her report egypt now locking horns over water supplies with v.o.p. which is building a dam on the nile egyptian relies massively on the river and is worried about being left dry eye when the project goes online in three years political science professor sites of death predicts tension will boil ove

protests encouraging them and that's simply unprecedented it's unprecedented interference in the in a sovereign nation and maybe there are two million people in kiev and maybe some percentage of them are protesting but there are another forty million people in ukraine how was it how was it was there any democratic legitimacy. to have a mob on the streets demanding new elections it's really got ugly hasn't it in the last day or so two people confirmed dead over two hundred injured who's to blame for the violence from what you can gather is that the police or the protesters. well certainly the protesters are to blame the police are using violence that's what police do everywhere when they have to break up protests like this there's certainly plenty of blame that goes to the american politicians like the u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland was handing out cookies on the square as we all know her husband was a great is the great neo con robert kagan who's in favor of revolutions all over the world a former advisor to john mccain so these people know all about revolutions and they're all in f

is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common waterfalls shared by several sovereign nations there's always the possibility of a clash of riches conflicts that should be manageable or spread out of control and examples of possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bill today egypt. recently expressed concern of a countries using the upper now to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east water is a prize more precious than diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to follow but this is a region that very seldom needs an excuse for war and water shortages might just tip the balance for this year r.t. in the golan heights. egypt is also among the countries locked in disputes over water seeds of discontent in cairo where planted by if you know piers dam project on a key it tributary of the nile river raising fears that this could affect the amount of water reaching the country kyra based political science professor saeed sadec sezar

problem is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common water sold by several sovereign nation there's always the possibility of a clash of religious conflicts that should be manageable was spread out of control and examples of possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bill today egypt. also recently expressed concern over countries using the upper nile to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east water is a prize more precious than diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to follow but this is a region that very seldom needs an excuse for war and water shortages might just tipped the balance for this year r.t. in the golan heights. was poor mentioned in a report there egypt's mckeown increasingly concerned over a construction project on the upper nile the country relies greatly on the river where upstream ethiopia is currently building a massive dam political science professor said so they told me egypt may face serious conseque

is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common waterfalls shared by several sovereign nations is always the possibility of a clash of religious conflicts that should be manageable was spread out of control and examples of possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bowl today egypt. also recently expressed concern of a countries using the upper now to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east is a prize more precious than diamonds in its absence famine and drought are quick to follow but this is a region that's very seldom needs an excuse for war and water shortages might just tip the balance here r.t. in the golan heights. that's starting to look at some other world news the police in egypt the supporters of the else to president mohamed morsi during clashes that karros main universities nineteen demonstrators being detained and several injured fresh operate the violence comes just two days before a planned vote on a draft constitution one h

obviously within iran you have some conflicts as to the nature of this deal and united states using its weight to lean on iran and as a sovereign nation the other side you have a huge fight going on with and united states were by the know not just republicans but some democrats and republicans want to basically torpedo this deal and not see it succeed so there's incredible amount of pressure on both sides but when you talk about especially let's focus on the iran pressure first of all they have massive changes underway will they be able to pull it off in this time frame. well i don't think it's that difficult just a case of lowering the bar the threshold for enriching uranium i mean or twenty percent it's already well below what would take for weapons grade so i mean a five percent uranium enrichment ceiling is more than adequate in terms of any fears about iran's ambitions a legit ambitions anyway to pursue nuclear weapons program so it can be done but the problem is political has a lot of political pressure within iran and also states for you know whether to comply with the u.s. and the u.s. whether to stick it to iran and impose ne

another anyhow some conflicts is to the nature of this deal and the united states using its way to lean on iran and as a sovereign nation the other side you have a huge fight going on within the united states. we're on the oh no not just republicans but some democrats and republicans want to basically torpedo the steel and see it succeed so this incredible pressure on both sides. let's focus on the run pressure for fall they have massive changes under way will they be able to pull it off it is time for good. well i think it's that difficult. this is a case of lowering the bar with thresholds for enriching uranium. beyond that twenty percent is already well below what would take for weapons grade seventy five percent uranium enrichment the ceiling is more than adequate in terms of delaying any fears about iran's ambitions collaged ambitions anyway to pursue nuclear weapons program. so i'll be canning done but the problem is political islam political pressure within iran and also the united states. so you're going to comply with the us in the us whether to stick it to iran and those news new rounds of sanctions against on

the first thing was view him as an elected leader of a nation, not as a client of the united states who was dependent on us. he is the sovereign leader of a nation. when i went to see him the first time, it was not tradition for americans to be in anything but our battle uniform. i wore my dress green uniform to show him respect. i also tried to communicate to him that not only was this his nation, this was his war. i was the commander of american troops, but i supported the afghan fight. he never viewed it as his war. he viewed it as something they were reluctantly allowing the west to fight on their territory. i tried to convince him that this is a war for national survival. this is your war. you have to play a role as commander-in-chief in doing that. i made efforts to establish that. there were times that i am sure he would like me to do differently, but i believe that by working as hard as we did on the relationship, there were also times when we each did differently than our instincts might have been to maintain the relationship. the goal was to strengthen that to the point where he trusted me as a person and trusted me

will hand over complete respondent for the defense of afghanistan to the afghan national security forces and the right to a sovereignnation of the government of afghanistan. so we've got about 11 months left to continue to build this army, to build this police force, so lid fie them, and some point nato announced we will have a followup mission. and what that mission consistencies of and what it is composed of. what the numbers are are unknown at this time. courses of action have been developed they're in a decision making process. we'll get the orders and instructions in due time. but we are confident right now in the afghan security forces and we're confident that we are going continue to train, advise, and assist them and support them in the coming months. we are confidence that we will do that as well beyond 2014. with that i would like to say that extraordinarily proud of the soldiers and the sailor, airmen, a marines and all of the forces from the nato allies and the after began soldiers and police that are fighting the fight over here, and with that i'll go ahead and take whatever questions you may have. [ina

have been on the ground in the middle of the protests encouraging them and that simply unprecedented. this unprecedented interference india in a sovereign nation and its all blamed on the new protest lot to this protest was virtually identical to any lawyer would see here in the united states for example you not allowed on here in dc are not allowed to wear a mask in a protest in washington d c were not allowed to erect the tent well you saw what happened to the occupier protest violently of torn down. well you're not allowed to have foreign funding of your political organization here in the us. it's illegal and poland one of the most arrogant of the country's interfering in ukraine up condemning this unlawful if you live alone politician in poland. you can go to jail for two years so there's an enormous amount of hypocrisy involved here. will fall right grades for the choral the protests in ukraine and that make it clear that they can all think of peaceful resistance. nash's factions are insisting that the government would only listen to the language of force united states meanwhile has reiterated its threat to impose sanctions on us get more

[video clip]9tv >> weohgz also dededicate ourses to the principles that guide us as a sovereign nation+÷ >> who edit that? you have to do that? >> i will edit the clips and they taught me how to do that which is great.<=$ i will ftp them up to new york. much like an e-mail but they are huge files. limitations of my job really come down how big a file i can do. if i'm on the road, i have to do a wifi. digital hot spot. that takes a lot of time. you really have to keep the clips small. they edit -- they put it all together. they package it and they put it in as2nrh final -- producers dos that. >> how much feedback are you getting on the video you're doing on the "new york times" website? >> a lot. we get a lot of positive feedback because they keep asking for more. obviously there's an appetite for it. i love doing it. i love being able to think a little differently during the day. not to think it's routine. there's never a routine. our day is never the same. being able to be creative with the video is lot of fun. >> with this two camera outfit you have here. can w?pxñyou transmit over

the future of these talks, what can be achieved then? >> well, they are playing with terminology. see for them there is a government and syria is a sovereign nation the president has the possibility of running for reelection later this year. for them he will complete his constitutional term for the syrian opposition, no, they want to see bashir assad leave par and not just him but the security officials and the regime and the security apparatus and want them to love power and conflicting agendas but undoubtedly it's the international community who wants this process to succeed, almost forcing both sides to sit in geneva and start talking because there is a lot at stake. there is no other alternative on the table apart from the war continuing. so what people are hoping is that at least for the time being there could be confidence-building measures with two people who see each other as enemies and blaming and calling each other terrorists and blaming each other for the violence and in the words of the foreign minister himself this morning he said this is not a meeting from saturday to the following saturday and come out with agreements, no, it's a

questions questions about national solvency and sovereign defaults so when and how exactly did national solvent see become an issue earlier today i spoke with dr gahl birth about the national solvency issue and about his book at the predator state i started our conversation by asking him about money legal tender without any intrinsic value and i asked him where specifically money derived its value this is what he has. though i'm not aware of any significant economy that does anything else that it will or. money is a part of generally speaking the national economic system so that it gets its authority from the. front from from very state from the promise that it is a legal tender that you can use it to retire any debts that you may have whether a private debt to another individual or company or or a debt to the state what you can use it to pay your taxes now is fear of money's position is the only legal tender within an economy important to maintaining its value as a medium of exchange. yes of course it's it is the foundation of that value essentially you know can you expand upon that a little. well if you. were not able to use your national currency to pay debts t

[video clip] ♪ >> we also dededicate ourselves to the principles that guide us as a sovereign nation. also as a member of the international community. >> who edit that? you have to do that? >> i will edit the clips and they taught me how to do that which is great. i will ftp them up to new york. much like an e-mail but they are huge files. limitations of my job really come down how big a file i can do. if i'm on the road, i have to do a wifi. digital hot spot. that takes a lot of time. you really have to keep the clips small. they edit -- they put it all together. they package it and they put it in a final -- producers does that. >> how much feedback are you getting on the video you're doing on the "new york times" website? >> a lot. we get a lot of positive feedback because they keep asking for more. obviously there's an appetite for it. i love doing it. i love being able to think a little differently during the day. not to think it's routine. there's never a routine. our day is never the same. being able to be creative with the video is lot of fun. >> with this two camera outfit you

is in some places there's very little water to go around bring you have the common water souls shared by several sovereign nations is always a possibility of pressure reaches conflicts that should be manageable was put out of control and examples of possible conflicts are plentiful syria's major water sources travel through turkey and iraq making it vulnerable while jordan is reliant on a river with syria bill today egypt. recently expressed concern of a countries using the up anomaly to generate electric power in the dry landscape of the middle east is a prize precious than diamonds in its absence famine and drought a quick to follow but this is a region that's very seldom needs an excuse for me and will to show she just might just took the balance. in the golan heights. let's now take a look at some other world news starting with thailand where huge crowds of demonstrators are gathering in the capital bangkok ahead of one day citywide shutdown protesters are hoping their action will bring down the government of prime minister shinzo sister of a former premier he was ousted over corruption claims in two thousand

questions questions about national solvency and sovereign defaults so when and how exactly did national solvency become an issue earlier today i spoke with dr gahl birth about the national solvency issue and about his book the predator state i started our conversation by asking him about money legal tender without any intrinsic value and i asked him where specifically money derived its value this is what he had. though i'm not aware of any significant economy that does anything else that it will or. money is a part of generally speaking the national economic system so that it gets its authority from the. from from the state from the promise that it is legal tender that you can use it to retire any debt that you may have whether a private debt to another individual or company or or a debt to the state what you can use it to pay your taxes now if they have monies position is the only legal tender within an economy important to maintaining its value as a medium of exchange. yes of course it's it is the foundation of that value essentially yes can you expand upon that a little. well if you. were not able to use your national currency to pay debts that were contract

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the sovereign rights of all international and. including new states that emerge after the breakdown of the m soviet union as well as any other nation anywhere in the world any decision in terms of cost benefits for any nation should be made by the nation in question through the recording procedures. as to the issue of ukraine's signing of the association agreement with the euro but the concern here is not the sovereign. choice of the ukraine but the economic impact of that some agreements and we had a detailed discussion without colleagues and today having existence in the free trade zone that ukraine is in right now in fact the zone of was originally promoted by the ukraine. but would most likely fail to preserve the current preferential regime for the ukraine if it signs of the association agreement so that's something that it pertains directly to us another concern is a large unit assembly i'm including in the automotive industry and our reading of the treaty of the agreement text of was that the such products of would qualify as ukrainian products we've had long arguments and with our european called legs on such issues as how

in china helmand has concluded that the party should maintain its the seat position that taiwan is already an independent sovereign nation. residents living near turkey lie sleeping a little easier a suspect in over a ten mile creek in state custody earlier this week thousands of police officers mobilized to track him down. nhk was jungle meet ella shows as how they caught him. an ad an anna. you can see you go into the center. we stayed. it can be content with him. it was cold and tired. city market is twenty years old. did you stop drinking and driving to winning. he's a rest to him on monday. the leaders seem odd to him that was his fire and now face in the city of color psyche of psycho killer he was and is very nice and kept his title race along key phrases yourself and dashed out of the moon. now sarah chased him. they couldn't catch up. i raced launched a nationwide on hand. full fat and officers took part the really see much as photo and as the cadre to keep an eye out. residents were on acts. team. and weren't even going out to my house. turkey will be amazed as soon as possible. noah said the officers told thos

that is the responsibility on as have taken sovereign nations. but our success depends on the federal government respecting the sovereignty and adhering to our trust agreements. while tribal nations are prepared to fully engage the challenges of a new century, our relationship has not evolved to catch up with this reality. federal government, unfortunately, can be an impediment to progress. consider, for example, the public safety crisis confronting so many of our native communities throughout the united states. it is sad to say that indian country experiences much higher rates of violence per capita than the general population. violence very often perpetrated by non-natives. and yet, our law enforcement all too often is overworked and underfunded. last year, the violence against and tribal courts to and non-nativee perpetrators of domestic violence on our reservations. a major victory. [applause] but, unfortunately, there is another side to the story. 226 alaskaft the tribes out of the law. this injustice must be corrected this year. [applause] l

launching and their attempts to try to check the boxes and they claim to be a peaceful, legitimate, sovereign right of in spaceto engage launches despite the united nations security council protests to the contrary. indicated incident that north korea continued to and sometimesn lethal provocation as a course of diplomatic tools. of intimidation and violence. the general sharp and general thurman had to come to grips counter revocation challenge, it had an impact on the alliance. none of these three conclusions were particularly new or surprising very many analysts had long said north korea was not kidding when it said it would presume a nuclear capability. they intended to have a delivery mechanism and the provocations were nothing new to anybody watching the country for 60 years. clarity with which they have now become the defining elements of the north korean threat, the conventional manyt is still there, scenarios and the possibility of unification all remain there on the table. what we have seen as an evolution of the new capabilities and new intentions that the alliance would have to respond. i will go through these one by one in reverse order -- i

dealing with people, the first thing i did was view him as an elected leader of a nation, not as a client of the united states that worked for me or was dependent upon us. he was a sovereign leader of a nation. and when i first went to see him the first time, it was not tradition for americans to be in anything but our battle uniform, but i took my dress green uniform for my first meeting with him i dressed in that and went to see him, which was my attempt to show him special respect and to almost lake i was providing, presenting my credentials as i was an arriving person. i also tried to communicate to him that this was not only his nation, this was his war, and that i was the commander of nato troops, but in reality i was supporting the afghan army's fight of the war. now he never viewed it as his war, he viewed the war in afghanistan as something they were reluctantly allowing the west to fight on their territory, because it benefitted them, but they didn't like that. and what i tried to do is convince him, this is a war for national survivor and, survival and it is your war and you have to take the role in command never chief in doing that. i don't claim that we got a

the delegates in attendance blaming them a regional delegates and global delegates for having a hand and having blood on their hands from a further creating an instability in syria ultimately playing with a sovereign nation so good luck to all of those in attendance for the continuation of the geneva two peace talks on syria you've got this going off we'll see you soon . well thank you for joining us here at r.t. international as i depart about to push for talk to the geneva two on the syrian battlefield radical islamist fighters and al-qaeda linked rebels continue to turn against each other for control of major cities are days where if and often are reporting from the front line in the northern city of aleppo the aleppo region in northern syria one of the richest and most developed before three divest eighteen years of war has been the scene of some of the fiercest clashes between government troops and the rebels fighting shoulder to shoulder with a number of different al-qaeda affiliated groups but now a different sort of war is raging on the same battlefield that. in the or or lesser gosh the moderates free syrian army an umbrella military organization uniting anti assad forces since the beginning of

trouble in china on the european markets now greek sovereign barnyard they've really been rallying lately in fact greek bonds they outperformed every other nation in two thousand and thirteen does this suggest that the worst is over for greece i would imagine you're going to say no but i want to know why. there isn't why this is utterly correct. hugely irrelevant. is a very simple reason greece hasn't issued any government bonds since two thousand and ten none not one. and moreover over the last three years of the bailout what it is that has been happening is the european plex player has been pumping money into a good government which has been using it effectively in order to replace the move to withdraw whatever government bonds existed to the market and effectively to sift the burden of the good it from privateers from private bondholders onto the shoulders. the european taxpayers including the greek taxpayers so let me put it very simply less than ten less than ten percent of the. debt is in. traded bombs so these bombs the only reason why they're running is because even though everybody knows that greece is bankrupt and if we default again

trouble in china on the european markets now greek sovereign barnyard they've really been rallying lately in fact greek bonds they outperformed every other nation in two thousand and thirteen does this suggest that the worst is over for greece i would imagine you're going to say no but i want to know why. there isn't why this is utterly correct. hugely irrelevant it is a very simple reason greece hasn't issued any government bonds since two thousand and ten none not one. and moreover over the last three years of the bailout what has it has been happening is the european plex player has been pumping money into a good government which has been using it effectively in order to replace to remove to withdraw whatever government bonds existed in the market and effectively to sift the burden of the good that from privateers from private bond holders onto the shoulders of the european taxpayers including the greek taxpayers so let me put it very simply less than ten less than ten percent of kids who mungo's critic that is in. trade that bombs so these bombs the only reason why they're rallying is because even though everybody knows that greece is bankr

carriers in the black sea that could respond in the event of an attack, an emergency response-like situation. remember, this is russia. it's a sovereign nationof nationalistic pride so the cooperation is probably not as good as it should be because the russians feel that they have it under control and they don't need our help. >> congressman michael mccaul, let's hope that none of this happens and it's smooth sailing all the way through. thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. i hope it's safe and successful. >> yeah, we certainly do. >>> coming up here in "the situation room," in last year's state of the union address, the president said that this year, 2014, would see the end of the u.s. war in afghanistan. we're going to get a reality check about what is going on. i'll talk about the state of the union and more with senator john mccain. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." ? there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't

the german driver suffered head injuries on sunday. >> ukraine became an independent nation 22 years ago. now, is its agriculture back to sovereignevels. >> jennifer glass reports from western ukraine. >> in some ways agriculture has not changed much in the past 100 years. many ukrainians work the fields by man and most are poor. >> the soviet union force collectivisation program was supposed to modernize farming. when the soviet union collapsed in 1991, the transition to private farming meant productivity. >> look where we are standing now, this was an old collective farm in soviet times, now it's a moderate complex. >> even a farm like this has a lot of catching up to do. the average cow produces 25 litres of milk, about 60 in europe. the sanitary conditions leave much to be desired. so milk can be used to make expensive products like soft cheese or yoghurt. the countries has a lot of potential. ukraine has rich soil. many believe with better integration and ties to europe, ukraine could become a bread basket. who owns the sail is an obstacle. >> land is a problem. there's no clear ownership. there's no clear right to buy or se

when he was a better, and in the possibilities of what a sovereign ukraine, free i should say, from economic coercion, can ultimately achieve. and i think it is in the national interests of the united states, as well as the ukrainian people, to be able to try to achieve those goals. so we thank you for your testimony. this will not be -- we'll be continuing to monitor the events in the ukraine with both the full committee and with our distinguished colleagues. this record will remain open to the close of -- to the close of business tomorrow, and with that, this hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> up and asked a house science and technology committee investigates cybersecurity concerns with healthcare.gov website. secretary of state john kerry is meeting with his counterparts from canada and mexico to discuss revisions to the north american free trade agreement. he will talk with reporters after the meeting and we will have live coverage here on c-span2. president obama will announce changes to government surveillance programs and data collection. the president is expected to focus on steps to increase oversight and transparency. we will have l