i was lucky i didn't have to pull the trigger. >> alexander immediately calls for help. alexander worries what might have happened had someone else been working that night. >> i think if it had been somebody else that he would have got what he wanted and the other clerk may have been killed or may not have been hurt, but i would almost say that -- he would have been hurt. >> alexander remains thankful he exercised restraint. >> i prevented a person from losing his life. >> crisis averted by a store clerk standing his ground in marionville, missouri, without firing a single shot. three months later in seattle, what looks like another gun-toting robber meets his match when bus passengers throw him to the ground. and the melee is all caught on camera. november, 2013. a 19-year-old seattle man can be seen in security camera footage sitting toward the back of a king county metro bus. within minutes, he approaches a female passenger and appears on the videotape to swipe her cell phone. a few seconds later, another phone is allegedly plucked from an unsuspecting commuter. most

>> talk about general alexander's role in this. >> general alexander -- we described him as the kind of mastermind. he was the architect behind this. fascinating details in these documents that go right back to the early 1990's.

and those were alexander hamilton's words. our keynote speaker joanne freeman. [ applause ] >> thank you very much for that very gracious introduction. i have to say i'm really pleased and honored to be here speaking to you today. particularly at the end of what was an event-filled weekend celebrating and commemorating alexander hamilton's life and accomplishments, and particularly to be speaking here at trinity church, where hamilton was laid to rest 210 years ago today. now, my subject today is alexander hamilton as a man of honor. and i suppose rather perversely i'm going to start by telling you what i'm not going to be talking about today before i launch on what i am going to be talking about. i'm not going to be talking about what an honorable man hamilton was, although he certainly was ab honorable man. but instead i want to talk about what honor as i it was understood in the 18th century meant to him in a concrete way and how it shaped his thoughts and actions overthe course of his life. and i want do it in three parts.

incumbents pat roberts defeating his tea party challenger milton wolf and then in tennessee, lamar alexander beat joe carr plus a host of other folks. right now the establishment is undefeated against the tea party. >> includes races with mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader held off a challenge from matt bevin and in mississippi thad cochran lasted against his challenger. >> one other take away, the republican party divided both pat roberts and lamar alexander less than 50% of the vote. issues like immigration were

alexander is up against state representative joe carr who has done his best to campaign against alexander'sfour-decade tenure in washington and his habit of reaching across the aisle. carr has been endorsed by sarah palin and radio host laura ingraham who campaigned for him last month, attacking alexander. >> in 2012, he voted with obama 62% of the time. he is ranked by national journal as the sixth most liberal republican in the u.s. senate. he's been beaten out by people like john mccain. >> that left alexander defending his voting record, particularly on immigration. >> i voted in 2013, last year, to double border security, to end perpetual amnesty of the 11 million people illegally here and create a legal imization system. i think if anybody has a better idea, they should offer it. >> alexander known for hiking a thousand miles across the state in his first campaign for governor in an iconic red and black checkered black shirt has left nothing to chance, crisscrossing tennessee on a 35-stop bus tour. his campaign has distributed mailers that ask "can we trust joe carr in the united stat

they are harold alexander and mark w. clark.racter is fate on the battlefield as much as it is anywhere else in life. and deficiencies of senior leaders are imprinted on the italian campaign like fingerprints. the army commands group in italy. he is the senior guy on the scene. as he commanded the army group in sicily and and tunisia. alexander on the right, with general truscott, american general. alexander's generalship lacks intellectual depth. curiosity.ks he relies more on his legendary [indiscernible] reputationerling built at the canon's mouth. he sure looks the part, immaculate, unfazed, in command. one journalist wrote that he looked as if he had just had a steam bath, massage, good breakfast, and a letter from home. [laughter] early 50's at this point in the war. he will earn his field marshall's baton in italy, the equivalent of a five-star general. ofre is no shortage contemporary disparagement of alexander. his own chief of staff wrote that the limitations of his ability began to appear when the forces under his com

carr did win senator alexander's home county. the two-term senator celebrated with the republican governor who also won his primary. senator alexander says the results show that tennessee voters send a clear message. >> in a large primary, in one of the most conservative states in the country, on the voters nominated a get it done republican governor and a get it done republican senator. and we want to change obamacare. we're going to have to pass something. if we want to fix the debt, we'll have to pass something. and to do that, we're going to have to work with other people to get it done. i want to take tennessee's get it done kind of leadership, put it in the united states senate and move our country. >> it's a stark contrast to 2010 and 2012 primaries. in 2010, marco rubio won a primary against charlie crist. and mike lee beat robert bennett. then in 2012, richard murdoch beat duke lugar in indiana but lost the general. the tea party set its sights on seven sitting incumbents. but liz cheney dropped her challenge to mike enz

is in western ukraine ultimately becoming alexander let me ask you a question about his alexander family i mean if you ever spent a winter in eastern ukraine or in russia we've ever been there i've been there in the winter actually it's not very pleasant ok ok because well we just you know tell our viewers here what existence will be like without electricity and natural gas in february go ahead. well look i mean everyone knows that you know everyone had the myths about russia plummeting to minus forty degrees the only thing is that's no myth that's reality and in the same situation ukraine is going to be very cold so the truth is prosecco has to make some sort of a deal with russia when it comes to gas you know it's it's a big call to russia can play. and you know talks between pushing and pushing come through putin will make it clear that you know any any future discussions towards peace will have to include gas pipes being opened up again in ukraine and does have to make a choice does he allow his civilians to have warmth in their homes and hold water or the sea continue to plunge them

ossified information for profit is a federal felony critics say the only thing alexander has to offer potential clients is the state secrets he knows investigative journalist jason leopold is now suing the spy agency for the release of alexander's documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable merino for niamh hartstein new york former cia officer ray mcgovern thinks that selling classified data is the only possible explanation of general alexander's supposedly huge profits just think that general alexander would have anything in the way of innovative techniques or would he work in their lives but when he we come up with new ways to do their job

dmitri lenny in london he is head of the london bureau for voice of russia also in london we have alexander klaxon he is the founder of global political insight and here in moscow we cross to michael hughes he is a journalist and foreign policy analyst who often writes for the high. i think in post and the examiner right gentlemen crosstalk rules a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it dimitri in london if i can go to you as we sit down here with the presidents of ukraine and russia have met in minsk there is no outcome of any possible one on one but they shook hands at least that ok push a close running out of time and certainly out of money and a lot of people losing patience particularly the europeans particularly anglo merkel where are we in this situation right now and we all know that winter is looming and russia and ukraine have no gas deal. well we're in the middle of a few conflicting lines i think. during her recent meeting with poroshenko with president poroshenko chancellor merkel singularly pressed him for trying to achieve a peace deal w

my subject today is alexander hamilton as a man of honor. i suppose rather perversely i'm going to start by telling you what i am not going to be talking about today before i launch off on what i am going to be talking about. i'm not going to be talking about what an honorable man hamilton was, although he certainly was an honorable man. instead, what i want to talk about is what honor as it was understood in the 18th century meant to hamilton in a concrete way and how it shaped his thoughts and actions over the course of his life. i want to do that in three parts. first, i will talk about how the concept of honor shaped hamilton's sense of himself, particularly as a young man. then i will talk about how the concept of honor shaped his politics and policies. finally, i will talk about how the concept of honor led him to the dueling ground and the duel that ultimately ended his life. at this point, i am tempted to say that in today's world we don't understand or appreciate honor that much. a lot of people nodding yes. that is not quite true.

just think that general alexander would have anything in the way of innovative techniques or would he work in their lead what was he we come up with new ways to do their job you know he would show his previous experience including classified information so that he can route enrich himself you know in his defense and i'm being sarcastic here i generals like him for story generals only make two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in retirement so clearly he needs to supplement his income but in a million dollars a month sounds a little excessive. running out of some other global headlines in taiwan at least twenty five people killed two hundred seventy six wounded in a series of explosions thought to be caused by underground gas leaks in the sewage system eyewitnesses say dense fog formed over the streets early friday morning and then erupted into multiple blasts tearing up roads flipping over cars firefighters are searching for residents who might be buried under the rubble. argentina's president kirchner denying that her country is facing financial default she stressed and there are s

so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that would prove the cause of alexander's death it's been eight years and all we've had interviews and newspaper articles as far as i know alexander was trainee agents for amite six in that time he found out a lot about the life of russian dissidents in the u.k. he didn't know any english and after he lost his job he wanted to start a business in russia of course his previous employers didn't like the idea of him going back soon i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. this week two european courts ordered a total of more than fifty billion dollars in damages to former yukos shareholders the default defunct oil company was owned by macau how to ski who was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and three the firm was sold off and went bankrupt all of which was legally according to was legal according to moscow a year ago european court of human rights said the case was not politically motivated. taking a look now at some other stories making global headlines this hour at least twelve three armenian servi

the appearance of peace alexander conference last year was very well remembered as their only talent to have. bridged the gap between what they are doing in computer security and what everybody publicly sings day should be doing and that attempt was a complete failure we stand for freedom. not then. no. one was why you're not right i haven't lied to congress and he seems to have a conflict being attended to in on the one hand collecting information and stealing secrets elsewhere and on the eyes and protecting american companies and dominican government from oz's doing it to them and that second pot is what everybody wants to see more action and ironically he's alexander who started up out of the n.s.a. and the mole is put out for trying to help companies protect themselves. we'll do some brief and i will go back to iraq for a first story car bombs going off in a busy commercial street in baghdad that killed six people needed more than a dozen others iraq seen an upsurge in violence and sunni militants seize cities in the north west over seventeen hundred people mostly civilians were

documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. now the n.s.a. is also notably absent from the stage of what is arguably the world's largest computer security convention let's get more on this from security researcher carson . carson for joining us here on or to international to discuss this well certainly now is not a good time to be in a say director before kids alexander step down he want to listen i guess hacker conference and his speech was met by this let's take a listen. we stand for freedom oh. not that. no. one. i haven't lied to congress. all right well you have heard the reception that he got of the skunk friends and yo

sick and lying on his deathbed this is how the world got to know alexander litvinenko a former f.s.b. officer who fled russia and made london his new home it was his accusations against the russian government which propelled his not serai stories of senior officials in moscow supposedly ordering assassinations and carrying out terror attacks and the world ate it up because litvinenko was presented as a famous this of and of somebody who was upsetting the kremlin who was revealing some sort of secrets that were upsetting president putin himself this was not the case at all it's been nearly eight years since alexander litvinenko death yet his family are nowhere near the truth and very pleased to see this decision about public inquiry and i know it's in there as a long time to wait and it's not is it months is in the air but finally if it were to see if this but why has it been such a long road to this truth let's take a look at what's been achieved so far british prosecutors accuse the two men co's former colleagues of murder and him durance he both deny any involvement russia refuses t

the alexander hamilton awareness society hosted this event. is about half an hour. ofi have the pleasure introducing joanne freeman. she has a long history with the museum and even longer one with alexander hamilton. 25 years ago, john herzog approached this young woman who had already curated an exhibit on hamilton. that became one of our earliest exhibits. that was joanne freeman. her history with hamilton is extensive. we have many hamiltonian's in the audience. how many of you have read all 27 volumes of the papers of alexander hamilton, and several times? joanne started early reading them as a teenager. her extensive research took her to the hamilton grange in scotland as well as to st. croix. she immersed herself in the culture by living there for several weeks. she has so much experienced hamilton that she went and fired a black powder dueling pistol. she did this at a gun range. calling it "oddly satisfying, not much of a kick, but a nice full pop and dramatic puff of smoke soon after." we have an historian tried to capture the mood and moment of what it was

is lamar alexander the compromising moderate gop candidate? if he prevails in this, is this kind of not a particularly happy occurrence for the tea party remapped. >> that is right, and i think that we have seen stunning losses are with tea party candidates going by the wayside. with establishing candidates maintaining their victories. and i think that we will see it again in tennessee and i think it's actually incorrect to try to equate this race to the virginia race because it's all about eric cantor and whether or not he performed well you can tell that by the turnout of republicans and the fact is that people that previously supported this didn't come out. but this is a winner take all primary, it's a simple majority will take this race and lamar alexander has been a good steward of his leadership and i think at the end of the day they will reward bad by giving a primary victory. ashley: it seems like lamar alexander has been around forever and then he was secretary of education many moons ago. so is this okay for true conservatives? >> i

now alexander having listened to that same says ok i have. agreed to more help it believes it's necessary do you think that we will see indeed a second convoy and that it will face less obstacles or perhaps none at all. well i would be very surprised if there would be one being you know obstacles again because you know i find that the government in kiev contra resist this sort of to play some sort of a political card and of course it's looking all but it's shoulder to see what the european union and especially washington are doing and saying about that and i unfortunately the coverage of this humanitarian aid in the western media and british media as well was quite you know on the slick it was appalling and to put to to pretend that this humanitarian aid was some sort of a and the attempt to invade ukraine was absolutely preposterous and i can tell you no i can see the response of people here including my twitter bloke to be honest with you quite the substantial following and i can see that they were appalled by this sort of approach and you

documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. the n.s.a. is also notably absent from the stage of what saga be the world's largest computer security convention secured such a cost of knoll believes the n.s.a. can't seem to figure itself. appearance of the celtics and conference of last year's very well remembered as their only attempt to. bridge the gap between what they are doing in computer security and what everybody publicly things they should be doing and that it was a complete failure we stand for freedom. not. my. wife you know. i haven't lied to congress and he seems to have a conflict. on the one hand collecting informa

oh alexander i think we've just lost you from my with the signal has frozen up alexander it's rory here now you. guys are just a moment we've got alexander i've got you back just stand by for a second are the u.s. sanctions against russia are they being effective. personally as a citizen of russia i don't feel it's i don't think they're effective and i think the west will lose much more than russia will and how do you think it'll take though for russia to find substitutes for the european food imports now banned is it even possible in some cases i think explosive all cases that will definitely take some time and my colleagues are experts they still made these periods from three months to eighteen months and some say exams are still live on the political analyst thank you very much for your insight here on r.t. international today thanks. well the first let's bring you back to these pictures here plumes of thick black smoke is the scene in central kiev of the very latest pictures showing tires burning on my down square of course this is where the antigovernment revolt originally started

this is alexander on the right, again, with general truscan, american general. >>> alexanders generalship lacks international depth. it even lacks curiosity. he relies more on his legendary south flaw. he has a sterling reputation built at the cannon's mouth. and he sure looks the part. immaculate. unphased. in command. one journalist broet that isis looks as if he just had a steam bath, a massage and a good breakfast and a letter from home. there's no shortage of cop temporary disparagement of al alexander. his own chief of staff wrote that the limitations of his ability began to appear when the forces under command began weeks and months aforethought, not hours or days. another british general simply insisted he's bone from the neck up. [ laughter ] it was said that he was a born leader, not a made one. almost uneducated, who never read a book. it was said that he could not write his name before the age of ten, but he now spoke french, german, italian, russian and erdew. it was also said that, "he might have been a greater commander if he had not been so nice a gentleman." and it was sa

that fed off alexand alexander band called when alexander takes his rag time band to france. heard the lyric tell you that all that had to happen was for the band to play a two step, a two step was a dance. it was the way you danced to rag time songs. they would juch up out of the trenches and go cake walking back to jeremy. if we took al engs ander's rag time band to france, the war would be over. now, that was a joke, obviously. whether you or i find it funny is not the point. it was a joke in 1917. it also reflects the attitude toward that war question realitily had a sanitized view of what trench warfare would be like. we had no idea. we knew that there was hording in this country. there's a song called the demon has braugts up all the coal chlts people were hording. we were going oufr r off there to show chi czar bilge who the doughboys were. of course, we got bloodied fast. you hear that optimism. you hear that sense of ease. we'll go over there and dance around a little bit. the song is not only a comic take on the war, even world war ii, which is the war that had the

documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. and nasa news the space agency has announced the objectives for the next phase of its plans to explore mars the next mars rover mission is scheduled to launch in two thousand and twenty and while we're at the human colonization stage yet maybe getting closer to at least a human presence with the production of oxygen on the red planet the one point nine billion dollar rover will be equipped with seven different instruments where one of which will be named moxie it's meant to turn carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. into oxygen at the rate of about three quarters of an ounce per hour n

he's reacting to a map showing every crime in alexander dating back two years. it's a tool alexander police use to analyze crime stats to determine how best to police the city. now they're letting you use this website and app to for free. >> you can look up anything reported to the police department. >> so after you see flashing lights and yellow tape, you can find out what happened and when. it's public information in the digital age with everying from death investigations to burglaries mapped out with icons you can click to get the story. >> i'm not scared either way. >> it even shows concentrated areas using heat maps to show areas with higher crime. >> it's good to see what's happening and where because there's often a perception that there's more crime than there actually is. >> now you can see for yourself. >> and right now, only two other jurisdictions in the area use this app. they include washington d.c. and new carrollton. it does not include exact addresses, just block numbers, and crimes currently under investigation will not have complete details. >

but alexander, telling, mr. he would not characterize his victory as a coup for the establishment. listen. >> i wouldn't characterize it that way. there are a lot of emotions in tennessee. all of us think the president is leading us in the wrong direction. all of us want something done. i think the victory, if anything, says we've selected a nominee who has got a reputation for working across party lines and getting results. >> also in tennessee, john roberts live in nashville with more. hi, john. >> reporter: good morning to you, arthel. sorry about the umbrella. it just started pouring here in the downtown area. chalk up another victory for incumbency for tea party challenger. lamar alexander survives for another third term, another 60 years in the senate. he ran on his experience and years of working with folks across the aisle to get things done, repeating at every campaign stop, if you want to make changes you actually have to pass bills. and to do that you do need democratic support. he had words for repub

alexander's ragtime band.s one of the great serendipitious moments in american history. he was working in a tough bar in chinatown, and ended up being told to write a song lyric. it's a whole story. but he did. and realized he could make a few bucks at it. he owned 38 cents in royalties on that first song. the main thing is, he learned if he could do it, he could make money. the goal at the beginning was to make $25 a week. so he didn't have to sleep in alleys and flop houses anymore. the song was so popular, that it sold 1 million copies in 1911, at a time when that was very unusual. and then sold another 1 million copies in 1912. and berlin basically never had to work again. but obviously he did. the song was so popular, that a number of other songwriters wrote about a character named alexander that fed off alexander's ragtime band. and even into world war i, when there was a comic song called "when alexander takes his ragtime band to france. "and if you were listening to -- or reading the words, you heard t

documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. what you don't hear national and up next it's breaking the sets don't go away. sometimes i am baffled by the closed little world that a lot of people in the mainstream media must live in they seem shocked and appalled at the fact that around forty percent of the weapons supplied afghanistan have gone missing let's ignore the fact that while americans are going broke the u.s. must rebuild the afghan military and think for just a second what would happen if you sent a lot of weapons into a country in dire economic suffering i'm sure you've heard reports that say that afghan farmers cou

so far we haven't seen one official piece of evidence that would prove the cause of alexander's death it's been eight years and all we've had at interviews and newspaper articles as far as i know alexander was trainee agents for amite six in that time he found out a lot about the life of russian dissidents in the u.k. he did know in english and after he lost his job he wanted to start a business in russia of course his previous employers didn't like the idea of him going back so i suppose the western security services decided to get rid of him. and another case that really emerged this week here european courts have ordered russia to pay more than fifty billion dollars in damages to the former chair holders you cos the defunct russian oil giant was owned by mail order kosky who was arrested for tax evasion in two thousand and three the firm was then sold off and went bankrupt all of which was legal according to moscow by the new court decision to hew cos was in fact illegally seized by the kremlin why now it's told us this is just another move in a wider political game. it strikes me

documents arguing they're being withheld unlawfully experts say alexander's financial disclosures can only be suppressed by the u.s. president this is just the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the n.s.a. since former contractor edward snowden revealed the agency's global surveillance programs and while washington is still struggling to regain trust with americans and allies around the world the man who spearheaded the indiscriminate spy programs remains protected and profitable. r.t. new york. now look now at some more of the world headlines the car bombs going off in a busy commercial street in baghdad killing six people and injuring more than a dozen others iraq has seen an upsurge in violence in sunni militants seized cities in the northwest over seven hundred people mostly civilians were killed in the country last month. only out of the world health organization says the deadly ebola virus is spreading faster than the efforts to can. tain it the w.h.o. and the west african countries hit hardest by the disease are planning a one hundred million dollar response more than