the coup i'd like to ask you firstly what do you think about the role of the organization of american states and secondly in your view. what were the objectives of the e.u. countries such as spin germany and france when they are recognised federico franco is take over almost immediately and gore says restraint fact is that most nearby states in the region don't recognize it i believe it's much more important as there are such countries as vatican city in taiwan but what's the political weight of places like vatican city or thai well how can you compare twenty three foreign states with the political weight of argentina brazil or euro quietly our neighbors and brotherly states with whom we've been maintaining commercial diplomatic and political relations in the morning what is the position of the church in this matter mean for you as a bill of rights. i believe that in politics reality is the most important aspect of the vatican's decision may well be symbolic but as i've said it has no real weight from the diplomatic commercial cultural and political viewpoints even compared to a country as s

all right why is the european union sending a commission to our country for the organization of american states held an extraordinary meeting and a commission they've come here from that organization so it can't be so good nothing is happen or something very serious has happened here and that a serious violation with a parliamentary coupe a coup d'etat when the president elected according to the constitution by a majority of votes was impeached over like he will go in a week in twenty women are exposed to the keyboard dated two thousand and nine from the us embassy in us and see on to the us department of state that it contained rumors about opposition plans to topple you through parliament and to hand power to federico franco were you aware of this document. but no no i wasn't aware of the document that was published in twenty eleven but i've said that parliament talked about a political trial for me twenty three times in all these years i always insist that the key merit of our government is that it didn't give up in view of these threats of political trials here specially on the part of parl

moving into a territory which has a great deal has bee wrtten which iseesgt rtarthquality of american states and whether there was any systematic relationship with political outcomes which are certainly wohy orio wih art it em t american states that have high degrees of income inequality which of lower voter turnouts. not a surprising finding as you might expect in th ituatin suss v o h poous it's not exactly out of line with historica experience. we also find more interesting perhaps more subtle anmaybe more eabepoont abo tast best itn er interesting paradox in the political science literature namely the finding that while which people tend to vote republican rich states tend to vote democratic so-called bellmonpaaox do wetw abe explain the relationship gilman has as associates now and it does turn up if you measure in the quality and a special sene okoueeoli tjs eesf me hte loced across the state's and they tend to have less of a relationship between income and voting meretseaoctce ey ca oe lights on some interesting phenomenon in social science. heres by way of suming up a untanc eqtyofht

wade, a complete ban on abortion in an american state. they're this close. federal judge today in jackson, mississippi, agreed to let the state's only remaining abortion clinic stay open. this is a story we have been following closely. mississippi did not lose its last abortion clinic today although they could have. thanks to this judge's reprieve. how good is the reprove good for? the judge did not say, but he did extend his own temporariry straining order from last week on a new mississippi law that would make it impossible for the last abortion clinic in the state to continue to operate there legally. attorneys for the state of mississippi had asked the judge to ignore the open admission by republican elected officials in mississippi that they meant for the new law to end abortion in the state by closing the state's last clinic. the judge said he had not seen that kind of thing before. other states had tried to regulate clinics out of business, but they had not been so frank about it. for now, the judge said he needed more time to read through the new rule

republicans admit they think it's their best chance at banning abortion in an american state. >> we have literally stopped abortion in the state of mississippi. the only -- the only clinic in the state of mississippi. a bill was drafted, it said if you were to perform an abortion in the state of mississippi, you must be a certified ob/gyn and have admitting privileges to a hospital. do you know how hard it is? it's going to be challenged in the supreme court. literally, we stopped abortion in the state of mississippi legally without having to do roe v. wade. and on the other side, they're like, the poor pitiful women who can't foorbd to go out of state are going to do it at home with a coat hanger. that's what we heard over and over and over. but you have to have more values. you have to start somewhere and that's what we decided to do. >> have to start somewhere. by this time tomorrow in the next 24 hours, the anti-abortion movement and republicans may for the first time ever have succeeded in banning abortion in an american state. last week on the day this new mississippi law was set t

in two thousand and ten part of what's going on in the united states is americans don't have any money anymore and they can't afford to go on vacation and part of what you're seeing is them looking to replace the weak pushed out american middle class with folks from other parts the world where the economy is going better and wages are growing in an effort to lure the big spenders the white house has made it easier and quicker for more chinese and brazilian citizens to obtain tourist visas before brand usa came brand big apple new york city america's top tourist destination attracted more than fifty million visitors last year now while the weak u.s. dollar has been a burdett for the buying power of u.s. citizens customers armed with a stronger currency have business booming and prices from dropping international visitor are they're great shoppers and they spend a tremendous amount of money there brazilians spend a tremendous amount of money many europeans the chinese spend a lot of money george is the c.e.o. of n.y.c. and company an organization that markets the big apple around the glo

state i mean. since the. scribe to the ideas was the initial spirit of the american revolution. you can hear that whole program you can watch that whole program of course on r.t. on cheese day starting at eleven thirty g.m.t. it's the last episode in the interview program so don't miss it. thank you artie as lora smith in london will be looking forward to watching that last episode of julian assange to share here on r.t. . back in two thousand and nine president obama put tourism on the agenda as a potential economy booster advertising brand america across the world but then bush's plan hasn't managed to pull the jobs market out of a slump with june yet another week month for the struggling u.s. economy marina reports. america's economy was once like the strongest and fastest roller coaster everyone wanted to ride. but nearly four years following wall street's financial freefall more than fifteen million u.s. citizens lack full time jobs. and employment problem the u.s. president hopes visitors from other countries can help fix more money spent by more tourists means more busine

if i'm not mistaken the united states is sixty vetoes on the palestinian issue alone so why don't you. question my american colleagues about the impact of the image of the united states in the middle east of the continuous middle sometimes even between their own presidential and secretary of state public statements so you know veto is a part of the u.n. charter there is nothing wrong about casting it when you feel the need to do so can we talk about what happens next now no agreement in the u.n. security council but russia has said that they would like to see an extension of the u.n. observer mission to syria but at the moment is a visible impact so far what is the point in keeping the mission alive when so far it's failed. what the what will be the point of the other part was saying that at least we have a more chance to get objective information if it's there or if the situation we have to improve there will be on the ground already so they will be able to participate more actively in the in the political process and also the in dealing with their community and situation so pulling them all to is going t

also as the demand for drawing that is expected to continue to grow the american state of florida is devoting a large chunk of funding hoping to become the country's hub for unmanned aerial vehicles. a brief look at some other stories making headlines across the globe it's been confirmed that three nato soldiers killed in southern afghanistan by men wearing a local police uniform were british the attacker was injured and later arrested it brings the number of foreign troops killed this month to thirty nine meaning a death toll of two hundred fifteen so far this year the attack comes ahead of a handover which will see control of the country part from later to afghan security forces in twenty fourteen. hundreds of protesters have demonstrated in japan over the country's first restart of a nuclear plant since the crisis at fukushima last year the move was ordered last month as the prime minister said economic and living standards couldn't be maintained without atomic energy the country shut down all its nuclear plants after a meltdown at the fukushima plant traded by last year's tsunami

servthe theme of tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of asian-americans in the statecalifornia and our nation. >> ok'ing. -- ok. i would like to introduce our host for this evening. very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and building san francisco's future. a great job, especially for helping out families. we want to keep families here. i also wanted to mention a little bit of his past. he was born in 1952 in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle, washington. his parents immigrated to the u.s. from china and the 1930's. his father fought in world war ii and worked as a cook. he passed away when the mayor was 15. his mother was a seamstress and a waitress. mayor lee has five siblings, he graduated from college in maine, he also went to uc- berkeley law school and finished in 1978. he and his wife have two daughters. i also want to mention, prior to becoming m

the director of the department of electoral cooperation and monitoring at the organization of american states. they led an electoral observation mission to mexico for these elections that was led by former colombian president cesar garvidia. pablo was instrumental in this process and i invited him to talk a little bit about their official observation of the election and what they saw and witnessed there. thank you, pablo. >> may i start to say that when i listened of course to the presentations, i'm thinking we have a problem in america, because the same issues in mexico is in el salvador, hondur honduras, ecuador, peru, buying votes or the social programs or the first lady, whatsoever, so we have a big issue in latin america in the electoral system. i want to start saying that i think there is a big difference between the 2006 and the last election in mexico that the results are not in question in mexico. there are problems in the electoral process, but the results are not in question in mexico, and that's our statement, our last statement in mexico and our electoral mission. this was the fi

by the south american state is that potential threat to julian assange just lives and we can accept it or insist that these extradited to sweden is sure to be handed over to the us were he could face the death penalty if convicted of espionage for huge leak of secret american files the us justice department recently has admitted that there's an ongoing investigation into the we can leaks affair robert naiman from just foreign policy an organization which started a petition campaign to support us on this plea for asylum says it's the whistleblower himself who is the real target. my certain sense of the people i've talked to that. government officials are sympathetic to their request they understand the situation the same way we do you understand the threat to julian or songs from the united states or the threat that sweden once they got custody of assad would hand them over to the united states which would then prosecute him under the very controversial espionage act we don't know everything about what the u.s. government has done or might do but we know that a grand jury was impaneled

will be absolutely software respecting human rights the main issue being considered by the south american state as a potential. threat to join us on his life and we can he said of her insist that if he's extradited to sweden he's sure to be handed over to the us were he could face the death penalty if convicted of espionage fourth huge leak of secret american files the u.s. justice department recently has admitted that there is an ongoing investigation into the way the leaks affair robert naiman from just foreign policy an organization which started at the titian campaign to support its own this plea for asylum says it's the whistleblower himself is the real target. my sense since of the people i've talked to. government officials are sympathetic to the request they understand situation the same way we do understand the threat to join the songs from the united states and the threat that's we once they got custody of assad would hand them over to the united states which would then prosecute him under the very controversial espionage act we don't know everything about what the u.s. government has

thermonuclear powers in the world russia remains the preeminent strategic partner in the eurasia mass the american states and russia have an enormous amount of strategic interests and concerns in common they are equally threatened on the lawn by islamist fundamentalism they both face major drug epidemics crime a pathetic swith in their own countries the need for security and law and order cooperation between the united states and russia is absolutely preeminent in the world but that is not going to happen when relations between the two great super powers deteriorate over issues like this this is grandstanding and demagoguery in the senate of the worst carried and what's particularly striking to me on this is that this isn't coming from the house of representatives it's coming from the senate and the senate is supposed to take the longer term and be the more thoughtful reflective legislative chamber in the u.s. constitutional system where we have plenty more details in the case of set of magnitsky including what led to his arrest and the investigation into his death you can find all the background on this