do both sides of the arab league come to a single conclusion at the meeting of the arab league where there was a discussion about a no fly zone only eleven of the twenty two members had come to that meeting and most of them where the seven countries that belong to the g.c.c. in that meeting the saudis and the qataris took the lead in that meeting they did indeed call for a no fly zone and gave cover to the nato countries in the u.n. security council to push for resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three that was in early march in may at the may meeting of the arab league the qataris put forward a candidate to be the next general secretary he used to be the general secretary of the g.c.c. but at the may meeting the rest of the arab league that had come to basically critique the g.c.c. refused to allow the g.c.c. candidate that is the arab nato candidate to become the head of the arab league and they instead chose to be who is the current head of the arab league again the arab league recently met in baghdad in just this last previous month high after members once again came the

with the arabic -- in some instances he disappointed me. he's arabic, very strong. i don't want to very economical on sort of -- the other thing is he was writing for private communications so he wouldn't have needed to work on this. however there is one publicly available letter, which is one of the statements that al zawahiri released after the arab spring to the people of egypt and this has been edited by somebody. if this was bin laden who edited this, his grandma is very good, you'll be pleased to know. he's also very modest. he doesn't want to come off across -- he wants to be more unassuming in terms of his comments he was making. that letter when it was released by zawahiri, it didn't incorporate the changes. it doesn't mean zawahiri was ignoring him. frankly if i was al zawahiri, i would have made changes because many were grammatical and so on but it may not have reached him at the time. >> let's go to the back and we'll come back to you. from the embassy of pakistan, would you think some of these documents were intentionally left that way to mislead every

and we had 162 students learning arabic. today we have a little over 5,000 students in elementary, middle, and high school learning chinese, and we have over 1,000 students learning arabic. our fifth grade students are now connecting sentences to convey meaning orally as well as in writing using characters and arabic script. the grant awarded in 2006 funded projects at every level. with the fubding we developed a virtual online chinese course for the virginia department of education which allows more students the opportunity to learn chinese, not just in fairfax county but throughout the commonwealth of virginia. we developed an electronic classroom that broadcasts arabic courses to fairfax county high school students attending schools that do not have sufficient enrollment to offer arabic. we also develop chinese programs in the fairfax high school pyramid which gives students in grades 1 through 12 an articulated program of studies. and we support chinese and arabic programs at eight additional elementary schools and four

with me i have a permit to be he is the leader of the arab movement for change he is an arab member of the israeli parliament and also its deputy speaker so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. last year the israeli parliament passed the naacp a law that allows the state to find bodies that use public funding to commemorate the naacp but why was it necessary for the small to be passed in the first place and what are its implications i think it's part of the. discrimination law that. we're in the last two years in the neat specially initiated by israel between the parties for a good liberal and alex miller. is and would like to prevent me from communicating my history or talk express. my empathy to my family which was. dissolved and the community as all in one thousand forty eight why did the israeli government need to pass a law like this we are talking about the most radical government ever in this that it's the government and it is just not your and they will support such a motion they support do. twenty motions to do it in this. discriminating against the opposition he ar

it's arabs telling arabs who we americans really are.ost: and marc ginsberg, president of layalina productions, which is celebrating their 10th anniversary, doing everything from kids tv, documentaries to really using the method that everyone from mtv to reality television to news programs. guest: exactly. the fact what was so interesting and unique about layalina which is a badly kept secret here in the united states, in the arab world, for example, our "on the road in america" series had over 40 million viewers during the season. each of our episodes have reached nine million viewers. and the effect that it has is remarkable in that many of the young arabs said, i didn't know that about the united states. i didn't know this about americans. they have been fed over the last 30 years some pretty evil propaganda about the united states. so now that -- now that the middle east is changing, layalina is changing with it. it is no longer focused exclusively on who we americans are. it's about educating what they want to become. so, for exampl

it is arabs telling arabs who we americans really are. host: our guest is mark ginsburg, president of leilina productions, in everything from kids program andming to document -- from kids' programming to documentary's, to mtv type programming. guest: in the arab world, for example, our on the road in america series had over 40 million viewers during a season. each of our episodes have reached 9 million viewers. the effect that it has had has been remarkable in that many of these arabs have said i did not know that about the united states. i did not know that about americans. they have been fed over the last 30 years some pretty evil propaganda about the united states. now that the middle east is changing, we are changing with it. we're no longer focused exclusively on who americans are. it is also educating them on what they want to become. for example, our next television program that just had its first production in cairo is called generation entrepreneur. it is going to be competitive in trend-era of competition where the best ideas ar

this week we have sasha barron cohen playing an arab guy, and he is not arab. that's my point.his movie specifically. this is the jumping off point for a bigger discussion about hollywood. >> i'm going to share this woet that you have. arabs and south asians have long been ghettoized playing exclusively cab drivers, delhi workers, terrorists, and the occasional good guy who works with law enforcement who is usually killed later in the week by a bad brown guy. again, you're saying that if you are in the creative process, if an arab is in the creative process, it would change that. >> i think it would make it a better movie. less cliche. we all know that depictions of arabs and indians in movies, it's cliche. anyone can write that stuff. the joke is like the terrorist puppet. they can be better. i actually give an example for hollywood because it makes it a better movie. in the 1960s there's a movie about mafia guides, and they weren't using italians, and they were failing. paramount, the same studio that made this movie found francis ford copalla and made a great movie about ita

and the arab world as it was at the time. so you give me those three factors, you give them back to me or create them, we can have a real peace process. if not, this is an illusion which may be about our interests to maintain, but it is still an illusion. finally, president obama. let me be very clear. this president i think has learned a great deal about american interests in this region. he came wanting to bend the trajectory of american foreign policy, to transform temperature about i think he quickly understood that was simply not possible. i would give him relatively high marks, no spectacular achievements with the exception of killing osama bin tacular fa. and the revision niss on eisenhower argue his greatness as a president lay in what he didn't do and an english general was quoted as saying some of my greatest victories lay in the battles i did not fight. we have to be very clear here. when we project our power, economic, military, and diplomatic, and why. and frankly, i think obama has learned much from will this. s

one is a palestinian/arab problem and jewish refugee problems. more jews were expelled after the 1948 war and the six-day war than palestinian arabs left under duress or otherwise under the 1948 and '67 wars. so they also have claims. there's a lot of claims back and forth. according to one statistic, the jews left arab lands, they were land holders that were larger than the state of israel altogether, so there's going to be a lot at the table to discuss. what we're willing to do is look at ways in which arab refugees can be resettled the way our refugees would be resettled in our national homeland, in the nation's state of the jewish people, the land of israel and palestinian refugees should be resettled in the nation state of the palestinians, palestine. to do otherwise would transform israel from a jewish state that's called israel into a palestinian state because today the descendants, we're talking about grandchildren, great grandchildren of the refugees from 1948 number anywhere between six and eight million, so their return to pre-'67 isra

with me i have meant to be he has the veto of the arab movement for change he is an arab member of the israeli parliament and also its deputy speaker so thank you very much for joining us here on ati most welcome now it's true of these waiting parliament possed and the naacp and all that they lost the state to find bodies that use public funding to commemorate the nakba why was it necessary for this rule to be passed in the first place and what are its implications i think it's. well v. . discrimination laws that. were here in the last two years in the native species initiated by israel between the party of a do live distro of alex miller. and to prevent me from communicating my history or talk express. my empathy to my family. which was dissolved. and the community. in one thousand forty eight why did the israeli government need to pass a law like this we are talking about the most radical government ever and there is an. eight. government local government. that is just not right that they will support such a motion that they supported. all these and twenty motions of this consider di

it's a good thing for arabs and muslims.as you know for many years widespread perceptions exist in the part of the world. the united states was behind everything. america's hidden hand was moving everything. this was the idea. america's support for authoritarian leadership? the region was at the heart of the problem. america was responsible for the ills and misfortunes for that part of the world. the end of america's domination shifts the focus to what what's happening in the region. america is no longer seen as the culprit. think of what has happened, charlie, in the last 15 months. no american flags have been burned. no major talks of american andeñ western colonialism. the focus is on what? local tormenters. the dictators who promised heaven and delivered that. barack obama-- and this is a very important point-- say what have you about the barack obama presidency, barack obama has indirectly helped shift the debate from the poisonous foreign policy and the social engineering project to basically saying "look, people, amer

well, a year ago, that was arab territory." there's still this business of, "sorry, you have to move on." and when you think about the situation of the indigenous peoples of this continent and how, "well, here's your reservation. no, i'm going to move further"- they're still getting pushed around, and that's messing with their mind, ethically. yeah, janet? >> right now what they're doing, i think, is they're refusing construction permits for palestinian houses, so you can't add a room addition on to your house while they're building those new subdivisions for the other people. so they're squeezing them that way- they're saying, "well, we don't care if your son or daughter got married and now you need more- no, you can't build onto your house." >> and as virginia said, it's not having rights, and without rights, you can't obey your obligations, you can't obey your responsibilities, and it puts you in ethical conflict right there. now to get in this extraordinary material we have, hold onto the questions. i want to kind of shift

bit of arabic. and we want so determination self-determination. by not showing up too much with egypt it was not made in egypt i think of course that's you know and the arabs have attempted it they've tried to do the different organizations of of of just arab unity but this goes beyond arab unity and this is i'm talking about islamic unity which includes turks it includes iranians it includes pakistanis in the news it's huge it's massive but why have unity well why would europe want to do the whole point of unity there but i think there will be and i think the reason your wanted you to actually it was set up by the states to make the united states of europe that would be economically perhaps on the right in order to combat the soviet union that's why i think and i think i think that the reason and now now it's it's a trade block right the reason for unity would probably be. economics of course defense of course. and you know this is a harking back to history where you could travel from one point to the other unhindered because you are a citizens o

children who are taught to hate how a school in israel's of standing out in class by teaching jewish and arab kids of both sides of the story. six pm in moscow why matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story a month of uncertainty ahead for europe with greece facing another election june seventeenth which could decide its euro fate markets and banks already on edge with athens running out of cash while patience runs out over cuts but france's new anti austerity president francois hollande and germany's angela merkel are pledging to help greece stay in the euro at their first meeting in berlin artie's peter all over is live for us there he joins us now with the latest so peter where is greece at the moment. well despite cooperation being announced between germany and france at a meeting here in berlin a lot depends on what's going on in athens at the moment now it's just been announced that this pick of armed men all supreme court judge will be taking over as the prime minister of a caretaker government will be in charge until fresh elections can be held on the seventeenth of j

changing the children who are taught how a school in israel standing out in class by teaching jewish and arab kids both sides of the story. four pm in moscow. good to have you with us here on r t a month of uncertainty ahead for europe with greece facing another election on june seventeenth that could decide its euro fate markets and banks already on edge as ifans runs out of cash while patience runs out over cuts but france's new anti austerity president francois hollande and germany's angela merkel are pledging to help greece stay in the euro more for marcie's peter all over and girl it. what we're seeing though at the moment is the new french president francois hollande and german chancellor angela merkel have both about see put their political differences behind them and try and work to sort out the problems in the eurozone namely those problems with greece now that came following the much anticipated meeting here in lynn now the greek president is be meeting with the country's political leaders as they try and hash out a caretaker government this comes after they were unable to form a co

they rejoiced at the arab spring. bin laden called it the most important point in the history of modern islam in reclaiming the muslim world for islam. there is no responsibility for data analysis, but should make a lot of people embarrassed when they read these things. host: our phone lines are open. from champaign, ill., good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call and think it is for c-span. my comment is basically this. i next military and of world war two, with this country wanted less than two and half year, we have not waged all-out war. we did not do it in korea, we paddled around in vietnam for 10 years and piddle around in afghanistan for 10 years and pulled the same stunt in iraq. if you want to stop terrorist attacks against this country, the very next time they hit us, we need a commander in chief that is on every trip from all 731 basis we have around the world, we to have him come hit them hard commando quit hitting them until every last one of them is dead and decimated and gone. if you do that o

he has kept a healthy distance from the arab uprising. we might be seeing the beginning of the end of america's moment. it is growing in that part of the world. they have been trying very hard to amend the historic quest. i think the reality is american foreign policy is not in the same spirit as it was. they will basically consolidate what i call the rise of the new public opinion. that will likely take control of its destiny. that is why, for structural reasons, america's economic decline, we might be seeing a weakening or lessening of the american hegemony and influence across the world. >> thank you very much, author of obama and the middle east, the end of america oppose a moment. -- america's moment. fourth largest's bank has asked for $24 billion more in state funds to stay afloat. the request comes after shares in descendent half of the financial institution was heart nationalized because of its problems with bad property that. >> shares in spain's fourth largest lender were suspended until further notice. customs worrying about t

the answer to the israeli palestinian puzzle might lie in these pages where arab and jewish children who never meet in person get to know each other only through the written word usually they're not named they're called arabs or israel's arabs which is a racist label and then there are presented as their primitive farmers and no modes also always with a coffee or with a camel and with some kind of ali baba dress that nobody really wears in racist caricatures. and of course terrorist but it's not much better in the palestinian textbooks the stereotypes here are also pretty alarming the israeli jews. are invaders from europe they have nothing to do with this land and they are basically criminals and therefore they are educated for a long term war against them much of the problem stems from the fact that in israel jews and arabs go to different schools they study a different curriculum and sit different exams what small because jewish schools are generally better funded the standard of education is higher but here is one school trying to get it right it is part of a says for peace of vi

clashes break out between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by palestinians marking knocked out work and pastor of the day commemorating the hundreds of thousands of forefathers were displaced by the creation of israel in one nine hundred forty eight. still under house arrest julian assange brings us the latest edition of his talk show this time raising the subject of torture and rendition one of his guest spent years without trial in guantanamo bay which prompted the wiki leaks founder to draw parallels with his own situation mechanism of america's war on terrorism victims and beneficiaries all coming next stay with us. i'm julian assange. stripes. it is true of wiki leaks we've exposed the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this question. illegally shoots five hundred days i've been detained without charge. as he stopped of. the day we're going to quiz the revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. this week i have to visit his most and big was in prison for using guan

and arabic some terms though is to ensure maybe according to what is going . there is. some of. the war and. some they are coming from home with. all kind of. do's and. in there talking them out in a particularly difficult lesson these teachers are preparing for israel's independence day because while for israelis it's a national holiday for palestinians it's a catastrophe when the two teachers are standing in front of the children the children are tense in there sometimes. just like i'm here and i'm not here we assure them it's ok to speak about it it's not something where this is history in we're supposed to speak about what happened and look for the future together but the challenge is big and the school use this israeli textbooks which it has translated into arabic there are sections that talk about a so-called palestinian demographic nightmare and there are maps that ignore each other's existence what these books do especially history books they teach the children not the historical discourse this is not the discourse of historians they teach them to hit this course of poli

think about it, the arab league not only called for action, but members of the arab league participated alongside nato. kwout america's high level diplomacy cajoling, hand holding and occasional arm twisting, that coalition would never have come together or stayed together. and now we're working with new partners to support emerging democracies and to help build credible institutions. i was just in brazil co-chairing the open government partnership an effort by the united states to bring countries in to the fight against corruption, a push for openness. and i was so proud that libya was represented at that conference and made a speech about the kind of future, democratic future that they are seeking. we all know thatfuture, democratic future that they are seeking. now, we all know that this is a difficult transformation. and we see countries like syria that are trying to hold back the tide of history with brutal, horrible impact on innocent lives, but a situation as complicated as the arab spring demands a multifaceted response. and so we have to marry all of these tools together. old-f

a lot of times people confuse arabic with others. it's a huge step in our campaign that these women are coming out and they're all san francisco residents and actually in district six and others from other districts. so we really appreciate the time that you guys have taken to hear some of the stories and just want to reiterate that we're -- we would love to sit down and talk with whoever just to see our next steps and i really appreciate the recognition of recognizing that our community is coming forth and slowly but surely they're becoming a huge part of the civic engagement within this city, thank you. president chiu: great. again, if you would like to help organize a meeting so we can figure out how to address the very specific concerns that were raised, i'll be happy to do that. >> thank you. president chiu: let's hear from the next speaker. >> [speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon three supervisors, i live in district 11. >> speaking foreign language] >> in 2005, my father was at s.f. general hospital and he through lik

clashes break out between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by palestinians marking not butter or catastrophe day they're remembering the hundreds of thousands of people who were displaced by the israeli state after its creation in one nine hundred forty eight. and still under house arrest julian assange brings us the latest addition of new talk show this time raising the subject of torture and rendition. and indeed one of his guest spent years without trial in guantanamo bay which prompted the wiki leaks founder to draw parallels with his own situation right now the mechanism of america's war on terror its victims and beneficiaries all discussed just ahead here on our take. i'm julian assange. it is true when he wakes expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this question why do people illegally shoot five hundred days now i've been detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us . today where on a quest for revolutionary ideas to can change the world tomorrow. this week

children who are taught to hate how a school in israel standing out in class by teaching jewish and arab kids both sides of the story. there are some markets took a hit today at the end i think bone prices continue to decline and the ruble will need this value to i mean twenty minutes time for the bank at. seven pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story a month of uncertainty lies ahead for europe with greece facing another election june seventeenth that could decide the its euro fate markets and banks already on edge with athens running out of cash while patience runs out over cuts but france's new and staring president francois hollande and germany's chancellor angela merkel pledging to help greece stay in the euro at their first meeting in berlin archy's peter all of our reports. despite cooperation being announced between germany and france at a meeting here in berlin a lot depends on what's going on in athens at the moment now it's just been announced that this pick of our men also supreme court judge will be taking over as the prime minister of a

spending is the best way out of the eurozone crisis the clashes break out between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by palestinians marking nakba or catastrophe day they're commemorating the hundreds of thousands of their forefathers displaced by the jewish state after its creation in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. grain backlash activists and human rights groups vent anger at the u.s. for assuming arms sales to the bahraini regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent the gulf state hosts america's middle east naval fleet as a key washington ally still under house arrest julian assange delivers the latest edition of his talk show this time we're raising the subject of torture and rendition. one of his guests spent years without trial in guantanamo bay which trial with which prompted the wiki leaks founder to draw parallels with his own situation the mechanism of the u.s. war on terror its victims and beneficiaries coming up next stay with us. i'm julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these documents belong the united st

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classes break house between israeli police and arab protesters during rallies by palestinians marking now a day that saw the displacement of thousands of people when the state of israel was established in one nine hundred forty eight. hour a backlash activists and human rights groups vent their anger at the u.s. for resuming arms sales to the bahraini regime despite its continued crackdown on dissent. and some under house arrest during the sun brings us the latest edition of his talk show this time raising the subject of torture and the legal rendition. welcome to r.t. live from moscow at eight pm my name's kevin now in france where lands officially become france's new president he was sworn in for a five year term with the palace in a modest ceremony in central paris but just hours after his inauguration alarms know heading to berlin you'll have a welcome dinner with german chancellor angela merkel and hold a crucial meeting to discuss the eurozone crisis so she is later allowed is an avid campaigner for measures that stimulate growth once a promise so germany's focus on austerity th