programmed over ten institutions in the city of san francisco including the air film festival the arab culture and committee center but also with the tamp pais public library to have two events showcasing the rich arab america culture that exists here in the city of san francisco and i want to thank you all for coming and i want to introduce joaquin for resident who ska great member of our community and has helped organize this event. (applause). . thank you very much and good evening everyone on behalf of mayorly who will be joining us in a few moments i want to say thanks to all of you for being here tonight it's always a pleasure for you go to welcome the community into city hall - because you remind us our purpose in government so to serve and you you certainly bring life and culture and community into our very state halls and bring life to us, so thank you again. i want to thank the nominating committee and the planning committee for their excellent work in ensuring that those very important community members who do so much to ensure that our communities remain strong and vibrant,

the arab world by arab leaders in the past. this is something that is well known, and we have to admit that we do not enjoy our public and our freedom. it is true that women did not enjoy their rights, and this is something very important that we must and knowledge from the very beginning. society's need to laugh we examine a number of issues. i'm not talking here about islam. i'm talking about a number of practices are taking place in our country, practices against women, against human rights, practices against journalism, is the press, practices that were taken place in either to other countries and that must end. we now talk about democracy, and i believe that democracy cannot prevail if we do not respect human rights commission for dinner respect the rights of women, if we get respect public freedom, and if we do not provide the environment that is conducive for development, conducive for education. we also must ensure economic development and political progress, political development. these things and these principles are

serving under our mayor lee who i would like to make a invite to make a few remarks in honor or of arab heritage month here in san francisco. >> thank you, thank you joaquin, thank you, welcome to our orange city hall. i want to welcome everybody here this fourthth animal america arab month of separation and it's my pleasure to join us here and many of us know that we are such a lucky city, and we are lucky because people around their world make their way to fraction, find hopey until the city they know that we celebrate our diversity and find strength in the different cultures that pretend together and now, i ask you also to bring me talent from the arab america communities to make me and help me lune run the city. yes, it's incredible. union, i think i can talk about how wonderful diversity is, but we have to get the talent from our communities to represent all of the different thing that we do in the city. and you know, tonight, even though there is something called a baseball game out there, but these wonderful events that we have in the city whether it's america's cup whether it's

spring actually is an arabic word it's a direct translation from the arabic now what happens in egypt for example i may approve or not approve of you can't have it both ways we have one the panelists saying that western values appalling and repugnant do so much damage the same time he's moaning about what is going on in the middle east right now i think that western american anglo-american european policy towards the middle east has generally been what it's certainly lacked nuance but democracy is more than about as someone said earlier one person one vote maybe one election it's about a context is about respecting the opposition it's about tolerating the people who lose it about a free press you know in turkey right now you do have democracy but you have more journalists in prison and then the other country on earth what i'm frightened about in egypt is that if women turning up to vote are denied that vote because they're not wearing a job or a burka we're in serious trouble right gentlemen i'm going to have to jump in here we're going to a short break and after that short break we'l

in troy the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't owe t.v. dot com. something. lies beneath. thousands of meters of ice under a rock. the lab. that is a loon for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance. one afternoon on the shores of the ocean blue. one of those days when it feels good to be alive on the planet earth. carefree humanity. maybe unthinking humanity even. a few kilometers away a man has given us an appointment on a mountain summit.

i mean syria has been in my blood for-- . >> rose: dow speak arabic. >> i speak arabic. >> rose: we famously watched you say something to somebody. >> the hamas leader. i speak enough arabic that i can get by and shoot the breeze and have nice conversations with people. i would be embarrass food say i spoke beautiful arabic because it is very cole oakial slangy. >> but that helps a lot. i mean i think, look, this year has been awful from the perfective of working as a for earn-- foreign reporter inside sir ya, lousing murray colevin, anthony shadid, having a friend and colleague, austin tice taken and now it's now five months with no news. that's really, really hard. and it has made this conflict like an inbelieveably difficult one to cover and that's just on your personal level. then you take into account your experiences when are you living in these places. because it's not like a normal sinarrio where you stay in a hotel and a driver and shuttle back and forth every day, are you living in these people's house. i have been sleeping in a room where the people who were killed during the day

the arab spring will win over. and this area shall civilize, but of course, we can't work in isolation from the world. we love this world and we want to live in peace. we'll work on that, and the will of the people from the region well prevail and win over in the near future. >> reporter: president morsi tells me he is planning to come to washington to meet with president obama very soon. also in the process, he will make a stunning request to the united states about the fate of an islamic cleric convicted in the first world trade center bombing. that and more coming up. who do you think i am, quicken loans? ♪ at quicken loans, we won't make you wait for it. our efficient, online system allows us to get you through your home loan process fast. which means you'll never have to beg for a quick closing. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. bonkers, look at me when i'm talking to you. and sounds vying for your attention. so we invented a warning you can feel. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. availabl

a fine student of arabic. much more. he gave me careful and cogent advice and council as we wrestled together with the many growing problems that even back then were en endemic to the country's work. i learned about benghazi, as the critical changes in libya began to unfold. his leadership there at a time of great importance and danger was a tribute to his courage and bravery. his skill and dedication as a diplomat. to his commitment to a new and better libya. benghazi in a real sense, as you have heard today, became his city. as it is with a deep sense of fate that in benghazi he and his colleagues gave that last full measure for his country and his many friends in the city where he died, continuing to defend and prosper their hopes and their aspirations for the future. many have commented since on chris's salient commitment to the people of benghazi. john thorn writing in the christian science monitor noted that when he passed in the street, the young men would call out, hello, chris. they knew his face. would laugh an

arabic. was among a group of journalists who were injured who were targeted in the crossfire when they were covering movement of a governmental convoy through the country. and that we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier accompanied us the entire time the rebels were firing on us and my colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof vests with the word press on the fire and was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down the room any other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians and one of the syrian cameramen was also slightly wounded like me and i couldn't say whether his crew and his colleagues were targeted deliberately by the syrian rebels but some of the nation's some media organizations have been raising concerns as to how the syrian opposition have been handling intern

tehran doesn't need arab governments to be more pro-iranian. it just needs them to be less pro-american, less pro-israel and more independent. more particularly, one hears in washington that because of the arab awakening tehran is going to lose syria, its quote-unquote only arab ally, with dire consequences for the islamic republic's regional position or even its internal stability. i'll two -- i'll make two points on this. first, syria isn't iran's only ally today. syria isn't only iran's most important arab ally today. thanks to president george w. bush and all those democrats who supported him after 9/11, the islamic republic's most important ally today isn't syria, it's iraq. second point, iranian policymakers don't believe that syrian president bashar al assad will be overthrown, at least not by syrians. assad still retains the support of about half the syrian society, even if assad felt compelled at some point to surrender damascus, he and his forces would continue to control a significant part of syrian territory. under these circumstanc

arabic. visit arabic. it's called. the end of the year so barack obama's victory over shadowed by the primary school shooting in connecticut led the president to pledge an end to the epidemic of gun violence. takes a look at whether the land of the free is ready though to loosen its grip on the right to carry a firearm. my guess is what we're going to see is cosmetic change we're going to see probably the or the assault weapons ban come back to be a fair number of loopholes in it but you know the u.s. is not going to end up going the way that's what's a longer israel have done or many most european countries have done australia when john howard was president one thousand nine hundred eight when there was a mass slaughter and then they said ok that's it we're going to buy back all the guns and it's not going to happen here there's just too much money being made with guns insane supreme court or at least five right wing crazies out of nine on the supreme court decided that even though the second amendment says in order t

well the better fruits of the arab spring have been acknowledged by the u.s. top diplomat of course so we're talking about u.s. hillary clinton here. arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region the u.s. secretary of state delivering her congressional testimony on whether washington's politics in the region is to blame for the deaths of american embassy staff in libya. plus going nuclear over sanctions north korea analysis major ballistic on atomic weapons tests all targeted against the u.s. this over fresh u.n. imposed penalties. it was just a bit later here in the program for now though the health of the global economy what polls in europe are both of coming to the spotlight of the world's business and political elite who have converged on the swiss ski resort of davos of course as the annual financial for martys kitty pilgrim is following the second day of the robert c. gathering and joining us now live from the very pretty slopes there katie good to see you though the world's economy hasn't exactly been sha

now, the arab wrap spring -- arab spring, we still don't know exactly what the root causes of the arabing happened so that we can find solutions to those root causes. we need to have, we need to examine the situation, we need to find a jurisprudence for this arab spring. we need to understand why it happened. we need to put in place a number of principles, the principles that relate to the respect of human rights, to economic and political development, to the development of our rural areas of our desert areas and of all remote areas in our country. we need to respect democracy, and we need to insure that we are capable of building institutions and of building a tate that -- a state that is governed by the rule of law and by laws and by democracy. a democracy that must be clear, a democracy that is based on the separation of powers and on a tree and independent judiciary. it is this way that we must examine the arab spring. it is this way that we must try to solve our problems. >> i'm going to have to hold all of you because we have to go to the audience to take a few questions. as i sa

and these bitter fruits of the arab spring have been acknowledged by america's top diplomat. the arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region hillary clinton delivering her congressional testimony on whether washington's politics in the region are to blame for the deaths of american embassy staff in libya. for the health of the global economy and debt wobbles in europe both have come into the spotlight of the world's business and political elite they've all converged on the swiss ski resort of davos for the annual financial forum. is following the second day of the. it's politics that is the focus of all this he made his german chancellor angela merkel on the two marios a freeze mario monti and the e.c.b. president are they did ok all here discussing a strategy to pull europe out of the long running economic crisis is now the most anticipated speech of the day they had to come from british prime minister david cameron of the he announced a referendum on membership of the e.u. and his desire to win a new settlement for your ope

the neighbor to the west under saddam hussein without an islamic republic other arab neighbors invaded eland, killing 300,000 of his citizens. today, many of the same era countries that helped iraq invade and fight the islamic republic today hosts thousands of u.s. troops and billions of dollars worth of the most deadly u.s. weapons. all poised and threatening to attack islamic republic to disarmament of mass destruction it does not have. to do a significant attorney charges, the islamic republic of iran has built a strong, defensive military capability. but it has virtually no capability to project military power offensively be honest orders. so what it is done in its real success and national securities energy has been to develop a software strategy. a strategy that galvanizes regional publics, galvanizes these publics most intensely of grievances, including grievances against the united states and israel and most importantly against their own unrepresentative pro-western government in regime. amendment the islamic republic has done is aligned itself with public opinion at south in t

arabic to find out more visit arabic don't teach. these continues here in r.t. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have won the general election but he's done so only by the skin of his teeth defying almost all predictions the biggest winners were to the center with concern over house prices seemingly trumping nuclear threats. reports it may leave now desperate enough to turn to the extreme right for help. the voting here might be in secret but what's no secret is the result there was never really any doubt that prime minister netanyahu would win another term in office but the not on paper isn't matched by the anger on the streets. we know that netanyahu brought about a deficit of thirty nine billion dollars he's going to cut the welfare social education and health budgets this is what the next four years will look like. and he met me i'm scared to death i really am it will be a disaster very simply he's going to rob us of the chance to fulfill true zionism in israel. would you not say no to know whose hands will be tied trying to keep a lid on dom

egypt's arab spring sees democracy defeat hardline islam as. the reality on the ground was anything but egyptian president mohamed morsi is pharrell like power grab unleashed fury and frenzied street battles and a fast track to constitutional overhaul referendum left a bitter opposition eager for change for them two thousand and twelve saw the arab spring transform into an egyptian nightmare had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant the dictator. in the order to that we made elections a revolution and elections to choose someone to the present us it turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself and these headlines may have been the stuff of imagination but that sea of twenty thirteen can bring any of them to life. r.t. moscow and back with more news and headlines from the first week of twenty thirteen after this short break. the. blind motion would be soon which brightened if you knew about sound from feinstein pression. who for instance on t.v. dot com. something. law is beneath. thousands of meters of the ice bunch of rock. the lab. that

israel that they would be put in danger or abused, and she learned arabic to comfort the parte. they have the only io al sis unit in the country for awhile, and they drove a shuttle, picked the people up for free, brought them in, and they were treated. the whole atmosphere was to make everyone not only comfortable, but able to observe their religious obligations, so the ultra orthodox were making sure there was rom dan food served at a time, but it was the effort they went through, and the effort she went to and her concern she could sit and talk to people and comfort and encourage them that they were perfectly safe. that is really typical, and, in fact, there's many stories of people that have come in for treatment and have had their mind changed by the way they were treatedded in israeli hospitals, not just medically treated, but treated as human beings with the same curtesy that any jew or nip else would have. those stories abound. even i went to visit -- there's a man who is a ugandan pastor, a convert from islam to christianity. he came quite an outspoken evangelist for ch

[speaking arabic] [ laughter ] >> jon: you know if that were true would you think matzoh would be forra. it air on another television station owned by a saudi prince and 20% after this is owned by a guy named rupert murdoch. that last name is familiar but i can't place what his other holdings are. but that is the same network that air valley of the wovles where american soldiers the bad guys massacring civilians and stealing arab organs to sell them to jews. i don't know what to say. rupert murdoch profiting from the anti-american propaganda. words fail me. >> let's not forget what it's known for. something is wrong with the anti-american network. >> a clearly anti-american network called rotana. >> are you kidding me? thank is crazy. >> jon: a degree with you guys. ] >> jon: hey, welcome back. today, of course, the second thursday of the month which means it's time for our second thursday of the month baseball segment jon stewart's 7th inning kevetch brought to you by manny's favorite bash cue sauce giving the balls a soft and savory place to land. one of my favorite players. the bas

the arabic to find out more visit arabic. welcome back you're watching ulti. politics or kremlin return for the. fresh anti-government protest in twenty twelve although in numbers smaller than the year before political analysts watch developments in the heart of the rallies. in the way he sees the protest mood in russia panning out. i would say it's kind of bleak but not hopeless ok we didn't come up with any new ideas new organization new faces in the pussy riot is that we are of the opposition it's pretty dreadful situation for the russian people and political development in general here and there's there was political change in this country in a positive change. the opposition as we head into the it's a very interesting question because i have gone to most of the major demonstrations and there were people there of goodwill in my opinion but then there were fascists there ok who were communists there and they were these are people there ok and it's your right to demonstrate i actually liked the idea but they didn't accomplish anything that i could see they h