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>> ari melber, thank you so much.brain trust, if you will. and don't forget, this weekend we started a new project, it's something that we're calling the biggest brain. that's why we've invited all of these bigheaded people. we'll have our brain trust in a second. i'm going to keep score here of who makes the best points. there's really no rhyme or reason to it, really no way to quantify it. but in the end, we'll qualify someone biggest brain and you'll have 60 or 70 seconds to share what's on your brain at the end of the broadcast. biggest brain, we start with the brain trust, robert. i know you spent some time at cpac, right? is that right? >> i was at cpac all three days and had breakfast with rand paul earlier this week. >> let's talk about that. and for folks who don't know our regular cast of characters, we have perry bacon at the top of your screen, and ari melber, an msnbc contributor, also a writer for the nation. you mentioned rand paul, ari just talked about rand paul. everyone's talking about rand paul. yo

speak or i'll intern you like 1942. >> i am not japanese, ari. >> speak! >> what if your doctor told you you've got to calm down. find something else, somewhere to go, what would you do? >> if it didn't include a phone, it would be very hard for me to do it. >> you're just going to go until you're -- >> if the world ended but there were phones, i think i could figure something out. >> that's tragic. the emanuel brothers do not suffer from self-doubt, at least not outwardly. they do not suffer fools gladly, and as we learned, they don't love being challenged or prodded. ari's facial expressions speak volumes when the conversation turned to his scorched earth reputation in hollywood, which surprisingly then resulted in a genuine moment of self-reflection when i asked him about correcting anything in his past. what thing would you change about yourself if you could? >> i would have gotten into therapy a lot earlier and dealt with stuff. but you know something, i wish -- >> can i just say one thing? >> you know something? i'm actually really comfortable. i've

ari and andy or i didn't go to harvard but we'll talk about this story. piece of this editorial. quote. if we could have spoken to the three men, talking about senator ted cruise, mitt romney and bill o'reilly of fox news if we could have spoken to these three men we would have told them never to even come to cambridge. what is that all about? >> well, i worked at the crimson when i was at harvard '74-'78. it was a great place for conservatives to go at harvard and even the crimson. you know the song "the boy named sue" when i got down to washington, d.c. the conservative whose had been through the eastern schools were smarter and tougher than all the liberals because the liberals don't challenge themselves they go to harvard, nobody challenges any of their assumption, they don't learn anything in four years because they go in with all their prejudices and come out unscarred by any challenge or reality or anybody asking them difficult questions. conservatives would be asked 20 times a day to justify any position they took. it made you smarter, tougher and

ari fleischer co-chairs that report. he's going to join us to talk about that.is implosion had some unexpected side effects for people's homes. we'll tell you what happened. back in a moment. many cereals say they're good for your heart, but did you know there's a cereal that's recommended by doctors? it's post shredded wheat. recommended by nine out of ten doctors to help reduce the risk of heart disease. post shredded wheat is made with only one ingredient: one hundred percent whole grain wheat, with no added sugar or salt. try adding fruit for more health benefits and more taste in your bowl. it's the ideal way to start your heart healthy day. try post shredded wheat. this has been medifacts for post shredded wheat. >>> welcome back, everybody. we begin with breaking news this morning and an update on the story we've been talking about since the top of the hour. police and the fbi on 9 scene of the university of central florida in orlando, at an explosive devices found in a dorm room which a university spokesperson says is also the scene of an apparent suicid

ari, yeah or nay?mberg doesn't want you to have an extra soda, but he wants to have an extra term. his entire issue sb power as a legal matter. this was overruled on separation of powers issues, he did an end run around the lemg slate tur, familiar to other parts of his leadership. i think the mayor has done certain good things in new york, i say it as a new york resident. much of his legacy will be his inability to work democratically. in addition to an arbitrary and capricious complaint was why he was overruled. he went into an area that the city council should have been and that's what the ruling says. >> i think substantively objectively, if he could have gone through the legislature and gotten it passed, joy, would it have been a good thing or government overreaches? >> particularly in the african-american community, so much obesity and you see little kids with a ginormous soda. and there was also an argument made by the naacp that small businesses would be harmed by this. so you know, it's, on it

joining me now, msnbc's alex wagner, and ari melber.by chambliss said, "i'm not gay, so i'm not going to marry one." i guess that clears that up. >> there are two things -- i'm not going to marry one is already sort of one of -- like the otherness implicit in that is sort of offensive. but actually, it's even more offensive than that if you substitute the question about gay marriage for interracial marriage. well, i'm not black, so i'm not going to marry one. i mean, these are fundamental questions about equality. and the marriage question, marriage equality, is a civil rights issue. and i think it has dawned on certain corners of the republican party they can no longer hold on to antiquated and perhaps bigoted views. but it is going to be tough, lawrence, as much as there is progress, there is a base that is very, very violently resisting entering into the modern era as far as this is concerned. >> and ari melber, of course what john boehner and lindsay graham and these guys who say i believe in marriage of one man and one woman, what

ari? >> i want some of his coffee. >> you do?you have a lot of energy. >> maybe something he's been smoking as well? >> the problem is if we peel back the energy and excitement which i think is great, again, for the system, and you were part of saying fire boehner because you wanted something more extreme. the republican party right now -- >> how is balancing the budget -- >> hold on. come on. let's go back and forth. the republican party right now has john boehner up there and rand paul and paul ryan trying to cut government to the bone and then to their right they have people like you who have a lot of energy but have the wrong ideas. the problem is, we never heard in this presentation what was going to happen to those people who lost their jobs. the people that fill the district that you're running for. you have a campaign left. you have to out there and speak directly to them. those people can not disappeared. it remind me of the republicans' problems of gay americans who want the same rights. if you're not in your family, th

joining me now, the author of that new report, southern poverty law center's mark potok and msnbc's ari mark, it's quite striking how the number explosion occurred, starting in 2008, before we got into newtown, connecticut, or any talk of gun control at all. >> it sure is. i mean, the growth has just been astounding over the last four years. you know, 813% growth. we've really never seen anything like this in any of the groups that we count. and as you suggested in your intro, what happened after that count was completed, as gun control talk began in the wake of the slaughter in newtown, is that the whole movement, tease groups out there have gone from sort of red heat to white heat. so we are in a skrr scary moment. it is very much reminiscent, at least to me, of the months leading up to the oklahoma city bombing. >> and ari, the only thing that occurred in 2008 that you can link in our politics to this growth is the election of president barack obama. >> right, i think the problem for a lot of the people who talk about common sense or reasonable gun control, when you look at this cont

here with me in new york is msnbc contributor ari melber, a correspondent for "the nation."washington msnbc political analyst david corn of "mother jones" magazine. ari, let's talk about the theatrics because rand paul spent 13 hours saying he wasn't doubting the president's motives and so on. he was simply asking the president if he would kill innocent citizens on american soil. is it really necessary for the president to answer a question like that or is the question not obvious? is that not a rhetorical question? >> it's not obvious and it's not rhetorical. in fact, this administration on the issue of drones, has not only refrained from answering that but argued as recently as eight months ago in federal court that the existence of the drone program itself is classified in the aclu freedom of information lawsuit. they've moved a long way. you don't have to like rand paul or his tactics to see we have an administration that's gone from saying of this program may not exist which is an insulting claim, but now getting into some of the details of the littletations. >> and are

if it's ari, no. if it's krystal, yes. >> i feel so lucky. so are all of you because you're in "the cycle" and well, that's priceless. >>> supporters of marriage equality have their fingers crossed following two days at the supreme court. it is now up to the nine justices. we already know where the court of public opinion stands for the first time ever. the majority of americans support gay marriage. it is up 21% since 2004. and remember that year, 2004? president george w. bush was reelected, the summer olympics were held in athens and the golden boy of american politics fell from grace after his affair with another man was exposed. was the day the house of cards collapsed on jim mcgreevey. >> i engaged in adult consensual affair with another man which violates my bonds of matrimony. it was wrong. it was foolish. it was inexcusable. and for this, i ask the forgiveness and the grace of my wife. >> his path took him from the governor's mansion to the episcopal church where he acts as an openly gay spiritual adviser to women in prison while wor

joining us now for his take on all of this, msnbc contributor ari melbourne.you in the hallway and asked you to be here at 5:00 a.m. i appreciate you taking me up on that. let's start talking about paul and his political ambitions. you know, his father had quite the fan base and quite the following with this last election. can we expect to see the same kind of thing in 2016? >> i think there is a similar audience out there for rand paul as his father. there's a lot of excitement among the libertarian part of this party. and that's a family that always had a lot of success on the internet. where some republicans have struggled to organize. >> critics have described his filibuster as kind of ridiculous and paranoid. it did set the agenda in terms of what we're talking about. we're talking about journalists now. we're talking about the issue. did he accomplish anything with that filibuster? >> i think he absolutely accomplished two things. one, he drew a policy response from the attorney general that others had not drawn on this important question about the limit

he writes about his life and his relationships with his brothers, ari and rahm. you can see pictures from this historic synagogue in washington dc. live on c-span2. >> it was built as a second home. for the next 50 years, it was the turn turner memorial church. the building was going to be sold. the congregation had moved, and they could not find a buyer. except someone who wanted to buy it and turn it into a nightclub. three washington developers heard about that. the deal was about to be inked and they said we cannot let this happen. they committed, in less than 24 hours, to saving the building. not knowing what was going to become. but knowing that they had to save it. the three of them looked at each other and it turned out one was a conservative and one was an orthodox and one was a reform jew. they decided that they were going to try something new and different. so today, you will find events like this, virtually every day. talking political conversation, rock concerts, jazz concerts, everything that you can imagine so far, religious services, a variety of

you asking why me you know when the new state of belle aris appeared on the map and claimed a place in the sun just like georgia another newly formed state those who'd already been there didn't like it as they want about a place in the sun for themselves and now they had to move over and someone happy about it but that's not the real problem then it starts to go from bad to worse because shanker decides to take a hard stand for the state's independence while everyone wants a piece of what valorise has to offer in terms of the economy they didn't like me taking a stand and so they started calling me all sorts of things but next we do not choose the track of buildings a capitalist market driven economy where everything works around private property and you have to sell out the state's property into private ownership to make it work we don't do that we don't privatized everything some aren't happy about that we are a welfare state with a strong social policy the social a neck and. policies like this you are very different from what the west would want us to have next we do have a rigorous

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. >> and so ari, is time running out on the serious man of budgeting act? you get chris wallace going that's not going to happen. >> when fox news has to be the voice of reason over what happened in november, that's always a bad sign for paul ryan. as for the chairman, i live in brooklyn, i welcome the chairman to brooklyn. i think the problem is -- >> do you know anybody named reince? >> i don't. >> but you know, get a brooklyn phone book. they still have phone books? >> the thing about brooklyn, people don't just listen to what you say, we are from brooklyn, new yorkers, we look at what you do. that's a basic concept that goes to the heartland and to the country and what people saw. the lesson he took on medicare is funny. viewers of this program remember as you pointed out that they were actually running, trying to accuse the democrats of cutting medicare, to the extent they have any politically viable medicare argument, it was a deceitful one, but one that went to the liberal foundation of the fact that seniors and many other people believe in medicare

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i'm smiling because ari melber sits a few feet away from me and makes faces.vorite websites. obama, congress much reach deal on budget by march 1 and then april 1 and then april 20th and then april 28th and then may 1st and then twice a week for the next four years. it's -- it's funny because it kind of feels like what we've been experiencing in this country over the past two years. i want to look ahead to march 28th. that's when we could have potentially another budget battle. look into your crystal ball, alice and tell me what your headline will be. >> well, i have heard that there may be a spending bill on the table that would carry us through the end of the year but kick the can down the road i still think we're going to see bad news on the 28th, and my vision for the headlines for march 28th would be that time runs out. the shutdown kicks in but life goes on. you know, there's a lot of talk in d.c. about what a big impact this has on people, but the reality is life goes on. >> you don't think a government shut down would be significant? >> i think it woul

you mentioned clashing with ari fleischer when he worked for george w. bush. is there some difference in the discourse and the coarseness of the language. >> no. i don't think the threats are any worse than before or the implied loss of access or being shut out if you don't do things -- that i've seen all throughout. i really do think it's just in the tone of the language. i think people writing from the executive office of the president or from the house majority leader, i've received those too, tend to be using language you would more expect to be used on -- >> some people are saying right now, ryan, these people are whining. if you want to play ball at this level you have to expect some brush back. >> i agree with them. there's nothing that says that the people we cover have to be nice to us. the first amendment does not say anything about the people in power, you know, giving you access or being polite, but i do agree with you. there was a chief mo attitude by the white house, led by rob emanuel. >> i would be stunned if rob emanuel ever used any f. bombs.

ari, what do you think about this decision that the governor of new jersey needs to make?ow do you think it will play out politically one way or another? >> well, wolf, number one let me state at the outset i think gay conversion therapy is wacky. i just have a hard time understanding this. all my gay friends, people i know and i think logic tells you this is the way people are born and as they get older there is something inside them, inside their nature that moves them into one direction. and i'm glad we're a society increasingly respecting that and accepting of that. so i do think it's wacky. having said that, though, you know, i do wonder about what role government should have in outlawing procedures that a parent wants to have for a child. or for that matter for anybody. if this is something somebody on their own free volition decides to do even though i think it's wacky and i would advise them not to do it, does the state have the right to say to them, you may not do something that you might think is good for you that you want to do? that's a different issue and that

of course, the pontiff is the former archbishop of buenas aries.ing his tenure there the president and predecessor the late husband led a government that defied doctrine. same sex marriage and distributed free birth control in public hospitals. what more do we know about this meeting, amy? >> we do know while the argentinian president and the pope have butted heads on all of these issues that you mentioned, shepard there is one issue they are on the same page about that's the fall lynn islands as the are a gin argentinians call them. president fernandez asked the pope if he could intervene in some way on issue that. what we don't know, shep, is what his answer is, because after a really charged issue. we do know she presented him with a gored and straw for drinking his traditional tea of argentina that he apparently likes very much. she gave him a kiss. and the argentinian president said, shep, that she had never been kissed by a pope before. shep? >> shepard: the vice president of the united states will be among the million or so people that rome

. >> the red lines are -- >> he's always talking about -- [ laughter ] >> joining me now is ari shabit, israeli correspondent, and a good friend of ours as well. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >> first of all, the relationsh relationship. there was a lot of schmoozing, now they're having dinner, will have a joint news conference, but this is not a warm and cozy relationship. we have seen historic levels of tensions between the two men. >> absolutely. this is what makes this evening so important and potentially dramatic. so far what we have seen is really a treacherous relationship. definitely most of the blame is for -- because israel is israel and america is america, but i think some mistakes were made on the side of the president as well. i think basically the president looks at mr. netanyahu as an israeli eric cantor, as a conservative rep who is presently hostile. he rejects his world, deeply rejects it. mr. netanyahu sees president obama as suspect envelope -- as an appeaser, who does not see the real world as it is, so projects weakness to a hostile and dangerous m

joining me now, krystal ball and ari melber.erchant of the tools of murder who is unwilling to sell them to at least one american. >> standing up for gun control, yeah. i like that when the politics of the issue went to a place he didn't like, not only was he ready to discard the second amendment but also the first and any others convenient to get the gun nuts on the blog back on his side. one of the things that has been interesting in this debate, when you talk about the specifics of the issue, when you talk about what we are advocating for, universal background checks, the public is very much in support. but they want to keep it in the broad terms of second amendment and freedom rather than digging into the specifics. that's the turf the battle is being fought on. >> ari, polls continue to show there is strong support for background checks, for the legislation that the senate democrats are trying to push through there, but of course, we got the threat today, official threat today in writing by rand paul, ted cruz that they wil

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the close, ari melber gets the last word. we're out of time. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, lawrence. >> "hardball" is up next. >>> beating around the bush. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. bush. how long have we heard that name in republican politics? bush. grand pop was senator from connecticut. father ran for the senate seat in texas. lost and got elected to the congress in houston. then went on to be ambassador of the u.n. got stuck during watergate. became ambassador to china and director of the cia. george herbert walker bush waited longer than his long name. then got to run as vice president with ronald reagan. ran again with reagan and won for president at '88 and ran in '92 and lost. then came his sons young george and jeb bush. they ran in 1994. george won in texas. jeb lost in florida. two years after that george won the presidency. jeb after helping him win down in florida, won a second term in florida in 2002. then took a breather. and now he's b

host: our guests, ari berman and hans von spakovsky. the voting rights act is a victim of its own success. >> now recent supreme court oral argument on the voting rights act of 1965. the court is deciding if section five has outlived its purpose and poses undue purpose on the states under the law. a decision is expected in late june. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> we'll hear argument first this morning in case 12-96, shelby county v. holder. mr. rein? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, almost 4 years ago, eight justices of the court agreed the 2005 25-year extension of voting rights act section 5's preclearance obligation, uniquely applicable to jurisdictions reached by section 4(b)'s antiquated coverage formula, raised a serious constitutional question. those justices recognized that the record before the congress in 2005 made it unmistakable that the south had changed. they questioned whether current remedial needs justified the extraordinary federalism and cost burdens of preclearance. >> may i ask you a question?

police in berkeley arie looking for one or two gunmen that shot two employees near san pablo avenue and gilman street. two men came in and demanded cash at gun point. two were shot during the robbery. one suspect was caught and other has not been. the two victims are hospitalized with serious injuries. >>> a family in the east bay dou donated $50,000 to the police department to help get guns off the streets. thanks to a member of the community who wants to remain anonymous. >> the majority of the funds, the 50,000 was provided by a family. and they were motivated in part by just their overall interest in the well being of the community. but also by virtue of the fact that they had a relationship with a family who lost their son to gun violence. >> according to police, officials collected 339 weapons. >>> dozens of occupy oakland protesters took to the street, not to occupy but vandalize, 50 protesters vandalized atms at five banks and shattered a large window at the oakland tribune tower. there is no word of any arrests. >>> in sunnyvale, firefighters responded to a business park near s

announced today francis has decided to keep the same coat of arms he used as cardinal of buenes spsz ariesd on the night before his inaugural mass, many expressed his desire to repair problems in the catholic church. >> we see his character is embracing the people. >> who tomorrow, will gather here to embrace him. >> in rome, i'm jay grey, nbc bay area news. >> there's video of a suspected shoplifting ring in action. watch closely. a self proclaimed family of gypsies is accused of stealing more than $3 million in electronics. police say the men would distract the clerks while the women would hide pricey goods under their clothing. police found $20,000 worth of apple prublgts when they arrested the four in southern california. they told investigators they were stealing to pay off a debt. >>> it's music to the ears of a guitar owner. guitars will not be sublt to the city's live music zoning laws. the store was forced to cancel a number of performances and group lessons all because of a zoning conflict. but they got the green light. all scheduled shows and classes will go on including a conce

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signed ary has breakthrough deal to sell to europe, where it gets a higher price. >> there is an issue here, you can call it what you what, about our sugar being consumed in all markets in the world. we value the taste and the know- how of the european consumer. the more sugar than half on there, if the queen of england these hours are bergama we will be extremely happy. >> but there are conditions. this trade agreement directly binds market access to human rights and democracy. working conditions, too. with a big exporting company like this, the staff get health care and other benefits. treating them well is seen as good for business. then we traveled to a very different world. not far away, but a dark contrast. these sugarcane cutters work for small, independent farmers. in guatemala has to start ensuring their rights, too, or the agreement could be suspended. >> these are the vulnerable of the sugar industry. they get up before dawn and work through until dusk. it is hot. it is dangerous. and there are children here. 14, butel says he is does not look it. many of guatemalans childre

. >> in buenos aries, jubilation.hey stayed up all night to watch the early morning mass and were rewarded by a phone call from the pontiff who asked them to take care of one another and pray for him. francis's first job is to clean up the vatican bureaucracy. >> he can restore pizzazz, transparency. >> after mass, he shared a moment with vice president joe biden. a man with a gentle, approachable demeanor charged with restoring the faith of so many shattered by scandal. >> the church is not a one-man show. he's not going to do it all. but if he can conspire 1.2 billion catholics to be missionaries, then the church has a bright future around the world. >> seems like a good guy. that was anne thompson reporting. there's word this morning president obama sent a private message to the new pontiff. now to the fiscal crisis in europe where cyprus's future in the eurozone is in doubt after the small island nation's parliament rejected the bailout deal. it included a highly unpopular tax on private savings accounts failed to

. >>> the supreme court asks me or my attorney general or solicitor general, constitutional must ari thought it was important for us to answer that question honestly and the answer is no. >> reporter: the president says there is no reason for banning same sex couples from marrying. the supreme court hears arguments march 26th. california republicans are gathering in sacramento for their party's spring convention with a lot to consider after last year's election. g.o.p. leaders say they have to reinvent the party and appeal to all voters and denounced racial slurs. the slurs came from a san bernardino party leader. >>> new developments today in the high legal battle over smart phone patents. the company violated patented. the judge said the jury he not properly followed her instructions. she ordered a new trial on some of apple's claims. on wall street, dow gained 35 points, nas deck rose 9. strong data outweighed concerns of looming spending cuts. president barack obama signed the order that will set the order in motion. the latest launch of the private space rocket ran into trouble

it really did take argentina and buenos aries by surprise. front cathedral behind me. there were no expectations it could possibly be bergoglio. hundreds of thousands came out to celebrate. people were jumping up and down, singing, shaking flags. a lot of excitement about this also, because this is somebody who people here view as a real champion of the poor. not only helped the poor, but lived that life. he is lived in a small apartment right up here, in fact, on the third floor. instead of the official archbish archbishop's residence, cooked his own meals, took the bus and also greeted the homeless on the way to buy his newspaper. a real man of the poor, soledad. >> shasta darlington for us. thank you, shasta. so interesting to see the reaction. a big step in the sense of the orlando world versus the new world. >> one of the things not pointed out. he wasn't ordained a priest since 1969. >> he was a deacon first. he felt like he wasn't ready to be a priest i understood. >> part of the jesuit formation would have been a longer period of time

expect argentina to announce a new referendum in five years while just eight percent believe when is aries will finally back off from its claims tell us what you think and cast your vote at r.t. dot com. some serve in the army others study theology and that's causing growing frustration among secular jews in israel over the ultra religious refusing to do national service but the deeply orthodox say they are playing their part. as the story. is really prime minister binyamin netanyahu is struggling to form a government five weeks after parliamentary elections he can't get potential coalition partners to agree to stumbling block whether or not ultra religious orthodox jews should serve in the i.d.f. the religious parties are certainly beginning to understand things have changed they're going to find themselves challenged on many fronts military service is going to be one of them and as a result they will have to conserve their political capital to fight on the things they care about most most ultra religious jews have never been in the israeli army and religious political parties have never

carolyn had said when she was pregnant with her first child she was /asked to leave the ary. that's the way it was in her day. i thanked them both sincerely for paving the way for me specifically. i've had four children on active duty. >> tricia ward has done it all. the now-retired naval senior chief ward works in support of the military with booz allen hamilton. she says people don't realize gender is not the issue inside military and defense fields. both the men and women are focused the job. >> now that i have a perspective from both sides, i think the difference is what people from the outside make it such a huge difference. when you're in the navy and you're standing shoulder to shoulder with your male counterparts, you don't know there is a difference. i didn't know there was a difference until i got out and heard everyone talk about how different it was. so i think it's really the outside looking in. >> and even now, ward sees women as an integral part of the mission for national security. >> the interesting thing is that in many of the cultures in the middle east, me

expect argentina to announce a new referendum in five years while just eight percent believe one is aries will finally back off from its claim the still time to tell us what you think and you can cast your vote is r.t. dot com. meanwhile domestically in the u.k. economic hardship appears to be sparing no one coming up we've got the story of world war two veterans whose families are forced to sell their mentos and memories just to pay for basic care. japan is grieving the death of over nineteen thousand people killed during a devastating earthquake and tsunami it's two years now since the tragedy which triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in twenty five years the fukushima plant saw a nuclear meltdown and the release of radioactive materials r.t. sean thomas was in japan and witnessed the aftermath. when i first arrived what struck me the most is that the scale of the disaster was much larger than what many people may even remember in fact what you had was you had the earthquake you had the tsunami then you had the nuclear disaster and then the lingering disaster after the fact so t

i'm out of there are several different allied armies and they are training our rebels i mean i do ariesyou go from to now you're going to have the children from to distract the syrian government's attacks it take them on two planks. u.k. has found a cheaper way to deal with the housing crisis as of april first it will either be to cough up or get out as a so-called bedroom tax comes into effect or he's probably boyko took stock of the spirally accommodation situation with some of the victims of the new tax. brian rider didn't ask for a two bedroom flats when he applied for emergency accommodation it was what the council gave him it was meant to be temporary and he's now live to fourteen year is it's my home of my dad my home we've done all the work and we've put the wood paneling on the wall. we stopped decorating halfway through we realized there are more it have to move because i couldn't afford it and what's the point of decorating when i want it to appreciate it but yeah it's more hard not all of my get mine it will upset me to move on but brian who suffers from osteoporosis and can

people is absurd is just not true and this is the same line we hear over and over again from when i was ari's and it's simply false richard go ahead before we go to the break it will go to richard well. i'm afraid it's just not true the british seized the islands in eighteen thirty three and subsequently settled it with britain from the folks from central enough it was a british colonial project in ok so they were colonized. richard they were colonizers right absolutely right look not true. it's simply wrong it's historically inaccurate and it cannot be backed up with any historical documents are dead and there's alex going to people who go to the break the problem is that. the point is that these these items never had an indigenous population to begin with so we see the question is who got there first who in how could that be the item for the longest time who has a legal claim to them or use a day like i said it depends where you are you going to get different accounts from the spanish the argentine to your body from the islands to the island those themselves by will simply called the island

expect argentina to announce a new referendum in five years while or just eight percent believe one is aries will finally back off from its claim tell us what you think and you can cast your vote at r.t. dot com. japan is marking two years since its biggest recorded earthquake and resulting tsunami which triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in twenty five years the catastrophe killed nearly nineteen thousand people in crippled the fukushima plant in northeastern japan spewing radiation and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes our correspondent sean thomas witnessed the aftermath of the disaster and then earlier on r.t. he recalled the most striking moments. when i first arrived what struck me the most is that the scale of the disaster was much larger than what many people may even remember in fact what you had was you had the earthquake you had the tsunami then you had the nuclear disaster and then the lingering disaster after the fact so traveling to the coast homes destroyed villages decimated and the people doing what they could to try and pick up their lives today as we d

showed off his baby love as the prolific barcelona striker took part in a unicef event in going as aries however the twenty five year old was wearing abounded. on his left leg concealing his new tattoo of the sun goes messy went on to next a penalty with his left foot in argentina's three nil home win against venezuela as they lead their world cup qualifying group by four points from colombia. think. that on friday croatia beat serbia two nil in an emotional world cup qualifier in zagreb to remain second in group a the match was the first between the two sides of independent states since the war in the former yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. serbia made the breakthrough midway through the first half of its all each playing to mario manjoo kitsch and which himself made it to nil with eight minutes to go with a suspicion of handball with a goal stood later belgian want to know in macedonia to stay top of the group on goal difference. then on saturday tennis superstar serena williams to borrow a bicycle to beat the traffic before beating japan's six three six three in the third