want to recognize general allen who might be the on witness whose congressional testimony qualifies as r & r from his day job. i know general al i don't know would be the first to say that what inspires him to get up every morning and keep going each day is set by the troops he leads. i know much of the recent news from afghanistan has been discouraging and that has on increased the desire of a war-we'ry public to end our mission there. however, s however, none of this changes the u.s. vital security interests at stake in afghanistan. nor does it mean the war is lost. it is not. there is still a realistic path to success if the right decisions are made in the coming months. the painful lesson we learned on september 11, 2001 remains as true today as then -- what happens in afghanistan has a direct impact on our safety here at home. if we quit afghanistan again, as we did in the 1990s and abandon the millions of afghans who have risked everything to be our allies in the hopes both the resources and the strategy necessary to break the momentum. today the situation has reversed. similarly,

i wi the rest of the couountry have as much r respect as i have for politicians. i wanted to be in that game. i tried being an elected official once. it is a very snificant game beuse you are really at t the table where the decisions are made that affect worldwide politics. it is an interesting place to be and a n place to be. >> why so much at the intersection of lobbying and law that go hand-in-hand in washington? >> they did not use do. when we started out, we were probly thehe only law firm. we now have about 600 lawyers. most law firms do not engage in loying. there we very few lobbyists. before 10, less than 100. >> n now tens of thousands. >> andnd a lot more if u incnclude all of the other influences in government. the reason f for that is not rely hard to understand. prioro 1970, washingtoton was run by about 20 people. congress and the white house workeded in step with each other. the e whitee house controlled most of the agency's. the e contl of washiton s yo could say 20 p people at the most. yodid n need a lot to lobbyists to lobby 20 people. many thi

spain where the youth childless rate is heading for fifty percent due to severe economic problems and as r t sara firth reports of the country's young intent to make their voices heard. using quite this has sparked fears of a lost generation with ethan unemployment at an all time high with more than forty nine percent to sixteen to twenty four year olds now out of work it's spain it is particularly tough we come here to day one of the universities in spain to speak to some of the students here it's really high unemployment biggest it was like to be a student at this time in the country. we're told are true because you know be the future you can expect unemployment already this high and the. schools are becoming a private business it's hard to tell if you are going to find a job when you when you finish studying if you can actually do some studies because if you have to really high price for them you are not even going to be able to go to college at all think of those. people who suffer. children and i think their government have to think that innovation is the most important thing because

possible at best point and it has gone on for almost an area and there's been a lot of blood spilled as r. is negotiations and talks of the ball with lucia. that's a good question and i don't really know the answer to it i don't think it's been tried i don't think there really has been an effort to get talks going you may be like you may have reached a point where there's really no going back on the other hand it's a stalemate even if the united states decides to arm the syrian opposition that unless the army and the security forces turn against the arsenal regime they have done that so far unless you losers also pour in in syria and he hasn't done that before either he does have support particularly among minority communities i don't see that that you can do anything but eventually have negotiation so i think what should be done is that china and russia should be encouraged to up to the arsenal and to see if they can establish a ceasefire. it will mean to us and you will need to pressure the syrian national council and it's ours to agree to sit down with us or regime in neutral territory

and still to come this hour no more rhythm but plenty of blues as an r. and b. file sharing site hits the rocks u.k. users of the website have been threatened with jail terms normally reserved for murderers just for downloading music as another portal falls a victim to the internet crackdown. and the child trade of flushes in the park as new adoption laws aimed at improving the situation opened a dark door to organized crime. the debate over a possible military strike on iran's nuclear facilities is intensifying in the united states more so ahead of president obama's meeting with the pro israel lobby group and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu or he's going to shift and has more from washington. president obama's walking on a razor's edge on one hand members of his administration keep saying a war with iran would be a mistake u.s. military i think all. states. on iran not only would be premature. on the other hand president obama keeps saying a war with iran is still an option and that he is not quote unquote blocking the powerful israeli lobby which pre

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ten am in moscow i'm mad as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story syria's government and opposition forces blame each other for a deadly car bombing that tore through the city of aleppo sunday the explosion left three dead and wounded more than thirty and comes just a day after two lethal explosions in another government stronghold in the capital damascus the authorities also accused qatar and saudi arabia which both back arming the rebels of involvement in the strikes the bombing comes as the u.n. teams prepare for a government led humanitarian mission and attempts to launch a monitoring operation to help and syria's yearlong crisis archy's middle east correspondent paula sleepier has more on the recent spate of violence in syrian cities. well the explosion happened at one o'clock local time in the second largest syrian city of aleppo in a residential area there now throughout the day state television has been showing pictures of destroyed vehicles of damaged buildings and shattered glass and it's termed the attack a terrorist bombing we are hearing from the opposition t

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r rating of a documentary. we get the scoop from ian drew. it's great to have you here. ase publicity surrounding the death of whitney houston. what have we learned about the will? >> the will is uncovered. it's all going to her daughter. it was written right before the daughter was born. it was amended since then. bobby brown is getting nothing. bob bob remember, whitney has sold $650,000 worth of new music just since she died. she had three records back in the top ten. >> does she have access to the money? she's a young woman herself, 19 years old? >> not yet. she can have some if she needs it for tuition, things like that. when she's 21 she gets some. 25 she gets some more and gets it all by 30. >> a roll out. >> it will be done carefully. >> i want to move on to the second topic which is regarding to ellen talk about the movie "bully". there's been controversy because of the rating. she is trying to have the rating downgraded so that more kids can see it. take a listen. >> i think it's important for the rating to be pg-13. that was the intention of the film makers. afte

believe in last fiscal year that received assistance under that program to help them pay off r but this budget as i submitted not have funding for that program this year. so i guess, my concern there would be that we want the best and the brightest out there trying cases, and on both sides. again, this is both defenders and prosecutors, and our criminal justice system, it's critical we have good representation on both sides. and i'm afraid that we're going don't have a program like this, and i was wondering if you share that concern, and what you -- what steps you think we can do brightest, you know, coming onboard? >> no. i do share that concern. brightest to come and take what are low-paying jobs on the these kids, these younger people, if i can call them kids now, come out of law school wit. and i don't want them to make career choices based on how they're going to repay those loans as opposed to following their passions and take their great skills become members of the justice department, state and local prosecutors offices, or on the other side to be good defense attorneys. and that's one of

relation to the demint anduntil bingaman and the senate will recess until 2:15 and there will as 20 be as rs 20 roll call vos on the bill. the d i'm told there are two bills at the desk for readings. act summit h.r. 3606 to increase american job creation andimprovs economic growth by increasingor pacess to the public capital com markets to the emerging growth d the americas with disabilities witin 1990 and so forth.gs >> i would object to the bills.n >> the objection is heard. the bills posted on theonside calendar. >> mr. president, today we important piece of jobs b legislation we've had a cure in a long time and that is the highway bill but it's more than a a highway bill licht is a surface transportation bill that helping our bridges and 70,000 of those who believe 20% of our highways and non-safe condition, and we've problems with a mass transportation system and such things, so we have to move forward building the infrastructure with this o legislation alone. we will save or create build a world-class transportation system that wasgt started in the presence of. dwight eisenhower and e

barack obama versus that nominee, be it mitt romney or whoever else, and it's really a d versus r equation as opposed to r versus r. >> when you talk about r versus r, i know john mccain has talked about the impact of this firing squad the republicans are going through with all this super pac money. >> those super pacs have played a key role, unfortunately, in my view, because most of them are negative ads. this is the nastiest i have ever seen. in my view it's gotten way too long, and gotten way too personal, attacks on each other, and it's very unfortunate. and who has vetted from it? president obama. >> if mccain is saying this is the ugliest he's ever seen it, he was the victim of some pretty ugly attacks back in south carolina when he was running for president. what if we've got all these billionaires bankrolling, funding all these negative ads. it may be bad for the republicans but it's even worse for the system overall, isn't it? >> president obama had his name on the legislation in 2012. even mitt romney has said this is a disaster when it comes to superpacs. barack obama has been a c

as a report on r g. i second that the main stories were as. bad as the syrian government's embrace says a un backed he's carrying members of the anti us out of position struggled to come together with a single one to purpose some rebel leaders walked out on their power rivals general conference in turkey designed to rally the opposition and a. private conversation between leaders of russia and america was caught on mike and nathan nuclear security summit and so it's part of a wave of code want to start or run some republican presidential candidates that the u.s. politicians are into must head there's a push in terms of number one for. testers in britain call for heavy hard to write this to face justice as one activist seriously injured in a student demonstration plants themselves in the dark and fifty students were hurting crazy ten protesting against the first intermission hikes. the u.s. and russia not seeing eye to eye on washington's missile defense plans in europe but american disarmament expert richard burton says that both countries mus

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