their pellet guns but los angeles police chief charlie beck is pushing for the city to require all b.b. guns to be brightly colored so as to avoid popping a cap and little timmy does happen before this after repeated cases of police shooting toy armed children in the l.a. area interesting when you're the commentary of great smith the los angeles city councilman and l.a.p.d. officer quote if you see something that looks like it just looks like a gun you're going to shoot that's what you're trained to do in your mind doesn't have enough time to process whether it's a real gun or a fake gun. so the official policy of the l.a.p.d. is to just shoot anyone holding anything that looks like a gun ok so instead of changing policy or holding officers accountable or examining their training the solution is to regular a tone of these rules of engagement and it looks armed shoot it well that explains a lot maybe though it won't matter soon enough cops will know that all guns on the streets must be toys you see the fantasy in california is that a crime has been eliminated completely now worry about

agency any way they see fit regardless of what congress thinks there's also a battle as to whether the b.b. g.'s mission is to influence a bra or for your pre-literacy and i know. who are television. because i know that firsthand. are looking to influence the influential our broadcasters continue to serve as examples of free and professional press but the baby jesus is its mission is to inform is that right and he also helping pins us foreign policy through house students b.g. now the mission is what it is and we stand firm to it and when all else fails some say washington should do what it does bats create yet another new agency that will comprise all major public diplomacy functions of the government including the state departments usa id peace corps and the b.b. g. the broadcasting board of governors it's frequently brought before congress for oversight hearings but some say without real structural reform they will continue spending taxpayers' money while falling on deaf ears human ford artsy washington d.c. . and for more on this topic its author and lawyer every goal and her she joins

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joshie and these are the top stories the looming fuel crisis in b.b.'s sparks anger against nato military action tankers are regularly targeted in the alliance as ongoing air strikes to neutralize colonel gadhafi as forces. israel faces and hunger as egypt threatens to turn off the gas supply investigators are looking into allegations that the deal signed by mubarak's regime fails to meet national interests in. japan says six more workers at the fukushima nuclear plant have been exposed to radiation bringing the official total to eight hundred while scientists warn that adds. the levels of contamination in the area are higher than those following the church test for free. the arrest of bosnian serb general has divided public opinion in serbia some believe it will seal membership while others accuse the government of betraying a national hero next algorithm off talks to journalist sergei grizz an off who covered the bosnian civil war in the mid ninety's who shares his opinion on the debate. oh yeah welcome to spotlight the show on r t algernon today my g

and the b.b.'s news hour with jim lehrer there were three hundred ninety three interviews down around war only three were with actually world leaders three of almost four hundred when half the population was opposed to the invasion that is no longer in the mainstream media that's an extreme. in the drums for war a recent new york times report says the media got right in bed with the pentagon to promote the war former military officers would get talking points directly from the pentagon and say them on the air no questions asked if. this. is the. talking point imagine an iraq ruled by surprise i guess it yet needs to be read in iraq unless you know any country talking point link iraq to iran i believe iran is now the number one critically corrina iraq that's bad enough but a lot of these pentagon pundits were making big money from defense contracts to the t.v. either we'll. terry battle us have ties to military contractors people who could possibly be making money off. most would consider that a pot

launches a new push for peace in b.b. has a special presidential envoy make on the gallop comes to benghazi to try to negotiate with opposition leader leaders this means it calms me and can see why they feel strongly colonel gadhafi has been treated arsenal here in the capital tripoli for more on that journey refinishing just a moment from treat. the imam afroz egypt a three billion dollars bailout bone but it's feared along the line the pockets of former president mubarak's proteges who continue to run the country. the greater gamble america's college leaders find it just one of five will land a job leaving the rest a struggle with deep debt and desperation. and in business here b.p. may sell its fifty percent stake in taking b.p. to roll sniffed and the objections from b.p.'s russian partners they will lose control of the company will have more on that business program that ultimate is from. is one pm in the russian capital here watching r.t.i. marina joshie are russian envoy starting his peace mission in libya in the l

silence is being given a turbo boost they secured a two point seven billion dollar line of credit for a b.b. bag almost half of that money will be aversive directly into production assets which your company's agreed to do in february and the production will start next year as katrina hopes expects. the main goal of the joint venture is to double its market see here in russia over the next five years that's a lot of meaning but looking at the price it's. like being just the right place to take advantage of this exploiting the loss of russian manufacturers solace the benefits of being resupplied or maybe not i mean you're keeping that response right here in russia we've put an assumption out there that by the middle of the deck or games the russian industry will be about four million plus which incidentally makes it the largest industry in europe and we think that we've got more opportunity to utilize that capacity and we will have capacity up to three hundred fifty thousand by two thousand and twelve the big book two new cars of the russian market ford explorer and transit they're both popul

this girl's body is the size of a b.b. but in reality she's five years old in her short life. has endured an operation to reduce the size of her abnormally large head and she's not the only one suffering like this the doctors who have to put a tube into her child's hand otherwise there would be complications. and serious mother thinks she knows what's caused it here in the cashew plantations in india southern state of carola the government sprayed a highly controversial pesticide endosulfan on the crops during the ninety's that the people here say is causing a generation of deformed children victims groups believe there are around nine thousand children like syria with swollen heads and developing at only half the rate they should first some parents that prospect is too much choosing abortion sometimes just urban we laid my daughter was operated on in the eight months of pregnancy until recently india was the only country in the world which allowed the youth of endosulfan the agricultural ministry said there with simply no other cheap alternative to the powerful path but after

intervention even among supporters of the campaign but it's not only nato bombs that pose a threat to b.b.'s the rebels stand accused of committing atrocities against their own people and often has a story. this family hasn't had a walk wasn't peaceful like this one for months they've escaped through the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a nightmare. it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots one day people from the government and then you call the rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these kids has been long and hard or they were in the family well i remember that it could not have it it was i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me and then we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to nazir the bus with the rebels for their purposes we took about bus with our faces covered and everybody was against gadhafi on

fever hits manhattan and things got to get out of control with the b.b. hitting the ground what went down there was this is a picture taken by a woman in the crowd an unidentified man broke through a metal barricades and toppled bieber he was not to the ground witnesses were stuck . on they was stunned i mean what's worse that we actually care that somebody tackled justin bieber to the ground or that justin bieber is the person that people want to tackle what was i mean the bigger news to me is that ok so we got a lot of news about bieber but nothing about this comment on m.s.n. b.c. of the spectrum i mean it's really all about to end there justin bieber is on the ground you have to make sure that maybe justin bieber got knocked over because of the comment i think you know the comments clearly affecting her you know what was really disturbing was there was another news story that we didn't cover where she was like i'm back where it all happened walking where are you ok are you ok to me you said of her battery have been good for going without good reportin

russia's foreign minister slams nato is deployment over time helicopters and b.b.'s a step closer to a ground invasion as the alliance uses them for the first time against kind of conduct because of these forces. a plan that's been raging for almost two days and ammunition dump in central russia has been for towns believing around nine hundred . thirty lisa freedom hundred dollars at washington's jefferson memorial and all day say is that constitutional rights council were arrested for breaking a ban him down saying as a man mark and we've got. international news line from moscow this is aussie with me thanks for joining us they live in government sovereign wealth fund could become another casualty old american financial but he most goldman sachs while they're behind is being investigated by the u.s. government for its role in the two thousand and eight mortgage crisis reports have also separates that it lost ninety percent of tripoli's money towards her knitting which is roughly a billion dollars three years ago but as marina forty nine are reports from new york th

the budget of this year of two thousand and eleven there was a special amount of money through the b.b. g. dedicated to use voice of america to broadcast pro u.s. propaganda in venezuela and so what we're seeing are really more deals made with local t.v. stations private stations such as global these yon here and it's well that's a major voice for the opposition for the any charges groups and what they do is basically retransmit voice of america reports but overall i mean that the us propaganda media like voice of america or radio marti the t.v. marti the radio free europe which actually radio free europe they had more of an impact than the others i mean in general you know voice of america is not a major international media but i think what also people forget is that outlets like fox news for example which are also broadcast even here in minnesota and cable and satellite have a tremendous impact in promoting u.s. propaganda and even if they're not official state department propaganda outlets they're still gras casting a point of view of the united states in promoting u.s. agenda aroun