but if you look at b.b.c.'s coverage of the oil spill they always said the best case scenario the best case scenario and of course the people who were very upset with b.p. would have the worst case scenario i mean even different media is that you think it would be more mild that you have to look at other media just to make sure you're getting the correct message and again that's going back to this diversity here i mean the chance to look at everything out there because you know i don't know how easily you get b.b.c. but they even have a different point of view on that and again it's because of the government. well. first of all i agree that different countries have different perspectives on the news and that means we should look at american news and how it has a perspective and we should also look at the perspective that other countries have i don't think of the b.b.c. as necessarily carrying the government agenda the way you say it does but it certainly reflects a british point of view and who would expect it

b.b.c. thank you b.b.c. representative please. foreign secretary two years ago at the height of the russia georgia conflict david cameron called for russia to be suspended from the g eight he also said that russian armies cannot move into other countries while russian shoppers continue to march into selfridges is that the position of the british government today well again we have discussed georgia as i say we don't shy away from discussing differences we have a. i think a true it was a true description to say we have a frank and productive relationship so suddenly we have discussed the situation in georgia today. and in particular the role of the e.u. monitoring mission and implementation of previous agreements there will be there will be disagreements between the u.k. and russia. on issues such as those arising from georgia a lead is be clear about that and we are not saying today that we have abolished all differences between the governments of the united kingdom and russia already several subjects have been brought up in this

out communicated by them that was the direct quotes are you missed it anyway in case you haven't heard of it the b.b.c. is the broadcasting board of governors which oversees american international broadcasting efforts like voice of america radio free europe and radio free asia to be read you also gets a hefty seven hundred million dollar annual budget that's your taxpayer dollars and my taxpayer dollars that pay for it i'm not sure how that makes me an enemy but anyway isaacson is now planning on running to congress to ask them to match the six to ten million dollars that china has reportedly said is their budget so that america can compete but if money really the issue here and again didn't we just have a reset why the hell and line to me we're here to discuss it with me is josh rogin from foreign policy magazine josh thanks for being here it's too bad we know the sound cut out there but we actually got to catch up with walter isaacson earlier today the new science spoke to him and asked him about this quote and he kind of refuted all of those statements i want you to take a listen. i definitely do n

why do you think the b.b.c. banned strange fruit?ow except that the song is trouble, and when the b.b.c. would have banned it, the british were all over africa. i suppose; i never thought about it before. i suppose it was analogous to the problems that the song had in france, which-- i mention that the song was translated into french-- a very good translation, actually-- and meeropol tried to get it recorded in france. and he got a letter back from his french publisher, saying-- you know, this is in 1953 or 1954-- saying, "the french have their own problems "in algeria and indochina. "they don't--you know, "they're having their own trouble with colored people. they don't want to hear this." you know, why was this song not played in south africa? it's the same thing. meeropol writes this incredible song. what else does he write? what becomes of him? he is sort of red-baited out of his school teaching position. he was examined during a kind of mccarthy-like set of inquiries in the early 1940s, and he leaves teaching. he goes to hollywo

b.b.c. the british broadcasting company before they'll turn to c.n.n. . and certainly before they'll turn to fox which clearly has a very deep. right wing agenda so i think that that then when you have people overseas looking at these different at these arguments within the united states sometimes it becomes quite difficult to understand in people get worried when for example the man in charge of the of the agency that oversees the voice of america starts talking about russia and china as enemies of the united states this was that this was a big mistake that he made and he i am sure that he did not intend to do it and that he regrets it quite a bit i'm not speaking for him of course i'm simply saying that that it was so obvious that. that this was a blunder that i imagine is quite embarrassed all right professor christopher samson from the school of communication at american university thanks for your perspective. there is new violence in kyrgyzstan just days ahead of the parliamentary election there twenty people have storm the office of a nationalist opposition political party in the capital bishkek the protest was staged by relatives of those killed in the riots that broke o