." >> london reelects boris johnston as its mayor. a day protest against the egyptian military regime. balloon gas injures 150 people in armenia. hello, welcome to "bbc news" brought us into our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. -- broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a farewell to a beastie boy, adam yauch and dies at the age of 47. after 8 tightly fought election, the conservatives forced johnson has been elected as the mayor of johnson. he won after he failed to gain more than 50% in the first round. he beat labor costs can livingston by 62,000 votes. inhe beat labour's ken livingston by 62,000 votes. he said he would continue to fight for a good deal for londoners. >> in 84 days, london will welcome the world and the world will see a city that is going through a near victorian surge of investment in public transport. the jubilee line is going 3 miles an hour faster on average that was four years ago, while the murder rate is down 25% over the past four years. where the olympic and the pair

livingston accused boris of only representing the rich.ut he did not recover from allegations of his own tax evasion. it was a bad day for the conservatives. >> david cameron is dragging down the party and the rest of britain. i suspect this is all to settle the question of the next tory leadership election. >> this election is about what forest johnson is doing right and how far he can go. >> and it has been -- >> because he is boris. like many may rallies across the world, it is a personality contest. it is not about the politics. he is not seen as a conservative by most people. he is seen as boris johnson. you either buy into that or you do not. that allowed him to buck the trend. for david cameron, the prime minister, there is a little bit of concern there because he is looking at the country as a whole. he sees huge losses over 400 council seats lost by the conservatives. 801 by the labor party for the main opposition party at the -- 800 won by the labor party for the main -- for the main opposition party at the moment. boris and john

so i describe him in boris. >> smith: and so boris arrives. tell me. tell me the story. >> boris arrives, and we believed we were getting some headway with abu zubaydah. but he has different opinion about how to handle this interrogation. >> smith: so there was a lot of tension between you and this contractor... this psychologist. >> yeah, absolutely. there was a tension between all of us and him. you know, absolutely. and i was really frustrated, because i think that this is not going to lead us anywhere. i mean, this guy admitted that he doesn't know an islamic extremists. and here he is trying to call the shots on one of the most important programs, at the time, in the nation's history. >> smith: did you confront him? >> yes, absolutely. we talked about it. we talked about the techniques, and i think he just thought that i was arrogant. and, you know, it was mutual-- i thought he was arrogant, too, so... >> smith: how ma interrogations had you done, up to that point, of al qaeda detainees? >> oh, many. oh, my god. i mean, i... guantanamo, the cole,

boris?vited me, but in reality it is not a good idea. it's an awful idea by the ninth circuit. especially that it's on the heels of the awful disaster that the gsa is still dealing with. it's representative of an epidemic we have in government of overspending, of not caring that the taxpayer dollars are going to awful things like this. if they need to team build, why not do it somewhere in california, the ninth circuit is based in california. california is not a bad place to do it. why do you have to go all the way to hawaii? it plmakes no sense. it's a bigger picture that's the problem. >> pete? >> i don't think anybody is really going to defend this, carol, but government should pay for reasonable expenses for reasonable retreats. you want to attract the best and brightest. hawaii is part of the ninth circuit. nobody is including that. this is clearly a politically motivated attack because the ninth circuit is a liberal circuit court. but, you know, there's so many more examples of waste t

whodunit the father of poisoned security agent alexander litvinenko believes the exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky was behind the murder in london . it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm rule research i live in moscow and washington says it could take direct action in syria even if that means going against international law this after the massacre of more than one hundred people than in a syrian town the government and the rebels continuing to blame each other for the violence moscow meantime is valid so block any moves for military intervention at the u.n. but the u.s. says is prepared to bypass the security council but this report now is ati's marina . well what was exactly said is the fact that the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that the syrian government is solely responsible for the massacres that took the massacre that took place in syria last week those those comments were also echoed by america's european allies and as a result where there is now a nother push within the security council for international sanctions against against syria now the united

candidate boris tadic sion serbia's presidential vote so because of previous government that's already served to. terms under boris tadic chaz often being criticized for the country's economic downturn job losses and corruption the election has largely been seen as a vote on your membership in the winner of the poll thomas of the call it shows already confirmed the country will not stray from its european path political export of moscow gas which says that voters had simply run out of patience with boris tadic which was really think the serbs realize that membership is not a panacea not a cure all for all evils in the system and there are many evils in the system i mean ex-president now is presided over eight years of poverty in which he's oligarchy have drawn all the financial benefits and they created a kind of replaced a kind of communism with a kind of corruption is there which has been very good for them and very bad for everybody else in the country and this really has been the problem for the population has been afraid of change but they also have been afraid of further poverty

whodunit the father of poisoned security agent alexander litvinenko believes the exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky was behind his murder in london . after disappointing economic data in the u.s. the russian market is very able to post any gains on thursday with the ruble dropping to an alpha cent against both the dollar and the euro more on this in twenty minutes. just after seven pm here in moscow you're watching the live with me rory stewart show washington says it could take direct action in syria even if that means going against international law this after the massacre of more than one hundred people in a syrian town with the government and rebels continuing to blame each other for the violence moscow meantime has valid block any moves for military intervention at the u.n. but the u.s. says it is prepared to bypass the security council but this report artie's marine a fortnight. well what was exactly said is the fact that the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that the syrian government is solely responsible for the massacres that took the massacre that took place in syria

can look at it one way a friend helping out a friend in times of trouble but of course this friend boris berezovsky a controversial figure how do you benefit from such close ties maybe from the parades. i think that if we go away case study is ironically prince michael's grandfather who was king george defeat of couldn't help his cause and tsar nicholas who actually called to get to refuge in the u.k. but as we all remember despite that mutual empathy and the royal ties their then prime minister lloyd to george sent a telegram to kerensky in russia sane well. may just as issues may just as government wouldn't in ceased upon given refuge tools are nicholas another you know in other words to sions when of course there boris berezovsky wanted back in russia or on to on charges of fraud is any absolutely so i don't think that prince michael would suit very suitability to sions on this matter and political situation seems to be changing with respect to those extra dictionary requests and what about the reputation of the prince harry as you alluded to just then is it his financial difficulties

this is the incumbent, the conservative boris johnson. unashamedly posh, he is known for his sense of humor and accident prone personality. >> my friends, i give you the olympic clock. >> he has spent time overseeing olympic preparations, but critics argue that apart from a few new red buses, he is not done much to change the capital. >> we are standing because we want to represent all london. >> livingston is an outspoken figure famous for his opposition to margaret thatcher in the 1980's and for his passion for news. mr. livingston has based his manifesto about a promise to cut transport fares. >> i cut the bus fares by 9%. >> but his campaign has suffered from headlines about his own tax affairs. that has led to charges of hypocrisy. boris johnson and ken livingston of larger-than-life characters. the race to be mayor of this olympic city is pretty unique. even so, the result will inevitably be scrutinized for what it tells us about the the border fate of british politics. >> this is bbc world news. now the headlines. chinese dissident

boris played down the idea that the match up would be akin to the legendary carp of this is a spot of jewels and revealed how he's been preparing their push that would deal with what i won't be doing is beating any words but with regards to the match i hope it will be a spectacular one of course we all want to perform well but it will all depend on how it goes and we'll see a result in three weeks time. the event brought out a handful of prominent figures including former soviet union pres. and mikhail gorbachev vaclav its chairman of the supervisory council of the russian chess federation stressed it was a good thing that the final was being held on neutral ground for the us just that ration the fact that we are organizing the world champions much as no other information is that. russia is a leading chess nation and while we don't go for a new participant of this particular match we believe that. holding the world championship. the independent. place the pen from the seat instead of where's the importance think of the route the match will last twenty days in and on the thirty first o

s and a totally karpov and getting caspar off but this is two eyes that will compete in israel's boris gelfand versus india's vishwanathan anand they know each other well having played each other many times before. but many of raise the question of whether a man feels intimidated playing a player older than himself in a match of such importance i mean you call it a minor your it's not really you was to be something like that. i would say it's just interesting to play someone completely from a generation. we we started playing each other. and i mean you playing with him so but he said to the board you just based on. boris play down the idea that the match up would be akin to the legendary carp of this is a spot of jewels and revealed how he's been preparing the bush that would deal with what i won't be doing is eating any words but with regards to the match i hope it will be a spectacular one of course we all want to perform well but it will all depend on how it goes and we'll see a result in three weeks time. the event brought out a handful of prominent figures including former soviet

i don't think george osborn is -- someone like boris johnson, i'm not saying this is going on, but if boris johnson and the people around him want to be briefing the press in a way to undermine cameron, they can do that and they know the journalists aren't going to drop them in it because it's too good a story to them. we had that in relation to some of the people that will work for gordon brown, no doubt. sneests by the end of your time in downing street, mr. campbell, prurp somewhat jaded it may be fair to say mr. blair points out, page 3z 01-302 of his book. alastair was getting exhausted and ratty and getting set upon by the media whom he was coming to loath. he was therefore not handling quite right. well, i understood the bit about the handling quite right but you were coming to loath them? >> not all of them. i was coming to loath -- well i had come to loath the culture that i've set out in my statements. there were some individuals that i had come to loath. i had come to loath their self-obsession, their obsession with me, the negative activity, the trivialization, i had come

was a pitched battle all through our eyes as indian grandmaster ananda held off israeli challenger boris gelfand on break the. players were side at six points of peace after winning a game each and drawing the other ten so it went to the decider with a nod to winning one of the four extra games all fast chess it was enough to help the forty two year old retain his sights off on disputed world champion the accolade he's been holding since two thousand and seven and he put his triumph down to mental strength. i would say simply that my nerves had it out but. i mean even these full games there's so much back and forth going on. but i simply hung on for dear life. i won't play more than that i will be back with another update on less than a couple hours from now but you may found find us on you tube at any time just look for artsy sports news all season. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to cope oration through the day.

of the people he says are the killers of his son other people he names of the russian billionaire boris the better results and alex told both former colleagues and friends of alexander litvinenko. it was berezovsky and gold for. energy how do you think alexander first became infected with polonium two turn why do you think this case has been dragging on for so long why is the be no court case because they don't have anything and if it were to open it will become apparent who was behind it. pays money to some high personas. everyone is covering every one of my boys since it was just come out in the hands of i want to return to russia to seek justice for my son's death alex goen he's the chairman of. the validity was a very close confidant of the in the weeks leading up to his death he was the unofficial spokesman he was also the man he wrote the statement at the time of your case that accusing the russian government of carrying out that crime though after the death the investigation stake is very heavily all over bodyguards and a little boy he is now a russian and he recently passed a li

candidate boris tadic in serbia's presidential vote the country's previous government has already served two terms under tabish had been criticized for the country's economic downturn job losses and corruption the election was largely seen as a vote on each new membership but the winner of the poll nicolas has already confirmed the country won't stray from its european path political expert marco gas edge says voters had simply run out of patience with boris tadic. think the serbs and realize that membership is not a panacea not a cure all for all evils in the system and there are many evils in the system i mean ex-president now is presided over eight years of poverty in which he's only got he have drawn all of financial benefits and that created a kind of i replaced a kind of communism with a kind of corruption is that which has been very good for them and very bad for everybody else in the country and this really has been the problem for the population has been afraid of change but they also have been afraid of the poverty and despite that it is the promises of an e.u. rose garden even

thousand and six reveals the names of those he believes were behind his son's death itself exiled tycoon boris berezovsky who russia's still once extradited from britain is named among the masterminds. and around irish voters head to the polls in a referendum on the e.u. fiscal treaty which opponents say amounts to nothing more of them permanent a stary controlled by brussels while a backlash against cuts sweeps across europe the plan will mean centralized brussels control of national budgets which those of gans did say means handing over sovereignty to the e.u. . and as ireland decides whether to back or reject the fiscal treaty up next r.t. sits down was richard boyd barrett an irish politician and campaigner. today i'm talking to richard boyd barrett he's a member of the irish parliament and a leading light in the new campaign on the referendum on the fiscal pact which thanks for talking to us tell us just what the fiscal pact is the pact is a european agreement which countries are being asked to sign up to which will compel the goldmans to reduce debt and deficit figures by a certain amoun

father of poisoned the egg security agent alexander litvinenko believed that exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky was behind the murder in london a tape with the information has now been sent to predation intelligence. and the island votes on whether to hand over the country's money matters to brussels if the majority decides to say yes to the so-called e.u. fiscal pact but many fear double and sovereignty will be surrendered as well. and as island decides whether to vote on this treaty up next we sit down with richard boyd barrett an irish politician and anti treaty campaign at this is art say. today i'm talking to richard boyd barrett he's a member of the irish parliament and a leading light in the new campaign on the referendum on the fiscal pact which thanks for talking to us tell us what the fiscal pact is the pact is a european agreement which countries are being asked to sign up to which will compel goldman's to reduce debt and deficit figures by a certain amount per year over a long period of time and what we're concerned about is that in effect big because of all of the gambli

the example video blames for today's tycoon boris berezovsky or his son's death a video which has been passed to scotland yard. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie the u.s. says it's time to consider taking direct action in syria even if that means go when against international law this follows the massacre of more than one hundred people in the syrian town of houla with damascus and the rebels blaming each other for the atrocity russia's vowed to block any moves for intervention at the u.n. but washington's has the security council can be bypassed charge is worried a fortnight has the latest. well what was exactly said is the fact that the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that the syrian government is solely responsible for the massacres that took the massacre that took place in syria last week those those comments were also echoed by america's european allies and as a result there is now a nother push within the security council for international sanctions against against syria now the united nations is conducting their own investigation

candidate and incumbent boris tiger gin serbia's presidential vote voters blamed him for the economic downturn job losses and corruption during his two terms his successor previously known for his anti western stance says however he won't lead the country away from its european path political expert marco gas which says that voters had simply run out of patience with boris tadic i. think the serbs have realized their membership is not a panacea not a cure all for all evils in the system and there are many evils in the system i mean ex-president now is presided over eight years of poverty in which he is oligarchy have drawn all the financial benefits and they created a kind of replaced a kind of communism with a kind of corruption is there which has been very good for them and very bad for everybody else in the country and this really has been the problem for the population has been afraid of change but they also have been afraid of further poverty and despite promises of a new rose garden even the e.u. governments are very bare at the moment and target is offering looks even more bare

queen's cousin is under fire for accepting more than half a million dollars from london based tycoon boriserezovsky as artie's ivory better reports questions are now being raised as to what a wanted man into russia or as to what a man wanted in russia for fraud expected in return. the two men are said to be very close but were these payments just a friendly exchange or was there something more to it both sides have been very keen to play down any shady implication here stressing that everything was above board has come out and said that there was nothing underhanded called it just a matter between friends and prince michael of kent who's the queen's first cousin their fathers were brothers his spokes person has said that everything was conducted properly and all the appropriate tax was paid on these payments they were fifty six payments made in total over the years between two two thousand and two and two thousand and eight to one of prince michael's offshore companies amounting to a massive three hundred twenty thousand pounds so over half a million dollars and serious questions still rem

the father of poisoned former russian security agent alexander litvinenko blames fugitive tycoon of boris berezovsky for his son's death but all of this in a video which is now being passed to scotland yard. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. live from moscow with me wrong reception the u.s. says it's time to consider taking direct action in syria even if that means going against international law this follows the massacre of more than one hundred people in the syrian town of houla with damascus and the rebels are blaming each other for the atrocity russia has about a block any moves for intervention at the u.n. but washington says the security council can be bypassed. still a test. well what was exactly said is the fact that the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that the syrian government is solely responsible for the massacres that took the massacre that took place in syria last week those those comments were also echoed by america's european allies and as a result there is now a nother push within the security council for international sanctions against ag

it's a percent of british investigators living then because father blames exiled russian billionaire boris berezovsky and one of his associates so now reports on whether this new revelation will even affect the long running case. further twists in the story surrounding the poisoning. of former security official alexander litvinenko a live in your case has revealed in an interview the names of the people he says of the killers of his son other people he names of the russian billionaire boris a better result and alex told both former colleagues and friends of alexander litvinenko. it was berezovsky and gold for. energy how do you think alexander first became infected with polonium to turn why do you think this case has been dragging on for so long have been no court case because they don't have anything and if it were to open it will become apparent who was behind it. pays money to some high personas. everyone is covering everyone my boy son who was just caught in the hands of i want to return to russia to seek justice for my son's death alex goen he's the chairman of. the liberty phone was

compare this to two times before, under boris yeltsin, which the ruble is integrated overnight.the collapse of oil under gorbachev come in the 1980s, admitted he had no shop absorber. he had to weather the storm of his own economic reform. putin come under contrast, most adult russians know that. very well, they know this. chaos and collapse very well. they credit putin to a very large extent. they credit him and they credit him with presiding over russia with relative prosperity. if you putin by comparison with the situation inherited in 1999, when russia was a failed state. the economy had just suffered depression, twice as deep of that of which the united states suffered in the 1930s. a new stage in world succession had threatened the territorial structure of russia. this is why putin was appointed prime minister, to deal with that. nato expansion was proceeding on all fronts with no limits on space and time. russia was virtually a failed state. putin was able to restore an element of order out of chaos and an element out of prosperity out of misery, and it meant internationa

boris, i agree, he did open his mouth and once you do that you're in a lot of trouble. from what was said to now what is being seen in mexico, there is a candidate running for office, happens to be a woman, and she's decided to get her message out by going topless on a billboard. clearly, she wants to draw attention to herself, but would we ever anticipate a stunt like this in america? go ahead, boris. >> hopefully not in the presidential election. it wouldn't get us anywhere. politics are what they are. we'll see a lot of stunts from now until the general election in the u.s., but both in the congress, the senate, hopefully not in the presidential but in all the elections out there, a lot of times you'll see crazy things in the muns pal elections. >> that's it. we have to wrap it. one last word. >> i was going to say, i go to very short lengths that i'd like to see american congressmen try. let's hope it does not come to pass. >> thanks for joining us. >>> a quick check of the markets. there's the big board. up in positive territory at 57 points right now with the dow

republican strategist boris epstein and democratic strategist keith boykin join me now for "fair gameppened here, did he get pushed out because he's openly gay and romney's campaign couldn't take the heat, or is he out due to the controversial tweets mocking women like hillary clinton and callista gingrich? boreies? >> absolutely did not get pushed out. the speaker with the romney campaign. they put out a statement they did ask him to stay on. he does have immense experience and is a valued spokesperson in the republican party. let's look at it this way. we hope to get to a country where we don't have to talk about whether someone is gay or not gay, straight or transdepender when they stay or leave a job. we hope to talk about things on the merits. why he left is up to him. it was a personal decision. the campaign asked him to stay. the biggest issue here is this is a distraction play by the obama campaign, so desperate after three years of unemployment above 8% and gdp that's crawling now at barely 2%. that's all they can talk about is a spokesperson leaving the romney campaign. tota

we have a lot of history in the 20th century, for instance soviet union he had flee health care but boriseltsin went to america for his health care and soviet union was good enough for great masses but not good enough for boris yeltsin. >> they are asking to be exempted because they realize they can't afford it. as much as obamacare is a problem, everybody is concerned about 2700 pages in the bill, if it goes away tomorrow the problem doesn't go away tomorrow. the problem started in 1965 when the advent of medicare and medicaid that have grown into monstrous vampire programs that suck the life blood out of american people. >> john: people like health care. >> until it collapses but seniors are find out it's harder and to find a physician that takes medicare. ultimately government medicine fails and when it fails it fails spectacularly. i talked to people around the world and i look at the data. there is a difference between feel good medicine and good medicine. i believe medicine is between a doctor and a patient not between a government and a bureaucrat and a patient. if you look at, for

we have a lot of history in the 20th century, for instance soviet union he had flee health care but borist to america for his health care and soviet union was good enough for great masses but not good enough for boris yeltsin. >> they are asking to be exempted because they realize they can't afford it. as much as obamacare is a problem, everybody is concerned about 2700 pages in the bill, if it goes away tomorrow the problem doesn't go away tomorrow. the problem started in 1965 when the advent of medicare and medicaid that have grown into monstrous vampire programs that suck the life blood out of american people. >> john: people like health care. >> until it collapses but seniors are find out it's harder and to find a physician that takes medicare. ultimately government medicine fails and when it fails it fails spectacularly. i talked to people around the world and i look at the data. there is a difference between feel good medicine and good medicine. i believe medicine is between a doctor and a patient not between a government and a bureaucrat and a patient. if you look at, for example,