challenge corporation to rule today. the coupe. some stories from r.t. tonight the libyan government says the coalition's airstrikes in the country claimed more civilian lives offer of the life of the bombing and since troops loyal to colonel gadhafi attacked a rebel held city in the west. and concerns rise there was a hidden agenda behind the military intervention in libya as british officials say colonel gadhafi could be targeted this contradicts the u.k. prime minister's earlier statement that regime change was not so many. radiation levels around fukushima nuclear plant reported to be over one and a half thousand times higher than normal as the figures rise so the fears around the radiations impact such as food water contamination. i'm kevin i mean thanks for being with our team tonight i'll bring you the news in full in fifteen minutes time but it's sports next with. joining us this is sports the way i need to know me on these are some of the stories we're covering this all. in it's two in and kneeled on the final semifinal spot in the continental h

challenge corporation so rude a. mum. and. her. party's top stories vladimir putin has condemned the u.n. security council resolution on libya as faulty and incomplete saying it resembles a medieval call from say prime minister also expressed concern at the dangerous tendency of u.s. foreign policy to her for three months. and foreign forces target the libyan leader stronghold as they continue the process strikes which have reportedly killed over sixty people but turn officials claim they have a stronger command center used by the libyan army in the capital tripoli. and in other news emergency teams have been evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site as smoke is seen rising from the power lines reactor engineers have my mistress' store electricity to three reactors and it's hold back put enable them to restart the failed puling systems. up next we have all the sports highlights with union he . and union looks like behind weather has had the russian premier league tell us more you that's exactly right it doesn't happen too often

challenge corporation to rule the day. to come. in canada and the us that it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the signs of motherhood in the present day are supposed to invite in the spirit and most of the guys they don't let the culprit go first today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month a month got nobody with cancer and i find therefore perfect focus because maybe to ninety five percent of cancers hurt people with health funding history of just the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and ministration. in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress.

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corporate overlords by going after the last group left it's big enough or well funded enough to challenge corporate power the unions who because of democratic it because the democratic party tends to be more pro work her and pro c.e.o. just happen to mostly contribute to democrats so for the billionaires and c.e.o.'s the math becomes pretty simple if you kill unions it's over welcome to one party republican corporate rule. we have to amend the fourteenth amendment and insert that critical word natural before the word person because its absence in the last two hundred fifty years has mortally wounded our democracy it's time to x. listen to declare this word natural before the word person explicitly declare once and for all corporations are not people. and that's the big picture person i for more information you can visit our website at www dot com r t dot com also check out our youtube page of youtube dot com slash picture archie and don't forget the democracy begins when you get out there when you show up when you get active. your it will send money. down the official. called touch from the. life o

challenge corporation to rule the day. the lead. if you can. welcome back you can get a little reminder we're talking about japan's triple disasters and its impact on the global economic recovery. ok. but first let's see what russians think about the global economic recovery all encompassing predicting the disaster in japan has hardly the country its people and has a great impact on the world that's many now say it might disrupt a lot of economic recovery the public opinion agency love us and ask russians to assess the prospects of russia's economy. sixty three percent say it will remain at the current level sixteen percent seen negative changes and fifteen percent say it's about improvement but will to pass earthquake tsunami and nuclear disaster have the global economic impact and really modify the course of recovery. ok patrick i'd like to go back to you and there's been three things to mention of this program and i want to tie them tightly together a possible double dip nuclear energy and the price of oil because they are all tightly interc

. >> it's a challenge major corporations are taking on, as well. panasonic is working on a system called smart energy gateway. ge calls it nucleus. lg plans to put it all into a smartphone app. all three act as an interface between home appliances and smart meters. now available in some parts of the country, smart meters help utilities sell electricity at lower rates during off-peak hours. combine the two concepts, and you end up with smart appliances. >> smart appliances are ready to take off. our manufacturers are chomping at the bit to make these things. >> what's slowing things down, appliance makers say, is the need for a common system that'll work between all appliances and utilities nationwide. which brings us back to alahmad's innovation. >> we will install it in an actual test home. >> if developed into a product, could it make a difference? planet forward member jeff smith thinks so. "this is a great idea that could be put into use very quickly," he says. "the technology is there, and a lot of people would eliminate energy waste if they c

even now, few japanese are willing to publicly challenge huge corporations like tepco. tepco's spokesman seems taken aback when i suggest the company may be responsible for the nuclear disaster. >> we got approval from the government so in that sense, we're building and including nuclear facilities, has been in a sense designed in effect, the tsunami was than expected. >> three hours drive south of tokyo, stands the hamorka nuclear plant run by another giant corporation, tubel electric. this plant is almost identical to fukushima. except in one crucial respect. >> that green bank behind me is the tsunami wall. and it's six meters high. the tsunami that hit the fukushima plant was 13 meters high. but what really scares people here is that this plant is built right on top of a major fault. in fact, one. faults runs between the reactor building and the turbine halls. >> ito has been fighting the plant for the last 40 years. he lives less than a mile away. and mr. ito, waiting for the next big earthquake has become an obsession. >> we know that this area has a major earthqu

there's a 29% reduction in the millennium challenge corporation. we could go on and on. it is insane where it is indicated the 1% of our budget goes to foreign affairs. . it will not solve anything to have 0.5% going to alleviate problems in the world. >> i would hope there would be some changes made on the budget question. let me quickly ask some questions in regard to south sudan with the recent elections. it will prevent us from getting in there and assisting the new government. i am concerned that we do not give up tough sanctions on the regime until things are concluded in south sudan and the darfur situation. i would also hope we can step up our support for the transitional federal government in sudan. i think there is a new offensive going on. if we can support the african peacekeepers will try to have the new offensive, i think we can secure the area in somalia. i will stop there and give you the opportunity to answer a couple of those questions. >> i appreciate your listing the cuts in h.r. 1. those will have a dramatic ability -- impact on our ability to wield

it seems to me from just watching the news what your biggest challenge is the corporations who run the big t.v. networks they don't want to pay taxes anymore and bank of america and are you having a tough time cutting through this we know that's our job you know that's what we're here to do we've got to penetrate public awareness and make sure the people hear the facts because you know americans are pretty smart and when they hear the facts on this one everybody agrees it's a magnetic message you tell people you know break america made four point four billion dollars and paid less in taxes than you have in your pocket everybody gets that that's wrong if that's cheating and that it's immoral well they did it with one hundred thirteen offshore the other fifteen tax havens around the world you know and they say i mean that investor conference and they say we make the majority of our money in america no market around the world competes with them right and then they go and they tell already their taxes and exactly when they go in there telling them of the make the majority their money in ca

aid, millennium challenge corporation, to ensure that all u.s. policies that contribute to the fight against poverty is good investment, debt relief, human rights, et cetera. perhaps you can answer that? >> thank you for raising that. again, let me just underscore how important it is that people recognize that everything that matters in development, of course, depends on the actions of the governments in these countries. ultimately, most the resources they have available, are going to come not have us, but the world bank, to mobilize the country. that's why the emphasis on growth. so it's very important we are monitoring all of our tools and programs to expand economic growth that will create more resources for the governments. and ultimately, the countries like korea, for example, will be able to graduate from the programs and work on their own. now what this this -- what thisd strategy does is force not just treasury and aid, but the government to work much more closely together so that where we are acting, we are doing so in a complimentary fa

time incident of benoit's russia had reason to believe that they could finally challenge the chinese in the form of yulia corporal norma and daria gulf war the one goal of the recent european championships in italy however they were let down by a couple of poor dives and runs free and for a touch of china's dominance even had a russian pair of imperfect it's unlikely they would have been able to catch the chinese joe who just sensational as bay took home the country's first three gold runs that if we have only started competing together and we haven't had much practice together once we get used to competing as a pair i'm sure the results will come china have a chance of completing a clean sweep in the men's ten meter platform and from the opening rounds it was clear that this would be the case we bowed through cost from a crime of a nine point five zero ten's from the judges as he was in just a different class the rest of the field however was a small bit of consolation on what was a poor final day of the russians i was victim in by a binge and purge to claim the country's only podium finish be evening richard i'

>> it's such... this world is run by money and corporations with money, and that's the challenge.cause it's easy to go to a coca cola or any one of them and say, "you need to stop putting so much sugar," and this and that, but they're making billions of dollars, so why would they listen to someone like me or anyone? and what has to happen is that the government has to get much more involved. the fda and everyone on down has to really make law. i mean, it's absurd, but what's going on now in new york is they post, you know, fat and calories at all the fast food places. >> hinojosa: and no trans fat. >> and... but what has happened-- i was speaking to one large company-- what's happened is people now realize that this chicken salad actually has as much fat as their pasta primavera, so now they're going to eat the primavera, because if they're going to go out, they might as well eat the primavera instead. so it doesn't... just because you're giving the information doesn't necessarily mean people are going to change their habits. i think it has to go back to just educating. i think we

previous supreme court decision had explicitly denied those same rights to corporations and by the time bancroft john challenger b. it was published that ed note a year later for the world to see chief justice weight was dead of bankruptcy so he couldn't object but bankruptcy single sentence in that had no it has no legal authority as enabled corporations to use person but claims the constitutional rights to wage war against unions against the middle class and even against our politicians that they didn't that they don't like for over one hundred twenty years culminating in the citizens united decision before the supreme court in two thousand. and with the help of republicans like scott walker all around the country these corporations are now claiming the absolute right to buy and sell politicians and to write laws the benefit them and screw you and me scott walker may be the face of this effort today but the first culprit was that rather obscure court reporter jacey bankrupt ava's who with the stroke of his quill undid the intentions of our founders and set the nation down the road to corporatocracy please hel

the civil war when the railroad corporations and their owners like gould in huntington are the richest men in the world that led to john d. rockefeller famous challenge to ohio when that state declared his standard oil trust to be illegal and lead to the changing of laws regulating corporations in state after state was called the charter mongering era elite eight hundred ninety s. until today it largely captured all the branches of our government in part they did this by good old fashioned graft and bribes things like the revolving door between government industry but increasingly they're using a new strategy claiming that there are persons and therefore have rights under the constitution like you and me and since our form of government which the government itself but a lower persons knows originally organized we the people create a government which then controls corporations the in terms of rights and does power these new corporate persons particularly those in the very profitable defense industry have become fabulously rich and powerful. historian and author thomas frank did a report recently about the influence of defense contractors in washington

challenges, particularly with cited. how do you know to get from this keypad to your our corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standards are. would you like to see? i am going to push the access key which will activate the voice. i want to go to floor 24. ok, to the left. >> elevator j has arrived. >> that was smooth. >> i am getting a text message. it is amazing, these destination elevators. pretty soon, the signal that changes the system will be able to be routed through blue tooth and your phone, which is amazing. my iphone will be able to access the controls. in paris already, they are rounding the pedestria

and certainly, you know, part of a lot of lawsuits that have already been filed is challenged as saying corporate contribution bans cannot be sustained of citizens united and it's something the supreme court will have to decide but it will have to be bubbling up through all of your states and all through the federal courts as well. i think the political committee cases that we've certainly seen so far. and i guess the other thing -- you know, doe v. reed harassment is the other big issue we're looking at. doe v. reed said no to the facial challenge but as you can speech too much more than any of us could, you know, it's now getting -- it sounds like a fairly onus litigation stage in which people are trying to show there is or there isn't burden. there isn't a risk of harassment and i think that, you know, those sort of very fact-specific and time-consuming litigations around disclosure is probably the next phase of that type of challenge. >> yeah. >> but you can't foreclose a challenge based on specific facts. i mean, that's what naacp stands for. it's what socialist workers party stands for. so

challenges ahead. this rock has never stood still and that's one thing that will never change. prudential. >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing. norfolk southern. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. all eyes tonight are on libyan leader muammar qaddafi but a coalition of nations with a tough new u.n. resolution behind it is promising to do more than just watch. president obama and british prime minister david cameron each made that clear today. >> now, once more, muammar qaddafi has a choice. the resolution that passed lays out very clear conditions that must be met. these terms are not subject to negotiation. if qaddafi does not comply with the resolution, the international community will impose consequences. and the resolution will be enforced through military action. >> our forces will join an international operation to enforce the resolution if qaddafi fails to comply with its

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challenges ahead this rock has never stood still. and that's one thing that will never change. prudential. >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing. norfolk southern. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you.