went to manhattan in the fall of 2005 and the big boss of the whole group, nancy shepherd and carlin coburn in publicity. we met in a little room and i stated my case and they said, this is your first book so you need to listen to a few things here. first of all only 12 percent of nonfiction books make a profit and 2/3 are pre chosen by the publisher. we'd like to put our marketing arm behind us but your having to fight tear riz m to this. since i grew up in africa and worked pakistan for many years you never settle a deal without driving a hard bargain so i said if the hard cover doesn't do well, i'd like the subtitle changed later on for the paper back. julia and our other board relently pounded away month after month. i was in pakistan of december of 2006 and there was a new editor on the book and they said they decided to change the title to one man's mission to promote peace. the hard cover didn't do that well. sold 20,000 copies. while the paper back came out on january 30th of this year and since out it's been on the new york times best seller selling over 700,000 copies now. and it'

there's a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like that and what about the time since barack obama's been in power do you think that there has been a paradigm shift in america's foreign policy since the bush administration no. absolutely not there's been. i think we can put aside the word paradigm the paradigm hasn't changed since nine hundred forty five american foreign policy runs in a straight line goes up goes to sideways goes down a little bit but basically that line runs that trajectory runs in. one direction and what the bombers stop is simply pick up all the policies of bush and pursue them i mean for example for the first time in u.s. presidential history and hasn't happened before a president has taken the entire defense department. bureaucracy and the secretary of state for defense from a previous administration discredited so we have basically robert gates in the same generals. running american foreign policy with a lot of help from people of

from getting out there's a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like that. for many countries the summer's extreme weather of floods and droughts has led to poor harvest and a grain shortage but in india millions of people are going hungry for different reasons are just current saying investigates. india is home to work quarter of the world's starving people and one third of its malnourished children here in the village of daraa poured in eastern india had nothing to give us for days yes a valid general hungry child cries all the time there is no food to feed here how can you survive like this to give the child quite a just me to drink water yet the government has record amounts of surplus stocks fifty nine million tons of wheat and rice it does have a huge public distribution system that provides free food to families below the poverty line but corruption and complex bureaucracy means the poorest of the poor often don't make it on the list most of us are ac

the report by senators tom coburn and john mccain, list 100 stimulus projects that these senators say are wasting taxpayer money. the forest service is spending more than $500,000 to replace the windows at this mt. st. heldens visitors center. the visitors center are closed and there's no plans to reopen it. the forest service told us, they are fixing it up to sell it. it's one of the projects highlighted in the mccain-coburn report, that they said adds up to waste. >> none of them have meaningful impact on creating jobs. >> reporter: among the highlights, nearly $1 million for the california academy of sciences to study exotic ants. the academy says the money created four research jobs. $71,000 for researchers at wake forest university, to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine. important research, the school says. and the biggest ticket item on the report goes to a joint venture of none other than bp. $308 million for a clean energy hydrogen power plant in california. bp may not be popular. but they say it is a cutting-edge project to create 1,600 jobs. the white house

from getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist cold claude coburn never believe in a thing until it's officially denied we should apply the tool statements like that meanwhile in afghanistan the new coalition commander has admitted president obama's two thousand and eleven target date to start withdrawing troops may not be possible u.s. general david petraeus says forces will be pulled out only if as he put it conditions permit the security situation continues to deteriorate despite the heavy military presence for american troops july was the deadliest month since their campaign began almost nine years ago what's more united nations report says civilian casualties rose by twenty five percent in the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the number of children killed soared by more than a half the white house says thirty thousand more soldiers will be deployed by the end of august. american women who have been jailed for murdering their abusive partners are apparently being denied parole because of political ambition

getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply to all statements like that. another u.s. led campaign appears to be almost as dangerous for civilians as it is for the military and the report by the u.n. shows an increase of almost a third incident casualties in afghanistan in the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the death toll among children has soared by more than half the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus says this shows the need to redouble efforts in the fight against the taliban however critics say it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. women prisoners in the u.s. who have been convicted of killing their abusive husbands are seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever those who are granted parole have a decision overturned by state governors rights campaigners claim that even first time offenders and women who feared for their own lives are denied the chance of freedom. meet nor

getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied. we should reply to all statements like that meanwhile in afghanistan if the new commander of the coalition forces there is admitted that the twenty eleven target date to start withdrawing troops is not binding us gen david petraeus said the troops will be pulled out only if as he put it conditions permit the security situation continues to deteriorate despite the heavy military presence for u.s. troops july was the deadliest month since the campaign began almost nine years ago was more u.n. report says that civilian casualties rose by twenty five percent in the first half of twenty ten compared the same period last year and the number of children who were killed sought by more than a half united states says it would require another thirty thousand soldiers by the end of the year. in a few minutes so on this program why india's discriminatory class structure is proving hard to cast off as parents or children from school who would lik

getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe in the thing until it's officially denied. we should apply that to all state like. when afghanistan despite the efforts by the u.s. and its allies the security situation continues to deteriorate the u.n. report shows that in the first half of twenty tends to vote in casualties rose by twenty five percent compared to the same period last year the number of children who were killed soared by more than half general petraeus the u.s. military commander says this shows the need to intensify the fight against the taliban and in their efforts to protect citizens united states will deploy another thirty thousand soldiers by the end of the year but promises to start withdrawing troops by next july. the moscow's announced that it will launch iran's first nuclear power plant next week the russian nuclear agency that's building the bush era facility started loading the reactor with fuel will start loading the reactor rather on august the twenty first it's likely to go fully online a

getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe in a thing until it's officially denied we should apply that to all statements like. another u.s. led campaign a pace to be almost as dangerous for civilians as it is for the military a new report by the u.n. shows an increase of almost a third in civilian casualties in afghanistan the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period last year the death toll among children swamped by moving off the u.s. military commander in the country general petraeus shows that to double the efforts of part against the taliban who are critics saying it's another reason to begin withdrawing troops. on the way for you are not a big brother is watching british activists eight volts most watched country doesn't need any more c.c.t.v. especially when going out on holiday. when that prison is in the us who've been convicted of killing their abusive husbands seeing their chances of liberty snatched away forever and yet those who have granted parole the decision overturned by st

. >> reporter: a new report from republican senators tom coburn and john mccain says too much of the$862 billion in stimulus money is being spent with dubious results. $700,000 for this researcher to study improvised music. more for a project on interactive dance where 44% of the money goes to overhead. there's $1.9 million to photograph ants in foreign countries. two jobs created so far. that's better than other ant research stimulus projects. one job, 0.006 of a salary. no jobs. 0.04 of a job was created to study monkey behavior on cocaine to see why monkeys respond to unfairness, no jobs yet except for maybe the monkeys. still, obama administration economists say all the projects have valid goals and the recovery act has put 3 million people back to work. >> if you look at the impact of the recovery act, including many of the projects they're critiquing, these are projects creating jobs today, getting americans back to work. >> reporter: as far as those who have been hurt, city officials everywhere say far more lives will be helped, if not pastor sheets. >> i think sometimes decis

getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe in a thing until it's officially denied. we should apply that to all statements like. you kind of cool. the next hour i say. he come all over russian minute she based. most goings deploying the s. three hundred defense system that protect the republics as space and ground forces protested the new saying it may further intensify tension in the region but have been since the deployment is for defense purposes only and was made on the existing minute she called for action packed with russia if it amusing a political analyst from the institute of strategic assessment says it's a logical step to do which is the question. of the russia to get three bases deployed in iraq i think it's quite logical systems like. ought to be deployed to protect russian military right back. it wasn't. the war it was georgia in the river gee i'm old. school at salton sea shell and also their backs against repairs their system was designed approximately is thirty years ago it's not all that mainsta

getting out there was a great expression by a great irish investigative journalist called claude coburn never believe anything until it's officially denied we should apply to all statements like that. and you can watch the full version of the interview words coming up next hour right here on r.t. . well the number of civilian casualties in afghanistan rose by almost a third in the first half of two thousand and ten compared with the same period last year the report by the u.n. also shows a fifty five percent increase in child victims among the twelve hundred afghans killed during this period it comes as u.s. led forces are increasing their presence in the country and as our team is more important i explains it's often the civilians who suffer the most. the amount of afghan civilian children that are dying as a result of this war has increased fifty five percent according to the united nations the taliban and other militants are responsible for three quarters of the civilian deaths that have taken place in the past six months but tied to that you want officials say that the taliban and o