the first international or a member of gyptian council of foreign affairs many times of being with us here on r.t. now turkey's prime minister has warned israel that it's facing growing isolation in the region do you agree with that and if so how might the freezer for nations with turkey and egypt affect israel's security. i absolutely agree with you actually i agree with the prime minister of turkey are the what has been said i would like to point out that this is not the first actually a threat to israel that it would be isolated within the international community it was in two thousand through four according or under the adversity opinion of the international court of justice of course arming the visitor perny and all of the is the legal and legitimate war in palestine the was wearing the school unanimously stated that these grave violations of both international humanitarian law. is leading the world to be isolated within the national communities because the acts of this is really reflects undoubtedly reflect that it is not wearing for peace it is the answer peace lover under the

on this now discuss these developments with sort of a political commentator a member of russia's council for foreign and defense policy good to see you thank you for joining us today so we didn't go for the presidency of two thousand and twelve keeping an eye on that relationship side a bit of a rotation happening what do you think that means for the legacy of surely etc some degree this tandem has work and has worked well in most other countries people would say presidents like anybody has done a good job if you look at the results economically socially socially politically for the easily run for a second there wasn't a problem with that the only problem there was is there's these an ever more popular leader in this country this being the today's trendy mr putin so basically we were expecting something like most people for mr he said mr putin would run for the presidency and this to me a little future was uncertain now that he's been. i think we may you are using the prime minister as it is a radio historic fact because no one doubts the forthcoming victory by the united russia the situation is the

sergei brylin of a political commentator and member of russia's council of foreign and defense policy says the power rotational bringing a new political reality and also a more liberal edge to the united russia party personally nice to me that it will bring liberal votes for the united russia party because he's of course associated with of liberal agenda and certainly all those things which have been in the russian political agenda such as political modernization and also economic modernization and innovation innovation as these are things which are normally associated with mr medvedev name so if you becomes a reformist prime minister on this super popular president putin that brings ours so a new political reality surprisingly it brings us to a reality where mr putin who is normally associated with a sort of strong here on the sort of thing politics who's in fact indeed inevitably carry out quite a liberal economic agenda i mean saying that the problem with the allies russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mr putin's example this chan

. >> i would invite them to take a look at the report done by the council of foreign relations tax force. it is different. it's not theoretical and not perfection and in the context of what the political climate is today and we think that it can make sense. we talk about the enforcement. we want the government to be pro-active enforcing our trade laws around the world. we also have called for strategic negotiations rather than cookie cutter approaches to free trade. we want to focus on china and brazil and india with real job opportunities existing for american workers because we can service those economies and we want investment to come from countries like those back into the united states to create opportunities for jobs as well. this is a good comprehensive bipartisan almost nonpartisan recommendation. it includes a lot of people that come from different sides of the aisle and different aspects of our economy, labor included and management and we think this is a good plan and we hope that the president will pay attention to it. i would also like to see our tax policies be in the conte

joe also serves on secretary of state hillary clinton's advisory board and council of foreign relations. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> let me ask you first about vermont. the state of vermont in federal court trying to prove it has the power to sent vermont yankee packing. do you have any idea what's going to happen in this case? >> no. we don't. that's what makes it so interesting. you have to understand what's going on here. the state says it has real concerns about the safety of the plant. the company says that doesn't matter. a state doesn't have power to shut a nuclear power reactor over nuclear safety concerns because the federal government is the only entity that has that power. that's in the nuclear regulatory commission. so as long as the nrc, the nuclear regulatory commission, says it's okay, it overrules the state. so the state is saying, vermont is saying it has other concerns. for example, that the plant was leaking radioactive tridium several years ago and when they discovered this the reactor company lied about it, that the plant is so expensive to

just a bit earlier he was a political commentator also a member of russia's council for foreign and defense policy now as we continue all of our breaking news here at our to do a quick recap for you now the big news being that russia's prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency in the two thousand and twelve election he enjoys at the full backing from incumbent president dmitri medvedev made the announcement and address to the annual congress of the ruling united russia he himself will head the party in a parliamentary election saying he could lead the government if they win and continue his modernization program from about. what essentially is a first campaign speech to increase russia's economic growth continue tackling corruption landing new businesses we will bring you all the latest developments and reaction as soon as you get up here on. that is a bit earlier here we learned from the interview have put a marker c. in cooperation and powers and said today's announcement proves the rumors of a rift between the thousand and one much is that right there are differences that

those are the co-chairs on a task force of the council of foreign relations on trade and investment. the task force recently released a report on u.s. trade and investment policy which called for enforcement of u.s. trade laws. this is about one hour. >> good morning. while we are getting settled think you all for being here on a chilly monday morning. i'm the director of the council task force program and it's my pleasure to welcome you here to the special event to release the report of the independent task force on u.s. trade and investment policy. the task force is chaired by andrew card and tom daschle and is directed by the two senior fellows, edward alden, matthew slaughter all of whom are on the panel this morning. let me say a few quick words about the task force before we turn to the discussion. task force are non-partisan, independent. ca4 takes no institutional positions on issues. the members are responsible for the content of the report and each member participates in his or her own capacity to the task force report documents manning the members endorsed the general thrus

a russian president's special envoy and chairman of the federation council's foreign affairs committee. mr markey of some complain that russia's foreign policy is heavily influenced by their east factis whereas progressive countries straight away supported the revolutionary forces of the opposition the transitional council etc how would you respond to this criticism and . our approach has never been to wait and see ever since the world leaders approached president medvedev and deauville and asked him to help establish a political dialogue between the different parties in the libyan conflict our approach has never been to just wait and see of course unlike many of the progressive regimes you mentioned we've had enough of revolution in our own history we prefer evolution that's why we are somewhat reluctant to throw our support behind revolutionary rhetoric we understand clearly that slogans pass away and a tedious political process so we're just doing our best to help start it's quite a political process as soon as possible. when did the plane kills the opposition give up the idea of ne

professor of international and a member of council on foreign affairs. the solver's really reflects undoubtedly. it is not being for it is there also these lovebirds on their vehicle most of the united nations charter consequently the very strong statement by the turkish government of the of the grave violations of the humanitarian law and the. military and law means that is. last year out of the ground through. these truly. beyond the international law he. has been sweeping question group policing the law since the birth of the the on the fifteenth me. for. more stories on our website that dot com including the political career approaches which is now and could be ending with very little over two months the internal struggle for power in the right course it's even played for the time it's a shit. you can't pay spokes hiring former white house employees find out why the social networking speedy and networking profits. is the big. part of the nato defense system will be based in remaining year according to a new deal signed in washington under the agreemen

>> every secretary of state and every secretary of defense since 1945 has been a member of the council on foreign relations. you have continuity of programs. it does not matter if you have republican or democrat. you can't tell the difference. all these people just recirculate back through the government. you have the same people. does the president run the country? do you have an invisible oligarchy that appoints these managers and all these no-win wars. right now we are in another. the country is bankrupt. it is an unwinnable, untenable position. it would not matter if you had john kerry or bill clinton. it would be this same program. we have these 20-year-old kids getting their brains blown out for nothing. i don't know why there isn't more opposition to it. somebody is not held responsible. >> well, as a member of the council on foreign relations, i don't feel that there is up our lead in this town that is running foreign-policy. both parties argue quite forcefully that the other party is others bring things up for what, and i think if anything that is one of the problems, we have too much pa

the senior fellow for global health on the council of foreign relations. opinion piece and you say part reality, part fantasy, totally possible. how totally possible is this? >> this is one of those low probability, but high consequence events sort of like imagining that a couple of guys hijack jet airliners and fly them into the world trade center or trying to imagine that somebody takes a bunch of anthrax spores and stuffs them in an envelope and mails them to senators and members of the immedia media. thing are things that can happen, how likely, we can't say. it's a gamble. we've made this picture and i really praise steven sodderberg and the team, they really made a movie that adhered as closely as possible to what we know to be scientific reality. and every step of the way, the projections into the fantasy part are based solidly on current knowledge and lot of it from epidemics i've been in. >> you told me when we were talking, you helped them through 30 different drafts. they come to you. you're a pulitzer prize winning writer. what specifically did

both are co-chairs on the task force of the council of foreign relations on trade and investment. the task force recently released report on u.s. trade and investment policy which called for enforcement of u.s. trade laws. this is about an hour. >> good morning. while we are getting settled think you all for being here on a chilly monday morning. i'm the director of the council's task force for them and it's my pleasure to welcome you here to this special event to release the report of the independent task force on u.s. trade and investment policy. the task force is chaired by andrew carter and thomas daschle and is directed by the two senior fellows edward alden, matthew speed, with more on the panel this morning. let me say a few words about the task force between the discussion to a task force are non-partisan, independent. ca4 takes no institutional position on issues and the members are responsible for the concept of the report and each member participates in his or her own capacity. the consensus document. the members and was a general judgment the not necessarily every findi

of the transitional council. which one is more accurate, allow me. the head of the transitional council contacted the minister of foreign affairs of the islamic republic and e pressed his gratitude for the people of iran to the people of liby certainly nato has not entered the scene in order to render aid to the people of libya. nato is a foreign power that is well recognized and it's a radical power. if they spend a single dollar doing these interventions they expect to gain a hundred dollars in profits. allow me to continue. you said in 1979 there was a popular revolution in iran. >> charlie: there was. >> beautiful. you do accept that premise. now, during t last 32 years, which government has stood against this popular revolt, against this islamic revolution? is it anyonether than the european powers in the united states. >> charlie: were you on the side of the people who i the streets of tehran protesting an election? you weren't on their side. >> yes, i was. yes, i was. >> charlie: you were on their sidehe people who were protesting the elections, some of them who were -- >> yes, why not. they demonstrated. they made their positions clear and the

>> well, yeah, you are. >> i wait patiently. >> the council of foreign relations is still with us. >>ery tough not only for the palestinian people, but for the israelis and americans. is the train too far down the track? or can there be a resolution to this crisis? >> well, i think we should not look at it as being crisis. i don't know why everybody is characterizing our request to be admitted to be crisis. >> no, the crisis is for the united states president to step in and try to stop that process. that is a crisis in the middle east for the united states. >> whether the international community had enough time since we saw president obama speech at the general assembly last year. he said that hopefully after we conclude an agreement, the palestinian state will be welcome. that has been more than a year ago. and therefore, i don't think the palestinians should be blamed for trying to resort to the united nations to get the process moving forward because we are frustrated at the lack of progress in the peace process. >> and richard, obviously there's reason for frustration on all sides

as we approach the 10th anniversary, he is also a member of the council on foreign relations. it is always good to have you. >> it is free to be back. tavis: this is certainly possible in the middle east that you cover so well. it seems to me that the world has changed at least three times since you were last year. for get the book, the last time you're on this set. >> since this terrible attack on new york and d.c., this ideology that was a lesson in 10 years ago, the decade is ending with this new ideology that has finally put to the final nail on the coffin of al qaeda. it is amazing to see this profound transformation in 10 years' time. tavis: what do you think is responsible for this profound transformation. >> it is an opportunity to finally be heard. thesewill force that thi western dictatorships for years. it was the perfect storm. they were finally able to take advantage of these communication technologies to communicate with each other and, more importantly, with the outside world. once it got started, it was only a matter of time that it would catch fire. tavis: 10

the coming continue so he really obvious of political commentator and member of russia's council for foreign defense policy he told us this move may bring a more liberal edge now to the ruling party. firstly mr medvedev will bring liberal votes for the united russia party because he's of course associated with the liberal agenda and secondly all those things which have been in. the russian political agenda such as political modernization and also economic modernization and innovation innovations lisa things which are normally associated with mr medvedev name so if he becomes a reformist prime minister than this super popular president putin that brings ours so a new political reality surprisingly it brings us to a reality where mr putin who is normally associated with sort of strong here on the sort of thing politics could in fact indeed inevitably carry out quite a liberal economic agenda i mean saying that the problem with the allies russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mr putin using the job of the change of generations of course this is

asia center as an international scholar and member of the enter national advisory board at the council of foreignn shanghai, he studied in hong kong and britain, graduating from the university of liverpool of a bachelor of science degree. he has received many honors, including hong kong's -- hong kong's highest award. and the contrary degree from the university of liverpool and hong kong's university of science and technology. he is much in demand when neck and -- when he comes to that united states, so we're very fortunate to have him with us today. as confucius is reported to have said, when friends visit from distant quarters, is that not delightful? it is indeed delightful for me to welcome a very old friend and man of extraordinary talent and achievement to the podium, the hon. chee hwa tung. [applause] >> friends, ladies and gentleman, we have about another 45 minutes, and i would like to leave as much time as possible for you to question both myself and carla and to have a meaningful discussion together. the title of the conference today is about u.s.-china business partnership, what works

i mean i'm a sort of political commentator and member of russia's council for foreign and defense policy so this move may actually bring a more liberal edge to the ruling party. firstly mr magruder who bring liberal votes for the united russia party because he's of course associated with the liberal agenda and secondly all those things which have been inserted into the russian political agenda such as political modernization and also economic modernization and innovation innovations these are things which are normally associated with mr medvedev name so if he becomes a reformist prime minister are those super popular president putin that brings ours so a new political reality surprisingly and brings us to reality where mr putin who is normally associated with a sort of strong hand the sort of thing politics coups in fact and indeed inevitably carry on with quite a liberal economic agenda i've been saying that the problem with the united russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mystical to each other the change of generations of course this

professor of international more a member of the gyptian council a foreigner. the x. overs really reflects undoubtedly reflect that it is not being for peace it is not subpoenas lover under the commitments of the united nations the charter consequently the very strong statement by the government of third of the grave violations of the humanitarian maritime law and the international humanitarian law. thirty of the navy last year out of the ground threat in this and he said that these acts actually be beyond the international law he said that is really has been sweating question replacing the law since the birth of the state on the fifteenth of may nineteen forty eight. ok we've got more stories for you on our website dot com on. this whole career of russia's richest man could be any day after a little over two months internal struggle for power in the right cause policy to see him live on the top position. on facebook is hiring former white house employees find out why the social networks has been doing some networking of its own the powers that be. part of the nation a

center as an international scholar at csis and a member of the international advisory board, the council of foreign relations. born in shanghai, he studied in hong kong and in britain. graduating from the university of liverpool with a bachelor of science degree. he's received many honors from -- including hong kong's highest award, and the honorary degree from the university of liverpool and from hong kong's university of science and technology. and he is much in demand when he comes to the united states, so we are very, very fortunate to have him with us today. as confucius is reported to have said, when friends visit from distant quarters, is that not delightful? and it is indeed delightful for me to welcome a very old friend and a man of extraordinary talent and achievement to the podium, the honorable c.h toom. >> friends, ladies and gentlemen, we have about 25 minutes and i would like to leave -- as much time as possible for you to question both myself and to have a meaningful discussion together. and the title of the conference today is about u.s.-china business partnership, what works, what

consulting moscow and has now been working in the frame of the security council trying to get him out moscow to back this but the russian foreign minister says this is something that is going to have to wait and russia's not going to support it as of now take a listen to what he had to say. it was a difference of course we cannot support the projects that is being pushed through by western countries but it is among other things to do with the libyan experience we ask what the next try to use how have you calculated your next steps the answer we give is that we haven't thought about it yet would prisons are suddenly to go we need to drive them into a corner with sanctions should go first and then we'll see it's a very simple because i believe not very reliable strategy if you could be called a strategy at all sure. well as we heard the russian foreign minister say there it's not a strategy at all as of now what the united states is proposing it's important that this is really comes from the experience of libya because this isn't the sanctions that were proposed and really accepted and put forward by the security council when the

russian city jimmy you know the russian president's special envoy for africa and chairman of the federation council's foreign affairs committee. back in may russia recognized the national transitional council as a legitimate party to the talks recently the russian president said that russia might recognize the in your thirty's as long as they can unite the country based on democratic principles despite the dramatic events in libya can we say that russia's position on libya has seen some adjustments over the past six months. perhaps is not such a good idea to start my answer with the word no it's still the answer is no opposition on the libyan political crisis has remained unchanged from the start in february we believe strongly that everything that has happened in libya is a political crisis which must be resolved naturally through political negotiation and consultation you can't resolve a crisis like this with military rules we said this when gadhafi issued his criminal orders to bomb the peaceful demonstration of those who opposed his regime and we said the same thing when a coalition started bombing tripo

russia recognizes libya's transitional council as a functioning live you know sort of mistake and russia's foreign minister emphasized moscow as long called for gadhafi to go but says nato is approach to bringing him down violates international law. that syria is fighting and media war and it's losing it. with almost all foreign press banned from the country amid ongoing violence doubts row over the authenticity of reports regarding syria. and russia remembers the victims of the beslan school siege that shook the country and the whole world seven years ago leaving over three hundred people dead most of them children. this is are you coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program while russia has recognized libya's national transitional council as the legitimate governing authority of libya speaking shortly after the announcement russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said russia has never want to put up a stay but opposes nato methods to remove him well for more details we're now joined live by his dog here. so you go or what is the message coming from moscow today. while mosc

lapsed into a kind of isolationism, but franklin roosevelt was very active in the founding of the council on foreign relations in new york which was a gathering of kind of -- actually, it was a kind of republican organization. it was very much dominated by henry stimson and william howard taft and some of the other republican elder statesmen. probably would have had theodore roosevelt in it if he hadn't been president. but fdr was part of that. and i've always thought it was interesting, and, actually, there's some fdr -- fdr did some writing in the 1920s both for small newspapers and for magazines, and almost invariably -- not almost invariably, but frequently on foreign topics. and a strong proponent of america in the wilsonian sense as a beacon of democratic enlightenment. we have this power, we have this great example of our people and our system, and we should be promoting this to the extent that we can around the world, that we're challenged by alien ideologies in russia and in germany and italy and elsewhere and that america is a beacon of hope. there's an interesting incident in 1932 right a

of the newly created national economic council. he had his career in finance at goldman sachs and ultimately became its co-chairman. he's currently co-chairman of the council of foreign relations and also happens to be a bestselling author. please welcome one of the most important figures on the american economic scene, mr. bob rubin. [applause] >> thank you. i'll be moderating this panel as you may have gathered. titled is the u.s. ready for the next phase for chinese competitiveness. the other members of the panel are david loevinger, coordinator of treasury, and former financial attache at our embassy in beijing. mr. libin part of the national development and reform. now chief economic officer of the chinese embassy in washington. david rubenstein, cofounder and managing director of the carlyle group and finally, mr. cheng li, fellow and director of research china center in the brooks institute. let me start with a very brief view, if i may, of the u.s. economy because it kind of helps frame our discussions. these sorts of discussions -- when you have discussions about the united states and china, at least in this country they often have an aspect about them where

of the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program russia has recognized levy is national transitional council as the legitimate governing authority of libya speaking shortly after the announcement russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said russia has never wanted khadafi to stay but opposes nato as methods to remove him for more details so i'm now joined live by gore pissed off here in moscow where you are breaking message coming from moscow today so what more can you tell us about. well moscow has recognized the national transitional council in libya as the sole authority in the throne here according to foreign minister silvio levels since the very beginning of the conflict russia has been stressing that it's up to the libyan people to decide in which direction they want to see the republican she moving in and they want to see in power it's just that the methods also this was the sheaves that they were raising questions during . school. system we could bring up the russian has never approved of the film a libyan regime back in may president medvedev clearly stated that. the way the united nations resolutions were implemented by someone three members and other states and that the principle of

council for presidents george h.w. and george w. bush. he's now president of the council on foreign relations. richard haass, i'll start with you. from the u.s. perspective. is this diplomatic tussle at the u.n. a problem or an opportunity? >> well, it's a problem. it only becomes an opportunity if somehow this threat of action in new york leads to the resumption of direct talks and those talks go somewhere. you have to be a wide-eyed optimist to believe that. so it's really a problem because the united states in the midst of the so-called arab spring does not want to have to cast a veto if things come to that, given the anti-americanism it would likely generate in the region. at the same time the united states would cast the veto and is compelled to cast the veto given its commitments to israel and its long-held view and the historical record that progress only comes through direct talks and you can't do a run around through the united nations. >> suarez: enthuse, how did you see it? >> i thought the president's speech in a way, unintentionally signaled the fact that the u.s. role in the peac