and 2 for russian radio in d.c. russia trying to change perceptions by reaching out to americans. or text 3 for japan's carnivore girls. forget the raw fish. these women are talking about raw meat sushi. the winning story will air in the next hour. >>> republican presidential candidate michele bachmann's first campaign ads hitting the air waves. jim acosta joins us live from washington. jim, tell us about these adding and where they're airing. >> suzanne, this is a pretty important ad buy by the campaign. so figure why not? the bachmann team is running an ad right now, i was watching it a few moments ago on my iphone. basically it talks about her iowa roots. she was born in waterloo, iowa. it is her hometown, even though she's the congresswoman from minnesota, she likes to talk about her iowa roots, but she talks about the debt ceiling vote that apparently is coming up in congress. we'll have to wait and see if it ever does, but bachmann says she will vote no on raising the dead ceiling, so laying a markers there for the rest of the republican field, suzanne. >> real quick, mitt r

d.c. with regards to leave here both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel qaddafi must step down and should be able to choose their future leader if it's that path. that moscow and washington. we are. your world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya possible sees the actions of the allied forces forces they are a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want foreign minister lavrov was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have took a gamble syrian president assad he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and present our side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude question says it says the wrong message to the syrian opposition party them to believe that if they remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it'

khan and russell transcript from the voice of russia radio station in washington d.c. says the scandals driving force is the public's outrage at targeting innocent victims some of this information has been in the public domain for years simply the of the fact that they were hacking into some celebrities but you know for a while the public was all those are celebrities that's kind of fair game i guess or they didn't you know maybe they were reading the news that much you know once or once it was you know this poor girl that they were hacking into her phone i mean that's when it when it really hit the fan and and that's why i mean that's why the british government also has to be called to account for their own actions and their own kind of i don't want to necessarily say coverups but at the very least their acceptance of the way that it was going i mean there was just a lot of public pressure i think in a lot of public in a massive lead towards the collusion in the breaking of the law you know just just extreme ethical violation so i think it's the public and that's the

. >> this young professional living in washington, d.c., just the kind of person voice of russia radioo change americans' hearts and minds about moscow. let's give it a listen. >> bringing russia to new york and washington, d.c. 24/7. >> three hours during morning drive, three hours in the afternoon, in english. a.m. radio broadcasts from this kremlin-controlled service from a brand-new studio in the u.s. capital. news, features, talk shows. when you think of russia, what's your impression? >> i would say generally negative. >> reporter: the political opposition and independent media doesn't help. in spite of other teams to improve russia and itsleader's image. >> russia is many respect is seen negatively in this country. the voice of russia's deputy chairman admits this could be a tough sell. >> i hope they would bf interested to hear what happens in russia and how we see it hopefully. but overall, it would be difficult. >> a lot of these young people who are interested in russia, are they still grappling with these negative stereotypes or do they have a new view of russia? >> well, t

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d.c. insufficient medical help cause the birth of. two thousand and nine and was detained by authorities at the time that's according to russia's investigative committee which having no finished analyzing the additional medical evidence claimed the prison staff involved will face trial. the additional forensic medical examination into the death of he is now being completed a spokesperson for the the investigative committee said. medical examination revealed that magnitsky had a preexisting condition which had contributed to his death now he also went on to say criminal a criminal case has been opened and charges of failure to provide adequate medical care and negligence are to be brought against stuff at the detention facility where so you might get was awaiting trial where he's being held waiting trial for charges of tax evasion now this case the death of so good magnitsky in custody while he was awaiting that trial drew huge interest all around the world with many many human rights groups calling for a full investigation to determine exactly what happened that led to his death. that's not a quick look at some other international news in th

good to see you so it looks like i russia's foreign policy chief will have a chance to shoot some tough questions point blank today what's going on over there in d.c. today. well foreign minister lavrov is meeting president obama this morning and it's taking place the meeting is taking place behind closed doors so there's no way from knowing what they're actually discussing it could be the weather but they are definitely more pressing issues and one of the most irritating ones in the relations between the two countries is america's missile defense plans in europe president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new one foreign minister lavrov said where she needs firm legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper some analysts explain this urge that washington has for getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards its borders but it did it c

d.c. . will be about the summer of a top stories for you in a few minutes from now but in the meantime it's a romantic tour of russia's northern capital. hello and welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from the same pit is back we'll be exploring that celeste allows the never give up and various modes of transport also known as the venice of the north the waterways of the focal points of the city enjoying the summer months are a great way to see the fall because so. many are simply displaced churches cathedrals museums are visible from the canal trip of the stone to staying in the city may be an ideal way of deciding to join a visit. piece the great grand vision of the city is to create a window to your. from a swampy scarcely populated area became a fine european capital. spend expensive the construction of lavish passes on the banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as for straight through and through the house bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see in this map of modern day st petersburg the motorways and bridges still dominates the capital perched on the

d.c. has an open championship. and also formula one champ and johnson button returns to moscow for the second summer in a row and just three hours before russia boasts its best that one grand prix. and we begin with a copa america where defending champions brazil are out following a shock to fade to paraguayan the summer boys at plenty of chances to score but failed to convert any of them in regulation as to time was more to retcon says they're a freight train and the line ups following this incident midway through third why though couldn't break the deadlock either forcing a shootout where brazil missed the target and unbelievable four times but hard won that twice to make it into the semis. i had so much confidence in my teammates and how we were going to rise to the challenge and also confidence in what i could do was always get some more tree on either side it's a bit about starting but what i believe that toss to today was that the pitch was in the post state of the stage of the counter shootout this was very important in the outcome. and the day's other upsets so venezuela defeat the underdogs open to four minutes in the us all the is t

d.c. with us. from what i understand russians are not. well we started this study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side of what might be behind russia's concerns so there's narrative in the west has been that russia is ideologically opposed to middle missile defense that they're more concerned with the bases in poland and romania but we want to see if there's something besides that they feel perhaps. fear of influence but we wanted to see if there's actual technical concerns what we found in the phase adaptive approach to missile defense is broken up into two parts number one and number two where the potency interceptors. block one interceptors are online and phases three and four where the higher speed interceptors will be brought on line and our analysis shows if the system is reconfigured a little bit that it will have some ability against russian i.c.b.m. so there is some legitimate concern from from the russian side as to the technical ability in principle of the system being able to intercept russian i.c.b.m. in the report you argue that the us doesn't really need the last two faces could you expand on that it's sort of a parado

d.c. riots are you going to live in moscow thank you. well in a couple of minutes here on r t we report on how some people in russia are coping with the age old problem of growing old. people are apprehensive and proud of aging mainly because of the associated health problems here in russia. operating loss of dignity is. just after ten past the hour here in moscow russia's foreign minister has slammed nato for its cynical actions libya during an interview with russian television so he laughed it off said the alliance's tactic of bombing the country into a few steps down has inflicted too many unjustified sort of civilian deaths in all of them has been following what laugh it off to say. we heard from a very vocal lover of today really criticizing what he sees as the essential mission creep of the ongoing outside intervention into the libyan situation now he drew comparisons between what's happening in libya and the bombing of the former yugoslavia and fight saying that the company named by nato against colonel gadhafi has actually gone on far longer than the bombing campaign that was conducted against parts of the former yugoslavia. it's

plus russia rules scientology literature as extremist but what exactly is scientology a cult or religion. good afternoon it's friday july eighth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and your watching our team well as the conversation in washington continues to focus on national debt and the u.s. government deficits a new jobs report is out and highlights what many argue is the real issue that's not being discussed seriously enough unemployment the numbers are way worse than analysts were expecting take a look at them unemployment ticked up to nine point two percent it was nine point one percent last month only eighteen thousand jobs were added employers hired actually the fewest number of workers and nine months and to give you some context analysts were expecting ninety thousand jobs to be created and just to remind you the economy would need to add one hundred twenty five thousand jobs a month just to keep up with population growth and two hundred fifty thousand to bring down unemployment so you can see eight hundred thousand jobs really just a drop in the bucket and obama go today he spoke about the jobs numbers he had plenty of excuses for

project because russia is not part of nato to that possible says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words but it is going to count in the washington d.c. studio thank you. this is r t still ahead a few more trouble in afghanistan is the assassination of the afghan president's half brother a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow to nato has plans to leave a stable country behind with troops withdraw for you also fears of greek style and rested it's only now we bring you inside of a financial woes of a country many predict could be next in line for the e.u. help. wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to sweden the world's most famous was blows wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if sent to stockholm he'll end up in the hands of the u.s. government is lauren that has the latest from outside the court building tonight. not so much has hired an entirely new legal team pull this appeal he's fired the old old lot and he's got people who are much more have much more experie

d.c. . for a lonely vigil of nasa's hubble telescope and all bids come to an end as it now gets to show the job of looking deeper into the universe than anyone has done before russia sent of its own in the sky and it's got a shop inside of the galaxy that is ready for an ocean was the launch pad to see it off. this is the moment a russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory equipped with a cutting edge telescope a huge top in universities for ration as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it will be possible to observe the most mysterious the darkest and the most shadows of corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even to be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dark nature and these huge enormous i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution a thousand times shop with an america's goal well let's enjoy the moment. really. to be closer to. fully within a month or two we will receive the first images of the universe. he reported from baikonur. space expos looking forward to getting that if you want to see more of the

d.c. listen to what michael bloomberg, the mayor of new york city says. friends are watching the spectacle with amazement. foes are watching it with glow. >> from russiao australia to brazil. the world is nervously watching congress thrash out a debt ceiling compromise. hillary clinton doing damage control, admitteding it can be a messy process but -- >> this is how a democrat and open society comes around to making a solution. so i'm confident that congress can secure a deal on the debt ceiling and work with president obama to take the steps necessary to improve our long-term fiscal outlook. >> china, the country ha holds 8% of america's debt, 1/3 of that held by foreign entities according to the commerce department has been mostly silent about the crisis. but a u.s. diplomatic tells cnn, we really look bad abroad. and the state department is doing a lot of explaining. >> a lot of countries find our system hard to understand. those are the kinds of questions we get, how long will this go on, are you confident that there will be an agreement. >> but so far, the world doesn't seem to be freaking out, says one economic expert. >> u.s. interest rates hav

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