political activist daoud sultanzoy and talk to r.t. earlier now hillary clinton says the u.s. is losing an information war in foreign media outlets including our team this week and the secretary of state asked congress for more cash to step up america's efforts to get its message across and she's going to check out reports war declared the u.s. is now officially in an information battle with foreign media which provide alternative views on world news views which often running contrast of the coverage of the events by the us needs free media we are in an information war and we are losing that war i'll be very blunt in my assessment al-jazeera is winning. the chinese have opened up a global english language and multi language television network the russians have opened up an english language network i've seen it in a few countries and it's quite instructive we are cutting back and the b.b.c. is cutting back some five years ago western media outlets including the v.c. and c.n.n. had a near monopoly in the coverage of world news things have changed since then more and more viewers