it was formed as a result of the disintegration of the former yugoslavia based on the dayton agreement which was designed to settle the relations between the three ethnic communities that formed the republic and in this respect both in here to go in has proven to be facing a crisis we're living under partial international protectorate of the world community and because of that we've held dozens of elections which were considered to be free and fair by the organization for security and cooperation in europe today this issue ation in both me and her to govern is characterized by a very huge presence of international representatives who are trying to rule and influence the internal processes in the republic because of the fact that a certain political party won the election it has been impossible to reach an agreement on how to form the bodies of power the different mission of the council of ministers has become the main problem and herzegovina the council of ministers is now the government of hosni and herzegovina is an elected body it consists of representatives of major national and et

that is acceptable for the serbs and the republic of serbska in those near the provisions of the dayton agreement have been changed and altered many times international representatives have stubbornly changed the basic provisions of that agreement they have changed the political system introduce new institutions and have given powers to impose new and herzegovina which it wasn't supposed to have under the dayton he meant and this is creating a problem finally it should be said that this are republican goes near and established itself as a tutorial subject of those near and dear to governor it was founded in one thousand eight hundred two as a result of the disintegration of the former yugoslavia undoubtedly those near and herzegovina represents a counter process that was going in the territory of the former yugoslavia in those years all the republics of the former yugoslavia were formed in a way that homogeneous nations who live there got their own states and like them both me and her to govern i had to follow the path of the former yugoslavia it consisted of three constituent ethnic co

and that should be made by the peace implementation callen so which is supposed to implement the dayton peace agreement today it has also used to summarize to decide on certain issues so i believe the mandate of the high representative in both me and her to governor is going to end very soon are you happy with the current constitution or it's a governor that was what it designed and tighten is it a workable at all it's clear that we accepted that constitution but we accepted what's written in the dayton agreement but not with some. try to interpret it as the letter and spirit of the tin and therefore try to impose it on us by the military decisions of the high representative the dayton agreement is something that is acceptable for the serbs and the republic of serbska. the provisions of the detainee agreement have been changed and altered many times international representatives have stubbornly changed the basic provisions of that agreement they have changed the political system introduce new institutions and have given powers to both new and herzegovina which it wasn't supposed to have

was established in accordance with the dayton agreement we agreed to comply with the decisions of the tribe you know. is the first president of the serb republic. undoubtedly in the beginning during the process of disintegration of former yugoslavia he became the leader of a political party that encouraged this service to defend their indigenous status in bosnia and herzegovina and i certainly think that was normal of course this should be a personal and individual responsibility who would happen during the war those who face trial and only be personally responsible for crimes and canada their collective responsibility we can judge how fair the trial is going to be by analyzing the previous trials which were not quite clear how was the arrest of the other one could imagine schmidt by the public opinion is. i mean what was the what was the reaction of the street towards his arrest not only. naturally most people were disappointed with grudges arrest but they realized the necessity of their choice and that sort of action the general feeling of this is this action among the serbian peopl

they decided to bring it to dayton, and it has robbed the economy to dayton. host: thank you for sharing your thoughts. >> there is a very good museum in the basement of the court house in dayton, tenn., about the trial and the reception around the world, and you can visit the courtroom itself, and i have sat in the famous share. the cross-examining of bryan was held on the lawn outside, and if you think about it, a few thousand people were probably in attendants listening to and watching the cross-examination. we do not have that kind of trial today, but it did help the economy a great deal, an economy that needed help. host: let's talk about the legacy when it comes to women's rights and the popular election of u.s. senators. guest: i think the legacy itself is damaged by the end of the scopes trial, and the obituary of brian, which depicts him as of bundling, and our country kind of misguided figure in 1924, and 1925, and so on and it is varnish have the end of his career by this, and michael book recoversel's the brilliantly. all of the issues he champione

so he was being led through the wilderness of this trial by dayton moses. and as a result of all of this, this trial took place. i write about it in "the shooting salvationist," and it comes to the point of verdict and just like we sometimes see in trials, the verdict doesn't turn out the way a lot of people who just seem to know the facts think it should turn out. norris does not die in the electric chair. in fact, he lives until 1952, and he has -- he never reaches the place that he wanted to reach. because he's always going to be marred by this story. but he's still a gifted man. he begins to pastor two churches at the same time, one in detroit, michigan, one in fort worth, texas, commuting back and forth. this in the '30s. 25,000 members between the two churches. after world war ii he gets involved in anti-communism, and he realizes that, hey, roman catholics and he are on the same page, and this man who was against the catholics in the '20s has an audience with pope pius xii in 1947. so's he was an interesting pragmatist. one little footnote, and then

i am from dayton, tennessee. home of the scopes trial. i am not old enough to remember it. but i know several people that were there and it was carnival- like, and the table where it all started in, as i understand it, started as let's do something exciting or unusual, let's do this. so that is how it got started. and the older people have told me that dayton has grown into a booming little town. it has a play on the anniversary of the trial, and it is a very interesting place for people to come from all over the united states to see. i just wanted to say that we were known as the monkey town for a long time but now we are known as home of the scopes trial. i did not know william jennings bryan, but i did meet clarence darrow at a tea held for him by the women of dayton. we're glad that it happened there, and as i was told, it was kind of started for chattanooga, and chattanooga did not want it, so they decided to bring it to dayton. it has brought much economy to the city of dayton. >> thank you for calling in s

dayton tennessee, the monkey scopes trial and clarence darrow. >> we have put all of his speeches on line on our digital project. if she would like to use her computer to look at those speeches, there are hundreds of them. every speech he gave is online. >> all of the material from this series is available on-line. 14 weeks, looking at the presidential contenders. the scopes trial. >> william jennings bryan is known, if at all, to most americans because he was one of the prosecutors in tennessee. he was prosecuting a teacher named john scopes who was teaching the theory of evolution in high school in dayton, tennessee. what is interesting about this is that this issue is still pretty much alive. a large number of americans believe that the bible, the book of genesis, is the truth. is how the earth was formed. bryant believe that too, but it is important to remember that he believes in social darwinism, survival of the fittest, might makes right. he put out a series of lectures about evolution before the scopes trial. for him, to be a good christian meant that you could accept the soc

. >> i am from dayton, tennessee. home of the scopes trial. i am not old enough to remember it. but i know several people that were there and it was a carnival-like, and the table where it all started in as i understand it started as let's do something exciting or unusual, let's do this. so that is how it got started. and the older people have told me that dayton has grown into a booming little to them. -- town. it has a play on the anniversary of the trial, and it is a very interesting place for people to come from all over the united states to see. i just wanted to say that we were known as the monkey town for a long time but now we are know as home of the scopes trial. i cannot know william jennings bryan, but i did made clarence darrow -- meet clarence darrow at t held for him by the women of dayton. we're glad that it happened there, and as i was told, it was kind of started for chattanooga, and chattanooga did not want, so they decided to bring it to dayton. it has brought much economy to the city of dayton. >>

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and the apex of this is in the big trip to vegas in dayton, tennessee. of course william jennings bryan goes out there to work with the prosecution. a footnote this is one of the preachers, in fact the man most responsible for getting william jennings to go to dayton tennessee was frank morris. one of the last things that brain dead before he died just a few days after the trial, while he was still in tennessee was write a handwritten note to jay frank torres, thanking him for his help, encouragement and going to the trail and norris opened by a handwritten note after he'd gotten the news that william jennings bryan had died in a printed note in his newspaper which at that time of 50,000 subscribers and is there a way to link himself and his gold very much was to become the air and the leader of the fundamentalists we might call conservative christians in america at the time. and it very well might have happened, except that within a year he got into a battle with local city leaders in fort worth, texas. he's always fighting about something. particular i

hello welcome this is live sports of dayton are two things watching the headlines. richard branson to the u.s. open decide. on all made walls and the saucer and serena williams will do battle for the ladies train the plush. premier league leaders and see their eyeballs on the away from home and second season also lose on south. by family friends fans and dignitaries pay their respects to the. players who were killed in the plane crash this week. began with the latest from flushing meadows where searing a williams knocked out carling was not a u.s. open semifinal the american is through to the championship decider with these winning six two six fool over the top seed meanwhile some of the stalls are advance to his second career grand slam final in the earlier clash between surprise all gaily kick in the rain delayed much stall so stalled and strongly taking the process. six three body and see the german pulled back to level the game in for a textile the decider was one sided though with stossel running away five love and then securing a six three to six six two way t

got a little talk at the moment but just to let you know this was created by dayton at cannes now he's the man behind. the opening ceremonies of the olympic games that we saw in vancouver and sydney and he's used eighty one projects in forty lazies for just display. each a strong enough to be up to fifty kilometers in distance and five thousand farmers have been used to not seeing those at the moment but they all promise a bit later along with something like fifty miles and pollutants that is the moscow state university building overlooking the russian capital. another say the organizers are hoping this will enter the record books as the biggest ever projection area stretching over twenty four. and a half thousand square meters and that's the surface area of that massive moscow state university building which you see in the distance. you can see great creativity spectacular effects. also see the building turn for a march chunk of ice and a quicker manic cosmodrome among many other things some have even seen a little earlier turned into some bottles official here and the kremlin in red

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between early attempts to work with most of it in the ninety one ninety two and then of course after dayton accord so there is this kind of law and then indeed in ninety seven ninety eight ninety nine there is going back and forth and i would i don't i've i've written about this and and easy to find parallels in many other so-called crises around the world are you going to jump in here you go to a short break we're going to lose your freedom after that short break we'll continue our discussion and western intervention stay r.t. . if you can. still use. the old. wealthy british style. it's time to exclusively go. guys. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our tea. leaves. to. see. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to certain places of the. us how did you come to know each began a journey. where did it take the. good . and. in the future to. welcome back to rostock i'm here labelle remind you we're talking about western backed interventio

between early attempts to work with most of it in the ninety one ninety two and then of course after dayton accord so there is this kind of law and then indeed in ninety seven ninety eight ninety nine there is just going back and forth and i would i don't i've i've written about this and and easy to find parallels in many other so-called crises around the world are you going to jump in here we're going to short break we're going to lose your freedom after that short break we'll continue our discussion and western intervention stay r.t. . if you. still. want to. lose. i've i've . ok. welcome back to crossfire computable to remind you we're talking about western backed interventions. ok. ok and i'd like to go back to you is i think is quite curious because a lot of this program has been discussing international law but when western powers go into countries like libya i found that the discussion is they think about the feasibility of the intervention the cost the risks and possible backlash of arab public opinion but there's very little discussion if it's illegal or not and outside of the belt

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between earlier times to work with most of it in the ninety one ninety two and then of course after dayton accord so there is this kind of law all over and then indeed in ninety seven ninety eight ninety nine there is going back and forth and i would i don't i think i've i've written about this then and easy to find parallels in many other so-called crises around the world are you going to jump in here you go to a short break we're going to carry them after like short break we'll continue our discussion on western intervention stay with r.t. . if you. still. want. to share. let me soon which bryson if you knew about song from feinstein question it's. his friends totty. wealthy british style messiah comes. to cut. the. market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy with my cars or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report. to go to. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've done the future coverage. welcome back to crossfire computer labelle remind you we're talking about weste

between early attempts to work with most of it in the ninety one ninety two and then of course after dayton accord so there is this kind of law and then indeed in ninety seven ninety eight ninety nine there is going back and forth and i would i don't i've i've written about this and and easy to find parallels in many other so-called crises around the world are you going to jump in here you go to a short break we're going to lose your freedom after that short break we'll continue our discussion and western intervention stay with r.t. . if you. still. want. observe nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wyoming. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to certain places of. one hundred kilometers to teach began a journey. where did it take to. me it is easy to believe it's. easy. to. see. a. welcome after all stock i'm curious about your mind you were talking about western backed interventions. ok and i'd like to go back to you is i think it's quite curious because a lot of this program has been discussing

between earlier times to work with most of which in the ninety one ninety two and then of course after dayton accord so there is this kind of law and then indeed in ninety seven ninety eight ninety nine there is going back and forth and i would i don't i i've written about this and and i even find parallels in many other so-called crises around the world are you going to jump in here we're going to a short break we're going to lose your freedom after like short break we'll continue our discussion on western intervention stay r.t. . if you can. still. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our keep. a telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. and. welcome back you're all stuck on your lapel to remind you we're talking about western backed interventions. look. ok and i'd like to go back to you it is i think it's quite curious because a lot of this program has been discussing international law but w

mostly sunny condis for labor in dayton upper '70's and 60's for the coast one..le look of your art and high temperatures for later on this afternoon livermore 96 degrees to 83 degrees in mountain view when in the north bay 90 for santa rosa and when and 97 degrees for fairfield ma him. this is a look of your seven day forecast when monday labor day will be the coolest day of the week that we will start to warm up beginning on tuesday >> time now of 519 amber mooa.m. >> will still a commute because of the holiday weekend allot of people got an early jump on this holiday weekend that's start the bridge check at the toll plaza no delays across is and why meathe span a. san mateo bridge traffic is building up a but not the lead southbound 101 and no delays on the golden gate bridge when when. >> 5:20 a.m. we'll find out more today of the recent death in the recent death of donald and cast her the 63 year-old was killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging and it was august 14th investigators are still looking for the driver of a pickup truck that hit a it might have

there is an example of 100,000 people turning out to hear him speak at one time in dayton, ohio. he had a steamboat named for him. he was a man that people like to see, to savor the excellence of henry clay. >> politicians still talk about henry clay today. let's listen to mitch mcconnell referencing henry clay. >> let me see if we can back up a little bit. talk about his first foray into public life. he was a very successful lawyer here. did he always aspired to be a public person, and if so, how did he get into it? >> he started out like a lot of people did as a legislator on the state level. his ability showed itself very quickly. almost immediately they appointed him to fulfill a united states senate post, even before he was old enough. he served as a senator at the age of 29. that early, people recognized his abilities and his strength. of course the first day he steps foot on the floor of the united states house of representatives, he is elected speaker of the house. >> has that ever happened since? >> it has happen one other time, during the civil war. here is a man at age

it differently from news reports, because i spent august in marietta and toledo and mansfield and daytonohio, and the talk wasn't about cutting the budgets. as important as it is to balance the budget, and about pay-fors and all that, the talk was about what are you going to do about job creation? the republicans heard it unless they were only at their country clubs, republicans heard the discussions too and the admonishments, if they will oppose anything but tax cuts for the rich and war, and they only want to pay for disaster relief and tax cuts for workers, which is a good thing, not a good thing. it is -- i think they're going to have to govern a little differently. the other thing is after -- as we begin to do this, there are things we can do that don't cost money. i appreciate the money going to states to preserve teachers and keep teachers and cops on the beat, teachers in classrooms and all that, but we're going to work on curbs scurrency with ch. the president can enforce trade rules as he has done better than his predecessors and that directly creates jobs. i've seen it in youn

they never really got down to debating the science and in fact, in dayton tennessee where the trial took place the judge refused to let darrow put any of his scientific experts on the stand. and that is why to salvage his case, he called william jennings bryan to the stand as an expert on the bible. there were too many people in the courtroom. the judge was afraid that the floor was going to collapse. it was a second-story courtroom. you can go there and see it. it is beautifully preserved and in fact they still have trials in that courtroom and so they all went went outside to a platform built under the maple trees in the courtyard and that is where what i called the single greatest confrontation, legal confrontation in american history took place with darrow questioning brian about -- very little about science and much more of did jonah really stay three days in the whale? [laughter] how did this make it around before -- dated hop on its tail? he asked these questions to embarrass william jennings bryan and what he did ask prying questions about science, brian was so an educated that h

we would see more manufacturing in places, in places like cleveland and columbus and dayton. so our trade deficit with china was $273 billion in 2010. ten years before, before pntr, our trade deficit with china was was $68 billion. it went from $68 billion to to $273 billion in one decade. that worked so well that we should do more of it. president bush said that a billion dollars in trade surplus or trade deficit translates into 13,000 jobs. a billion dollar surplus means 13,000 additional jobs. billion dollar trade deficit means 13,000 fewer jobs. so our trade deficit with china last year was -- was was $273 billion. you don't have to be really good in math to know that translates into a lot of jobs. making products sold at the capitol, making products sold at commissaries, making products all over. until we figure this out and pass trade agreements that actually -- they are actually in our national interests, mr. president, we're simply pure and simple betraying our national interests and betraying the middle-class families and the families in our country that aspire to be

a paper mill in butler county down near cincinnati, between dayton and cincinnati. someone worked with that paper mill told me that they are now competing with china. when china for coated paper -- it's a higher tech manufacturing of paper, the kind of magazine paper that we all touch and use, that the -- the pulp comes from brazil, it's shipped to china, it's milled in china, it's shipped back to the united states and they undercut american prices. yet, only 10% of the cost of paper production is labor. so what does that mean? it means they are gaming the currency system. it means they are subsidizing water, they are subsidizing capital, they are subsidizing land and they are paying low wages. and how do you compete when they are not playing fair? forget the low wages even for a minute. how do you compete when they are playing these currency games. by continuing the currency manipulation, we lose far too many jobs. by combating currency manipulation, we help level the playing field for our manufacturers, we help our workers, we help spur our economic recovery. that

paul in dayton, ohio, writes, you know the saying about people who live in gloass houses not throwing applies here. perhaps we can avoid generating more foreign enemies by addressing our own shortcomings and keeping our nose out of others' business. the only place where government has mismanaged its finances worse is green, so if the advice is limited to greece, then opa. this is like the pot calling the kettle black. politicians and bureaucrats in america pride themselves on knowing just how to fix things, all the while running this country into the ground. ron paul is right again. the u.s. should not be meddling in the affairs of others, particularly when the u.s. has proven itself incapable of behaving responsibly. hell no. like a guy in jail for rob a bank, telling somebody else how to rob a bank without getting caught. larry in denver says one thing about this country, no matter how bad things may be at home, we can all find ways to tell others how to fix their business. our nose does not belong in many other places, but we don't let anything stand in our way. and it is not just

dayton, ohio, democrats' line. caller: good morning. i have been listening. thank you foresees spam. with all of these scenarios and possibilities -- thank you for c-span. if things go severely downhills for president obama, it is there a possibility for joe biden, would he take on a hillary clinton or another woman to help the boat base? -- vote base. guest: there is no indication from the obama campaign that he is likely not to run for reelection. has focused on running for election. obama is going to be stepping out to capitol hill next week. that is going to be a message that is going to be about a contrast to some of the republicans. right now, what goes on between obama and capitol hill is less about getting legislation passed. it is more about setting up a contrast between him and republicans. the obama campaign believes that when there is a nominee pact, they can set up a contrast that is favorable to them. host: sarah palin would hurt the republicans -- guest: there is probably some fear of that. i think that among those things that she might be detr

host: dayton, ohio, the democrats' line. caller: i have two thirds of my family unemployed.st: i am in sympathy with you. what they did back in 1971 proved to be very short-term. their idea was if we slapped controls on wages and prices, that would control inflation. that was paul volker's idea of. it turns out you cannot put the yolk back into the egg shell. they never set up a new system. when the controls can of, inflation was worse than ever. it rose up to 12% and even higher in the late 1970's. i think we are seeing a similar echo of that today, a terrible instability in markets and world economies where i think we are lurching very uncertainly still but hopefully to some new order, something other than the chaos that we are in now. host: susan writes on twitter -- talking about the british economist. what do you think? guest: well, you know, i am not sure what ditch he is talking about because brenton woods worked pretty well. by 1970, it was not working so well. in 1971, it was abandoned. if you can set up an economic system that works well for 25 years, that is a pre

dayton, ohio, bill, you're on the "washington journal," go ahead. caller: good morning. i am a republican. i just want to bring your attention to something someone has already brought to your attention is that fool that called in from detroit or wherever else there in michigan and makes up the name and doesn't respect the 30-day rule. host: ok. we've got that, and we're working on that. thanks for bringing that up. now, what do you have to say about the president's comment regarding the republican vision of government crippling america? caller: are you there? host: i'm still here. go ahead. caller: clearly the president is going to say and anything he can at this point to stay in office for re-election. what that he says doesn't seem to matter anymore as much to even his liberal followers. they're kind of tired of his talk as well. thank you very much. host: asheville, north carolina. william, you're on the "washington journal." caller: yes, i'm a republican. and i would like to say to obama's statement concerning the republicans would cripple america, he's already got i

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now, governor scott walker of wisconsin and governor mark dayton of minnesota never agree about politics. and they certainly don't agree on football. but as a member of the council on great lakes governors, they agree on the need to reduce air and water pollution in the great lakes. years of planning and partnership in the great lakes region and in washington are now making a difference on the ground in the great lakes restoration initiative. the initiative is protecting drinking water, it's restoring fish and wildlife habitats and it's supporting the growth of small businesses that depend on healthy waters. the work under way is 300 projects across this region. now, my role as a legislator from the great lakes region is to do no harm to this effort. the train act will make the enforcement of many of the environmental projections uncertain and it will create confusion in the e.p.a. about which public health efforts they can pursue. and my amendment does not give the e.p.a. any new authority. instead it directs the e.p.a. to use its existing authority to do what republican and democratic

there is an example of 100,000 people turning out to hear him speak at one time in dayton, ohio. he had children named for him. he had a steamboat named for him. he had everything named for him. he was a man that people like to see, to savor the excellence of henry clay. >> politicians still talk about henry clay today. let's listen to mitch mcconnell , kentucky senior senator, referencing henry clay. >> he served as the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the secretary of state under president john quincy adams, and of course, as one of the quetta senators to ever walk through the capital. it was also honored to receive his party's nomination for president three times. in 1824, 1832, and 1844. the essence of legislating in the senate has 100 viewpoints to create one law, is compromise. henry clay became known as the great compromiser. he forged a compromise that would keep his precious union together. they did not compromise in the sense of forsaking his principles. rather his skill was to bring other disparate ideas and forge a consensus among his colleagues.

dayton, ohio, bill, you're on the "washington journal," go ahead. caller: good morning. i am a republican. i just want to bring your attention to something someone has already brought to your attention is that fool that called in from detroit or wherever else there in michigan and makes up the name and doesn't respect the 30-day rule. host: ok. we've got that, and we're working on that. thanks for bringing that up. now, what do you have to say about the president's comment regarding the republican vision of government crippling america? caller: are you there? host: i'm still here. go ahead. caller: clearly the president is going to say and anything he can at this point to stay in office for re-election. what that he says doesn't seem to matter anymore as much to even his liberal followers. they're kind of tired of his talk as well. thank you very much. host: asheville, north carolina. william, you're on the "washington journal." caller: yes, i'm a republican. and i would like to say to obama's statement concerning the republicans would cripple america, he's already got i