into southern israel these raids also concerned that any kind of negotiations that they reach with fatah will not be adhered to by him us until there is a reconciliation deal in place between these two palestinian groups the other stumbling block is of course the whole issue of settlements and he had the netanyahu government has shown that it is continuing to build settlements despite the international criticism these radius of say that they can be no preconditions for peace talks but most people are hoping for is that both sides will come to the party and will really just put forward where they stand and what that we paid to do but it is worth mentioning that the mood is really not that upbeat and most people don't really expect anything significant to come out of these talks parties paula slayer live from tel aviv thank you paul. we're always interested in your opinion and today those jordanian mideast peace talks are the subject of our latest online poll head to our web site r.t. dot com to take part right now half of you say it will be a futile attempt to bring israel and palestine t

we continue to see that much challenge, whether it's in the fatah or whether it's in yemen or somaliand elsewhere. so we're going to have to continue to confront the threat of terrorism. but we see the threats coming from iran. and a nuclear capable iran represents a threat to us and to the world. weapons of mass destruction, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction are a concern. north korea is a concern. because they too are developing a nuclear capability. add to that the turmoil in the middle east that we have to confront. add to that the whole threat and the potential for cyberwarfare. you can see the vast array of threats that we have to confront with a force that we've designed here. so it's all of those that are my concern for the future. >> the comments of defense secretary leon panetta joined by martin dempsey who is the chair of the joint chiefs of staff outlining on proposed budget cuts by the military. let's break it down. the army would shrink from its current peak of 570,000 troops to about 490,000 within the next five years. the marines would decline by about 20,00

warning that the country may fall into civil war it's the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to hold them to escalate further. we've seen that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrating against. the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success just last week human rights groups in the middle east presented extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in libya by allied forces during last year's war i spoke to investigative journalist says many libyans feel the revolution was hijacked and they disappointed with its outcome the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of a population in the middle east but also in libya and people saying well this is not what we have not rising for and the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims the old supporters of the old regime saying well you talk about democracy where is our inclusion in this so you get the sense there is this fracturing the new

warning that the country may fall into civil war it's the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to call them to escalate further. we've seen that fall mean. proteus to invent guys when people have been demonstrating against in t c e n t c this trial is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. gulf nations are pulling their arab league observers from syria even though the mission's been extended for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group the security council to put pressure on damascus to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuses some arab states of joining an international conspiracy against the country out of a blatant interference a series of term refers to ask us for its part insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against what it calls payoffs syria's already rejected an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down while the e.u. is impose more sanct

warning that the country may fall into civil war it's the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to haul them to escalate further. we've seen that. protest in benghazi when people have been demonstrated against. the m.d.c. just trying is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. of his many financial reporting right meantime a former member of the n t c u says that he had won the council because a few loyalists could return to attack but that his concerns were ignored journalist patrick hayes says the new government is ultimately failing in his job the national transitional council itself was very much something that was already chosen by the west not something that was chosen by the libyan people he was very much kind of put in place and then there were kind of helicopters in when gadhafi was gotten rid of so the thing i find very striking here actually is that the n t c isn't doing itself any favors in terms of pro-democracy campaign is also seeing off the. supporters as well a

haven for online crimes the same amount response respondents say some detentions don't work against fatah and guns while the rest suggest the proper political party should be formed to stand against the controversy log on to argue dot com have your say cast your vote. coming up next hour arches cross talk host peter the val as his guest whether the new legislation may completely change the face of the web. the fact is what we're trying to do is enforce u.s. copyright laws on foreign companies whose copyright laws may be different from ours and what we're saying is if you don't follow us law in terms of copyrights then we have the right to shut you down the other part of the problem is affectively that's going through the division of it isn't true if you're objecting to the fact that people are trying to stop sites that are pirating american american intellectual property and it's not always just movies and music it's also physical goods that are carried you know these are counterfeit drugs there are also if you look at the written material including when i you know harm in first harm chil

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these talks is the whole issue of reconciliation between rival palestinian faction groups hamas and fatah there have been ongoing talks between these groups for some time now to establish some kind of unity government the next round of talks will be on the second of february in cairo now hamas has heavily criticized for holding these talks with the israelis it has called on fattah to boycott them it has said that they are merely repeating a policy of failure these ladies for bayside have said that they cannot be any real discussion of peace talks until the palestinian militants stop firing rockets into israel just last week there were several palestinians who were killed when israel launched a series of strikes on gaza the israeli said that those were in response to palestinian militants firing into southern israel these raids also concerned that any kind of negotiations that they reach with will not be it here to buy from us until there is a reconciliation deal in place between these two palestinian groups the other stumbling block is of course the whole issue of settlements and he had b

the announcement follows calls from fatah leader military intervention in syria if the violence doesn't stop when general secretary thank you mean president assad to end the bloodshed and set the age of ten a season one man rule in the arab world and some critics however feel these statements risk inflaming in a way the highly volatile situation must be amnestied shows that syria is trying to find a political solution rather than a security solution and that the country is succeeding in implementing the plan agreed by the arab league the move being described by some opposition groups as being little more than a just. listen to me when all political prisoners are number one the rest said since the beginning of the crisis have been released then the amnesty will have been affected but the answer is c. does not consider this the start of dialogue but you know if your family just is welcome or can just hope to be freed over the coming days but outside the prison walls people in the country remain trapped in a situation of escalating violence in which so far this seems. the nastiest. few tim

schoolbooks that teach how to kill jews or whether it's in the political discourse that's spoken from fatahs, there is a belief that jewish people do not have a right to have a jewish state. there are people that say, should we have a two-state solution? and the israelis would be happy to have a two-state solution. it's the palestinians who don't want a two-state solution. they want to eliminate the state of israel. and i believe america must say, and the best way to have peace in the middle east is not for us to appease, but to say, we stand with our friend israel. we are committed to a jewish state in israel. we have not have an inch of difference between ourselves and israel. this president went before the united nations and castigated israel for building settlements. he said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on israel from the gaza strip. this president threw -- [ cheers and applause ] i think -- i think he threw israel under the bus with regards to defining the '67 borders as a starting point of negotiations. i think he disrespected prime emergency benjamin netanyahu.

ihe kept -- i've covered all si wars, the two inde-fatahs, the iranian revolution since then that every time i landed someplace there was a disaster and my father said to me, you wouldn't dare go to bermuda to vacation because there surely would be a coup d'etat. [laughter] >> the culture of change is reflected in lots of different ways.re in what i call hip hop islam. rap has become the rhythm of resistance in the region where young people in the same way, young americans in the 1970s turned to hip hop as a means of rejecting gang violence but still delivering an angry message. it's the same thing in the arab world. and we saw this with the emergence evens before tunisia' revolt began of young rappers in tunisia where hip hop was -- nobody ever told me to talk louder. [laughter] >> where hip hop was illegal and you found young rappers who were challenging the regime by putting lyrics on their facebook page,bo the one place that the government couldn't censor with lyrics that wereyr angrier any politician, any opposition member had dared to utter in the 23 years since presidentin bena t

so obviously a lot of these strikes have been in the fatah and going after al qaeda suspects who areand very tough terrain at the border between afghanistan and pakistan. >> so our question is, why the loose lips on such sensitive intelligence matters? barbara starr is live at the pentagon. are we making a lot to do about this or does this seem like classified information that we perhaps should not be hearing? >> well, you know, it's like that old game of clue. everybody may know that the butler did it but it's not the fact that you're supposed to get out there and talk about it. so what is the president really up to? is it fascinating question. these cia drone strikes are very well known behind the sceneses. everyone knows we fly drones in the pakistan, launch missiles, and kill militants but you don't talk about it because it packs pakistans into the the corner. pakistani government very bitter, even though it permits these grown strikes, knows about them, very bitter in its relationship iright now with th united states. what was the president doing? we don't know the answer to tha

so obviously a lot of these strikes have been in the fatah, and going after al qaeda suspects who are >> let's get right to barbara starr. she's live at the pentagon. i have to tell you, barbara, when i hear this, it started with leon panetta talking about this doctor who helped in that raid, what's going on? is this intentional? i'm just not understanding it or is this literally making a mistake in a nationally televised chat or interview? >> reporter: yeah, you know, i think, soledad, that's a question everybody's asking themselves. it's like that old game of clue. you may know that the butler did it, but you don't really talk about it, you know? it's remarkable. the president openly admitting that they are conducting these lethal strikes killing militants, the u.s., inside pakistan. those strikes are conducted by the c.i.a. that is not something you talk about. what he has done, whether it's a mistake, inadvertent, whether he's trying to pressure the pakistanis. in fact, he's back in pakistan into a corner right now because they, of course, do not openly acknowledge that they permi

schoolbooks that teach how to kill jews or whether it's in the political discourse that's spoken from fatahe do not have a right to have a jewish state. there are people that say, should we have a two-state solution? and the israelis would be happy to have that. it's the palestinians that don't want it. they want to eliminate the state of israel. and i believe america must say, and the best way to have peace in the middle east is not for us to appease, but to say, we stand with our friend israel. we are committed to a jewish state in israel. we will not have the an inch of difference between ourselves and israel. this president went before the united nations and castigated israel for building settlements. he said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on israel from the gaza strip. this president threw -- i think -- i think he threw israel under the bus with regards to e the fining the 67 borders as a starting point of negotiations. i think he disrespected prime minister netanyahu. i think he has time and time again shown distance from israel and that's created in my view a grea

those moments willing to stand up and think more about their children and grandchildren and their fatahheir own political futures and that is really what is at stake italy in wisconsin but across the state, state by state and certainly here in washington. my hope is that as we have these ongoing discussions there will be more people willing to think about the next generation and with a will do with the next election. >> and we want to open it up to folks in the audience for questions. just a couple of ground rules. we have a microphone now will be going around, so please wait for the microphone. identify yourself and please, make your question in the form of a question. we would appreciate that. >> maxwell from the huffingtonpost.com did you spoke about the national money that came in over the recall process. and you've been critical of the unions and the money sources coming from out of state but obviously a significant chunk of your money almost half has come from sources outside of wisconsin. why are you comfortable with taking out of state money not when it comes from the other side