i don't know if you want to read fiction online at least on a web site. i think they do on the books -- evokes --e-books. when i started publishing in journalism we had carbon paper and typewriters. then we went to computers and all this stuff and i think some people confuse -- they think they're in a dead tree business. if it is not in print and not on paper it is not valid. i think we have to embrace the a electronic version. we are committing ideas. and visions and world views. with the internet has done is created almost free distribution. if you think about what publishers used to do, they use to read your book, they had copyeditor's in the old days and people who edited your book and made it better. there's not a lot of that now. wants they did the book they had to print it and find it and distribute it by truck and it cost a lot of money so theoretically i am very excited about this because by eliminating distribution costs there's a great opportunity for many more riders to be heard. is much less expensive to publish. you can publish on line. you

has left folks wondering of big brother is more fact than fiction through the use of forensics and even tracking online data and seems to know what will be safe from prying eyes as archie's marina porton i reports from new york. can years ago by all metrics robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of a side by flick starring tom cruise from. today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report however arguably a calm and american reality with life ominously imitating art your walking down the street and the camera that takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial mapping is able to compare it to your driver's license photo or some other photo be a mug shot maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty second and had three o'clock last saturday in addition to facial recognition new york city's police department is just one of many law enforcement agencies that also require citizens to undergo an iris scan before being released from police custody. in the past six months iris scans have been taken from hundreds of occupy wall street

army for posting online that he wanted orders from his president plus. turning fiction into fact a young russian media mogul launches his very own project planning to make a human brain a mortal by transporting it transplanting it into robots and boldly. look avoid didn't kill former security officer alexander litvinenko according to british lie detector experts the u.k. prime suspect passed a polygraph test conducted by the country specialist for a documentary a london correspondent laura smith looks into how it might change the murder inquiry now. did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko no but you were involved in alexandria has been in cause death you know. have you ever had any dealings with borneo no another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts andrei lugovoy passes the lie detector polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six when i get a result. in my mind it's the right result if or not i don't give a result it's inconclusive i would buy my guns one

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact piece or all of our party. rated imagery there you are going to see you again i know you've got the business news are more data coming in around the world are pointing to an economic slowdown you're just a fountain of positive news today. it is a slow day but we've just had consumer growth consumer spending growth slowing down in the united states on the other hand incomes have gone up point four percent so really a mixed. feeling on that data over in europe we are seeing however a negative picture on the back of g.d.p. data coming in with a slow down zero point three percent growth in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter sun and poor's also has downgraded sixteen banks and therefore using the four c. and the dax in negative territory but not so much it seems investors are hard to impress the same applies to the commodities markets where we are seeing oil declining with nymex in light sweet losing around a half a dollar per barrel that's on the back o

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of our party. probably but when the summer make new stories for you in about six minutes from now in the meantime let's cross the street there is a business desk for the latest from the world of finance now monday sessions drawing to an end has it all looking this well it's been a pretty quiet session especially here in russia where it's a day off in the us it's looking pretty negative this hour although moderately they're good if you can see that the nasdaq down around half a percent this is on the back of slowing down consumer spending growth although we have seen incomes grow by point four percent in the previous month also investors are worried about what's going on in spain where g.d.p. has declined by point three percent so basically the country is moving. over into a recession and therefore the european markets at the close are also showing negative dynamics stan armed forces also downgraded sixteen spanish banks among their main giants like suntan

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of our party. our crossing to the world of this is where marina is the way i read a hello there and when l. that europe is now open for trading so was a good start to the session or not. were now what was actually a positive side to the trading session not surprising given the fact that we've got some nuggets of data coming from spain first of all we know that the first quarter g.d.p. is down two point three percent and also as somebody took some negative action against sixteen spanish banks lowering the credit rating as you can see from the pictures there it's a foot seas out in just the german dax is already out in point is six per cent this hour so they're really have much of an the fact they're on investors moving on to asia markets are closed for public holiday today so what you see with the nikkei is the closing picture from friday which was pretty much. later in this session with investors not being affected much by thought is happening in europe o

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact piece or all of a party. that's a cross over how to dmitri here standing by the artist because they're scared to me to get to see anything positive to remark over that i'm as you've been hearing for the past hour now well there's one company barnes and noble the bookseller which is up more than sixty percent in american trading and that's on the back of a microsoft investing three hundred million dollars and book business and that's really no way says and this desert that we're seeing right now with the dow jones and nasdaq declining around half a percent on the back of slowing consumer spending growth phase over in europe we've also had a batch of negative first spain's g.d.p. moving into recession down point three percent on the. previous quarter and standard and poor's also downgraded sixteen banks among them some of the biggest ones like suntanned there and the footsie and the dax is you can see that down half a percent vessels are also hard to impress on the c

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of our party. go through any other world of business whether marina has got the latest so or a as out with our in our things europe started trading so are the numbers still positive there. higher in the well actually no they're not they're mix the sour the footsie has slipped into negative territory but i shouldn't come as a surprise because we did get some negative data from spain basically its first quarter g.d.p. drop point three percent from the previous one and also ratings agency standard and poor's gave a negative outlook on sixteen spanish banks lowering their credit rating in fact as you can see there that is the lot in point three percent so minimizing earlier gains there and the fourth seed lose in point one percent moving on to asia and markets are closed for public holidays so what you see with the nikkei is the picture from the friday which was pretty much choppy trade in session it's a worst april performance since two thousand and five in

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of our party. so that brings us now to twenty five minutes past the hour to meet is next with the business news that will be after a short break. wealthy british scientists it's time to explain the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. i don't well welcome to monday's final business update here in r.t. with me to meet you medvedev and go take a look at what's going on in the united states the only markets which are trading right now and they are limping to a negative ending of april's trade with the dow jones down point three percent nasdaq three quarters of a percent this is on the back of slowing consumer spending growth but on the other hand incomes are up and we're seeing barnes and noble up more than fifteen percent after an announcement of a team up with microsoft for ebooks business over in the europe concerns are looming about the situation with a spade as it comes back into rece

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of a party. are thought out to a cross over to marina who is standing by the r.t. go for the markets for us summer in the last hour you made a prediction about the dax well you're right that a slip into the red. was completely wrong rory for once i have to say i like this for the actions ever come out right not first time but then i get i am sure that and not give it an hour or two and or definitely slip into negative territory but for now it is still adding a point or one of five let's take a look at the latest figures for you that's surprising actually because we're going to spring on the negative they're coming from spain as we were reporting earlier spain's first quarter g.d.p. drop point three percent or so and downgraded sixteen spanish banks are not. a lot of positive sentiment going on there but still. the fly on the dax at least the footsie is dropping this hour but not by much all right let's move on and take a look at crude oil prices are heade

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leading us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of. this time out here across to the world of business with moreno who's got the latest for us as always now hi there marina so we're hearing that there is a big deal for russia's energy sector tell us more there that's right actually it's a deal worth six hundred and twenty five million dollars and one of the biggest investments right now the country's direct investment fund along with a three partners have bought a quarter of the power generator and five and now one of the members agency fund is in fact launching vessel from the middle east and we spoke to the and he explained to us the impact of this company's contribution. they are investing one hundred seventy five million in what is one of the largest investment by some middle eastern investor in russia so really a very important transaction very important signal an example was the investors because as you know as a fund was just five allies to structure in january of this year and since that time t

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact piece or all of a party. the right time to tag the latest business is marina's there for us sell marina to russians made it to the u.k. is ritualised of working it out that's right marina and that's the funny thing actually because the men who made it to the top three of the less were all born in other countries not the u.k. and they make most of their fortunes and emerging economies now the us which was published by the sunday times of course as i said has two russian tycoons which made it to the top two positions and the top three in fact and the second richest person in the country is alledged that it was smart enough and he is also a shareholder of facebook and his fortune is worth around twelve billion pounds the man you're seeing right now on your screen is a rom on a mortgage and he comes third with his now in the how. billion pounds and he owns russia's largest steelmaker that's your products and there we go you can see like it's all he's top in the list an

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all other party. check in with marina has a study by the art that's got them really good to see you any positive news for us today barbara good to see you as well walter there's a public holiday for some markets around the world saw some of them are closed which of course always has an effect on the one store trader because there isn't that much activity now let's take a look at europe which is trading today now despite the fact that we've seen reported news from spain the negative they are coming out there the first quarter g.d.p. drop point three percent also as you said s. and downgraded sixteen spanish banks which had some effect on european investors but not as much although we can see that that is now minimizing the earlier games on the. a prediction and say that i will answer in negative territory next hour but we'll see about that let's move on to all will and prices there are ahead in south and then five april has been the tightest the trading range

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leading us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all over r.t. . and straight to the world of business hi there maria well does it seem like a slow day to you the markets. it's definitely a slow day and that's because it's a public holiday for some countries and of course when some markets are closed it has an effect on the others and in general there's not much of it's about first i want to talk about another story and that's a big deal for russia's energy sector first so we have an investment of worth six hundred twenty five million dollars and basically the countries a direct investment fund along with three partners have bought a quarter of power generator and thaw it and one of the members which is a g c an agency fund is actually a large investor from the middle east and we spoke to the deals mediator and he explained why this company's contribution is so important they are investing one hundred seventy five million in what is one of the largest investment by the middle eastern investor in russia so r

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of our party. straight into the arctic business as we have to retreat good to see you today i understand there are slow day despite a negative feel on the markets that is true in russia actually it's a day off so no trading is going on here but otherwise what we're seeing right now is a slow movement towards the red zone this is because of course in your. we have seen a batch of negative dates where we've seen gross domestic product in spain and go down the first quarter by point three percent compared to the previous quarter also was downgraded its outlook for sixteen banks and this is why we're seeing both of the and the dax go down within half a percent. on the commodities markets we're also seeing pretty similar movements around the world just more than half a dollar per barrel for both brant and light sweet investors it seems are pretty hard to impress the margin in april for trading and oil has been the narrowest in seventeen years but with that we'

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all over r.t. . and it's time now to take a look what's happening in the world of business where pricing arena hello there maria so i know that some markets are closed today because of the public holidays but the hang saturdays are still trading so how's it going there. yes that's right in fact it's going quite well mainly boost the earnings as well as a strong performance on wall street financial stocks are leading the gains there now if we take a look at the picture and look at the asian markets will see that the hang sang as adding over one percent this hour there we go point three there when it comes to the nikkei you see in the closing picture from friday because it is a public holiday there so it's in tokyo markets are closed and basically on friday it was pretty much a trading session in the became. a poor performance since two thousand and five now if we move on to the oil crude prices this hour or mix light sweet has managed to make a comeback there

hope the first fully automated robot bodies will be online by twenty forty five leaving us just over thirty years before we could see science fiction become science fact peter all of our party. committees next with the business update i'll be back with a look at our headlines after that day which is with us after a short break stay with us wealthy british style that. is not on. the. markets why now scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on our. would be soon which right if you move. from violence to pressure these. stunts on t.v. don't come. i don't know welcome to the business update here on r.t. was me to meet him at that anchor we first look at what's going on the u.s. markets they are slightly down within half a percent as you can see there but there's one stock which is doing remarkably well and that bonds are no rules and it's up more than sixty percent so on the back of microsoft investing three hundred million dollars into the company in order to develop its e-books business over in spain the concerns about the country. descending into recession its g.d.p. is down point three percen

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of the latest knopp fiction books are interviewed by journalist, public policymakers, legislators and others familiar with their work. "after words" airs. you can also watch online. go to booktv.org and click on afterwords on the upper right side of the pain. >> you're watching book tv. 48 hers of nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. up next, a history of the men who ran for the u.s. presidency and lost. the author examines why each candidate failed and takes a look at their impact on each respective political party. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you. angie are, for all the work you put in this and thank you for the introduction, and pat sullivan who helped organize this, and rick young with the boise state college of sciences and thank you to the political science network. not an association. y thank you to the owner of this book store. rediscovered books. this is a gem state in history, and this is a gem of a book store. and thanks to c-span. a great pleasure to be here. so, what i want to do is give a little talk about how losing -- past losing presidential campaigns help shaped the 2012 election and then do a speculation how the 2012 elect

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