guys in the film world minister of foreign affairs and trade something of mr westerwelle and i visited mainz class of ember. a few years ago after the president liberation so they'll be here for a short us presidential elections will be even transparent and fair play has sort of turned that he jailed his opponents in a way he would say that of course in his he will my sister. surprising of a chance to push the. to work with europe. therefore i'm calling for phil russian authorities. to turn off the dangerous path. this is this is he. has for russia's positional is he on this matter the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation human machine has made an official statement but are negative will. those new on the cultural links we have called. the russian leadership it's already profuse will just take the weight of. the country's international obligations regarding human rights. and we expect so if your just a maid service you could. see experts which that the continuing court hearings as observers and as for sanctions with your guest would know that the european union has uni

the chairman of the select committee on foreign affairs said before the talks that he would be pessimistic as far as libya but is concerned. -- as far as libya is concerned. i think he feels vindicated for what president obama has said on libya. there's also the question of american helicopters. he said there would be no ground troops. i think the british government and many in the british political establishment would have hoped that he would be a bit more enthusiastic as far as the intervention of libya. also, there has not been any talks about if and when to talk with the taliban, with the british government pushing for talking to the taliban. the special relationship is there. i would not say the relations are strained, but there is certainly no convergence of opinion on every point of foreign affairs. >> coming out in depth, i will have a closer look at the special relationship between the u.s. and britain. now we turn it over to steve. >>> we're talking about who will be taking over at the imf. christine lagarde has confirmed she intends to run for head of the imf. she has been encou

chief foreign affairs correspondent lara logan is in washington tonight. lara, were the pakistanis protecting him? >> well, it certainly looks that way, katie. no one wants to come out and say it. no one's pointing a finger directly at pakistani officials but everyone from politicians to counterterrorism officials, special operations are saying it's impossible, improbable, unlikely, inconceivable that the pakistanis did not know that osama bin laden was there. you know, and just the nature of the compound alone that he was living in, where it was located, all of this seems to indicate that it really is inconceivable that the pakistanis not only knew he was there but were protecting him. >> couric: so what do you think this means for u.s./pakistani relations going forward? >> well, that's the interesting part, katie. because although on the one hand the u.s. is clearly angry with pakistan about this, in their public statements, at least, they're treading very carefully, which is perhaps a sign of the fact that the u.s. still needs pakistan. i mean, they are

the european union immediately reckons it's impressive to our chairman of russia's state duma foreign affairs committee thank you very much for speaking with us here. belgrade political analyst alexander products says that if not it sticks out in court new details about breakout will emerge the west doesn't once revealed. tribunal's record does not promise any sort of a fair trial but at least. visual user is in the arena to voice their side of the story and the side of the war has been neglected by the western media think that maybe revelations will have to do with western involvement in the breakup of yugoslavia in starting the bosnian civil war in helping muslim fundamentalists get the upper hand in bosnia and actually take over bosnia. well arty's been hearing how in sound minds a lot of his arrest is more about political ambition than war crimes justice serbian international affairs writer sarah trish kind of says state controlled media is pushing to persuade people the country needs to join the e.u. instead of applauding serbia for finally catching wild which you will see in the western

but i was at riyadh maleki the palestinian foreign affairs minister now there will be a much more from him in an in-depth interview he gave to us that early next week and still to come in the program a new way into slavery. thousands of chinese workers head to israel in the hope of finding a better life but for many the reality in the jewish state is far from their dream job plus. a roller coaster ride for one plane crew as the pilot apparently struggles to regain control of. military service is not an easy task but in russia young recruits often face horrific bullying when they joined the army and human rights organizations have been lobbying in attempts to help eradicate the problem but as artie's jacob grieves reports in some cases it's simply too late now we must warn you that this report contains footage of graphic violence. it's a disturbing sight and one that's on the right in the russian army. it's called hazing ability or it's too familiar with its consequences you can hear that in the reports about forges suffering physically and mentally are coming in every day. she runs the

israeli relations are heading and what it spells for peace in the middle east let's talk to foreign affairs expert stephen hess thank you very much for joining us and mr assume this now we've heard benjamin netanyahu a promise of concessions in congress today about the same time he would like to be internationally backed plan to return to create one nine hundred sixty seven borders and this forced a washington to a backtrack on its and thorson of the proposal what exactly is israel prepared to give. very little actually. seems to be implying used. to hold the. various includes a series of bomb contiguous camps on the west bank and surrounding land. be indexed by israel. non-contiguous and really non-viable. indeed it would sound very similar to a man from a scratchy stands in apartheid south africa but i'm also in his speech not to yahoo has repeatedly assured members of congress of israel's other wavering friendship towards the us now what with what israel's consul provocations and she will call it how long will washington have to keep saying yes to the jewish state. it's very hard to say

reporting right there well our constantine koch our fees the head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee says that the hague tribunal exists only to legitimize nato's interventions in the balkans. i believe that the last here is the latest here is severe tribune all started here's a new idea. here's one one option to justify the previous intervention by need to force us in this conflict and supporting our the chorus in this call can vote no on this sort of so no the basically dear me to prove the serbs in serbia sort of service in bosnia herzegovina elsewhere are of the main criminals are of the nation being responsible for the tragedy of the former yugoslavia and they can not accept it as a call for a fear of. well rock of love it she won't face a fair trial in the hague as his conviction has already been assured that the view will join at laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation and we spoke to him a bit earlier when he was in paris. he'll definitely be extradited and there are absolutely no chances at all that he will get a fair trial it's a very important p

vote on palestinian statehood in september the palestinian foreign affairs minister told r.t. that he'd prefer to negotiate independents directly with israel but is finding that that move is difficult. since less of them but. this release had been avoiding. committing themselves into serious negotiations they have refused the request of the international community to seize and to stop settlement activities as international. political ambition for the resumption of negotiation and since then you know we did not have any kind of negotiations with the israelis so i want to position is. by september we should have you can see the state as was promised to us by present but i. by the international community by the court. deal says we will be ready as palestinians in new think what constitutions and so you know september should yield to it and still a state either through. negotiation with israelis and this is really our preferred choice or if that's not the case you know we should seek. you under commission. that was that riad moloch leave the palestinian foreign affairs minister th

case now ok live from moscow that was constantine as the chair of the head of the state duma foreign affairs committee many thanks thank you. now while the u.s. has been honoring its dead soldiers the government is being accused of failing to help keep c make it from war alive experience left to adjust to life after service all by themselves in a struggling to make sense and justify the deaths caused by the war in iraq has been a poor night i met one former soldier whose account of how grueling endure and shed light on the harsh life of her turning soldier. yes the thing here they very much into the infinite world of literature enters this twenty eight year old ex marine an american who abandoned her weapon four written words to tell a story she says is kept censored from u.s. citizens even though people may know that it affects us i don't think that they understand the way. in the hole that it takes us and seeing the effects of war. the literal facts and the dead bodies that were made i couldn't figure out why why are we ordinary doing again why are we why are we doing this you know and it

a joint system but washington wants to separate missile shields the head of the state dinners foreign affairs committee considering cause and chart explain what the two sides need to do to avoid a new arms race. number one is not to take any practical steps immediately in order to create a future global missile system number two is. to make a legally binding agreements on the purposes of the future system and to be sure that the american or the nato system will not be a. russian and to create these legally binding document is not a difficult task in case we really do not intend to threaten each other in numbers three of who are used to start critical call duration exchange of information on launchers on other potential threats and to introduce certain elements joint command on the future integrated system nobody believes the we will ever have a joint bottom to be pushed similar ten years live by the to participate as a part to have certain elements how we could coordinate our actions in an emergency situation and this is what we can start practicing immediately from now. watching r.t. from mo

forward to, newt gingrich will be in iowa, 18 stops coming up this week, will be the focus on foreign affairsparing a speech to talk about the middle east. lindsey graham is somebody, senator from south carolina i interviewed this week as part of the week's opinion awards, and he said the following about the challenges on the foreign affairs scene for the president. he "deserved a bump from the bin laden operation, but i think he will be judged not just on the economy. if iran has a nuclear weapon by 2012, that's not going to bode well for the president. if gadhafi is still in power in october 2012, that doesn't bode well for the president. if afghanistan is going backward, not forward, that doesn't bode well for the president. so, at the end of the day, foreign policy is still very much in play." specifically, how much of an issue is afghanistan in the campaign? >> i think it is going to be probably a little bit less of an issue in the campaign than i would have said two weeks ago. i think there's not that much -- there was never any appetite among the democrats for staying in afghanistan mu

a later statement that has come out of the ministry of foreign affairs expressed deep displeasure over the way the american operation was conducted. the people are quite confused as to what actually happened. people are still wondering if his pictures or videos -- and whether the government was complex at all. it is impossible for helicopters to fly to the territory for so long without having been detected and basically unchallenged. it is quite a confusing narrative right now. one would only hope that this cloud of confusion will clear up. >> clearly, lots of frustration after her -- about pakistan. i asked if we will see some tangible consequences. >> it seems like we're already seeing tangible consequences at the moment. lawmakers want to look into this in and out of there are any ties between the government and the terrorists during these days. some $1.3 billion a year. they are looking into that. he i would say it is a minority, the u.s. have been fulfilled their national security goals, they might relax a little bit. at the moment, a deceit that as the low point, deteriorated eve

the better to of powers is what we would call the foreign affairs. john locke had this totally in the executive branch. the legislative had no role at all. the framers knew that model. william blackstone and his commentaries did the same thing. look at these powers, blackstone give them all to the executive. that would include the power to declare war. blackstone gave the executive power to make treaties, declare war, appoint ambassadors, raise and support armies and navies, power over the military regulations, the power to issue letters, mainly to have private citizens help in military activity, then look at the u.s. constitution. it is very clear. the president does not receive one of those powers. not a single one. they either give them expressly to congress and article 1, or he has to share them with the senate. so the framers knew of that model, and for many reasons spelled out -- he said,, "the president will have all the qualities, but will not make war but support it." you cannot give that power to the president in a small "r" republican gove

the better to of powers is what we would call the foreign affairs. john locke had this totally in the executive branch. the legislative had no role at all. the framers knew that model. william blackstone and his commentaries did the same thing. look at these powers, blackstone give them all to the executive. that would include the power to declare war. blackstone gave the executive power to make treaties, declare war, appoint ambassadors, raise and support armies and navies, power over the military regulations, the power to issue letters, mainly to have private citizens help in military activity, then look at the u.s. constitution. it is very clear. the president does not receive one of those powers. not a single one. they either give them expressly to congress and article 1, or he has to share them with the senate. so the framers knew of that model, and for many reasons spelled out -- he said,, "the president will have all the qualities, but will not make war but support it." you cannot give that power to the president in a small "r" republican gove

it will be the first to do so. [ applause ] >> joining me is bret stephens the foreign affairs columnist of the "wall street journal" from washington, aluf benn, editor at large and "haaretz" and walter russell mead james clark chase professor of foreign affairs and editor at large for "the american interest" magazine. jeffrey goldberg national coespondent for "the atlantic" i'm pleased to have them here. i bee begin with aluf, what did the prime minister do, having completed speech seen the response to it. >> what the prime minister intended to do was reassert his leadersh. only fivor six months ago he was bordering irrelevant in -- he was attacked from all sides. he had no clear message, now he's right on p of it. everybody was waiting to hear his speech. he picked a fight with president obama over the week end forethe president's speech last week. and now he came to congress which is his home territoryay after the apec conrence to show president obama and the world that he's got congress behind him. and toend obama a message that israel will not bend under the palestinian threat to go

the senate says if the house foreign affairs committee does not take up this bill with 16 legislative days, within 15 legislative days, it can then move directly to the floor for debate and -- and a vote under the war powers act. the white house welcomes congressional input of the war in libya but like previous administrations the officials had john whether the president needs congressional authorization on military operations after the six day deadline expires on friday. we see it that the house is considering two possible options that officials would keep president obama in compliance with the war powers act. one would involve all in all operations -- or halting just the use of predator drone missiles which is the only offensive combat weaponry using in libya, stopped using those and technically in compliance that we stop combat operations. those are some of the operations the administration is considering. there is also the option of simply saying we think it is unconstitutional and we are going to go forward with american troops involved in this operation and with so much prestige

powerful scottish parliament with full control over tax and spending but not over defense or foreign affairs. >> this isn't a chance to increase the power so they can work better for the people of scotland. -- this is a chance to increase the power. >> for now, his priority is to negotiate with u.k. ministers to expand their plans for further the evolution. >> he has to set out a pretty good case for that and answer some pretty fundamental questions which he has so far failed to do. >> the landslide adds weight to the campaign for a more powerful scottish parliament but this is not in itself a mandate to end the united kingdom. >> the authorities in the united states have reopened a section of the swollen mississippi river to shipping after it has been temporarily closed because of damage from floodwaters. this all the cargo on the country's busiest waterway. snowmelt and heavy rain has caused the river to peak at levels not seen for seven years and forced the evacuation of 1300 people from their homes. -- for 70 years and forced the evacuation of people from their homes. the u.s. treasury s

for a closer look, we talked to it --to a member of the european parliament's foreign affairs committeee asked him if there was anything he would like to ask president obama. >> what is pretty obvious, how does this present plan to get finances in order. right now, the situation is pretty dire. >> have united states and europe gotten closer in the post-bush era? >> absolutely. people talk to each other in a different way. nato. in afghanistan. even in the criminal court. there are a number of issues. one issue, one area, diplomacy, europeans have a very different approach than the american congress. they are not giving the president any wiggle room there. >> the popular uprisings in north africa changing the global landscape. the u.s. and europe became rivals. >> on the country. i believe this is the next big transatlantic project. central and eastern europe, that has been our common task. that has been achieved. we have to deal with this now. right on our doorstep. we have a revolution, a freedom of democracy. this is something that they should undertake together. neither of us can do

well we had our maliki the palestinian foreign affairs minister so thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. on the palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood that's scheduled for september the united nations is it still on track because there has been recent noises that if negotiations between israelis and palestinians work out and it will be canceled well you know first of all. it wasn't our choice to go to the united nations to seek the mission of for the present state never to be our intention has been always always until this moment. to get. negotiations with the israelis and as a result of the negotiations the militants of of concern state. should pick place so. should come as a result off negotiations of an agreement between israel and palestine this is it now since less of them but. there is release have been avoiding. committing themselves into serious negotiations they have refused the request of the international community to seize and to stop settlement activities as international political ambition for the resumption of negotiation and since then you know we di

organizing what i think is a genuinely important event in our field of international relations, foreign affairs, foreign relations, whatever you want to call it. at bard after a great deal of hesitation and agony, they changed the name of political science department to political studies. they felt that was more modest and appropriate, and it reflected better the degree of certainty which the discipline is able to provide. i think it's a wise choice. one of the things i like about this project is the way that i think it focuses our attention again on what this discipline is supposed to do, that is, to help policymakers and wider publics who shape the debate over foreign policy and affect the kinds of choices that we make to make those constituencies smarter about the world. and able to make better judgments. to some degree what i think our discipline at it best is trying to do is to make the incommunicable wisdom that used to drive dean acheson so crazy when george kennon would stress the importance of it, to make that a little more communicable. >> there we go. lack of communication. [laughter

our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell in our washington bureau has been working this aspect of the story all day. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. in the end, osama bin laden wasn't underground in a remote mountain cave after all. he was living in luxury in a suburb of pakistan's capital, on land controlled by the military, hiding in plain sight. in this sleepy military town, only 35 miles from islamabad, bin laden's million dollar compound was a mcmansion with 12-foot to 18-foot walls topped by barbed wire, dwarfing the neighbors, many of them retired military. there were other red flags. the luxury home eight times the others around it had no phone or internet access. the bin ladens even burned their trash. in these pictures, the neighbors are almost next door, and less than a mile away, pakistan's military academy, the equivalent of our quest point. >> it is a little incredible. my personal view is they certainly probably were aware of it. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence concluded it could have only been built for bin laden, so how could pakistan's army and

pressing issues of our time health care terrorism law enforcement labor energy government justice foreign affairs foreign trade but strangely it seems that since one thousand nine hundred five more and more draconian policies that resulted in this fight i mean because of all the hard work and central planning going on there with a fundamentally broken global economic system breaking our backs should we not be more concerned with transparency among our leaders instead as usually happens the g eight will be surrounded by hundreds of armed men in riot gear with armored vehicles and tear gas getting the streets effectively walling off the police from access to the inner dealings going on between the nobles so what's really going on in the g eight and why should you be concerned joining me now is the co-founder of code pink medea benjamin and our own adam vs the man military analyst take the little bird thanks for joining us tonight. so medea you have a lot of your compatriots in code pink are actually in france right now protesting as i write. well a lot of our friends for europe are protesting are p

new legislation from the white house foreign affairs committee would impose penalties on human rights abusers in iran and on foreign companies that do energy business with iran. now the u.s. had tried repeatedly to get iran to take part in international talks over its nuclear program. iran insists the program is to generate electricity, not to build nuclear weapons. >>> back here in the bay area this morning vallejo police are looking for the gunman responsible for fatally shooting a 26-year-old man. that shooting happened just after 2:00 yesterday morning right in front of a house at louisiana and cool vera streets. police tell us here at ktvu news that the gunman was seen leaving the shooting in a pickup truck. but the glare from street lights made it difficult to identify the color of that truck. anyone with information is asked to call vallejo police. >>> police in richmond are looking for the person who shot and killed a san francisco man. 24-year-old was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the back of a car at the bay cliff apartments saturday night. he was pronounced dead at

our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom with a look at both of those questions. andrea, good evening. >> good evening, brian. those are the questions. relations with pakistan had already been on the down slide, especially after that prolonged arrest and jailing of a cia contractor recently. but now there is an even worse breach. and frankly, i cannot find a senior official in the u.s. government who is not deeply suspicious about the surprising circumstances of bin laden's location in what was essentially a military enclave, right down the road from pakistan's military academy. intelligence chair dianne feinstein told me that she is going to be asking those very questions starting tomorrow morning at a closed hearing with intelligence officials. essentially, what did pakistan know, when did they know it? and she's asking were they warned off by higher-ups in the government from even checking out the compound? today pakistan amped up its criticism of the raid. after initially saying that bin laden's death illustrate

late this afternoon, our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell sat down in washington with netanyahu. >> reporter: president obama has said to you that you cannot afford any more delay, that with all of the upheaval, the changes in the arab world that israel is at risk of being isolated, of being left behind. what do you say to the president? >> i think the president shares with me and i share with him the desire to move the peace process forward. i said in congress that there is one way to move this thing forward. president abbas of the palestinian authority has to do what i did two years ago. two years ago, i spoke to my people and i said, i will accept a palestinian state. i think the president -- president abbas has to says these same six words to his people. i will accept the jewish state. you know what, i will give him a break. five words. i accept the jewish state. i think if he says that then that will move the process forward. people will say, okay, we have a real peace partner and for real peace, we're willing to move and move quickly. >> reporter: but why in the

once again, here's chief foreign affairs correspondent lara logan in washington. lara, how can anyone believe the pakistanis did not know about osama bin laden and where he was living? >> well, it seems improbable at this point, katie. and the biggest question raised by this operation to kill osama bin laden deep inside pakistan as the president made a point of saying is how could the world's most wanted man have been living in the midst of pakistan's military elite just an hour's drive from their capital? one man who wasn't at all surprised is afghanistan's former spy chief. and for years, the c.i.a.'s lead source on osama bin laden. in a rare "60 minutes" interview he told us recently that america's greatest enemy in that region is not al qaeda, it's pakistan. >> you have to give pakistan a title. is it a friend? what is pakistan? >> reporter: it currently has the title of ally. >> right. deceptive. >> reporter: so you think its title should be? >> it should be a hostile country. a hostile estate. >> reporter: so pakistan is the enemy of the u.s.? >> the amount

foreign secretary has agreed to review its britain's arm sales policy after questioning in the foreign affairs select committee these are small positives and i do believe to a certain extent british foreign policy may be at a crossroads in which it's either got to become more ethical or moral honest well let's talk about that i mean you say that the prime. this week's speech to the parliament but that was a part of the trip which was essentially to hawk arms around the middle east and when the trouble had already started it was as serious error in judgment i mean is that is he the right man to lead the country in the world when it comes to the issue of arms sales i think it does though did rather illustrate that you know there is a bit of a contradiction in british foreign policy at the moment and i think that is being recognized by the government which is why we've had this announcement recently that there is going to be review of arms sales selling arms to a country for purposes of national service i think a legitimate selling albums control weapons or cradle to control weapons i should say

bernard cushier the french minister for foreign affairs triumphs he's just announced a very high figure and so we weren't expecting such a large sum of twenty million dollars in fact. a for a country such as afghanistan twenty billion dollars is a lot of money but how will it be spent. when members of the conference there cross the partition that separates them from the press unpleasant questions start flying around the father of my will corruption and opium trafficking be found mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offer in the international community we really would call for old to get into. that d.c. focus charge it know it is the job which it will come this is to kill people to deliver the goods services to get out of corruption that eruption and drug trafficking condom to be filled by us the afghans also have to be in office. but if a genocide was to make good use of this assistance we must give it to the afghan people by bringing him missing out on the concrete examples that are marco pete sampras in the past or the local you don't listen to these things so if you t

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the french minister for foreign affairs tribes that he's just announced a very high figure and so we weren't expecting such a large sum of twenty million dollars in fact. a for a country such as afghanistan twenty billion dollars is a lot of money but how will it be spent. when members of the conference there cross the partition that separates them from the press unpleasant questions start flying around. with my will corruption and opium trafficking will be fucked mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offering the international community we will be would call for all they're going to say that these people must try to defend it no it is the job of holding just a political mistress you know people deserve a good services to get out of corruption that interruption and drug trafficking condom to be followed by us yes guns also have to be and also do a lot of innocent was to make good use of the systems we must to give it to the afghan people by putting it in everything in a concrete examples that are about both to sell for us and the cost to remove from those in these thin