we shall have a meeting of the foreign affairs on the 27. the 27th is three days after the 24th. i think you have to have your eting before mrs. ashton is going to care. and really we are making the same mistake and other issues, like in libya. [applause] >> there is a blue card for mr. david rejects the questions? >> could you please open up your microphone. >> madam president come up with my honorable friend agrees me that and 2006 the united nations we started this process of the responsibility to protect which is downgrade. i don't hear those words come responsibility to protect coming from the council. what is our responsibility to protect using the united nations instruments that we have created? with my friend agrees me that this is where we should go to use those concepts that are responsible t protect within the u.n., which others use in syria and other places. going to syria to protect the innocent people throughthe u.n. and to challenge -- >> the question wasn't addressed to the council. >> it is no problem. the issue is i think that if we have an agreement in the cont

you're gonna be it when you register to be a candidate you also have to go take a test about foreign affairs and if you fail the test we might get you one chance to take it again and then i'm saying sorry go run you know for city council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p. is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be america's credibility around the world and even who we target and let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea are going to be right about iran so-called nuclear program when their candidate doesn't even know that there's a north and south korea i think the u.s. is why and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding basic facts or understanding basic principles of international law which unequivoca

iran, arab spring, foreign affairs, and what's going on in terms of my district and the economy and jobs>> now i understand that there is a -- your opponent is trying to get you to sign a third party agreement where you're discouraging super pacs. he says you haven't agreed to that yet. >> chuck, one thing i've come to respect more than most things in the media is how sophisticated you are politically. i hate the citizens united decision, i've done everything to discourage any super pac creations, and i have done nothing to encourage them. pledges offered by an opponent who is notwithstanding is record is so nervous about losing is not the way i go forward on this campaign. >> are you going to encourage anybody that starts the super pacs claiming to be on your behalf? are you publicly asking those donors, the persons that started not to participate? >> i've already indicated to everyone i can that i want people to help my campaign and i want mostly to focus on the issues that i'm confronting as an elected representative, particularly involved in foreign affairs, but very focused on econo

our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more on today's charm offensive and the man we'll be hearing a lot more about. >> reporter: he is only china's vice president, but 58-year-old xi jingping is second in command in china's military and could be running china for the next decade. at the pentagon, xi was given full honors, even as china now challenges the u.s. in the south china sea. and vetoed the u.n. resolution against syria last week. today, xi faced human rights protesters at the white house. and criticism from president obama about human rights and unfair trade practices. >> with expanding power and prosperity also comes increased responsibilities. and so we want to work with china to make sure that everybody is working by the same rules of the road when it comes to the world economic system. >> reporter: u.s. officials are sizing xi up. his background provides some clues. xi's father, one of china's original revolutionaries was purged by mao and jailed for being too pro reform. xi himself was exiled for seven years to a work camp during the cultural revoluti

staff from the city and the ministry of foreign affairs have mounted a production of sorts. they invited ambassadors and exchange students from more than 40 countries in the capital to a showcase on the city's most celebrated art forms. kyoto on show in tokyo. >> i want to go and see what kyoto is like. what kind of place it is. what kind of food and experience. >> probably visit the temple. it was very nice and i was thinking to do it back home, too. >> reporter: the city of kyoto was the capital of japan for more than 1,000 years before the switch to tokyo in the mid 1800's. tourists appreciate its ancient architecture. others come to see fra additional female entertainers. kyoto is the third most popular foreign tourist destination spot in japan in 2010 after tokyo and osaka. then the disaster struck last march. tourists feared radiation from northeastern japan and stayed away. their numbers dropped nearly by 1/3 down to about 6.2 million. their effects were felt even as far south as kyoto. >> translator: japanese culture is getting a lot of attention from around the worl

should not work well with iran in exchange of germans foreign affairs support and china's need is some. support when it's dealing with the united states and there's a sense in china that there's an and subcommands of china by the united states right now and doesn't really engines of the united states in asia pacific so archenemy is some balancing at the art of power so one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. again log on to our website r.t. dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china stick a look at the side vote at the moment well so far as you can see on the chart forty two percent think the visit will help germany access new markets almost a third of voters believe beijing will extend a helping hand to a weekend you are fifteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran and a minority believe the meeting will and with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution here so you can let us know what you think on this issue by logging on to our website our team dot co

clashes and a large stampede protests being cairo now over the police handling of the trouble foreign affairs analyst richard de j darian i think is just an indication of the instability in post revolution egypt. the violence this. is also the sense of for it's the overall security who has been sort of offers the first look at them from. the sparkler or the security forces on the loose in this manner for that reason this is so far as the are. for the north to the void the violence from yesterday and the fact that their agreements with knives we still warm states along the border security lots more than. that overloads them with. the war resume in some ways the violence with the lies the with our. position of emergency laws or the come to the sort of security mode really will come to. and more analysis on the situation in egypt are always available on our website are two dot com just a click away for you online at the website right now for example frozen water pipes inside japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant despite warnings made months ago that exactly this could happen. and praised as a

i was a constant in charge from the foreign affairs committee in the russian state duma talking to us about the developments ongoing in and around syria. you're watching r.t. and greeks are venting their anger at even more planned cuts which the e.u. is demanding in return for vital funds police fired tear gas to protesters in athens who threw stones and fire bombs at them they're also been some reports now incoming of people being injured around seven thousand people gathered outside parliament while ten thousand communist supporters marched in another part of athens as a two day union strike brought the country to a standstill after a tough multi-party deal the parliament is expected to vote on the austerity package on sunday but a junior coalition partner says it won't back the new plan euro zone finance ministers put the second bailout worth one hundred thirty billion euros on hold saying they want to see concrete action first without it athens will go bust in march natural analyst max kaiser says the debt athens has to pay off was forced upon at. all of the toxic debt that has be

of the road use of nuclear power in the region but i have in front of me the the last issue of foreign affairs magazine which has a title which speaks for itself this is time to attack iran. coming from the single most of orotate of. journal of the us foreign policy community that. comes up the overwhelming position of the community and you have the same time in the online edition of foreign affairs we do see heterodox views which dispute that which suggests. that even a nuclear iran could be acceptable and could be worked with the issue that i want to bring out is the debate in the united states foreign policy community is a long one line only and that is can we do it that is based on efficacy nor is totally the question of should we do it or what would the consequences be of doing it to take out a nuclear capability of iran what do you think about that patrick i mean you know one of the things that you know we have seen we have a disaster in iraq we have a quagmire in afghanistan and libya is a mess i mean how when the law of unintended consequence is going to be taken into consideration ok

attention was being shifted to foreign affairs. you know, by the mid- to was being shifted to foreign affairs. you know, by the mid to late 1930s. what was happening abroad? what were some of the huge events that the president had to respond to in the mid to late '30s? >> japan had declared war on china. >> invaded china, exactly. i'm not sure they declared war. they certainly invaded. there was a horrible, bloody war. germany was expanding. first in austria then in czechoslovakia. what else was going on in the world. those were two huge things. >> civil war in spain. >> civil war in spain that seemed to pit russia against germany and italy. italy's invasion of ethiopia, the pretty much demise of the league of nations as an effective mechanism of international relations. and what was the reaction of the congress of the united states to this eruption of world crises? >> they were still very isolationist. >> so what did they enact? >> neutrality act. right, basically designed to keep the united states, what? >> out of war. >> out of

host: in other foreign affairs news, the u.n.rging to condemn the violence in syria and to endorse a plan for the president to step aside. we cover that, as well, with secretary of state hillary clinton. if you are interested, go to our website c-span.org. . you can watch it there. here is the politics page of "the washington times" this morning. below that is a story about president obama's small business aid, proposing a multitude of tax cuts for small businesses to help spur the economy in that area. that is open " the washington times -- is "the washington times" this morning. president obama is headed to falls church, virginia today. we will have live coverage of that at 11:00 a.m., talking about jobs and the economy this morning. in other news, one caller brought up the financing of planned parenthood. "the new york times" is the only one that has this story this morning. it says -- host: that is "the new york times" with that story this morning. joe is a supporter of newt gingrich in sarasota, florida. we have about 10 min

of germany as to convince china that she should not work well with iran in exchange of germans foreign affairs support and china's than is some. support when it's dealing with the united states and there's a sense in china that there's an and self-command of china by the united states right now and that's to really engines of the united states in asia pacific so our shannon is some balancing at. this one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. well you can log onto our website r.t. dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china. so far forty one percent saying the visit will help germany access new markets there to voters believe beijing will extend a helping hand and europe sixteen percent say that china will move closer to that western position on iran and a minority believe the will and with china's support for influence to counsel resolution on syria so had to r.t.d. dot com to cast your vote. so i had this our candidates versus their critics. with me who is the president of. pakistan said you know i don't know

leading up to the invasion of iraq and we also saw it last year in libya the head of russia's foreign affairs committee has been meeting with opposition groups in damascus he spoke to r.t. about the syrian conflict you can watch that interview indeed there later this hour . next the streets of moscow were flooded with people on thursday gathered to show their support for the candidates running for the upcoming presidency tens of thousands turned up for mass rallies in the spike of political activity there ahead of next month's election people all over attended the largest demonstration. both thursday seeing a day of rallies in support of various political candidates for president across moscow today is a public holiday meaning that lots of people are off work and able to come out on the streets largest rally taking place this is amongst the pro vladimir putin for president supporters many thousands of people gathered here inside the luzhniki stadium this is the usually the the home of top level football matches today it's been taken over by politics that were originally the organizers that wa

germany as to convince china that she should not work well with iran in exchange of german's foreign affairs support and china's than is some e.u. support when it's dealing with the united states and there's a sense in china that there's and and so command of china by the united states right now and there's three engines of the united states in asia pacific so our china is some balancing acts of power so e.u.'s one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. you know log on to our website r.t. dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit to china so far thirty seven percent think beijing will extend a helping hand we can europe over at third of voters think to visit world germany axis new markets and a little less believe that china will move closer to that western position on iran and might already say the meeting will end with chinese support for a u.n. security council resolution on syria so head to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. for you this hour the candidates versus their critics. the president. you know i don't know

of it seven hours of talking to the hat of the stay dumas foreign affairs committee at me can see that injury in full program on thursday. lawrence davidson professor of middle east history of west chester university believes the voice of peaceful protesters in syria has been a lost i miss the violent uprising of some opposition groups. i think that the the people who picked up the gun in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact desert errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government what the constitution no document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the really large numbers of nonviolent protesters who have seemed to be in co-opted now who are displaced by these armed groups so the syrian government wants to essentially get those people off the streets and accepting of their of the government's scenario where the solution to this but the others are they're going to have to be hunted down and killed

germany as to convince china that she should not work well with iran in its change of germans foreign affairs court and china's than is some e.u. support when it's done in the the united states and there's a sense in china that there's an and self-command of china by the united states right now and there's three engines of the united states in asia pacific so our china is some balancing acts we've got out of power so e.u.'s one of the many important matters that china wish to engage is over and so. but you know all gone to our web site artie dot com to give us your opinion on the possible results of. china so far forty percent think beijing will extend a helping hand to. thank for the visit. markets and a little less to believe that china will move closer to the west on iran minorities say that meeting will end with chinese support for u.n. security council resolution on syria. now what do you think on the issue. so we have for you this hour here in our to you kind of a versus the critics. ask me who's the president. you know i don't know if you know. gaps in the u.s. politicians could be cos

some extent of wisdom is still there and your minister of foreign affairs mr la roche said maybe there are also some external parties that may influence either side to bring everybody around the table and dialogue however i don't think that we are there is today well it's interesting we're just hearing that moscow has today urged its western partners against taking what it calls hasty one sided action there in syria. does this imply that foreign intervention really could be on the cards now and that's something that russia is concerned about right now. if you talk about military foreign intervention i don't think that this is going to happen . at least not now and not soon and when we are saying about not happening soon on mean not weeks but months and if the violence continues as it is now developing every day from both sides i believe that the country will further apart into a difficult situation where dialogue would be even more and more difficult to establish i really believe that there are some needs now for every party that has kind of influence inside the country to exert positi

and i'm sure announces talking to the hat of the state duma's foreign affairs committee can see that interview in full in our program on thursday. and coming up in the next few minutes here in r.t. drawings of what web war. cyber attack could merit the military response. as washington threatens to get tough on how her some period could lead to a crackdown on public displays of discontent. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says its two day mission and iran has failed to produce a definitive result in clarifying the purpose of to iran's controversial nuclear program the i.a.e.a. adds that this is due to its team not being allowed to visit a key military site to iran which insists its activities are purely peaceful in turn says the agency's second visit in less than a month was for talks and not inspections the islamic state has also reiterated its readiness to return to the negotiating table the failure of the i.a.e.a. mission my pave the way for more sanctions against iran the previous experience shows that such penalties often and up hurting the countries imposing them such as our ban it now

-- about in foreign affairs journal or international security. what are the cutting edge debates. and then i teach a class called grand strategy and historical perspective which is a book, a class about imperial management. we start with the romans, and then we go up through the ottomans. we get to the brits, the french, the germans, the japanese, and we end with the era of american hegemony. so it's a senior seminar, if you will, and it covers a lot of history. >> host: what was your area of expertise on the national security council? >> guest: i focused principally on europe, and you may recall that the first term of the clinton administration was bosnia, the balkans was coming undone. so i basically did everything but the balkans because anyone who touched the balkans disappeared into a black hole. so i spent a lot of time worrying about the european union, trade relation, the enlargement of nato and dealing with the emergence of central and eastern europe from the soviet bloc, trying to make sure that that transition went well. >> host: and t

of germany as to convince china that she should not work well with iran in exchange of germans foreign affairs support and china's than is some. support when it's dealing with the united states and there's a sense in china that there's an and self-command of china by the united states right now and there's three engines of the united states in asia pacific so our shannon is some balancing act. so easy this one of the many important matters that china wish to engage bret is over and so. well we always love it when you get involved with us here at odds here if you just go to our web site r.t. dot com you can give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit with china becoming numbers from our web site so far this hour forty three percent think the visit will help germany get access to markets almost a third of it is believed beijing will extend a helping hand to a week in europe now sixteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran just a minority this hour i believe the meeting will end up with the chinese support for a u.n. security counci

and moscow has dismissed the gathering as a biased effort to resolve the crisis the head of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament has told r.t. the meeting will not paint an accurate picture. judging by the statements we have been hearing in the form out of the so-called friends of syria one of the sole purpose of our conference is not to find a way out of the current situation or to promote the idea that the conflict can only be resolved if assad leaves us way more school refused to take part in a meeting and i've met with mr assad and with representatives of two opposition organizations i did not get the impression that it is the people versus is in this conflict the situation is different faction of the people is opposing the regime well another party supports mistress article yet another faction does not want syria to fall into chaos they support the regime possibly they do not support did he have a second to feel it is not black and white it is not a scenario where a whole nation rises up to overthrow a government they don't like they believe that the situatio

he died on the foreign affairs committee are bringing out, reported out a pill. i believe that there are two factors over which everyone of us have absolute control. there are two factors of which i think we do have control. your fidelity, your faithfulness to what you believe in and your willingness to show up every day for the fight. you have control over that. so with that in mind, i, keeping fidelity with the movement in based on the idea that part of our responsibility as members of the cbc and the progressive voice was to take the struggle, the pain, the anguish and the screams from the streets and put them in legislative form. what the people in the movement were saying was, disinvestment. take the economic strength, was shot economically from south africa. everybody thought that was a very radical idea but the second principle that i believed in was that the center of american politics is not a static place. people think there is such a thing as the center. no, no. the sender is defined by who shows up. so if you show up over here then the center may be h

this is important, because whenever we as, in turkey, not as a minister of foreign affairs, but as an intellectual, the main criteria in my decisions is we want to be on the right side of the history, i would come to that point. today, this is the main difference between the actors, those who are understanding the flow of history and those that are trying to resist the flow of the history. after the first decade in the cold war, until 2001, the earthquake was a geo political earthquake and the value was freedom and democracy. turkey that the time was on the winning side of the cold war. we were supposed to win something because we spent a significant part of our budget to nation of defense as a member of nato. but to be frank, when we look at those years, turkey did not win much, we faced many difficulties and many challenges and had to take new responsibilities in bosnia and kosovo, and to give up an indication, in 1991, our -- in 2001, it was 2,800. the increase of $200 or was not much. >>> in 2001, the second earthquake was security earthquake. the concept of security has changed b

nearly half, meanwhile, support the president's foreign affairs.e president when it comes to terrorism than they trust the republican front-runner. on top of that nearly 20 points now separate the president from mitt romney on foreign affairs issues. >>> a major change is coming to the united states military. female service members will soon be able to serve in jobs closer to the front lines. abc's jonathan karl reports on the pentagon policy. >> reporter: later today the pentagon will make a major new announcement governing women in combat. right now women are not permitted to serve in combat units or in units operating on the front lines. but with the pentagon's announcement this will change, but only partly. the pentagon is opening up 14,000 jobs, most of them in the army, that have been closed off to women because of the ban on women in combat. the jobs will include those in areas of intelligence, logistics, and communications in combat units. it doesn't mean that you're going to see women fighting in foxholes next to men, but they will be able

next we talked to the head of the foreign affairs committee in russia they were house of parliament to discuss the ongoing conflict in syria. could you tell us about the purpose of your decision to syrian. the main objective of my visit to syria is to see the situation firsthand just as you know the russian state duma issued a statement on the situation in syria ten days ago speaking strongly against outside interference in syria's affairs and against the un and its security council siding with one of the parties in this civil conflict. we also believe that the syrian government should not be the only side obliged to lay down their weapons and that we armed groups of opposing the government should do the same my task here is to conduct negotiations with the representatives of the authorities and the opposition to get a clearer picture of the situation and to give a report to the chairman integrities of the state duma members as you know russians closely follow the situation in syria despite all the heated arguments in view of the upcoming presidential election of united russia for the