questioning its motives and its operations now usaid has come under fire from the ministry of foreign affairs for it. for what they bred. a. basically meddling in russia's internal political affairs is now both usaid and gold a small under the jurisdiction of a new a law which has been passed in august of this year the so-called foreign agents law which means that all are going to zation which take on or play a vital part or at a rather play an active role in russia's political life should come under very strict financial scrutiny or investigation if you will for its operations and of course n.g.o.s colas has already said that they will have to probably they are operation in russia because their funding will be cut almost down to zero now again the minister of foreign affairs has said that they are ready to continue with their cooperation with you if u.s. aid in the humanitarian aspects in a third country is so long as you say that respects the this particular russian law and does not met and does not interfere with the russian russia's internal political affairs is ridiculous what about cent

from the treaty room at the state department, so let's bring in nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, and andrea, we've already seen a statement released from secretary clinton. what else are we expecting to hear? >> reporter: we're going to hear her not only express her profound sorrow but also speak to all of the diplomats. this is really a crushing blow to the foreign service, and chris stevens was personally close to the secretary and close to the president. this is someone who was only appointed by president obama, sworn in to office last may. he had had two prior tours of duty. he been in benghazi during the uprising. he had been on the ground in libya, but also as a career foreign service officer and ambassador in other parts of the middle east, he had been a -- a real leader of the foreign service. peace corps volunteer in morocco in the '80s, a graduate of berkeley, a real hero, and also sean smith, the foreign service officer. you're going to hear great sorrow and remorse. >> and are we going to hear from the secretary exactly what the state department and t

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we want to join our senior foreign affairs reporter, martha raddatz. we'll hear from you in a moment. >> mr. president, mr. vice president, secretary panetta, secretary powell, mrs. powell. family members of the four patriots and heroes we bring home. members of the state department family. ladies and gentlemen. today, we bring home four americans who gave their lives for our country and our values. to the families of our fallen colleagues, i offer our most heart-felt condolences and deepest gratitude. sean smith joined the state department after six years in the air force. he was respected as an expert on technology by colleagues in baghdad, montreal, and the hague. he enrolled in correspondence courses at penn state and had high hopes for the future. sean leaves behind a loving wife, heather, two young children, samantha and nathan, and scores of grieving family, friends, and colleagues. and that's just in this world. because online, in the virtual world that sean helped create, he is also being mourned by countless competitors, collaborators, and ga

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really dominates washington is a pac and it has a direct lineage back to the israeli ministry of foreign affairs or its founder worked and so this lobby has been competing with law enforcement agencies and the foreign agents registration act to keep from being actually considered part of the israeli government all of these trade agreements and military agreements were not really motivated by u.s. needs they were lobbying initiatives for memorandums of understanding and all sorts of military aid the iran contra scandal in fact it was borne out of the lead in this where a bunch of israeli arms dealers are trying to find out how they could get back into iran and then run the mossad torture camps and sell more arms back into iran so none of these were really. true that is and is really around me and i this point in time is extremely dangerous and believe me the cia and f.b.i. worry more about counterintelligence against israeli mossad than they do cooperating with it and whether that's the recent israel aircraft industries work with stewart and those that or the supply they think you major plank you

on the western agenda in syria next we'll talk to foreign affairs expert and german left wing politician. as one of the world's major economic and political powerhouses germany has a lot of influence which it can exert over global situations not to talk with me a little bit more about what germany is doing on the global stage right now i'm joined by. the foreign policy spokesperson for the left party here in germany thanks very much take into. syria is of course the major flash point in the world right now what's germany's view on situation the moment i would love to know what my position is on syria and i think i'm the only side i can take that those people are still peacefully demonstrating for the right for the democratic and human rights. but the german government officially they don't take sides something sure of the. human rights. repression within the country sure enough but officially them not taking any other sides with the rebel to whatever informally and we see it from their involvement you know with a spy ship on the ground. and they invite three and put it to us for the time

next we talked to foreign affairs expert and german left wing politician jambon about the western agenda in syria. few. the evening. in. terms. remain of a luxury used to seem roundtrip with the open air entertainments. a little bit of actual size to get in better shape. and cuisine with all my healthy ingredients. in this case something to me most of our summer sales on our cheap. started here before going global and now it's killing the fire. log in. to. choose your place take your stand. needs to. make your statement. put the word. if you find street in line. wealthy british style. time. markets why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max kaiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g. hello and welcome to our team karen taraji with your top stories syria's rebels declare civilian airports are there to target and warn that entry mashaal flights shouldn't stray anywhere near the country's two largest cities. actions speak louder than words of israel as the country launches a massive war propaganda

amateur hour is making shoot from the hip statements about foreign affairs. look, foreign affairs are complicated. it's difficult to sort out what's happening. we always must make sure that if we are going to be strong, we are strong against the right people. as secretary clinton said, no matter what the situation is, we must be clear eyed, wait until we get all of the facts and then we act in thatre ress lutui. when the facts are in and we know who is responsible for this, the obama administration will help bring them to justice. >> krystal ball and governor ed rendell, thank you for your time tonight. catch krystal on "the cycle" at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> coming up, these words actually came out of governor romney's mouth. >> the challenge that i'll have in the debate is that the president tends to -- how shall i say it -- say things that aren't true. >> did he say that with a straight face? >>> and the birthers are still at it. first he sympathizes with terrorists. and now an informal romney adviser is taking birther accusations so seri

now what exactly has this organization been doing in russia well according to the ministry of foreign affairs to have issued this statement earlier today the agency has not been complying with the russian laws which the civically states that in your visitation operating from abroad or in the country in russia should be applying should be following the russian laws and should not be interfering in internal affairs at the same time just this year alone usaid has already spent fifty million dollars on its russian projects. the people working here for and his agency included thirteen diplomats that's not counting those without actually been employed by the agency in the country without they did it diplomatic with or without the diplomatic passport so to speak now some of the some of their going to zation is not n.g.o.s which have been receiving aid from usaid are for example goal is to or also play says voice from russia and they have already said that they would probably will have to us stop their function in the country because they are not going to be funded anymore because their funding is go

the contenders for the republican nomination they have a pretty scary rhetoric when it comes to foreign affairs everyone minus ron paul. they don't seem to have words political solution in there with capillary right and yet you called president obama the most part of the lot why well who's the most hawkish of the lot with respect to some issues they're not with respect to to all issues his position on afghanistan. is at least momentarily probably more hawkish than that of mitt romney they they. they have all of them said that now is the time to get out and obama has the steward of the empire can't say that and so he also well i gradually.

the minister of foreign affairs has ordered that the usaid stop its operations in russia beginning of october first now what is usaid essentially its today and agency which is being funded of course by the u.s. state department and is basically responsible for promoting u.s. interests abroad it's actually it actually answers directly to the u.s. secretary of state now in a rush over the past twenty years usaid has spent two point six billion dollars on operations just a million just this year alone one of the organizations which u.s. aid is known to have been funding is going to zation cold colas or a voice in russian and among the multitude of things that the organization the ngo is doing it's also been acting as an observer during the elections and has gotten itself in hot water with the various state duma deputies who are questioning its motives and its operations now both usaid and the ngo called polish it will be affected by a law which has come into effect in russia this so-called foreign agents laws pacifically states that a new organization which is actively participating in t

presidential candidates matronly criticized current president barack obama for his handling of foreign affairs at the republican national convention this week his coleman's could be worse and for other nations as america's presidential election approaches romney has a history of flip flopping on issues though so it's hard to tell what his message will be coming november he's got an edge to can explain. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his any maasai towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone end of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy and that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he sa

policy in the region has been absurd in the rational for a long time so to foreign affairs editor of the chronicles magazine wish we had more time for this we don't but great pleasure to have you on our seats a day. thank you. but with the riots violence and the protests swirling the white house has had a cyber war and its damage control efforts google and its you tube web site have declined to take the controversial video down or despite u.s. government pleas and as artie's guy nature can explain their decision is in keeping with washington stance from not so long ago. film a nod of being the only reason behind the mass rage in the muslim world but it did provide the spark that made the founding head of the. the obama administration began their damage control efforts by bashing the film this video is disgusting and reprehensible but the same time maintaining that internet freedom cannot be curtailed we do not stop individual citizens from expressing their views no matter how distasteful they may be when the rage against the us spread like wildfire with people in different countries

obama has had a double digit lead over mitt romney for months now on handling foreign affairs.that obama gets the strongest ratings on where the majority approve of his record. this has been consistent throughout his administration, and it's a great accomplishment. it's a great accomplishment for this country and it's important for the president to talk about. it's also a real clear contrast with governor romney who said we should move heaven and earth to find osama bin laden. drawing a real contract between the two approaches of the two of them. >> eliot: borris, i can see that you want to rebut that. >> it is over the line to argue just because this president made that call and pulled the trigger and got osama bin laden through the seal team six that mitt romney would not have done so. >> those were his words. >> there is no evidence at all that mitt romney would not have done the same thing, and president bush spent along time going after for a long time. >> that's not true. he said he didn't think about him very much. >> that's not true. he read his books. >> i'm going by w

and nbc's chief foreign affairs goldberg. and nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. relative calm this morning in the middle east after several days of intense anti-american protests raged across many parts of the islamic world. and word this morning that the president obama has ordered evacuation of tunisia and sudan and the pentagon has deployed forces in several areas to in an increased effort to protect u.s. person nell and property from the potential of violent protests, the latest consequences of this troubling unrest. joining me now for the very latest, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice. ambassador rice, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. >> the images, as you well know is jarring to americans watching this play out this week, and we'll share the map of this turmoil with our viewers to show the scale of it across not just the arab world but the entire islamic world. and flashpoints as well. in egypt, of

while the russian ministry of foreign affairs in which it said that. in the country beginning october first and the reason for that the n.s.a. said it is too often the agency is. proclaimed proclaimed goals actually haven't been corresponding to their actions they have said that they have witnessed attempts. to influence the internal political process in the country. alfonzo various organizations and processes for example such as elections particularly the ministry said they are if they have serious questions regarding the usaid operate usaid the operations in russia's regions particularly in the northern caucasus now what does it do in russia while it has been around in the country for twenty years it is supposed to. to promote democracy and the provide humanitarian assistance but it does specifically state that is doing so in developing countries in accordance with the us political with us foreign interests and actually the head of usaid answers directly to the u.s. secretary of state now the u.s. usaid has said that they are being essentially kicked

over in their senate, the foreign affairs minister discusses australian's role in the julian assange case. >> hello i'm david with highlights of the last sitting of the australian parliament. one of the issues that's been doving the government here in australia is solemn seekers. they've been come something record numbers on leaky boats and some sadly has been drowning at sea trying to get here. the government has been under a lot of pressure to take tougher policy to deter those for making this journey. finally the government backed down and embraced the opposition policy after it was recommended by an expert panel. it's what the opposition wanted but opposition leader tony didn't let the government get away by reminding the political back flip. >> madam, my question, i thank the prime minster for finally adopting one element in the board of protection policy. namely offshore purchasing purchase. ing -- purchasing. i asked when will she adopt the other policy. >> the prime minster. thank you very much deputy speaker and to the opposition question. the government has endorsed in prin