or are these protests just a small blip on the already crowded radar screen earlier i spoke to george hamon sure who is a founder of survive and thrive to me. well i think we're headed to a point especially in los angeles we've been ranked the highest county for hunger because of our high real estate prices utility prices and now gasoline surging towards five dollars a gallon what else is going to happen people are in need they can offer you their children and they're losing their jobs of course they're going to try to take to the streets and i was shocked that so many people came out and i really think you're just going to see more and more protests and you could probably expect these protests to eventually become violent protests i mean hollywood there's shyne this sheen has come off of hollywood you have five hundred thousand people in l.a. county alone on welfare you have a huge amount of people on food stamps. or disability some type of welfare program for the government that is the underpinnings of our economy right now it's not easy it's not manufacturing it's not high tech it's welf

to nothing well and it seems like in front of their unfortunately already doing that that was george hamon chair and founder of survive and thrive t.v. . now make sure to tune into r t at five pm we're going to hear from the we now and hip hop artist it's riley he weighs in on this issue of police brutality as well as the economic injustice and other important important issues facing this country anyway back to afghanistan a top man in afghanistan is back on capitol hill where he spent the entire morning assuring lawmakers that the war effort now in its topiary number is going just fine now general david petraeus told a senate panel that u.s. and nato forces have halted the tattle taliban's momentum in much of the country but then he warns that the gains are fragile and reversible artist correspondent christine for us our was at the senate armed services hearing today and she filed this report. it was meant to be an honest and open conversation about the state of the war in afghanistan and who better to report and general david petraeus himself the past eight months have seen important but