or to georgia. nothing was done about the situation and quickly george's leadership tried to brush it under the rug. again, this is what happens when no training of law-enforcement officials occurs and law- enforcement officials that are not trained try to implement a federal immigration law. just this past week, i spoke with the man who was detained in a standard roadblock. this man is a legal permanent read shouldn't and was detained and put under arrest for allegedly driving under the influence. he does speak with an accent. during no time prior to the arrest or after the arrest was he subjected to a test to determine his alcohol level. the man insisted he should not be detained. they put him on an immigration hold. within 48 hours he was released. the man described the environment that he was going through a sort of like a witch hunt for latinos. because all that they were a resting for latinos in georgia. the man further indicated he was talking to some of the people in the jail. people were be

um, georgia is also very important in connection with turkey and, and iran.um, turkey plays an important role on energy with the pipeline that starts in azerbaijan that goes through georgia, winds up going down through turkey. and this is important, because with iran and the u.s. position on iran, we're not going to tap into the energy resources of iran. so, this enhances the importance of azerbaijan in particular, but also the role that turkey plays as a transit country. >> charles, the relationship between iran, turkey and the united states as affected by the caucasus? >> well i think it's certainly the case that the, the armenian-turkish relationship is very much of interest to, to the united states, not only as david mentioned, because there are plenty of americans who have very strong family or historical ties to armenia and care very deeply about what happens to thacountry. but also, it's in turkey's interest, ah, to have a good relationship with, with one of its neighbors. currently that border is closed and has been closed for the better part of, a be

for nato forces in afghanistan while georgia could be a base for part of the american anti-missile shield but is russia's position on this considered in washington and brussels here is later as deputy assistant secretary general popular first and security policy after. major sand security and transparency would underpin any joint russia u.s. nato shield in europe but creating this is no easy task some republican senators in the u.s. have proposed the pentagon deploying an anti-missile radar in georgia russia's neighbor moscow is opposed to sites for sale it is close to its borders saying they threaten the country's security some experts down long term american military presence in georgia is possible but many agree and new u.s. base in central asia will most likely appear before too long. and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us and says it's a privilege having you so well first of all let's start let's start with the news from washington where four republican senators are calling on the administration to place a part of the missile defense radar in georgia

task some republican senators in the us have proposed the pentagon deploy an anti-missile radar in georgia russia's neighbor moscow is opposed to such facilities close to its borders saying they threaten the country's security some experts doubt long term american military presence in georgia is possible but many agree and new u.s. base in central asia will most likely appear before too long. and welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us it says it's a privilege having you so well first of all let's start let's start with the news from washington where four republican senators are calling on the administration to place a part of the missile defense radar in georgia rather than putting it in turkey well is this proposal acceptable because georgia is not a nato country well for the moment we're not close within nato to deciding where we're going to put radars were at the very very beginning of the process of determining what this missile defense program will look like and part of determining what it will look like is determining what we will do in cooperation betwee

. >>> revelan, bii partidismo, y georgia, a punto de convertirse en otra arizona. >>> y el camionero que tenga menos indocumentados, gana. >>> y en méxico, el castigo para la reina del pacífico. >>> y vinculo entre obesidad, infantil y la edad en que bebés comen alimentos sólidos. >>> georgia es el epicentro, contra indocumentados, en estados unidos, estarían a punto de adoptar una medida similar a la ley sb 1070 de arizona, no se lo pueden perder, pero les tengo un inesperado rayo de esperanzo, hay esfuerzos bipartidistas, para revivir la reforma migratoria , los legisladores estarían haciendo llamadas, en busca de apoyo, y vamos a la capital de estados unidos, está alfonso, que busca fortalecer lazos de hispanos, y conservadores, señor aguilar gracias por estar con nosotros, se está viendo una reforma para este año? >>> buenas tardes, y un saludo a los televidentes, hay ruido, hay conversaciones del senado y también hay senadores y miembros de la cámara, republicanos, quizá no una reforma integral, pero por lo menos adoptar medidas, que vayan más allá de medidas de seguridad, que b

when i got here to georgia something took over me. i could never grow anything anywhere before i got here to georgia. i could not grow wheat. i got here and something inside of me just took over. she used to grow american beauty roses that were the size of saucers that people wanted to buy for a dollar apiece back in the 30's and '40's, which is astounding. a beautiful gardner. and i got here i have this inexplicable urge to start digging in the soil. i have planted almost every quarter inch of my house in the highlands as a result of this. i even can grow the most difficult things, daphne's, which apparently people say you have to plan five in order to get one. one is not even planted, it is in the pot and it is still living, which is astounding to me. my grandmother has come through to me here. this is a special and spiritual place to me, and it was the only place i could have written this book. i started the book in the north by talking to over 1200 people. i stopped counting after 1200 people who had migrated from the south to the

and he lay on the tracks of the georgia road cradled by the rails. heart stopped. >> all railroad abandoned. between across ties. trees grow. a fairel pig roots below branches. [applause]. >> poem is about a ham. >> uncle john. that was the year grand daddy thomas died. left the family worse than broke. uncle john stole a ham from the meat market. he was 17. lost his taste for it locked up 14 years. ham, cured and earth bred sliced with the fat hanging on. yellow sunshine on a white plate. the ham bone cuts crosswise. a dark eye all in the skillet making aggressive for grits. lost his taste for all things salt much the ocean he has not seen. woman and man. he don't ever want to see no more ham on his plate. hates pigs. hard for him. time off for good behavior. they didn't hold him to the last 6. he is a hog farmer. only eats beef and chicken and turkey. fish, turtle and rabbit. squirrel, possum and coon and seasons greens with smoked ox tails. can't raise white folks for slaughter. [applause] >> for those of you who have not heard this in person a bi

or to georgia. nothing was done about the situation and quickly, the georgia leadership tried to brush it under the rug. this is what happens when no training of law enforcement officials occurs and when law- enforcement officials that are not trained try to implement an enforcement's gain of a federal immigration law. just this past week, i spoke with a man who was detained in a standard roadblock ingwinnett county. he is a legal resident was put arrest for allegedly driving under the influence. he speaks with an accent. during no time either prior to the arrest or after the arrest, was he subjected to a test to determine his up call level. the man insisted that he should not be detained. they put him on immigration hold. he insisted he should not because he was a legal permanent resident. within 48 hours, he was released. the man described the environment that he was going through like a witch hunt for latinos. all that they were arresting or latinos in georgia. and made up offenses. he was talkin

. >> georgia se une a la lista de estados donde no quieren a los inmigrantes indocumentados.a similar a la ley antiinmigrantes de arizona. se suma a una medida adoptada en octubre pasado de prohibir a los estudiantes indocumentados en todas las universidades y colegios pÚblicos de este estado. >> el estado de georgia podrÍa seguirle los pasos a arizona que si aprueba un plan del representante... el republicano asegura que su proyecto es constitucional y que tiene estipulaciones para evitar injusticias basadas en el perfil racial. >> a nombre de la asociaciÓn de empresarios latinos del georgia martÍnez expuso esta maÑana ante el comitÉ de inmigraciÓn el por quÉ se opone al proyecto hb87. nos esta preocupando por pagar a sus maestros, pero sÍ por tratar una ley que es una copia de la de arizona y tratar de implementarla cuando no se quiere presupuesto para otros tratados mÁs importantes. >> este plan afectarÍa a la industria de la construcciÓn y a pequeÑos empresarios, luis cÓrdoba. >> ciento que se empieza a ir la gente, y no quieren salir, entonces el negocio baja y el remedi

and he lay on the tracks of the georgia road cradled by the rails.eart stopped. >> all railroad abandoned. between across ties. trees grow. a fairel pig roots below branches. [applause]. >> poem is about a ham. >> uncle john. that was the year grand daddy thomas died. left the family worse than broke.

judicial service award, georgia justice builder award, university of georgia presidents fulfilling the dream award, the boy scouts of america -- the distinguished citizen award and the chief justice robert benne medical malpractice award -- and the julian bond award. steve is just a wonderful person, great family man, great community citizen and just an outstanding jurist. he's going to make a truly outstanding district court judge on the northern district court in atlanta. with that, i would yield to my colleague, senator isakson. mr. isakson: i thank senator chambliss. mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: i rise to speak on the two nominees. amy totenberg and steve jones. amy totenberg is an attorney of practice for many years, a judge, an arbitrator, mediator and educator. she brings a wealth of experience to the bench in many, many areas not the least of which is personnel law. in fact, during her term of service to the atlanta board of education in the mid-1990's, i was chairman of the state board of education and dealt with the major litiga

. >>> en nuestro recorrido de costa a costa, nos vamos a atlanta georgia, estuvimos primero, y en primeraás que prohibiría el ingreso a la universidad a indocumentados. >>> así es josé, jessica, es la imagen de la lucha, aquí en georgia, vio sus sueños truncados, en el rechazo del dream act. >>> ya estuvo en la cárcel y libra una dura batalla, y tiene 22 años. >>> méxico es la ciudad donde nací. >>> nunca volviste? >>> no, nunca más. >>> asegura que estados unidos se volvió su tierra, en atlanta creció, y estaba a punto de graduarse de ciencas políticas. >>> la escuela, y la universidad, pensé que iba a ser el lugar más seguro. >>> en la universidad, la detuvieron, por una infracción de conducir menor, y fue reportada a inmigración, la arrestaron, y esperó ser deportada. >>> senti que me cortaban las alas, de una manera, muy fea. >>> sus compañeras, organizaron una marcha multitudinaria, para pedir su liberación. en washington le otorgaron un permiso para terminar los estudios, y fue liberada. >>> representó y sigue representando, un milagro, y esperanza. >>> como ella hay miles de estudi

when he went to congress from georgia and 1827 his goal was to of expel the cherokee from georgia. that was his goal. and he described his legislation, however, as indian reform. that was the way. but his opponents knew what his crusade was about. he put it this way. north fanatics' male and female had gone to work and got not thousands of petitions signed by more than a million of men, women, and children protesting against the removal of the port, dear indians from the states where they were located to west of the mississippi. now, president jackson, one can have a powerful ally. jackson had convinced himself that he was doing the charity a favor by insisting that they move. there was increasing friction between the white settlers -- excuse me, the white settlers and the cherokee. jackson felt that his humane answer was to force the cherokees to live their traditional tribal land. what he didn't ever hear was the response of the charities themselves including schoolchildren. they learn that there might be driven west, their teachers told them study hard because you may be going w

the president had been on vacation in georgia. when he was fishing on a kenna, a rabbit tried to make his way onto carter's boat. the president batted the rabbit away with his paddle. jackson liked the story and published a humorous peace which he sent out on the wire. some of the networks picked up on the story and the washington post published it right around the front page. the title is bunny goes bonds. rapid attacks president. what started as an innocent story turned into yet another political headache for president carter. he was in such bad shape by that time that the story actually matter. republican senator robert dole from kansas planning to run in 1980 jokes and the president should, quote, apologize for bashing a bunny in the head with a paddle. i am sure the rabbit intended the president no harm. the fourth thing was simply doing something a little unusual these days, trying to get aboard the president's boat. everyone else seems to be jumping ship. in this book i wanted to try to understand what went wrong. i wanted

was preparing a regime change along the lines of the so-called color revolutions in georgia ukraine and so forth bringing young egyptian activists to the united states sometimes receiving them at the state department sometimes at the national endowment for democracy or freedom house these are all the quote unquote private n.g.o.s that specialize in the regime change for washington and. what's going on is really a major not enough destabilization of u.s. ally mobarak has been opposed to most of us policies of iran we should be persian gulf nations and these are the levanon over the last several years so he's become in effect a thorn in the side of washington's greater agenda since two thousand and one friday is expected to see the largest protest since the andress began more than two weeks ago a former cia officer i mean an ocular told r.t. he thinks mubarak's reluctance to go makes the situation a volatile. now that the president mubarak that years as said he would not leave i am afraid that they are going to expand their religion and get beyond. the way our government buildings as we s

how the diplomatic breakdown between russia and georgia has every day lives we look at families forced apart by politics. as potential u.s. presidential hopefuls stop turning their minds to twenty twelve elections the list of burning issues for the republican candidates is growing longer by the day but one of the biggest is military spending and all the possible run as a having their say on the issue on tuesday night because all skin looks now at some new names on the scene. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly how we got on larry washington the tea party. one day become the next u.s. president. while i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether and i will become one . you came to the right party and that's precisely what it is we're. going to see pack everything here the fact that that's the united states you can. get just a stone's throw away and though he hasn't officially announced it it is going to take a lot more of the new rhetoric to put americans back to work it's going to take a new president all eyes were on mitt r

broun of georgia. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of february 17, 2011, the gentleman from georgia, mr. broun, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia. mr. broun: thank you, madam chairman. my amendment would prevent funding of the u.s. army corps' beach replenishment program and projected authorized thsdz 91 million for 2011, almost $1 billion up over the next decade. the army corps plans to replenish sand at certain beaches to slow the course of erosion. first and foremost, this is not a proper constitutional function for the federal government. each beach community along with their local governments should decide how they will best approach erosion. as a primary beneficiary, they can best decide their needs and financial priorities. the top-down system currently employed comes from a flawed mindset, a mindset that we must address if we hope to escape our spending crisis. a mindset that the federal government does everything f

, miles de trabajadores, enfrentan una posible cacería de brujas. >>> hasta hace poco tiempo en georgiavadores de la industria agricola y textil, pero ahora buscan esclavizar a los trabajadores indocumentados, los mismos que rescataron la economía estatal. >>> el propósito, es sacar los indocumentados, que afectan el trabajo a estatales. >>> los indocumentados, están con su labor, contribuyendo 16 billones de dólares de la agricultura. >>> la ley impone multas más severas para empleadores, que no chequean al empleado, si puede trabajar o no en el país, y que entregue al trabajador, y que la raza y país de riogen, piden que no sea la razón, para que hagan esto. >>> hay muchos casos de discriminación, que ya está ocurriendo, y va a ser peor. >>> la ley de georgia, tiene miles de proyectos e iniciativas que se debatieron en el país. >>> iniciativas que envenenan la relación entre estados unidos y méxico. >>> como les decía ayer, el jefe de policía de arizona, en pinal, dijo que se viene un combate directo con los narcos, y los hombres están en pie de guerra. >>> un conflicto armado, es lo

so a measure of this really was the first woman to take office of the foreign ministry of georgia herfirst was the time when the country was changing inspired by the new leader mikhail saakashvili but after a conflict with a parliament she was sacked and later moved to opposition. last year she left georgian politics altogether saying there is no democracy in the country now they experience diplomats as the u.n. group on iran. how on this sort of issue to thank you very much for being with us today and then for receiving the thanks. well first of all in june last year the u.n. security council imposed a fourth set of us engineered sanctions on iran's financial and military sectors all these sanctions working and this is the question i'm asking really people who come to the studio here are one of the best people to ask this question yes this is the the question and there is not an answer to the question yes or no and the generally consensus on this on this question is that yes they are working in delaying the program the nuclear program of iran it is affecting the nuclear program of ir

also family support knows no borders we reveal how despite severed ties cash flow from russia georgia grows every year due to money transfers from those who left their country in search of a better life. but first as potential u.s. presidential candidates start putting their minds for the twenty twelve elections the list of burning issues for the republican candidates is growing longer by the day one of the biggest is military spending and all the possible runners are having their say on the issue. looks at some new names on the scene. if you've been wondering who i am one of you. could possibly are we going to let the washington co-op the tea party. one day become the next u.s. president. while i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether and i will become one of the if you came to the right party and that's precisely what it was undervalued is the people to see pack everything here the fact that that's not as it is for the united states. it's just a stone's throw away and though he hasn't officially announced it it is going to take a lot more of

wire transfers has been growing steadily over the past few years giving a strong boost to georgia's economy and even though in two thousand aid bill e.c. officially broke all diplomatic ties with more schools and cancelled direct flights between the two capitals it didn't stop georgians from by greeting to russia with the hopes of finding jobs and a better wife we came here as refugees the neighbors were kind to us and they helped a lot so now after all these years we communicated with the rest of the family over the internet sometimes to make their own calls and the wire money to them whenever we can money you know is not nobody's daughter in law living in a small mining town of video in southern russia she relies on her husband partner all small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being put their children situation and supporting their elderly relatives oh i didn't see this picture of her nor his video message finally reached its recipients my year in medina i haven't seen their grandma for more than six years now they're hoping that someday a wife in georgia

despite severed ties with bosco cash flow from russia to georgia grows every year that's due to money transfers from those who left their country in search of a better wife. and landing on mars just hours away the crew of the longest space flight simulation in history preparing mankind for a real trip to the red planet. and if there's one thing the twenty turned south african world cup will be remembered for it's the constant brute of the us but some are determined not to be outdone by the infamous horn with ukraine and poland set to host the two thousand and twelve european championships locals have decided it's a perfect opportunity to promote the european cause it artie's alexei or she has this story. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african horn that will. meet its equivalent for the euro two thousand and twelve championship to be held in ukraine and poland this was so it's called this is really named and shaped after a cuckoo and just like this it dates back thousands of years but what the report of

the outcry against this was immediate they have still not stopped pushing for this legislation in georgia one lawmaker has proposed a bill that would criminalize some miscarriages make abortions illegal and make the punishment for abortions the death penalty here in d.c. congress has their hands on a bill that would let hospitals allow woman to die rather than perform an abortion to save her life if they feel so morally inclined to do so now in south dakota there was a highly contentious bill put forth by one lawmaker who would redefine it justifiable homicide to include killing in the name of in the defense of a fetus in other words opening up the door for someone to go out and kill abortion doctors and of congress has just recently voted for all federal funding to be cut from planned parenthood keep in mind ninety seven percent of what planned parenthood does is s.t.d. hiv test. cervical on breast cancer screenings providing contraception education not just abortions and on top of all that republicans are now pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program bu

if you georgia rule succeeds in very fast economical development as we see now some good good good i would say probably all of this you know could happen. and if not. you know then you you know i think the situation would remain the same remain the same for years and years of course as you see we be see and it's not a secret we see some military building in this region which makes very i would say unhappy because the military building means what tensions. and. i would say russia. will not abandon. this military building i think not not much hope. when you discuss issues like like the tribes the light like city have with your colleagues here in moscow. do you find yourself in a situation when you and the stand each other perfectly i mean well you speak the same language here's a let's say do you feel that that system of thinking is the same that you want to achieve both achieve the same goals and have common enemies are not in some cases he has let's take a positive this is a let's take a cut above the both no but dissertation is becoming dangerous day in day and day more and more and

is about the status of the mission will that be a mission in a separate country or in the part of georgia so this is the problem but on the whole do you think it will be worthwhile to have such a sham a hotel after. because i see this mission as a tool for implementing confidence building measures starting from simple thing not to block water to each other on the border and creedence not to close the gas to each other and something like that just to help people to live their daily life less or more normally start from that from scratch and this mission would be very helpful but unfortunately i think as you have just proved by answering my previous question the situation in south the city. for diplomats it's a purely political matter it's a diplomatic matter here well and it's important to understand this is very important but for people there i mean it's different it's not diplomacy stopper it's still life so if both sides russia the european countries even georgia if they want their people to live better to help them do you think we can overcome someday these political issues or they wil