to cross-talk the endless dispute over these islands i'm joined by my guest in washington larry burns he is the director of the council on hemispheric affairs alex gibson he's a fulbright scholar specializing in contemporary argentinian politics and a research associate at the council on hemispheric affairs and lou coffey he's a fellow in the margaret thatcher center for freedom at heritage all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want larry i want to go to you first here over the last few weeks and months we've seen a ratcheting up of tensions between britain and argentina over these islands the islands that these two countries fought a war over thirty years ago what's in play here what what we should be worried about the tensions here or is this something of a function of domestic politics in both countries. well probably a combination of all of those things i think that the the real danger that lies at the bottom of this whole issue is is an accident or some kind of unplanned development that may deteriorate into. a shooting conflict but

as the three thousand people who live on the falkland islands and they will want to remain british. but marina is head now the latest from of this world. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. now the bailout for crisis stricken greece is once again and question and meeting of finance chiefs to discuss a second multibillion bailout has been called off and that's after athens failed to provide critical details about planned spending cuts these include an austerity plan to save an extra three hundred twenty five million euros something that inflamed greece with violent protests over the weekend if the greek cabinet figures out where to squeeze money from brussels would then be able to issue the new bailout cash it would amount to around one hundred thirty billion euros on top of one hundred ten billion euros grants of two years ago and same with the euro zone china has promised to invest in europe's bailout funds and keep some of its reserves in euros that's china might help stabilize the economy of its largest export market amid the global slowdown the morgan stanley capital and

value of these islands now in the twenty first century are. not really relevant this isn't about for great britain this is not about oil this is not about power this is a. strategic influence in the subtle and think this is a simple matter of three thousand people living on some islands that wish to remain british subjects and say is listen i'm going to give you a lot we're going to give alex the last word here is this just a principled issue here there's no it that's that's the top priority you think in this conflict it's principle. of course not you have political rhetoric of course on both sides christian teacher saying give peace a chance which everybody i think gave a little sigh too this is about i mean this is about sovereignty and this is about the issue of what are we going to leave the colonial past behind are we going to look to the future are we going to face up to reality which is that it's not sustainable for the islanders on the falklands and the argentine citizens to keep up a good relationship if there's this tension and if th

but i'm i'll be in britain and argentina again sparring over the legal status and future of these islands is this disputed. any match once lived is bound. to burn for ever more eternal fire is gone thinkable could possibly. do we all wants to see this on forever. wealthy british style. is no time to cut. markets why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max keiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. eleven thirty pm in moscow the zero r.t. headlines iran says it's considering cutting the oil sales to six e.u. countries but wouldn't do so at the moment because of cold weather in europe. syria's president announces a vote on a new constitution that would effectively end nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country amid rising turmoil. at rallies marking one year since the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protesters face yet another harsh clamp down with police using tactics any weapons from the u.k. . across top coming up this time peter lavelle and guest talk about the strained relations

below and welcome to crossfire computer all about take your pick of the falkland islands with a mile venus britain and argentina are again sparring over the legal status and future of these islands is this dispute about self-determination and sovereignty or one of the last vestiges of british imperialism. and. cross-talk the endless dispute over these islands i'm joined by my guest in washington larry burns he is the director of the council on hemispheric affairs alex gibson he's a fulbright scholar specializing in contemporary argentinian politics and a research associate at the council on hemispheric affairs and luke coffey he's a fellow in the margaret thatcher center for freedom at heritage all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect it means you can jump in anytime you want larry i want to go to you first here over the last few weeks and months we've seen a ratcheting up of tensions between britain and argentina over these islands the islands that these two countries fought a war over thirty years ago what's in play here what what we should be worried about the tensions here o

i was saying that the government of the day would fall if the falkland islands were ever taken now i do agree with you know there's not going to be a military there's not going to be military answer to this this is going to be resolved peacefully in the end i firmly believe ok look if i can stay with you it's been thirty years so why hasn't it been resolved and it looks like nobody on either side wants to resolve it. as far as the british government is concerned the situation is resolved they've made very clear that. it's a matter of self-determination is clearly a line in the un charter and that is so long as the people of the falkland islands want to remain british they shall remain british and this is a very simple the simple fact the people of the falklands want to be british ok i don't want to be arnold and i don't think it is that simple go to larry here i mean this is not indigenous people to these islands are they and this is what the argentine position is ok what is how strong is their claim to self-determination if they're not indigenous to the island and as a matter of fac

other s to participate in economic activities on the islands. >> reporter: the four islands are close to japan's northern prefecture of hokkaido. they are surround soviet forces took control of the islands soon after the end of world war ii. japan renounced control of the kuril islands in the 1951 san francisco peace treaty, but tokyo insists there was no agreement to surrender the four disputed islands. russia has moved to strengthen its territorial claim in recent years. in 2010, president medvedev became the first russian leader to set foot on kunishirri. four months later a seminar was held in beijing to attract investment in the islands. chinese companies were urged to take part in developing natural resources and construction projects. four months later, a company on kunishiri was given permits to hire chinese farmers. they are growing potatoes and carrots. more foreign labor arrived in december. russian authorities gave a construction firm the go ahead a hire north korean workers. the firm has a government contract to build houses and fire stations. for more insight we first as

like him, we're all rhode islanders. >> yes, we're all rhode islanders, and we all want what is best for the people of this great state. tonight reminds us that for all our different constituencies, rhode island is a single community. when things go well, we all benefit. when things go wrong, we all suffer, and in the last year, we did see some of both. as i reflect on the past year, and the present state of our state, i think of the famous lines of charles dickens from "a tale of two cities." it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom. it was the age of foolishness. we all know the bad news from last year. the worst of times and the foolishness. the statistics are bad. in this last reporting for unemployment, we in rhode island registered 10.8%, a figure made more numbing by those of connecticut's 8.2%, maine at 7%. massachusetts at 6.8%. and new hampshire and vermont at 5.1%. let me read those again. rhode island at 10.8%. connecticut, 8.2%. maine, 7%. massachusetts 6.8%. new hampshire and vermont, 5.1%. last week, house speaker fox movingly share

russia plans to beef up its military forces on the islands. moscow is concerned about china's naval expansion and the new u.s. defense strategy focussing on the asia pacific region. this arms build up could trigger tensions with a neighboring countries. so the international community needs to keep a close eye on russia's movements on the islands. >> time to check out some of the stories we gathered from broadcasters from asia. we're going to begin tonight with this item sent by tvm macau. police in macau raided an upscale hotel after receiving a tip that a criminal ring was operating a fake casino. 60 men and women were arrested. all except one are from mainland china. more than $12 million of fake casino chips were recovered. police say the group rented rooms at expensive hotels and turned them into gambling dens targeting customers from mainland. gamblers were drugged with tran quillizers. some are said to have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. malaysian state owned oil company have discovered two major gas deposits in the south china s

as for the islanders, they do not want to return to war. the conflict reinforce what they see as their right to self- determination over an area rich with natural resources, but argentina wants the island back and is not afraid to say so. >> vladimir hernandez is in buenos r.f., and she told me earlier the argentine government knew -- is in buenos aires and she told me about it earlier. >> they have been trying to gain support from latin america, and this is trying to raise a more international profile to see if that would come to some of fat. >> how much support as the president have on this issue by her neighbors and the international community now? >> inside the country there is a lot of support. recent polls suggest more than 2/3 of the population, and all around the region, countries who have different kinds of policies and politicians have strongly supported and are backing the argentine government. >> of tactical moves by the president, but what you think she is hoping to achieve by issuing this formal complaint? >> she is trying to

had control of the falkland islands you made the point that the the spanish the falkland islands are in need their control but the last spanish settlement actually left an eighteen eleven and i believe that they argentine declared independence from the spanish and eight hundred sixteen so at the time of this the argentine declared independence from spain no one had defacto control over the falklands and it was until eight hundred thirty three with a major british settlement that really became permanent around eight hundred thirty eight that the falkland islands were actually settled by anyone and this argument about a geographical location is holds no water at all because like a canary islands for example then morocco would have a claim over the canary islands ok larry if i can go to you i mean as a result of the war thirty years ago there was it was the united nations that it should be a compromise or should be negotiations between britain and argentina why can't why can't this just be resolved i mean if there's just no political will is there. well you have a lot of little elements

. >> i grew up in strong island new york. that's the name we call long island. i was also going to get strong island on my back. i decided to switch it up and just get strong land. my kind of original twist to it. we breed strong men in long island, pretty much. and everywhere we go, pretty much let everybody know we're from long island, you know what i mean? >> even though christian carney was facing the most serious of charges, he still approached his workout routine with all the discipline of the marine he once was. while we have witnessed many in-cell workouts before, it was what carney did afterwards that caught our attention. >> question. you're flexing. why are you flexing? >> every time i work out a specific muscle group, i'll flex it immediately after. it's called iso tension. everything i've learned i've learned from arnold schwarzenegger, his books.

: the four islands are close to japan's northern prefecture of hokkaido. they are surrounded by rich fishing grounds. soviet forces took control of the islands soon after the end of world war ii. japan renounced control of the kuril islands and part of shikotan in the 1951 san francisco peace treaty, but tokyo insists there is no agreement to surrender the four disputed islands. russia has moved to strengthen its territorial claim in recent years. in 0 2010, psi medvedevecam ad o sl projts.asiv psolindment. thits both cntesstnt ss'sla f s eaan thits opedhajot rd erhesldsre cceedbo sit dkp cseislas. bud.ti h ucn pae e qut.acon tuesday to remov thadee dme more than a kilometer upstream and then drained of water. of the 108 students in the school, 70 died in the disaster. four of them are still listed as miing, along with more than 40 other civilians. >> translator: we hope to find even a small clue of the missing people to return to their long >> the search will continue for ab >>> u.s. secretary o ste hiarclinton says she will attend the first o friends of

as for the islanders, they do not want a return to war. the conflict reinforced what they see is their right to self- determination over an area which and national resources, 30 years on, argentina wants the assignments back and is not afraid to say some. bbc news. >> been born as iras, they say that the government is determined to nationalize this issue. >> they have been trying to do this for the last months, trying to gain support, and this in a way is trying to raise the more international profile. >> how much support does the president have by her neighbors and the international community, do you think? >> inside the country, there are most recent polls are suggesting that there are at least two- thirds of the population that are given this in regard to the policy, and all around the region, even countries who have different types, they have been strongly supportive, back in the argentine government. >> and move by the president, but what do you think ultimately she is hoping to achieve by issuing this formal complaint? >> they are tr

the islanders defines is shaped by a memory. for them, it is a living vital thing that man came from 9,000 miles away to win back their right for self-determination and many of them die for it. >> that experience underpins britain's position, that whenever argentina is saying to these islands, the rights of the people here to choose their own destiny remains non-negotiable. port stanley is as british as fish and chips, sussex in the mid atlantic. no one here shares the view that prince william's arrival is just another deployment. to the islanders, it is a restatement of their bond with britain. >> he is a very important member of the royal family. it means a lot to the islanders that britain believes that he should be here working in our defense. >> the falklands pas are forging ahead with oil exploration to the feria of argentina. but no one here care is much for argentine sensibilities. >> there is no doubt to the right of the falkland islands to explore for oil. >> what happened here made this distant and difficult place sti

the danish island danishno -- island of bom homme becomes a tourist magnet, but how do you attract people when it gets cold? the people had an idea. they would make their little island a winter sports paradise, too. sound absurd? well, some officials in brussels did not think so and gave this ski slope the necessary financial backing, but unfortunately, there is one thing still missing. >> it is another glorious winter morning. the baltic sea island is known for lots of sunshine. they would prefer racecars and colder temperatures. he owns the only ski slope. with no snow at an elevation of just 30 meters, that seems a daring proposition, but he is a confident man. >> it is the nicest slope in europe. in the top, you have -- you cannot get anywhere else. you have the baltic sea. just two kilometers away. and you have a little island. sometimes you can see it. it is a very, very nice place. have a very nice, but very green at the moment. surely that cannot be good for business. and how best skiing fit the image anyway? it is a rural paradise, ad lib vacation homes, remote tiny villages, wav

the islanders's defiance is shaped by memory. for them, it is a living thing that came from 9,000 miles away to win back their right to self- determination. many of them died for it. that experience underpins britain's position that whenever argentina's claim to these islands, the rights of the people who live here to choose their own destiny remains non- negotiable. port stanley is as british as fish and chips, loyal to the crown. nobody here shares the view that prince william's our arrival is just another diplomat. up to the islanders, it is a restatement of their bond with britain. >> he is a very important member of the royal family, so it means a lot that britain believes he should be here serving in the falklands in our defense. >> the falklands are forging ahead with oil exploration, to the fury of argentina, but nobody here cares much for argentine sensibilities. >> if they feel is a provocation to them, that is their view. about us beingubt british and no doubt about being able to explore offshore. >> 1982 casts its sha

to get to treasure island today to watch it.le we talked to said it took them an hour 45 minutes to get to treasure island from the east bay, mostly berkeley. a trip that would normally take them only 15, 20 minutes, but most people say they knew well ahead of time about the closure and they packed their patience for the ride. different drivers had different ways to deal with the delays. >> people were trying to figure out different ways without having any road rage. >> i wanted to go b.a.r.t., but i wanted to go eastbound home from the game. so i drove the san mateo bridge and it wasn't bad at all. >> i knew i wanted to come to the game on saturday. i knew the bridge was going to be closed westbound at the toll booth. is a i went into the city and stayed the night and came back eastbound this way, you can still drive westbound from treasure island. i figure it's a win-win, right? >> this is cal's only rugby game on treasure island. when it was scheduled, the school did not know it would be on the weekend of the bay bridge closu

and managed to island hop around? take a look. >> i begin my exploration of the bahamas in andro, a little piece of tranquility. my first stop, learning to make the national fabric of the bahamas. >> i made a special design for you. put it in the wax. >> one, two, three. take it out. oh, that was good. a few more wax stamps and the fabric is ready to be dyed. >> that's how it looks. >> it looks pretty, huh? >> andros is also dotted with blue holes, vertical underwater caves. here goes nothing. like this one called captain bill's. what an adrenaline rush. next up, touring the abacos, touring the island chain that's a paradise for boaters. there i made a visit to the historic lighthouse, which has served as a beacon for sailors since 1864. this is the best view, like, maybe ever. >> see that piece of breaking water right there? >> yeah. >> that's the reef that this lighthouse is to protect people from running up on. there are no other lighthouses that are kerosene lit and hand wound in the entire world. >> like a lanter

he wants, he wants their hands off of his island. so now he's got a new cause which is independence for the mariana islands, and, um, he's got new enemies. there's a guy named bill millard who runs a computer land who decides to move about saipan because he's heard about this 95% tax rebate. and he holds a press conference announcing that he's going to move computer land to saipan, take advantage of the tax break and not pay any this many taxes which drives larry crazy because larry wants to keep this all under wraps, and he knows it's going to attract the attention of the reagan administration and congress, and they're going to go crazy. um, so larry just stays up all night one night and rewrites the tax code so millard has to go away, which he does. in fact, millard becomes a tax fugitive and was just captured two months ago by the fbi after 25 years on the lam. he also mixes it up with the chairman of texas air, continental airlines and eastern airlines and the most-feared corporate raid or of his day. they go to battle, and larry

it was drafted on a private island off the coast of georgia called jekyll island and not only that but the conditions under which that meeting took place were very secret i can tell you that very few wars of history have been plotted under conditions of greater secrecy than that there were six men that were told to arrive separately at the new jersey railroad station in november of one nine hundred ten and there they were to board the private railroad car of senator nelson aldridge and private railroad car was there in readiness for these other five gentleman and they were told to come to the station wanted to time not to be seen together not to talk to newspaper reporters one of them carried a shotgun in a big black case so in case someone had asked them where he was going and why i'm just going duck hunting he was supposed to say we find out later from his children and from his biographers that that wasn't even his conny never fired a gun in his life he just borrowed it's for the purposes of deception and when they got on board the train they were instructed when talking to each othe

and then they drove south on the island toward baby beach, the area where robyn was last seen. driving past mile after mile of beautiful beaches, our investigators wondered why robyn and gary, who only planned to be in aruba for three full days, would drive all this distance to go to a beach. >> that sure seemed like a long time to get here. >> more than 18 miles and it took approximately an hour. >> reporter: next stop? rum reef, that beachside bar where robyn and gary had lunch and the last place robyn was seen alive. our team had watched the security video showing the couple arriving the afternoon of august 2nd at 3:07 p.m. then, almost an hour later, gary going out to the rental car, putting something into a blue cup. that brief trip to the car got the attention of our investigators. >> what was in that cup? as an investigator, you want to look and see if a foreign object was maybe introduced to her system, a narcotic, a drug. that's a possibility. >> reporter: from rum reef our team followed the trail gary told police he followed to take robyn snorkeling. he said they went

it is several islands. >> yes, several islands, but there is the main land that is really the country. it is the largest island in the caribbean, so a small island compared to a larger country, but the largest island is a population of 11 million. >> what do people do there? >> welcome it used to be in this is the irony of a system that makes it illegal, but it used to be a lot of sugar. productions of 8.5 million kilos. they're down to 1.5 million. at some point in the future cuba will start importing sugar, which is the epitome. nickel prices are down. pretty much raw materials. they have not manufactured come innovated. the incredible thing is before 1959, and there are things that were wrong with cuba and things that could've been done better, but before 1959 cuba could claim the first long-distance telephone call. the first international commercial flight. per-capita income was one of the largest in the hemisphere. it was a country with problems, but my goodness, it was really up-and-coming. today cuba has the per-capita income of the low was country in the hemisphere. >> columbu

how many islands are there many the islands of the bahamas? 1, 4, 700, or 16. >> 700!. >> good job. >> go get a bahama mama. >> that was funny. when we first came here, it was so shocking. >> it is shocking. there are 700 islands. but out of the 700, only about 30 of them are inhabited. of the 30, only 16 are available to tourists. so it's crazy. there's so many and so many that are uncharted. >> and we hear they're not selling islands anymore. that game is over. >> it might be. >> klg. >> from upper marlborough, maryland. that was the old one. fill in the blank. >> iguana. >> okay. yeah. that's what i meant. has a population of 60,000 what? people, iguanas, stingrays or flamingos? >> i'll say stingrays. >> no. >> it's not stingrays. >> that would not be a hospitable place. look what you got! flamingos. >> thank you. >> flamingos. >> that's the correct answer. inagua has large salt marshes and in peak season it can harbor up to 60,000 flamingos. that's also the national bird of the bahamas. >> good to know. back to you. >> beautiful lady from new york. which celebrity

it was drafted on a private island off the coast of georgia called jekyll island and not only that but the conditions under which that meeting took place were were very secret i can tell you that very few wars of history have been plotted under conditions of greater secrecy than that there were six men that were told to arrive separately at the new jersey railroad station in november of one thousand.

donaldson and those gun boats made it possible for pope's army to trap the entire garrison at island number ten and capture them. so these tactics of running which went back to 1861, they were bearing a lot of fruit here on the river in 1862. >> dr. mcpherson, thank you about some of the examples that you provide in your great study, of the individual decisions made by people like david faragate, why do you think that as many officers especially of the naval forces, marines and sailors, made the decision in 1861 to stay with the old flag? >> there are some other good examples of that. i mentioned lee. he was a virginian. drayton is one of my favorite examples. a naval officer whose brother, thomas, was a confederate general defending ft. walker and port royal bay when drayton was commander of one of the union ships that attacked that came from wealthy south carolina family but remained loyal to the union. i think that one of the reasons why you find a fairly substantial number of naval

so those six vessels had been sent up to contest the union fleet's effort to capture island number 10 near new madrid, missouri. this is in late march. that lessened the opposition to farragut at the fleet below. so it's another example, i think, of what lincoln was trying to get all his commander toss do was to move time up tapiously against confederate defenses so they would have to thin out those defenses rather than just one at a time. and so clearly, i think, the simultaneous advance by the upper river fleet, union fleerkts and especially at island number 10, was of a material aid to farragut's effort, no question about it. >> i was struck also by the similarity, at least in my mind, of the tactics used at the island 10, the carondolet running at night, et cetera, and use of the mortar rounds. >> that's right. now, the union fleet was learning these tactics of running the fort. actually the commander of the union fleet at island number ten, charles davis, who had replaced andrew hallfoote, was very reluctant to allow the carondolet to go. and henry walker who was the commander of

restoration which endorsed and allowed rhode island, endorsed complete religious freedom in rhode island, did not establish any church in rhode island because one of the arguments williams had used in getting the charter in the first place, well, it's only rhode island. let's use it as an experiment to see what happens. and that same language was actually in the charter charles wrote for rhode island. then when he chartered other colonies like carolina, both north and south carolina were initially one colony, he actually lifted the language from the charter from rhode island and made sure that no one and to protect religious freedom. he did establish the church of england in those colonies. they were established churches. but he put right in the charter free, freedom of religion which was not the case in massachusetts and elsewhere. so it was, ironically, charles sort of put the stamp of approval on williams' ideas even though, obviously, the other ideas of the revolution went out the window. yeah. >> what did he maim of cromwellian's suppression? >> the question was, what did he make of

over a group of british islands known as the talklands. now argentina's president is accusing great britain of militarizing the region and says she is taking the issue to the united nations. in a speech on tuesday, the president directly appealed to british prime minister david cameron. >> i want to ask the prime minister of england to give peace a chance to give peace a chance. >> britain's decision to send one of its newest and most advanced warships and a nuclear submarine to the talklands has heightened tensions. so, too, the arrival of one high profile member of the royal air force. cnn dan rivers is there. >> reporter: like any other service man far from home, flight lieutenant william wales immersed himself in his job immediately getting his bearings on this remote cluster of islands that's closer to antarctica than london. it just so happens this search and rescue pilot is the heir to the british throne and it so happens his routine deployment here has infuriated the argentine government. it is approaching the 30th anniversary of a