kyra phillips takes it over in the newsroom. kyra? >> i want to see ali clutch iin her teddy bear like jane did in that live shot. >> i was doing it yesterday, kyra. >> i can't wait for the interview. thanks, guys. >>> we begin this morning, talking about the aftermath of irene, the massive storm that paralyzed and pummeled much of the east coast. today, it's blamed for at least 21 deaths in nine states from florida to vermont. and at last count, about 3 million homes and businesses are still without power. more than a billion dollars in damages is blamed on the storms winds. flooding damage will be much more costly. three navy ships should be positioned in relief efforts from new york to new england. cnn crews are in place, measuring the storm's impact and the struggle for the millions of americans trying to move on now. we'll take you from north carolina to new york to new england and give you the big picture from the cnn "weather center," right here in atlanta. let's go ahead and begin in vermont, a state reeling from some of its w

kyra? >> okay, leone, thanks. now we've tackled the economics. let's talk about the poll tinges. the white house facing heavy pressure. brianna keilar, what are some of the things the administration could consider? >> you know, kyra, it seems that at least the strategy that the white house is pursuing on jobs and deficit reduction, these are not things that move as quickly, certainly, as the panic that we are seeing on wall street, and the markets, rating agencies, these are things that the white house had long said they cannot control. so on deficit reduction, the strategy remains very much the same. and we heard the president say yesterday, he'll be making recommendations to that bipartisan congressional commission to deal with entitlement reform, and to deal with tax reform or tax revenues. but, of course, these are things that will have to go on farther down the road, because congress isn't even here right now. of course, they're on their august recess. and then the president also still

kyra? >> ted, we'll be talking a will the more this morning. thanks so much. >>> let's check in, see how investors are reacting around the world. we'll begin with the markets in europe. joining us now from london. what can you tell us, leone? >> markets are down here as well, across europe. we take a look at the numbers. they are down, the ftse is down 1.5%. we've seen them between 2% and 3% lower and smi in switzerland doing the same thing. the day slightly higher. two reasons for that of the over the weekend, we got a statement from the g-7 ministers, saying they were committed to restoring confidence. they would take whatever action necessary to restore confidence. although, they didn't say what they were planning to do. we also got a statement from the european central bank in which the central bank said it would buy back bonds from italy and spain in whichware seeing the yields jumping quite highly, to unsustainable levels. that did do enough to lift the markets at the start of trading

kyra? >> why did the president change his schedule today? >> reporter: we don't know, kyra. there has been speculation. he was supposed to be going to virginia to talk about fuel efficiency standards and meet with industry leaders. he'll now be having a meeting at the white house. a lot of speculation that he would be going to dover air force base where the remains of those 30 u.s. troops will be coming home, but certainly that's not confirmed and not something that the white house puts out publicly, kyra. >> okay. brianna keilar at the white house, thanks. >>> credit downgrade and ugly debt debate and markets tanking, are americans blaming the president? our senior political editor mark preston hat numbers. what are they saying? >> reporter: 15 months before election day and president obama's ratings are ups down. let's take a look at this poll released yesterday. shows only 44% of americans approve how he is handling his job as the president while 55% disapprove. if there is any kind of silver lining, we can look at the numbers is that this approval rating has remained ste

kyra?> zain verjee out of london. she definitely wasn't a conformist, that is for sure. >>> let's head to business now. carter evans is at the new york stock exchange where we watched the dow surge more than 300 points yesterday. carter a nice little rally. >> reporter: yeah. nice rally. it was looking like we would give some of that back today. dow futures down a hundred points and not pretty much flat lined. a report on durable orders jumped 4% in july. these are planes, cars, trucks, things that last a long time and jumped 4% in july and a whole lot better than expected and it's mostly due to aircraft orders. still a good sign for manufacturers in general if we do turn positive today, it would add to yesterday's 322-point gain. it's not really a bad rally lately. the dow is up six of the past nine sessions and nearly every dow 30 stock rose yesterday. >> so with the gains that we have seen over the past few days have stocks made up for the big losses of earlier this month or is there sti

kyra?from the pentagon. thanks so much. moammar gadhafi's whereabouts still unknown. we've been talking a lot about where could he go? what will be next? will he stay in country, fight to the end? nic robertson is joining us out of washington. a lot of speculation now, nic, about his whereabouts from your sources, your experience, what's your take now? what do you think he's -- where he is and what's going through his mind with regard to where things stand at this point? >> predicting what's going through his mind, i think, perhaps is the toughest thing right now. he said he want ed to retire to the desert of libya and write his memoirs. that is not going to happen. it's going to look, if he is going to run, he is going to look to his friends around the world, venezuela, hugo chavez was a regular visitor to libya, brothers in arms, if you will, raising the -- if you will to the rest of the world. he may choose to go there. that could be one place where perhaps he could find a friendly, warm

this is -- the good question, kyra.going to take this out because i'm still having audio problems. the stock market is here, right? and over time, unless the world turns upside-down and it's not going to do that. even if there's a recession the stock market will go to here. that's what the stock market does over time. but when you zoom into little windows like we're in right now what you see is a lot of this. it's very frustrating but ultimately we bounce around for a little while and then something gets fixed and we start to move. this is in the worst we've ever seen, in the great depression, and in the recession that we saw in 2008. that is exactly what happened. no time in history has that not happened. so if you have a or rye zone that allows you stay vested, you reposition. if you had precious metals you sell some of them because they keep hitting new records and you bring your portion down to whatever it was that you would have invested in. say 5%. if you have emerging markets you sell and bring it down. if you ha

kyra?nk it will mean to passengers? >> one big fat headache, especially if the passengers are looking to re-book, because it is a test of patience. one study says that the wait at an american airlines customer service counter is 1 1/2 hours long, and i have good news for you, because the airlines are not expected to raise the fees, because they got ahead of irene and meaning they moved the planes to safe areas and rebooked flyers beforehand and are organized. obviously, there is loss of life and property from irene, but overall damage is lower than expected. compared to the blizzard of last christmas, it shaved off days of the flying, because airlines had to clean the ice and the snow off of the runways and the planes and they could not start flying until days later. also, the airlines this time around, they have spare seats on hand and they are able to re-book the passengers on the flights this time around if they are willing to go on the vacations which labor day is coming up, so maybe th

tin dex has actually closed lower, kyra.n't seen that since after lehman brothers collapsed. that was almost three years ago. to end up with nine days of losses, the mild post would be much bleaker. that hasn't happened in three years. we are starting to the down side actually. we're down about the three points. we're starting with a flat open as things get rolling. you know, everybody wondering what's got wall street worried at this point. know what the big worry is? the worry is the economic recovery is stalling out. it prompted a chinese agency to downgrade u.s.'s rating overnight and moody's to affirm its rating. it may still downgrade the country in the future. they're still keeping tabs on what lawmakers are doing. we are now in positive territory, just a bit. kyra. >> just barely there but it's slowly creeping upward, which is good. all right, so let's talk about the other thing that's on a lot of our minds, our credit card rates. >> sure. and you know, this chinese downgrade that christine mentioned earlier, it is ge

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kyra. >> also with reports to the housing market.y take steps to help struggling homeowners? >> the obama administration is considering proposals to help homeowners and try to stimulate the economy. one proposal would allow millions with government-backed loans to refinance them at current loan mortgage rates which are around 4%. there are estimates it could save $85 billion a year. the new york times said the administration is renting out the foreclosed properties to keep the homes from flooding the market even more. as you can imagine, the president is trying to do everything possible to get americans out buying homes again and keep them in their homes. there are critics that are fearful that the mass refinancings could make borrowing more expensive. they are claiming they don't address the real problem. the homes are worth less than the mortgages. >> alison kosik, thank you so much. coming up, we are tracking hurricane irene. it could strengthen more as the east coast is bracing for the latest landfall. we will have the latest fro

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fred, it's kyra, can you acknowledge that you hear me? it's kyra. okay. to still try to connect with fred there in benghazi. sara sidner, are you still with me at the checkpoints in tripoli? >> reporter: i am. yes, i am, kyra, i can hear you loud and clear. >> all right. so sara, what is your -- we were reporting this exodus -- >> reporter: i'll give you a quick update. >> okay. >> reporter: the expo dulles is more and more and more. we did not see this yesterday. residents stayed in their home. they would scream and yell at the rebels, cheering them on. now we're seeing a major -- hold on a second. hold on a second. we can still hear you, sara. >> reporter: whoever is speaking in my ear, i need to listen to kyra. what we're hearing from the national transitional council is they're saying the rebels have taking control of 80%. if that is the case, we are wondering why so many people are leaving the city, and their faces are tense. they don't want to speak to us on camera. they want to get out of the city. we have to wonder what's going on. it's difficult

now, i should tell you and you heard this earlier, kyra.ena jones at cnn was talking to a democratic leadership aide earlier and she says there is an optimism from this aide that the senate can come back and perhaps resolve in this the next day or two. >> perfect timing as the construction workers behind you continue! sorry about that. we will get back to you in the next hour. >>> detective looking for evidence in a decades-old cold case find dna from notorious serial killer ted bundy. how that find could help close dozens of other uninvolved murders. car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! [ disco playing ] and this is to remind you that you could save hundreds! yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's your break, honey. same coverage, more savings. now, that's progressive. call or click today. handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every da

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kyra? >> well, our wolf blitzer also had a chance to get in there and ask the president a number of questions. here is what he told -- here is what the president told wolf when it comes to the situation in our economy right now. >> i am going make my best case for where we need to go. we have made progress since the start of this recession back in 2008. it hasn't been fast enough. we have got to accelerate it. and there are two things that need to happen. number one, we have got to make sure that people have confidence we have our fiscal house in order and we are living within our means and eliminating programs that wouldn't work and number two immediate things to do around infrastructure, tack policy that would make a difference in terms of people hiring right. >> a people say perry is out of bounds a few days into his campaign. today, he is firing back. paul steinhauser is in washington. is it possible to make too big of a splash as this newbie presidential candidate comes forward? >> rep

>> reporter: kyra, this story reads like an investigative fiction novel. it's unclear whether there were specific links, but what police are saying some of the links are circumstantial, they may have some kind of business connections. this happened in an hear that is a wealthy and multimillion dollar homes in the parts of the sydney suburb where this happened. basically 50-year-old doug peters broke into a home. the teenage girl was studying for an example and put this fake bomb collar around her neck and it took police ten hours to get it off her neck. take a look at the headlines here. collar bomb hoax suspect he was volatile and decent smart guy. his school mates say he was a ram bunkion aggressive character who was intecketal. he was a popular boy at school who played rugby aggressively and always in for a fight. the bottom line here, it seems as though what police say this was all about extortion. a note attached to this fake bomb collar basically asking for money and then there was also an e-mail address of this guy too. so they managed to track him.

kyra, for example, on monday, almost not a single stock made any gains on any of the big four yearian markets. we will have to see what happens today. >> we will will be watching. thanks so much. >>> in asia, anna is in hong kong. how volatile were the asian markets overnight? >> reporter: kfollowing wall street's lead, some of the major indices plummeted throughout the day. government there had to intervene. it closed to 3.6%. similar story for japan's nikkei. it was down 5%. took back some of the losses to

i tweeted at kyra cnn. i know all of your followers are following us right now. >> i follow you, you follow me. it's a very happy relationship. wolf, thank you. >> thank you. >>> how about that remarkable return of congresswoman gabby giffords? a mere six months after a horrific gunshot wound to the head she was alert and standing. dr. sanjay gupta was watching the video like the rest of us. what did you notice? >> it is remarkable if you take it from a pure medical sense. about 75% of people who have had this type of injury don't survive at all. the fact -- that was january 8th. i think most people have seen this video by now. seven months later almost, she is standing there. she is, obviously, conversing and reacting and recognizing her colleagues, giving them high five's. saying short sentences. i notice as well from a medical standpoint, she is not moving her right arm really at all. it's all left-sided waving and everything. she got some assistance, some helping her down the aisle and that is not all u

but maybe pastor it's your you know kyra people were camping out i think back in january in fact believe that all these reports are for health and nothing more than just a theatrical ploy to add football and a child from back to part from testifying they believe that that's played nicely today has also. increased that is the charge of it just because many of the generals that out members of this council i saw myself in. some of its testimony and make that side on some of my. compromising political alliances that helped him to remain in power for so long now of the child was asked to relativize very happy security operation if i was five thousand absolutely and that's dr kelly was here at the tried the clash it's become essentially a feature of the day here in cairo in the morning. and actually the foreign protesters want to respond was. all wrong there are a lot of acts that patients that are these trials are not only because. many helping the revolution first the people. that if you were big think you get the cancer but her jimmy carter me how many people were disillusioned that my coll

kyra. check out our website it's r t dot com for more stories news and video in addition to what you see here on the screen here's a sample of what's lined up for you right now should you click on a silent voice is many countries are now gripped by antigovernment protests but in israel demonstrators are hungry not just for economic reform but also for international media attention. and pop goes the president's body georgian leader hopes his love of music might strike a chord in the hearts of his people. there's no sign of violence letting up in syria the crackdown on protests continues as government tanks reportedly move into central hama the opposition stronghold more than a hundred people are said have been killed over the past few days meanwhile the u.n. is locked in debate over what action to take on the crisis and its get more now from artie's marina port she is in new york and the un security council has yet to come up with any concrete decision so what are the main disagreements at t

kyra? >>. >> we are sitting back wondering where the heck are futures headed? alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. what do you think? >> reporter: we are 30 minutes from the opening bell and the thing -- their worse levels of the morning but we are still seeing another triple digit drop on the dow. all major averages right now down more than 1%. this is just more of the same. continuation of yesterday's sell-off. we have seen circling the globe overnight. asia, europe, here, and then all the way around the bears made their trek. slow growth in the economy, a possible recession. yesterday, we heard morgan stanley come out and say the u.s. and europe are close to a recession. today, more news. deutsche bank cut its growth outlook for china and jpmorgan cut its outlook for the united states. remember, the u.s. and european countries and china are biggest economies in the world so a slow down or a recession in any of these regions we all feel it. we would all feel it globally. this is why we are seeing this kind of sell-off. check out how the dow has done s

and now one red wing high school graduate kyra pruitt is suing the school district over creating a hostilenal environment. she was just one of a few african-american students at the predominantly white school. she filed the suit on behalf of all students who experienced discrimination as a result of wigger day. for those unsure of what the term means, it's a derogatory term used to describe a white person who mimics black hip-hop culture. officials did require the students to change their clothes immediately, no more punishment was followed, but the district does plan to use the incident to teach tolerance. according to the lawsuit, that plan to teach tolerance never happened. >>> joining me now is kyra pruitt's mother, maxine true it. welcome to the show. >> why thank you for having me. >> yes, ma'am. so when your daughter came home and told you what had happened at school, what was your initial reaction? >> at first i was a little shocked. but i was also a little upset because she came home in tears, because these were students she had gotten to know. and were actually friends with a few

all the while all of cook want to catch i thought so much kyra and this female is five years alt. is the spawn in school the frain trout we get a lady trout from and. the trout farm is situated on the banks of a unique river. that is filled with water gushing from a giant some training in the spring and it is thought to be europe's largest spring of this current. the village of drips stretches across the food hills several kilometers from the plex i'm sure it's called the heart of our cause. a backyard of nearly every house here has a distinctly has look a backyard it is one of the keys symbols of the traditional way of life and not because each backyard is supposed to have a cabin made of rhododendron. it is in fact a kitchen where family members gather over meals. her idea. of. the fireplace is in the center of the cabin a fire was kindled on the clay funnel with a cauldron that hangs over it on a chain this is filled with memel ego the name given in some black sea countries to corn flour porridge. i think i might as well put a lead on it for a while but that's not really necess

garden to make a statement welcoming this agreement and i think what the president will then try to do, kyramove the subject forward. yes, they've eased this crisis and now the country has to move forward and deal with a really fragile economic recovery and most important the creation of jobs. we'll get a new jobs number friday morning, a new jobs mum for the month of july. and a lot of people are once again bracing for more bad news. not a whole lot of jobs being created. this is an enormous problem not only politically, forget about the politics, this is a problem for millions of americans who don't have a job or do have a job that simply isn't paying them what they used to get paid, they don't have the benefits they used to get. on a lot of unhappy people. the question is how do you turn that around and that's what they'll be focusing on, as well. so i suspect what we'll hear from the president is he will try to move this subject forward now that the debt ceiling crisis has been resolved. >> okay, wolf, stay with me. usually at this time we have our political buzz, but now we're going to

was nation behind me on my side kyra jean me as long as i was giving my all the room was so supportive of me that's just doing that's is where you got it wrong to be. finally it's less than twenty four hours before the english football season kicks off so lots better time for each teacher to run the rule over the main contenders this year for the twentieth premier league title. with the english premier league just around the corner as defending champions manchester united way into the new season is favorites although many key men retired during the summer edwin van der sar gary neville and paul scholes among them alex ferguson has made sure to bring in plenty of new blood phil jones ashley young and goalkeeper david de hale already jelling into the old trafford game when the record nineteen time english champions opened their new title haunted west brom on sunday the same day action begins for united's main rivals chelsea portuguese andre wash will take on the managerial reins for the first time in the premier league against old city blues captain john terry stating the team has what i

kyra, so very good to see you.good to see all of you live from studio seven, i'm martin savidge in for susan malveaux. we are as you've heard about an hour away from a senate vote on raising the country's debt limit and preventing a government default. it took a long time and it wasn't easy, but president obama is also scheduled to speak about this whole project at 12:15 eastern time. we'll have live coverage of both of those events. the house approved a debt deal last night. and some on the left and the right are not exactly happy with it. but house speaker john boehner says it's a start. >> how do you feel, sir. >> i feel great. >> what do you think of the vote this evening? >> it was a strong vote, but first step in many steps yet to go. >> what do you hope the american people -- what do you think the message is for the american people tonight? >> the process works. may not be pretty, but it works. >> may not be pretty is right. let's take a look at how it's impacted wall street. stocks are down. another weak ec

officials, liberals and conservative, democrats and republicans, executive branch and legislative branch, kyrahave acted. certainly not a ringing endorsement of how they behaved in this crisis. >> if you liked the debt ceiling debate the last few day, you'll love the days leading up to thanksgiving this year. >> and if you hated the debate, you'll december pies tspise thed thanksgiving. i don't know if they will come up with recommendations, but even if it they do, congress would have to approve it. and if they don't, there will be a whole series of triggers that go into effect, automatic cuts in spending, defense spending, nondefense spending, painful spending cuts. people won't be happy across the board. so this debate only just beginning. a couple other poll numbers we should point out. have you got a sec? >> sure, anything for you, wolf. >> take a look at this. we asked in the poll do you approve or disapprove of the debt ceiling agreement. 44% approve. 52% disapprove. and then then we asked among democrats, independents and republicans, 63% of democrats approved of the agreement. 5% indep

kyra. and life really get worse for the egyptian people because they fell prey to a political game says f. mily mandela who's written extensively about egypt's uprising there has been no revolution in egypt i said so and in our t.v. interview in late january i believe exactly that would be the outcome because this was incited from the outside it was designed to get rid of mubarak who was a thorn in the side of the obama middle east policy and put the same people in there with it with a different face at the top a lot has changed and it's largely unfortunately changed for the worse the economy plunged since the events of january the tourism is not going to be bombed back any time soon but even still there was a rather healthy growth curve in the last several years even while mobarak was still in power and that that has dramatically changed for the worse this never was about democracy in the first place a lot of youth were brought onto the streets under the illusion that it was and now you ha

this quaint kyra is now one of the most famous in the world many around the globe. even those with little knowledge of arabic know its name clear means liberation well the revolution of january put this part of the globe on the map but apart from that what else it is really the people of egypt. this man has been running his own business for thirty five years it used to bring him enough money to send his son to study to canada and take his large family abroad one see. it with the economic devastation caused by and rastan political uncertainty mohammed's enterprise has been badly affected now he can barely afford to feed his children he says the wind of change may have brought freedom to egypt and its grant and survival strong in its wake. but you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it but it looked at the time we got a light at the end of the tunnel you see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter. the plight of poverty fuel the revolution your growth has dropped from

we're all striking on one level we're controlled by inconsistent has been defending champion martin kyra's middle name of late after winning four tournaments in two thousand and ten the german taking last year's title when the event was held at the whistling straits course and the world number three knows that holding on to the crown will be a challenge at the atlanta athletic club we're playing a different golf course if we play the same of course and of course. i would see myself. so i would expect to try to do well again this week it was his new golf course i haven't played here any turning on yet. and i think it doesn't really matter if you're defending champion or not plenty at stake for each of the leading lights then the final major of the year including tiger woods who can't be ruled out as he seeks the fifty g.a.a. championship evander gorski arche. yeah the head there well finally twenty eleven tour de france winner could tell evans has received a raucous welcome after returning home the first of trillions to ever win cycling's most prestigious at bent's touching down at melbourn

on a boycott is following developments for us there and kyra. while the judge presiding over the courtroom role that the trial of the children feel all this safety is primarily due to health reasons i'm still expected to remain at a military hospital overseen by an m. college if he's. concerned he's dissatisfied insist that he is in the. people that's actually prevent him from. buying and i think at the trial i feel it's conclusion. that he was slipping in and out of. suffering from heart that he was suffering. but. i wrote people for a time. back in january and believe that all these reports are for health and nothing more than just the actrix a ploy. for back to part from testifying to the belief that that's place nicely. that is in charge of many of the general. members of this town so i'll pass on. some of his testimony as i don't some of my. come from i think political allies that helped him to remain in power for so long now of the child was surrounded by a very happy security operation about five thousand police and that riot police. here

are a function ati kyra. a grand m.t.v. a concert has a rock the republic of georgia in the event some locals are branded a waste of taxpayer money with the economy struggling and unemployment running rampant georgians have questioned how their president coughed up the cash for such a spectacle as artists our first reports may have saakashvili is hoping his approach will strike a positive note with voters that were two of us are targeting the m.t.v. generation the state funded pop concert in between me and certainly attracted some big names i like so much can you make a good theory georgia spends a lot of money. lights a lot to make. this president fact it's been a popularity continues to hold the among the older generation he's not trying to appeal to a much younger crowd it's not the first time the president caves eat up the star as many see as a bid to win popularity. only to start a truism war is smart for specialist over more than a p.r. i'm sure he knows how to establish out across the system inside the

kilometers from tripoli meanwhile libya's interior minister has found many of reports of the things kyra in his private jets cannot get out these position apparently scotians egypt will swell like defection according to for me is to some degree. he says he and his family are there on a purpose to be served although we haven't seen pictures of him or his kids on camels in front of the pyramids eating ice cream it seems like he really has defected and if so he being the top cop the senior interior minister it is a real blow to the regime in the last couple of weeks there been some significant advances by the rebels capturing hours and we have blocked the road from tunisia they control they killed south of critically the gentleman who's there and they control the city of misurata in the east they've got tripoli surrounded on the other hand i remind you that nato forces that been absolutely essential to their military success so for the rebels and you imagine the embarrassment to president sarkozy and prime minister cameron and even the american president obama cannot if you should survive a

all right so i gotta admit i'm kyra wondering if m.s.m. b.c. is going to go ballistic over santorum comments about gays because if you notice tell us whole thing works out somebody on the left called the tea party terrorists on the right gets outraged then somebody on the right calls gays your heart is the left is outraged but both will that of course selectively ignore it when it comes from their own side so everybody can just cut out the fake outrage because we all know that you're just going to end up having to stick your foot in your mouth the next time you ignore comments or defend comments on the very same thing that you were so upset about so for being a total fraud and a hypocrite for providing more of this he said she said let's start using terrorist terms in our vocabulary loosely to piss people off otter we're giving tonight's bull's-eye toward the g.o.p. presidential candidate rick santorum. ok guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our two producer jenny churchill and the nick morris santoro reporter for talki

grief and optional r t kyra. and r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and plenty more stories ahead for you this hour including. the. sooner we head to georgia to check out what's behind somebody sees a thirst for glitz and glamour and how president saakashvili plans to win public support by turning up the news. the u.s. and narrowly misses a potential default after years of acting as a guiding light for other countries battling economic hardship russia was one of the states advised by washington over how to deal with its worst crisis in the one thousand nine hundred ninety eight has been investigating now why america is reluctant to adopt the tough measures it prescribes to others. congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default that would have devastated our cars the u.s. just had to swallow these bitter pill that many student it will help the patients recovery but will instead prove to be a poisoned chalice our economy is not growing at all in fact unemployment remains ve

tests versus patience in the battle to save egypt from crumbling through the grief an optional r t kyra. where you can check out our website is r.t. dot com for more stories news and video here's a sample of what's lined up for you right now solo voices many countries are now gripped by anti-government protest but in israel demonstrators fear that international media is paying a little or no attention. was on the website at the moment pop goes the president. hopes his love of music might strike a chord in the hearts of his people. there's no sign of violence letting up in syria the crackdown on protests continues as government tanks reportedly bhuvan to central hama the opposition stronghold more than one hundred people are said to have been killed over the past few days meanwhile the u.n. is locked in debate over what action to take on the crisis and. is in new york. there is a divide among security council members on where the condemnation lies the u.s. and its western allies believe there should be a direct condemnation against the syrian government and the syrian president for the c

well i and you're right they don't necessarily advocating that at the same kyra we've done a lot of kids in the foster care program that is largely a broken system i say of we're able to take some a pound into a boarding school environment or an orphanage i'm certainly not advocating keeping kids from good families yet we will also see this there are a significant were families will admit they care and handle the burdens. that their children are presenting and i got if we need to we need to operate those kids something better at the same time regarding the juvenile justice system regarding. your prodigious regurgitating of boarding schools this state is community because federal government spends of fortune of money engaged here in the. correctional systems of education i'm not necessarily advocating spending more but let's really interact the monies we're already spending in twos so much. pilot projects that could indeed make a difference you have mentioned christine before they can go outside the box we can't be afraid to do that we've got some serious problems and we need to be given

egypt's on fire again as troops and kyra clash with demonstrators demanding fast changes after february's revolution. defense top of the veterans of hitler's murderous waffen s.s. gather from across europe to hold an annual rally in his stony is sparking fears and outrage over the nazi revivalism in europe. hello and a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is all she was me thanks for joining is us lawmakers are to vote shortly on an emergency deal to raise the country's debt ceiling and avoid a potentially devastating default agreement is fine it's trying between democrat and republican leaders after weeks of stalemate and political wrangling now they have to persuade those days leading congress to agree with opposition to the. however in both parties. reports now on the last minute hunting still underway on capitol hill. lawmakers did finally hash out a deal party leaders with the white house the house of representatives is expected to vote this evening of course the house is a little bit more tricky there's a lot more folks over there and in order to get this legislation