the tv tower tells us we have reached the outskirts of the capital of latvia.hat is more important for our journey into the past is that it has also been a hanseatic city since joining the league in the year 1282. >> if you want to know something about the hanseatic league, you are a few hundred years too late. the league had its heyday a long time ago. today it is nothing more than a page in the history books. >> the building known as the house of the black cat is situated in the center. the meticulously restored building is one of the loveliest in the city. hundreds of years ago, it was a meeting place for the city's merchants, a club for the city's movers and shakers. originally called the new house of the large gilt, it is a must-see destination for visitors today. >> in gdansk, you have the artist court. we have the house of the black hats. we are friends, you could say. we are partners, and we exchange, so there is a deeper connection than just commonalities in architecture or around planning or a fondness for brick facades. it is also rooted in catholici

in the us compared to america's one point five percent and the world's next offshore paradise is latvia as the baltic states slashes taxes for next year it cuts rates. divisions tax to set global firms to set up russian firms particularly to shift some of their past from current favorite cyprus so karen to get my husband i'm going to have to go to latvia now i go so carry on rates are going to remote and just ahead max and stacey they pull no punches on the shady deals among the banking elite stay with us. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project photographs wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the tragedies they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful opiates and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look tense and it opens their eyes that their chairs what can be achieved by using your imagination. download the official ati applications to cell phones choose your language stream quality and

students in other industrialized countries are nerds, but the study found that students in chile, latviace three times as fast than american students, and in math, and reading, we rank behind china, singapore and south korea, yeah, because the countries have a lot more asian kids to cheat off of. it's not a fair comparison. our kids rank number one in cholesterol and having sex with their teachers. so we still have that. [ cheers and applause ] mitt romney's campaign got a big boost in the form of song, mitt romney has been using a clip of president obama singing "let's stay together." remember he sang -- he's been using it in a campaign ad. he had to stop because of copy right issues. romney supporter stepped in and wrote an original song -- the song is called "mitt romney a hero in my mind." i don't know what else to say other than it is enchanting. ♪ world war iii that's obama's plan for you and me ♪ ♪ what a crock it's the only hope he's got ♪ ♪ he can't be elected on his record it's a crime ♪ ♪ he should resign ♪ that's why i'm voting for mitt romney ♪ ♪ he's a hero in my mind ♪ i'm

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latvia won the men's event, triumphing over australia.epeating an olympic victory in beijing. >> for more on the games now, so far most of the chaos many feared would hit the british capital's transport system did not happen. >> instead, things are running rather smoothly above and below ground. there have been some issues with tickets for the games, but that has not stopped roland burris from enjoying the event. >> britain is in the grip of olympic fever. two golden weeks for the host nation has silenced the skeptics. it is hard to find a local who is not excited about the london games. >> team gb. >> liz and her sons are among the converts. instead of going on summer holidays, they decide to soak up the excitement on their doorstep. >> we are all here having a great time and the olympics are here and i am alive and i am experiencing it, and it is great. >> today, they're heading out to see the triathlon in hyde park, one of the few olympic events that is open to the public. [applause] it has been hard to get tickets for events at the ol

finish up here in moscow where we finish up on a high around the world to next of so paradise is latvia and the us is the baltic state slashes taxes now for next year it cuts rates and scraps dividends tax to get global firms to set up there to encourage russian firms in particular to shift some of their cast from the current favorite which is actually cyprus and that's all the business for today kevin up about tamara see how the week ends up for the market a lovely year so flu so well as well so we'll call it a day through tomorrow evening you know just. to pull no punches on the shady deals among the banking elite because report with you shortly tonight here on out to international. magine assets that the devil watches show every single month. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me. you know we realized that we're following everyone from early in the morning. the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. me devil operation on our cheek. wealthy british style. that's not on the title. of. markets why not come to. find o

makes and that will therefore affect the markets tomorrow as they open up on friday ok this is about latvia them because that's where people are going to have cash is the world's next offshore paradise and up here as the gold both to state slashes their taxes now for next year it cuts rates as scraps dividends tax to get global firms to set up the russian firms in particular to shift some of their cash from the current favorite which is sight for us all a bad way to spend your cash or retire or is it that the effort to date my city. christmas card is quote your course in the department. of you or will finances from a washington capital account that's coming up off the headlines in just minutes from. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. magine assets that the devil watches you every single morning. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i mo

its own course to finish the week on a three month high and the world's next offshore paradise is latvia as the baltic states a lash is taxes that is now from next year cuts rates and scraps dividends tax to get global firms to set up there to really offer some encouraged and now russian firms have particular they all tip to shift some of their cash from the current favorite site perhaps. over a per se this is. looking out of weekend or it will disturb insight into how to solve syria's ongoing violence when we talk to one of the country's deputy prime ministers and big names talked to r.t. international live from moscow. well for. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

students in other industririalized countries are nerds, but the study found that students in chile, latviace three times as fast than american students, and in math, and reading, we rank behind china, singapore and south korea, yeah, because the countries have a lot more asiaian kids to cheat off of. it's not a fair comparison. our kids rank number one in cholesterol and having sex with their teachers. so we still have that. [ cheers and applause ] mitt romney's campaign got a big boost in the form of song,g, mi romney has been using a clip of president obama singing "let's stay together." remember he sang -- he's been using it in a caaign ad. he had t to stop because of cop right issues. romney srtporter stepped in and wrote an original song -- the song is called "mitt romney a hero in my mind." i don't know what else to say other than it is enchanting. planrld war iii that's obama's for you and me ♪ ♪ what a crock it's the only hope he's got ♪ ♪ he can't be elected on his record it's a crime ♪ ♪ he should resign ♪ that's why i'm voting for mitt romney ♪ ♪ hs a hero in my mind ♪ i'm barac

the gold went to latvia. there were a lot of tumbles. everybody stayed safe on our little bike. olympians and they'll be back in four years. >> they didn't have their team leader, lester holt. >> once i got the helmet on, it was all good. >> all right, still to come, we'll have much more including meeting some of the members of team usa who are leaving here with lots of hardware this morning. this is "today" on nbc. >>> welcome back to london. before we say good-bye, i want to say that other americans are going home with medals. i should have worn my sunglasses, because the glare is so great. the relay team, silver medalist, angela, josh, tony, congratulations. great to have you here. >> most definitely, it was definitely an honor and a privilege to represent the usa. you know, go out there and put our hearts on the line. >> you made us proud. >> oh, yes. >> i'm coming over here to manny mitchell because we talked about how you ran on that broken leg. how are you doing? >> i'm doing better today. a lot of pressure and i'm blessed to be able to walk again on it. >> you didn't wan

the rate of infant mortality in the industrial world is the next two worst -- next to latvia -- we have the next worst rate. >> do you think ann romney succeeded in changing the issue of todd akin and his comments about legitimate rape? >> i do not think talking about love will change people's minds when they want to talk about the issues. republicans keep saying this is about the issues, we want to talk about the issues. in the two convention speeches, they talked about love. >> meghan carpentier, of rocky anderson, thank you. that does it for our broadcast. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. email your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693, new york, ny 10013.

♪ >> and that is it, latvia has won the bronze. >>> welcome to "politicsnation."'m al sharpton live from los angeles. tonight's lead, on the attack. president obama stepped up his critique of mitt romney today drawing sharp contrast on everything from health care to immigration to taxes. in particular, he slammed mr. romney for his tax plan that would literally take money from the poor and give it to the rich. >> mr. romney, his friends in congress, they believe -- they've got two ideas. one, tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. two, they want to get rid of regulations that help keep our air and water clean. regulations that protect our consumers. regulations that make sure that wall street doesn't do the same kinds of things that created the financial crisis. the center piece of mr. romney's entire economic plan is a new $5 trillion tax cut. a lot of it is going to the wealthiest americans, but last week we found out he expects the middle class to pick up the tab to pay for it. they have tried to sell us this trickle down tax cut fairy dust before. it did not w

served by latvia. and track. the d.r. rocks 400 hurdles. solid gold. imagine sam saying it. finally, his take on tennis. congrats to andy murray for taking that gold. brits getting their george jefferson on. moving on up. i like that. we'd like to share a couple more but you know, sam jackson, uses a salty, sometimes off color language so we can't do it. it's not for everybody but you can look it up. guy's racked up a million twitter followers. we were talking about that. >> we were yesterday in the newsroom talking about a character he is as well. >> so there is your connection. it's amazing with twitter how you can be connected. >> raj mathai as well, if you tweet him he'll tweet you back in many cases which is amazing that he does that for his fans. we aren't going to have that many fans of the hot weather inland. temperatures are going to be at their peak. and this is the reason why. you can see all we have out there in terms of the marine layer. very thin as high pressure is squishing it to nothing. we're going to get enough of the natural coolant to keep it at 69 in sa

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>> across the street in the white house in latvia -- >> it used to be called the president's park. it's right outside the south lawn, and it used to be a roadway. it was a blade and in a book i have a picture of it in 1913, but then now it's got barriers because of my 11 -- 9/11 but you can look in ballan and c. michelle obama's bet vegetable garden and it says nothing about the titanic. and nobody knows who archie butt and frank were, so people -- the park ranger horses drink at the fountain but other than that, nobody knows what it's there for. >> why was this man so busy transmitting didn't he receive and read the news about the icebergs? >> receiving messages all day many of them had been posted to the bridge and he was the lead person whose testimony we have to go on the last message from california wasn't posted on the bridge. we only have his word to go on ad. we don't know for sure but there is certainly the story that when the californians gave us the message that they were stopped and trout in ice, jack the senior tacked back and said keep out on him working he made conta

they went -- and latvia and a couple of others with for this. my point is this is a flat tax.thing, virtually everyone is going to be paying 28%. it will probably take 10 or 20 years, but everyone will be paying, and there is clearly our relationship -- a relationship between the current tax system and aot. one reason the numbers are so great is because they assumed a lower tax rates -- they assume a lower tax rate. if we let them expire and fix it for one year, that means tax hits go up commoand it will fewer people. uncomplicated, yes. what economic results those in produce -- does it produce it? a flood of uncertainty and confusion. there may have been reason for amt one it was established, but it has not been affected -- in effect except for a small amount of people, and if we allow it to go into effect it will have a tremendous impact on upper income or lower income folks. is there a relationship between the two? yes. does that mean we need to address it? absolutely. let's set up a system that is logical, simple, take a look of the tax expenditures, see which ones are mos

let's have one flat tax and some eastern european countries, russia, latvia, and a couple of others went to a flat tax. they went to a flat tax because they had tax evasion, excessive amounts and the flat tax help them address that issue. my point is that the amt is flat tax. we do not do anything in terms of passing the empty. virtually everybody is going to be paying 28%. and it might take 10 or 20 years, something like that but everybody will be paying. there is clearly our relationship between the current tax system whether it is under the bush system or allowing the tax cut to expire and the empty. one of the reasons why the numbers are so great that i put up on this chart is because they assume the lower tax rates that are in effect now. the lower the tax rates, the more of the empty heads. if we let the tax tricks expire and fix the empty for one year, the tax -- normal tax rates -- the mts stays the same. it will hit fewer people. complicated, yes. it produces uncertainty, confusion, i do not see that there is any + to it at all. there may have been a reason for the empty when it

to give you an example last year i guess there was a story about a bank in latvia and they didn't havebligations and two or three tweets on twitter initially talked about this, sved bank going under, can't make it, so an individual viewing this might say oh wow, look at that, but when you looked at the data in aggregate, you saw that a few people had retweeted that story and a lot pushed back. i don't know who you are that's posting it, here is a url of their financials. they posted a picture saying i'm at an atm drawing out money. t >> have regulators come and asked or requested this data so they can monitor this activity as well? >> so the government agencies we're working with now are more on the emergency front so government agencies that are trying to do disaster relief and things like that. >> none on the financial sector? >> we're not working with anyone in the financial sector yet. so far, they've mainly been concerned with what people are posting which is what most of the banks and funds are good about blocking, they don't allow the outbound access. that said we're starting to

let's have one flat tax and some eastern european countries, russia, latvia, and a couple of others went to a flat tax. they went to a flat tax because they had tax evasion, excessive amounts and the flat tax hp them address that issue. my point is that the amt is flat tax. we do t do anything in terms of passing the empty. virtually everybody going to be paying 28%. and it might take 10 or 20 years, something like that but everybody will be paying. there is clearly our relationship between the current tax system whether it is under the bush system or allowing the tax cut to expire and the empty. one of the reasons why the numbers are so great that i put up on this chart is because they assume the lower tax rates that are in effect now. the lower the tax rates, the more of the empty heads. if we let the tax tricks expire and fix the empty for one year, the tax -- normal tax rates -- the mts stays the same. it will hit fewer people. complicated, yes. it produces uncertainty, confusion, i do not see that theres any + to it at all. there may have been a reason for the empty when it was orig

according it a harvard study, students in three country, including latvia, are improving in academicspending as much money either. and seven other countries are outsmarting americans twice as fast. so what will it take for the united states schools to make the grade? our next guest has a unique perspective. he's still a kid himself, in school. joining us is 17-year-old and author of "one size does not fit all." good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: the poster says the trouble with schools. what's the biggest thing we're doing wrong right now? >> right now we have this snow blow mentality in schools where we're not being affected by events in the outside world. we need to have school systems that focuses on kids doing projects and real world solutions, going out in the real world, working with people, mentors, apprenticeships and traveling. we need to have a system that makes sure that we're leveraging the creativity and the passion of students because the most important thing right now is that we need to put students that control their education. when they have the a