i think clemency hearing lauren belafonte son of leave asked that sean be executed lauren is a true man of the south he. has always been in favor of capital punishment. i didn't decide to punish and see that you've got to remember that twelve other people decided that was his punishment that was a fitting punishment for climate committed. because i happen to agree with it it is a side subject that's that's. that's good for me. it well bella fodder lauren sister lives in the town of lawton and center of oklahoma. she also waited thirteen years impatiently for shown to be executed. oklahoma the families of victims have the right to view the execution. well and her family came to the penitentiary to watch shawn being put to death. if. he was struck down to a table with his arms out to his side and they had run an i.v. which was how they were going to. commit the execution it was lethal injection it was all to. it was altered intravenously he was prepped and ready to gallon line down and the warden was in there and some doctor. saw a few prison guards i believe there was no fear he was happ

lauren's parents chose an auditory/oral education and a cochlear implant at an early age. diana: so, i wenouout, and i researched older children, how they were doing with their cochlear implants, and they were doing phenomenally. so then i got the cochlear implant when i was 3, and then that's when i started going to lois. the goal is always to be able to listen. that's always the primary goal, and so it's getting her to listen to the sounds in a fun way and respond to them, and one of the techniques that we used for speech was oral motor therapy, which means that we are working on the structure and the rerength and flexibility of the articulators because children that haven't heard the first 3 years of life don't really use their jaw strength and their tongue strength the same way as children who have, and so we've strengthened those so she can make all the rapid movements of speech, and i think what you hear with lauren is, she has beautiful speech. i saw him yesterday. and you have to set goals for yourself, and you have to try to meet those goals, and if you don't, you

in our new york studio and lauren it's almost as if establishing your credentials and tell of eve is as vital as say something right here in new hampshire. it certainly seems so but though in the case of sarah palin her people said the trip was personal and not political but yet it was the american jewish coalition who was in talks with her for her to make this trip and they report that they've made requests to all of the republican politicians who have been rumored or said to have possibly be contenders in the two thousand and twelve presidential elections to make trips to israel today they meet with israeli leaders they take pictures with benjamin netanyahu so the real question is why is it so important for these politicians to be hobnobbing with the prime minister of another country when did not even so much as announce their candidacy for president her home. the pilgrimage of presidential hopefuls in the western wall a photo walk with netanyahu will all first stops ahead of a possible run for the u.s. top spot in some ways i think of israel as the new iowa you know it's like sort

studios hi lauren how are you doing. well let's just get straight to the bottom of this i mean is the american dream as we know he dead. well it depends on what you consider the american dream if you consider home ownership a large part of that and if indeed fannie and freddie are done away with then there's a strong case to be made that yes it will be gone now i do want to say that it's not obviously been determined what will happen with fannie and freddie there are different options and people that i interviewed for this story did say that some are just cosmetic and the government would still be involved in subsidizing housing but there is a large argument in a large proposal being made to wind fit freddie and fannie down altogether and in that scenario it could be a lot more difficult for people to get loans it's going to be a lot more difficult to for people to own a home i mean as it is over the last thirty years wages have been stagnant and american savings we know has been extremely low now those are the things th

be clear and that is that this country could no longer afford to prop up the middle class parties lauren lyster explains more. the american dream. to be everybody home and provide for your family so we thought about the way picket fence it's that traditional vision of homeownership central to living the dream so many people these days we live in the faberge which is turned into a nightmare for millions of americans who've lost their homes to foreclosure or are facing it now people like retired corrections officers contract she didn't want to show her face because of this it's a horrible thought to be facing foreclosure you have a family you have children and you try to keep things stabilize for them but she feels helpless in the fight against losing their home if that you wish and she's in because of a dispute with the banks over the terms of her adjustable rate mortgage i do feel like this i right the should be my right to remain in my home i've been here for nearly twenty years but now americans like sandra may have to kiss the national eat those that says owning a home is a birthright

lyster party new york well this certainly seems to be a hot trend right now lauren want to bring you back into this discussion you know from europe are going to looks like we're seeing is mostly republicans but talk about this and also i'm wondering if you know who's funding these trips. a couple good questions christine and as far as right now yes we are seeing a lot of republican candidates of course president obama is expected to run for reelection in two thousand and twelve so that may be one reason why we're not seeing an exodus of democratic candidates or hopefuls going over to israel but experts say that nonetheless absolutely democrats and republicans both go lots of money and on the line for republican for democratic candidates too it's actually been estimated according to high asked him it by the washington post that democratic presidential candidates and parties look to private jewish money to total sixty percent of what they raise so there's a significant number along on the line for democrats as sturrock lee and for republicans that number drops to estimates between twen

correspondent for in mr lauren now obviously right now we're talking about these possible republican presidential candidates that are making their trips but is this a requirement for democrats as well. i'm glad you asked that because they do want to point out that it is both right now we're seeing republicans because obviously obama is up for reelection in two thousand and twelve but experts say that both sides of the aisle do this and it's very important and if you look back to the two thousand and eight elections ahead of that we saw obama ad words clinton all making trips clinton also going when she was a senator for new york so definitely both sides of the aisle make these trips i'm just curious who pays for these trips i mean the some of the come out of their own pockets where they raise money. eliminate cases it's actually the jewish political organizations that pay for them the republican jewish coalition was in talks for to send pale and she did not end of going through them but they sent hillary barber they sent mitt romney back in two thousand and seven they sent george w.

in iraq and afghanistan but today let's look into another important element of war psyops archies lauren lyster will join me to discuss how the military works to sell a positive image when it comes to our war on terror and tax season is upon us it turns out that there's somebody who isn't paying their taxes this year big corporations companies posting billions of dollars in profits but yet they pay no income tax we're going to find out which corporations are getting that free pass and what if anything we can do about it and today is the one hundredth anniversary of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire it was called by some the day that the new deal began so what can we say one hundred years later about the plight of labor in america and it's friday which means it will toast to the hottest stories making a buzz in our happy hour segment there's a new study about religious people that i think might shock you but we're going to save all the details for the end of the show now our top story. it's day seven for attacks on libya and the question about this war all they keep piling up airstrike

for the london tube bombers final journey today as residents are increasingly on edge as artie's lauren at this coverage. mosques his jabs and how me chops a scene straight from the bazaars of the orient but this is luton north of london home to some twenty five thousand muslims of british and origins one of them was time or abdel wahab abdel better known now as the stockholm bomber abdul qadeer bashed knew him and describes a volatile character rejected by the community at large but he was he was challenged his ideologies is things were challenged we challenged him and when we realised he wasn't we exposing to everybody every move of this part of this person's community. we walked out and we never saw him again the next day hurt our had blown himself our kids we did and that's just the latest claim to infamy for luton which is fast becoming known as a hotbed of extremism breeds extremism and in steps the english defense league committed to protecting england from what they see as a wave of islam is a leader tommy robinson believes he's walking where others fear to tread we have called

end up hurting their wallets we're going to hash it all out with our chief financial correspondent lauren lyster then the hacktivists have struck again after concentrating their efforts on defending weekly leaks anonymous has expanded and recently they attacked a web site for the koch brothers group americans for prosperity and now they've added more groups to their hit list and we want to know why they've advanced their mission we're going to speak with two members to find out and would you put a price tag on your internet privacy some people have saying that they'd sell their personal information to companies if the price is right but it brings up a larger issue where privacy isn't just a right anymore it's now become a commodity and a hot one at that will discuss the changing role of internet privacy with ryan rattie at the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story. unrest continues in a number of countries in the middle east and north africa and officials are reacting with harsh words and harsh actions over the weekend the u.n. security council unanimously set sanctions o

middle eastern country so how important is a photo op in tel aviv in the race for president artie's lauren lyster has the answer. the pilgrimage of presidential hopefuls. the western wall a photo walk with newton you. who all first starts ahead of a possible run for the u.s. top spot in some ways i think of his role as the new iowa you know it's like sort of the indicator that you're running for president is a trip to israel but why go all the way to tell of the in search of the holy grail that's a rite of passage for presidential term and it's. through is mostly it's about money jewish and pro israel money accounts for between one quarter and one third of all donations to the major political parties some estimate higher and one former congresswoman put it this way the executive branch the. legislative branch pro israel federal campaign contributions amounted to more than eleven point seven million dollars in two thousand and ten leaving other foreign and defense policy contributions along with human rights women's issues the environment and gun rights donations in the dust and this power

lyster lauren thanks so much for joining us now june thirtieth is going to be d.-day according to bill gross here so i guess just just lay it on give us all the details as to why it's so scary. well you know bill gross huge investor runs the world's largest gone fund so he has a major stake in this market but he's essentially saying and pointing out what everybody is you know q e z has been a very high profile program where the fed has been clearing all of this money out of the market buying u.s. bonds eyeing up u.s. treasuries so what it's essentially been doing is propping up that market six hundred billion dollars this time the first one right before that one point five trillion dollars so trillions of dollars that have been boosting up this market and bill gross his assertion is that when that money is gone there may not be the private investment to replace it and that this market could totally tank that bonds could taint and that's the argument that he's making and pretty strong words this time but he has been down on bonds and how to bearish outlook for quit

policy street creds bypass all of these other countries and head straight to the stump in just one lauren lyster r.t. new york. so you have to wonder do most americans even know or care about the road to white house goes through israel yes israel is america's ally yes the jewish lobby is very powerful in washington but how much of america as in the public and their interests do they really represent so joining me from our studio in new york is our chief correspondent for in leicester lauren obviously right now we're talking about these possible republican presidential candidates that are making their trips but is this a requirement for democrats as well. i'm glad you asked that because they do want to point out that it is both right now we're seeing republicans because obviously obama is up for reelection in two thousand and twelve but experts say that both sides of the aisle do this and it's very important and if you look back to the two thousand and eight elections ahead of that we saw obama ad words clinton all making trips clinton also going when she was a senator for new york so defi

new york present interesting point lauren brings up there is a lot of allies certainly israel is one of them are important one let's talk about this it seems to be a hot trend of course that we are getting into that almost election period we are seeing mostly republicans but of course there's some obvious reasons for that but harlow about it also i'm curious if you can explain who funds these trips. absolutely yeah right now we're seeing a lot of republican candidates because of course obama will be up for reelection in two thousand and twelve but analysts assure me that candidates from both sides of the aisle make these journeys and in fact democrats seem to be more reliant on money from the pro israel lobby according to statistics less conservative numbers than the ones that i cited in my report in two thousand and six in the washington post indicate that the democratic presidential candidates and party rely on private jewish money for up to sixty percent of their private donations so quite a sizable number and that's thirty five percent for republicans and when you consider that t

in on what's been going on behind the scenes i'm joined live by our chief correspondent going mr lauren thanks so much for joining us i know i know that we're still waiting for this vote to happen basically as we're speaking right now but are there any details that are emerging about this resolution what it would mean you know i've heard them say essentially that would stop just short of boots on the ground. well and it's still unclear whether or not a vote will even take place tonight francis who's been saying that that's expected at six but as we know russia is not on board with the no fly zone there are still many things to be laid out and we don't know exactly what's in this resolution they have not given a draft out or leave one that crosses to my knowledge so essentially what we know though is what some diplomats and some officials are saying you mentioned susan rice and we've heard clinton come out saying that the u.s. is now pushing for something beyond the no fly zone they want additional measures additional sanctions that would protect civilians on the ground and on the seas s

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council has unanimously ordered the travel and assets ban on the leave your leaders regime archies lauren lyster looks at how those resources abroad might be used. well as violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention and meanwhile western countries may have already launched a war against colonel moammar gadhafi as north african regime countries consider. freezing over. of. the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or could off he and his family that some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe or you all money invested through the country's sovereign wealth fund everything from a stake in the company that owns the financial times newspaper to land near the spanish resort town of moore being developed into homes and a golf course to the oil company of your annex and billions of dollars of cash in vehicles throughout europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially the thirty billion dollars the u

to try to not to keep it all here for we should go look lauren lyster r.t. new york very very close up next with a business update stay with us here on our. own welcome to the business news on the we've just had the russian markets closed they closed down we'll have more on that in just a second russia's economy seeing a windfall from the steep rise in global energy prices that's on the back of instability in the middle east and north africa while producing opec is considering increasing oil production to declining world output however on the same situation could help russia win new customers notably an asia. this comes at an interesting time for russia because in the last couple of years in the last year in particular russia has made great strides in supplying oil to the far east particularly through the eastern siberia pipeline and through the protocols in there and into china you know i think so part of russia's had a little bit of a p.r. battle on its hands because most asian sooners which after all is the growth markets tend to prefer supplies out of th

are threatening the country's economy and as artie's lauren lister discovered the hike in energy costs could see the above administration come under fire. ok tunisia. egypt. and bahrain. algeria. and libya protest in countries seeming to a few one another unrest spreading like wildfire through the middle east and north africa only raging in or near the oil rich countries that helped fuel the world's use of more than eighty four million barrels of crude a day. uncertainty over production has sent prices soaring i mean the shock waves from the middle east turmoil are being felt worldwide now the mideast crisis is hitting home for outrage americans as oil prices have skyrocketed so too have the prices people pay for gasoline and now the price americans pay at the pump is threatening to derail the u.s. economic recovery a surge in oil. prices will be the end of the u.s. economy not just an end to the recovery there's no more bailouts what a reality peak oil expert michael c. rupert sees happening in oriel hits one hundred fifty dollars a barrel which he believes is inevitable this year oth

likely farther reaching than the radiation itself lauren mr r.t. new york well let's have a look at some other international news making headlines this hour in our world update syrian activists are calling for nationwide on rest with tens of thousands marching across the country troops are being deployed in the city of latakia to restore calm after twelve people were killed during demonstrations on saturday the government blames gangs for the bloodshed president is expected to address the nation soon and lift an emergency law in place for almost fifty years. two palestinian militants have been killed and another was injured by an israeli airstrike in gaza it happened a day after hamas said it would agree a ceasefire with israel if attacks on gaza were stopped. by increased violence with at least ten people including civilians and children killed by israeli attacks. german chancellor angela merkel's ruling party looks set for a humiliating defeat in a key regional election exit polls indicate the christian democrats are about to lose in. after six d

massive sums of money reach for libyan oil is now is uncertain is the divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york still had on a program the name of the night a moscow nightclub throws a party titled after russia's prime minister but a lot of reporters not exactly flattered at being the face of the event also. resort to moscow's rooftop to see what one of the city's highest flying women is up to. it looks like it all is this is a make or is a need to watch their backs with more italian shifting their support to find new people to kick start their country but that could mean a worrying a lurch to the far right as matthew stevens reports from rome. italy. is turning bitter unemployment's is a near record. high and analysts believe much needed economic growth might still be years away more of a fresh scandals engulfing prime minister berlusconi now being reported on a daily basis cheering italians traditional distrust of politicians bad news yes but not for everyone grassroots political movements rather than parties cashing in on this grim state of affairs among them neofascists

interests not to lives lauren lyster r.t. new york. keep on top of developments on the world of big stories by following our t.v. on twitter and facebook we've also got plenty of video reports and coverage lined up on our huge of china. if. he is eve. to. such. comes. down the field official antti have to cation chobani phone oh i pod touch from the i choose option. which all she lives on the go. video on demand oxys minefield costs and r.s.s. feeds and now with the palm of your. question on the coffee. machine soon which brightened the. song from phones to impression. these firms totty don't come. wealthy british style. guide to the title. market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy was much stronger for a no holds barred. the global financial headlines tune in to cause report. right for staying with us here on r.t.e. eleven minutes after the hour and moscow turning now to japan where aftershocks continue rattling the country raising fears of further damage workers at the stricken fukushima power pla

to strive to not shoot you with all your wishes around to lauren mr r.t. new york only because foreign minister talks or just a few minutes and that's though we've got a business news with kareena stay with us. our welcome to business thanks for joining us as economies seeing a windfall from a steep rise in global energy prices on the back of instability in the middle east and north africa all produce a cartel or packers considering an increase in production to boost the climbing world however analysts say the situation could help russell bring new customers in asia. well this comes at an interesting time for russia because in the last couple of years in the last year in particular russia has made great strides in supplying oil to the far east particularly through the eastern siberia line and through the porticoes minute there and into china you know i think so far china russia is had a little bit of a p.r. battle on its hands because most asian seumas which after all is the growth market tend to prefer supplies out of the middle east because they're known

as the founder of wiki leaks found out and even in this dangerous field there are a few veterans lauren lyster takes a tour with one old school whistleblower to see the hidden side of new york. a winter's day rendezvous with an unusual tour guide and critic critic we are here with john young he started the website or he got to the game about ten years before wiki leaks did write releasing classified and secret documents of governments from all over the world on his site and another thing that he does is he goes all over photographing what you call sensitive sites right here where word near-side right now he photographs them and put them on his website for the world to see and he's going to tag along and he's going to show us new york city through his eyes we begin outside the federal courthouse where terrorism suspects are tried photos john is published of places like this as well as the police and judicial headquarters known as the ring of steel where he's taking us now have led the f.b.i. to visit him and critics to say he's putting national security at risk in the contrary as it shou

interests not to live its lauren mr r.t. new york keep on top of developments in the world's top stories by following our team on twitter and facebook we've also got hours of video reports and coverage lined up for you on our you tube travel. if. the cave. comes comes. down like the official cation phone on called touch from the choose ops to. munch on sea life on the go. see video on demand r.t.s. minefield costs and feeds now in the palm of your. question . call. first cream removal call the clear cut. second explosives are used in a turn in the period. heard the remains are removed by machinery. finally some more good soil is deposited in vallecito. wealthy british. market financials. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to come as a report on. thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. turning to japan now where aftershocks continue rattling the country raising fears of further damage workers at the stricken fukushima power

lauren list found out panic is spreading faster than great. as japan works overtime to avert a nuclear meltdown is another crisis in the making maybe maybe think twice second thoughts born of paranoia that radioactive remnants may reach far beyond japan's borders how worried about the seafood maybe the seafood is safe and radiation bomb in the water what i'm going to be very wary of that. it's the fear of japanese imports going all the way to the top u.s. regulators have said they will increase screenings of food coming in from the embattled asian nation the european union has warned members to do the same and italy was the first e.u. nation to ban food imports from japan all together in the wake of the nuclear scare it's fueling suspicion that besides the quake the tsunami and the nuclear crisis japan will soon have to deal with another problem becoming a trade pariah like we will for reasons that may not be entirely radioactive countries all over the world in tough economic times and they still are looking for ways to subsidize their own pro

ride and there's no way out of it now but i can tell you the government understands that it's time lauren mr r.t. new york. afghan president hamid karzai says washington isn't doing enough to prevent mounting civilian casualties caused by american and nato military actions in his country he will waste his criticism in a video conference with president barack obama thursday it calls nato's apology a day earlier for killing nine children and a preliminary alliance report shows the boys all under age of twelve were gathering firewood widely were targeted airstrike overall estimates suggest manos campaign in the country has caused over nine thousand civilian deaths since two thousand and one political activist daoud sultanzoy says innocent afghans are becoming mere statistics in america's so-called war on terror. it's very difficult to translate these apologies into into really meaningful. things to victims' families these are casualties that have been happening for too many years and there are too many civilian casualties the people of afghanistan civilians are the victims of both nato civil

or against then depending on the threat to us to entrance not to live lauren lyster r.t. new york. the more images we're getting in from libya a plane has been shot down over the main rebel held city of benghazi it went down in flames outside the city early on saturday after the area came under shelling is despite moammar gadhafi is government declaring a cease fire and it's had to outmaneuver a western military intervention but the opposition says shells rained down well after the announcement and he accused the libyan leader of lying. and you can keep on top of all of the developments in the world's top stories by following r t on twitter and facebook also plenty of video reports and coverage lined up on our you tube channel. if. the evening. comes to. sit. down let the official see how to make a show on the phone or i pod touch from the choose obstacle. which all cheap flights on the go. see video on demand all keys money fuel costs and streets now in the palm of your. christian. call wealthy british sign. on the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global ec

and farmer from our earlier today did speak with our key financial respondent lauren lyster and she told me why the u.s. military might get involved in the situation in libya listen libya has forty six billion barrels of oil and reserves there that's a huge number and they cite where this rebellion started it happened in benghazi which is right near all of the reserves right where oil. production takes place near all of the oil rich fields they do not think that's going to dental they think that u.s. involvement would be under the guise of helping the people but that it would really be about protecting the oil in the corporate interests that operate there you know . online on analysts and commentators have noted that there was an editorial in the last three journal last week saying that the u.s. should be involved in helping the libyan people overthrow gadhafi and you know the wall street journal obviously representing more pro-business points point of view and all of these are kind of reasons that people point to to say that yes this would be about u.s. corporations and oil and not abou

and trade consent shock waves through the system likely farther reaching than the radiation itself lauren mr r.t. new york. there was an international music brief and first of all tanks and troops have moved into the yemeni capital after three top army commanders join to government protesters it comes a day after president ali abdullah saleh a five years' time but the political revolts been met with a fierce crackdown over recent weeks with around fifty people killed by government forces in one day alone the opposition's been demanding the president step down for two months now. the overwhelming majority of egyptians have voted in favor of constitutional change after president hosni mubarak was overthrown last month for films include limiting presidential terms and outlining a criteria for government candidates next the country will hold parliamentary elections in june and presidential ones in september. fifty two miners a few dead after a series of gas explosions in a mine in pakistan rescue work is continuing tonight but officials there say there's little chance of finding any survivors

is all these recalls to try to not see if you don't hear from listeners out there go look lauren lyster r.t. new york. we've been talking about it for months but now it's official yesterday president obama signed an executive order to create a formal system of indefinite detention for those still held at guantanamo bay they also plan to rescind the suspension of military commissions which obama had originally stopped on his first day in office now the executive order will apply to at least forty eight of one hundred seventy two detainees still held the kid no one for the rest it sets a supposedly new system of review where detainees can argue that they should be released because they no longer pose a threat but considering that this war on terror seems never ending the congress has imposed barriers to transfer detainees even if they believe them not to be a threat there if you system doesn't sound too promising so we say that this seals the deal they give no we'll continue to be open for years to come and it makes us question if obama has done a complete one eighty in two years or if he