here to discuss the findings are matthew leatherman of the stinson center and steech paul of the programsultation. gentlemen, welcome to the program. matt, let me start with you. different than the one that is have come before it and what are the major takeaways? >> there's a major difference between this survey and the one that is come before it. this survey looks at how the defense budget is actually built. we aggregate the budget into ground forces, air forces, navel forces, much in the same way the pentagon engages the budget. it's actually the military services that are building it, that's why you see such ut:h0@6cj% going back for 40-plus years. it varies within 1.5% traditionally. we look at people to look at it in that same lens. we hope by doing so the results will be more applicable to a heated defense budget debate for the 2012 election and beyond. >> we also gave them more information about how much actually goes to defense. we showed them how much is spent relative to other items udget, as a percentage of gdp, as compared to the past, as compared to potential enemies. so the

majority of american warships will be deployed in the area by twenty twenty talk show host stephen leatherman a says the military buildup is clearly aimed at china. well america is doing everything possible to maintain its star going to school or globally months back obama gave a speech he said that america will increase its presence in middle east and the east asia north korea is the punching bag china is the target china knows it just the way russia knows that being encircled with u.s. bases in america's missile shield has nothing to do with iran and everything to do with russia and america was to establish basing rights already has them by numerous countries in central asia japan of course and south korea china knows there's china believes that the south china sea. is what it is america wants to come in and usurp them but just imagine what it china or russia what it its fully of america's east the west coast for the congress it would probably be an act of war greece is gearing up for a parliamentary election and less than two weeks time which could mean athens scrapping its bailout deal wi

in the area by twenty twenty let's discuss that now with american radio host and author stephen leatherman he joins us via broadband from chicago stephen and that is visit to vietnam is likely to irritate china which is unhappy with any u.s. build up in the region does the u.s. fear it's losing its dominance globally. where we're used to here is impossible to maintain its star going to school globally and he said. months maybe a year ago you know the time goes by so fast. speech he said that america will increase its presence in two so the world middle east was there to be continue. to be forward for what they're for because of the middle east to say to a leader in the other part of the world in. east asia previous r.t. interview. i said that north korea is the punching bag china is the target china knows it just the way russia knows they're being encircled with us bases in america's missile shield it is nothing to do with a rear end it is everything to do with russia and america it was the established basing rights already has them by numerous countries in central asia japan of course and

america's warships will be deployed in the area by twenty twenty american talk show host stephen leatherman says this is a virtual declaration of war for domination in the region. well america is doing everything possible to maintain its star going to school globally month spare obama gave a speech he said that america will increase its presence in middle east in the east asia north korea is the punching bag china is the target china knows it just the way russia knows it's being encircled with u.s. bases and america's missile shield it is nothing to do with the ram it is everything to do with russia and america was to establish basing rights already has them by numerous countries in central asia japan of course in south korea china knows there's china believes that the south china sea is is what it is america wants to come here and you certainly are just american what if china or russia one of its fleet of america's east the west coast for the congress there would probably be an air war. now let's have a look at some other stories making world headlines a plane crash in nigeria kills all on

these were somewhat of a leat r leatherman of the 18th century, an all-purpose field. rather than using this in battle, you could use this like stick it in the ground, it's a candle holder. you could use it for digging things. if you can see, this is bent. they probably used it to pry things open with, maybe crate boxes. anything like that. you could use it as a tent stake. bury it in the ground and tie your tent to that. really, it has 101 uses at least, and people really appreciated having these not as a weapon as much as for as a tool to use in camp. and such. a lot of guys would wrap dough around it or stick meat on it and use it as a skewer when they were cooking. so there were a lot of really neat things you could do with a bayonet that made it a very, very handy tool at that time. and if you want to come across the hall here, another fabulous artifact that we have, another one of my favorites is up here on the ceiling. one of the things that clara wrote up in her diary is you see this wide, wide and kind of light blue wallpaper on the ceiling. that is the wallpa

all right stephen leatherman live with us on the line from chicago via broadband thank you stephen for your and now seth. now bring you some of today's world news a passenger plane has crashed into a two story building in nigeria's largest city at least one hundred forty people were on board the m d eighty three donna air jet it's unlikely there are any survivors but it came down in a neighborhood near lagos airport an earlier another nigerian plane overshot a runway in guyana and plowed into a bus ten people in that vehicle were killed but all four people on the cargo jet survived. miserable weather has failed to stop student protesters from turning out in their thousands once again in montreal talks earlier this week with the canadian government failed to reach a deal on the controversial rise in tuition fees the correct demos began in february and escalated last month when an emergency anti protest wall was passed over two and a half thousand people have been arrested since rallies began. britain's been marking queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee with the biggest river pageant in thre