may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl our take. on this i had a sort of to daniel there you are standing by the author of business desk j.p. morgan's fighting back on the london whale is that right it is the troubled land the world demand millions of dollars payback from executives who lost billions in the strategy on the four balls james called flawed complex poorly reviewed poorly executed and poorly more that the f.b.i. got involved off to the playing straight to the long run of huge losses amazingly all the j.p. morgan divisions vols to posing against him several top managers including chief investment officer true have already quit them and wants them to return money as well the bank could report record losses or freud. another bank clearing skeletons and its close it is h.s.b.c. which will acknowledge. apologized for allowing money laundering by clients the u.s. senate's expected to question executives as part of his vulnerabilities to money laundering drugs and terrorist financing hearing says reuters comes off the

may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r t. well straight to the world of business and oh well some surprising news an unusual i'd say a former i.q. manager gets five years of penal colony what's it all about the swedish national was convicted of seeking illegal payments in exchange for retail space. ministers said in an e-mail statement today is the latest bribery scandal to go for the swedish firm here two executives were full of to agreeing to a bribe electrical contract two years ago. this check mark is because china southern airlines is issuing a profit warning over slow demand and high fuel prices its shares are down two percent and beijing is cutting petrol prices at the pump for the third time in two months over fall and demand a five percent cut spoke to get drivers buying fuel again but refineries more cuts will hit their profits e.u. markets ended cheesed off the brussels agreed to thirty billion euro to spain's debt ridden banks as you can see both the footsie induct point seven of cent high yesterday the ruble

may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r t. well danielle high there. is business news this hour let's see what's happening at all disney confirms that strict reputation for inforcing the company was north korea's performance of mickey mouse and when you get all through as it comes off the youthful leader kim jong un go to a special disney showing in fuel with both know what the freeze in the fall is because news also on children's gravestone showing their character is kinda goal to draw many males pictures. because. it is issuing a profit warning of a slowdown fuel prices its shares are down two percent and beijing is cutting prices at the pump for a third. fall into more of the fourth. cult is hope to get drivers buying fuel again but refineries fear more cuts will hit their profits europe has just opened. as investors yesterday's gains in fact across the board the ruble has made significant gains on other currencies in the first trade the euro's still flat on the greenback brings on the rebound off the heavy early losse

four years ago while it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon are to correspondent liz wahl has the story. now forty million dollars will be spent on a communication upgrade at guantanamo bay now this is the largest known infrastructure project for the base at least that we know of the plan is to lay out this underwater fiber optic cable from south florida to cuba where the base is located apparently satellite connection isn't good enough for guantanamo they want an underwater cable the base commander reportedly said quote it only makes sense if we're going to be here for any period of time now when infrastructure projects like that may well suggest the u.s. military is preparing to stay at guantanamo base for the long term and this is contrary to a campaign promise president obama made years ago when he was first running for office he pledged to shut down guantanamo and two thousand nine eleven signed an executive order to close the base but that never happened and as this latest project suggests more money is being pumped into upgrading the base in this case by improving c

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks shaking things up again the web site has started a syria files section they began publishing what they say are over two million e-mails from the syrian government rebels and companies that do business with syria so far they've released dozens of the files and they keep and they have plans to keep releasing them over the next two months now the site's founder julian assange says he hopes the documents could shed light on what's really going on inside the country a country that has been ravaged by a brutal civil war that has left fifteen thousand people dead since the conflict started over a year. go for more of the syria files i was joined by javelin radek director of the national security and human rights and government accountability project we first discussed juliana saunders statement that the files will likely embarrass both the syrian regime and the west. i think that's accurate i mean from what we've seen so far and again we're talkin

i'm liz wahl and you're watching t.v. we begin this hour with mounting tension with iran congress this week has announced more sanctions on the country this time they're aimed at companies that ship goods to iraq and all this is happening as questions remain over whether existing sanctions are working even defense secretary leon panetta has said the same sions are not stopping iran from pursuing nuclear ambitions so what can these new sanctions really achieve to discuss this is jamal of the policy director for the national iranian american council jamal welcome to the show so congress last year they announced these sanctions that would target financial institutions that do business with iran now they are expanding these saying share. what did these new new limits really do the new sanctions are really just a continuation of the old saying sions effectively they're tightening the screws on some of the same things that are already in place there's they're closing certain loopholes so-called loopholes they're imposing new sa

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well as the mainstream media plays catch up to the chaos in anaheim similar outrage is brewing and alice hundreds of protesters are taking to the streets this was after an officer was shot and killed a suspect that was reportedly unarmed police and riot gear responding to the demonstrations according to police the victim james harbor was shot after leading police on a chase the officer claims he was fearing for his life when he shot harper dead but the victims' families and hundreds of protesters aren't buying it just like the case in anaheim some protesters believe it was racially motivated and is just one example of a corrupt police force we will have more on this coming up later well the community outrage in anaheim is fueled in part by the fact that images of police brutality were caught on camera but across the country we've reported on police demanding people to stop recording them stripping them of their phones even arresting people for rolling the camera all this has raised qu

solution and blackjack they want to offer more drinking and gambling to fill the coffers but as it is liz wahl reports that may cause more trouble had. lost vegas the brake lights entice an influx of people looking for a good time. but if some cities and states across the country get their way what happens in vegas won't stay in vegas struggling to raise revenue and close the deficit some governments want to bring a piece of sin city home and marilyn marilyn lai recently opened its doors more than three football fields long the. massive adult playground is welcomed by some great employers put a lot of people to work great tax revenue great entertainment venue i think it's going to be a real plus for the area but despised by others it brings a lot more people in gambling i don't know how great that is for like the kid in the mall isn't really a family place now. and on the d.c. maryland border lies a national harbor a picture arrested development along the water. a proposed because you know would bring vegas to the potomac it's really nice here and in vegas they i mean even on the streets they

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. well starting off this hour with an update on julian assad the swedish government has rejected a request by aqua dorian officials to interview a songe in the u.k. that's according to the wiki leaks twitter feed it by the. to plead her case and she says she's extremely worried about the state of his health she says he's under extreme stress in the ecuadorian embassy and he's been under long term extreme stress for the last two years while these this case is being going on and he's really living in conditions similar to detention that was our correspondent laura smith with an update from london now arts he has been covering this story since the release of the collateral murder video which poll wiki leaks in the public eye as never before and we will continue on this story as it develops julian assange and his mother arrived in ecuador on monday and as we speak an r.t. crew is in ecuador following the developments from inside the country there's much more information coming out so stay t

may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r t. one another one of the world's biggest banks will say sorry danielle was a story h.s.b.c. will acknowledge and apologize for letting clients loan the money the u.s. senate is expected to question executives as part of its hearings called vulnerabilities to money laundering drugs and terrorist financing h.s.b.c. case history says a report by reuters it comes off the export police force will do him and said sorry for the bank consistently rigging interest rates. this check mark is because the asian markets have closed fairly mixed to the at the moment china saw their lines as issued a profit warning over slow demand and high fuel prices its shares are down two percent cuts in federal prices at the pump for a third time in two months over falling demand a five percent cut is hope to get drivers buying fuel again but refineries fear more cuts are hitting their profits the use floats on the back of wall street's disappointment yesterday madrid is the best performer though off the brus

may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl our team. of british tax haven gibraltar is targeting russia's rich daniels out of business das was always just right there in the rocks financial services minister says he's. also brazil india and china. it's a power of the. wrist with oil and private clients in the twenty enclave office by this coast you see that the rich can pay just twenty five thousand pounds on their global income the world's most believe it is many of its wealthy hold their fortunes over. time for markets with china southern airlines issuing a profit warning of a slow demand and high fuel prices its shares are down two percent in china and beijing slashing prices at the pump for a third time in two months over falling demand a five percent cultist hope to get drivers buying fuel again but refineries fear more cuts will hit their profits the e.u. has opened on the back of wall street's disappointment yesterday only madrid five big cities in the black off the brussels approve more cash for its banks the rubles ma

bring in the revenue of cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r.t. . katie at the business trading on the floors of wall street now happening what's the latest how are the markets doing yeah quite right nice to know the negative stuff for the u.s. stocks and that's despite best inexpensive weekly data on the u.s. jobless claims buyouts that news is failing to offset worries about the global growth situation we've got out the moment if we look at the dow jones eight tenths of a cent down the now is that one and all of a negative territory so far will monitor the situation throughout the day now so go to the u.s. things are pretty bad in california to where a third of the city is going to boston to wakes up on a day you know follows the like stilton after saying coal. its payroll foreclosure rates are shooting up in many parts of the us california is sixteen billion dollars in debt now let's move on so i learned the country has been dealt another blow by the finance minister saying that debt is likely to hit one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. in

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . a losing faith in the media americans confidence in television news has hit a new low that's according to a recent gallup poll these days only twenty one percent of americans have confidence in the news that's a forty six percent drop since one thousand nine hundred three and confidence in newspapers not much better and though the poll shows confidence has hit a new low that poll was taken before this happens. the individual mandate has been ruled unconstitutional justices have just got it both the centerpiece provisions of the obama health care law if in fact that's the final word on the individual mandate there could be a little bit more complicated like getting conflicting information we're getting inflicting information as you say there's been some confusion there are conflicting reports coming in from inside this supreme court so let's let's i'm drawing any final conclusions are still trying to figure this out the cautious with those we're trying to do the best we can right now a

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. well one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent u.s. history today a gunman opened fire inside a movie theater in denver killing twelve people and wounding more than fifty others the gunman you see here twenty four year old james holmes a former medical student before the shooting he threw a gas canister into the packed crowd of moviegoers law enforcement says he had an assault rifle a shotgun and two pistols holmes is now in custody the f.b.i. trying to investigate the suspect's home but found it to be booby trapped with explosives now we talk a lot about surveillance here and how it affects people's right to privacy and the just for justification for surveillance whether it's cameras or online the justification is that it is for our safety so in this day of high insecure. already and the vast of resources spent in the name of protecting our safety how does something like this happen to discuss this tragedy in depth and joined now by brian dorothy he's a senior editor for reason magazine he's also also the author of this buck you see t

may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r t. well straight to the world of business now where danielle is got all the latest business news of course and a new internet censorship laws cast a shadow over russia was that yes parliament's voting as early as today so it's without even a court order as part of a little looking cho pornography and other legal sites but shares in the country's top search engines all tumbling wolf is the government is moving to control the web call to quote postpone the bill and discuss it with industry representatives first russian wiki pedia pages shut down yesterday in protest this is because china is issuing a profit warning over slow demoed for fuel prices its shares down two percent and cutting prices at the pump for. third time in two months over falling demand five percent cuts hope to get drivers buying fuel again but refineries fear more cuts will hit their profits e.u. markets ended tuesday of the eurozone finance ministers agreed to release an urgent thirty billion euros to spain's trou

bring in the revenue of cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r.t. . time now for business update as he rushes back on track through safe haven absolutely a nice a direct investment into russia has reached fifty three billion dollars that's twenty two percent more than last year posting a new post crisis record corning's the united nations a conaway's who analyzed about forty developed countries they found out that every third wave box out of one hundred all invested in russia that makes volume of investment equivalent to about three percent of what the country's economy produces a good rest is confessed that it is the impressive growth of the domestic market and cheap labor. business to russia ok let's head to wall street and see how investors are forming in the second hour. all right it's another negative start for the u.s. and indeed that's why it's better than expected weekly data on u.s. jobless claims fell into offset the worries about the global growth but the dow jones there on the whole five percent down the nasdaq nearly one and a half

may bring in the revenues cities and states across the country so desperately needs in washington liz wahl r.t. . that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to our you tube channel you tube dot com slash r t america check out our website our two dot com slash usa.

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. all campaign season is in full swing and president obama now has six months to fulfill his election promises and he made a lot of them let's take a look at some of the big ones and now he's scored on his report card first one there by malia and sasha a dog done we give him in a credit card bill of rights accomplished that also given a there remove troops from iraq he gets an a minus he announced the end to the war but military contractors are still there the reform the health care system we gave him a grade of c. he tried but didn't get all the bells and whistles in that he promised get unemployment below four percent we gave him a d. it's more like double that right now civilize the economy we gave him an eye for an incomplete for obvious reasons get ten percent of electricity from renewable resources by two thousand and twelve we gave him an ass that isn't even close to being a reality in the whole cylinder debacle didn't help his grade they're close guantanamo bay we gave him a fai

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t. well as a civil war group syria doesn't look like there is an end in sight this after top syrian officials are killed they include the defense minister the deputy defense minister the security it adviser and assad's brother in law now it's unclear whether a suicide bomber or a remote explosive device was used and the explosion and violence rages on in the region want to take a look at just how the conflict is being covered and how the media is shaping public perception of what's going on there especially after a new poll that shows the public perception of conflicts abroad is just plain wrong take a look at this. sixty three percent of republicans polled still believe there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq that's a big difference from democrats and republicans a much smaller number believe and that miss truth to this day now when it comes to syria it's very difficult to know just what's happening there that's because the syrian government for the most part is not letting journ

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. well campaign season is in full swing and president obama now has six months to fulfill his election promises and he made a lot of up let's take a look at some of the big ones and how he scored on his report card well by malia and sasha a dog he got an a for that credit card bill of rights he also did fared pretty well to remove the troops from iraq he also scored in a but more of an a minus because he announced the end to the war but military contractors are still there. moving on now from to help get the health care reform we gave him a c. because he tried but didn't get all the bells and whistles in that he promised to get unemployment is below four percent i mean unemployment he has promised was to make a four percent but it's actually more around double that he's getting a d. he also wanted to stabilize the economy we gave him an incomplete because i guess by just kind of speaks for itself he also vowed to get renewable energy to ten percent by two thousand and twelve he gets an

companies so we wanted to find out a little bit more how exactly this works so our team correspondent liz wahl broke this down to give us a look on what's really going on and how it could be affecting you. neustar is a massive telecommunications company the delaware based company was founded back in one thousand nine hundred eighty as part of lockheed martin one of the world's largest defense contractors now the company has grown to provide a wide range of services providing information for internet and detainment and marketing industries now what alarm security experts is just how much information this company has about consumers anyone that uses the internet or cell phones that is news starr has info on just about every cell phone in the country in its database they also manage telephone area codes and numbers and with this vast amount of data hundreds of companies turn to neustar to handle law enforcement surveillance requests now since new star isn't a wireless carrier they've been able to work under the radar their role is to provide this invisible network store and streamline communicati

i'm liz wahl in you're watching our team. was the mainstream media catches up to the chaos in anaheim similar outrage is brewing in dallas hundreds of protesters there taking to the streets this after an officer and was shot in officer shot and killed a suspect that was reportedly on armed police in riot gear responding to the demonstrations according to police the victim james harper was shot after leading police on a chase the officer claims he was fearing for his life when he shot harper dead but the victim's families and hundreds of protesters aren't buying it and just like the anaheim case some protesters believe it was a racially motivated and is just one example of a corrupt police force there for more right now and a marlin writer for the dallas observer joins me now and a well. so what more can you tell us about this case. at this point what we know is that the dallas police received what they now believe was a bogus nine one one call yesterday afternoon claiming that there is an attempted kidnapping at this residenc

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. . one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent u.s. history today a gunman opened fire inside a movie theater in denver killing twelve people and wounding more than fifty others the gunman seen here twenty four year old james holmes a former medical student holmes is now in custody the f.b.i. trying to investigate the suspects home but found it to be booby trapped with explosives now we talk a lot about surveillance here at r.s.c. and how it affects people's rights to privacy and the justification for surveillance whether it's cameras online is for safety so and this high if this in the day and night and security and the vast resources spent in the name of protecting our safety how does something like this happen to discuss this tragedy earlier i was joined by brian doherty senior editor for reason magazine he's also also the author of the book you see there gun control on trial well we're reading the stories correctly and have one. in the back of it or came in with some sort of data shooting people why it escapes me a little bit what

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. all starting off this hour with an update on julian assad the swedish government has rejected a request by edward. in officials to interview a songe in the u.k. that's according to the wiki leaks twitter feed the whistleblower has been held up in an embassy for the past six weeks seeking asylum in ecuador he's trying to avoid being extradited to sweden over sex crimes but his ultimate fear is being sounds of the u.s. are to correspondent laura smith has more from london. according to this twisted feeds they have rejected the invitation without any kind of meaningful explanation and i mean this is doesn't really come as a particular surprise ever since this case began almost two years ago now. julian assange has been has been offering for this week to come to london and question him here and they've never done that so this is an ongoing thing i guess maybe what his legal team and indeed the ecuadorian diplomats felt could be different this time is that the invitation isn't coming from

immensely so what are the highs and lows in the history of doping and the olympics are to correspondent liz wahl came up with a list so let's give out some of our very own r.t. awards to commemorate. well we'll start our award ceremony with a few honorable mentions these are teams we think at least deserve a shout out the most prominent the german olympic team who could forget those athletes pumped up bodies in the country's huge olympic medals hall despite having less than twenty million citizens thousands of these german athletes were given steroids and what a german court later called a systematic and overall doping in east german competitive sports these german sports doctors gave athletes anabolic steroids and testosterone when they were as young as thirteen years old the drugs cause side effects like cancer organ damage infertility and more and we want to give an honorable mention to the united states track and field team more than one hundred athletes including nineteen medalist from different sports tested positive for banned substances from one nine hundred eighty eight to two thousand

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i'm liz wahl in you're watching our t.v. well our fundamental rights are mapped out in the bill of rights but in this modern world is it time to adopt an internet bill of rights many internet leaders think so a group of online ag advocates are calling on elected officials to sign the document it's pretty simple the bill of rights homes and on five key rights we need to fight to keep on the internet here they are expression don't censor the internet access openness innovation and privacy that's to protect privacy and defend everyone's ability to control how their data and devices are used now the group that came up with this banded together. they are in opposition of sopa and pipa to internet bills critics say strip citizens of some of these rights on the internet but we are seeing a bill after bill come out that aim to regulate the internet in one way or another so as a fight is a fight. fight internet is a fight the internet advocates can win excuse me to discuss this and more joining me now is aaron schwartz he is the foun

i'm liz wahl and you're watching. well despite what you hear he's still in the running republican presidential candidate ron paul and his supporters aren't giving up on his delegate strategy and it looks like that effort is paying off in the state of nebraska one week from today there will be holding its convention now paul nabs the state it will be the fifth state who's delegation paul controls and according to republican national committee rules securing five states means you can formally be nominated for president and that guarantees him time to speak on the floor so it's not over yet but can he pull it off and what would a win and a breast a mean for paul in his very loyal following to weigh in brian doherty senior editor at reason dot com joins us now he's all the also the author of the book you see there ron paul revolution the man and the movement he inspired brian welcome so it's not a done deal yet is it. it is not you know wrongful campaign has been declared dead many a time since january and it's never been

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t. well i worth while some are busy traveling this holiday others are busy protesting the national occupy a gathering is set to take place tomorrow independence day and they picked a good setting for the date occupy groups from across the country are gathering at independence mall in philadelphia it's all in hopes of reviving the movement and shining a spotlight on corporate greed and income inequality in the nation earlier spoke with our t. correspondent abbie martin who is on the ground in philadelphia to tell us what is happening take a look. i don't like any other are higher protests i've been to so far because this is the first national gathering it's not a localized action so there's occupy groups in the whole of the country getting together gathering in one place but there is also i mean hundreds of auctions across these five days of the national gathering the first national government of occupy wall street so it's a really interesting scene there's people of all demographics out

probably won't be up and running for another two years and it doesn't require congressional approval liz wahl r.t. washington d.c. . it was a big talking point the two thousand elections it's not really on americans radar these days it's seen as are sort of still spending millions of dollars to hold hundreds of people there without charges for over a decade it certainly should be it doesn't look like it will be closing its doors and in time soon. he's the x. president that gave enough guffaws to fill comedy shows for decades of course i'm talking about the one and only george w. bush well it's a sixty sixth birthday today for this special occasion we're going to play some of his best highlights from his eight year term and by best i mean some of the most absurd comedic moments of his presidency take a look we need energy. consumption our enemies are innovative and resourceful. so we. they never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we. we must never stop thinking about how best to defend our country i'm the decider and i decide what is best the united