continue without its leader in congress is something for the history books to decide include texas meghan lopez rt. believe it or not more than two thirds of students graduating from american colleges and universities are graduating this on a level of debt. and that's creating a no win situation for both student borrowers and the economy. according to the consumer financial protection bureau student loan debt has crossed the one point two trillion dollar mark. and that extends at the highest form of consumer debt behind worried it's not regardless any legislation that could alleviate this burden for those who already have this debt has yet to be passed in washington today center elizabeth warren spoke at the launch of the new campaign to address student debt and explain the proposal she's working on the left in the next few weeks. i was working with my colleagues mail. we'll be introducing a bill to bring down. student loan interest rates to protect current students to refinance their student loan debt and the reason i talk about it this way is short it's about now. it's about economics it's ab

i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. america well let's begin this afternoon focusing on the crisis in ukraine over the weekend there were a number of developments that have dramatically shifted the geo political landscape in the country now most of the attention has centered around the southern peninsula . crimea for the latest from that region let's turn straight to our t.v. igor piskun off the tendency that we've been witnessing the past few days here in the crimea continued on monday as more and more now for ukrainian troops pleasure allegiance to local crimean authorities and the latest in that this is a full base the air force equipped with lots of different types of aviation including forty five make twenty nine jet fighters and around eight hundred personnel and all of them. pledged allegiance to local authorities saying they won't follow what they call illegal orders from the self-appointed government in kiev and basically they just became in addition to all the other crimean security services including the poli

the top of the food chain there can be no mercy to become more fact than fiction in washington meghan lopez r.t. and that does it for now follow me on twitter at and mira david stay tuned of course boom bust is next here on our t.v. and see you right back here at five. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the huge area covered. i was there i marinate this is boom bust and these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up we're looking at stats studies and figures so what's up with the u.s. economy according to the numbers will let you know then we have about all room on today's show the president and founder of print the palace asset management joined me earlier from our london studio to discuss the impact that geopolitics has on the financial markets you know won't want to miss that interview and finally in today's big deal edward harrison and i are discussing the ongoing feud between apple and google over the future of mobile computing in your car in your vehicle it all starts right now. today's lead story deaths and more steps now we have a l

continue without its leader in congress is something for the history books to decide include texas meghan lopez r.t. . believe it or not more than two thirds of state. graduating from american colleges and universities are graduating with some level of debt and that's creating a no win situation for both student borrowers and the economy according to the consumer financial protection bureau student loan debt has crossed the one point two trillion dollar mark and that makes student debt the highest form of consumer debt behind mortgages but regardless of any legislation that could alleviate this burden for those who already have to endure this debt has yet to be passed in washington today senator elizabeth warren spoke at the launch of a new campaign to address student debt and explained a proposal she's working on take a look in the next few weeks i will be working with my colleagues nail we will be introducing a bill to bring down student loan interest rates to permit current students to refinance their student loan debt and the reason i talk about it this way is sure it's about man it's about

put off the problem the more difficult it will be to keep our heads above water in washington meghan lopez r t. busters coming up here on our chair an aide joins us for a quick preview thank you inzy now coming up on today's show boom bust edward harrison sits down with a steamed australian economist john quiggin to discuss his latest book zombie economics great title plus or bring you part two of my interview with professor steve keen now steve tells us what exactly in dodging this money is it's all coming up so stay tuned all right thanks a lot ira thanks lindsay but there's a for now for more on the stories we covered just go to youtube dot com forward slash our to america and check out our website our two dot com florid sash usa you can also follow me on twitter at lindsay france stay tuned bus is coming up next. paying for the projects with this label. guarantees deals for the third world produces. again. splotch of the business by the workers on. the scene and advocates better working conditions and high social standards. five euros a day. and it's not enough to satisfy us. yes all o

make any progress a third has yet to be scheduled in front of the now shuttered syrian embassy meghan lopez r.t. . state sponsored hackers are more and more taking aim at journalists according to reuters two google security engineers have found that twenty one of the world's top twenty five news organizations have been the targets of likely state sponsored hacking attacks but it's not just well known companies like forbes or the new york times doing battle with pro-government hackers most email malware attacks direct the user to a website that tricks them into giving up credentials as it turns out journalists are massively over represented as targets of this that include citizen journalists and bloggers around the world and the hackers were overwhelmingly government sponsored so the study found the problem is that news organizations have been relatively slow to respond to this problem. the spotlight is on crimea again as it plays host to its first high ranking visit from moscow prime minister dmitry medvedev is in the region's capital this comes on the heels of meetings between u.s. secreta

beyond california and beyond washington reporting on apple s maryland meghan lopez our city. well we have yet to hear of final decision from the white house on whether it will move forward with building the keystone x.l. pipeline but it seems in the meantime canadian regulators have taken the initiative to approve their own very similar pipeline it's called the line nine pipe line and it would for the first time connect alberta's tar sands to montreal the proposal which was approved by canada's national energy board allows for the reversal and expansion of the line the reversal means that the pipeline can now carry crude oil east in addition to west keep in mind this is the same oil that would be transported by the keystone x.l. pipeline if approved the oil consists of a thick hard was extract mixture that scientists have called quote the dirtiest type of liquid fuel but while environmentalist say this kind of ordeal would further tarnish communities the state department has denied it releasing a report that details no significant harm. in the region of crimea continues to ma

make any progress a third has yet to be scheduled in front of the now shuttered syrian embassy meghan lopez r t. the senate secret report on the cia's torture program just got a little less secret the associated press reports today that the senate intelligence committee found that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods didn't provide any key evidence in the hunt for osama bin laden and claim the cia a claim actually that the cia has long disputed former bush administration and senior cia officials have said that simulated drowning sleep deprivation and other torture practices helped the u.s. track down and kill osama bin laden three years ago speaking on the condition of anonymity congressional aides and outside experts tell the a.p. that the senate report concludes otherwise they point to the case of colleague shaikh mohammed the most high profile detainee linked to bed lot in the cia says the information gleaned from waterboarding him one hundred eighty three times helped them track down bin laden's courier who. the courier who led the cia to bin laden's hideout on that fatef

i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t america well starting off this hour national security agency or leaker edward snowden spoke via satellite to an audience at the south y. southwest conference in texas this afternoon now south by southwest is an annual gathering of people from the music film and emerging technologies industries snowden spoke about the need for better in correction technology and culled out a number of american officials for being complicit in a say mass surveillance or to correspondent or among the lindo is in our l.a. studio and he joins me now with a wrap up ramona thank you so much for being here first of all now is snowden said that he had to use seven of proxies to appear at that conference what was that and what did edward snowden speak about at this conference. that's right may well edward snowden he is still somewhere and russia where he's been granted asylum from espionage charges which he is facing here in the united in the united states so for him and his supporters still very important to keep his exact location secret and according to south by south

in falls church virginia meghan lopez r.t. all right apparently protect and serve excuse me takes on a new meaning in hawaii police there are upset with state lawmakers because they say undercover officers need to be able to have sex with prostitutes lawmakers are debating a bill that would crack down on prostitution part of that bill didn't provide an existing exemption allowing officers on duty to have sex with prostitutes during investigations after officers from the honolulu police department testified they needed the protection the bill was amended to include the exemption police say they need the legal protection to catch prostitutes in the act and critics say it's unnecessary and can further victimize sex workers most police departments have a strict no sex policy during undercover work so this special protection leaves many people wondering why cops are getting a get out of jail free card for breaking the law and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is the dog whisperer ces

beyond california and the on washington reporting and hapless maryland meghan lopez r.c. the region of crimea continues to make news as the referendum to secede from ukraine and possibly join russia draws closer earlier today the crimean parliament adopted a declaration of independence taking a deeper look at that as artie's policy or. well the crimean parliament has adopted an independent declaration from ukraine this essentially paves the way for the referendum to be held this coming sunday it was an extraordinary session of parliament in which seventy eight out of one hundred voted in favor now the important point to be made in terms of the text of this declaration reference was made to cos of a unilateral declaration of independence from serbia now you'll remember that that decision was supported by the united nations international court of justice that said it was not unlawful so you need to note that the decision on cost of a did state a precedent and what we learn from that is that there is no need for the central government to give any kind of annoyed for a refere

put off the problem the more difficult it will be to keep our heads above water in washington meghan lopez our team. that does a for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash party america or check out our website r.t.e. dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter lindsay france for now have a great night. i'm. terrified is the new book the man in the u.s. it's the catch all excuse for everything and i'm sick of it turns out u.s. district court judge rosemary collier is too she just wrote in a court ruling that the word terrorism does not tell as many and that the f.b.i. can't just use that word to keep information from the public good for you judge the case she was ruling on involves a foyer request about an insane plot to assassinate american protestor last year it came out that the f.b.i. was aware that an organization was planning on using snipers to assassinate leaders of the occupy wall street movement and then the leaders were notified and nothing else seemed to be done about it so an mit doctoral student filed a spoiler request for more informati

that consolation usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez from all of us here at r.t. have a great night. the economy and lives on the ogawa pine ridge indian reservation in south dakota and they are sick and tired of living in a state of poverty that they feel is imposed on them by the us title government so native american activist piute harris is leading the charge to implement mobs acquiring a crypto currency like bitcoin as the official currency of the lakota nation harris says he thinks it could be like the new buffalo for the lakota once the buffalo was everything for their survival they used the food clothing everything it was their whole economy and he wants you must a coin to serve the same purpose because they are sick and tired of being dependent on the u.s. economy which constantly screws them over every year about two hundred twenty million dollars comes through their reservation but harris says less than twenty percent of that actually stays with the natives in the local economy most of them money comes from you guessed it because. people