and up next cross talk where peter lavelle's the guests to debate whether unrest in the arab world may bring democracy to the middle east or will it mean just chaos and more violence. it is. a low in welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle from spring to fall the uprisings in at least three arab states for fast becoming vicious civil wars is the arab awakening less about democracy promotion and more against a stifling status quo and police states and what are the chances the arab awakening will be hijacked by new strongman and dictate. in. the process not the uprisings in the arab world i'm joined by david price jones and florence he is senior editor of the national review and author of treason of the heart from thomas paine to kim philby in washington we have omar baddoor he is a political scientist and human rights activist and in austin we cross to alan cooperman he's an associate professor at the l.b.j. school of public affairs of the university of texas all right gentlemen this is cross talk and i mean cross talk rules in effect you can jump in anytime you want if i could go to dav

peter lavelle and a panel of guests examine the reasons behind the humanitarian aid flotilla attempting to head to gaza is it a problem a provocation for israel or does it have a legitimate right to deliver aid to the palestinian autonomy cross-talk coming your way. and you can. blow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle freedom flotilla two point zero over a thousand pro palestinian activists from twenty two countries are said to join freedom flotilla two in a bid to break israel's five year blockade on gaza where one point five million palestinians live what we manged to be seen is whether they'll be a violent repeat of last year's flotilla to gaza. to cross off the second freedom flotilla i'm joined by cots in jerusalem he's a military correspondent and defense analyst for the jerusalem post also in jerusalem we have chris gunness he is a spokesperson for the united nations relief and works agency a new chilled humanitarian organization with over ten thousand workers on the ground in gaza who's neutral work is based on the united nations charter and universal declaration and in

hello and welcome to on the money where the business of russia is business i'm peter lavelle today we're broadcasting from the st petersburg international economic forum and we're talking about branding. to discuss branding i'm joined by robert sasson he is senior managing director at u.f.c. private equity also we have a cheese chairman of the board of the retail chain. and robert me he's managing partner at robert may consulting group ok gentlemen we're in st petersburg and i'd like to ask you robert the first question you know we think of the term branding the country japan technology china the factory of the world germany precision united states maybe too much financial markets and you think of russia what brand comes to mind if if there's one if one does come to me what i can say about that i live here in russia for a long time and i've watched a lot of changes and improvements happen over the last ten to fifteen years if i had to describe russia in short i would say it continues to be a country in transition with considerable long term potential and a brand that's a brand that in my

and in less than twenty minutes time marty's peter lavelle asked his guests whether the international presence in libya and other african countries means a better life for the continent. things have gotten better in the past ten years you've seen inflation has come down average incomes have gone up the world bank did recently they're talking about a roy's in the number of people who are earning between two and four dollars a day hours for the world bank and apologists who talk about you know the middle classes beginning with two dollars a day a pound a day have you tried living in the rubio of. these guys if you think this is the middle class is there must be. on some other planet i'm afraid. you're watching r t and in a few minutes and no easy bailout for greece while the finance minister spoke on another payment to well we bring you expert opinion on actually benefits from bailout money and where it goes plus. russia and china are going into green business more in about ten minutes. now every president wants to run for a second term but the final decision rests with the people that'

that up next our debate show cross talk with peter lavelle to stay with us. well. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. and you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about africa in the new great game outside interest in this continent is immense rich in natural resources and a growing middle class china the u.s. europe and other powers are scrambling for influence and wealth there can africa avoid another wave of imperialism and neocolonialism. in. the rostock the future of africa i'm joined by robert guest in london he's a business editor at the economist and author of the book the shackled continent africa past present and future in washington we cross to jendayi frazer she's a professor at the carnegie mellon university and in oxford we have photos manji he's editor in chief of the pangas who can news all right this is cross talk lady and gentlemen and that means you can jump in anytime you want and i know they have difference of opinion so i want my viewers to see it if i go to you fir

alone and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle saving the euro in the financial and political costs of doing so is it all worth it there's a euro project need a serious rethink should there be a two tier euro system and can the politics of the euro serve the interest of all in this currency zone. came. across that the year was by ability i'm joined by andrew moravcsik in princeton he's professor of politics and director of european union program at princeton university in washington we go to sherry's are raymond she's a professor of international business finance and international affairs at the george washington university and in madrid we cross to philip boggles he is an associate professor at king juan carlos university is also author of the tragedy of the euro ok folks this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's look at a short report on the plight of the euro. the trials and tribulations of a currency or the euro and those discontents no matter how you cut it or count there are no easy solutions when it comes to res

and our debate program cross talk with peter lavelle is next here on r.t. . continue. to. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle freedom flotilla two point zero over a thousand pro palestinian activists from twenty two countries are said to join freedom flotilla two in a bid to break israel's five year blockade on gaza where one point five million palestinians live what remains to be seen is whether they'll be a violent repeat of last year's flotilla to gaza. to cross out the second freedom flotilla i'm joined by cots in jerusalem he's a military correspondent and defense analyst for the jerusalem post also in jerusalem we have chris gunness he is a spokesperson for the united nations relief and works agency a neutral humanitarian organization with over ten thousand workers on the ground in gaza who's neutral work is based on the united nations charter and universal declaration and in chicago we cross to ali abunimah he is co-founder of the electronic intifada and author of one country a bold proposal to end the israeli palestinian impasse all right gentlemen t

next peter lavelle's cross-talk discusses whether the u.s. and mexico can force truck traffic out of reach. can't. start. to. follow it well come across non-computer live about the war on drugs has been declared a failure of the u.s. government to spend more than two and a half trillion dollars fighting this campaign over the past forty years but the problem has only gotten worse and more deadly is it now time to seriously consider decriminalization and regulation of some drugs. came. across talk what went so wrong fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my running new can he is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at harvard university he's also a senior fellow at the capitol institute and he's also the author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross the acer hutchinson he is a senior partner at the acer hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is cross talk about means crosstalk rules in effect but before let's have a look at a short report abo

welcome to cross talk time peter lavelle exit strategy obama's long awaited plan to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in play but is it a real drawdown or just a reduction of the so-called surge of eighteen months ago did obama capitulate to public opinion over military needs and will american and nato troops ever completely leave afghanistan to afghans. can. cross talk us to afghan strategy i'm joined by gareth porter in washington he's an investigative historian and journalist also in washington we have sam side by he is senior director of iran programs at nonviolence international and in london we crossed the alexis crow she's a research fellow in the international security program at chapman house all right folks this is cross talk and that means cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want gareth i'd like to go to you first in washington details of obama's pullback from afghanistan are becoming more and more clear are you satisfied that it's legitimate or is it just all about domestic politics the united states obama is trying to satisfy

and up next peter lavelle talks to his guests about president obama's speech and asks if american and nato troops will ever completely leave afghanistan that's all in our debate show cross talk right now on r.t. . for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. peter lavelle exit strategy obama's long awaited plan to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in place but is it a real drawdown or just a reduction of the so-called surge of eighteen months ago did obama capitulate to public opinion over military needs and will american and nato troops ever completely leave afghanistan to afghans. afghan strategy i'm joined by gareth porter in washington he's an investigative historian and journalist also in washington we have sam said he is senior director of iran programs at nonviolence international.

up next peter lavelle and guess look at the fall of the soviet union and discuss the role of russia's first president boris yeltsin in setting the country's course is coming your way in crosstalk. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time and opinions differ widely don't no one denies the important role he played in creating our present cross-talk to continue that series on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago. due. to cross-talk yeltsin's russia i'm joined by dmitri baba chair in the studio with me he's a political analyst at ria novosti news agency in washington we have donald jensen he's a resident fellow at the center for transatlantic relations and in london we go to alex project he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet un

up next could europe be facing a completely new economic reality peter lavelle and guests debate the euro and the impact the greek crisis had on the currency cross-talk coming your way. and if you. follow it welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the euro and it's meeting with destiny the greek government survives a vote of confidence as its crushing debt ordeal continues unabated but this appears to settle little if anything the u. still has to decide whether it will continue to rescue greece from crisis has doubts mount whether the euro project has a future. and if you. can cross talk the prospects for the euro i'm joined by vanessa rossi in london she's an associate fellow in international economics at chapman house also in london we have robert oulds he is director of the bridge group and in washington we go to garrett jones he's an economics professor with the market to center at george mason university all right this is crosstalk and that means crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but before let's look at a report about a country that may bring

alone and welcome to a special edition of crossfire i'm peter lavelle. the euro is in crisis we'll have you with us ten years from now. still. to discuss the fate of the euro here at the st petersburg international economic forum i'm joined by alec since he's a professor of economics at yale university and roland no she's a senior partner in chief investment strategist at ver no capital all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want roland i want to go to you first the euro is having another very bad few days here markets are spooked. bankers are who i'm going to ask you the big question are we seeing the end days of the euro and if not what can they do you know a greek tragedy generally speaking has many twists and turns and i don't think we're at the end of that process yet the markets are beginning to price but i think we're we're still a little bit of distance from from that how much has more and there's more hesitation now on another supporting quote bailout remember the first one wasn't called the bailout

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle under the war powers act the president must get approval from congress within sixty days after ordering u.s. forces into combat neither president barack obama nor any other president has formally acknowledged being bound by this restriction it would appear u.s. presidents can go to war well. you can. cross talk the war powers act i'm joined by robert naiman in our band he is policy director at just foreign policy in denver we have david koch how he is an adjunct professor of advance constitutional law at the university of denver and in london we crossed the leslie in your morning she is co-director at the center for international politics of conflicts rights and justice at the school of oriental and african studies all right folks this is cross talk and you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it but first let's have a look at a short report about whether or not obama's foreign policy is in line with the law . i said at the outset that this was going to be a matter of days and weeks more than two months after obama's promise t

a low and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle it is being described as one of the worst meetings we have ever had is the organization of petroleum exporting countries or opec in crisis if it is doesn't really matter and with or without opec are we destined to live with very high oil prices. to cross-talk the controversial role of opec today i'm joined by bill found price in london he is the founder and c.e.o. of petroleum policy intelligence also in london we have dominic he is a founding partner of the energy management institute and in boston we cross to robert kaufman he's director in full professor in the center for energy and environmental studies at boston university ok gentlemen this is crosstalk that means cross talk rules are in effect you can jump in anytime you want but before let's take a look at how the world has been reeling since opec's last meeting. when last week's opec meeting ended in this court for the first time in two decades it left oil consuming countries and analysts and a day there speculations about the cartels imminent demise and fears of higher oil pr

for a less than thirty minutes when i mean time out of a program cross talk is next with host peter lavelle and these guys discussing the great debt crisis and arguing whether the eurozone is actually sinking this is stay with us for that. you can. stay. low and welcome the crosstalk i'm peter lavelle the euro and it's meeting with destiny the greek government survives a vote of confidence as its crushing debt ordeal continues unabated but this appears to settle little if anything the u. still has to decide whether it will continue to rescue greece from crisis his doubts mount whether the euro project has a future. if you. can cross out the prospects for the euro i'm joined by vanessa rossi in london she's an associate fellow in international economics at chapman house also in london we have robert oulds he is director of the bruges group and in washington we go to gary jones he's an economics professor with the market to center at george mason university her right this is crosstalk and that means crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but before let's look at

and up next cross talk with peter lavelle discussing with his guests whether they underestimate the arabworld may bring democracy and freedom or just more violence and instability. and you can. still. welcome to cross talk computor all about exit strategy obama's long awaited plan to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in play but is it a real drawdown or just a reduction of the so-called surge of eighteen months ago did obama capitulate to public opinion over military needs and will american and nato troops ever completely leave afghanistan to afghans. can. cross talk us afghan strategy i'm joined by gareth porter in washington he's an investigative historian and journalist also in washington we have sam side by he is senior director of iran programs at nonviolence international and in london we crossed the alexis crow she's a research fellow in the international security program at chapman house all right folks this is cross talk and i mean is crosstalk rules in effect that means you can .

and coming your way later today artie's peter lavelle and his guests discuss whether the international presence in libya and other african countries is really likely to improve life for the people there or watch that next hour in our program. now a five day long a nuclear security forum has kicked off in vienna the japanese atomic crisis has prompted a comprehensive discussion of the future of nuclear power delegates from most of the one hundred fifty member states of the international atomic watchdog the i.a.e.a. are at the gathering to work out tighter universal safety regulations for reactors japan is expected to be criticized for its slow response to the fukushima disaster has already submitted a report admitting it wasn't prepared for an accident on such a scale. thomas travel to a city well outside the official exclusion zone where locals are concerned over high radiation levels. the ominous and constant ticking of geiger counters scientists working in fukushima city concerned. i'm in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university when i was think

fifty minutes time rather later today though a special edition of our tease on the money were peter lavelle talks to people at the scene but is reform about what lies ahead for business in russia. at least sixteen more people have been killed in syria as mass protests continue the e.u. is planning a third round of sanctions against the regime of president assad over its deadly crackdown and demonstrations but anti-war activists prime backer says the sanctions are only the first step towards a wider intervention the if it adopts these new sanctions the third wave of sanctions there incrementally escalating the u.s. and western european intervention into syria i think that we're going down the road as we when libya where one step leads to another step there climbing the escalation letter they have a very sort of selective concern for the lives of protesters and democracy movements or movements that call themselves democracy movements you take bahrain they're they're they're condoning the crackdown on peaceful protesters i think what's really happening is that syria syria has been targeted by

and coming your way later today are to peter lavelle and his guests discuss whether the international presence in libya and other of african countries is really likely to improve life for the people there well that's up to fifteen hundred g.m.t. but here's a short preview. things have gotten better in the past ten years you've seen inflation has come down average incomes have gone up the the world bank did recently they're talking about a rise in the number of people who are earning between two and four dollars a day as for the world bank and their apologists who talk about you know the middle classes beginning with two dollars a day a pound a day have you tried living in the ruby on a pound a day these guys are if they think this is the middle classes there must be we are on some other planet i'm afraid. a five day long nuclear security forum has kicked off in a vienna and the japanese atomic crisis has prompted a comprehensive discussion of the future of nuclear power delegates for most of the one hundred fifty member states of the international atomic watchdog the i.a.e.a. are at t

that aid flotilla is the source of some heated debate coming up later and with peter lavelle and his cross talk team here's a short preview. israel has said it cannot allow for ships to sail freely to gaza because they will carry weapons for hamas which will use them to attack israeli cities and therefore if you really care for the palestinians use either egypt or israeli ports and land crossings to bring in humanitarian goods why you do it through the sea when israel says it won't allow it to happen because of its security unless you really are seeking the provocation israel controls the land sea . space of effective control means let's not be patient but if i could address something which mr katz said earlier about why not bring things in through rougher i'm afraid this is yet another example of his evidence free mode of journalism completely lacking any acquaintance with the situation on the ground i've actually been through the rough across it's one small road going north it's one small road going south if you like need to feed seven hundred fifty thousand people each day it is h

alone when welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is the chaos being played out in yemen turning the country into a failed state how should the international community be reacting to events there and will the endgame for the regime in yemen result in still another terrorist base and threatens the region and world. can. start. to prosecute protests in yemen i'm joined by daniel pipes in philadelphia he's an author and director of the middle east forum and in washington we have edwin hall he's a former u.s. ambassador to yemen and he's also author of the book high value target countering al qaeda in yemen all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want mr ambassador if i go to you first here i mean as we go to air here there's a lot of speculation some people say evidence that the the leader in yemen is opening the door to al qaeda to make sure he can stay in power in what looks like what most people are saying now is a civil war how would you assess that statement. well al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was a threat before this current revolution in i

welcome back to on the money i'm peter lavelle in this episode we're discussing branding ok robert i want to go to you we've heard a lot of good things about brining in the first part of the program but i always like to pour a little bit of cold water on things is really branding all that important when so many people in this country because there's a huge difference here is branding so important only just for a small small percentage of the population is it just for aspirational people and i think many russian. and are really quite pleased with russian products i mean depends what we're talking about and their aspirations i mean they want something of good quality that's affordable and there's a lot of historical and traditional aspects to some of the brands that have been around for a long time you like to reminisce about remember the old beers this wine this cookie whatever so i pulled. it out of some of the people are never going to reach a point where they can expire to the most expensive brands but for them it's not for the you know the driver and so i think it's very interesti

problem facing israel is how to deal with the latest a fun tale of brown for blockaded gaza artie's peter lavelle and his cast debate the true nature of the mission as well as the state of israeli palestinian relations the full show is coming up fifteen hundred g.m.t. here's a preview. what is gaza really it is a giant prison for one point six million people eighty percent of the refugees from towns and villages destroyed towns and villages the in what is now israel and israel wants nothing to do with them for one reason only and that's because they're not jews but still fundamentally racist they trev this blockade is completely falsifying the fact that israel has continuously offered the palestinians in negotiations a palestinian state built and establish lands in the gaza strip and the west bank with continuity in a way of connecting those two parts with you is this israel is already very close to three parts in the in the defies and there are twenty percent of the arrows there may be missed israeli citizens throughout the show's going to israel don't really know who is really going to she. say