and up next artie's debate show where peter lavelle discusses with his guests some of the more controversial sides of international politics crosstalk it's coming up next hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and if you. want to. follow in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the coup that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me helped out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coups aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history of played out differently. if you. stood. to cross-talk the events of august one thousand nine hundred one i'm joined by geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxford and indeed we know the girls we go to nikolai petro he is professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen this is c

follow in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the coup that failed but changed everything twenty years ago communist party hardliners attempted to derail me help out of a child's efforts to reform the soviet union in the coups aftermath the communist party was banned to be followed by the end of the u.s.s.r. could history is played out differently. and. started. to cross-talk the events of august one thousand nine hundred one i'm joined by geoffrey hosking in london he is america's professor of russian history at the university college london in oxford we have archie brown he's america's professor of politics at the university of oxford and if you know the ground we go to nikolai petro he is professor of politics at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the failed coup of nine hundred ninety one. on august nineteenth one thousand nine hundred one instead of tuning into the soviet national anthem citizens across the u.s.s.r. woke up to a radio announcement that would start a

welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle twenty five years ago the world was coming to grips with the catastrophe unfolding it turn noble today the same could be said about the sheema place the future of nuclear power as it run its course or is in evidence that it will be with us for a very long time. to cross-talk the pros and cons of nuclear energy i'm joined by william tucker in new york he's a journalist and author of terrestrial energy in paris we cross to benjamin so cool he is an assistant professor at the national university of singapore he is also author of the forthcoming book contesting the future of nuclear power a critical global assessment of atomic energy and in austin we have robert bryce he's a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and author of power hungry the mists of green energy and the real fuels of the future all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in so this is a twenty fifth anniversary verse three of the tragedy of chernobyl let's take a look back. the noble enough in ukraine is destined to stay abandoned it's high radiation levels

more dates from the mean time of bring you here to debate an expert opinion peter lavelle is next with his cross stuck. in. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle issues of relevance and even legitimacy as the jostling continues as dual succeed the now disgraced dominique strauss kahn at the international monetary fund many still question the usefulness of this global financial institution is the i.m.f. a political tool of the west or an unfortunate necessity. to cross-talk the role of the i.m.f. today i'm joined by peter chola in london he is a program manager at the bretton woods project also in london we have daniel ben-ami he is a journalist and author and in cambridge we cross to jeffrey frankel he is a professor of capital formation and growth at the harvard kennedy school ok gentlemen this was cross talk that means you can jump in anytime one and i very much encourage it but first let's look at some of the issues surrounding this global financial institution. in the wake of the scandalous departure of its former head dominic strauss kahn the international monetary fund

hello and welcome to our in the money with the business of russia is the business side peter lavelle today we're talking about infrastructure and the building of the new russia. to discuss this issue i'm joined by you know our team here in the studio with me he's director of strategic development for a.b.b. in russia also here live cousin yet chairman of the board of directors at barclays corp michael owen franca he's an analyst at ferus and stephen cousins he is a partner in the p.p.c. group in the moscow office of c.m.s. ok we're going to go to you first give me the bad news just how bad is russia's infrastructure in two thousand and eleven. ok not so excellent and in a way we have a lot of opportunity to improve our position in a way like this project has a lot of challenges so you starting from a low base you say not so low but it's not enough yet in any way we we are ready we are ready to help but exactly plan how to get a life with projects in this case because of course as you said what you have no idea what will be the next time it was not but i did not have nothing like that

follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle what do we mean when we use the word quest is it a place a state of mind or even a specific time in history also what is meant by the decline of the west particularly when so many ideas associated with it are now global. and you can. see. to cross out the meaning of the word west i'm joined by homie he's in cambridge he's the director of the humanity center at harvard university in chicago we go to richard lee he's a professor at the department of philosophy at de paul university and in washington we cross to william burns he's a professor at george washington university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there are difference of opinion here and i'd like my viewers to see it if i go to home in cambridge first when the word west is used first of all do you like its usage its application and what does it mean to you. well i don't like the word west when it's used in a kind of simple polarity with something that is not to the west because i think these geographical issues have really

lol we welcome to cross dot com peter lavelle the price of oil the curse of oil with the ongoing unrest in the arab world petroleum markets are more than reacting is the global economy on the edge of another deep recession and are all high oil prices here to stay is the price of oil time to arab revolutions and aspirations. and. to discuss the impact of all of this on oil prices i'm joined by michael klare and in springfield he is director of five colleges program in peace and world security studies and author of rising powers shrinking planet the new geopolitics of energy in new york we go to and he is director of communications and marketing at euro pacific capital and in frankfurt we cross to william engdahl he is an economic researcher and the author of a century of war anglo-american oil politics and the new world order and another member of our cross talk team in the hunger for a gentleman this is cross talk and you have different opinions i want my viewers to see them william let's go to you first let's talk about the possibility of what's people are calling the return to the gre

chloe welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the leaders of the group of eight meeting in france more and more question the usefulness of this elite club of countries is it just a talking shop can it really influence the global agenda like it once did and should the g eight be abandoned in favor of g twenty. cross-talk the group of eight i'm joined by andrew hilton in london he is director and joint founder of the center for the study of financial innovation in istanbul we crossed to paul heinbecker he's a former advisor to canadian prime ministers on foreign policy and now a distinguished fellow at the center for international governance innovation and in toronto we have jeff rubin he's a former chief economist for a north american investment bank journalist and author all right folks gentlemen this is cross talk and you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it and i do it andrew first in london this looking at some of the other pictures that are coming out of the g eight. festival as i think you could call it in france it looks very very impressive but is it ju

below and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the war on drugs has been declared a failure of the us 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 illegal drugs. to cross talk what went so wrong fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my run in newton 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 cattle institute and he's also the author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross to a so hutchinson he is a senior partner at the ayso hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is crosstalk and that means crosstalk rose in effect but before it let's have a look at the show report about this forty year old war. a worldwide enterprise worth some four hundred billion dollars a year illegal drug trafficking has become one of the most ferocious lucrati

and coming up next is a cross talk with peter lavelle to stay with us for that. review the latest in science technology from the rooms. we've. covered. you can. follow me and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle outside democracy promotion an oxymoron what is america's track record in the arab world and is invoking security interests over democracy the greatest haven for tyrants. to discuss democracy promotion i'm joined by katie in paris he is a writer and filmmaker and with we go to jeff purdue he is a post-doctoral fellow at aberystwyth university and author of american foreign policy and postwar reconstruction comparing japan in iraq and in durham we crossed to bruce generals and he is a professor of public policy and political science at duke university and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger for a gentleman cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want take i'd like to go to you first in paris over the last two weeks. were saying events that we've never seen before in the arab world i liken it to the end of t

and next robust debate is guaranteed a cross-talk as peter lavelle and his guests discuss the war on drugs in mexico and its heavy cost that's something. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future. to keep. the. glowing welcome across non-computer love about the war on drugs has been declared a failure of the us government has spent 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 uniquely drugs. to kick. start. to cross-talk what went so wrong fighting drugs i'm joined by geoffrey my running newton he is a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at harvard university is also a senior fellow at the catto institute and he's also the author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross to a star hutchinson he is a senior partner at the ayso hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is c

welcome back to our star game peter lavelle remind you we're talking about the i.m.f. and emerging countries. we thought we would use a break jeffrey made an interesting comment is that we've seen an unprecedented underwater amount of economic growth over the last six years and i guess we all agree minus the great recession but daniel if i can go back to you again what great examples are out there with the i.m.f. help countries become rich. well i don't agree with the premise of the question and i don't really think it's that the math of this go beyond just become rich i think it's misleading to look at the past sixty years as a whole i think if you look at the world economy since the early one nine hundred seventy s. particular the west you can see that economic growth rates have tended to slow down and also when they have grown they've grown quite often because of extending huge amounts of credit rather than trying to work out how to have real dynamic organic growth i think that is the fundamental problem and what we've had in recent years is a tendency to try to bac

welcome back across a guy peter lavelle remind you we're discussing the relative value of ga. play the game. ok jeff in toronto we probably were to the break you said you wanted to jump in so just go right ahead. right well let's not also forget what has driven our involvement in the region and that is that when you produce thirty percent of world oil supply you tend to catch a lot of attention from the largest world oil consumers and i think some of the skepticism around what's happening in libya is why are we intervening in libya a country that produces one point six million barrels a day and not intervening in other places like yemen and bahrain that doesn't have that kind of oil supply and i guess you know one thing we've got to remember is where we have intervened in the middle east and i say the west stance a bully they increase energy supply typically what's happened is that we've ended up getting less energy supply and any time there's been regime change and it doesn't really matter what the ology of the regime change is whether it's the replacement by the shah by the

a low in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the u.s. federal reserve has met and decided little as the global economic recovery slows now it's time for congress and the president to take things from there given the deadlock in washington and the debt crisis in europe is there any reason for optimism. if you can. to profit off the prospects for the global economy i'm joined by martin henniker in hong kong he's an associate director at the tycoon in warsaw we have patrick young he's the executive director at devi advisors an editor of the gathering storm and in washington we cross to daniel mitchell he's a senior fellow at the cattle institute hi gentlemen this is crosstalk i mean you can jump in anytime you want to very much encourage it but first let's look at the fed's recent meeting at jackson hole. in the end ben bernanke his lack of an announcement that there would be further quantitative easing was so cloak and caviar it's that there was something in it for almost everyone they can't tell us specifically what it's going to do becau

>> peter lavelle is he's in moscow. >> but he's an american? >> peter lavelle is an american.yes, i've never met him. so i don't know too much about him, but he lives in moscow and that's where he has to (inaudible). >> and what's the rest of the day on rt? what kind of things can people see? >> well, it depends. where our bureau is here now in washington, d.c. is we are rt america. so we focus on u.s. politics, on domestic politics. and in moscow, that's rt international. and so they switch off because moscow is running 24 hours a day and our newscast doesn't start here until 4:00 p.m. and it runs until 8:30 p.m. at which point after that my show and tom hartman's show repeat. so you can watch us specifically in the evening, but at any other time, you'll see rt international on. >> you're 25 years old and you've now done this for two years. >> don't keep repeating it, brian. come on. >> well, the reason i do is how did they know had you done television before this? >> no. >> how did they know that you could do this? how did they test you? >> that's a good question. i'm very t

welcome back to rostock i'm peter lavelle remind you we're talking about the war on drugs. street. ok jeffrey i'd like to go back to you in newton i think one of the interesting things i found out researching this program is that politicians play a very big role in this policy and you know when they are up for election everybody wants to be tough on crime tough on drugs tough on this tough on everything tough on terrorism you just name it tough on something and there's not really much of a real discussion at least in the united states about how to deal with this growing problem and potentially coming from the south is this one of the bottlenecks that we have been having a more blunt discussion about how to deal with drug abuse and with the drug importation into the united states. well i think that the politicians are for the most part both sides of the aisle democrats republicans conservative liberal are not talking about this issue very much but i think they're reflecting the views of the voters in the united states and similarly elsewhere i agree with mr ives and that there is no

hundred eighty million dollars and coming up marty's debate show spotlight sees that's cross talk peter lavelle and his guests discuss the aspects and consequences of the external promotion of democracy in the arab world but first the business news with kareena. hello welcome to business here on out the pay pal is weighing plans to open an office in moscow this sold them according to the vet of us newspaper the world's largest online payment portal is planning to invest twenty five million dollars in russia pay pal is coming hand in hand with its own or online auction site e bay in order to operate in russia e-bay needs to sort out online transactions and delivery while it's in talks with d.h.l. about postal services will be transferring money analysts say pay pal's move looks reasonable given russia's booming online payment market. prices for jet fuel and russia are renewing their rally the country's key suppliers hike fuel charges by up to ten percent on tuesday while companies say that high global crude prices and domestic shortages are spurring the increase in addition the lack of fuel is b

follow in welcome to crossfire i'm peter lavelle just how exceptional american exceptionalism goes to the very foundation of how most americans see their country's history and place in the world is there any truth to this world view or is it just a myth. that you can. start. to discuss the meaning of american exceptionalism i'm joined by david merkel in copenhagen he is a former deputy assistant secretary of state in the administration of george w. bush in oxford we go to godfrey hodson from oxford university and author of the myth of american exceptionalism and in new york we cross to peter shock he is a professor at yale law school and coeditor of understanding america the anatomy of an exceptional nation and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger are a gentleman cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want since you wrote a book on it i'd like to go to godfrey first in oxford you are quite open out there it's a myth why is that a myth well first. all a myth does not mean that everything about it is untrue it is an idea or a story which is