she said, i met four saudi arabian women and they disagree with that. i said we interviewed 1000 and they had a different view. your four were included in that 1000. i cannot dispute the numbers when they have been done twice, when they were redone and can. >> you are also calling attention to trends. the trends are disturbing and real. lebanon does stand out. the rest of them are on target. the rest of them -- we have to look at the lebanon numbers and say, what are they telling us? what are they trying to say? was made a difference? as we ask those follow-up questions, we found that people were saying something about lebanon's situation in the world, its sense of the late demands -- its sense of still playing a victim. that is something to take into consideration. >> let's let barbara and mark have a crack. >> the support for iran was an aberration in 2006. there was also a certain aberration for iran. i remember living in lebanon in the 1980's and iran was more democratic than the arab countries. expressing admiration for iran was like a protest. it

. >>> also a saudi arabian princess under arrest in southern california.ed link to a human trafficking ring. we'll have that next coming up. >>> we continue to monitor all the developments of the asiana flight 214 that went down on saturday at sfo. this is a live look at the wreckage that still remains on the tarmac. the ntsb has cleared the way for sfo officials to start removing that. three runways of the airport have only been operating so far. bob redell is getting new information from the ntsb chairman this morning as well as marla tellez listening to some of the 911 calls from passengers themselves. the fascinating things they have to say and we'll have a look at their company or as well. all that and more coming up. it's 6:35. the thing is bee, i got my mom wrapped around my little finger. do you? yeah, i do. huh. i said i want honey nut cheerios uh huh. and she just totally caved. it's all about psychology buzz. psychology? as long as i don't tell him the cereal is healthy -- he can't get enough. sad, really. i kind of feel bad that i tricked him.

george bush's best friends were saudi arabian princes, he was trying to hurt the average american, dick cheney was orchestrating the whole thing. under president obama, it's great news. oh, and by the w, a couple hundred thousand jobs, 3.50 gas. but to your political argument, it's what you get used to. if you are pounded by negative news, negative news -- >> we should be growing 400, 500,000 jobs a in, right? >> absolutely. and we get used to it in part because the media helps us get used to it. >> and also fuel economy standards have improved. >> julie, what do you think? >> i think he's right. you guys are complaining that obama wants to raise fuel standards is, but that's pretty good news for gas standar. it will make that tank of gas go a lot longer and i think that's pretty good. i'm not oppose to the keystone pipeline. but we do know that it's not really -- i mean, from fact checkers and others who have looked at it, it's not really going to affect the price of gas. we can sit here and pretend it's going to be a massive panacea. it might marginally effect it a couple of cents. >>

rumors of royalty now authorities confirm one of the women living in unit three twenty one is a saudi arabian princess her name is michelle and she is accused of what prosecutors described. as slavery authorities say the forty two year old mother of three hired a kenyan native to work as a maid paying her about two hundred dollars a month one eight of what had been promised police say when they searched the grammar city road home they found four more women from the philippines who were also hired by. disturbing to say the least and unfortunately that was one of the latest of many examples of severe exploitation and indentured servitude happening across the country is here to shed some light on the plight of domestic workers and what the u.s. should be doing to remedy the problem one drawing by someone who's been at the forefront of this issue for many years i've been through she's the director of the national domestic workers alliance thank you so much for coming out i just thank you for having me so give us a sense of how widespread this problem is and is this a trend that's getting worse we

not get involved and yet the gulf arab states clearly are involved in this even with reports of saudi arabian agents operating within syria so it's easy to forget about that interest and everybody keeps going on about western the us well it's absolutely true what you say both societies and look at the rings have been involved. both in egypt by the way of backing their favorite also in that particular race and in syria very openly by arming the salafi groups and be more moncrief the groups so that there's no doubt that this is in direct military intervention. clearly green lighted by the united states because without their approval it's very unlikely that these things would be happening i think that the gulf states have got american approval to tell whether they will continue to grow and disapproval remains to be seen at least expert in his store entirely got it thank you very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. thank you. meanwhile anonymous u.s. officials claim israel attacked to syria's port city of latakia nine days ago the strike allegedly targeted a russian made anti ship missil

rumors of royalty now authorities confirm one of the women living in unit three twenty one is a saudi arabian princess her name is michelle yo and she is accused of what prosecutors describe as slavery authorities say the forty two year old mother of three hired a kenyan native to work as a maid paying her about two hundred dollars a month one eight of what had been promised police say when they searched the grammar see road home they found form. four women from the philippines who were also hired by. disturbing to say the least and unfortunately that was one of the latest of many examples of severe exploitation and indentured servitude happening across the country is here to shed some light on the plight of domestic workers and what the u.s. should be doing to remedy the problem i'm joined by someone who's been at the forefront of this issue for many years i've been through she's the director of the national domestic workers alliance thank you so much for coming on i thank you for having me so give us a sense of how widespread this problem is and is this a trend that's getting worse well you

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we've lettered heard the saudi arabian king welcome the new government.he president as of now has not made a statement. >> jennifer, any reaction there from the pentagon? >> the pentagon has been careful not to make any statements. the defense secretary just left the white house where he was with the president and national security team as well as the cia director for the last few hours. discussing what to do next. there have been no readouts in that meeting. but we're told the u.s. military is not planning at this moment in time to help with that evacuation of u.s. personnel in the american embassy and from cairo. there are hundreds of u.s. diplomatic person they will who ha personnel who have been ordered to evacuate. >> so how significant is it that the first opposition leader we heard from is mohammed? >> he was the firstevacuate. >> so how significant is it that the first opposition leader we heard from is mohammed? >> he was the first>> so how sit the first opposition leader we heard from is mohammed? >> he was the firstevacuate. >> so how significa

i also heard from sources here in washington that the saudi arabian government is very pleased that this has taken place. they obviously will not be pleased if the military holds on to power or if a civil war erupts. but this was the only option at this point in time according to u.s. officials that i have spoken to and from reports from the region from israel and saudi arabia. >> the liberal leader, whom we heard so much from the 2011 uprising happened. he just said and i quote the 2011 revolution has been relaunched. in other words, the arab spring of 2011 is now the arab summer of 2013. the road map meets the demands for early presidential votes. again, jennifer, this is all well and good and it is great to see democracy, non-democracy division to come in and do its work, but the truth is with this sort of thing you never know what you are going to get. it is certainly possible given the numbers of the population spreads there that someone else from the muslim brotherhood could take that thrown again. >> do don't forget the muslim brotherhood is the most organized opposition group in

. >> if we're criticizing american coal production, somebody -- i don't know, the saudi arabians, whoeverg to step in and sell to china. the chinese are very open about it. there's a big story this weekend in investor's business daily about how much coal they intend to consume in the period ahead. let me ask you this. this is the dirty pool part. the epa, they've come up with this new social cost of carbon. i'm sure you're aware of it. i'm sure you saw "the wall street journal" editorial. they have figured out without anybody signing off on this in the congress, new fangled ways to estimate the benefits and costs of coal and carbon emissions from coal. only nobody knows where they got these numbers, and that's what's going to put you behind the 8 ball. i dare say, i predict natural gas is going to be next. why can't the congress help you and check out and restrain the epa with this new fangled model that nobody knows anything about. >> well, that is the unfortunate part of this scenario in which we find ourselves. this administration has become very adept at avoiding the legislative proce

and the interim president represented the saudi arabian interests in egypt. y could get with the relationship they need with saudi arabia to write big checks, they could feed the people and potentially restore order and set up a government and get the egyptian economy going. >> let's see what happens with the camps near the suez canal. now this, the local government in washington d.c. is pushing for new law that would require large retailers to pay a so-called living wage. that would be more than $12 an hour. 5 bucks above the current minimum wage. retailers, they don't like that. a region wal-mart manager says if the living wage sticks, the company will not go through with a plan to build three more big stores in the area. stores that would bring much needed jobs to the nation's capital. all right, nicole, i'm not expecting any impact whatever on wal-mart stock because of this and it's an interesting side bar story. and i see that wal-mart is up at 77. >> 7727. you see the stock up 1/3 of 1% and people that currently work there. they want $5 more and the mid

saudi arabian. it becomes very difficult and what the role is that the u.s.hould be playing now because the u.s. has to balance things out. was such a big influence on other countries. host: you were saying that the white house should have supported the muslim brotherhood more? caller: it is a democratic- elected government with a democratic process. he did receive. now what we have is a coup. basically the united states does not want to admit it. we have to play the balance. rather than waiting until the end, now that this happened we do not know what to do. host: but to show you the piece me show you a piece in "the wall street journal" -- caller: you have an issue basically with the coup of government and pakistan. as long as you have the military and the generals of the military to leave, you have to honor the people. you just cannot have the military running everything. that is an issue that will be affecting the middle east. military you get the to active in democratic way? caller: it is very rough. would you have a military killing over 50 of their own

. >> eog has got a saudi arabian -- i believe this stock is indeed worth their $174 price target.ame in. all the commodities came in except for oil. it's rather remarkable because really it should have slowed down. >> yeah. today a gallon of gasoline is cheaper today than it has been since january. >> united states is producing a lot of oil. there's actually a article satisfying we're going to start getting refining product moving from the gulf to other parts of the united states. it's been shipped mostly to mexico. refining 72 million barrels of refined product overseas. it would be incredible to be able to take advantage of what we have in this country if you only had refineries. >>. >> what happens in the second half in the fist half? >> 86% of the time. >> look, it's different stocks this time. it will be the 40% at its industrial cyclical. when we come back, get ready for the breaking news double-header. ism and construction spending a few moments away. ure looking at live pictures of cairo. hundreds of thousands of protesters gathering there. we're going to get a live report

second in command of the yemen-based al qaeda of the arabian peninsula has been killed but a spoke been confirmed the death ofsaid al-sh iri, a saudi national who had been released from guantanamo bay. he was killed in a u.s.-led drum strike in yemen. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is described by washington as one of the most dangerous wings of the global al qaeda network. in the last two years the u.s. has intensified the use of unmanned drones to target the group. joan strikes in yemen nearly triple last year from the year before, according to the new america foundation, a washington-based think tank. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, there have been up to 154 strikes by u.s. drones in yemen since 2002 and killed almost 800 people. including keep it. like shirhri and clerics like i'm one i'll a lucky guess clerics like anwar al-awlaki. as a report, mostly civilians being injured or killed. >> in yemen's rugged and barren countryside, people live in constant fear. here of what they call the killer planes, or drones. qaeda inght against al yemen, the united states dramatically stepped up use of drone strikes

called al qaeda and you also have a base in ethiopia and the relatively new base on the arabian finance law in saudi arabia. i think we are going to see an intensification of covert u.s. actions certainly in africa. we havarti seen it happen here in yemen. we are living in a the moment where we have a popular democratic president who is a constitutional lawyer by trade in training and who won the nobel peace prize and campaigned to reduce the excesses of the bush era and he would close on time of day, what and torture, which shut down this around the world. but what happened is that many of the most egregious aspects of the apparatus that was built up by bush and their cohorts had been intensified or continued in some of them have been rebranded and there is an attempt to legitimize policies that i think many liberals had opposed to john mccain would've won that election. but because of it being president obama, he is getting a free pass and we don't have anything even vaguely resembling a credible challenge to these policies because the democrats have checked their conscience at the door and they'r

released to his homeland, saudi arabia, and just two years later saeed al-shihri was back in the terror business, helping to form the yemen-based terror group al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. as number two he was an operational commander. right at the center of a series of bomb plots targeting the u.s. in december, 2009, a.q.a.p. put an underwear bomb aboard a passenger jet headed to detroit. in 2010, the group planted bombs aboard two u.s.-bound cargo planes. and in 2012, a follow-up underwear plot was disrupted by u.s. and british intelligence. while none of the plots succeeded, a.q.a.p. demonstrated stronger operational abilities than the remnants of bin laden's original group. a group has also motivated lone wolf attacks inside the united states most recently the boston bombings. the tsarnaev brothers built their bombs from their online magazine "inspire." u.s. officials say saeed al- shihri does not end the threat but his replacement will be hard to find. relentless drone strikes have greatly thinned al qaeda's leadership ranks. >> pelley: there is outrag >> pelley: there is outrage in boston after folks there got a look at the cover of the latest issue of

arabian peninsula says he died in a november attack. ago on some years open a after being captured in afghanistan and released in 2007 to saudi arabia, iwent on to yemen. the health of former south african president nelson mandela is reportedly improving as south africans and people around the world market is 95th birthday. a family member says he has made dramatic progress since being hospitalized last month for a recurring infection. we will have more on his 95th earth day later in the broadcast area did tens of thousands of people have rallied in egypt today with both supporters and opponents announcing president morsi holding a rival protests. the interim egyptian government is facing growing international pressure for his release. a visit to cairo, european union foreign-policy chief catherine ashton said morsi should be set free. announced a new round of settlement construction in the occupied west bank. on wednesday, the israeli government approved the building of more than 700 homes outside of israel's internationally recognized 1960 seven borders. the move comes as john kerry continues an effort to renew israeli-palestinian pe

saudi arabia. prescribe to that the manipulate store the egypt doubled up as minister to egypt and sau arabian.ap named colonel eddie. he was a lieutenant northern the me a recent corps and was selected to be the minister to staudt diarabia because he spoke arabic, and we didn't have a lot of arabic speakers in the american government in 1930s and '4s so this was great opportunity to send an arabic speaker to the middle east. didn't matter he was marine corps of. and let me geoff a shameless promotion to my book. on the cover of my book, that picture of president roosevelt meeting saudi aabe ya. the interpreter is colonel in his marine corps uniform. so we were hard pressed to find people with expertise and middle eastern languages. one of the first places where roosevelt's goals were tested was appropriately enough in iraq in iraq in the spring of 1941 the british decided to overthrow the iraqi government led by prime minister ali. the charge at the time was that he was proaxis and was hoping to make iraq an outpost for german or italian military forces in the middle east. the american state d