the bbc was withdrawing slowly from south america. i had a conversation with the cc tv news lima, peru correspondent the other day in washington and he said he could not get stories about peru on the air at the bbc. now, he is on several times per week with long form stories at least once or twice a month on americas now on sunday night. for example, we ran last week a fascinating story which has local application, is toward about a man named al gross who was being held in cuba by cuban authorities. they also talked about the cuban five, five individuals charged in miami with espionage who were being held here. it was interesting but under- reported by most of the established media. the intent is to have a situation where many of the stores that don't get reported on cnn or fox news are reported on a channel like cc tv. there's also an effort to increase presence of this channel in the american marketplace. host: let's hear from the democrats' line, district heights, maryland. caller: cc tv can be seen on over the air tv in the washin

well i think it's going to be a huge challenge for south america's left bloc america sore trade bloc the one the sore south american community of nations that it's really the first test of whether this left bloc can stand up for leaders and i think that in the case of honduras which was slightly similar you had. the latin american leaders standing out for us to the leader manuel zelaya but the u.s. was not as forceful and i think perhaps not coincidentally it's very similar now the u.s. has not really stood up stood up for fernando lugo in the same what about their statistics to say nicholas that now is kind of going to trade is potentially going to be easier with america for instance. i'm sorry i didn't quite what it said you think to say that now is going it alone no it's out of these trade blocks that potentially trade could be easier with america for instance. well. but i think that there is a great division between the us who are there once fernando lugo reinstated and and the united states and so i'm not sure whether tensions will be less emotional or will actually increase over

and nicolas cause now has written extensively on south america believes fernando lugo its policies didn't sit well with washington. i think that to pursue an independent foreign policy in latin america is does not carry does not go over very well in washington and we know this clearly from the wiki leaks cables that express the u.s. diplomats and next arrest displeasure lugo's independent foreign policy specifically for forging links with who a child is a venezuela and bolivia as well lugo question u.s. military involvement which was extremely controversial so i think that that it's not clear whether the us played a role specifically in the impeachment i'm not claiming that but if you ask me whether the u.s. had a motive probably in light of the the correspondence and also it's clear that the u.s. was spying on to go and i think that the distinction between the state department and intelligence gathering operations like the cia is getting more and more subtle

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south america. it was observed that cnn had virtually no correspondence in south america. at the bbc was withdrawing slowly from south america. i had a conversation with the cctv news lima, peru correspondent, who was here in washington. he said, you could simply not good stories about perot on the air at the bbc. now, he is on several times a week with long-form stories once a month on a "americas now." that is a sunday night latin america-focused programs. last week, we ran on a -- we ran a fascinating story that has a local application about a man named alan gross who is being held by cuban authorities. on the other hand, the holding here in america of what are called the cuban five, five individuals who were charged in miami with espionage and were being held here. he -- the issue is interesting and yet underreported by the established media. the attempt here is to have a situation where a lot of stories that do not get reported on cnn and fox news are reported on a channel like cctv news. at the same time, there is an effort to increase the presence of this channel in

free trade deal we do us by bessie merkel source so in terms of south america need to grisha this is not a good thing right pepe escobar asia times correspondent with his analysis on the ousting of the president thanks for that thank you very much. the public anger continues to rise in eastern saudi arabia with reports of more marches planned in support of two local activists killed at a rally on sunday the demonstration was in response to the by going to arrest of a prominent shia cleric on sedation charge as well called claim that two protesters were shot dead by snipers stationed on rooftops the death brought cans of thousands onto the street and the city cops have for marches that have continued throughout the week friday arabia's eastern province is home to the country see a minority have long accused the sunni ruling regime of discrimination a political analyst dr martin sunday believes radio i feel it's got washington's backing and is under no pressure about its treatment of the shia population. they sold the saudis with the backing of the americans they thought that this land

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that south america may -- >> south america may replace china. >> beijing has sent a consultant to get german investment. she says without foreign capital, the chinese economy risks stagnation. >> we need foreign capital, expertise, and more jobs for chinese. >> the chinese have a variety of different words for crisis, but she uses the word meaning "transition period." >> in france, the government is proposing bigger tax bonuses for those interested in buying eco- friendly cars. >> the subsidies are part of a support plan for the nation's troubled automotive sector. >> it helps the plan will help soften the blow. >> the french government's rescue plan is a glimmer of hope for the carmaker's employees. it represents 490 million euros in subsidies for consumers to buy the most environmentally friendly cars. plan seems modest advance the european debt crisis, but its goals are ambitious -- the plan seems modest. >> it is time to create a new strategy by progressively reinventing the french car with the support of national and local governments. automakers, companies, and the french people

he would take investors with him to south america to an orphanage in venezuela. he would take them to see investments he has made in real estate. people loved him and people trusted him. >> it seems that he moved his family from florida to georgia just weeks before he disappeared. what is the thinking in atlanta about that? >> well, he moved to a house in valdosta. his wife hasn't returned my phone calls or any of the investor phone calls either. they have gone off the grid so to speak. the thought being is that, you know, it was an odd move because he moved from an affluent area to kind of a small georgia town that is not as affluent. he moved to a gated community, but it was somewhat of a puzzling move. >> there are some who would say that move suggested he knew he was going to be leaving and wanted his wife and their children to be closer to his wife's family who is located there. scott, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> and with plea is wendy cross who was swindled out of $300,000 by aubrey price and from atlanta aaron lipson who is the

the southern hemisphere of the united states trying to stop the flow of drugs from central and south america into the united states. there's always been the coast guard was always the lead agency and the navy operated independently from the coast guard. in this particular operation, they have now, working together amongst each other and with other nations' coast guards and law enforcement agencies, so within the just the first seven months the fact that they've brought in over a billion dollars worth of drugs has been an incredibly successful and what's even more unique is what they've told us that over time, the navy ship, when they're in these indictments has a u.s. coast guard law enforcement attachment these are the guys specially trained over years to go on and identify drug runners and be able to board their ships and they're specially trained, so a navy ship will run up a coast guard cutter flag, warship will then transition from being a military drug operation, military warship, to becoming u.s. coast guard and these drugs that you can see on board of the "uss nicolas," was over this

south america. it's a country, it's not a city. a region of france. no, it isn't in france. it's not in south america, is it? brilliant. how come i get lumbered with the thick parents? ( door slams ) look, we don't need to panic about your dad. we don't need to make a decision now. well, i think we have, haven't we? come on. are you sure? no, but let's do it before i chicken out. dad, you know ashley's dad, who you were so rude about to ashley on the phone? i wasn't rude about him. i was honest. well, he's a paratrooper. right. yeah. no, he is. yeah, he's just come back from fighting the taliban. yeah, but i'll be all right, because thanks to you, he probably thinks i'm a killer. no, i told ashley you worked in a cake shop. a cake shop? yeah. why on earth? don't get involved. karen, do you think it's time you ought to be starting bath and bedtime? but i'm watching strictly come dancing, which-- which i missed last saturday when you said, "let's go to the museum." karen! but granddad was--! mummy and i need to have a quick word with granddad about grown-up stuff, so come on,

>> to me, the fact that he was there in south america weeks before and returned to this country actually cuts against the notion that this was some sort of an orchestrated escape here. >> w why? >> because if he knew that the jig was up here and that pretty soon everything was going to come tumbling down. he would have stayed there. after all, that's where everyone believes he has run off to now. what reason would he have to return to the country at a time when he knew criminal charges were just days away, judge. >> that's a good argument. do you buy that, josh. >> i don't buy it. >> i know you don't buy it. prove it. >> a lot of people need to set up things. this person seemed like he lived a life of planning everything. i think it's not unusual that he would go ahead. can we get the property back? you know, the problem is we can go to rt co, the feds can go to court and say let's get for whicforfeiture. the problem is how are you going to enforce that. we don't have greatat relations with that country to say okay, now we're going to go present the order. >> you think chavez is going to

of paraguay because paraguay is considered together with bolivia the geo political heart in the south america so american but that's all we're pair of wife who also limited brazil's exit towards the pacific as a brick brazil russia india china and south africa and the united states at the same time is again promoting after that we american free trade association with its traditional allies in our region mexico panama colombia peru and chile so we would serve as a pacific wall against what they consider what the americans consider dangerous brazilian expansion because of the fact that it is not just in the commom within the bric countries but very much so even to a certain extent a political or a potential political ally of russia and china. twenty five minutes past the hour in the russian capital an update of our top story one hundred five people have now reportedly died in the massive flooding in the southern russian president our region dozens have been injured and thousands of homes left devastated after five months of rain fell within twenty four hours rescuers are trying to evacuate surv

outside of paraguay he was paralyzed considered together with bolivia the geo political hard in the south america so american control over power of wife who also limited brazil's exit towards the pacific as a bric countries brazil russia india china and south africa and the united states at the same time is again promoting after that we american free trade association with its traditional allies in our region mexico panama colombia peru and chile so we would serve as a pacific wall against what they consider what the americans consider dangerous brazilian expansion because of the fact that it is not just in the commom make ally within the bric countries but very much so even to a certain extent a political or a potential political ally of russia and china's history now the us project self on the issue of free speech push about same right extend to social media one side is now looking at plans to block posts that they deem to be racist or offensive now the president is in new york to find out if internet companies should be able to decide what's acceptable and what's not. twitter is instituting a

leave the safety of the door an embassy in london until a decision on his request for asylum in south america is made her first has more from outside a sound just place of refuge. it's been nearly two and a half weeks now the julian assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london after presenting himself on the nineteenth of june seeking asylum now today is the deadline for his extradition to sweden all of his appeal to the supreme court in the against a sexual assault allegations failed so would have been the day we could have seen julian assange is put on a plane and sent over to sweden and of course the big. his legal team have always said is that he would be. gets in very strict free trial the tension conditions and the overriding fear is that it would make it much easier for him to be extradited to the u.s. but of course that's not going to happen today because julian assange took that dramatic step to seek asylum and you can see here today a number of his supporters still keeping vigil outside the ecuadorian embassy you've got the banners of support for about seve

south america. c.) europe.orts: chicago will be well- represented at tonight's all- star game. kevin youkilis won't be there but he was named the a-l player of the week... he hit .478 with three home runs and ten rbi-s in the week. the american league faces the national league in kansas city at seven. justin verlander and matt cain are the starting pitchers. adam dunn, paul konerko, jake peavy and chris sale will represent the sox, while starlin castro and bryan lahair are going for the cubs. >>i'm the most excited person to be here. i really am. this is totally great an incredible experience for me to be here with these legends and all stars and future hall of fame players it's unbelievable ... defending home run derby champion, robinson cano didn't hit any homers last night. in the second round, the angels' mark trumbo hits one 457 feet to left, and a police officer makes the catch... he didn't advance though. it was jose bautista and prince fielder in the finals, and fielder won it 12- to- seven. it's his se

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when we look at southcom, southern military command which is in south america has gotten much more involved in providing humanitarian assistance particularly in the areas of health and this is something that's been promoted for several years now and the role of military and the role of contractors and providing aid cannot really be delinked and it's one of the challenges that we face when we think of aid from the public sector perspective. i've worked many, many years in grassroots approaches. i was trained looking at grassroots approaches, actually the northeast of brazil and worked very closely with the mentor that followed albert hirschman who many of you may remember in the audience who kind of took a real innovative approach to how to empower local people and local communities and i've worked for over ten years in the foundation that specialized in grassroots development and i began to see that the grassroot approaches and many of you in the audience have grassroots and efforts. i know many of you are non-profit work, and faith-based work or have your own institutions that you're leadi

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we think you know countries in south america as well as russia for people to be able to be profound enough to be mature enough to give up power. maybe that's where we ought to organize if we are going to continue notions of democracy to try and proselytize that essential truth so when somebody says power to the people he should meet education i think that you know it's an old old argument and it was talked about by rousseau and pascal you know before the french revolution but again you know you got to have to find out because in a sense that all maybe education is subjective anyway so if you're going to have an educational system we must make sure profoundly works that there are good aged person he comes to realising that neither money nor power to make you happy i don't know do you want to be happy is it important for you to be happy yes and how do you think you will be i don't know making a good death might be one thing maybe. maybe maybe this is this is why me and you are thinking about it because as you know you know you and i will add you to disillusion with the cinema a long time ago

now concentrating on those countries where mythology is still possible which would be africa and south america and i think we're seeing the garage fall slow demise of christianity all over the world and i'm hoping that the other religions will follow suit. when you say i think you're is in the. i. certainly thought the john legend saying that we are more important in jesus christ do you think he was right there were deals more important than jesus well you know i think you know the great two figures of antiquity jesus christ and alexander the great they both died at the age of thirty three st augustine said we all. go to heaven aged thirty three so that's significant but i think you know alexander the great and jesus christ the really the same man alexander came with the sword and jesus christ could only come with a kiss so if we all have you know i love that when so we can sin now because actually we we anyway you know very well you know there was in the medieval period there was a great problem people would come to same and guston who was obviously a teacher of the church and said look there

it is not only the west linked to latin america and depends on trade to the country's south of the hemisphere, but there is a different sensibility and different ability to take relationship because latin america is fed much present in the west. it is easier to take it off the vintage of the relationship. up to aen it discussion. we have knowledgeable people if you would like to join the discussion, raise your hand. wait for a microphone. because we are filming this for c-span, please wait for a microphone. who wants to jump start the conversation? over here? we have two gentlemen over here. >> i am working at the foreign service institute. i would like to pursue the question a little further. i think when he asked, what is different on the west coast, i got the impression your answer was the west coast opinion focuses on america. it appreciates the ties with latin america. every administration has been elected over the last 20 years. they say, we must focus on latin america. as soon as they get into office, something happens and distracts them. how would you express your recommendation to th

was in the white house saying human rights are absolute and changing our policies in a war in south america. it was a thrilling time. go all the right messages were happening from all the right people. everything was going great, and we all laugh saying, and reagan will never be president. our work is not done, and it is going to be harder than ever. 1978 was pivotal. willie brown in 1974 was the first person to change the law so we could become citizens and not criminals. all of that will go away if we do not stand and fight for the liberty, liberation, and freedom and we have. our enemies will fight just to the death, so our work is not done. it is like a rainbow. you cannot see the beginning. you cannot see the end. >> happy pride. then it is a real pleasure and an honor of being here. gwe will be targeting many communications. the messages peace and safety for everyone. happy pride. thank you. >> we would like to call to the podium the chief. [applause] >> thank you very much. i know it is a little bit of a sad time. he brought the video to me, and then it happened. anti-bullying. it is

the mine is already the largest in south america.ve ammunition against the protesters, police killed five people this week alone. on wednesday, and a dramatic video broadcast nationally on peruvian television, police severely beat a former roman catholic priest who had rallied protesters despite emergency measures restricting freedom of assembly. the video shows police walking up to the protest leader, marco arana, as he sat on the bench in the central square of the region's capital city. they saw around him and hit them with batons, and then arrest him read arana later tweeted that "in the police station they hit me again, punches in the face, kidneys, insults." at a news conference, arana blamed peru's president humala of being behind the violence. >> the government is mistaken if it thinks is going to crashed the justify cries of people of cajamarca. we have to say to it clearly to president humala, the defense banister, and prime minister, like the gospel says, do not fear those who kill the body but fear those who kill the soul.

from the distance of south america it was clearer no shock here.arties led by the president, is trying to do just that. push us to adapt to the changing circumstances of the world reshape our economy and environment to make us stronger and more competitive. the other led by mitt romney wants to pretend the world is stagnant, keep replaying the same old tape, hoping against all hope that the same movie script will generate a different ending. his idea of creativity, do it just the way they did it 20 years ago because that's worked out just so well. but it should be pretty obvious right now. the way to avoid becoming machu picchu or a land tortoises is to stay one step ahead. not one step behind. that's my view. >>we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. innovation matters now more than ever. >> eliot: the federal government couldn't take money away from states for failing to expand medicaid. ten republican governs have indicated they will not agree to ex-panned medicaid even though the cost of the expansion would have been fully cover

. >>> a mountain climber with ties to maryland is found dead in south america. we have pictures of the two we were trying to scale a 20,000 high foot mountain when they fell about 1,000 feet to their deaths. he was working on his phd. >>> ron mattes has more. >> reporter: well, wednesday is fred--last day. he is going retire after 31 years. he made his final neighborhood walk. he says he does take some credit for the drop in crime in the city. jessica, back to you. >> ron, thank you. he would like to hike the appalachian trail in his retire. >>> we are starting the workweek with clouds and happiedty and a--humidity and a few showers. will we have more rain later on? bernadette woods is in the weather center. >>> we have had a couple of showers and a couple of thunderstorms coming in from the east. of the storms are not moving--the storms are not moving quickly and they are just scattered about. that is what we are going see through out the day. but not just today. we up the chances chances the next couple of days. >> reporter: it is steamy and hot out hire with