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saying that foreign policy is always to some degree about domestic policy in that that is true in spades as you begin to approach an election cycle and that's exactly where we are today ok i want to keep on the subject of the u.n. has another thing i want to get your thoughts here we have heard of come out saying that the u.s. and nato went beyond the u.n. mandate in libya and here's what the russian foreign minister thirty lowbrow of the thread earlier i want to play a little bit of that possibly of pneumonia so they should look at social tension is it touched the voters an arab or is russia condemns the use of violence against civilians and supports the aspirations of arab peoples for a revival of their states and their democratic development and social and economic prosperity at the same time actions by outside forces must be based on full respect for international law and the instruments of the search for a political settlement between the authorities in the position attempts to go beyond the u.n. security council mandate from acceptable since they undermine its authority and multipl

and in spades but just yes or no is timothy geithner freaking out because of china . to be a lot of i'm sorry for the things including joining. well i appreciate you being on the show so we'll keep an eye out for all that inflation they are calling for you say it's there but you say it's going to get worse ok it's that equation right now all right ok well thank you so much i was michael pinto president of petro portfolio strategies all right so you heard michael pinto blaming some of the economic leaders in the u.s. for the country's problems but you also saw how intertwined greece and italy and problems going on in sovereign nations in europe what impact those have on the united states because u.s. banks are exposed to this kind of debt or credit default swaps to insure against this debt or because of just the whole global financial system that is so intertwined but what do average americans on the streets think are they aware of all of this board do they just point the finger at who's can do it well let's see what our broadcast journalists found out we sent out to t

saying that foreign policy is always to some degree about domestic policy and that that is true in spades as you begin to approach an election cycle and that's exactly where we are today ok i want to keep on that subject of the u.n. for the note and i want to get your thoughts can we have our country come out saying that the u.s. nato went beyond the u.n. mandate in libya and here is what the russian foreign minister if they're going to federally or i want to play a little bit. so we've pneumonia so they looked at celestial attention as it touched a little as an arab russia condemns the use of violence against civilians and supports the aspirations of arab peoples for a revival of their states and their democratic development and social and economic prosperity at the same time options i know its forces must be based on full respect for international law and to be instrumental to the search for a political settlement between the authorities now position at times to go beyond the un security council mandate from acceptable since they undermine its authority and multiply the suffering of inn

he has made it in spades. he is still out there driving. he had made it by april. vice president garcia: thank you. >> mr. marie? -- murray? >> jarvis murray, taxi services. what mr. alexander has said is basically correct. the mta position is that when he came up for his medallion in 2008, he did not qualify. there has been no evidence he qualified during that time. at that time, he needed to drive three out of four bang years to show he qualified. -- three of four years to show the qualified. he did not. if the question is whether he qualifies if he were to come up today, as mr. alexander stated, he would qualify. there is no debate he has given since 2008. in to the five and 2006, he did not drive enough hours. in 2007, he was not in the country and did not drive. 2008 was the only year he presented at that time where it could be shown he had badly driven. for the mta, the issue for us -- if you would like to choose that he is eligible as of today, that is one story. at the time of his application, that is a different issue. we are not prepared to unilaterally a

warmer temperatures are melting the glacier and uncovering artifacts including a wooden spade, containersade from birch bark and horseshoes. the glacier is melting so fast itfos beree a race to rescue the items befo they're exposed to the sun and damaged. >>> it cooled down a bit today. >> little cooling at the coastline. the big thing this weekend if you missed it earlier, the chance of scattered thunderstorms saturday and sunday. upper 80s inland on saturday and 60s through the coastline. that through monday, tuesday, and wednesday of the upcoming week. mostly sunny skies and some pretty comfortable weather. so again, the highest fire danger will be in the east bay and for the north bay hills. with any lightning strike, they could start wildfires. so that's going to be a concern. we'll be watching for it. >> possibly the sierra, too, i hear? >> yeah. they're getting thunderstorms now. if you're heading up that way, you know, be careful. >> okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> thanks for join joining us. nightly news is next. we want to remind you, it's game night. the giants are

we will see a spade of economic indicators on friday. first industrial production, a key gauge of corporate activity for august. and the jobless rate and the job seekers to job offers ratio for august will come out on the same day. the third indicator is on consumer prices. finally housing starts will come out on friday. the figure for july soared 21.2% compared to the previous year. this was due to resumption of home building that had been delayed by a lack of materials in the wake of the march disaster. >>> now a lineup of numbers coming out this week in the united states. we start off with a key housing indicator. new home sales for august are out on monday. >>> are consumers still anxious about the economy? we'll know more when the conference board releases the consumer confidence index on tuesday. it dropped to 44.5 in august. that's from 59.2 in july. august was the worst reading in more than two years. >>> durable goods orders for august are due out on wednesday. then the third reading of the gross domestic product for the second

southern europe braces for austerity and gives it to me in spades trying to push through more savage cuts small yard yourself as a greece appear to be on time. i'm not in a posting for the switch from a new undersea gas pipeline to europe curbing euphrasia status as a replaceable middleman which confused before to negotiate discounts written suppliers. let's focus in on libya again now where the rebels are reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining gadhafi strongholds without violence more insight into what's happening in libya with a leading middle east analyst in artie's interview next. you i'm joined by rosemary hall is the professor of middle east policy studies at city university in london rosemary thanks for speaking to r.t. so how well has the international community handled the libyan crisis will you make a distinction between the nato members some of whom are extremely proud of what's been achieved so far in libya and the broader international community who are adjusting to developments in libya and deciding to be on the side of the future though not every gover

." >> i think you know you call a spade a spade and rubbish is rubbish. there have been a lot of reports that he was womanizing and drinking when he was a teenager in beirut. it's hard to disprove a -- it's very hard to disprove something that didn't happen. but as far as i can tell, he was a sort of religious teenager. there were reports he was funded or trained by the c.i.a. these are -- fail all sorts of commonsense tests apart from everything else. if you were the c.i.a. case officer who ran bin laden, most of these people retirement age now, you got a $20 million book contract right there. when conspiracies happen and the iran-contra, these kinds of things, people talk about them. the notion that the c.i.a. was involved in training or funding bin laden, who has, a, had a lot of his own money, b, was pathologically anti-american from an early age, it defies common sense. >> you named the publications and went to the specific point they were making. "jane's intelligence review," that bin laden obtained an intelligence degree in the united states and yo

and the united nations security council says it will concede a palestine spadeful full u.n. membership on wednesday with its leaders expressing hope of success despite opposition from the u.s. which holds.

in spades well it was always there and now you know we see that bank of america has inherited that mess something we warned against when it was going on in two thousand and eight the potential takeover of course you know no you know the major bank in the country is going to pay attention so they went and took over this toxic waste dump they thought they were getting it cheap and they you know the joke is on them off this this junk off to the bank of america but even bank of america is not large enough to. absorb all these toxic assets now let's talk a little bit about who's getting the short end of the stick here your group and your work it's really you're fighting on behalf of a constituency which are people in america that are getting screwed in the housing market and. right now twenty five percent of the mortgage holders are still underwater so and all this fraud abuse goes by and checked on prosecuted if not lionized by the administration it is immunity to mortgage fraud with wholesale legislation to completely exonerate hard core financial securities fraud in america now what about

security council is preparing to discuss the palestinian state two spades. as presence of allah struggles to contain the fallout from the palestinian bid reports of a must which claim these secretly approved the transfer of fifty five high tech bunker buster bombs to israel had apparently happened months after he took office that had earlier been rejected by president bush who feared israel would sell the technology to china but historian william blum's that's for a bomb it's a way to secure a vital campaign fund. the u.s. has been giving israel all manner of. it's not great but a large europe i mean if you are a rational explanation that is not what he is. money in the us the last few years of working with your. and your human virgil's that's what. got your rationale here as. well as you want to go. now people in britain have long been able to march in protest but those voices are being silenced in parts of london for an entire month the government letting police a blanket ban on public gatherings in the capital and some is putting freedom of expression und

state for the year is a bailout fund well i'll still be enough to keep the struggling big players like spade initially sold in if they need it. well i think the politicians definitely hope that this will now be enough and that they send a clear signal to the market that they have the firepower to go against any speculators of countries like greece but more important countries like spain and italy but nevertheless i mean we have the problem that both the as well as greece of portugal are. said are not sustainable and to gain confidence of the markets they would have to implement some tough certain measures and their economies and in some countries especially italy you don't really see the political will to implement these tough measures and i think as long as this fundamental problem is not addressed. the bail packages that we see may have a short term impact but they don't definitely will not solve the crisis for you yet hog in the financial industry i expect from the european school of management and technology many thanks for those thoughts thank you. now if you want to come on a fitting f

with different layers self society and money with people including be a tiny a social groups it was spades when he doesn't see. a problem while there's groups this is not the problem of this group this is the problem of the state that state should understand its own be it well regard.

australia and the island it's the game would be americans rushing coaching staff will be targeting a spade look to become the first dead beaton's to ever win the mansion their first world cup meanwhile former all black legend shaun fitzpatrick is delighted to see russia have made it to the world camp and he says the whole of new zealand is buzzing ahead of the tournament which kicks off in front of the ninth september he said i can't wait i was not here any seven last time we had a player and i have a lot of times to new zealand sun sand as a nation. as four million people talk about a stadium of four million people and looking forward to welcoming the rugby world despite a disappointing tour of united kingdom recently where the russians was only four games against english welsh club sides of the russian campus heinie even if they lose all four games in new zealand the most important thing is that they have become the first players to represent their country and the third biggest sporting event in the world which bump orthodoxy. and great stuff is all the sport for the telly sublevel is he

at least we'll get a spade we never like to take the risk of the night of those who make peace with disaster those are the people so again look at. those who want to make peace with as we should welcome them and the question these are about democracy merely say maybe the. before i repeat it now obviously we are in support of democracy all over the middle east because we had a democratic nation we would like to see all other nations being democratic and as i said before for example syria i believe and i have a by the way was a member of the israeli delegation for peace talks with syria in the past i believe that if we have a democratic government in syria it will be much more conducive to peace between our two countries than the nope so that's just one example but when you talk about democracy what do you mean really i mean if you take for example a country like the kingdom of jordan is it a democratic situation where the palestinian majority of seven people saying please basically downtrodden or surprised by doubts in my dynasty i'm not saying that he could change all i'm saying is when we t

also southern europe braces for a stare at the anger is it really in spades try to push through moresavage cuts while the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be on time. plus any business plan here puts and puts the finishing touches on the north to pipeline to start pumping gas i'll have more on that in business in twenty minutes. this is r t welcome it's a pm tuesday evening here in moscow my name is kevin and first the syrian regime is accused of having more blood on its hands with government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators in the besieged city of homs that's the head of the arab league chief's visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syria standoff for the e.u. however sanctions are the solution.

russia's city of yaroslavl spade its last respects to the forty three victims of wednesday's facing plane crash sports one from the top local ice hockey team perished in that incident buried with full military honors. a nation on guard new security threats emerge on the eve of the tenth anniversary of nine eleven as some fear that the u.s. war on terror is created more enemies than it's destroyed. and tel aviv in cairo struck a new south node in relations of ninety more been the egyptian capital storms the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee the country. if the second time in one week that in its radiant daffodil to a muslim country has been expelled join the police now in a few moments and on bring you more. live from central moscow this is r.t. it's just after eleven pm moscow time on kevin and a very good evening city stadium where russia's lokomotiv ice hockey team played their last game has been transformed today into a venue of mourning and t. is more than one hundred thousand people attended a ceremony and memory of the team of the others that perished on board the. plane in

recuses sexually assaulting a teenage boy video of the alleged assault has surfaced on the incident in spades with the perpetrators must be justice while you're of why has paul b. accused peacekeepers out of haiti. at least twenty five people are dead and dozens missing after typhoon dallas through southern japan it caused massive flooding and landslides leveling roads and homes cutting off access to many remote villages thousands of people are still stranded and awaiting rescue the storm is the most devastating of its kind to hit japan last seven years. again just a few minutes from now we debate whether taxing the rich could help overcome the financial crisis in the e.u. and us after the business with dmitri. hello and warm welcome to business r.t. pressure seems to be easing in the gases between russia and ukraine he have says it will honor the current agreement but still wants to renegotiate prices down its terms it wants to see ukraine agreed to merge the state run nafta gatt as with russia's gazprom now this would effectively mean lost will gain access to the gas transit network ukraine

something europe braces for staring at me and goes it's me in spades trying to push through more savage cuts small the arduous effort to say greece appear to be untangled. live in a potent you under siege gas pipeline perving ukraine status is the replaceable middleman which it's used before to negotiate. let's focus in on libya again now where the rebels have reportedly reached a deal to enter one of the remaining gadhafi strongholds without violence more insight into what's happening in libya with a leading middle east analyst in artie's interview next. i'm joined by rosemary hollis the professor of.

and everybody knows that the next ones that go into crisis spade france portugal and the u.k. but the german situation is actually worse and he said he maintained by the belief that it's rather most stable i think it's too soon to write the a bit you are for the euro collapse of the euro would be a disaster for german business for german banks and ultimately for the same german taxpayers who we're talking about right now. hope for a better country but not as part of the united kingdom there's a strong sense of national identity in wales which is help fuel calls for it to achieve independence following similar calls farther north and skoll it but artie's laura amid reports the debate is continuing to rage over whether welsh ambitions are driven by economic sense or emotion. welcome to wales part of the u.k. and a proud nation with its own language and customs and the latest voice to call for independence applied comrie which means the party of wales has always argued the country could be better off without the u.k. and it seems increasing numbers are starting to see their point

back in one hundred forty seven ten percent of our of our economy it was a nice slow steady boring spadeful business guy with green eyeshades working banking hours you know with normal salaries but then we see as the banks got deregulated now they represent twenty one percent that's two thousand and nine now in fact last year was there were over thirty percent of all corporate profits in the eyes that were from the financial sector you can't build an economy or a nation if the only thing you're producing is derivatives you've got to get back to manufacturing and going back to manufacturing take suspect was strong middle class with good paying jobs we need a national trade policy and we need a role and we need to roll the regulations back into the banks tears to stop them from this crazy behavior. time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's the day's question will the gang of twelve abandon reagan's misguided policies and tax the oligarchy to help the four forty six point two percent of. the forty six point two million americans who are now living in poverty your cho

of afghans ever having really understood why they came in the first place from afghanistan for no a spade not a brownback a show is from the anti war and so coalition is live on the line from washington d.c. a very good evening bride i mean that report about how much of it you heard we're hearing that many people afghanistan ninety two percent in fact have got no idea why war arrived at their own door but let's put the shoe on the other foot let's turn this around a bit do americans themselves really understand or support why the country is in afghanistan. well i think increasingly the answer would be no the recent polls here show that sixty five percent two thirds of the country oppose the war in afghanistan they don't know why they're there why the u.s. is there they don't know what victory means and they favor ending the war the war of course cost the american taxpayers one hundred twelve to one hundred twenty billion dollars not to mention the thousands of american young people soldiers who are either killed or wounded or are suffering psychological or emotional injuries that are life

for ever with two days of shooting and the overall price tag of over nine million dollars found a spade fit curves and most ambitious project is applied by gatiss tragedy they've done over in germany because he had to be translated into other languages including russian scientists from nor bob the director had his wild crowd our website that's our calls. coming up see oh he's going to short period max keiser discusses a traumatic shift in the global currency war a change for the kaiser report i've been told that i'm back with every top of the top story. you know watching us he's going to hollywood as the headline. russia says he had gas out and has aided last respects to the forces. three victims when it's a fatal plane crash small smoke will be told to focus on the hockey team who perished in that incident of the fire it was a military sense of. a nation gone through security threats and knowledge of the evil they turned from about zero nine eleven that some fear that he was born to run has created more enemies than a destroyed. us television cairo strike a new sign out in relations on

also southern europe braces for a stare at the anger is it silly in spades trying to push through more savage cuts while the arduous efforts to save greece appear to be on time. plus any business plan your fruits and puts the benefit of touches on the north rim pipeline to start pumping gas i'll have more on that in business since one similar. this is the world commutes eight pm choose the nigger in moscow my name is kevin i went and first the syrian regime is accused of having more blood on its hands with government troops allegedly firing at demonstrators and siege city of homs but the head of the arab league chips visit to damascus with a peace plan to try and solve the syria standoff for the e.u. however sanctions are the solution but as daniel bushell explains next those slow introduction could backfire. william hague britain's foreign secretary says horrific scenes of brutality have false this oil burning in syria but bizarrely sanctions were in stocks for over a month. but they will kick in already when europeans were offering is complete disappointed going choat with syria and

find the solution to be not just for greece but for all the european countries with past measures spading to have the facts in this political leaders continue to struggle to convince that public interest here is a still.

has it become really obvious that europe doesn't just have a greece problem they don't just have a spade or an italy problem that the entire banking system there has been infected . so you're absolutely right and thank you for having me on and i'll excuse my i just had to operate on up the problem we had today with the all of the markets collapsing basically commodities equities and the only thing i was doing ok we're very proud stacey we have an entire system that is incredibly fragile if you thought it was yesterday's announcement of what people are calling twist the new federal reserve policy of purchasing four hundred billion dollars worth of thirty year hard problems and financing that with the sale of four hundred billion dollars worth of short term treasury notes that that is what triggered the fall of yesterday in asia and today in the european and american markets and the fact that matter is that a trench banking system the american banking system they're all incredibly fragile because of the european sovereign debt crisis now you have this announcement yesterday which i think t

than the discontinuity yes even when there is a change in the party in power i think that's true in spades with president obama but it's not simply obama it was true when clinton replaced the older bush it was it was has been consistently true. and i think that one needs to be very careful about overstating how much authority the president hears you know people fell into this notion that the president of the united states is the most powerful man in the world and back in two thousand and eight many americans believe that if we just got the right guy in your whole office all would be well well we did get the right guy i mean in the sense that president obama is an exceedingly able and talented individual but the reality is that his power his authority his ability to do things are far more limited than some people seem to believe well then how is it that they have if they have thought about obama and what is it that allows you know now if we give the example of libya an expansion of obama's wars how is it that with fifteen trillion dollars of debt now half of discretionary spending going on