rois to investigate and oversee the strategic defense initiative as was president ronald reagan's star wars program and this new national strategy represents a break from the dangerous. assured destruction at the height of the cold war. also known as star wars was a program conceived to destroy an enemy missiles by relying on orbiting systems u.s. interceptors a fired one depends goes into action. at the time the prevailing view was that this was going to work that the technology was almost in hand and that this was going to change everything i remembered a briefing i got from my staff director was said not just anti-missile systems but all major weapon systems were going to move to space that space was the new high ground even then we talked about in that way where we're all major military operations we're going to be by the end of that century it was a debate of stellar proportions the nation's number one star gazer vs the pentagon's chief of star wars it cannot protect the population of the united states it can be but the soviets overwhelmed outfoxed underslung i for one am not willing a

" exhibit. >> i now hereby declare "star wars" mini lands open!> legoland california brought out hundreds of fans young and old for the grand opening. it features memorable "star wars" scenes and sets re-created using almost two million lego bricks. have you seen any yet? there they are. >> cool. very neat. never been to legoland, it was 15 minutes from where i grew up. now i have reason to go, i have a little one. >>> just ahead on eyewitness news at noon -- more clouds with rain today. the complete forecast coming up. >> first, a look at today's midday stocks followed by the multimatch numbers. ,,,,,,,,, >>> he's going to grow into his name i think. >> he's a beagle lab mix. a whole lot of lab in there. just about ready to be adopted. he's at the maryland spca. together we can make a difference. we do this every friday. we've been doing it for 30 years. >>> we have a bumple to talk about -- bunch to talk about. great weather. can you handle 70 degrees on opening day? oh, yeah. >> what? >> yeah, meteorologist tim williams has the details. check i

billion dollars is spent each year on the country's military president reagan but once vowed to make star wars our reality but is this out of the world all project that on the agenda watch our special report coming up next here on c. thirty eight and they're going to go try to do it all. at present it is not known if weapons capable of striking targets on earth are already deployed in space however orbiting insult systems are being researched. the u.s. military is developing what the air force in particular has called prompt global strike that is basically currently we have nuclear missiles that could strike anywhere on earth within thirty minutes. what the military is talking about is a similar conventional capability that could be used to knock out say a chinese anti-satellite weapons launcher in a matter of minutes. a number of concepts are being studied with this notion of prompt global strike. in two thousand and eight fifty million dollars was allocated to project a supersonic plane capable of reaching any point on the globe in only a few minutes and drop to six tons of bombs. one is a o

. >> it reminds me of the guys that used to hang out or watch for star wars movies. good morning, we don't have any camping out at all. we have good conditions for the roads. let's take a look at the bay bridge. you will see traffic is moving well passed that new roof we keep seeing every morning. boy, it's pretty isn't it? traffic on the upper deck of the bay bridge moves well. no major problems getting into san francisco. this is a look at interstate 880 you can see northbound and southbound 880 traffic moving along nicely. no major problems if you are driving down the nimitz freeway if from hayward, union city, and fremont it's a nice drive. the road sensors are not showing us a lot. westbound 84 the dumbarton bridge that traffic is moving along nicely. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sir. good morning, everyone. we have clear skies but the breeze is still there. today it looks good. just one guy talking i thought yesterday, yesterday afternoon was very nice. morning a little cool a little breeze. it will be slightly warmer today. tomorrow clouds come in and a l

today, it is "star wars" in legos. this is in california. it took 1.5 million legos to re- create six "star wars" scenes. >>> a virginia man is facing drunk driving charges in his alleged incident was caught on tape. >> the erratic driving was caught on tape by a 9news now photographer. the video is instrumental in the case. >> this is a story you'll see only on 9. andrea mccarren shows us what happened on a recent friday night. >> reporter: our colleague, photographer reporter kurt brook was driving home after the 11:00 p.m. newscast when he found himself behind an erratic driver. his video offers us all a rare glimpse of what happens when someone who ends up charged with dwi gets behind the wheel. >> he was acting a little erratic so i decided the best defense is a good offense. get around him, get away from him. >> kurt brooks was headed south on i-95 driving a 9news live truck with a small camera on his dashboard rolling. >> i went to the right-hand lane, tried to pass him. at that point, he nearly drove me into the guardrail. >> reporte

seriously when it is used star wars is no longer a fantasy it is a reality for the good of course such a policy is a catalyst of an arms race. the media domination of the factor of force is nursing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction my solution. to that is that it will since in russia's opinion more of the militarization of outer space could have unpredictable consequences for the international community he could provoke nothing less than the beginning of a new nuclear iran. besides the negative environmental impacts in outer space the policy of space domination could also have a destabilizing effect on earth. the weaponization of space could be the trigger that unleashes nuclear war. signy anxiety and just by putting weapons in space or launching weapons from space downed worth. cording juice by accident by human fallibility by design by a terrorist take on the launching up to nine thousand hydrogen bombs inducing a short ice age in the death of my screeches on the planet. we're on the edge of a nuclear precipice about been alesha. the military use of space seems inevita

seriously wouldn't that is because star wars is no longer a fantasy it is a reality to give of course such a policy is a catalyst of an arms race you would. demean you dumb a nation of the factor of force is nourishing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction my solution. it is not so cool since in russia's opinion one of the militarization of outer space could have unpredictable consequences for the international community you could provoke nothing less than the beginning of a new nuclear era. besides the negative environmental impacts in outer space the policy of space domination could also have a destabilizing effect on earth. who recognize ation of space could be the trigger that unleashes nuclear war. signy anxiety induced by putting weapons in space or launching weapons from space downs worth. cording just by accident by human fallibility by terrorists now launching up to nine thousand hydrogen bombs inducing a short ice age in an adjacent my screeches on the planet. well in the age of the nuclear precipice about in our nation. the military use of space seems inevitable

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more from orbit still to come this time though the threat of star wars becoming a reality a special hour to record a gulf into the looming threat of space and militarization something that could make the final frontier the last frontier it's coming your way in about an hour's time here on r.t. but it's a short break. space is part of our national security there is no subs and there is no. military comes in space. bombs on target time bellman pleasure and that's really your able to deliver through space ship it may seem. better. company. down the field from our current. and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of body space. obviously incredible investment from the united states and from the european union and canada other countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space. that's coming your way next hour here on c.n.n. be back with the headlines and up just a few moments do stay with us.

a star wars really becomes reality his report delves into the looming threat of a space militarization something that could make fun of friends had lost friends here it's coming away in an alice time but it's a short preview. coming space is the goal of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military space. bombs on target the time element looks awful about unless we are able to deliver through space ship. better place of any crime down to build up. our current place. and we must play. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of body space. just incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this this stuff is completely in jeopardy if we start putting we haven't seen outer space.

president ronald reagan who once vowed to make star wars i reality parts of this project back now on the agenda and more transparent report coming out later this hour here on r.t. right now kareena will bring you the latest news these after this short break stay with us live here in moscow. from. indonesia she's available in hotels coming dollars all she spoke my good results in school up only come a come down upon the motive been turned on the radio sentry and the resulting storm sunday a breach of the wisdom result use of doing something medically suffer till some in your code. result in spawn the rich calls him her to the ground maybe as you call them it's a full season so it's not the sultan who turns. on welcome to our business report and would go straight to our top story today b.p. class confirmed for the first time that together with ross knapp it has offered cash and arctic opportunities to the rest of shareholders and. it wants to buy those partners out so it can proceed with a sixteen billion dollars saswata and exploration deal it signed with boston after in jack and me m

going to war and deciding that we're never going to pay for it this was all we've got to reagan's star wars program and it is is running up almost three trillion dollars in debt with well two trillion get up to three trillion with with you know with these unfunded programs seven out of ten americans think that the debt ceiling should be raised do you think that that is what i'm holding is what emboldened the republicans or is that the consequence a republican rhetoric being so well promoted talk radio and from frankly a network television. right i think it's really need to be reinforcing. the republicans really like to pull out the debt issue as long as they never have to admit that part of the debt issue is their issue so keep in mind during the bush presidency the debt went from five million five trillion to ten trillion it's hard to even say that they have numbered so ridiculous and so they do they bring back out what have the issues as you know when you hear let's raise the debt ceiling and you've heard her you know the entire campaign cycle and going into the last two years that the de

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i think we need to lock them all in the garbage masher from "star wars" and force them.rust me, they would get something worked out. i tell you what, this is why we need a president trump in this country. donald trump was on "the today show" talking about his potential run for president. he said he can't make a final decision until this season of "celebrity apprentice" is over which is maybe the best excuse for postponing your run for the presidency ever. i'm unable to decide whether i can run for president or not until i decide whether la toya jackson or jose canseco will be my new apprentice. i would ease into this. i would run for a lower office first, like president of the hair club for men, but not donald trump. he said he can't run because he has the number one show on nbc, which is kind of like having the nicest house in haiti. it's not that impressive. but still he appears to be very serious about turning this country around. >> the world laughs at us. they won't be latching if i'm president. >> jimmy: they won't? [ laughter ] i think they will. donald trump wins

they pick a little kid who loved star wars and he or she gets to have a lightsaber battle with darthince the kids to join the dark side which of course they refuse to do, right? >> stand here. >> if you would not turn to the dark side, perhaps she will. >> i don't think so. activate. what's that? you will? oh, okay. no, no, no. you don't want to fight darth vader? you want to join darth vader? >> she went right to the dark side, kneeled to darth vader. she's no dummy. [ applause ] she now goes by the name darth jennifer. someone else went over to the dark side this weekend. that was actor nicolas cage. nic cage was arrested late friday night in new orleans on a number of charges including domestic abuse, battery, disturbing the peace and public drunkedness. this is his mug shot, which is -- it lacks like he took it himself. how do we know this is nicolas cage and not john travolta disguised to look like nicolas cage? and how do we know nicolas cage isn't the dance doctor? apparently, nic and his wife were arguing loudly outside an a apartment building. he insisted it was their apartm

and, you know, even though reagan shrewdly manages to seize the upper hand with his, you know, star wars strategic defense initiative after that despite the fact that it didn't seem to have much, you know, connection to the landscape of what was really possible, but it allowed him to claim that he was, you know, for arms control too. but it's very different than how reagan came into office where he was bossing that he -- boasting that he had opposed every, you know, arms control measure, you know, to that point. so that, that's okay. so getting arms control onto, into the public discussion, that's one kind of achievement. if you go to the last chapter that group that i did talk about, the act up, i mean, i think there are some clear-cut things there. there's some reform and, you know, testing and approval process for aids drugs. there's also, which i didn't mention, some of the act up people that get involved in researching the issues of these aids drugs get so sort of in the do-it-yourself way get so technically proficient at these issues that they manage to, you know, become part of th

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love and war and stars he grabbed the meaning of it all as a whole. he yearned to share what he knew. though that lived on and might have learned moved to a future where his still voice would not be heard. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm going to read a scene from draining the sea coming out in march. it takes place in guatemala during the 80's. this is a scene from the polytechnic the tick cal school where they would take the disappeared. emanuel for the americas. we are inside the basement of the polytechnic and i'm admiring the bone is thattedose that your heal bone makes in the sunlight in the palms of my hand in my mind. when you come to my bed your hands and breath is sweet and we can love like this for hours. i can find christ in your body. this too must be constructed and killed bike on television with pain and blood that's beautiful like a red refer. you made me into a woman and i surend erred into it a man-made into a woman and returned. but you don't want to my bed this is the metal cloth you are chained to in the polytechnic. and i do

. 75 miles south of my last line force, wide open desert, it is something like the bar scene in "star wars." there are 150 shops. no one lives there. just corkage shopkeepers. if you want to buy any weapons in the world, that is where you want to go. you will find every drug in the world moves south, and you will find ammunition, recruits heading north to fight the insurgency. we decided that could not stand, and we rated that place twice. once last fall. we went in, took over, it took about 24 hours to hold it. we went into the bazaar, and we found shops with weapons and drugs that we destroyed. we disrupted significantly his ability to resupply himself. we saw that in a drop of of fighting in the late fall. we went back in in late winter. it was disrupted for a longer time. he relies on this area to move his equipment north, and very important drugs out into the world market. i will tell a story about this fight. perfect. the kernels are finding those plans. there was a very narrow valley you had to go up. it was heavily mined. they were placing a traditional battle. the key was to get t

. 75 miles south of my last line force, wide open desert, it is something like the bar scene in "star wars." there are 150 shops. no one lives there. just corkage shopkeepers. if you want to buy any weapons in the world, that is where you want to go. you will find every drug in the world moves south, and you will find ammunition, recruits heading north to fight the insurgency. we decided that could not stand, and we rated that place twice. once last fall. we went in, took over, it took about 24 hours to hold it. we went into the bazaar, and we found shops with weapons and drugs that we destroyed. we disrupted significantly his ability to resupply himself. we saw that in a drop of of fighting in the late fall. we went back in in late winter. it was disrupted for a longer time. he relies on this area to move his equipment north, and very important drugs out into the world market. i will tell a story about this fight. perfect. the kernels are finding those plans. there was a very narrow valley you had to go up. it was heavily mined. they were placing a traditional battle. the key was to get t

network scandal the cost of covering disasters and war but still find the millions needed to pay their star anchors some outlets have spent most of your and your budget in just a few months. well despite public criticism of home over its participation in the bombing of libya britain continues massing its forces as i were active as john breeze told r.t. floor am at but government will not was draw from the conflict before the coalition reshapes the political map of the region and here's more of his thoughts. today i'm talking to john reese he's very active in the stop the war coalition that position is that the british military should not have got involved in intervention in libya john reese thank you very much for talking to r.t. now the government says that the airstrikes prevented a massacre in benghazi why are you right and they're wrong well i think the longer term effects would be even worse than the effects might have been on benghazi but i don't actually accept the government's argument about benghazi either if you look at the guardian reports on the day before the air strikes took p

this is pure eisenhower this is pure hate it was no five star general hero of world war two who incidentally once in a moment of pique but nonetheless revelation said god help the united states of america if he ever anybody ever sits in this chair the oval office who doesn't understand the military boy i do what i mean it was that he saw the potential for us to be diverted by war and conflict and it will be a national security state which we've been hard absence will work to deflecting us from running our republic properly governing it properly and that's what we're seeing right now you just highlighted some of the aspects of that and we need to get back to taking care of our republic so why am i hearing this from a marine and from a sailor at the joint chiefs of staff that had to write the report without even putting their names behind it and start hearing us from the president of the united states that we do not need to realize so heavily on our military power but quite the opposite invest in education so that we can be competitive on a much different level internationally well you're aski

has had a longstanding love affair with war remember astley banfield oh my god. she became a star reporter covering the world trade center attacks but in two thousand and three. cans of state university just as the war in iraq was getting started she said about the coverage what didn't you see you didn't see where those bullets landed you didn't see what happened when the mortar landed a puff of smoke is not what a mortar looks like when it explodes believe me there are horrors that were completely left out of this war and that's n.b.c. refused to let her out of her contract but kept her off air muzzling her happen to with former independent governor jesse ventura. you want then a phone call asking if it was true that he didn't support the war in iraq. for. three years. i don't mind. anything. you don't already know for three years so too did you lose your prize winning journalist peter arnett after giving this interview on iraqi t.v. and there it was really the better be the book. maybe you read it in rewrite of the way the first way is. because of the iraqi resistance when as n.

. >> first she lost her son, a former nfl star, in the war in afghanistan.n had been killed by friendly fire. but the tillmans and the public were instead fed a false story that tillman was killed by the enemy. part of which was a misleading silver star citation that mcchrystal signed off on. even while the general warned his higher ups not to say anything publicly that might contradict the real story. for fear of embarrassment. the tillmans were kept in the dark. >> he deliberately helped cover up pat's death. he caused pain to us in a national forum. >> reporter: the pentagon inspector general recommended disciplinary action against mcchrystal, but the army ultimately cleared him for wrongdoing. mcchrystal, who declined to comment to abc news, has expressed general remorse. >> we failed the family. and i was a part of that. i apologize for it. >> is the president aware of the role that general mcchrystal played in the cover-up of pat tillman's death? >> he's aware, very aware, having worked closely with general mcchrystal of the general's resume. >> report