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. >> the royal navy expanded in the napoleonic wars. significantly. the manpower needs went from 36,000 in 1793 to close to 150,000 in 1812. the royal navy was chronically under manned and the royal navy claimed a right to reclaim british subjects to require them to serve in the royal navy. now, at the same time that the royal navy was expanding and needed all the manpower it could get, our trade was flourishing and expanding. we needed all the sea men we could get and started employing british tars. it was very easy to recruit them because the pay and the working conditions were much better on american vessels than the royal navy. the royal navy reserved the right to stop vessels on the high seas and muster the crew and inspect the crew men and remove those who were deemed to be british subjects. the problem with this is first of all, it was difficult to tell the difference between a u.s. citizen and a british subject. the differences in language and the like was not as great as it is today. sometimes by accident american tars were impressed into brit

the royal navy claimed a right to reclaim british suggests. to require them to serve in the royal navy. now, at the same time that the royal navy was expanding and needed all the manpower it could get, our trade was flourishing and expanding. we needed all the experienced seamen we could get and starting employing british tars. the pay was much better. so the royal navy reserved the right to stop american vessels on the high e seas, muster the crew, inspect the crewmen and remove those who were deemed to be british suggests. the problem with this was that it was very difficult to tell the difference between a u.s. citizen and british suggest. the differences in language and the like was not as great as it is today, so sometimes by accident, american tars were impressed into british service. in addition, sometimes, it was no accident. you'd get a 16-year-old british naval lieutenant boarding an american merchant vessel and simply musters the crew and says you, you, you and you, you come with me. he doesn't care who you are. he needs men and he's not even goin to interview you. maybe you protest. he's going to say -- give that man 39 lashes fo

way put it puts some sort of commercial some sort of advertisement out there for the royal navy and the need to to expand these so it might be a ploy on the governments we have to try to show that there is some sort of need to perpetuate the rule you need to increase the funding for it well so i should know their budgets and so i mean it in a certain sense it might be a token pure operation but of course we'll have to see how that really plays out and whether or not they even decide to commit that summary james corbett editor of the independent news website the corporate report thanks for coming on r.t. . once a death row inmate now is spending life behind bars for shooting and killing a police officer the case of former journalist and black panther. detention worldwide he says he's innocent and for decades supporters of rallied behind him and what they see is a quest for justice and we are the first t.v. channel in the world to speak to abu jamal since he was taken off death row and give an exclusive interview to our very own anastasio here are her impressions. a revolutionary journalist and activist an

the future strength of the navy depends on holding firm on its cost reduction efforts and expanding them across the whole acquisition portfolio. the weapon systems acquisition reform act of 2009 requires the defense department makes significant changes in the regulations and procedures governing the acquisition system. while the legislation should help correct past problems, i also know that we will succeed only through concerted efforts within the executive branch to implement the legislation and i look forward to seeing how the department of innavy is going to implement that act. the naval aviations force levels are under pressure. the navy is planning to conduct a service life expansion program on some f-15 aircraft already in the inventory, also the navy budget would continue to buy additional aircraft as was planned before but the budget would buy fewer marine corps and navy versions of the f-35 join strike aircraft we had planned last year. on that point, we saw secretary panetta remove the f-35 b short take off landing variant from a probationary status a year earlier than planned

of us and now potentially the british military in the region it certainly does not sit well with china we already know that beijing is expanding its navy what further steps could china now take there are some but according to its variations of economic war games. china will probably. wait and serve at the moment because the prime min of hunter some regions on the u.k. could a shift pacific region is more symbolic and substantial not a fact the strip t.g. northern military balance in be a ship pacific region in any significant way it is more a gesture on the part of the united kingdom could give support to the united states and the united kingdom part of what michael exploit is a bond case especially. relationship with big united states to enhance is tricky to get an economic appeal to. south korea and get us in countries who are increasingly which are increasingly and easy with the as certain front i want to see concession are under part of china that's exactly that's exactly where i was going to leave now because ultimately japan is is talking defense cooperation with the u.k. as you were mentioning a moment ago while australia south

the company's confident about further expanding its share in emerging markets. >>> more tension in the south china sea. china is pressing is claim on a disputed group of islands, while vietnam's navy flexes some muscle. in bangkok, we have the details. >>> the trouble spot this time is the paracel islands, specks of land in the southern reaches of the south china sea. china says it's proceeding with a plan to build refueling stations on the islands. china and vietnam both claim ownership of the paracels. chinese officials say the project involves construction of a dock and other facilities. they say the dock will allow fishing and tourist boats to refuel in the paracels. vietnam wound up a joint naval exercise with the u.s. navy. the five-day training took place in danang. a port city facing the south china sea. the cooperation is seen as a challenge to china's expansion in the region but some vietnamese people have mixed feelings over enhancing military ties with their former foe. nhk world's akiko ichihara reports from denang. >> reporter: the u.s. navy ships have just arrived to the port of danang. the u.s. and vietnamese navy will have five days naval exchange activities. the

a score to civilian convoys the coast of somalia and now they'll be learning to make it a joint effort russia has long been a major naval power chinese navy has been expanding dramatically recently a strategy to put up or asians away from its own waters rather than just the fronts of once you're home most of the chinese ships we've seen here in the harbor look brand new princes right across the pier you can see the guided missile destroyer hard being which will take part in the joint exercises in the yellow sea both sides stress that the war games are not directed against any particular country or military blog but there's in the increasing concern and both mosco in beijing about the us naval build up in the asia pacific and that's not to mention japanese and south korean naval forces to close allies with the us we've seen signs of japanese and south korea on our way to china when our convoy it was frequently followed by nato reconnaissance planes destroyers and submarines hundreds of sailors will take part of both sides supported by planes and helicopters. dream for many young people to one day become an astronaut and russia's space agency is now open for

the secretary of defense asking them to name a u.s. navy vessel in honor of milk. he has not yet gotten a response to his request. >>> approved an agreement with facebook to provide expandedire and emergency medical serves. the agreement covers facebook's campus. facebook will pay as much as $300,000 for improvements such as traffic signal controls for fire trucks. facebook is working on a separate agreement to expand the campus and hire more people. >>> the golden state warriors are having another horrible season. they lost again last night. maybe they should sign up some of their fans.

the navy. the navy had been satisfied with its victory over the fleet at the straits and the army became ever more ambitious and aggressive and instead of permanent war on the asian mainland. when the expanded into the deputies for its petroleum wealth and the philippines. yes, sir. >> do you feel that the information the misclassify after the second world war has been released now? >> as far as i know all the operational material has long since been classified. it's possible or probable that some of the material remains classified not because of the content of it but perhaps because of the methods used. the geniuses who were able to decipher complex military and diplomatic codes by hand thought they had gas as they used to say when we got analog computers. now there are banks of powerful electronic computers that can crack most codes in a matter of days and hours so i can understand why they refer on the side of caution. yes, sir. estimate prior to the war queue is very much against going to war in the united states as a commander on the title he was the most influential man in the navy. the army was just going rampant in china and they wanted a war and they were much rest. the fact he act