and what if the u.s. can't get out can't get its books together what would happen if the u.s. lost its golden aaa credit rating and people started worrying uncle sam couldn't pay his debts back. all the variations of accidentally killed your family. and looking back at iraq that outrage of the toll of you as air strikes killing civilians hidden from american eyes are we seeing deja vu in libya. that evening it's wednesday april sixth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and your watching r t now breaking news late this afternoon portugal's prime minister has made it official that country in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis is calling for a bailout from the european union this after sovereign debt crises and bailouts happened in greece and ireland so joining me now for more on what this means for the european union the euro zone and if we can compare it to the u.s. in the midst of its own deficit problems debt crisis from niceville florida is karl denninger of the marketing mr jenner and that enjoy i want to thank you for joining us you know first of all portug

and looking back at a rocket outrage over the toll of u.s. air strikes killing civilians hidden from american view what are we seeing deja vu in libya. prime minister has made it official the country in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis is calling for a bailout from the european union this after sovereign debt crises and bailouts happen in greece and ireland so joining me now for more on what this means for the european union the euro zone and if we can compare it to the u.s. in the midst of its own deficit problems debt crisis from knight bill florida is karl denninger of the marketing group mr jenner and i want to thank you for joining us you know first of all portugal of course is a very small country small economy but this comes on top of the eurozone greece and ireland amid concerns about a much larger economy and not spain so what do you think the toll of this portugal announcement is going to take on the eurozone and the global financial economy. i think the first question one has to ask is where is the credibility behind the project

out and he's not going anywhere meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary robert gates was holding talks today in saudi arabia meeting with king abdullah now he told reporters coming out of that meeting they talked about developments in the region and of course iran but we're asking was really behind that meeting and what will we see in the aftermath what will be the outcome because we want to take you back a few weeks you may recall gates was in the region recently visiting another persian gulf ally bahrain that was back on march eleventh he had a meeting with the king there and just days after he left what happened saudi tranks what role didn't really see him right there and a thousand troops they wrote to the country to help the monarchy suppress anti-government protesters the bahraini government declared martial law and what you see right there violent images of a crackdown hit the internet protestors being shot apparently point blank now the u.s. stood by and as protesters died in bahrain they also urged for humanitarian help in liby

the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. before obama was elected was really agitating for similar action taken in sudan calling for airstrikes and aiding rebels on the ground so i think this is part of the kind of cruise missile liberal cup all that permeates some of these more right wing democratic circles that are really driving the agenda here i was in northern on the northern edge of southern sudan the northeast northwestern and right fifteen miles from. from darfur about a half years ago as the. bush years people were down there you know literally burning a village. we didn't come to anybody's rescue there was no oil there or what little oil there was in southern sudan was over on the eastern side and had been nailed down by the chinese and the original name for the bush campaign against iraq was operation iraqi liberation as i'm sure you remember in the day before they rolled this thing out somebody pointed out to them that's not a really good acronym you know and so they changed it to operation iraqi freedom or whate

in the u.s. the fed as a whole is pretty relaxed about the inflation danger, it doesn't see the policies it's pursued as creating real inflationary risks. it's not concerned about commodity prices, either. it considers that sort of an exogenous shot mainly driven by real things, demand from china. in europe, we know they're concerned about inflation, it's just raised rates so it's obvious. in the u.k. there is a big concern about inflation. we are exceeding our inflation target dramatically. so there may be tightening. i would stay u.s. is probably the part of the world which is the least concerned about inflation at the moment but even here there are people worried about it. there is no consensus on the underlying inflationary dangers. >> rose: let's talk about the debt ceiling. how do you see it and what's likely to happen? i realize economics is your game not politics. >> well, i've always believed in the churchill's famous cliche that the u.s. does the right thing in the end though not before

the u.s. has spent one hundred eighty nine two hundred thirty five years at war in two thousand and ten the u.s. spent more on its military than the next ten highest countries combined. both presidents bush and obama have read that the wars defense spending in the u.s. has increased eighty one percent since two thousand what this seems to reflect. prioritization of military power and military conceptions of security even the face of such difficult economic times an american earning federal minimum wage and working forty hours a week fifty two weeks a year can expect to earn a little over fifteen thousand dollars this year well below the poverty line they can also expect to pay more than five hundred dollars directly to the pentagon and american earning fifty thousand dollars a year will see their income. over two thousand of it go directly to america's war they thought of controlling the oil fields and rolling them profits back we're going to be just. traps those tax dollars also go to maintai

alongside military intervention the u.s. seems to believe it can facilitate change abroad with the push of a button. it's thursday april fourteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster you're watching r.t. now while nato air strikes continue in libya the largest emerging countries in the world have gone together to condemn them brazil russia india china and you member south africa they're known as brics they've got together for what's largely an economic summit but where the north african political agenda is a big item on the table are two correspondents has are silly is covering a meeting and has the developments on both fronts. they want to see change in the international financial model existing right now that will benefit the developing countries market will serve her and she is one of the yes if they would like to see an alternative which has the u.s. economy is certainly hurting their economies as well another issue that they are really worried about is the lottery for a commodity prices now this is very i

that the u.s. get it and it's historically it has not been this high except during world war two and you know that was a really different situation then when the u.s. be able to recover the same way now oh i think that the end of world war two we did have an even higher debt to g.d.p. ratio but we were also the last man left standing in the global wasteland of destruction where our major economic competitors were hobbled and crippled by absolutely massive scenario of warfare and we were the youngest leanest minas kid on the block with very little competition situation doesn't look that way anymore the united states has been borrowing an awful lot of money by the way very short term so the maturities are short so we have to constantly roll over our debt were paying an effective interest rate of less than two and a half percent if that were even to double then you'd look at going to another two hundred fifty billion dollars and on the anticipated interest costs which would come out of the budget that

the u.s. is providing high tech help with innovations for anti-government activists in a number of countries throughout the world one of the latest developments is the panic button the cording to the state department the application can be uploaded on activists cell phones should they be detained the software instantly raises the contact group in their phones and sends a warning alert signal to other activists sounds great one pushing the button and it's all gone probably mungo's thanking the u.s. government for the quick knowledge you are going to be drug dealers and hurts but american officials of course claim the best of intentions saying. it's to protect pro-democracy forces in other countries to help use the technologies more effectively the u.s. has organized training sessions for thousands of activists the one held jews weeks ago in the middle east including anti-government campion's from. egypt syria and lebanon and as the newly trained and equipped activists return home the u.s. state

welcomed an unlikely ally to the u.s. fight against terrorism libya's leader colonel moammar gadhafi well now you've seen what happened to libyan leader faces its third week of u.s. coalition air strikes so what's behind the change well arty's going on should you can take a look at u.s. interests that are at play and what could be next. as waves of public rage sweep through north africa and the middle east world powers jump on as many analysts say in an attempt to direct the waves of unrest in a way that's more favorable for them in libya forging relationship with the opposition so that it could not because there are people there to do business with as syria popular wrath gather steam some experts say western powers might see the advantages of getting involved there to these three countries syria and libya are the main countries that will not align themselves with a magically to the global power elites or western powers interested objectives in north africa in the middle east as for example egypt will do or used to do with

now the u.s. president barack obama has outlined a package of tax increases on the rich and spending cuts to reduce the country's crippling debt by about a four trillion dollars over the next twelve years the president unveils the recent during a speech in washington the republicans meantime attack obama's proposal saying it wouldn't solve anything and was merely to score political points ahead of next year's election they say the wealthiest should be given tax breaks to boost the economy and that slashes and domestic spending on health care and social programs should be more severe next hour right here on r.t. we speak to nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz says the program problem rather the u.s. economy lies with the fact that money is in the hands of too few. increasing the concentration of income in wealth in the united states there's been enormous would happen in the last couple decades is almost a quarter of all of the income of the one percent most americans are worse off than the

one of the people being replaces our u.s. ambassador to afghanistan former general carl icahn barry who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with petraeus looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy secretary defense gates has been somewhat reluctant to commit u.s. ground forces or even u.s. special forces personnel on limited bases in the libyan khan conflict so what we're seeing now is obama warning to put leon panetta who is basically a former democratic congressman he was chief of staff to president clinton he's basically a democratic party hack although he has had had served his term at the cia as a director and the other issue of course is making general david petraeus the director of the cia replace saying mr panetta and we all know that petraeus the author of the guy who came up with this whole surge in iraq in afghanistan is somebody that the neoconservative certainly like they even were t

the u.s. debt problem is big fourteen trillion dollars big meanwhile the solutions lawmakers are coming up with to solve this problem are small. as the u.s. tries to reach twenty eleven budget and threats to its credit rating. and every year fourteen thousand women die as a result of domestic violence in russia even more decide to suffer in silence lawyers say only a change in the law allowing greater involvement in family life can help the victims are. reports. it was a vicious cycle at the press club we had clients he raised his hands it happened so many times held on for as long as i could so when i realized that it could end up then that i found the center where they hope women took my child and ran to save my life. it wasn't this help center named ideas though where he was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse. my child witnessed it all and it's twice as hard for me to understand that i told the rates at all that i thought i was guilty for someth

and the u.s. state department releases its annual report on human rights but as they point the finger at everyone else what about the human rights abuses happening in our own land of the free. and billionaire george soros called a meeting of the mind this to remake the global economy but why now is the system meant to fix the financial fallout failing. unveiling the burka a new ban in france is forcing women to integrate into society but it's revealing more in women's faces. it's monday april eleventh five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz now you're watching our t.v. well we are following some developing news a lot of questions this evening after a deadly blast at a subway station in minsk. as you can see here minsk is the capital of bel roof in eastern europe so far reports say the blast has killed at least eleven people injuring more than one hundred others this happened just before the height of the evening rush hour just as people were rushing to catch two trains arriving at the statio

is that true given libya is it possible the u.s. would intervene next in syria. and from libya to the trial of khalid shaikh mohammad a former us gov reads between the lines to expose secrets the government doesn't want you to know it will be juicy as r.t. speaks with jesse ventura. from fota friend of washington how does this not been easy it may involve a bun stop shop make over on k. street. meaning it's tuesday april fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. now he's the former wrestler and minnesota governor author now of sixty three documents the government doesn't want you to read a new book and self-proclaimed scores of the mainstream media accusing m.s.m. d.c. of keeping his show off the airwaves because of his views on the iraq war and he's also a rumored possible two thousand and twelve vice presidential contender to run alongside ron paul the most recently perhaps jesse ventura sat down with our very own anastasio for a one on one interview earlier i spoke anastasio she told me about her interview with the former

and for more on the motives behind u.s. military involvement in libya and what that means for say syria i'm joined by stephen soonest professor of politics and chair of middle eastern studies at the university of san francisco thanks so much for joining us now you've argued libya is not likely being fought on humanitarian grounds and you know you cite the ongoing support we've seen forth a yemen or bahraini regimes while those countries early suppress the anti-government protesters there those are of course u.s. allies but yet the quick intervention in libya so i wonder what you think is really the primary and then the u.s. and bombing libya right now. oh clearly we want to get rid of gadhafi. in the size of those who would like to see more progress turn government in power while he is indeed a brutal dictator he's. a preacher's very nasty and and one could indeed make a face perhaps this intervention in a massacre that's not of the actual reason that we want to look at the united states britain france i mean all three count

i practiced on it demands the u.s. cuts its activity in the country as relations soured by drone attacks and civilian deaths to their lowest level since nine and a. worldwide news live from moscow you with us here now the world's emerging economic giants have called for a reform of the global financial system through all of this going down at the annual summit brazil russia india china and south africa the so-called brics nations have also commented on a nato operation and a conflict torn it libya nazis it says australia has been following the meeting at the chinese resort of such. well what these five countries especially want is greater influence on the world stage first economically they want to see a reform of the international financial model currently in place that will benefit developing countries more one thing they point out is the a currency reserve system currently it's the u.s. dollar and the euro and they would like to see an alternative if there were chinese is putting forward the law but for that to happe

the willingness of foreigners to hold u.s. treasury securities there isn't the slightest sign that they know that they're getting tired of it so to use a phrase. that crisis is to my mind absurd five years ago i don't feel it is better to read it as they have been crying a lot of he would get yeah because nobody has buying. ok i was just telling us look at sawyer a lot of other china's buying and we know i mean it isn't just the u.s. federal reserve lots of other central banks like china are buying i might say at some point they're going to stop and i'm worried about that too but at the moment they're not slowing down their purchases foreign central banks ok joe where you. were you know this you know this is really the view it's the crisis is totally overhyped i mean this idea is like well if we didn't have the dollar we would be greece but we do of the dollar and. we have a fundamentally different monetary system that greece greece doesn't control its own currency they're suddenly borrowing and someone else currency they have

the u.s. is accused of manipulating regime change in the arab world through. all of the guise of democratic revolution. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is our teachers pasta levon pm here in the russian capital and ten pm in finland where a finnish pastor has been defrocked by his church for speaking out against a terrorist website hosted in the country you have. already seen him accused by health officials of stoking extremism. has more now from. according to the people that fired him and defrocked him he was bothering threatening and inciting racial hatred by criticizing a site which belongs to what the world what the un has claimed are terrorist in fact one of the world's most wanted terrorist especially in russia joe cool maher of basically claims himself that this is his window to the world this is his propaganda mouthpiece and of course he was claims by the un to have links to al-qaeda so according to international law this site should be shut down it'

as the u.s. rushes in with cash and a from the arab spring it's washington's main ally israel which could feel the impact that radical islamists wormed their way into power. america's economic brain is coming to a close as the world's top financial body predicts china will snatch the lead in just five years. global news and live from moscow city center this is r.t. now the un has failed to agree on the e.u. proposal statement to condemn syria's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters russia says the syria situation did not constitute a threat to international peace saying the decision could only provoke more violence. has come off as now or following the developments for us. russia china and india do say they are concerned about the violence in syria since according to some reports over four hundred fifty people have been killed throughout the violent protests russia's foreign ministry is calling on adel moscow's to hold a thorough and transparent investigation to find and punish hold those

now the u.s. spends a lot of money on its wars in afghanistan in iraq in the shadow wars in yemen and pakistan and of course the new addition to the list libya but now the pentagon is setting its sights on south of the border once again as the d.o.d.'s announced that mexico is going to receive fifty one million dollars for fiscal year two thousand and eleven now according to military officials speaking before the senate armed services committee this week the drug war has grown to rival the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan and in fact general douglas frazier head of the u.s. southern command said that the so-called northern triangle of court amala el salvador and honduras is the deadliest zone in the world outside of active war zones in the past four years as many police and soldiers have died in mexico alone as have in iraq and afghanistan and since two thousand and six nearly thirty five thousand mexicans were killed in drug related violence compared to twenty one thousand afghan civilians during

would have been that simple that the obama administration could have transferred those suspects to the u.s. i mean already we've seen obama not be able to deliver on his campaign pledge to close gitmo and even he said it just proved to be too politically difficult so with the opposition that is beyond just the restrictions from congress we've seen more recently do you think it really could have happened is that a little optimistic to believe that it happened. no i mean and in fact this was a cornerstone of his campaign was closing guantanamo bay and bringing these people to justice and yes closing guantanamo bay is challenging because there are still one hundred seventy two detainees there but we're talking about five people being brought to the united states for trial that could have been done without the approval of congress we have a no a system in place that can handle federal court trials that can handle terrorism trials we have another going to mo detainee who was transferred here to new york for trial was tried was convicted has been sentenced to life in prison without parole but al

and as the u.s. continues to grapple with its decline the brics countries need to lay a new foundation for economic and political change with their rides so will a new world leader emerge. and more drone killings in pockets on today this despite the country's call to end all u.s. attacks so how will the two men their war torn relationship. it's wednesday april thirteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. and more on this are you watching our t.v. now the debt clock is ticking as the united states reaches its debt ceiling of fourteen point three trillion dollars next month the debate over raising it has descended upon washington to raise the risk defaulting on the country's debts those are really the two things at stake now today u.s. president obama revealed his plan for deficit and debt reduction showing also this warning our debt has grown so large that we could do real damage to the economy if we don't begin a process now to get our fiscal house in order. yeah no kidding but china being the u.s. is

the. russian products faces life in a u.s. jail convicted of conspiring to smuggle drugs is known as insists it's a miscarriage of justice and his trial in the polls. at russia's gas monopoly gazprom has reported pumped up profits call last year that reached thirty two billion dollars journey for more on that in our business paula time everybody. around the world and around the clock this is our table straight talk top story now syria's opposition is planning a day of rage after friday prayers in the face of violent crackdown on protesters the u.s. is calling for sanctions against syria naming president assad thought turning to iran in a way that could unite the team against washington's closest ally in the region israel teens when it was called next a potential for the arab uprisings to spread further east. some like it hot but this spring things have heated up perhaps too much in the arab world is it's too easy a libya now is syria northern african region and the middle east and often brutal civil wars with the western powers

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the u.s. is accused of manipulating a regime change in the arab world through cyber warfare all under the guise of democratic revolution. and the parents or the russian children of the red genetic illness plead for government help which they say is being denied because of the cost. of very warm welcome here this is r.t. right from moscow now a shake up of the global monetary system is what the world's fastest growing economies of course for that annual meeting brazil russia india china and south africa the so-called brics nations also slammed nato operation in a conflict. that's now cross live to the chinese resort all the sun where syria is a monitoring the summit of. some hard hitting statements coming out of the summit regarding monetary reform of the i.m.f. and a possible move to drop the dollar as the global reserve currency what more can can you. oh indeed there is a lot of those changes that they want to see but in essence what they really want is greater influence first of all economica

with the u.s. cutting back its involvement in the strikes mission has become a huge lead opponent french jets that artie's a daniel bushell reports a lot of the campaign lasts the more french people find themselves beginning to wonder about the reasons for the country's leading role. france was among the first countries to push for a military solution in libya but now watch as a questioning its justification for going in once again on what i call the imperial condominium a recurrent quest of africa already having long term connections on the continent paris can't forgive colonel gadhafi for fighting its military in neighboring chad in the 1980's and challenging its corporations in the region ever since the french quarter. is it a friend's party or or is it a sarkozy. tried to do to convince the world that he is the man in this capacity. the leader of the g. twenty. and also the way that it tried to survive in frost reports le pen gold was putting an invasion already last year of trump today his atio

now as the mud's the u.s. involvement in the recent wizened runs deeper than previously thought the new york times reports the government funded organization coached us in campaigning in using new technologies but even as american cash poured into sun our nations their money was allocated to libya. contrary to experience a significant. if anybody had any doubt about united states meddling interference or guidance off arab uprising the latest revelations about united states sponsored and g o spoiled the speculations to rest really disclosure of the freedom house democratic and republican institutes in fact were financed by the united state department and the u.s. congress gave this carefully leaked media report these two believed the only kountry that was so l.-eb or wait a minute was a lead be a mission from this carefully report triggers a very counter-intuitive question if for any peaceful uprising to be successful and muslim and arab world had better be paid gaiety and coordinated by the united states otherw

for us was saying that the u.s. is actually out greeting the greeks because if you add all the unfunded liabilities to the national debt figure i mean the national their figure. isn't really well what this is really about but really the unfunded liabilities are the so-called fiscal government that's two hundred and two trillion us dollars saw in many ways that's worse than greece the budget deficit is very small as the same as crazy of ten point eight percent budget deficit in the eurozone was formed not that the euro zone is any better i mean they're just they're blowing up right now toward we have seeing again pressure on greek and pigs government bonds and even germany and france are increasingly looking shaky on development as well but just as a reference on the eurozone was there was a limit of three percent a budget deficit as a percentage of g.d.p. that is normally considered the maximum sustainable so the u.s. is now at ten point eight percent clearly as we have been warning they are beyond the point of no re

was to reject the u.s. extradition order that would pose terrible problems to any country which he used to be harboring. as a place of trying to rockets and. faces legal questions is the united kingdom. does it came to extradite me play united states then it faces a difficult position politically. people. watch the full interview with julian aside on monday your argument. russia is cutting petrol exports after a fuel shortages that hit the home market as a result pump prices are burning a bigger hole in motorists pockets are going to tell you no because that's why the world's biggest oil producer is finding itself going without. russia with no oil sounds ridiculous yet. we want to five different gas stations that were closed here will be waiting in line for hours what is this isn't supposed to be an oil rich country overnight fuel prices jumped twenty five percent in several russian regions as the actual runs out the prize goes up even more their supplies are not only for two weeks all prices skyrocketed at

for that to happen and whether the u.s. is at war at all these are combat operations were intended to become a better force from the beginning i don't know why this administration is not going on this with the american people that this is about regime change what is clear the cost five hundred fifty million dollars in the first ten days alone and the estimated forty million dollars a month but not how it will be paid in terms of how to pay for this. there is a. we are in the discussions with the white house would be very difficult for the department to eat this cost tough talk from the house over president obama's unilateral decision we don't understand what he's doing still. and i don't think he has the support of this congress the briefing of the armed services committee there wasn't your sectarian stance you ought to be an expert on what's an act of law act of war or not gates told congress the president actually did not make his final decision on what to do until thursday night less than forty eight hours before the firs

the u.s. that its investigation has found that investment goldman sachs misled guys to boost its own profits fueling the housing bubble chalice that this is the third is a customs to spending them but what distinctions. they made a mockery of their clients why anyone goes birth what color they would acquire gallman for i mean there are fraudsters lloyd blankfein went down to the post office and he worked from all way to use the route he would get off scot free because he would prosecute me a systemic risk to prosecute. the national security and of course crime to sure i was going to change the law and. wall street bankers legal always wrote their own talk of all it's worth the mark yeah absolutely i thought it was there a cancer and you got a perjury. want to force the kinds reporting just a bit and now it's time here on t.v. now if you want to die for your culture the last thing you'd expect is a culture. that so many veterans in total to things they get as an income of just fifteen dollars a

or could the u.s. maintain this friendly relationship with the house of saud i will take an in-depth look at wisconsin as a typical state election gains national attention it's becoming clear that state republicans are losing ground after scott walker's attack on unions so should we be paying more attention to politics on a local level rather than keeping all eyes on obama discuss all those issues and much more in tonight's show but first our top story. get ready for the government shutdown if this or a deal is a result by friday at midnight that means that the government is officially shutting down for the first time in fifteen years and judging by the way things are going so looking more likely yesterday the president urged congress members to act like adults to figure this out and. as of tuesday the debate was over a seven billion dollar difference but at this point no deal has been reached and the president in fact left town to go about some other business so before we get into what a shutdown woul