i think if the u.s. row said, we will not be prosecuting wikileaks cordially in assange, delaware indictment, the grand jury is over, etc., etc., i do not think julian assange would have any issue about going to sweden for interrogation on these charges. what this is about is the u.s. want to get their hands on him and put him into an underground cell with no communications, give him life imprisonment. people have already called for his death. he was faced with a terrible situation. considering he is a person who is exposed massive u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan and wikileaks cables. >> extradition proceedings were to commence next week, june 28. the have any idea how long an application for asylum normally takes customer >> i am not sure i and a stand. >> the decision to send him to sweden. >> he would have had to be in sweden by july 7. as people in the u.s. know, if you apply for political asylum, they can take a week or two or three, four, five years. we do not know what that or will do. we k

the top u.s. commander in afghanistan has ordered new restrictions on airstrikes targeting alleged militants hiding in residential homes. the directive prompted the afghan government to claim the u.s.-led occupation force has agreed to stop bombing residential areas and homes altogether, but u.s. officials say that the attacks will continue, now under stricter guidelines. there was widespread anger over the latest nato attack that killed 18 civilians, including nine children. general allen met with some of the families to apologize. >> a hand grenade was thrown. three of our people were wounded. we called for the people who were shooting to come out, and then the situation became more and innocent people were killed. >> when our forces kill or harm afghan people, we are very said. i have come here today to offer my condolences and regrets, and importantly, to apologize to each of you for this tragedy. >> the new directive comes two years after david curious also issued new rules ever seen as a step

presence the fact that the u.s. keeps the ceiling save the fact that the u.s. is somewhat of a force for stability in the asia pacific and in that sense china doesn't have to pay for these kinds of. case that why is the u.s. increasing its but it's a presence in the area well i think the chinese gets a certain get something out of it i think the u.s. side on the other hand the. day they do have their view and some of the apprehensions about the direction which the asia pacific is going to see i think a lot of the interest going forward be sort of tied to the asia pacific but i mean that's a sort of u.s. position which me not be entirely the same as the chinese position they make you a similar situation quite differently for instance where you talk about that's a different visa and data russia and china do seem to see eye to eye when it comes to some international issues like iran and syria what's the main reason behind that . well my own perspective is i think they the chinese and the russians probably you know don't want to see. over overly domineering us and w

the u.s. risk ok martin you want to jump in the u.s. debt is the euro the u.s. so there i mean is it all of the. base a yes go ahead you are going to repeat that us over and days i would suggest the problem is nothing as by the promise so that's that's why though you're kind of right the chinese are looking to invest in some other things with some form of banking with hollow this industry so in europe actually they're buying up like needing german companies now all over the place looking at physical industry i think they have for quite enough folks over in bonds but within the u.s. and europe and again that have to write it off rather than throwing good money after bad so we do you realize we're twenty seconds and then we're going to go right. ahead. i even though you know the story here is going to take a long time chinese investment in physical assets actually was flat last year it was going up for years it was flat last year they couldn't find things to buy you've got to have an alternative to the dollar for the dollar to decline even when u.s. fiscal policy i

the u.s. government and the u.s. intelligence community in an attempt to block the chinese. unnamed u.s. officials say that america was responsible for last month's a massive cyber attack on iran the state of the. flame is said to have been created by america and israel to spy on and seven times with a slum it states and you can't progress the guy and then she can has a story. that american officials may sound defensive when they talk about cyber attacks as being a major threat to the country's security a weapon of mass disruption you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy maybe even in terms of loss of life ash things we typically associate with more for the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our our power system certainly our grid acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer but it turns out the u.s. government itself carries out cyber attacks against other nations the washington post cites officials speaking on con

the u.s. the u.s. you know they coordinate the efforts of some arab countries in providing weapons into syria which russia sees as an action which or undermines kofi annan six point peace plan so there are certain issues that down there is certainly nothing to nothing groundbreaking to expect from this summit. i mean there are all of them all the major global players are here to talk about those issues and i as we know it's . not just syria that the two countries disagree on we talked a little bit before you know the u.s. refusing to change their plans to build this u.s. missile defense shield but also this list and i want to talk with you about this list of eleven u.s. officials that russia has come out with in some ways symbolic to say you know hey you want to talk to us about human rights violations why don't you talk to yourself first how has this list come out yet and who could possibly be on it. well i first of all i want to give a little bit of context here there are attempts in congress right n

the first u.s. open champion sam stosur is through to the semifinals of the french open along with . me. past dominique is a ball cover for basket a six four six one this afternoon and that sets up the last four showdown with iran and we've got past the germany also in straight sets the italian reaching a grand slam semi for the first time in her career now the first of the men's quarter finals are underway with world number one about the joke of each and local favorite song with going head to head and it is taken the first step there convincing two six one and djokovic she is three two up in the second as well third seed roger federer is trailing argentina's one martin del potro he has a breakdown from four three down in the first set meanwhile russian pair maria kirilenko and the lever traver are through to the semi's in the women's doubles the straight sets win for them against vandy king and earlier on and coming up surely russian really never seen our party and their pairs from india in the mixe

since the u.s. is on the outside of that agreement today, we cannot take advantage of this legal roadmap. our companies have to piggy back on efforts on governments that are aparty to convention. so instead of standing up to companies when they need our help. our failure to join the treaty forces them to look elsewhere. local mcadam the ceo of verizon will go into the detail regarding that. all you have to do is listen to at and t all of whom urge the section to this teereaty. on the edgy security, the united states is blessed with hundreds of thousands of square miles of ke contnen thal sheinental shelf. we can double the size of the united states from what is under sea and available to us for exclusive jurisdiction and that will be critical for energy security tore year to come. the only way to establish clear title over the extended shelf is through recognition by the shelf commission as a non party to the treaty, we are shut out from this process. we are shutting ourselves out. this makes a criti

economy, the state of the u.s. banks, and the state of the u.s. debt markets compared to those in europe, you would think that europe would have an easier monetary policy than the u.s. and it's the other way around. >> reporter: tomorrow, u.s. fed chairman ben bernanke appears before congress. markets hope he'll give some hints about what happens next with u.s. rates. suzanne pratt, "n.b.r.," new york. >> reporter: i'm darren gersh. still ahead, jobs and the presidential election in the key swing state of virginia. "nightly business report" is brought to you by: captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: as investors shrugged off worries about europe's economy, they got better news on the u.s. economy. the federal reserve's beige book survey of regional economies painted a more upbeat picture, saying overall the u.s. economy is still expanding at a moderate pace. the report shows manufacturing expanding among most of the fed's 12 regions, between early april and mid-may. travel and tourism were also strengthening, the housing market continues to show si

it cut the credit ratings of six big u.s. banks late yesterday, months after warning it would do so. but investors mostly shrugged off the worries even though the action threatens to make banking more expensive for customers. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: of the five u.s. banks downgraded by moody's, citi, j.p. morgan chase and bank of america deal directly with consumers. today, people were still trying to figure out what the move means for them. >> i'm familiar with the issue. i just read the headline l+s1 night. i wasn't that concerned until now. >> yeah, it's kind of scary, like i wasn't expecting to hear that. >> actually, it doesn't really change anything. you're not really making any money. >> reporter: experts say there's no reason for consumers to fret about the safety of their money. what they should be watching is some companies have already estimated the downgrades will cost them billions of dollars. and, the banks might try to make up for the lost revenue by passing costs on to customers, either in fees or

provide the u.s. china might say well we don't like your military presence in the pacific your naval presence and you have to you know get rid of them so economic power can always be leveraged for political and foreign policy objectives good things that one of the reasons not to get for kind of anxious about this is that it is a mutually dependent relationship you know so one country doesn't want to inflict too much damage on the other because it backfires on yourself but that being said there are areas where you know some countries you know china has more power and it could use that too and i mean like for example as i said you're on north korea or iran or you know the fact it's just so much financial power and economic power can always be used for political ends but isn't that a good thing in a sense that there it restores some kind of balance when there is not just one kid on the block ruling everything but there is a kid consulting with everyone else because it is dependent on another and that's a

involvement in the region we know that the u.s. has handed a lot of countries around the world but you know there are currently a ton of bases in latin america and there's still more developing so should the u.s. be interfering with these countries to fight the drug war talk more about this now i'm joined by adrian keene professor at american university thanks so much for coming in so let's take a look really quickly at the violence happening in hundreds right now some say that it's the most dangerous country in the world. and eighty six deaths per one hundred thousand and also the homicide rate has just grown astronomically it's doubled in the last five years so why is this well in particular it's jump since the coup in two thousand and nine which the u.s. supported by basically by funding and approving fraudulent and violent elections carried out by the same military that carried out the coup and and then continuing the farce of recognizing a government that the hundreds themselves didn't recognize and it took several years for ot

the u.s. and the u.s. is a debtor so it's this combination of the size of the economy the fact the big trader and the fact that it's a creditor confers on it a lot of power that's today and over the next ten fifteen years all these numbers are going to go in china's favor so the china's going to become an even bigger economy than the u.s. and even bigger treated in the u.s. and continue to be you know financing the u.s. so that combination is what is making china very dominant let me give you one example one example so take the fact that china you know finances the u.s. right or to so much cash three point three trillion dollars worth of cash if europe gets into trouble well you know it which would happen which country in the world has the ability to bailout you're not the united states china because this three trillion dollars and when it has that power or that ability it can always exercise power well could be political ramifications for that as far as crucial foreign policy issues for example over syria

the u.s. military's expanding its secret intelligence operations across africa, establishing a network of small air bases to spy on terrorist hideouts. the u.s. is reportedly deploying small and aren't aircraft described as private airplanes that record video and intercept radio and cellphone signals. the spying is overseen by u.s. special operations forces, but also involves both african troops and private military contractors. the operation comes as part of the obama administration's expanded use of special operations forces and secretive efforts to monitor and even kill militants around the world. egypt's ruling military government has expanded the powers of state forces to detain civilians just days ahead of the country's runoff elections. in a joint statement, more than a dozen egyptian rights groups said the decree effectively reimpose as martial law and reinforces suspicion the upcoming transfer of power to a civilian government "will only be phony and won't prevent the military from rem

and even bigger treated in the u.s. and continue to be you know financing the u.s. so that combination is what is making china very dominant let me give you one example swan example so take the fact that china you know finances the u.s. right or to so much cash three point three trillion dollars worth of cash if europe gets into trouble oh no it which would happen which country in the world has the ability to be allowed to you're not the united states china because there's three trillion dollars and when it has that power or that ability it can always exercise power what could be political ramifications for that as far as crucial foreign policy issues for example over syria will the u.s. pay more attention to what china thinks about certain issues well if you take you down for example i think it's you know the u.s. wants china to be on its side and you know if china were to sit take north korea for example you know it's a great example you know if china were on the side of the u.s. . things would be so much easier but but the fact that china has an independent view o

the u.s. defense secretary is wrapping up his first visit to india in a tour largely regarded as an attempt to shore up washington's influence in the asia pacific the strategy is being followed with caution in china as america challenges its growing military muscle and economic expansion reaction now from brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition joining us live on the line from r.t. washington brian the u.s. wants to see india as a partner in trying to contain china's influence in the asia pacific are there any risks for india if this irc spacing which it seems to be doing. well of course india and china have had three tragic wars over the past numerous decades i think india has tried to maintain a position of non-alignment during the soviet era it was a diplomatic ally of the u.s.s.r. even though it wasn't a socialist country itself i think what's happening is that the united states is not worried about china but trying to secure in the boat as a market for u.s. arms which are being sold

the u.s. and its allies are preparing for a serious transition of power the white house says president assad handing control to the opposition will help bring an end to fifteen months of bloodshed a number of western and arab states have long been pushing for regime change and has maintained his nation's real war comes up from site meanwhile reports have been religious suggesting britain is planning to set up camps in syria where troops and agents will help the rebels fight against the government middle east expert. believes the foreign powers are largely responsible for the country's dire situation. when the americans bear vassal states like group some talk about transition what they're effectively mean is regime change that is what they did in libya with dire consequences as we can see in that country today in syria the plan to bring both sides to the table and have a negotiated settlement is obviously the best way to move forward but the united states and britain and their other allies have

the u.s. embassy in baghdad is the biggest u.s. presence in the world with approximately 16,000 staff and contractors. questions remain about the state department's ability to operate in this still precarious security environment, and handle the significant work load associated with the processing of billions of dollars worth of arms sales to the iraqi government. a diplomatic presence of this size requires sustained oversight from congress, and i look forward to continued engagement with our nominee upon confirmation to ensure our footprint in iraq is the right size and that we have the right amount of resources to pursue our interests. the president has nominated bret mcguirk to represent our interests against the myriad of significant challenges in iraq. mr. mcguirk, perhaps due to his upbringing in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, is eminently capable to assume this position. of course, there are other reasons for his preparation, but it doesn't hurt that you have roots in pittsburgh. he's been en

so are you expecting an impact on the u.s.? >> well, the impact on the u.s. has come through many, many channels. i mean, one channel is that the very dramatic slowdown in europe into recession in many countries has led to a softening of commodity prices around the world, including oil and gas prices, and of course the u.s. is a net oil importer. there's an effect. another major effect has been the running away from anything considered risky and running away from anything considered risky has been running into u.s. treasury debt, so we have interest rates on long-term debt flirting at or at, depending on the day you look, the hour you look, the lowest rates we've seen in 50 years. so we have those two effects as basically positive, oddly enough, effects for the u.s. economy in terms of growth. but we have europe, our second largest when you take europe in its entirety of the trading market in recession, and then of course you have all of the capital market uncertainties which are affecting u.s. financial institutions as well as their counterparties. >> what ab

meanwhile britain the u.s. may give immunity and clemency to syria's president sad if he attends a conference on the transition of power part of the effort to oust the syrian the. fighting continues in libya with over one hundred killed in a week of tribal clashes as the interim government fails to end violence in the post gadhafi state. one screen online this is r.t. with international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow the fate of julian assange just still uncertain as a wiki leaks postman says the decision on his requests for political asylum in ecuador could take days that we could take sedatives about to spend a third night in the london embassy of the latin american state where he went in hope of avoiding extradition to sweden now says british police say they're ready to arrest him as soon as he steps out of the embassy building sara for has the story. held under house arrest and oppressed by the government in an effort to silence a pro-democracy message to the public but we're not ta

the u.s. legal rights international shipping lanes and delay and service under water cables and to develop vast amounts of oil, natural gas and minerals off the u.s. coast and in the deep water sea bed. the treaty would benefit several industries keen to economic growth, job creation and u.s. competitiveness. it would benefit the energy industry by providing sovereign rights to seabed resources' 200 miles off our coast. if certain geological criteria are met, the zone of the sovereignty could extend to 600 miles or the so-called extended continental shelf. proper delineation of the extended continental shelf could bring an additional 4.1 million square miles of ocean floor under u.s. sovereign rights, an area larger than the lowest -- than the lower 48 states. the treaty would also allow the u.s. to have a u.s. expert elected to the international body that determines the claims in the arctic and there are going to be a lot of them. securing international recognition for u.s. rights in these wea

fiscal policy may be worse than greece but the u.s. has a wealth backing its debt is completely out of order compared to even proportionally to what greece has backing its debt so when you're buying a dollar you're not just betting on u.s. fiscal policy you're betting on the capacity behind the currency and in that respect you know europe is not even integrated market the u.s. is much stronger position than europe even though i agree with martin completely that u.s. fiscal policy is terrible ok mark you want to jump in there. but i was because i also think it's worth noting that a very large share of chinese in asian holiness of u.s. assets are in the securities fannie and freddie's and certainly while they've got some problems with those agencies there's also really mortgages and housing and housing back in those debt in the way that there's some real collateral behind it that's not to mean that china is going to come here and start foreclosing on american homes but it does mean that there's a payment stream there where is greek debt i

the. u.s. airport arrogated by the f.b.i. well this is julian assange just chance really to set the record straight he's just spent his third night in the ecuadorian embassy of course this is the latest dramatic twist in the ongoing saga it's been an eighteen month legal battle for him and the end of last month we saw the u.k. supreme court reject his appeal against the extradition to sweden and the legal team in asuncion south running out of options really and so he took this step thinking asylum at the ecuadorian embassy he says he's hopeful that that's going to be accepted if he were to go to sweden not only is the pretrial detention in sweden extremely harsh he wouldn't have access that he does right now to the media all the same freedoms remember he's been on that house arrest in the u.k. for more than five hundred days yet no clear indication of exactly what the outcome will be and the stakes remaining extremely high. but under house arrest a sound recordist series of interview shows that right hand on our t.v. he's spo

also later this hour we report on health care in the u.s. is to pry into other countries business washington takes cyber spying to the national level and spending billions of dollars on the first bomb or so. fifteen of the world's largest banks have been rocked by credit score downgrades with rating agency moody's delivering on what it has long promised to do those hit include goldman sachs morgan stanley bank of america bank of scotland and deutsche bank financial powerhouses domestically and internationally the move could make it harder for them to keep existing clients or attract new ones and their money is also fear the downgrades could trigger a fresh market panic and nexus to gold but surely the graph economic blogger and founder of the website wide awake news says the end goal of the group is to spread fear i spoke to him a little earlier. i think what we're going to see is this play out over the next couple weeks we're going to see more fear we're going to see more gloom by the mainstream business media in order to effect what citiban