the end of the cold war the united states was a strong ad. god well we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we've got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this really dynamic capitalism well we've seen this dynamic as we've seen it you know we had the collapse of the internet bubble in the early two thousand and then we have this of the almighty collapse of the housing bubble we're building up in all the bubble now so you know this this you know known wealth a kind of you know primitive pyramid scheme tabel ism is the last thing anyone in the world would want to emulate ok before we could sort of the programs are going to if i could go you're going to talk about the perceptions of the united states in the middle east but go ahead bruce and i just want to jump in there look i mean george is right if you look at the public opinion surveys we've done in thirty nine cou

considered i am peter lavelle what if china ruled what if china were a military superpower on par with the united states what kind of world would we live in would china put into check washington's appetite for unilateral military action and manipulation of the global economy or would we witness another cold war where both beijing and washington been tainted chile the relatively peaceful world . to cross not china's rise i'm joined by han in washington he's a visiting fellow at the hudson institute we also have dan low balts in cincinnati he's a coeditor of new politics journal of socialist thought and in philadelphia we crossed him and then he is a political commentator and writer for a counterpunch all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it lynn if i go to you first in philadelphia what will the world look like today if china were the same military strength had the same military strength of the united states you know on par. it won't be a cold war i think it will be a series of wars by proxies because both countries need. qu

between the united states and the european union is that the united states isn't trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't subverting democracy it isn't intervening in essentially home affairs for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with that well there's there's two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world now that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire and fire the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on their economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to despise their representatives still china india and other countries now since you are a very strong suppor

about six out of ten have a favorable view of the united states. there is a sense that u.s. the u.s. remains a superpower. there's even stronger public support for americans around the world. and while i can't dispute that some of the criticism of the united states are accurate in terms of the way it's acted around the world i think we can't discount the fact that publics around the world still generally not in every country have a very positive view of the united states well bruce any as you know when you say hold on when you say that when you say that. good point is that american foreign policy is an american culture is that mcdonald's is that disney i mean can you flesh it out a little bit with that it's a crime it's across that it's across the board i mean there is widespread appreciation for americans sense of protection of liberties for example the end. of the spying on america i mean but it's luck but it's it's all relative right i mean if you ask a question say just china or iran and or the united states how do you feel about they how how they protect liberties americ

i saw the unit personally and there was no bed in the unit. and also, elected briefly ignores the notice of violation, and that this was not related to the removal of the third unit. and the violation which was issued took us two weeks to complete all of the necessary inspections and the work on the property and to... and i guess, last i would just say that the work is complete and we have finished everything on our permits and this is not too months later that we were just permit and this 14 months after we acquired a lot and done all of the work. and so, you know, just the fact of it was effecting a lot of people and my wife and myself, and two other gentleman. and we just want to be able to move on and we can't afford to not continue and see through to this completing. and i do respectfully ask that the board remove this on the permits and allow our final inspection to take place, thank you very much. >> question, do you happen to know what the cost of the demolition was, i mean i don't know if you can separate that out from the renovation w

go ahead well i would agree that in large part the the united states because. sort of bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in his account china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history. and i mean the way things look british empire is really i mean but the united states and hired i mean this was a neil going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know quite out of the little way the secon

economic crisis we've seen a continued and deliberate assault on working people in the united states if you want to continue talking about you know profits and small business owners that's fine i would be much more interested in the one hundred million americans that is one hundred million who are living at or below the poverty line and you're going to then you're going to come here and you're going to tell me that i'm supposed to talk for the name of your living room over to. keep it clean ok go ahead go ahead let's talk let's talk about this talk about the people who are living below the poverty line in the united states if you're living below the poverty line in the united states you have two cars you have a cell phone you have a microwave and you've got a flat screen television so if you want to talk about people who are living below consumption in a way to live here in the united states take a look at take a look at look at countries all across the world people who are living below the minimum wage live the those lives there they don't have the same things that bit they have in a

the united states actually does matter. and i don't agree with 100% of the things that the previous speakers said, and they're not going to agree with 100% of the things i said. but the great thing that unites us is that we have the first amendment that allows us to have that disagreement and to have an active discussion so that our nation can move forward. now, we don't always move forward. sometimes we move backwards as we've discussed. but each time we do that, we find a way to move forward. this can't happen in a country we're going to talk about now, china, because despite anything else they might be doing, they are not allowing freedom of speech. so i've got a display over on the side. who here knows what 61398 is? okay. you've probably seen the news story about the chinese government hacking american corporations, right? anybody? so 61398 is a signal core unit in the people's liberation army in china. this is a division of the chinese military run and financed by the chinese government. a company put out a really bril

imagine of course this is a mythology but that was sort of implanted in the popular culture in the united states at that time and i think that recently we've seen symbols such as wal-mart sort of take over that mantle of the low wage exploitation of employer but certainly the term mcdonald the zation i think people get the idea that in the united states what we're seeing is a conversion of the economy from what was traditionally a middle and high wage economy to a low wage. one recent statistics from the bureau of labor statistics showed that most of the jobs i believe it was something like sixty percent of the jobs that have been lost in this depression or recession whatever you want to call it have been not regained and instead have been replaced by low wage jobs that more than two thirds of the jobs that are being added are low wage jobs and this conversion of the economy and particularly the wages of workers in the united states this is really underpinning many of these economic problems that we're seeing so in answer to the question mcdonald the zation i think gets the point across w

in the building that the upper two units and the two flats were merged and the lower one of those was essentially relocated to the basement level and so that was my understanding to the out come of the investigation. >> it was not a violation and it did appeared that they had merged it into one? >> yes. that was again another factor weighing in our consideration of making this decision on the revocation and having the hearing properly before the board of appeals. >> are you aware of how far they took or excuse me, let me rephrase that, are you aware of what extent of work beyond the scope of the permit? >> i don't have those details and maybe that permit holder can address that, and i know with dbi and i don't know if matters of openings and closings. >> you know, this, i am sorry. >> this cfc there is that addresses or not quite, and not quite, right, if this i am not sure whether that the allegable number or not it looks like it is 2821. >> i think that that is one of the points raised by the appellant and kind of questioning the validity of that cfc.

offices and now even the united nations headquarters a new d.v.d. documentary deals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out to spying asset. says libya malts two years this is the fall of gadhafi a report on how the government deserve urgent to the colonel savage methods to crush the scent while the country slides into economic turmoil.

>> i think he could get a fair trial in the united states. and i think that the concern here is that in -- in going to china and going to russia and in particular with respect to the authorities that he's meeting with in russia, i think this further compounds the problem for u.s. intelligence. and i think we have existing whistle blower capabilities here in the united states. on a regular basis, whistle blowers come forward, give information to congress, and we attempt to address those issues. going to china and going to russia was not the solution to the problem. it compounds our difficulties in the united states with respect to al-qaeda. >> congressman, senator, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> roundtable up next. joaquin castro and louis gohmert on obamacare and immigration. plus all kinds of action in iowa this weekend. and stumping for hillary, and donald trump, his interview on "this week". >> ted cruz, born in canada. is he eligible to be president of the united states? >> well, if he was born in canada, perhaps not. nada, per

the fight against obama's war and whistleblowers this battle has been won but the war continues the united states can no longer continue the surveillance of world citizens and its digital colonisation of sovereign nations the public will no longer stand for it whistleblowers will continue to appear until the government abides by its own laws and rhetoric so you see neither of those men are backing down in their philosophical stances in this situation and edward snowden even after thirty nine days. inside the walls of sheremetyevo airport still stands strong in his stance and he slipped through the net lindsey. nobody saw him leave the course the question is now any indication as to where he'll be spending is for. five weeks of being. oh wouldn't we love to know the answer to that question i think a couple of journalists shed a few tears when it was around that he had actually left the airport and hadn't actually gotten to see it happen after all of this time camping out here but there is no news officially of where he is this first night in the russian federation but we do know that wiki l

removed the illegal unit. and ub consequently more than a year later after all worse being compared and the recommendation to revoke the permits which we understand why it came out and i want to emphasize that it will be unjust to act on that suggestion. they have to be able to rely on the information that the city gives out just like all of the residents of the city have to rely on that i know that you have received a number of support letters, and from people in the community and emphasizing that point that i will not belabor it. >> no one was actually life ng this unit that was removed and there were no beds there and the tenants who i believe who is here tonight was utesing it as a man cave and an extension of his office and at his request hearing, the members of the planning department set up and explained that that would be an inconist ent use of the zoning of the building and so there has not been a loss of someone's tenantcy and so we believe that this gentleman rents a residential house in the procidio

you need the united nations with you. and of course, the president's cynicism and skepticism about the iraq war was part of his political calculation as he became president of the united states. so, imagine this national security team and again, a lot of them are new to this job. kerry, new, hagel, new, for example. sitting there and deciding whether they in fact are going to go it alone without the security counsel. and without great britain, without the allies they would like to have and you know, a president at this time has to seem resolute, absolutely sure of what he is about to do. it seems to me in watching them over this past week, they've been spending an awful lot of time talking about i understand how you're border weary, your concerns because they've been there, but if the president comes out today and gives the american people an update on where we are, i think he has to seem resolute and assured in what he's about to do. >> what could he could do now and i have no idea if he's going to do this, but just based

bugs planted at embassies and offices and now even the united nations headquarters a newly legal document reveals another front in the n.s.a. is all wild spying effort. plus as media marks two years since the fall of gadhafi we report on how the government is reverting to the colonel savage methods to crush the sand while the country slides into konami turmoil. it is three pm in moscow you are watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program. now the authority of the united nations appears to be facing a serious challenge was countries including britain and turkey saying they're ready to join a military intervention in syria even without u.n. security council approval u.s. warships are already come converging around the war torn state after washington officials accuse the syrian government of unleashing deadly chemicals against its own people last week meanwhile the u.n. the convoy a. convoy of u.n. inspectors i should say has reportedly come under sniper fire in syria the weapons experts have traveled to the side of the alleged attack outside damascus a fact finding mission the

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and their attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this state there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washingto

offices and now even the united nations headquarters a newly leaked document reveals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out spying effort . plus as libya since the fall of gadhafi we report on how the government is reverting to the colonel's methods to crush to send while the country slides into economic turmoil. that's just composite may day here in of the russian capital you live with us on r.t. with me to say. syria's president has responded furiously to allegations that his army was behind the chemical massacre outside damascus last week branding them nonsense u.n. inspectors head into the site to prove some point powell's seemed reluctant to wait for their findings now the united states which says it's confident that bashar assad was responsible for the deadly attack is moving its washin screws into the syrian border the u.k.'s royal navy is also making preparations for a possible strike while the nato part that turkey says in will join a mil she coalition and to both claim they don't need un approval but other jumping the gun is maria for national find. united nations experts are

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter logo is the united states of america a force for good in the world with the largest economy and an unmatched military critics claim washington's defined geopolitical interests always trump its loudly proclaimed values friends of washington are given a free pass and it means real or imagined to be destroyed and replaced. to process whether the united states is a force for good i'm joined by george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in washington we cross to bruce stokes he is the director of global economic attitudes at the pew research center all right gentlemen it's just the three of us crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i really encourage it george the broad question is the united states a force for good in the world today. no i don't really think so. if we think of the post cold warrior of the began since one thousand eight hundred nine which would also call the uni polar air of american global headroom an a

for the last twelve years the united states has been fighting. a war of choice in iraq it war of choice in afghanistan that turned out to be longer battle that a longer fought war than then the vietnam war which also was a war of choice the american people are war weary we know that what's going on inside syria americans even the average american know it's a proxy war we know we're not going to get the correct information from our government and we know that our government officials are only interested in continuing what would be a fear tactic of a continuation of war after war after work to keep the american public in check but warner going to buy into it. a mess of flooded russia's fly isa's schatz's a community says thousands of forces say goodbye to their own party beats of the determined to stay at this and bridge houses to the bitter end. of the us national security agency has been spying on the united nations the headquarters in new york that's according to newly pumping published information leaked by edward snowden i just learned up and p

imagine of course this is a mythology but that was sort of implanted in the popular culture in the united states at that time and i think that recently we've seen symbols such as wal-mart sort of take over that mantle of the low wage exploitation of employer but certainly the term mcdonald the zation i think people get the idea that in the united states what we're seeing is a conversion of the economy from what was traditionally a middle and high wage economy to a low wage one recent statistics from the bureau of labor statistics showed that most of the jobs i believe it was something like sixty percent of the jobs that have been lost in this depression are recession whatever want to call it have been not regained and instead have been replaced by low wage jobs that more than. two thirds of the jobs that are being added are low wage jobs and this conversion of the economy and particularly the wages of workers in the united states this is really underpinning many of these economic problems that we're seeing so in answer to the question mcdonald ization i think gets the point across we are

radio four s today programme and he said that the united nations security council has not been united on syria and has not shouldered its responsibilities on syria and on the question of whether it was possible to act without complete unity on the united nations security council he replies oh dulcie yes it is now no firm decision has been taken on what the response will be or indeed when it will be but the timetable if you like for the next couple of days is this prime minister david cameron has cut short his holiday and he'll be returning to london and then on wednesday he's going to be chairing the national security council meeting and it's going to be there that you'll have all the key decision makers and after that meeting on wednesday you can expect that we'll have perhaps a clearer idea of exactly what those plans will be moving forward now we're still not talking about direct intervention here so no boots on the ground in syria what is being discussed a is a more limited form of military action in the form of its thought pinpoint tomahawk missile strikes now by no means has the

so, not because of doubts about the united states. it's because of changes in the security environment that drive a rising appetite for a discussion about strengthening, just the discussion, practical steps to strengthen the regional deterrents architecture. >> any other question? >> my -- >> ian reinhardt, congressional news service. i want to ask a question about it. md. you mentioned china's response is engaged in quiet arms race versus our increasing number of interceptors. at this point we is don't have the capability of intercepting an icbm sent from china. but technology is progressing. maybe beyond the 10-year dialogue with china looks like? what is reaction, dynamic as capability much our interceptors improve and is there a way that we can talk with china to keep strategic stability without causing them to to ever higher and more sophisticated in their nuclear capability? >> well i hope there is but it takes two to dialogue. and china has a long track record of resisting american and its own leadership commitments to dialogue

also headlining from us the united nations tells r.t. it's investigating reports that kurdish civilians have been massacred by rebels in syria this is al-qaeda linked groups that push to create a breakaway islamic state. and the japanese government is forced now to step in to help the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant contain a recently revealed massive leak of radioactive water.

in 1940, the fate of the world hung on the united states. that summer republicans and democrats would hold their conventions in preparation for the november presidential election. so what are conventions? conventions are about bands playing, delegates parading through the aisle. sporters cheering, and poll ticks speech fying. at both of the convention that took place in the number of 1940, there was an elephant in the hall. not the republican elephant, but the nazi faint. -- elephant. there was uninvited guest. his name was adolf hitler. the question on every's mind was whether fdr wanted the party nomination again in 1940, and he refused to give a clear answer. mr. president, would you tell us now if you would accept a third term one reporter asked him point-blank? put on a dunce cap and go stand in the corner. fdr replied with a laugh. not even the members of his own family knew what his real intentions were. of course, one question was whether fdr deserved another four years in the white house. his attorney general, robert jackson, was con

to process whether the united states is a force for good i'm joined by george samuel e. in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in washington we cross to bruce stokes he is the director of global economic attitudes at the pew research center all right gentlemen it's just the three of us crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i really encourage it george the broad question is the united states a force for good in the world today. no i don't really think so. if we think of the post cold warrior of the began since one nine hundred eighty nine which would also call the uni polar air of american global headroom an a i think the record of this is is really very poor. economically and financially i mean we've had from one financial crisis to another and politically it's been an air of extraordinary instability and an extraordinary number of military interventions and attacks led by the united states sometimes alone sometimes with its various satellites so i just thought the record all of the u

since the war on terror started employees were spying on their lovers the agency was spying on the united nations and that's just what we found out over the weekend we'll speak with a former n.s.a. employee turned whistleblower ahead of. the conflict in syria may have reached a boiling point secretary of state john kerry says he has no doubt that assad's regime used chemical weapons on civilians so it is intervention inevitable a look at the options for the syrian conflict coming up. and speaking of chemical weapons a new report details how the u.s. once helped saddam hussein and the iraq ease with its chemical weapons attacks on iranian troops we'll dive into that topic in a moment. it's monday august twenty sixth four pm in washington d.c. and lopez and you are watching r t let's get straight to today's top stories the national security agency was one of the most to secretive organizations in the u.s. now a hardly a day goes by when we don't hear about the n.s.a.'s latest scandal this weekend was no exception to major headlines ran on the front pages of newspapers around the world the f

absolute sure exactly which agency of the united nations the. united nations this a lot of things but terror threats and generally been described as anything from copyright infringement to actual making of the problems that could be harming to peace people's physical integrity and so we have a very vague understanding in international law today of international discourse of how we make policy especially in western europe and in the united states we don't know what we mean by the war it's like two weeks ago i heard in sweden that copyright infringement can be avoided then what is more actually is that this war and is stuck with the united states is trying to stop the united nations we don't know because we have there's absolutely no logic to how they're using the word who or. what about the idea that the n.s.a. has already been allegedly spying on the e.u. along with these latest revelations of just what sort of effect does that help america's reputation here in brussels and is there anything any legislation that we could see europe setting up in

is spying on allies at the united nations and the u.n. isn't happy about it will ask if this surveillance is against international law just ahead and there's a new case of racial profiling with the t.s.a. airport security a man was detained for hours without food or water he was interrogated and much more will look at flying while muslim later in today's show. and it's wednesday august twenty eighth four pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. and we begin with the united states on the verge of military action in syria today president obama gave a speech at the lincoln memorial to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the march on washington but more pressing on his mind is how the united states and its allies will react to an alleged chemical strike in war torn syria today the u.n. special envoy to syria acknowledged that some kind of chemical substance was used last week outside damascus claiming the lives of more than one thousand people and nato called the attack quote a clear breach of international norms presi

a thug to a hero, challenging to the united states. it would deepen regional involvements in the conflict. iran and hezbollah would become deeper involved in the region. also, i think, in many ways, you might see strikes against american interests in the middle east and beyond, in particular the united states becomes very, very much involved in the conflict against the assad regime. at the end of the day, the question i know all of us in the united states debate is if the united states has any option. the credibility of the united states and the u.s. president is on the line. to me, the real question is, how do you stop the bloodshed in syria? how do you stop the carnage in syria? it's not just about the credibility of the u.s. president. this is the not about international politics. it's a blood bath. i think america's strike would exacerbate an already complex situation. >> of course an important question, but i would argue the most important question on a lot of people's minds still is, what is the u.s.'s national security interest i

bugs planted at embassies any you offices and now even the united nations headquarters a newly leads documentary deals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out to spying effort. plus says libya malts two years a since the fall of gadhafi a report on how the government deserve urgent to the colonel's savage methods to crush dissent while the country slides into economic turmoil. live from moscow this is our to you with me this morning. syria's president has responded furiously to the allegations that his army was behind the chemical massacre damascus last week granting them nonsense u.n. inspectors will be heading to the site today to probe the attack but some poor impalas seem reluctant to wait for their findings the united states which says it is confident that bashar al assad who was responsible for the deadly attack is moving in the warships closer to the syrian border the u.k.'s royal navy is also making preparations for a possible strike while the nato plan turkey says it will join a military coalition even with all of you win approval but are they jumping the gun artie's murray if

investigators have the access that they require we're just hearing however from the united states who says that this comes too late we are however hearing from the u.n. that they will regardless begin their investigation come monday now this comes as the united states says it has very little doubt that damascus was behind this chemical strike the u.s. intelligence basing these claims on the number of reported deaths we're hearing that upwards of one hundred a hundred people were in fact killed. it's claims on the type of injuries and on eyewitness reports these kind of discussions are emerging from a meeting of the american president barack obama with his security advisers we know that he's been prevented with a review of possible options in terms of american response if indeed there has been the use of chemical weaponry president obama has repeatedly said that if assad uses chemical weapons that would be a green light that would be a red line in terms of which american and foreign intervention would be justified now this comes as the united states moves its naval forces in the medite

states would would be supportive of them and the united states is actually backed off so the united states policy in the middle east toward minorities even toward democracy is all his pocket. will and and indeed if we support countries such as saudi arabia that is having some of their people go into these pallets and into these palestinian and these syrian camps right now as we speak and and paying money for these refugee girls from nine to fourteen and then taken them off to saudi arabia there's somethin sick about that and that a state says even criticize them for work and i really have a very serious problem with that you know we all should you know before there was the promotion of secular regimes ok during the cold war for example the war in a lot of conflicts went with the end of secular regimes we have religious museums and religious intolerance. well yes i think. it's not fair to continue talking only about the usa one can look at europe and indeed even russia the europeans the americans and russia have a problem with the something called the islamic movement or islamist or t

and iran to say look this is the united states. committing these crimes against iran and so we can deal with them. but again you know there are. just as on both sides there are crimes of the committed on both sides and. the hope is that these historical grievances don't serve as. an obstacle or something that sabotages what i really think is an opportunity right now for the u.s. and iran to begin in gauging in very serious timely negotiations to discuss some of the the really serious things that are happening right now and let's talk about this new opportunity that you're speaking about of course our own has a new president so go ahead and talk about how what role he plays in iran and the opportunities that he might offer to the united states in terms of finding those that those frayed relations yeah i mean given everything that we're seeing in the region. in the recent recent weeks been sort of a rare beacon of hope for news iran held an election in june. tune in which. has an rouhani one overwhelmingly one of the first round of th