while u.s. lawmakers in washington big over the budget and blame across the aisle for the gridlock calling opposing colleagues relatively small stream group of. who are an anchor dragging down the budget negotiation process give me a berth another group of decision makers has been weighing in on the to be one of the country's top credit agencies telling the feds something has to get done on this debt ratings agency standard and poor and moody's has been warning for months that the u.s. debt could threaten the country's golden aaa credit rating telling investors in u.s. bonds essentially they may have to worry about getting paid 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 this tiny dot represents even the larger sixty billion dollars in cuts republican lawmakers originally proposed meanwhile the u.s. government continues to spend a lot more than it takes in resulting in more than a trillion dollars

now u.s. lawmakers and president obama continue to haggle over the two thousand and eleven budget and budget cuts they cannot agree and a government shutdown looms now this is been one of the top doom and gloom stories on the mainstream media for days now and the president's getting into it telling the public warning the public about the cost of a shutdown take a listen. you better start thinking differently because you know like if you need a passport i can't get it but i'm planning a visit to a national park or monument can't get there contingency plans for the shutdown have been made we were all capitol hill appears to be in chaos this is not happened in fifteen years what does this potentially mean for the american people in a time when the economy is just beginning to grow we're just going to see you pick up in employment the last thing we need is a disruption that's caused by a government shutdown all right you heard him but we're asking is this really the big deal everyone is making it

u.s. have to listen to them. and from afghanistan to iraq now libya western countries fight to bring so-called democracy to the arab world but is it foolish foreign policy. 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

actually u.s. policy is is very consistent they are backing up their people despite the fact the repressive dictators and then they're going after moammar gadhafi because he's the low hanging fruit of course no one in the world really likes small mark and i think . terry malloy again for any reagan had his his grenade and bush sr going after that noriega in panama it's it seems like every president has to have a little war in imitation perhaps of margaret thatcher and you know hopefully a short one and george bush is of course didn't turn out that way. do you think that it's possible to that that's. what you're describing is that that's the primary motivation here or well he would just just leave it at that is it possible that that's that this is really more a political calculus than than a military one. yeah i mean and i think you know what is sort of ironic is that the voice of sanity in terms of senior officials within the administration that seems to be emerging here is the outgoing defense sec

and u.s. allies but how did it get to that point because it actually wasn't that long ago that back in two thousand and eight i thought he was actually helping the u.s. in the war on terror and back in two thousand and three when the u.s. that you know were gaining diplomatic ties with him and he let oil companies then you know how to fall turn around so quickly for him. well he was rehabilitated in a sense that we were happy with him not that he was an ally but. kind of rejoining the community in a nation who thought we could work with him and there was no real prospect at that point for him being overthrown so they figured he might as well live in what we have but when it looks like there's a possibility of actually be overthrown i think then the interest came from more involvement ironically however the gadhafi was was in the biggest trouble during the first week of the uprising when it was nonviolent that's when the that's when the opposition first over all those cities doesn't have those

i think that one of the scariest things from a u.s. perspective is that the u.s. doesn't actually seem to know who the rebels are that are fighting against moammar gadhafi what we do know from the great reporting of people like jon lee anderson of the new yorker and others is that they are very very skilled warriors that they're wasting a lot of ammo shooting their bullets in the air that they are trained fighting force that they are not engaging in anything even vaguely resembling proven guerrilla tactics or military tactics it's tactics against the gadhafi regime and the fact is that president obama stuck his neck out very far by saying that he had to go it could be that a civil war rages on in libya for years with gadhafi on one end and then these sort of cia backed rebels on the other side of it the fact that the cia had to go in there to figure out who the rebels even are indicates how bankrupt u.s. intelligence was libya before this started it's very similar to what happened in iraq at the time when they chose to back. someone who had a greater constituency

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

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

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 talking about running in for president on the republican. ticket what this is showing is that there is a trend to militarize the central intelligence agency which is after all and has always been run by civilians it's been pointed out that leon panetta is actually the first democratic secretary of defense since one nine hundred ninety seven there may not be as much independence i

than the u.s. banks. so that means for u.s. the banking system is always something that can be unpopular but rescued. there are circumstance but we have one of the highest exposures to the banking sector of any country on earth. >> rose: so the commission will consider that idea. it's too large and secondly whether it ought to be divided in terms of functioning. >> we will be considering whether there are structural changes. we have a specific mandate, a structural and related non-structural change which is will make the banking system more stable and more supportable by the british state. >> rose: the question is what kind of financial activities these banks should be engaged in and what should they not be engaged in >> well, it might be or alternatively all... maybe one of the issues might be to be raised by our chairman instead of... they can still do them all but with different active's the will be separately capitalize sod that they can be broken up separately. that's another alternative way of doing it. it's a question of

and as the u.s. continues to grapple with its decline the brics countries need to lay a foundation for their economic and political rise so will a new world leader emerge. and more drone killings in pakistan today this despite the country's call to end all u.s. attacks so how will the two ever met and their war torn relationship. that's when it's wednesday april thirteenth at four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. now you may know this well the debt clock is a taken take a look at it racking it up as the united states reaches its debt ceiling of fourteen point three trillion dollars in debt next month the debate over raising it has already descended upon washington to raise or risk defaulting on the country's debts that's what's at stake now today u.s. president barack obama revealed his plan for deficit and debt reduction issuing 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 fisc

u.s. is accused of manipulating the regime change in the arab world through cyber warfare all under the guise of democratic revolution. and the parents of russian children but a rare genetic illness pleads for government help which they say is being denied because of the cost. of the business does b.p.'s holding and. i mean protests from shareholders and environmental activist the company is one amongst extents to compete with. these business bulletin. here with r.t. welcome to the program now a shake up of the global monetary system is what the world's fastest growing economies of called for at the annual meeting brazil russia india china and south africa the so-called the brics nations also nato operation and conflict in libya also has been following the summit at the chinese resort. 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 commercial model currently in place that will benefit

allowing the u.s. to bomb his country using u.s. weapons and train forces to kill domestic political opponents has contributed greatly to this destabilization there so the united states may have to withdraw its forces from yemen if the next government is not pliant as has been and relocate them to djibouti in north africa which is really becoming the hub for u.s. military operations throughout the middle east but jeremy if you look at these that trouble areas like yemen for example i mean if you build outs that was society you're still. you know promoting and perilous policies but more humane ones and you're involving yourself in that i guess you're right i'm not saying you but i mean that thinking so what what's the endgame for the united states when it comes to these unstable regimes that obviously do you have terrorist implication. yes but we can't necessarily afford to intervene in all of these countries that have essentially threats well i mean look the fact is that one of the main motivators for it is the fact that the united

welcome to unlikely ally to the u.s. fight against terrorism libya's leader colonel moammar gadhafi now over the libyan leader paints of its third week of u.s. coalition air strikes so what is behind a change well our chief guy entergy can looks at the u.s. interests at play and also what could be next. as waves of public rage sweep through north africa and the middle east what cowards jump on as many analysts say in an attempt to direct the waves of unrest in a way that's most favorable for them in libya forging relationship with the opposition so that it could not be goals there are people there to do business with as syria partly will raf gather steam some experts say western powers might see the advantages of getting involved there to these three countries iran and syria are the main countries that will not align themselves or that magically to the global car elites or the western powers interested objectives in north africa in the east as for example egypt will do or used to do with hosni mubarak and definitely kuwa

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 somet

in 2007, we started a u.s. office to start a u.s. presence. my company only has two full employees but we use a lot of contract employees or events and projects. our total payable has amounted to over $1 million and all profits have been reinvested in the u.s., nothing sent back to the uk. here is my experience with emigrations -- immigration's. 2002, they issued a visa. 2003, successfully renewed in the u.s. be given eight months to prove our viability. thanks to my attorney for her experience and patience. 2005, the says are renewed successfully. but we have to return to the u.k. for processing because the laws changed. basically, when i try to renew again, they did not believe that i was a manager. also, they refused to recognize our employee as a professional, even though a four-year degree would exactly mirror the situation. we have been in limbo for 15 months until last friday when we found out the appeal was dismissed on grounds similar to the original denial. at least we know now. or something as important as a green card process, ther

wars is a retired colonel and is a former u.s. diplomat think that we certainly need some new ideas some new initiatives in this in the score that united states is is involved in and just recycling the same old people and switching jobs with them is not the way the you ensure the national security of the united states in my opinion so you're saying a recycling of people here but why why is washington doing this in the first place . well they've obama administration is just continuing the war strategies of the bush administration and in fact obama has increased the war in afghanistan dramatically he's bringing back into to the mix a retired u.s. ambassador who i first met and two thousand and two actually in afghanistan i was a part of the u.s. embassy in kabul afghanistan in late two thousand and one and two thousand and two and ryan crocker was brought in as our first chargé d'affaires he then went from there to iraq in two thousand and three for sure tour and then into pakistan is the us ambassador and then into iraq as the u.s.

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

records and addition to the u.s. military court washington d.c. and the u.s. this year courtney's from virginia there the price cia of course to try these cases and i think we have to look at the impartiality and i don't think the impartiality is there. when russian security services have killed sixteen minutes in a raid in the south it happened on the border between this major russian republic of korea a group of gunmen were hiding in a village and opened fire on security forces among those killed several militant leaders thought responsible so. there are reports of these casualties. and some names in brief. well it's all eyes on the other in london today is britain's prince william progress to take kate middleton's had a few hours in what's likely to be the world's most watched reading is a live pictures from the british capital tens of thousands of people are really not in london streets to see the royal couple make the journey to westminster abbey prince william and kate middleton or to see the titles the duke and duchess of cambridge. the possibility of r

to note the growing number of u.s., young u.s.canadian, australian and british muslims, who are going abroad to fight and train under al qaeda's man in somalia, yemen, and afghanistan, and also to al qaeda's very successful recruitment of talented u.s. citizen muslims to run media operations targeting muslim committees in the english-speaking world. and the saudis, too, are the bridge from our second source of concern in the persian gulf at the saudi king and its brother tierney's to the third. naming osama bin laden, al qaeda, their allies, and increasingly numbers of muslims inspired by each. when all is said and done, osama bin laden is not an anomaly of saudi arabia. rather come he is the poster boy for its educational system successes. fortunately, for the united states and the west, bin laden has matured as a islam is not like the muslim brotherhood. offenses and and tolerant ones. even with these differences, the saudis overseas mission activities are an indispensable aid to a kite's organizational, military, and media acti

and the u.s. state department releases its annual report on human rights but if they point the finger at everyone else what about the human rights abuses happening in our own land for free. and billionaire george soros called a meeting of the mind this to remake the global economy and 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 than people face it. it's monday april eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out there watching our team or following breaking news right now a lot of questions tonight after a deadly blast at a subway station in el over as you can see government is the capital of bellerose 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 in the station now a

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 other

well bill gross of us was saying that the u.s. is actually out greeting the greeks speedo's if you add all of the unfunded liabilities to the national debt figure i mean the national debt failure. isn't really what this is really about but really the unfunded liabilities are the so-called fiscal gap and that's two hundred and put 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 as a eurozone as any better i mean they're just they're blowing up right now to the f.b.i. seeing again pressure on greed and plagues government bonds and even germany and france increasingly looking shaky on the government as well but just as a reference when the eurozone was found there was a limit of three percent of 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

u.s. cuts its activity in a country that's relations soured by drone attacks and civilian deaths at the lowest level since nine eleven. with r.t. live from moscow right now or just after tipping well the world's emerging economic giants are showing a united front and their push for reforming the international monetary institutions at a pivotal week the leaders of russia brazil india china and south africa all the so-called brics have also decried the use of force in war torn libya it's all part of their efforts to gain a greater clout in a global affairs. a city now is in the chinese resort. the government has been taking turns. so that the five countries have reached a common ground and strive for change or they discussed ways of supporting an initiative to replace the u.s. dollar as the world's main reserve currency also calling for. reform as well what more can you tell us on the search. for your rights and human rooting for those points if they have come up with in essence what they re

a loves to use drone strikes around the world how could the first incidence of u.s. troops being killed by a drone finally bring more questions about our reliance on these unmanned machines or discuss what i'm weinstein from mother jones. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right now and. i think. either one well. we haven't got the shows there can say so get ready because the your freedom. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture a. new web site with twenty four seven live streaming news channels what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never find mainstream news. and so let me listen to a. person on our team to watch to say. hey guys welcome michel ancel on the ellen show with part of our guest stop to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on to. the twitter profile of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show a long response to. your voice. all americans have been fixated on the g

treasury bonds if it stops buying u.s. and financing u.s. the u.s. government in the u.s. economy would collapse the chinese market is great for us and western multinational corporations to invest and yet at the same time the united states would like to in fact carry out regime change in china as it did in iraq. as it did in afghanistan as it's trying to do it as would like to do in cuba or venezuela because even though it has trade ties with and makes profit from its relationships with these countries in particular china it has an organic hostility it sees them as competitors and i think that would be the case of russia as well the united states does not want any other regional or global power to emerge that would rival us or germany just real quick brian what's the point of this report i mean certainly the u.s. has no obligation to come out with a report that also criticizes its own policy it certainly does a good job criticizing the other countries and you know rightfully so on a lot of these charges but what's the point of this and you know is there an equal report tha

as u.s. political parties keep bickering over the new budget credit agencies sell their love of the country's bad pouring habits saying it's a road straight to bankruptcy. and george's attempts to project a democratic image of the state and its legal system but even lawyers are getting persecuted. and b.p. has encountered yet another setback in its bid to join ross now to explore the arctic shelf in russia this is a stockholm arbitration tribunal outhaul this injunction. more on that in our business but most of the. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is our teachers past ten pm here in the russian capital and eight pm in libya where two russian journalists captured by libyan rebel fighters earlier on friday have been freed it comes as the front line continues to shift in the fight between colonel gadhafi forces and the rebels but our correspondent paula. joins us now with the latest a bit in the capital tripoli paula this is not the first time journalists hav

the u.s. economy is on quite the roller coaster down then and today another steep drop for a country already stuck in a like natural sinkhole so will this ride ever and. it will but. the same time you do this you have to do you make sure that your phone providers are you know watching children where you. are bill you certain things like the right isn't going to end anytime soon least for those living in california we'll show you just how much the golden state losing its shine. and the verdict is in a russian pilot arrested in liberia is found guilty of drug trafficking by a court here in the united states but why exactly is the u.s. involved to begin with. and first it was libya and now syria finds itself in the middle of deadly violence so what's the criteria for u.s. intervention we'll take a look at cherry picking in the arab spring. to our top story today some disturbing numbers out about the economy when it comes to jobs recovery it has been a bumpy ride but now one of those fun rides it'

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