and when we say u.s. is the u.s. is a great power and we have the right to defend our interests the question should really be from us security is what are our vital interests and are they really in africa chasing around kone or anybody else right either you even in somalia combating the shabab we're just making more likely that somebody all attacked the united states right there are things that we don't really need to worry about and unfortunately our foreign policy elite doesn't seem to think that there's any place africa used to be the only place where we really didn't care about the strategic community didn't care about africa was probably better off for it but i think this idea that we can say this and nato are rich allies well they just don't have the capability to do it well if you continue to do stuff for countries they're never going to get the capability to do it if somebody pays your rent for you why should you pay it right and in that we we face this with the rich allies in nato so of course we're going to

u.s. corporate earnings, and the global economy. >> susie: and one company is making a big push into china, marriott international, a look at its latest earnings and strategy. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r.!" >> tom: markets were clearly disappointed today the federal reserve does not seem ready to act right away to boost the economy. minutes from the fed's june meeting show only a few policy makers wanted to expand a bond buying program known as quantitative easing to lower interest rates and boost the economy. but as darren gersh reports this is now really a question of timing. >> reporter: the fed was not willing to give markets an immediate monetary fix, but the latest readings from its policy making committee show a couple more lukewarm reports on the labor market might change that. >> and if these employment reports are still weak like this last one, i think a strong case could be made for the fed to expand its balance sheet and try to support the economy more. so, at that

this is not in u.s. vital interests there is a bill up in congress right now to authorize more troops to go into northern uganda in the central african republic this follows making of the viral video kohak only twenty twelve millions of dollars have been devoted to this by private citizens kone is not in uganda at this point it's a local band of criminals who have gone elsewhere to other african countries the policy on the ground there is one of reconciliation it's the amnesty the u.s. vital interest are true to facilitate the development of africa to correct the poverty to correct the inequality africans have to do this themselves development is an internal matter what development happened many african economies are growing quite rapidly now according to a recent i.m.f. report six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are in africa not all of that is commodity driven much of the wealth from commodities is being diversified in industrialised nation is taking place for the united states it sho

if the u.s. and europe and japan are focused too narrowly come in the middle east has left mostly to its own devices. it is a bad story for asia in a different way because if you think about integration and asia, china drives a lot of integration economically and the united states drives a lot of education strategically. you say to yourself that while both of those tanks, right? i want to hedge. obama china relation. as the project five years down the road, how feasible is it that will sustain itself? the first is to what extent with the united state continue to provide the kind of security guaranteed him a credible way given the challenge they faced domestically as well as the likely limitation to how much economic benefit they get? and the second consequence, which is harder as to what extent will the chinese allow those relations to persist given how much greater china's economic -- >> in other words with a push to force it out of the region? >> i would. >> so far they really haven't. >> i thi

well the cia and national u.s. intelligence officials have indicated that they think no more than sixty civilians have been killed in almost ten years of bombing in this campaign and that's ludicrous it's absolutely not the case at all we've identified around one hundred seventy five children killed just in pakistan and we think the number of civilians killed in pakistan as a minimum is just under five hundred and maybe as high as i wonder there are huge numbers of people we simply don't know their identity we don't know their status and for the us to continually claim that it's not killing civilians is simply untrue i think it's wrong and they need they do need to be held to account for this ok bill what do you think is this strategy working. yeah you know this is i absolutely agree the obama administration is making political hay out of these drone strikes and it allows it to project itself as being strong on terrorism but it's really a stopgap. it's it's a cheat to. in order for them not to make hard choices whi

u.s. airways in 2005, parker took a new set of challenges on as the ceo of the newly restructured legacy alive. u.s. airways is a company built on mergers and acquisitions, which is a fitting for dug parker, the industry's main advocate for consolidation. he has argued time and again the airlines can be more flexible, more capable, and more valuable to travelers if they join forces . the airlines that did so are now operating successfully. mr. parker believes the combining u.s. airways and american airlines would create a more competitive industry and a more sustainable airline. so far his plan has received widespread support, including and, perhaps, surprisingly from the workers and american airlines and the union. he is here today to tell us more about the merger and where it sits and to his broader vision for the industry as a whole. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming dug parker to the national press club. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, all of you, it was very nice.

it forbade the u.s. from spending any money for broadcasting to the u.s. no government broadcasting to the u.s. would be funded. it really was an overseas type of communication now reached. that said, while its taxpayer- funded and he does -- while it and manyyer-funded can ge people will see it as propaganda, our own standards and a law that we are required to provide accurate and reliable information and be able to prevent various different opinions about u.s. policy so that audiences can then make up their own minds. much in the way that we have that opportunity here in the u.s. the idea for voice of america was to do that for audiences overseas. host: let us look at a recent story voice of america of. . this is about a conflict of syria. we have permission to show some short clips. [video clip] >> this photojournalist lies injured in a safe house. you have just witnessed -- he just witnessed his colleagues killed in a rocket attack. >> medical staff first reading me. this is the best medical treatment available. >> he has joined activists with the cont

in the u.s. intention to prosecute the world's most famous whistleblower for spying it comes ahead of. with the wiki leaks currently seeking refuge at the ecuadorian embassy in london. coming up america's unmanned deadly war drones cross-talk examines whether they're effective or even legal it's just moments away. please. liz. can you. please. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about america's love affair with drones the use of unmanned drone attacks has surged during the obama presidency proponents of this weapon claim they are precise say for american military personnel and with limited collateral damage critics disagree drones are immoral illegal and generate unnecessary blowback. live can. start. to cross talk america's growing affection towards drones i'm joined by bill roggio in philadelphia he's a commentator on military affairs and managing editor of the long war journal in geneva we have gene myrow she is a president of the international association of democratic lawyers and i

leadership with the u.s.-led architecture not the last 10 are 20 years but think about what happened to japan in that order. and the marshall plan. talk about the united nations with the exception lonesome of the united states with the political and with the globalization of process. on balance but it is over. >> when did it start becoming over? >> with the rise of the emerging markets. that is not the problem. it is the rise of the other. when japan and europe rose we did not have that problem. you don't just have day coordination problem but to putin did not come to the camp david summit. and frankly that is a good thing. it would have then a tough meeting to normalize the trade status which nobody once frankly but with syria or iran. >> i am very disappointed as well. g-7 plus one. if you go to a wedding, take her wrong. -- along. but to get back to the initial question, it started to erode the globally because all these institutions the world series sums global and it behooves us to say that but. >> but w

and the u.s. voiced regret for and the u.s.voiced regret for mistakenly killing two dozen pakistani troops last fall. in turn, pakistan agreed to reopen key military supply routes into afghanistan. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: on our health page, personal reactions from three ordinary americans on how the supreme court's health reform ruling might affect their lives. plus we look at fresh public opinion polling since the decision. that's in the morning line. also on our web site, we asked newshour viewers to outline their level of enthusiasm about the upcoming election, and the results might surprise you. that's on our politics page. and why didn't the 2009 stimulus plan lead to greater recovery? paul solmon answers one reader's questions on our making sense page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at what happened to the signers of the declaration of independence after that historic mo

to cross talk the u.s. military in africa i'm joined by my guests in washington ivan eland he's a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute james middlemen he's a university professor of international affairs at the american university and peter pham he is the director of the unsorry africa center at the atlantic council all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i have anyone if i go to you first is the u.s. militarizing africa. i think very definitely and i think the primary reason is oil africa was never regarded as a strategic continent it might have been the only common in the world that wasn't regarded as strategic by the military and i think now what we're seeing is that more and more u.s. oil comes from africa and the u.s. military has essentially become a oil protection force if you look at where they're deployed in that sort of thing . and so i think definitely and what they're worried about china going

the u.s.ate and a scheduled vote wednesday on a repeal of the affordable care act known as obama care following the ruling last week by the supreme court. it is sunday, july 8 and will begin with our focus on u.s. foreign policy and hillary clinton who is in tokyo today for a series of talks on the u.s./nato role in afghanistan or the next decade. will get your calls and comments about u.s. foreign policy generally and the performance of the secretary of state, hillary clinton specifically. our phone lines are open -- you can join the conversation on our twitter page and facebook. or send us an e-mail. there are a couple of articles related to the secretary of state and this one is from cbs news. she beat the former record held by madeleine albright. there is this from "the l.a. times." she was asked about corruption in the country. she said it is a major challenge to meet the standards of accountability and transparency. the exchange came during this unannounced stopover by the secretary of s

the u.s. is warning the latest fierce battles in syria will be a nail in president assad's coffin as we reported our youngsters are being increasingly drawn into the bloody conflict on both warring sides. broke with reverberations members of a russian punk band go to trial facing seven years in jail for a protest in a cathedral in a case that's divided russian society. and another campaign promise goes on fulfilled as barack obama spends billions to prosecute whistle blows showing the u.s. government is as open as its pledged. online on screen international news and comment live from moscow the u.s. military chief says the fighting in syria's largest city of aleppo will ultimately be a nail in president assad's coffin leon panetta reese currently on a middle east tour promising to continue to push for assad's departure the commercial hub of aleppo has been the scene of fierce battles between syrian regime troops and government forces for more than a week now both parties view the fighting as d

and the u.s. went in and killed tens of thousands of thousands of people why didn't they to intervene then the answer is obvious that nato and the u.s. are the same entity there's no point in speaking of the two that the u.s. is nato nato is the u.s. and the u.s. was the one who was carrying out the genocide in iraq so of course nato was not called then to intervene in georgia when replying to that there were disagreements over the iraq conflict and the fact that you bring up the iraq conflict or the person example that nato is not dominated by the united states the u.s. wanted to be involved in iraq and the u.s. had to act by itself because other nato members do not agree with our mission in fact we have turkey did not agree with their mission and they're not cooperate as strongly on the iraq mission and it has another thing so you see there is disagreement within nato that there had our debate. there there was many people in the u.s. itself who were against the invasion of iraq that you had to s

the u.s. mining giant newmont are escalating in peru. five participants in those protests have been killed in the past week. a state of emergency has been declared. >> the government is mistaken if it thinks it is going to crash the justified cries of the people. >> we will speak with amy goodman in spain today, 75 years after the bombing of that city. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm juan gonzalez. i am filling in for amy goodman. the u.s. and european union are calling for new sanctions on syria similar to those used against the gaddafi regime ahead of the nato attack on libya. at an international friends of syria gathering in paris, secretary of state clinton invoked the threat of chapter 7 under the u.n. charter, which ranges from economic embargos to military force. the news comes as the regime of syrian president bashar al- assad has apparently suffered its highest level defection to date. on thursday, opposition ac

u.s. air tanker fleet is a mix of government-owned and privately leased aircraft. in 2000, the forest service had contracts with private companies for 43 air tankers. now it's just nine. some of those planes are decades old. >> were troubled by the crash. >> reporter: tom vilsack is the secretary of agriculture. >> it is not a secret that the tankers that we have are aging. it's one of the reasons why we issued a report to congress this year outlining a plan to replace and modernize the fleet. >> reporter: president obama signed a $24 million bill last month to lease seven more air tankers but they won't be joining the fight until august. scott, these tankers are so important because they not only fight fires they prevent the blazes from becoming massive and that's going to be even more important in the weeks to come in what's already been a historic firefighting season. >> pelley: rick, thank you. now, a story about a lifeline being reopened for american troops in afghanistan. a logjam of

i think the u.s. economy has been resilient is not immune to what's happening in europe and i think you hit it right on top which is basically the banking mechanism is really the way that it could transfer what's happening in europe to here in the united states. one thing i will say is there was some progress done there last week at the european summit in brussels about a discussion of having regulation from the european perspective instead of each country. that's some steps that are going in the right direction. >> susie: let me just jump in. we have less than 340 seconds. i want to get your feedback both of you on tomorrow's big of jobs report. do you think it's going to show a strong growth in hiring. >> i think it's going to be better than the last few months probably a little bit more than 100,000 jobs created but that's a tepid number and we're in a deep hole and it will take more than that climbing towards the top. >> susie: andres last worth, do you agree with that. >> we're looking at 100,000

the u.s. as you know is implementing its export initiatives and select u.s. programs while the chinese government is implementing its plan. one of the main contents of the plan is to expand tschida's domestic demand -- tschida's domestic demand. so for the next five years, -- china's domestic demand. we will import 10 trillion dollars of food from abroad including those from the united states. also, china is now working very hard on a global strategy. we encourage the chinese companies to work, to invest in foreign countries, including the united states. with this drive going on, i believe more and more chinese companies will come to invest in the united states. if we embrace all these efforts together, i am sure the result will benefit both countries on both sides. history and the facts have proven that china and the u.s. or sino-u.s. corp. is no zero sum game. rather, it is always win win and win win always prevails. as the two countries are at development level, the two countries have a divergent history and political system, it is natural and normal that

u.s. treasuriers saying we are parking 50 percent of the debt in u.s. backings. isn't that poor of problem. >> we hear the bad news and it makes us nervous . victoria hit the fact on the nose. two percent of the gdp comes from the sales.own yes, recessin highly unlikely. what does worry me. u.s. banks have far more exposure to the european front than we are told. it is a credit crunch we could do without. >> i think mike hasn't heard the news yet. the u.s. housing market bottomed on tuesday . more good news, because costs are low in the u.s. we are bringing manufacturing back to the u.s.. there is a 50-50 chance we'll repeal obama care. >> not a chance. >> greece is about the size of connecticut and maybe it will not affect the u.s. economy. if our banks had taken the time to shore up the balance sheet. you think what matters most is washington d.c. policy. who is going to be elected president is going to matter a lot . what is happening in congress is a big wild card here . europe, i am not as worried about europe. i agree with bill. i think we are out of the wo

because the u.s.overnment subsidizes the mortgage sector so heavily we don't have a good view of what the price of that risk is. >> going from your point ever raising interest rates but it cut i want deposit rates it caught the market by surprise. >> think they should. >> you think they should. you said they should raise interest rates. it to push those funds out of fed and back into the markets. >> you're pushing them into yields on safe-haven assets that are already at extraordinary lows. >> all i can tell you this. until the fed starts to repair the private market and stop intervening through this massive intervention we're not going to see a recovery. it was written about this, the great editor of the economyist wrote this. you can't keep rates at 0% for too long. we have to get these markets back to the point where they will operate without government support. i'm not saying the fed shouldn't be supporting the market with volume. sure. if they have to buy securities that's fine. let's let yields

when we look at aid in the u.s., carrie mentioned the conundrum of u.s. carriers and u.s. sourcing for aid, raw materials, and whether it's food aid, whether it's relief. it's how aid is delivered. heather mentioned a little bit about the aid industrial complex which is what we call in washington the beltway bandits. these are basically u.s. aid contractors that actually implement aid programs on the ground and in many cases they're extremely large and important actors in providing foreign assistance and i think there isn't, when we talk about aid effectiveness, we also have to be really honest about the fact that u.s. aid is transparent in the sense that most of the foreign assistance budget is going to u.s. contractors and i think that that's a dirty little secret because it's a way that you can kind of promote and support u.s. business interests. it's also a way that some other countries have also done this, whether it's through peace corps and other mechanisms to get young people exposed to different career possibilities or prospects and i think that's the part that ma

military force and the u.s. generals are pushing back hard against direct u.s. military involvement in so rescuing the head of nato says nato is not going to get involved militarily follow for you we've been talking about the u.n. geneva conference what came out of it didn't it the warring factions to quote sit down and talk is the best way forward of a long time now but of course with the flow of weapons to rebels still ongoing doesn't bode well. because it well you know the head of the internal opposition reform opposition movement michelle kilo was in moscow last week at the invitation of the russian government me met with foreign minister lavrov and he said to lavrov that his group would be willing to negotiate begrudgingly with president assad's representatives it's the extra opposition based in london in paris and in iraq. who are the big impediment and they're being encouraged by saudi arabia qatar france britain and elements within the obama administration so it's a rough gordian knot to untie but i think emissary kofi are now on with backing from russia

how is u.s. influence and egypt being perceived by the people that washington did after all support mubarak for decades. well what well washington has always been supporting the power structures that serves its purposes respective of whether they are dumb and democratic or not so currently they really don't care what kind of forces are there as long as they give the us what it actually requires which is the foreign policy not to interfere with it and to make sure they have political and military allies whatever the news is a new system when a new regime is in egypt and the military surely the longer they hold on to power the more hostile the situation could become so why won't they make the transition. the middle of the it's true in the us realized. very well that the longer the military hold on to power the more destabilizing it will be and they are not equipped to handle any of the current situations that face the country and we're facing an economic crisis but the military in itself has a lot

the u.s. since the killings of 32 people at virginia tech five years ago. we'll have more on the store after the headlines. syrian rebels continue to make gains on the regime of bashar al-assad, seizing a number of border crossings with neighboring iraq and turkey. opposition fighters overrun government forces at two major crossings, including one controlling the vital trade route on the damascus to baghdad highway. meanwhile, the syrian government says the country's intelligence chief, hisham ikhtiyar, has died from injuries sustained in wednesday's bombing of a high- level meeting in damascus, making him the fourth assad regime insider to die in the attack. and it's the violence, the united nations is warning 1 million syrians are now believed to be internally displaced, double the previous estimate. the fighting continues in syria one day after russia and china vetoed a security council resolution threatening new sanctions on the syrian regime. russia and china say they took action over dem

plus u.s.te reporting second quarter numbers today. >>> fixed income strategy right after this. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." if you're just tuning in, i'm kelly evans. >> i'm russ westgate. >>> credit suisse plans to raise capital base by over 15 billion francs. >>> backed up by cautious outlook from asml. >>> ben bernanke heads back up to capitol hill today after sketching a gloomy outlook for the u.s. economy but ofshing few details about the fed's pledge for further action. >>> two policymakers voted against having additional stimulus from the bank of england but still a possibility of cutting rates. >>> welcome to "worldwide exchange" this morning. let's take a look at where u.s. futures are pointing as we creep closer to the u.s. open. a bit better tone than we saw the last time we checked in. dow jones futures are pointed lower by about 23, 24 points. nasdaq by four or five. the s&p 500, about the same amount. a bit of a mixed trading atmosphere overnight. asia looking a litt

the u.s. for medical tests. the new york times has revealed the u.s. has expanded its controversial drug war to africa. the u.s. has begun training an elite group of anti-drug police in ghana and planning other similar units to combat latin cartels allegedly smuggling cocaine into europe. the top drug enforcement administration official said africa has seen as "the new frontier in terms of counterterrorism and counter narcotics issues." the west africa corporative --su despite widespread criticism for the cause. the u.s. war on drugs has seen an earlier expansion in central america. most recently, dea agents have been under scrutiny for being involved in at least three fatal killings in honduras. the online whistleblower wikileaks has announced it has hired the trouble is in spanish judge garzÓn to have the legal team representing the site and its founder, julian assange. the recently met at the ecuadorian embassy in london, where assange has sought political asylum to avoid extradition to swe

the u.s. ambassador t tthe united nations says russia and china are protecting the syrian president and that thousands of civilians uld die as a result. susan rice spoke after the russian and chinese representatives at u.n. security council vetoed the latest resolution on the conflict in syria. the draft would have permitted nonmilitary sanctions if president assad's government refused to stop using heavy artillery within ten days and the resolution called for a 45-day extension of the u.n. cease-fire observers mission. the current term expires on friday. it's a third time russia and china have vetoed u.n. resolutions on syria. >> the security council has failed utterly. this is another dark day in turtle bay. one can only hope that one day, before too many thousands more die, that russia and china will stop protecting assad and allow -- >> western nations are expected to try to dlaft another resolution to extend the mission of the u.n. cease-fire observers. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon

the u.s. chamber of commerce and the american petroleum institute that all of the major producers are partners. jay timmons, president and ceo of the national association of manufacturers and the chairman and ceo of verizon. thank you for being with us. say hello. >> thank you, mr. chairman and join you in welcoming our distinguished panel of industry leaders. i appreciate especially their efforts on behalf of the law of the sea and willingness to explain how the convention will help them create private sector jobs and every major ocean industry including shipping, fishing, telecommunications, oil and energy gas and the united states succession to the law of the sea treaty. this is not a support and has been unanimous going back to 2003. we initiated the process that resulted in the committee vote to hospital law of the sea to the senate on that occasion. a few years later at a foreign relations committee hearing on october 4, 2007, a business panel identified and only that powerful unequivoca

plus the u.s. drone program has become the backbone to american wars abroad and surveillance act at home but this military pillar might not be as stable as you think we'll speak to the u.t. austin professor who actually cracked the drone code to prove how easy it is to hijack one. it is monday july second five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine fair and you are watching our t.v. . all right let's just get this out of the open wiki leaks founder julian assange is in fact the target of a criminal investigation by the u.s. those who have said so before have been accused of being paranoid or overly dramatic or touting conspiracy theories but the evidence is starting to pile up now as long as currently awaiting an answer to his request for asylum in ecuador he's at the embassy in london and top officials in the united states are not only keeping a close eye on what happens with that but they've also been working tirelessly to see if there is a way he could be extradited to the united states while the u

the u.s. is the world's biggest weapons exporter, accounting for one-third of the total value of global arms shipment. washington initially opposed the treaty. but president obama reversed that position. his administration is not so forthcoming on some of the scope of the treaty, though, such as small arms or ammunition. guns are very popular in the u.s. a new poll indicates more than 40% of american households own a gun. some lawmakers resist any international law that might, in their view, infringe american people's constitutional right to arm themselves. the u.s. is also the biggest exporter of ammunition and produces over seven billion rounds a year. the country has resisted the proposed inclusion of ammunition in the scope of the treaty on the ground that it is impractical. russia and china have also raised concerns. the countries are also among the world's largest arms exporters. negotiations over this global arms treaty will go on for most of this month. negotiators say now the question