u.s. mainstream media has found a new opportunity to demonize iran a book on suicide bombers found in the arizona desert is reported as an omen for a domestic attack. while sports news it's next you know things are heating up in the poor head of next year's olympics and some fans will be happy right there will you. he's coming back yes michael phelps the american superstar he might have it all his own way next year we have more nuts coming up in just a sec. great to have you with us this is sports today i'm you know only let's take a look at some of the stories we're covering this hour. and could be the factor to pal arsenal to premier league. spy continued reports linking the russian with a move to chelsea in the summer. making. the swimming world by announcing he has to come out of retirement to compete at the twenty twelve london olympic games. powering achievement german thomas dold wins the empire state building for a record sixth straight. let's get the ball rolling stateside where the country and continues to super bowl forty five american football and indeed american sports bigges

u.s. mainstream media outlets envied wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks the new york times first introduced readers to the popular whistleblower website in june publishing classified u.s. war logs posted on wiki leaks in the midst of declining readership and a shrinking budget a songe was a blessing for the times. the paper has printed two hundred stories on a songe more than five hundred wiki leaks articles detailing shocking field reports of u.s. operations in afghanistan chaos and illegal activity behind the iraq war and embarrassing diplomatic tactics used by the u.s. state department but like many passionate romances he told us he wouldn't sleep in one place more than one night if he had to the gray lady has kicked the blonde out of bed and is now selling juicy details of a six month affair for just under six bucks mitchell impressions of julian assange you know send up some red flags i did you know book called open secrets wiki leaks war and them. in diplomacy in addition to releasing the full video from the helicopter cockpit they released an edited version that had

u.s. mainstream media gave it wall to wall coverage but once president hosni mubarak was gone so too was the interest from t.v. and newspapers well our new york resident laurie harshness talks to people on the streets of the big apple to find out what they think of the media's approach. after the success of protesters in egypt the media has quickly shifted their focus to other areas of unrest do they even care about the outcome or just their next big scoop this week let's talk about that i think the meat of the story is gone. but the meat of the work still has yet to be done right there's no money in that. it's about a war i mean it's all about money and power and which of the meat of the story is totally gone is that ok are we ok with that does that mean that the media is doing its job. i don't think they're allowed to be doing it. i mean basically it's you know governments and politics will control the media and about how you look at it and what people say it's just the way i go just the way it is but it's been like that for a long time will it always be like that will come and go i mean u

u.s. mainstream media has found a new opportunity to deal with eyes abroad a book on suicide bombers valid and the police on a desert it's reported as an omen for a domestic attack. and coming up next is our show cross talk peter lavelle and his guests discuss what's behind the authorising in egypt and what's ahead do stay with us. play. list. and you can see. the second. plane. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm here all about a game changer as events continue to unfold in egypt what kind of middle east is coming into being and if democracy is indeed on march how will this change the geo political order of the reach of luck and the sled.

u.s. mainstream media outlets envied in the midst of declining readership and a shrinking budget a songe was a blessing for the times. the paper has printed two hundred stories on a songe more than five hundred on wiki leaks articles detailing shocking field reports of u.s. operations in afghanistan chaos and illegal activity behind the iraq war and embarrassing diplomatic tactics used by the u.s. state department but like many passionate romances he told us he wouldn't sleep in one place more than one night if he had to the gray lady has kicked the blonde out of bed and is now selling juicy details of a six month affair for just under six bucks missile impressions of julian assange you know send up some red flags new york times employees describe a songe as a source not a partner or collaborator a man who acted like a fugitive conspiratorial and contemptuous of the u.s. government it seems to me exteriorly opportunists to take the information to deal with the guy to use the information and then to say well he's more of a villain or man on the loose or on the run when in fact they're using h

u.s. mainstream media has found a new opportunity to demonize iran a book on suicide bombers found in the arizona desert is reported as an omen for a domestic attack. now no war no peace this stalemate between armenia and azerbaijan has lasted for over sixteen years because like dates back to nine hundred eighty eight the nagorno-karabakh region mainly populated by armenians was part of the soviet republic of isaac by john well after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. it declared independence which resulted in several years of armed conflict a truce was signed in one thousand nine hundred four russia france and the u.s. have been mediating talks since then well r.t. caught up with the foreign ministers of both sides of the conflict you could watch their interviews throughout the day on our t.v. well let's hear from the side. what role does a version play in stabilizing the caucasus region. after the off course as your bread chinese all for the settlement of all conflicts of the mists case if we are talking about the situation with the not born a current.

u.s. mainstream media because that's mostly what i focus on it's very obvious that there are people here that are scared and they're trying to scare everyone else as well especially if we watch some of the commentators on fox news people like glenn beck that are saying that the muslim brotherhood is going to take over and that that means al qaeda is taking over that means that we're going to see a muslim caliphate how do you how do you react to that you know i mean you're you're you're british do you see a lot of the same british t.v. that we do here in america. oh yes most certainly mr tony blair the butcher of berg has come out with statements very similar to the statements from glenn beck in fact. it's important to realize that this rhetoric has absolutely nothing to do with religion and everything to do with israel they want somebody to maintain the status quo that mr hosni mubarak has has kept for thirty years since that they want that status quo to remain now with the what follows of the words is a religious government or not is also absolutely none of britain or the united states busin

u.s. mainstream media has found a new opportunity to deal with eyes of iran a book of suicide bombers found in the arizona desert is reported as it opened for a domestic attack. well coming up next a special report on the mass slaughter ordered by generals in the vietnam war looking for reasons and hidden motives behind nearly five million deaths. the sciri was that they were bombing only steel and concrete that it would was a surgical war that they were. you know maintaining bad and terry instead when i got over there i found out the church is awesome but ours is an entire villages were being wiped out people just discovered the states decide an entirely different kind of war than it claimed it was violating all of the international laws of war. for new ten years the us scream or the nineteen million gallons of agent orange which contains the lethal chemical dioxin on vietnam cambodia laos and thailand not just jungles were sprayed three thousand one hundred eighty one village.

u.s. mainstream media has found. a new opportunity to demonize iran a book on suicide bombers found in the arizona desert is reported as an omen for a domestic attack. no war no peace the stalemate between armenia and azerbaijan has lasted for over sixteen years while the conflict dates back to nine hundred eighty eight the nagorno-karabakh region that may be populated by armenians was part of the soviet republic of us there by job well after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. it declared independence which then resulted in several years of armed conflict a truce was sided night tonight before russia france and the us have been mediating talks since then well r.t. caught up with the foreign ministers of both sides of the conflict you could wash their interviews throughout the day on r.t. well the knots that's now here from the armenian side. according to russian a poor peace is better than a good war but is it always the case to discuss that and now i'm joined by romania's foreign minister has been actively involved in his

u.s. as the mainstream media they are increasingly demonizes a rod often without having grounds for the early game against the islamic republic . and global financial challenges and russia's changing economic situation on the edge and of the n.l. russia for getting underway in moscow business archie is the. visitor to coming to live from moscow with joshua welcome to the program and egypt's president hosni mubarak has announced he won't seek reelection it's a tomorrow's vote after more than a week of violent protests across the country urging him to step down but the u.s. president has called for him to begin.

u.s. as the mainstream media they are increasingly demonizing iran often without having grounds for the early game against the islamic republic. and brant oil prices one hundred two dollars per barrel as turmoil in egypt continues to disrupt deliveries through the suez canal we have more analysis in business in twenty minutes. what you want to live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program egypt's president hosni mubarak has announced he won't seek re-election in september a vote after more than a week of violent protests across the country urging him to step down but the u.s. president has cold for him to begin transition immediately a shift in rather it towards a leader back for nearly thirty years off party's policy here has more from egypt. men walking that is how the thousands of demonstrators on the streets of cairo are describing president mubarak's last attempt to cling to power but just how did is he and for how much longer does he.

mainstream protestant churches. the denominations that used to dominate u.s.eligious life are down 2.7 million since 1998 to 17 million members. >> the people of the united methodist church are praying with you. >> reporter: some are now responding with ad campaigns. >> to suddenly find yourself no longer the big guy on the block means you suddenly have to start figuring out who you are. and explain yourself. >> reporter: the traditional churches have been losing members to the newer, more free willing denominations like the pentecostal. who are up by more than 150,000. this year. it has been described as evangelicalism on steroids. they believe the holy spirit can give you gifts like speaking in tongues. famous members include sarah palin who used to attend a pentecostal church. it's a full-body faith. it's a faith that you can feel? >> i wouldn't say faith is anything that you can feel. faith is a trust issue. >> reporter: the jehovah's witnesses had the largest percentage growth, up more than 4%. 50,000 people. famous members include serena and venus willia

u.s. on a daily basis they've censored certain content that we've spoken about on the show they've now started hiring some more mainstream writers to act like they really produce content and they're not just an aggregator so was it a little predictable. it was you know i don't want to bash have been imposed they do a lot of bad stuff that they've been criticized for you know they give creation as the chance to put all their crazy propaganda they were really into that like this pseudo science. but they have really great reporters like rain graham sam stein that they do as you said a great first hand stuff so maybe it was inevitable in the sense that you know i mean huffington post has as large of an audience as the new york times does so where do you go after your blog what's the next step and it seems like this is it but in any kind of media merger like this you have to be wary because what happens when these mass murders happen is the news is really homogenized and one sense of dissent can be suppressed so you know to have an imposed credit they have any goodman bill moyers huge huge voices on the left and it's great th

u.s. nuclear watchdog mohamed el baradei has a name or do. cade's. the western media covers the riots as democratic storm twisting the story and other similar events to suit their own two experts say the mainstream view is played by double standards which are all about politics rather than actually reporting. an eighty years since the birth of boris yeltsin the legacy of russia's first president is remembered across the country and you want a moment in the labor leaders told city is just part of today's commemorations. so we have lines here in our tea and sports next with natalia. hello and welcome you're watching this board headlines passed. last minute transposed another taurus leaves little hole for chelsea wholesome sign been taken to found a david lewis. green bay packers arrive in dallas for preparations ahead on this sunday's super bowl forty five. and also andre kirilenko. a narrow win over a shallow. losing streak in the and b. . and we start with the bulletin on the tour is officially moved to chelsea from liverpool on the final day of the january transfer window and one of our more which is club breaking the british transfer record after paying fifty eight million pounds for the strik

u.s. basic income guarantee network. and we're exploring ideas about unconditional cash transfers. that you may know in the 1960s it was a mainstream moderate idea that there ought to be some type of guaranteed income and similar programs are gaining a lot of momentum in many other countries, brazil, ireland, elsewhere. so you've sort of started to answer my question just a moment ago. i want to thank you for that and thank you for providing answers also to some of the questions that i'm often hearing which are based on the stereotypes. so if you could just comment more about the value of unconditional cash transfers and what you think might happen if we were to give all poor people say expanding the earned income tax credit or even going beyond that. >> on my perspective, so much of what we're trying to do is break down kind of the -- not just the stereotypes but sort of the distinction that's being made between kind of us and them. and so the reason that you saw that line drawn kind of like the rich folks -- sorry, the rich folks get a lot of money and right now you hear lower income that you don't get very much unless you get in

u.s. policy makers, analysts, and strategic thinkers, in the first ever near-real-time, global interactive communication, which we have instituted: that the current form -- we have called the fikra forum. it provides a platform for mainstream activists, mainstream thinkers, in the middle east to combat extremism and to promote democratic change. fikra forum is an independent initiative of our project fikra. it is under the direction of dina guirguis who you hear from from just a moment. many with heavy egyptian representation art participation -- participate in the form, was an equal number of americans from across the political spectrum. it is an exciting platform, one i am sure policymakers will rely on more and more in coming days to get near-real time conversations bridging arabic and english divides went off leaders in st. leaders in arab capitals. the forum is funded through a generous grant from the wagoner family foundation in memory of dr. stephen croft. project fikra is funded through a generous grant from michael, linda, and james kessler. the fikra forum can be found at fikraforum.org, and i urge you to monitor that very closely to find out what leaders throughout the middle east, young, mainstream, leaders for