policy goes beyond just banning trade between two countries the united states think sions corporations around the world as silent as said punishments banks that except cuban money and from the very first day of the blockade and before the stated intention was to make the cuban people suffer and try to force them to overthrow their government and i think it's time for the american people to realize that we have an obligation to demand that our government stop dictating to other countries speaking of dictatorship there is now a third war going on against libya and i don't think the people of this country voted for that but i've been to cuba many times and seen the suffering that has taken place because of denial of medicine by the united states and you know i've seen medical cards and machinery that has been paralyzed because the u.s. prevents european countries from selling those parts to cuba the the block which is a machine really and herrick. glory you know well i'll tell you want there was a peak there is a pediatric heart hospital in havana which could not use a blood gas analyzer

one hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding and well in the school system in florida and the united states' process of democratization could recognize that the opposition is on that island is not mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up and excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with r.t. . close up to you has been to the show ya been screeching for the long lost secret of thomas steel it's been discovered. the finale archie goes east of lake baikal with the longest russian railway line runs. for the sunday desert lies among siberian mountains the first people full of the same roots as hundreds of years ago . welcome to the trance like kali. russian close up on the part. wealthy british scientists. dr. marg

yes i do the even though the united states is -- >> the united states -- people are moving into enclaves, john, by race and ethnicity, all over this country. >> irish need not apply was the sign in the window when this date nation was dominantly what, uk settled? >> no, this was dominantly british. >> right. >> but it took generations before the irish were -- >> because of the set into which they came! this setting today is different. >> john, take a look -- >> it's multi-cultural! it's multilingual. >> john, you got a multi- cultural -- >> go ahead. >> i don't think the wave of the future is racial and ethnic enclaves this this country. i think people are and will assimilate but i also think a lot more americans will learn to speak spanish, and i think that's a fine thing. >> again, i get back to the distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. legal immigrants that come from central and south america assimilated. they're grateful to be in the united states. they exercise their right to vote. the illegal immigrants and we've seen this over the past couple months, actuall

and many of the you could say the united states waffles from country to country and is it just because the united states wants to make sure there's an outcome that it can live with actually have an ally with a more democratic face or one who you are that will attempt to reform real or imagined i mean that's what the waffling is all about because united states can't say in principle we are going to move forward in this direction and we're going to support protestors and democracy why can't we do that because we won't because we're looking after our interests first and foremost right. i think yes we are looking after our interests are also looking after geo political stability i mean if you want to talk about death repression horrible things i mean those things are as likely or more likely to result from war than they are from every press of regime so i mean where you do something massively destabilize the middle east make the al assad feel so threatened that they had to act out and i mean it is a dying ruling family that had it you know cause a lot more death and destruction and

as alarming as such numbers may be, the united states' homicide rate involving -- it is the united states' homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996, for example, handguns were used to murder 0 people in -- 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada, 15 in japan and 9,390 in the united states. the cdc, the center for disease control, reports the rate of firearms death -- that is the number of americans shot to death per 100,000 -- as hovering between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans during the period 2000 to 2005, between 7.5 and 7.8 for hispanic or latino americans and between 18.4 and 19.3 for african-americans. such statistics suggest that there is something unique and frightening happening in the united states. and, of course, the homicide rate is only one measure of violence, and i talk about all kinds of different things in this book. and in part that's the point, to sort of look at undercurrents of violence in american life, to look at what i call the ethos of violence in american culture and american society. and accordingly,

hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this and i'm going to go in the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition leaders on that island is not which is a minute mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with r.t. . we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark chemicals with the bar props we do not want anymore a new deal molds. our core system is to say there was a cause more experience and i'm just i'm just appalled that that's allowed to go on americans. are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment w

past couple months it is becoming increasingly brutal police state and yet the united states stands by the monarchy united states has refused to condemn the intervention by the neighboring family dictatorships to suppress what is at least as a legitimate a pro-democracy movement as you've seen in other arab states and matthew where you think about that in new york. i think that we've heard the phrase double standard thrown around i think that what we're actually seeing is a relatively consistent set of standards applied to wildly differing circumstances in libya there was an urgent call to action the arab league asked us to intervene forces were moving towards benghazi and moammar gadhafi promised to raise the city and killed citizens in bahrain there are these abuses in their tragic and they're awful and they're evil there is not something that we can do we can stop a motorcade from going to particular city because these forces are in the same city they're both women are much. so there's just not the same urgent call for a response and so what do you think about that i mean there are

hundred years because i would say get out the united states say states says to cuba go to hell the united states is place the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this i'm going to go on the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition on that island is not mercenaries in the pay of united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with our team. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on the t.v. . they say this is not a problem in the war. which it should say everybody is sure to support the dream speech so they have no idea about the hardships to face. plate one it says it all comes to the same. for any army the life that you say is the most precious thing in the world. uses of self-sacrifice a

netherlands else why in europe that you speak of, and you see that expansion taking place in the united states. again going back to this core issue, what's cash dash is there any additional evidence of that? we have a church state wall between the two. doesn't that function pretty effectively to keep out influences which may diminish yew bumper sticker watty and force of our religious moraliub religious morality. but generally i think to look at a little bit of a paradox or a contribution what people believe and actual behavior. professing in religious values we also look what the fastest city over the last decades las vegas. the most popular one of the popular television programs right now is "desperate housewives." i mean there's you can make an argument that america has more hypocrisy on these issues that the europeans did that our behavior is not fend mentally different. >> we just finished an election. in 11 states was a referendum rejected it. does that give a lie to the irresistible values. >> backlash. i think in the political system we often see a backlash to what is happening in the

because people are going to remember that the united states and its allies supported keiran in the middle east for the last fifty years what about the argument some people say that you know for example in libya the united states is there to try and set up a puppet government that is more sympathetic to the us a more sympathetic to us interests like a darfur which you know western leaders would regard as not quite gain so subordinate although i know he did help in the wind tear it up he was an extremely valuable ally for the united states in terms of our number one enemy which was going to have its allies just like saddam was although we didn't talk to saddam as long as saddam was in favor of the mujahideen were not coming out of south asia in the persian gulf toward the local and so long as the us so quickly turned on him is that oil more important now then i am sure if it spoil i think we have the last four presidents we've had the united states have really seen the world that they want and they want to democratic peaceful humanitarian world which is a great aspiration but the

the united states and particularly its intelligence services worry about an attack on the united states that is not nuclear weapons chemical that is not biological but is technological. a surprise attack against its satellites is a catastrophic. scenario studied by the u.s. forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites the chinese could literally cripple the u.s. . they could prevent the military from being able to communicate with its forces they could blind the u.s. intelligence community which uses electro optics satellites to determine military force movements around the world and they could also cripple the guidance systems that are used on precision guided munitions that are satellite guided. in many senses could be a kind of an electronic pearl harbor. without space the u.s. would be unable to conduct any type of military operation in an effective way. the civilian space industry generates more than two hundred fifty billion dollars every year the destruction of even a single orbiting satellite could put at risk the economy daily lives and well being of millions of citize

american public particularly and we've seen this come out as one of the narratives as to why the united states is. although this was not one of the stated reasons when the u.s. went to the u.n. but the bombing of pan am flight one hundred three you heard everyone from john mccain to progressive t.v. host ed schultz using that as an excuse to justify this u.s. bombing the fact is though that. the u.n. security council resolution one thousand seventy three that was passed was very narrowly passed because five very powerful countries china russia brazil india in germany. abstained their populations represent a majority of the citizens of the world as represented on the security council so i think that the united states also was engaged in some reactionary politics here and the feeling that we had to do something to show the relevance and i also think the obama administration was probably afraid of having part of its legacy be like that of president clinton's that rwanda was happening and you failed to stop it so i think on the one hand libya was a convenient way to show that the u.s. was taking a

very unlikely outside the united states. again, on china relations, there may be differences between these groups in terms of how they view these differences. but the approach has to be brought in terms of seeking some -- there are variations there, but no difference in terms of policy. in terms of the diagnosis of what the problem is. i think there is a broad consensus that we don't have many options vis a vis pakistan. a democracy promotion has no basis. there are instances on that issue. to sum up, what we see is a pragmatism moving away from idealism that is characterized in foreign policy in the cold war period. the story is not complete. it could go back. public sentiment is very intense. we discuss issues we would not have been discussing earlier. we characterize that as public debate even though the shift has not -- is not complete. the conventional wisdom approach we have taken we see as the pragmatic approach coming stronger and shifting away from the idealistic movement as reducing. i think we are somewhat cautiou

by giving the quote in an interview which i think is extraordinary because it sums up what the united states should be doing and president obama in his state of the union address got a right we have to continue to invest in our own and growth, invest in education and innovation. the r&d tax credit, ander talked about the r&d tax credit and i'm very proud of pennsylvania during my time as governor we quadrupled our r&d tax credit, but i don't know if all of you understand we don't have a permanent federal r&d tax credit, and that is a big disincentive to business growth here in the united states but he had this interview and andrew was asked a question about china, obviously our biggest competitor and someone i believe every area of endeavor and when it comes to manufacturing line is china getting right at the united states is not, that is the questioner. andrew implied the chinese do, not just the chinese but other countries that i referenced in the book such as germany is the history holistic approach to and factoring. it's a strategy. basically the same manufacturing is a vital part of my

they commit crimes, they get convicted in a court somewhere in the united states, either a state court or a federal court. they are sent to the state penitentiary or the federal penitentiary while they are incarcerated. serving their time. the system works very well because i.c.e. comes in, puts a detainer on them for deportation. they have a deportation hearing so that as soon as they get out of the penitentiary they are supposed to be deported back to the country they came from. that's the way the system is supposed to work. it works like that sometimes but not all the time. because, you see, there are some countries who won't take back their crumbal aliens. what -- criminal aliens? what do you mean they won't take them back? their criminal aliens come into our country, they commit a crime, while incarcerated they are ordered to go back home as soon as they get out, and when we get ready to deport them back from where they came, their country says, don't send them back to us. we don't want them. they got enough criminals of their own, i guess. they refuse to take back their criminal

would of course united states lead. well yet again please you know so you think it's all just a ploy that the united states has kind of slowly step back and aren't already taneja with what we know nato wouldn't be there if united states didn't seem to be . so so then that raises the question why the united states wants him to be there why does the united states waiting for a game it's the united states now i think the end game is to. get rid of that regime for several reasons one breaks up the channels or supply from libya to it gets rid of gadhafi who refused to join the united states african command you know we've set up an african command and two thousand and seven and the purpose i think was to counteract china's economic penetration. with american military organization so look at forty nine of the african countries and the united states african man and he does he refused so that's another reason to want him out and a third reason is he's not a us puppet and so we the americans don't completely control the mediterra

to intervene in the internal affairs of yemen the fact is that the united states has been waging a covert war inside yemen for the past ten years and it has been ratcheted up dramatically by the obama administration in december of two thousand and nine president obama authorized two very deadly airstrikes against yemen involving tomahawk cruise missiles with cluster bombs that can shred human beings and the alleged target of those air strikes in december of zero nine were members of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in reality though one of the strikes killed twenty one children and scores of others civilians and another strike that the u.s. did killed an important tribal leader in yemen who in fact was trying to work out a mediation program with the members of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula so as long as ali abdullah saleh the president of yemen allows the united states to his country to kill people inside of yemen and he himself will take responsibility for those actions as has been revealed by the wiki leaks cables showing that he conspired with david petraeus and other u.s

each year this design meant initiative is rejected by the united states. it is a hundred sixty to one hundred seventy one united states is the only nation actually voted against this were isolated on this issue. what we thought is pushed our allies into consideration of more strategic independence from the united states in space and some people would argue perhaps in europe that that's a good thing maybe it's better that your pastor teach it independence and space because they can serve as a counterweight but from a a u.s. viewpoint it would seem to me that you would want your allies integrated into your system. or do what of dollars by the european model train equip itself with a wider array of military space systems in support of telecommunications navigation and information for ground troops. there are only. so we don't have them which certainly weakens the european armed forces and in nato makes them very dependent on the american spirit. is going to what does one need when one is in gauged in a military. operation in europe or more precisely in front

this is when the united states finally went in. this is the exception that proves the rule and shows how far the bar has come for actual military intervention. >> this is never a good idea. >> this is a conundrum. one part of the problem is that the dictators, they have been brought in from the cold, and they have been received in the western capitals over the last few years. this is for whenever cynical reasons. >> it is cynical to try to give him up his program. this was not cynical. >> what is the practical thing that you do then? in his natural -- national interest is this? aside from syria, this is a terror funding state. this provides a sanctum for hezbollah, and destabilize the region. >> how do you know this? >> if the people rise up and the dictator of guns down as many people as possible, you have to make a decision. if you think that this dictator is good to keep. it would be good to lose them. >> thank you very much. one part of the arab world where the u.s. has been involved is the republic of yemen. they have earned t

hundred years the cuban say get out the united states say the state says to cuba go to hell the united states has placed the embargo on cuba i mean what could cuba do to the united states other than surrender in other words that's i think what the u.s. government is demanding well if you will this i'm going to go in the united states process of democratization it could recognize that the opposition on that island is not that well wishers i mean it mercenaries in the pay of the united states it can begin to open up an excuse me i think of truth on that island ok i have to jump in here we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on cuban state with our team. download the official tea allocation chobani phone the i pod touch from the saps to . life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s mine comes and says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the com. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. wealthy british scientists. are not. the market. to. find out what's really happening to th

how will this affect the united states and just the geopolitical kind of issues that are that are at the forefront because the brics countries have really different relations with many of the countries the u.s. has in the last well i think early every china have a battle like this a big part of what people are fighting about is the next time you have about a like this so i think if you know if your played the scene in the future with another country another attempt the u.s. british french military mention under the cover u.n. security council resolution i suspect it would get a very different result you think that it went past you think of these countries that work together and achieve the goal that they essentially want to achieve now it is a magic solution and non military intervention and it wouldn't even get to the point where there was a book. wow ok well that is we're going to have to wait and see what happens after this meeting and the next time that one of these major resolutions comes to the table that was robert namely his prediction of how it would turn out director of jus

personnel on the issue of blackwater specifically the owner of blackwater erik prince has fled the united states has relocated in a muslim country in the united arab emirates where he lives under the protection of the the monarchs there and has been essential he trying to get himself contracts in really old fashioned mercenary business on the continent of africa recently a source of mine in mogadishu told me that he saw erik prince in the v.i.p. lounge at the mogadishu airport and that was then subsequently confirmed in the new york times that prince had been doing business in somalia with a french mercenary company called seris and that was going to was being investigated by the u.n. for violating the arms embargo there the company blackwater which was renamed z. and then renamed again u.s. training center has a new sort of management that's been brought in to give it a different kind of a public face and a former admiral is now going to be men who actually present. clinton had nominated him to take over as defense secretary after les aspin passed away he now is officially running the board of

united states really is. according to the justice department, the homicide rate declined from a spike of 10.5 per 1 hundred thousand in 1991 to 6.1 in 2000. both of those in 1967. by comparison according to the who homicide rate in france, germany and great britain the word 0.6, zero.six and zero.9 respectively. children in the united states are far more likely to be shot and killed by their counterparts in other industrial nations. the firearm homicide rate is 16 times higher for american children. united states homicide rate in evolving -- it is the united states homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996 handguns were used to monitor--murder 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada. fifteen in japan and 9,390 in the united states. the center for disease control reports the rate of firearm deaths, the number of americans shot to death as hovering between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans from 2000 to 2005. between 7.5, and seven.8 for hispanic or latino

netherlands else why in europe that you speak of, and you see that expansion taking place in the united states. again going back to this core issue, what's cash dash is there any additional evidence of that? we have a church state wall between the two. doesn't that function pretty effectively to keep out influences which may diminish yew bumper sticker watty and force of our religious moraliub religious morality. but generally i think to look at a little bit of a paradox or a contribution what people believe and actual behavior. professing in religious values we also look what the fastest city over the last decades las vegas. the most popular one of the popular television programs right now is "desperate housewives." i mean there's you can make an argument that america has more hypocrisy on these issues that the europeans did that our behavior is not fend mentally different. >> we just finished an election. in 11 states was a referendum rejected it. does that give a lie to the irresistible values. >> backlash. i think in the political system we often see a backlash to what is happening in the

danger is the support of the united states militarily for fact. is that we're not sure about yet i think if he dares our web site down which i have to give you more time but it is a very interesting point many thanks my guest today in washington and austin and thanks for viewers for watching us here arky see you next time and remember cross talk rules. to see. chosen from among many. he was given a clear cut mission. a mission he successfully accomplished. became the first several encounters. of the soviet union one of the best known persons in the world. all his thoughts were focused on someone. who he ever thinks that his life's work would cost him his life . one happened in those few seconds. and what city could see silda barrels still.

like you mentioned earlier at the top of the program the region in which the united states is backing armed forces inside libya is a region that is sent numerous people to fight americans in iraq and afghanistan and there are actually members of the libyan resistance movement that if admitted they have actually been in iraq in afghanistan fighting against the americans and these are the same folks that we're trying to arm with with expensive united states weapons and and trying to back with airstrikes but you know back to the topic of a kind of first second we had mentioned that they want to take advantage of chaos i mean al qaeda is in a brand a crisis right now like there's these democratic uprisings in egypt and other places have really kind of shown how how impotent their. ideology is in speaking for the aspirations of the people across the muslim world and it's a real threat to them when people without weapons stand up and try to take control their own destiny rather than going through al qaeda is broken ideology but you're right that the overall point that you're making

does attempts to exert i mean the united states when it is in a difficult position politically. which is the bulk of people in puerto. a full interview with giuliana sides coming your way out here on r.t. . russia is cutting petrol exports after fuel shortages hit the whole market as a result prob prices pump prices are burning a bigger hole in motorists pockets italian overcover takes a look at why the world's biggest oil producer is fighting itself going without. russia with no sounds ridiculous yet what you did we went to five different gas stations all of them were closed here we've been waiting in line for hours what is this isn't this supposed to be the oil rich country overnight you prices jumped to twenty five percent in several russian regions as the federal runs out comprise goes out even more their supplies are not only for two weeks world prices skyrocketed at the beginning of the year but russian authorities made an effort to get battle costs at a consumer friendly level as a result foreign markets became much more attractive and profitable for russia with producers

so so then that raises the question why the united states more time to be there why does the united states when you think a game it's the united states now i think the end game is to. get rid of the regime for several reasons one it breaks up china as well supplied from from libya to get rid of gadhafi who refuse to join the united states paratrooper in command you know we've set up an african command and in two thousand and seven the purpose i think was to counteract china's economic penetration. with american military organization so you get forty nine of the african countries and the united states eric information ok does he refuse to that's another reason to want him out of the third reason is he's not a us puppet and so we the americans don't completely control the mediterranean coast now i'm sorry king of the mediterranean one issue i want to put up you brought up written a little bit about syria where there is you know protest then going on now do you think that the united states syria is much closer to a libya as far as its relation to the united states then egypt or other countrie

now you'll recall the united states went to the united nations to take the lead on libya which we have been talking so much about on a military intervention and a no fly zone but this week the u.n. has become a punching bag of u.s. lawmakers as ambassador to the u.n. susan rice is there on the hill defending the organization against budget cuts at a hearing today on reforming the u.n. it quickly pitted believers against nonbelievers take a listen to the u.n. we all agree it's far from perfect but it delivers real results for every american by advancing u.s. security through genuine burden sharing we should pay for you in programs and activities that advance our interests and our values if other countries want different things to be funded they can pay for it the kind of it pretty much pitted susan rice against opposing views of what the united nations should be of that committee they're mostly house republicans they are very critical of the un i'm joined now by robert naiman policy director at just foreign policy to discuss it with me mr raman thank you so much for joining us so as i m

that person's and two to three they under just the united states and the reputation of our u.s. program and i think we will get some of the intelligence analysts you see very. or in the west bank it's how much we eat bacon all right but it might help. with some fish in the beach or yeah it's about the story about people one of the things i wanted to ask you about i know you've spoken about this issue a sort of the international implications for the united states i mean if we continue to maintain this facility which has caused so much consternation abroad does this sort of undermine the entire system of international humanitarian law which the united states was was instrumental in championing and in the mid one thousand nine hundred of the century i mean how can we go to for example some of these arabic countries where the the arab spring is taking place and demands that these leaders stand accountable to humanitarian law when our own country isn't necessarily sticking to those kinds of principles as in the case of guantanamo. in fact the big push for closing guantanamo is not co

that lawmakers had with the united nations they're very but don't share the same views as the united states who are part of the united nations i want to play you some of that the comment that came out of today and white to lawmakers but the u.s. should not fun united nations in the way that it does. not giving in to an organization that permits communist china were human rights abuse or stamp a veto power over what it does as you know brothers and sisters are illegal in china we know that cuba for example is a state sponsor of terror we know they are harboring terrorists united nations is being used to serve as a vehicle perhaps to see how global government will function the idea that we're going to take our barbells and go home like various aspects of the un including when it exercises that stomach radical right to disagree with us is to me a juvenile posture so who is right is it a juvenile that everybody should agree with you in the united nations or should the united states be very angry that there are countries in the un into not agree with the us or they do not do everything the way t

united states will withdraw. it won't reach out and do damage. someone could make a case that that pattern, weakness is provocative. to the extent we behave in a manner that is weak and allow those kinds of things that it provokes people into doing things they might otherwise not do. they wouldn't think of doing it if they felt there would be instantaneous punishment for doing it. the last thing i would do would be say that there was something somebody could have done to prevent september 11th. i would say like pearl harbor it was a failure of the imagination and probably a relatively understandable failure of imagination. >> host: a couple questions from the audience. one is about iraq and vietnam. to you think that is a fair comparison? >> guest: there are similarities and notable differences between the two. the vietnamese were not likely to attack the united states of america. the terrorist threat, the dangers in iraq was on the terrorist list. the terrorist threat was a very real one to our country and al qa

. >> more often than not, people come expecting the united states to be, if not fixing problems, to be parent of fixing whatever problems an individual state has or region has. and our biggest-- one of our biggest foreign policy challenges right now is to get our own house in order. that is something i feel very strongly about. i know the president does as well, because we have to consolidate our own economic and political position in order to be able to continue to influence events in the future. >> rose: conversations on diplomacy with former secretary of state henry kissinger and secretary of state hillary clinton when we continue. ♪ ♪ if you've had a coke in the last 20 years, ( screams ) you've had a hand in giving college scholarships... and support to thousands of our nation's... most promising students. ♪ ( coca-cola 5-note mnemonic ) every story needs a hero we can all root for. who beats the odds and comes out on top. but this isn't just a hollywood storyline. it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when s