the united states has been reluctant to support that for fear that by doing so, the united states would inevitably have to involve itself more in the syrian conflict. that is not necessarily the case and i think the administration to but the turks and the arab league to do what is necessary as long as the cease-fire continues to be violated. >> do you think is only a matter of time before the opposition is arms? >> the opposition is receiving covert arms from other countries in the region. they're getting their arms from somewhere. across the border from jordan, lebanon, turkey. turkey has provided safe haven to the leadership of the free syrian army. if turkey is providing that safe haven, you can be certain that arms are already reaching them. >> you seem to be implying that the path of diplomacy is now over. is that the case? >> listen, even the mafia has a code of honor. the syrian government clearly does not. it committed to a cease-fire, which it has consistently violated. the monitors themselves of almost ben h. for those syrians who have saw out there help -- a date for the syri

united states has been reluctant to support that for fear that by doing that the united states would have to involve itself more in the syrian conflict militarily. that is not necessarily the case. the administration should let the turks and arab league do what is necessary as long as the cease-fire continues to be violated. >> what do you think it is only a matter of time before the opposition is armed? >> the opposition is receiving covert arms fr other countries in the region. they are getting their arms from somewhere, perhaps across the border from jordan, or 11 on. certainly from turkey. turkey has provided safe haven to the leaders of the free syrian army. if turkey provided a safe haven, you can be certain someway arms are reaching them. >> you seem to be implying that the path of diplomacy is over. is that the case? >> even the mafia has a code of honor. the syrian army clearly does not. a committed to a cease-fire that has consistently violated. the monitors have almost been bait for the syrians who sought their help and have been executed. this effort to quell the violence

the united states has been conducting exercises with several countries in the region to demonstrate its increased military presence. nhk world, philippines. >> and that will wrap up our bulletin for today. i'm patchari raksawong reporting in bangkok. >>> it's been years in the making and next month the world's tallest free styling broadcast tower will open its doors to the public. the tokyo skytree was built to relay signals over a broad area. the structure is becoming a must-see for tourists and area businesses are coming up with ways to get the piece of the action. >> reporter: the tokyo skytree is standing head and shoulders above a city with skyscrapers. your ears will definitely be popping on this minute and a half vertical ride. at the end of it, a 450 meter tall observation deck. here the public will have access to a never-before-seen panoramic view of tokyo. they'll see every landmark in the tokyo metropolis. even the tower is like a red dot in the distance. these glass floors are on the lower deck. it's 340 meters off the ground. plenty high to give visitors the sensation of fl

after all, the united states has been willing to imprint on the international system. we have believed that free markets and free peoples would ultimately result until a more peaceful and prosperous world. we have had a view of how human history ought to unfold. since world war ii, in particular, we have actively promoted that view of human rights, religious freedom, the rights of dissidents, the rights of women, not just because, indeed, it is a moral case but because there is also a practical case for those rights, because we have learned many times the hard way that states that do not respect their own people are, indeed, dangerous states. now, that has helped reduce that view of human history. remarkable changes over the last several decades. a europe freed of soviet power that is whole and at peace and free. it has produced in asia powerful democratic allies in japan and in south korea and in parents of southeast asia. it has helped produce in latin america a turn away from military coups toward free, stable, democratic states like brazil or chile or colombia, a s

where's the president of the united states been? where's his proposal? why hasn't he talked about this, something that's critically important to our country, as opposed to creating all these fake issues, that he's running around the country dealing with? >> when we spoke to legislators, they told us to talk to you about leadership. >> i respect -- i respect the committee process. i respect the committee process. and the committees have their work to do to investigate this. and i'm confident that the energy and commerce committee in a bipartisan way will deal with this issue. >> aren't you able to speed it up? >> when it comes time to -- i know in answer to ryan's question, you weren't that impressed with what the president is saying. but when it comes time to deal with stopgap in the fall, are you going to do with the bca levels, the budget control act, or maybe try and go lower, maybe as low as the ryan budget. >> my goal is to prove appropriation bills through the house and hopefully work with our senate colleagues to move appropriation bills on their

russia joined the united states, hadn't been till then, joined the united states in the toughest ever sanctions against iran, gave us permission to transit russian territory and air space with weapons and supplies for american troops in afghanistan. the only other source and now the sole source but hopefully only temporarily. but just a month ago, governor romney called -- and here again i quote -- "without question our number-one geopolitical foe is russia." as my brother would say, "go figure." and sometimes, i don't know if it's a slip of the tongue or a mind-set, but he even refers to russia as the soviets, which i think -- no, i think reveals a mind-set. everybody sometimes slips. i never do, but everybody sometimes slips. [ laughter ] look, i think it's fair to say when it comes to russia, based on only what we know he's said so far, governor romney is mired in a cold war mind-set. similarly, the governor aggressively attacked new start, the nuclear arms control treaty that president obama negotiated with moscow. he attacked it. that treaty reduces the number of strategic nuclea

it is true of wiki leaks where they expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government been attacked by the united states strongly condemn. illegally shoot for five hundred days now being detained without charge but that hasn't stopped us. today we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. today i am joined by into a cool superstar the slovenian philosopher. a former anti communist dissident now turned so described communist together we call david horowitz a former left wing radical black panther ally now a fiery right wing zionist i want to know what they think about the future of europe and the united states the conversation becomes heated has to be physically restrained we shout rant and talk calmly about nothing and palestinians black panthers and israelis about a bomb or romney and stalin. david you describe yourself as a conservative and you describe yourself as a communist but nonetheless both of you have had a picture of stalin. spasms god is going to maybe i made it on meth i may have. shot him in a minute and shout about it out yeah

been up here with you. let me just say that the united states has been committed from day one to make sure that we are holding bp and others accountable for what happened in the gulf of mexico. the department of justice, obviously, is involved in the criminal end of that. we're involved in the civil end of that with the justice department as well. and what i can assure the people of this country is that attorney general holder and our team who has been working on making sure that bp and other companies are held accountable will, in fact, be held accountable. there are laws and regulations that are on the books. as our reports have shown, including the joint investigation between our department and homeland security, there were, in our view, a number of laws and regulations that were, in fact, broken. so people and companies will be held -- will be held accountable. >> bp had at least two criminal felony convictions for safety and environmental crimes and is facing more for the 2010 gulf oil spill, yet your department continues to allow the company to drill in u.s. waters. should there be a three strikes and y

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been the early part of last decade. that we saw that becoming commercial. not only the technology, but it's adapting it to circumstances in this case, the united states. we've been the leaders in this. the ability to take risk, willingness to take risk. and that you tend to find that in the smaller firms. you know, who basically go all in on a particular project. and that's what happens with shell gas in the barnett region of texas which was what really turned the corner in taking known technology, adapting it, and bringing the cost down to where at the time it was profitable. >> and, do you see some technology coming out of the government that's doing to further refine this? or technology coming out of corporations that's going to further refine the oil business? >> i think it's less likely to come out of government because the funding that rob talked about is definitely needed on the clean energy side has basically dried up on oil and gas. the horizontal drilling, that was done in bartlesville in one of the labs. that labs doesn't exist any more and funding has essentially dried up. there's this political debate now that anything we do to foster foss

president obama might not have been born in the united states. that's absurd. that's it ridiculous. been born in the united states. that's absurd. that's it ridiculous. conservatives that are very distraught. that's absurd. that's it ridiculous. conservatives that are very distraught, that their movement has been co-opted by the far right. >> host: a little bit of ronald reagan history if we could. you tell the story from your dad, that ronald reagan's alliance with christian conservatives is key to successful victory in 1980, but this is a quote. weekend resisted the pressure to overreach. what did you mean by that? >> guest: well, this is a time in the conservative movement that really was a coalition. i think right now we are in a point where we are looking more at collaboration and captives. so reagan was held primarily and the republican primary may come not so much in the general election to win for the vote of the christian right and religious right and a lot of women with organizing in the decades. but when they wanted him to do some very extreme things, for example accommoda

so much of what is going on inside the united states has been guided by domestic politics and not a global strategy as to how we'll deal with syria in the long run. >> in an election year, it is difficult to get anything done at all. you are watching bbc news. still to come, the world's unquenchable thirst for oil. the future heats up. 12 people have survived the plane crash in siberia. there were pulled from the wreckage of the aircraft that burst into flames on takeoff from the siberian city. 43 people were on board. the head of russia's civil aviation agency said the plane appears to have been improperly deiced before taking off. they say there is no indication it caused the crash. >> the flight disappeared off radar screens minutes after takeoff. search teams found in this snowy siberian field. it had broken into pieces and burst into flames. emergency crews struggled through deep snow to reach the wreckage. this area is almost impossible to get to. we drove as far as we could and then went by foot the rest of the way. more than 30 passengers and crew were killed. it is hard to believe

every war that ever occurred in the united states has been staged from fort ord.we are doing a public art project that speaks to the presence of these men from varied backgrounds, with varied stories, who participated in the wars that the united states was party to. we are creating a visible presence of the history of the place through the creation of this work. today, you're going to be working with the liquitex paints. now, the liquitex paints have a number of things that are important for us as painters. baca: it's a little bit big. that's what i started with. wait. which one is he? he's...that guy. that's good. baca: is he going to have a story? this guy? he was a drug addict in the vietnam war. and he migrated from marijuana to heroin. the figure should fill up the space as much as you can deal with. think of a long view -- people driving down the street and seeing the figure. if you take those eyes and keep those leaping, and keep everything else subdued, it's a wonderful statement about the intensity of the person. the thing to think about is filling the sp

we've heard in the media that the united states has been called the great satan or something along that line, but in many ways, to their way of thinking, it is. so the challenges are immense, and all we can say, as we move through this first class on the ethical dimension, as we so often do, is just- let's- you know, you sort of stand back and say, "look at the power of this kind of dimension, in its religious form, in its political form, as it affects our human relationships. other good comments you might have? yeah, susanna? >> i do think that parliament of world's religions was organized religion at its best. and i think that the increase of diversity, not just in our country, which is the one, of course, we're in a position to notice the most, but in every country, i think it's happening. and so if- anyone who isn't feeling at least a little bit uncomfortable probably is not in touch with what's going on. >> well, said, yeah. >> deep changes are happening all over the world that way, and i think both of these gentlemen are correct- it's going to have to be a very different kind of m

the united states has been and will continue to be an active participant as this process unfolds. i should also note that the conclusion of a revised government procurement agreement presents important opportunities to explore valuable work in this economically significant area, notably through work on the accession of china and other wto members. as we look to strengthen the wto and set it on constructive new paths, a huge and complex intersection of trade and development will clearly to be critical as indeed it must be. as ambassador kirk told his fellow ministers in december, for the united states, the starting point of any discussion of trade and development is to remind ourselves the trade and development are mutually reinforcing and deeply complementary. trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, expanded individual opportunity, and accelerated economic development across the planet. it has become ever more clear, however, that a one size fits all approach to trade and development does not accurately reflect the world we live in. developing countries are

been a constitution. so what i try to do in my teaching is try and restore some of what peter mentioned, the contingency that this young united states would have fallen apart. there would have been no united states after 1787 or '89 or '90 if there hadn't been a constitution. that james madison himself thought that the constitution would fail when he left philadelphia in 1787 because they didn't pass one of the most crucial provisions he put in there. a veto by the congress on state laws. the ability of congress to veto state laws. and i think some of the things that akhil said about the ratification process and how it was a nationwide debate, a kind of referendum about the constitution. that can restore at least to people who i am able to get in my classes, i think, is some of the excitement about what it meant at the time and i would hope that that would carry over to an understanding that we are the people today, and without paying attention to that constitution, it may not be there. and i think we've been a victim of the success of the constitution. it's been, as one historian said, a machine that goes of itself. and we have had

>> hinojosa: has the first latino president of the united states already been born? some say, "yes." as the youngest mayor of a top 50 u.s. city, my guest today symbolizes the emergence of a new generation of latinos in american political life-- the mayor of san antonio, texas, julian castro. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> tnk y vermuch f having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so involved

been a constitution. what i try to do in my teaching is try and restore some of that consingency of that young united states would have fallen apart. there would have been no united states after 1787 or 89 or 90. he thought that the constitution would fail because they didn't pass one of the provisions and a veto on state laws. the ability to veto state laws. i think some of the things that they said about the ratification process and how it was a nationwide debate kind of reverend um, that can restore and people who i am able to get in the classes i think is the excitement about what it meant at the time and i would hope that would carry over to an understanding that we are the people today and without that constitution, it may not be there. i think we have been a victim of the success. we had the bucksry as a people to sit back somewhat ignorant of the structures and let the process of government go along with deciding we may or may not vote it at any given election. again, voting was seen as this incredible privilege. it was incredible when people got to vote there. would be universal sufferage. that was

i took a look historically what the average borrowing cost oof is the united states has been. from 19 70 through 1999, we've had an average borrows cost of 5.3%. the last few years we've been borrowing at an unrealistically low 1.5%. during those 30 years our debt to gdp ratio was about 60%. we were far more credit worthy. now our debt to gdp ratio's over 100%. that's about a 4% gap from historic. 4 percentage points is $600 billion a year. that's a significant risk. of course ark few weeks ago we debated the health care law in the supreme court. let's hope that's overturned because that represents a significant deficit risk that nobody's acknowledging. if you take a look at real spending. not just the six years from the first ten-year budget window, but once obama care actually kicks in starting in 2016, over the next ten years we'll spend $2.4 trillion on that program. it's going to be paid for with roughly $500 billion worth of taxes, fees and penaltities and $500 billion worth of medicare cuts. we haven't enacted the sgr fix of $208 billion. because we realize that that wi

leaders from africa and the united states have been pressuring the crew leaders to return power to thened officials. >> and they are not revealing information. the blast killed 13 people and wounded more than 500. this is not the first time that southern thailand has been hit by violence. >> in coastal kenya, no one has claimed responsibility for two grenade attacks. it accused kenya of putting person interest ahead of its citizens. only two weeks later the titanic smashed into an iceberg, sank into the atlantic and disappeared. we give you a peek at the ship. >> titanic, an commission center linking past and present built in the very place that the freight liner began its short life. even today the scale of the titanic still seems staggering. this is the back of the bode. and this blue line traces the outline of the titanic where it was built here. the front of the ship right there almost touching the exhibition center. inside it is like stepping through time. >> i think we are going to another floor. >> as you go through the ship you move to the corridors where you would have had the

and research in health, i think i would agree with you completely, the government of the united states has been a major source of that and should continue to be. and this administration, every time the president has talked about budgetary priorities including his most recent state of the union address and his budget proposal, he has said very clearly i am going to have to cut significantly the u.s. is going to have to cut significantly spending, but while we do that, there are three areas that we should absolutely increase our spending in, and science and technology, those kinds of initiatives has always been one of those areas. >> i'll mention one thing before i go to this gentleman. i spoke with the president of m.i.t. and ursula burns at xerox at the arcae crowd. bill clinton spoke right after we were on stage and former president clinton came out and laid out how you do it. and it was pretty fascinating as he always is. but with some laser specificity on how would focus on these issues. the problem is, that when you talk about it to a certain degree, you're talking to interests that fundame

. >> and would you be able to say that the national security needs of the united states had been met by a bill that did not include any protection for our critical infrastructure? >> senator, i would say based on what we know now and the risks that we already see now and the kinds of attacks that we already see now the failure to address core critical infrastructure would be a significant gap in any legislation. >> thank you. my last question on this same subject but switching from the national security and public safety side of cyber attack to the intellectual property and economic competitiveness side of our cyber vulnerability, i said about two years ago that i thought we were on the losing end of the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of human kind through theft and piracy because of the attacks on our industrial base and our technological base from overseas for the purpose of industrial espionage and stealing intellectual property. since then, general alexander has used virtually the same language. mcafee has issued a report that uses virtually the same language. mike mcc

community pharmacists in the united states have been excited, willing participants in the drug takeback program for destruction. the problem we have, we're not allowed to take back the controlled substances, those are the drugs we really want to get off the street. we can't handle that. we are anxiously awaiting the rules we have been told with dea they are pro-mull gating to allow us to participate in the proce process. the pharmacists of america interact with millions of patients every day and advise them on how to use their medicines correctly and what can happen if they don't. we cannot cure the problem we are addressing today by ourselves. we use the tools we have, but we need more tools. there have been many suggestions on how you can get more, people can get more information to us. i am very much in agreement that the most readily implementable procedure we have now is the pmps. every pharmacist in i believe it's been stated 48 states has to submit on a regular basis the information on controlled substances they dispense. this goes into some giant computer somewhere. the problem

the member for of 1981 i came to the united states -- november 1981 and came to the united states. i have been a resident of san francisco or the past few years. -- for the past 20 years. in my immigration practice, which i started with the help of the immigrant resource center, who was trying to help low- income immigrants adjust to life in the u.s. new life after amnesty, a lot of people were not able to immigrate because of a lack of money. still to this point, i see a lot of immigrants who want to get their work permits. i ask them how long they have been here. sometimes they have been here since the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's. a lot of them are elderly who are ready to retire. i had 165-year-old man who is alone, no family -- a 65-year- old man who is alone, no family here, but he does not have any papers to get that social security that he has contributed to for 30 years. he will be homeless after working for many years. i faced this situation with my clients a lot. i help low income people. sometimes it is very difficult. sometimes i think about how small the world is a and i see how immigr

or we have listened to mrs clinton the foreign minister or the secretary of state in the united states she's been pushing a lot of president assad to true or to stop any cease fire through our means to cease fire and to stop any military action against any innocent citizens as being actually seen by the west today no the whole situation is how serious are we planning both parties i mean the president and oppositionist in order to stop crying and stop battles all the sudden here i'm sorry to say this because it has been so far in action since a year and this battle is not a small battle it's been behind us and behind major cities and major villages inside syria and talks so the answer is we shall talk to doctors two three abided by both parties likely absolutely absolutely loved us that's the next question will the opposition. i'm sure they need to stand by it but i know you are regional powers such as turkey saudi arabia. because the they are not willing to stop all cease fire they want to hear very much pressure on the regime of president bashar assad the want to continue with. the military pres

. >> and would you be able to say that the national security needs of the united states had been met by a bill that did not include any protection for our critical infrastructure? >> senator, based on what we know now, the risks we already see now and the kinds of attacks we already see now, the failure to address core critical infrastructure would be a significant gap in any legislation. >> thank you. my last question on this same subject but switching from the national security and public safety side of cyber attack to the intellectual property and economic competitiveness side of our cyber vulnerability, i said about two years ago that i thought we were onhe

>> well, you know, like the united states canada has always been a land of immigrants. i like to remind people, as in the united states, you will hear lots of krit teeks of canadian immigration policy, but the fact of the matter is all of the deficiencies of canadian immigration policy that immigration has been and immigrants have been overwhelmingly successful in canada. you know the diversity and dynamism and energy and hope that immigrants bring to our two countries, i don't think we can really overstate how important that is. you can look at immigrants just as people who contribute to the economy but they provide a vitality and excitement about our nations that really is unmatched anywhere. and there are so few places in the world. we like to think we're number one in the terms of somebody to become a full-fledged part of the community. that is a very unique experience and in a global used world where we're increasingly all living much closer than we realize. you go to a country like japan, it's a wonderful country but japan has an aging population problem as we you'

first time in the history of the country -- hopefully the last -- when a president of the united states has been forced to resign in a scandal. and then president nixon came in with his wife pat and the family and of course gave this speech that was -- that went back to his mother. it was a speech in which he talked a great deal about handling nixon but he never talked about his wife. it was clear that that childhood relationship had been so important. had been that positive force in his life when he really didn't have a father and had a really terrible relationship with his father and lost two brothers to tuberculosis. it again brought back the sense i had of nixon's vulnerability as a human being even though he had all the great power and in the end he said i'm not saying good-bye. he said i'm saying i'll see you again. then we went out to watch the helicopter pull away. it was a very shakespearian tragedy. it was this man with this enormous capacity who had deep flaws that brought him down. that is the stuff of tragedy. >> did bryce harlow mention the fact that he must have had a deep wound f

there's no gas. >> rose: is key annie a friend of the united states. >> he has been a friend of the united states. i think he was very trusted by the former american-- mike mullen. >> yeah, mike mullen. and but i think there is an enormous pressure building up within the military which is very anti-american. and-- . >> stephen: is that because of osama bin laden or is it because -- >> it's a long history of mistakes. it's a two years of the last two years of mistakes that have been made by the americans and by the pakistanies, you know. and the tragedy for us is that we tend to look at what the others mistakes are but we never tend to look at our own mistakes. and this is the other theme. but we have to look inward. and we forward in that direction. >> rose: so is it a political timidity or something deeply engrained in him from his family and his father. >> i think his ideaological instincts are to be skeptical. i mean this is a man who was against the palestinian state his whole career. was it against it when he ran for prime minister. didn't say he was publicly for it even when he forme