a global power masters so we call them that are embedded inside many countries notably the united states britain and the european union although they do. to the national interest of those different view so yes today we have to be doubly aware and against these factors and russia is probably no exception to what i am saying now with the amount of protesters that were injured as well as with the opposition leaders that were arrested how much of a setback is today for the russian protest movement. i would hope it's a major setback because as i say the majority of the russian people and i don't live in russia so this is just a reflection see from abroad have decided to give continuity to the policies of statesmen has a lovely view. of the other hand from a modern russian from the world's point of view thank god that russia does have a leadership as that it now has and. which is acting as a brake and even as a wall hopefully against the imperial aggression of the global hague of the particular of united states britain and the european union i mean you know these are things that are of concern for eve

. >> more than half a dozen governments including the united states, britain, and france, are dispelling syrian diplomats in protest of the killings. nearly half of the 108 victims were children to review and says of the most died at the hands of pro-government militias that shot them at point-blank range. >> the majority was summary executions on men's going into houses and killing men and women and children. >> the government of syria denies any involvement in the massacre. >> radioactive to not turning up a large california coast. it is believed they pick up the pollution in japanese waters following the fukushima nuclear disaster last year. lisa washington is here with where those fish ended up in what is being done now to keep the food supply safer. she joins us for the latest. >> that is right, good afternoon to you, this is the first time that radioactive fish, bluefin tuna specifically, has been found, the fish migrated from the coast of japan to california, it was an unexpected find. >> stanford researchers made the discovery is says the evidence of radioactivity found in the bl

some of it was sheer doubt about whether it was expent and wise for the united states to go to great britain. after all, they are a heavily armed nation with a large navy, and a fairly sizable army where the united states has neither a sizable army nor a sizable navy. >> host: had a standing army at that point? >> guest: a small army, but on paper was supposed to have 10,000 mens and officers and the ranks, and on the eve of the war, it's a little more than half that, but the other political party just to follow-up on the initial question, the federalists, they were bitterly opposed to war. no federalists in congress voted for the war. >> host: who were the federalists of the time? >> guest: well confined to the new england states, but some more prom innocent federalists are james ashton, roofus king, who became the senator from new york. those are the leading federalists. but the federalists had not felt national power since the election of 1800 when they lost to thomas jefferson and the republicans. they've become something of a regional rump based main on on new england, particularly in m

historians point* two grievances the united states had against great britain. many are associated with maritime disputes because this is the middle of the napoleonic wars. and the british need to keep them were real baby manned and then the gap british and the then very badly route the period so there is a range of those grievances. the reason it was fought to this many disputes were preceded by a number of years with the summer of 1811 the main grievance was the council. our british form of the executive order. but the british proclaims sweeping blockades designed to stop the new trolls. from taking the experts and the produce in europe. they have been disputing this and it seems it could be negotiated. and the event that the british will not were a. >> it is hard to do public opinion likely due but is the most important but to declaration incongruous were not by wide margins in the house of representatives. it was very close in the senate. 19/13 if three boats had changed the senate, it could not pass the war bell. and it debated near the two weeks and it was

winston churchill, prime minister of great britain, franklin roosevelt, president of the united states, and our ally in the war against hitler is going to be joseph stalin. interesting quote. if hitler invaded hell, at least make a favorable reference to the face of devil in the house of commons. war makes strange bed fellows. we have the united states, great britain, long ties, long sympathies, longtime connection, history and culture, and yet we also now have the soviet union as an ally to defeat adolph hitler. what do we know about stalin? early in the war? not much. what we know now is an awful lot. the greatest murderer of the 20th century. imprisoned more of his people into camps, murdered more of his own people than hitler killed jus. he is a ruthless brutal paranoid dictator for the soviet union. i mean he is paranoid about the safety and security of his country. two times now they've been invaded from the west by germany, world war i and world war ii. there's no natural boundary that separates, there's no division on his western front that would be an obstacle that would preve

and the countries that are now throwing out their ambassadors from syria are united states britain, canada, germany, spain bulgaria netherlands, and now the reaction is strong across the world. the russians were their top allies, but even they are getting skittish now. the foreign minister says the government bares the main responsibility. the russians should say more. they are not admitting that the kids were shot at close range, executed. and france says despite all of these outrageous and the fact that france strongly condemns it, quote, no state is ready to plan a ground operation. so i'm not sure that help is on the way, so of course everybody turns to the united states, and here is white house spokesperson jay carney. >> we're working very closely with our allies, with our partners supporting the opposition, helping it stand itself up, helping it unify, providing military and humanitarian assistance, and working together to further pressure -- further isolate and put pressure on the regime. >> of course the real question is what does that mean? does that mean that we're going to prov

war makes strange bedfellows, and in this case we have the united states, great britain. long ties, long sympathies, long-time connection to history and culture and yet we also now have the soviet union as our ally to defeat the common foe of adolph hitler. so the leader of the soviet union, joseph stalin. what do we know about stalin early in the war? not much. what we know now is an awful lot. the greatest murderer of the 20th century. imprisoned more of his people into camps, murdered more of his own people than hitler killed jews. he is a ruthless, brutal, paranoid dictator of the soviet union. now when i say paranoid, i mean sort of schizophrenic kind of paranoid. he is paranoid about the safety and security of his country. two times now they've been invaded from the west by germany, world war i and world war ii. there's no natural boundary that separates, there's no division on his western front that would be an obstacle that would prevent other nations from invading, and so twice now his country has been invaded and his people have suffered the consequences. he's v

we have the united states, great britain long ties, long time connection to history and culture and now we also have the soviet union as an ally. so the leader is joseph stalin. what we know now is in prison, more of his people into camps murdered more of his own people than hitler killed jews. he is a ruthless, brutal, paranoid dictator of the soviet union. now, when i day paranoid, i mean sort of schizophrenic kind of paranoid. she paranoid about the safety and security of this country. two times now, they've been invaded from the west by germany. world war i and world war ii. there is no natural boundary that separates. there is no division on his western front that would be an obstacle, that would prevent other nations from invading. so twice now his country has been invaded and his people have suffered the consequences. he is very paranoid about the safety and security of his western front. he is also paranoid, again, about his own position of power. we have on the one hand democracy, capitalism, free enter prize in the west and this you tall tearian dictatorship in the east. he's

there were problems between the british and united states government. britain wanted to sustain its neutrality in the raging civil war and became somewhat skittish about continuing this agreement for the belief that the confederacy, which was still very active fighting the war, would interpret this as british power coming in and endorsing the emancipation proclamation, and not only doing that, but relocating the slave participants abroad. menard himself is also somewhat unsettled by the events that occurred in his absence. he comes back to new york and he learns that the new york draft riots of 1863 had occurred, when several free african-americans in the city were lynched. they were attacked on the streets, including henry highland garnett, who had to take cover in his home and remove the sign from his door to prevent the mob from coming in and attacking him and his family. this definitely unsettles several members of the free black community and they perceive british honduras for a brief period as a possibility to escape to. but at the same time, menard is en

rights and democracy and all this kind of thing but actually what you're finding is in the united states and britain are more and more people opposed to what they are doing because i was recently had to do a deal with the barmah which talks about keeping american troops in bases for another ten years after the supposed. withdrawal date right up to twenty twenty four now this is an acknowledgement that they haven't been able to do a deal with the taliban it's also an acknowledgement exactly how dangerous the country is for the for the karzai government and therefore what you're talking about is years and years open ended occupation by the americans which it can't afford and i've selected or economic so who do you want to see keeping the peace and lindsey. well what i would like to happen is that the afghans are allowed for the first time in many many years to be able to decide their own future now that isn't going to really easy question but it cannot be the job of the americans or the british of the french or anybody else. to occupy the country and to continue to say that they have a role in it this

the world powers consist of the united states, russia, china, britain, france, and germany. their representatives are expected to push iran to agree that scientists should stop producing highly enriched uranium. experts say the material could be used for nuclear weapons. the negotiators will also likely demand the iranian government shut down some of its underground nuclear facilities. in exchange, representatives of iran will push for the u.s. and the eu to lift their economic sanctions targeting their country's oil exports. governments around the world are watching to see if the two sides can find common ground and forge an agreement. >>> executives at mazda and fiat are trying to steer their companies in a similar direction. they're linking up the japanese and italian automakers to give them a fresh, competitive edge. mazda spokespersons announced wednesday the company will form an alliance with fiat which is affiliated with u.s. automaker chrysler. their plan calls for mazda to supply its sports car sold as the roadster in japan to fiat. fiat would market the model under

security council permanent members, the united states russia, china, britain and france plus germany began talks in baghdad on wednesday. iran's nuclear negotiator and eu foreign policy chief are also taking part. the six countries offered to ease sanctions and urged iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities that can be used to develop nuclear weapons. but iran rejected the offer which it described as unfair. it countered with a five point proposal and says it has the right to peaceful use of nuclear power. separate talks lasted into the night but failed to produce any break through. the negotiators are hoping they can find common ground in their second day of talks. >>> voters in egypt have begun casting their ballots in the country's first presidential the election since hosni mubarak was forced to step down last year after 30 years in power. tomoko yamaguchi reports. >> reporter: two day vote pits islamists against supporters of the hosni mubarak regime. >> translator: i'm feeling a sense of freedom to be able to choose the best leader for my country. >> translator: i hope

investigation to be held looking into what happened in houla while the west including the united states and great britain are pointing their fingers at our side while the foreign minister elavil off says that it's too early to make any conclusions since it's clearly the situation is not one sided at all. you know pretty good you the u.n. security council on sunday the head of the international peace mission in syria confirmed that in houla there were signs of artillery shelling but there were also many coops is we've had fired from close distance and signs of a slaughter both sides apparently had a hand in the deaths of innocent people including women and children this is very is under the control of the militants and it's also surrounded by government troops the u.n. security council has asked the u.n. observer mission on the ground to press to gateway exactly happened in houla movie in the loop if moscow is not lifting the responsibility from assad for the violence but says that equal pressure has to be applied both on the authorities and on the opposition and it's vital not all the for them to put the

united states today ordered syria's top diplomat expelled. >> he is no longer welcome in the united states. >> reporter: and germany, britain, france, spain, italy, the netherlands, canada, bulgaria and australia, all told syrian diplomats to get out. >> this is the most effective way we've got of sending a message of revulsion at what has happened in syria. >> reporter: but as the new video shows, assad isn't getting the message. and syrian forces still vastly outgun the opposition. and today, brian, the state department accused iran of aiding and abetting the shabiha, the pro-assad militia. activists say the shabiha is trained by iran and uses the same tactics that iran employed to crush its own rebellion. brian? >> richard engel starting us off tonight. richard, thanks. >>> and now to the crisis in northern italy, where a deadly 5.8 earthquake shook the region this morning. the epicenter was just northwest of bologna. the same area where an even stronger quake killed people just over a week ago. and once again, our own jim maceda is there. >> reporter: brian, i'm a few miles from the epicenter of the 5.8 tremor which hit this area earli

. >> camp david will host the large it, ever, gathering of world leaders, from the united states, great britaincanada, france, italy, germany, japan, russia, meeting for the g-8 summit. president obama says the financial crisis in europe will dominate the talks but the leaders are also expected to discuss other issues including energy and climate change. and ed henry at the white house. president obama met with the new french president and both had a lot to say about the european debt crisis: >>reporter: because use know better than anyone this has huge impact not just in the united states, but, throughout europe, and around the world. it has been rocking global markets. and the point of sort of what will be the sharpest decision at camp david at the g-8 summit later tonight and then, tomorrow, as well, is the fact the new french president hollande just was elected and beat sarkozy by running on a platform of jobs and economic growth against the austerity measures that german chancellor merkel and others have pushed in europe. so there is a tension and what we saw president obama trying to do i

the fear has been that is just a pretext for turning them over to the united states, something britain would have a hard time doing for many reasons. but sweden, to be coerced and bullied and pressured into doing it fairly easily. once he's in the grip of the u.s., it is hard to imagine how he will ever secure his freedom or liberty again, given what the u.s. has demonstrated it is willing to do when it comes to people accused of harming national security. >> why is that? why would sweden be more amenable to extradition to the u.s. and not the u.k., which is a very close ally of the u.s.? >> for one thing, just a matter of basic international relations it is much easier for a country like the u.s. to pressure and gore's smaller countries that larger countries. i think there would be a big outcry -- [no audio] >> you were saying? >> sweet it is a small country, much more susceptible to that pressure -- sweden is a small country, much more susceptible to that pressure. the u.n. commission town they violated law on oppressive treatment in the way they allowed cia agents to basically a duc

torch relay at the beijing olympics the torch relay in the west through kind of the united states france and britain which was sabotaged by all manner of eurocentric activists i mean the question i asked myself is when i was in human rights watch are complaining about the bahraini government why are they complaining about the british government and britain's involvement in human rights abuses in the world britain are the most the proper tears and bahrain is just a puppet so really the responsibility should be directed against britain and not necessarily just against bahrain so i think the dynamic is a little bit skewed here so the king of bahrain very well could. welcome as well but not by one british politician who went so far as to demand that putin not be invited to the olympics in london over alleged human rights abuses in russia is that going to affect relations between moscow and london do you think if at all what i think it's indicative of how strong rusher is with the leadership of putin that it's only one british politician that is complaining about mr putin coming to london i think i think

state department spoke woman says the united states holds the syrian government responsible but we cannot confirm. officials from the united states and great britaingermany and france and others telling the syrian diplomats necessity have hours to leave their countries. in another attempt at getting syria to stop killing its own people. of course the united nations estimated the syrian troops have killed more than 9,000 people since last march. and now conor is in jerusalem. what kind of impact can expelling the diplomats have, exactly? >>reporter: this move to expel the diplomats is more symbolic than anything else but in the past few days the international community is ratcheting up diplomatic pressure on syria and on president assad. however, so far it has not had an impact. on sunday, the u.n. security council did vote to condemn the shelling, deaths and attacks on the syrian town which left more than 100 people dead including women and children. with those types of diplomat maneuvers have done little to stop the violence going on now for more than a year. >>trace: and, conor, the specialen provide, kofi annan met with the syrian president. an

because even major partner states such as great britain and the united states in the past year had given their official and premature approval to this concept, hillary clinton in the last year, british foreign office issuing a general license for general security service pro virsd. it would seem to me they've done at least as good a job as the flotillas. do you see that as being conceivable and feasible putting aside what it says about the usefulness of nato which understand would be inpoll lytic to discuss. >> that's a very good question. first of all, regarding the private companies used for security purposes, anti-piracy operations. i remember initially when piracy started being an issue on the radar of global maritime trade, off the coast of somalia, there was much debate about whether or not a private ship should hire private contractors to defend itself. there was the whole issue of how would the pirates respond? would they start shooting first in order to capture a ship and put in danger the lives of the crew. that's an ethical question. but there has been definitely, i would say,

united states entry to the war. the united states was in effect economically part of the allied war almost from the beginning, because we were selling large amounts of armaments and food to britain and france, not to germany. and doing much of the sales on credit. because they were on credit, one impact of the war was to make the united states wealthy because everybody ended up owing us money at the end of the wire. militarily, the u.s. entered the war in april of 1917, about a year in six months before the end. there was an enormous psychological boost for the allies win the u.s. entered. there wasn't much direct military effect immediately, except on the oceans because the u.s. had a surprisingly small standing army at that time. we did have a larger -- quite a large navy though which then joined the british in hunting down german submarines in the north atlantic. large numbers of american troops didn't began arriving in france until may or june of 1918, and then they really did have a considerable impact, because the germans had launched a sort of desperate last ditch, to her die offensive in march 1918 which almost succeeded in getting all the way to paris and for a while, l

britain and the united states were among others ordering ambassador's home. >> this is part of our tightening of pressure. >> their top diplomat and two others said the embassy at london have been given seven days to leave the -- to leave britain. is designed to send a strong signal to president assad that he must now get behind kofi annan's peace plan. >> annan urged him to start dialogue. assad denied having anything to do with the deaths. it did not look like a meeting of the minds. >> we are at a tipping point. the syrian people did not want their future to be one of bloodshed and division. yet the killings continue. the abuses are still with us today. >> if the massacre is a tipping point, it could be to greater violence. syria opposed the regime has always calculated their survival depends on overwhelming force, not on dialogue. >> the death toll from the latest earthquake to hit northern italy has risen to 16. what more can you tell us? >> the epicenter was close to where a similar quake struck nine days earlier. a factory and warehouse collapsed and several churches were wrecked. >> h

human rights whatever the country is regardless of their relations with the with the united states or russia or britain or anybody else in and be consistent all right when i say. are no differences on the government question all right stephen since professor of politics and international studies of the universe of san francisco thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us here on i took. one just this week behind me authorities arrested the country's leading human rights activist and foremost critic of the ruling family on charges of inciting protests through social networks now b. or a job was detained just days after featuring on julian assange to show here on our team well and that program the whistleblower gets inside from her job into the uprisings in arab states so go to a special section on our website. to watch that interview. now to other stories a mass hunger strike by palestinian prisoners over their detention without charge and treatment by israel is increasing on breasts across the west bank over fifteen hundred detainees have been refusing food for almost a month as their sup

what we are suggesting is that by a strategic decision, the united states, france, germany, britain decidercle. there's no easy way to do it then at least to consider a turkish citizen, a turkish diplomat, a turkish politician to lead the nato alliance, to be our leader, collected later, the next time that nato chooses a secretary-general. ever turkish generals to be given important post-acute got to not force these issues but you've got to make the strategic decisions and our recommendations is to make this decision. >> and the burden on turkey? >> it's a complex situation but as we got into this and look at it, talked to turks and talk to others, there's a number of challenges turkey needs to me. the continuing disagreements within the e.u. over the cyprus issue, not turkey is not so responsible for the. there are two sides of that story on cyprus. but thirdly is a very worrisome developments over the last several months. restrictions on turkish journalists and the arrest of over 100 turkish generals and military officers who now will stand trial. we don't want to take sides in these int

the heels of a series of meetings scheduled between iran and six world powers the united states france russia china britain and germany well the u.n. has already implemented four rounds of crippling sanctions against iran with another round set to go into effect this summer they're hoping to persuade iran to stop its uranium enrichment program entirely today's announcement seems to be another warning lights to iran that the u.s. and israel aren't messing around here to discuss this is lawrence wilkerson retired united states army colonel and a former chief of staff to colonel. colin powell excuse me colonel wilkerson thanks so much for being on the show and i guess i want to ask you i saw today's announcement sort of in two different ways i thought on one hand as being sort of a warning to iran on the heels of these talks and on the other hand of being sort of a nudge to israel by the way we're still your loyal friend how did you see this hope that's all you saw a little bit of diplomatic cord talk and a little bit of assurance. the israelis more encouraged by two other the pros the minimums to the india a

he then called for a strong active united nations and for britain, canada and the united states to keep their shared secrets intact secret in case they fell into the hands of katella terrie in the government's so at this point in the speech he didn't name the government he had in mind. next he explored those brought by world war ii and warned against being drawn to the global catastrophic conflict. he then moved on to what he called the second of the orders manly tierney. churchill told the crowd the society for different than american or indeed britain if it was an all controlling police state and where there were in fact no rights to the individual whatsoever. this tierney, he said, was the opposite of those liberal space values we still cherished today to rule of law, he elected government, freedom of speech and expression is no coincidence that the anniversary of thomas jefferson noted inauguration speech had been just a baby for churchill spoke and what could prevent the fall of these values and the spread of tierney, churchill asked his audience. nothing less than a special relati

britain and the united states were among others ordering syrian officials,. >> we will go on trying to increase international pressure on the regime. this is part of that. >> serious top diplomats and others at the embassy in london have been given seven days to leave britain. it is part of concerted worldwide exploration from many capitals designed to send a strong signal to president bashar al-assad. in damascus, the u.n. special envoy burned president -- urged president bashar al-assad to stop the killing. but the president denied having anything to do with the deaths. it didn't look like a meeting of minds. >> we are at a tipping point. the syrian people do not want a future to be one of bloodshed and division. yet the killings continue and the abuses are with us today. >> if the massacre is a tipping point, it could be to still greater violence. the regime has so far always calculated that its survival depends on overwhelming force, not on dialogue. >> for more on the diplomatic moves to isolate the regime, i spoke to the u.s. state department spokesman. i have to say after the ev