seeking to defend itself it does not have a global ambition with its military unlike the united states which has a thousand military bases located in one hundred thirty countries china is basically concerned with its own economic development of course as a major power but they see the united states' plans their pivot towards asia is something very threatening. still ahead for you on r t later this hour a deathly tragedy a fresh nato air strike killed more than a dozen afghans out of marriage ceremony we look at the huge toll the u.s. led war is taking on civilians. the attention of wiki leaks supporters has now shifted to an american military court where a series of pretrial hearings have started for u.s. army private bradley manning he's accused of the biggest leak of government documents and u.s. history of charges lawyers hope to see to smith just. a question of a explains there are some leaks that will always go unpunished. from a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected we can take small bradley manning the obama administration has wasted an unprecedented war on whistleb

the united states has criticized syria in its annual trafficking and persons report on tuesday citing its poor efforts to fight human trafficking. the u.s. places syria in the group of worst offenders with

many weapon makers from far and wide are lining up to cash in on this need to modernize the united states has dash to the front of the pack is also being in. america. to strengthen its new fleet to find out america. has been selling india ships. going to soon. after the name. to many it's seen as part of the us is bigger shift towards asia one that its defense secretary leon panetta is now touring the region to actively engage it in a chain you were a report issued by the american government of china is listed along with iran as one of the us is biggest adversaries the report also specifically singled out india as the main country washington would pursue as a strategic partner in the region the united states has already been thinking better of all amount of energy strengthening military ties with india it just sold them time military transport planes for four point four billion dollars india also conducts the most military up their size is with the united states than any other country many analysts say that it could be a way for washington to use new delhi to counterbalance its new enemy chin

there are united states losing a slew of critical bases across central asia the pentagon has apparently launched a new drive to secure more defense secretary leon panetta is in a toiling publicly asking new delhi to take on a greater role in afghanistan and a say there's that state and washington has got india slated for a bigger role at the last port and his future threatened by a certain much touted move to the asia pacific the unraveling what is pressure there reports now on just why america is so eager to cozy up to india. the world's got its eyes on india its the planet's biggest arms importer and is set to spend a hundred billion dollars on beefing up its military arsenal over the next decade while many weapon makers from far and wide are lining up to cash in on this need to modernize the united states has dash to the front of the pack. to strengthen its. true farmer america. ships and all those who. grow through the move to many it's seen as part of the u.s. is bigger shift towards asia one that its defense secretary leon panetta is now touring the region to actively engage it in

we're making enemies that we didn't need to have ok and i personally can't understand why the united states has such interest in syria what a political interest as it have there maybe it's called iran i don't know go ahead . yes i think that what the united states is trying to do is creating a bloc of subordinate states committed to. the u.s. military agenda and committed to the u.s. corporate capitalism whereby you know socialism for the few and capitalism for the many massive wealth of the few. largely poverty for the many and i think that's what it's really about syria libya. iran. and of course iraq before that we're all in some ways faulting us ambitions in the middle east as a one off or another the us has targeted each of these states so this is absolutely nothing to do with human rights violations or recently involved the u.s. really though the u.s. allies is a saudi arabia and bahrain are the worst human rights violators in the middle east this is really about the geopolitical agenda of subordinating a large swath of the middle east to. the u.s. military economic agenda ok herb you wan

has expired. >> thanks, senator. i appreciate it. do you have any second round of questions? senator lee, you might be interested to know that the united states senate has already approved a treaty that has the exact same procedure in it and that's the -- we gave our advice and consent to it in 1996 and not only does it subject the united states to arbitration but in fact, it subjects us to arbitration under the law of the sea convention. it seems to be working pretty well without problems. that incidentally was passed down under chairman jesse helms so yes. >> i just had one point that i wanted to make with respect to how adhering to the treaty might be helpful in some circumstances with respect to our naval activities and operations and coast guard. clearly, when you boil it down to a poll or choice between the use of force and the application of law, well, the application of american military force is likely to win every time. i don't question that. but let's take the proliferation security initiative, for example. there are instances where countries, friendly countries, have either had reservations maand may seen in some instances have de

no i really don't think it's good business i think that the united states has been. an empire i think clearly the inequalities of wealth that we're seeing in the united states is tied to an empire i mean this is clearly part of a kind of the domestic a military general and you see here that how when he when he comes to anything that's important domestically in the united states such as health care reform it's almost impossible to get any serious health care reform done but when it comes to military intervention i mean it's just done overnight i mean obama just says we're going to do this we're going to bomb libya there's no discussion no. no no and no kind of congressional oversight we just go ahead and bomb and it's the same goes with any kind of war it's all you know we had last week we had a stories in the new york times about obama ordering a sign gentlemen much more to disguise a fascinating discussion but we've run out of time many thanks to my guest today in new york and invited and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember

i'd like to go back to you in new york i mean we're early in the program we heard that the united states is has a vast empire because it needs a great equilibrium of security in the world i would posit that the more the united states advances its empire in the world the more it creates blowback i mean this is really what we get i mean again entering intrusions into arab lands i mean we're making enemies that we didn't need to have ok and i personally can't understand why the united states has such interest in syria what a political interest as it have there maybe it's called iran i don't know go ahead . yes i think that what the united states is trying to do is creating a bloc of subordinate states committed to. the u.s. military agenda and committed to the u.s. corporate capitalism whereby you know socialism for the few and capitalism for the many massive wealth of the few. largely poverty for the many and i think that's what it's really about syria libya. iran. and of course iraq before that were all in some ways for us ambitions in the middle east so one after another the u.s. has targeted e

countries like japan and south korea so to me in strengthening the security ties with the united states and the united states has been exploiting these have been strategies to strengthen and is returned to a strategy china understands that excerpting pressure on the countries concerned issuing a strong part what can be counterproductive so it will try to continue to improve relations with japan and south korea and thereby to weaken security and military dependence on the united states has back to staring raise for a new probe a lot of coalition government is on course to finally implement the cuts that sparked a social and political crisis in the country is now also preparing to release a billion euros to athens being seen by some as a reward for good behavior there a leaf in the euro zone may be short lived however with auditors poised to unveil a preliminary report on the state of spain's troubled banks on thursday depending on what they find that may be facing a crisis of new proportions as spain is seen as too big an economy to be a lot spanish government politicians are adamant that the new call from athens

he's a friend of the middle east institute and of the united states. he has been turkey's envoy in the united states since 2010 but he's no stranger to the u.s. this is actually his third diplomatic assignment here. he has risen quickly in the turkish foreign ministry since his first stint in washington and that is a reflection of his outstanding diplomatic talent and intellect. when he left washington last time in 2001, he served as head of the department of the americas. he was subsequently named head of the information department. and then he went on to serve as the spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs. he served as ambassador to israel. and before coming back here as ambassador to the united states, he was deputy undersecretary for political affairs and public diplomacy at the turkish ministry of foreign affairs. perhaps one factor that has contributed to ambassador tan's effectiveness is his own personal multicultural background. his ancestors are from turkey, greece, bulgaria, syria, ossetia, and in that sense he shares many of the qualities of

but it's come at exactly the time where the united states has lost its appetite completely for military engagement, even if we were interested in doing, and we're not. on top of that the united states has never had that much influence in syria. we barely started talking to them again, only a few years ago. so we've looked to other countries to guide us to some sort of international coalition. the latest idea coming from the obama administration now is to sort of try to pressure the russian government, which has been standing in the way of any real pressure on the assad government, to look for a way to orchestrate some sort of political transition in syria that would ease out assad in a negotiated kind of settlement, ease him out. remnants of the regime would stay in place, but he would end up leaving. this is modeled after what you just saw happen in yemen, with the president there leaving. the administration has broached assad about it. that's what they're looking at right now. >> how long can assad hang on? seems like he's sort of entrenched here in power and without any real outside

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united states is working with other partners undermine china's claims to certain disputed territories china is seeking to defend itself it does not have a global ambitions with its military unlike the united states which has a thousand military bases located in one hundred thirty countries china is basically concerned with its own economic development of course as a major power but they see the united states' plans their pivot towards asia is something very threatening. back are from answer coalition live with us on the line from washington thanks for that. the attention of wiki leaks supporters has now shifted to an american military court where u.s. army private bradley manning a suspected website contributor faces his latest hearing he's suspected of the biggest leak of government documents in u.s. history a charge his lawyers hope to see dismissed however as artie's medina cost of explains there are some leaks that will always go unpunished. from a former cia officer who question waterboarding to suspected we keep small bradley manning the obama administration has wasted an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span asch laws than old previous administrations combined bu

going on now is something that it's almost impossible for us to find historical precedent in the united states has been hiding information not from the people overseas who might threaten us or or use that information against us but from the american people there's certainly no secrecy about a drone war in yemen or pakistan the people there are subjected to the pointy end of the missiles all the time the iranians certainly knew they were under attack from a very sophisticated anime that almost exclusively would point to the united states and or israel so this information was being kept secret from who from us the american people and is being released now who incidentally in the run up to a contested election to make obama look like superman superman with blood on his hands and somehow that now appeals to american voters well said peter i wanted to get your opinion on just why why is there such an uproar about these leaks now and where obama's been already prosecuting low level whistleblowers for the last three plus years why this why is everyone up in arms about this now and kind of something we've

the actual number of countries which the united states has challenged under this freedom of navigation program has tripled. it can't be without risk, without costs and without effort. do you see any change that might cause you to re-consider. >> thank you for the question, senator. our navy has had challenges throughout its history. we managed a couple of world wars. we made it through the cold war. the bulk of which or a great deal happened after the convention on the law of the sea was signed. we've had bufferining incidents with the soviets. these challenges will either go away or we have additional tools to address them. in my view, due to the other costs that are involved with the treaty, what i believe to be a marginal affect of joining the convention for the treaty is greatly outweighed. that said, the navy will continue to project force and will continue to engage in freedom of navigation operations. as you heard from general dempsey, our ability to project force isn't based on a treaty. thank god. it's based on continuing to have a strong navy. it's just our view or my view th

and senator lugar said for a long time is correct, that to avoid setting new precedence, the united states has to continue carrying out the freedom of navigations operations and consumes our limited assets and is also provocative to the nation's whose claims we're contesting whether hostile, friendly or ally, and the provocative process could be avoided in some circumstances by ratifying this treaty and being able to contest excessive claims in the ways it allows us to do. so this treaty makes a real difference for the average men and women who serve us on the high seas in the air, around the world and in my view contributes meaningfully to the national security of the united states. thank you for your testimony today. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity to be here. let me say all six of you, i know all about you. you're great guys and you serve your country, and i have the greatest respect for you. i don't envy you a bit. you are put in a position, and i know a little bit about chain of command because i was on a very lonely position, but i wa

control would erode so for those reasons which persist the united states has carried out first of all a massive terror campaign that cuba has been the victim of more terror than probably the whole world combined international. and beyond that economic strangulation i would extraordinary sort if you are. that wants to be independent votes an independent state like talk about other forms of independence like that independent state in defiance of nato or if you need china in defiance of china or russia or some of the form of the soviet states. they call it tolerance at a cost in the in the case of cuba perhaps that cost is that you're in a state of war being a state of war you look around the world there are similar problems but not as dire as the one that cuba faces so go a little bit to the south south america and one of the most dramatic and important of developments of the past decade is that south america for the first time since the european conquerors came for the first time in five hundred years has made a very significant move towards independence towards integration there isn't

it is important that the united states provide men and women in uniform with every means available to protect the navigational rights in the treaty. right now the united states has two ways to defend its maritime interests. we could initiate the process to lodge a complaint with the state that denies us free passage or assert our right to passage by putting the vessel in harm's way. the freedom of navigation program is an important tool in our military's arsenal. it does carry a risk of escalation. the law of the sea is an additional tool we can use and it is one the navy and the coast guard asked us repeatedly to provide them. by not joining the treaty, the united states is limited in its leadership ability to resolve maritime disputes between allies such as japan and korea and the strategically important region such as the gulf or the south china sea. fourth, biremaining on the outside, we created self imposed obstacles to securing the most widespread possible cooperation in our counter proliferation and counter narcotics operations at sea. the united states's refusal to undermine and they do bring this up in our willingness to provide by the accepted rules of

then a year later turns around and in the pages of the new york times frankly admits that the united states has committed an act of war against iran practically challenging them to come out and fight it's almost the same as george bush back in the early days of the iraq war saying you know you come get us and that didn't work out very well so so the stock's not and admittance and also this kill list and the drone warfare the extent of this expansive drone telling machine world why do you think that that's just the administration saying. you know we're really strong and we're we're fighting terror in a good way i mean look at what we're doing i i just to me it looks bad i don't know this is this is the sad part about all this is that in fact this does appeal to the majority of american voters obama's ratings go up he watches the polls very carefully they put out this information that he practically does these things himself with his bloody hands and its popularity goes up what's gotten on now is something that's almost impossible for us to find historical precedent in the united states has been

that's that's really in your face quite remarkable the inequality in the united states has exploded we have a we have a graph of this comparing the united states to other countries. japan and sweden and here in the bottom this is income inequality ratio versus health and social problems based on the call this is from from wilkerson and pickets were you know the equality trust in the u.k. quality trust or u.k. and and the us not only is at the top but we're almost an outlier here in this in this graphic how. how did we get here i mean you've talked about education and labor but is there is there some grand you unifying theory of this and what are the consequences and we also see that these social problems we're almost off the scale on that you know things like poverty obesity lack of trust drug drug use teen births all those things we beat everybody in the world and we write well david that's really kind of two points one is that income inequality does seem to correlate with all sorts of bad things in this is when you look around the world in the one. that is i think the most proven is

with the united states losing a string of critical bases across central asia the pentagon has apparently the wants to drive to secure organized defense secretary leon panetta is on a p.r. tour india publicly asking me to take on a greater role in afghanistan and i'm going to say there is far more at stake in washington has gone in india slated for a bigger role i think last pakistan support for his future in afghanistan threatened by a sentence on about the much time to move to the asia pacific could be unraveling. should have reports not just why america are so eager to cozy up to india. the world's got its eyes on india it's the planet's biggest arms importer and if that to spend one hundred billion dollars on beefing up its military arsenal over the next decade while many weapon makers from far and wide are lining up to cash in on this need to modernize the united states's dash to the front of the pack is also being in. america. to strengthen its me remember. to find out america. has been selling india ships and those who are. going to soon. after the name. to many it's seen as part o

secretary panetta says the united states has every right to target terror leaders with drone strikes.an call thes it illegal. early this week the united states droned a terror leader as al qaeda's number two. and, today, the defense sent urged end good to provide more aid for the rebuilding effort in afghanistan. as united states and nato troops pull out. it is the top story. jennifer griffin is like in new delhi. jennifer? >>reporter: welcome, it is really notable and worth noting that the only country mentioned by name in the president and defense secretary's new strategy, this new pivot and re-balancing toward asia, is india. secretary panetta when he arrived here in india came one day after united states officials had confirmed that c.i.a. drone strike in pakistan had killed al qaeda's number two, abu yahya al-libi and the high profile visit to india will anger pakistan even further. the new united states defense strategy recognizes that india can provide a counterbalance to both pakistan and china. panetta scened the relationship with pakistan as "complicated but one that can't b

keeping the egyptian military funded and that's because the united states has to keep control of the suez canal a lot of people don't realize that the united states is now a second rate economic power but still the world's superpower militarily and something like two thirds of the world's commerce passes through the suez canal every day of the major trading partners in the world is between ager in europe and it's all passes through the suez canal including all the western energy from the persian gulf so the united states cannot afford to lose control of the suez canal and this is what this election looks pretty rigged i mean the rules have been changed since the last election and the you know the reality is political power grows out of the barrel of the gun in the egyptian military has the gun and they're being funded to a billion and a half dollars every year by the usa so the united states cannot afford to lose the horn of africa the suez canal and they will do every dirty trick in the book to keep themselves in control of the suez canal and you know whatever happens in this electio

went to korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people of the continent russia and china were also joined in beijing by iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad who supported their stance on syria the leaders also agreed that only diplomatic and political approaches should be considered when dealing with the issue of tehran's nuclear intentions condemning any international talk of aggression towards the islamic republic the chinese and the russians probably you know don't want to see an overly domineering us which i think is understandable coming from moscow and beijing and i think what the u.s. i think does and to some degree the u.s. with europe with western europe does you know does seem to become you don't quite strongly in the middle east in so far as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which are not necessarily congruent with those or the u.s. they would probably want to protect those interests important talks in difficult times and dozens of multi-billi

answers about what we should do in syria -- to the intervention, not just by the united states, but a coalition. assad has left and you may face a syria where the "r" word, revenge is stronger than the "r" word, reconciliation and many people don't believe the united states has a very good record on nation building on the day after. how do you see that scenario playing out? >> i think it's going to be very dicey. i think it is going to be very difficult. i think the longer this conflict goes out, the longer the reconciliation process will take place. again, in the way i look to libya, libya, we still have these various militias running around. we have the misrata brigades and the benghazi brigades and all these different groups of people and there are still checkpoints as you drive through tripoli and there is a long, long way to go in the process of reconciliation, at the same time, on july 7th they will have a free and fair election, and they will have international observers and i will be there with the ambassador chris stephens and so, and then i'm sure you're going read reports of them with the milit

. >> the attorney general of the united states has very little credibility here, and i believe because of "fast and furious," with the american people. >> reporter: fast and furious" was a failed gun-smuggling program headed by the atf in 2008. but the white house says holder and his team have been aggressive in finding and prosecuting people who leak information. now, holder could be in more hot water over this "fast and furious" investigation. a house committee could hold him in contempt for failing to produce documents related to that investigation. terrell? >> susan mcginnis in washington for us this morning. susan, thank you. >>> overseas, the united nations says the violence in syria is getting worse. u.n. observers report mortar helicopter and tank attacks on civilians in the city of haffa and surrounding villages. casualties are reported. the city of homs has turned into a war zone. u.n. observers report increased attacks on government troops. u.n. secretary-general ban kee boo moon is calling on both to hold back. >>> firefighters are making progress against the wildfire in co

that and amidst the global debt crises affecting cities and states across the united states one suburb in the state of georgia has adopted a different model of government it has no long term debt no pension obligations look at their privatization. as city hall let's get to today's capital account. well what do you know it's george it's not george soros it's monday and george soros is out making headlines with a new proposal on how to fix the eurozone crisis it involves a european fiscal of the already in charge of the various rescue mechanisms that can issue european treasuries and set up a debt reduction fund. and actually a borrowed up the excess stock of that that has or to move. to cali of scream from those who by issuing those. so he has his plan and he says the lack of fiscal agreement of leaders ahead of the e.u. summit this week could of course proof fatal for the currency union because i don't know maybe it's fatal or maybe he's just pushing his plan but the point is that we've heard it before we've heard it from soros we've heard from various leaders and technocrats that we have a deadline to solve the

there will be bloodshed horrible bloodshed in syria little make libya look like a picnic the united states hasbeen very clear from the outset really of the activity in syria that they want to see assad go on they have geopolitical reasons for that particularly the relationship with iran the u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began these are clearly professional soldiers that are conducting these operations these are not protesters that decided to grab some rocks or maybe a pistol because of the response of the state to their protests this is an army that was placed there either emigres from syria or just foreign nationals gente generally that's being supplied from the outside from turkey the nato country from jordan and from lebanon and so the intervention is already a fact whether or not it becomes an overt intervention outside of the u.n. which by the way is illegal or you know take some other form the intervention has been underway since this you know since the arms struggle quote unquote began syria struggles are already impacting across the border in lebanon as we

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