joined now by matthew eight intelligence specialist and author of the book the secret century the untold history of the national security agency matthew thank you for coming on the show my pleasure so this report it's being dismissed by u.s. and nato officials i mean why you have they deemed it to be irrelevant it's not that it's irrelevant it's that the report we're certain significant parts of it directly contradict the pentagon's official position that progress is being made in the war the report in fact suggests and this is based strictly on what the taliban are telling their interrogators at the airfield north of kabul they think they're winning the war they're not defeated they have every intention of fighting through to victory they have absolutely no desire for can you any conciliatory measures no negotiations nothing i mean this is not the attitude you would find from a enemy and talk a little bit more about what this report has revealed that may make washington uncomfortable. well i mean the top if i was writing a lead for an article the lead would be. taliban and feisty still

matthew eight intelligence specialist and author of the book the secret century the untold history of the national security agency and be sure to stick around for the alone the show a new poll is out today showing that a shocking number of democrats actually support using drones in wars and keep leaving the one ton of a detention facility open not alone oh well dig into the numbers but that is going to do it for the news right now for more on stories we covered you can head on over to artsy dot com slash usa and you can also check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter liz wall we'll see you right back here at seven o'clock the ilona show that's coming up in a half hour. mr. lemon issues three going to take should free zones for charges free arrangement three. three. three little download free broadcasts live video for your media project a free media john darche dot com. and you can. start. playing. polo in a welcome across town peter lavelle facebook's initial public offering is being called a very big deal and many hope the i.p.

. >> untold stories. ground is broken on the site of a new national black history museum. obama spoke to the crowd today on the site of what will the national museum of american black history and cultural. congress has pledged half of the 500 million-dollar cost and is scheduled to open in 2015. >> catholics get their church back just in time for ash wednesday. st. catholic patrick church opened tonight for the first time in months. it had been closed for repairs since the earthquake shook the coast last august. it will be used for sunday morning and wednesday evening. >> coming up, terrorer on a run away train. >> diet pills and the dangerous side effects. >> a very mild end of the week. i'll have your forecast next. >> complete coverage continues with denice, rick carter, jackson and sports with mark. it's wjz, maryland's news station. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> it is 57 degrees and cloudy in central maryland right now. your forecast coming up. first we have a live update from virginia courtroom where george hughly's murder sentence was differed this evening. let's go to adam

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we're hearing from frank hall, the hero coach who chased lane out of the school, saving untold lives. >> i want to say i'm sorry to the families, to the victims. i wish i could have done more. >> reporter: faculty and staff will gather on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. grief counselors will be on hand. students will return to school on friday. in chardon, ohio, reena ninan, abc news. >> and reena will have more on "good morning america." >>> as black history month ends today, the contribution of slaves is being remembered in washington. a new stone marker remembers the slave labor that helped to build. the original chisel marks by those that built the build rg still visible. >>> time for the weather across the nation. snow from the dakotas to new england. severe storms in the south rngs with hail, gusty winds and tornadoes from memphis to raleigh. showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast. snow in the cascades, northern rockies, lake tahoe and reno. >>> 37 in minneapolis, 55 in chicago. 57 in kansas city. 70s from dallas to atlanta. and 47 here in new york. >>> coming up, apple appears r

to other facets of the community, a kid who goes home and spreads it to his family, there are an untold number of family members also sick today. >> thank you. >>> a date rape drug killed a 14-year-old girl in santa rosa last summer. investigators originally thought the girl died of alcohol poisoning at a sleepover she hosted but the sonoma county coroner now said she overdosed on ghb. three other girls also got sick. the press democrat reports that the other girls say they did not know that they were drinking ghb. >>> it is 4:36 now. pg&e customers leery of the new smartmeters may soon have the option of using old-time analog meters. state regulators expected to vote on an "opt out" plan. customers who choose to the analog meters would pay aa $75 one time fee and then $10 a month. low income customers would pay less. some customers have complained about accuracy, hacking and electromagnetic radiation they emit. >>> oakland city council calls for drastic cuts in the budget slashing millions in spending and eliminating more than 100 jobs. councilmembers approved the plan 6-1 with one abs

that would do untold damage to our national defense. it's a mechanism that would do, you know, just kind of blind sighted cuts across the board and would really hollow out the force. i'm prepared to work with you in every way possible to try to work on both sides to try to develop an approach that would detrigger the sequestration. my hope was, frankly, that the super committee would take that responsibility and do that. i think that's what everybody's hope was. that didn't happen. and that really concerned me. and so whatever we can do on both suds toe develop an approach that would detrigger sequester and avoid that kind of horrific result, i'm certainly prepared to work with you on that. >> thank you very much. mr. smith? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'll point out the overall budget the 'president submitted contained $3 trillion in ten-year save state of georgia if the budget were passed it more than meets the $1.2 that was required to avoid sequestration so there was a plan put on the table and i share the chairman's iraqis that the

i'd like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's work "pat nixon" the untold biography of her mother. she had access to materials not available to other beingiograpb. she provided outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship and then in 1945 she detailed the story of how whittier banker herman perry contacted the nixons while they were in baltimore and that's september, 1945, and asked if richard was interested in running against the incumbent representative. and julie verified that her parents' savings, $10,000 went into-th presidential race. i'd like to talk about another biographer, morris who was an ivy league educated historian. he resigned in protest from the national security council after the cambodian incursion. he showed a strong underlying bias against nixon. at the same time he was actually a very methodical researcher, so you have to kind of weigh -- kind of proceed with caution these types of coverage. just to focus on the law firm days when nixon was working as a lawyer in whittier, his first case was morris portrays that as being saddled by nixon where he represented

situation where like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy say it's done untold work so it's been a good boy and overall can actually see how the next two weeks pocket money in order to pay it civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty. cuts needed to secure the bailout for greece triggered violent protests on the streets throughout the week and the anger of the people who are suffering the most from the implemented austerity measures is not going anywhere as greece reports. the system on the seach m.p.'s drowned out the pleas of tens of thousands of demonstrators amassed within a short passing another round of unpopular cuts. the results proved incendiary . that uganda protests turned violent as protesters including fringe and the kids clashed with police again leaving their mark on athens. the day on this is the remnants of public anger but glass isn't the only thing that's been broken as governments past increasingly unpopular austerity cuts could be left asking who can they trust serve their interests the measures are very very tough part of the

civilians did suffer most in both wars and yet the stories of pollution innocents remain largely untold most reporters in two thousand and four were embedded with the u.s. troops today the few who do sneak into syria often stick with the rebels and the difference in the coverage is well self evident. americans hate the military and murders. form more of them by actually i mean during the main hospital and blocked in a key group they need help from the outside world medicine the most basic supplies the star witness to acts of uncommon valor from the u.s. soldiers and always with protesters fearless protesters really. now those who dared show images of the civilian casualties in fallujah were often dismissed as propaganda their viewers even got the following advice from the pentagon. change the channel to a legitimate authoritative all honest news station the accusations from the syrian government are eerily similar. today lies in the media have gone beyond common sense some television channels have lost all shame and professionalism. now it is often said that perception forms reality and

situation were like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy so it's done untold work so it's been a good boy and overall trying to please have next week's pocket money in order to pay it civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty a lot of important is reaching safety first for russia saying its armed forces should be battle ready to face any threat that's the latest pre-election message from the prime minister as he prepares to take part in the presidential election in just under two weeks' time let's now get the latest from our correspondent sara for . sarah wise concentrating on the military now. well this is the latest to six articles that the prime minister has published already in the may need papers in the country previous articles of touch on a wide range of subjects from the economy to democracy and say this latest six article is discussing national security and addresses the need to upgrade the country's armed forces now that upgrade will come from what i can price it but hundreds of thousands of billions having spent and upgrading the arme

with just a month left untold russia's presidential vote tens of thousands are demonstrating free elections and political change on the streets of the capital. is of course called the. revolution this is something people. live in peace. the u.n. is expected to vote on a draft resolution on syria but russia warns of a scandal if the text is put on the table in its current form kremlin says it leaves too many loopholes for military intervention. last protests against the police and military government escalate across egypt several people killed and hundreds injured. while news on the very latest developments this is r.t. . in exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are demonstrating to demand their elections while others are rallying in support of the current leadership. cross live now to well two gatherings taking place in the russian capital we hope to join our correspondents there very soon that will come back. in the meantime the u.n. security council is to meet later on saturday with a vote expect

time today, we're hearing from frank hall, the hero coach, who chased lane out of the school, saving untold lives. >> i just want to say that i'm sorry for the families. to the victims. i wish i could have done more. >> reporter: hall wasn't the only teacher who sprung into action yesterday. for years, chardon had been preparing for the unthinkable with drills like the one you see here. >> in 2010, we did practice a drill at the chardon high school. and we were hoping we would never use the skills. >> reporter: today, chardon is pulling together as a community. the school superintendent, telling the country, this tragedy is about much more than a terrible thing in one small town. >> we're not any old place, chardon. this is everyplace. as you've seen in the past, this can happen anywhere. >> reporter: faculty and staff will gather at a nearby high school and elementary school, at 9:00 a.m. grief counselors will be on-hand. students return back to school on friday. diane? >> reena, thank you again for your reporting. >>> now, we have big health news for everyone. shortly before we came on th

i want to review for the conferees one of the untold stories of this congress. over the past year, the house of representatives has relentlessly pursued the most anti-environmental agenda in history. we in the house have voted 191 times to weaken environmental protections, more than one in five of all recorded votes in the house in 2011 undermined the nation's environmental protections. these votes attacked the laws that american families depend on to provide clean air and clean water, protect our public lands and coastal waters. and the house even voted to deny the climate change is occurring, as if congress has the power to change the laws of nature. the house voted to exempt industrial mining operations and their emissions of asbestos and other toxic particles from regulation under the clean air act, and the list goes on and on. this provision, the boiler mact provision is one of the worst of the anti-environmental measures, and it has no place in this conference. in 1990, congress directed the epa to control toxic air pollution. now we already had a clean ai

situation where like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy say it's done untold work so it's been a good boy.

. >> since last september, only a tiny handful of th 165 acute mental health untold inpatient beds werevacant. yet the trust concern proposes to cut those 165 beds, to 107, replacing them with something called a hopital at home more virtual word. given that i believe the statistics on which this is based are inconsistt and unreliable, will the prime minister support my call for indy pendant experts from the audit commission to look at those gures before those beds are closed? >> i think the honorable gentleman makes an important point. of course, we're putting the extra resources into the nhs, there needs to be a clear series of beds as there are now der our plan before any facilities are changed or close. that is about making sure there is a backing for what is propos to making sure that any such changes would improve the health of the area. very happily look at the issue he raises and make sure the department of health engage with them on that issue. >> andrew miller. >> for police authorities concluded what i shared with the chancellor just started buying cars from korea. afte that,

situation were like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy so it's done untold work so it's been a good boy and overall trying to please have next week's pocket money in order to pay it civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty led to me to put in is preaching safety first for russia saying its armed forces should be battle ready to face any threat that's the latest pre-election message from the prime minister as he prepares to take part in the presidential election in just under two weeks time our correspondent sara firth has the details. this is the latest article is number six in a series that have been written by the prime minister that have been published on mondays in the main nice papers in the country and other previous articles have focused oh no wide range of subjects from the economy to democracy and this late start to cool fixing our national security and talks about the upgrade of the armed services know the priorities that it lays out. a weapons and missiles defense intelligence and a not quite as well as the navy the air force and t

treasure they're going to destroy the proposed expansions in okinawa will destroy huge areas and and untold numbers of species and when they go into a place like the chens that italy where i used to live the cultural damage not to mention taking all the ground water is incredible to turn a beautiful renaissance town into essentially a us military camp it makes me deeply ashamed lastly i want to ask you i mean we do see the shift to the asia pacific region so we do see this expansion setting up new base says do you see this problem getting better and the foreseeable future will there is a chance of it getting better in that cutting military spending is talked about as rational and possible and in fact some initial cuts are actually mandated by law now until that's on done if it isn't done so there is the possibility that there will be cuts and that they won't all be imposed on veterans' health care and not military aspects of our security state but that some of them will get the military and that in so doing some of the lowest hanging fruit will be foreign bases i certainly hope so for for a

. >> since last september, only a tiny handful of the 165 acute mental health untold inpatient beds werevacant. yet the trust concern proposes to cut those 165 beds, to 107, replacing them with something called a hospital at home more virtual word. given that i believe the statistics on which this is based are inconsistent and unreliable, will the prime minister support my call for indy pendant experts from the audit commission to look at those figures before those beds are closed? >> i think the honorable gentleman makes an important point. of course, we're putting the extra resources into the nhs, there needs to be a clear series of beds as there are now under our plan before any facilities are changed or close. that is about making sure there is a backing for what is proposed to making sure that any such changes would improve the health of the area. very happily look at the issue he raises and make sure the department of health engage with them on that issue. >> andrew miller. >> for police authorities concluded what i shared with the chancellor just started buying cars from korea. af

the debate over salary and bonuses for british bank executives as it untold inned with dave kameron, the prime minister. >>> every year we provide the coverage of the state of the state addresses to get a sense of what's happening. today, maryland's governor, martin o'malley gave his speech before a joint session. he talks ax jobs, the economy, his plan to raise taxes in some areas to try to keep the budget bransed and provide additional funding for education and towards the end of the speech he touched on an issue that's getting a lot of regional and national attention. a movement to install -- to make marriage legal between men and women same sex. >> i'd like to talk to you now about a quality of civil marriage rights for all marylanders. the very reason our state was founded was for religious flee come and at the heart of religious freedom is respect for the freedom of individual conscience. the way forward, the way to sustain and enhance our common life together is equal respect for the freedom of all. we all want the same thing for our children. we want our

agent, untold number of hearings and discussions and press reports. and, yet, you have the people at the highest level of the government saying we don't talk each other because we have to remain ignorant because we're going to testify and they don't want to get involved. at the same time, you're telling me that they're interacting with the state department on a regular basis. and the state department, the secretary is telling us it isn't happening. and janet napolitano is saying very similar things in the department of homeland security f we're going to solve this problem and make sure it never happens again swreshgs to solve the challenges. i've no confidence that you can solve it. >> i'm not sure about the context in which that remark was made by secretary clinton. i can tell that you when it comes to the issue of violence in mexico, the problem with guns going to mexico, we are joined with our partners. >> mr. chairman? mr. chairman? can i read the question? can i read the question? >> does the gentleman want the question read back? >> no. the ques

situation were like a nine year old child every friday it's going to have to go to daddy so it's done untold work so it's been a good boy and overall trying to please have next week's pocket money in order to pay it civil servants and that's a horrible loss of sovereignty. coming up here on our national security and focus. with a couple of weeks left in the presidential race out of it for you to outline his vision for the future of russia we're going to have all the details on that coming up. why the afghan president's efforts to secure pakistan's help in talking peace with the taliban are coming up against a brick wall. the u.s. and britain are warning israel not to attack iran's nuclear facilities saying new sanctions need time to work on currently being visited by u.n. inspectors to accusations of developing atomic weapons but israel which also accuses all the talking its diplomats abroad could now be on and on stoppable path to a military strike artie's arena reports from tel aviv. israel's leaders are actively drumming up the military rhetoric. home iran is the biggest terror exporter i