kaiser report still to come stay with us here on r.t. .ohn kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes and i speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of someplace on earth like course to low voltage or walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he's reading it off of a teleprompter right now i am reading off a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter mr obama just read anything put in front of them to even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches and who are deeply versed on some subject and you should need to read word for word fr

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here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak. duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going to run an extension cord from one room to the other, i don't want kids trippin

it's a pleasure to have you with us here in. moscow with your top news stories from around the week. now the clock is ticking for cyprus it has now until monday to gather the money needed to secure a vital e.u. bailout now in a rather dramatic the government decided that it will try and dip into people's bank accounts those with deposits of more than one hundred thousand euros in the island's biggest bank and the controversial move still has to be signed off by parliament and of course the troika of creditors and. reports the mood in cyprus is simply one of panic and frustration. in a dramatic week of unfolding events cyprus has moved from rejected europe with a resounding no vote on what it saw as an unfair demand for getting a ten billion euro bailout did now bending over backwards trying to clinch that money scrambling to put together a package pleasing enough to its creditors the so-called troika now saying yes to imposing a twenty percent levy on deposits above one hundred thousand euros in the bank of cyprus and four perce

thanks for staying with us here on our t.v. fourteen minutes past the hour now in egypt protesters have set streets a light in the city of port sayed in battle security forces and a challenge to the state's authority there demanding the release of prisoners six people including three police have died since under arrest or up to three days ago here's the latest from our egypt correspondent bill true. the battles raged through the night said largely focused around these key buildings these key government buildings in poor sayit with protesters hireling mother talks security forces the army again to try to intervene to assist the police force and haven't been able to quell with the sense that this is all a head office against very contentious and i think in the pool is our youth football disaster talk and last february basically we're going to see the betting on the final defendants in this trial in pools i.e. they're very angry as twenty people was and was to death in the first round of this verdict we have the second round comin

eleven am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the catholic church has itself a new leader argentine cardinal jorge mario bergoglio has become the first pope ever from the americas and the first from outside europe in more than a thousand years his election greeted by tens of thousands cheering in st peter's square in the vatican. white smoke finally seen from the rafters as the cardinals voted for a fifth time during the second day of the conclave that will be marked as one of the fastest in years the group had to choose a new leader for more than a billion catholics after the previous pope benedict the sixteenth step down or he's peter all over has more on the new pontiff and what his leadership might bring for the church. seventy six year old told him out he. wasn't one of the main names that were at the top of the list because there simply wasn't any names at the top of the list going into this conclave for the first time in a while quite a while ago but he really knew who was the front runners but he came out is the man who took two thirds of th

next kaiser report stay with us here on r.t. .did any of you see darth vader and storm troopers trying to make their way into the ukrainian justice ministry as part of a protest well probably a lot of you saw this fun viral video but how many people remember what exactly they wanted what their protest demands were all about probably not that many trust me i understand that using wacky protest tactics gets media attention and if you are pushing a cause that media attention is critical but when no one even gets what you want or why you are in that wacky costume it doesn't help there seems to be like almost a protest a culture and language like you see people protesting they're so satisfied with themselves in their costumes and silly gimmicks but if your protest is actually aimed at people in power then the how is it going to cure cost of goods with the opinion of heartless bureaucrats sitting in some soulless office again media attention is great but if you want to be taken seriously we're a rainbow. again for a while fighting for y

thank you for joining us here on our to today what does what's online what does it mean when it crosses the line in israel the country's military is widely using social media as a p.r. tool during combat missions what happens though when the soldiers start using these means and appropriately. investigates. offensive and damaging or better fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a style posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media unit don't wish to merge just as the government uses social media for explaining for complaining for propaganda or for spinning it also has to deal with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this soldier got two weeks in a military prison. while after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this infantry fighter was brought to book for abuse of power and misuse of army weaponry . these soldiers turned their patrol in hebron into a dance move. it angered the i.d.f. but others felt they did a far better job of showing the human side of

well fairly ok for europe matthew dalton now of course one of the wall street journal joining us live here on r.t. good to see you today so there is concern that the cypriot model of taxing depositors could actually be used in other parts of europe how do you feel. it's still unclear this is a debate that is really bubbling up right now and has been prompted by the cypriot bailout the euro group president your own diesel bloom caused a lot of havoc in the markets earlier this week when he suggested that yes in fact the cypriot template would be used to deal with other failing banks throughout the euro zone and that's that includes imposing losses on an insured bank depositors this is something that is still quite controversial among other eurozone countries and you had a number of countries such as luxembourg france and others saying wait a second you know we've got to think about this before we go down that road well certainly you bring up the issue of luxembourg let's address to the e.u. is all the tax havens of malta and indeed luxembourg they are being painted as you alluded to as the

well stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program how the u.k. is making money in the bedroom we take a look at how the recession is betting brits in the most literal of ways plus. mission accomplished a soyuz spacecraft landing in kazakstan bringing home two russian cosmonauts and a u.s. astronaut after nearly five months in orbit stay with us here on r.t. . couldn't take three. arrangements three. three. three. three broncos video for your media project a free media. wealthy british. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. eleven minutes past the hour israel's prime minister is finally managed to form a coalition ahead of saturday's deadline but at a cost of an easy compromise for the first time in a decade ultra-orthodox groups longtime allies of benjamin netanyahu were left out parties paula slayer has more from television. a new coalition agreement has been signed and this follows weeks of suspicion and mistrust bet

really appreciate your commitment to our community and we are happy that you are here to celebrate this momentous day with us. we have an awesome community here, we are here to celebrate the awesomeness of our community the dedication of our community and, you know we are hebe here to serve all of you so really this award should go to everybody here in our community. thank you very much. (applause). >>> and i just want to echo jeff's words and say thank you for having us here today and thank you all for joining us and we look forward to many more arab heritage month celebrations and as well as our bigger community center and you know, through all of the different work that we do in different arab organization, different community organizationings it's about strengthening our community and contributing to the amazing cultural land scam of our city and we are very thankful to here today. >> and thank you shad deand the committee for putting on such a great show and where joaquin. thank you very much also for all of your dedication and work. okay thanks a lot:. >> so please everyone, join us for the reception,

and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. thank you for joining us >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we'll talk about things you can do you don't have to be a professional contractor to make your home more livable after an earthquake. >> i want to talk about things a homeowner can do. we have comfort and we have things like a little bit of maybe safety if your front door is ajar and waterproofing if you have a leak in your roof, or if you have broken glass on the window. >> so unr, one of the most important fib use is keeping outside out and inside in. let's look at windows. >> let's assume this w

joining us here live in just a matter of moments. first authorities say a civilian defense contractor and the intelligence division of pacific command gave existing warplanes and details of u.s. nuclear weapons to his chinese girlfriend. benjamin bishop, a colonel in the army reserves facing one count of communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it. one count of unlawfully retaining national defense documents. the former vice chairman of the federal reserve joins us to tell us what he thinks, whether it's too soon for the fed to exit bin bernanke's deasy montell -- monetary policies. former dupont to five kristine adam says the aba justice department is motivated by politics and race. he joins us live. a shocking admission from a key defense witness. join us here tonight. first, a victory for gun owners and the second amendment. senate majority leader harry reid today announced that the democratic effort to ban so-called assault weapons will not be included in the majority leader's gun-control bil

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today a new global bank is being born in south africa where the world's top emerging markets are meeting now the new financial powerhouse would be a direct challenger to the world bank and the i.m.f. both of course dominated by the united states and the dollar's fairing poorly there as well with brazil russia india china and south africa mulling the idea of partially ditching greenback trade citing how vulnerable it is to future crises are going off as this report from the summit that is now taking place in dublin. china and brazil have decided to reach a deal basically to conduct nearly half of the payments between each other international currency the total treats earner of between the two nations growing stands at around seventy five billion u.s. dollars now also another project currently being worked on here at the brics summit in south africa and has already been agreed in principle is the future establishment of a joint development bank possibly with a starter capital of around

in moscow très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour the u.n. s demanding the immediate release of a group of its peacekeepers taken hostage by syrian rebels in the golan heights militants say they're using the observers as human shields and mold on to them until syria's government forces pull back from a nearby village the provocative move by the opposition comes despite some leading u.n. members increasing their support for the rebels as artie's policy reports. the united nations says that around twenty of its peacekeepers have been detained by about thirty armed syrian rebel fighters not only the rebels released a video where they accuse the united nations of assisting the syrian president bashar assad's forces in entering rebel captured areas in the same video they also put forward their demands. we demand from the u.s. the u.n. and the security council that the troops of bashan ascents regime withdrawn from the village until then the peacekeepers will remain our hostages if our demand is not fulfilled during the next twenty four i was we wil

washington really are we're back with more international news shortly after this break stay with us hereon r.t. . thanks for staying with us seventeen minutes past the hour a nail biting time for europe with cyprus banks due to reopen after being paralyzed for almost two weeks a little relief though in sight for cash strapped citizens with severe restrictions placed on how much money they can withdraw from banks wire transfers to limits are set to prevent a run on banks making cyprus the first euro zone country to introduce capital controls or contests are silly reports the anger and despair in the streets of cypriots try to adapt to a new reality. like many in cyprus labor leaders agreed this is simply stunned at the speed and manner with which the banking crisis in his country seems to be spiraling out of control he shows us his wallet yo cash a lean lottery tickets a single parent unemployed and caring for a sick mother in raveling of cyprus's financial woes couldn't have come at a worse time but i feel shame that i live with a pension of my mom all of your life is coming up so i don'

us france britain. particularly. the same time they are pouring petrol on a fire at. three twenty pm here in the russian capital it appears that the sky's the limit for u.s. law enforcement aerial surveillance drones set to be used domestically a couple hill has certainly met some fierce resistance to the plans. and has more on the attempts to fight back against the federal project. one point this documentary on u.s. public television touts the technological capabilities of drones and their new super sensors this image was taken seventeen thousand five hundred feet above quantico virginia and covers fifteen square miles if we wanted to know what is going on in any spot along the seam i'd say near this building at this intersection we can generate a moving image that shows what's going on in the area the state of virginia was the first to stand up against this kind of surveillance in early february the state legislature passed a two year moratorium on the use of drones but the bill is yet to be signed by the state's governor who is known to be very supportive of the spy aircraft. in charlo

and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. k you for joining us today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a

those work out for us here and we can go ahead and use those skills forward as well. thank you very much, we appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you, i'd like to thank our panelists and open it up to our group for any questions of our panelists today. yes, sir, secretary. >> there are a lot of things you can do in a forest that tend to make it easier it fight a fire like most importantly burning off the fuel during the wet season so there's less for the fire to feed on. to what extent in cal fire and all your other things do you encourage people to do things in their forest when you don't have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire? >> it's an excellent question, sir. we spend a large time in cal fire on public education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or vegetation management program in cal fire, we have a robust program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and c

chooses to use the consensus here to. choose the opinions that invigorating to.choose to stories could impact your life choose the access to your office. thanks for staying with us here on r t fourteen minutes past the hour now china's new leader officially taking the reins of power as beijing completes the long process of a once in a decade transition rose keeping a close eye on who will lead the rising global player with new leadership already announcing a boost to military spending now this coming amid a battle for influence in influence in asia between china and the u.s. after washington shifted its priorities in the region and what's been dubbed the asia pivot as we can see here the u.s. has been boosting its military presence in the region but unsurprisingly the strategy is making china nervous for more on this i'm joined by political analyst pak neumann wong thank you very much for joining us here on r t so how do you see china's foreign policy priorities changing under this new leadership in the country . hi i think the chinese strategic circles are discu

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nine am in moscow i met tries a good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story the u.s. is continuing to downplay a mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting for more than forty days in a desperate act of defiance they say is sparked by the confiscation of personal items and the desecration of their qur'an prison officials though insist the reports are quote outright falsehood saying there is only a handful of prisoners who were refusing food here's how the camp spokesman captain robert duran described the situation in guantanamo in response to our team's request for information he said their mission provide safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees adding that joint task force guantanamo takes its role very seriously and it seeks to ensure that it stays true to the highest standards earlier though my colleague bill dodd spoke with former get most guarded brandon neely and earlier asked him how the detainees were treated during his time at the facility. there are you know we were

thanks for joining us here on. cyber war appears to be waging across the internet a dutch web hosting company has launched a cyber attack against the geneva based. group which put it on its black list of the victims of the assault climate so powerful it slowed internet access world wide web. explains. this is actually just a fight among two companies one guest geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit but has bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet than the other side we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can hold us lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do on line and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally i think we're seeing something that's a little childish it's between two groups who just don't don't quite get along what's happening as

ten am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on our t.v.our top story after more than a decade of war hundreds of billions of dollars spent and vast numbers killed we may be about to see the start of a democratic election of a truly stable representative government in afghanistan though not quite the one that many would have expected or even would like to see take a listen. but message to the afghans is that we will want you which is a stroll safe stable democratic afghanistan living in peace and stability with the snake we want that country to be run by the afghans fully afghans with an afghan army and police fools to provide security in that stability but it may not take the form of a david cameron speaking there are many others wanted or even expected the taliban hinting that it may form a political party and contest the upcoming presidential vote and by all accounts it does have a solid chance at the ballot box this map shows you the regions that are either poised for a taliban comeback or have areas already under their control seventee

us take a listen. i can prove it right here right now that there is no dictatorship in belarus. very simply in just a few words this is the argument i used to convince my western partners in order to be a dictator like starlin one has to have the resources resources of paramount you need to understand that do i have any nuclear weapons exactly i do not do i have as much oil as hugo chavez did in venezuela no do i have as much natural gas as russia number two and so on and so forth do i have so many people as china does one point five billion people you know in order to be a dictator in dictate one's will one has to have the resources economic social military population and so on but we have none and i am being objective about it i am telling you that we have no claims of global importance and don't see ourselves solving major global problems we don't have the resources to do so what we want to do is find our place in the sun and live as an average civilized european state that's all i want so i ask for dictatorship i say to them you're very lucky to meet europe's last dictator al

it's ten am in moscow by mattress a good to have you with us here on our t.v. we begin today's rundown in egypt where one officer and at least one protester of been killed me egyptian city portside the army stepped in to break up clashes there leaving more than three hundred injured violence erupted over a decision to move those detained over last year's football rioting to prisons outside the city this came during the u.s. secretary of state's visit for talks with president mohamed morsi that have outraged egypt's opposition or he's bald bell true as the latest from cairo. this started so off to thirty nine defendants in this post are you trying to about this said much because it happened in february off the court at this point so you've based focal much these defendants are being moved to sounding very angry about them being used they gathered at the security directorate building and broke out between the police force this protest this of course you will see how violence in months were the naldo cities here in egypt this is after a young man was killed he was

you think about some of the things that got us here, some of these things are really stretching the evaluation basis. i understand valuation, just short the market, not participate, doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense. but you have a situation here where i think like some of the guys just said you got to think about picking stocks at this point, just getting -- just what got us here is not going to do it. to me, you know, if you think about the last few years, we had 10% drawdowns in almost every year, peak to troth in the last five years. we're going to have one again this year, most likely. we're up 8% on the s&p right now. it is not just going to run away to all time highs. to me, i think the risk reward to committing new money to equities here before pullback doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense. >> you know you're one of the members of this team that i respect more than others. but here is where i will completely disagree with what you are saying. there are investment managers that whether they want to buy the market or not, they have to buy the market every day as it keeps

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>> good morning, everybody, thank you for joining us this morning, in the bill gram auditor um and we are joined this morning by these gentleman up here but i wanted to especially thank our district attorney george gescon for joining us and being part of this wonderful effort that we are announcing today with our technology community and certainly with the families of sandy hook. i would like to thank the families who flew all the way here from newtown, connecticut for joining us here today in san francisco. and while you are far away from home, i hope that you feel welcomed in our city. as a father of two girls myself, i can't imagine the pain and grief that you have suffered these past three months. and i have profound respect for your courage and for your commitment, for turning this grief into action. the tragic and horrifying events in sandy hook elementary school, touched every american, a tragedy of this magnitude brings along with it the pain, the shock, and the disbelief. and it forces all of us to ask the question how can we prevent such terrible events? how do we protect our children? our youth, our residents? for san franc

eleven am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story a mass hunger strike in the guantanamo bay detention center is entering its fortieth day now with more than one hundred inmates allegedly staging an act of defiance the strike was launched in protest against the confiscation of personal belongings and rough handling of their qur'an while the prisoner's lawyers sound the alarm over their client's condition camp officials claim yella geishas are gross exaggerations or he's marine important takes a look. u.s. president barack obama began his first term announcing his intention to close the guantanamo bay detention center now just two months into his second term the prison enters its twelfth year of operation with one hundred sixty six detainees still languishing behind bars and a reported one hundred thirty on a life threatening hunger strike and their hunger strikes are the only way they have of even making themselves heard years and years without any hold a release without any real charges this story has been denied by washington and essentially ignored by

and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. thank you for joining us >> hi, i'm with building san francisco and we have a special program of stay safe today. but we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure, good to see you. >> we're going to talk about things that you might do ... >> hi, i'm with building san francisco. and we have a special program of stay safe today where we're going to talk about what you can do to your home after an earthquake to make it waterproof and to be more comfortable. we're here at spur in san francisco, this wonderful exhibit of safe enough to stay. and this is an example of what your home might be like after an earthquake. and we have today with us ben latimer from tvan. thank

and political analyst daoud sultanzoy thank you very much for joining us here on our t.v. so you know how fragmented the political landscape of afghanistan is what do you make of the taliban's chances in the voting booth. it's a very interesting situation it's not afghanistan is not the afghanistan of the one thousand nine hundred ninety one nine hundred ninety s. and a lot has changed but at the same time we lost some opportunities the world also. plundered their chances and we also did the same so the people are a confused people are not fully supporting the taliban's all of that agenda is that they were. proposing earlier but it is up to the taliban to show their real face not the face that is pushed by the british intelligence or the pakistani intelligence because this last move from a stumble in this fellow announced. a fellow by the name of michael sample of the british fellows also. in that so this is a bit confusing for the people of afghanistan but i hope that they will do so there through phases to agenda and interesting that you say true face what is the taliban

noon in moscow i met a good to have you with us here on r t our top story more than one hundred prisoners at the guantanamo camp had been on a hunger strike for five weeks now in a desperate attempt to draw attention to their plight the strike was launched in protest against the confiscation of the letters and rough handling of their qur'an to their lawyers and human rights activists setting the alert over their critical condition but u.s. military officials claim no one is in danger artie's also tried to contact one taught him over thirty s but has no response so far or he's got a young has before. guantanamo detainees have been on a hunger strike for more than a month now the facility which is now on strike holds most of the inmates there one hundred thirty people out of one hundred sixty six the total number of prisoners at guantanamo the detainees through their lawyers say most of them are taking part in this we cannot verify exactly how many will left a message with robert deal ran the media person from guantanamo very much hope he will get back to us the attorneys for the detainees

the latest on syria indeed from a middle east correspondent paul us live thank you. for now here are two the hunger strike among prisoners at guantanamo bay now into day forty eight the plight is still struggling to dawn a wider attention lawyers say over one hundred inmates are refusing food and a concern about their deteriorating state of health prison officials continue to downplay the protests and the little coverage in the u.s. media zante is more important now investigates. as you should be in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the us hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war probably we could have removed saddam hussein in another way that would not have been so damaging to america i mean a man had to go ten years later the killing continues in iraq without also continuing without adding that mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hid it from the american public no i did not notice i had no idea

eight am in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s.is downplaying them as hunger strike at guantanamo bay detention center more than one hundred detainees reportedly fasting for more than forty days now in an act of defiance sparked by the confiscation of personal items and the desecration they say of their qur'an the prison officials though insist the reports are an outright falsehood saying there is only a handful of prisoners refusing food here's how the camp spokesperson captain robert duran described the situation in good mo in response to our eighty eight reads their mission is their mission providing safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of detainees adding that the joint task force guantanamo takes its

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