airports more than one thousand flights have been canceled since the beginning of the week the us national weather service has said that the snowfall in chicago this year has reached one hundred seventy two centimeters one of five winners with the heaviest snowfall in the past one hundred years. i the and speaking tv channel mine has shelved its use when it was tempted to dissipate in the pool where they ask the question do you seen the in europe where it's all in what happened to them in the holocaust. the media backlash was not hard to follow. so we wanted to find out what da get behind such a controversial poll could be you need to add to the editor in chief will tell my news is it that the new addition to general moving from his previous job going to be in moscow. i can't but claims he cannot work anymore for an industry which has forgotten what the press feels like the pole he instigated fertile mind was the reaction to the poll published recently by a russian tv channel use it which got the station was shut down by the government was dealing with a touchy subject but russia and will

the biggest achievements probably for us for russians as the nation's. the best games ever in the history of my country all the us live us that we obtain the confidence that russia is capability to deliver ambitious project and the most important decide that the gold that we generated to historical legacy for the generations to come well i have the games as you know russia has come under a lot of criticism so how do you feel about those reports i mean how the in any way overshadowed the games you know it's impossible to shed those it's rules in the brick itself. from the cold war and now it was broken everybody who came in with them is this. fish and turned spy and how we're hospitable they really change from the criticism to the cover and the real positive things looking at the object of infrastructure that have been created in the city had all the games what can you tell us about how they are going to be used in diffuse the future of my native city of sochi it's a very bright the land for the legacy it's all these very well. with the money allocated to

us. national security for many decades to come in the year to come victory for the us may turn out to mean leaving afghanistan in this scene circumstance that was when it was in. the marina park nine am. rt new york. the phrase let wednesday former british army officer who served in tennessee and thinks of this as a perfect signed in america's decade long war achieved nothing. all it is testament to that that google's that he didn't receive the whole campaign and stopped. the ministry painted pretty quiet sobbing brutality of the last twelve years completely unhinged and connected. but the political process they're very very conversant with that needs tending to match. simmer politics with ministry and the way this is extremely well. i know this but right at the end of it and pay the balance of powers already tipping that the top of that yet but that's how about that in the soft wet cos most of the congo is taking place the statement of an already moved into the air is the case that by the british and american forces extortion statewide political pressure. making deals with the local drug

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sixty thousand for versus despite the us nationals who made the opposite journey. that's seven times more in two thousand twelve david cameron told us president barack obama that he wanted the review of the treaty of life that is little comfort to the thomas and others like that. the teeter on the edge of desperation knowing it's their lives at stake from the mind and i put this on applying home woo buyers to take the rest of it into the can't miss the cut. just a silly rt monday. what a virtual worlds that since the reality a new generation treatment for gunshot wounds not meeting a couple of seconds. what scientists hoping it will be placed on the battlefield treatments in future. add to our website for more details and also online if you thought leader was a force for world peace you're in good company the president of uruguay has been nominated for nobel prize. making his country first before when the lifeguard wanna find out more at temple. france is planning to overhaul its immigration policies after the prime minister admits the sys

joining us now is the national review columnist john fund. it's good to have you with us. don't think i understand very and why would they come out with an alternative right now? and secondly why would they not have as scored by the cbo whether that another group that no one seems to be too familiar with. and it's fine to campaign against obamacare, but we have to tell people something because the health care system is a mess. this includes legitimate grievances about the current system. >> so it becomes a bit of a theatrical farce, doesn't it? we know that any of the legislation they put forward will not be any appeal to the senate floor to this president. >> right, not this year, but next year. because of you remember the contract with america was just a bunch of land phrases in 1994. people dismissed it. but it proved to be the blueprint of passing t contract with america. lou: are you forecasting that that will be the outcome. >> i am never hopeful that often oster mystic. lou: we will haveean opportunity to show the optimistic side and you'll be back with us as we ana

cord or fluctuations and tangy gets the us currency at one hundred and eighty five singapura dollar plus or minus three team he said the chairman of the national bank of the republic according to guide us don't get them. the need to restore the external competitiveness of the cd exchange rate trade balance of context and economy in the support of domestic producers request changes in the monetary policy of the country's main financial institution to my bind it with me. the national bank of kazakhstan have decided today to stop maintaining that a good steam tray at the same level starting february eleven which yesterday was a hundred and fifty six point six. as you remember in this regard we believe that the equilibrium rate of that cd as a new exchange rate of about one hundred eighty five t deeper dollar. i want to repeat that the new rate is one hundred and eighty five team cheaper dollar to avoid instability in the financial market the dash that makes any fluctuation quarter or a td against the us dollar at a hundred and eighty five singapore dollar plus or minus three teams. i also want to say that we will continue the policy of smoothing

this allegation was rejected by the us national security council spokeswoman said that the united states did not spike to get american firms competitive advantage as the german interior ministry so far refusing to comment on what it called allegations of bonding to individuals but this is of course gown to make things quite difficult for uncle omar called. i keep in mind revelations last year about maps us surveillance in germany in particular of ms merkel's mobile phone shops this country sparking some of the most serious i'd disappeared so between the two allies in that decade as a result we've seen a tougher stance here the german towns are now pushing for the european communications network of berlin also pushing for so called no spotty deal with washington. the german foreign minister is due to visit the us on thursday but he has said that he has dealt very very much in fact earlier we heard them and i by any means sean who highlighted a report on the nse spies on all germans on a daily basis not only officials in things the country's intelligence services have a duty to protect cit

the afghan population is going to be a problem that will affect us national security for many decades to come in the year to come victory for the us may turn out to mean leaving afghanistan in the same circumstance it was when it was invaded. new york. for more in america's involvement in afghanistan and reports of a farm then human rights abuses in control territory stay with r t for abby martin and breaking the sets. this is the longest war in u.s. history still going strong ninety percent of the world's heroin is coming out of that country we're still funding billions of dollars in there i mean at the same time bombing the hell out of it i guess afghanistan becomes a little bit more complicated because the u.s. is still occupying have rights and so the u.s. is still running a lot of these a lot of the infrastructure there so we're seeing widespread cases of human rights abuse widespread abuses i mean irrefutable evidence of torture happening in prisons in afghanistan. american military bases in britain might come under greater scrutiny that's after a series of allegations that wash

us. nation, i am so glad, i am so glad to hear that you are happy because i used to be happy. but i learned something today that shook me to my core. and once my core is shaken, don't come a knocking. (laughter) here's the deal. remember that one time i mentioned in passing that obama is plotting to radically alter the founder's vision for america? he is ben frj lynn would be horrified by obamacare. he it doesn't even cover leech-kraft or bone purging for female hysteria. but folks what is most insidious about obama's a againa is how is our brainwashing our children. take michelle obama's let's move campaign to combat childhood obesity. oh o i'm sorry, i'm sorry. no, that's north korean dictator kim jong you know. it's so easy to mistakes this two, they both look great in pant suits. (laughter) oh, and dear leader has his own very effective anti-obesity program. he is the only one in north korea who gets to eat. (laughter) well, nation, i am sad to say that i am terrified to report that generalisima michelle is winning the battle of the baby bulge. >> a big step forward in the

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us. nation, if you will excuse me if i seem a bit more radiant tonight. or if my movements are more poetic than normalling if i'm unusually in sync with myself, i'm just still floating on air from this weekend's gold medal performance by the u.s. ice dancing team. (cheers and applause) these guys their passion could have melted the ice and even if it had, they would have just won the gold for sin crom-- synchronized swimming am you know themming they're american's darling. the bouncing and behaving charlie white and meryl davis who i believe comes from the island where they grow disney princesses. now of course this network does not have the right to rebroadcast any of nbc's coverage. if i corporation i would show you footage of bob costas and the horrible lovecraftian eye nightmare that forced him off the air last week. but i can't so instead i will just show a photo of an actual snowman my kids paid last we can where they used black berries for the eyes and one of the blackberries burst. it's uncanny. (applause) get well, bob. get well. but folks there

they are embracing a new strategy of buying wins in local races using national style cut throat tacticsoverwhelmed by their support. >> when afp came to town it's like ged endorsed by charles manson. tactics reprehensible it put me in an awkward position. >> the position of being a winner. >> i got tied for last. >> in fact despite the ten nasity they didn't win a single candidate. why didn't the yokels want to embrace the future of politics? big city soup pac supervisor matthew vadim. >> if they want be closed minded god bless them. >> what about the people from a small town who might actually believe the lies we're seeing? >> i'm not going to september premise of your question. >> right. >> sometimes they are lies and sometimes, you know, they are scurrilous rumors and innuendo and sometimes it's valuable educational material. >> it's their job to figure it out. >> private organizations are allowed to try to effect government. >> with sleazy politics. >> some man's sleaze is another man's class. >> how should sleazy big city op pra actives talk to folks? >> there has to be a bit of sa

used by troops are for it. the javelin anti tank missiles that cost about eighty thousand dollars a pop dozens of nations committed their forces to the nato campaign. but while austria and ireland said only three and seven troops respectively the us still has about forty thousand votes on the ground moreover recent polls show sixty six percent of americans think the war wasn't worth fighting. one afghan activist tells us us nation building there has been in effect. they haven't eaten lunch as it is the only team in a related idea the media for his uniform and it's due to outdated the weapons that he is going to stand in afghanistan cost the lives of more than a million guns they have not convinced that it's a disney day into this loaded in the nation beating today. and they simply maintain that they have been institutions institutions. winning is good but if institution where they can be done and cannot continue to maintain its open is not sustainable and investigation winning isn't for us. and so they are committed to a house trained in what they have not provided him with anything this was rising rising islamoph

he brought us national lampoon's vacation, animal house and groundhog day. you may have heard of caddie shack, considered one of the greatest comedies of all time. bill murray who worked with ramis on multiple movies. he said, harold earned his keep on this planet and god bless him. you may remember him from this on-screen performance in ghost busters. >> well, let's say this twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the new york area, according to this morning's sample, it would be a twinkie, 35-feet long weighing approximately 600 pounds. >> that's a big twinkie. >> a makeshift memorial outside the new york ghost busters firehouse included what else, a twinkie. harold ramis was 69. >>> let's get some sports action from richard lui. >>> syracuse drops to number four, up by 12, minutes left against maryland. they give it all back. maryland was second, tries to tie but they miss. syracuse survives, 57-55, after this shot right there. knicks/mavs, know vitsky gets off a buzzer-beater. >>> major league baseball's new rule, runners can slid

you don't want to be using national security material to -- you want to use it to confine to the scope of the nature of the surveillance in front of you. we have had all sorts of conversations about how to build boundaries about what we were -- we would report and then conversations about how best to do that practically. do you put a small team in for two weeks, get them to whittle down a short list of stories. >> that is what we did. and that's what we did in wikileaks too. in both cases, we worked closely with "the guardian", a very small group of editors and

which the gc hq was collecting and storing these images and large quantities all the support of the us national security agency. oh and siemens rti who has said when you were not aware of norwood week don't miss reported activity. this report it to represent the whole new level of violation of our users' privacy and is completely unacceptable to talk a little bit more about how this program was carried out earlier i spoke with auntie sarah first in line and address answer how can she see each queue was collecting this information. but this is done by a wet can increase its intake in a jiffy teeth each key. at eighty eight by the nsa. i don't have that program catering to all taken at the end anyway essentially correct affiliated states had for many in sydney on he's an account one point eight million. i can sense a payment agency database is and how this information supposed to be used. well this is the antidote is to see school as experiments in fourth place in facial recognition. i know is he's workin' on tuesday sec's existing content that illustrates the discovery of new targets and intense

this allegation was rejected by the us national security council spokeswoman said that the united states did not spike to get american firms competitive advantage is that the interior ministry so far refusing to comment on what it called allegations of bonding to individuals but this is of course gown to make things quite difficult for ongoing merkel. i keep in mind revelations last year about maps us surveillance in germany in particular of ms merkel's mobile phone shops this country sparking some of the most serious i'd disappeared so between the two allies in that decade has resulted in a tougher stance here. the german chancellor now pushing for the european communications network of berlin also pushing for so called no spine deal with washington the german foreign minister is due to visit the us on thursday but he has said that he has doubts that such a deal where half of mary very much in fact. well enter a leading man has reportedly been arrested and charged with terrorism. after returning home from this year and wore national media say he's accused of fighting alongside . this co

us. national security for many decades to come in the year to come. victory for the us may turn out to mean leaving afghanistan in this scene circumstance it was when it was indeed. marina park nine am our tea. new york. franklin which a former british army officer who served in afghanistan. this is a sign that the us decade long war has achieved little foley's is testament to that the co hosted the sickening to see if the whole campaign stop. out of the ministry campaign. really quite savage brutality of the last twelve years. completely unhinged and unconnected. but the political process they're very very conversant with that needs tending to match simmer. politics with ministry. i may play this game extremely well. i know i'm a bit like to hear that they can pay the balance of powers already tipping that the top of that yet but that's how about that in a soft wet cos most of the congo is taking place the statement of an already knew that it is the case that by the british and american forces. extortion statewide political pressure. making deals with

"it's given us national and international exposure." "i certainly couldn't put a dollar figure on it, but i would say it // keeps us in the consciousness of people." and each year, they've tried to top themselves. "one year, we had a hand-painted box--very elaborate. each one cost $650 bucks." in 2006, swag bags topped a hundred thousand dollars, including a week-long hawaiian vacation. the i-r-s called it "income." "george clooney, that year, gave his to the red cross to auction to do something good. this year, oscar swag includes trips to vegas and japan. and hollywood necessities--- cosmetic surgery and hair transplants---and grandma frances mccoll's toffee---also in the green room for presenters. now, if her grandson, terry opalek could just get a ticket in. "we've been offered to be seat- fillers this year but couldn't get away. but we may do it next year." "we'll of course, have toffee in our pockets so that might get us in the door." there is a limit to oscar swag extravagence---terry's toffees is sending 120-boxes. thanks chuck.

the afghan population and that is going to be a problem that will affect us national security for many decades to come in the year to come history for the u.s. may turn out to mean leaving afghanistan in the same circumstance it was when it was invaded. new york. now frank a former british army officer has served in afghanistan thinks this as a perfect sign that america's decade long war ichiban nothing all this is testament to the total strategic illiteracy of the whole campaign from the start we've had a military campaign really quite some of its brutality over the last twelve years completely only good and i'm connected to any political process now the taliban very very conversant with the need to link to mash to memory politics with military action and they play this game extremely well now what's happened is we're right at the end of the campaign the balance of power is already tipping the back of the taliban particularly in the south where of course most of the combat has taken place we're seeing the taliban already moving to the vacated by the british and american forces extorti

sixty thousand for versus despite the us nationals who made the opposite journey. that's seven times more but for every argument on this side of the atlantic the counter is thrown back. the treaty multiple requests to god a relationship. i would take it down. this little comfort to the thomas and others like them to teeter on the edge of desperation knowing it's their lives at stake. from the mind and made this fun applying home woo funds and the rest of it into the can't miss the cut. mike just a silly rte london. coming up and running to the radio scene takes a closer they get drunk and he's on the streets of the sentence. i i i i. i do . it is. is you. i am recently an online poll but the little polish tv channel that training which has caused quite a storm of rage across the country. stupid on line poll cause russia white anger for the pose the question was defending leningrad from the nazis worth it because retreat in their opinion could save hundreds of thousands of lives. it was offensive and culture the culture differs a lot from

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percent of americans don't think the war was worth fighting one afghan activist told us that the us nation building project there has been ineffective. they haven't done much incidentally done the thing they have provided to the afghan military forces uniform and a few outdated weapons of millions of dollars to spend enough going to cost the lives of more than a million afghans they have not invested effectively into this large agenda of nation building that they had simply we intended to help build institutions in steel fuchsias building is good but if the student building can be done in cannot continue to maintain itself and it's not sustainable and institution building is of no use and so they're going to military they have trained them but they have not provided timid anything. coming up later this hour a village goes up against a massive industry. my family my fellow villagers here face a terrible prospect our homes could soon be raised and our businesses destroyed we had to a small community in eastern germany who stand to lose their homes and livelihoods because of expanding coal mi

us. national security for many decades to come in the year to come. victory for the us may turn out to mean leaving afghanistan in this scene circumstance that was when it was in. the during the fortnight in our tea the work. acclaimed actor philip seymour hoffman has highlighted the rising problem inherent in the abuse prescription drug abuse is on the rise in hair when it's seen as an easier and cheaper alternative. any last. most of the on the black market makes its way from mexico. so after rising column on the border but trafficking is also on the riots in afghanistan. it is the topic of discussion today on capitol hill in a hearing on counter narcotics operations in afghanistan. here is aaron logan from the office of the undersecretary of defense describing the threats of the afghan here when in the united states the governor of vermont featuring a state of the state speech focused entirely on vermont excluding harrowing to be a problem. we have to realize it either when there is a possibility that every tear will become more available across uni

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the afghan population and that is going to be a problem that will affect us national security for many decades to come in the year to come victory for the us may turn out to mean leaving afghanistan in the same circumstance it was when it was invaded marina porton i am r.t. new york. i will be bringing you a live analysis on again to stand in just a few minutes here in our to international also had for you on the program the days of sprawling u.s. surveillance sides dotting the british countryside could be numbered coming up find out how senior politicians in the u.k. are trying to put the all seeing american spy genie back in its bottle. of the flame. the olympic spirit travels with the flame from its place in greece. join james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond. where of art to. play. the media leave us so we leave the people. of the sea oceans should surely follow your party years ago. for shoes that no one is that stood with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are today. welcome back to watching our t.v. international now let's

former us national security agency contractor edwards noted has been elected as a theater director of glasgow university one of the oldest universities in the uk will issues to senior management at the university bought to previous incumbents have been elected as political statements of the group added nominated edwards noted said that they did so because he stood for democracy and that voted for what it shows support for his plight as a wanted man after reviewing the extent of global surveillance by the nsa is most other spy agencies and they said that this would also send a message to governments that want their opposition to the intrusive nature of state security. now sparse edwards noted is concerned this isn't his first award in october two thousand thirteen he received via sam adams integrity and intelligence of war that also just this week he's one of the recipients of the two thousand and thirteen and george polk award in journalism in the new york reaction to snyder has made its variations on how nana safe on the third week in the last one in the name of an oversupply. juliet

one time nba commissioner david stern has stepped down after thirty years in charge of the us national basketball association. to his place is a nba deputy commissioner and silver was unanimously approved by nba owners external presided over a period of expansion and growth for the nba both domestically and internationally in two thousand eleven that included a new collective bargaining agreement with players after a five month lockout in spore and silverlight and scared for his work expanding in the business potential and turning professional basketball to delay this today. david has transformed the ministry not just the nba and he's done it over thirty years plus one and remember it's not just as he during his tenure as commissioner is the general counsel before that he was outside counseling before that i think david is the one who turned sports leagues and brands from him. once the business. the fifty one year old silver previously had eight years as president chief operating officer of the nba entertainment the film production arm of the week . i eye the rule. do will he be. to me

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