to fight terrorism in yemen in the u.s. and the and the emmys ok stephen if if the if the outside world were just to leave the yemen alone in the people of yemen alone could they sort out their own affairs instead of having these sarah good election sarah good president sarah get you know connections from the outside washington because they fix it themselves. well the enemies really have had trouble sorting out things going themselves the past couple thousand years i mean it really is a kind of an anarchic society of rival tribes and and interests but i don't think things are the bunch worse i think and in general on average this kind of foreign intervention which we've seen manifested and in a number of ways by a number of outside powers over the decades. certainly exacerbates the problem the things you saw i was able to maintain this control by this bribe a tribe you know a program that basically tried to you know to solicit favors from the from a few shakes who'd be willing to switch sides including al qaeda if they got

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now it's not going to speak to jeremy scahill about his new piece on yemen and how our counterterrorism policies have backfired then jason leopold joins us to tell us why he's suing the f.b.i. the cia a number of other government agencies all for failing to follow the rules when it comes to for a request and giving you the feeling the ads are following you wherever you go and we're going to spectate speak to trevor tim about the trail that companies and websites are collecting on you are you have all that and more future night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so it's friday the week isn't quite over yet there's still a lot of news happening in the world today but the mainstream media is basically checked out and they are going full force and what tomorrow will bring. police in new jersey are preparing to shut down streets and new work ahead of tomorrow's private funeral for whitney houston the parking lot behind me is the one where it is believed that these celebrities and all the invitees some fifteen hundred pe

doesn't doesn't have any credible intelligence on the ground in yemen and the last thing they need to do is start putting a bunch of bunch of shakes on the payroll and they don't know where their weapons are going to go or where the money is going to go i guess they get out of any.

yemen will have a new president. it is a strange election for them to be getting excited about which only one candidate. but this is not really an election about choosing a new leader for yemen. it is an election about getting rid of the old one. but getting rid of the old president's family may not be so easy. sitting beneath a portrait is nephew.nt saleh's he leads the elite counter- terrorism efforts, and he is not going anywhere. >> is there a reason for us to leave? >> we were taken to see the troops that he commands. their job is to track down al qaeda militants. the rapid spread of al qaeda in yemen is why the west is so worried about this place and why it is supplying into training these troops. -- and training these trips. yemen is -- training these troups. yemen is one of the poorest areas, with thousands of children living on the verge of starvation. >> centimeters? >> acute malnutrition. >> half a million children in yemen are in danger of dying from malnutrition. >> it is a huge problem in yemen. it is n

doesn't doesn't have any credible intelligence on the ground in yemen and the last thing they need to do is start putting a bunch of bunch of shakes on the on the payroll and they don't know where their weapons are going to go or where the money is going to go i guess they get out of it he wants the money the right one they've seen the examples from the past over so you mention the fact that you know we we need our government leaders we need our military officials to actually pay attention to what they're doing but how do you get average people to also be interested the average american right if what you're laying out here and it's not something that has not been argued before is that our counterterrorism policies are in fact only making things worse than how do you get the public to pressure on it you know there is this poll last week that says that the majority of americans actually support the obama administration's use of the drone program they also said that in the case of going after american citizens but if they knew this information when they still feel that way. i mean it's n

the rapid spread of the outcry across yemen is why the west is so -- spread of al qaeda across yemen is why the west is so concerned about the training of these troops. al qaeda thrives on poverty, and yemen is now one of the poorest countries in the world. we traveled deep into the countryside to see for ourselves. out here, hundreds of thousands of children now live on the edge of starvation. >> this child is severely malnourished. 10.5 centimeters. >> half a million children in yemen are in danger of dying from malnutrition. >> there is a huge problem in yemen. if we do not fix it now, we will regret it later. >> the new president needs to start here, in yemen pose of villages. none of the problems here can be caused -- solved with guns. >> to another election coming in misrata, one year ago, the residents rose up against colonel gaddafi. coinciding with that anniversary, the people have been voting to elect a local council. gabriel has reports on why the city's leading the way. >> the ink arrived from london early yesterday. for nearly everyone here, this is the first time they h

yemen remains an international help for al qaeda. we go to the capital. >> in the streets, they are drumming support for yemen's presidential alexians. after 33 years in power, the old president, ali abdullah saleh, is finally going. by tuesday night, this man, abdrabbuh mansour hadi, will be the new president. a strange election to get excited about. there is only one candidate. this is not really an election about a new leader, it is about getting rid of the old one. getting rid of the old president's family may not be so easy. sitting beneath the portrait of his uncle, is the nephew. he commands the elite counter- terrorism courses and he told me he is going nowhere. >> why should we leave? what did we did that we have to leave? is there a reason for us to leave? >> we were taken to see the troops that he commands. they track down oxide and militants. the rapid spread of cockeyed -- al qaeda is why they are worried. al qaeda frowns on poverty. yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. we traveled deep in the countryside

that's news write ups for us so far coming up a little bit later this hour crosstalk taking on yemen's presidential election which saw any one candidate in the ballot yet was still praised in the west as a democratic achievement a lot more to talk about without the next thirty minutes but it's business first with dimitri. and warm welcome to business r.t. a bank funded exclusively by emerging nations is being discussed by the brics group brazil russia india china and south africa suffered as western lenders pulled out billions of dollars in the wake of the credit crunch the brics bank would fund infrastructure projects in those states the fastest growing economic bloc in the world it would also count away the dominance of the i.m.f. and the world bank which have always been headed by politicians from europe and the us. it's a bank bonus season that annual right of big money and even bigger egos but the party may be over the russian banking sector the country's central bank is taking steps to avoid excessive payments it will make the fees depend on the lenders financial performance and

tomorrow it's yemen, the next day it's indonesia."t doesn't work. >> jon: to sum up, you're suggesting that we should do like they do in baseball-- consolidate. there should only be six to eight countries? >> that's exactly right. to make it like a game of risk where you have these huge globs of countries. >> jon: campaign finance was an enormous undertaking for you. mccain-feingold obviously took you... how long did it take to put that? >> it took eight years to get that done. >> jon: eight years to get that done. so what is your feeling on the state of campaign finance in america today vis-a-vis is there any? (laughter) >> it could be better. the truth is that mccain-feingold was bit on this foundation and actually worked to stop direct contributions to the political parties and politicians raising it. what the supreme court did is n citizens united was destroy the entire foundation and now we have corporations and unions able to use their treasuries directly to do the stuff they've never been able to do since the gilded age, since

a woman holding a wounded will relative in her arms in yemen. the vote taken in the aftermath of the japanese tsunami won the "people in the news" award. still to come, the glitz and glamour of the berlin film festival. >> that is right. first, it looked at some of the other stories making news today. the burmese opposition leader has been presented a unesco award for promoting tolerance and non-violent protests. it is the second time she has received the award. she's campaigning for election to parliament after years spent under house arrest. >> new footage has emerged of a protest by tibetan monks in southwestern china. the demonstrators came from a monastery and carried banners demanding the return of the dalai lama from exile and the release of political prisoners. >> another russian, spewing log on to the snow-covered slopes. it is the second irruption this year. italian authorities have closed the local airport, and flights to the area have been canceled. mount etna is the largest active volcano in europe. all right, it is the buzz right n

in yemen, u.s.unter terrorism officials have said for a long time that the premiere terrorist threat to the united states, externally, comes from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which is this group inside of yemen. and so the united states was very slow to call for the departure of ali abdullah saleh. eventually the obama administration said he did need to step down, but let's remember, saleh's military is back trained by the united states, particularly the guard forces and the counterterrorism forces. at a time the brutality was being released on nonviolent protesters, john brennan and other officials were saying, our relationship with saleh has never been better. when the counterterrorism unit started turning on their own people, the ones funded and trained by the u.s., the obama administration smartly pulled out those trainers. but the reality is that u.s. counterterrorism obsession with yemen trumped concern for human rights. >> that's not true. >> well, it is true. >> it's not true. i mean,

us why is it that holds so much significance well let's remember that president obama began bombing yemen less than a year into his presidency the first u.s. airstrike authorized by obama was in december of two thousand and nine and it was not a drone strike actually it was it was a cruise missile strike launched from the ocean and it slammed into a very poor remote bedwyn village and it was allegedly aimed at al qaeda members but in reality the people that were killed were forty more than forty who are bedouins that lived in this very remote area and in fact this was this episode. became somewhat infamous around the world because in the wiki leaks cables it was revealed that general david petraeus who at the time was the centcom commander

a thirty three year rule over yemen will come to an end this week as voters elect a new president but salles current vice president is the only choice on the ballot paper the single candidate election was a conditional a power transition deal signed by saleh last november after ten months of protests and pressure calling for israel resignation the vote makes yemen the first arab country where uprising led to a negotiated settlement. the former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss call him is being investigated again this time for his alleged role in a suspected hotel prostitution ring in france and belgium investigators are working to determine if the prostitutes were pave using corporate funds from a large french construction company strauss kahn was charged by new york police last may with sexually assaulting a hotel maid those charges have since been dropped. no reports of an alleged burning of the muslim holy book the koran have led to the u.s. commander of nato troops in afghanistan issuing an apology the allegations have sparked a large protest outside the u.s. co

at some other stories making headlines across the globe do a solid thirty three year old rule over yemen it will come to an end this week as voters elect a new president sallies vice president is the only choice on the ballot the single candidate held lection was a condition of the power transition deal signed by sali last november after ten months of protests and pressure calling for his resignation the vote makes yemen the first arab country where the uprising led to a negotiated settlement. thirty people have died in nigeria when the islamic sect boko haram if you were explosives and opened fire inside a market in the northeastern city of my degree home to home to the insurgent group the attack set off a gunfight with nigeria's joint task force in which eight boko haram members were killed the sect has been behind several deadly bombings throughout nigeria that have killed more than two hundred people since january. the sixty day state of emergency declared in several previous problem says after heavy rains flooded whole towns thousands of residents were forced to leave their regions

the top for a look at some other news making headlines around the world in our world update yemen is voting on a new president marking the end of ali abdullah saleh a decades long rule there's not much choice though the only candidate is the old vice president the ballot was a condition of the power transition deal side by side in november after term months of anti-government protests and of yemen is the first arab spring country to reach a negotiated settlement. but he stressed carne is being investigated for his alleged role in a hotel prostitution ring in belgium and france it's rather allegations of escorts being supplied for sex parties in several countries the former international monetary fund chief faces charges of knowingly taking part in go. paid for by a french construction company last may he was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in new york but the charges were dropped. to preserve to date i'll be bringing you some of our main news stories for in about two minutes from now in the meantime we discuss the conflict in syria with former u.s. presidential advisor pa

one of those packages began their journey at this career service in the capital of yemen.aker constructed the bombs, petn, before they began their journey to the united states. despite warnings putting u.s. and counterterrorism agencies on high alert, the bombs make it past screeners at the airport on to two passenger jets. this man was briefed by the head of saudi counterterrorism, the same saudi royal al qaeda had already tried to kill. he told him what happened next. a very lucky break. saudi intelligence gets a tip, an informant tells them about the plot. but it's too late to stop the bombs taking off on passenger jets. >> by that time the shipment has already left the country. >> all that the saudis know is that the bombs are headed to the u.s. then more luck. two packages were addressed to medieval crusade exan al qaeda blunder that leads the saudis to the tracking numbers for the bombs. saudi's prince calls the white house, which goes into crisis response mode. >> they never questioned the credibility of the information. >> reporter: british intelligence is say lett

candidate on the ballot paper even so washington hailed as a step toward forward step forward in yemen'sdemocratic transition parties cross talk coming up discusses what's behind the american applause. and one of the reasons why the u.s. state department congratulated the yemeni people on the election because the united states will continue to use drones and fighting the. elements of al qaeda in the country there and states of course is interested in stability and instability and in a strong government figure that they can crush al qaida the problem is is that yemenis don't like strong government by anybody if you like their independence and. has wanted you know. is taking advantage of this resentment to gain support among certain tribal leaders and but at the same time the popular pro-democracy movement . the fuse united states all this in this chaos is going to strengthen ironically weakened al-qaeda because many people who might have been prone to support that kind. are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism. russia's presidential elec

the aid workers were employed by united nations humanitarian affairs office in yemen. the kidnappers were tribesmen hoping to trade the hostages for one of their leaders who was in prison. all right, let's get the latest on the new york stock exchange deal going bust. >> very ambitious plan, very ambitious work going on for nearly a year and now, all for naught. leaders have blocked the deal, saying the plan - exchange would have created a near monopoly over the futures market. according to statements from the nyse, while an appeal against the decision is under consideration, the decisions -- the exchanges are negotiating decisions to terminate the deal. >> the decision came as no great surprise. european antitrust regulators have already voiced concerns about the merger in recent weeks. all the same, the european commission's final ruling still came as a major blow for deutsche borse. >> this is a black day for europe and its future competitiveness on the world's financial markets. rejecting the proposed merger endorsed the creation of a european-based global stock ex

an election in yemen. that turned the page on previous president. and was supported by the. the election was supported by the main faction that had been in jail so there are alternatives there are no immediate goal as they walk on who are very very different from being. robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy we appreciate you weighing in certainly that situation changing by the moment really there well today is the nationwide opening of the new military flick act of valor now this used real life navy seals to give americans a realistic view of what these secretive forces do now once the trailer and was exciting and heroic but it is of course hollywood so does the movie portray reality or just what the u.s. government wants you to see it's a question worth asking and when the mainstream media often ignores to what extent does the pentagon dr hollywood scripts in order to shift public opinion argue correspondent among the lindo shows us this cozy relationship and how it's been winning the hear

the united states has now thrown its support behind yemen's vice president. break in mexico came with the help of prison guards. that's the new word today from investigators there. another indication mexico's powerful drug cartels are becoming increasingly untouchable. those investigators say more than a dozen guards appear to have allowed 30 minutes of the zeta cartel to walk free on sunday as other zetas started a riot. it left 34 rival gang members dead inside that prison. the victims reportedly bludgeoned and knifed to death. officials are offering a nearly $800,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the people involved in that deadly escape. well, here at home, big excitement in the big easy as some million people go out to celebrate fat tuesday. from new orleans to pass christian they are marking mardi gras with parades all day and parties sure to go all night long. crowds of partiers in costume line parade routes to snag some of those infamous beads. live pictures now from the yench quarter as always the drinking in full swing. we're told