we ate the release of a hostage, colombia s president has refused the meeting. we will talk about that and more with the reverend himself later in the show. it is tuesday, october 1, and you are watching rt. happy government shutdown day, everyone. because of congressional inability and unwillingness to find congruent compromise on a spending bill, the government has shut down for the first time in 17 years. across the country, museums have closed, 8000 people have received furlough notices, nasa is essentially shuttered, the list goes on. congress is still no closer to a resolution. in fact we might be moving in the exact opposite direction. the senate voted to reject the houses request to hold formal talks on a stopgap spending bill in a conference committee. the stopgap measure would have been a six weeks spending bill to spun the government and would have kept the debate in congress going, essentially kicking the can down the road. president obama weighed in on th
assure lasting paeps on the peninsula is bring the hostile u.s. policy to an end. he urged the united states to agree to transform the 1953 arm cyst into a peace treaty. the two remain at war. he did not mention the six party talks on north korea s nuclear programs. he says the dialogue is open to improving relations. the north has been demanding the talks. the u.s. government maintains north should take concrete steps toward giving up the nuclear programs as agreed in the sixth party talks. south korea held its first military parade in five years tuesday to mark the anniversary of the founding of the country s armed forces. tens of thousands of onlookers cheered as the tanks paraded through you the streets. a range missile was displayed for the first time. one spectator said the site gives them a sense of security. u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel attended the event along with the south korea president. translator: we have to build strong deterrents against north korea
a special rt investigation. it s thursday, october 3, 5 p.m. in washington dc. you are watching rt. let s get straight to our breaking news this afternoon. just around 3 p.m., shots were fired outside of the capitol building. police that woman in a black sedan got in a confrontation with police officers. after trying to ram her car through the barricade at the white house. when that was unsuccessful, she fled the scene in her car and got into a police chase. this is the video you are seeing of that police chase. what you cannot see inside that car is that there is a child in their, and that the driver is a female. she is now reported dead. just unbelievable footage coming out of this really chaotic scene playing out here in washington. capitol hill was temporarily put on lockdown, but has since returned to business. our correspondent now with the latest. what is the scene like outside of capitol hill right now? the scene was quite chaotic, but we are told that it has been
in today s show. it is tuesday, october 8, 5:00 p.m. in washington, d.c. we begin with the supreme court, which is beginning its new term with a case that could further open the door to unlimited money in american elections. the cases mccutchen versus the federal elections commission, with mccutchen arguing that limits on how much an individual can spend in total donating to political campaigns every two years is a restriction on their first amendment rights to free speech. currently it is regulated how much money can be directly handed over to political candidates. every two years you can only give at most $2600 to anyone political candidate. you can only give that most $32,400 to anyone national party committee. limits also exist on aggregate contributions, limiting an individual from donating more than 48,006 hundred dollars to the totality of candidates here she supports and $74,600 to the totality of party committees here she supports. that means the federal elections co
is :00 p.m. in washington dc and you are watching rt. welcome to week three of the government shutdown. the lights on capitol hill are being illuminated by bickering. at least it feels that way. over the weekend, senator reid met with mitch mcconnell to hammer a dell. both men are publicly expressing optimism about an agreement. or at least trying to raise the debt ceiling anyway. meanwhile today, house and senate leaders were supposed to take yet another trip down possibly you avenue pennsylvania avenue. it was postponed because leaders said they need more time to work on a deal. a longer this debate continues the more ordinary americans are feeling the sting. if you are waiting for justice and immigration or civil case, that weight is going to be a little longer. federal courts have been operating on emergency funds. that money is drying up. prosecutors who already working with a skeleton staff are being forced to go home themselves. immigrants who are waiting for a gre