>> this is al jazeera america, live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. the world's biggest tech oh bosses plead their case on nsa spying in a sitdown with president obama. ukrainian protesters have been trying to move their country away from russian influence and close for european influence. and today their president did exactly the opposite. and the mega million jackp jackpot, where the proceeds are supposed to go, and where they actually end up.

>> president obama spent some time today with leaders from some of the nation's top technology companies. the group discussed several issues during their white house meeting. it include electronic surveillae programs. mike viqueira for us, mike, good to see you again. this they have. yahoo, twitter, apple, they were here as well. many were significan signatoriey wanted to know about the scope of the program, was it proportionate to the risk involved. they want it to be more transparent as well.

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in january. >> mike viqueira for us at the white house. thank you. a little later in the hour we'll find out what that meeting means for privacy issues here in the united states. oncal toll hill the senate is poised to approve a bipartisan budget deal. the plan which passed the house last week has cleared a major hurdle in the upper chamber and eases some of the across the board spending cuts and goes a lo libby casey is on capitol hill for us.

ry reid laid out the timeline and he talked as though it is a done deal. >> i look forward to final passage of this tomorrow and to avert another dangerous and costly government shutdown in january. we have a lot to do before christmas, but we can get it done. we just need a little bit of hag

minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> i and most of my members came to washington to reduce government spending, so i hated to walk away from something that clearly was working, and i i don't think any of you said in

the short term you're rolling back on cuts that you already agreed to. >> what is coming out of ourflya

little more for security costs. >> libby casey, thank you. hospitals have seen four and five hundred dead from fighting in south sudan. that's a dramatic escalation. the state department has ordered all non-essential u.s. officials to leave the country and warned against travel there. civilians have died in the violence. >> reporter: now the government is saying it fought off a coup attempt by the vice president, he is on the run and eight senior figures have been arrested. >> reporter: all of these people want is to feel safe. there are thousands more like them and of all ages.

>> we leave all of our things. we come with nothing here. >> reporter: u.n. officials have been trying to cope with all the people looking for a safe place to hide from the fighting. they say at least three women have given birth in the compound. >> they have sought safe haven and refuge. we've been able to provide that, water, blankets, and it's quite a harrowing situation. >> reporter: a situation that is blamed as an attempted coup against the president. he has switched his suit and hat for military fatigues and perhaps sets the tone for what is to come. >> it was long in coming. i think its more to do with a lot of old and unsettled political and ideological

issues. ethnic issues. have they been that naive could have tried the military coup. >> reporter: dozens of people, mostly soldiers killed in the fighting, and many more have been injured. and their concerns that the violence will spread among the competing tribes and the former deputy. for now the military maintained its presence on the streets, and several senior former government officials have been arrested. one of the big concerns is that the crisis will prompt its president to tighten it's grip on power. al jazeera, nairobi. >> six afghani soldiers died. there was no insurgent activity,

however, it did not stop the taliban from claiming that it shot down the airplanes. demonstrators upset about the deal in kiev, it wants ukraine to form a closer relationship with the european union, but the agreement is a lifeline for the cash-strapped country. >> it was a very public display of affection, an affirmation of the link between russia and the ukraine. but the meeting at the kremlin between president putin and ukraine leader viktor yanukovych was more than just a shared history. promising to reduce the price of its sales of natural gas to ukraine by a huge 30%.

and immediate saving of $10 billion for the hard-pressed ukrainian economy. >> let me remind you that russia remains an economic partner of ukraine. it's budget is 30%. >> reporter: added to that a $15 million bailout loan from moscow. russian will buy ukrainian government bonds to see it's reserve dropped to a seven-year low and has been battling recession for five years. >> we've prepared a plan of action for economic road map that will improve our performance and it will bring tangible results to the economy and to our government. >> reporter: protesters have been demanding closer ties with the eu. now the opposition is blocking the work of the country's

parliament asking for government resignations and early elections. the protesters have been fearful that yanukovych would sign a deal with russia committing ukraine to a russian customs union, and it would finally close the door to the trade with europe. that door remains open. president yanukovych will be delighted with this deal. he got what he wanted without having to sign the russian-led customs deal, that would enrage those in kiev where tens of thousands are still in the streets. >> we have the professor of international affairs at new york's new school. professor, good to see you. let's work through this a little bit. russia has given ukraine a di discount of almost a third of russian gas and would buy

billions worth of ukrainian government bonds. what do you think of the deal? >> reporter: it's a reasonable deal for the ukraine. it's a good bailout by by yanukovych, their president, because need an economic boost, and he got it from the russians, and he did not have to sign the customs agreement. so in some ways he was able to manipulate russia to agree to come down the passions of its own country, and even sort of give the prime minister of the of the european union. >> what did he set out of this. >> he didn't get much. he got stability. he give give up much.

he was really able to manipulate or sort of squeeze between the drops of european union and the russian federation, so he really did a good job. >> do you expect that the ukraine will sign trade deals with the e.u. maybe as early as the spring? >> reporter: it is possible a couple of months from now that yanukovych will turn to europe and say i got my russian bailout and going with you does not have to be anti-russian trade. i could see that. other former soviet republics and other countries have done that. for example, georgia. they did sign the agreement with the e.u. and also are putin and russia. so it is possible. >> we're going to roll some of the picture of the demonstrations. huge and human protests and

demonstrations. what do you think will be the effect of this deal on scenes like this. what do you think? >> well, the demonstration will continue. they're not going to ease up. >> will they grow larger? >> they may people it's more than that. ukraine is an independent country and it doesn't matter what the hell russia does-- >> did you just say what the hell russia does? you did say used to

be. it used to be on the brink of eastern europe and europe. >> let me ask you about the opposition. how much of the politically on board are the opposition leaders and you see he's helping to lead these protests. can they ultimately lead to new elections? >> very possible. my prediction although in politics only stupid people make predictions. but my prediction

will be that yanukovych will wiggle out and he'll have wiggle room until the 15th when the next elections come in, but probably then there will be a new election. and he'll run for president, and whether he does or not we'll have time to figure it out. >> what are the u.s. interests in this story as it is playing out right now? >> reporter: well, it's democracy and freedom. that's the american mantra. there was a protest, they go and say, well, we are. >> john mccain was just there. >> yes, mccain was there, but democracy and freedom, it is good that the united states does that, but russia continues to be the big bad wolf--i should say bear--in president putin is something that america feels it

has to speak against. putin because of the cold war, because of the where russia is going because it's not entirely democratic, it's good to have. >> i can't stop my curiosity. what is the big critique of mccain being there. >> he was there to stick it there to putin and it should be about the ukraine and notdown mccain's political points or cold war history. >> it's good to see you again. thanks for coming in in you kn know, loo a lot, india strikes r the united states after one of its diplomats ended up in new york police custody. so many money stories sound complicated. but don't worry. i'm here to take the fear out of finance. every night on my show i break

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>> one of the biggest drug

makers in the world, glaxo smith cline will stop paying doctors for drug advertisement. >> glaxosmithkline is britain's biggest drugmaker. it is stop paying doctors not in cash but discuss, and it's sales force will no longer have individual sales targets tied to doctors each year. but sales reps will be paid by their service and overall profits. the sales in the u.s. have been

operating on this basis for two years since 2011, but stopping incentives to doctors, that is actually grand new. glaxo's boss is andrew whiting, sir andrew whiting, no less, plans to roll out the plan for the target date august 2016. he made this statement: >> now glaxo was in the news earlier this year because chinese officials accused transferring $500 million to travel agencies and consultants in china to help doctors to be bribed, as they put it. glaxo said that is not relative to that statement.

lately there have been growing calls of reform like the kind that glaxo has been producing. well, they scrapped payments for doctors to attend conferences. and other drug companies around the world have until today not followed suit. now meet the head of the division of bio ethics at nyu here in new york, and he said the gsk move is a big one. >> it's a game changer. it really be a fundamental shift of how drugs are marketed, and i think for the better. glaxo has a big foot precipitate. footprint. i think it's a c change in terms of how we sell drugs to patients. >> reporter: when they learn how to target consumers directly by

television and radio and internet and mobile phones this is why they feel like they can roll back inventizing the doctors. >> gsk is moving ahead, and it's likely that pfizer, merck and johnson & johnson will probably follow suit. not yet, we'll have to wait and see. >> so we told you earlier president obama spent a good portion of the day talking to leaders of the country's top technology firms about a talk as at the top of the hour. ali, good to see you. what is at stake here.

theorists have talked about. and many feel like they should get the nsa should get their nose out of our business but iry

here and we have to look at that carefully. >> so you're also looking at the big players behind the country's real chinese who are restricted of real estate purchase in their own country are coming right here. >> here on the program edward snowden bargains with brazil for possible asylum. the price? information about the united states spy programs. and no matter who wins the mega millions jackpot,

government will make a profit. where does that money go? that's next. night with the combatants in their training base.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. the united states is getting some of its personnel out of south sudan. the united states ordered all non-essential officials to leave the region. and hundreds of people have been killed in battles and hundreds more wounded. the fighting comes after the attempted coup earlier the week. nato said six service members died in afghanistan. there is no word what caused the helicopter to crash but the taliban is claiming it shot down the helicopter. major issue that came up during a meeting is the electr electronic surveillance programs. some of those who attended the r

forbes magazine. it's greet to see you and thank you for taking the time. put us in the room. what would those tech execs been saying to the president? >> the tech companies have been very public about the fact that for one they are not happy about revelations that the nsa has been tapping into unencrypted data that flows through the d we

u.s. government said oh, we're only snooping on foreigners. >> that's where i want to pick up. i'm dubious on this, but you write about this. at&t, verizon, the nsa, are we clear if there was any working relationship that you better share data snowden leaks we did discover there was e-mail metadata program that was stopped in 2011, and we do knowk

about publicly. >> will we get--do you think we'll get guidelines that clearly codify, establish clear and concise rules to protect thm san francisco, good to talk to you. thank you for the time. >> reporter: you're welcome. >> edward snowden said he was willing to assist brazil in sp

spying for asylum. >> reporter: the national security agency whistle blower edward snowden published an open letter in a brazilian newspaper where he alluded he would help brazilian investigators to investigate how the u.s. government was spying on brazilians. >> saying quote: >> his appeal was met with mixed reaction in brazil's largest city sa southern california pao. >> if could damage relationships with the united states but it

was their mistake. >> no, brazil should not give asylum to snowden. he is not a person he can trust. request his own country cannot trust him why should our country trust him. >> reporter: causing political friction with the united states. documents leakedly snowden said that the president spied on their president himself. she canceled a trip to washington and strongly condem condemned the united states espionage at an united nations assembly meeting. >> reporter: the only person that can grant asylum is the president. al jazeera, brazil. >> a gunman is dead and as many as four people wounded after a shooting in a medical center in reno, nevada. reno police reported that the shooter killed himself.

the shooting took place at the renown medical center in downtown reno. a local television station reports one shooting victim is now in surgery. we'll continue to follow developments on this story. the u.s. state department said it is looking into the arrest and treatment of an indian diplomat in new york city. earlier today the indian government removed safety barriers outside of the u.s. e embassy in india and is asking for officials to turn in their identify cardsidentity cards. >> reporter: indian officials say they're shocked and appalled by the arrest. they call it barbaric. the chief minister of one of the largest states in the country tweeted out earlier this message saying refuse to meet the visiting usa delegation.

also jona blank said imagine the reaction if a diplomat was treated this way. the 39-year-old diplomat was handcuffed while dropping her daughter off to school last week and her lawyer said she was stristrip-searched and held in a cell overnight with drug addicts. she's not only accused of falsifying documents for visa for her housekeeper but she was paying her below minimum wage, only $3.31 than hour which has propertied some people to write this:

>> reporter: tony, the state department said it's an isolated incident, and it still has strong ties with india, and she is now out on bail, but some see all this as escalating. take a look at this tweet, it was written out just a few hours ago: >> maria, appreciate it. >> reporter: thank you. >> the mega millions fever has taken hold, up for grabs in tonight's drawing. lots of people dream about how they would spend that money, but just as much money is being made by the states who participate. georgia has had a law on the books to use as much as 35% ofgd the second largest jackpot in u.s. history, robert, how are sales going in that

can't all go to the winner. we wanted to follow the money trail. >> tis the season for hope, mythical figures and green backs, half a billion of them. >> the odds are 285 million to one. >> and not all the money goes to the winners. what happens after it's paid out. >> i assume it goes to funding of children's medicaid and stuff like that. >> reporter: not exactly. here is a break down of the 43

states selling tickets. 15% go to the winners, 60% to the retailers and 25% are earmarked lottery to education. >> there is criticism of the lottery, it's a voluntary type of source of revenue but the argument is that it's regressive from the constan standpoint. more lower-income people play the lottery. >> here in georgia the lottery has protected much of its revenue from the states fund, keeping it for college. for opportunities in georgia with a b-average there is the hope scholarship but there have

been shortfalls. the georgia lottery funded the program in 2012. that's a 27% drop in revenue suggested for the program. >> it has to do with the cost of tuition. as a result of people losing jobs and lower incomes. >> so in response to the need of new funding for the scholarship, they passed a bill this year which they expect to give schol.

robert ray, hang on to that winning ticket, in atlanta, georgia. the u.n. refugee agency said 210,000 people have been displaced in the capitol of central africa republic. france has sent soldiers, but

for many in the country they say help has not arrived fast enough. >> reporter: mapping out security in a city that is paralyzed by fear. the french army patrols give some reassurance. but for now the only way of reducing the violence is by trying to keep christians and muslims apart. this is the mus muslim settlemet beside a school. even with a big security presence no one will consider going home again, and nobody feels straight. here is the center abandoned, it's a no man's land for sectarian divide that never existed in this country before the political turmoil of the past year. the christians in a majority live in a sprawl besides the catholic church, 36,000 in all. and like the muslims on the other side of the city, no one knows what will happen next. there is some consent that disarming the attackers on both sides is the answer.

after an unknown number of killings, some want to keep up what they see as a defense. that's what the bishop is up against in his attempts to start reconciliation. >> what is most difficult will be disarming. because there is a lot of mistrust. >> reporter: and it isn't only the violence that threatens the people. the central africa republic long history of coups and counter coups has always ha, and there s another killer. and it preys on under fiv five-year-old ols. this baby has just tested positive for malaria. without mosquito nets malaria rates are at record gleaves we

have rates of 90%, which to me is unheard of in any other country. for 90% of the children appear to be sick with malaria on top of other diseases they might have at the same time. >> reporter: so many threats to life, and this is a city when no one can call anything their own any more. andrew simmons, al jazeera. >> the people who are supposed to protect kids in arizona have been ignoring thousands of reports of child abuse. now they're trying to catch up. that's next. and the holocaust museum receives a long lost diary, adolf hitler's nazi plan. for instance, can fracking change what you pay for water each month? have you thought about how climate change can affect your grocery bill? can rare minerals in china affect your cell phone bill? or how a hospital in texas could drive up your

healthcare premium? i'll make the connections from the news to your money real.

consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete?

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. investigators in arizona have a huge task in front of them. they're trying to figure out what happened to thousands of child abuse reports that were ignored by the state's child welfare agency. the numbers are just stunning. more than 6500 reports of abuse or neglect over the last four years. all of them marked "ni" not investigated. now they're determined to check on every child involved those reports and find out why they were ignored. theye's mind,

tony, how could something like this happen? >> we see over 100 children every single week for therapy sessions. among some of those kids are children with broken legs. we have a child who will be in the wheelchair for the rest of her life. >> reporter: when it comes to children in harm's, christie murphy has seen more than her fair share. but she was stunned that arizona's department of protective services decided not to report on 4,000 cases. >> i'm appall, and to be honest, many cases are never reported. it's completely unacceptable. >> when you have people who override policy or law you end up with a situation like this. >> reporter: the situation lawmakers were discussing at a

special oversight on monday were how thousands of those cases ended up on a shelf. here is show the system is supposed to work. >> the call comes in, and it's assessed for safety. after the safety assessment that report is sent to a field office where a supervisor would put eyes on that report, and make a determination on who that report will be assigned to. >> reporter: unless that report was one of the more 6,000 that went nowhere those reports were stamped "ni" for not investigated, and no one will know what happened in thousands of cases. >> the consequences are devastating. what we need to do now is find these 6,000 or more children that have been left possibly left in a chronically abusive situation. what we need to do now is to find out who they are and assess their symptoms and level of trauma, and we need to get in and intervene as soon as possible. >> reporter: as of yet state

officials say they checked in on 600 children and so far only one child needed to be moved. the plan is to check cases down. >> paul beman in arizona. alfred rosenberg's journey has been found 70 years after it disappeared. it's finally available for the public to see. lisa stark reports. >> reporter: this is the writing of a nazi ideologue. the diary of alfred rosenberg.

it was previously turned over to the holocaust museum by customs, who helped to track it down. he laid out the party's philosophy u the aryan nation at the top and jews at the bottom. >> he thought he had figured it out immediately at the end of the world world one and he stuck to this believe right to the end. >> reporter: the belief was that jews were germany most deadly enemy. after a conference of "the jewish question," he wrote wrote:historian matthias said the looting of art work and valuables worried about his

competitors in the nazi inner circle. >> he felt, indeed, that he wasn't really all that able to compete with them, and so there is a sense of frustration that you can see in the pages of the diary. >> reporter: but hitler does anoint rosenberg to oversee the occupied territories in russia. rosenberg writes that hitler told him, rosenberg, now your greatest hour has come. his own words were used as evidence against rosenberg i inn the neuremberg trial. >> finding the diary after it vanished is worthy of a spy novel. >> reporter: it was taken by an attorney who smuggled it to the

u.s. after he died his estate turned over many documents but not the diary. homeland security investigators and the u.s. attorney's office swooped in. >> it's part of history. to be able to return an actual document that was part of the history of this world is pretty amazing. >> reporter: the diary is now ready for historians to decipher, and the public, the museum has put all 425 pages online. lisa stark, al jazeera washington. >> kevin is back with the forecast in just a moment. also winds so strong they were making it difficult to walk down the street. that's next. then it's real money with ali velshi. >> reporter: coming up on real money, tech giants like facebook and google are upset with the nsa's spying program but these

company have your information. >> reporter: we'll track chinese investors that might surprise you. we'll have all that on real money.

>> well, new findings reveal that the beloved house cat has been part of our lives a lot longer than we previously thought. our relationship with felines- felines--hey cutie--goes back 5,000 years. bones found by archaeologists in china belonged to semi wildcats, researchers believe, lived along people in china. and winter weather we're talking about heavy winds here whipping across anothe norway. this is a shopping district and the winds were so strong the local police were called in to help people cross the street. not sure what they did to help, but that's the line in the story. everybody made it to where they were going, however, euro news

reports at least one person fell down and needed an ambulance. >> meteorologist: tony, those winds were 80 mph winds, believe it nor or not, and we're not even done with that storm yet. here is a picture, here is norway, and here is the storm making it's way there. once the storm comes towards the east it's going to get worse. ireland right now is experiencing even stronger winds, and of course the north sea will be seeing really bad conditions as well. we'll take you quickly down to the middle east. we're still looking at floodwaters, of course, it has not rained in a couple of days, but the floodwaters are still standing. the infrastructure at the gaza strip is so bad that this water has no place to go. these people right here lost their home, and this is the best they can do. it's not even an tent.

it's just tarp that they've played over their goods. people used wake boards to get around the area. here in the states here is the know we'rsnow is bringing big do the airports right now. what we expect to see tomorrow are better conditions. the temperatures look like this, new york, 26. boston, 24. the snow that has fallen is not going to be melting tomorrow. we've seen the lake-effect snow kickback over lake ontario and lake erie. that is going to be a problem for them. watch what happens for new york city over the next couple of days. look at those temperatures, 41, 56, 59 degrees but it's going to rain.

>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. the police in reno, nevada, say two people are dead after a shooting in a medical center today. one of them was the gunman. the police say the shooter wounded two other people. this happened at renown medical center in downtown reno. a local television station is reporting that one of the shooting victims is now in surgery. the state department ordered all non-essential state officials to leave south sudan citing concerns over intense fighting in the region. 400 to 500 people are dead, and this is the result of an attempted coup yo you earlier ie