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one mile. meantime just getting battered 24 hours a day by the current. so, this -- they both have their own difficulties. this will be easier but not easy. so the to biography at the bottom of the sea is easier. how do you go about finding it? do you have to use a submersible? >> sure. well, yeah. i believe so. the water depth at the top of that mountain range is about a mile and a half and then it rapidly gets down to two, three, four miles. and there is a couple of ways of doing that. you can tow a system behind

the boat, which is the traditional way. for air photographs 447 we used three autonomous underwater vehicles. robots. similar to drones. but these are underwater drones. and they did a miraculous job be in being able to navigate underwater terrain. it is initially done with sonar. then you follow it up with high resolution cameras to do a detailed study of the site. >> incredibly complicated. appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you. thank you. >> president obama announced another round of sanctions against russia thursday targeting a russian bank and 20 of the richest men in the country, some close to vladimir putin. president obama threatened to do more if russia does not act to deescalate the situation in ukraine. nined a new executive order that gives us the authority to impose sanctions not just on individuals but on key secretariors of the russian economy. this is not on our preferred

outcome. the sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy but could be disruptive to the global economy. >> in a game of tit for tat, russia shot back with its own sanctions and threatened more. one of the nine u.s. officials sanctions senator john mccain joked that his planned trip to siberia for spring break was now off. joining us now from washington, d.c. is ambassador taylor. he served as u.s. ambassador from ukraine and is currently the vice president for the middle east and africa for the united states institute for peace. it is good to have you back on consider this. at this point, the russian parliament passing a first vote on thursday to admit crimea into the russian federation does that mean that crimea is lost as part of ukraine? >> i would say no. we don't recognize the illegitimate referendum. we don't recognize the acts of the russian parliament.

i hope the rest of the world doesn't recognize it. these clearly sham actions that have no legal effect, so i don't think it is lost. it is de facto, of course and the russians have offrun crimea and their soldiers have surrounded and have taken possession of a lot of the bases. most of the bases on crimea. so in fact they are controlling crimea but i think -- i would note say that crimea is lost. >> pro russian forces seized three ukranian warships on thursday. on these new sanctions. this round does seem to pack more of a punch because they are going after some big allies of vladimir putin. these are kremlin players. who may well be stung because they are being cut off from the rest of the world, certainly the international economy. do you think it will have more of an effect? >> i certainly think it will

have more of an effect. they have moved some of their liquid assets back home. but it is hard for them to move their properties. their mentions in london or their town houses in new york or miami. is the bigger punch the sanctions on the russian bank. that will have real effect on russians and their economy. >> the bank roza handles accounts of top officials is owned in part by putin's personal banker. if it frozen out of the dollar and some terminated it will have real issues operating. it will have real issues operating. it can't operate in dollars, if reserve currency of the world, it will have a great difficulty getting

loans, financing trade making investments. have seen the credit ratings affected. the ruling is falling. the stock market -- yeah, this is beginning to have an effect on russians where they really feel it. >> and the president is threatening some bigger sanctions. so far he is not sanctioning the head of the natural -- of russia's gas company. he is not sanctioning putin himself. but if little united states does go broader as the president suggested it could with sanctions on other sectors. he raised the issue that this cot not just hurt russia's economy it could hurt the world economy. true. >> sanctions are not good for economic transactions. economic transations benefit both sides. if you cut off economic transactions like sanctions do, you will affect both sides. it turns out, of course, that these sanctions affect the

russian side much more than they do the united states side or even the western side. so, it is certainly true that there is a cost to sanctions. that is why no one likes to do them. what is why it is a real mistake for the russians to continue these actions against ukraine. >> talking about that cost. european union put 12 more russians on their sanction list on thursday. russia's counter sanctions so far have been mild. but they are threatening what they have called asim metrical sanctions, making noises about the nuclear negotiations with iran. if this escalates, it could really be a geo political issue, not just an economic problem for the west. >> it could. but the russians are not doing favors for us by negotiating to get the iranian nuclear weapon put away. they are doing this because it matters to them.

they don't want irianians with a nuclear threat. they are closer to russia than they are to us. so they are not doing us any favors. we are not doing them any favors. we are operating in our best interest. they are operating in their best interest and the interest of both sides, both the americans and the russians is to get rid of nuclear weapons in iran. or remove the capacity to make a nuclear weapon by iranians. so the russians would be cutting off their noses to spite their face if they were to pursue that action. into the sanctions that russia has imposed on the u.s. are creating a social media firestorm. >> antonio, you mentioned that john mccain responded to being sanctioned by russia. he is not the only one. house speaker boehner tweeted proud to be included on a list willing to stand up against putin's aggression. >> if standing up for

democracy and sovereignty in ukraine means i'm sanctioned by putin, i'll take it. and senator called it being a badge of honor. had is just one big joke on twitter. obviously these sanctions don't mean anything. but are there any sanctions that are you russia can put on u.s. officials that would actually hurt? >> you know, it is hard to think of things that the russians have that we want. there are not many people who want to visit moscow. some businesses do work there. it is hard to think of any about. it is also true, however, that big u.s. companies have investments in russia, and those could well be affected. but in terms of the sanctions that are put on officials and congress people and senators and officials at the nfc, i can't see those being very painful at all.

you know, a final question for you. i want to bring up eastern ukraine, which has been a big worry as we saw russia go into crimea. eastern ukraine. of course, bordering with russia. secretary of defense hagel said he was assured by russia's defense minister they had no plans to go into eastern ukraine. but defense officials say rush's forces on the border could easily mount an invasion of the ukranian main line without any warning. how concerned are you about that? >> very concerned. we should be ready for the worst. i hear what the russian defense minister says to secretary hagel. but, we should be prepared. the ukranians are clearly concerned as they should be. i believe there are some things we could do to help the ukranians get ready for that kind of scenario. there are military things that don't involve u.s. forces moving to or into ukraine. that would still help the

ukranians make their preparations. >> well, let's hope it doesn't come to that. ambassador taylor, always great to have you on the show. coming up, more reported deaths in venezuela as continuing to round-up opposition political figures. twitter turns eight years old today and the company is thinking about making some dramatic changes to attract more users. i'll tell you more coming up. and while you are watching, let us know what you think. tweet us at a.j. consider this or give our face book page a like and post your comments there. >> >> there's no such thing as illegal immigration. >> al jazeera america presents... a breakthrough television event borderland a first hand view at the crisis on the border. >> how can i not be affected by it? >> strangers, with different points of view

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after threatening to imprison on opposition leader wednesday. the regime turned on two opposition mayors thursday. intelligence agents arrested the mayor on charges including inciting violence and civil rebellion. the supreme court has ordered the jailing of san diego mayor for more than 10 months for failing to comply with a court order to have street barricades torn down. meanwhile, student protesters clashed with police in the capital caracas.

31 people have died since protests began last month. for more, let's go to caracas and lucia newman. good of you to join us. the maduro government -- followed a move to try another opposition for inciting civil war. are more arrests coming and what has been the response on the street to this crackdown? >> hello, antonio. actually machado is being investigated and the national assembly wants to charge her with treason. not quite civil war but gets pretty close. the students came out on the streets in fact today. they were saying that government thugs had invaded their campus, had beaten up at least 20 students and that they are promising to continue to go out and demonstrate is huge national demonstration has been called by the opposition in response to this

latest i would say if not crackdown certainly the government is becoming far more hard nosed about this making sure it will not tolerate terrorism from so-called facist opposition members. we saw two more deaths and protests on wednesday. as you said, there is a big student protest in caracas on thursday. they are focusing against the often violent motorcycle gangs. where is the violence mostly coming from? is it the government and these thugs? >> it is hard to say. the people who are carrying out the vialenence most cases are covering their faces. you can't see who they are. but you can get an idea who they are according to who they are attacking. there has been violence on boats sides. people have died and more than 30 of them on both the government side and the opposition side. national guardsmen have been killed. ordinary citizens have been shot trying to remove barricades and of course also protesters who want the government out.

so, there has been violence on all sides. the thing is according to the human rights organizations is that the national guard, the security forces are using excessive force much more. since they are the government, they have to set the example. >> and this big protest on saturday. what kind of turn out is expected? and where does the protest movement go? >> that is the 5 0 million question. there is expected to be a large turnout especially now that these mayors have been arrested. that will add more fuel to the already burning fire here. >> lucia newman, appreciate you joining us. for more on the situation in venezuela i'm joined by miami -- from miami by rafael who wrote an article. you wrote your warm barricades, smoldering clout side your family's apartment and smoke filling the streets. how are people who are not on either side of the barricades

dealing with all the violence? >> well, it depends on where the people lives because barricades are mainly in neighborhoods, middle class neighborhoods in the main cities. if you live in a small town the beach or the plains or the mountains, you don't have to deal with barricades except in the states of maria in the andes where the situation is very hard. and it is very violent. >> now the maduro government has been drabbing cracking down on opposition leaders. and now the mayors who are being prosecuted for not tearing down protest barriers in their streets. they have set the stage to go after other opposition leaders. what do you see happening if maduro keeps cracking down on political dissent? >> well, sadly

there is no political institution that can stop maduro's desires to crush the opposition. they control the supreme court, prosecutor's office, ombudsmen and the congress. they have the entire support rough the military by far. and if the regime, if the maduro regime wants to crush the entire opposition, it won't find any limit from any institution. that is one of the main problems in venezuela. the institutions are completely disservice of the government. there are no check and balances, there are no republican equilibrium librium of powers. and there are no institutions that could sustain, moderate

in a pacific way to protect against government. the opposition has a little spay to make things differently than the way they are doing things right now. and the media controlled. you write about two main strands within the opposition. can either strand lead the movement? can there be some sort of unity? that to move forward? >> i'm afraid more of the -- before the build barricades and set them on fire and fight against policemen are acting by their own. >> the political parties -- >> the more -- the political -- , yeah. >> and -- >> and it's the perfect storm. it is the perfect storm to

escalation of more violence in the weeks and months to come. and you also write that the revolt in venezuela isn't some latin american version of the arab spring. the protesters want maduro out of power although they are not making that an essential demand. but you can't see in any way that these protesters could get to the point where it would force the dictators and countries like egypt and tunisia to step down? >> i don't see in the incomes future i don't see any close scenario when the maduro government could fold. that doesn't mean maduro himself is powerful. he is part of the more collective regime. and the only thing maduro has was the fleeing of hugo chavez before his

death. but, he is the problem is it is a system. they are fighting against an entire system of power in this moment more and more military than civilians and has a lot of power. more power than money, more power than popularity. what do you any the military will do. will the military keep supporting maduro? >> i don't see any sign that there is a relevant division in the military about support or not support maduro because the military has the control of many of the political and even economical activities in venezuela. venezuela is under a military government. >> as it is even though it is superficially a democracy. now it is likely that none of this would be happening

without the mess the maduro government and hugo chavez did. but you think that no matter how angry people are about the crime, about the inflation, about the shortages, that maduro will be able to hang on. >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't have an answer for that question. there are a lot of reasons to protest. you don't have to -- against your own neighbors to make a point. >> but the government is profiting about the violent protests and the blockades of the streets is profiting this situation to prosecute against

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joining us now is a pulitzer prize winning journalist. her new book is dragnet nation, a quest for privacy, security and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance. it is great to have you here. the surveillance as you put it is relentless. it is out there in every imaginable way. how worried should we be? >> that is a great question. the surveillance is invisible and the consequences of it are somewhat invisible. so people legitimately wonder why they should be concerned. but i think there is two really big reasons to be concerned. one is when the government has so much information they can make arbitrary and unjust decisions about people, putting them in jail or on the no-fly list. we have seen cases like that. and i think i'm worried about a country where we feel scared to talk about things that might be subversive and fear of what the government might do to. and secondly, the commercial side, there is so much data about us and all these companies that we transact with, they have a lot rough

leverage over us. if they want to show us a higher price good because we can afford $5 more than the next guy. that technology is available. >> that spliced me that that is something they possibly do. >> talking about the government side of things. do we really have to worry about the u.s. government? because i know you went in to germany and you talked to people who had the archives of the old german secret police. you thought it would have been fabulous they would have loved to have the kind of now. >> right. we are not living in communist eastern germany, thank god. but it is worth reminding ourselves that the repressive secret police in that regime only had data about one quarter of the scenes. our government has it on 100% of us. really the question is what is the right oversight we can put in place to make sure they don't use it in some terrible way. >> that is the question. what do we do to protect ourselves. you went through to find out

how much data was collected on you. >> here is a list. they had everywhere you had ever lived. every phone number. a list of 3,000 e-mail exchanges. they had 26,000 web searches. your shopping habits. internal "wall street journal" communications of yours. ha is one that jumped out at me. who can access this stuff? >> each one of those things a different party had. although, some more than half of them are google. google has a lot of information because between my searches, e-mail and my maps and my android phone they had a big chunk about me. >> really credible information. precisely when you were searching for different things and you could see that you might have been working on one thing and then you got distracted and went to something else. it is incredible they have all that on you. >> yow know what is annoying? i wanted that information about myself. i thought maybe if i saw how my mind leaped all over the place like a crazy person i might learn something. this is the quantified -- i

could wear a tracker and make my mind behave better. but i couldn't get my data from google. but you could get the data from other places. how many people can access that? >> right, so it depends. for instance, the data that was troubling about the "wall street journal" communications was with the government. so when i asked for my customs and border patrol files strangely i found that the "wall street journal" through some technological glitch had been sending internal things that i had to get my boss to approve travel for to the government and it was in my files. and that actually could be sent to the counter terrorism center for analysis. in all sorts of places it might be sent to look for clues. >> it is amazing. you talk about how the facial recognition can lead stores to know all sorts of things about door. >> right. so the stores are starting to get excited the facial

recognition technology. some stores experimented with these cameras at the door. but basically right now are just alerting them to known shoplifters. but they dream of the day that they can identify their best shoppers and some of send the best sales person to them. i think i'll get the worst. you spent a lot of money trying to do all sorts of things to protect your privacy. you brought one of the examples with you. >> yes. i was frustrated with my inability to stop cell phone tracking. your phone is always sending out signals. so i ended up putting it in this bag. this is a metal lined bag that blocks all electromagnetic signals. therefore it can't communicate with radio towers for a cell phone or wi-fi. so they can't track you anymore but then you can't receive phone calls. so it is an inconvenient way to protect your privacy because i can't make calls. >> and you found a lot of things that help protect

privacy are iffy, that they don't often do the job and there is no real way of having quality control of knowing if they are doing the job? >> right. even with this bag, the only way it will detect it is if somebody calls me and it doesn't ring. if you called me that wouldn't ring. that is good. but it doesn't tell me that some silent pinging couldn't be going on. that is true of a lot of privacy products. i started to worry that i'm pleased that there are new services offering privacy. but i'm worried that we can't verify how successful they are. >> right. that is a tough one. how would you tell someone who is not really into privacy that does want to protect themselves. there are any simple ways of doing it? >> yeah, a couple of simple things that do work. i switched off of google search because i didn't want want one that stores my history. i went to duck, duck, go. he don't keep all my searches. i switched to using some

technology in my web browser that blocks a lot of the invisible ad tracking technologies which is easy to install. and changed all my passwords. the most common password is one 23456. >> or password. >> and it is time for all of us to up our game. >> what do you say to people who defend government surveillance and say what's the big deal, they are trying to protect us. >> if i didn't do anything wrong, what do i have to worry about? >> i mean, i agree that we should have that debate. but right now we don't have evidence that this surveillance is protecting us. what we have evidence of is every time there has been a terrific attempt the boston bombing, the shoe bomber, there has been data in the databases about them. it wasn't flagged completely or didn't rise to the level. what we see is this mass surveillance. there is information about everyone there. but is it preventing things? we haven't seen good evidence. so much information out there. it is really fascinating.

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>> these protestors have decided that today they will be arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down a state... >> what's clear is that people don't just need protection, they need assistance. >> today's data dive looks at the changing face of the grand old party. thursday marked the republican party's 160th birthday and the g.o.p. was very different when it was formed in 1854. a group of former whig party members met in wisconsin to oppose the spread of slavery into western states. they quickly gained support in

the whole northern half of the country. in 1860 a divided democratic party led to the election of a charismatic republican leader, abraham lincoln. he was elected despite threats of secession from several southern states. south carolina seceded first six weeks after lincoln's election. the rest of the confederate states followed and the civil war began in april of 1861. the end of the war consolidated the republican party as the party of the victorious north. in today's terms, republicans then might have qualified as liberals. there was a huge expansion of powers starting the transcontinental railroad and state university system. they granted protections for now freed african americans against democratic objects. but things began to change as the country expanded. republicans became more pro business and democrats found willing supporters in western farmers who felt republicans favored eastern banks, railroads and manufacturers. democrats promised the less

fortunate farmers more federal aattention. the great depression came under a republican presidency and franklin roosevelt's new deal with social welfare programs, increased infrastructure spending and regulation of final institutions helped democrats hold on to the white house for 20 years. many southern democrats were slow to turn republican. conservative senator strom thurmond filibustered as a democrat. thurmond spoke for many who recented the expansion of federal power. he later changed parties. today, the g.o.p. is stronger in the south than in the north. and the modern g.o.p. is still changing. this week, chairman will shorten the primary season, schedule the party's convention much earlier in june and slash the number of presidential debates from 27 two years ago to fewer than 10 in 2016. and with libertarians, tea partyers and more moderate establishment republicans debating the soul of the g.o.p., the party of lincoln

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>> >> is hollywood going trashy, an article entitled "the white trashing of america argued that it is." critics loved some, but others felt the show featured stereotypical characters.

it pointed to "justified", "breaking bad", "the walking dead", and "the so-called trashing of television had overtones." we are joined by bill wyman. good to have you on the show. this is not every show in the golden age of television, but there seems to be a greater number of shows today that fit the thesis of the article. do you buy that? >> i really honestly don't. there are so many tv shows out there today that you can make a case, any case you want. if you want to talk about the "sop rarnos" at the same time you had "sex in the si", going on. "law and order", and "n.c.i.s." dominated and the sitcoms "two and a half men", and "the big

bang theory." what you have, which i think is interesting, is you could make a case that the high-end outlets, hbo, there was "carnivale", there's one show about a swampy, sexy, decadent reliageioso disturbing crime investigation. other than that it's not that interesting. >> let me point out some of the other things that the article talks about. it's colourful in descriptions. it talks about "true detectives", describing the cast of sweaty, unshaven, heavily scented strip-clubbing neo-neanderthals, but argues that we see it in "true bloods", "vam pirs", "the walking dead", and in "mad men" don. >> the "mad men" is specious,

it's 100th of 1%, and it is set in glamorous manhattan. some of these shows are high end. "true blood" is an interesting show about otherness - first there's people, and then the vampires. then it turns out there's werewolves and fairies, and folds in the others, and then you look around saying everyone is weird and different. it's a positive message and not quite so negative as it might seem. >> assuming the thesis of the article is right and we are seeing more of this. some are concerned that because american tv has gone global, some are worried about the message of the characters. >> a lot of people overseas don't like that. i was looking into this, and it's a world, odd thing. it's hard to make a sweeping

generalisation because of the cultural thing, censorship, illegal file sharing, shown to people outside normal channels. take a show like "house", based on sherlock holmes, and for some reason it's a huge hit in france. so that obviously would present a positive image of america. they love the glamorous things, like dallas and things like that. they are always big overseas, and i assume that continues. and "game of thrones", how does that fit in. >> that's a different thing. again, it's fiction. it's fantasy, so it's somewhat different. taking your side on this. >> okay. >> most popular shows, are they always broad - you can run done ethnic groups that take issue with their portrayals on tv. is this exaggeration something

that hollywood thrives on. >> something like "the walking dead", 10 to 15 million people watch it "true blood" and "true detective", is smaller. you have shows like "jersey shore", and others. soon you'll have an accurate representation of everything we as americans are interested in, and i think we'll find slivers can be sold. you brought up jersey shore. we were showing some of "duck dynasty", the article does not address reality tv, and you have odd cases that fit with "duck dynasty", and "honey boo boo", and there's also "big brother",

"survivor", and "the bachelor." >> reality tv, when it started created difficult positions for minorities and outsiders. they were treated roughly. things have normalized over time. in reality these are scripted and are semiscripted, let's say. and the producers know what they are going for with the audience. let's take another step back. pop culture makes people happy. if people are happy watching those shows, it's a great thing about the world we live in. >> and a last question - the weekly standard piece makes a provocative argument that there may be political undertones, that liberal hood is portraying people from the red states in a negative way and the last line says, "rich hollywood folk making mince meat out of the

poorer folk is another area that should not go unremarked." >> "beverley hill billies", it's happened for 50 years in the american culture. i agree with him. the high end hbo types may play a little cultural prejudice among the audience. >> an interesting article and presentation. great to see you. >> the show may be over. for more go to aljazeera.com, google+, twitter or facebook.

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