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down the lane art for coming up next. this is a fan. well yes the state of the nineteen pm in washington dc and now and then you are watching our teeth so what if they sob stories. the lighthouse appointed review group on intelligence and communications technology is released or four d telling forty six recommendations for the national security agency to become a more effective and transparent. we cheered our team had been calling for the three hundred page report to bring you the most important information. and that's what this any other developments of this nsa surveillance aka here's our team as anzacs the week started with edwards noted reaching out to brazil indiana state in the pr push with the help of sixty minutes. one of the week is ending very very differently on monday the federal courthouse behind me deliver the first legal blow. this is

signature ball phone records collection program a program that the world just learned about back in june. this result edwards said his disclosures in the case judge richard leon said. i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary envisioned in the systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen. for purposes of queries at and analyze here without prior judicial approval. surely such a program infringes on that degree of privacy the founders enshrined in the fourth amendment the program will be shut down in six months pending a government appeal. after the ruling journalist glenn greenwald was quick to explain the significance of what just happened. it's an extraordinarily arianna it's an absolute vindication for two specific time at the swan is it's a vindication of the constitutional rights of american citizens. it's also i think a very important to the gym for our fellow citizens. edwards noted that

on wednesday in indicator of your panel set up by the white house report back on possible and as the abuses delivered forty six recommendations to reform the spy agency. in the crosshairs. section two fifteen in the picture to which underpins the end of phase ball phone records collection program the report says. we recommend that section to fifteen should be amended the government can only collect private data from companies there the particular information sought is relevant to an authorized investigation intended to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities. unlike a subpoena of the order is reasonable in focus scope and breadth recommendation five goes on to say. legislation should be enacted that terminates the storage of all telephony and other data by the government under section two fifteen. recommendation for ids. the government should not be permitted to collect and store all mass and digested non personal

information about individuals to enable future queries and data mining for foreign intelligence purposes in other words no more ball collection of them to say and no more back door searches. the events of the week as the biggest defenders of innocence walking back their diehard supports the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee senator dianne feinstein. this program in conjunction with other programs helps keep this nation safe i'm not saying it's indispensable. and it's also in bold and senators have been pushing legislation is significantly or strain the nsa center in poll after monday's court decision. yes the phone surveillance program is. an invasion of our privacy. this ruling alliance the federal government that it is not above the law. and senator ron wyden after the white house report was released on wednesday. when combined with the u s district court ruling on the likely unconstitutional the of all phone collection earlier this

week. this report will help to galvanize support for surveillance reforms both with the and within congress so where do things go from here. one the court as a result of this week's ruling there will likely be the supreme court that has the final say on the constitutionality of the nsa spying programs that could take a couple years. as for the white house a for congress. things might happen much much quicker. all lawmakers have to do is take serious the recommendations from the white house or the war. and then enact new legislation occurred in this phase power. if his budgetary matters of good results recently. lawmakers could get to work on this as soon as the beginning of next year so the week is ending with one of them as his most prized spy programs on the verge of dismemberment and with edward snowed in during vindication in the united states. he's never going to return home. and what happens in our courts and in congress over the next few months are critically

important. in washington d c said socks are too. why the midst of this report colleen to question the nsa surveillance tactics. the spy agency is also conducting a glimpse of that sum. the nsa has launched a twitter pr page so far it has sent out a total of three tweets its first we encourage viewers to tune into any of the controversial in sixty minutes report that media critics claim i'm allocated to a pr job for the anc the other two tweets link to podcasts on the pair were a reporter interviewed the nsa director of compliance jungle on an nsa general counsel rajesh be. talk about the recent report on the nsa i was doing earlier by cas on scene a professor of that about why harvard. i need more attention to the substance of the report and. to be there. it seems to

be people's reactions are generally very positive which is gratifying. so what's the most shocking practice that you discover that the nsa was too late. we didn't discover any shocking practice so. our goal is to think about principles that are going to be helpful for the future and one thing we do is honor and respect the hard work of the intelligence community which is helping to keep our nation safe and help in helping to keep our allies say and support to keep in mind that some of the work is helping to prevent human rights abuses and atrocities pronto. we want to create sturdy foundations that are respectful of privacy and liberty and not accuse anybody of anything processing our group went to put this report together what kind of access for hugh grant and international security agencies practice that it's complete. so there were two things were focused

on one was to try to get to the involvement of gannett very ample and in some ways unprecedented way. so we ask for comments from the world really. we got hundreds of comments from people who were concerned about privacy and liberty. you are focused on national security who have their own views about the right balance. a lot of great ideas from people only paid attention to those comments. we also love meeting people including the american civil liberties union. technology companies centers that are concerned with justice human rights organizations met with people outside the united states certainly in terms of the intelligence community we were given. as much access as we wanted so i was just the same serving practices. we feel that going forward it's important to do two things. first every

retain it. um mechanisms that allow the nsa and its colonies in the intelligence community to her aunt's of the intrusions on our national security. so many people said after the nine eleven attacks that there was an intelligence failure. we didn't study that in detail we certainly don't want to have intelligence failures the results in the deaths of innocent people. so that's why i'm the kind of foundation or recommendations the other thing we think is that security means not just on national security but also security in your homes and persons and papers. to paraphrase the fourth amending the constitution. so we do have a series of reforms that would give both americans and non americans of more clarity about the constraints. on surveillance. thirty seven to forty six deal with people

within the nsa to have access to classified information the people the people i've spoken to say that this is an effort to stop leaguers like and lord snowdon from going with information was not intentional here. i traded a little differently. i'd say that the difficulty is that if there are people who were of getting access to information that's private like information about regular people going about their lives. we don't want such people either intruding on the privacy of their fellow citizens which is a risk if the government is acquire information. we certainly don't want such people of leaking classified information or other information that could be helpful or in bad cases dangerous too. the two americans and their allies and other nations which are maybe our close allies but in whose citizens would take a keen interest don't want them

to get her so. the idea is to make sure that the insider threat as we describe it is done is up is up and find that while also respecting channels for the legion of whistleblowers. alice kept on seeing a professor at harvard law school. well at one time away to longtime detainees have been transferred out of the camp into their native country of sudan. this comes just two days after two saudis were transferred three in a total of detainee is to one hundred and fifty eight his detainee assessment lead to the new york times but with the leaks even when hoffman in tahiti in as is described as a veteran al qaeda member who served as osama bin laden's courier in the nineteen nineties he was captured by pakistani forces back in two thousand won while attempting to cross the afghanistan pakistan border but the other members of the so called dirty thirty group who were some of bin laden's a security detail. he

is believed to have a high intelligence value and also pose is a high security risk to the us its interests and its allies. now the other man nor a new one it is described as a senior al qaeda military trainer in afghanistan with connections to the group's operational chain of command commenting on intelligence value and poses a high security risk. he was captured by pakistani forces back in two thousand to we'll be out of the transfer of the detainee is out of guantanamo bay have a lot to do with two new special envoy is appointed by the administration as being class alone at the state department and called the lace at the pentagon meanwhile congress is also working on making it much easier to transfer detainee is out of cuba. the provision is part of the new demand national defense authorization act that is set to pass this week so it looks like the end of guantanamo bay eco and ultimately being on the sand. amnesty

international released a report today describing serious abuses of human rights committed. i did not been in detention facilities run by the islamic state of iraq and calls from where the isi tax for a closer look at the reports are teased up with alina nasser in research or for amnesty international there is widespread torture and torture of anthologies including the and also with children is the most common form of torture that is full of games. the flood came and against nt team will take place. i need they need an ad on the team to the database each week. england struggled against children. we have to witness as for every detainee who told us that they have seen children as young as sixteen points and being flung corners of the uk's

they continue by sentenced to death. and each minute that does not exceed two minutes which isn't bad at our tree just mean the one for me he told us that he wants the town said the number of actions and fully on each minute. and so ninety four and he stopped counting anymore. wrestling announcer researcher at amnesty international and earlier i spoke with kate global legislative associate for middle east policy at the xc and how i first asked her why we haven't seen more coverage of these atrocities. well this report certainly highlights in stark relief the gross human rights abuses many of which are war crimes that have been perpetrated by one the most powerful armed opposition groups in syria and the thistle and the islamic state of iraq an option. and so it really underscores the urgency for the international community to you. the military assistance to all of the actors in this conflict

which are all perpetrated the skin rights abuses and work toward a negotiated solution but unfortunately it's not the only attention it deserves so i was a partner like donna situation that is currently going on in the country. shares in stores i've read a united nations has warned. this is the most grave threat to peace and security since world war two silverstein eight. every worse day by day. clearly it's time for the international community to stop all military assistance to all the different actors in this conflict. i work for and he needed to talk to make sure that there are six hours and then we will be a ceasefire and the conflicts. not to mention this report details torture and plotting and abductions and murders on obviously there's a lot of accusations going out around on on both sides. this is just the ugly face of war is this what the reality of war in eighth. we're clearly there are human rights abuses

perpetrated in on all sides and that is why he can't stand this is not inevitable the seemingly intractable conflicts in lebanon in northern ireland and south africa they ended when it was resolved to do so and we thought that there was an assault to eradicate or serious chemical weapons arsenal. i never seen great progress were seen every moment of cooperation between the united states and russia i wear scene was all through cooperation at the un security council. and that's not how we came to chemical weapons at the same kind of urgency and a thinker spirit of cooperation as well. in case it in the conflict once and for all. now i take a moment a kind of focus on what's going on with his rebel groups. obviously there's a lot of loose affiliations with one another their report that extremists and she contests are bringing their fights against assyria so why should we make of this travel group at the moment given all the factions and friction within the rebel group unfortunately some of these extremist groups are among

the most organized and most powerful armed groups and groups like interest groups like the onus for front these are the groups that are or how organized they had their largest military presence on the ground and they're also the group's net cast a fishing too. he's the weapons that the united states the turkey that other countries have been sending it to the armed opposition groups. i'm a bit yes there is so much. auctions there are estimated to be more than a thousand different armed opposition groups like that these are the groups that had the most extreme groups that had perpetrated these barbaric acts have been the most powerful the most organized and more that these weapons are sand and more that these groups are emboldened to become stronger and more extreme. i cannot don't want to know cool is that good guys bad guys in the fog of war back in world war two. obviously you know we always like to say that there was this taste good guy

and bad guys but when we were soon be these days is really hard to to point out that exact distinctions right. yes this is a civil war so there are clearly in houston gross human rights abuses how to hold on all sides and there on that. however it's important to keep in mind that the majority of syrians are not involved in this piece of hostilities that they're not taking a gun for anyone if he peaceful resolution to this conflict so silly looking for good guys and are looking for. for actual height that the actors couldn't play a constructive role. you can look at if you're into a society organizing groups are kind of different groups organizing for a non violent solution to this global crisis. less than an outlet. we are ensuring accurate enough to ensure that our war of this cry at the third year of this crisis longer can this more realistically go on before it tipped over the entire region into chaos. it depends on the international community

if it is there is worse off if there is any high and determination to see if this conflict. it will require didn't buy into all the different actors at the table inside syria and the external actors and we will see a major opportunity to end this conflict on january second went to cox contents. and oh what about the christians in syria there are reports that at that time on the trustees are going and against and religious minorities. yes there are actually heard from some colleagues tubing on the ground with me for that district they said that despite all the sectarian violence. there are still out with an incredible display of interfaith cooperation for receipt when a current license. i will when the nurse on extremist groups that attack. amy and christian church. he turned into mosques with it when i use them interact to call a patient services together an

increase in services with women interact and cannot work because the electricity was cut off. then christian groups say that the two christian churches who bring their thousands to feel that that is how mean but unfortunately it's rapidly. i mean if it's practically unraveling as we see this conflict persists. thank you so much for joining kate called legislative associate at the middle east policy at the fc in out. still ahead here on rte your online tv is digital called on thursday and a major new as in this essay is a closer look at the online cash flow coming up after the break. and the air. who knew i would

all attention off target shopper and you better check your bank statements the retail giant reports that forty million debit and credit card accounts. between black friday and is number fifteen. the company is warning customers to check for unauthorized activity on their bank cards in case the colonels decided to do a bit of holiday shopping at the target customer is accents. the attackers may have been able to access the shoppers names card numbers expiration dates and a three digit security code on the back of the car. so how safe is our day and with

all this extra card swiping and that were doing during this holiday season. help me sort through this every time earlier but mancini gon founder of as he blew the first aston how someone can know what their information was vulnerable during this attack. anyone who went to. ty did a good day before thanksgiving and until december fifteen is vulnerable. that's millions and millions of people and what you have to do is number one before anything is danger and number on your debit card if you have one. so how much was stolen how far reaching is this do we know we have the specifics at this point which states for instance well did i think i believe it had almost every state that i did is in there were some two thousand stores that were targeted at it no pun intended on that one by accident. and also canada said this is something that i think is going to be continued to be investigated but the bottom line is that he used a credit card or debit card you could be at

whisking you need to check your statement change a pin number and in some other things. so how this attack more and more vulnerable than anywhere else that people use their credit cards or debit cards. but they but we have to understand its consumers is no retail shop has a hundred percent security said this is not something that will target didn't do enough what's really going on is that hackers have done something very clever here they have figured out that instead of just targeting the on line retail experience going to target dot com or some other store dot com what they're doing is going to what's called the point of sale that moment when you swipe your credit card they're packing into the system that collects that information sending it out to some other location in grabbing your credit card information your pin number and therefore they cannot create either credit cards and walk around and shop with them as though they are you

or they can go on line news and information and shop for other things. so what how when customers protect themselves from this moving forward be on target. well moving toward not only carrot cut into customer you have to think about your security even if you don't shop that i did because this didn't happen at any store. one of the things that you should do consistently is that we do was change a pin number as much as it's not a it's not easy to do it's worth doing second check your statement all the time when the bats ways that i think i can think of doing it is putting a mark on your calendar everyday at two o'clock in the call that one eight hundred number and about the id card and just follow the prompts and hear what their last five charges were. isn't there something unusual in real time even remember it. in a reported and then ate then that will be taking care of by the bank of the credit company i honestly don't want to go ahead and move on away from dean of the syntax and today

the individuals that company is mine. they buy and the south. a new report from the senate commerce committee just came out and it outlines some of the data that these companies now one of these data mining companies as well thanks and seventy five thousand individual data elements on people. these include for instance whether consumers have bought a particular soft drink in the past six months whether they use laxatives or not whether they visited the gynecologist within the last year or not and how many miles a year a major riot. over the past that four week period. i need to. i personally don't even have seventy five thousand data points on myself so how did they the companies find out whether or not consumers are safe using laxatives. well i think this mis reported. yep the one thing is clear senator rockefeller is pretty hurt by what he's finding out in this report. and that is that data companies are getting information about you and not just in the on line world like oftentimes we

think about a week. if you look at the past year what were you when i have been talking about making we've been talking with the online world. with this record is doing is the shelling that in the physical world. there's a lot of data being collected about you and now it's being raised with the data about you in the on line world and to every place are going sites are visiting the physical world and places are going in the island was getting my wrist into one to create in essence a profile about you withstand the data brokers are selling to marketing companies and saying you're looking for a group of people will go to st paul minnesota and shout that this one particular store and the bucket of people or they go skiing over there. let's focus on them and try to get them give me that data and that exchange happens for money and then you start getting ads whether in your mailbox to down the street we email boxes or in your on line expel its experience and you're browsing the web. we

don't have much to laugh. i want to ask you to more questions. first of all how much money on our knees in mining companies actually getting in is there a meaningful way to opt out of that. won't that be the pit bottom line in the mind is that in the millions to billions of dollars that's how much money is being exchanged here in terms of opting out. that is the challenge. it's almost like you can run but you cannot hide. so what you can do is take a day that companies. i wanna know what you have about me. i want to do something about it if it's incorrect. i need to write to correct it and that's a thing but even as he went holiday is over. senator rockefeller center come back and no doubt that in a start introducing legislation to give more power to consumers than right now it's obvious they don't have. munching on founder of the assets people in the thank you so much for joining us and for the viewers some idea how to protect themselves this coming holiday season and beyond. things they didn't have to know that. well a new york city police officer faces a disciplinary trial

over allegations that he performed a wrongful stop and frisk two years ago the first time that the civilian complaint review board is prosecuting officer for stop and frisk violations following its establishment earlier this spring. several long glorious stock real estate property on a barn and allegedly christian for talking back to him. that was only back in december twenty third of two thousand eleven while he was waiting for is one of the par four s eventually arrested martin and took him to jail leaving martin's car running. one claims his car was full. that was stolen after assault charges of disorderly conduct were thrown out in our barn is suing both the nypd and officer parents. with this first ever prosecution of a police officer for violations it appears opponents of the nypd is a stop and frisk policy finally have someone to fight for that and now to pennsylvania where a motorist checkpoint has got some citizens wondering why i had to have their cheeks spa

the beach and downtown reading where a number of cars were re directed into a private parking lot last week the air passengers are asked questions about their drinking and or ask for a swab from inside of their mounts. local police were at the checkpoint. and while they did not take part in a stop at least once in a sense that the police presence made him feel as if the exercise was not voluntary the curtain yet has told the reading eagle quote a federal survey with local police hope violate my rights the checkpoint is part of the program under the national highway traffic safety administration in the white house office of national diet drug control policy. there are several similar checkpoints to account pennsylvania the federal money is given to a private firm which then administers the checkpoint now the idea of the plane is to figure out how a troubling car crash as the green police say the swapping is to determine whether people were

on prescription drops. and that's made it for now from one story speak up or go to youtube dot com splash rt america. check the website r t dot coms like usa and follow me on twitter at night and underscore lopez all see right here at eight pm. i don't i. oh and welcome to e zine it's friday december twenty s i'm passing comanche and tokyo. militants in south sudan have forced their way into a united nations peacekeeping base. they were trying to get to see billions from another ethnic group who had taken shelter inside. un officials say there may have been casualties t i