so while he was on the campaign trail in texas last night he didn't say that obama's waging a war against religious americans but he didn't just say the president is violating your first met right now he took it like twenty steps further. jakey faith and. why. why. we're marginalized. in america when you remove the color. god given right what's left is a government that will tell you who you are what you'll do and when you'll do. what's in france. became the getting. gentleman we're a long way from home but if we do. and follow the path the president obama and his own hostility to face in america. and we are headed down that route.

wait what obama's leading religious people to the good team and we did this is a joke i am genuinely really confused about how this entire situation has gotten so out of hand what century are we in this is birth control they act like obama is making the catholic priest perform abortions with their bare hands during mass now we haven't really touched on this issue during the show before because i thought that this whole controversy of this fake controversy which is what it is was absurd i wake up every morning thinking no there's no way that everyone in the media is actually still talking about this non issue but every day i improve draw die especially love the chorus of male politicians and pundits weighing in with their righteous indignation standing up for the first amendment newsflash nobody is forcing anyone to do anything this is an option an option that would be offered to women so thanks for your input gentlemen but why don't you just sit this one out so let's all just take a step back to be honest with ourselves this isn't an issue about religious freedom or the first amendment it's an issue that just plays well with g.o.p. voters which i can attest to from my experience at sea back today so everybody in

the media let's stop playing along i know that most of the media loves a good culture war but this isn't even a culture war birth control stop being controversial decades ago so here on my show the g.o.p. gets tonight's bull's-eye ward for turning a basic women's health initiative into a fake attack on your first amendment rights. our guys it's time for a happy hour joining me this evening r t producer jenny churchill and alex sites all assistant editor of think progress org hey guys i thought i was joining we. let's first talk about somebody as f.b.i. and this is always like kind of exciting bar after someone passes away it's like what does the f.b.i. have written up on them. come on the lad ok yes big it's

a good thing anyone dieted says that but you know he's going to get to see what their dirt is anyway let's check out. the f.b.i. has just released a one hundred ninety page file on the late apple c.e.o. steve jobs this is a portion of it it's focused on a background check the interviews with jobs and others in march and april of ninety ninety one when jobs being considered for presidential appointment by president george h.w. bush. so some of the things in jobs file use a lot of drugs l.s.d. parents he was also manipulative manipulative excuse me several individuals question mr jobs honesty saying that he will trust the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals and apparently he also abandoned his baby mama i just i'm really confused i thought all of this was already available knowledge i did not feel as though i learned anything from the f.b.i. which really makes me question how good of a job they're doing why don't they like you when i'm no dirt where's the dirt the

observation i agree that i was not that surprised by the contents but it's one hundred ninety one pages i thought it was a very in-depth they talk to a ton of people which makes me think every other government official has had some kind of similar background check done on them right so can you imagine what's in like dick cheney's f.b.i. file why that's what i mean different though because you know jobs and even he was pretty private is still more public persona than most actual government officials at this point right like i think that we know more about jobs and his drug use in the past because he's part of like the tech crowd like nobody cares nobody is going to judge you for it because he doesn't go out and preach certain. solace a certain values or certain policies but. good point point. ok. i don't know how to use this clip right now new hampshire new hampshire been doing some weird stuff lately they tried to pass legislation that said that you don't

follow school curriculums anymore they try to pass legislation that all laws to be based on the magna carta not the constitution but the magna carta and now they want to take a hit at your lunch break. so barely if this is what they want workers to do from now on is to have to ask for a lunch break because they want to basically ban. businesses from having to give. their employees a lunch break to take a break they claim that everybody already gets one and that if the business were to not try to give them one the people would take to social media and it would make the company feel so bad that they change their policy why isn't that the policy on everything else then why do we have any rules for anything because it's now that we always lead out right and so when the world works then wow we don't need rules at all murder murder. no more murders but i feel

like this is like every state or a lot of states are in this like war to outraise each other you know arizona started off strong with the immigration law then florida wanted to drug test all their welfare recipients but new hampshire has really been making a come from behind dark horse race here but the magna carta stuff they've got this lunch bill thing keep your eye on it i'm sure it just gave us an idea i think you have to start making. some kind of a racing graphic because you're through i have to say though when you're right when i used to work hour early i always had an issue i was forced to take a certain amount of break and if i didn't want to eat lunch for half an hour i was frustrated that i'd go sit somewhere for ten i mean it is true it didn't happen i don't think i think the slots ridiculous but i mean i was forced to take a break i want to tell you hey at least you got a break. i worked too hard. let's talk about a story that we did not get to yesterday which basically you know if you live in iceland then your chances of dating somebody that you might be related to i guess

increase right at the small island the only a population of three hundred thousand people and so now there's a new website there that basically you can you can look up the geological data on the inhabitants and see with your icelandic id number make sure that your potential love interest is not actually related to you. i find this to be actually the strangest thing ever because i don't know here in america and all fifty states you're allowed to marry your second cousin it is completely illegal have you ever known someone who was like oh my gosh that person was my first cousin i didn't know ever ever i that's not so much about whether it's allowed or not it's like do you want to find out that the person you're dating is always that island is so small and there's only three hundred thousand people like how hard is it really to know your family you never know there to be some shady family secrets. like seems way

overkill and like raises some serious civil libertarian issues i mean there's this database with everybody's name in it right and anybody can look into it yeah but on the other hand from a capitalist point of view i think they're missing out on a huge revenue opportunity matchmaking i mean if there's like five people on the island who aren't related to you which is what it sounds like they should just match up and what if you could see who was searching for you you know oh that person wanted to check if. it's just to this last tory here to basically this is happening in an l.a. county and it's like. throw a football or a frisbee at an l.a. county beach and you could be fined one thousand dollars the county board of supervisors today raised fines for illegal beach activity yes it is against the law to throw footballs or frisbees. what country do we live in jenny what does that say about your teacher you. know but i mean seriously is actually insane i think this is clearly an attempt by the volleyball lobbying association to get

a you know. novel idea on it yeah because i'm sorry i'm a little confused on how a frisbee is more abusive than a volleyball can someone explain to me it's volleyballs or beats that people do whatever they want yeah i love that even the local news anchor is like having trouble believing it as she's saying it. the crazy thing is it was already law and now they're just increasing the fine you get up in a virtually thanks for joining us tonight that's a very nice show thanks for tuning and they can by tomorrow journalist susie cagle is going to be activist and an artist of occupy oakland in the meantime to follow us on line and coming up next in the.

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a split within the ranks of syria's opposition fighters at first they claimed they were behind twin blasts in the country's largest city of aleppo which killed at least twenty eight people but another spokesman denied responsibility just an hour later. to ghassan far bombings on the streets of athens as protesters clashed with police angry at another set of looming cuts to please e.u. predator's with six ministers already quitting over the deal. and observing political change russia's public figures come together to ensure a fair and free presidential vote while striving not to take sides our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day there are conflicting reports over whether the free syrian army wing of the opposition was behind the attacks in the city of aleppo an hour after one f.s.a. spokesman confirmed this another blame the government the blast have killed at least twenty eight and injured more than one hundred seventy people journalists down and then there are reports from syria. aleppo a northern city in syria has been relatively quiet since the anti-government protests took place and march the government claims it's fighting a foreign funded insurgency and as well as it blames terrorist groups for the several bombings that took place in damascus of last year the violence has escalated in syria for the past week opposition forces claiming assad's forces are

shelling on several areas including the city of homs activists are accusing the government of a massacre saying that hundreds of civilians here have been killed something that's hard to verify meanwhile the u.s. is setting an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels and their struggle these so-called proof friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to profit the opposition and pile more pressure on the regime although direct military action is has been ruled out some reports of just the british and cuts are a special forces are already in the conflict zone there are now calls from washington to arm the opposition and as our teams merino portnoy i reports that the region has been flooded with weapons from the u.s. . at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat but when

it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporter is often seen as sitting on two chairs they say there isn't an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that is a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold the story clearly more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to the middle east and you can't argue. seriously that it's made that region any more stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of u.s.

weapons exports have been flowing to the middle east many countries with the biggest appetite for american weapons have also made headlines for carrying out brutal crackdowns against dissidents and opposition groups if you are you're ok in france they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in apocrypha of american foreign policy is painfully. evident according to congressional figures america has sold one point four billion dollars worth of weapons to bahrain since two thousand and america struck its single biggest arms deal when saudi arabia ordered sixty billion dollars worth of arms the us has long subsidize the israeli military and recently supplied them with bunker buster bombs experts say this strategic arming of middle eastern. is aimed at iran and extending u.s. dominance in the region. is going on the. massive against your

own. you know human rights. it's all about some geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blowers sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty while leading a campaign for regime change in syria but it's not some kind of. simultaneously op rising situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from cherokee well who was providing this arms nobody's asking in the us media all these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this is the u.s. military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interests on capitol hill arms manufacturers are some of the biggest companies in america they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only do they make it so for

the defense department around the world they're a federal contractor in many other levels they're going to vote in elections this statue outside the u.n. headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace while arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit marina point ny r.t. new york because dublin activist and international human rights lawyer told me earlier here in r.t. that a syrian solution must come from within and that foreign interference would be a mistake. in syria i think it is a matter of there are some very legitimate interest in the country of people who would like to be able to participate more in their government and i think the government has made some effort to respond they think it needs to make more of an effort but i don't think that comes through foreign intervention it comes through indigenous processes of the people in the country if you look at any foreign intervention over the last several years you see that after the foreign

intervention many more people died then could have possibly died through any type of indigenous process even one involving violence and i think that moscow and some of its allies on this matter are very wise in seen the pitfalls of foreign intervention and as the u.n. charter makes it very clear that the use of force should only be the last possible means of trying to deal with the conflict. could is double activist an international human rights lawyer talking to a little earlier there from geneva. greece's prime minister has promised an end to the country's recession that next year if the deal on the next bailout is reached he also warned senior government members would be expelled if they oppose the cuts e.u. creditors are demanding six ministers have so far resigned over the deal while thousands of greeks have been venting their anger at the planned cuts on the streets of

athens police clashed with protesters trying to gas in response to stones and far bombs that's as of today union strike brought the country to a standstill after a tough multi-party deal the parliament is expected to vote on the austerity package on sunday but a junior coalition partner says it won't back the new plan euro zone finance ministers put the second bailout worth one hundred thirty billion euros on hold saying they want to see concrete action without it athens will go bust in march economists yanis varoufakis has told me that either leaders are only looking to secure their own financial stability. this government was always expendable the point of putting it in place was to ensure that this deal goes through. it's my prediction that it will go through and then this government were laps once it. is done these measures are part of a loan package the purpose of which is to delay. the steady disintegration of the

euro zone and give more time to germany's politicians to find out what they are going to do with their with the german and the french banks which are insolvent so greece is being sacrificed on the altar of a utopian procrastination while whoever is doing it is creating a very severe medical issue by means of cortizone and a little bit of ice cream what is happening here is that greeks are being threatened or unless they keep borrowing money from germany from france from the i.m.f. from the e.c.b. we know that to keep repaying the northern european and big banks then they're going to be through another years of this is of course an empty threat you know we have people six hundred euros a month who would have to live on four hundred fifty euros a month while at the same time inflation is increasing and taxation is going through the roof. party committee live from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day still to come for you this hour innocence lost in afghanistan find out why the latest strike has sparked the afghan president's condemnation of foreign troops

also a separation anxiety. they are now living under the tangible threat of being forcibly separated from their spouses from their children from their parents palestinians married to israelis fear of citizenship nor need a jewish state could tear their families apart. sure is that so much simpler to give each musician. the mark of the feet in the battle for syria the international community is divided as the syrians themselves when it comes to resolving the situation. but i. strive for somalia australia are doing the telly on new zealand no

we thank you so you get to the monks. if you want to have sex go and have sex. people in russia are becoming more and more involved in the political structure in their country ahead of next month's presidential election a group of journalists bloggers and proactive figures have created a league of voters and a bid to make the upcoming vote fair and transparent you've got a press going off has this report. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just

a couple of clicks is enough and scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections but marches presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with so many people not sure people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go see what they want political competition independent courts and media forming the voters' league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists and bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activist. the latest advocate or the head of a charity fund and blogger he does any of the bianca also known as dr lisa.

or to other school martha ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone for smoothness our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil position there are just better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments. the letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging to look into another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak years ago and willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers would also arrange to put together a unified database to keep track of the election from two cars according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone yeah it's great that the civil society wants to be

more active but it's really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if the mutations not to take sides in the political process. he's got all the leads founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the voters leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promise from candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going off r t moscow. more news in brief from around the world this hour in our world updating we understand where militants have been

killed and over a dozen wounded after local security forces fired artillery shells at their suspected hideouts the crackdown took place in the couldn't tribal region where dozens of died in fighting between soldiers and insurgents over the last few weeks pakistan's military has been conducting anti terror operations in quantum since the beginning of the year. a plan strike by police in rio de janeiro over low pay could jeopardize next week's annual carnival the spartan agreed pay rise of thirty nine percent over the next two years laurie forces a demonic double similar industrial action in the city of salvador for the murder rate doubled with one hundred twenty people killed during a nine day strike thousands of soldiers may be deployed in brazil's capital to provide security. germany's delayed signing the controversial act of treaty after the justice ministry voiced concerns the anti-piracy accord stirred up mass protests across the world the backlash that forced several countries to postpone its ratification the legislation aims to slash the amount of pirated online content

and protect intellectual property while critics say it would harm freedom of speech one policeman has been killed and another injured as special forces surrounded militants in a house in dagestan in russia's volatile north caucasus that's according to russia's interfax news agency standard security forces say they have targeted a private house in a small village or good of a key with the shootout still on going police saying there are three to five militants inside believed to be members of a wanted terrorist group additional forces have been mobilized to the site and dug stone has seen a number of violent attacks in recent years. afghan president hamid karzai has ordered an investigation into a nato airstrike that killed eight children on wednesday this comes a week after the united states announced it could halt combat operations in afghanistan than expected but this strike could worsen already tense relations

between khan's i'm washington and the mounting civilian death toll journalist gareth porter thinks that foreign actions are to blame for the growing number of casualties this is the price that afghanistan pays for having foreign troops on its soil troops which carry out operations that are based on at best imperfect intelligence and at worse simply lack of fundamental knowledge of local situations and mistakes that are made which will result in innocent people being killed completely unnecessarily the numbers are growing clearly because the tele band has continued to expand its operations in response to the growth of u.s. nato troops part of the taliban response and i would say the single biggest part of that response has been to lay more and more i d's this is the primary way that the taliban has been able to find.