decision strikes don't put more u.s. troops in harm's way but as i document here on the show on a daily basis it's the way that they go about the drone program it's an issue it's the secrecy which doesn't allow us to know how many civilians are killed which holds nobody accountable and instead only fuels anti-american sentiment in the countries who skies they patrol that's enough for me not to approve of the administration's drone program if we instill transparency and accountability that allows us to have a legal and ethical debate about it on a public level that we can talk. let me now get to what i thought was the worst part of this poll for which i do not see any room for debate or varied interpretations this poll found that of those who approve of drones targeting terrorist suspects sixty five percent still agree even if the suspect is a u.s. citizen now this is what we get to the point where it doesn't matter where you find yourself on the political spectrum this is where we get into basic fundamental values that we hold dear in this country as a citizen you have the right to due process and you know what these respondents

approve of is the government throwing that part of the constitution out the window completely circumventing the rule of law so this means that they approve the president the united states acting like a dictator or a monarch playing judge jury and executioner all in one no it's not forget in the case of anwar locky we've never been handed any evidence to back up the administration's claims that he played an operational role in plotting terrorist attacks against the united states and secretary of defense trying to claim last week that he had wanted to or how do you wanted to he could return to the u.s. in question being placed on that assassination list but there's no way to find out if you're on one of these lists because no lawsuit was ever brought no public statement was ever made about it and the only reason we found out was because of a leak but it's not just about on want to lock up it's about what we've allowed this president to do how we've allowed him to change the rules and set an incredibly dangerous precedent i'm sure they did it without asking i certainly

would not have allowed this why improving these respondents have just given the executive branch the permission to do this again and again and again so this isn't about terrorism this is about standing by certain values and laws that are put in place to shield us from tyranny and this poll shows us that these respondents out of fear are except. i got time for a happy hour and joining me this evening r.t. correspondent christine for sal and anthony ran down as a director of economic research for the reason foundation is your enemy guys. so herman cain is about to make an appearance and have a few things to say like everyone else did the pack about how liberals are the worst or the cancer of the earth and blah blah blah but there is the way that he

said it i think they deserve a little making fun of take a listen. going to be brain. and ballots at the ballot box we most smart the liberals we must outsmart the stupid people that are trying to ruin america. so the stupid people are ruining america so we decided to take this moment while a good comment just remember some of the moments about herman cain you know some of the things that we loved about him. and when they ask me who's the president of becky becky becky stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know. view china as a potential military threat yes no military threat they've indicated that they're trying to develop. but we'll see if you think i'm dumb enough not to study up on

these issues i've been studying up on these issues for months. anyway things are stupid people are really american almost ruined america i running for president he's not wrong stupid people can ruin america spark people. i don't think he's that well thank god he's not really america but if you had better luck to. have a self-fulfilling prophecy in libya the most interesting thing to me i was at sea-tac yesterday he spoke yesterday he was walking around everyone was shaking his hand is that he's sort of become a prominent hero in the republican party even joe the plumber who i interviewed said i wish herman wouldn't have stepped out i don't know who to back now i was going to back herman cain herman cain despite what you just saw there has become kind of a famous republican that why he's a wrongful are ruining america because they still like people like herman cain is there pale and despite all of the stupid things that they say and ann coulter the other way i'll just say stupid as much as if. there's. only beautiful women are

republicans. really and. i'll hold my tongue on that i was like. ok what are the savvier on a friday lives just talk about some other fun stuff that's going on at the pac so you know conservatives not so down with gays but it turns out if you take a look at craigslist there are some people that are cruising for some love and what i'm saying is in the city the city for the next few days looking for a deal a guide a j.-o. with maybe a more normal young professional guy here cleancut five ten one fifty auburn blue six. if you're at the marriott wardman park even better be in shape one of the masculine. discreet and chill your pick that's mine you're clearly not a pro. but so that. was really this entire thing is happening another one says getting

a group of discrete guys together from c. pack for a group being in the hotel room send stats and a body pic and let's do this put the name of the closing speaker of the subject line so i know you're real and last run by guy back we're going to meet up with other c. pack by guys mostly interested in oral but more is ok with the right guy why thirty five. very discreet smiley face and staff and photo can host in my room tonight people are getting down at the back well of course they're getting down at sea-tac they get down all the time the only thing is a group thing a hotel room you get you know what if it's a world ok ray that doesn't. even know what half of that stuff mean yeah i may have been overthinking it a little bit too much but every one of those advertisements is reading through had something about like send a picture so i know you're real and know when you're high yeah they like to put you on the sad end of things you're going to have like it took everything within me to just like just send some like massive responses screw with these guys like how do

the how do you know i've not experienced enough in trolling for sex through craigslist but i am a little shocked this works well it was interesting to hear you know you have by guy everyone wants to be discreet why can't they just be out about it all we have to there are conservative there you would see right away i mean he was there yesterday i mean well and the interesting thing is heritage this year because they don't have to boycott because his daughter out is been sort of shoved to the sidelines. real quick let's take a look at. kagan how to say about this idea that's now leaving a senate committee and heading to the senate floor it's about cameras in the supreme court. they know more about you if you allow cameras in the court room as we have here what do you think would be a good idea of what the cameras with the lights blaring and i say right now i think yes we really know but. actually i've said before that i do think it would be a good idea and i differ from some of my colleagues. i can't imagine who it is that

he differs from but i'm down and i say why not televise the supreme court i mean this is one of the three branches of government making decisions that impact all the people of this country of course it should be televised the fact that it's twenty twelve and we only get drawings that come out of the most important that's crazy you get audiotapes too i mean they should be televised but this shouldn't be a u.s. congressional bill but should tell her you know i agree that's kind of we are here we just have to get this last story this is the special they're having a pizza hut for valentine's day proposal if that's. ok listen to this well i want to help you you are that's right they're offering a proposal package for ten thousand and ten dollars ok for that amount of money you get a ruby engagement ring flowers fireworks a limo service and of course a pizza party pack to celebrate. i want to meet the girl that would say yes to that you have ruined my valentines day you know how my girlfriend watches this and i'm

going to come up with something arsenal are movies like illegal in this country and second of all i thought there might be i don't know i don't i read that somewhere anyways tell me it's had available so we need to follow out only ten and below and we the only i mean you actually know actually get seriously and you can't buy your own ring like that like that's i maybe i maybe not just because a lot of the exact you know the key point there but the ten thousand dollars buy your own learning order a box of little fave you little by your words this actually might be a good value i don't know depends on where you get the other out of it thank you joining me tonight that's it for tonight so thanks for tuning in make sure you come back next week we're trying out a new segment called monday hangover could be a new panel so you want to miss it and in the meantime you know where to find us on the facebook on twitter and on you tube and coming up next the news.

egypt's streets. with rallying crowds once again a year after president mubarak was forced from power. people here are calling the military council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms in the country more from tahrir square just ahead. more pressure as part of the syrian regime as violence escalates in a new resolution blaming it at the u.n. general assembly. and greek lawmakers part of the brussels with more cuts in exchange for playing catch people but their frustration on the streets of athens our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is twenty four hours a day egyptians are staging a general strike and a day of civil disobedience to mark the first anniversary of the toppling of former leader hosni mubarak calling for the military rulers to step down immediately accusing them of hindering reform to reports now from the iconic tahrir square if you ask those people they will tell you that really nothing has really sleestak in the years since the barak has been ousted as a matter of fact there is saying that things have gotten worse because now they have to do with the military council the scouts and head of the country's government right now for refusing to step down or saying that they're going forth with democratic forms but most people here believe that is not the case and that is why they're calling for this massive act of civil disobedience the. the people who

are they are at the source of this call are the egypt's revolution three alliance which is comprised of more than fifty political groups six of them six of them are the most probably revolutionary groups in the country a lot of them are university students for whom it is the first day of the semester and they're staging sit ins and walk outs they're not going to lectures they're not going to classes they're boycotting exams they're saying that they want to see some real changes towards democracy in the country which they haven't seen yet they're also calling on workers for massive strikes to go on indefinitely until the military council steps down but a lot of the parties that have made it into the parliament. during the recent elections are actually not supporting the strike primarily or we should know it's the muslim brotherhood who are saying that these that this these calls for a massive strike are actually destructive to the country because that will only clutch egypt into further poverty and disarray also the religious leaders in the country are not supporting the strike as well but students the young people who

work behind this site really sharon with the workers who wanted to see some real differences there are saying that things must be chasing mediately more on why it's absence are going to strike here is my call that very thing else. around a thousand killed at least six thousand injured and even more still missing egypt's people have paid high price to live in a new country but despite all the sacrifices the shadow of the old regime is to lose knowledge during mubarak thirty years of mubarak's rule to make the number of people try them under military tribunals where one to two thousand now you know within about ten months or eleven months we have twelve thousand which is of course a humongous number for a country ruled by the military the supreme council of the armed forces or scaf that's no surprise but surprisingly enough those discomforted over from who'd previously run the country. are not themselves before military tribunals. for.

suspected killers. thought. to be simply a court system. that ordinary people there may be. medical records this is a better way and this is in the. hasty with no proper investigation usually with no lawyer and behind closed doors and with no right of appeal human rights activists complain military trials provide no justice and violate human rights you know you have a nineteen year old getting a twenty five year old son to your centers because he had a box of molotov cocktails and people who are found guilty of killing somebody by brutally beating him up and torturing him until he died these are getting seven years in jail so i mean there obviously there's something wrong with this picture

a lot of these people are trying for absolutely no reason i mean someone just just being in the wrong place at the wrong time is enough to get you in trouble that's exactly what it says is his case september the time he's really embassy in cairo the place. the young screenplay writer was present and clashes between the army and demonstrators and began helping lean jered arrested he was brought to military barracks after summary trial which lasted just twenty minutes he was taken straight to prison to serve almost four months for terrorists and he says the military dishes out a very rough justice. in the emerging a seventy two year old he's been in the army for at least two years it must be hard for him to take off his uniform and this large dog and this was the only way they know how to deal with problems. for several days one of our didn't know her son's whereabouts. the man who says when his sister came to me and said i have to talk to

you i knew it was about him hoping for the best i prepared myself for the worst. a month after ahmed was released he now faces yet another trial from the same incident at the israeli embassy. goal is to intimidate people the message is clear if you go to to really you'll be arrested and it makes us even stronger how is it they don't understand that mad is no work you know a book he wants to title you must shut up he explains if people didn't give up after been beaten and humiliated they'll never give up until their voices are harold. the citadel in cairo egypt and medieval symbol of power and strength it was fortified centuries ago to protect the region from his enemies at that time crusades and crusaders today egypt's rulers are doing the same striving to defend themselves and to keep power with thousands in jails and dozens killed the concern

here is that they may have been working too hard. written off knotty cairo and true and freelance journalist based in cairo told me earlier that human rights violations on the streets of the capital have led to concerns but barack has been replaced by another dictatorship. people are unsure about whether you actually transfer. and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters where people are expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters has been absolutely no reform of the police and i was fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen

very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that nothing will change and that will just slip into a new a new dictatorship i think most people here would say or do you say that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. a draft resolution on syria has been circulated at the un general assembly by saudi arabia it's similar to the text vetoed in the security council last week while calling for an end to violence by all sides it lays blame primarily on the syrian authorities meanwhile state t.v. says government assassinated an army general in the capital damascus the first killing of a high ranking military officer since protests began and with reports of ongoing fighting in the country the city of aleppo suffered twin blasts on friday that

killed twenty eight the free syrian army initially claimed responsibility for the attacks but later denied involvement and blamed the government meanwhile syria's opposition says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states later this weekend with no u.n. mandate to intervene in the crisis the u.s. is now said to be gathering a coalition of states to support the opposition with calls from washington to on the road. bills because his doublet an international human rights lawyer has told me earlier that intervention would be a costly 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 seen the pitfalls of foreign intervention and there is a u.n. charter makes it very clear the use of force should only be the last possible means of trying to deal with the conflict. this is a live here in moscow still ahead for you this hour. causing tension and pollution find out about the claims that american military bases around the world are costing lives through their environmental impact and wrecking the area around them. that's still to come but first the technocrat prime minister of greece has cleared one major hurdle on the way towards more rescue cash as his cabinet approved the deep cuts needed to secure it whether he lost six ministers who resigned in protest of the deal now the plan is to be given the green knight by parliament some m.p.'s

from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against the deal more conservatives are calling for an early election the new deal includes firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage it's being pushed by leaders who put the next one hundred thirty billion euro bailout on hold trade unions are in the second day of their. forty eight hour strike with crowds outside the parliament on friday protesters clashed with police used tear gas in response to stones and problems from economist nick clegg as police could already be in a state of unofficial people. it looks highly likely that the parliament will get enough votes to pass this package it only maids a majority of the three hundred members of deputies it's a human camel system here what we have at the moment is a structured default in fact almost seventy percent of the net present value of all outstanding bonds which will reduce reduce our debt burden by

a hundred billion now that isn't such a terrible deal i'm not sure that all of the investors will take it up it may not get one hundred percent take up but it may get seventy or eighty percent and even that helps the european leaders face some difficulties because while in greece there is a lot of austerity wariness over there there is a lot of wealth of. head so they can't be seen as giving away money even though most of this is in the form of loans they have to impose some strict conditionality for two reasons to piece their local electorates and also to make sure that this money can eventually be repaid by a more sustainable break state so they have set some very rough conditions that great politicians find very hard to stomach and there are also other issues in the sense that. you can't really pass anything and everything willy nilly and they have at the beginning of this whole process so to make an example of greece so others

don't go down the same road and if they don't disperse the money quickly which they haven't done it increases their leverage of the great politicians of the greek government to pass the kind of measures they want. more analysis on europe's debt woes on our website dot com and by the way while you're there here's what else you can find online. and find out how the sea. web site has become the latest victim in a series of hacker attacks from the anonymous group after suffering a crash on friday night. to help delay any military strike on iran bringing activists urging their government against an offensive ahead of the queen of pop smash in tel aviv in may that's and plenty of other stories for you available online at r.t. dot com. thousands of routed across europe against the international anti piracy accord known as actor people in the u.k. germany poland and lithuania have voiced their fear that the treaty would harm

freedom of speech and lead to online censorship and it has more from london. in line with hundreds of thousands of people all over europe today these people here in london behind me demonstrating against the anti counterfeiting trade agreement this new green line which would make it step by step see. if they used tyrants like it is using activists in the streets with no monetary policy in their love to me i mean very nice anonymous. anonymous it's very often where they've got that is we don't shut down the internet they're saying no actor is made of these and start internet censorship one of the main objections to the truth movement is that it's the negotiate based entirely in secret they must see the main. resign didn't. say that it isn't the secretive and undemocratic

renegotiated in secret people who you know not let city society if they have a delight to see the way to say that this will affect our civil liberties this will reduce freedom of speech this will stop us in being able to comment to hold people to crank the result is a treaty is incredibly dangerous one of the main complaints about this document is it. unclear wording that it would be easy to make an intentional copyright infringement mentally liable and also criminalizes what used to be a civil suit that means we see a lot more cases potentially like the one of a minister used in women who shared twenty four songs on the internet and found herself liable for one another half a million dollars worth of damage is essentially sixty two thousand five hundred dollars for each song that she had to share and the threat was to board seats the straight to sign it's the threat to internet service providers your experience a few chub of facebook a flicker could become very different but it's also that even innocently colectomy

to copyrighted material could actually increase with criminal sanctions this is not just about the internationally that would also apply to closed electronics and also to medicine which would make it more difficult for people countries to buy generic own trademarked cheap drugs making it more expensive for apaches to keep their people healthy basically what these people are saying is that decisions that have been made behind closed doors fundamentally affect the economies the privacy and the civil liberties of everyday people and the fact that it's been done in secret means that they can only assume that this isn't in their best interest. with reporting there from london america's mighty military presence around the world is leaving many locals with a bad taste in their mouths quite literally the pentagon is accused of causing massive and sometimes deadly pollution not just in other countries but at home to.

more. the united states department of defense the planet's biggest polluter with hundreds of military bases around the world the department is responsible for more ways than any other company or country this is a consistent pattern of a lack of concern for the environment and for human life and of course that's something that's part of an imperial mindset the problem has persisted throughout history from nuclear testing in the pacific in the fifty's fire. to nato attacks dropping depleted uranium in libya it gets into the water table and it does damage to the kidneys and the liver is very very highly dangerous some countries say they've had enough like japan which is pushing for the ouster of u.s. troops stationed in okinawa what looks like ninety thousand people in okinawa and thousands others across japan seems to represent people saying if they have been for quite some time that they.