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anonymous hackers call on the us public to stop the controversial cyber security act from passing through the senate claiming the bill is a blatant violation of privacy and civil liberties. unemployment and debt ridden spain hits new record high threatening to fuel public protest amid fears that lawful demonstrations will be met by brutal police response. and a string of blasts in ukraine that left more than twenty people injured challenges the sorties ability to tackle security issues had to be a common bureau twenty twelve football championships. this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie. cry from internet users over the controversial cyber security act to spy is set to spill onto the
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streets the hacker group anonymous is hitting back in response to the bill by launching what it calls operation to fans phase two. we are calling upon the citizens of all you've got to physically protest this includes all occupy movement and supporting counterparts. just by having passed the u.s. house of representatives on friday is now a step closer to becoming law it's now heading to the senate as the white house continues to threaten a veto of the bill they add could allow internet companies to legally share sensitive user information with the american government a move critics say infringes on privacy and civil liberties journalist david seaman explains how this bill puts everyone at risk. they're going after people before they've even committed anything that's illegal in the case the adage that a moment where they added that now they can do this to protect children to protect minors this could be something is vague as you know somebody who is seventeen years old if you have
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a cousin and he or she is seventeen. that's enough for the government to read through all of your e-mails potentially all of your facebook messages every website you visit and do all of these things without telling you and b. without obtaining a warrant or getting any kind of court involvement before hand they can just go on this fishing expedition and see everything you've ever done online and then take it from there it's just profoundly scary i don't have a problem with spying on bad guys i have a problem on spying on people who done nothing wrong and doing it in the name of protecting children and protecting us from cyber security threats that i'm not convinced are even real there are already a lot of mechanisms for the government to see what bad actors are up to online this is just a gross invasion of the everyday person's privacy and for what i don't understand what the tradeoff is here i don't understand what we gain as individuals in exchange for giving the government this free pass look through all of our activities like samuel from online magazine spiked things the same bill as one of
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the latest attempts by the u.s. government to limit the first amendment rights of its citizens. can anyone actually name a significant act of cyber terrorism that has happened in the west ever know because it never has done it's an imagined threat and it's an imagined threat which now threatens our freedom online i don't think this is about internet security i think it's about national security generally i think this act is more likely to be used to control and monitor efforts to organize terrorist attacks offline now the danger with that is that in america specifically we've recently had a arrests of individuals for encouraging. sympathies now that used to not be possible in the american legal system because of the first amendment because of these recent cases there's a radical reinterpretation on the way of the first amendment and more broadly free speech is position in american society so i don't think we should be concerned about those that small minority can not you know try and shut down master card for
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another half an hour we should be concerned about the americans the american government will drive to control not just our freedom online but our freedom to publish ideas more widely on our website r.t. dot com we've put together an extensive background for you now who supports it and what separates this bill from other cybersecurity act obvious answers are available online and there you'll also find out you can occur before you take on beach. good leverage or we need to build a huge most sophisticated robot which on doesn't give a darn about anything. to teach creation and why it should care about you and. why you should care only on the job. now spain has plunged into what the government calls a crisis of huge proportions with its jobless rate rising towards
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a record one in four boasting the highest unemployment in europe the country's deficit and that is your reading economic situation are only likely to be met with a backlash from angry spaniards but as jake agrees now reports the more public frustration grows the harsher the authorities response becomes. the spanish police forcibly arresting a student whose main crime filming what he interpreted to be police brutality. the police as usual stopped a family of immigrants began to beat a nineteen year old woman i took my cell phone and started to film it is an action that he paid for them and i found them what they mean you know i was threatened with death beaten and locked up in a cell i was out of touch for thirty nine hours i was told i wouldn't be sent to prison for three years even if you know cases of offices allegedly abusing their powers on the rise for
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a long time such scenes have remained relatively unknown but now the spate of mass demonstrations gripping spain bringing officers actions to the forefront this crowd is not bringing the scales of the house that represents the problems they see already with that message that thank god isn't going away if anything is increasing as it does so to the accusations of police force out of sync despite popular anger leveled at austerity it's only recently there's been an apparent hardening in the response by police especially since the new conservative government took charge late last year in favor of protesters felt the strong arm of the lord valencia what started as peaceful demonstration was met with batons tear gas and rubber bullets of the shore never said if we counsel our young men to be had in the face while handcuffed because the only thing that slaps in the face here is democracy. but even anger within parliament fools on deaf ears at the top but my daughter but of
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to the majority of meetings in february were not legal it means that there was no reason to institute proceedings against any policeman because he took it on but this is no isolated event over in barcelona after last month's general strike there yet more clashes with police. rest of mates but very few became public knowledge and as prime minister in spain there is an obsession to consume the crime statistic no one knows it except the governments yet and we always execute into police good advice but a crazed we know whether it's a b. c. of the not the last one of on the receiving end of public outcry and more and more people on labeling the police as protect has hope in a policy with offices increase of the accused of breaking the very laws they supposed to uphold. to here greece madrid spain and the us critics also
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claim justice is rarely served when it comes to matters of police brutality a recent report by an international human rights group blames the persistent use of tasers by police for a five hundred deaths in america over the past ten years ten kavanaugh the managing director of reason dot com says strict national guidelines are needed to protect the public from extreme police measures. there are questions about our situations that in the past might have been resolved by you know what's going to matter in the city when we wait till the person to. pick them up at the next block after he runs out of breath or something like that become situations where officers clearly move in and just try and take possession of a person in a way that they wouldn't have in the past we have a lot of video that that is the big question i mean we do we have to have this kind of force against people who are not only one of the people was a guy that we did a lot of coverage of at reason dot com that reason t.v.
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he's a guy in san bernardino county named alan kept part of this is gentle guy that you know the whole community knew him that has you know almost like a forest gump figure he was tasered to death he was tasered nineteen times by. you know there were probes in his flesh to prove it there's a civil case going on the officers were all excused all he is accused of apparently and the police reports are so opaque that it's been very hard to figure it out but apparently all he did was honk at a sheriff who may or may not have cut him off in traffic not having violent offenders afraid of them is fine i don't know that all of the population should necessarily be afraid of the police. i still have for this hour here in our team the ongoing struggle for acceptance to a community return to the land of the your ancestors in israel only to find their spiritual home was one of discrimination and social injustice and we and their russian family so big they can't all fit into one picture and say the main problem
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they come across is remembering everyone's birthday. and more than twenty people remain in hospital after a series of explosions rocked the ukrainian city of knepper betrothed a total of twenty nine were injured when four consecutive blast went off within an hour in public areas causing widespread panic the suspected terror attacks stoke fear not only among the locals but also abroad as the country prepares to host the euro two thousand and twelve football tournament in june reports. for some residents of new but it all skewed ukraine their regular from jordan and through the city was cut short. and they just got so much. but those were smashed the windows shattered all i remember from when i got up there was smoke and dust everywhere and women were crying. i was selling tickets when it came out of nowhere i grabbed my knees trying to hold on with you when
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there was blood all over i got out sat down on a bench and blacked out it was a powerful blast trousers i was wearing were all covered in holes i couldn't see if my legs were injured but the subject it's a horror of previously unseen in ukraine's third largest city for homemade explosive devices hidden in trash cans detonated one after another a tram stops even doctors admitted they were startled to see so many seriously injured. that we have been treating people mostly for shrapnel injuries to the back chest or face but this is some of what we've removed from the patients audi's certainly one man's arm was almost completely ripped off from the blast and this is being amputated after we were unable to save it he is the most serious injuries of all the victims we're treating for many hours the city was gripped by panic people stayed in their offices fearing more lost public transport was suspended cell phone connection was down twitter was flooded with messages of not four but ten
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explosions which proved to be mere speculation given a well coordinated nature of the blast authorities had no doubt this was a terrorist attack. the system only it's another challenge for us for zero country so we're going to think of a proper response to it which will find a way to tackle it we'll have the best investigators working on this case ukraine is not known to have any terrorist organizations operating on its soil and all of those in the past were treated as acts of hooliganism by authorities and the timing of this attack just could not be warse but only the country. going through difficult political times with some already using the bloss to gain points but is also about to welcome many guests from a broke. the attacks on me but at the office are still being investigated but they already have very serious implications we are only forty days away from the start
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of the euro twentieth well food bowl championship in ukraine and poland and the authorities are now under severe pressure do we can solve the hundreds of thousands of football fans who will be coming here let's see reporting from kiev in ukraine now more pictures and video footage of the string of blasts in ukraine are available on our website and that's our dot com for the very latest taken had there .
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baby boom blues recent figures show that only three percent of russian families are choosing to have more than three children however are to call them at the household bucking the trend boasting a brood that's more like a family forest than a family tree they get and they'd that i knew ethan was trying hard to prove he knows all of his one hundred and eleven siblings and cousins my heart out
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of which only fourteen brothers and sisters are his own and to that of the aunts and uncles and that's one family that's a bit difficult to keep track of. putting names to faces no problem the most difficult thing really is remembering everyone's birthdays every other day we sometimes even have three or. under a says that parents had only thirteen children but each of his siblings and it up with many kids of their own so the reality of having children for the chaparral family is taken to a completely different level. i don't even look at anyone having one child who doesn't really count having two that's guessing the three now that counts as having a child. this is the largest family in the clan has fifteen children especially when i was asked as a child what i wanted to be when i grow up i always said i'm a mother now our legal. he'll be
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a father so the tradition continues and here is a happy grandfather of the one hundred and twelve as well as the great grandfather of another ten great grandsons i think the polish says his secret is loving everyone. there are people who are happy not buying a car or building a country house that's fine by me but my joy is internal i look at all of them they are my riches that neither moscow nor rust can eat away no secrets steal from me and since his memory is far from being as good as that of his grandson you feel him except probably which keeps all his records in order. that all what you want back accuse everyone starting from my first grandson in one thousand nine hundred two those written in bold are boys atomics girls i'm not ashamed of how i live my life i worked in a mine and it wasn't easy but you know what i knew i had to raise them all and i
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still want to help them and do something good so they remember me forever. and while his grand kids fight for attention to be granddaddy's favorite of the day it's turned out pretty much impossible to get them all into one child. with her at the drugstore they say once children grow up and leave home the empty nest syndrome often hits their parents' home and so it seems the only guarantee to never feel alone is having more children daria r.t. . now don't forget we're also covering all our stories on line authority dot com and now let's take a look at what else is there for you right now i want to delicacy becomes fast food black carrier eating contest has been held in the russian capital tracking crowds of foodies eager to participate in. face to face social networks unite former extremists and their victims who are connecting online to tackle terrorism the
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details are at are two dot com. they are an ancient tribe who managed to establish a modern community in an israeli desert by the journey to the promised land was one plagued by racial discrimination and government oppression for mattie years artist falsely or heard their story. deep in israel's negative desired other women serve an ancient people trying to build a modern homeland but these mostly black americans are not jews nor do they profess to be instead they call themselves african hebrew israelites descendants of ancient israel we sang about the river jordan we didn't sing about mali or timbuktu we sang about jericho jerusalem and canaan's land and the songs were passed down through
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the generations born and brought up in the united states they believe that when the ancient jerusalem temple was destroyed by the romans their ancestors fled to east africa from where they were taken to america as slaves in one thousand nine hundred sixty six as chicago steel worker ben-ami been used well had a vision that it was time to return home or everyone is called according to their portion and our portion was you know to establish the kingdom of york and the kingdom of your represents a new idea upon the planet and so ben-ami set forth with some four hundred people who much like moses in the bible spent two and a half years wondering in liberia before reaching the promised land when bellamy arrived here in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine just under half of those who had left america with him had managed to finish the journey this was to become their home here in the negev desert but successive israeli governments made their lives difficult because ironically while the country is founded on the so-called
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law of return these were tourney's are not seen as jewish although many feel the issue runs deeper than that when there are two at the worst you have a problem with color just a matter of color. and so these people of color are often dismissed by mainstream israeli society for years their children could not attend the local schools they had no health care they were marked for deportation but despite the obstacles and the ongoing struggle for recognition they take pride in a tradition is we understand the dynamics of what is taking place there polygamous strict guns make sure everyone follows an exercise program and are big supporters of preventative health care we are an integral part of the state of israel this was the vehicle that was used to bring us back to the problem. and it's here in the desert wasteland that the community has multiplied more than sixty fold since it first came to the negative they say their intention is to be an example of peace
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and light to other nations and worship god not religion. dimona. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and apparent suicide bomb attack in syria has killed at least sixteen people leaving several more wounded the blast happened outside a popular mosque in damascus the country has seen a string of suicide blasts recently which have mostly targeted government forces and supporters the attacks have drawn white condemnation from both sides of the conflict. the u.s. secret service has put in place a new set of conduct rules for its agents in the wake of a prostitution scandal in colombia the new policy forbid staff from drinking excessively visiting questionable establishments and bringing foreigners to the hotel rooms the conditions even apply to all duty agents. the army and government has collapsed following a no confidence vote the second to be unseated in the country in three months amid a stare any policies the country's president named
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a left wing opposition leader as the new prime minister subject to parliamentary approval two years of cuts have led to widespread frustration and protests in romania in recent months. and hysteria measures lead to the fall of yet another european governments some are beginning to question if this is a global recession or something even worse a resident laurie harvest is in new york to find out what people there think. are we living through this back in great depression and just don't know it this week let's talk about that do you think it's the second great depression where im. well that's a hard question i hope is not maybe some places that i easily agrees hopefully not very easily either but i wouldn't say that these only is a great depression do you think it's worse in some places and better in others. it's the worst thing since the great depression probably the second great
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depression it'll be known in the future as the second worst of the depression yes why are we calling that that now i don't know do they call the great depression the great depression well was happening exactly yeah they don't want to use the word the big deal where depression because by the phrase that once depression happens by going to hold their money and we've been taught so strictly to spend spend spend spend so we stop spending because depression then thing is going to get worse so they don't want that to happen so they'll wait for the history books to call this officially depression yes if we admit that we're doing things wrong which we should do everybody else will you know everything else will take to the what do we getting out of it as soon as we admit it. we just need to admit there's a problem it's always the first step. whether or not we're living through the second great depression the bottom line is probably no one's going to have the nerve to call it bad until it's over.
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now since the beginning of the two thousand and one us war in afghanistan illicit opium production in the country has increased forty fold according to iranian officials to iran as crime down to prevent illegal or katic from entering its territory becoming a world leader in seizing opium artist military contributor getting her shop has more. while the american operation enduring freedom you know afghanistan has morphed from counterterrorism to nation building right across the border in their room their resume real. the war against drugs infect your brain and counter-narcotics police both it's the highest percent of the avg an opium intercepted in the whole world almost thirty percent of the avg an opium reach has been smuggled through the iranian territory wholesale
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has been successfully intercepted by iranian counter-narcotics police iranian counter-narcotics police he's one of the most reliable professional and staunchest ally you know with joint efforts to stem this spread of the narco terrorism from afghanistan. brains happening here on r.t.m. the headlines are coming your way shortly think best. wealthy
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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our joining me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to places hidden from the tourist you're going to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . looking. good. oh did i kill innocent kids i was a calm face of course and that's never and said. i'm
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a song from the skull still with me i think of it every day. i steal the flies back from the memories and. so my soul a long time i'm just here trying to help. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i had been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my arm i got my legs i'm alive. but in the mine. when i went to vietnam i was a forward to the. head out believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but now i'm a soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as good.
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