anonymous call on the us public to stop the controversial cyber security act. from passing through the senate they claim the bill is a blatant violation of privacy and civil liberties. ukraine postpones a new tax evasion trial of a jailed former prime minister opposition leader out of yulia timoshenko amid controversy over her ill health and claims that she was beaten up in prison. unemployment in debt ridden spain hits a new record high threatening to fuel public protests all amid fears that unlawful demonstrations will be met by a brutal police response. very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow river sue shame outcry from

internet users over the controversial cyber security act is set to spill onto the streets the hacker group anonymous is hitting back in response to the bill by launching what it calls operation defense face to. we are calling upon the citizens of the united states to physically protest having a pass the u.s. house of representatives on friday is now a step closer to becoming law and next it's heading to the senate as the white house continues to threaten a veto over the bill that 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 everybody at risk here going after people before they've even committed anything that's illegal. in that 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 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 a without telling you and b. without obtaining a warrant or getting any kind of court involvement for 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 awhile 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 to look through all of our

activities. and a look samuel from the online magazine called spike things that the system bill is one of the latest attempts by the u.s. government to limit the first amendment rights of its citizens can anyone actually night a significant act of cyber terrorism that has happened in the west and. no 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 efforts to organize terrorist attacks offline now the danger with that is that in america specifically we've recently had 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 under 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 you know try and shut down master card for 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 on. you know who supports it and what separates this bill from other cyber security so those are sort of the line you'll also find are to. take on the. good leverage. to build its most sophisticated which on it really doesn't give a darn about anything. to teach creation and why it should care about you and. this is why you should. only. live from moscow this is

r.t. in ukraine the trial of former prime minister in jail the opposition leader yulia timoshenko on fresh tax evasion charges has now been delayed until late may and the court ruled the case could not be heard in the absence of tymoshenko who refuses to attend the trial citing health problems the premier also claims she's been attacked by wardens while in prison let's get the latest now from marty's correspondent in ukraine. good to see you today cases has been surrounded by controversy from the very beginning with little sign of that changing anytime soon. well certainly has been a very wild ride this case not only you that i'm ashamed to believe that this case against her is completely politicized and orchestrated by the government she even reportedly went on a hunger strike to support the claim but also in the latest which she claims that she was physically abused by wardens in the prison where she spends her prison time

now that happened when she was to be transported to a clinic to have her reported spinal hemorrhage treated she really she claims that the wards covered her blanket and landed several punches in her and this week of photos of her bruises were made public on the internet certainly made a lot of noise here in ukraine and internationally now on the other hand there was a video published as well was showing tymoshenko walking freely in her cell as if denying the claims that she has severe back problems that has been reported by her defending lawyers and also basically giving the idea that she may be simulating this disease of hers now certainly this case has been drawing thousands of people into the streets both for and against the former prime minister and this time it's no exception with thousands literally beseeching the court you know building in hiding from the city of najaf and the prison where she was being kept from this and this also burns a lot of more controversy with some in the crowd planing that friday's terrorist attack in the city of the budget office was bored just rated by the government here to draw the attention from the tumor sankoh case certainly that's

a very wild roller coaster ride i'd like to remind our viewers that she's now spending seven years in prison for the abuse of power and she could land and the other twelve years in prison if this new case against her finds her guilty she is now this new cases all about her economic activity in the ninety's and some believe that she may be also found guilty and have her already big sentence extended by twelve years at least trying. to get the life in here thank you. spain has plunged into what the government calls a huge crisis of proportions with this jobless rate rising towards a record one in four posting the highest unemployment in. europe the country's deficit and the deteriorating economic situation are only likely to be better but a backlash from angry spaniards just. supports the more public frustration grows the harsher the author of his response becomes. the spanish police forcibly

arresting a student his main crime filming what he interpreted to be police brutality. by oh yes i mean the police as usual stopped a family of immigrants and began to beat in one thousand year old woman i took my cell phone and started to film is an action but he paid for them and i thought on 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 only sent to prison for three years. cases of offices allegedly abusing their powers on the ranis for a long time such scenes have remained relatively unknown but now the spate of mass demonstrations gripping spain bring officers actions to the forefront this crowd does not bring in its head of the of the house or that represents the problems facing the received was that message. isn't going anywhere if anything is increasing as it was so true the accusations of police brutality despite popular

anger levelled 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 i sure never said we cannot allow 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 of my daughter but of to the majority of me. things in february were not legal means that there was no reason to institute proceedings against any policeman. but this is no isolated event over in barcelona after last month's general strike there yet more clashes with police ressa made very few became public knowledge in his prime minister in

spain there is an obsession to conceal the crime statistic no one knows it except the governments and we always act according to police good advice based on this we know whether to be permissive or not the last one on the receiving end of public outcry more and more people are labeling the police as protectors of unpopular policy with officers increasingly accused of breaking the very laws they're supposed to uphold. groups r.t. madrid spain. and in the us critics also claim that justice is rarely so when it comes to matters of police brutality a recent report by international human rights groups claim that the persistent use of tasers by officers are to blame rather for five hundred deaths in america over the past ten years jim cavanaugh the managing director of reason dot com says strict national guard lines are needed in order 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 let's hang back and wait till this person comes down let's. pick him 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 of that that is the big question i mean we why do we have to have this kind of force against people who are not on of the one of the people is a guy in san bernardino county named alan kept part this gentle guy that you know the whole community knew him has 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 excuse 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 having violent offenders afraid of them is fine i don't know that all of the population should necessarily be afraid of the police. what you not see are still looking for you in this hour out of the ongoing struggle for upsets we talk to a community who returned to the land of their ancestors in israel only to find their spiritual home was one of discrimination and social injustice. i know we've had the russian family so big they call it all fit into one picture and they say the main problem they come across is a the difficulty of trying to remember everybody's bus.

well. it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. it is good to have you with us here on r t today we are coming to you live from

moscow now the u.s. secret service a round of agents so we'll have to tread carefully from now on after a sex scandal forced bosses to crack down on bad behavior the new rules were issued in the wake of accusations that american personnel brought prostitutes to the hotels during foreign trips the allegations are juicy details involving agents on the white house staff in the heart of the russian capital with more on this also with more on the new restrictions as artie's told by. the new conduct rules include a list a ban on heavy drinking and agents have to stop drinking ten hours before they next go to work there's also a prohibition on visiting disreputable establishment or from bringing foreigners back to hotel rooms and chaperones will accompany agents on trips to keep them in line this all comes after twelve agents were suspended after reportedly bringing

prostitutes back to their rooms in colombia ahead of the visit by president barack obama he called the agents in question knuckleheads and the congressional investigation into that incident has also been expanded to include another incident in two thousand and eleven in el salvador of a similar nature all of this suggests that official comments that what happened in colombia was an aberration may indeed not be the case and it appears that here in moscow the scandal may have spread here as well on this central street it's famous for its entertainment venues bars and clubs and one club in particular may have become connected to this scandal the american newspaper the wall street journal quoted informed sources are saying that in june two thousand american secret service agents reportedly visited the hungry dark night club a very raucous place noted for its wild parties and i was ahead of a visit by then president bill clinton it became famous for its raucous nature of

the hungry duck especially its ladies' night including a mass strip tease by nine hundred twenty women hungry duck closed in two thousand and nine after years of problems with your forest but all of these stories are going to do little to calm the swirling storm of controversy around the u.s. secret service. right there while i don't forget we're also covering all of our stories on line that r.t. dot com a little look into. what else is waiting for you there right now when a delicacy becomes fast food a black caviar eating contest has been held here in the russian capital attracting massive crowds all eager to participate. in the childish behavior u.s. security services closed down an entire airport after discovering that baby hadn't been screened properly those details or so what r.t. dot com.

and just a couple of minutes as the world of day but for now are they consider themselves descendants of an ancient tribal in existence in the promised land for thousands of years however returning to home soil they've been faced with the government oppression and struggling to be properly recognized paula slayer went to hear their story. deep in israel's negative desert are the women and of 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 he is with knights descendants of ancient israel we sing about the river jordan we didn't sing about mali or song timbuktu we sing about jericho jerusalem in canaan flint. and the songs were passed

down through 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 chicago still work ben-ami been used well had a vision that it was time to return home everyone is called according to their portion and our portion was in order to establish the kingdom of your and the kingdom of your represents a new idea in or 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 the enemy arrived here in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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

law of return these were tourney's are not seen as jewish although many feel the issue runs deeper than that when you go to 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 the traditions and we understand that now they can play their polygamous strict 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 promised land 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 and light to other nations and worship god not religion policy or r.t.

dimona part of north korea kicks off the r.t. world update for us now and under a new satellite image appears to show north korea preparing to test its nuclear capabilities this month south korean officials reported the digging of a new tunnel near the north's nuclear facility which are let it to believe that pyongyang is secretly planning a test north korea has already been condemned by the u.n. security council for a failed long range rocket launch on april thirteenth and could ultimately face tough assignments if it goes ahead with another test at this point it's unclear when any possible detonation that might occur. remaining government has collapsed following a vote of no confidence this marks the second time in three months such a collapse has occurred all amid tough austerity policies the country's president named the left wing opposition leader as the new prime minister though subject to parliamentary approval two years of cuts have led to widespread prostration and

protests in romania in recent months. and austerity measures lead to the fall of yet another european government some are beginning to question if this is a global recession or something even worse our resident laurie half an ist in new york she's there to find out what people think on this. are we living through the second great depression and just don't know it this week let's talk about that do you think it's the second great depression we're in where the hard question i hope is not maybe some places away 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 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 did they call the great depression the great depression well was happening exactly you know they don't want to use the word the big deal word depression because a by the phrase that once depression happened to hold their money and we've been taught sold strictly to spend spend spend spend so we stop spending because of depression then things 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 you know everything else will take two so they want to be getting out of it as soon as we admit it. we just need to admit there's a problem it's always the first. 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 college bad until it's over. here with us here in our teeth today now

a baby boom blues recent figures show that only three percent of russian families are choosing to have more than three children however. the household bucking the trend boasting a brood that small like a family forest rather than bout of just a family tree. they did the raid that. ethan was trying hard to prove he knows all of his one hundred and eleven siblings and cousins my heart out of which only fourteen brothers and sisters are his own and to that all of the onsen uncles and that's one family a bit difficult to keep track of. putting names to face is not a problem the most difficult thing really is remembering everyone's birthdays every other day we sometimes even have three or four per day under a says their 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. than having one child that doesn't really count having two that's guessing they're both three now that counts as having a child this is the largest family in the clan has fifteen children. when i was asked as a child what i wanted to be when i grow up i always said mother now our little when he grows up he'll be a father so the tradition continues and here is the happy grandfather of the one hundred and twelve as well as the great grandfather of another ten great grandsons college says his secret is loving everyone. but gas for mushy there are people who are happy 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 mosque nor rust can eat away and snow sleet can steal from me and since his memory is far from being as good as that of his grandson the theme except pavlovitch keeps all his records in order. oh you were back with here's everyone starting from my first grandson in one thousand eighty two those written in boulder boys i tonics girls well 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 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 shot. bertha that is the work they say once children grow up and leave home the empty nest syndrome often hits their parents hard so it seems the only guarantee to never feel

alone is having more children carry a pushover r.t. . ok just a few minutes here on r.t.l. we talked to a u.n. special reporter and discussed how to deal with issues of cultural differences and multi-national society that's after round up with the headlines with me researcher .

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