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heading off line and into the streets the anonymous activist group calls on u.s. citizens to organize mass protests against supporters of the new web data gathering heading for the senate. strange economic flatlines on staggering new unemployment figures while public dissent is a strong and well practiced arm of the law. and ukraine's ex prime minister's new tax evasion trial is postponed till late may as you get to machine code fails to attend the hearing after claiming she was beaten by prison guards. on the screen with a twenty four hours a day life from moscow this is. outrage from internet users the new u.s.
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cyber security act called cispa may soon spill into the streets the hacker group anonymous is responding to the bill by launching what it's calling operation defense phase two. we are calling upon the citizens of the united states to physically protest over the coming two months a number of protests will be held to companies that supports this but the bill passed through the house of representatives on friday and is now on its way to the senate because of the bomber has threatened to veto the measure citing privacy concerns if made nor the act will permit u.s. based internet companies to legally share private news information with the american government to them as david seaman explains what he believes on the day just behind it. they're going after people before they've even committed anything that's a legal. case that. where they added that now they can do this to protect children to protect minors this could be something as 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
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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 or 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. and from the online magazine spiked believes is a blatant violation of the first amendment of the us constitution. can anyone
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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 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
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government will drive to control not just our freedom online but our freedom to publish ideas more widely. well we're always keen to get your view on our stories here in our to our web site r.t. dot com is asking how far you think that display she will get well let's look at the results on the screen so far more than forty percent of you think that it will become law but only after the presidential election a little under a third believe it will spread its influence beyond the u.s. as other countries adopt similar laws rest or speak with a divided between thinking about what will veto this bill after the senate vote all that atoned version will take. cast your vote. so you can make an informed choice we've compiled an extensive background on the system for you how it differs from previous cyber security actually who supports it and why you can also learn all of that online of course at the moment r.t. dot com also there is unique take on the issue.
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to build a new. mission to teach creation. why you should care only. spain is now in a crisis of enormous magnitude with unemployment twenty five percent of even nigeria the government's mission however is seen merely as an acknowledgement of reality one felt by millions of spaniards taking to the streets in protest but it grieves reports with so many out of work tolerance for the centers. the spanish police forcibly arresting a student whose main crime filming what he interpreted to be police brutality. but oh if i mean the police as usual stopped a family of immigrants began to beat
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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 are on the rise for 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 ouster that represents the problems facing the right age is that message. isn't going away if anything is increasing as it does so to 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
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especially since the new conservative government took charge late last year in favor of protestors 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 if we can't 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 that the majority of meetings in february were not legal it means that there was no reason to institute proceedings against any policeman as 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 maids but very few became public knowledge and as prime minister in spain there is an obsession to conceal the crime statistic no one knows it except the governments yet and we always act according to police good
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advice based on this we know whether to be in missive 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. your groups r.t. madrid spain. the us has also strong concern over how far and with how much immunity police can push their sweeping powers a recent human rights group report blamed norn for some officers for tasering five hundred people to death over the last decade and to govern all the managing director of reason dot com says for americans the first reaction to police is fear rather than trust. there are questions about our situations that in the past might have been resolved by you know let's hang back and wait for this person down let's . pick him up at the next block after he runs out of breath or something like that
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become situations where officers clearly move in and just try and take you know 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 why do we have to have this kind of force against people who are not 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 as 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 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
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be afraid of the police. coming up in just a few minutes from now here in the u.s. secret service type the screws good behavior room posing as agents find out what caused the something to crack down on but i've been a. plus b. to russian household with one hundred siblings believes the key to family happiness is the love. stories to become a neutron of the next ukrainian prime minister has been put off until late may due to her absence. who's accused of financial irregularities when she heard of the gas company the nine hundred ninety s. refused to attend the hearing citing health concerns he's an ex he had a shift explains. not only believes 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 twist 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
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a clinic to have her reported spinal hemorrhage treated she believe she claims that the wards covered her and blanket and landed several punches in her hand this week a 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 showing tymoshenko walking three 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 this time it's no exception with thousands literally beseeching the court building in hiding from the city of five and the prison where she is being kept and this also spurns more control over see with some in the crowd claiming that friday's terrorist attack in the city of the put off school was orchestrated by the government to draw the attention from the tymoshenko case certainly that's a very wild rollercoaster right i'd like to remind all of you was that she is now
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spending seven years in prison for the abuse of power and 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. coming up here on r.t. this are are we in the midst of a global depression. we've been trying. to spend to spend to spend the spam so we stop spending because of depression. following yet another european financial collapse in rumania the president asks if it's time to admit the problem may be more widespread than we thought. so that's a little later for you here and in the meantime europe has frozen three hundred twenty million dollars worth of assets but only to form a tycoon's on the run from russian authorities among those who've had their assets seized as the fallen on a dog but he's currently living in asylum in london and. has more on the
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operation. overseas property and back accounts of several individuals charged in the high profile criminal cases of russia have been seized and this is at the request of the russian prosecutor's office some two hundred twenty million dollars worth of assets were confiscated in france switzerland monaco and ukraine and one of those individuals. is of course controversial. and it's reported that about thirteen million euros worth of his assets were taken in france and this is in connection with a couple of embezzlement cases leveled against him by russia his relationship with russia is to say that it does go beyond these high profile financial criminal cases in the past have said that he is on a mission to bring down the reputed and i quote by force and he has been seen as having a close relationship with some chechen militants in particular. who is wanted by on
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an act of terrorism but looking at this from a broader perspective this whole operation between russia and the. step forward in this is significant mark of progress in terms of the two sides implementing judicial request on working together all legal issues and that's of course despite some political and diplomatic disagreements. that the u.s. secret service has pledged to run a having issued a new rules for surgeons the crackdown on behavior comes in the wake of accusations american personnel were involved with prostitutes during foreign troops. with new restrictions on some spicy details on an earlier scandal right in the heart of moscow. 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 the bringing
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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 there in colombia ahead of the visit by president barack obama he called the agents in question knuckle heads 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 has quoted informed sources saying that in june two thousand american secret service
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agents reportedly visited the hungry dark night club very raucous place noted for its while parties hours ahead of a visit by then president bill clinton it became famous for its raucous me show the hungry duck especially it's ladies' night reading a mass strip tease by nine hundred twenty women hungry duck closed in two thousand and nine after years of problems with your mauritius but all of these stories are going to do little to calm the swirling storm of controversy around the u.s. secret service. reporting there check out are more of what the infamous hungry then you have to offer before a shutdown. those details are on our website at the moment is what else is waiting for you r.t. dot com. visitors to the netherlands will soon have to shut down their taste for so-called space cakes as a country begins cracking down on drug tourists next week plus. more than
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a ton of waste from the international space station is burned up on reentry into earth's atmosphere with only a few small chunks making it all the way down mission control says they plunged into the pacific in an area known as a space ship symmetry. they consider themselves descendants of an ancient tribe which has been in existence in the promised land for thousands of years for some their journey back has taken years but at the end of their pilgrimage they were faced with government oppression in the very place they thought of as home. follows their struggle for recognition. deep in israel's negev desert other women serve an ancient people trying to build a modern homeland but these mostly black americans are not jews nor do they profess
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to be instead they call themselves african he is relights descendants of ancient israel we sang about the river jordan we didn't sing about mali or song timbuktu we sang about jericho jerusalem and 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 you know that to establish the kingdom of your and the kingdom of your represents a new idea you know 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
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arrived here in one 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 law of return these were tourney's are not seen as jewish although many feel the issue runs deeper than that when you go into it 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 that it's the they can play their 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
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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. r.t. dimona just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital let's check out what else is happening around the world in our world update this hour police have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets of the malaysian capital demonstrators led by law position backed reform group believes the current electoral system is handing a little ruling coalition and they're demanding it should be changed at least twenty people have been arrested in one of the country's largest rallies in the past decade. and observers of arrived in the syrian city of following reports of the situation in the region the visit comes after the government highlighted the surge in murders and kidnapping cases reportedly carried out by armed groups in the
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country lebanon and seized a cache of weapons aboard a syrian ship on its territory the cargo was apparently being smuggled in for syrian rebel forces it contained artillery shells rockets rocket launchers and rifles. remained his government has collapsed following a no confidence vote just two months after taking office toughest thirty policies led to the second government for in three months the country's president has nominated the left opposition leader as the new prime minister subject to parliamentary approval in recent months thousands of protesters across from a year following two years of harsh cuts. while with yet another european government forming due to austerity measures some are questioning if the global implications are even more serious than we first thought new york resident nor health minister has been trying to find no.
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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. a hard question i hope it's not so maybe some places they easily are griese hopefully not very easily either but i wouldn't say that these all is a great depression do you think it's worse in some places than better now though. it's the worst thing since the great depression probably the second great depression it'll be known in the future as the second 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 yeah they don't want to use the word the big deal word depression because by the phrase that once the pressure happened to hold their money and we've been taught sold strictly to spend spend spend spend so we stop spending because the pressure then thing and get worse so they don't want that to happen so they'll wait for the history books to call this officially depression
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and yes if we admit that we're doing things wrong which we should do everybody else you know everything else will take to the what are 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. whether or not we're living through this second great depression the bottom line is probably no one's going to have the nerve to call it that until it's over. move got to call a distant cousin you talk to him only once a year to wish him happy birthday well imagine the plight of one extended russian family that artie's a pushover has been to meet now they have more than one hundred birthdays to remember with quite a few even occur on the same day. they did. i knew the theme was trying hard to prove you know all of his one hundred and eleven siblings and cousins my heart out of which only fourteen brothers and sisters are his own and two that all
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of the aunts and 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. 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. than having one child who doesn't really count having two that's guessing the three that counts as having a child. this is the largest family in the client 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 legal and he grows up he'll be
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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 polish says his secret is loving everyone. so much 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 moscow nor rust can eat away no secrets steal from me and since his memory is far from being as good as that of sally theme except probably all his records swanson's that. are all you what here's everyone. reading from my first grandson in one hundred eighty two with those written in bold are boys telling girls i'm not ashamed of how i live my life i want you know mine and it wasn't easy the know what but i knew i had to raise them all so i still want to
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help them and do something good so they remember forever. and while his grand kids fight for attention to be grand daddy favorite of the day it's turned out pretty much impossible to get all into one shot to do with your birth at the drugstore they say once children grow up and leave home of the empty nest syndrome often hits their parents hard so it seems the only guarantee to never feel alone is having more children daria r.t. came at about age and. well coming up shortly here on our t.v. we'll see a piece of the bells on the money and first the headlines here naughty with me stay with us live in moscow.
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wealthy british style son. died last month at.
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markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our joining me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the tourists you're going to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . look. at the beauty.
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