heading. into the streets the anonymous hacktivist group calls on u.s. citizens to organize mass protests against supporters of cispa the new weapon they take gathering act heading for the senate. spain's economic pulse flatlines on staggering new unemployment figures well public dissent is stamped out by the strong and well practiced arm of the law. and ukraine's prime minister's new tax evasion trial has postponed until late may as you did to machine code fails to attend the hearing after claiming she was beaten by prison guards. online on screen with the twenty four hours a day live from moscow this is. outrage from internet users that the new u.s.

cyber security act called may soon spill into the streets the hacker group anonymous is responding to the bill by launching what it's calling operation defense face to. we are calling upon the citizens of the united states to physically protest. over the coming two months the number of protests will be held to call in companies that support this but the bill passed through the house of representatives on friday and is now on its way to the senate president obama has threatened to veto the measure of privacy concerns it may go all of the act will permit u.s. based internet companies to legally share private user information with the american government and this david seaman explains what he believes are the dangers 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 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 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 you know 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. from the online magazine spying to believes is

a blatant violation of the first amendment of the us constitution. 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. 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 not 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. but we're always going to get your view on our stories here on r.t. our website r.t. dot com is asking how far you think the legislation will get well let's look at the results on the screen the moment so far more than forty percent of you think it will become law but only after the presidential election a little believe it will spread its influence beyond the u.s. as other countries adopt similar laws the rest are equally divided between thinking a bomber will veto after the senate vote or that version take effect little darky dot com to cast your vote be good to him probably. so you can make an informed choice we've compiled and extensive background on sis before you who are different from previous cyber security expert who supports it and you can learn all

that also their. unique take on the issue. secret laboratory was able to build its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't dorna found any. mission to teach creation why it should care about you and. this is why you should care only. spain is now in a crisis of enormous magnitude with unemployment at an astounding twenty five percent above that of even nigeria the government submission however is see merely as an acknowledgement of reality one felt by millions of spaniards taking to the streets in protest. reports with so many out of work tolerance for dissent and a new learn. the spanish police forcibly arresting a student whose main crime filming what he interpreted to be police brutality.

by oh if i mean 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 only sent to prison for three years even if you know cases of offices allegedly abusing their powers 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 does not bring in the tales of the ouster of saddam represents the problems facing the right age is that message. isn't going anywhere if anything is increasing as it does so too are 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. sean if you study 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 and the even anger within parliament foods on deaf ears at the top and on my door but of to the majority of meetings in february we're not legal it means that there is no reason to institute proceedings against any policeman good. but this is no isolated event over in barcelona after last month's general strike there yet more clashes with police arrest were made 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 that we always act according to police good advice based on this we know whether to be permissive or not run the last one of them on the receiving end of public outcry and 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. j.q. groups r.t. madrid spain. in the u.s. has also strong concern over whole far with how much immunity police can push their sweeping powers and recent human rights group report blamed law enforcement officers for tasering five hundred people to death over the last decade. of annoys 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 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 and mean we why do we have to have this kind of force against people who are not owner 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 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 be afraid of the police. turning ten minutes past the hour in the russian capital coming up in just a few minutes here on r.t. the u.s. secret service tightens the screw. you good behavior rules were imposed on its agents you can find out what caused the sudden crackdown on behavior. russia freezes hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets in european banks belonging to tycoons an oligarch. moscow one of those who does the infamous sex police but as. the new trial of the next ukrainian prime minister has been put off until late may do to her absence who's accused of financial irregularities when she had of the gas company back in the one nine hundred ninety s. refused to attend the hearing citing health concerns. 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 a clinic to have her reported spinal hemorrhage treated she 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 where thousands literally beseeching the court building in hiding from the city of haifa and the prison where she is being kept and this also spurns more

control over see where 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 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. i think he had a shot here importing then the u.s. has quietly deployed a contingent of its latest and most sophisticated jets the f. twenty two to the united arab emirates pentagon officials were quick to defend the move once details and that saying they're only there for regional security when it's now discussed the location of the deployment of its goals with us and its use into an antiwar dot com jason so just how much security will deploying stealth jets three hundred kilometers from iran really bring. of course it's not going to bring

any security at all if anything it's going to increase tensions in the region convince the iranian government that next month's talks in baghdad are not serious and that the u.s. is simply negotiating in bad faith once again what the f. twenty two raptors had a troubled history has and that is being grounded for five months with technical problems something that they never have managed to think so far so are they really ready for service or is this a symbolic message to tehran. well i think i think it is largely symbolic it's the fact that they're rumored to be organizing a simulated attack around on iran with. with the cooperation of israel. certainly it would be a strong symbolic move particularly since it's supposed to come just ahead of the baghdad talks to talk about a simulated strike but do you think

a strike in reality really could happen on iran in the near future. it could but my gut feeling is that it probably won't for. in at least the next few months it doesn't seem like there's any justification for an attack of course which doesn't necessarily mean that someone is going to try to do so but i think there's. there's plenty of reason to believe that it's not going to happen right away because the whole issue is really being centered around iran's nuclear ambitions now the situation is becoming increasingly unclear because israel's government is is obviously paranoid about terror on getting that nuclear bomb yet its own army chief mossad and the cia said that iran isn't working on nuclear weapons so why are we seeing these different messages messages coming from intelligence agencies the military in comparison to what we're hearing from government levels the answer is politics as always it's it's politically very popular to haves and have

a major threat that you're. in the process of dealing with and how much better when that threat is entirely illusory in this case both israel and the united states are very interested in portraying iran as as a matter of months from acquiring nuclear weapons but they've been saying this since the one nine hundred eighty s. and of course as you said the cia and mossad have both found that iran abandoned what was a very preliminary exploration into nuclear weapons programs almost a decade ago but show that they really get sorted out with these sort of threats are enough to provoke to iran into developing a nuclear weapon on then. well they might well be and. that's always the risk i mean. the policy for the last twenty years has been to just

rail against them and threaten them all the time and certainly that's caused iran to have a much bigger military than they would otherwise need they don't really have a lot of enemies in the region especially now that saddam hussein is gone they spent quite a bit more on their military than. they really need to and it's entirely because both the united states and israel constantly threatening to attack them and keep as i say citing the reasons for those potential attacks on the nuclear ambitions perceived to be held by to iran but it but is it really what about this nuclear she hit all the the sanctions the pressure we're seeing on the tehran government is there a wider agenda here. well i think that threatening iran has sort of gained a momentum of its own and it's sort of an end unto itself i don't know that. anyone really wants to start attacking them and i'm sure there are some people in

both the u.s. and israeli governments would like to see that but i think. what do they want to see her must feel so i'm going to briefly did i want to see a region regime change like that trying to see in syria and let me just briefly oh they certainly want to but i don't think it's realistically going to happen jason when he with their thanks so much your thoughts jason did news editor that you would call thanks for telling us you. hear of his present three hundred twenty million dollars worth of assets belonging to form the tycoons on the run from russian authorities among those who've had the acid seized as for only got bodies but is off skate currently living in asylum in london and not brussels correspond to us it has more on the operation. overseas property and back accounts of several individuals charged in the high profile criminal cases of russia have been seized 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

controversial. and it's reported that about thirty 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 putin and i quote by force and he has been seen a close relationship with some chechen militants in particular. who is wanted by on 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 on issues and that's of course despite some political and diplomatic disagreements. that the u.s.

secret service has pledged to run a tight ship having issued a new call agents to crack down on behavior comes in the wake of accusations american personnel were involved with prostitutes during foreign trips with the new restrictions and some spicy details. in the heart of. 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 probation 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 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 are saying that in june two thousand american secret service agents reportedly visited the hungry dark night club very raucous a place noted for its wild parties hours ahead of a visit by then president bill clinton it became famous for its raucous nature of 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. then you can check out more of what the infamous venue had to offer before it was shot down those details on our website at the moment and here's what else is pushing food on t.v. . this is to the north of the suit up to show them the taste for so-called space cakes as the country begins cracking down on drug tourists next week plus. all the talk of waste from the international space station has been dumping reentry into its have this fear with only a few small chunks making it in the way the publishing control says they plunged into the pacific in the area as a space ship symmetry. russian charter string that you can only times with a was thirty business contracts with billion dollars so the trade investment for.

that's in addition to expected military things and seeing to all a when it comes to global diplomacy is all too scared to write your reports. a very interesting move definitely bringing a sense of more focus towards the eastern european side of the world russia and china and we've also seen president elect president medvedev really praising china sort of saying that it should be the main focus and saying that it is a place of rapid development a very big contract with the eastern energy company and the state power grid of china which signed a long term contract totaling about twenty five years which would under the contract the russian far eastern company will supply electricity to china through interstate electric transmission we've seen friday the end of the military drills in the yellow sea the general director for those drills pointing that out and saying that the naval drill was a complete success mainly focusing on those six day maneuvers and watching out for

that air defense and really just involving exercises with that air traffic marine search rescue operation not to mention just last year between the two countries russia china relations we saw the contracts being signed where if further contract . resigned those contracts could be paid for in their own currencies therefore excluding the dollar excluding the euro we also see both countries sharing similar views on syria and on libya so that's another thing that both nations do you agree very much on so yet again a very positive move certainly seeing those relations strengthen and continue so all in all very good news. current to russia that they consider themselves descendants of an ancient tribe which has been in existence in the promise land for thousands of years for some the journey back has taken years but at the end of the pilgrimage they were faced with government oppression in the very place they thought of as home. follows the struggle for recognition.

deep in israel's negative desired other women and seven 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 relights descendants of ancient israel we sing about the river jordan we didn't sing about mali or song timbuktu we sing about jericho jerusalem and canaan. 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 benami 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 benami 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 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 now is the taking place there polygamous strict

begins 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. now twenty six minutes past the hour let's check out what else is happening around the world in our world update police have used to gas and water to disperse tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets of the malaysian capital demonstrators led by an opposition backed the former group believe the current electoral system is having advantage to the 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. you had observers arrived in the

syrian city of idlib following reports of the deteriorating situation in the region the visit comes after the government highlighted a surge in murders and kidnapping cases reportedly carried out by groups in the country meanwhile lebanon has seized a cache of weapons aboard a syria bound ship within its waters a cargo was apparently being smuggled in for syrian rebel forces and contained artillery shells rockets rocket launchers and rifles. so that brings up today for the moment here in o.t.l. but with a recap of our main stories for you just two or three minutes from now this is all to life in the sky.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is encroaching upon all the birds. to leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former stimulus empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have fallen bases in

america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are fine are the noises our noisy doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know thing else you get everything you needed. if. you.