outrage from internet users the u.s. house of representatives passes a new web data gathering activists calling for mass protests against companies backing the controversial bill. in spain public anger over severe austerity measures grows along with a number of complaints of police brutality as critics say dissent is being violently put down. the trial of ukraine's former prime minister for tax evasion put off till late may after yulia timoshenko says abuse by prison guards left her too frail to attend the hearings. in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the hacker group anonymous

responded to the new u.s. cyber security act or cispa by encouraging internet users to take to the streets the group's launch what it's calls it an operation defense face to. we are calling upon the citizens of begin ited states to physically protest over the coming two months a number of protests will be held against companies supporting sis but the bill passed the u.s. house of representatives and now headed to the senate but president barack obama has threatened to veto the act citing civil liberty concerns if it passes cisco will permit the u.s. based internet companies if it passed to legal share private user information with the government journalist david seaman explains what he thinks are the dangers behind it. they're going after people before they've even committed anything that's illegal. in the case that they added to that amendment 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 web site you visit and do all of these things without telling you and b. without obtaining a warrant or getting any kind of court involvement full before hand or 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 we're interested in your take on our top story our t. dot com asking how far you think this isbel legislation will get so far forty

percent think this bill will become law but only after the presidential election less than a third think it'll spread its influence beyond the u.s. and other countries adopt similar laws the rest divided between saying obama will veto six about after the senate vote or that a watered down version will go into effect. after a vote. we put together an extensive background on this is before you log on and look at how it differs from the previous cybersecurity act supports it and why that's on our website. good leverage to mccurry was able to build its most so. which on fortunately doesn't give a doing about anything tombs mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in this this is why you should care only. spain now in

a crisis of enormous magnitude with unemployment soaring to an unprecedented twenty five percent millions taking to the streets in protest but as artie's jacob green's reports with our madrid with so many out of work tolerance for dissent is reached a new low. 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 and began to beat in one thousand year old woman i took my cell phone and started to film it is an action that 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. 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

is not bringing the scales of the house that represents the problems facing the right age is that message. isn't going away 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 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 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 through the majority of meetings in february were not legal 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. very few became public knowledge and. in spain there is an obsession to consume the crime statistic no one knows its extent the governments yet and we always act according to police good advice based on this we know whether it's to be. on the receiving end of public outcry and more people are labeling the police as protect popular policy with offices increasingly accused of breaking the very laws they supposed to uphold. your group's madrid spain stay with us here on r t still to come on r t what's in a name. we've been taught so strictly to spend to spend to spend to

spend so we stop spending because the depression that worries the spanish economy at serious risk of collapse the resident asked it's time to stop words and call the world economic instability a depression. and a russia freezing hundreds of millions worth of assets and european banks belonging to tycoon. including the infamous exile boris berezovsky. but first a new trial of an expert opinion ukrainian prime minister has been put off till late may due to her absence yulia timoshenko accused of financial irregularities when she headed a gas company in the one nine hundred ninety s. refused to attend the hearing citing health concerns parties alexei or show ski reports from kiev. not only believes that this case against her is completely politicize an 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 believes 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 in the city of haifa and the prison where she is being kept and this also 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 is 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 europe's frozen three hundred twenty million dollars worth of assets belonging to former tycoons on the run from russian authorities among those who've had their asses sees fall an oligarch boris berezovsky currently living in exile in london or brussels correspondent tesser cilia has more. 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 three hundred twenty million dollars worth of assets were confiscated in france switzerland monaco and ukraine and one of those individuals charge of these cases. is of course controversial with high profile all the guards and it's reported that about thirty

million euros worth of his assets were taken in france so this is in connection with a couple of embezzlement cases leveled against him by russia his relationship with russia is strange to say the least but it does go beyond these high profile financial criminal cases in the past he had said that he is on a mission to bring down putin 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 russia on acts of terrorism but looking at this from a broader perspective this whole operation between russia and the e.u. it is a step forward it is a significant mark of progress in terms of the two two sides implementing judicial request on working together on legal issues and that's of course despite some political and diplomatic disagreements the u.s. has deployed a contingent of its latest the most sophisticated jets the f. twenty two raptor to the united arab emirates pentagon officials were quick to

defend the move once details emerged saying they are there for regional security g.'s indeed snoozer editor of antiwar dot com give us his take on the aims of the mission. 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 i think it is largely symbolic it's the fact that there are rumored to be organizing a simulated attack run on iran with the cooperation of israel particularly since it's supposed to come just ahead of the baghdad talks it's politically very popular to have that 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 the cia and mossad have both found that iran abandoned what was a very preliminary exploration into nuclear weapons programs almost a decade ago you can find more on these stories on our team dot com here's what else is a click away right now. visitors to the netherlands will soon have to curb their appetite for so-called space cakes as the country starts cracking down on drug tourism next week plus. in the range of mass rallies ahead of elections a violent put down by police and see the latest images on our you tube channel you tube dot com slash hard to. believe the images are. true the candidate. giant corporations are

all. the official. from the. video. world calls and. now with the palm of your. question on the dot com russia and china bolstering their economic ties with almost thirty business contracts worth fifteen billion dollars signed at the trade investment forum in moscow this in addition to expanded military links in an agreement on global diplomacy goals as artie's current 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 was the metaphor to and 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 be russia not 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 contracts

were signed those contracts could be paid for in their own currency is 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 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. for more on this under a live by george who founder of international strategic alliances so as we've heard russia and china boosting their already considerable cooperation you think this is a sign of unity this greater sign of unity symbolic or does it have more to do with what both sides think is good economic sense. well i think if you look at the she i see the chinese restaurant corporation their first and primary objective is to a sound investment so i think the motivation has to be primarily economic plan and

obviously a mutually beneficial economic. relationship and i think it makes a lot of sense because there's certainly a lot of. economic basis for cooperation i noticed that the. seventy thirty seventy being in the amount that would be invested in russia. and given china's interest and resources are natural and energy and so on and my guess is that fair amount of that will actually take place in siberia. but russia and china recently completed a series of military drills do you think this corresponds with the us expending its military footprint in the pacific well you know these are only strategic ambiguity and the response answers and certainly the u.s. spirit to asia so call. the i think the cooperation the sino

russian drill has to be looked at in that light as a response or all the deals are going to be managed in national currencies that this kind of cooperation enable china to drop the dollar as a main reserve currency. why it's difficult for china to completely get away from the dollar they're holding too many too much dollar but they ventures something like sixteen or more bilateral what they costs want currency agreements and russia is one of them and all of these. is to allow the bilateral trade between the two countries to do without having to convert the amount into dollars first but they use it to build your local currencies and that is a internationalizing. internationalizing the i mean b. and as well as the leveraging and minimizing exposure to the dollar now china seems

to be stretching its influence beyond the region it's just granted loans to south sudan for example how do you think this is going to bang was the chinese economy well you know the china. some of the western countries that makes show call for an eight china is motivated to make investments that are mutually beneficial and obviously they have a vested interest in the oil so these are then so they did they'd been pretty active in africa in many places in africa and all of which is based on a mutually win when. they help with the local infrastructure and getting a return from their investment in the in the resources all right george co-founder of company international strategic alliances thanks very much for your insight you're welcome pleasure. well they consider themselves descendants of an ancient

tribe that's been in existence in the promised land for thousands of years for some their journey back has taken years by the end of the pilgrimage say they were faced with government oppression in the very place they thought of as home parties policy or points. 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 song timbuktu we sang about jericho jerusalem and cane in zion 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 ashikaga 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 bellamy 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 into it the worst you have a problem with color just a matter of color. and so these people of color often dismissed by mainstream israeli society for years the children could not attend the local schools they had

no health care they were mocked deportation but despite the obstacles and the ongoing struggle for recognition they take pride in the traditions and we understand that it was taking place there polygamous strict make sure everyone follows an exercise program and all 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 smile 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. dimona. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe in beirut ten policemen were injured in clashes with egyptian my girl workers over lebanon's foreign labor laws police moved to disperse a demonstration after rocks were hurled at the egyptian embassy and its guards

twelve workers were arrested lebanese law ties foreign labor is to their local employer limiting the ability to improve working conditions or change jobs. u.n. observers arrived in the syrian city of evil even following reports of the deteriorating deteriorating situation in the region the visit comes after the government highlighted a surge in murders and kidnappings reportedly carried out by armed groups in the country meanwhile lebanon seized a cache of weapons aboard a syria bound ship with its waters cargo apparently being smuggled in for syrian rebel forces containing artillery shells rockets rocket launchers and rifles. with more european governments falling to austerity measures some are questioning if the global implications are more serious than we first thought our new york resident laurie harford just hit the streets to find out.

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. this 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 will 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 yet they don't want to use the word the big deal where depression because a by the phrase i once depression happened by going to hold their money and we've been taught so 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 will 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 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. u.s. secret service has pledged to run a tighter ship having issued a new set of directives for its agents the crackdown on iran she behavior comes in the wake of accusations american personnel were involved with prostitutes during foreign visits his artie's tom bargain with more on the new restrictions and details on a past scandal right here in moscow. the new conduct rules include a list a ban on heavy drinking and agents have to stop drinking ten hours before they next

to 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 that was ahead of a visit by then president bill clinton it became famous for its raucous nature 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 would be off for a tease but all of these stories are going to do little to calm the swirling storm of controversy around the u.s. secret service. gets behind the wheel some vintage cars in moscow out but first i'll be back with a recap of the. top stories stay with us. to

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a network of military bases all around the forms of the new 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 or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power 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 noise and 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 these spaces have been here. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the

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