international journalists including an aussie news crew come under rebel fire while covering the conflict in syria. who are securing rights groups quiet after the white house allows the military to keep detaining tellus suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. and as anti e.u. sentiment rises to new levels of calls version the country's foreign minister promises to get on board with the movement before the next election.

hello and welcome to our seat twenty four hour news live from moscow i'm you know. our main story now are several international journalists including an aussie arabic news crew have had a close brush with death while covering the conflict in syria they came under rebel sniper fire as they accompanies the military on a counter insurgency sweep one of our colleagues come out choir was injured while running for cover here's his account. we arrived at the damascus suburb early in the morning to report on the syrian army operation we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier accompanied us the entire time he constantly kept his on the situation and helped us to escape the gunfire the rebels were firing on us my

colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof vests with the word press on them the firing was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down i hurt my arms but the syrian army doctors gave me first date on the scene so i could continue to do my job there were many other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians one of the syrian cameraman was also slightly wounded like me . meanwhile a candle in the last has a right through a petrol station box with people in the sea when capital at least eleven have been killed and dozens injured i was corespondent you have correspondent it was fake it says such a times that typical of the western backed opposition trying to bring down assad. there's going to be a lot of in the way of covert operations sponsored by outside parties that have a stake in the case to name some sort of a resolution of the situation on the surface that the western countries and including my own have stepped up their involvement in want to get assad out as fast

as possible and these are the sorts of things that we've seen historically going all the way back to the who in guatemala in the one nine hundred fifty s. in iran and so forth these sorts of provocations are very very common i think we're going to see them increase until something or other is resolved they're a pretty clearly i think the western countries don't want any kind of halfway measures they want him out entirely and i think he is not going to do that until the last possible moment. us human rights groups are venting on the government after president obama extends the military's authority to indefinitely detain terror suspects including americans without charge or trial they national defense authorization act of twenty five also allows for the notorious growing tunnel of a military prison to remain open despite the president's own pledge to shut down the facility years ago activists say that means obama has failed the first test of his second term even before we know. that it's a u.s.

bill that kevin things the white house move exposes washington's hypocrite. currently in the us courts and in fact the case moving it on appeal right now the government has appealed it but a judge earlier and in two thousand and twelve had actually enjoined it so it is used in conjunction making it so that provision of this provision for indefinite detention was actually not something that the government could use now the obama administration is defending that in the courts think a lot of people in the united states know as much about what just happened given that happened during the holidays it's fair to say that the united states should probably not be lecturing other countries about how they protect human rights or how they protect civil liberties especially one there are many policies in the united states that they are not able to you know they're not really good

policies on their own they're not protecting civil liberties of the united states citizens and they're they're not protecting the human rights of united states citizens. to transcend to foreign policy remains a key focus for washington that term congressman dennis kucinich says it's problems bunco that should they take. that. right now we're much more of a garrison and garrison plus. a powerful military which keeps asserting itself globally and it doesn't make america any safer and frankly doesn't make the world safer we're spending upwards of six hundred billion dollars for an expanded pentagon presence for more war in afghanistan and for proliferation of war in in yemen and somalia and other places we have a lot of problems here at home that we're not taking care of we have massive unemployment people are losing their homes people are losing their retirement security and i continue to say that we have to start emphasizing taking care of

things here at home instead of developing a bigger footprint around the world as far as our military presence well stories ahead here this hour including attempting to tame separatist sentiment in tibet in a few minutes we'll look at chinese plans to solve problems out by pumping money and as a tries to integrate one of its most unstable regions into the rest of the country . join me on a journey to the heart of the traveling to places hidden from the stories you going to meet some real climate insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . more

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a very very low amongst the british public at the moment we just had a poll that asked respondents to grade institutions like in school and the european union got an average grade of a d. plus from the british public that's not very very high now or a more serious note this recent poll it's really marked a tipping point because for the first time in decades the number of people that say that they would vote for britain leaving the european union is the majority of the british public so it's really turning britain turning into a nation of real euro skeptics at the moment and it's not just the result of one poll we've seen things like for example british support for political parties anti european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so lots of bad news for pro europeans at the moment so what is the main grudge that many people are holding against the.

well the british public has always been very divided over membership anyway but the past year has been particularly difficult we've seen you know the chronic financial crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that but also the same time at home they have crippling austerity measures so there's a growing resentment towards the boss sums of money that leaves the british treasury and comes straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible budget cuts and it's not just the money there's also the aspect of the control of north that comes from brussels that many people want to see returned back to westminster this. goes to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top the political levels. well indeed david cameron the prime minister has just said that the conservative party is going to be going into the next general election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that you

know the government's banking on the fact that the british public is are you going to get near set up with british membership in and that they're really confident that that's going to happen what about brussels and how is it responding to the way that britain is giving you the cold shoulder. well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself because there are reports flying around now that certain senior members of the european parliament want to offer britain a junior membership status associate membership and it would in fact be a bit of a demotion whereby britain since its grumbling so much over its membership in the european union it would have much less influence over issues within the european union itself so it's got all the hallmarks of a relationship going quite sour and now it's either going to be a question of who dumps who thought store salvagable but with public opinion

turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in for years people into bed protest of chinese rule over the land often taking drastic measures to do so with twenty eight self-immolation as reported in november alone last year but this is blunted demonstrations four years ago trying to integrate tibet into the rest of the country boosting subsidies and investment plans to pump in almost fifty billion dollars over the next five years to win the support of the population. to find out more. the communist party of china a slogan so widespread in tibet it's even displayed on taxis here everything is an ambiguous mix of modern technology and tradition communism and religion. six his son is a buddhist monk but ten years ago this elderly man joined the communist bangalore

do i knew that the party is breathing new life into our nation and me my digital in the capital where shops and businesses beneath the monastery's on the hills this is quite a normal scene for us every day even as gather in the city center to pray right outside what is traditions are very strong here but at the same time chinese national red flags are hanging almost on every poor in every building as a constant reminder which country tibet is a part of. for decades china has been accused of occupying tibet and destroying its culture human rights organizations report numerous abuses there on a daily basis some are even willing to go to the most extreme measures in protest in almost all instances protests are put down through violence so chinese security personnel will come in and more use violence to basically stop those protests we've

documented cases where the chinese state news lethal force against tibetans in one town fifteen people were shot legal authorities denial of geishas of human rights violations claiming the so often malaysians are organized from abroad accusing the worst of a full scale media assault on china the united states has been using that for. six decades now since the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue this. there are more this. seems to be human rights violations over the years china spent over sixty billion dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing in the streets from beer factories to call to workshops. outside the gap but all in one of the beds most ancient temples when we ask the monk what he thinks of the exile of their

spiritual leader the dalai lama he surprisingly said he didn't hear. the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was assessing tibet is not easy even on the ground it's hard to see what's true and what's being deliberately shown to foreigners but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billions. of tibet. and time not to take a look at some other news we're around the world then as well as leader chavez has suffered a respiratory failure following a callous hope rationing cuba that's according to one of the country's top officials it was early reporting that he was suffering complications caused by a long infection and as well as vice president has tried but chavis is fully conscious as a constitution of a socialist president is due to be sworn in for a third term in

a week. inside bomb attack south of the iraqi capital has killed at least twenty seven shiite pilgrims they were on their way from the holy city of karbala it turns out thousands had been attending annual rituals of warning that followers almost two weeks of sunni protest against the current prime minister nuri al maliki the latest violence highlights the continuing sectarian tensions that threaten to further divide the country. israel has announced it's going to build a new bahrain along the occupied golan heights the reason it says is to protect its citizens from the ongoing violence is syria said your state has completed the bulk of the work of a fence separating itself from the egypt from egypt aimed at rooting out illegal migration and earlier my colleague bill dog spoke to activists jamal zuma who believes these actions have nothing to do with the safety. israel has to recalculate what they are doing in the middle east israel dealing with the middle

east as a dominating power and they try all the time to build walls around them themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are targeting israel has been harmed the whole region region and the area around they are building the wall around the palestinian areas the clean that is for security but at the end one of the worst apartheid systems and get around the palestinian people that looked the palestinians in forty percent of the land they built around gaza and they turn goes into a jail the biggest prison in the world and you know we know how devastated the situation in gaza they are still look you point syria and they are building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this london to keep themselves as a couple years it's not a solution that you keep building walls you need to do peace with the region you have to write to the people of israel you can't build its future on the expense of the people of the region and then building walls to protect the to protect

themselves. is not going to protect israelis people's rights and they will keep claiming the rights israel's merged visible wall is its barrier separating israel from the palestinians while it's also of course building settlements in the area how do you see that situation developing do you think there could be any compromise over this very contentious issue you know you see you see what how the ideas collating even the building the settlements in the west bank and the building when it in a way that to control the palestinian people and this is what is leading it and pushing it for the explosion we witnessing the settlers attacking the palestinians every day and many villages this is north of the jordan valley is evacuated now by now by the israeli. attack on the people in the south of people on settlers attacking the people in the middle areas so they are russian war on the palestinian people and they want the wall. to bring peace to them stealing the people's land looking them in. their life is not going to bring peace in any way must realize

that change and they must they must understand this change the need for them to conciliate with the people deal with the people i. don't consider yourself part of your job or do you want to isolate yourself and look yourself within the walls from the region you can do that it's been just over seven months since french voters invested their hopes for change in socialist francois along trusting him to steer the country out of the storm economic waters but as he's alexei found out less than they gain office it appears the president has already lost a lot of the momentum that swept into power. the debate on whether gay marriage should be allowed has split french society for years with protests about the issue often ending in violence with france was all man coming to power the gay community breathed a sigh of relief but it may have been too soon activists say the new law which is

going through parliament in january is not exactly what they've been dreaming of but we are. very happy that draft lower has been introduced by the government in marriage to same sex couples and option and. medically assisted procreation but we're still very concerned because. people against same sex marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the new issue of mayors were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where many revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris. allowing same sex marriages in france and moreover permitting them to adopt children will destroy the foundations of our family institution if we allow this now the next step will be allowing paedophilia

and incest. so it seems in this scenario no side is completely happy with the french president and his electoral promise under serious pressure from bringing the french troops back from afghanistan to creating more jobs in france and preventing the country from going into austerity during his campaign to become a normal president francois hollande had made many promises some of which now experts say may backfire against the french leader and if the gay marriage law wasn't divisive enough splurge to impose a seventy five percent tax on the wealthy may become another sticking point several million years have already decided to take their businesses out of france that's called a lot of problems and it does divide the country because a lot of people realize that the rich aren't going so far as financial problems everybody's going to have to pay. a national including socialist voters which of

course frost all along when he was being elected gave the impression that this wouldn't happen the latest polls suggest popularity has dropped by twenty percent winning the election may prove to be the far easier challenge than what awaits the french president now with the economic producers for twenty thirteen in france looking far from optimistic he could face an uphill jordan. r.t. reporting from paris. so france is controversial luxury tax has sent many wealthy french to seek one out shoalhaven elsewhere and all we get further reaction to the news that. has been granted russian citizenship without to say how glad he is that his request was denied. later today r.t. talks to william binney you asked national security agency whistleblower about the ways the american government is spying on its citizens that has a preview. f.b.i.

has access to the data collected which is basically the e-mails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have at the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on the surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this can happen to to anyone if they become a target for whatever reason. if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i. or other agencies of the government can go into their database pull all that they've collected over them on them over the years and reanalyze it also retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least where if you want cards and i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years yeah so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them.

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