thank. you. international journalists including an r.c.a. news crew come under rubble by while covering the conflict in syria. you are human rights groups cry foul after the white house allows the military to keep any terror suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. and as anti e.u. sentiment rises to new levels across britain the country's prime minister promises to get on board with the movement before the next election.

international news live for more this is our she was me your leadership of all our hello and welcome to the program several international jon this including an aussie arabic news crew out how to close a brush with death while covering the conflict in syria they came under rebel sniper fire as they accompanied the military on a counterinsurgency sweep one of our colleagues come out some queer was injured while running for cover and 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 cameramen was also slightly wounded like me . and while i count the last has ripped through a petrol station parks with people in the syrian capital case eleven have been killed and dozens injured and a u.s. war correspondent ross baker says such attacks that typical of the western backed opposition trying to bring down a side. 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 coup 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 there 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 anger at the government after president obama extends the military's authority to indefinitely detain terror suspects including americans without charge or trial the national defense authorization act of twenty affairs he also allows for the notorious gone tunnel of a miniature present to remain open despite the president's own pledge to shut down the facility as a crowd activists say they are to means obama has failed the first test of his

second term even before inauguration day and veteran congressman dennis kucinich thankfully moves part of a tendency that undermines democracy so there are great human rights concerns here . that people could be held indefinitely violates a constitutional privilege that people have we have a constitutional challenge here where not only the national. defense authorization act but the patriot act and other legislation have gradually moved america away from a robust. freedom to a more or less. freedom that is based on proscriptions by the government this is more than problematic because what has always amazed made america america is is the fact that we follow our constitution and we protect our constitution and we

protect people against unreasonable search and seizure we protect people against being seized without a right to. know the charges against them or a right to an attorney or a right to a trial we have in the past condemned government being involved in spying now we have a much broader. spy network this is something that is profoundly anti-democratic i have repeatedly taken exception to it as a member of congress. as a blogger kevin go through things if i rony how washington is putting the squeeze on free minutes while trying to teach other countries a lesson of human rights. currently in the us courts there is in fact a case moving it's on appeal right now the government has appealed it but a judge earlier and in two thousand and twelve had actually enjoying it so i issued in junction making it so that provision of this provision that for indefinite

detention was actually not something that the government could use now the obama administration is defending that in the court think a lot of people in the united states know as much about what just happened given that it 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 when there are many policies in the united states that they are not able to you know they're 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 and t.e.u. feeling is heartening in britain were majority of citizens now feel that the country would be better off for the trouble and

all 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 a person 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 results of one poll we see things like for example british support for political parties and to european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so lots of plaid news for pro europeans at the moment so what is the main grudge the then 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 vast sums of money that leaves the british treasury and come straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible love budget cuts and it's not just the money there's also the aspect of the control of north that comes from britain brussels that many people want to see returned back to westminster so this. goes all the way to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top the political levels. 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 more fed 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 the cold shoulder transition well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself and of course 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 fluster or salvageable but with public opinion turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in. all stories of course ahead for you this hour including taming tibetan separatist sentiment in a few minutes we'll look at the chinese problems out by pumping money as it tries to integrate one of its most restive regions into the rest of the country. trying to deliver it's been over six months since his dramatic victory in the presidential race but has socialist francois allowed to really want to with the french people they found out in just a few minutes. she agreed laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new age most sophisticated which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care

about humans and. this is why you should care only. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

your xing artie's good to have you with us for years people in tibet have protested chinese rule over their land often taking drastic measures to do so with twenty eight self-immolation as reported last november alone but it says blighted amounts roshan's four years ago dreams been trying to integrate tibet into the rest of the country boosting subsidies and investment and now plans to pump in almost fifty billion dollars over the next five years to win the support of the population. when that to find out. 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 just your time in the capital where shops and businesses beneath the monastery's on the hills this is quite a normal scene for us every day believers 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 poll 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 local 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 and since the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue. because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations over the years china's spent over sixty billion u.s. dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries from beer factories to cultural workshops. outside the gap but all in one of tibet's 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 to the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was this. i sense is not easy going on the ground it's hard to see what street. but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billions. of orgy tibet. let's now take a look at some other news from around the world but is our lives lead to a good child that we're spirit true failure following a council break cuba that's according to one of the country's top officials it was early reporters that he was suffering complications caused by lung infection and as well as vice president has tried that child this is fully conscious under the constitution the socialist president is usually sworn in for a third term next week going to one of the. suicide bomb attacks south of

the iraqi capital has killed the has killed at least twenty seven shiite pilgrims they were on their way from the holy city of karbala what turns that thousands have been attending annual rituals of mourning that time call is almost two weeks of sunni protests against the current issue of prime minister nuri al maliki the latest violence highlights the continuous sectarian tensions that threaten to further divide the country. under protest march in the capital commemorating the controversial death about we train india and turned violent what about a dozen people arrested the twenty two year old was shot dead by police in two thousand and eight during a lunch dispute in the south of the country where couteur india's represent about five percent of true least popular asian and have clashed sporadically rebel sorties for years. israel has announced is going to build

a new barrier along the occupied golan heights there isn't it's as to protect its citizens from the ongoing violence or syria that has the jewish state has complete as the bulk of the work of both separating itself from egypt aimed at rooting out illegal migration and earlier my colleague bill dog spoke to actually his jamal juma 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 that are dominating power all the time to build war walls around then themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are targeting them as well has been harmed the whole region and the area around israel we are building the wall around the palestinian areas we claim that it's for security but at the end that one of the worst apartheid systems and get was around the palestinian people that look people have seen it in forty percent of their land they build world around gods and they turn goes into

a jail the biggest prison in the world i mean we know how they differ state that if you wish and god that we are still occupying syria and they are building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this land and to keep them says that if you fire him. it's not the solution that you keep building walls you need to do peace with the region you have to write to the people israel can't build its future on the expense of the people of the region and at the end building walls to protect the to protect themselves. is not going to protect israel it's 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 develop if you think there could be any compromise over this very contentious issue you know you see that you see what how the artist collating even the building the settlements in the east bound and the building in it in a way that to control the palestinian people and this is what is leading it and

pushing it for the explosion we witness in the settlers is 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. this attacking the people in the middle areas so they are russian war on the palestinian people and they want the world to 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 their years 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 we don't consider yourself as part of europe 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 hollande

trusting him to steer the country out of stormy economic waters that has. found out less than a 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 francois hollande 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 flow has been introduced by the government to open marriage to same sex couples and adoption and supposedly. 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 initial mayors were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where me and you revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris. many. 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 all on splurged 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 fast as financial problems everybody's going to have to pay france's 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 joran. and that's. reporting from barrett's. so from its controversial luxury tonks has turned to many

well for french to think financial haven elsewhere on the other call we get that we are sure to the news that as iraq the defense here has been granted russian citizenship without saying a lot of his requests it wasn't. nice to say also he talks to william binney he wants national security agency whistleblower about the ways that american government is spying on its citizens and has a preview for you. 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 have 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. one part and i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years. 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. coming up in a few minutes the latest episode of law and lifters capital account. ron

paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorifying violence revenge and torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school and maybe getting

harassed at home they feel totally alone and they see no future and no escape from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out of it you know in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's there were still plenty of guns and there were no armed officers in schools but there were no shootings society changed and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines birth thursday january third two thousand and twelve economist

nouriel roubini known as dr doom predicts it won't be long before there's another crisis in the west two months and back to seeing as this is when congress must deal with the debt ceiling and those seaquest ration spending cuts this shouldn't come as a major revelation so in the meantime from tax hikes to trillion dollar point ideas edward harrison is here to discuss what is likely to be the fallout from what he calls the fiscal cliff left and les miserables it is a hollywood blockbuster meant to show off a list actors singing chops or is it actually a valuable lesson in the economic misadventures of stated them very relevant today well jeffrey tucker argues the latter will hear why business week's cover feature is babies crying on capitol hill but what about a study that finds babies born during recessions are more likely to be delinquent teens no word on what happens if they get elected to office we'll have more in loose change plus we'll talk sped minutes an inflationary dragons' let's get to

today's capital account. nouriel roubini has an op ed in the financial times today saying the deal reached in washington on new year's day kept the u.s. from falling off the you know what however given a dysfunctional nature of the american political system it won't be long before there is another crisis to months in fact well that's not exactly rocket science given that we all know in two months the new congress will be faced with raising the debt ceiling and dealing with the secret duration spending cuts that the last congress put off in this new years deal what doesn't define space and time though are seemingly crazy ideas being discussed about padding the treasury's pockets with

a trillion dollar platinum coin or two couple of fantastical with the reality of tax hikes that were passed so when a few nuggets from the fed minutes which are out today and we have liftoff now make no mistake the lawmakers on capitol hill may be the babies but we want to know if we're going to be the ones left crying ever harrison is here to tell us he's founder of credit write downs and i'm so happy on the show thanks for being here happy new year to you let's talk about what you do the fiscal cliff let which i like that's cute it's a miniature fiscal cliff you say it was an inverted there is a little bit of a mini crisis so what do you think is going to be the impact of these tax hikes that were passed on the richest americans those making more than four hundred thousand dollars a year in income and also of course all americans who don't have a payroll tax holiday anymore that's over what's going to be the macro impact one or two percent of g.d.p. will be the impact. depends on what happens two months from now we're.