dot com. international journalists including an l c news crew come under rubble fire while covering the conflict in syria. u.s. we were rights groups cried foul out of the white house allows the military to keep detaining terror suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. sentiment rises to new levels across britain the country's prime minister promises to get on board with the movement before the next election.

this is coming to life for moscow hello and welcome to the park. several international journalists including n.r.c. our big news crew have had a close brush with death while covering the conflict in syria they came under rebel sniper fire as they accompanied the military on a counter insurgency sweep one of our colleagues. was injured while running for cover and he is 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 at kabul last has ripped through a petrol station parked with people in the syrian capital at least eleven have been killed and dozens injured today u.s. war correspondent ross baker says such a tux a 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 hastening 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 have been to the government of 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 fifteen also allows for the notorious gone time of a military prison to remain open despite the president's own pledge to shutdown the senate. activists say that means obama has failed the first test of his second term even before we know curation day and veteran congressman dennis kucinich things the

moves part of a tendency that undermines democracy. 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 limited 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 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 and kevin go through things that tyrone how washington is pushing the squeeze on freedoms while trying to teach other countries a lesson in human rights. currently in the u.s. courts in fact the case moving is on appeal right now the government has appealed it but a judge earlier 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. 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. feeling is holding in britain were in literacy of citizens in the country would be better for the trouble getting in prime minister david cameron has evolved with skeptic position to remain unchanged with the people and then i'm like oh no don't spoke on the station. and. the e.u.'s popularity are 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 on 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 results 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.

well the british public has always been very divided over membership anyway but the past year has been particularly difficult we've seen the chronic financial crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that grows at the same time at home they have quit playing 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 project 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. way to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top of 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 rid of 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 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 flustered or perhaps it's salvageable but with public

opinion turning towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in. and more stories of course for you ahead this hour including taming to battle and separatist sentiment in a few minutes that chinese black so problem solved by pumping money as it tries to interrogate and integrate but i should say one of its most western regions into the rest of the country. struggling to believe it's been over six months this is his a dramatic victory in the presidential race but how socialist francois hollande a really won over the branch people find out interesting.

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let's move on. before we get is people into bad 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 since bloody demonstrations four years ago it's been trying to integrate about 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 group as could not when to find out more. love 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 emerged 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 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 to bat 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 united states has been using to bat for. six decades now and says the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue. this because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations over the years china spent over sixty billion euros dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries from beer factories to cultural workshops. outside the capital 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 from the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was this. as is not easy even on the ground it's gorgeous what street was 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 billion. orgy tibet. and let's now take a look at some other news around the world and his alarming lead at the trial that somebody respiratory failure following a council peroration in cuba that's according to one of the country's stop officials it was early reporters that he was suffering complications caused by a lung infection but as well as vice president has tried the trial it is fully conscious under the constitution of the socialist president is due to be sworn in

for a third term next week one of the. side bomb attacks south of the iraqi capital has killed at least twenty seven shy people worms they were on their way from the holy city of karbala are what tens of thousands have been attending annual rituals of mourning that time follows almost two weeks of sunni protests against the current share prime minister nouri maliki the latest violence highlights they continue sectarian tensions that threaten to further divide the country. and a protest march in the trade on capital come our raising the controversial death of the map retrained in turn violent with about a dozen people arrested the twenty two year old was shot dead by police in two thousand and eight during a lunch just viewed in the south of the country by poetry indians represent about five percent of chile's population and have clashed sporadically with the authorities for years.

israel has announced it is going to build a new barrier along the occupied golan heights the reason it's service to protect its citizens from the ongoing violence is syria that has the church state has completed the bulk of the work on a fence separating yourself from egypt aimed at rooting out illegal migration and earlier my colleague at the top spoke to activist jamal jima who believes these actions have nothing to do with the safety israel has to really to recalculate what they are doing in the middle east israel dealing with the middle east as a dominating power and the try all the time to build war walls around them themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are targeting them israel has been harmed the whole very region and the area around design we are building the wall around the palestinian areas the clean that is for security but at the end that one of the worst apartheid systems in get was around the palestinian people that look people have seen it in forty percent of their land

they build world around guys and they turn goes into a jail the biggest prison in the world and you know we know how the diversity that if you wait in gaza the hours to look you're pointing syria and they are building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this learned that to keep themselves as a coupon. 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 does not going to protect israel'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 west bank and the building when it in a way that to control the palestinian people and this 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 your job or 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 and socialist francois hollande trusted him to steer the country out of stormy economic waters but as his election he rushed to found a hash less than a k. in office it appears the president has already lost a lot of the momentum that so what. 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. are. very happy that draft law has been introduced by the government to open marriage to same sex couples and option and. medically assisted procreation but we're still very concerned because. people are against same sex

marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the initial plan mayors were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where many revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central paris. menu system 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 which puts 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. the national programs including socialist voters which of course ross 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 we proved to be the far easier challenge than what awaits the french president now with the economic problem is for twenty thirteen in france looking far from optimistic he could face an uphill jordan and.

r.t. reporting from paris. france. that many well the french just think financial haven elsewhere and. get that reaction to the news that around here and wanted russian citizenship but that's just saying how glad he is that his request was. and later today as he talks to william binney a u.s. national security agency about the ways that american government is spying on its citizens and has a pretty. thanks 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 too 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 are 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 hard 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. that's coming up in a few minutes more hated debate in coastal quest the soul of al. wealthy british style. rights for.

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zero in welcome across our computer lavelle the central intelligence agency it is feared and secretive as well as the stuff of legends but the cia has a checkered history to say the least since its inception has been revealed that it consistently goes beyond the bounds of law and even morality what is the use of this agency today should it be shut down in rebuilt from the ground up. to cross out the cia today i'm joined by paul short in london he is a nonresident senior associate with the carnegie endowment in washington we have

jacob hornberger he is the founder and president of the future of freedom foundation and in philadelphia we crossed lawrence davidson he is a professor of history at west chester university all right gentlemen cross talk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want jacob if i go to you first is it time to shut down the cia. absolutely it's long past time it needs to be abolished it has no place in a free society it's just the cation was the cold war that ended a long time ago and it's really at the root of many of the foreign policy was that the american people are now suffering well that was very succinct paul how do you feel about that and i think that our gross oversimplification and distortion if there are errors that the american government makes it's not due to the cia it's due to the directions they're given and to close it down would cause immense disruption and difficult him building up an agency with comparable competence to

replace it locates i could say with you paul so the cia has never done anything without direction. that's not exactly what i said but i'm i'm not aware that there is evidence that the content the contemporary cia we're not talking about the sixty's and early seventy's and all those things which were put right by the church and the frank church investigations i'm not talking about that the contemporary cia i do not think is alleged credibly to be proceeding without direction ok lawrence you want to jump in there right i agree with your guest in london. that it really isn't practicable to shut down the in your of nation states and also i agree that the cia does not do the cia fashion in under normal circumstances it will take direct.