tv [untitled] February 8, 2013 6:00am-6:30am EST
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catcalls and j.s. set the tone for cia hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing for the bombers hand-picked. tougher questions over drones torture and targeted executions. turmoil in tunisia thousands gather at a funeral for a murdered opposition leader whose assassination on antigovernment sentiment. tens of thousands march on spain streets amid calls for the government to go after a fresh round of budget cuts sees a spike in university fees and the end of free prescription drugs for pensioners.
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draft a bill in the u.k. aims to open up private online communications all forces there are concerns it's taking national security a step too far. from moscow twenty four seven this is our team. well it wasn't quite the grilling that many had predicted as president obama's choice to head the cia face the senate in his confirmation hearing the session began with. for the protesters were removed lawmakers then proceeded to john brennan on themes ranging from torture to drones but appeared to be somewhat timid in their attack is going to change a card reports now on the questions that were not asked. what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s.
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government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he is known to have been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations program so the question of who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and here's what he said none of those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent a future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks or he basically says the u.s. government could execute people who or what they haven't done yet and you would expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the level of threat as these people constitute let's imagine an angry yemeni man who
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writes in his blog bag he hates america as you can see why died in a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there are so many questions about how the administration decides to put someone on their kill list and yet there was not smear another grilling on the part of the senators to gets recidivist answers prior to the hearing a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas went to vote on quote an informed high level of social of the u.s. government determines that target is an imminent threat to them here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines a broad definition of what constitutes imminent thank you for. at the very beginning of the hearing as john brennan was delivering his remarks he was
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interrupted five times or so by protesters who stood up and express these shouted out whether their opposition to those executions senators had to take a recess for the protesters to be removed from the hearing and these protests are steered by numerous reports that the drone strikes kill innocent people as well not just suspected terrorists everybody expected tough questions on drugs but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program if saving lives and that you should take the administration's word for it. but a private hearing now awaits john brennan in order to and technicalities given his performance at the senate scholar and author common cavil says brennan's appointment could set a dangerous precedent. this is a complete of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment do grant so those are more an equal protection of the law and here with the administration is
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doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and so we can be judge jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the danger is is we're going to look good ministrations so as we can determine who the jurors. really were in any american citizen without any drugs without any problem and that is a very dangerous precedent. drone warfare its consequences and the morality of it all are up for debate in crosstalk today coming up next hour we hear how drone strikes may be breeding the very terror they seek to destroy. it's quite horrific in africa but it's getting worse i mean there's a new new drawn be
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a snow in nigeria close to mali so that you've got the west of african i as well and so it's striking up so that we're going to draw on b.s. is all over africa and i'm not sure what a surprise really why are we doing this well isn't it a strategic reason she's per the most effective recruitment tool for insurgents in the world david what do you think about that drones are an improvement on torture drones are in the movement of a ground war these are the arguments were being given and yet we didn't have a ground war in yemen we might need one eventually up with the damage the drone strikes are doing but this is we're being told that this type of murder is better then all of their human rights abuses. now thousands of people have gathered in tunis is capital for the funeral of a key opposition figure who's assassination became the catalyst for the latest wave of anti-government yury country's authorities are bracing themselves for more
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unrest or trade unions have launched a general strike. griffon or is that the funeral and joins us live on the line now our maria we understand that crowds have joined the funeral procession what's happening right now where you are. hi carol i am right now right in the middle of the funeral processions and they get tired of certain right thousands have gathered for the funeral of chokri belaid tape in a very well regarded man a very popular here in tunisia and he's also been a vocal very harsh critic of the government and especially also be an islamist. party a local branch of the muslim brotherhood and this is why people come here they're chanting from time to time and the government. and some of the. we've been able to speak to are accusing constantly the leader of another person in the second nucci or been responsible for the assassination these accusations are very serious
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understand that we've been hearing that from too many people today what the mood is very trying to albury right now quite peaceful here at the army is protecting people who die and yeah i probably i guess you can now hear there are helicopters also it was a big big day here in tunisia. but it's a very dangerous situation is turning for an hour for the country's history because there was we've seen today was really witnessing now or it today just very similar to patient for always what we saw here two years ago algeria in the arab spring revolution and tunisia was the country over a fringe people are fighting against completely different region right now but again they are as keen for the government to step down well and it's a it's a it's a it's a real crisis here really to speak to one of the opposition leaders alpine village
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and he tells us that what they need right now is the olive trees that the gallon and the government and the opposition especially as they are now the party dominating this and you just really in college and on the wise men of tears tears and blood will come. detainees actually we've seen some tears in from blog. agassiz rather than glad to die because following the assassination on one day there have been many protests not only in the capital but throughout the country and there have been many questions between police and opposition supporters and at least one . person died but there have been many injured people of course well it's a very tense here on the ground and what the right spin is that there are no signs of any political solution there because there is an internal crisis an internal division within the government as they say that the ruling party has rejected on
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thursday that enough they run prime minister to form a nonpartisan government from our town and figure is a nonaffiliated a political process and it's a great national strike here all the capital is anti everything is quiet and we are hearing that quite has been canceled well. it's a very serious situation and we have to wait to understand how it will affect the future of the country but it is a key toric moment for the country. ok maria thanks for the heart of the story there thank you for that. now georgia's parliament is edging the president out of power is preventing him from making his an address he's term in office doesn't end until october all comes for a crackdown on the centers and revelations of human rights abuses with details coming up. plus fireworks on a spectacular garner show roundoff a day of celebration in russia's black sea resort of sochi talking one year until
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the most expensive winter olympics ever. there are tens of thousands of students and teachers have taken to the streets of spain the largest day of protests so far and it calls for the government to step aside sprains public sector is facing fresh cuts to education expected to be nearly five billion euros bullshit producer the media agency spoke to some of the demonstrators. hundreds of people are gathered here in madrid to complain about cuts in education they are mostly students parents of students and teachers but the education is not their only concern they're also demanding the resignation of the government the government of money i know the horse has been accused of receiving bribes from private companies and opening bank accounts in switzerland looking at the people you can see buttons saying calling spain the last vegas of the european union and also complaining
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about the lack of democracy that people are protesting and there is no solution to their complaints the salary of a teacher. if i have to pay a mortgage and everything i can to send two kids to university i will have the money and how he's privatization in the educational sector hourman education in spain well they see everything us business know that no matter what to do it ok sure should be an occasion for people to make money out of fit today don't see it as a public service or nothing of those services the same they save you get ill if you have a problem you are a customer and you or your good they're going to make money out of you it's just a rush and they did the money and everything to their budgets we have. no provision for the public system this has become a trademark of sonny's the most ration after every large do sweeping trucks come rapidly and sweep all the streets leaving no evidence that there was
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a demonstration against the government. well a budget battle in brussels as a fresh e.u. summit kicks off two of the blocks traditionally noise zone seeing eye to eye with britain leading calls for cuts to the budget france accuses the u.k. of people kristie more on that just ahead. u.k. government is trying to get its hands on private web information it's drawn up a document referred to by some as the snoopers charter which looks to give authorities more rights to spy on its citizens online despite concerns over invasion of privacy sarah firth looks at whether such measures could enhanced national security. the main area of concern surrounds this the draft communications data bill and proposals in it that critics say could see the public left wide open to having their facebook accounts or twitter e-mails read anything that they visit
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online the websites that they gayety logs by the government now understandably those plans simply have a hugely controversial with critics labeling it the snoop is charter now perhaps more concerning is the latest report by the intelligence and security committee and they'd like to see a nationwide surveillance regime implemented now the government say that they need to do this to catch criminals and stop terrorism but there's also the members of the public saying where are safeguards when it comes to what we do online will seek more about this i'm now joined by professor and sneakily to the director studies security and intelligence studies at the university of akron thank you very much for joining us you're in support of the draft communications data bill i heard you describe yourself at a recent talk the skunk at the picnic if these keys and these proposals are so unpopular why are the government pushing them through all the time when government
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is pushing them through because the government realizes that they're needed some thirty million people use the internet to communicate with each other each day in the united kingdom people in this country. that more than one hundred years. their telephone conversations are likely to be mine if they're seen as a national security risk if there is a suspicion that a particular person is engaging serious organized crime sex trafficking to terrorism the government can then institute through as a member of the public what if i do my emails for a well if you don't want your e-mails. your normal gauge to any kind of illegal activity your e-mails won't be pro if you want if you want complete privacy don't write any letters to your friends don't speak to them on the telephone and don't send them photographs of yourself in joking that can
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very much a journey to fester and see if the house that is the solution maybe is the time for a big log of things hey someone is actually watching surface. well now we want to hear what you think on that subject today we're asking you on our team dot com what could happen if this stupid's charter is adopted by the u.k. government and here are the options will be a mass exodus from social networks email services or maybe scramble as an encryption will become increasingly common people reject the practice and fight for their rights or perhaps life will just go on as usual because honest citizens have nothing to fear but have a look to see how your voting so far yes here it is well so far majority of you think encrypt it will become more common but far behind the third say people reject this move and fight for their rights twenty percent think social networks email will see a decrease in users and just
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a small number so far believe nothing will change and that's all on our website but later here in our image is everything people amid the continuing economic crisis e.u. leaders plan to spend big on online propaganda blitz aimed at enhancing the blogs reputation by the use of social media you need that shortly. well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how 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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck and was a big picture. today
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. these are the images. from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. leaders have started tough negotiations over the books and next budget for seven years from twenty fourteen financial wrestling comes with u.k. prime minister david cameron in one corner they didn't cause for major spending cuts and crisis hit countries in the other corner. explains what else makes the
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complex. we've seen some of the leaders who had arrived here already making strong statements first of all david cameron continuously saying that if the budget is not brought down to a level that he is happy with there will be no deal we've heard from other countries who are saying that they maybe use their veto if they are not happy such as the czech republic to simplify the vicar going on right now it would be between northern and southern countries you could say the wealthier nations versus those that actually depend more on the e.u. funding and on the one hand you have countries like the u.k. germany the netherlands denmark these countries are supporting harsher cuts to the e.u. budget david cameron being the most radical and controversial taking this step now he has been demanding since november last year in two thousand and twelve that was the first try today is the second try and since that until now he's been demanding for cuts in brussels bureaucracy for instance but on the other side you have those
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countries who are dependent on these forums and one of the loudest voices on this is of france also the u.k. is coming into this summit this is the first time since david cameron announced that in or out referendum that he said that he would pose the question of whether he should remain in the e.u. twenty seventeen if he's reelected in twenty fifteen of course this is a possibility of a creating even more tension in the u.k. with the cost benefit of actually being a member of the e.u. interpreted by the other members. not being a team player in this regard and also as this talk is happening talking about budget cuts of the e.u. level we see the budget cuts on a more local ground level we've seen the protests continuing even until today people very angry at the cuts imposed on them on their livelihoods on their pensions are on their potential jobs while the e.u. cannot agree upon a budget of their own. it said that image is everything in politics and in times of
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austerity the e.u. is eager to do whatever it takes to maintain a good reputation even if it means spending big with two million euros have apparently been earmarked to spend on a p.r. war with online you skeptics well nigel farage from the u.k. independence party himself we're a skeptic think such actions show the block is unfit for purpose they decided that they got to train in house staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other
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parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of the staff are supposed to be new they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic and this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that so i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself for thirteen years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens as we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. online
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a few today a key document in russia's recent history disappears because declaring the soviet union's breakup vanishes into the recent sparking theories that we've might stand to make. also alien life forms scientists claim that our galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable planets more about that at r.t. dot com. the georgian parliament has postponed president saakashvili dress after his party now minority refused to agree to constitutional amendments removing his rights to fire the government the president's party lost its grip on power in a recent parliamentary vote on a crackdown on protests and claims of human rights abuses against political prisoners all these alexia share skee has been hearing some firsthand accounts. georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state will be one of the top business destinations in the world while it would be high to grow up at comic freedom according to the world bank i'll be
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number one fighter with corruption worldwide and many think people started to believe in the stations people started to believe them ocracy it was because it is georgia really a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your gaze viewpoint when he's universities rectory refused to build a prayer room he helped organize a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and sentence of four and a half yes behind bars. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating us for no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed him footage of how his wife was being raped. your he thought he was spending his time with murderers and drug barons instead he found himself among academics architects and right all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes
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the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven. he had often been joked out in school he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became president most of them were either stripped of their businesses or put to prison in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. shocking video of prisoner abuse in georgian jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than a half which lost both the election and control over the country it's not yet known where the secretary will face prosecution of the prison torture allegations but for two hundred political prisoners the change of power meant the chance to walk free because like us really well for many remain as georgia's president until october but his powers have already been transferred to the prime minister it's anyone who has already declared a national wide amnesty of political prisoners but experts say there is socialisation may take several more years. r.t.
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reporting from belief in georgia. but a brief look now at some other international that headlines a suicide bombing has reportedly injured a government fighter in mali the first such attack since french forces began their intervention the instant occurred at a military checkpoint the bomber had actually detonated his explosives in a group of soldiers becomes a day of the islamist fighters about to switch to guerrilla warfare in their battle against french backed government troops. to back to back explosions have ripped through a busy shiite. force in the killing at least twenty six people on the bombs was hidden in a box at a pet market the other words in a parked car targeting busy city areas on fridays which is the start of the muslim weekend has become a widespread terror tactic with insurgents. and the ferry carrying
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around one hundred passengers has gone down in a river in the central bank reports suggest that more than forty people have been rescued or swim ashore it's. remain missing in no immediate reports of casualties very accidents are common in bangladesh to maintain vessels and lax regulation. after a day of picture perfect celebrations work in russia as the winter olympics host city of sochi is in full swing once again the festive spirit spread not only across russia but reached the spars u.n. headquarters in new york is it not one year until the games parties under former wraps up and they're meant to stay. six kids apprenticed instruction nothing so he sent on home straight into getting ahead of these games at last night's among the one year to get it and done it was a lovely shermie good feeling because of the fall it's also the skating shit. going on start up big business putting building you can see behind me that was all very
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