security measures in libya fears of a new possible uprising as the country since the revolution. continuing a deadly trend of desperation. and the e.u.'s failure to fix a. civilian casualties with its war on terror a program the pentagon announces a brand new medal for those at the remote joysticks of the death machine.

worldwide news around the clock this is. with me it's good to have you with us today. security forces. government protests because some libyans are demanding a second revolution and this comes on the second anniversary. says that the western intervention that helped the late leader is a lot of blame for the troubles in libya. afraid of a big big demonstrations like they did with not to with you know. we're not to was so there are saying to the people if you come out we would be hard with you they are taking people to the prisons airplanes are full eyeing on the you know war airplanes are flying on the air in t. believe people are mean mercenaries are coming from outside so i put the libyan government before i mean you know. the most important thing was no idea and they

were had big big controls for the time that neighbor twenty insight leave yet and any time they have the idea there was one kind of people inside yes they were throwing him away they were very hard with the al qaeda people in libya before and now it seems not to when didn't leave yet either came in sight and they are controlling every thing france italy britain all these countries are in libya now and they are controlling their. the oil and they are and they are still courting the new regime now there is a lot of italian coming inside and they say for a few days ago there are many many boats big trucks army trucks going inside deeply to who they are people saying they are coming for me to leave they are coming to to help to support you know to. defend this new government.

and ultimate outpost of desperation a man has died after setting himself on fire outside a french job center and then later self-immolation incident in an unemployment plagued e.u. and the forty three year old who had been refused benefits had reportedly been giving signals of a suicidal intentions but they went unnoticed by friends and all thora to his successor are syria has the latest. it said it reports that he had actually set a letter to some journalists saying that he was going to do this this week so the police had said that they had set of surveillance outside that employment agency but they didn't manage to see it he was already on fire they said he had entered through a side street and therefore this tragedy had happened and the man did this after finding out that he is no longer eligible for those unemployment benefits and this is not the first time it has happened in france in august we know that a fifty year old jobless man had done the same so this is a worrying sign for france for

a country that has seen its unemployment rising for the past twenty months and this after a president had been elected on a campaign of jobs and growth so we haven't seen any improvements on this must be thirteen as a battle for jobs he said that by the end of the year there would be he would be creating jobs for the french people however statistics show that by midyear the number is set to rise and let's not forget that more than three million french people this number does not include people who have quit the unemployment program because they simply have exhausted all their benefits similar to the case of the man who had just burned himself and also those young people who had never registered or those who were in part time jobs if we look at the trend we've seen a lot of suicides and attempted suicides in countries like greece one of the hardest hit euro zone countries because of this eurozone crisis there's a general feeling of a still in the country a lot of people going out in protest we've also heard of stories of suicides in italy another hard hit country so if we're looking at the trend that's happening in

europe we hope it does not continue but we could see a lot more of expressions of dissatisfaction. tests are still in reporting right there meanwhile there has been some rather dramatic growth in the gap between the rich and poor in the u.k. the stark figures revealed by a british think tank also warn that families are likely to endure at least fifteen years of squeezed incomes and feel that is that living standards recover to pre-crisis levels matthew whitaker a senior economist at the resolution foundation says it's not going to get better anytime soon but we're seeing at the moment is the squeeze on living standards which is affecting households throughout the entire income distribution and that's mainly a result of the recession and austerity policies but actually for a very sizable group around about ten million adults who live in low to middle income households and that squeeze actually started sometime before so even during the growth years of two thousands incomes and earnings within that group were

already stuck meeting they were flat lining if not falling in the realities now of life from low to middle income is that day to day pressures become much more of a struggle than they used to be so we know that two thirds of the group struggle to meet household bills and debt repayments more than half have no savings two thirds have no pension savings failing to do anything in this scenario in ending up with family and households who have no increase in their in their living standards in their innings first of all social problems because that's a very large group to be in that situation but also it's an economic problem because because this group are also consumers so they are one of the drivers of economic growth so what we what we now expect to see is that yes g.d.p. growth may return but that's not necessarily going to be enough to actually recover the position of the of these ten million. this is r.t. they may be known as the faceless killers of modern warfare but it seems the u.s. military wants them firmly in the spotlight defense secretary leon panetta has announced the creation of the so-called distinguished warfare medal which we handed

out to joystick wielding drone pilots and wage war in the battles a fall from the frontline earlier in the program here are going to explain to me exactly what it takes to get the brand new award. so you're cygnus here you have a joystick and you point click and they get an award essentially that's all it takes to get it to get a medal which is supposed to rank higher than the bronze medal which is given out to people who actually perform combat duty but according to the pentagon criteria i'm going to cite it here it will be recognizing a single act that directly affects the combat operation does not involve an act of valor and warrants it award higher than the bronze medal so instead of having to go to the front line and risk the extreme bloody violence there you can just sit in your recliner with a joystick and maybe a couple for example and just wage war from about a thousand miles away. perhaps there is the perhaps there's a basic knowledge of the territory somewhere in the border between afghanistan and

pakistan that's involved but let's compare it just sitting around basically just sitting at a base to doing something like something that was done by sergeant william stacey in two thousand and eleven he received a bronze medal bronze a bronze star which is considered to rank below the medal that we're talking about now what he did was receiving fire along with his squad from ten or twelve and we fighters from five separate fighting positions though outnumbered the senior squad held back numerous flanking attempts and accurate and me grenades and large caliber fire was hailed for questionably saving the lives of his marines this is a citation from his award citation and he actually died in combat in january of two thousand and eleven so again this man apparently did a lot less than was a person sitting at an army base and pointing a mouse and clicking on their territory somewhere in the middle east is stores abroad and stores which as you say have now been. the main awarded with those they

must have been praised for some very heroic deeds. you're talking about here yes the sergeant that was in question was actually doing something on the ground right now we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about a very. questionable by a lot of institutions specially human rights organizations that practice of protecting the united states and the world from terrorism as the pentagon the you know you don't own drone strikes. strikes where they target someone via satellite and view this brilliant camera on the drone they never hit civilians they only hit militants right that is the official version but they even had they had to change that which was which they have been rigged by them i mean the american officials the pentagon officials they stuck by that rhetoric for years until i think roughly two thousand and six when they had to acknowledge that yes indeed at least the best half of the people who are being killed by the drone strikes are actually innocent bystanders in fact there has been a research done by various universities there was

a study from from the new york university school of law as well as stanford university law school and they have said that roughly all of those killed only two percent are actually high importance targets that is those are the only two percent of people who are being killed are known terrorists ninety eight percent happen to be whoever it is very very disturbing numbers numbers are disturbing and i'm like to go back and remind you that now people who are doing this and who are basically responsible for it are going to be awarded a medal that is going to rank higher than somebody who actually laid down his life in the line of duty. reporting rather just a bit harder in the program now are still to come here on the pirates of the caribbean all the gambles robin hood legal controversy ensues as a tiny twin island state reaches for millions of dollars worth of american copyright material. a big brother the largest defense

contractor in the united states develops software that can predict your future behavior from what your social networking data of course walking a fresh wave of privacy concerns i report just ahead for you. 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 everything you thought you know. i'm tom welcome to the big picture.

is he. thank you for joining us here. in moscow where the u.s. government is stepping up efforts to spy on citizens the new defense software able to predict people's future behavior and locations however with the program only

using data that is submitted voluntarily via social networks the authorities ultimately emerge unscathed when it comes to claims of privacy violations. and investigates. those of you who are using social networks will find this interesting the world's fifth largest defense contractor raytheon a multinational firm based in massachusetts came up with a software that can map out your life and be able to predict your moves your behavior based on the formation that you provide on websites like facebook twitter or foursquare the guardian has obtained a video. where a raytheon staffer explains and shows how it works the program it's called it someone already branded it for spice just a few clicks and it creates diagrams charts maps showing who you've communicated with most online your associations and relationships places where you check in most you know over twenty five million people use this app called foursquare to alert

friends of their whereabouts so the program uses that and also the photos that people take on smartphones often have led to today and longitude details automatically embedded in them so this riot program at a quick or two can analyze all that data and as the gentleman in the video claims it can roughly predict where to find you at a given time and potentially your behavior based on your interests so this firm that developed the software a major defense contractor has acknowledged that the technology was shared with the u.s. government as part of a joint research and development effort to help build the national security system capable of analyzing quote unquote trillions of entities from cyber space that reminds me of a conversation that i had with william binney a mathematician a spying software expert who had worked for the national security agency for decades and who told us that the government is spying on people on a much larger scale and that building social networks is part of it take

a listen they were building social networks. who who's communicating and with whom inside this country so that your entire social network of everybody of every us citizen was being compiled. over time so they're taking from one company alone roughly three hundred twenty million records a day that's over time that probably cumulated up to close to twenty trillion over the years mr binney blew the whistle on this n.s.a. program saying it is a blatant violation of the constitution but with this riot software one can argue that they can see information that individuals have already chosen to make public they put it out there and most people know that privacy safeguards that for example facebook provides don't hold water really and yet people truth to share so if you don't want someone to be able to map out your entire life and to be able to potentially predict your behavior stop checking in everywhere and turn off location services on your phone or maybe you don't want that in that case no worries i

don't see that guy nature right now it's time for a quick look at the web site called let's have a look at some of the stories are standing by for you right now for example a wiki leaks founder julian assange has completed its first step towards the australian senate by submitting an application to enroll in elections despite still being holed up deep inside the ecuadorian embassy in london we've got all those details on the website. but also the world's second most powerful ice hockey league looks set to expand towards the mediterranean and they soon even included a team from basically find out which european cities are in line to join the k h l that's just a click away at odds. the u.n. says mali risks being dragged into further violence and reprisal killings fresh allegations of atrocities in the embattled west african country have emerged and this of course following the rapid advance of french intervention forces the green helping of the

un allowed to government of mali reclaim cities captured by islamic militants journalist gonzalo one shot reports for aunty. you got him money yes but if you got a. united nations already describes the situation in mali is a disaster the u.n. human rights commission says the country's caught in a spiral of violence fraught with grievous consequences the situation has been made worse in the wake of roche's fighting in and around the city of northern mali following four days of fierce resistance from insurgents complete with suicide attacks at the french military has been forced to conclude that some of the locals made an extremist because of that however some of the key areas in this conflict are still off limits to international journalists with the french army denying us passage saying it was for our own security and the u.n. high commissioner for human rights not to be belayed made it plain in a recent statement that the situation in mali is only deteriorated following the

boring military intervention you know that that the insurgency in mali's aggravated by ethnic clashes. camera crew witnessed instances of vegas exclusions and brutalities that perpetrated by the mali an army and survive. the military are not the only ones and gauged in hunting down people look at the arab world war and origin are believed to be part of the insurgency and eventually the locals are going after them as well for some time it has been difficult to find people from either of those ethnic groups anywhere in mali and this brings us back to the fact that more than three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced to flee from their homes because of the crisis the last straw for all those refugees and indeed for all of mali it's been a statement by al qaida coming out of the arabian peninsula which calls upon every muslim to join the whole war against france a war that is being fought in mali against the will of its people.

but i have a part as a twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital for police officers have been killed and six more injured in an explosion. in russia's southern republic of dagestan earlier in the morning a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint while his car was being searched by the authorities are now on a manhunt and have already killed three militants who belong to the group allegedly behind the terror act all vehicles going to and from the city of vote where the incident occurred being checked by russia's interior ministry says the fact that security forces stopped the suspects vehicle ultimately prevented an even greater tragedy among civilians and the incident comes a week off of special services in pakistan killed the remaining terrorists involved in the two thousand and ten bombing that was off the moscow metro that left thirty nine dead. now a teenager has been killed in clashes between police and protesters demonstrators there have also set up roadblocks on the second anniversary of the country's anti

regime uprising the crowds included people calling for an end to reconciliation talks between the country's opposition and the sunni would lose in two thousand and eleven the country's youth responded to calls for change and joined the arab spring two years on they still face police brutality systematic torture by the authorities and human rights abuses of the gulf monarchies crackdown on profound campaign is up to eighty killed on both sides and thousands locked up protesters say that amounts to end discrimination and release all political prisoners have not been met. let's get to some of the international headlines for you now here at the world update starting with five people that have now been confirmed dead after a plane crash landed in ukraine's eastern industrial don't yet see the turboprop with forty five passengers and crew on board overshot the runway and broke up survivors managed to escape through holes that had opened up in the plane and most

of the passengers were flying to don't yet to attend the champions league clash between local side it shocks you order and germany's a boater see a doctor and a problem with one of the engines is suspected to have caused the whole accident. and one of the world's most celebrated sportsman south african pistorius has been charged with murder shooting his girlfriend at his home pistorius also known as the blade runner made history last year after becoming the first double amputee to compete in the olympic games it's thought that he shot reeva steenkamp by accident i think police he thought she was an intruder. and south korea has unveiled a cruise missile which it says is capable of hitting even the office of north korea's leaders a country released footage of it being launched from destroyers and striking targets the move comes just two days after the north carried out

a nuclear test which drew world condemnation. of not receded on the korean peninsula since the war the nine hundred fifty s. and on top of that washington recently agreed to extend the south korea's ballistic missile range in a snob to the north. now the u.s. is on the legal defensive against the tiny caribbean nation of antigua and barbuda thanks to a ruling by the world trade organization that the twin island state is now moving to waive twenty one million dollars worth of copyright protection on american goods . some say the cases creates a dangerous precedent for piracy as aunties and reports. a heavenly spot in the caribbean welcome to antigua and barbuda a tiny country with a population of under ninety thousand people. gambling is a popular pastime here and locals and tourists alike i want says the las vegas of the

caribbean. three is that pacino as well i should say we sometimes be a stepping stone ahead of a lot of the other casinos but an even more powerful money maker here a mere decade ago was the online gaming business we once had a thriving. internet gaming industry and to get employed over four thousand people that industry is gone no juta actions of the united states legally licensed internet gambling companies provided jobs for five percent of the locals and rocketed in over three billion dollars annually but with americans as the key players u.s. officials weren't happy and bad offshore gaming even though the industry is completely legal in an america season the rest of the world catches the cold. from thousands of jobs and tremendous cash inflow to an industry crumbled and those who make it up treated as criminals they were prosecution of persons who had companies

operating companies and until you go and these for us and some of them were indicted and arrested who had their property and for seniors the potential targets people like this online gambling operator fearful of what the u.s. can do to him because of his business legally licensed in and teague or he wants to remain anonymous. zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero. zero zero zero will but it abroad until soonest forms or removed are literally hundreds of bodies stolen from millions williams. the island nation has had enough and has put a fight at the world trade organization for its legal rights money and regaining a collapsed industry it's been going on for a decade. and we think it's time to bring the plane into the w t o took the side of the tiny country in a decision that ruffled the feathers of the u.s.

the world trade organization and he has the right to basically grab the assets of the united states including in particular copyrights trademarks patents so they can sell microsoft word for a dollar each the w t o decision allows and he got to completely ignore us copyright laws until the money loss due to the online gaming collapse is made up for but limited to twenty one million dollars a year the u.s. concern now is that the w t o has potentially laid out a welcome mat for the forthcoming pirates of the caribbean but the tiny island nation says the bullion giants we have to sell to play first actually wiping out the second largest source of the a team in economy i'm sure the dispute between american mentee go frightens many moguls because of what may come next they won't talk about it on camera but for tourists the slap in the face of the us is all the gossip that kind of money it is and it's not going to hurt the u.s. economy that much as it would just in the going to be no. but there's also

will take some action against it as well while until going to have won a battle at the w t o there is still a long fight ahead the first time that a small country took on a war country in the world trade organization. and it was. kind of a you know a bad thing that the united states is just ignoring it now the ball is now in the court of this little island while the copyright left is now an official option to cash in on and to go hopes it might be able to negotiate a deal with the u.s. that is good for all before all ships have sailed and r.t. reporting from mt gun barbuda in the caribbean. oh and just a sec it's breaking the set.

helicopters flying through the air day and night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as the military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers quoted video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers.