the u.s. justice department admits it spied on their so stated press news agency but obama's administration insists it remains dedicated to protecting freedom of speech. you raise is to raise billions of dollars to reconstruct the whole tone mali but there are concerns the country is still too in secure and the insurgency too strong for rebuilding to begin. and six countries including india and china have joined the arctic council as observers potentially gaining access to the region's fast and topped energy resources.

to russia and around the world this is an see with me years of our hello and welcome to the program the u.s. justice department has defended its spying and associated press saying it was necessary to find leaks that could endanger american people the phone records of about a hundred journalists including their private numbers were seized sparking outrage in the media worldwide the white house has distanced itself from the probe saying it knew nothing about it or his will reports now on the scandal. it's being called an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the associated press and its reporters. the a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner

a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda they arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this was a very serious. a very serious leak and a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since one thousand nine hundred six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that never see the put the american people at risk and that is not hyperbole eric holder announced today he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation the prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder yesterday associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with

confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two month period provide a roadmap to news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know now the a.p. is asking for an explanation as to why the government pulled reporters' phone records without notifying them the worry now is the effect the news will have on the media and its sources i think the effect on the media has already been felt in . you have sources that are being shut down doors just being shut in people's faces now that was probably the intention the intention was to scare. the turn off the faucet in other words from leaks in the wake of the controversy white house press secretary jay carney reiterated the obama administration's dedication to transparency he believes strongly in the need for the press to be unfettered in its

pursuit of investigative journalism he also believes strongly as a citizen and as president in the need to ensure that classified information is not leaked because it can endanger our national security interests this balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going after whistleblowers prosecuting more people for leaking classified information than any other administration combined and washington was wall r.t. . and they contribute to option what's hansei says that no whistleblower will now risk getting associated press valuable information. they weren't able to notify the head of associated press because it would undermine the security of the whole operation the idea of justice anyway in the united states around the world that we see now how can there be a problem of justice with torturing august strike is even cuba and as for eric holder himself well what exactly are they thinking when they're actually naming

associated press the american taxpayer will have to be reparations to associated press because let's face it no whistleblower source is now going to call the a.p. desk in new york or washington d.c. and generally it has to be said that given the obama administration's attitude you're not really an american journalist if you're not if your phone calls aren't being recorded or at least the phone logs are being noted down and sent to the f.b.i. . let's move on now european leaders and delegates from all over the world a meeting to raise billions of dollars in aid for war torn mali is the highest level gathering since france sent troops to intervene to help rebuild a country still plagued by islamist rebel insurgence saucier has more now from this summit in brussels. the leaders from the e.u. and france as well as international donors are gathering today here in brussels to

drum up and get aid and support for mali a country which has been dealing with the radical islamist militants as well as a political crisis for the last couple of years now now the french foreign minister lavrov fabulous said said that the aim of today is to raise some one point nine a billion euros a to give to the country in the what he calls a quote unquote an effort to build democracy dialogue and development now we know that france has been very much involved in the country especially in the beginning of the year when it launched a military operation into the country as saying that they were there to fight off islamist militants away from key cities now france is also in the middle of withdrawing some four thousand troops from the country wherever it does plan to keep about a thousand troops in says in what is seen as a long term a kind of posting in the country would this is in contrast to what has been told to the french people in the beginning who had given support to this military operation they were told that it was going to be a short a kind of operation however we have been speaking to some experts who are very

familiar with counterinsurgency efforts and have had firsthand experience with them and they've told us here on our t.v. that it's very difficult for counterinsurgency operations to be a short kind of war because as you drive out militants from key cities they do have a tendency to just keep coming back so there is a question of whether security is really in place to do. any military intervention creates is that you chase the terrorists from one place they move through or they consolidate somewhere else where. they are less likely to create higher living areas of the state of chaos so. it's an ideal place for going to get out but it is us they can see. what problems their assets they followed the variation of the way because they know that sooner or later. the intervention of the french in mali american enough guys not seeing. the french foreign

minister insists that security is largely in place in the country whether critics do question the extent of that kind of stability the mali may be seeing at the moment there is no argument among everybody involved that a stable mali is in the interest of a secure region a regional security however there is that question of how sustainable and how effective the efforts have been so far there are also plans of having elections in the country in july if and when that does happen what kind of a democracy and system will be put in place considering that the country is still facing some of those militant threats it's not one hundred percent out of the country also since today is largely a fund raising activity there are questions on the money now are there mechanisms that will make it should make it very transparent as to where this money is going to go and if it will actually reach its intended destination a lot of questions that need to be answered as these leaders and international donors at me today here in brussels. in just a few minutes

a spying scandal medium known corey look at the welcome to comic await a city under the compass found on a cia agent detained it makes the situation any less serious. the the no we're not talking about us old wall subgrade that's a description that's being given to britain's new fund to kill us so this supports that the submarines to run into trouble we've come here it's a barren furnace where the submarines are designed and built to find out what's going on but more on that story coming up. china and india are among six lucky nations would have permanent observer status to the council which is currently meeting in sweden hoping that it will give them access to the vast energy reserves that lay beneath the ice question and explains why the. here in north and sweden the future of hockey are tickets at stake so why

is everyone so interested in this ice coverage reach as well because it has the fast kind of edgy resources and given the harsh environment these resources are quite difficult to extract but on trees the snow and ice is around twenty two percent of all remaining oil and gas deposits not so much and of course the advanced trade routes it provides weeks of travel in particular the northwest passage that would rapidly melting ice becomes our first more trucks in the world eight north than most countries of those with costly claim to the reach there is still uncertainty however over a part of the pie should be divided among them but now some countries including the us are calling for the scrapping of territorial principles to make it a free for all choice and into i'm one of those countries who would cherish the most it's china's the time to enter the council and it has made tons of stuff

recently an entry just last month china signed it does the trade deal with the invitation iceland's chinese businessmen are not staying in mainland so far they are to counseling for those those countries that invested in the production and exploration of the north and ice caps but now the commercial interests kicks in and mainly other nations are rushing to the region and it's up to the councils of that number is to decide what the un runs the most insurance should become a crowded place like the question of reporting from q moon of sweden. and i'll be back with more news here interest a minute to stay. cool .

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it's coming to life for most of her welcome back the russian foreign ministry has launched a protest with the u.s. ambassador after a cia spray will score in moscow the american agent who works in the u.s. embassy was detained trying to recruit a russian federal security service agent and also he's an executive chef who has been following this story and joining us now live in the studio hi there like say wow what a story spy scandals are usually a very serious matter right but this one is getting quite a few laughs in the media and especially on the internet of course if you're reading the internet why is that you just have to look at some of the headlines across the western media today to understand the magnitude of the loss of their having now from russia with the wig james blog and many different headlines have come up across the western media today in relation to the spy incident the latest spy scandal because mostly. was the man detained ryan fogle had a wig on him and

a comb which in the era of a high tech technology some say is something that a spy may not have but we've already contacted several experts who've said that intelligence experts those are who said that despite that we're living in the era of high technologies still things like wigs can be very effective in terms of concealing one's identity and we also have to remember the previous scandals in the previous cases where it says the most recent anna chapman scandal when none of the media actually took the serious and said that she was most likely a model or an actress rather than a spike until the rumor was confirmed but let's dig a little deeper and go back to two thousand and six when a scandal between the u.k. and russia erupted when a russian state channel showed a documentary exposing several of the agents working in moscow gathering intel while they were doing it by means of a rock disguised by means of certain certain things certain technologies disguised

as a rock while the media was laughing out loud back then as well saying that you know this is a conspiracy theory who could possibly go on information with a rock until one of the former members of the u.k. government actually admitted that things like that existed and this was nothing but true so we have to wait and see of course whether there will be any comments from the official washington on this latest issue so is it possible that the scandal can pose a serious threat to russia u.s. relations doesn't seem this way because mostly because of the lack of comments now we know that the u.s. ambassador michael mcfaul was at the russian foreign ministry in the morning to do some explanations. regarding this incident but he had no comments not before not after the meeting with the russian officials suggesting of course along with the lack of comments coming from the russian side only very very shrewd comments coming from the russian side that this will not harm hamper the relations as they stand guard. the especially in the times when washington the moscow seems to agree on the

diplomatic level in particular about the syrian conflict so this doesn't have an indication that this will probably grow into another scandal another rub between the two countries. has lived at how the studio thank you very much indeed for that update and that's all c dot com for you right now a bar rainy human rights activist gets asylum in the u.k. after two years on the run and he launches out at london for anything bahrain's one down on the opposition we'll go this story for now website and also that. the strikers and gone tunnel they are subjected to a humiliating boarding searches before any contact with their legal representatives and reports say in a bid to prevent any leak of information about the real condition of inmates and to go the full story at home and also don't miss out more is expensive on ad coverage as the protests enters day one hundred.

on monday a deadly complements to only be a second largest city have been gaza left several people dead and many injured that's how came i made a frantic pull out of u.s. and u.k. embassies stop due to the recent spike in violence and lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine things the west could be leaving behind in matts it helped create. they created a monster that they could no longer control and it's turning against them in a way they were it's absolutely foreseeable the fact that the tony blair policy

which obama and cameron and star cozy filed implemented in the overthrow of gadhafi in orcus two thousand and eleven created this condition which was understandable and he wanted a new known was going to happen he worked directly with the outdated militias all throughout in gaza you know other parts of libya and now libya has become fund government of the so even the people who initiated the mess have to leave to protect themselves because nobody looks the check down and the situation is completely out of control. and now some other headlines from around the world this hour nigeria's president has declared a state of emergency in three states in the northeast of the country his decision was prompted by a surge of guerrilla attacks with at least twenty three people were killed in the latest round of violence on the reinforcements or to be dispatched to the troubled region with an order to demolish all islamist hideouts.

mexican all sources have restricted access to the area around the petal kanno and are preparing about curation routes people kaino has been increasingly after over the past few days the latest eruption the sending smoke or kilometers into the sky and covering nearby towns with no evacuations have taken place yet but emergency officials say the water in full rain that could wash down the ash gathering around the crater of flooding nearby community. more than fifty people are feared dead after an overcrowded boat capsized off the coast on myanmar the passengers were fleeing a township in the west of the country which is preparing for the arrival of a powerful cycloid has called for them to be evacuated from the region because many live in ramshackle currents in vulnerable low lying areas. britain is planning to spend nearly one hundred sixty billion pounds over ten years on new

military equipment a large chunk of the money will go towards a new class of nuclear submarine but the project faces serious problems the sub's nuclear reactor is money. malfunctioning and it floods underwater reports now on the high tech weaponry which is far from state of the art. the cutting edge in military technology. every decade tens of billions of pounds in the making these of britain's new class of hunter killer submarines and they've been making waves that lead to. a series of problems from ground to. corrosion this is. the astute. the damning description is a far cry from what persons ministry of defense has hailed as one of the most technologically advanced machines in the world as impressive as she sounded on

paper. launch into the public sphere it's not been an easy one the series of leaks intelligence has become clear that it. could run deeper. is that. if. the design started in the mid ninety's. you know electronics. with all the electronics. present time to try and keep up with that then you need to think about replacing equipment. as complete problem with. simple things. in the northeast of england in barrow in furness is now the only site in the u.k. that designs builds and test submarines and that work forms the backbone of the

economy here the current owner of the shipyard is be a defense systems not without its critics it's a company that shrouds itself in secrecy and it didn't disappoint when it came to addressing the alleged catalogue of errors with the submarine program having been beset by the design for allegations. we asked the aide to give us their side of the story but they declined to comment. is perhaps no surprise with the government order a seven astute class submarines only two are in the water with one still being built to any one of the things that the can play a part of obviously the people be. very protective of the stuff and you preach be. worried about the problems and that sort of look on information to be found that. it is difficult for you come to expect an understanding and there's a distinction between the protectiveness and secretiveness of local people compared

to seek to the north of the complex and that's because in terms of the local people and people there protecting them because this is their heritage state history and from the perspective you understand they are being like that because the commercialism that's that's the reason that they're being paid x. amount of money to build and design something the local pride here in the submarines is evident but even the ministry of defense is being forced into embarrassing admissions about what they've turned teething troubles really house the spam burke and so do we continue producing this loss of submarines or do we stop get it right and then start again the problem here is this is if they stop. short of submarine attack submarine. and that means that strategy. really is quite serious with the launch of the third class submarine still some way

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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry i'm boring here and washington d.c. and here's a story that we're tracking today. you hear it first here on prime interest and we're calling it bloomberg gate is heating up like a scandalous break in at a washington hotel first at goldman sachs complained they got wind that bloomberg reporters are trolling their logon records now we know at least one employee was keeping tabs on the none other of ben bernanke and to him geithner no word on how often the chairman checks the price of gold but in a related development more than ten thousand private messages sent from bloomberg terminals turned up on the web after a simple search. for the new york mayor's namesake from and we're just one week away from the most anticipated shareholder meeting of the year j.p. morgan shareholders are raising questions about come details made between board

members and their outside affiliates and we've been reporting jamie dimon himself is rumored to be on the chopping block he would however retain his c.e.o. title if you've said from the board finally we highlighted the hot i.p.o. market yesterday but the bullish or bearish i have to report that private equity groups that have been snapping up homes are going to flip them into rental property i.p.o. but they're doing it much sooner than anticipated says a blogger i have met normally i'd wait a few years to givens investors the rental of the rental management unit is a viable business so is this a sign of market top. all right let's get into what's in your interest.

ok. every day billions of shares are traded in the stock market all of the activity depends on knowing the prices at the moment you buy or sell so how does the information get out there and has it always been reliable today we're going to take a look into the fine print of stop quoting and the early eighteen hundreds the only way to receive prices was either word of mouth or handwritten messages since the useful life span of one stock quote was brief quotes didn't travel far outside of new york city.