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mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. reporting tonight on r t that leaked documents flesh out the true extent of the united states surveillance network potentially blanketing the online world but the government insists is protecting america we investigate plus turkey's prime minister remains defiant over a wave of protest against him calling the rallies illegal but sparking fears of further division of the country to. talks between the u.s. and chinese leaders are overshadowed by the country's fiery exchange of accusations of espionage and growing tension over america's came in beijing's domain. a wave of fear and fear we across france extreme parties face being outlawed after fascism brutally murder a teenager in paris. very
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good even if you just joined us kevin here live with your news update just after nine pm now here in moscow this is our top story than the sheer scale of america's surveillance empire is quickly coming to light with a new league detailing a global system dubbed prism that logs potentially people's entire online life telephones have been spared even with the authorities reportedly collecting and storing the call records of americans on mass let's go live to new york's we have a situation is there for more on this story what do we know about this or is it still very much under wraps. well kevin in a massive leak on the extent of surveillance on hundreds of millions of people that civil rights groups here in the u.s. are breathtaking more revelations on what exactly u.s. officials have been up to are being brought into the light after groundbreaking news that america's national security agency has been collecting information on
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millions of customers over on one of the country's biggest telecommunications providers arise and we now know that the sweeping monitoring also includes two other huge u.s. telecom companies. and sprint and combined these three companies have almost three hundred million subscribers and as the world has been discovering every single phone call customers have been making has been monitored by the n.s.a. and this is reportedly done regardless of whether or not there is reason to suspect that subscribers might be behind any criminal activity now the information handed over to officials includes the location time length of phone calls being made it is however said that the content of the calls is not monitored at least not yet according to reports the n.s.a. has also been cataloguing credit card transactions such as purchase information from a sweeping number of companies of course the extent of the surveillance was first discovered when a secret court order obtained by the guardian and uploaded online reveals that arise and has been giving the n.s.a.
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information absolutely on all of the phone calls being made within the united states as well as between the u.s. and foreign countries making the scope of this tracking system even wider than american territory and this comes at a time after the obama administration also acknowledged the existence of an n.s.a. and f.b.i. program prism and in a nutshell this is a program that includes nine major internet companies google facebook yahoo microsoft skype you tube apple. and these companies have been used by u.s. officials to monitor photos videos e-mails audio all other sorts of information tracking a sweeping scope of individuals online activity and the national security agency is of course you know traditionally understood to. gather foreign intelligence so the tracking of hundreds of millions of american online accounts on u.s. territory through american companies is certainly quite a revelation to put it mildly and because of the popularity of these web companies such as google and facebook for instance it's really absolutely obvious that
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communications spied upon does not just include americans and we have heard comments from europe for one namely from germany about the need to clarify the scope of this u.s. u.s. program certainly questions are also being asked about the extent of the knowledge the british government has had on the surveillance activity we also know that online freedom fighting group anonymous has leaked a total of thirteen documents curiously the one of them is the so-called strategic vision for controlling the internet of the u.s. defense department of defense also a network called an intelligence sharing network sharing data with partners around the world and while certain u.s. officials call these leaks reprehensible and continue to claim all of this has been ongoing in the name of fighting terrorism namely we've heard from barack obama saying nobody is listening to your phone calls this is not what the program is about certainly a big brother is a watchful eye of such magnitude as revealed for the first time under his presidency a leader who promised its country transparency transparency and an age when the
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u.s. as much as ever continues to try to present its democratic practices to the world a stellar maybe some of the transparency is coming. to thank you for bring us up to speed the much appreciated and of the american different. spying goes against the founding principles of the united states. i think this is a real violation of the u.s. constitution even the democrats are saying well this is legal it's been checked out by congress. but that's doesn't wash when it violates the direct prison provisions of the u.s. constitution which state that any warrant can't be a general warrant in other words they can't go mining for things which is what they're doing and also there has to be probable cause that there's been a crime committed well every citizen in america can't be. suspected of being
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a criminal now they're say they're not listening into the conversations via these prone conversations but the constitution doesn't say anything about that it just says if it's a search and this is a search and it's clearly unconstitutional even though the patriot act which is unconstitutional portions of it. ok's it so i think it's a very bad thing and also this other program that goes that actually does capture the content of emails photos that sort of thing on people overseas also captures americans as well. talking just a bit earlier on it's developed a lot of chatter tonight to do in a web site poll if you haven't done so already comes a place to do. what you think americans are going to make of these revelations that have come out to think it's fair to call them up fifty percent if you cynical about it you think kim everyone knows it was happening anyway twenty percent outraged fourteen percent if you you're relieved or you think the americans will be relieved
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that the government's doing their bit to protect the safety and people's safety issues with it being banned it does eight percent if you shocked what you say to the twenty percent of the eight percent outraged shocked kind of expected. change that of course. but what poll if you throughout the night. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images of the world from the streets of canada. operations rule the day. turkey's prime minister is looking unlikely to eat his hard line stance towards the swelling nationwide protest against him at a conference of e.u. officials in istanbul and once again accuse the protesters of violence vandalism
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saying it will be dealt with more harshly than any other european country well the demonstrators have been packing city still across the country have been doing it for a week now after police crushed a peaceful environmental sit in in tax and square that ignited those street battles which reportedly left three dead in clashes which saw tear gas water cannon and electric batteries deployed foreign policy expert barbara slavin told us the prime minister's stance of forcing the country into deeper on race. touche and to create a sort of imperial presidency and then run for two terms as president this kind of behavior is alienating people who are religious as well as those who are secular so i think he's taking a big big risk by deepening the divide among turks and he really should i think quit while he's ahead because obviously the longer he's there the more people even people who are predisposed to like him at the beginning begin to tire of his manner of governing he's somebody who lectures who sermonize is he doesn't listen very
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well in my experience and i think this is really not a good model for a country that purports to be a modern islamic democracy but as i said i think this is left a lasting damage to him personally and to turkey which of course has been you know very successful economically it's attracted many many tourists from around the world people may think twice now about going to istanbul if there is tear gas going up and down is to call avenue and in taksim square. in protest to the push to secular towards conservative islam is a key cause for the hostility towards the pro but is does rule of his really explains more about. it's been a week since the violent dispersal of protests here in taksim square and goes the park and let's take a look at one of the most important fixtures or other structures that have been here for quite some time and it's right behind me the ataturk cultural center now it's decorated with posters and slogans but that's not how it was
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a week ago in fact it was slated for demolition so why is it important for turkish people not just in istanbul but all over the country well let's go inside and take a look and find out the a cam used to house ballet and opera and was essentially a source of pride for the turks people for them it was a representation of the cultural heritage left over by kemal ataturk but everyone said ballet is not an arch worthy of the turkish people not something that turkey should be looking in aspiring to and decided to demolish this art house you can say in order to make way for a new op or house a lot of people again see this demolition or the plans for the demolition of them as a as an attempt by a new one to go backwards instead of going forwards to do away with the with the ideas that were brought here by the church to bring in everyone's own ideas into reality basically you can say that at this point a.t.m. is sort of assistance held for the protesters it's a symbol of resistance it's a symbol of protest it's a symbol really of the turkish people coming together and saying we will not let go
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of our heritage we will hold on to it even if it is dilapidated and is slated for demolition doesn't matter what the prime minister wants in the symbol. r t what if you'd like a full briefing of how turkey's troubles have developed from the outset we've had a website or tito call you'll find coverage analysis of page twenty four so. the death of a young left wing activist who was brutally beaten by skinheads has spurred a wave of protest and fear through french society the teenager's murders also pushed thousands of anti fascist protesters are going to the streets to test recent reports next. the police in france are investigating a case where an eighteen year old left a student was killed had died from injuries after being attacked by what police are
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calling a group of skinheads members of extremist fringe of far right parties and france has been a seeing a violent protests in recent months with the legalization of gay marriage coming to the forefront of the political discussion let's get some more insight from journalists an expert on terrorism and extremism claude money thank you very much for joining us today this incident of the leftist student killed by far right extremists police are saying what does this tell you about what's going on in france basically of course it's a tragedy a kid of eighteen being killed for political reasons it's stupid but it's mainly. not. a few which addicts i think. i figure so that all the pretty good groups organisation advocating. that this is a case of a right to stick sumus group or having killed
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a leftist student and you will have members of both sides weighing in on the issue of course. many probably. they would use disprove. that would explain that. which is of course not the case if there is no room i think in a democracy. thank you very much for that well with incidents like these of course the questions will be raised on what are the root causes of things that happened like this on the streets a lot of time when france is facing a recession economically a deeply unpopular president in place this is yet another issue that france will have to seriously deal with reporting from brussels. browsing online links to your favorite t.v. shows could become a thing of the past if you're in the u.k. that's if the police have their way the cracking down almost torrent websites and
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threatening to put the people writing about for years with a report of my coming very soon also to divorce so would you take president putin says big of the top job is how the split with his wife which the couple insisted on a couple. of great. wealth all told her my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm lucky enough to know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your minor point of the month. to carry out a car is on the docket nobody. thank you no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for our. freedom of speech and
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down to freedom to cost. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. the u.s. and chinese leaders are about to hold a summit would choose already being labeled an historic meeting but there's a chill down the warm smiles in california with the two countries clashing over a range of divisive issues including because ations that china has launched a cyber war against the united states is on his money portnoy explains after months of muscle flexing comes the handshaking u.s.
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president barack obama and chinese president xi jinping will likely play nice for the cameras but behind the closed california mansion doors of this first bilateral summit a tense talk over a cyber espionage hacking and rules of virtual engagement think of it as well as the jumble of biological weapons convention so one can make you well most countries agree not to do so or to use them however the u.s. has repeatedly accused the rising asian giant of widespread computer hacking just last week a report by the defense science board said nearly forty pentagon weapons programs and almost thirty other defense technologies were compromised by hackers some directly tied to the chinese military and government u.s. manufacturers have also accused china of stealing patents and designs of high technology we're also clear eyed about the challenges in china. united states has
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expressed concern about the growing threat of cyber intrusion china's defense ministry has consistently denied claims that its military is engaged in hacking and in turn pointed out the finger at washington the country's top internet security official recently claimed to have mountains of data pointing to extensive u.s. hacking aimed at china later this month the country will be holding unprecedented military drills with special i.t. units and even nato is debating whether it needs a manual on cyber wars while washington casts china as the world's most dangerous virtual threat the u.s. has been cementing plans to take down the enemy billions have reportedly been spent to create forty teams of cyber agents that will allegedly serve to thwart hackers while simultaneously launching offensive attacks against adversaries a cyber battlefield that many believe the us can't affectively control you have
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a government with many secure security holes in it you have a corporate sector that can keep its information secure i am seeing this as a war in which the united states is not winning and even experts at home say now is the time for the u.s. to be working together with leading nations like china to establish norms for cyber space activity we want a global resilient open and secure unit if the u.s. and china fail to reach consensus on how to cooperate in cyberspace the consequence many believe could lead to a virtual cold war between the world's two largest economies and charted territory that could inevitably turn the internet into a dangerous platform where friends become foes reporting from new york. r.t. . list william f.
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told me china's military is preparing for the worst. they read the writing on the wall they read that the u.s. is pressuring them through their support of the the arab spring uprisings in libya in tunisia and egypt and now putting all their might into trying to topple the regime in syria and directed toward iran which are the links to the secure oil supply lines for china's economy it's the designed by washington by the obama administration to put pressure on china at a time when the u.s. is doing just that would be so-called asia pivot which is really a china pivot that obama announced in australia back in two thousand and eleven to redirect the american military force posture toward japan with the missile defense which is directly against china and there could be another front opening up to in the side of a conflict between the u.s. and china with predictions of a trade war child is about to date to complete the deal which could become its biggest takeover of a u.s. company as katie pilfering from r.t.
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business explained to me in a gesture year earlier. these guys have been in serious competition for a long time now we know china is set to take the top spot by as soon as twenty twenty something fierce rivals in terms of business we also know that billions is traded between these countries as well actually moment ten billion already this year marina so you follow them for us of this very in prices actually doubled this time last year and triple the year before so what does that matter if it's you know about by then it makes up a fifth of all form purchases that china buys up so it's very impressive indeed and i say phenomenal growth and i want to talk about a few tensions because the one that springs to my mind has to do with the yuan we know that the u.s. is always accused of i know deliberately manipulating their currency in order to keep the export is the author has always been that tension a rumbling in the background there but plenty of billions traded box the fact that what china is buying from the you all right let's have a look because they are all going up the n.c.s. we can see that all the tentacles of it the mobile flies the computers the
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equipment or did the vision and also some of those products are actually american apple comes into the accounts as an important even though it's actually an american brown is it's made in china as we know a lot of sustainable right yeah exactly what is it that irritate some people to the us because it's the biggest most valuable company absolutely soybeans would you believe it that is the biggest import for china from america to the end of the day they've got a lot of mouths to feed the number one thing that china buy is debt they have a quarter of it from america they also buy up with state oil companies satellite companies and big hawk actually china is the biggest consumer of pork in the world and at the moment there's a four point seven billion dollar deal actually pending at the moment we've got shewn high international the biggest meat company in the world wanting to buy up smith who is the u.s. will come today and it does go through be the biggest trade deal between us and china in history.
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next. police are gunning for the online pirates even if they just point people to where they can download content they clamping down on those torrent websites that put up hundreds of thousands of legs to copyrighted material sarah firth reports it could land the people that run those businesses in jail. well there is one single favorite t.v. . listening to music or maybe sharing music with a file sharing is growing ever more popular and as its popularity so you too does the file sharing site the torrent sites that host links but that's a great unpopularity we've seen in the u.k. authorities alone with record company labels launching a precedent and torrent site campaign in the first sign of clampdown by the u.k. authorities came in a form of a letter from the national intelligence bureau and then it will that they found
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guilty of certain offenses to face ten imprisonment we're here to talk torrance with us on to him by digital policy blog. thank you for joining us i think of you first of all let's clear up because you can see here you know people all know. all net compete is listening to music watching videos when it comes to torrents and sharing fights what's the legality what's legal what's not well that's one of the problems it's a completely gray area. if you take a copy of some of the picture or music and stick it on your website that's copyright infringement if you provide a link to somebody else's storage of that same content then providing that link on the u.k. law is technically illegal however if you create a website with thousands of such things and. make money from that website then under british law under law there has been a prosecution it's
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a ratcheting up of the rhetoric and these are actually nothing more because nothing has changed in the more since these losses of being an issue ok well we're certainly going to be keeping a very closely on what happens with the investigations i will bring you all of this when we. see london. president putin's put an end to frenzy of speculation about his marriage announcing that he had his wife are divorcing after over thirty years together the couple both told russian t.v. the decision was on the couple more details want to select here and she asked well if we say that this bit of news came as a complete surprise i would say nothing at all mainly because in the history of modern russian history of soviet russia and in the times before that none of the top officials have ever made their family problems public in fact never voice their divorce in the case of cortin's family there has been mounting speculation in the media especially the tabloid media about the that the climate of relations between the president and his wife this has been going on for several years already the
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couple has been rarely seen at public different public events and have rarely been making comments about each other well now officially all of these rumors have been quashed by the president and his and his wife my job and all my activities mean i'm an absolutely public figure some people enjoy this and some don't some people simply incompatible with such a lifestyle my wife has done a nine year shift by my side basically the decision was mutual. cygnus clone like saddam i said it was in fact mutual decision our marriage is over because we barely see each other his job keeps him completely busy our children have grown up they live their own lives now we oldies i really don't like being in the spotlight all the constant travelling is difficult for me we simply don't see each other. this may actually be a sign of things to come that by going public with details of his family life put
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in may signal the whole new approach from the russia's top official stalwarts their private lives and maybe we don't know for sure but maybe the general attitude of the russia's top official store words their private life will be less secretive as it has been for many years now. coming up it's time to crunch the numbers a financial show private interest after the break. the school board in batavia illinois has decided to punish one teacher for his bad behavior by putting him on a strict probation play or what did he do to be deserve be part of this probation
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planted he do select punch a student in the face or to go in some sort of horribly racist or sexist rented from the class no he just reminded the students that as americans they have the right to not incriminate themselves to put it more simply he told the students that they didn't have to answer a question will survey about drug and alcohol use and their emotional state since the data from this questionnaire would be sent back to the private company that created it this raises even more privacy issues than just the school knowing about the student's personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they need to dull you know if you're going to live in a society based on individual rights it would help to actually teach children what those rights are but that's just my opinion.
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that afternoon and welcome the prime minister and i'm harry and boring i'm in washington to be a get your head back. and drive the point a market that is a bit of a long shot at the european central bank chief put it further easier. after rising at the last meeting nevertheless brisk market sold off on the new some are close and during the bear market territory or fall twenty percent decline the offer last month we talked today with head hedge fund manager kyle herring to end all of this and more. and you've probably heard of or high frequency trading but there's another sounding corner of the market called dark pools in the private exchanges where traders can make big transactions and stocks without tipping off the markets that the rest of us trade on the wall street journal reports that the regulator is
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probing into the shadowy corners and no command about thirteen percent of all equity trade some of the largest are jewels are operated by barclays goldman and chris weitz and ephemera is attempting to determine if the firm's priority trading is using the firm's own dark pools to manipulate the market. finally more bad news for our fair headed once favorite banker jamie diamond it looks like j.p. morgan is set to lose one point six billion dollars on some allegedly shady deals with jefferson county alabama according to bloomberg that's because it took the lead in arranging risky security deals that pushed the county into the largest u.s. municipal bankruptcy.
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