president obama to fans a recently revealed mass surveillance program that monitors almost every aspect of people's internet and phone tippity saying security goals justify an invasion of privacy. a love hate relationship the u.s. presses china over suspected hackers attacks as america's shaky recovery becomes increasingly dependent on chinese investment. and lads' mags in the u.k. may soon be going under the counter feminist groups to say and upon the industry to have them removed from high street shops.

to be a mosque are you watching r t with me marina joshie and president obama has defended his administration's sweeping surveillance program in response to reports revealing the m president at scale of spying on americans phone and internet activity the us leaders said the encroachments on people's privacy was modest and necessary for the country's security his remarks however led to some congress members accusing him of betraying the values he once advocated to see if you're going to reports from the u.s. . and a massive leak on the extent of surveillance on hundreds of millions of people dubbed breathtaking by civil rights groups and outraged americans more revelations on what exactly u.s. officials have been popping into the light america's national security agency has been using three of the biggest u.s. telecom companies verizon and sprint to monitor all phone calls made by subscribers now combined keep in mind these three companies have a staggering almost three hundred million customers and the spying is reportedly

done regardless of whether or not there is reason to suspect scriver is of any criminal activity and this is of course shocking this includes all of the phone calls being made within the united states as well as between the u.s. and foreign countries making really the scope of this tracking system even wider than american territory and of course this comes at a time after the obama administration acknowledged the existence of an n.s.a. and f.b.i. program dubbed prism in a nutshell this program what it entails is nine major internet companies that include google facebook yahoo microsoft skype you tube apple a.o.l. and pal talk have been used by u.s. officials to monitor photos videos e-mails and audio and all other sorts of information tracking a really sweeping scope of individual's online activity and the n.s.a. is of course you know traditionally understood to gather foreign intelligence so the tracking of hundreds of millions of americans online accounts on u.s. territory through american companies is certainly a pugil revolution to put it mildly but because of the popularity of these web

companies such as google and facebook for instance it's absolutely obvious that communication spied upon does not just include americans and overall just staggering all consuming monitoring of personal data that is a major eye opening example of what obama's administration has been up to we have heard comments from europe mainly germany for example about the need to clarify the scope of this u.s. program on questions are also being asked about the extent of the knowledge of the british government in terms of what kind of knowledge it had on the survey. and sixty and how it might have cooperated and dealt with the u.s. on this as well and it's important to note that online freedom fighting group anonymous has leaked a total of thirteen documents curiously one of them the us department of defense so-called strategic vision for controlling the internet and on an intelligence sharing network which shares data with partners around the world and obama's comments on this major scandal have also been pretty curious basically the us president in a nutshell says that absolute security cannot walk hand in hand with privacy and

lack of inconvenience and you know putting aside the claim of absolute security in the u.s. certainly something that has reason to be widely questioned this seems to be a statement completely opposing a belief voiced by a founding father benjamin franklin the those willing to give up liberty for some sci fi don't deserve either one but apparently the roots of the american history that the country prides itself in now irrelevant as obama's administration tries to wash off the amount of dirt released under a leader who swore by transparency as well as present of u.s. practices of democracy to the rest of the world as absolutely stellar. now the u.s. government is likely to open a criminal investigation into the leak that revealed the scope of the surveillance operation to british and american newspapers pole rosenberg the author of the free man's perspective newsletter thinks despite this bombshell most americans are still in denial over the state of things the problem with the people in the u.s. right now is that they are not emotionally prepared to deal with the possibility of

an electronic police state it's just something that they've never that that's something that happened in east germany something that happened in china but they never think such a thing is possible in america and it's a good question over how many people will just find a reason to pass it off there was terrorism one hundred years ago there was terrorism thirty years ago these organizations spent billions before nine eleven they spent billions before the seven seventh's bombings they spent additional billions before the boss boston bombings and they occurred just the same there's going to be terrorism one hundred years from now too so it's a fallacious trade to say oh give us a lot give us all of your privacy and we'll give you security they haven't done it and they can't as always we are interested in your take on the issue and you can vote in our online poll to let us know how you think u.s. citizens will react to them mass surveillance revelations well let's take a look now at how the votes are looking this hour and as you can see in the spy

charge sixty percent of those who voted in our online poll think that government surveillance was no secret for most americans and a little over a fifth which is twenty two percent say people must be outraged and a backlash is inevitable only nine percent so far believe that it shows that the government is doing its best to protect the population about the same number are questioning why their online lives are being looked into at all and you can let us know what you think on this issue so have your say at our dot com. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seen from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day.

while barack obama is facing scrutiny at home over a large scale spied on americans he's still pressing his chinese counterpart over the suspected hacking of u.s. secrets thorny issues like cyber wars and the u.s. military buildup in china's backyard are said to dominate the second day of their historic summit in california argues mungo indo has more. president obama and chinese president xi are marking on a historic meeting in the sunnylands retreat here in the desert of southern california one of the main topics during this meeting will be cyber security now the u.s. government has been highly critical of china accusing it of hacking into u.s. military weapon systems and getting information from private companies here in the united states now china has denied that it is responsible for state sponsored

hacking and in fact internet insiders within china have said that they have also been victims of cyber attacks which have come from the united states now the united states has been very secretive about its cyber weaponry however it has been noted that the u.s. was behind the stuck next virus which caused major damage to iran's nuclear facilities it is also known that u.s. cyber command is trying to recruit thousands of hackers in order to create cyber warfare or to protect the united states from hackers themselves and even president obama has proposed in his next defense budget nearly five billion dollars for cyber security one of the hot topics during this historic meeting which will also touch on trade and on the conflict on the korean peninsula chinese president xi is also

likely to raise concerns over the u.s. military buildup in the pacific something that has caused great concern in beijing . now there is also another issue stirring concern in washington china is about to complete a deal which could become its biggest takeover over u.s. company beijing's expansion has drawn a lot of criticism from some quarters in america but some are actually welcoming the deal on your screen right now you can see an exclusive response to our teeth from todd hey more secretary of agriculture in virginia he believes that the agreement is going to be beneficial for the state as it will provide american producers with more axes to the chinese markets. well for analysis on the u.s. china relations we are now joined by gus assad i was an expert on china got to thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. as we can see china is rapidly expanding overseas and rapidly expanding its influence i should say some are not. welcoming this and see it as

a threat particularly in the united states but others on the contrary think this might be a good chance for washington to boost its failing economy what's your take on the situation. well i think thank you very much for this interview i think. china goes global and it is a phenomenon that we have to to to address the united states in the first place because they have a special relationship this bilateral relationship is is observed and official for what it was and will always witness after cooperation and rivalry i think cooperation with china is beneficial for united states without with china you would not have this big companies that are growing and growing every year we have the national not only in the south it's part of china but those soft internet china you have to see therefore to the most important companies many americans in sichuan

province the most popular so i think it is a beneficial now while my is out let me just ask you one one more thing here from the economic standpoint yes i mean it's obvious advantages of this cooperation but china also happens to be the biggest holder of the u.s. debt so does that give beijing leverage in negotiations with washington. yes undoubtedly another leap but on the other side of china is also a developing country so we see that china has the global reach but there's a partial power is not a global power as the united states soon will have to how it china survives as the size of american economy in our four five six years time and by the year two thousand and thirty will double the sounds of america's economy or still china will be an evolving country so this we have to take into account and we'll reach the

income per capita level of european countries it'll indicates to us well some are saying that in fact some experts are forecasting that the chinese economy will overtake that of the u.s. and the e.u. by twenty thirty which is not that far away so how realistic in your eview is that estimate well together together the size of the economy of the united states and the you combine and in the year two thousand and fifteen we would add japan as well so it would be good on this free. will or economy. well let's wait and see it so far but and see the projects this is in a few years time. struck to get that western start the economy is for now is this development so if there's nothing out of science fiction is something very real loud before we let you go let me ask a quick question and if you could briefly answer that a question of currency of course so there has been a lot of talk for the need of

a new global reserve currency could you say do you think you won could actually eventually replace the dollar. yeah but not now not to not even in this decade it's good that the yuan ranters its standing among other currencies in the world and actually many countries are being out of trade with china using the yuan as well. and russia then as well in other countries in all continents bad for china is not even good to replace that there are so far this should be a balance transition of power all right fs auto analyst specializing in china thanks so much for us here on your party very much appreciated. and coming up here on r.t. israeli arabs feel they are being walled off from the country's economy the latest u.n. report shows the fast majority of them live below the poverty line while israeli authorities claim the arabs just don't want to be helped and. india

is set to launch a nuclear reactors shrugging off massive protests over safety concerns while its russian manufacturers claim it could withstand a passenger jet crash that story and more coming up shortly.

we speak your language anything about the war not advanced. programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you. a little tonnage of angles stories. here. in the spanish to find out more visit. welcome back to what you are turkey's prime minister has accused the e.u. of hypocrisy and double standards over demands for an investigation. into the use of excessive force to disperse protests in turkey mistery to once as police in europe and the us are using the same methods to deal with violent demonstrators target seeing anti-government unrest running into

a second week with flash back and another night in the stamboul from where the protest has spread across the country the demonstrations have been also growing in the capital ankara though there was no police intervention earlier authorities consistently used tear gas and water cannon and dance protesters further fueling people's outrage foreign policy expert barbara slavin says everyone's defines and refusal to address criticism as undermining the country's image abroad. so far i don't think he's doing a very good job and this is a huge blow to him personally to his image and also to the turkish model which he has been touting around the middle east as something that arab countries should emulate he wants to change the constitution 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 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 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's tear gas going up and down is to call avenue and in taksim square. a man of the u.k. could soon be about to lose some of their favorite magazines shops so shops selling so-called lads' mags could face legal action for sex discrimination and be forced to take them off the shelves as

a result artie's pully boyko has more. you're allowed mags it's a booming industry aimed at young men featuring lots of pictures of scantily clad women here in britain you can buy them in your local high street shop well that could be about to change because two feminist groups armed with the support of several prominent british lawyers say that these magazines objectify women and could underpin harmful to achieve that could lead to discrimination or even violence against women so they're calling on high street retailers to stop selling the publications if they don't they say they risk being suitable ruslan by customers non-self workers alight but can you really be harassed by an anonymous old jacked sure they rank hotness of naked ladies and features chauvinist jokes but would removing them lead the line of censorship we hit the streets of london to find out what the public think choose a model and getting paid for what she's doing and that's what i did and more and

more guys are in those pictures and well it's not just girls i post you can be all quiet and see things just the culture that we're in though i don't i don't like seeing them if i walk into my as happened for i work in my local news agency and i've seen like just boobs everywhere and i have asked them to turn them over and ask me to put in higher i don't want to see and should be a choice i don't think it's harmful is who i mean it's for certain kind of person you reach that sense or any kind of press whether it's political or images or whatever within reason obviously there's the legal issues. is a dangerous is a dangerous route to go down editors on to readers of a lad mags they're up in arms their argument against removing them is simple since the magazines became popular in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. incidents of domestic violence in the u.k. have actually gone down and if lads' mags a deemed to be harassment then how long before fashion magazines and imo ties ng images deemed to be harassment as well and what's to stop men from being offended by pictures of naked males also on the covers of other magazines playboy carry on

the law. and and. well there are more stories on our website r.t. dot com including the rage of thousands in france. furious protests follow the death of a teenaged left wing activist was a random attack or a case of liberal politics breeding far right extremism read the details on our website. also there are some parts of the world may have to brace themselves for a months long blackout the sun could soon reach a peak of activity frying electric lines all over the planet on the bright side though spectacular auroras are also forecast. violence between palestinians and israelis has become a common occurrence in the occupied lands of the west bank meanwhile inside israel authorities say citizens of an e nationality are treated equally arabs back to defer saying not enough is being

done to economically integrate them and record poverty numbers seem to support their claim. reports is revealed as making jerusalem is the undivided capital of israel but try telling that to the city's two hundred eighty thousand and i'm obsessed. with. the jews have everything to children go to camps in the summer but we did not have these things. this school sports ground is typical of facilities for jewish children but a stone's throw away arab children. spend their afternoons playing here in the street in front of his house in the first a study of its kind the u.n. found that palestinian poverty in jerusalem has risen steadily over the last decade eighty two percent of arab children live in squalor three times as many arab families live below the poverty line compared to the jewish neighbors part of the problem is this war that israel started building

a decade ago israeli say it's necessary for security and to separate israel from palestine but what it's also done is isolate arab jerusalemites from their traditional economic sphere in the west bank and so whereas once you had daily visitors coming from palestinian cities to shop in jerusalem that's all but dried up add to that the discriminatory policies which see the city's arabs paying high municipal taxes for poor services and it's no wonder arab jerusalemites are suffering the worst poverty rate of all time the jerusalem municipality has an arab affairs department but critics say it pays less attention and money to the very citizens it's meant to sort of something the municipality acknowledges but refuses to shoulder the blame alone yes by a because it is very difficult for us to give services to those communities behind the wall there is a security issue with sending city employees or contractors into those neighborhoods in the past our men were attacked that while trying to provide the

residents and services. but many arab jerusalemites feel it's a smokescreen they say the municipality's real intention is to kick them out to make their lives so uncomfortable that they venture believe it is our lives here in the neighborhood on the border between east and west jerusalem jewish groups say his family's house like many others was once owned by jews and they want them back but. they are doing everything they can to kick us out of the city their goal is to make it just a jewish city with no palestinians in it there israelis say and to be that arabs of jerusalem are citizens who are equal when in fact we're not equal that's all and so far from the moaning the fact that he's playground is just one street and these are fears he could one day be left in his home city without any way to call home policy or r t east jerusalem. and some more any is now from around the world in brief former south african president nelson mandela has been admitted to hospital and for

torrealba ninety four year olds being treated for a lung infection that has recurred after his last visit to hospital in april doctors say his condition is serious but stable and ninety nine for mandela became south africa's first black president after a long ballad against apartheid and spending twenty seven years in prison for his beliefs. the war and has turned down the rushes off earth to send peacekeepers to the disputed gone heights to replace austrian personnel vienna decided to remove all of its three hundred eighty troops from the israeli syrian border due to the escalating violence in the wake of the syrian rebels offensive along the border the un explain its rejection of russian troops by a for a decade old protocol between syria and israel that forbids permanent security council members from participating in the un disengagement observer force. and new nuclear power plant is set to go online and india and it would seem

a welcome relief for a country suffering from a critical power shortage but construction was repeatedly delayed by protests balancing the public safety concerns and the needs of a growing economy has not been easy surtees murray financial reports. the few has been loaded and the first customers will soon get the first energy from the couldn't nuclear plant a joint indian and russian venture and it seems the launch of the station thought to be the biggest in both india and the world couldn't have come at a better time defeats it a little in that there is a huge energy deficit in this particular part of the country in the tamil nadu province and across all of india industries are suffering there already quain for energy they need of course the fusion will help things there. the government estimates that the country's power supply is about ten percent behind what it actually needs last summer half of india's population more than six hundred million

people lost their electricity for two days major indian cities are still often plunged into darkness right now india gets fifty five percent of its energy from coal but the fossil fuels future is bleak state owned coal india the largest producer here is under pressure to sell below market price and can expect production one of the world's fastest growing economies is struggling to meet its increased energy demands and he's trying to diversify its coal dependent energy sector experts estimate that india needs around four hundred billion dollar investment into the industry to reach is developing. the station has been under construction for a decade but could have been launched earlier thousands of protesters outside couldn't columb mainly fisherman here in environmental damage have delayed the launch for more than a year those protests grew louder after japan's fukushima disaster in two thousand

and eleven but couldn't clams designers insist it's one point five meters thick protective concrete dome could withstand the impact of a large passenger jet. is the only nuclear station in the world that not only has active security features but also the most up to date safety system. which activate even of the electricity supply is cut or there is no one to control them repeat of the fukushima disaster isn't possible here as you know there's a bus in the two thousand megawatt could run columb plant is just phase one delhi and moscow have already signed off on another station to be built next to it to help feed into his insatiable appetite for energy and to keep its economy fully charged murray for national r t from couldn't colom in india. up next the story of a family living with hiv and their battle to make the world a better place for those shunned by citing.

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