obama defends trading privacy for security after leaks expose a gargantuan government surveillance empire was so vast that even the author of the patrick act has bugged out. a love hate relationship the u.s. press is china over suspected hackers attacks as america's shaky recovery becomes increasingly dependent on chinese investment. and so many it's moved to get lads' mags with scantily clad women on the cover taken off pretty shelves but critics call it an attack on free speech. well over a good evening it's kevin owen here at r.t. tonight just after nine pm now here in moscow there's no way around it as president

obama's declared but to sacrifice privacy in the name of security and according to league documents his administration has done just that establishing a surveillance mechanism and president it in size and scope web history net habits and the call records of hundreds of millions of americans and people worldwide are reportedly being funneled into u.s. spy agencies and this is it now with more on the revelations. 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 acknowledges 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 powell 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 communications 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 surveillance activity and how it might. have cooperated and dealt with the us 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 us certainly something that has reason to be widely questioned this seems to be a statement completely opposing a belief by our founding father benjamin franklin that those willing to give up liberty for some safety 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 presented us practices of democracy to the rest of the world as absolutely stellar. will be would for the national security agency for thirty years left to leave alone to presume he told us the sweeping nature of the program only serves to encourage abuse. it's a direct violation of the constitution and always has been that's why i left n.s.a. in two thousand and one they started to do this and of course the congress and the administration at the time was being baboo bamboozled by the intelligence community saying that you have to collect all this data is so we can find the bad guys and if

we don't do that we won't be able to achieve that and their budgets have been almost tripled i think since nine eleven so what they're really doing is saying we have to we have to use what we have which was that which is the problem with power when you give power to to an organization or to people they tend to use it and assembling this kind of information about all in all the systems in the united states or anybody else for that matter gives you power against them you have leverage now and you can use that power against them or you can you can use other agencies of the government like the i.r.s. to investigate people like for example if they needed or they wanted to know who is in the tea party they already have that from the telephone and e-mail networks that build those social communities communities built from that data will tell them who's participating in the tea parties the central figures and who are not central to the to the to the tea party and then from that if they're asking for tax exempt status you can send the i.r.s. after them to harass them that's what's possible that's what this power of

knowledge gives and that power to do that next turkey's unrest is running into a second week and later the program for a fresh standoff between riot police ninety government activists in istanbul and why the country's leadership is failing the combination so far. cyber security issues have been high on the agenda between the chinese new leslie does this weekend president obama already dragged into a spying scandal jose been reporting didn't miss the chance to press his counterpart of the matter of online surveillance either the second day of the segments expected to be tough as there's plenty to talk about to sort out between the mounties roma girl in the reports. president obama and chinese president xi are very keen on a historic meeting in the sun the last 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 stuxnet 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 his 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 . so china stirring things up in the u.s. not only over its online actions but also of its trading ambitions to beijing's eyeing up a meat industry deal that could become its biggest ever takeover of an american company the scale of the move got some business leaders worried but other spy a golden opportunity this is a quote in fact that r.t. got from virginia sekret of agriculture talk a more he says that his state will actually benefit from the deal by getting better access to the vast chinese market global strategy analyst george clooney agrees he told me there's no grounds to criticize china there is always going to be the segment of the american politicians and pundits that are always looking for

something to criticize when it is in china and sometimes of criticism comes from left field with no basis whatsoever certainly in this case that he or she. has to live in this deal basically that chinese for it's not safe did speak slowly no on a river in shanghai and it's also for the intention is not to supply the americans with chinese forte but really is to supply american port in china to says the cooling market there or for higher meat products so again it's a win for the american industry and it's a boost for the american economy and i'll let you know to just over two hours from now when our team and stacy take a closer look at a really profits most from trade wars.

you can see them on the shelves of any british newsstand men's magazines packed with pictures of their naked women plastered over the cover while now two prominent feminist groups are calling from to be removed from public site all face the legal consequences of his poly boy has got the story. 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 leaving magazines objectify women and could underpin harmful to choose that would lead to discrimination reasons violence against women so they're pulling on a high street retailers to stop selling the publications if they don't they say they risk being sued by bill russell and by customers non-self workers the light

can you really be harassed by an inanimate object 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 thinks shoes i'm older and getting paid for what she's doing and which i did and more more go itself in those pictures and well it's not just girls posting the old boyfriends these things just the culture that we're in though i don't i don't like seeing them if i walk into my is happen before i walk into my local news agency and i've seen like just boots everywhere and i have asked them to turn them over and ask me to put them higher i don't want to say it should be a choice i don't think it's harmful or school i mean it's for a certain kind of person who reads that so it's really fun to perhaps whether it's political or images or whatever within reason obviously there's a legal issues. is a dangerous is a dangerous route to go to 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 thousand nine hundred 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 advertising images are 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 for the boy carry on see why. so the come and go sort of a nuclear plant the withstand the plane crash but it's the locals who have proven to be the toughest challenge for the. new much needed atomic energy plant hurdles to get online also to a city of contrasts and inequality jerusalem's our roads accuse israel of deliberately keeping them in poverty it's often.

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street battles in turkey stretched into a second week police have used tear gas water cannon and smoke grenades against anti-government protesters were hurling stones and fireworks at them in the city's sultan district comes that follows the a prime minister's belligerent speech where he demanded immediate end to the unrest and accuse the movement of vandalism and provocation and maybe you demands to investigate excessive police force against activists. said that there would be they would be treated more harshly if it were a european state or nationwide drive against the turkish leadership was ignited by a brutal crackdown on a peaceful environmental said to me is temple texas doctors say at least two protesters and a policeman guarded not unless the spot but the officers attempt to disperse angry crowds almost five thousand people have been injured nationwide senior fellow at the atlantic council barbara slaven thinks that everyone should stop and rethink

his approach towards them because. this was a small environmental demonstration which turned into something huge. after police used excessive force against the demonstrators it's now spread throughout turkey and what it showing is that there is a great deal of opposition to heir to one personally and to the kind of creeping islamization that he's trying to promote in turkey it comes just a couple of weeks after he had a trip to washington where he bragged about turkey's economic success and again talked about turkey is a model so i think it has done damage if you look at what's happened to the stock market in turkey to the value of the turkish currency clearly he needs to recalculate i don't think this tough guy approach is going to help turkey we've heard joe talk about legislation that would limit when people can buy alcohol and consume it in public talk about restricting abortions he's urged women to all have three children of course you know his wife wears

a headscarf all the rest there's kind of a question of that. that as well and i think that there are a lot of turks who are still loyal to the memory of auditor and who do not want to have this forced down their throats they want it to be a choice not something that the government tells them to do a couple stories no websites to you brought about a computer to fill that need just sends a wake up call in the world i take judges and build a super computers probably twice as fast as anything so the body is going to offer an interesting read though if you don't also reporting to but a bitter experience the little chocolate tell you who's there for you so you go off nicely and ma's. face now a multimillion dollar bill see the claims of a sweet spirit see so much.

jerusalem is a deeply divided. city and that's clearly evident in the very different lives its people are observed discrimination against them is rife accusing israel of intentionally keeping them in poverty earth policy or investigates. israeli leaders may claim jerusalem is the undivided capital of israel but try telling that to the city's two hundred eighty thousand arabs. they do is have everything gardens pools that children go to camps in the summer but we did not have these ngs. this school sports ground is typical of facilities for jewish children but a stone's throw away arab children like ms. 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 is all started building a decade ago israelis 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 serve something the municipality acknowledges but refuses to shoulder the blame yes by

a because it is very difficult for us to get 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 while trying to provide the residents and services but many arab jerusalemites feel it's a smokescreen they say the municipalities really intention is to kick him out to make their lives so uncomfortable that they eventually leave his our lives here in the shadow java 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 these railways seem to be that arabs of jerusalem are citizens who are equal when in fact we're not equal at all. and so far from the moaning the fact that it's playground is just one street these are fears he could one day be left in his home city without any way to call home policy

our team east jerusalem. violent clashes a broken city in southeast turkey after the funeral of a member of a militant kurdish workers part of the p.k. k. the group sympathizers through petrol bombs and police responded with tear gas and water kind of person leader of the party declared a cease fire with the turkish government but with. more world used car blast in the central city of homs has killed eight left another five injured no injured admitted to attack but damascus has been accusing rebel of mr front for carrying out the terror explosions across the country also in the area the syrian army has reportedly restored control of the city of qusayr now after weeks of intense fighting rebels the syrian civil conflict been ongoing for more than two years with the opposition blocking diplomatic peace initiatives by demanding the government's departure. pakistan's new prime minister is some of the american envoy after u.s. drone strike in the north of the country left nine on friday now as sharif

previously called for the attacks to stop in his first address after being sworn in on wednesday pakistan's government says at least four hundred civilians have been killed in drone strikes over the last. us is under pressure neighboring afghanistan and in army uniforms turned on his international trainers killing two american soldiers and a civilian working with the military their sole took place in the east of the country it's the latest such violence committed by afghans against foreign troops known as green on blue attacks it's just over a year until the u.s. and other international soldiers start to withdraw from the country. basanti fascist blood has been held in paris in memory of the teenager battered to death by skinheads earlier this week thousands of people many wearing black t. shirts chanted slogans against the extreme right skilling sparked calls for far right movements to be outlawed. and their g. hungry india is about to get a brand new nuclear facility to help ease the country's crippling power shortages

but it's faced a few hurdles too with construction repeatedly delayed over safety concerns with locals balancing their worries and the needs of india's rapidly growing economy hasn't been easy as river national reports. the few has been loaded and the first customers will soon get the first energy from the could on nuclear plant a joint indian and russian venture and it seems the moment 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 they're already going for energy they need of course the station will help with the things there which is the government estimates that the country's power supply is about ten percent behind what it actually needs last summer hoffer india's population more than six hundred million people mostly 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 spec 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 gloms designers insist its one point five meters thick protective concrete 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 so. systems which actually even of the logistics of choice because there is no one to trolldom repeat of the fukushima disaster is impossible here at sea when it does opposing the two thousand megawatts could run columb plant is just phase one delhi and moscow have already signed off on another station to be built next to eat to help feed india's insatiable appetite for energy and to keep its economy fully challenged. the from within india. has been appended a few years for the american economy especially the job list numbers up next the ninety's prime interest looks at the driving factors behind.

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 plan to do so like punch a student in the face or to go on some sort of horribly racist or sexist ranted for of the class so 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 questionable 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 students personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they did 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.

mission free accreditation free. or three. three. three. three. three blocks you know for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm perry and boring in washington d.c. let's get to today's headlines. now despite what you've heard elsewhere the big employment situation report released earlier this morning was simply a mixed bag of the number of payrolls or jobs added beat expectations coming in at one hundred seventy five thousand but the bureau of labor statistics also reported that the unemployment rate ticked back up to seven point six percent from seven

point five and that's the number the fed has tied to its quantitative easing policy they're looking for it to drop to a six point five percent before they stop the bond buying program and they may slow down or taper purchases as the unemployment rate drops for now it doesn't look like the fed has any reason to put off the printing paddle be sure to stay tuned to the r t news program at five pm eastern the i producer bob inglis and i will be there to dig into the old jobs report. and apple promises it's not snooping on you as do yahoo microsoft and a handful of other tech giants this is in response to get i'm not either story of government eavesdropping according to the washington post and the guardian and nine u.s. internet companies give the f.b.i. and national security agency to access to their central server allegedly this includes the ability to extract audio video tabs toggery e-mails and other

documents this is not good news for the i phone maker which is already failed to get antitrust case launched by the justice apart. and but the spying allegations are true at least discovery shouldn't be necessary and necessary we're talking about this case where you run brock of the president of iran institute next here's what's in your prime interest. i wasn't making a lot of headlines recently probably not the kind of press they were hoping for with the new c.e.o. who's been criticized as not innovating since the untimely death of steve jobs the

company has faced a saloon of complaints only today the company denying to press reports that it sharing sensitive customer information with the f.b.i. and n.s.a. have also went to trial on monday as part of an antitrust suit the justice department brought against them last year under the sherman antitrust act the suit named apple among with five other publishers who already settled with the government and alleges that they engaged in an e-book price fixing scheme and i had a chance to talk with you ron brock of the iran institute earlier and i asked him about the merits of the sherman act pacifically whether or not the justice department is out of bounds in this case and here's what he had to say. yes i do think they're out about it because i think the law is inherently you know it's not just our constitutional you know that's against the supreme court is the show i did is i disagree with them but it's all the truth that is no more.