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tonight on r.t. of barmer defends trading previous c. for security after leaks expose a gargantuan government surveillance empire one so vast that even the author of the party that is. a love hate relationship the u.s. press is china over suspected hackers attacks is america's shaky recovery becomes increasingly dependent on chinese investment. and feminists move to get lads' mags with scantily clad women on the covered take it off the shelves but critics call it an attack on free speech. all over a good having come to this are if you just joined us it's kevin o.
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and he live in moscow at r.t. just after ten pm no moscow time there's no way around it as president obama's declared but to sacrifice previous see in the name of security and according to league documents his administration has done just that establishing a surveillance mechanism unprecedented in size and scope of history net habits and the call records of hundreds of millions of americans and people worldwide indeed are reportedly being funneled to u.s. spy agencies at his innocence and now with more on these revelations. 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
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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 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.
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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 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
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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 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 present of u.s. practices of democracy to the rest of the world as absolutely stellar william but he worked for the national security agency for thirty years and left to leave the launch of prison he told the sweeping make sure the program only serves to encourage abuse. it's a direct violation of the constitution and always has been that's why i left the 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
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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 of 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
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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 does it gives them that power to do that. coming up turkey's unrest is running into a second week later in the program we report a fresh standoff with police and anti-government activists in istanbul and why the country's leadership is failing to calm the nation so far. cyber security issues have been on the agenda between the chinese and u.s. leaders this weekend president obama already dragged into the spying scandal at home and didn't miss the chance to press his counterpart on the matter of online surveillance the second day the summits expected to be tough plenty that the two need to talk about him soledad between them artes roman calander reports. 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
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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 now that 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
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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 . china is also starting things up in the u.s. not only over its online auctions provance 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 or golden opportunity this dates quote. from virginia secretary every culture told a more he says he thinks that the state will actually benefit from the deal by getting better access to the vast chinese market global strategy on this george who agrees he told me there's no grounds to criticize china. there is always going to
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be the segment of the american politicians and pundits that are always looking for something to criticize when it's involving china and sometimes the criticism comes from left field with no basis whatsoever certainly in this case the opportunity to. use to blacken this deal they point out that chinese fork is not safe for their dead slowly known a river in shanghai it's also for the intention is not to supply the americans with chinese port but really is to supply american pork in china to says the growing market there for for high in meat products so again it's a win for the american industry and it's a boost for the american economy and next hour on our team out to the stacy look
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closer at who really profits most from trade wars. you can see them on the show was a very british newsstand men's magazines have pictures of their naked women plussed across the cover now though two prominent feminist groups are calling for him to be removed from public sight or face the legal consequences because 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 constitutes that would lead to discrimination or even violence against women so that cooling on high street retailers to stop selling the
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publication if they don't they say they risk being suitable raftsman by customers non-self workers alight but can you really be harassed by an anonymous old ject sure they rank hotness of naked ladies and features chauvinist jokes but would removing them lead to a line of censorship we hit the streets of london to find out what the public thinks choose a molto 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 toys 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 is happening 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 see it should be a choice i don't think is harmful is what i mean it's for a certain kind of person who reads that so it's really fun to press whether it's political or images or whatever within reason obviously there's legal issues. is that is a dangerous is a dangerous route to go to editors under readers of
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a last minute they're up in arms there are arguments against removing them is simple since the magazines became popular in the mid one nine hundred ninety three incidents of domestic violence in the u.k. have actually gone down on lads' mags and deemed to be harassment and how long before fashion magazines and imus rising 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 hair i see. the route now is still to come a nuclear power plant that can withstand the plane crash but it's the locals who have proven to be the toughest challenge will report from india then on a new much needed atomic energy plan and its hurdles to get online also to a city of contrast and inequality jerusalem's arabs accuse israel of deliberately keeping them in poverty so after the break.
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street battles in turkey just tumbled a stretch into a second week police have used tear gas water cannon and smoke grenades against anti-government protesters who herding stones and fireworks them in the city's sultan ghazi district that follows the prime minister's belligerent speech way demanded immediate end to. unrest and accuse the movement of vandalism and provocation and maybe investigate excessive police force against activists who once said that they would be treated more harshly if they were european the state the nation why drive against the swedish oops was ignited by a brutal crackdown on a peaceful environmental city to scramble taksim square doctors say at least two protesters and a policeman died in the unrest which was sparked by the officers attempts to disperse the crowds almost five thousand people have been injured nationwide
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foreign policy expert barbara slave it is a senior fellow at the atlantic college she thinks that should stop and rethink his approach towards his own people. 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 shown 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. 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 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
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three children 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 lot to do and coldly report of a computer fills a need for speed. china is sending wake up call to the world's tech giants or some bell the supercomputer most of us probably twice as fast as anything silicon valley's got to offer would read more about its online from. the bitter experience of the world chocolate titans nestlé and mars are facing a multi million dollar more suit over claims of a sweep conspiracy whatever next the details about t. dot com.
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i. think. jerusalem is a deeply divided city and that's clearly evident in the very different lives of its people the arabs say discrimination against them is rife accusing israel of internationally and intentionally keeping them in poverty artie's policy of investigate is revealed as may claim jerusalem is the undivided capital of israel but try telling that to the city's two hundred eighty thousand. year old with the rules. they do have everything garden tools children go to camps in the summer but we did not have these. this school sports ground is typical of facilities for jewish children but a stone's throw away arab children like ms ashame asked me to spend their
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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 wall and that is all 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
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citizens it's meant to serve something the municipality acknowledges but refuses to shoulder the blame yes. 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 municipality's real intention is to kick him out to make their lives so uncomfortable that they eventually leave his our lives here in the shell jalen 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 get us out of the city. their goal is to make it just a jewish city with no palestinians in it there israelis seem to be that arabs of jerusalem are citizens who are equal when in fact we're not equal at all. and so
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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 arche east jerusalem. elsewhere in the world violent clashes have broken out in a city in southeast turkey after the funeral of a member of the militant kurdish workers' party the p.k. k. troops sympathizers through petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and water cannon imprisoned leader of the party to clear the ceasefire of the turkish government back in march. last in series simple city of homs has killed eight and left of the five injured no injured admitted the attack but damascus has been accusing the rebel al nusra front for carrying out terrorist closures across the country also in the area the syrian army's reportedly restored control of the city of qusayr after weeks of intense fighting with rebels there the syrian civil conflict been ongoing for more than two years now with the opposition blocking
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diplomatic peace initiatives by demanding the government's departure. pakistan's new prime minister summon the american envoy after a u.s. drone strike in the north of the country left nine people dead on friday now as sharif previously called for the attacks to stop in his first address after being sworn in on wednesday some estimate says many as nine hundred civilians have been killed in drone strikes over the last nine years. the us is under pressure in neighboring afghanistan to a man in army uniform is turned on his international trainers killing two american soldiers and a civilian working with the military you saw 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 is just under a year until u.s. and other international soldiers start to withdraw from the country. amass ninety five rallies 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 tone merrick's killing sparked
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calls for far right movements to be outlawed. energy hungry india is about to get a brand new nuclear facility to help ease the country's scripting power shortages but it's faced a few hurdles along the way with construction repeatedly delayed over safety concerns from locals balancing their worries and the needs of india's rapidly growing economy isn't easy that is riff and found out. the few has been loaded and the first customers will soon get the first energy from the could 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 station will help with things there. the government
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estimates that the country's power supply is about ten percent behind would actually need 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
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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 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 series. the systems which activate even of the electricity supply scot's where there is no one to control them repeat of the fukushima disaster is impossible here it's humid there's a bus in 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 into his insatiable appetite for energy and to keep its economy fully challenged murray functionality from put on in india. programs well that's not just heading for more fighting talk probably martin on the way she's breaking the
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a. radio guy and four minutes from a click. i want what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told . what's up guys i mean one of the break in the set since it might as well be called freaky friday why because i just read the most disturbing news story i've seen all month it's about a man named zeke you'll go bert last december shot and killed a female escort he had hired for sex and it seems like a clear cut case of homicide to me apparently not to texas jury who fully acquitted him based on a bizarre and disturbing technicality is seen gilbert alleges that she that she refused to sleep with him after he paid her honored fifty dollars and according to a texas law individuals are allowed to use deadly force to recover stolen property
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at night and that was enough for mr gilbert to get away scot free oh detects this guy's this is disgusting and seems to take the controversial stand your ground law to the most extreme measure possible in this case not even self-defense was part of the equation so really this isn't just about some pervert killing an escort in texas it's about the kind of unjust laws that are still somehow in place exemplifying how backwards this country truly is so let's get to it a month break that that so. so guys another week another scandal for the obama administration i'm right or am i right the president sure is hands full have an answer for a recently disclosed document that reveals the extent of the n.s.a.'s warrantless search.
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