president obama defends america's surveillance program as the extent of the spying on the country's citizens lives even veteran policy hawks shocked. ballance erupts in turkey's capital ankara police using tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters on the waters under foreign rights organization is over the fierce crackdown on. major summit between the u.s. and china wraps up in california and made serious friction over cyber attacks and trade. from moscow twenty four hours a day you're watching out. president obama has defended the secret surveillance

operations the us government has been running for years by saying it's necessary to sacrifice privacy for the sake of security leaks documents reveal the unprecedented scope of the data collection program which monitored and stored information on the web searches and phone calls of millions of people and society has more from new york. 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 life of 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 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 individuals 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. stick to it 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 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 present of u.s. practices of democracy to the rest of the world as absolutely stellar william binney worked for the national security agency for thirty years but left on the eve of the launch of prism he told us that 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 in a c. in two thousand and one they started to do this and of course the congress and the administration. 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 it 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 does it gives them that power to do that. violence has broken down into

the turkish capital ankara as anti-government demonstrations stretch into a second week police are using tear gas and water cannons on the crowds and offices all reportedly making arrests istanbul witnessed some of the scenes really the screws in turkey the details now people came out for peaceful protests and one of the main parts in that is when the police essentially came down and met with full force pepper spray tear gas water cannons the whole sorts of everything that they have in their arsenal of course the police have used on the on the peaceful protesters really creating havoc there also have been reports that there. are rest how followed all of the protesters still really the police in the turkish capital went all out yet again to wipe out the peaceful protest of course people have started protesting the plans to get rid of the gezi park right here in the middle of istanbul and after a peaceful sit in of about roughly fifty people was broken up by police about

a week and a half ago people came out and thousands and now they're saying it's not about the trees anymore and they're not just coming out in istanbul they're coming out as i said in this and on koran and in tens of other cities across the entire country roughly there's hundreds of thousands of people participating in the protests countrywide at their main requested this point their main demand at this point is let's leave the park where it is and let's see the government go however there do want is obviously very defiant he insists that there will be no early elections which means that the government will stay in place and everyone says that he will also continue to go ahead as planned and wipe out the park of course we also have to see how those plans pan out because the people that are here and they go to the park and end the tax and square they're not going anywhere. foreign policy experts barbara slavin the senior fellow at the atlantic council says there are needs to rethink his approach to dealing with the protesters. 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 is 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 in a tear keep 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 abortion he's urged women to all have 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. become a nuclear power plant that can withstand a plane crash it's the locals who approved the toughest challenge in the program the report of the india you atomic energy and the third was being placed against the law and. the second day of the summit between barack obama and paying those wrapped up in california the be the diplomatic climate of mutual accusations of. some of the security was high on the two presidents agenda point in our experience. while it appeared to be all smiles the men were dressed very casually no ties walking along this private sprawling estate in california there was a lot of things to discuss among them economic issues north korea but the most

important issue of. security now amid this meeting before this meeting took place reports have appeared indicating that obama has ordered his national security leaders to compile a list of potential over seas adversaries for cyber hacking which can be targeted with little or no warning why is that important to mention because for the past several months or more than five u.s. officials have been accusing hackers in china that have links to the chinese military the chinese government of hacking into u.s. systems and stealing defense programs stealing weapons programs stealing the patents and technologies of u.s. manufacturers those accusations china has vehemently denied and said that they are not a part of any hacking that's going on within the u.s. system but china also recently said or a technology official part of the chinese government also pointed

a finger back at the u.s. so that they have massive records and facts indicating that hackers in the u.s. are hacking in into china as. china secrets and systems and now u.s. president barack obama did come out and say he believes these talks i've been very terrific he's also said that he is hoping that the chinese and u.s. military can strengthen its ties and some would say that that could be problematic considering considering the pivot that the u.s. military has made to the asia asian pacific many experts believe that the u.s. is now surrounding china militarily building militarily in china's backyard so clearly there is a lot of confrontations or issues that both of these these leaders need to confront . at the end of the day these two countries the two largest economies in the world need to find a way to work together because they are tied in systemically with when it comes to debt when it comes to borrowing when it comes to trade but the tense moments right

now seem to be surrounding cyber security virtual espionage and these mutual accusations of hacking. in the mid the ongoing friction of a currency wars and suspected cyber attacks beijing has set its sights on acquiring america's largest pork producer a multi-billion dollar deal successful with the biggest ever buyout by china of an american company the proposed takeover has sparked anger in some quarters and state officials involved in the move say it makes good business sense from the secretary of agriculture of virginia where the companies based claims american producers will profit from the deal and has exclusive response to r.t. from told the more he says the acquisition offers a greater access to the huge chinese market global strategy honest george who agrees that china will be the scapegoats to want. there is always going to be a segment of the american politicians and pundits that are always looking for

something to criticize when it's involving china and and sometimes that criticism comes from left field with no basis whatsoever certainly in this case there's an opportunity to. to blacken this deal by pointing out that chinese quality is not safe for their dead pig slowing down a river in shanghai and so on and so forth the intention is not to supply the americans with chinese pork but really is to supply american pork in china to says the growing market there for high end meat products so again it's a win for for the american industry and it's a boost for the american economy. still to come here and i'll tell you jerusalem a city of contrasts and inequality we report on a plus about herbs in the ancient city queues israel of deliberately keeping it.

all details coming up after the break. nobody chooses to be homeless no one chooses to me and now sorrow. is the world for the. good in the six pm get out six p. six. they were a. strange things for. me the class people in the. days when you're against the war. it's tough to think about all of this comes. and to know that many may not have only been lost. never to me but they're also due to foreclosures to never see.

that again well you can see them on the shelves of any british newsstand that's magazines with pictures of scantily clad women plastered across the cover of two prominent feminist groups out there way this could all change after they threaten to sue retired as if they don't remove the offending publications auntie's point 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 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 raftsman by customers and shop workers a light but 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 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 sees things just a 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 and should be a choice i don't think is harmful is what i mean it's for 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 a legal issues. is that is a dangerous is a dangerous route to go down editors on the readers of the last minute 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 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 playboy carry on the law. and. online for you today a man who's no stranger to leaking privileged information the world's most famous

whistle blow to the sun just spoken up again this time about america's most on line looking at what he had to say plus. the mars rover has made an amazing discovery. drink. called find out if life was once existed on that. jerusalem is a deeply divided city and that's clearly evident in the very different lives its people lead the arabic population say discrimination against them is rife using israel willfully keeping them in poverty. 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 have everything gardens pools that children go to camps in the summer but we did not have. 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 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 citizens it's meant to serve something the municipality acknowledges but refuses to shoulder the blame yes. 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 while trying to provide the residents and services but many arab jerusalemites feel it's a smokescreen they say the municipalities real intention is to keep. him out to

make their lives so uncomfortable that they eventually leave his our lives here in the 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 there israelis say on t.v. 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 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 our team east jerusalem. more world news making headlines this hour now from one dollar is once again in home this time for treatment on a recurring lung infection the condition of the first intensive all rights leader is described as serious but stable is the latest in

a series of health scares of the past few months is history of long problems dates back to his incarceration in the fight against apartheid he contracted tuberculosis . a car blast in syria's central city of homs has killed eight people enough to modify or injure no one has yet admitted responsibility rascasse has been accusing the rebel al nusra front of carry out terror attacks across the country also in the area the syrian army has reportedly regained control of the city. after weeks of intense fighting against rebels that syrian civil conflict has won't gain for over two years the u.n. estimates that up to eighty thousand people have lost their lives. understands new prime minister summoned the american envoy after a u.s. drone strike in the northwest of the country nine people dead on friday there was a very previously call for the attacks to stop with his first address of getting

sworn in deaths through drone strikes number in the thousands and hundreds of civilians. and at least twenty eight people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes with the local militia operating in the libyan city of benghazi witnesses say crowds converged on the group's headquarters demanding it be disbanded after a heated exchange gunman began firing at the protesters would be as new rulers are struggling to impose their own thora tea on a myriad of militias who often take the into their own hands. energy 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 with construction repeatedly did aid ever safety concerns with locals balancing their worries needs of india's rapidly growing economy hasn't been easy as a matter of 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 launch of the station thought to be the biggest in both india and the world couldn't have come at a better time. there is a huge energy deficit in this particular part of the country in the tamil nadu province and across all of india the industries are suffering they're already going for energy but of course deflation will help without 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 columbus designers insist its 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 you know because of the two thousand megawatt couldn't 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 india's insatiable appetite for energy and to keep its economy fully charged murray for national r t from couldn't colom in india after the break we travel to the whites see it well look at the efforts that interest savings seals and hunters often want for. well. science technology innovation all the least of mel immense from around russia we've got the future covered.

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