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britain's top police agency refuses to name the blue chip companies that ordered a frenzy of hacking. for commercial gain. from. a one hundred city rallies underway in the united states. and in cairo thousands of supporters of ousted president morsi protested. saturday that left three.
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this morning just after midnight top stories. know why one of the country's premier law enforcement bureaus ignored massive corruption or misconduct by private investigators serious and organized crime agency allegedly knew about the illegal wiretapping and hacking and did nothing about it now the agency is refusing to name which people of all of the blogging for fear of damaging the reputation something investigative journalist. deplorable. it's quite clear that the hacking inquiry which lord leveson conducted is just the tip of the iceberg there's a massive industry and they're criminals actually what they're doing is proposing as private investigators acking into lots of databases mostly government databases where people have given information to government agencies obviously in confidence and these are the this information is now coming out talking about the national health service the police tax authorities banks councils quite clearly this is
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criminal and so i wonder whether this serious organized crime agency is actually somehow part of organized crime itself if it's not doing anything about this the previous boss of serious organized crime agency syrian andrews has said the reason that they don't want to do this is that it could taint big companies names and the names of powerful people one final thought some of these companies allegedly involved blue chip companies very important companies for the british economy i guess it's also not a good thing to be coming out at a time when the british economy is not great great health anyway is it well the british economy is going to be even worse health if this is allowed to continue if criminal companies are allowed to get away with it that means that legitimate companies honest firms are actually being overtaken by those companies if they're able to make profits and get an advantage over only small or abiding companies that's why this is so important kevin is because it really means that we start to go down the road of a criminal state that is to say the criminals win out while the honest people go
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down and we seriously do not want that to go any further here in britain otherwise britain is a joke if there's no rule of law in this country if these people can continue to get away with it creating a massive industry what they're doing is they're actually giving a green light to organized crime. meantime in parallel prince addiction to surveillance the shattering records of the stimulus that there's now one camera for every eleven people their privacy groups are furious saying george orwell's one thousand nine hundred four was never intended to be an instruction manual as a look. if you ever feel like you're being watched perhaps even feel singled out no matter how huge the crowd. chances are it may not just be paranoia. the british security industry association estimates that there are between four point one and five point nine million a close circuit television or c.c.t.v. cameras in the u.k. one in every fifteen or one in every eleven people whether you're going to the shopping mall or what are called sensitive locations like schools and hospitals
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they're likely to be electronic now in recent years much criticism has been thrown out what is seen as the u.k. government's growing surveillance state but in the most recent report it shows that in fact majority of c.c.t.v. cameras are not government funded but rather privately owned mostly used for security reasons and now the b s are you stressed the c.c.t.v. schemes are invaluable for crime detection and evidence for the police however one of the main problems highlighted by watchdogs is the fact that there are not still not enough regulations governing public c.c.t.v. surveillance much less those that are privately owned we discussed this issue with the big brother watch price of private c.c.t.v. cameras far those installed by the police and local authorities so it does. it is the government that's acting as big brother doesn't it i think it's a hole in the hay at the moment i think the private sector seen the. public
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sector and this kind of attention that c.c.t.v. prevents crime from happening and so it's only a matter of time in the private sector. private c.c.t.v. . but we're seeing some incredibly sophisticated pieces of technology appearing via the internet so things to do with facial recognition and things cameras that can sense people miles away so i think it's only the law catches up with the technology in states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the day. we can form a very intricate picture of everybody all right thank you very much. information on the vast number of privately owned surveillance cameras out to the debate of the so-called surveillance society you know this is just coming on the back after one year of the protection of freedoms act was passed in the u.k. where the government was forced to trim down its database of d.n.a. fingerprint records and it's just coming. out of regulations imposed on public
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surveillance cameras of course the debate created by the revelations of edward snowden already ongoing reporting from london. well britain looks to. washington no such qualms about its own another website find out how through a secret court president obama. phone records of millions of americans. protests are underway across the united states we called for a florida court acquitted george zimmerman who shot black teenager organizers expect more than one hundred cities to take part in the rally. was among the crowds in washington you see hundreds of people here at a d.c. courthouse demanding justice for trayvon martin the young black man who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer last week the dream florida found george zimmerman not guilty of murder and manslaughter all these people think trayvon martin being
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white he would have been alive even president obama thinks so too so rights activist here is all that is that george zimmerman followed trayvon martin. because he was black the seventeen year old trayvon martin was walking home in his own neighborhood with a pack of skittles candies in his pocket the jury apparently found that although it was a bad judgment on the part of george zimmerman to pursue the young man but to to confront each other zimmerman acted in self-defense the fact of the matter is that under florida's stand your ground law the defense doesn't. to prove that their client is an angel even up to prove reasonable doubt that the defendant acted in self-defense and they're free to go so in this case you have a clash of different race civil rights vigilantism guns in self-defense laws the us has a history of racial disparities in the application of criminal laws a very recent example also in the state of florida a black woman a mother of three was sentenced to twenty years in jail because she fired a bullet into a wall to scare off her abusive husband nobody was injured and the woman is in jail
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for twenty years while george zimmerman walks free so you see the basis of these people's wage there have been protests around the country throughout the week following the zimmerman verdict dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests were made on charges of unlawful assembly in some places like the stand bernardino protests turned violent demonstrators threw rocks at passing cars the president america's first black president spoke from the heart on friday when you recall some of these dances when he had been looked upon with suspicion would know what parents reason because he's black but the president also tried to put out the fire of protests throughout the country by basically saying as much as you don't like the verdict don't blame the jury and judge the existing law in washington i'm going to check out. thousands of promo supporters have turned out on the streets again gathering outside of major mosque in the east of cairo sit in there has been held since the army shot dead more than fifty civilians but testing against the ousting
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of the former president more than two weeks ago thousands approach demonstrators broke off from outside the mosque where protesters are marching with the republican guard barracks but they were blocked by the army well this comes less than a day after three people were killed to the north of car in the clashes between opposing camps meanwhile the new interim president sold a group of experts to start working on amending the country's constitution which is needed before the elections at the start of next year while the journalist in cairo . told us the muslim brotherhood doesn't want to seek middle ground in. the real problem that we are facing right now is from the time of president morsi taking over it's been a as are some politics game it's all or none and that is mainly the reason he's been pushed out of power because he would not share it with it with anyone else who would not succumb to opposition and now that he's been pushed out of power at the same attitude prevails that they're not willing to take
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a compromise at all and i and the reason is because this or the organization is bent on dominating and pushing their way of of politics and so it's actually quite difficult to see a way out of this without. any side to compromising at the moment it's up to the brotherhood who rejected most of the talks and negotiations so it's a standoff that continues unfortunately right now the military has taken matters into their hands in a way from a security perspective at least so the idea of a civil war is far fetched because it's unlikely that the military will split over the muslim brotherhood because they face a lot of rejection from the people on the ground and from within the military institution due to the way they've handled things but political activists are all sided told us that those pushing for mohamed morsi is reinstatement feel they're being denied democracy. my family is just one family that you know that
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many families in egypt to to to the streets to demand that the first freely elected the president the first legitimate president of egypt be reinstated because what happened was a military coup i think now all the military knows that. there are millions and millions of people on the streets and do not want this army wall to come back again along with mubarak's option right now to see it's pretty dark stakes back bubbling to the surface and on the military will do just as it has done before whatever it. said to you and you know qualities protests that are in the streets right now as they have people are. coming up in the program the children caught in the cross has reporting about them israel's military on the taste of it and try not resorting to using want to emulate palestinian youngsters who throw stones in protest of the settlements also coming up to christmas is buzzing here in moscow top financial
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ministers leading bankers agree to fight global deployment try to increase growth and a key meeting at the g. twenty summit in russia. the two. one the great blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the houses with. the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of angry crowns fighting against. the storm the american dream. if we can without if you. choose the consensus. choose you.
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choose the story. choose the. you. stopped by authorities police intervention spot five writing further sectarian emotions their first reports from the gathering. included great things of the. need. for marching the.
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police. now the great you see. everything. we've given the food the crowd the eat. for a week now in the. least think on. the constant thank you the you. would see your finger. maybe through the right cheek. you see. today. you see. the. links to these great vestments still. it. could be a good connection to the not. to try to meet.
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other people. the. way. that you will continue in the. shoes. trade goes glam. to testify against will supply bradley manning's former boss says she always suspected he was a spy among your arguments manning's heavy smoking in the fact that he drank strong coffee early faces life in prison for leaking classified documents to wiki leaks after the judge confirmed the most serious charge of aiding the enemy and that is breaking the set program to discuss developments with producer andrew blake. what happened was so you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government's long been saying ok manning you aided the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you gave them files those files got the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his
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modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you see for the rest your life and you left because a lot people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm you're not really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on actually only happening for a couple of weeks now when the prosecution actually had to present their case and they had to call witnesses and they actually had to try to make an effort to say bradley manning give way to the enemy afterwards to defend said we don't think so we don't think you even you we don't think you even gave enough evidence that the judge can actually make this decision so they filed a couple of motions a few weeks back and just today colonel denise lynn the military judge presiding over the case she finally responded and said no there's enough evidence that i can actually go ahead and i can make a decision not to make the decision now the court case is going to wrap up sometime next month most likely but she is not dismissing the charges by not dismissing the
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charge bradley manning will now face a maximum of life plus one hundred fifty four years in prison i believe life plus one hundred fifty four years and if you lose a hell of a guy you might live to and yeah you know that you know aiding the enemy or not your life span how is the prosecution going to prove this i mean i guess we don't know but based on what they've already said it seems pretty flimsy elder we already know that manning did all this stuff the enemy but we know he's played with the likes of hundreds of thousands of classified documents that sets that's out there he admitted that the prosecution's tried saying that these documents caused harm to national security and they had people come in and testify about all of these documents separately released iraq war logs afghan war logs collateral murder video that are tunneled bay detainee assessment briefs all these information and that's what the last couple of weeks of bennett witnesses being called by the prosecution and by the defense trying to say well either you know he did it knowing that this could happen or you know he was a naive twenty something guy who wanted to help the world but that's going to be
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ultimately up to the judge to decide. well full edition of breaking the set available now on our website streaming right now r.t. dot com which will catch it. boosting growth in combat in currency wars what key finances the world's twenty leading economies of agreed on here in moscow gathering to see this precursor them to september's g twenty summit in russia more about all this reality is made in a culture never. the leading economists have agreed that strengthening growth and creating jobs remain the top priorities for the g twenty member states of the recession in the euro area continuous ways how to recover from various were largely discussed at this meeting the g twenty financial leaders have vowed to prevent currency worse although the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde believes that the danger of currency manipulations is pretty much exaggerated now this meeting is also a part of some major preparations for the upcoming g.
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twenty summit that will take place in st petersburg this of temper boom really seems at the same time that it is increasingly being used as a bargaining chip and international politics now their worst some rumors is that the u.s. president barack obama will would not be able to meet with the president lies even if we can in moscow if russia grounds asylum to the former anas a contract or adverse notion though earliest such a meeting was announced to take place around the time of the a neology twenty summit now white house press secretary jay carney he later outlined that the president in turn to travel to russia for the g twenty summit but refused to comment further and he also acknowledged that he was being deliberately vague on that issue but still it really seems that those economists who have gathered here for this a g twenty finance ministers meeting had put politics aside and were really discussing
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some challenging economic issues. so well news in brief not exactly twenty minutes past midnight the wave of car bombs in baghdad killed at least thirty four explosions struck iraqis what about the shopping and filled restaurants and coffee shops after breaking their daily ramadan fast at sunset while the two hundred people have been killed in the country since the. it was a foreign english defense league clash violently with police in the ethnically diverse city of burning in the midlands it's left several people injured thirty three protesters were arrested after bottles and stones were hurled at officers p.d.l. said it was taken to the streets to call for the reintroduction of video cameras in the city center to combat crimes meantime a left wing counter protest was far from where it was part of the row. israel is to release several long time palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to start peace talks brokered by the us secretary of state john kerry he said the two sides are ready for negotiations which will start in washington within
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two weeks kerry met the leaders of both states on the six visit to do many months. so while the politicians try to revive the peace process the outrage over israel settlements refuses to die down among young palestinians what's more the military crackdown on protesters is seeing children end up on the i.d.f. wanted list middle east correspondent paula slee has got the story. armed to the teeth that's one of the most sophisticated armies in the world state of the art weapons high tech defense and world class combat training but when it comes to dealing with an unconventional enemy children it resorts to those posters threatening to find them wherever they are like a sheriff in a small town with a bounty on outlaws hid every night nearly the drop the gas bombs and sound bombs the words the houses before i've been the children live in very bad so critical situation and it's working
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a sufis one of the children whose faces was plastered around village in the more than we spank the warning reads we are the army be careful we will catch you if we see you. we were very afraid when they put our pictures up they are threatening us that they will arrest us and they will come and take us from our home. the posters went up one afternoon after another demonstration ended in tear gas and rubber coated bullets every friday villagers take to the streets to protest against the wall israel is building between them and a nearby city home and on the frontline and in the line of fire children the idea to publish these posters was probably the initiative of a local army commander they were placed on the walls of a mosque and nearby houses. i saw says he wasn't throwing stones but the army and settlers have a different version but still is the head of a nearby city home and each day he drives on this road which connects his settlement in the thirty five thousand jews who live in the area with the rest of
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israel. what would usually happen is they would come and stand on the road pick up a brick or a large stone and throw it directly and from a short range because many of our residents were hurt three months ago a baby got hit and she's now in a vegetative state the stones kill and that's why we expect the military to do what it takes in order for it to stop. israeli figures say rock throwing incidents are up by a hundred and ten percent in the last few months but the army's track record for dealing with palestinian children is dismal at best a recent un report found that the i.d.f. we teenie abuses and tortures youngsters in the occupied west bank the community has hit back by putting up posters of its own the message is that the. art of it is what you are me not. as far south he has exams but can't concentrate way we have soldiers that are on the prowl looking for him and his classmates policy r.t.
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could doom spend shining shoes on wall street's back in style this time with a sex appeal that run these days by financial high fliers it's a way a long way from rags and desperation usually associated with buffing up broke out as we report discovered that it's not bad either. all street it's not just a location it is a culture synonymous with big bonuses bailouts risk and the one percent following the financial meltdown of two thousand and eight most americans criticized bankers but now shining their shoes has turned into a high end business. welcome to starshine and why see it's just different from everything else there's. there are signs up the block and they don't offer the same things that we are for the store offers large leather chairs flat screen t.v.'s and oh
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a women only staff uniformed in teeny black shorts and fitted tank tops for the first week we had about one hundred people a day no coincidence that nearly all of those people happen to be financier's bankers or other wall street employees when you start a business like this it makes sense to fish with official if you're going to put in a business where you're going to shine people's shoes you're in the heart of the financial district you have to make it somewhat resonate with the type of people in the type of demographic that you're actually pertaining to. while the so-called wall street demographic has bounced back exceptionally well following the great recession economic recovery has been extremely difficult for young americans idea this to help out with the bells and everything to get a part time while in school and i start writing i love the service. by a very walling a comfortable. come watch a game. where there's flat screen t.v.
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and lovely ladies as well. it's a hobby it's a magnet so you know attract that attention the store meanwhile will soon be serving beer and wine. the business is owned by kevin white jr and his father who both work in finance neither were available for an on camera interview but tell our t.v. that business is booming so maybe those who argue that wall street creates jobs were right. new york. after the break we've got a special report on how failed politics and trigger were the worst financial disasters in history just a couple of minutes away. we. all
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remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are indians piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we're in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans a sense of the government is out there to buy likes oh what a fantastic use of tax dollars but wait maybe i'm being too pessimistic perhaps it worked and really helped spread the message of the us state department effectively when the specter general's report says that since the advertising campaign started twenty eleven there has been a dramatic increase in users liking state department sites but the problem is that only two percent of them actually use the sites so you get what you pay for a big bag of likes but few hard core fans probably the most shocking example is a vision of america group in farsi made for
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a rainy and which has gotten over four hundred twenty thousand members but only one percent of them is actually in iran where facebook advertising doesn't even exist that's effective getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people instead of paying for them why not you know get them naturally bar by providing interesting honest content on a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep wasting our tax dollars but that's just my opinion. right you see. first. and i think that your. orders twitter. to be in the. an
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infinite number of people coming who are taking jobs that pay over one hundred thousand a year you know they're going to pay taxes we create lots of other jobs around those people in my my basic view is that the country should welcome as many of those people as we can get and what the corporations and during the tell congress all there's a shortage of engineers is a shortage of scientists we can't find any this is all absolute total are with the h.r. many corporations will go to any lengths including these legal but deceptive practices to hire cheaper foreign labor look at this video clip recorded at a seminar conducted by an american law firm for human resources professionals and our goal is clearly not to find a qualified interested u.s. worker and you know that in a sense that sounds funny but it's what would.

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