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this morning britain's top police agency refuses to name the blue chip companies that ordered a frenzy of hacking wiretapping for commercial gain which the agency knew about for years. a one hundred sixty rallies underway in the united states with crowds furious equivalent george zimmerman shot dead a black teenager. thousands of supporters of ousted president morsi protests clashes in the early hours of saturday that left three day.
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if you just joined us it's covered over here this morning just a tad after one am now in moscow our top story british leaders are demanding to know why one of the country's premier law enforcement bureaus ignored massive corruption misconduct by private investigators serious no 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 ordered the bugging for fear of damaging the reputation something investigative journalist tony goldwyn told me finds 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 there of criminals actually what they're doing is proposing as private investigators tacking into lots of databases mostly government databases where people have given information to government agencies obviously in confidence and these 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 when the british economy is not a 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
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a criminal state that is to say the criminals win out while the honest people go 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. in parallel britain's addiction to surveillance and shattering records investments that there is now one camera for every eleven people privacy groups a few are saying george orwell's nineteen eighty-four was never intended to be an instruction manual this or cilla takes 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
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shopping mall or what are called sensitive locations like schools and hospitals there are likely to be electronic eyes on you know in recent years much criticism have 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 and mostly used for security reasons another 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 a big brother watch u.k. price of private c.c.t.v. cameras far number of those installed by the police and local authorities so it does challenge the idea that it is the government that's acting as big brother doesn't it i think it's big for there was a hole in the u.k.
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at the moment i think the private sector seen the political ration of c.c.t.v. cameras public sector and this this kind of a ten that c.c.t.v. prevents crime from happening and so it's only a matter of time in the private sector. started installing private c.c.t.v. for the needs but we're seeing some incredibly sophisticated pieces of technology appearing via the internet so things to do with facial recognition and things that can send people full miles away so i think it's only correct that the law catches up with the technology and states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the day. very very sophisticated they can form a very intricate picture of anybody all right thank you very much i am a car for that will certainly be a new information on the vast number of privately owned surveillance cameras will add to the debate of the so-called surveillance society you know this is just coming on the back of 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.
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and fingerprints records and it's just coming days after that code of regulation is imposed on public surveillance cameras of course the debate created by the revelations of edward snowden already ongoing reporting from london. well while britain looks to rein in its surveillance addiction washington it seems there is no such comes about its own website find out through secret court president obama renewed the n.s.a.'s power to harvest the phone records of millions of americans its. protests are underway across the united states so we called for a florida court acquitted george zimmerman who shot dead a black teenager organizers expect more than one hundred cities to take part in the rallies he's going to if you can that 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 jury in florida found george zimmerman
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not guilty of murder and manslaughter all these people think that trayvon martin being white he would have been alive even president obama thinks so too civil rights activist here is all the is that george zimmerman followed trayvon martin that night 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 when the two confronted 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 even have to prove that their client is an angel it's enough 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 issues race civil rights vigilantism guns and self-defense laws the u.s. 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
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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 for twenty years while george zimmerman walks free so you see the basis of these people's out wage there have been protests around the country throughout the week following dissimilar members to dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests were made on charges of unlawful assembly in some places like in san bernardino protests turned violent demonstrators threw rocks at passing cars the president america's first black president spoke from the heart on friday when he recalled some of the instances when feet had been looked upon with suspicion but no apparent 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 the judge blamed the existing law in washington i'm going to check out. a bomb has exploded outside
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a police station in the egyptian city of is miley so far no casualties been reported there it comes to stars as a pro morsi supporters turned out on the streets again gathering outside a major mosque in the east of the pictures from the area a sit in that is being held since the army shot dead more than fifty civilians protesting against the ousting of the former president more than a fortnight ago thousands of promo see demonstrators broke off from outside the mosque where protesters before marching them to the republican guard barracks but then there were blocked by the army comes less than a day after three people were north of current clashes between opposing camps we tell the new interim president sort of a group of experts to start working on amending the country's constitution which is needed before new elections at the start of next year while asking this journalist in cairo he told us the muslim brotherhood doesn't want to seek the middle ground is the real problem that we're facing right now is from the time of president morsi taking over it's been a politics game it's all or none and that is mainly the reason.
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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 out of truth prevails they're not willing to take a compromise at all and i and the reason is because this or the organization is bent on dominating and pushing their way. 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
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institution due to the way they've handled things. political activists told us that those pushing for mahmoud morsi is reinstatement feel they're being denied democracy. my family is just one family that you know that many families in egypt to take to the streets to demand that the first really elect the president first widget president you can't be reinstated because what happened was a military coup i think and out of the military knows that. there are millions and millions of people on the streets and do not want this army people to come back again along with mubarak's corruption right now we see it's pretty dark state come back bubbling to the surface and the military will do just as it as it has done before whatever it can do to set do and to you know qual these protests that are in the streets right now as they have been for. coming up in the program the children caught up in the crosshairs israel's military to the teeth and perfectly played is
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now resorting to using wanted posters intimidate palestinian youngsters who throw stones and protests at the settlements we call this story business is buzzing year moscow it seems top financial ministers and leading bankers agree to fight global unemployment and increase growth in a key meeting ahead of the g twenty summit there in russia on our agenda too right after this break. wealthy british style. expert on the. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause
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a report on apple for example much of its manufacturing is done on in the united states so i don't see why the american sanitary would be so concerned about it paying or not paying taxes because ultimately it's not going to get any share of that and that's happening already and of course we're talking here about how do you share the taxes provided there are taxes the problem today there's nothing to share because we agreed to these rigi where these companies don't pay tax. in northern ireland thousands of british loyalist staged parade in support of an earlier rally stopped by the authorities place intervention sparked five nights of rioting further stoking sectarian emotions there are reports in the gathering.
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things. and not. to me. being called to testify against bradley manning. suspected he was a spy among our arguments heavy smoking and the fact that he drank strong coffee faces life in prison for making classified documents to wiki leaks after a judge confirmed the most serious charge of aiding the enemy and not his regular said every matter discussed developments from producer andrew plague. 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 modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you see it for the rest of life and you left because
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a lot of people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has actually been proven to cause any harm you know really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument and 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 the enemy afterwards the defense said we don't think so we don't think you even you we don't think we 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 should 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 charge bradley manning will now face a maximum of life plus one hundred fifty four years in prison i believe life plus
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one hundred fifty four years and it's been 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 naturally aid the enemy but we know he's played with the lives 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 went on will be a detainee assessment briefs all these information and that's what the last couple of weeks of bend 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 no he was a naive twenty something guy who wanted to help the world but that's going to be ultimately up to the judge to decide. well our conversation in the full additional breaking the set of eligible on our web site r.t. dot com streaming now if you were captured. growth in combat in
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currency wars are walking finances from the world's to twenty leading economies of agreed on here in moscow a gathering is seen as september's g. twenty summit here in russia more on this than from artie's but in a culture. the leading economists have agreed that strengthening growth and create change jobs remain the top priorities for the g twenty member states so the recession in the euro area continues ways how to recover from this were largely discussed at this meeting the g twenty financial leaders has 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. twenty summit that will take place in some petersburg this september boom really seems at the same time that it is increasingly being used as
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a bargaining chip in international politics now their worst some rumors 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 grants asylum to the former anas a contract or adverse notion though early as 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 it 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 some challenging economic issues. there's a brief a waiver car bombs and by does killed at least forty six according to officials
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that struck as iraqis went 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 holy month of ramadan began. promise of far right english to. ransley have clashed violently with police in the . city of birmingham in the midlands leaving several people injured there thirty three protesters were arrested after bottles and stones were held in offices the v.l. said it was taking to the streets to call for the reintroduction of video cameras in the city's center to combat crime a left wing counter protest meantime was held not far from where those clashes erupted. israel has released several long time palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to start peace talks brokered by the u.s. secretary of state john kerry he said the two sides are ready for negotiations which will start in washington within two weeks care about the needs of both states on the six visit to the region in these many months. so while the politicians
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try to revive the peace process the outrage over israel's settlements refuses to die down among palestinians what's more the military crackdown on protesters is now seeing children and up on the i.d.f. wanted list of middle east correspondent paula slayer's the story. armed to the teeth it'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 this post is threatening to find them wherever they are like a sheriff in a small town with a bounty on outlaws hid every night nearly and drop bombs and sound bombs the words the houses before i've been with the children live in very bad so critical situation and it's working a sufis one of the children whose faces was plastered around village in the northern west bank 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 there threatening
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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 front line and in the line of fire children the idea to publish these posters was probably the initiative of the local army commander they were placed on the walls of a mosque and nearby houses. as soft says he wasn't throwing stones but the army and settlers have a different version but so is the head of a nearby city home and each day he drives on this road which connects his settlement in the fifty five thousand jews who live in the area with the rest of 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
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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 stones kill and that's why we expect the military to do what it takes in order for it to stop. it's really 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. 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. for could doom span a change of pace no totally shining shoes on wall street's back in style this time
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with a better sex appeal it seems run these days by financial high fliers it's a long way from the rags and desperation usually associated with brogues as art is rare portnoy discovered the abundance of. wall 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 criticize bankers right now shining their shoes has turned into a high end business. welcome to starshine and y.c. it's just different from everything else there's. their sheer size 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 a women only staff uniformed in teeny black shorts and didn't take tops for the
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first week we had about one hundred people a day no coincidence that nearly all of those people happened to be finance years 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 a business where you're going to shine people 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 school on time and i start writing i love the service was just if i was very walling it comfortable. come watch a game with. where there's class korean t.v. and lovely ladies as well it's a hobby it's
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a magnet 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. in a couple minutes and looks into the controversy relates to issue of rolling stone magazine which is going to photo of the boston bombing suspect dzhokhar on his cover it said coming up right after this break. if you want to hear something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be sued for bad reactions
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to their products only the original branded creators of the drugs can the court's decision was five to four overturning a multimillion dollar award for a woman who was horribly wounded by taking a medication which gave her toxic epidermal necrosis which is basically the equivalent of getting third degree burns all over her body and of course after winning the case mutual pharmaceutical company is demanding their millions of dollars back from the woman who they naturally blame for having side effects from the medicine they made themselves remember this is not just a ruling about one drug but a ruling about all generic drugs which are eighty percent of the u.s. market all of them will not have any accountability i cannot wrap my head around the logic of only punishing the creator of a product and granting immunity to anyone that later reproduces said product i mean would any sane person say that if you shoot a person with a colt forty five pistol that is a crime but if you use a copycat call made in mexico to blow your neighbors off well that's ok because
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it's a generic copy no no sane person would allow generic drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion. speak to language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school he. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviewers intriguing stories for you. in troy arabic to find out more visit or a big old poteat dog called. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so many i mean the town i know that i'm sitting seems really messed up. in the
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old story so closely. at. worst you are going to go the white house of a. radio guy and for a minute for a big picture. what what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. you guys i'm having martin and this is breaking on the set so in light of the leaks from edward snowden and developments around and it's a spine it's inspired many current former government officials to come out and say that their pizza why they think snowden is a traitor a law breaker and the like amidst all the insane rhetoric a former u.s. president has come out and shattered the regurgitated talking points shedding some sanity on the issue by late few weeks ago former president jimmy carter told c.n.n. that while snowden didn't break the law.
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