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u.k. law makers are left serious as it emerges as some of the country's top cops like gage in a copper up to protect the identity of possible companies and individuals engaged in a frenzy of illegal hacking bugging and wiretapping. people in over one hundred american cities have rallied to demand justice for trayvon of the unarmed black teenager whose killer was acquitted a week ago sparking outrage across the country. and in cairo quaaludes of supporters of also president morsi present with protests despite clashes in the early always on saturday that lets three people flee.
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long from moscow you're watching r t you with me to say let's take a look at the news this hour. the case of syria's organized crime agency has refused to name companies and individuals that reportedly prayed to private investigators to access information illegally it said it feared for the reputations and the possible damage to those implicated in illegal wiretapping and hacking the agency said to have known about the practice for years without pressing charges and failing to declare to the m.p.'s early investigative journalist tony gosling told kevin irwin that. c.s. is a behavior is in itself criminal. 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
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private investigators tacking 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 criminal and so i wonder whether this serious organized crime agency isn't 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 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 file for 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 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
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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 honest law abiding companies that's why this is so important kevin is because it impure effectively 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 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. fear of crime in the u.k. is shattering records in terms of the amount of c.c.t.v. that is in use a sim is now sure there could be up to six million security cameras operating in the country one for every eleven people privacy groups are furious as saying george orwell's nineteen eighty-four was never intended to be an instruction manual as i
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saw it a salute who's watching who. 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 there are likely to be electronic arts 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 b s our most recent report shows that in fact majority of c.c.t.v. cameras are not government funded but rather privately owned of 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
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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 price of private c.c.t.v. cameras far 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. at the moment i think the private sector seen the ration of c.c.t.v. the public sector and this kind of attention that c.c.t.v. prevents crime from happening and so it's only a matter of time before the private sector. private c.c.t.v. footage 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 sense people miles away so i think it's only correct that the law catches up
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with the technology and states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the the day. sophisticated they can form a very intricate picture of everybody all right thank you very much i'm a car for the. information of the vast number of privately owned a surveillance cameras will add 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. and fingerprints records and it's just coming days after the 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. and we can judge as the moment was acquitted for shooting the unarmed black teenager trayvon martin angry americans have taken to the streets in their thousands have taken place in a hundred cities across the country to call for federal prosecution as well as to
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highlight what's seen as racism. ripples from one of the demonstrations 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 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 to civil rights activists here is all the 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 when the true 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
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defendant acted in self-defense and they're free to go so in this case you have a clue. aren't you choose race civil rights vigilantism guns and 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 at 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 outrage 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 in san bernardino the 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 for no apparent reason because he's black but the president also tried to put out the fire of
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protests throughout the country by basically saying as much as you don't like the verdict don't blame the jury and the judge blame the existing law in washington i'm going to check out. on our website we have live updates on the justice for trayvon protests including photos videos as well as firsthand accounts of what's happening at each event all that is just a click away and r.t. dot com. right in agent district and risk continues amid the ongoing political crisis after a bomb exploded near a police station in the city of a smiler earlier thousands of promo supporters once again gathered outside a major mosque in the east of cairo a stage a sit in there every night since the army shot dead more than fifty civilians protesting against the ousting of the president more than two weeks ago already on saturday the army blocked a huge margin by morsy supporters on the republican guard borax where many believe
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the former president is being held this just a day after three people were killed in clashes between opposing groups in the city of month the new interim president has ordered a group of experts to start working on amending the country's constitution which is needed to be for new elections at the start of next year journalist y u s kunda said the muslim brotherhood doesn't want to see the middle ground. the real problem that we're facing right now is the time of president morsi taking over it's been a source of politics 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 the truth prevails that they're not willing to take a compromise at all and i and the reason is because this or the organization is
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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've rejected most of the talks and negotiations so it's a standoff that continues unfortunately but 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 reject rejection from the people on the ground and from within the military institution due to the way they've handled things sorry el sayyid a political activist whose family is involved in the run is in egypt says the military will go to any lengths to end the protests. my family is just one family that you know that many families in egypt to to to the streets to demand that the
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first freely elected the president the first widget president of egypt be reinstated because what happened was a military coup i think out of the military knows that. there are millions and millions of people on the streets and do not want this army of people to come back again along with mubarak's corruption right now what we see is pretty parks they come back bubbling to the surface and the military will do just as it has done before whatever it can do to set to and to you know qual these protests that are in the streets right now as they have been for. prosecution witnesses say the stand in the trial of bradley manning the weekend so whistleblower charged with aiding the enemy is obviously a period till the cold was she thought he was spying all along we bring you the details and that. in a few minutes. palestinian teenagers find themselves turning
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into the boys into the israeli military the walls what the wanted showing of the children on that idea of. what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the poor are left hopeless the streets are. fighting against. the american dream. was to build a new. doesn't sound anything. to
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teach me. why you should care. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. prosecution witnesses in the trial of bradley manning have accused the weekend league's whistleblower of lacking patriotism is a media superior search she had a gut feeling manning was a spy because he smoked too many cigarettes and read too much coffee bradley manning is charged with aiding the enemy and faces life in prison for leaking
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classified documents to wiki leaks and our g.'s of breaking the search a martin discusses developments with producer and we break. 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 on 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 use these for the rest of life and you left because a lot people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has actually been proven to cause any harm not really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument they said you know this it's 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 you even gave enough evidence that the judge can
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actually make this decision so they filed a couple of motions a few weeks back and just today colonel denise lind 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 one hundred fifty four years and if you lose a hell of a guy you might live to and yeah you know 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 aid the enemy but we know he's played with the leaks of hundreds of thousands of classified documents that sets that's out there that the prosecutions tried saying that these documents caused harm to national security and they had people come in and testify about all of these documents
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separately released iraq war logs afghan war logs collateral murder video the tunnel bay detainee assessment briefs all these information and that's what the last couple of weeks of ten 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. in northern ireland thousands of british loyalists are today stage a parade in support of an earlier rally stopped by authorities but his intervention sparked five nights of rioting for the stoking sectarian emotions the artists are first reports from the gathering to the great loss leader of the state was not the least of every need was the only you enjoy the marching you are doing shots which is a nationalist to the least who didn't know the phrase was she the only one to the issues on the school did everything the fleet with getting the food out this
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was this he has been ongoing for a week now in the daylight was the into the lead up to the eastward it it's just the thing that the only things on in the us the cost to the extent you. are sure you are under. there you shouldn't you tried to achieve what you want you. to do you got the words you. don't know the like choose the world i could change the links to these right just that this. is the looting the needs of the rich and it's the law which it was was leading the ecology tweets in the country to try to leech the rest of the shit in this case is that the will continue. racing growth and combat in currency wars are what key finances from
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the world twenty leading economies have agreed on here in moscow the gathering is seen as a precursor to september's g twenty summit in russia one hour our from. the leading economists have agreed that strengthening growth and create change 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 has vowed to prevent currency worse although the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde believes that the danger of currency manipulation 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 st peter's birth this september where really seems at the same time that it is increasingly being used as a bargaining chip in international politics now they're worse and worse just as the
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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 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 hot put politics aside and we're really discussing some challenging economic issues. now for some more international headlines from around the world at least forty six people have been killed in the ordinated a wave of car bombings in baghdad the attacks targeted shia muslims areas and head
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right off to the breaking of the ramadan fast more than two hundred people have been killed since the start of the muslim holiday of the month off ramadan. israel is said to release several longtime 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 the go see asians which will start in washington within two weeks however fears linger that both sides still face serious challenges before the negotiations can resume kerry met the leaders of both israeli and palestinian leaders on the six visit to the region in as many months. while the ball additions tried to revive the peace process serves the outrage over israelis settlements and refuses to die down among palestinians wants war the military crackdown on protesters is seeing children end up on the i.d.f.
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says a wanted list our middle east correspondent was there has a full 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 an outlaws hid every night nearly the drop bombs and sound bombs that was the houses before i've been pulling the children live in very bad so critical situation and it's working a suffers 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 of their threatening us that they will arrest us and they will come and take us from our home. the posters
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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. assaf says he wasn't throwing stones but the army and settlers have a different version. is the head of a nearby city home and each day he drives on this road which can makes his settlement in the fifty five thousand jews who live in the area with the rest of his role. of this what would usually happen is they would come and stand on the road to 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 stones kill and that's why we expect the military to do what it
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takes in order for it to stop. israeli figures say rock throwing incidents are up by a hundred 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 very along the art of. as far south he has exams but can't concentrate where we have soldiers that are on the prowl looking for him and his classmates policy r.t. could doom spend. shiny shoes on wall street is back in style this time with a bit of sex appeal run these days by financial high fliers it's a long way from the regs and desperation is really associated with the buffing up broke and as marina but not discovered the money is not that bad either. wall
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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 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
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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 a part time while in school on time and i start writing i love the service was just if i was very walling it comfortable. and come watch a game. where there's class korean t.v. 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
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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. r.t. new york. right after the break we'll get to how failed policies in the u.s. have taken one of the worst global financial disasters in history to stay with us. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are empty and this piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we are 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.
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state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans and such are the government is out there to buy likes or what a fantastic use 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 well inspector 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 if you hard core fans probably the most shocking example is a vision of america group in farsi made for 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 the next bar by providing interesting honest content on a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep
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