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the. u.k. lawmakers are left serious as it emerges some of the country's top cops and gage and a couple of related to a frenzy of illegal hacking bugging and wiretapping. people in over one hundred american cities have rallied to demand justice for trayvon of the on the black teenager whose killer was acquitted a week ago sparking outrage across the country. and in cairo thousands of supporters of also president morsi press on with protesters by clashes in the early hours of saturday that left three people dead.
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you're watching our g. live from almost go head coach as you with me to bang with. the u.k. says serious organized crime agency has refused to name a companies and individuals that reportedly paid to private investigators to access information illegally it said it feared for their reputation and the possible damage to those implicated in illegal wiretapping and hacking the agency is said to have known about the practice for years without pressing charges and failing to declare to m.p.'s earlier investigative journalist tony gosling told my colleague kevin that so because 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 private investigators acking into lots of databases mostly government databases where people have given information to government agencies obviously in confidence
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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 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 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 in 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 honest law abiding companies that's
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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 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 as they 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 doesn't takes a look who is 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
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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. that's one in every fifteen or one in every eleven people whether you're with the tube in 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 most recent report it 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 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
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a big brother watch price of private c.c.t.v. cameras far outnumber 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 but there is a hole in the u.k. at the moment i think the private sector seen the proliferation of c.c.t.v. cameras public sector and this kind of a ten all myth that c.c.t.v. prevents crime from happening and so it's only a matter of time before the private sector. started installing private c.c.t.v. for 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 in states how and when these cameras can be used at the end of the day. very sophisticated and they can form a very intricate picture of everybody all right thank you very much i'm a car for that. new information on the vast number of privately owned
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a surveillance cameras were 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. 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. a week off the george zimmerman was acquitted of shooting data the unarmed black teenager trayvon martin and the americans have taken to the streets in their thousands marches have taken place in one hundred cities across the country to call full federal prosecution as well as to highlight what seen as racism then it's you can reports 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
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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 too so rights activist 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 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. race civil rights vigilantism guns and self-defense laws the us has a history of racial disparities in the application of criminal was
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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 out 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 you 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 he had been looked upon with suspicion would know what parent 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 the existing law in washington i'm
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going to check out. on a website that we have live updates on the justice for trayvon protests including photos videos as well as firsthand account of what's happening at each event all that is just a click away at our t.v. dot com. right in egypt a street and rest continues amid the ongoing political crisis bomb exploded near a police station in the city of a smile earlier thousands of promo supporters once again gathered outside a major mosque in the east of cairo they have stage a sit in that they every night isn't see 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 march on morsy is a supporters on the republican guard barracks where many believe the former president is being held this just a day after three people were killed in clashes between opposing groups in the city of my suit the new interim president has ordered
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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 beginning mr y u s conduct 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 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 guy 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 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
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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 rich rejection from the people on the ground and from within the military institution due to the way they've handled things. meanwhile egypt's security forces have raided the offices of an iranian t.v. channel in cairo and detained it's direct them somewhere else syud a political activist whose family is involved in the rallies in egypt claims the military will go any lengths to increase its power. my family is just one family that you know that many families in egypt are to the streets to demand that the first really elect the president the first widget president of egypt be reinstated
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because what happened was a military coup i think. is that. there are millions and millions of people on the streets you do not want this army who will come back again along with mubarak's corruption right now what we see is putting two barks they come back bubbling to the surface and on the military will do just as it has done before whatever it can do seven do and two you know qual these protests that are in the streets right now as they have been for. prosecution witnesses take the stand in the trial of bradley manning the week an exe whistleblower charged with aiding the enemy is obvious a period tells a call to why she thought he was a spy all along we'll bring you the details and on that. in a few minutes. palestinian teenagers find themselves turning into the poster boys of a kind of those israeli military the walls with the wanted showing off the
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visit. thanks us. being with us you're watching our team prosecution witnesses in the trial of bradley manning have accused the weekly league's whistleblower of lacking patriotism his immediate superiors said she had a gut feeling manning was a spy because he smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much coffee bradley manning is charged with aiding the enemy and faces life in prison for leaking classified documents to wiki leaks in artie's of breaking the set every martin discussed developments with producer andrew blake. what happened was so you know
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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 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 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
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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 he's been well he's a hell of a guy you might live to and yeah you know you know man i mean balls are 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 really aid the enemy but we know he's played with the leaks of hundreds of thousands of classified documents that set's that's out there he admitted that the prosecutions tried saying that these documents caused harm to national security and they had people come in to 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 bennett witnesses being called by the prosecution and by the defense
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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 ultimately up to the judge to decide. in northern ireland thousands of british loyalists today stage a parade in support of n n e a rarely stopped by authorities but his intervention sparked five nights of rioting for the striking sectarian emotions same. fruits reports from the gathering over into the great causing of the street was not the only stuff underneath was the only you enjoy the marching you are doing shots which is a nationalist oh it just was fully loaded with the phrase you marched up to the line of or into the issues on not excluded everything the fleet fleet we've given this to the crowd this was the this is the this you know going through we now in the daylight was the into the lead up to the resort to it it's just the secret police
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think she was in the us the cost of that needs to be the you see. what you are going to do you know you should try to do to you what you want you. to do you know you. don't know that it is like to stage the world continue the links to these great just yes it's still a good thing leunig could be featured in the action to the not which was the leading thought she tweets in the country to try to reach the rest of the issues in this case of the t.v. debate not that it will continue. let's take a quick look at what we've lined up for you on line at a cafe in indonesia as bugs anger does not be beamed establishment opened about two years ago with its local regulars blissfully unaware of the nazis
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crimes during world war two three can't believe it you one more go online. scientists excited over mankind for its ever mission to the moon south pole which could be attempted as early as twenty six thousand head over to r.t. dot com for the full story. bursting grows and commenting combat in currency wars are what the finances from the world's twenty leading economies have agreed on here in moscow a gathering is seen as a precursor to september's g twenty summit in russia one hour from our cheeseman our question of the. the leading economists have agreed that strengthening growth and create jobs remain the top priorities for the g twenty member states of the recession in the euro area continues ways how to recover from various were largely discussed at this meeting the g twenty financial leaders have vowed to prevent
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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 ensign peters birth this september boom really seems at the same time that it is increasingly being used as a bargaining chip in international politics now their worst some rumors as does 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
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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 not put politics aside and were really discussing some challenging economic issues now for some more international headlines that the sixty five people have been killed in a coordinated wave of a combo made in and around baghdad that the attacks targeted mainly commercial areas and hit right after the end of the days of ramadan fast well then two hundred people have been killed since the start of the muslim holiday month. a police station in metropolitan paris has come under tag more protesting against officers and forcing france's ban on a slight make full face veils of five people were injured and six we detained in the assault the current wave of outrage was sparked by the arrest of a man who tried to strangle of police officer will find his wife before wearing
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a veil. at these three people have been killed and several injured in two separate blasts in the pakistani city of karachi in the first explosion a motorbike laden with explosives was blown up as a vehicle of a government official drove by the official who was the apparent target of the attack was injured while the second blast ripped through the third floor of residential building in the same area. israel is to release several longtime palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to start peace talks brokered by the us secretary of state john kerry is that the two sides are ready for negotiations which will start in washington within two weeks however fears the linger that both sides are still faces serious challenges before the negotiations can resume. while the politicians try to revive the peace process of the outrage over israel settlements
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refuses to die down among palestinians what's more the military crackdown on protesters is seeing children and up on the i.d.f. says wanted list a middle east correspondent policy or has a 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 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 bombs and sound bombs that was 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 villages 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 the local army commander they were placed on the walls of a mosque and nearby houses and stuff 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 connects his settlement in the thirty 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
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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. 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 that. the president of the. as for 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. coup for could doom they spend. after the break we don't get how failed politics in the u.s. have changed to one of the worst still global financial disasters in history.
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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'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
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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 few hardcore 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 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. choose your language call if we can we know if the materials going to stay still
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from a. few of the concerns you. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in high life choose the access to your office. an 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 are doing to 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
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a seminar conducted by an american law firm for human resources professionals and our goal is clearly not to find a qualified to be interested u.s. worker and you know that in a sense that sounds funny but it's what we're trying to do here i get fifty resumes my god this is the last thing i would do is interview these fifty people does the law require that i actually interview each and every candidate you know. if it gets to the point where the somebody is the way to very qualified yes then to have the manager of that specific position step in and work the publications with him if necessary instead of an interview just in the process to find a legal basis to disqualify them for this particular position that whoever the displaced workers are still who ever talk with this the fact that i'm thinking this means the answer is either no almost or.

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