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warm welcome to you from the. cia contractor edward snowden should be on a hit list rather than a list of names recently nominated for a prize for freedom of thought that was a joke made by former n.s.a. director michael hayden but. wave of criticism he. simply put he was. well speaking at a washington post panel discussion on a cyber security former n.s.a. director general michael hayden joked about putting added words snowden on a list that has very little to do with human rights or honorable recognition america's former spy chief a good knowledge that snowden an n.s.a. whistleblower has been nominated for a human rights award and then reportedly said quote i must admit in my darker moment over the past several months i had also thought of nominating mr snowden but

it was for a different list unquote some journalists including brendan sasso from the hell blog have interpreted mr hayden's words to mean putting snowden on america's kill list now general hayden confirmed to me that the quote is correct but he claims that his words have been misinterpreted and he never proposed for snowden to be put on any assassination list but some would argue that this is probably the worst time for any former or current top u.s. official to even speak sarcastically about putting snowden on a list and that's because journalists jeremy scahill and glenn greenwald are currently working together on a joint investigation on how the u.s. national security agency has been involved in the wider overseas assassination program run by the obama administration now both of these journalists are known for their hard hitting investigations of the u.s. government and their collaboration will reportedly reveal how they say the vast surveillance network of the n.s.a.

operates in conjunction with clandestine operations run by the u.s. military or the cia now for those who don't know the prize that snowden is nominated for was established by the european parliament in order to acknowledge individuals or organizations who have dedicated their lives to human rights and freedom of thought reporting from new york marina poor nial r.t. . now despite the fact that the bush era chief has no doubt you'd hoed notice revelations activist david swanson feels his comments were made in rather poor taste. when you joke about killing somebody with an ax your viewed as a sociopath when you joke about killing people with a million dollar missile your considered a big powerful person who knows lots of secret stuff and so your rage is directed in particular at people who reveal that secret stuff so we've arrived at the point of putting whistleblowers and those who leak information for whatever reason on the

list of enemies as if they are fighting a war because they are revealing the secret information including embarrassing and humiliating information it is of course outrageous criminal and in fact sociopathic and i think the timing is the same timing of the past weeks and months in which this has become a top problem in the u.s. government the audience laughed when president obama joked about using predator drones against his daughter's boyfriends joking about war in u.s. culture is acceptable people talk seriously about new wars and people who claim to oppose it don't speak up with outrage meantime the international monetary fund has said of wringing over america's debt crisis putting the world economy on the threat of the i.m.f. chief christine legarde warned that things will be far worse than the current u.s. budget standoff if indeed congress fails to hike the debt ceiling like it usually

has to do every few years the ongoing political uncertainty over the budget over the debt ceiling does not help the government shutdown is bad enough but to fill you to raise the debt ceiling would be far worse and could very seriously damage not only the u.s. economy but also the entire global economy. in the meantime in less than two weeks america will run out of money unless as i said lawmakers agreed to raise the debt ceiling and the failure to do so will lead to devastating effects that's the official warning from the u.s. treasury and other departments predicting and unprecedented default with quote catastrophic consequences the collapse of the american economy sending shock waves across the world are ending with a financial crisis and recession worse than the two thousand and eight meltdown.

the u.s. government shutdown is certainly taking its toll on the president's plans as well with barack obama forced to cancel a trip to asia and missed two summits the federal stop which was placed hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave and it's costing the american economy at least three hundred million dollars every day i think business and consumer confidence that live in from the city university of new york he says the crisis has been snowballing for years. now between crisis is the new normal in the economy and seems to be a new normal in our political system this isn't the first time that congress hasn't passed a budget by october first which was the deadline it's the twelve consecutive year that they failed to meet the deadline the only reason there hasn't been a shutdown for the last twelve years there's always been these temporary resolutions that's the bill for a six week temporary resolution that the house speaker of the house john boehner is refusing to put before the congress for

a vote right now so there is no constitutional mechanism and that suggests some sort of constitutional crisis in a time when the economy is provoking serious conflict in two parties. and the federal stoppage is now in its fourth day and with continuing squabbles in congress there are fears it could drag on for another week perhaps even more and the american people's trust in their economy is plummeting according to a recent gallup poll economic confidence has nosedive since the federal government brought its operations to a standstill it fell to minus thirty two points which is the lowest reading in more than a year in his interview show politicking larry king spoke to american business magnate donald trump to get his view on the events unfolding in the u.s. a quick preview now of the program coming up for you throughout the day here on. big government shutdown what's your take well it's a mess larry i mean the whole country is being scuffed at in left and we're not

doing well as a country as you know we will no longer be the great economic power in two thousand and sixteen as you know china will be replacing us if we keep going the way we're going which looks like inevitable that's a fact the effect we passed a health care law right the supreme court upheld it right and the republicans don't want to fund it well it's a law that really has to be that's true and a lot it's still your l.a. and i understand where you're coming from but it is something that's turning out to be very negative it's having a huge negative impact on business over at least happening and i guess that's what is going to happen one way or the other i don't see this getting them to the end but i fully understand what the republicans are doing i really like the wall street journal it's a major mistake well a lot of just hours ago well let's see how it happens less a strange things happen larry let's see what happens in the end but they are very committed to killing obamacare but everybody's committed obama's committed to a moment if you like commitment he's committed you would certainly think that he's

not cling to end it and that's what they want so it's a tough it's a very tough situation for the country and it's somewhat embarrassing for the country. much more government must now shut down until congress funds it again. and you can watch a lot of things politicking throughout the day here on our table for the man tom a bit later in the program here in athens the government plans to build a pricey mosque in the greek capital locals a few areas stressing they're already on their knees due to painful austerity. and swiss citizens demanding an oval hold of the whole concept of working for money i will tell you more about in just about ten minutes. our for the meantime ten minutes past the hour here in moscow gunfire. ruptured in the heart of washington after a woman rammed her car into the security barricades of the white house before speeding off towards capitol hill police opened fire while in pursuit of

a driver who was killed in the shootout at the scene artie's lives while. as a blocks away from the capitol police say the scene is secure after a dramatic high speed chase and eventually. it started according to authorities at the white house where the suspect tried to ram through a security barrier and that is what led to this high speed train with and get out around this area near the capital and then chile police say that shots rang out into areas that the suspect the female suspect is dead here's some more on what the capitol police had to say our offs attempted to make a stop the call should pull. you can you d.m. continue no on behind us that first question avenues it appears you are all sure interceptors to shoot digital. barricade. should leave the vehicle stop to check in

maryland northeast where we were able to get you. to what. united states secret service or united states capitol police. suspect. we do know was struck by gunfire both ortiz a confirmed that there was a one year old child inside of that hard they did say that that child is unharmed and is in custody they also confirm that at least one officer was was injured during this ordeal it's believed that all or most of those shots were actually from police trying to stop this suspect i spoke to some eyewitnesses today that said that they heard these gunshots ring out police were around there with guns drawn in the car backed up slammed in it already turned around was taking off back along the road south side near the front and that's why that's when the shots occurred so

authorities say that this is an isolated incident and believe that it is not tied to terrorism based on the information that they know. now again it is actively under investigation a lot of details still unclear at this point here in washington liz wahl r.t. . in the wake of all of this not everybody agrees with the police reaction to the incident let's bring them up for you right here you can see exactly how it all unfolded in the heart of the american capital starting at the white house with a suspect advances all the way to the capitol building here ramming a secret service vehicle on its way and coming under police fire and the driver was eventually shot dead by police dr mark mason believes officials did have other ways though to stop the woman throughout the chase. in the fact that we have an on arm female the police have come forward and say that she was on armed there was an infant in the car. there was no gun fire of any kind that came from

the car at any time a lot of questions need to be. i think that there is reason to believe that the police in washington d.c. way way over reacted that there are alternatives to respond to situations short of deadly force you know speeding car it's a variety of ways it's stopping them the tires heavier and then they can be punctured by various means to put strips from the vehicles they can shoot out the tires because they have these rope things that they don't have a lot of time but all this whole situation is that the police had no evidence that she had any gun and she had not used any weapon at all she was using a vehicle that vehicle must receive attention yes of course we are closely following this story for you here what you can always had online where we've got the latest developments on the photographs from the scene of the shooting.

a very short break here on out so we traveled to underground mosques in greece and head to a palestinian village where it's weapons that are starting to see you in just. with the averting of war with syria at the last second and the opening of some kind of dialogue with iran it would appear washington's neo cons and armchair generals are falling on hard times ever since the end of the cold war washington has always been in need of an enemy talking to iran certainly is one of their worst nightmares so is there a plan b. . the mission. couldn't take three months for two hundred years three. months three. three stooges.

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will be facing the prospect on the international community. platform for. headlines live from moscow as greece struggles to make ends meet plans to build a new mosque in athens a simply infuriating locals and the money from the project is set to come from state funds by the country already severely suffering a continued austerity. piskun off reports from. of. the evening prayer one of the five daily spiritual rituals for muslims worldwide some prefer to do it at home others visit a mosque. this one looks more or less ordinary from the

inside but there is one detail which makes it stand out from the rest in other parts of the globe this is literally another ground mosque set up inside the garage of an apartment building things and every day muslims from nearby neighborhoods come here to pray while in total there are around one hundred twenty of similar unofficial mosques all across the city it's hard to tell the difference between unofficial and illegal but the makeshift facilities are the local muslim communities only choice there's simply no official mosque in athens we're talking about thousands of people that hold the greek passports. to this country and they are important but no it's at the time of their player greece is among the main points of entry for migrants to the e.u. and it's estimated around three hundred thousand muslims live in athens alone. so for the first time since gaining independence from the ottoman empire in the eighteenth century greek authorities are planning to build

a mosque in the capital but as it turns out many of the crisis hit a traditional orthodox christian nation are not happy with idea the mosques price tag is one million euro plans to be paid from the state budget now they're just as good this money should be given to poor people pensioners who are starving in our collecting trash in the streets so they can exist the government should give the one million euro's to these people and not build mosques for the churches to be again ivan if eventually have debts and then there are thousands of unemployed sick poor starving people it's like telling me to build a house without even having money to eat can this happen you know it can be clearly it's only a drop in the ocean for many greeks who once again dove into a wave of nationwide strikes. against fresh austerity measures. and while the government redirects anyone i'm happy with the mosques construction to the ports it seems that stories like this a reminder that the financial crisis isn't only about care but it's exposing the

most sensitive social problems that for many are becoming too expensive to tolerate . greeks and you've always had on online dot com for the very best stories including for this hour falling from freedom states around the world to come down on cyberspace bringing in sophisticated snooping technology to monitor citizens online activities that's a new report. and while three point one billion dollars is how much it will cost japan to get u.s. soldiers out of okinawa though only. drones instead story on the web site right now. in the middle of the desert landscapes of the west bank a small village has become an oasis of palestinian resistance against the israeli occupation its residents have planted flowers and hundreds of spent israeli tear

gas canisters to honor those killed during their weekly protests against the separation barrier. or went to see the unusual god. this is a village in the west bank it's a symbol of palestinian resistance against these radio patients it's often in the headlines because almost if we find a village just here organize protests against these way the separation wall they claim that the wall has taken some sixty percent of the land away six years ago they went to court and the judge ruled that the wall needs to be. the village has also become a symbol of occupation are and the same to peace here is the garden of humvee. he is a palestinian photographer and journal. he's managed to turn a negative into a positive. to make always such that it's resisting to make it to make the people to enjoy to like what the people here you know be

tools to change the idea what palestinians doing of the. violent god and commemorates. a palestinian protesters leader who was killed back in two thousand and nine when a tear gas canister struck him in the chest this is a place where my cousin percy was killed here where he did shoot to show there is something. we can make close to this to justice so who could who could kill the people the human and then we planted the flowers. to show that was like we have to change about this for instance this is one way that his fight is not forgotten policy our team believe in west bank. why straight to the world of a now let's start with source trade union members having a red card fee for staging a protest outside of the headquarters of the main governing body injury the rally

was timed to coincide with the start of a crunch meeting on the twenty twenty two world cup that is said to be hosted by qatar the gulf state came under fire following a guardian newspaper investigation which revealed nepalese workers have been dying while building the tournament's for civil. egyptian military authorities have started to seize the assets of the muslim brotherhood and the vast social services it provides including hospitals schools and charities are also set to be wound down a ban on the islamist group has only come into full force now after all court appeals were rejected by many of the brotherhood leaders are currently behind bars what it claims many of its supporters have been killed in the crowd. down. to germany where hundreds of left wing activists have clashed with police and attempt to thwart. unification day the. protesters mostly from communist groups accuse the government of fueling crisis. the country was

reunified in one thousand nine hundred following the fall of the wall and the collapse of the communist east german state. others. picture. cross talk. crucial change in the constitution pushing for the introduction of a guaranteed income for everyone and those behind the initiative say the

unconditional basic income will ensure the whole population lives with dignity. one of the advocates of the grand idea. a petition signed by over one hundred twenty six thousand swiss citizens is being presented to the parliament on friday what it proposes is a radical shake up of the social welfare system in the country and even changes to the very concept of working for money now to find out a little bit more about this i'm joined by one of the ten founding members who put forward this proposition. thanks very much for talking to me talking about just giving people free money a main starting point is that constitutions including ours in switzerland make it very clear that each person individually has a right to a life in dignity it would become unconditional to a basic amount which allows a life in dignity without any frills without any holidays in the south seas but

just a life in dignity which would be unconditionally available to everyone but if people are receiving this money from the state is there an incentive to work then the incentive is not the same as today and i think that we want that to be the case because the incentive today is simply to be able to survive no matter how awful the job that you have to accept and if you find a job at all or feeling completely left out of normal life because your unemployment benefits we believe that people would still want to work and eighty percent of people say that if they had this they probably would still work perhaps prod time perhaps only to complete their the amount that they need to live. beyond this basic amount of the basic income and that the really awful jobs would have to be paid much better for anyone to want to do that and we think that's probably a good thing so what's the next stage after this initiative has been handed over to the government switzerland has a system where one hundred thousand people can put in an initiative which

obligatorily has to come before the people unless both the government and the parliament have accepted it first which is unlikely in this case so in about three or four years they'll be a popular vote. all the voting citizens of switzerland will vote whether they accept this or not it's a radical change and we are taking a chance but we believe we're taking a chance on the individual responsibility of all the people who would have a basic income so they can live in dignity thank you very much that's it he's one of ten people putting forward this initiative in switzerland that would completely change the way we we conceive of work and in turn turn the welfare system here in switzerland on its head. all right get ready for a hot version of cross talk with a western intervention in syria a verdict in the eleventh hour and iran expect to be ready for a dialogue what's next for american foreign policy in the region and the people of l. and his guests and cost. you

know i'm old enough to remember on reruns when gomer pyle used to cry citizen's arrest when he saw something wrong in mayberry and a new law in russia could allow our city average to do the same thing by helping to enforce law in the country this law allows citizens to protect public order by becoming volunteer workers deputy policeman and even forming people's militias which will in theory prevent crime or at least allow the police to be informed more quickly and accurately of course this like any project which sounds nice on paper is all about the implementation so we'll see how these deputies and militias will work overall i think this won't have much of an effect on crime but it could have a huge impact on non-criminal bad public behavior you know i am not the bravest guy

on the planet and it's hard to confront a group of five drunk guys who are just as big as you who are acting like idiots on the street but doing so with ten stones. militiaman buddies could provide a much more convincing argument for the drunkard's this could be a big step forward for democracy when you actually have at least a scrap of power or control over the events in your neighborhood then you were sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered on peter lavelle twilight of the neo cons with the averting of war with syria at the last second and

the opening of some kind of dialogue with iran it would appear washington's neo cons and armchair generals are falling on hard times ever since the end of the cold war washington has always been in need of an enemy talking to iran certainly is one of their worst nightmares so is there a plan b. . to cross-talk what's next for the neo con agenda i'm joined by grant smith in washington he is the director of the institute for research at middle eastern policy and in san francisco we cross to bruce fein he is the founder and president of the national commission on intelligence and foreign wars right gentlemen rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to grant if i go to you first in washington let's go through the countries saudi arabia iraq egypt the afghanistan pakistan the israelis the list can go on but they're not picking up the phone too often when washington.