sinister cyber security a former n.s.a. chief makes a joke about putting cia was simple oh edward snowden on a hit list. the us federal hold president obama grounded as he's forced to counsel a trip to asia where the u.s. treasury issues a warning of a catastrophic default. and the price tag for the new mosque. bailout play greeks feeling the government couldn't have chosen a time for the. warmer welcome to you from all of us here at all i'm. headlines for this hour cia

contractor whistleblower 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 the former n.s.a. director michael hayden that was humor has sparked off a wave of criticism he told us. that simply put he was misunderstood. well speaking at a washington post panel discussion on a cyber security former n.s.a. director general michael hayden joked about putting edward snowden on a list that has very little to do with human rights or honorable recognition america's former spy chief eg 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 hill

blog have interpreted mr havens 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 marine up or r.t. well despite the fine but the bush era and i say chief there's no doubt we are snowden's revelations and he was active as david swanson feels his comments were made in porter's. 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 you are 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. the international monetary fund has now said the alarms ringing over america's debt crisis putting the world economy under threat of the i.m.f. chief christine lagarde she's worn things will be far worse than the current u.s. budget standoff if indeed congress fails to hike its 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. and in the mean time in less than two weeks america will run out of money unless indeed lawmakers do agree to raise the debt ceiling or the failure will lead to devastating effects and that's the official warning from the u.s. treasury department's predicting an precedented default with catastrophic consequences of the collapse of the american economy sending shock waves across the globe ending with a financial crisis and recession worse than the two thousand and eight recession but the u.s. government shutdown is taking its toll on the president's plans as well with barack obama forced to cancel a trip to asia and missed two summits at the federal stop which was placed hundreds

of thousands of workers on paid leave it's costing the american economy at least three hundred million dollars every day hitting both business and consumer confidence kenneth livin from the city university of new york he says the crisis has actually been snowballing for years. between crisis there's a 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 the two parties in terms

of 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 or perhaps even longer and the american people's trust in the economy that's what's taking a plummeting hit right now according to the latest from gallup this poll showing that economic confidence has nosedive. since the federal government brought its operations to a standstill the numbers right there it fell to minus thirty two points the lowest reading in more than a year and in his interview show politicking larry king spoke to american business magnate donald trump to get his view on the events unfolding in america and here's a preview of the program coming your way throughout the day here on out. the government shutdown what should take well it's a mess larry i mean the whole country is being scuffed at and 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 fact 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 in the law it's still a year away 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 the years 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 people say i was a golden well let's see how it happens lots of strange things happen larry let's see what happens in the end but if they are very committed to killing obamacare when 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 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. are we still have many more stories coming your way on the program here on our including in athens that the government plans to build a pricey mosque in the greek capital locals a few areas stressing they are already on their names due to painful austerity measures. and swiss citizen is the modeling an overhaul of the whole concept of working for money more details on that about ten minutes time. barb of the kind of i'm not. an ideology is that is the believe that the united states is really of this world something right to be or an obligation to be about what a body else. wealthy british. markets

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ten minutes past one of the afternoon on friday here in moscow. swiss citizens of a bonding a crucial change in the constitution and pushing for the introduction of a guaranteed income for everyone. with a video to follow the story. where supporters of the basic income idea have gathered for. what we're seeing here in switzerland is a completely revolutionary outlook towards the social welfare system what's being proposed by a group of swiss citizens is a guaranteed minimum income now what that would mean is that every citizen whether working in whichever job or not at all would receive a set amount of money this new revolutionary plan has resulted in this outpouring of outpouring of gold coins is well it's cost some consternation is it just free money or will it result in people not even bothering to work now those behind the

scheme say that it will actually encourage people to work it will encourage people to to follow their dreams they say that this will allow them allow people in the country a right to dignity a right to choose exactly what they want to do not pressured by the stream pressures of having to finance their every day lives they say that the modern world has created a situation whereby people don't work for what they enjoy they worked in order to to just pay their bills and they want to change this now when it comes to financing it well that's where it gets into the real political wrangling and if this does get beyond a referendum that's certainly something that's going to be discussed that has been put forward that perhaps taxes could be raised it's also being put forward that could be a financial transaction tax of course switzerland one of the the major banking centers of the world if not the major banking center of the world also rise in v.a. t. in value added tax could be brought in but it's a certainly

a revolutionary scheme that they're looking forward to putting to parliament here and to change perhaps even the very way that we concept what work is now as greece struggles to make ends meet plans to build a new mosque in athens are in your rating locals the money from the project is set to come from state funds despite the country already suffering severe continued austerity reporting from athens has gone off. 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 a literally an underground 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 an 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 know it's the time of their players in 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 the idea that the mosques price tag is one million euro plans to be paid from the state budget not the next of those this money should be given to poor people pensioners who are

starving in are collecting trash on the streets so they can eat the government should give the one million euro's to these people and not build mosques for the turks to be again i've done if we 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 no it can't 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 unhappy with the mosques construction to the courts it seems that stories like this a reminder that the financial crisis isn't only about cash but it's exposing the most sensitive social problems that for many are becoming too expensive to tolerate you got this going off phones greece. just a few clicks away you can always had on line for the best stories from our web team including for this hour right now a falling from freedom of states around the world to comping down on cyberspace and

bringing in sophisticated snooping technology to monitor the citizens online activities and all of that according to a new report. also online read this hour while three point one billion dollars is how much it'll cost japan to get u.s. soldiers out of okinawa but only though if it hosts american drones instead the whole story right now on our web site. we'll get to the world updates soon for now though in the middle of the desert landscapes of the west bank a small village is becoming a waste of palestinian resistance against the israeli occupation its residents have planted flowers and hundreds of spent israeli tear gas grenades and so on of those killed during their weekly protests against the separation barrier. went to see the rather unusual god. this is between village in the west bank it's a symbol of palestinian resistance against israeli occupation it's often in the

headlines because almost every friday villagers here organize protests against the israeli 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 part of the wall needs to be rebooted the village has also become a symbol of occupation office and the same to peace here is the garden of humvee rama he is a palestinian photographer and journalist whose managed to turn a negative into a positive for sisters you know to make always such that it's resisting to make it to make the people to join to like what the people here to be close to change the idea what palestinians doing all of the. violent god and commemorates bassam 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 if you will he did show to show there is something. we can make. of these two guys to mr who could who could kill the people or the human and then we planted the flowers in the city to show that was like we have to change of this file and things this is one way that his fight is not forgotten policy or our team believe in west bank. and r.t. is coming to light from moscow as gunfire erupted in the heart of washington after a woman with a young child in her car attempted to breach the security barricades of the white house police opened fire while in pursuit of the driver who then sped off towards capitol hill not everybody agrees with the police or. reaction to the incident will bring up a map for you right here on the program to let you see how the whole chase unfolded in the heart of the american capitol ultimately starting at the white house where

the suspect advances all the way to the capitol building here ramming a secret service vehicle on its way and coming under very heavy police fire the driver though eventually shot dead by the cops talk to mark mason he believes officials had other ways though to stop the woman throughout the chase. given the fact that we have an arm female the police have important say that she was 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 asked i think that there is reason to believe that the police in washington d.c. we overreacted but 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. and then they can be punctured by various

means to put strips in front of the vehicles they can chew 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. some of the global headlines for you brief now with the update will start with us with trade union members they've shown a red card to feed staging a protest outside the headquarters of football's main governing body and zurich the rally was timed to coincide with the start of a crunch meeting on the twenty twenty two world cup that is set to be hosted by cuts and the gulf state came under fire following a guardian newspaper investigation which revealed nepalese were dying during the building of the tournament's facilities. and 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 said to be wound up on the islamist group is only now coming to full force a court of appeals rejected many of the brotherhood's leaders a cowardly behind bars when it claims many of its. killed in the crackdown. hundreds of. police. in the country. protesters mostly. groups accuse the government of. the country. following the fall of the berlin wall and the. east german state.

others. thanks for joining us here on the program. possible it seems that. rather well rather. discussed of the possible twilight of the. talk. on the program for now a preview. about a hundred percent chance of the neo con has been met and for all intents and purposes moving toward chemical weapons disarmament and having the

president already declared he's willing to attack is is a way well ok i mean and i mean it was days it's interesting what you say i think it makes it sound like success is defeat here bruce you want to jump in go right ahead i spoke to maybe two dozen members of congress after the recess who had consulted their constituents on whether we ought to initiate war against syria whether for chemical weapons or otherwise and it was that staggering opposition that caused the president to flinch and decide no he'd look for another alternative to avoid embarrassing defeat which had been of overwhelming in the house of representatives now the reason why this is a turning point is that no other situation since the cold war ended has the congress the american people turn so decisively in vocally against this idea of empire we intervene everywhere around the world because we have some obligation to save humanity from disaster. but the world.

is a. cross-talk is a bit later in the program here and for the meantime in an exclusive interview with alex the spanish trying to ecuador's president. barack obama's exceptionalism and even compared his tone to that of the nazis a sneak peek here of what he had to say. you know i still think president obama is a good and smart man but i'm his speeches remind you of the speeches the nazis made in the run up and during the second world war they consider themselves to selected supreme race such speeches and ideas pose an extreme threat. or to. about half an hour's time before though our exclusive interview with russia's envoy to the united nations that is and sophie and co program in just

a few but when he comes to you live from moscow. 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 laws in the country this law will allow citizens to protect public order by becoming volunteer workers deputy policemen and even foreign peoples 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 is 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 stone sober 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 are 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 sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze a solution to syria's chemical weapons is finding its way to reality here inspectors are now in the war zone to deal with whatever chemical stockpiles they may find it's been the biggest triumph for the one on syria after years of seemingly fruitless talks on its civil war the outcome could be much needed proof that in the world of rage in conflicts and disagreements the united nations still has a place. president's speech and global attention every year the u.n. general assembly brings together world leaders maybe never talk and other circumstances but do they hear each other on the honest about their intentions when the world is watching do they care about finding a solution or is their agenda the only things that matter with syria as a litmus test we can now see whether the u.s.

still makes sense. our guest today is exactly sure he rushes and void to the united nations mr churkin it's great to have you on the program with us today. now the resolution on syria is obviously so the resolution on syria is obviously a victory for russian diplomacy but the resolution has in a way also restored the u.s. credibility that was kind of lust in recent years so with the inability to make a joint decision is it one time thing do you think or will we see more decisions like that. well i hope well i mean the most important thing about this resolution is that it's really paving the way for the implementation of this project of eliminating all chemical weapons in syria and making sure that no chemical attacks can be possible in the future so it's a very good success for russia and i think good success with it for the united states because we have been working together very closely with our american colleagues on this and of this resolution allowed the united states to avoid this

very thorny and delicate issue of the possibility of use of force in syria of course for us it's a very important result of their adoption of this resolution is that the use of force in syria is not regarded anymore internationally as something which. can be regarded as a as an imminent threat so now all the focus is on the specific work which needs to be done for the elimination of chemical weapons in syria and it's very encouraging that things are moving very fast do you think these things are achievable a timeframe of the resolution i know i think of that i think they are achievable they're the time frames are coincide with the with the framework agreement which was reached by russia in the united states in geneva in the on september fourteenth this is a difficult schedule but i think there is reason to believe that this is a realistic schedule provided there is cooperation from the syrian government which we see is there and also provided there is a.