america's national security agency is exposed to listening in on the phone conversations of thirty five world leaders further complicating relations between the u.s. and its allies. we are not we don't know you can be apart from the n.s.a. spying scandal the leaders also face with the flow of illegal immigration from war torn countries which has been plaguing a number of my european countries. and american protesters the rage against police brutality as a notorious peppers bring cop walks away with cash compensation almost equal to what his victims receive.

never go to a welcome if you're just joining us you're live with us on our do you are with me to one with say let's take a look at the top story this hour the n.s.a. have been spying on thirty five world leaders that's according to the most recent revelations from agency leaker edward snowden european leaders have lashed out against washington's practices calling them an unacceptable breach of trust our. reports. in the latest document that edward snowden there provided the guardian we do see some some more insight into the process of how this global surveillance was actually working and the fact that it had spied on the thirty five world leaders is one side of the matter on the other hand it would also encourage a senior officials belonging to departments such as the white house the state department or the pentagon to share their contacts with them encouraging them to give the phone numbers of these people that they wanted to spy on and put them on this surveillance list and also what's interesting that came out of this document

is also the fact that it was a knowledge that the eavesdropping the listening in on these hundreds of people of thirty five world leaders actually did not produce much it produced quote unquote little reportable intelligence and also it's had some very real consequences already going up to the legislative level in the e.u. for example with the parliament backing new rules to restrict the flow of data to the united states and also any piece now calling for a suspension of a u.s. bank deal talks very angry leaders coming from europe for example you know the latest would be germany's chancellor angela merkel having called the u.s. president barack obama to ask for an explanation because of the suspicions that her phone was being monitored we also know that french president francois hollande had asked for explanations on why seventy million french citizens were being spied on. the recent revelations have said washington into another spin of damage control

u.s. government officials reportedly now have to let foreign intelligence agencies know what further information edward snowden might possess foreign relations and security expert benoit mark up points out how the whistleblower has brought the spotlight on the issues of the surveillance state this is the classic spy or wanting to on the one capture. you know try to plug the particular leak and recontacted them be able to and also disclosing to a certain extent how much. of the power of i think this is the classic double bind so washington is finding it so that at the moment a lot of this is embarrassing them to avoid think at the end of the day. also made clear that he's very sensitive to the security implications of what do you also disclosed and he's trying to demonstrate the problem of this is really the story rather than the more sensitive material that might be arising instead of that intelligence gathering procedures the place on

a daily basis. we're closely watching all the developments related to the n.s.a. scandal log on to our web site r t dot com for the latest updates videos and expert analysis. america's spying practices are not the only issue on the minds of the european leaders gathered in brussels for the east summit the massive flow of illegal immigrants is said to be discussed weeks after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean peter all of a went to discover how those who are hardly welcome bill to their new lives away from home. we have feed we are not we have feeling we all want to be jobless homeless and thousands of kilometers from home this is the reality for refugees who were forced to flee violence in libya and twenty eleven there is no option not even allowed to work in germany since i've been to germany i just slip and it does what i do they arrived in europe through its early however the italian authorities told

them they couldn't stay and sent them packing with five hundred euro and give me some money i should go bank and collect the money i have the right to go anywhere what i want to go in soya just to leave it to livy to leave because it is a disaster and the european law it's really shouldn't of done less it's the responsibility of the member state where refugees arrive to look after them by sending these refugees away it's left them in a difficult legal predicament my document is getting expert and the five hundred euros finish can go but i can't i can't even go back to italy to renew even my document why did you fall far for over a year more than five hundred from all over sub-saharan africa being packed into this camp in the german capital i don't. know how you paid if they'd been working in libya when colonel gadhafi was toppled

a new nato backed war the documents these people have gives them access to basic medical care nothing else mentions it in now in berlin and it's up to germany to find a solution to their problems we're trying to get them residents grammont so for now there is no long term solution they have no right to work no right to social housing and are forced to live on handouts there's a feeling in the camp that e.u. members who took part in the twenty eleven action against libya have a responsibility to help i see this is the problem of order to appear you do the guess is that it's i live alone. i can't get our distributing we because yet we've got to work today as jerry decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in a city park these people came here because they were fleeing violence but in running for their lives they found themselves stuck in limbo here in the e.u. peter all of a r.t.

. outrage over what protesters call an epidemic of police brutality has spilled onto the streets of dozens of american cities demonstrators vented fury at a large racial profiling and excessive use of force by those who claim to uphold the law but as it is very important to report some police officers even cashing in on controversies they spot. the next u.s. law enforcement official to face off against unarmed peaceful protesters may easily get away with brutalizing them and even be rewarded afterwards remember that horrifying video of a university police officer spraying pepper spray into the faces of students who were seated on the ground well that man has been awarded nearly forty thousand dollars in workman's compensation john pike sued the university of california davis claiming he suffered from depression and anxiety was brought on by death threats against him and his family following the two thousand and eleven incident last week

a judge approved the thirty eight thousand and fifty nine dollar worker's compensation award settlement between pike and u.c. davis now initially pike was placed on paid administrative leave after pepper spraying u.c. davis students during a protest in support of occupy wall street he was fired eight months later however an internal university investigation concluded that he acted appropriately a u.c. davis student we spoke with expressed shock over the lucrative award doled out for police brutality. what the pepper spray led to was not following orders and they wanted us to be an example for what you shouldn't do as a student and they wanted to put fear into people and it pretty much worked i remember after the peppered berry happened i went home and was deeply afraid of ever protesting again the police a slap on the wrist maybe for

a moment awarded later if people are like he got money in a way that was a good thing when really he would stop putting like trauma and fear and weapon on other incidents of police brutality extend from the west all the way to the east coast of the united states last month here in. new york city police officers attacks students who were protesting visiting professor position given to axial age erector david petraeus at cuny the city's official university protesters were hunched slams on the ground and six students were arrested jailed and arraigned on charges of obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly conduct however there's been no reports of the officers involved being penalised or charged with misconduct according to the latest confirmed figures

there are close to one thousand four hundred federal civil rights cases pending against the new york city police department reporting from new york. r.t. well the police brutality is also in breaking the sent away the team takes a closer look at one particular case. like the policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars in workers' compensation from u.c. davis you see back in june filed a claim with the university seen that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage i can totally relate releasing an entire can of mace on a group of students can really give you a case of pretty bad p.t.s.d. in fact maybe we should start giving all the cops who participated in occupies a brutal crackdown on protesters comp money watching old ladies cry and dirty hippies bleed from their head as a result of your actions can really take a toll on one's mental health so make sure to give a shed

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he was a r.t. for more international news a country that overcame the ugly air of apartheid is feared by some to be sliding back into its dark parts but now it's all because white population that's said to be becoming a victim of racism is policy investigates could really is preparing for genocide against his people his plans are in place his community is ready to flee but we've been planning for eight years it started simple the idea was to give people an option we've divided the country into twenty seven provinces and divided those further into groups each group has its own plans. since one thousand nine hundred four when south africa elected its first black government with nelson mandela to home into power more than three thousand white farmers are said to have

been murdered relatives claim finding and prosecuting the culprits has never become a priority of the south african police really. when some africa's president jacob zuma sang the song last year many off economists saw it as another nail in the coffin sealing their fate there are some three million afrikaners who live across south africa descendants of primarily northern europeans who arrived in the country three to four centuries ago genocide watch said that we right now we are as a stage or level six they will seven is when the actual killing stuart gustav mahler and his team are afraid they will seven could start any moment a form intelligence officer in a south african army it was easy for good stuff to read the warning signs. we have believers and in our bible it says if you notice warning signs you must convey it if you don't you will have blood on your hands. as head of the movement gustav has

established a countrywide operation with more than one hundred safe areas the idea is that when the alert is given people will be notified by islamists each will drive to a meeting point from where they will travel in convoy to pre-designated safe areas one of the main centers is here in south africa's fourth oldest town craftsman it the death of nelson mandela is a risk scenario he's a political icon and his passing could see violence flaring up again from a legally sanctioned economic discrimination against whites to the thousands of farm murders targeting afrikaner as the problems are only getting worse according to the state lenders as many as eight hundred thousand white mostly off the const beaking south africans support the movement many have already begun collecting blankets and other emergency provisions wendy macfarlane is a mother who was for her son's future she joined us a plunders because it gives her some control of a situation she'd otherwise feel powerless about on the breaks are there is

a place i can go where i can be safe i joined to give my son and myself a place to go likely for fathers the satan and his vow to fight for their country and while the south african government is aware of the efforts it hasn't commented policy or r.t. half when it eastern cape south africa where you see me quentin and rosie a spokesperson for the south african party says the problem lies in an entirely different area. at the moment sort of because one of the most politically stable countries in the entire world take into consideration that we are able to maintain . political stability with the things that course wars in other countries so i don't think that there are any tensions except in the economic sense the other commission the congress government has just merely appreciate it. racialized forms of ownership and the. inequalities unemployment and

sought the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and redistribution that privilege white people. kind of we always have one small choice for you on our website including underwater a kalashnikov russian arms manufacturers of unveiled a new machine gun capable of firing both in the water and on land ahead r.t. dot com for the full story. plus a new region town deprived of sunlight during the winter has place joined merrill's on top of the surrounding mountains that will be light into the valley to cheer up the locals on our website we have all the details. right to see. her street. and i think the trip.

on our recorders when. i. am. on. ten years ago today one of the mays publicized arrests in russia that of oil tycoon there. he's been portrayed by the media as both a mob and a villain. that obviously had to cut through the spin for us. a story that has divided made me take us through it well he was the wealthiest man in washington one of the richest in the world his company you course at one point was the water just in the country and then suddenly in two thousand and three new coke or that was arrested and later found guilty of fraud sentenced to nine years and then in a separate criminal case the former oil tycoon along with his former business partner but only a bit of was found guilty of money laundering and embezzlement worth of millions

and his sentence was extended to two thousand and seventeen to this demon house that of course you remains one of the most controversial figures in russia is fierce criticism of the kremlin gained both supporters and critics here in the country but in the west despite the serious crimes he was found guilty of. that of course he is mainly presented as a victim of political repression for more on the western image or for russia's former oil tycoon here's a report from our colleague. today major media outlets in the west portray me. as a victim of politics but back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the same albums presented a different picture of the former oil tycoon. that of a man who used dodgy and elaborate schemes designed to evade taxes and stripped his company's minority shareholders of their profits be used every trick in the book in

one thousand nine hundred nine u.s. outlets were writing about how low russia fell letting the yukos oil company operate the way they did about yukos his actions being a major of french to foreign investors they were asking why isn't the russian government stepping in to her because he's played this game i mean at the moment he's crying out of the rule of law but in the ninety's when it suited him. he ignored it or manipulated the system to his advances but around the year two thousand cut off started working to repair his tainted image abroad he invited international auditors started pouring millions of dollars into lobbying in london and washington former secretary of state henry kissinger it became an honorable trustee of the open russia foundation set up and financed by the scheme and from the bad boy of russia's bandit capitalism in the eyes of the west transformed quickly into a man who the world could do business with around the time of his arrest in two

thousand and three the tycoon was in the process of selling a quarter of you closest oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or chevron sensually all of the wealth of russia's oil and raw materials resources would have been transferred to western shareholders of which carter kosky was a major shareholder. russia could not afford this. and here in the us the attitude of the media towards mikhail from the books he seems to have changed with the we. the lies that the west benefited were could have benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to show. you more news from around the world now a blast at us we defector in northern mexico has killed one person and left at least forty others injured officials say around twenty people are still missing and saw the explosion happened on the second floor of the building and course the ceiling to collapse rescue teams are now at the scene is searching for survivors.

but isn't students pleasure in the spanish capital madrid thursday night after a day of mass demonstrations across the country several people were said to be arrested and injured that after thousands of poured onto the streets protesting against austerity cuts higher university fees and education reforms over half of young people in spain are unemployed as the cash strapped government has cut public spending across the board. in the german city of for a very good twelve people are being held a hostage inside a snake bar the suspect is a thirty six year old man of british a region supposedly armed possibly with an explosive devise preliminary reports indicate that the man maybe the owner of the cafe and some of the people inside with him could be his relative. dozens of students and activists have

clashed with police over the closure of a student center at a campus of the city university of new york are two people were arrested for disorderly conduct with one person reportedly being pepper sprayed by police the center has recently become a base of all protests against former cia director david petraeus who has given a two hundred thousand dollars teaching job at the school. as before any authorities continue their crackdown on dissent of their ride to control tactics being exposed a u.k. based human rights group has leaked to a document revealing the government's plans to have a huge amount of tear gas shipped into the country now according to the document the ministry of defense is place an order of up to one point six million tear gas canisters but this number exceeds the entire population which is only one point two million now the government has been extensively using the tear gas to suppress the

opposition with reports of people's homes or even places of worship are being hit since the start of the uprising in twenty eleven tear gas has been responsible for almost forty deaths that's according to human rights activists it's also important to blame blame for miscarriages blindness and serious breathing problems human rights activist. spoke to us about the warring statistics oren's been leading a campaign of spiral spiraling repression since two thousand and eleven the number one technique or weapon but they've been using for the repercussion is the use of tear gas and i'm not surprised it's starting to run out because they've been firing . an estimated over one hundred trucks unmarked. villages civilians on civilians on protesters men women children on the disabled like you said we've recorded over thirty nine deaths from the excessive use of tear gas and part of

these deaths or direct body shots on that have been. coming up after the break if it's political with larry king here on our team to stay with us for them. new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is their opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are banned in most other countries the body is trying to take a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive

sums of money effort and lives and you need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night after work to go on an ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because it is fighting the drugs and not the reason why people take them which is to escape reality why do people want to escape reality because in modern times or post modern times we live a soulless pointless isolated consumeristic existence of working in a pointless office job just to get poor so we can scrape by and get some cheap plastic junk at walmart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just my opinion. she is a spiritual leader and activists and

a friend of oprah she's now running but congress but can her believe in miracles help bullied into the u.s. capitol marianne williamson will tell us why and ben stein america is a columnist and political body man says the turmoil and business function in washington from both sides of the aisle is no laughing matter it is all next on politicking with larry king. my politicking i'm larry king and joining me is the spiritual activist luxury a bestselling author and now a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives marianne williamson she made her announce women beverly hills this past sunday running as an independent she'll run against a lifelong congressman henry waxman he's been there for thirty eight years why mary

. well i think there's a new conversation that americans are having about our country and about life and about the world and this conversation is saturating so many corners of our society but it hasn't been able to crash through the ramparts of the of the political system and so the thoughts that dominate our our politics today are calcified thought forms they don't allow in the kind of thinking that is necessary to move us forward and so what we have is a diminishing democratic franchise and i think that it's going to be people coming from outside the two parties the two parties certainly have their role to play but i think what we need now is the voices of the american people unfiltered by the kind of chuckle that the two parties have so i so what what what is your platform. well my platform has to do with what i see is the main issue underlying all the other issues people i talk to are concerned about the environment we're concerned about the corruption of our food supply we're concerned about income inequality

we're concerned about mass incarceration rates child poverty and so forth but there's an issue that underlies all that the cancer underlying all the cancer and that has to do with the fact that we've become a legalized corrupted system the money that influences our politics those with financial leverage are able to wield political influence so much disproportionately to what the average citizen can now wield that we really become a government of the people by the people for the people dismantled and we put become a government of a few of the people by a few of the people and for a few of the people between the money and the politicized gerrymandering what we've got is a crisis of democracy itself how do you change that though you have a supreme court really miss said corporations are people and they can give any amount they wish to and labor unions and congress will get those funds are you are you change that well the founders did not create the supreme court to lord over us the american people can still override citizens united with a constitutional amendment that won't be easy but it took an amendment to abolish

slavery it took an amendment to give women suffrage it will take a constitutional amendment to get the money out of politics to pave the way for real public funding of our political campaigns there is a group and american anti corruption act so there are interim measures that we can take but we need to get this conversation going about a constitutional amendment nothing less will ultimately suffice you said that you the government has laws does want to get this right using its laws did at the little center what do you mean. well by ethical center i believe that the ethical center that it's lost is that there are some things more important than money as long as you have a sure your organizing principle is economic short term economic gain as it is in a corporation that's fine with a nice or within certain per views of business functioning but that should not be your bottom line in running a country because without ethics that means you're never going to say well what about the health of a child.