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will he ever be able to win back man versus woman. another day and yet more damaging revelations that the case communications headquarters is looking at sort of build the legs he went to to keep the mass surveillance programs. also the price of membership along the lines of being forced to cough up a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year for complying with it used many regulations. last night to put to the test as turkey turns away from its allies and in seeking a missile defense deal with china. you're watching are to fly from moscow are you with me tom would say let's take
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a look at our top story the song the snowden revelations keep on coming with the latest one hitting a target away from home exposing the british intelligence agency g c h q to keep the practices out of the public eye a full scale of legal action charges are first has the details. these latest documents reveal the long fight the g c h q had against making insists that evidence admissible in criminal trials now one of these memos detailing that g c h t's main concerns with reference to agency practices and the extension scope of the would lead to a damaging public debate now ironically of course that public debate already taking place in the at the moment on the back of those edward snowden revelations and for the first time in a few weeks we're going to see the heads of m i five and six and he giving evidence
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in public now that will be broadcast by a fast like link although there will be a short delay now perhaps we'll see as this public debate unfolds wheeling out some of the media friendly people the documents also revealing that they had a list of people they could rely on for press handling but the guardian newspaper really pulling no punches in their piece today saying that the revelations once again calling into question the lack of effective legal protections when it comes in thirteen evoke immune occasions in calling this a breach of trust by the u.k. government on the grandest scale. when all of this comes a day after it's been revealed that the n.s.a. has been nice job playing on the conversations of thirty five world leaders france and germany and are demanding a no spine deal from washington to be struck by the end of the year and e.u. nations have warned that a leg of trust with washington could damage future intelligence cooperation a u.n.
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resolution to restrain american spying has also been proposed by germany and brazil which was also targeted by the n.s.a. last k. from the u.k. private party says the government's reaction to the news shows who they really are protecting. revelations of the monitoring of world leaders' phones has showed the breathtaking double standards of our ruling elite suddenly when it's a case of calls telephone being tapped then we have the likes of kiefer speaking out and saying it's a real scandal when actually when it's a case of ordinary citizens that's what the real scandal is the real scandal is the true extent of mass surveillance in the e.u. and of course beyond mr gale so pointed out there british prime minister has been quite reluctant to keep firm stance on global surveillance. what's been clear is
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that david cameron is not willing to speak up in defense of britain and the british people when it comes to mass surveillance and indeed we've seen the extent of g.c. h.q.'s collusion with the n.s.a. for example in the temp or a program and we've seen massive harvesting of the data through the fiber optic cables so i'm afraid we need to start to take responsibility in the united kingdom despite here heads of state voicing that is that his faction with washington and its monitoring practices the angry words they don't seem to have traded to any kind of accent a former u.n. diplomat laid of an east explains why. longer term and a few weeks after the media john down the big issue it will years go on of business as usual that is my expectation there will not that big any real measures that it will remain states for a mental problem in i mean did their problem is not that they're spying their problem is the score a lot of this year they have been god it's flying not that's another that's another
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matter altogether individual why do they do that not just terrorists do that for economic reasons they want to know what europe is going to do the world the brics countries throughout asia do war and they are afraid that they're losing ground. we are closely watching the n.s.a. scandal which has dozens of countries entangled in it log on to our website dot com to get access to the latest update the backgrounds and that's but analysis of the. right to see. her story. and i would think that your take. on our reporters would. be in the.
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a number of people have taken a stance against the national security agency's surveillance program let's not talk to entrepreneur and computer security professional right who was also. shot down his online service to in response to the n.s.a. practices listen like you tell us how your relationship with the ages see unfolded well we don't you really i really should just with them we just monitor the news and ran a service under what we believe was a law where they would require a search warrant to extract energy under the new law of the case can you just enters your order again order which is a much lower standard to compel providers to turkey so we can't really operate in that environment so we preemptively shut the service down it was too risky to operate so we've spoken to the head all of the secure email service used by edward
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snowden eleven bits on his experience dealing with the n.s.a. i want to just take a listen to that quickly. i know they threatened me on more than one occasion with jail i think the only reason they didn't do it is because if they had the service would have eventually shut down on its own with nobody to maintain it and the only reason they didn't arrest me after the shutdown was because of the media that published it but it's pretty scary to to think about what lengths they're willing to go to conduct these investigations right now in that clip he did say that he experienced a little bit of stress they did you encounter any such threats. we haven't experienced any stress we've certainly we're fully compliant with u.s. law and we always want to stay on the right side of u.s. law we just think in this case the court rulings the winner rulings are incorrect and they'll probably be overturned on appeal or possibly by legislative change but
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that's not going to happen probably for months or years and in the interim it is just too scary i fully agree with the operator of a lot of it that being threatened with jail or prison for running a computer service for people is a very very scary proposition and i personally have no interest you going to. think ok so what then puts texas to kill online services like yourselves all eleven bids from being prosecuted for helping for not even helping but full you know for people like edward snowden using your services who you have nothing to do with but happen to you to be a whistleblower was how are they to be protected. is a fourth amendment of the us constitution is supposed to be for protection against general warrants which is what i believe is the law the base case is about this has to be a very specific legal standard where they need evidence about a specific person and a specific crime they bring that to a provider and they can then get records which has previously been the case but in
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this case they don't appear to follow that and appears at least one judge was willing to. compel a provider to operate in violation of what i believe to be the u.s. constitution so until that's resolved it's very scary let's talk about this extensive surveillance that's happening not only in america but around the world including countries to lead is who should be held responsible full full for such extensive surveillance on members of other people's parliament so even the puppet of themselves. it's unclear i believe it is fairly standard for intelligence to monitor foreign intelligence agencies or foreign militaries and heads of state or certainly the military but when it comes to monitoring private citizens and private businesses that aren't involved in any sort of defense or national security i think there needs to be a much higher level of protection certainly u.s. persons in the united states should not be at risk of being monitored by the n.s.a. except in truly exceptional circumstances like
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a terrorist plot and private citizens in other countries shouldn't be at risk of being monitored by intelligence agencies from any country they're private citizens doing their own thing numbers in terrorism not involved in military government should be fully protected from this so how do you think that this ongoing scandal will reshape the internet as we know it. well i think it's ultimately the internet is just a system where people in many countries cooperate so it really depends on the laws in each country i think the united states constitution perspective has very strong protections but there have been weakening over time through the through court rulings the problem is when you're a bad case and a bad defendant it tends to make bad law so you have a lot of the u.s. cases involve very very bad people child pornography or other cases like that and the judges are willing to sort of overlook the fundamental privacy issues and force . make rulings that are very unfair in the government where in the abstract about
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it in other countries they have a strong protections and it's going to be very interesting to see how different countries that have different levels of protection for privacy enter operate on the internet and part of that might be technology are going to have stronger technical protections for privacy so perhaps operate in countries where the laws might say one thing and it's very unclear if you're a visit you're a citizen of one country or visiting another country what the legal standard really going to be to turn over your records so i guess we all have to start getting ourselves a little bit more educated as to what roles of countries have to say about internet . technical protection as you call them that was wind like a co-founder of a crypto seal live from bali speaking to us the on at the expense of the surveillance a story that we've been following the close to the n.s.a. the. right thing in the bin costing britain d.n.d. a recent report by an independent think tank says london spends the twenty seven
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billion pounds i get to comply with of the blocks most called the regulations which is our smith has been balancing the books. david cameron in brussels this week to demolish the return of powers from the e.u. and he's going to new weapon in his all marie a report by think tank and when you are. being a net beneficiary of all of these rules and regulations that really costing the u.k. taxpayer a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year. the hundred most expensive regulations stuff like rules on working hours g.m. food and a range of other addicts and found at least twenty four cases the cost outweigh the benefit even according to the government. meaning that it's knowingly spending taxpayer money to know. in other cases the report the benefits of the regulations
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have been involved. in that in the case of climate change regulation around ninety five percent of the expected benefits totally failed to materialize but this study only covers the top one hundred of the it's just the tip of the arts. and regulation which doesn't include. it is just red tape obviously if britain left the e.u. tomorrow those costs wouldn't just disappear but at least say critics it would be british regulation for british people. and many see cameron's proposals for reform to this european summit as his first step in trying to change the balance of power with brothels ahead of the referendum he promised the british people.
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meanwhile turkey is also frustrated with this relationship with brussels. this is. the lover who find out what's been stalling on to join the twenty seven nation blog that's just ahead here on arts. the her own. great hopes for freedom and democracy. substituted by great disenchantment. what was expected to be a blessing to the country. turned out to be its curse.
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georgia the story of the disappointment. do we speak your language was anything about the war not against. the music programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn a tip angola's kidneys stories. for you here. then surely i'll teach spanish to find out more visit actuality. dot com. thanks for staying with us here on our team a sell you more of what's happening around the world in turkey the u.s. is that all is with its nato ally turkey off to a car turned away from alliance members in seeking a multi-billion dollar military contract ferguson told us with
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a chinese company to co-produce missile defense systems about that firms and american sanctions for violating a nonproliferation act one turkish analyst explained on cross motives to r.t. . american. system is all of it so that the americans control the entire system if it is deployed rare as china is offering turkey to produce together. to control. together and provide turkey along control of the entire system china has stressed the missile defense deal should not be politicized as it's actually all about normal commercial competition of us about she also told r.t. that the rollock gives on chorale more grounds to dictate its own terms in relations with washington the turkish government. of course negotiate this situation with americans but the americans have to make this point station that
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turkey is taking part in the production mechanisms and process until now it was always offset of the plans. in turkey this was their new way of thinking to a new set of confidence that turkey wants to be part of the entire process meanwhile another issue turning heads in turkey is stalled the e.u. membership bit and tensions are running high as maria reports. always the bridesmaid but never the bride progress over turkey's accession to european union could be best described as. this is like an. endless platonic love affair the europeans doesn't want turkey to go away totally but doesn't want them in the house the talks started in two thousand and five but brussels still says turkey is not yet ready with the eurozone debt crisis
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raging turkey's membership plans look far less tempting everybody's concert. in new further enlargement of the european union whether it's on the balkans or in turkey. because much more travel and more problems for the european union turkish authorities say they are still keen on joining the e.u. family but there has been conflicting signals from impatient and current prime minister erdogan recently threatened to turn away from e.u. if the country doesn't become a member before two thousand and twenty three many gree with that sentiment believe in a fast growing economic and strategic power will not profit from joining a political and economic zone in deep trouble it's very clear that brics countries have the future of the world the usa and the european union the don't know then
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and how they will overcome this economic crisis they are not going well and they did everything and they don't have any strategy to do now but the turkish opposition believes it cannot make prosperity is not the main issue they say membership might help improve the domestic situation in the country where spiritual groups can't operate freely and last year turkey was accused of jailing more journalists than any other country in the world and the turkish policy at the moment. no policy i mean the europeans. i don't really want turkey described as red a comfortable with that because they don't want to you if you think this is wrong because if you know your accession is a strategic goal for turkey for its democracy for that secular democracy approach it being a member of the euro tried to communicate your nations and while the political seesaw between brussels and and current goes up and down more and more people are
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becoming disenchanted with the idea as turkey's europe minister once said membership is like a pregnancy you either are or you are not where they go she says that continued for eight years turkey is definitely not still and it seems to want it less and less refinish naughty from turkey. all you're interested in learning to computer is well that's one hobby you'd better keep to yourself if you're in the u.s. breaking the set host every mountain explains. it turns out that not only the act of hacking you can do you know legal trouble but now just labeling yourself as a hacker can get you into hot water last week a u.s. district court ruled that if you simply call yourself a hacker you can apparently we have all your equipment taken without warning in this particular case engineering laboratory battell energy alliance is doing x. employee over claims that he stole software coding from a company and the idaho court decided that the employees computer could be
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confiscated without notice simply because his web site stated we like hacking things and don't want to stop yes that's right despite fourth amendment language that protects individuals from on reasonable search and seizure hackers are apparently not included. some other international news in brief a car bomb blasts in syria has killed at least forty people including seven children explosion took place near a mosque in. tahn outside the capital damascus this comes after reports of the syrian army killed the leader of the al nusra front a powerful al qaida linked rebel group the government also claims its soldiers killed at least forty opposition fighters in an ambush near damascus seizing a large arms cache. thousands of people in the german city of hamburg to have marched in support of all african refugees around three hundred migrants from africa are now living in the city and are asking for residency and work permits the
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demonstrators also joined supporters of the asylum seekers who survived a shipwreck off the coast of the tiny an island of lampedusa three weeks ago. a peaceful demonstration against bus fares and brazil's capital sub pollo has turned violent protesters vandalized the turnstiles a.t.m.'s and said vehicles on fire injuring at least one policeman the high cost and poor quality of public services has been a as a culture for brazil activists complain that the government is more interested in spending billions on preparation for the twenty fourteen world cup. iran says or seventeen of its border guards or have been killed in clashes near pakistan it's happened in the mountains outside the town of a star of on the run south east border authorities suspect the attackers were either opposition groups or drug smugglers the area which is known for ethnic tension also lies on the major drug routes to europe. what makes me you was one of
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the most overweight nation among developed countries food activists say it's all about addiction maintained a subtle system of technological and marketing tricks but corporations. looks into what's feeding america's food habit. it's the richest country on earth where banks can't fail and waistlines can't stop expanding waistlines in america are growing alarming new study showing half of all americans could be obese and less than twenty years sugary drinks and wider waistlines go hand in hand with one out of every three adults clinically obese and forty percent of children officially overweight experts say food has become a drug engineered cooked and marketed by an industry banking on addiction what science has done lab and they've created these chemical concoctions that are very sickly very fatty and very salty and they caught up with point scientists and food
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industry whistleblowers say big food companies engineer processed foods and beverages with ingredients that pique the taste buds while tricking the brain to think you're still hungry causing you to eat more but in a country where diabetes high cholesterol high blood pressure and heart disease are becoming all too common among millions of children and adolescents why don't food corporations create healthier recipes in one word i would say agree. we need our money. another major profit generating ingredient for big food is marketing in the u.s. there's virtually no regulation of food and drink advertising even when it's hard it's children. last year entertainer beyond say a fifty million dollar endorsement deal with pepsi this came as the american heart association released a report finding that twenty five thousand obesity related deaths in the u.s.
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back in two thousand and ten were linked to the over consumption of soda and other sugary drinks in france they have a warning label on it much like we have warning labels here in this country on cigarettes they put a warning label on processed foods it says warning this food may be harmful to your health while european countries require genetically modified foods to be labeled in the u.s. the biotech industry and corporations like pepsi co and coca-cola spent millions last year to defeat a california ballot initiative for g.m.o. labeling it's very difficult to get the right labeling standards on to the packaging big push pack with the industrial food producers who do not want to label what really is going into our food supply whole foods market our grocery chain with three hundred thirty nine stores recently announced that he will begin labeling all g.m.o. foods within the next five years it will be the first and only u.s. retail store to require the food labeling on the other hand when it comes to soda
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regulation is off limits new york city mayor michael bloomberg recently lost his fight to limit the extra large serving sizes of sweet beverages in an effort to fight obesity. i. may and so to lovers like v.p. want to be sarah palin have celebrated the fact that americans can continue consuming and alarming amount of high fructose corn syrup and empty calories in one giant cup. not sure if miss palin knows about the medical warnings indicating that if the country's health trend continues at its current pace nearly half of all americans will be obese by twenty thirty marina port i.r.t. new york. as always you can head online for plenty more stories waiting for you on our team dot com including hundreds of oil spills like kept secret from the public
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in one of america's largest producing states on our website we've got a report on how authorities managed to keep them out of sight. ice and fire lympics flame signs its lights on the north pole in style for the first time in history as part of the sochi twenty four team relay we bring you the best of the visual experience and don't forget to follow the rest of the famed spirit. by coming your way on the phones of georgia the rose revolution caught on camera in our special report i'll see it's law you have yourself a good day now. it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of field detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tearing conspiracy fraud extortion and tax
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crimes while mayor the prosecutors say he funneled millions of dollars to himself and family members all while detroit moved headstrong towards the bankrupt state it is in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes but because he got punished the judge who could fix them stated why this is such an important case she said at the very least a significant sentence will send a message that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated yes sending a message you see corrupt officials are usually cowards and they do what they do because they feel they can get away with it when you start to put the fear of god into them they start to behave much better. so the question is will the mainstream media grab the story and really use the conviction of detroit's former mayor is an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just. one hundred days remaining.
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one hundred days a flake. just. keep. it different george it was built in front of the very eyes of tbilisi citizens who made architecture was dismissed and the president personally approved the new ridiculous constructions bridge or a console shaped like joint pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city is clear that the georgian authorities were keen on putting form over substance besides the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several point just skyscrapers were built. the second philly regarded everything is as personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of.
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