coming up on our t.v. boycotting they'd c.p.p. that's what protesters in salt lake city and washington d.c. are saying about the transpacific partnership a trade deal that's shrouded in secrecy we'll tell you more about what's in this global pass. and congress is getting bit by the big game today the senate learned all about this virtual currency and how it could change the landscape of digital finance the lawmakers want to know could this digital cash be used for illegal activities and even down in san francisco one man was detained held down and beaten by police officers all three illegally riding his bicycle now he's accusing police of using excessive force we'll tell you this story later in the show.

it's tuesday november nineteenth four pm in washington d.c. and i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. . lead negotiators from twelve countries who are taking part in the trans-pacific partnership began meeting today in salt lake city utah now to refresh your memory the transpacific partnership or t p p is a new trade deal being negotiated that would open up markets between nations along the pacific rim now it's also a trade deal that has by and large remained a secret from the public however the mass of the pact is expected to affect jobs the environment consumer safety and a whole lot more in fact we're beginning to learn details about how much is really in jeopardy last week transparency organisation we can leaks released a draft of the intellectual property chapter of the t p p that reveals new proposals for copyright and patent rights that would boost big pharma companies and

it raises questions on how the trade agreement would affect individual rights and free expression of the leaked documents with the leaks editor in chief june julian assange said quote if you read write publish think listen dancing or invent if you farm or consume food if you're ill now or might be ill one day that t p p has you and it's crosshairs it's for that reason that a number of demonstrators have come together in washington d.c. to call out one trade rep trying to tout the t p p's alleged benefits artie's period boring as more. the u.s. trade representative michael froman a spoke about the conservation provisions within the transfer civic partnership today at the charlie palmer steak house and washington d.c. the event was sponsored by the world wildlife fund there about fifty people in attendance including myself other members of the press also u.s. fish and wildlife services was here members from key congressional offices were

here the state department embassy of nations were here as well as the sierra club are the first person that spoke was carter roberts used the president and the c.e.o. of the world wildlife fund he said right now is an incredibly important time for conservation and it's time to get a hand on the biggest challenges of environmental destruction these include illegal trade and subsidies as well overfishing he also said that. is quote committed to making sure the right environmental provisions are in place in the heat after mr roberts spoke we heard from the trade rep michael froman he said that we are in the closing period of the t p p they're hoping to wrap up all these negotiations by the end of twenty thirteen he said we're in a rebalancing at us in a rebalancing act with asia and the t.v. is critical to supporting jobs and the united states he said he wants a trade policy that reflects u.s. values but also looks into new initiatives as well but he does say that it is very

difficult to talk about these provisions in detail because as of now there is no agreement and that conservation has been very difficult to negotiate because every country has their own idea of what conservation should look like he said even some nations are having a hard time wrapping their hands around conservation even if we also spoke with the bill warner and friends of the earth before this meeting took place there was a rally protesting against the p.p.s. conservations provisions and here is what mr warren's concerns were the investor state. dispute resolution process or this is all very walky illegal listy can they hide behind that but what it is in effect is applying to court for rich investors and big by multinational corporations to sue nations skates for money compensation for the cost of complying with public interest environmental regulations mr frohman

did address this issue in the meeting as well he said look no one is going to get one hundred percent of a one there's twelve nations involved everyone has to compromise somewhere and now we're viewing this process as a living agreement meaning changes can be made in the future and along the way as far as the indes bester states it can be used to challenge governments and that there are a series of safeguards in place there's exceptions for health environment and there's also procedural safeguards to make sure that this investor provision is used as intended he also said that the t.v. overall will strengthen the ability of governments to regulate and that they're not trying to change u.s. law what he wants to do is incorporate u.s. law where appropriate into that speech here. in washington d.c. area and boring party. and right now a congressional briefing is taking place on the hill in which congressmen are listening to the stories of

a special delegation from yemen which includes the families of recent drone victims they will hear from feisal bin alisha barr who's traveled from yemen to tell the story of his brother in law salim and a cleric who was killed by a u.s. drone strike along with his twenty six year old nephew will lead the briefing comes just after the two thousand and thirteen drawn summit took place this past weekend that brought together four hundred people from around the world to discuss strategies to stop the proliferation of drones used for killing and spying and while congress is hearing the testimony of families here in the united states r.t. caught up with some of those families all the way in yemen artie's lucy kavanagh for ports. it says no faith for the one who has no trust but both are now in short supply in this part of yemen for months the class has been without its math teacher and this pupil without his father this is because.

his name is still on the staff schedule but ali hasn't been here since signing out of class on january twenty third the day the finality the father of three was killed by a u.s. drone alongside his twenty year old cousin salim a college student who drove them in a borrowed to yoda they picked up two strangers who turned out to be suspected al qaeda militants witnesses reported a whirring sound in the sky then missiles struck their car the smell of death was everywhere some of the bodies were burned beyond recognition the rest were ripped to shreds and scattered all around i found a part of saleman side the car the rest was outside we only recognised him by a piece of his trousers you couldn't tell who was who if they were even human it was sickening one drone change this sleepy farming village for ever less than an hour's drive from yemen's capital cullen is far removed from the operations but

without warning it was thrust into the war on terror saleem's mother shows me where her son used to sleep she can't bear to get rid of his things although she knows she'll never return home god help us i didn't understand until the next day that an american drone killed my son why tell me may allah deprive them of their souls like they robbed us of our son. he was the only one providing for this family all we have left now is our tears we only target al qaeda and its associated force and even then the use of drones is heavily constrained before any strike is taken there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured the highest standard we can set accept there was a deadly failure yemen's interior ministry confirmed the cousins had no links to

terrorism in a country where tribal ties surmount all the loss was felt far beyond the family the white house has never acknowledged the deaths let alone the strike but mohamed shows me the evidence this is what killed them what's thought to be a fragment of a hellfire missile launched from a drone the u.s. believes this is its best weapon against al qaeda although not officially at war in yemen the covert drone campaign has been dramatically ramped up here under president obama yemen's al qaeda threat is real it's plotted attacks on international airliners and caused hundreds of deaths the cia described it as the most dangerous and active branch of the terrorist network the defense is that drone strikes have seriously damaged his ability to plan attacks but critics here say it's doing the exact opposite it does not contain the

growth of an offense that may have contributed to the growth and expansion of a. at some point when we can slug enough powerful enough then to be able to inflict serious damage the u.s. war on terror has no borders often waged remotely with cruise missiles and drones it's an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines of fight against groups like al qaida in which ordinary civilians also end up paying a price i ask obama to bring my dad back to life. all the kids in school have their fathers but we don't reporting in come on in yemen and you see coughing of an newly declassified documents regarding the n.s.a.'s controversial ball collection program shows that the agency was well aware that it was committing violations the n.s.a. had actually reported its own violations of surveillance rules to a u.s. intelligence court after doing so the agency promised to put new safety measures in

place to prevent it from ever happening again however according to newly released court documents from two thousand and nine we now know that after assuring the court it would add here to its rules the agency broke those rules again acknowledging it had collected material improperly the files include statements from two intelligence court judges slamming the government for overstepping its boundaries and ignoring privacy protections this of course follows similar admissions from the n.s.a. in september in which documents revealed the agency had misled the court about the scope of its activities in order to get its approval for the controversial program . so what's the present and future impact of virtual currency that's exactly what the senate is exploring this week in a number of hearings the virtual currency up for discussion is called big coin a financial concept new to even senator tom carper

a democrat democrat from delaware and a ranking member of the senate homeland security committee which held the first hearing on virtual currency yesterday virtual currencies perhaps most notably big corn have captured the imagination of. fear among others and confused the heck out of the rest of us. quoting me i'll be first rate meant that like most americans i'm no technical expert in virtual currencies but we could do ago i was trying to get my head around that this is a subject then where did bitcoin come from what who who is the creator who are the creators you don't think it was al gore to you. when i first started trying to understand what this was all about i sort of felt like mrs einstein and i understand the words but not the senses with. the big coins are essentially digital

cash for the internet they operate using a person to person exchange without a bank or central monetary authority such as the federal reserve to regulate or issue it lawmakers are now conflicted by this technology is growing popularity has raised questions about whether or how it should be regulated so to talk a little bit about the fate of this new virtual currency i was joined earlier by aaron aid host of boom bust i first asked her how well politicians understand this technology frankly i think most lawmakers and and most people are kind of the devil but the technology that is bitcoin and basically what the question is it's just this eighty thirty digit currency it's a it's a crypto currency and it's done the same because it's peer to peer and by that i mean it functions without an intermediary and without an intermediary that means no central bank this is perplexing to a lot of people particularly people in government but it's not as hard to understand as some people might think basically you have engineers or people who

are who are familiar with crypto currency and they mined for more bitcoin by working out this thirty eight digit number down to the very last digit however it gets harder and harder to create more bitcoin the more because there is a market that's kind of self regulating in that way as well and monday was day one of the senate committee hearings which you can. that or the very fact that these hearings are taking place is a big step forward for a virtual currency in itself i mean absolutely the fact that you know just just last month the silk road which was kind of the black market bizarre if you will for for. all things bad and it was the only currency acceptable there was decline and this was shut down just last month now the fact that we're having hearings here today that the senate committee is actually talking about this and and really embracing it it's a good sign for bickering and kind of crypto currencies in general as an alternative better to embrace technology than to fight it is what i think is we're

getting out of these meetings. and the chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke also weighed in on the hearing a letter he wrote saying he has no plans to regulate the currency he said quote although the federal reserve generally monitors developments in virtual currencies and other payments system innovations it does not necessarily have authority to directly supervise or regulate these innovations or the ended entities that provide them to the market what does this mean from a legal standpoint for the currency. for the currency from a legal position this means sums up great they actually there's nothing nothing on the books that allows you know the fed to regulate this currency or the treasurer or anyone else for that matter and what we're kind of getting from these hearings at least from monday's hearings is that they don't need any more laws on the books what they kind of need is to find a way to implement the laws already there there's going to be crime using different

forms of currency and black markets regardless to what we do it's a matter of opposed to creating more laws it's a matter of using the laws on the books implementing them properly and staying ahead of them but it's but as in terms of the currency itself what it means for because of what bernanke he had to say is that isn't they can do it's not illegal it's totally fine it's free to go it you know they just have to figure out how the i.r.s. can catch up in terms of taxing here one potential. obstacle to mainstream acceptance of bitcoin is a sometimes wild fluctuation in its value there was a massive rally in the price of bitcoin on monday value of a bit coin unit soared past nine hundred dollars on some exchanges do you believe that this rally was a sign that the government would not stand in the way of bitcoin development. well i mean i'm not a big one speculator but if i had to if i had to guess i'd say yes this has a lot to do with it also the fact that china is now the google of china they're very open and accepting of decline they take it in and also there's the laws on the

books in china recently that say that the corn is an acceptable form of currency i think this really helped make a bull run for the currency the crypto currency that is declining and these meetings that probably did have an impact in in some variety again there's many factors and it's really volatile there's an important state you know we could see tomorrow it's go back down it's been a volatile currency but it's been a steady rise since silk road right after just on the currency dropped a couple couples couple points but nothing nothing of note and then has been going on an upward rise ever since so it's important to keep a look at look out on that as well and aaron i know this week is the first court hearing on the silk road case and during the senate hearings on the coins monday and tuesday there was much concern expressed about bitcoins being used for illicit purposes what were their concerns and are there security measures in place to prevent their lives that use. this is the big question and this is kind of why

we're gathered here for these meetings and these hearings there are rules on the books but not many because this is kind of a new technology so it's a matter of creating the rules necessary in order in order to regulate this and to keep it off the black market and i mean if people want to commit crimes and do bad things and by bad things they're going to find a way to do it whether it's with credit cards or money laundering it's going to happen it's just a matter of finding decorum and not letting it be the only source for this negative connotation when it comes to the currency itself but to answer your answer question more clearly you know i think that what's going to come out of these syrians is. a good thing for the currency and the fact that it's not just about silk road it's ironic that it's sort of this is a court case started this week as well but there's things beyond. better except you know like i mentioned before by joe and in china the growth of china if you will they're accepting and now there's between a.t.m.'s in toronto they're popping up all over the place so it's really it's a matter of embracing it a person writing it i think that's what these hearings really are beginning to do

well aaron we will definitely follow up with you for more on that hearing that the host of boom bust aaron a thank you. and san francisco police have been accused of using excessive force in a bloody incident that escalated after officers allegedly beat a man for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk the incident began when twenty year old de paris d.j. williams was asked by plain clothes officers to stop riding his bicycle on the sidewalk williams says he was listening to his music and could not hear the officers command police say when they attempted to stop him he fled to a nearby apartment complex where occupants tried to play on the side inside and a struggle between the occupants and the police and soon soon after the cops detained him and forced him to the ground williams' sister told a local news station one was choking him one pinned all his weight on him leaning

on him and the lady over there trying to put the handcuffs on him and he started beating on him for no reason but san francisco police officer gordon shai told r t today quote we believe reasonable force was used by the officers to effect arrest shies says officers were also injured in the confrontation and two were transported to the hospital for suspects including williams were arrested after three days in jail williams was discharged pending further investigation and shai tells our t.v. that the amateur video only tells half of the story and they will be looking at security footage from the housing complex to complete the investigation so to discuss this further i was joined earlier by mario ramirez a witness to the attack and a friend of d.j. williams i first asked him how d.j. has been feeling since the attack. million tires. doing our i mean to him. and see. it go. from beijing.

which is one. thing to the farmers and she who police say it was you know justified force you watch the altercation you were actually there and you were seen and some of that video what did you see i've seen one. right one a little amount right but i have a job fair enough for. you for now he's not around. i've seen this officer produce a million new. jobs. you know. and then the lady says do slang and then you and i say it's like. over and over and then you. know everybody can breathe based. upon our position and so on that. very much and i know that.

you try not to carry. papers. right. take a story out of the one that is. both. side of me run on time for not do if you do you know if d.j. and his family will be taking any legal action perhaps by suing the police department. you know we we are mccroskey the law. so we're just a little. couple of days or i was a lawyer right now sure and a lot of people did come out of their homes during the alternation obviously you were there there were a number of witnesses plus there is a video of the incident do you think all of this will help d.j.

you give him you know a pretty strong case. corps. because there was no right to my. trees are simply stating more like from our star chatter for sure and as i understand it there is a rally taking place for d.j. and other victims of police brutality you know are there other victims of experience the same thing d.j. has can you talk about that a little bit and maybe the outcome of their cases. they are. the three men. is truly. really one of the victims the rules as they put it like a murmur there's order. and. healing day to day yesterday last night it. was just now it is i

did want to lastly ask you about what you're expecting for this evening's rally do you expect a large outpouring from the community. yes alarming for america. is the worst it would be in a so we. are. against they were shown that we really is what they are told is about the people what they do and how hard. that was mario ramirez a witness from san francisco. and watch what you click because now we know that on line companies are keeping track google just settled with thirty seven states and the district of columbia for seventeen million dollars over concerns about user privacy and consumer protection google has been accused of circumventing user

protections on the web browser safari so that the company could more accurately target its advertising by tracking where people went and. is making lopez explains have you ever searched the internet for something only to be barraged by ads for that specific product even after you leave the page well if you use google as your search engine then of course you have that is called double click advertising and it has gotten google into a lot of trouble you see apple's so far a browser installed specific software to prevent third parties like google from tracking your online activity using cookies but google wrote a code to work around those controls and it was caught in the end act now as a result the internet giant agreed to pay thirty seven states plus the district of columbia a combined seventeen million dollars for violating consumer protection and computer privacy laws now the money works out to

a museum four hundred forty seven thousand dollars per state but the settlement sets a strong precedent for the future and just for reference that's every state that you see here in green however the deal is still a mixed bag as part of the settlement google did not have to admit any fault google's argument was that users could always opt out of advertising by installing an extra plugin however states and the federal government say the company misled so far users into thinking they didn't have to do that exact step with this explanation on its website so far you set by default to block all third party cookies if you have not changed those settings this option effectively accomplishes the same thing as setting the opt out cookie so if you are a safari user reading that exact statement you probably assume that you were in the clear last year the federal trade commission accused google of misrepresentation to safari customers for these incorrect statements online and want to twenty two point

five million dollar settlement but the f.t.c. did fall short of accusing the internet giant of breaking any laws where the federal government falls short. the states picked up as part of this new settlement with the states google has agreed to never use that code again to be more transparent with customers about how they can avoid advertisements and to delete third party cookies that were installed on those so far web browsers the settlement is a small but significant step forward for states in protecting online privacy but it can also serve as a reminder to check double check and triple check your privacy settings if you don't want to be inundated with tailored advertising while you're on the internet in washington meghan lopez r.t. now a programming note tonight on our special documentary will be airing exploring the life of one of america's most prolific interviewers who just so happens to be

a newer talent here at our t.v. larry king today is his birthday and he is turning eighty just in time for time magazine to call him one of the ten most influential people over eighty the documentary presented by artie's megan lopez premieres at six thirty pm tonight and will also air on wednesday and thursday of this week so make sure to tune in that does it for now i mean you're a david. well

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