only on our team. coming up on our t.v. christians in the crosshairs a new report shows that the amount of christians killed for their faith has doubled in two thousand and thirteen we'll take a look at where christians are being persecuted the most just ahead believers fana losen dad heads are all known as devout followers of a specific music icon but have you ever heard of juggalos they're the followers of the rab duo insane clown posse a group that's making waves for filing a lawsuit against the f.b.i. find out why they're prepared to go to court coming up. and it's a spy connection that goes beyond the silver screen a new book reveals how the cia and hollywood are connected with favors being traded between the two more on that later in the show.

it's thursday january ninth five pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david in you're watching our t.v. we begin today with the twenty fourteen world watch list a ranking of the fifty countries in which the persecution of christians for religious reasons is most severe and according to the report the amount of christians killed because of their faith doubled in two thousand and thirteen the report is released every year by open doors a nondenominational christian group that supports persecuted christians around the world according to lists the five worst countries to practice the religion are as follows north korea takes the number one spot for the twelfth year in a row the report cites no numbers on the amount of people killed however it says that christians are faced quote the highest imaginable pressure with between fifty to seventy thousand living in political prison camps the next rank country is somalia where open doors reports of this year ten christians were targeted and killed by members of the militant group al-shabaab the third most dangerous place

for christians is syria a country plagued by. ongoing civil war opened doors says that in two thousand and thirteen there were one thousand two hundred thirteen murder killings in the country that's more than half of all murder killings the organization documented worldwide number four is iraq where christians are increasingly threatened and attacked by islamic terrorist groups a local source says has told open doors that one christian is killed every two to three days there and in fifth place is afghanistan open door says the influx of islamic extremism and tribal pressure have made practicing christianity unsafe some lawmakers have publicly said that converts to christianity should die to discuss the findings of this report a little bit more earlier i was joined by david curry president and c.e.o. of open doors usa since north korea is number one on this list i first asked david what's going on there that makes it so difficult to practice christianity. well

there are different reasons why countries show up on our world watch list of countries where it's very difficult to have freedom of faith to be a christian north korea suffers under what is a very strange combination which is a form of call communist oppression mixed with a theocracy where the leaders for now three generations believe that their god so any ideology or theology which would question that or challenge that they're putting down with force and you don't hear a lot about that that force or that oppression on christians or directed at christians because of the secrecy and because the control is so total and like you said i mean generally it is so hard to obtain information on the people of north korea you know what were your sources and how were you you know able to figure out sort of the beliefs of a population that's so heavily guarded by its government open doors now for sixty years is supported persecuted christians wherever they may be and so we get our

data from the local level we work with folks who are believers in these countries we get our responses from them right on the ground level so that's how we get this data together and we measure it on a number of factors violence is one of them but also pressure and squeezing of them in more and more subtle ways perhaps and we'll talk about what we're seeing happen in syria of course we know that the country is now in braille than a civil war and has been for over two years how do you know that the numbers that that we're seeing because we know that it's it's been extraordinarily high are just a reflection of sort of how many people are dying as a whole and that it's actually there's a targeted. persecution of christians that's right i mean there is a there's a larger humanitarian crisis going on in syria but what weird using is when we use numbers of martyrdom for faith there are only numbers that we can identify they're they're just the tip of the iceberg of. from media outlets and other sources folks

who've been martyred within syria what's happened in syria is you have a civil war clearly there's a lot of damage to the society at large but there are also efforts from islamic extremist groups to target christian areas where historically christians have. settled and christian churches soft targets in order to raise response from some of the larger population and that was my next question which is that you know we're seeing this conflict really take hold of the region in both syria and iraq which are both obviously on the list and the conflict you really see it happen more so between muslim factions the sunnies and the shiites and christians seem to by and large sort of be out of the conflict or at least not incite the conflict so how how is it that you think that christians are alternately the ones being targeted here well in some cases they're being scapegoated you have islamic extremists who feel that the logically or politically for political motivations that christians

are a threat to their society or the way the view should be a law being played out so there's a number of factors in every country is different in iraq you know the government either seems to be unable or unwilling to support the saw what we would call soft targets of christian churches you had a bombing just christmas of two churches where people were going to worship the christmas holiday so it varies from country to country and from area to area absolutely and also you also see iraq and afghanistan both on the list and these are two countries that the united states has most recently gone to war with and i know you guys have only been doing the survey for twelve years but how would you describe the trend regarding the persecution of christians would you say that increased it's increased since the first year you did it or we we've seen a doubling of the martyrs that we can identify just from last. sure and some of

those numbers a large portion of them the largest portion is in the syrian conflict but there's also other countries like nigeria and somalia and some of these where there's there's a targeting of christians so we feel like it's getting worse nine of the top ten on our world watch list are islamic extremist factions and or governments thirty six of the top fifty so that's the main driver this year it's not always been that way but it's certainly a trend that we're concerned about juror and you know aside from people being targeted and murdered what kinds of obstacles are christians facing and practicing their religion just generally well there's a issue here that in many of the countries where where they are operating as a minority and there's a lot of social pressure from families to conform in many countries on the world watch list it is illegal to convert to christianity if you so so choose what we want is a free marketplace of ideas where people have the opportunity to study and choose

what they think for themselves sir and when you take a look at the numbers more generally i know that you say you know between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen or is a huge jump but have you seen the numbers go down at all in those twelve years or have they just been consistently getting higher and higher and higher what we're doing is ranking the countries as they are today and so we've seen a fluctuation and it's changed when we first started we were dealing with communist oppression and now we're dealing with this lawmaker extremism so it's different and the numbers have changed as as time has changed is all very interesting and will certainly follow your statistics going forward thank you so much david curry president and c.e.o. of open doors usa thank you. and the european parliament voted today to authorize the use of prerecorded testimony from former government contractor edward snowden about which was held by the parliament's committee on civil liberties justice and home affairs now paves the way for snowden to provide the e.u.

with key information that's liberal m.e.p. sophie into the wild was the vice chair of the civil liberties committees said snowden's remarks would be quote an opportunity to give citizens across europe the answers they deserve over massive surveillance she also went on to say that she would like to ask snowden why he felt the legal avenues to report abuse were not open to him and whether he feels whistle blowing procedures have now been improved artie's peter oliver is and berlin with more the e.u. parliament approved plans for an inquiry into just how far the n.s.a. spying program went into looking into the private communications of citizens across the european union now these leaks came out because of the revelations put forward by edward snowden the former n.s.a. contractor. and it's really sent a shockwave across europe not least here in germany where it was revealed that the chair of the cell phone of chancellor angela merkel may have been listened into by

the united states government now by a number of thirty six in favor two against and one abstention they decided that yes they would have to be an inquiry and there is also the chance that edward snowden may testify at that inquiry by videophone he remains in russia where he sought asylum and remains there until until august of this year but yes that certainly looks like something that we're going to have to be keeping an eye on over the coming months is twenty four thing continues to see more news come out and more upset here in europe about just how much the united states may have been listening in to our communications. now is our tease peter oliver back in washington d.c. president obama has been meeting with leaders from the u.s. intelligence community and members of an oversight panel focusing on privacy and civil liberties today he met with key lawmakers as privacy groups met separately

with administration officials the meetings come just as the department of defense released a classified report regarding the harm that's been caused by the snowden leaks the d.o.d. report made a number of conclusions but namely that snowden's disclosures significantly impacted the capabilities of the u.s. to carry out its intelligence operations. and the u.s. government will be investigating a twenty thirteen drone strike which hit a yemeni wedding party killing twelve civilians all injuring fourteen the defense department's joint special operations command or jay sachs is responsible for carrying out the strike which took place on december twelfth of last year in the aftermath of the attack the government said they had credible intelligence leading them to believe there were quote dangerous al qaeda militants in the wedding convoy however a follow up investigation conducted by u.k. human rights organization reprieve found that all those killed and injured in the

strike were guests attending a wedding with no known militant connections this wall be explored in a forthcoming internal investigation and it will mark the first time the us government will inspect a drone attack since president obama pledged to tighten the rules on drone strikes in his may two thousand and thirteen speech in response to an announcement of the investigation reprieve investigator barrage of bond said in a press release these continuing drone strikes don't bolster anyone security they only serve to alienate the yemeni people and undermine the rule of law we can only hope that the u.s. administration's internal investigation is robust and that it results in needed policy change and reparation for all those affected will continue to follow this investigation. and a detroit rap group known as the insane clown posse has filed a lawsuit against the justice department and the f.b.i. if that sounds a bit strange it gets even stranger because this is all

a response to how the f.b.i. has categorize the rap duo followers in this case their followers known as juggalos have been designated gang members f.b.i. analysts concluded that the followers were a quote loosely organized hybrid gang and this is all based on law enforcement and media reports of crimes committed by people wearing juggalo tattoos and clothing in the complaint filed just yesterday the clown posse and four fans have said that quote juggalos are a family of people who love and help one another enjoy one another's company and bond over the music and the philosophy of life organized crime is by no means a part of the juggalo culture here's what one one of the insane clown posse band members violent j. had to say about the case discrimination based on the title music the person this is too slow ridiculous in america to see. these guys again it's just egregious close realistic to the lives of the juggles parents of moscow studios or

feuds that inspired from the start hours the that is going to do legal searches and sometimes it's you again do these simply for walking down the street where you guys . to break down this case and what it means going forward i was joined earlier by one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs on this case or assad who is a partner in miller canfield and cooperating with the michigan a.c.l.u. on this i first asked him why the f.b.i. designated the juggalos again. well you know the f.b.i. as well as the other agencies within the d.o.j. have a tough job across the country in terms of trying to identify real gangs and deal with real gang problems and a lot of those games are the kind of games that you would think of like the bloods the crips things like that they're common knowledge and cultural names and so what they have done and what we would say their approach is is to go forward to the day

so far that they have branded the group of music fans as a gang or the bottom line is that they have been so zealous in their law enforcement activity that they sort of keep going past the line and then far across the line till they're way out at the point where they're just dealing with music fans so interesting well one juggalo brandon bradley is a plaintiff in this case and i want to take a listen to what he said yesterday at a press conference i'm a peaceful person trying to live my life right. now or imagine being in between right to be with the running game just because i'm a teacher. three believe three now in question might have been a gentleman we've seen we've had a few and sure again even though i just needed a job. other than the police interrogation you know that brennan was describing just there wasn't some other consequences of this gang designation for juggalos.

but you know when psychopathic records put out the word and asked people what sort of challenges they were facing they got responses from all over the country and the response of the community problems that people faced in terms of their parental rights in terms of their jobs in terms of things that they faced and being hassled on the street like brandon said but any violent day yesterday mentioned the number of those things that people do have just in terms of arrest in terms of their employment or in terms of their other relationships in life everything from parental custody to walking down the street well during a press conference members of the and same clown posse said that while it was regal to listen to their music he asked me i was criminalizing the expression of their fandom what did they mean by that well the only way to really identify what a general is certainly generally is is by their. being a fan of i.c.p.

music by their belief in the juggalo philosophy of tolerance and acceptance and to express to that music so when you come down to it and for example if you just look in the two thousand and eleven national gang fred assessment that the f.b.i. and the o.j. wrote the only way to identify somebody essentially as a juggalo is that they are a fan of the insane clown posse well if that's the case then. as soon as someone walks down the street with settler tattoos general of memorabilia anything that identifies them simply as a music fan to become a target if that was some kind of gang apparel well let's broaden this a little bad because what you're saying you're not juggling you're not a fan of this group i'm not saying you personally are not you can be you know why should this last two matter to all americans why should they be concerned about that. well. there at this was a firm i can tell you that we're a very mainstream corporate law firm and when we heard about the opportunity to

help work with these generalism stand up for their rights we were excited to do it and the reason is that's one of the things that while in jail some mentioned in and some of his comments yesterday is that they're really fighting for all of us i mean we all want to choose our own friends we want to choose what we talk about in public we want to choose the music that we listen to do and choose political affiliations we want to choose how we deal with the issues are important to us in life and that's all the jugglers are standing up for so this farm i mean we recognize as mainstream and corporate is firmly that these are the things that matter all of us and so we were happy to get involved and i think that's how it impacts everybody across the country i mean folks across the country value these very same rights and so these are ones that we all should be excited stand up for and and i would say that the juggalos are even standing up for those very same rights of the f.b.i. officers out there to mean the ones important each of us it sure does have much more. i should say broader implications i mean are there any other instances that

you know and which people are targeted are designated and members of the gang by law enforcement for their consumer choices or is this unique. well. i suppose the way that i would answer that is to say that i think that the department of justice or the f.b.i. may have an interest in looking at some sort of groups that are organized around things like gangster rap sometimes and other material like that but i think this is a developing area and it's probably too soon to tell whether or not that's something that where people been targeted based on their music choice sure and from what you know i mean has a lawsuit ever prompted the f.b.i. to renew the gang designation. well i mean these gang designations are relatively novel and the national gang intelligence center itself is quite new just brought together in two thousand and six after some action by congress in two thousand and five so there really hasn't been a lawsuit like this this will be the first time but we think that in terms of other

cases in other areas that are very similar to this that we at least has a very strong ground to go on well it seems that plaintiffs certainly have a very strong case but that's all we have time for is for us out to cooperate and counsel at a.c.l.u. michigan and partner and they were canceled thank you thanks very much mary appreciate it. and happening now in las vegas is the international consumer electronics show it's where companies get together each year and show off their newest most cutting edge technology some highlights this year are big screen t.v.'s you can then text you can wear and drones of all shapes and sizes just to name a few our chief correspondent joins us now to discuss all the latest and greatest that came out of this year's show liz thanks for being here thank you so tell us what were some of the highlights this year well one of the big things this year is aware of all technology there is actually a term for it wrist revolution i don't know if that's just a buzz word if this is actually going to become

a reality but basically it's articles of clothing watches we're seeing bracelets things that you can wear what you're looking at right now with some. smart watch so it's kind of like an i phone or the capabilities of that but on your wrist watch so you can get tax emails alerts kind of organize your life and get alerts right there on your watch we're seeing a lot of other similar types of technology where where you can use it for health purposes where you can monitor your heart rate your sleep patterns even exposure to to sun you name it so apparently that's the big thing we saw a lot of it but the thing with fashion or are things that you can wear as whether or not you can be seen as fashionable and cool and whether or not people are going to actually wear this stuff well it would show up on the runway and will never sure will as i understand the drones did make a big appearance that's not that surprising can you tell us

a little bit more about drones we saw a lot of drones of all sizes but we're talking about drones for the for the layperson and for recreational use so people that want to use this for fun some of them you can have built in cameras so you can take video so you can take photographs and some have you can connect with your i phone or your smartphone. and you can control it with your phone or if you're good taking video you can actually see the drones perspective from your phone. so. yeah we're seeing a lower we will talk a lot about drones here. so controversial this is for recreational a recreational use i don't know if they're becoming more l. but they are becoming more and more popular and i think that as they become more popular the price is coming down so that's true everybody can get a drone i now so we're going to be seeing them a lot more in the future wolf for people who aren't hyped up on drones you know it's probably most most women probably don't care as much about drones what else is

out there that can make people's lives a little bit easier well one thing that they had something that i could use because . i have cracked my smartphone before it. is a vis case you can put on it's like this super strong case. you can bang it with a hammer or you can. go out. and slice vegetables i don't know why you would be doing that on your tablet or i phone but you can do it but it's supposed to be very durable it's a i made that yeah yeah but it's supposed to be some cutting edge technology nasa developed nanotech mobile device cover it's called the invisible guard so something we can use it's only twenty bucks so why not i think the phone companies in the repair shops would lose a lot of money to develop well i you know at the c.s. we heard a statement from ford motor company that's raising some eyebrows during a panel discussion jim farley which is ford's global v.p.

of marketing and sales had this to say said we know everyone who breaks the law we know when you're doing it we have g.p.s. in your car so we know what you're doing by the way we don't supply that data to anyone so was i can imagine some privacy advocates were a little concerned about this are we hearing anything oh yeah definitely especially with this new concern with privacy these days. that statement there basically was saying we know everything about you but we're not going to tell anybody i think these days a lot of people are going to be weird to take a statement like that at face value but we are seeing this in cars these black boxes which basically they said you know if there's an accident insurance companies can can find out get to the bottom of it get to the facts find a health fast you're going whether or not you're wearing a seatbelt your location so that's kind of the benefits that are touted with these kinds of technologies most new cars have to have these black boxes but his admission there is of raising some eyebrows. saying we we we know

a lot about about you and what they're going to do with that information. that that's what's what has privacy advocates that concern absolutely definitely some drawbacks with the burgeoning technology well that's all we have time for but thank you so much. i think you and new details of service regarding how think of america has been keeping tabs on social activist last year you may remember that anonymous hacktivist revealed the private e-mails and spreadsheets showing bank of america had been involved in tracking the online services used by activists now more information regarding the bank's recent surveillance activities are coming to light this time through legally obtained public records the documents concern and anonymous backed demonstration called the million mask march it's a protest that took place in a limpia washington on november fifth of last year the documents reveal an extensive collaboration that took place between the bank washington state patrol

and federal counterterrorism agencies and involved the in depth tracking of the events organizers and other activists who had planned to attend information gathered about the potential protesters was then shared with bank of america and in return bank of america participated in its own snooping and sharing mainly by using twenty of its employees to monitor activists via so. well media. and another state is at the center of a lawsuit over how they treat their mentally ill prisoners a south carolina judge on wednesday ruled that the south carolina department of corrections violated the cruel and unusual punishment clause in the state constitution the state now has six months to make a plan to better deal with its mentally ill inmates thirty five hundred seriously mentally ill inmates have filed a class action suit against the south carolina department of corrections during the five weeks trial tendon mates testified about harsh treatment that included long periods and restraints excessive use of pepper spray and long term solitary

confinement in his ruling fifth circuit court judge michael baxley said the state's mental health program is quote inherently flawed and systematically deficient in all major areas the judge also noted that the lack of basic mental health care has led to death in some cases the lawsuit was filed by a protection and advocacy for people with disabilities the group did not seek financial damages but asked the court to compel the department of corrections to provide adequate mental health care for its inmates and the department of corrections says it will appeal the ruling. hollywood loves movies about international intrigue and spying at the central intelligence agency sometimes the films even include a role for hollywood in these intelligence operations take the award winning film argo for instance which is based on a true story. they're canadian film crew for a science fiction writer we all fly out together. you know if you make

a play or you want to come to hollywood or the big shot without actually doing anything. right in. science for your own state mars desert exotic look. if our military could be it's going to be big. but that's only the tip of the iceberg as long time cia lawyer john rizzo tells it the relationship between the spy agency and long haul land is quite cozy and his new book company man rizzo says that actors producers and other movie making power players were always happy to help out the cia in any way they could something the lawyers said was quote probably in equal parts because they are sincerely patriotic and because it gives them a taste of real life intrigue and excitement but in one story rizzo recounted there was an actor who wanted a taste of something else or should i say

a sniff of something else he said in that situation the actor refuses to take any money but he told us that instead all he wants of us is to score him the best fifty thousand dollars stash of cocaine we can find he seems to think we can get the real primo stuff rizzo learned about the situation because an agent had approached him to ask if the cia could move forward and make the trade rizzo claims he nixed the awkward request but it's likely the actor was able to find his primo stuff elsewhere and that does it for now i'm lynn neary david. my marinates join me. for that impartial and financial reporting commentary interview and much much. only on us and only on.

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