i'm. coming up on our t.v. on capitol hill leaders from the major u.s. intelligence agencies are meeting to discuss global threats with congress it's no surprise they're talking terrorism but there is also concern over leakers like edward snowden more on that in just a moment. and the state of the union did the president say anything groundbreaking last night or was he off stage by a congressman who threatened to throw a reporter off of a balcony more on that coming up. and we'll take a look at the shocking number of people dying in police custody in local u.s. jails lives lost due to the failure of staff to administer yet critical medicines

we'll hear stories from affected families later in the show. as of wednesday january twenty ninth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. america. we begin today on capitol hill where senior intelligence officials are meeting to discuss worldwide threats leaders from the cia an f.b.i. face questions from senators on how they're handling current and future threats at least some of the lawmakers believe one of the greatest threats is leaking government secrets that's prompted a heated debate over former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden so what exactly are the biggest threats and how is the administration handling them are they correspondent perry and boring is on the hill and has more. today the directors of the intelligence community testified right

here in front of the senate intelligence committee to deliver their annual public a worldwide threat assessment the number one global threat on their list is cyber the first country the cia says it is likely to watch oftens of cyber attacks on the u.s. is russia the report says quote russian intelligence services continue to target u.s. and allied personnel with access to sensitive computer network information much of the discussions today were centered around edward snowden who seeking asylum in russia then book ations of intelligence leaks and the constitutionality behind the n.s.a. phone data collection program senator udall challenge the effectiveness of the n.s.a.'s surveillance program and outlined the scope of the cia i want to be able to reassure the american people especially given what's been happening. that the cia and the director understand the limits of their mission its authorities we all

are well aware executive or twelve triple three that order prohibits the cia from engaging in domestic spying and searches of u.s. citizens within our borders another senator concerned with domestic spying is ron wyden to look for clarity and to the n.s.a. the ability to track and the visuals using smartphone apps he asked the f.b.i. director if the f.b.i. is required to have probable cause in order to acquire american cell side location information for intelligence purposes what he said might surprise you no i don't believe so senator we in almost all circumstances we have to obtain a court order but the showing is a reasonable basis to believe it's relevant to the investigation and the intelligence director is testifying today overwhelmingly agree that edward snowden's leaks have threatened u.s. security the defense intelligence agency director said troops are in danger as a result the greatest cost that. that is unknown today but we will we will likely. face is the cost in human lives on tomorrow's battlefield or in

some. some place where we will put or military forces you know when we ask them to go into harm's way while the n.s.a. is a phone data collection program is still a controversial topic of debate on capitol hill many of the senators today expressed their concern with the scope of snowden's leaks snowden leaked one point seven million documents which not only expose the n.s.a. but implications over the entire intelligence and defense community sober attacks atop the list of worldwide threats because more and more aspects of life including communication personal information and government functions are migrating online and washington d.c. parian boring r.t. and while some senators see snowden as a dangerous threat others see him as a fighter for peace the former n.s.a. contractor was nominated for the nobel peace prize today his name was added by two

norwegian politicians that say he made the world a safer place one of the nominators sad quote the public debate and policy public debate and changes in policy that have followed in the wake of snowden's whistle blowing have contributed to a more stable and peaceful world order will find out who the winner of the peace prize is in october and speaking of sparking a public debate attorney general eric holder testified on the hill today and a hearing for the senate judiciary committee if it's questions about the controversial n.s.a. spying program but try to assure the senators that the justice department is taking action. it is imperative that we continue striving to protect our national security while upholding the civil liberties that that all of us hold dear on monday we took a significant step forward in this regard when the department acted to allow more

detailed disclosures about the number of national security orders and requests that are issued to communications providers the number of customer accounts targeted under those orders and requests and the underlying legal authorities all this is one of many discussions on the hill regarding the controversial spying program and the wake of revelations by snowden. and president obama addressed the nation last night for the annual state of the union speech after that speech the situation turned grim for one reporter covering the events and why one news reporter was interviewing representative michael graham and asked him a question about an investigation into illegal fund raising for the congressman's campaign this outrage to graham who then resorted to threatening the reporter and it was all caught on camera. why would you have to.

leave. it there were. no. you know no. one would know. everything. ok. defended his actions but later apologized to that reporter he threatens. the state of the union focused on everything from raising the minimum wage to closing guantanamo bay to ending the war in afghanistan but how much of it is rhetoric and how much of it is a reality our to correspondent lucie county has more on the state of the union. a year of action and that was the rallying cry from the u.s. president at the state of the union address here in washington but it does of course come at a time when action is anything but guaranteed it has been an incredibly difficult

year for this administration obama's facing some of the low to the lowest voter approval ratings of his presidency and a divided congress that is effectively blocked him at nearly every turn and so this year we saw a president who seemed to frankly a knowledge his limitations he wasn't able to get the gun control measures he called for last year the same goes for tax reform immigration climate change closing guantanamo i mean the list really does go on in fact according to some political scientists a forty one items that the president had asked for in his state of the union address only two he's been able to achieve now obama did try to assert himself by vowing to sidestep congress on a number of issues for example using his executive power to raise the minimum wage for federal workers but on the big ticket items his hands really are tied obama needs congress to play ball and given the current climate on capitol hill it's simply not very likely that he's going to get it this speech was very light on

foreign policy up obama did remind viewers that he's imposed limits on the use of drones and also promised again to reform u.s. surveillance but no details on how he plans to do all that the president did also mention ukraine saying the u.s. stands for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully and have a say in their country's future so really coming out on the side of the protesters they're not really straying from the administration response over the past few weeks and so when it comes to the actual policy proposals really not much in terms of what's new we really are seeing obama sort of try to call yet again for many of the things he's called for before whether it's immigration reform tax code overhaul things that he simply has not been able to achieve perhaps trying to hope that twenty fourteen will be the year that he'll be able to do it but also at the same time acknowledging his limitations that those promises won't necessarily turn to action. and that was our t.v.

correspondent. still ahead here on r t a missouri man is arguing that the state cannot x. acute have while keeping its lethal injection drugs a secret why the supreme court is putting has a death sentence on hold coming up. we welcome eric made an abby martin to a precocious on the art team network. it's going to give you the numbers might give you one star never i'll give you the information you make the decision. or the revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness. extremely produce would be described as angry i think in a strong you know one single. i got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. today where it's not story. because

this guy like you would smear that does stead of working for the people most nations the beach the media were richer right just because. they did rather it was. a missouri and may it has escaped death for now at least fifty six year old herbert smalls was scheduled to die this morning but the supreme court granted him a stay of execution smalls was convicted of killing the owner of a jewelry store during a robbery in one thousand nine hundred one he was sentenced to death by lethal injection his lawyers were granted a last minute appeal and argued that the state needs to disclose the makeup of the lethal injection injection drug the transparency of drugs used in executions has been called into question lately as pharmaceutical companies back away from

providing drugs that can be used to carry out the death penalty consequently states are using something called compound drugs where they mix more than one drug to make it deadly but the defense lawyers in this case and critics of the drug mixing practice say the secrecy surrounding the drugs makes it impossible to know if the compounds cause an reasonable pain and suffering the seance miles execution is temporary as the supreme court reviews the case. and even without the death penalty some are dying behind bars the latest available numbers show that eight hundred eighty five inmates died in the custody of local jails in two thousand and eleven this according to the be. are of justice to test x. are to correspondent a marriage david brings you the story of one woman accused of a nonviolent crime who died in

a brooklyn jail she was supposed to be there temporarily but as you'll see she spent her final days behind bars. now we're going to. go. it's a mother still in mourning distraught over her thirty seven year old daughter died after spending several agonizing hours lying on the floor of a brooklyn jail cell the day which led to kyin livingston's death this past summer stemmed from a nonviolent altercation with her grandmother but after her arrest police brought her here to brooklyn central booking where she was held waiting to be arraigned by a judge unfortunately she would never make it to a court or ever officially be charged with a crime. instead livingston would spend the remainder of her life in

a jail cell suffering from severe stomach pains diarrhea and convulsions but despite her physical distress livingston son alex says a witness told him n.y.p.d. officers ignored the pleas of his mother and others who were with her in the cell started banging on the bars of the cells and screaming at the officers to get help to get medical help and everything and there was a female officer i walked by. she's just having a seizure my grandson has seizures old song title past and why p.d. officials tell the family that livingston was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital but one witness and fellow inmate told the daily news that livingston had been dead for twenty minutes before the e.m.'s had even arrived the department which is now being sued by the family has declined requests to turn over key surveillance video and release the names of the officers who oversaw her care in a statement to our t.v. regarding the case

a spokesman for the new york city law department said this involved a tragic matter but given the pending litigation we cannot comment further but livingston story is not exactly unique she represents just one of hundreds of deaths that take place every year in local jails across the country according to the most recent department of justice statistics available in two thousand and eleven eight hundred eighty five inmates died while detained by local police departments deaths which have typically stemmed from a preexisting health condition it's a statistic that kara to bash nick of cooney center on media crime and justice has called the alarming it could be somebody the has a condition that has never been diagnosed before adding the stress of the situation could bring that out it could be anybody eighty percent of the people under jails have some sort of medical aquatic condition and that's why to bash nick says these officers need to be aware of inmates illnesses and trained on how to react to dire

medical conditions and that's what this community is demanding six months after khayyam livingston's tragic death they're calling for accountability and they're insisting on changes to the u.s. jail system that could prevent others from falling victim to the same fate in new york a mere david r t. locked away and forgotten that is what happened to an indiana woman that was sentenced to serve two days behind bars instead she spent five months in jail destiny hoffman is now filing a civil suit against clark county for serving way more time than she was supposed to it wasn't until a clark county prosecutor was sifting through old case files when she noticed something didn't look right hoffman was sentenced to do some minor time for diluting her drug test results she claims she wrote letters to a judge and a drug court staff member while behind bars yet never received a response the indiana news and tribune said these special judge called the

extended stay a quote big screw up how so much time went by without someone saying something is unclear all the charges against hoffman are expected to be dropped the incident is highlighting problems with indiana's drug treatment program and employees are being investigated. still had here an hour to protesters continue to come out in full force and ukraine will get the latest from the streets and also take a look at some of the deeper history behind their grievances a look at that after the break.

think. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question. now to ukraine where mass protests have crippled the capital of kiev protests have led to the resignation of the prime minister and his cabinet but now the leadership

warns the country is on the brink of a civil war are the correspondent here all over is on the ground with the latest on the violent uprising. i was talking to some of the the more extreme members the of the nationalist organizations to being out on the streets here they've been telling me that that there's no way that the city would see them put down their weapons that they leave the barricades that was a stipulation that the government had put forward the president big deal in a covert you put forward in concessions he made to opposition leaders and talks that took place over the weekend he said that as long as people left the streets then those who've been detained would receive amnesty the opposition leaders though saying they want to see without any conditions in terms of what we're seeing from the nationalists on the streets right now a group of around five thousand marched from here on independence square over to a monument elsewhere in kiev this is

a monument to those who fought against the bolsheviks in one thousand eight seeing now they were waving nationalist flags a lot of them carrying some kind of a homemade weaponry sticks helmets the likes ukraine has seen bloody violence in the past involving nationalist groups my colleague alexey out of sheds he has this report so i must warn you though some of the images in alexa's report some viewers may find disturbing. ski barely remembers the horrific events of nine hundred forty three when ukrainian insurgents came to slaughter his village in western ukraine but the most tragic things live well in his memory of news is that one of them caught off and shot from close range there was a huge noise a bullet hit an ear with a touched the temple my mom fell down she was unconscious the blood was everywhere they thought and sober and went to the village to murder they didn't kill they murdered with pitchforks and axes commuters last survived to become poland's first

and only man in space nineteen members of his family including his father and more than eighty thousand poles jews and their medians were not as lucky. some of murders in what was a genuine ethnic cleansing by troops were extremely gruesome people cut in pieces with a saw one thousand and forty three conducted a total ethnic cleansing. that is to destroy living on of territory they considered their property after the bowling slaughter of the murders of the cold continued. and third just over there were grainy and try to help. with the shelter but those ukrainian riffling through. seven decades later when ukraine's opposition faced off with the government pictures of those behind the slaughter resurfaced in the heart of the protest the man who formed the 1940's insurgent movement in ukraine step on

when there is still pretty much tearing the country apart while many call him a killer and cannot forgive the atrocities his movement had committed some at the my john are clearly guarding him as a hero warsaw has been supportive of ukraine's protesters all along despite a chunk of the radical right there is supporting the man who brought so much pain to the polish nation unpunished minors which haven't been prosecuted will always spawn new martyrs standing at his father's grave after machete says he feels no hate towards ukrainians but he wants the truth to be told and things to be named as they should be. reporting from kiev in ukraine. new video of an arizona police shooting that turned deadly calls into question what exactly led the police to pull the trigger on january fourteenth a man well lingo oriya led police on a high speed chase that ended with a confrontation with officers in which he was shot and killed and now county

sheriff said the suspect who they believe was driving a stolen vehicle refused to listen to demands and suddenly reached into the back of the car prompting police to shoot their defense but i'd just release the video is stirring controversy. actually has his hands up before he is shot r.t. reached out to the pinellas county sheriff's office for comment on what this video shows they say the suspect has a long record of violent crime and recalled the scene where quote longer repeatedly said that he had a gun and you wouldn't be taken alive he kept his right hand behind his back which deputies and officers on the scene thought it was on the gun that he said he had. they maintain that the officer shot the man to stop a threat but that video is causing controversy. and now coming up boom bust is

coming up next here on our t.v. aaron eight joins us for a quick preview hi erin what can we look forward to today thank you thank you know coming up on boom bust it's all about emerging today george magnus author and former chief economist at u.b.s. sat down with me the our london studio earlier today to discuss this very subject then errors ed harrison and i will tell you what's up with everyone everyone save or commodity coffee i know you love it was love is all want to miss it it's all go ahead and have without it and thanks erin tune in for that and now some say corporations are bad because they try to control our minds by getting us to buy their products the nice resident takes a look at how corporations are actually giving back to their community through their see as our report she explains.

corporations will tell you anything you want to hear anything at all as long as you keep buying whatever crap they're selling and because people are becoming more socially conscious now they're all telling us how socially responsible they are through corporate social responsibility or c.s.r. report of course there's an acronym involved we're talking about corporations c.s.r. reports the town corporation sustainability efforts how they've become more green or how they give back to the community they're all the rage right now in fact eighty percent six. scent of u.s. companies now issues the as our report but a new paper published in personnel psychology just came out that says the bore

a company pushes for c.s.r. and talks about being socially responsible the more likely their c.e.o.'s are to be socially irresponsible as specially after committing with sponsible. it's almost as if there's a trend where they think to themselves and i just did a great campaign about helping the homeless it's totally ok if i used toxic plastic in the packaging there out it explains why you see corporations like b.p. talk for hours on end about how they're the best in the industry when it comes to safety but they're the ones who caused the deepwater horizon spill a very not safe accident indeed in the paper's conclusion the researchers state that given leaders' propensity to engage in wrongdoing after they've engaged in c.s.r. boards should be particularly careful after the successful implementation of c s our strategy to ensure that leaders do not become complacent in other words if your

c.e.o. has just done something wonderful it's time to keep an eye on or look it's great that corporations are becoming more aware of the fact that their customers would like them to be more socially and environmentally responsible but the truth is these reports are often just stupid marketing tools in fact they're often created by sustainability reporting consultants who said that employees at the corporations often don't even understand what the hell the consultants are talking about the bottom line is if a corporation truly cared about the environment or society in general they wouldn't have to create an acronym to explain all the good they're doing they'd just be doing it and tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the rest of. that we're going to leave it off there for now but please follow me on twitter liz

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