because i'm. breaking news on r t death row for the boston bomber prosecutors in the case against dzhokhar sinai and have decided to seek the death penalty report just ahead . in fighting in syria has created extremists and not just in syria that's all according to a top u.s. intelligence official more on that an exclusive look at a syrian city captured by islamists coming up. and more revelations about n.s.a. spying this time on climate negotiators the leaked documents show that the n.s.a. spied on delegates to the two thousand and nine climate conference in copenhagen this comes as one u.s. senator is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. details later in the show.

it's there is a january thirtieth for him in washington d.c. and you're a david and you're watching r t america. we begin today with breaking news the justice department has notified a federal judge and intends to seek the death penalty for dzhokhar star nah it now will only be the case if a jury convicts are naive for last april bomb attacks at the boston marathon the attacks which took place nine months ago left three people dead and two hundred sixty wounded talents are naive dzhokhar has a brother who allegedly perpetrated the attack was killed in a confrontation with police in the days following the bombing now let's bring in our marina porn i had to discuss this a little bit more rina how did the justice department come to the decision that the death penalty was appropriate in this case. well u.s. attorney general eric holder says that the nature of the conduct at issue and the resulting harm from the boston bombings compelled his decision for the us to seek

the death penalty in the case against defendant now before making a decision mr holder did take recommendations from his own staff as well as the justice department's capital case review committee and boston's u.s. attorney carmen ortiz no since the federal death penalty was reinstated in one nine hundred eighty eight the u.s. u.s. attorney generals have authorized authorizes use for an estimated five hundred defendants but of those only three have been executed including timothy mcveigh who was convicted in the one thousand nine hundred five oklahoma city bombings now. faces thirty counts in connection to the boston bombings including the use of weapons of mass destruction resulting in the death of the bombing. of a public place he is also accused of murdering a massachusetts institute of technology police officers days following the bombing now of the seventeen charges which you've mentioned in your lead against he could

receive the death penalty for for them so he's thirty charges against him seventeen of them he could face the death penalty and the twenty year old suspect did plead not guilty on all counts back in july he remains in federal custody and marie and i were talking about the death penalty here very serious issue do you think this is going to spark any controversy amongst americans at all. well i don't know what kind of controversy we will see many did believe that this decision wouldn't come wouldn't come down that attorney general holder would actually decide the opposite way and that's because the u.s. attorney general did disclose several times has disclosed several times that he's personally opposed to the death penalty however he instead chose to seek the death penalty in this case you know some experts believe that the reason he made that decision is because if he decided against life in prison it could have fueled

republican accusations against the administration and attorney general for being too soft on terrorism but if we look at a poll published in september by the boston globe it found that only thirty three percent of people in massachusetts actually supported the death penalty for so naive the majority fifty seven percent favored a life sentence without the possibility of parole so here we have the u.s. attorney general not siding with the majority opinion of the case of haven't actually going for a death penalty it's very interesting so when can we expect all of us to sort of commence one of the trials supposed to begin well boston's u.s. district judge george o'toole has said he wants to get the trial rolling he is the one that actually some imposed today as the deadline for the attorney general to make his decision on the death penalty judge tool has ordered a conference with the lawyers on february twelfth so they could all decide

a starting date of the trial so we don't know when it will start but by mid february will have word on when the trial is expected to the highly anticipated case a lot of people will be watching. new york city oh thank you. and a missouri man has been executed for the fatal shooting of a jewelry store owner and in one nine hundred ninety one robbery the u.s. supreme court had granted a stay late tuesday shortly before the scheduled twelve am execution but late wednesday the high court cleared numerous appeals and in part challenge the drug use in the execution herbert smalls was the sixth person executed in the united states since the beginning of the year and the third in missouri since november he was pronounced dead at ten twenty pm last night at a state prison after receiving the drug in question a lethal dose of pennell bball small did not make a final statement but he did ask which way he should look from the gurney to see his witnesses and nodded to them before his death meanwhile witnesses to executions

in the state of washington will now be given even more access the new witness protocol is in its final stages of approval it includes witnesses having access to television monitors to show the inmate entering the death chamber and being struck down as well as the ability to see the insertion of the i.v.'s those had both been previously shielded from the public view the change is a response to a two thousand and twelve federal appeals court ruling that said all parts of an execution must be fully open to public witnesses the ruling was sparked by a case brought by the a.p. and other news organizations who challenged idaho's policy to shield the insertion of i.v. catheters from public view they argued that it was a first amendment right to witness all as aspects of an execution and they also said it would be the only way to determine whether it was being properly carried out however the states argued that the current policy was necessary to protect the

anonymity of the execution team. and syria is becoming a haven for radical extremists with aspirations to launch terrorist attacks against the u.s. that's exactly what a top intelligence official told congress yesterday here's what the director of national intelligence james clapper told the senate intelligence committee. amanda's concern here for these. extremists who are attracted to. syria engage in combat get training and we're seeing no the appearance of training complexes in syria to train people to go back to their countries and and of course of the conduct more terrorist attacks. clapper says that between seventy five thousand and one hundred ten thousand rebels are battling the government in syria of those twenty six thousand are extremists and he says about seven thousand of them are foreigners from fifty different countries including europe and the

middle east u.s. intelligence officials have expressed worry that a handful of american foreign fighters and hundreds of european militants have already returned to their home countries so might all of this change the u.s. course of action in syria for some insight on that i'm joined by ahmed fatigue a middle east analyst thanks for joining me ahmed thank you for having me so clapper says syria is becoming a haven for radical extremists from all over the world is that something americans should really be concerned about. absolutely and the american government should be very concerned about what's happening in syria and on the other side it is not a surprise this is standard operating procedures for al qaeda and its affiliates we have seen it over and over again we have seen it in afghanistan we have seen it in pakistan in the. the federally administered tribal areas we have seen it before in the eighty's in the sudan when but lebanon when they're an established training

camps we saw it in iraq from two thousand and three onwards so it's an ongoing it's part of their operating procedure to get a foothold in the ground and then to start to develop from there so definitely u.s. intelligence community and security apparatus should be very very concerned. i have had some analysts have said that it's possible opposition militants will will tire of battling the government which is showing no signs of collapse and instead take their newly acquired skills back to europe or to the u.s. where acts of terror may be able to grab larger headlines is this about actually shifting their their target or expanding their targets abroad. this is definitely a valid scenario that these terrorists are going to be going back to their countries whether they're going to be carrying out operations by themselves or they're going to be training others without the need to leave the country we have

heard in europe in many european countries in britain in germany in belgium about the jihad tourism these people were just average or working and then they take a vacation months or so and then do the flock to syria there have to be more vigilant approach and more careful screening at the countries bordering syria and i'm speaking here about turkey about jordan about iraq about who is coming in and where do we go after that i'm sure that the security apparatus and dirty or jordan for example when do you see this influx of young people and they all get heading into the same direction to go to a border point crossing to syria this should be a red flag i am surprised that it's not been tackled earlier on i had of course the syrian peace talks are ongoing in geneva but as we know they

struggled a bit to actually get going off the ground would you say that this round of geneva talks has helped bring the two sides any closer together. the first round in the geneva talks did nothing in terms of tangible results it only brought the two sides to agree to sit with each other maybe it's the early stages of the negotiations i'm not expecting that the dispute that's been going on in the civil war has been going on for three years going to be solved in a week but we hope that the humanitarian aid would reach to the affected areas inside syria based on the promises that the syrian regime have made unfortunately this is just have been talk with the aid agencies are not able to reach to the areas affected they are not able to distribute the food. rations that much needed in areas like homes for example and i think i hope

that in the next round some details would could be ironed between the two sides but i'm not expecting a breakthrough early on quick follow up on that do you think the next round a lot of that breaking the special u.n. envoy says they should be more productive in the next round do you do you see any more productivity coming. it's only hopes sharing a lot of the bright me hopes of being more productive in the second round but it have to have two willing able sides to negotiate and the political will from what they have seen so far the syrian regime is trying to. waste the time in rhetoric mostly and it's a difficult process negotiation is not an easy task to undertake we'll have to see if that rhetoric turns into action ahmed fatty and the middle east analyst thank

you thank you amir. and it's now been more than a month since islamist rebels seized the industrial syrian town of audra heavy fighting left thousands displaced and militants still hold parts of the city making it impossible to go in and verify the details of any atrocities artie's morea for an ocean i became the first foreign journalist to get to the area since the start of the season and spoke to some of the survivors. is just a twenty minute drive from damascus but the highway runs through an area firmly under rebel control so instead we take a newly created pass driving through high moans of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its convoys from a tanks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route pocket on my pocket where the first for him to be crude to get this close to our drive after the siege began a month ago it's still not clear exactly what happened in this industrial city last

december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after alger was attacked by militants belonging to al-qaeda linked groups and the free syrian army. they stormed into the city and they kept the civilians in their buildings using them as human shields which made our mission a very difficult i hope this is why it takes so long we want to avoid civilian losses. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were be hadad and burned over ends and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic we travelled to address hoping to verify these reports but the resteal no way of getting into the besieged areas of the town to confirm if any of that actually happened we got as close as the army can they were actually to the old town a different blood and the workers house in complex nearby a drum a lier. both are now besieged and i could go looking for love another one maybe

some bankers here to separate other our beloved and out room aliya and to prevent the militants uniting. these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watch in the area day and night this is one of the checkpoints of the syrian army behind this wall is territory held by militants and the soldiers strategy and mission right now is just to watch this area and to shoot if they see the enemy approaching. and this is actually all they can do any military operation could threaten the lives of those who remain hostage and was no access inside it's impossible to tell just how many the are but luckily most of the residents managed to escape our brother will meet some of them to tell him to see where the shelter around what used to be

a large sum and factory life in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore men were displaced because terrorist attack the student who had to skip the occupied and who cannot go there their own job blocked. he says his father is a government employee this is why it is dangerous for his family to stay we ask where they live now yes mother appear from the darkness of the room barely ten square meters in the silence and everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this see where we are now to what degree we have reached now it's a question that many here are asking because these children haven't seen their mother for a month full ready seriously ill she couldn't get her medicine due to the siege with her condition deteriorating she was sent to hospital far from her family. through it we were living in peace and now where are we i wish peace would come back to all of syria. a month later it's still not clear exactly what happened

another drug most of those we talked to here in this camp fled before the militants arrived but occasionally some who didn't escape so quickly and then add up to be ahead they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the vitus of the syrian soldiers beheaded at the sewage system. we were in a group of about twenty people they were beating us three at a time and killing us and i saw with my own eyes people stone i still see them in my nightmares. but i don't like this sort of drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a sitter and young children were about to die from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns and our drew once an important industrial and peaceful city has become yet another syrian battleground for weary forces us to three along confrontation has left well in excess of one hundred thousand dead and millions displaced and yet it's another place where no

side looks able to win and it's the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price riff notional tea from a draw in syria. and we're just learning that the national security agency carried out spying operations during the two thousand and nine united nations conference on climate change in copenhagen denmark this is all according to new documents leaked by former government contractor edward snowden according to the documents published by the huffington post and the danish newspaper information the n.s.a. monitored the communications of other countries ahead of the conference and intended to continue those operations throughout the summit the document does not state how the n.s.a. planned to continue gathering information but noted it would collect signals intelligence which is information gathered from intercepted communications such as phone calls and e-mails the document reveals that the n.s.a. planned to do this to gain an advantage it says leaders of negotiating teams from around the world will undoubtedly being gaging and intense last minute policy

formulating at the same time they will be holding sidebar discussions with their counterparts details of which are of great interest to our policymakers and while some are concerned about the surveillance surveillance the u.s. is conducting a broad others here in washington are focused on the n.s.a. surveillance of americans and back senator rand paul is planning to file a class action lawsuit against the n.s.a. speaking at the state of the net conference in washington d.c. this week he says the administration's increased transparency is only the first step toward reform next step is is it cost of traditional clicked with a single warrant of arisan can you collect one hundred million people's records my answer is no you cannot and should maim the person the fourth amendment says you name the person so what i think and i think it's also good for your business model if you're out there support going the next step which is really shutting down the

collection or fighting illegal would you get into the supreme court because yes. so to talk about everything from copenhagen to this forthcoming lawsuit i'm joined by west benedict executive director of the libertarian national committee in d.c. and matt bender a producer at the majority report in our new york studio thank you gentlemen both for joining me les let's let's start with you let's talk about senator rand paul's lawsuit we've seen judges rule already on two high profile federal cases they came to very different conclusions on the constitutionality of the n.s.a. surveillance programs considering this will be a class action lawsuit where a lot of people are are expected to get on board do you think it'll carry more weight in the court. i think it's too soon to tell that right now court decisions are very unpredictable we've had others on other areas like obamacare where some thought it would be struck down others not it's really hard to say once the lawsuits filed people will start analyzing it and make predictions on the legal

outcomes but in the meantime i think it makes it will have an impact to help bring awareness to the public about these issues i think america's setting a terrible example for the rest of the world spying not only on foreigners but spying on americans as well we don't want other countries spying on americans here in america we don't think it's right i don't think it's right for the american government to be spying on others and the worst part about it is that businesses are being forbidden from telling the truth to the american people into the world some of their spin loosened up now thanks very much to edward snowden's revelations but the yahoo facebook these companies should go to tell us where b. and spied on if they're being used for that right and then i'm going to go to you senator paul says he wants this lawsuit to replicate the success of the internet campaign for sopa. online opposition to that piece affectively killed in congress

in two thousand and twelve senator paul says he wants millions of people to sign this lawsuit do you think he may be able to go beyond just libertarius and libertarians and actually gain some support from progressives and liberals. i really do think you can with this it's something both his father and self have been very good at doing on the certain issues these these sort of privacy issues but but the thing is with with with the soap issue that makes it different from from this is that so it was sort of it was a campaign done by you when there was no sort of leader of this campaign whereas rand paul is putting himself first and foremost in this in this class action lawsuit getting people to sign up on this thing he's put together and i'm not really quite sure what his what his angle is here because because he's a congress person he can you can draft some law or go straightforward with a bill of some sort and try to make a change in i mean he is in the end the law itself but instead he's going this

public route and it makes me question whether this is really about the n.s.a. or if he's looking at twenty sixteen and west senator rand paul says he wants to go all the way to the supreme court do you think there's a chance it could. certainly there's a chance but you know if lower courts rule a certain way and then it's appealed it could make it to the supreme court. i would like to see it go that high and have the court rule again on these issues but i think what our what your other guest said about it turning into a political thing that turns off a large part of the country you know he may be a presidential candidate as a republican that may lose him some poor some support from the left but we'll see i'm glad he's bringing this issue up we'd like to see someone a democrat pick up on this issue and make a big deal about it as well as we get the whole country behind stopping these will certainly be

a bipartisan issue so far on that given these new revelations about the n.s.a. spying at the u.n. climate summit in copenhagen what's your sense as to why there is so much interest on the part of the u.s. government to tap the communications of these climate negotiations. well i mean the u.s. has had a history of spying on all sorts of groups i mean. our case our visions i mean it's just it's just that the u.s. uses the excuse that you know other countries do this sort of spying where do we really want the united states of america to be on this list with the countries that actually do partake in this sort of spying i don't think so right and matt last year we learned that the n.s.a. spied also on the g. eight and the g twenty summits and when asked about this a national security council spokeswoman caitlin hayden said in an e-mail to the huffington post that quote the u.s. government has made clear that the united states gathers foreign intelligence of

the type gathered by all nations so because it's foreign according to them this is all fair game what do you make of that argument i mean i think it's just an excuse to try to make people here in america sound like oh well it's just some foreign entity being spied on americans are being spied on which we know is false it's basically i think it's just something that said to sort of call the response that's going on over here absolutely well i do appreciate both of your guys' insight on this matt bender producer at the majority report and west benedict executive director of the libertarian national committee thank you thank you for having me and speaking of the n.s.a. tonight's episode of politicking with larry king will cover that and much more tonight's guest is former minnesota governor jesse ventura here's a snippet of what's to come when larry and jesse talk about n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. to me he's a hero larry because he caught our government breaking the law in violating the

constitution it took great courage to put himself on the line and make there's wrong doing no one to the american people and we have every right to know what we have the right to know when our government violates our constitution and our bill of rights and that's what makes him a hero because of the courage he showed in bringing it if if snowden doesn't do that we're still all under surveillance and it's business as usual can anybody sit here and tell me that it's a good idea to have all americans put under surveillance they treat us like we're all potential terrorists and what we're for getting larry is the main thing they work for us we're the boss. so don't forget to tune in at nine pm for that and much more here on r.t. america and the bus is coming up next here on r.t. aaron a joins us for a quick preview erin what can we look forward to today thank you america coming up on boom bust we're talking about economic bubble alleged or otherwise plus author

and economist thomas tully is joining me live in studio to discuss the financialization of our economy who scary stuff it won't want to miss it so please stay tuned lots of good stuff there thanks aaron thanks america and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com for at last our can america check out our website are key dot com for a slash with a you can also follow me on twitter at in the area david stay tuned to must is next . we welcome aaron nathan abby martin two of the two of the hosts on the our team network. it's going to give you a different perspective give me one stock tip i'll never i'll give you the information you make the decision don't worry about breaking the work the revolution of the mind it's revolution of ideas and consciousness and frustrated with the system extremely probably would be described as angry i think i'm

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