the activists discover more kloof. an inside source gives them this poster listing the mind's enemy it's. there marco isn't the only target. there are other activists farming leaders. opposition politicians. and journalists. and a young veterinarian as mundo best. who's organized farmers against the mine. as window lives in this quiet mountain valley. and worries the mind will contaminate their water. to meet him on the ember the first i had breakfast with my brother at about seven am last i'm innocent quieter but at seven forty five i left him to get my calls you say these immediacy that help us stand i met my brother again it was when he was coming down from his phone with his animals and those i saw him bringing down his animals and being ill slim others see that charlie thought that was the cow he was bringing to water tried to get out of the rope and he saw the guys come in yes i was also they were wearing ponchos. i didn't ask is that when they got close he put his hands in his pockets and way ted says we'll see

we need activists. one of the activists is manaa.s the world to know how prettily the assad regime responded to peaceful protests. he shows us a video of the demonstration he took part in before he was arrested. >> we swear by god, christians and muslims together, to remain united and fight peacefully for freedom. long live the people. long live free syria. >> i am an engineer. i demonstrated peacefully. stevens, friends, and acquaintances someone demonstrating, and encourage them to take part also, because i had taken action. they saw that i was fighting for freedom and dignity, things more important than bread or work. >> he says he was arrested three times and tortured. the last time was so brutal that he decided to flee the country. >> the syrian secret police used brutal physical and psychological torture to find out what people have been doing. to make them tell their secrets. after four days, i was so weak that i could hardly break a piece of bread. i had to eat with a blindfold on. i cannot control my hands. >> manaa is still

says that these activists disrupted rockets and thus are terrorists as the f.b.i. file reads these activists are key leaders of redacted to direct activities which disrupt the normal business and cause economic loss to local establishment so there is a reasonable indication that redacted and other members of redacted have violated the animal enterprise terrorism act here's the best part that law that the f.b.i. is referencing the animal the enterprise terrorism act which republicans rushed through congress guess who was behind it the american legislative exchange council or alec the shadowy right wing organization that writes custom made legislation for corporate lapdog politicians joining in the lobbying effort were a lobbyist from pharmaceutical corporations who love to test the drugs on animals alongside lobbyists from groups like the fur commission usa and the national cattlemen's beef association all made sure that this legislation was passed not because they were afraid activists would blow up their factories but because they didn't want activists exposing wh

activists say 35 people were killed in some of the flesh. cities such as hama, deraa, and homs. >> and mass turnout of anti- government protesters across the country after friday prayers. as has been the case all week, violence. this is a suburb of the capital damascus. demonstrators fought running battles with security forces. people did the best they could to help the injured. nearby, there appeared to be a large number of arrests. what happened to these men is not known. we cannot verify these pictures, but across syria, activists say dozens were killed today. and all this under the eyes of the arab league observers, surrounded by people desperate to tell their story. since the observers started work four days ago, activists say there were over 150 people killed. protesters have reported clashes across the country. more than 60 monitors on the ground have managed to visit a few of these places. exactly what they saw and what they said were not clear. whatever they say is unlikely to be agreed on by both sides. many opposition activists ha

this was a civil rights activists in east germany.ow he heads the commission for rustagi documentation. >> getting chosen for this job was a signal that we will continue to account for the history the east german dictatorship. i see myself as a kind of lawyer for the victims. >> more than two million applications had been received from people who want to see their old files. many people must wait years to read about themselves. the files still hold many secrets. it will take years to work through the archives and the history they represent. >> italy is taking new steps to bring down its debt, but it is still not enough. >> the debt rattle -- battle rages on. it is hard to cut debt when growth is coming to a grinding halt. the government has been selling off some of that debt is government bonds to raise funds, but investors are not that excited. this did not bode well for the italian economy. >> it was a sobering moment for italy as the country's 10-year bond option -- option garnered a spectacle -- skeptical response. although the yi

activists are calling it a massacre. this has been going on for weeks, with people reported killed every day. under the peace agreement signed with the arab league, the government is supposed to withdraw armed forces from the street. apart from the shelling, it is clear that the tanks are still there now. the arab observers want to go as soon as they can. the plan in team, which arrived last week, has been seen -- has been taken to see the aftermath of the double bomb attack on friday. it was an unprecedented development, of which the authorities say the uprising was based on terrorism. the regime -- activists say the regime itself staged the bombing. the monitors are hoping the authorities will be at least as cooperative in letting them see what is happening. >> a panel investigating the nuclear incident in japan, which followed the sazanami in march, has criticized the authorities handling -- the tsunami in march, has criticized the accord is handling the incident, saying the operators and regulators failed to anticipa

capital is still standing activists in the u.s. city of boston have seen their tents taken down police swept through the square where the occupiers were camping in taking down ten cent and arresting dozens the city had set a deadline for protesters to leave by midnight thursday but police took no action till today boston has been the latest encampment to be cleared out as demonstrators are told they must leave their camps now or face prosecution a three month long occupy movement against corporate greed and inequality has already seen thousands of arrests more details on the story available at our website r t v dot com well stay with us here on araa to you still to come all for one demonstrators around the world call for the release of one of the u.s. most well known prisoners arguing his murder conviction was racially motivated and . a cause for optimism a conflict over election results in the caucuses that threaten to turn bloody now seems to have come to a peaceful resolution we'll tell you more. but first to the middle east whe

is targeting animal rights activists it appears anti-terrorist laws are being used in some cases strictly to protect corporate profits at the expense of the public a recent freedom of information act request uncovered an f.b.i. file that identifies animal rights activists who snuck into factory farms and videotaped the horrific conditions the animals are kept in as terrorists that's right those who make videotapes like these and distribute them to the public are on par with people like timothy mcveigh and the nine eleven hijackers according to the f.b.i. why because the f.b.i. argues that actions like these do quote economic damage and quote to farm factories and under a controversy a law passed by republicans in congress and signed by president bush in two thousand and six known as the animal enterprise terrorism act. you can be

but if you talk to some ofthe more let's say cerebral allege vices who ar --activists who han activists for a long time, they are very concerned about t implications of foreign intervention. they believe strongly the whole power the moral power of their releuks was the fact he was a peaceful revolution. there's great concern that perhaps that peaceful revolution has already been hijacked. >> charlie: how do they assess the strength and the will of assad? >> it's very funny when you thank you to most of the activists. they consider him out be a joke. they call him a kid. they very much believe he's not in control. his father of course was a different story and ruled with an iron fist. but they believe it's assad, the father's cronies are now running the country and assad is simply a puppet. there's no question in their minds and most in the minds of the people i talked to outside of the country as well, it isn untenable situation for assad to stay in power. at some point he clearly has to leave. there's such a huge disparity between what he's talking about and betwn wh i saw on th ground

back the land in places like rochester in atlanta that got the media attention i'm sure inspired activists in other cities too and there were also people during that the big protests in spain there were also these spontaneous and the affection actions that i think were very successful i mean this is a time time honored technique as you referred to the great depression before there were eviction resistance actions just like the great depression for several years so this is them yes this is sort of returning to a very basic form of resistance in the heart of time so i think it's a little bit of both you know it's both spontaneous inspiration and there's also been communication as well christine a year in the midst of this action to what extent are are the people who are showing up drawing from existing occupy activists and to what extent of the people who've been active in anti-poverty anti almost public defender types of work you know who've been out on the streets and on the ground for years and years long before occupy participating. it really is a mix in los angeles and in oakland partic

being built and if it's good it's good for the movement's morrell because it's or minding these activists this is what they're doing it for this is what they're out on the streets putting their body on the line for real people with real stories and heartbreak who have genuinely in truly in a direct way been victimized by the one percent it's remarkable christine what happened today on the west coast and what are the plans there for the future. so today on the west coast we had a number of actions some of them were people gathering to block sales on the courthouse steps there are a couple of folks who have already gotten even notices and have said that they will resist the eviction when the sheriff comes so we had rallies at a few homes of homeowners who are doing that and people stay in tents there and then we also had a few folks who said that they were going to go back to homes that they had been forced out of homes that remained vacant in their communities and were bringing in blight crime further reducing home values so they were taking back those homes and folks were standing behind

on activity linked to protest this is the building in question occupies so-called bank of ideas activists moved in here nearly three weeks ago it had been empty for months the apparent terrorists now use it for meetings and lectures on how to solve the current crisis they can even count celebrity backers and politicians once they get guests and a huge number of people want to see a different kind of economic system that's what people here stand for i want to come and lend solidarity to that the u.k. is complicated laws on squatting mean the owners still haven't been able to vic then you uninvited tenants since the building wasn't in use the activists don't see why they should leave is it fair though to occupy private property. is it fair that there's nearly a million buildings empty out there in the u.k. and people freeze to death every winter i would counter that with so far this is the only building processed is have occupied it belong c.b.s. it was empty before it was taken over as the swiss banks the conviction order for this building beefing up security at its main offices just acros

but activists say thousands of people are still being held in government jails. reports keep coming in of more deaths elsewhere in the country. the observers are not due until thursday here and more video has been posted online showing troupe's opening fire on demonstrators. >> for more background on the monitors in syria, we spoke earlier with gabrielle a teller, a journalist who has worked in the region, and we asked what was known about the composition of the region -- gabriella keller. >> we do not know much. what we know is because the names have been publicized. they come from various arab countries, and not all the names have been publicized. they are human rights workers, diplomats, and military people. we know that the mission is headed by a sudanese general, who is head of security for the sudanese government. this is another reason for the activists to be suspicious because there are activation is that he was involved in the genocide in darfur and is therefore really not the right person to monitor and possible humanitarian crisis. >> that was journali

activists say they could find scenes like this. this is as reports of more bloodshed, violence, and part of an entire city is under siege. we're talking about it in a few minutes. >>> and we'll show you a post office hit on christmas day with fire, graffiti, and bullets. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announcer ] you do, business pro. you do. go national. go like a pro. >>> an activist in syria says snipers in some parts of the country are shooting at, quote, anything and everything, as video shows tanks rolling through the streets of homs, one of the flashpoint areas if that country in the anti-regime movement. it's all part of a renewed government crackdown opposition sources say that has reportly left more than 20 p

internet activist and this blogger was spied on.uments about herself containing copies of her e-mails and transcripts of phone conversations. >> this kind of software is not for freedom. this is helping the dictatorial and and other countries to spy into our activism and to attack freedom. >> wikileaks released this product video, which shows how it works. it exploits a security loophole in the update procedures for apple's itunes music software. once the spyware is installed, whoever is using it can monitor all the data on the target computer. >> and that is a very serious problem. apple has some responsibility for this, because it is a known field where there proper ways to do this, and they did is improperly. as a result, they put all of their users at risk. >> apple needed three years to eliminate the problem. the product is still sold the software trade fairs, like this one in paris. other german companies also work in the sector. gamma group, a siemens, and nokia siemens networks are all thought to develop similar technology,

michael was a longtime lgbt rights activist. if you look at michael's personal story of how he came to san francisco, it is a story that is very common within the community. he was an openly gay man, by virtue of being openly gay, was not accepted by his family had left new mexico, coming to san francisco, a place where he can be who he was. it is perhaps because of that that michael of the san francisco. for some many years, he dedicated his life for making the city and county a better place. those of us that have been involved on some of the issues for rights, rights of women, people of color, workers' rights, you can't imagine an issue of social justice where michael was not also active. michael of the city and county of san francisco and through the years serve the city in many different capacities. he was a member of the campus task force created by then a supervisor and was selected by the rules committee to serve in that capacity. and in that capacity, advocated for the rights of medical cannabis patients. he always recog

as the protests in syria continue, cyber activists are looking at new ways to avoid detection, fully that a growing number of western companies are successfully selling, monitoring and tracking technology, to whoever is >> while no british government minister was available to speak to us, we were given this statement. european foreign ministers have decided that the eu should ban the export of internet and telephone monitoring technology and software to the syrian government. we are considering further the situation with regard to iran. all export controls are kept under constant review and the extent to which they apply to surveillance equipment is something we are actively considering. of course, all controlled exports are reviewed against strict criteria including eu and u.n. sanctions regimes. well, how to tackle rush seems like iran and syria may well be on the mind of the most powerful military man in the world. but martin dempsey, the new chair of the joint chiefs of staff, has taken control of the u.s. military facing huge cuts in its budget. the defense secretary said in the

the activists are launching an online petition.y're trying to get one signature for every resident in d.c., which is roughly 618,000. they're also proposing a new one cent tax on bottled water that would fund a full-time lobbyist for the district. >>> former house speaker nancy pelosi's daughter says her mother is ready to give up her political career. pelosi's daughter alexandra told the political website, quote, she would retire right now if the donors she has didn't want her to stay so badly. the california lawmakers' aides are disputing this story, saying it's obviously untrue. pelosi's daughter did amend her statement saying she does not speak for her mom and is just projecting her own personal opinions. >>> now to decision 2012. republican candidates are making their last push to grab the attention of voters. ron paul is polling second but has been a strong presence in the state and has a strong grass roots following that could push him to the top. mitt romney is now the front-runner there after largely ignoring the state for

his supporters claim the former black panther movement member is an innocent political prisoner activist might far also as deserves a fair trial which he apparently never got. it is like many other cases in the united states. a case where race entered into the prosecution where there are serious questions about the not only the efficacy but the effectiveness and fairness of the trial the elimination of the death penalty in. case it's really only one step and i hope it doesn't mean that now he's going to be consigned to a life without parole and everybody's going to walk away and say ok we won because in fact justice has not been served in this case it's on the record now that the judge was biased racially biased it's on the record that the. police corruption in the in the philadelphia police force involved the suborning of perjury and the actual extortion to get witnesses to perjure themselves this trial was corrupt from the beginning and that's why amnesty and human rights watch and so many other organizations say justice must be done to say that you've got to start with a fair trial. i

many opposition activists have fled to lebanon on. they do not believe the observers are doing their job. >> the violence against civilians in syria. this mission must go to ensure their safety. this is not happening. i think this is being understood. >> today, state television showed pictures of pro- parliament rallies in the capital of damascus. they say that they are facing a terrorist insurgency. syria is divided, edging towards civil war. the arab league has been there to bear witness. what will it say? >> earlier, i spoke with our correspondent in damascus. i asked if the country has slipped into civil war. >> it is hard to say it has been a civil war. civil war -- it is a neighborhood against neighborhood. the situation is different on the ground. unarmed civilian forces are taking to the streets and voicing their opinion. that is how the protesters and activists are saying this. the government consistently said that it is either facing armed insurgency. in the last few months, we saw more and more army defectors joined the civ

since the observers started work four days ago, activists say that over 100 people have been killed. more than 60 monitors on the ground have managed to visit a few of these places. but exactly what they saw and what they will conclude is not clear. whatever they say is unlikely to be agreed on by both sides. many opposition activists have fled here to lebanon and they don't believe the observers are doing their job. >> the arab league stated that there's a violation against civilians and this mission must go to ensure their safety. and this is not what's happening. i think they're being misunderstood. >> today state television showed pictures of pro government rallies in the capital damascus. the authorities say they're facing a terrorist insurge si. syria is divided, hedging toward civil war. the arab league has been there to bear witness. but crucially what will it say? >> our correspondent in damascus now analyzes whether the country has slipped into civil war. >> it's hard to say it is a civil war. civil war is when clashes between two armed groups, but the situation is differen

he could not move until the activists came to help. environmentalists say it is not the workers who are to blame, it is the palm oil company. >> they will become extinct in five years because of the way plantations and mining companies are expanding. this island is and habitat. >> back in the sanctuary, apes wait until they can return to the wild. many have been here for years. this one has spent nine years in the sanctuary. these great apes will not be able to return to their homes again until a the forests are safe. >> after 38 tiers of train travel, he is still so inspired by what he sees troubling the railways that he has to paint it. on his brakes he paints pictures of landscapes. we followed him on board the indian pacific train travelling across australia. ♪ >> my name is craig fisher and i am the train manager. the union pacific train is in sydney and goes across australia to a place called perth. i have taken up painting as a form of recreation or a relaxing time. i paint with acrylic paint and use find brushes. i normally hav

this video claims to show supporters attacking activists. it is almost impossible to verify their and authenticity. they are allegedly being recorded on video phones by activists. uploaded to social networking sites. they demand said end the crackdown. -- syria end the crackdown. >> if the intentions are pure, these steps must be taken immediately. >> syria agreed to let others in the country. their mission is to monitor syria's compliance. it is serious about peace talks, ./ >> joe biden talking about the worsening crisis in iraq. >> that is right. two days after the last american forces from iraq, joe biden has had to check the need for the iraqi prime minister to meet with the other political parties. after an arrest warrant was arrested. over international terrorism. he denies the charges as a fabrication. >> doors destroyed by soldiers, computers taken away. it did not lead to one person. i'm supposed to be the vice president and deserve better treatment. i am in kurdistan. >> the european commission has controlled anesthetics. european