shame that is incorrect i disagree with that it is ruled by ugly months who is the head of the constitutional court this is our interim president and whatever we are experiencing today is much much what you call it more promising than what we experienced during the interim period of. he was in power after. two thousand and eleven revolution and there were twelve thousand civilians who were brought to military courts and today i don't think this duration is similar at all actually it seems like it's going to unfold to. a very proper civil government through a civil elective process but how long do you think we have to wait to see those holds democratic hopes to be a realized because none of the leaders that you mansion so far has been elected by and by the majority of the people unlike mohamed morsi whom you may disagree with politically but at least he had the legitimacy of the ballot behind his back no no no he did not have the legitimacy to do most of what he's done we had an interim constitution that morsi was elected to to serve and the first thing that he's done he actually this respected the

. >> the constitutional court is reviewing, a recent poll found that 60% of salvadorans are willing to overturn the law but heine seemed reluctant to do so. >> heine down played a recent case involving the massacre. so far no one has been punished for it. but the international criminal court called on el salvador. >> what do you expect the el salvadoran and the attorney diswrengeneral to do? -- general to do? >> benjamin queillar carried that message to washington, d.c. a year ago. he argues that america's role in the civil war requires u.s. officials to help get justice in his country. >> you were part of the problem. >> u.s. congressman jim mcgovern supports queillar's are efforts. killing of six jesuit priests. >> a lot of the perpetrators of these crimes were people we trained in the united states. i think we have a special responsibility to demand there be some accountability, there be some truth. >> a truth that has long bothered mcgovern was that two salvadoran generals were granted asylum in the united states. >> the thought of them just kind of living the good life here in the

. >> the french constitutional council, the country's highest court, has upheld a ban against so-called fracking. the french government banned fracking, which is a controversial x -- technique to extract energy back in 2011 -- which is a controversial technique, to extract energy back in 2011. >> these are scenes you won't see in france anytime soon. the french constitutional court has upheld a law banning fracking, the controversial practice of extracting shale gas and oil from the ground. the environment minister says the decision is entirely justified. >> the constitutional council recognizes the environmental risks posed by highcroft -- by hydraulic fracturing to these are precisely the risks that the law and the legislation protect against -- posed by hydraulic fracturing. these are precisely the risk that the law and the legislation protect against. >> the international agency -- energy agency predicts that between 2017 and 2020, the united eggs will overtake saudi arabia, becoming -- the united states will overtake saudi arabia, becoming the world's largest oil producer. in franc

they say they will take their objections to the country's constitutional court. supporters of the president took to the week later to celebrate the victory -- took to the streets later in the weakness of the great victory. international observers said they agreed with the opposition that the election was "seriously flawed." >> the frankfurt book fair opened wednesday with a focus on brazil. the country's vice president attended the opening. >> on behalf of the president and the brazilian people, who are proud to show the world the diversity of their country, i really micro -- deepest gratitude for the invitation and naming my country guest of honor. [applause] of 190population million, brazil is one of the world's largest book markets. around 100 countries are presented in frankfurt this year, with thousands of individual exhibitors. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservatives began exploratory talks with the green party on thursday on forming a possible coalition government. a coalition between the parties would be the first ever for germany. the two p

. >> reporter: even though the supreme court deemed it constitutional. >> the supreme court deemed it constitutional but it had to go to the supreme court to do so. and they still don't know what is in the bill. >> reporter: the supreme court didn't read the bill? i feel the same way. can we stop this whole interview, please. it's just a vicious circle. you dig your heels in. you say something stupid. >> it's a stupid law. >> reporter: and i give a generically witty response like yes, affordable health care for millions of unemployed people is stupid. and then these dummies laugh. but where does it end? >> it ends with defunding obamacare. >> reporter: (bleep). i'm done. i hate this job. it was clear what had to come. we have a hostage situation. >> you are holding this country hostage. >> you don't get to extract a trance yom for doing your -- extract a ransom for doing your job. >> reporter: i enlisted the help of i f.b.i. ransom negotiator y. do people feel the need to take hostages. in their world they tried a lot of things and everythings that failed. they view themselves as sign

they are pinning their hopes on the country's constitutional court, which rejected some of the government's austerity measures. >> the yun yn members tend to be older workers. the young are casual and have higher levels of unemployment. in a porto backstreet i met pedro a nurse in the state hospital. like many of his colleagues, he's on strike this week. >> translation: we have a bigger workload and no increase in salary. this means at the end of the month we work more hours with less money. >> nearby i met mario in his bar, where he makes his cocktails and worries about how few customers walk through the door. >> reinvest in another business or improve our business. it's impossible. you have to fire some people. get cuts from two years now. next year is the same. it's been a struggle for us. >> in the capital lisbon there were protests. workers drove hundreds of buses over the river after the government said crowds would not be allowed to march on the bridge because of safety concerns. >> back in porto they filed through the city center. the sign says, "enough", meaning we can take no more

unbelievable win for the justice system was in fact too good to be true you see just this week constitutional court issued a ruling allowing for the possibility of amnesty for a moment a new trial is now scheduled for. people two thousand and fourteen so to discuss this disturbing new development a little deeper into the story i'm joined by jamila brown global strategist with a few international thank you so much for coming back on thank you for having me so you know when i heard this i was just kind of her broken because here you have this unprecedented trial he was convicted sentenced to eighty years and now we hear he might be granted amnesty i mean how do we go from that to this you know i mean the sad thing is that as much as it's heartbreaking it's not really a surprise with myself having worked with indigenous communities of the genocide cases in another region. there were many regions not just the she'll but they believe that it was the best case to move forward with the shield because they had the most evidence in that case i was fortunate enough to meet with one of the community members t

unbelievable win for the justice system was in fact too good to be true you see just this week constitutional court issued a ruling allowing for the possibility of amnesty for a moment a new trial is now scheduled for april two thousand and fourteen so to discuss this disturbing new development and dig a little deeper into the story i'm joined by jamila brown global strategist matthew international thank you so much for coming back on and i thank you for having me so you know when i heard this i was just kind of heartbroken because here you have this unprecedented trial he's convicted sentenced to. eighty years and now we hear you might be granted amnesty i mean how do we go from that to this you know i mean the sad thing is that as much as it's heartbreaking it's not really a surprise with myself having worked with indigenous communities of the genocide cases in another region. there were many regions not just the she'll but they believe that it was the best case to move forward with the shield because they had the most evidence in that case i was fortunate enough to meet with one of the community

forward citing the petition for these activists to be free and just now we heard that the constitutional court has and this is in fact what will be happen in the investigative committee is now dropping those charges to look in ism and they will be facing the thirty activists involved will be facing seven years and fifteen and of course we'll be monitoring this situation as it develops marina thanks very much indeed for that live update. now to some other global headlines this hour the greek far right golden dawn is stripped of state funding that's after the country's parliament overwhelmingly passed a bill suspending payments to parties involved in criminal activities recently the leaders of the far right group were charged in connection with the killing of an anti fascist musician the death sparked violent protests across greece the movement denies the accusations. thousands of taking to the streets in tunisia demanding the resignation of the islamic led government and the talks with the opposition in september the country's prime minister said his cabinet would resign and clear the way for a

they are pinning their hopes on the constitutional court which is rejecting some of the government's austerity measures. >> the union members tend to be older workers. the young are often in casual labour and have higher levels of unemployment. in a porto backstreet i met pedro, a nurse in a state hospital. like his colleagues, he striked this week. >> we have a bigger workload and no increase salary. at the end of the month it means we worked more hours and have less money. >> nearby i met mario in his barn, where he mixes cocktails and worries about how few customers walk through the door. >> we invest money. nowadays it's almost impossible. we have to fire people. next year i think it will be the same. it's been a struggle for us. >> in the cop tall lisbon, there were -- capital, lisbon, there were protests. buses drove over the river. crowds were told they were not allowed to march on the bridge because of safety concerns. >> in porto they filed through the city center. the fine says enough - meaning we can take no more. the portuguese now doan know where to -- don't know where t

i mean, what kind of other job he could do, i mean, of course, he can seat in the french constitutional court, where he has a seat. but it's not enough for such an active man. and at the same time, he realizes that there is little competition in the right, because in this right wing party that we have in france, which is called ump, there were some kind of sifer -- civil war between hs former are during the last three and four months and everybody is killed, now, in this civil war. and sarkozy is the only national figure well-known by the militants that could contest the 2017 presidential election. mr. joupe is too old -- >> sorry to interrupt you. sounds like what you are saying is his party would welcome him back with open arms as the man who could contest the election on their behalf. >> we have introduced you know in france the american system of the primaries, but sarkozy always said that this system should not apply to former presidents. so that he has come kind of, you know, a wide card to enter directly the contest. and of course he is still a very natural, very impressive figure. the

russia's constitutional court ruled this month that the life ban should be overturned.n political analysts are confused. >> we do not know because this decision has to be implemented. that means the parliament will have to pass any legislation, and it has not yet started doing that. we simply do not know. >> reporter: he has been the vocal critic of president putin since he returned to power last year and described the ruling party as a party of crooks and thieves. he's accused of authorities for persecuting for political reasons and says he'll appeal the latest sentence. >> staying in russia the kremlin's relation relations wie netherlands are under strains following an assault on a diplomat. he was beaten in his apartment on tuesday. the latest in a series of incidents which is testing the relationship of the two countries. >> reporter: 2013 was to have been a year of celebration for russia and the netherlands. the two countries remembering hundreds of years of cooperation since peter the great developed his maritime expertise in ship yards not far from amsterdam. it

fracking, used to extract shale oil and gas, is back in the spotlight, and a constitutional court chose to uphold a law banning the technology. a research permit was withdrawn when the bank and plan was and stated in 2011. >> hydraulic fracking has been illegal in france since july 2011, forcing several companies to halt exploration. the french president said that fracking would not be legalized again, but in recent months he has met with dissension within his own government. the industrial renewal minister has proposed the french state tabloid -- explorer shale gas. they say the country's energy resources at stake. >> we import 98% of the gas that we consume. it would be a great shame to deprive ourselves of a national resource if we can exploit and produce this gas. >> the only known method of extracting the shale gas from the ground is controversial. it insists of injecting -- it consists of injecting water into the scene and collecting gas at the surface. opponents say it lays waste to waterways and grasslands, and studies are inconclusive. >> with that, it is time for me to head ba

chief justice, and may it please the court, the issue in this case is whether a michigan constitutional provision requiring equal treatment violates equal protection, and for two reasons the answer is, no. first, unlike the law of that issue in hunter and seattle, section 26 does not repeal an antidiscrimination law. instead, it repeals preferences and, thus, it's an impediment to preferential treatment -- >> seattle had nothing to do wan antidiscrimination law, it had to do with a remedy, de facto segregation. why isn't this identical to seattle? >> justice sotomayor, it's not identical because of the remedy issue. in seattle they were trying to, in the court's words, equal educational opportunity by imposing a remedy that would result in -- >> you don't think that the proponents of affirmative action are attempting to do the same thing? one of the bill sponsors here said that this constitutional amendment will bring back desegregation in michigan, and it appears to have done just that. >> well, there's two points to that question, and i'll address them both. first, on the merits under

and what we've also got to watch is the constitutional court in the germany is supposed to be delivering a ruling soon as to whether unlimited amount of purchasing by the ecb is consistent with the bank's obligations under the german constitution. and i think we could get a surprise in that the constitutional court could put limitations on what the ecb could do. .. mauney view is that europe is going to continue to constitute the primary press to the global economic recovery in the year ahead and i simply don't -- i can understand the reasons why they want to be optimistic but i don't think that there is a real basis for being as optimistic as the europeans are on their economic outlook. thank you. >> thank you, desmond. chris? >> thank you, alex for sponsoring this interesting session that we have been having for quite a few years. i think it is extremely important to note how much time has gone by since the break in the house in -- housing bubble. i'm going to comment on the housing side what is or is not happening in the banking sector and then finish up talking about the fed and some

we can never count on courts themselves to save the constitution. or to save limited government for us. that isn't going to happen. it hasn't happened. the courts have let us down repeatedly, they let us down again in this case to a large degree. they are not going to do anything that a critical mass of the american people do not support them doing. they are highly ma yourtarian and not a countermajoritarian institution. only slightly. generally speaking, they try to stay within the mainstream of what the people are thinking, and that's the reason why i think it's so important what the american people are thinking. so why is it that 99% of american law professors who considered the possibility of a legal challenge scoffingly dismissed the merits of our challenge as frivolous and in one case, one particular law professor said that anybody, any lawyer who signed a complaint or a brief in the case might be subject to sanctions for having made a completely frivolous argument and have to pay a fine for having done so. a law professor who i respect said th

in france, the constitutional court has upheld a ban on fracking, the gastrointestinal, saying the measure legitimately protects the environment from the damaging effects of blasting water and chemicals deep into the earth. france first band fracking in 2011 despite pressure from the gas industry. thanrth dakota, more 20,000 barrels of crude oil have leaked into a week field from a pipeline and owned by the company tesoro. the leak covered about seven acres of land, the size of seven football fields. it was roughly four times the size of the exxonmobil pipeline leak in mayflower, arkansas in march. a farmer found the leak on september 29, but north dakota governor said he was only told about it wednesday night because it's eyes had been underestimated. he said the state is reviewing its procedures for reporting spills. egypt, canadian doctor and film maker have been cleared to leave the country after being imprisoned there for nearly two months. don greyson and dr. tariq loubani were freed on sunday, but barred from returning home under a travel ban it was lifted thursday. they were arrest

. >> currently the constitutional court made it impossible for them to tax the players. this is one of the difficulties they had. it is the way any government, but particularly this government, gets trapped by its own rhetoric. they may be 75% tax a big deal in the last campaign. now they have got to see it through somehow, with somebody. i think when they came up with this, they did not think, we are going to tax all these football players and they will quit playing and people are really going to love the socialists. >> even if the majority of the french in the polls agreed and support taxing 75% of people over one million euros, even if they disagree with the possibility of a strike among football players, on a local level sports and football is very powerful in terms of political networking and local politicians have to pay attention. there may be a difference between what public opinion thinks and what the people running for city hall will actually do. >> football fans, they are going on strike 29th of november. into the first week of december. that weekend, they wil

they are pinning irtheir hopes on the companyr country's constitutional court which has rejected some of the government's austerity measures. >> the union members tend to be older workers. the young are more often in casual labor and have much higher levels of unemployment. in a porto back street, i med pedro, a nurse in a state hospital. like many of his colleagues, he is on strike this week. tra >> we have a bigger workload. this means we have worked more hours and have less money >> reporter: nearby, i met mario in his bar where he mixes cocktails and worries about how far customers walk through the door. >> we invest our money in our business or to improve our business, and nowadays, it's almost impossible. we have to fire some people, getting some cuts, from two years now almost, and next year, i think it will be the same. and it's been a struggle for us >> reporter: in the capitol, lisbon, there were also protests. workers drove hundreds of buses over the river tagus after the government said crowds would not be allowed to marriott bridge because of safety concerns. back in port

and what we've also got to watch if the constitutional court in germany is supposed to be delivering the ruling soon as to whether the amount -- unlimited amount of purchasing by the ecb is consistent with the banks obligations under the german constitution. and i think we could get a surprise in that the constitutional force could put limitations on what the ecb could do. so in short, where i think we're headed in the period ahead is, once again for a crisis, ics to show up in the european directories on the political side, whether it's something of portugal, the government falling, or greece or the italians not being able to get their act together. but what we've seen is wasting very strong commitment on the part of europeans to try to hold this together, but they show absolutely no signs of trying to get ahead of the crisis with something like a banking union or something like a fiscal union. so my view is that europe is going to continue to constitute the primary risk of the global economic recovery the years ahead. that is something don't buy, i can understand the reasons why th

last year the supreme court upheld key parts of the law as constitutional. now the court will examine the requirement that insurance providers cover contraception. and the court will address the issue of recess appointments, what the constitution means when the president may fill up all vacancies during the recess of senate. finally, in a court divided by adeology and appointment, the swing just advertise will again be the man at the center of the screen, anthony kennedy. he gave a speech last week noting his frustration with the role the supreme court now plays. he said, quote, any society that relies on nine unelects judges to decide the most important issues of the day is not a functioning democracy. most of these rules will come at the end of the session. >> thank you, david. southeastern china is dealing with the mess left behind by a powerful typhoon. flooding forced thousands of people thief their homes. flights were suspended. ♪ >>> i'm meteorologist dave warren. we are tracking a heavy storm through here. this is a tornado watch. this is a severe thu

there's just no objective way of knowing supreme court, the constitution talks about equal protection of the laws, for example, which is a play in both these decisions on some level. it doesn't tell us what those terms mean. and so the court when it strikes something to them if we're going to believe in judicial review, has not just the power but the responsibly to enforce the constitution and we actually wanted to. it's an important tool to protect minority rights against legislative overreach. there's just no way for anybody faithfully to say, are objectively to say, is what the constitution really means. if you exceed that in your a judicial activist. it is very interesting to note the ways in which that term is used, and that is, conservatives really used it in talking about the warren court. nixon and reagan, and then when the rehnquist court really got every summer solid majority, then the length of appropriated the phrase of judicial activism and started talking about conservatives being judicial activist, all of which is to understate i think and in. but when you are talking a

use a constitutional issues, i say courts. if there were constitutional problems, the courts will ride him. justice will ride in on his white horse and say the day -- and save the day. there are now several pending suits. there is the aclu versus new may, do you think this permit some of these reform conversations are actually putting the court in the position of answering these constitutional questions in a out the way iash suspect you want them to. >> i do not know if -- i do not know what the word pride are meant means. i do know that justice khalil will ride in on a horse of the time the constitution was adopted. that the hopeful courts will step in here and begin to reassert rights, helping congress along. very art -- very often the argument is made that the legislature should take care of these problems. not aurth amendment is hopeful instruction to the legislature. of people inright the united states against unreasonable searches and seizures. decisionse mistaken should be overturned so we can have a discussion in a cont

it seems like we're in the middle of this political storm. >> the supreme court used the constitution to protect a lot of property rights and said, there is a due process right that invalidated a bunch of laws that restricted your ability to enter into contracts for your labor. the supreme court has gotten out of the business of broadly reading the due process cause. the notion of a broad substantive due process right to protect something that might be regarded as a property or liberty interest, being able to engage in contracts for child labor as the most extreme example. what are you going to do with new kinds of property? it's an idea. will that be constitutionalized in the same way? the answer to that question is no. congress passes a law that says, i gave you a copyright. now i'm going to give you an extension to an extension of the copyright. it is the walt disney law, which is the disney company has the cartoons and wants to be able to exploit them longer and longer and longer. situation where an argument was made to invoke the constitution against the property rights. congress

dzhokhar tsarnaev's lawyers claim the conditions violate his constitutional rights. court documents show that tsarnaev is even banned from praying with other inmates. >>> more than half of americans support tougher gun laws but don't believe that they should have prevented last month's mass shooting at the washington navy yard. this is according to a quinnipiac university survey where 61% of those polled say that stricter gun laws would not have stopped the shooting. and now according to the poll, 88% support laws to prevent people with mental illness from purchasing guns. aaron alexis is one of the military contractor and he's responsible for killing 12 people and wounding four others before he was shot and killed. >>> the man accused of slapping a crying toddler on a plane has pleaded guilty to assault. joe hundley entered that plea a day before the trial was set to begin. he used a racial slur to refer to the child and then hit him in the face on that flight. he is expected to be sentenced in january. he faces a one year in prison and a fine. >>> a scuffle at an oregon

. >> even though the supreme court deemed it constitutional? >> the supreme court deemed it constitutional, but it had to go to the supreme court to do so. and they still won't know what's in the bill. >> the supreme court didn't read the bill? i feel the same way! can we just stop this whole interview, please? you know, it's just a vicious circle. you dig your heels in, you say something stupid -- >> it's a stupid law! >> then i give a generically witty response, like, yeah, it's affordable health care for millions of unemployed people is stupid, then these dummies laugh. but where does it end? >> it ends with defunding obama care. >> ah, [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. i'm done with this job. >> "the daily show," national treasure. but last night, our fake news comedy overlords at "the daily show" made real news again, news that today has cost a north carolina republican party official his job, when asif monozi from "the daily show" went to north carolina to cover the new law there that restricts voting rights. that law was able to be passed in north ca

you say constitutional issues and i think court. if there are constitutional problems the court will ride in on the white horse and save the day. i don't know if the horse is actually white. i guess the question is, do you think -- there are now several pending suits the bulk meta data program. do you think the litigation -- by actually putting the court in the position of answering these questions in a way that might cash out in a way i suspect you -- >> i don't know what that means. i'm not sure if i can an the question. i know, just lis -- justice scalia will ride in on a horse that was living at the time the constitution was adopted. [laughter] i'm hopeful, yes, that the court will step in here and begin to reassert rights helping congress along very often the argument is read and rightly dismissed that the legislature should take care of the problems. we have privacy problems with the collection, courts we dmoant how to deal with it. but the fourth amendment is not a hopeful instruction to the legislature. it creates a 0 right o