then amir had to get 500 people to hold up each one of his 500 pictures in the same position in order>> the first two days i went out to the streets of jerusalem, and i came back with nothing. i didn't have enough courage to ask anybody. and then after two days, i said to myself, well, i'm too deep in this, i spent thousands on it, i have no choice, i have to do it. >> part of the magic is knowing that there's actually 500 different faces there, that's 500 different people, and that's sort of amazing. >> having people actually hold the frames, it gives that analog charm or feeling you can't get in a digital way. my kind of breakthrough moment was after the first day of taking pictures, i went back home. i put it all in a row in the editing software, and i just needed to see four seconds over it and i knew i have something really cool in my hands. >> what's even more amazing is nearly 1.5 million views in the video's first three months. >> what's really funny about this video is some of the youtube comments say it's not actually 500 people, it's 436 people. to get that level of attenti

producer amir david for that update of course. sometimes it's hard to understand the concept of censorship when we have so many options for news there are hundreds of t.v. stations newspapers and radio shows but the truth is that almost every avenue from which we get our information in the mainstream media is controlled by only six corporations that have one specific interest profit news censorship is happening every day but not necessarily from the top down blacking out the stories but also in the form of self-censorship framing back page in all to protect the interests of those corporate conglomerates so who are the big six corporations that control nearly everything you see hear and read first there's comcast formerly owned by g.e. which controls m s n b c n.b.c. in telemundo and there's disney which owns a.b.c. the history channel and c.n.n. i'm sorry e.s.p.n. next to viacom the parent company of m.t.v. paramount and bt and c.b.s. with all its affiliates and there's news corp which owns fox news the new york post and the wall

producer amir and david what do you have for us today hi abbi first to iraq where the surge in sectarian violence continues since april alone two thousand people have been killed an ethnic clashes bit. sunni's and shiites to break it down really quickly and april there were seven hundred twelve people killed this according to numbers put out by the un last month in may that number rose to one thousand and forty five people now abbie that made it the deadliest month since the height of violence during the u.s. occupation in two thousand and six and so far for this month three hundred and thirty three civilian casualties have been reported by the iraq body count project you know completely astounding amount of casualties and deaths going on in that region a mere totally under report of the corporate press do you think that it could be fair to be called a civil war at this point well what's interesting abbi is that the u.n. envoy in iraq martin kobler has really been sounding off the alarm on this saying that he believes this systemic violence is ready to explode at any moment back in may c

whistleblower edward snowden sitting tight in transit of the moscow airport confirms what amir buton dismissing conspiracy theories of u.s. officials as nonsense. he while the u.s. is trying to throw the world off prisms sentence saying it's fine project only targets terrorists on social networks and i phones but doubts emerge that extremists use them in the first place. air bones economics the u.k. chancellor has more bad news in store for the british public set to lay out his plans to slash another eleven point five billion pounds from government budgets. two pm in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia is all but ruled out any chance of extraditing america's most wanted man currently holed up in transit at a moscow airport president vladimir putin says edward snowden never crossed into russian territory rendering him immune to any outside the government's reach let's get now for more let's get more in our forty's like sara show ski at sherman to the airport where snowden is thought to be. ever since edward snowden touched down in moscow on s

-day invasion date i mean come on man but amir what precedent would it set if they really do go after greenwald here well i would certainly call into question how this country outpolls our first amendment right to a free press and of course never a good precedent when the war on whistleblowers evolves into a war on journalists never indeed thank you so much for keeping us up to date absolutely. looking for a. regime anything like that. much of the news about the global war on terror focuses on the middle east there's also a latin american country that remains in the u.s. is crosshairs and has been since its socialist revolution in one nine hundred fifty nine cuba earlier this month the state department made a declaration reinforcing that cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism for the thirtieth consecutive year despite admitting that there is no indication that the cuban government provided weapons or training to terrorist groups and perhaps there's no better story that exemplifies these tense relations and terrorism ha prosy is that of the cuban five let me give you a quick recap recap

producer amir david what you have for us today hi abbi first to iraq where the surge in sectarian violence continues since april alone two thousand people have been killed in ethnic clashes between sunni and shiites to break it down really quickly and april there were seven hundred twelve people killed this according to numbers put out by the u.n. last month in may that number rose to one thousand and forty five people now abbie that made it the deadliest month since the height of violence during the u.s. occupation in two thousand and six and so far for this month three hundred and thirty three civilian casualties have been reported by the iraq body count project you know completely astounding amount of casualties and deaths going on in that region a mere totally under report of the corporate press do you think that it could be fair to be called a civil war at this point well what's interesting abbi is that the u.n. envoy in iraq martin kobler has really been sounding off the alarm on this saying that he believes this systemic violence is ready to explode at any moment back in may coulter

whistleblower edward snowden sitting tight in transit of the moscow airport confirms what amir buton dismissing conspiracy theories of u.s. officials as nonsense. he while the u.s. is trying to throw the world off prison sentence saying it's fine project only targets terrorists on social networks and i phones but doubts emerge of extremists use them in the first place. air bones economics the u.k. chancellor has more bad news in store for the british public set to lay out his plans to slash another eleven point five billion pounds from government budgets.

photographer amir nouradeen and his driver.soldiers seem to mistake amir's camera for a rocket-propelled grenade. >> he's got an rpg. >> we've got a guy with an rpg. >> i want to fire. >> all right. let's hold on. let's come around to our point of view. >> all individuals are contained. getting ready to fire. >> we got a guy shooting. now he's behind the building. >> the helicopter crew gets permission from the commanding officer on the ground to fire on the group. >> clear. all right. firing. >> line them up. >> come on, fire. [ gunfire ] >> they're running. >> keep shooting. >> the apache fires and fires and fires into this group of guys. it appears that they're all dead right away. >> look at those dead bastards. >> nice. >> a few minutes pass and the reuters employee begins crawling away. >> he's got that guy crawling right now on the curb. >> i got him. i put two rounds in here. you guys were shooting over there, too. >> the pilots are begging sort of themselves and begging the higher power that he'll get up and grab a wea

. >> we had talked to the authorities including the amir of qatar.nd the foreign affairs minister. had three trips to qatar. an agreement in , ourng with the u.s. partner, our friend. >> the taliban statement on tuesday was clear. the group will continue its war against foreign forces and the afghan government. he says this is unacceptable language. >> when they a joint -- when they enjoy guitars assistance -- ther's assistance and political support of the u.s., from their they command that afghan children he killed, women be killed, the elderly be killed, all of us be killed. it means that there are qatarists attacks on the government and u.s. government. >> barack obama said he recognizes the challenge this poses. >> president karzai himself recognizes the need for reconciliation. the challenge is, how do you get those things started while you are also at war? an expectation is that despite those challenges, the process will proceed. >> the flag has been taken down from the building. no talks between the u.s. and the taliban had yet taken place. th

should use force, the president would have a hard time rallying the amir can people to that cause.rice, if you will, for having done the wrong thing overseas and domestically, we have to be careful. i probably do not go as far as you but i would say if we expand the words national security to cover anything and everything, it will lose credibility at some point. the administration has to be disciplined, it has to be discerning and when it ups to shoot off a drone or when it carries out certain types of surveillance programs, if it is asking the american people to give up some of their privacy, the administration has to be sure that the benefits or the gains on behalf of the collective security justify that. those are the kinds of cost- benefit calculations that they have to make themselves and second, they have to explain. tavis: the new book from richard .aass been the head of the council on foreign relations for 10 years. happy anniversary to you as well. >> thank you. great to be with you. fors: that is our show tonight. thanks for watching and as always, keep the faith. >> for

protests have spread to other parts of the country, including major cities such as amir and ankhara where protests have been taking place. but these scenes are not being widely reported on turkish media, causing anger among protesters saying that local media are coming under pressure by the government. these protesters say it's all part of the growing authoritarian climate. the government imposed restriction on the sale of alcohol and public displays of affection. protesters in the square channed against the prime minister, demanding his resignation but he maintains a strong support base but scenes like these will deepen the divide over his rule. >> we have the director of the turkey project at the center for strategic and international studies at washington, d.c. he believes the prime minister still has support among the people. >> this kind of demonstrations in turkey, the more heavy hanned the police tactics, the stronger the opposition becomes. as your reporter noted, the prime minister retains widespread support. he's won three elections in a row. he's extremely popular, particularly

we got to start dealing with that amir putin in a realistic fashion for what he is he's an old k.g.b. colonel apparatchik that dreams of the days of the russian empire and he continues to stick his thumb and i know for a broad variety of ways this kind of narrative in the media that's focused on russia certainly helps build up negative public opinion on snowden and eventually discredit his revelations the focus is not just on russia but also on china and here u.s. officials blast hong kong for letting small one fly about one of these revelations the fact that the u.s. spied on chinese research centers and universities here's the explanation that we heard from secretary kerry our surveillance activities on them it's our surveillance activities anonymously on thousands of chinese and the chinese university anonymously in order to be able to track terrorism if there is an act of terrorism or some linkage that is appropriate. whatever it is could be anywhere in the world whatever it is then you have to go to court and you have to have court approval in order to do anything that is actuall

producer amir david on the ground at the supreme court.ad the today the supreme court ruled in yet another historic decision no five to four decision the court struck down a key provision. of the nine hundred sixty five voting rights act now this provision mandated that nine states mostly located in the south be subject to federal oversight election laws now the court says that these laws were based on outdated information and is mandating that congress come up with an updated formula to determine which jurisdictions will need to be subject to that election law monitoring now civil rights groups are saying that this is a major setback that this of course removes the protections afforded right now to african-americans and minorities who are beginning to up their participation in the voting process however the state subject to this law argued that the discrimination that once existed in these southern states does not exist anymore and therefore that this statute is completely irrelevant now we're still awaiting a decision on two more high pr

zone journalist say at our moscow studio but amir putin said the lack of a united stance among foreign players is causing the fighting to escalate. significant chill opposition has always been to allow people to make a decision about the structure of power in syria how rights interests in safety will be ensured only after these agreements their reach should we turn to more systemic transition not. just throw everyone out and then we plunge the entire country into chaos but what our colleagues cannot answer is this one of the key organizations inside the so-called armed opposition is a nurse or a u.s. state department deems it a terrorist organization with ties to al qaeda and the group doesn't make that a secret will it be part of the new government that's going to they say no i asked them so when you just swap them away like flies i know they say so what will happen they say we don't know where is the logic. is going to it or you can hear more of what the president had to say to r.t. journalists in a longer version of the interview coming up at four pm g.m.t. . in iran pro-reform hass

producer amir david on the ground at the supreme court.oday the supreme court ruled in yet another historic decision in a five to four decision the court struck down a key provision of the nine hundred sixty five voting rights act now this provision mandated that nine states mostly located in the south be subject to federal oversight election law now the court says that these laws are based on outdated information and is mandating that congress come up with an updated formula to determine which jurisdictions will need to be subject. that election law monitoring now civil rights groups are saying that this is a major setback but this of course is the protections afforded right now to african-americans and minorities who are beginning to up their participation in the voting process however the state subject to this law argued that the discrimination that once existed in these southern states does not exist anymore and therefore that this statute is completely irrelevant now we're still awaiting a decision on two more high profile cases regar

give a quick update on the top stories that should be on your radar this week has been test producer amir david what do you have for us today having lots of news for you today first to japan where massive anti-nuclear protests have been taking place just this past weekend tens of thousands of demonstrators came together in tokyo to rally against the government plans to restart the country's now idle nuclear reactors reactors were shut down of course in the wake of the march two thousand fukushima meltdown but now the government says it's time for those reactors to open the japanese people however are apprehensive about a return to business as usual since the tragedy struck two years ago one hundred and sixty thousand people have fled their homes and are currently displaced what a travesty i mean i definitely don't blame their apprehension you mention the people who've been displaced what if the people who stayed after the disaster and there have they felt any effects well for them abbie unfortunately it's been much much worse with the detrimental health effects really starting to take roo

producer amir david on the ground at the supreme court.ave you today the supreme court ruled in yet another historic decision in a five to four decision the court struck down a key provision of the nine hundred sixty five voting rights act now this provision mandated that nine states mostly located in the south be subject to federal oversight election law now the court says that these laws are based on outdated information and is mandating that congress come up with an updated formula to determine which jurisdictions will need to be subject. that election law monitoring now civil rights groups are saying that this is a major setback that this of course is the protections afforded right now to african-americans and minorities who are beginning to up their participation in the voting process however the states object to this law argue that the discrimination that once existed in these southern states does not exist anymore and therefore that this statute is completely irrelevant now we're still awaiting a decision on two more high profile ca

triumph they managed to come together and issued a statement on syria from everybody one thing about amir putin said in a press conference is that everybody agrees that the only way forward is diplomatic and a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in syria they want to see all the sides around the negotiating table and they want to see the need for to. happen as soon as possible for it as i didn't see that yet and of course really development which is right about a number of giving the point remains. russia's a point of view on the syrian crisis and everybody else is one of them is chemical weapons. and reiterated that russia doesn't find the evidence provided by the americans very convincing so the russian government doesn't have any proof that chemical weapons have been used in syria and he also mentioned that a number of other g eight leaders also question the claims that have been made by the u.s. government it wasn't a case of seven against one of the leaders have been questioning that information as well he said that there needs to be a full investigation into the use of chemical weap

espionage act if it's anything like we've seen over the other whistleblowers that have come up at amir it's not just snowden in the crosshairs now is it well no in fact now we're seeing the journalist who broke the story glenn greenwald come under fire in fact just yesterday peter king went on fox news to talk about why he feels greenwald should be prosecuted alongside snowden and i think we have that clip of maryland's play of. really you know no writers are obviously free to the press as you church in this program but we in this case where some people are glorifying snowden making him a hero and now acting as if greenwald is acting as a legitimate journalist we're just a good for june fifth one nine hundred forty four you had somebody threatening to release the date of the d.-day invasion which would have resulted in the jets of thousands of americans to me that that as forceful like what's most amazing is hearing peter king actually compare what greenwald did to the release of the d.-day invasion date i mean come on man but i mean what precedent would it set if they really do go aft

-day invasion date i mean come on man but amir what precedent would it set if they really do go after greenwald here well i would certainly call into question how this country upholds our first amendment right to a free press and of course never a good precedent when the war on whistleblowers evolves into a war on journalists never indeed thank you so much david for keeping us up to date absolutely. where. ever seen anything like. much of the news about the global war on terror focuses on the middle east there's also a latin american country that remains in the u.s. is crosshairs and has been since its socialist revolution in one nine hundred fifty nine cuba earlier this month the state department made a declaration reinforcing that cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism for the thirtieth consecutive year despite admitting that there is no indication that the cuban government provided weapons or training to terrorist groups and perhaps there's no better story that exemplifies these tense relations and terrorism parker see is that of the cuban five let me give you a quick recap recap dur

but kron his friends and family a more than 2 millon dollar this is amir rashad. he was a good man. the judge ruled against reducing the bail. calling the case against edwards who coached here at kennedy high serious. edwards will be back in court in two weeks to enter >> pam: tonight a developing story-- >> pam: inside the state capitol senator's office. grant lodes joins us now with what we know. grant >> reporter: searching state senator ron calderon's office. the agency is not sayingbut we've learned that sealed search warrants were served late this afternoon. senator from the 30th district.in los angelesfbi agents are also said to be searching one other again,.the exact nature of this fbi raid is still unclear.many media outlets of a ricin investigation. that is nottay on top of developments out of sacramento, and bring you updates as we get them. >> pam: in a developing story. a nasty accident in fremont toddler dead. his parents are in the hospital this evening in critical to serious condition. this is video of that accident from our helicopter in fremont this evening. where

he shows off on the internet, he doesn't get along with the local amirs and he doesn't charge enough the ransom of hostages. the going rate is $3 million a head. the unkindest cut of all was the accusation that with plentiful weapons and plenty of new recruits available, he hadn't pulled off a really big media-friendly blood bath. quote, your brigade did not achieve a single spectacular operation targeting the crusader alliance. the overall effect of the letter is that he is not a bureaucrat. so when corporate management complained, he struck back, killing more than 100 people in the b.p. raid and attacks on a french mining site and a military installation. there is, of course, no escaping the dark humor of this beacon of the corporate culture of al qaeda. some suggest he learned it from us. but he brings to the world of jihad a colorful commercialism that invites the displeasure of his islamist handlers. he is known for his impressive record of planning and constituting mass murder, kidnapping regard and cigarette smuggling. not for nothing is he often referred to as the marlboro ma

al jazeera reports the amir of qatar, rural, will hand over power of the persian gulf nation to his son shaikh tamman. the fourth son of the outgoing rural. one of the big questions is whether he will be able to expand qatar's influence in the world. according to the brookings studio in, qatar's economy has surged under the current heir and they're hosting major sporting events and one of the biggest suppliers of weapons to the syrian opposition. >>> it has been 690 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. the nasdaq fell today 1%. one of the stocks that fell, apple. shares briefly, everyone, fell below $400 for the first time since mid-april but did end higher than that. >>> now our fourth story outfront, an q-bomb and joke that bombed -- f-bomb and joke that bombed. yes, a shocking start to zoirp zimmerman's trial. both sides laid out their opening statement to the jury of six women. the trial coming 16 months after george zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin. it became clear the moment the prosecution and defense went head to head today that they had very different and ver