human rights activist and advocate for clean energy reform he's the co-founder of three nonprofit organizations that are making a direct impact on america's social and political spectrum the elevator center for human rights color of change and green for all he also served as the green jobs advisor in the obama white house in two thousand and nine and is currently a senior fellow at the center for american progress and is also a distinguished visiting fellow at both the center for african-american studies at princeton university and the program in science technology and environmental policy at the woodrow wilson school public and international affairs an honor and pleasure to welcome van jones to our conversations with great minds of and welcome. good to be here thank you great to have you with us i want to get into some detail about your new project rebuild the dream but first i would like to learn a little bit more about van jones what has informed you or inspired you throughout your life. well you know i was born in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that is the year you know they really tried to assassinate hope in america they killed bobby kennedy they killed dr king they beat up

for the resource center right away. i understood that these people or human as well. we are all human. we might have made mistakes in life, but they are human. how many of us made mistakes? i had a few guys that were in iraq, that were fighting for our country and came home and reenlisted back in the army to go back over there. they went to a bar, got into a fight that led to the killing. the military -- they break them. there are some real good people on death row that were not the people that came to death row that committed the crime or did not commit the crime. i'm not here to say who did or did not do something, but to see that side that people do not get to hear about. they do not get to hear that these guys pray to god, that they pray for the victims' families out there, no matter who they are. it was something everybody did on death row. it was a rule of law. when is the time of execution, no one eats. it was a compassionate part of you remembering you were human, you remember that these people are hurting out side, and you -- and trying to ask god to heal them of their hurt --

center. >>> human rights groups and belarus say authorities have arrested more than two other people for taking part in street protests against the president. -- arrested more than 200 people for taking part in street protests against president. witnesses in the capital saw participants are rounded up and taken away in unmarked cars. >> no slogans, no banners, no megaphones. for the activists outside of the embassy in moscow, clapping as a sign of defiance. what they gathered in moscow, dozens of protesters were being arrested on the streets of minsk for holding a similar event. >> we know that people who are not happy with it the president's regime hold or tried to hold such actions each week in belarus. we also know how violently they are dispersed. today, thank god, we manage to hold such actions without being dispersed in moscow. >> but last month, this was the police reaction in minsk. these images are from a protest in june against the president's economic policies, which have seen a 36% devaluation and the local currency and a rise in inflation. a bbc cameraman was among those attacked b

human rights. there are dozens of new centers in projects at clinics and entities. and if you are so thinking of international human rights is something that is primarily meant for dissidents brought in a way in dungeons and against the sort of newspapers, or the sort of regimes with a close down the opposition newspapers, i fear you're much behind the times. that is still part of the agenda, and yet there is much, much, much more as you can see if you go to many of the universities, or human rights watch. where you're just as likely to see articles about the need for changes in domestic violence or sexual harassment law, the need for quotas. the right to health care, the right to minimum income, the right to collective bargaining, the right to be freedom, the free of hate speech, depending on which group you go to. and this has been creeping into american discourse in a variety of ways, primarily i think the influence of legal academia. and some of you remember earlier this year when a united nations panel criticized the united states as being violating human rights, the laundry list went on and on, dozens of things the u.s. was doing wrong often by not having a big enoug

human rights in syria is primarily a matter for the arab league, so the arab league should get more involved in syria first. >> europe's foreign ministers also discussed a new emergency response center in brussels aimed at coordinating european militaries to act in one force. >> if you are planning a trip to greece, you may want to rethink it. >> yes, taxi drivers hitting greece where it hurts, as european leaders struggle to agree on the debt crisis. protests in the country are continuing and now actually targeting the tourism sector. greek taxi drivers blocked roads to the athens airport in the main harbor monday, holding of thousands of tourists at the start of a two-day protest against plans to liberalize their trade. they say there were protesting against policy. the government is planning to issue tax licenses for a small fee, ending the practice where drivers could sell their licenses for tens of thousands of euros. the greek government has brought in a full list of controversial reforms and austerity measures under pressure from the european union and the international monetary fund to deregulate the economy and cut the country's massive budget deficit. the market turmoil be

center of how to round the clock surveillance team assigned to him local k.g.b. staff took pictures of his daily routine. this was so they can present them to western media as for the human rights activists sacral was alive and well. several could feel it was being closely monitored and he understood he would have to live with it for many years. in the house across the street there was a k.g.b. department who watched settles every step additional surveillance was installed in the yard nearby there was a special transmitter the new to the signals of western radio stations. most soviet citizens were initially unaware of sachar also identity he was the so-called secret academic these are some rash shots of the sacral staking a train ride to town not smarts on any of the world's maps the nuclear research center artisanal sixty this is where several worked on his hydrogen bomb in the late one nine hundred forty s. . i worked very hard as a case of his own tiles to be fixed freeman portions to mankind. their balance of nuclear onus between the two great powers because that is exactly what guarantees that these arms will never believed them. this is the footage from the destination of

center at times about why israel feel so threatened by this kind of mission. but we had a human rights activist and a few snacks and israeli who supports the fratellis thank you very much for joining us here on r t why do you caught up the fight to the last and why are you not there this year. i wasn't it. was it was named the jewish vote in gaza last year it was a bunch of. c. five. jews from all over the world and then another and four israelis a younger. and we came with a. jewish message if you want jewish israeli message that we also jews and israelis are not against. are not against the palestinians not about to oppress them we come it's really very we can't break the siege we acknowledge the situation of the people in gaza we think it's illegal immoral and criminal for first of all for the palestinians and secondly for the israelis and this here i'm just not available i support it just the same any carry the same messages without the jewish part of that there will be the whole the whole for. a for peace. taking down the blockade and how much support is there in is all for the patella i would say almost none. perception or taken by most of the people is. another atta

humanity. >> i know that wasn't your favorite story but thanks for playing. >> these studies, some of them are nuts. >> all right, michael. thank you. >>> well, the man at the center contemptious talks between the white house and congressional republicans, and he's not a politician. our jim costa will explain in the political ticker right after the break. >>> we have some breaking news to tell you about. reuters is reporting that the fbi is investigating news corp over possible hacking of 9/11 victims and their families. news corp, as you know, is the company under rupert murdoch. this as we also get news today that rupert murdoch and his son james are preparing to answer questions before parliament next week. we also just spoke with new jersey senator frank lautenberg who has asked for the u.s. attorney general eric holder to investigate whether any u.s. laws were broken in this hacking scandal, so once again the news just coming into cnn. reuters is reporting that the fbi is investigating news corp to see if there's any possible hacking that occurred of 9/11 victims and their families. we will continue to watch this and continue to bring you the very latest on i

asking usaid to establish a center of excellence on democracy, human rights and governance and i would say that we would be proud in the future to replicate john's guides as a model for the kinds of publications we seek to produce in this new center of excellence. as bob said, john is the author of this report. he served four years for us as a senior police advisor at usaid and recently went to be deputy director. he worked on this guide for a full three years and traveled around the developing world interviewing many people in order to put it together. but as importantly in putting it together, with his background in international law enforcement in as many years as a police officer in the phoenix police department in arizona, john explicitly wrote the guide to express the whole of government approach to mirror and embrace the call of the qddr for whole of government approach to security sector reform. so this guide is a testament to an aspiration towards even closer corporation between usaid and our colleagues at the department of state, justice and defense department. and finally, i'd like to thank my colleagues from my office in particular eric binhart and julie