spying program on another surveillance story is on folding this one surrounding chinese activist chen guangcheng the blind dissident moved to the u.s. last may with his family after reportedly escaping a dramatic house arrest in china treated as a hero and symbol of democracy chen received a fellowship at n.y.u. new york university he also received an apartment in greenwich village and many tech gadgets that were donated by his supporters right now while corning the two warders a smartphone an i pod that chen received upon arriving to new york was loaded with even the spine software allegedly used to spy on the self-taught lawyer and why you technicians inspected the electronics reportedly finding software that allowed a third party to secretly connect to a g.p.s. that was able to track him according to reports also there's been published reports indicating that there was a hit in password protected software that backed up all the contents on his i pad and or i phone and that allowed the contents to be remotely access to buy a server according to reports at least three other electronic devices g

chinese dissident chen guangcheng has allegedly been spied on after america granted him asylum electronic equipment he received as a gift on arrival in the u.s. was bugged with tracking devices he got the parcel from the activist group china aid which denies responsibility and has asked the f.b.i. to investigate. as more. just a few weeks following revelations about america's prism spying program on another surveillance story is on folding this one surrounding chinese activist chen guangcheng the blind decided to move to the u.s. last may with his family after reportedly escaping a dramatic house arrest in china treated as a hero and symbol of democracy chen received a fellowship at n.y.u. new york university he also received an apartment in greenwich village and many tech gadgets that were donated by his supporters right now while corning to reuters a smartphone an i pod that chen received upon arriving to new york was loaded with it in spine software allegedly used to spy on the self-taught lawyer and why you technicians inspected the electronics reportedly finding software that allowed

on the run edward snowden it's now got a spying plot to investigate as well chinese dissident chen guangcheng received a whole pile of high tech gifts when he arrived in the u.s. last year the little baby know his new gadgets were loaded with bugs a report on these allegations is coming up a little later. well revelations about global surveillance programs has the u.k. spy agency in the spotlight now it's been collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive personal data from online and telephone traffic and sharing it with its american partners silly looks at the latest leak from an essay whistleblower edward snowden. certainly a new twist and it reveals a vast and compassing program operation in place by the view here in the u.k. it shows that they have been a collecting and storing vast quantities of information ranging from facebook posts to phone calls as well as internet even internet histories basically they have had access to fiber optic cables like carry the world's phone calls if you remember even the n.s.a. said that they did not record phone calls but according to these latest re

chen guangcheng is scheduled to visit. chinese authorities may react with more harassment against members of his family. chen has spent years challenging authorities about forced abortions and sterilization under china's one-child policy. in 2005 they placed him under house arrest. he escaped last year and fled to the u.s. embassy in beijing. government officials allowed him to fly to the u.s. to study at new york university. his elder brother said local authorities have repeatedly harassed members of his family. and he said it could get worse if chen delivers a lecture in taiwan on human rights. >> translator: posters have been put up in my village. they read that if my brother goes to taiwan, his relatives will have their legs broken. i fear that we might not be able to live peacefully if he travels to taiwan. >> he said government officials have promised to investigate his allegations of harassment, but he said he has yet to see any results. >>> beijing opera is the traditional performing art whose roots go back hundreds

the blind chinese dissident chen guangcheng is to leave new york university this summer. he is believed to be in talks with other u.s. academic institutions. the legal activist escape house arrest last year and took refuge in the u.s. embassy in beijing. an australian radio presenter has been sacked after barrage of the prime minister with questions about her partner's sexuality. julia gillard was asked about whether her partner was gay because he was a hairdresser. from sydney, here is andrew thomas. >> arnold schwarzenegger knowing -- showing you knows up to treat a lady. not just any later -- any lady, but australia's prime minister. meeting her to discuss climate change. if only some australian men were as courteous. station, thisio was put to julia gillard about her partner for seven years. >> he's gay. people are saying that is a myth. >> that is absurd. >> you hear it, he must be gay, he is a gesture. and you confirm he is not? >> don't be ridiculous. >> the line of questioning has been condemned, the presenter sacked but an example the string of incidents the prim

granting asylum to chinese dissident chen guangcheng last year well that could have been a motive a motivating factor in that decision to now on to russia which says it couldn't arrest snowden since he never officially entered russian territory and remained in the airport as a traveller but you might remember snowden revealed last week that the n.s.a. spied on former russian president dmitri medvedev during the g. twenty summit in two thousand and nine so there's that and then there's cuba but here which has been mentioned as a possible layover destination for snowden on his trip to asylum maybe an economic embargo of. more than fifty years in repeated attempts to assassinate their head of state might influence cuba's decision to look the other way if snowden winds up there and finally there's ecuador. that is the reported destination for snowden in a country that has already granted political asylum to wiki leaks founder julian assange watch now listen to what ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino said today about how the u.s. might react to his country granting snowden asylum when. it's

chinese officials granted passports to family members of the blind human rights activist chen guangcheng. chen has been living in new york ever since he escaped house arrest in april last year. the activist had accused chinese authorities of forcing pregnant women to undergo abortions. chen said his family members have been harassed and assaulted by officials after he left china. the u.s. government had expressed concern over the issue to chinese authorities. chen's brother guangfu told nhk in a full interview on friday that recently the harassment had stopped. guangfu said he and his mother received passports on friday and they intend to travel to the united states to meet chen. he explained that chinese authorities had refused to issue the passports up until the end of last month. >>> chinese police officers are investigating a fatal bus fire on friday that killed dozens of passengers. they suspect it was a suicidal attack by an aggrieved man. 47 people were killed and 34 injured in the southern city of xiamen. they were packed on an express bus when it burst into flames. a state repor