general amnesty will be the reward for those who choose peace. the board. if it's for possession of cannabis, amnesty. >> who is going to back you. this is still illegal. where will the money come from? >> the group which we started three years ago. in our early years we saw cannabis insiders who were interested in other businesses in the industry. more and more, we are seeing investors, lifelong investors, they are high net worth individuals and funds have been created to invest in the cannabis industry. >> are you in it for the weed? or are you in it for the money? >> i have been doing this for 40 years. i fell in love with the cannabis plant and learned of the benefits. my mission is to bring the truth of the plant to the world. i have spent more money doing activism than i will ever make on cannabis. >> jayman, if pot was made legal tomorrow -- can you hear me? he can't hear us. kevin can't hear us. if pot was made legal, how long would it take before there's a marijuana store on every corner. you want to be the starbucks of marijuana. >> look

into the country's cold war past. >> during your lifetime do you expect to see the amnesty law overturned and generals garcia and vidas casas casanova and even yu be put on trial? >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. optimism regarding talks to roll back iran's nuclear program. and a new system to protect u.s. soldiers from sexual assaults. and laying a wreath a, a tribute to president john f. kennedy. >> talks aimed at ending the long-stand off over iran's nuclear program have resumed in geneva, but fiery comments by

general of that much his own words and not anybody else. i can reassure the government has no plans to legislate for an amnesty for crimes that were committed during the troubles. >> the general is meeting today. hopefully we'll find a way to enable women as soon as possible to be consecrated as officials in the church of england. and if this is successful, will my right honorable friend and the government supports amendments to the bishops act to ensure that women bishops can be admitted to the house of lords as soon as possible, rather than having, women bishops having to queue up behind every existing diocesan bishop before we can sesay women bishops in parliame? >> prime minister? >> my friend policies matters closely and the question he asked is an important one. i strongly support women bishops and i hope the church of england takes this key step to ensure its place as a modern church in touch with our society. in terms of the problem that he raises because of course there's a seniority rule for bishops going into the house of lords, the government is ready to work with the church to see how getting women bishops into the house of lor

general election. anything that can be described as amnesty will get jammed. i've never seen a situation where a party had a problem that there wasn't the potential for the same problem on the other side. if the budget fight ever got over to entitlements and we started changing about change cpi or anything like that, you would see the same fizssures. >> which is why i don't understand why the republicans haven't just introduced parts of his budget because they could end up splitting the democratic party in a very hostile way. >> maybe a lot of those older white social security and medicare resip cecipients would happy if they did that. >> a lot of us still view -- there are too many people in washington still think older voters are fdr voters. this is a base republican vote now. seniors are a base republican vote. our way too early poll of christie and hillary -- a reminder, one of the only through groups that christie licked hillary on was among seniors. this is a rock ribbed republican group how. and so i think you're right, i think republicans are afraid of

attorney general john larkin is calling for amnesty on offenses committed during the so-called troublesard hawes is working on a deal, and david cameron has this to say. >> the government has no plans to legislator amnesty for crimes committed during the troubles. richard hahs is currently consulting with all of the parties. and i think that's the right forum in which to discuss these issues. >>> the italian prime minister is meeting the french president in rome. the two leaders are discussing the so-called controversial high-speed rail link. there have been a series of protests in italy against the proposed line. i'm joined now by claudio, this is incredibly divisive. i can see demonstrators gathering behind you. bring us up to date as to what is happening now. >> barbara demonstrators gathered here in central rome. while they are badly outnumbered by the police in riot gear, as you can see the police closed all accesses out of the square so the demonstrators are stuck here for now. there are about 1500 police covering the whole of rome because they are afraid of scenes of violence lik

statement by the attorney general of northern ireland overnight, made on his own account and on his own behalf without consultation, does he agree that there can be no question of an amnesty for any terrorist atrocities and crimes and that all victims of terrorism deserve truth and justice? >> let me agree with what the honorable member says. the words of the northern ireland attorney general are his own words, not at the behest of anyone else. the government has no plans to legislate for amnesty for crimes that were committed during the troubles. is consulting with all the northern ireland parties on issues from the past as well as parades and flags. that is the right for him which to discuss these issues. general synod is meeting today and will hopefully find a way to enable women to be consecrated as bishops in the church of england. if this is successful, well my right honorable friend and the government support amendments to the bishops act to ensure that women bishops can be admitted to the house of lords as soon as possible rather than having to -- new women bishops having to queue up behind every existing ocesan bishop di before we can see women bishops in parliam

situation in north korea is of the cost and international scrutiny by amnesty international human rights watch and the united nations the un general assembly has adopted a resolution condemning north korea's human rights record. every year since two thousand three kevin identities the announcement the economy medicine plan for twenty fourteen in mid december finance minister on swap bot through this economic policy for next year he said that the focus will be on boosting slumping domestic demand and achieving a higher rate of economic growth and the global average thirteen mg l ast more with signs of solid recovery in exports korea asia's fourth largest economy is projecting a current account surplus of nearly sixty nine billion us dollars this year policymakers and economists worry that sluggish domestic demand served at the track on the economy. responding to such worries korea's finance minister caught us up said tuesday. the couple will do its best to adjust the balance between exports and domestic demand in the coming year. he said the couple will take steps to create jobs foster investment and encourage private consumption.

general of that much his own words and not anybody else. i can reassure the government has no plans to legislate for an amnesty for crimes that were committed during the troubles. >> the general is meeting today. hopefully we'll find a way to enable women as soon as possible to be consecrated as officials in the church of england. and if this is successful, will my right honorable friend and the government supports amendments to the bishops act to ensure that women bishops can be admitted to the house of lords as soon as possible, rather than having, women bishops having to queue up behind every existing diocesan bishop before we can sesay women bishops in parliame? >> prime minister? >> my friend policies matters closely and the question he asked is an important one. i strongly support women bishops and i hope the church of england takes this key step to ensure its place as a modern church in touch with our society. in terms of the problem that he raises because of course there's a seniority rule for bishops going into the house of lords, the government is ready to work with the church to see how getting women bishops into the house of lor

generations. i'm pleased to say that despite difficulties, these discussions were productive and they will continue, even today. >> amnesty international says the oil giant shell is covering up the true extent of the pollution it's caused in nigeria. the human rights group said shell manipulated investigations into oil spills. it accuses the firm of making false statements about clean ups. we have more from nigeria. >> the central claim of the amnesty report is that many international and local oil companies operating in the delta manipulate the investigations that take place after oil spills occur. amnesty say that in the 700 oil spills that have happened here, this year alone in may be of the investigations that take place afterwards, the oil company representatives find a way of manipulating the data that's collected about the extent of the oil spills, where for example, thousands of barrels of oil have been spilled, they say it's hundreds. when you see representatives of all companies and members of the community going to see the true extent of a spill, what amnesty are basically saying is that there, members of the c

generally don't have been from a single event it's a chain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this. migrant workers and cattle say they're being treated like cattle according to a damning report from amnesty international the rights group has released the results of its probe into the gulf want to keep the construction industry report fine emerge violations in the country which is steaming ahead with preparations for the twenty twenty two will cup amnesty says migrant workers are being deprived of pay in placed in overcrowded unsanitized ties ing the rights group also expressed its dismay that one of the richest countries in the world is allowing this to happen a spokesman for the organization told r.t. that some of the workers are being treated like slaves. what we found was that there are systemic problems we'd be my guest workers encounter many of them are subjected to data exploitation for example which i think people who were deceived about the bait it was getting caught there are some people have been deceived about the kind of work they were doing there we found many workers who had not been eight . for a long time. some of them had not been paid for months at a time we found the w

general election. anything they knew that could be described as is a big a amnesty in any averted way will be -- they'll get jammed. but the at the same time i've never seen a situation where a party had a problem that there wasn't a potential for the same problem on the other side. and, you know, if the budget fight ever got over to entitlement and we started talked about chain cpi or anything like that. you would see the same fracture, phis on the democratic side. the left would go out of the minds. >> why is don't understand a totally machiavellian way why the republicans haven't taken up the president on chain cpi. introduce part of the budget and part of the budget deals. because they could end up splitting the democratic party in a very hostile way. >> a lot of white medicare recipient wouldn't be happy. >> the weird issue, i think, a lot of us still view older -- somehow there's too many people in washington that think older voters are fdr. there's fdr democrat. it's a base republican vote now. seniors are a base republican vote. our way too early poll of christie and hilary. if you want to take

amnesty concerning warrantless wiretapping of american citizens and exactly how has the n.s.a. used cell phone location data to track americans those sort of questions the amendment will also require the attorney general to release any top secret fison court rulings that show instances of the n.s.a. breaking the law violating the constitution with its spying activities advise a court in the n.s.a. have already been compelled to hand over several previously classified documents the latest document dump was monday night when a secret court order giving the n.s.a. permission to stay cooped up americans internet data was released for the first time along with a series of pfizer court orders documenting continuous and systematic abuse by the n.s.a. and all of these documents are proving useful for the several organizations that are taking the n.s.a. to court in hopes of putting an end to many of these spying programs just recently revealed by edward snowden course the first revelation back in june concerning the bulk collection of millions of horizon users' phone metadata it soon became clear that not just arising customers were virtually all americans were having their telephone metadata collected by the

there was a generous outpouring of talents and efforts so there was a visionary sparked in troy davis became the face of the death penalty issue. we have the support of the organization's amnesty international is who work for 15 years. it is important to support organizations like the naacp and amnesty and the campaign there is some in the organizations we need a combination of those to make the effort and those who try to build organizations to conserve movements i was honored to work under larry cox because he understood if it was to be anything great it would be to surf the human rights movement. we have to be of how working in the boring times so it is not always a conversation and that is something that helps us to talk to people who were clueless. my grandmother who was not into politics was interested she was puzzled but many people gave stories of people that were not to do into human rights wanted to know what was going on with this story so telling the story to keep us the memory of live to put it into other visionary movements. >> i think that was long winded. [applause] i want to bring lawrence into the conversation because he experienced it and in talking about th

general dynamics. we ultimately went and filmed those missile parts ourselves and interviewed people who had survived. when amnestyinternational got ahold of those photographs we had had munitions experts who determined there was no way on earth that was the yemeni military action. it had to be the united states based on the weapons. this yemeni journalists began talking about the covert u.s. war in yemen early on in obama's administration was provided information published in the "washington post" and was broadcast by nbc news. he was on al-jazeera regularly and in the course of doing is reporting he was subducted off the streets one day and taken to a political security organization holding cell in yemen and with savage sleep beaten and then driven and tossed back out into the street with a warning that if he didn't stop talking about the u.s. bombing in yemen and this particular attack that killed the civilians that he would be put back in there for good. he did what i think was an incredibly brave thing and the right thing for him to do. he went straight from that beating that he received to the studios of the

charlie savage in "the new york times" about the fact that the solicitor general, when he argued to the supreme court and amnesty. clapper represented to the court that exactly has not said the amendments act of criminal defendants receive notice when the government is prosecuting him on the basis of evidence obtained or derived from the fisa amendment act. it was under the impression it was the policy and turns out not to offend the justice department's policy. the policy for five years was to deny defendants notice, even in circumstances in which they were entitled to under the statute and the constitution. seems they change the policy, which is obviously a good thing. >> marc, what you like to comment? the magazines there is between the justice department and security agencies about what has to be released and what can be done to ensure what you have sad, especially about past prosecutions to ensure that that data is in fact reveal to the defense. >> i don't think there's any disconnect between the department of justice and intelligence agencies. the interaction of cortisone by the department of justice. they

general dynamics and said they did the united states. we ultimately went in films as ourselves and interview people who survived. when amnestyernational got a hold of those photographs, they had munitions experts look at the end determine there is no on earth that is a yemeni military action had to be the united states. this yemeni journalists began talking about a covert u.s. war in yemen early on in the thomas administration and he was writing information was published in the "washington post" and broadcast by nbc news. he was on al jazeera regularly. in the course of doing his reporting, he was subject it off the streets one day and taken to a political security organization holding so in yemen and was savagely beaten and driven and tossed on the street with a warning that if he didn't stop talking about the u.s. bombing in yemen in this particular i think you he did was incredibly brave thing it was the right thing for him to do. he went straight from the beating he received to the studio said the news organization and went on the air and said i was subject to a yemeni intelligence operatives and they beat me and threate