authorities are making this argument actually they have signed up to the european convention on human rights they've been also very often criticized and one of the responses that they give to the european criticism for not granting their citizens for political rights would be that you know at this point these rights run cantera to the economic prosperity and their ability to build the economy and grant people works jobs first no i think it's the other way around that. granting people basic human rights is a precondition for have for having a healthy economy you can of course be successful because you got the economy in the short term medium term. with authority and system but in the long run it has been proven in his euro history during all times i would say that if you don't grant freedom of expression if you don't have freedom of media if you don't have a vibrant or. autonomous civil society you always get corruption you get mismanagement is a look at a great new year but this this is undermining the economy in the long run but i think we are not talking here about authoritative systems i

and if i can quote article twenty two of the universal convention on human rights the right to social security the economic right indispensable for dignity if you're denying that very basic right to thirty percent of your population i think that that that. that is a much bigger deal that denying political rights to a small share of your population the impact they impact on people's lives is much larger yes i agree that this huge unemployment is lation all basic human rights but. there is no contradiction between fulfilling the social rights of the other human rights such as freedom of expression freedom of assembly and all this so this is i mean this rights are on an equal footing and in all over convention system in contra europe they are well they may be on and make will yet fording when it comes to their aspirations of valor we all aspire to them but they are not equal when it comes to that implication av they will come back to these fascinating discussion of human rights right after the break. its technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future cov

what would you like to see the president do in this summit with president xi on the human rights issue, which has been your main concern. >> it certainly is and there has been, andrea, a very serious deterioration over the last four years of human rights respect, the persecution has increased, the falun gong, the dalai lama's people, the tibetan buddhists, everywhere you look there's been a serious ratcheting up of the persecution, forced abortion has gotten worse. gendercide, the missing girls and the administration has put human rights on a back bench or given it a back seat approach. even hillary clinton said on her way to beijing first time, we're not going to let human rights interfere with important issues, i believe there's a lot of important issues but human rights should be at the core. my president hope is that the

the united states, holding up this ticket of human rights begin. [speaking chinese] >> translator: i agree with doctor jane that the right to giving -- dr. yang, the meeting between president obama and president she, we should do something regarding human rights. [speaking chinese] >> translator: however i feel more important for the united states congress and the administration to design a new strategic and to put the human rights on the frontier and for the future. [speaking chinese] president obama says human rights and the universal value is a big advantage for united states. if so, why don't you take advantage, instead of waste your time and reached economy searching for other issues? [speaking chinese] >> translator: site hope more that the united states will have new strategy, new policy. [speaking chinese] >> translator: i heard european politicians to me, what's the department -- the policy of the next it's? they don't have one. because if you do not take advantage of your universal value, then indeed you do not have advantages. spent let m

the human rights commission was founded originally through mayor in 1963 and formalized into a human rights commission in 64. i have a photograph here i'd like to show you. which actually, it's tale from a nip from march of 1964 this was at the hotel where african-americans were removed because they were demonstrating for jobs for african-american at the time. and an additional 2 point something african-americans were taken away. this is the premises upon which the human rights commission was founded to the at that time. we have investigated discrimination against the rights of all people. we are prompting understanding of the residents of the 71 and also mitigating and making recommendations with respect to involving community problems. a year ago in julia year ago next most the human rights transition occurred in which the 43 positions were move forward to the contract morpd division for and the cracking function and equal benefits were moved to c m.d. that left us to focus once again on our core functions of non-discriminati non-discrimination ordinances. right now we have two majo

but what's really interesting is that people think that international human rights law is entirely a product of the 20th century. that is, in most of the conventional accounts people say it was right after world war ii. so the holocaust happened. as news of that came out, a bunch of things happened right after world war ii. there were the nuremberg trials of the nazi war criminals, similar trials in the far east. the u.n. was founded, universal deck that ration of -- declaration of human rights, that's when everyone says this is when international law started to look at human rights issue. in my book i say, no, it was actually earlier, it was in connection with the slave trade that international law was first used for human rights purpose. so in the early 19th century, starting in 1807, 1808 when countries like the u.s., britain was another country that banned the slave trade around then, and it began to spread be throughout the countries that had been engaged in the slave trade that this was no longer a practice that they wanted to participate in. it was perceived as violating natura

whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport as russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive. despite snowden's revelations on britain's spying operations the u.k. financial chief announces a three percent boost in funding for the country's intelligence agencies in the name of fighting global terrorism. and lackluster u.s. support for africa and washington's military stand in the region overshadow barack obama's visit to his father's native continent. good morning it's nice to have you company you're watching with me and very far. now america's most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to be in there since sunday the national security agency leaker has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the request so let's go live now to artie's paul scott who is at the airport for us. paul is there any sign of this saga ending what's the latest. this five day. coming to an end. to believe that edwar

american whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow airport as russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive . and despite the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. finance chief announces a funding boost for the country spying agencies while slashing welfare spending. and deadly scenes on the rest shock yet again as the opposition gears up to mark the first anniversary of the president's inauguration with a nationwide protest. as to pm and mosque a watching r.t.i. marina joshie welcome to the program. america's most wanted man hour snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport is believed to have been there since sunday the national security agency has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the requests are his lucy confident joins us live now from outside the airport hi there lucy so what do we know about snowden's whereabouts what's the latest. well not much as you mentioned he is still presumed to be stuck in the transf

whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport as russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive. despite the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. financial chief announces a funding boost for the country spying agencies while slashing welfare spending. and deadly scenes of on rest egypt yes again is the opposition to mark the first anniversary of the president's inauguration with nationwide protests. welcome you watching r.t. with me andrew. america's most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to have been there since sunday the national security agency leaker has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the request with aussies to see catherine of joins us now live from outside the airport lucy what is the latest. well aside from the thunderstorm that's beginning to crack above us not much in terms of details regarding snowden's whereabouts or information we know that he

whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport as russian human rights activists urge president bush to help the fugitive. to spy the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. finance chief announces a funding boost for the country spy agencies boss lashing welfare spending. deadly scenes of unrest shock yet again as the opposition gears up to mark the first anniversary of the president's inauguration with a nationwide protest. this is r t coming to you live from moscow marina joshie welcome to the program america's most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to have been there since sunday the national security agency me curve has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the requests are you confident has the details from outside the airport. the reason that he came here through moscow's he had originally booked a flight to havana since there's no direct flights to edward or going through cuba would real

well the world decides where the edward snowden is hero or villain russia's human rights activists have clearly made their minds up it's not too often they see eye to eye with russia's president but they welcome to put his decision not to extradite a former n.s.a. employee still outraged by washington st mint of the whistleblower the ask more school to take more than just a neutral stand. such as he says it's a good signal in the current situation russia has to do everything in its power to aid snowden he cites for those exact principles that the u.s. doubts that in fact transgress here yet. and i think russia should now act according to the law to not let the man be led like a lamb to slaughter. the head of russia's anti-corruption committee went even further could you come on of says he's ready to write a letter to putin urging him to keep snowden in russia is it a. sprint the fact that he has no passport let him go to those countries that are willing to accept him we cannot act like a weak country that understands exactly what's going on but at the same time says no stay away from th

so russian human rights activists want to government to let snowden stay in the country and echo the thoughts of the or foreign colleagues and amnesty international saying the thirty year old has not committed any crime by exposing the vast global surveillance by the u.s. are just like here chefs he explains. well the world decides where the edward snowden is hero or villain russia's human rights activists have clearly made their minds up it's not too often they see eye to eye with russia's president but they welcome to putin's decision not to extradite the former n.s.a. employee still outraged by washington st mint of the whistleblower the ask more school to take more than just a neutral stand. such as supported us in the current situation russia has to do everything in its power to aid snowden he cites for those exact principles that the us doubts but in fact transgressive yet the more i hear and i think russia should now act according to the law to not let the man be led like a lamb to slaughter. the head of russia's anti-corruption committee went even further to you come on of sa

so we should let president obama know this is a good opportunity, because there is a voice for human rights there. we could hear it even more the civil rights talk among the chinese government. [speaking chinese] >> translator: so if we talk about human rights now, emphasized that. it will have more impact to those officials, which also would have more impact to the people inside china. >> i would like to add a few words. and i do believe that this right when president obama meets with president she, not only he needs to emphasized the human rights important for china, but they become a crucial, a necessity for american securities to do so. i want to find all of us president abraham lincoln in his second inauguration speech about lack of justice to free the slaves had caused severe casualty and loss during the war. and he said, fondly we hope, fervently we praise that this mighty wall may speedily pass away. yet it's god's will that they will continue into all the wealth -- 250 years of unrecorded -- until every drop of blood drawn with it, with flashes shall be paid by another drawn with a

rights and human rights being women's rights was being hung on to with such desperation by so many people who were fighting their own battles around the world. so, of course, i'm gratified. i still have it quoted to me. i travel around the world as secretary of state and i'll be somewhere and women will yell "women's rights are human rights and women's rights are human rights," so i know it penetrated the global culture and that many places and many women and many girls have seen tangible progress because of it. but then i know how much more work there is to do to make it a reality. >> what's the singular most important thing you did for women and girls white at the state department? >> i think making the treatment of women and girls, the rights and roles of women and girls a central focus of american foreign policy. and i didn't do it because it was a nice thing to do or it was some pet project of mine. i did it because the evidence is overwhelming. countries that deny political and social rights to women and girls are more unstable, more likely to breed extremism, more likely to threate

whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport and russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive. despite the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. financial chief announces a funding boost for the country's spying agencies while slashing welfare spending. and america's lackluster support for africa and the military stampede in the region overshadow barack obama's visit to his father's native continent. watching r.t. this morning with me and very far. most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to have been there since sunday the national security agency leaker has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the request artie's paul scott has the details. we're led to believe that edward snowden remains in transit in the airport terminal building behind me in some kind of limbo it seems now as soon as he landed from hong kong on sunday rumors emerged almost immediately that he w

human rights groups including on the scene to national have also slammed the police brutality and an excessive use of force is can all have these cells and a human find some of the images in his report a standing. water cannons do gas and rubber bullets what started as an environmental protest provoked a full scale showed force from the police footage shows disoriented protesters slammed into the pavement by powerful water cannons and often the water's yellow because these are deliberately mixing in pepper spray people who are down on the ground trying to return to their senses here a young woman appears to be having a seizure and the police in action aid the people. resist against all this while. they never just act while. they don't use anywhere else but the police attacked severely using excessive force i wouldn't call that excessive force it amounts to torture actually similar footage is coming from around forty cities and towns across turkey there are claims the police are deliberately pumping tear gas into residential homes these are among the most violent protests turkey's see

human rights is not a stand-alone issue. either in the region or in the u.s. and china relationships. it is something that we have raised always at every level in virtually every meeting both of which you alluded to. this is who we are as americans. it is continuing to demand good governance. it requires a willingness to abide by rules and laws. we talked to the chinese and various about the general principle as i said in my statement. because in china's interest, they are demonstrating respect for human rights it is enshrined in its own constitution. the chinese citizens can access this and we do this is we want a stable china. we did disrespecting china's choices. but we do it in a conviction that not only are these universal principles central to the prospects for successful. >> our u.s. consular offices also bought. >> the cyberissues are real. and the access to the internet has cyberthreats and we're moving forward. it was just reported today about the forest fires in indonesia. when i was in beijing come i never saw the sign. there is a huge environmenta

counterterror partner his statement says gross human. rights violations committed by nigerian security forces only escalate the violence and fuel extremism washington sees what's going on but doesn't really change their calculations i spoke with the editor of pan african newswire a by your me as they may say that they are there to enhance the african states national security capacity but we know from the history of the united states that they do not nothing in regard to their foreign policy if there is no real strategic interest for the united states. of course maintaining a relationship with all these different african states and at the same time to edge out the people's republic of china which is. sort of the amount of influence are in africa just over the last few years that china has become the number one trading partner of the african union in africa is an extremely rich continent the chase for terrorists may not be the only reason the u.s. wants to have as much presence as possible there take a listen to what mr as he was said about that

then we could hear even more human rights talk from government. about human rights now, emphasize that, they will have a more impact to the officials within the communist leadership and will also have more impact on the people in china. >> i would like to add a few words. i believe this friday when president obama meets with hesident xi not only does need to emphasize human rights, but it is crucial for american security to do so. us,nt to remand all of president abraham lincoln in his second inauguration speech about of justice to free the slaves had caused the severe casualty and loss during the war. he said, "con ferebee-hope, a fervently we pray that this may speedily pass away. we continueill, until all the world [indiscernible] and until every drop of blood drawn shall be paid by another draw up a sort, as was said 3000 years ago, so still it must be said. the judgment of the lord true and righteous at." finished its first submarines and are in the process of doing five more. america has the most submarines in the world. into an armsg agains

have to keep in the transparency we have with human rights. the council of police approved the new code regulations. for surveillance technical. which is published. in the code six seven eight. and it stipulates that. the court order is. fundamental requests for approving this kind of activity is. the only correct legal surveillance. with the exclusive objectives of. fighting against criminalizing. it is important to mention that in our country. we do not have. enough technical means to fight. crime. we have to ask. mother friendly. for help and these actions. are taken to protect citizens. in a corridor there is no surveillance for political purposes. and surveillance has always been used for criminal investigations. the use of these tools. has helped for example resolve one hundred percent of the kidnapping cases that we've had in this country. we have nothing to hide. and that's why we invite the media national international media. that there has been even one single case of a citizen that has been spied on by the government. interior minis

financial gain he's not out to aid any enemy country he is motivated by idealism and a belief in the human right that we all have a right to privacy and our snowden's latest revelations about u.s. surveillance point to a far reaching spying operation targeting the european union with institutions bog and computer networks hacked the story broken by the news magazine der spiegel is based on a classified n.s.a. document from two thousand and ten e.u. officials have demanded an explanation from washington artist peter all over has the details. what's the the the documents the spiegel says that they received through edward snowden we're able to see part of says is that the national security agency were well spying on the e.u. just about everywhere they could that they were targeting phones they were hacking their computer networks at the un in washington d.c. also that they were booking premises in brussels and carrying out the same type of . phone tapping and computer hacking there as well germany came out as one of the countries that was most on as part of this prism operation by the n.s.a. one in

is weighing in africa now but as we've seen reports about gross human rights violations haven't stopped us from partnering up with quantock leave you said governments in washington i'm going to check up. and coming right up our new show world of hard looks at internet privacy you know wake the n.s.a. scandal. and you lose the u.s. knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire. lifesavings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial failings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand iris employees have abused the charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these people are very high on the letter including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple blois with security clearances much of the abuses rel

had we been serious about human rights including labor rights, we would have seen on the margins a movementoward respect for human rights in china. we abandon it. to this day. hillary clinton on her first trip to beijing said i'm not going to allow human rights to interfere with global climate change. that sends a message to every religious believers was being persecuted, every woman who is suffering under the tyranny of the one child policy that we are putting your size and maybe we will get to you later. -- that we will put you aside and maybe we will get to you later. the whole tournament square continues in china. to raise human rights in a profoundly important dialogue where they talk about individual dissidents and asked for relief. the most obvious is the nobel peace rider writer who nominated him. there is a worldwide movement. when there was an empty chair. they would not allow him to leave prison to get his nobel peace prize. our president should be raising this. we can do business. we can work with you. you have to speak in the direction of human rights. host: sommer says we owe

and the human rights commission is committed to the practices in following the legacy of insuring that all communities in san francisco diverse mosaic is treated with the same amount of dignity and respect of all other communities. we are hoping and very appreciative of the committee and with supervisor avalos leading the charge to help us further proceed on the 12 n because this is an extremely important that effects the lgbtq youth. and of course, speaking to that, not only will we be able to aid the youth community in improving their quality of life but also the quality of life for the whole lgbtq community in san francisco. with that i certainly welcome to answer whatever questions you may have of me at this time. >> thank you, for your presentation and thank you for your work and for how we can actually have models to implement from and here in san francisco. and it is great to know that we have something at least going on with the public health department and i think that it will be a little bit, and we will be able to replicate and use elsewhere. and but i appreciate your work o

in order to suppress be human rights in china. american companies invest hundreds of billions of dollars every year in research and development. that innovation results from those investments, and it -- the innovation drives investments and drives in turn the growth of american companies and the u.s. economy. unfortunately, our companies are having their intellectual property stolen, and it's stolen right out from underneath them through cyberspace. such theft threatens to undermine america's global competitiveness. u.s. government reports, private reports point that china is by far the worst offender. as far back as 2011, the national counterintelligence executive said in its annual report to congress that, quote: chinese actors are the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage. this may the u.s. trade representative stated in its special 301 report that, quote: obtaining effective enforcement of ipr in china remains a central challenge as it has been for many years. the report continued to quote: this

this goes back to the 90s when the youth commission and the human rights commission have hearing in response to committee stories about the youth who access the health services in the city experiencing discrimination, and even some cases violence. and these hearings led to the adoption of the chapter 12 m of the code requiring the sensitivity training for youth serving the city departments and employees and contractors, however, chapter 12 n, does not specify for maintaining compliance with training requirement and enforce naturally there is little effort to implement these trainings. and there are a number of indicators of the out needing need for competence and compassionate services for the youth. perhaps the most sobering is the data from the school district on the increase risk of suicide among the lgbtq students, 35.5 percent of less beans bisexual and 49 percent of transgender youth have attempted suicide compared to six percent of the non-transyouth, they are also disproportionately lacking family support and homeless and transition housed or live in the foster care situations. altho

snowden's case is similar to that of julian a song which both called themselves defenders of human rights and fought for the freedom of information you have to ask yourself do such people need to be hunted down and put in prison i personally would like to avoid cases like this it's like sharing a pig lots of shrieking but little fur. right you heard the president speaking about. how the situation is unfolding in his eyes in fact he did touch a little bit on the saying that those two people who are wanted for actually dish into the united states should be seen as human rights activists who are willing to share and open up a freedom of speech to the rest of the world now this whole situation comes of the background of the fact that the u.s. is saying that russia is hiding snowden of course most was always a reiterated including the foreign minister sergey lavrov saying that moscow did not know anything about snowden being on moscow's in the fact that they did not have any conversations with snowden all they know is that he was in that transit in this airport did not leave until russian soil

a year ago in julia year ago next most the human rights transition occurred in which the 43 positions were move forward to the contract morpd division for and the cracking function and equal benefits were moved to c m.d. that left us to focus once again on our core functions of non-discriminati non-discrimination ordinances. right now we have two major departments. i've move over here. you can see we have two major departments the sober - the policy and associate justice and the complaints investigation division. we actually have two chartered or two advisory committees which are one of which is in the administration code and the equity advisory committee and we have the african-american empowerment advisory committee that's been around for two years. the discrimination division last year, we received a total of 17 hundred and 66 inquiries and intakes into our discrimination division. we actually investigated and filed and investigated 1 hundred and 5 complaints. the primary complaint is on housing. it's the class you have disabilities. for your education you'll be happy to go through

they want human rights, civic rights, democracy, rule of law. they want to take part in the decisionmaking, whether it is the future of the party in istanbul or the future of their country. for mr. erdogan, in my view, a wake-up call. therapy can go on the way to work, more democracy, on the way to europe, or turkey can slip into the politics situation that is developing in the middle east. therapy needs a new constitution not because of the e.u. but because of the democracy and development of turkish society and turkish economy. in this process of creating a new constitution not only the ruling party but the opposition should be included. the civil society, the journalists, the lawyers, everybody who is willing to take part and in this process, needs our help because if we let this not only for us, very important country to slipped down this slippery slope, it will be, it will have terrible consequences for us. in order to strengthen the perspective, we should open 23, 24, because only in this way there is a chance to move forward and we can he

inolved disappearances mexico have become a human rights crisis, according to international -- amnesty international. france says it has hard evidence the syrian government has used chemical weapons. the foreign minister made the claim on french television. samples taken from inside syria and tested in france have sarinmed the nerve gas was used there. local aftermath of what people claim was a chemical attack in northern syria in april. under report said there is credible evidence that chemical weapons weapons were used on four occasions. the majority were probably carried out by government forces. the chemical used cannot be determined but the french foreign minister goes further and says tests show the presence of the deadly nerve agent sarin. >> a line has been crossed unquestionably. we are discussing with our partners what eventual reactions will have to be given or the options -- all the options are on the table. >> there is not the same sense of certainty at the white house. >> we need more information. others have said and it is worth for saddam the case hussein having weapons