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i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . a massive protest in the canadian province of quebec and what started as a student protest thousands of people have taken to the streets demonstrating against what they see as the government's attempt to deny protesters civil rights including the freedom of speech on the right to protest now and it's for a fourth month it looks like the protests are only growing it's being called the maple spring and it's turning into an all out citizens revolt now the bulk of the protests are happening here in quebec while many of the protest. peaceful eighty four people were arrested last night and. demonstration law has only inflame tensions there and while the maple spring marches past its one hundredth day protesters aren't just happening to our north. down south in mexico thousands of university students union workers and farmers have taken to the streets to demand greater freedom of speech and also to protest the possible return of power by the institutional revolutionary party that's being cal

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. . well chaos in chicago as thousands of protesters clashed with police at an anti nato demonstration and it turned violent take a look at this. as protesters threw bottles and other objects up police decked out in riot gear using batons against them dozens have reportedly been arrested meanwhile iraq and afghanistan war veterans joined the protests hurling their medals toward the convention center where nato officials were meeting are to correspond on a stasi a turk and i was in the thick of all the action in chicago to bring us the latest. chicago under siege. the last couple of days have seen oceans of protesters thousands marching under a blistering sun to vent their anger at the military alliance who are opposed to know that. this rally fronted by iraq and afghan war vets feeling betrayed by the system rules were there a little. after a minute of silence for those who perished in westwood wars. well rick's list we're seeing the clashes began as protesters try to get through the barr

one click away from any outlets that will report on the news they find important and washington liz wahl r.t. . and earlier i was joined by christopher chambers journalism professor for georgetown university he's playing the massive drop of viewership among the mainstream news outlets take a listen. well you have to understand it. in terms of three when you call it factors or obstacles but it's basically saturation segmentation and sociology and they can jump around among all these three but basically when you have somebody like oprah the saturation point is incredible when she's on once a day and doing her thing everybody wants to see your but entire network that doesn't even have daytime original programming that was you know that was tanking and the sociology aspect to a lot of younger women didn't find her relevant anymore and they didn't like the the the celebrity worship so you know you know there's gone to social media same thing with katie couric a lot of younger women don't find her a lot of them don't even know she is and then the segmentation thing might help people like bill

it's thursday may tenth i'm liz wahl in washington d.c. and you're watching our t.v. . while more surveillance please that's what the f.b.i. is asking for yesterday the f.b.i. director urged congress to give the agency extensive surveillance powers the justification the latest terrorism plot here's f.b.i. director robert mueller pleading before congress yesterday meanwhile al qaeda affiliates especially al qaida in the arabian peninsula represent the top counter terrorism threat to the nation. a.q. a.p. has attempted several attacks on the united states including disabled christmas day airline bombing in two thousand and nine and the attempted bombing of u.s. bound cargo planes in two thousand and ten and of course we are currently we in the bureau are currently exploiting an i.e.d. improvised explosive device seized overseas which is similar to the devices used by a.q. a.p. in the past now he says this is a good reason to expand their ability to snoop on people online they want to be able to wiretap the internet and are asking companies like google and facebook to alte

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well a victory for opponents of the n.c.a.a. a federal judge has ruled that provisions in a controversial law may violate our constitutional rights president obama signed the national defense authorization act back in december the move has outraged activists that say the law is so vague it allows u.s. citizens to be indefinitely detained by the military and without due process but a group of activists sued president obama and yesterday the federal judge took their side here as part of a court order issued by judge katherine forest it reads quote this court is acutely aware of the preliminarily and joining an act of congress must be done with great caution however it is the responsibility of our judicial system to protect the public from acts of congress which infringe upon constitutional rights so the law has been blocked at least for now the time to talk more about the case and the implications of it tangerine bolen executive director at revolution truth welcome to the show to injury and so i know that you are a major critic of

to find out what i'm doing when i am not reporting the news you can also follow me on twitter at liz wahl the alumna show is coming up at the top of the hour so stay tuned for that will be back here at seven. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations around the day. if you. want to. blow in welcome to cross talk computable crony capitalism this is what critics call america's banking system again the world has witnessed the specter of a major financial institution reporting a tremendous loss of years after new financial regulations were designed to avoid such a debacle do the world's biggest banks still believe they're too big to fail. and . to cross out the fate of the world's biggest banks i'm joined by andrew schiff in new york he is an investment consultant for euro pacific capital and author of the book how an economy grows and why it crashes in london we go to sam bowman he's head of research at the adam smith institute and in san francisco we have robert good news that he is co-founder general c

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i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. . well massive protests in the canadian province of quebec and what started as a student protest thousands of people have taken to the streets demonstrating against what they see as the government's attempt to deny protesters civil rights including the freedom of speech and their right to protest now in its fourth month that looks like the protests are only growing it's being called the maple spring and it's turning into an all out citizens revolt now the bulk of the protests are happening here in quebec while many of the protests are peaceful eighty four people were arrested last night an anti demonstration law that has only inflame tensions there so what exactly is going on here let's go now to canada where our correspondent diana a kid you can is in the midst of all the action in quebec to bring you this latest report. it's not just about to wish and heights anymore even many of those who didn't care much about the problems facing students in care back have now joined the ranks of pr

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our team. while a group considered to be a terrorist is now moving on up and off america's terrorist list the iranian opposition group. known as and was named a terrorist group fifteen years ago for its role in assassinating u.s. citizens but i make a has apparently found some friends in washington former government officials have been advocating to get the group d. listed from the terrorist list there's been a p.r. push elso to delist here's a look at one of the ads. it's a rons democratic opposition working for a nuclear free iran founded on human rights unjustly listed a terrorist group is the victim of. their rocky allies europe has delisted him. and in two thousand and ten a us court order to review iranians u.s. lawmakers and former senior officials demanded listing secretary clinton for democracy and freedom in iran do you list any k. . now this move could further strain u.s. iran or relations so what's behind all of this. the policy director for the national iranian american council joi

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t well today we are going to follow the money who has it who does it and how it affects everything from elections to who goes to jail to education and we'll start with campaign funding as voters today cast their ballots in two presidential primaries and a time of unlimited campaign spending for millionaires and billionaires we ask does everyone else count nowadays and. expected to be the most expensive campaign in history as backed by super funded super pacs are hitting the airwaves and of course many of them are negative attack ads here's a look at one of the most recent ones targeting republican presidential candidate mitt romney. if we lost they made money if we survive they made money. simpliciter he promised us saying thanks to the united states. we'll give you the same thing you gave us. you'll take it on. us action is responsible for the content of sacrificing. so it's so much money being pumped into campaigns by just a handful of donors and with deep pocketed donors funding the message that gets out to the public who really decides who will

i'm liz wahl and you're watching r.t. . well lawmakers today discussing a bill that would extend the government's overseas surveillance powers the measure is called fice and it gives the government the power to monitor phone calls e-mails and other communications of suspected terrorist suspects it was a hot topic back in two thousand and eight critics argued it could be used to target american citizens the debate today is over whether feisal powers should be renewed and beyond face so we've already seen several bills regulating the internet to some degree there's the stop online piracy act better known as sopa and its partner the secure i t act they protect ip act and it's brother pipa the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act known as cispa the surveillance bill i just mentioned called and these cyber security act of two thousand and twelve so it seems there is a clear attempt to time and time again regulate the wild wild west that is the internet now the senate is soon expected to vote on the controversial bill ba

lobbyists and large corporate farms well we had to see this for ourselves so we sent our correspondent liz wahl to michigan to find out exactly what's going on there next week we'll tell you what she found out plus the f.b.i. has a message for internet companies don't get in their way the government agency is trying to pass a controversial proposal that would require companies including microsoft facebook yahoo and google to build in back doors for government surveillance intimidated yet we'll tell you all about this cyber scandal and those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week of course along with much more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned right here to our take but that's going to do it for us for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america you can also check out our website r t dot com slash usa and you can follow me on twitter at christine. for now have a great night and a great weekend. that i.