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candy is banking on children reaching for those sugary treats each and every howling in washington liz wahl r.t. . well we want to bring you the story now of a battle for workers' rights unfolding right here in washington d.c. it involves dancers at a strip club called the house who say sometimes they leave their chefs with less money than they walked in with that's because in addition to being paid well below minimum wage they're also required to pay the d.j. for playing music while they dance two of these dancers have now filed a class action lawsuit against the management of the house the question at hand here is whether or not these women some of them are working fifty or sixty hours a week are full time employees who deserve minimum wage and benefits or whether they can be treated as independent contractors and the attorney in this case of fills that partner of the fin law firm and joins me now to explain why so many start clubs have these labor issues so first question for you and i think a lot of people are wondering this many people have worked in the service industry as waitresses danc

r.t. correspondent liz wahl who just returned from that hearing on the health things guys thank you chris. well on tuesday president obama signed an executive order implementing new tougher sanctions on iran and the goal is to increase pressure on tehran to halt its nuclear program a program which officials there say is for peaceful purposes there's asians were laid out in legislation which passed easily in both the u.s. senate and the house of representatives a few months ago and let's not forget there have already been thanks and in a report published last week un secretary-general ban ki moon laid out exactly who those sanctions have been impacting the most those sanctions he said have had a significant effect on the general population including an escalation in inflation a rise in commodities and energy costs and increase in the rate of unemployment and a shortage of necessary items and that includes medicine so we want to take a deeper look into the u.s. government iran policy and help me do that i'm joined now by jim aviv policy director for the national iranian american council jama

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our team. but we talk a lot here at r.t. about the growing surveillance state so maybe what's happening now in boston shouldn't come as a surprise the american civil liberties union has gotten ahold of documents and tapes showing that the boston police to par. it has been spying on activists this after the a.c.l.u. sued for access to the information on behalf of five activist groups and what they found is that officers have been monitoring and collecting information on political protesters many of the groups they've been keeping close tabs on are well known like veterans for peace and code pink now the story has made national headlines but it is certain controversy in boston here's a look at some of the local headlines as you can see they read boston police accused of spying on antiwar groups and another one their groups fault boston police for surveillance now here's a quote from a.c.l.u. study and titled policing the sense states quote when law enforcement officers start investigating protected ideas rather than crimes the