in the first parliament there was 85% who had business. and this parliament is 60%.bers look at the public offer as offers of profit and opportunity. what happens is as a part of this politics, the parliament becomes a party of the opposition. they do start to boycott. all this is happening every day. >> i'll interrupt you. we have a satellite delay. people in bangladesh must be fed up with this. you can vote for one side, the government who you may or may not like, but the opposition is not representing interests because it is not turning up. >> yes. that's one of the key problems. the parliament, awes you say in the report, it is supposed to hold the deposit to account. if the opposition is .cotting and taking advantage of the constitutional permission that allows up to 90 days of absence. what if it becomes an opportunity given by the constitution for personal absence is a deliberate policy on the part of the opposition party, or the coalition to take a deliberate absence from the parliament. >> i'll interrupt you again, sorry. the constitution - does there need t

came to new ten soviet power above all else parliament that had been elected at that moment the parliament of the supreme soviet of russia. patriarch alexei to seconds took on the role of intermediary in those early days of confrontation. negotiations were conducted at the patriarch's residence. church minister suggested a zero sum option to both sides boris yeltsin would agree to retract decree fourteen hundred which effectively dismissed the parliament while the deputies would revoke the president's impeachment. the negotiations were not easy. they started it with each side calmly other our enemy and our. i begged them to stop talking like that because the purpose of the meeting was to find a way out of the crisis that had engulfed our country. now. he's on trial. in the one nine hundred ninety three of supreme soviet supporters broke through the police cordon wielding clubs. the police responded to get us this clash brought about the first injuries and spilled the first blood in this turbulent time. the patriots negotiations were cut short. from the very first moments of conflict a star

ac's have skippf the parliament i. >> they are in parliament and if a member of parliament doesn't attend is depriving his own constituents from being heard in parliament. so yes it does hurt. instead of critiquing parliament the on have avoided parliament and taken to the streets instead of. >> the speaker shutting down the microphones of the opposition. the opposition submitted 2500 adjournment motions in the span of the first four years of this parliament. would you believe that the government has not accepted a single not. >> the ruling party itself began the culture of boycotting parliament since it was in the opposition. today it's gotten worse. and there is little policy taking place in the halls. >> the public is frustrated with the behavior of both parties. >> the ruling party think they can do whatever it wants. and the opposition feels there is no point in doing or saying anything. in this environment maybe you would be boycotting commit -- parliament yourself. to avoid the standoff they are negotiating a power sharing deal. but very few people are banking on it's success.

came to new ten soviet power above all else parliament that had been elected at that moment the parliament of the supreme soviet of russia. patriarch alexei to seconds took on the role of intermediary in those early days of confrontation. were conducted at the patriarchs residence. church minister suggested a zero sum option to both sides boris yeltsin would agree to retract decree fourteen hundred which effectively dismissed the parliament while the deputies would revoke the president's impeachment. the negotiations were not easy. they started it with each side call only other our enemy and our. i begged them to stop talking like that because the purpose of the meeting was to find a way out of the crisis that had engulfed our country. now. he's on trial. for nine hundred ninety three of supreme soviet supporters broke through the police cordon wielding clubs. the police responded to get us this clash brought about the first injuries and spilled the first blood in this turbulent time. the patriots negotiations were cut short. from the very first moments of conflict a startling fieri began

he is a member of the european parliament, fabrizio bertot.from london, costas lapavitsas, author of "crisis in the eurozone." he teaches at soas in the eurozone. francesco saraceno of the osce. thomas friang of europenova and valentin kreilinger. to celebrate his 77th birthday, silvio berlusconi telephoned a rally with his party in naples. [indiscernible] >> of course, it was not his 37th, it was his 77th. are you surprised at the fact that silvio berlusconi, who recently said he was going to take more and more of a backseat role? >> maybe we should adjust to the famous smile between angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy that actually killed silvio berlusconi politically at the european level. he is still trying to come back. he still wants to be in politics. but at the european level, there is a deep lack of confidence from his peers. if he actually takes a more active role and tries to take a more active role in italy, this sort of political instability that comes along and that is now appearing is dangerous for the european union as well. >> i

into the parliament.if a member of parliament doesn't attend parliament he is effectively depriving his own constituents of being heard in parliament. which is one of the basic on objectives. so, yes it does hurt. the opposition has boycotted parliament and taken to the streets instead. the opposition leader says they have no choice. the speaker shutting down the microphones of the opposition. the opposition submitted 2500 adjournment motions in the span of the first four years of this parliament. would you believe the government has not accepted a single notice. >> since then things have become worse and worse. today there is little policy debate taking place in the halls of the parliament. the public is frustratedde frush the behavior of the party. >> the ruling party thinks they can do whatever they want and the opposition feels there is no point to say or do anything. in this environment you would be boycotting the parliament yourself. >> they are negotiating a power sharing deal but very few people a

i'm less certain as to what will happen in the parliament. i agree with omar that it's a healthy thing to involve the parliament. we like to see this kind of responsibility being shared this way in a democratic system. there are going to be strong voices in the parliament that are going to object here to any kind of deal, and we don't know the details of it. the details are being kept, you know, away from us. we won't know them until the last minute, perhaps. but there will be those who want nothing that provides any kind of immunity for american forces from afghan law. so this could be problematic. >> marvin has alluded to this, mr. ambassador, talking about the ability of the afghan forces to truly stand up. the afghans are in the forefront of fighting now. they are taking huge casualties. one u.s. general likened afghan casualties at this current level to the casualties that u.s. forces took in vietnam. that's a huge hit. what do you think are the abilities of the afghan forces, and what do they need? are they truly capable of operating in

and the european parliament is taking on electronic cigarettes. it took a vote that would plan to read classifies the fake smoke devices as something that would be available only by prescription. lex some 8 million smokers have switched from tobacco to e cigarettes and have a gum known as vapors. it is designed to wean smokers off of the harmful effects of tobacco. but critics argue not enough research has been done into the potential health effects. and the european parliament is set to vote on whether they should be reclassified as medical products am only available from pharmacies. there has been intense lobbying from all sides. tougher regulation could strangle the industry. the pharmaceutical industry is mostly in favor of regulating their ease cigarettes -- there he cigarettes, which they see as competition for their anti- tobacco products. >> the lobbyists are very present, not just from companies, but also governments. these viewpoints are dependent on their own economic interests. for us, the most important thing is to find a response to

accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. anderson on this one are joined live from brussels by glenn ford he's a former member of the european parliament mr ford welcome to art see it's very good to see here with us so talking about this latest n.s.a. scandal why exactly would the u.s. be spying on the leader of a country that has long been a very close ally. but they routinely spying on everybody and everything why i mean angela merkel surprised that they're listening to her conversations who do they think the u.s. was spying on the local taxi drivers to berlin. while most people who are at the top i me

the parliament is bidding whether to ban. this comes after six lawmakers from the extreme white ring -- right wing golden dawn party. a fatal seven last month at a greek rapper. golden dawn lawmakers broke out -- walked out before the vote, was shot near unanimous approval cleared mark edwards has the details. >> overwhelmingly passed, 247 debbie's at the greek parliament were in unity from the far right golden dawn party. legislators can be tried on various charges, including involvement in a criminal gang. greece opened a criminal investigation following a killing of a left-wing rapper. they charge the openly racist party with a string of murders and assaults as well as racketeering. in most business only parliament can let their community if they are suspected of terminal activity. >> -- of criminal activity. >> when you have committed crimes, even if you are among parliament, you have to go -- and the greek justice system works. that is what it is all about. >> golden dawn is greece's third most popular party and they den

judith, thank you for joining us from the european parliament in strasberg.hans, thank you for joining us. olivia, our media watch segment. we have been looking at the italian newspapers. >> in deed. the editorials are very accusatory starting with this one. an article pointing the finger saying it's not the fault of the migrants or italy. they have been completely unaware of the scale of the problem of illegal immigration and point out a goes beyond sovereignty and the only thing that could work which would be union wide and there's no point in looking at italy. they bring up this argument that the division we have seen between northern and southern europe, italy greece, malta, and spain are those affecting -- are those affect did. they need to sit up and take notice because we are those affect did. it is never more better illustrated in this illustration where the highest amount of death or disappeared people are and it's all over the coast of north africa and very much concentrated in southern europe, nothing really above naples. that shows the statistics

accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. and we'll bring you more expert opinion on the fallout from the u.s. snooping scandal later this hour as we talk to the executive director of open rights group. the n.s.a. revelations have had on a business communities the focus of today's kaiser report and he's in it oh and let's listen to it relations kill i.b.m. hardware sales in china wednesday evening it was i.b.m.'s turn to confess that its hardware sales in china had simply collapsed every word was colored by edward snowden's revelation about the n.s.a.'s hand in glove collaboration with american tech compa

he is also accused of plotting to attack kenya's parliament, to assassinate top politician.'s go to andrew who joins us from the capitol. what more can you tell us, andrew? >> not a great deal is known about this man, but as the u.s. defense department pointed out the target -- attack and other attacks later on as well -- the u.s. navy seal special forces are known to have engaged in a fire fight with operatives in southern somalia on friday night. and the mission was unsuccessful in that the pentagon say that they aborted because they did not capture their -- target. we understand a number of people did die, al-shabab operatives. that number we're not sure of. it's anywhere between one and four. but now a lot of work is going on in knitting together connections between various people revealed by u.s. sources and indeed also kenyan and somali sources. with me right now is matt brighton who is a security analyst and former member of the united nations monitoring group. matt what do you know about ikremah. >> very -- little is known about him. a lot of information is filtering

a member of the green party of the european parliament joins us.hat are you calling on european leaders to do about this? >> i think european leaders have to react now on the five months old revelations by edward snowden. there is no reaction. we need to safeguard the rights of european citizens, and i just have to say that, for example, the u.s. privacy act is not protecting european citizens, so we have a huge loophole, and this has to be fixed right now. >> i can see jean pierre agreeing with you. >> there are a series of protections passed by the parliament. in terms of the swift records in the banking transactions, where the u.s. has just disregarded the commitments they have made in terms of the protections. >> lawmakers, in fact, said they want to limit the information shared with washington. sharing financial data that is concentrated in brussels, and there had to be american guarantees as to how they would use that information, and you feel there is a breakdown in trust, and they want to limit their information sharing. is that right? >> t

ecuador's parliament gave the controversial project the go- ahead on thursday.the park is noted for its unique biodiversity and is home to several indigenous tribes. but the government says only .1% of the park will be open to drilling. main politicalo parties held exploratory talks on forming a new coalition government. chancellor merkel's party and the spd discussed issues like the crisis, labor market policies, and tax hikes. after the session, both parties expressed optimism. >> in football, you would say this was just a warm-up. the real game has not started yet. we had a friendly and constructive session. >> i had the impression there was a desire to honor the will of the voters and of all europeans by forming a stable government. that influence the attitudes of everyone involved. >> the spd should be back for another round of talks in mid- october. first, the cdu will meet with the greens. francis made a pilgrimage to the town of assisi ion friday. mass for alebrated crowd of 50000 and prayed for peace and visited sick and poor residents of the town. visi

and now thanks to mr snowden's revelations there seems to be consensus at least in the european parliament or the committee will vote on this measure tonight but this is not the end of the story because the e.u. governments will have to agree also and hopefully the whole measure will come will be adopted before the european parliament is reelected next may so as you say as you say certain european politicians working to protect the online information of citizens cross the e.u. and as you were mentioning there regarding edward snowden the former whistleblower his revelations are european agencies were often sharing people's data with the n.s.a. do you really think we still supposed to believe though that they're not still in bed together. well one has to be quite clear about this the european union has no jurisdiction to regulate the activities of intelligence services but if they agreed to to require illegal bases for transfer of personal data to third countries as has been proposed in the parliament now this would be a major step forward because then there would have to be a political agr

standoff - why three months on from an election opposition politicians in cam bodia are boycotting parliament. >>> and saying goodbye to a rock legend - velvet underground frontman lou reed dies, aged 71. . >>> argentina's ruling party has kept copt of congress -- control of congress in elections. the opposition has made gains. cristina fernangez de kirchner's party has lost seats in four districts, ending her chances of changing the constitution to allow her to stand for a third term. >> putting on a brave face. sunday's midterm elections confirmed they had lost, but they still celebrated. "we will build the dream of a better argentina", said the vice president defiantly. >> in buenos aires province, which accounts for 40% of votes, president cristina fernangez de kirchner's former chief of staff, now a rival, comfortably beats the star candidate for congress. >> sergio massa, more business friendly than the president is mentioned as a front runner for the 2015 presidential race. >> trans-tran let's open -- trants trants let's >> translation: let's open our arms and respect our differences.

sole of the biggest mobilization of people around you know an issue going through the european parliament was the question of act and act it was about undermining people's right to freedom of the international right to privacy on the internet and it mobilized with millions of people signed petitions tens of thousands of people protested this is something that people are rightly concerned about they're even more concerned about it know with the revelations of you know five hundred million pieces of information taken from germany alone in one month by u.s. authorities and so i think there is an interest in this the point is that a lot of pressure needs to be built and the peace needs to be built on institutions in order to ensure that in any way people's rights to privacy are vindicated for example things that are needed should happen is that the swift agreement which transfers information about bank information at the bank accounts of people between the e.u. and the us that should be suspended the e.u. u.s. free trade talks ongoing at the moment should be suspended all of those things unti

thanks very much. >>> now political drama is unfolding in the italian parliament. italy's prime minister has asked for a vote of could have been if i had he knew in his coalition government addressing the senate earlier said the government's survival must be separated from the legal troubles of berlusconi. it was a last-ditch attempt to persuade enough mps to persuade to bring down the government. that session going on rome as we speak. joining me as well is our correspondent, sonjaface guego. where is the vote of confidence right now? >> reporter: it would seem it's in rather a stronger position than thought when the crisis broke, when berlusconi pulled his ministers from the cabinet. in those days that the crisis broke, there has been a lot of shoring of support -- showing of support toward the government. there has also been a lot of agreement across the parties, interestingly enough, that this act that's done, that some would say berlusconi did was actually an irresponsible act. the prime minister on sunday has emergency talks to the president, both an agreemen

that has to be done by the parliament members themselves. they have to stay away from this culture.nd secondly what we explaned is to impose a legal restriction on the boycotting of the parliament. >> here is a story that is about press freedom in china or incompetence in the newspaper. the paper made a public apology after one of the reporters apologized. in the u-turn the paper says improimproper practices have a profound listen. >> argentina are going to midterm elections and the president is expected to lose ground. the vote is an inne indicator aa decade of the family being in power. >> argentina's vast plains famous for producing free range cattle and soy and wheat. much of it is located here in this province. argentina's largest where ramos and his family have produced cattle for four generations and like many ranchers and farmers he is angry at the government. >> five years ago they stopped us from exporting beef. supposedly to allow prices at home. instead prices are sky high because many stopped investing and killing off the female cows which means killing offa argentina's

entering parliament as an office int, he won 2012. the challenge for his interim government has been to unite various interest groups in libya ahead of new constitution and first parliamentary elections. with me now is the bbc's reporter who just returned from eastern libya where he spoke to live -- rebels there. it is tempting, isn't it, having seen what we just seem to think that libya is a place with absolutely no control or lawless. but that is not quite what is happening, is it? >> i think the real problem is, it is not really correct in the sense to use the word rebels. the dividing line between militias and government is very, very murky, because most of the security, to the degree there is security, throughout the country is now and i haven't these militias. because there is no real effect of the national army. so, these militias are being paid buy the government to perform very security tasks. it is early days, early hours. but what do we particularly know about the specific groups that may have been behind the abduction of t

italy's prime minister enrico letta wins apart -- wins a vote in parliament.the head of greece's far right golden dawn party is due to appear in court shortly, and it needs to answer charges of organizing a criminal group. russia charges 14 greenpeace activists with piracy. they were arrested last month while protesting against oil drilling in the arctic. first, to italy where four days after silvio berlusconi sparked another political crisis by pulling his ministers out of the cabinet, prime minister enrico letta has won a confidence vote in the senate. in the end, the former premier decided to support the government. letta. 235 votes in favor. clyde williams reports. >> a u-turn for silvio berlusconi. after fighting for a no- confidence vote to topple the italian government, the former prime minister told senators he has changed his mind and will vote to save the fragile coalition. >> italy needs a government that can produce structural and institutional reforms that the country needs to modernize. we have decided, not without internal strife, to vote in con

it was june 11th when the russian parliament passed the you can't talk about being gay bill.two days later on june 13th, the russian parliament got a visit from brian brown, head of the american anti-gay group. the russian language website about the committee testimony that day. now we will use google translate. here it is minus, you can zoom in there to the speech delivered to the russian parliament by brian brown. president of the national organization for marriage. and the head of it now -- brian, brian brown is confirming that he was there. he says, russian anti-game activists invited him to russia to address law makers there about their anti-gay laws. he did so. they posted a russian summary of his remarks on line which we have now translated. can see both versions to night at maddow blog.com. brian brown, wrapped up his remarks to the russian parliament by saying he thought his visit to russia will enable the development of this movement around the world. we will ban together. we will defend our children. and their normal civil rights. every child should have the right

of threats and speculations both sides of this the scottish national party in scotland and the parliament here in westminster have been tapping into these kind of emotive issues so the s.n.p. uses these age old rivalries between between scotland between england and scotland and also taps into this nationalist sentiment meanwhile the westminster parliament which obviously wants the u.k. to stay together fought stuff like this in the past it said or if scotland declares independence you won't necessarily be able to use the pound anymore you might have to apply to join the euro you probably wouldn't be automatically in the european union in nato so this is just another one of those things if you do if scotland declares independence it will be worse off as a westminster parliament scotland has already called this irresponsible it says it's politicizing security and antiterrorism and scottish national party member has called this project fear and he talked. macneil from discounters national party and the one that stands for independence from the u.k. and he brushed away the claims from london

well the chair of european parliament's foreign affairs committee whom i also had the chance to speak with said alexander talked to them about european agencies sharing information with the u.s. intelligence agencies from war zones but not talk about. the u.s. spying on european citizens citizens that include german chancellor angela merkel. what can you say about the allegations that the intelligence services of european countries have helped the n.s.a. collect intelligence on europeans that is not true at all what we've had the figures we have seen the europeans have helped and to collect informations about as a regions of afghanistan yemen and so on not overall. figures. in terms in german need to get into the french german authorities to observe it would have done them. yet. well basically from what i have heard from these members of delegation keith alexander had indeed brushed out their main questions. thanks very much indeed for that live update there from washington r.t. is going to check on. well n.s.a. claims that e.u. intelligence agencies willingly share data reportedly ba

reasserted, they that it is wrong for this parliament to make the decision. can my friend ensure that we will not be voting for prisoners rights in this parliament? >> can i thank my honorable friend for raising this important issue. can i congratulate the attorney general, he fought this case himself in front of the supreme court. he made a compelling and forceful argument. this is a victory for common sense. my views on this issue are well- known. i do not believe that prisoners should have the vote. the supreme court today has stood up for common sense, stood up for democracy. this issue has nothing to do with the eu. i think we can all rejoice in that result. speaker, the number of people helped by food banks in compared withiple the previous year. is the prime minister proud of this achievement? up 10d bank usage went times under the last labor government. what i want to see is helping all families with their living standards. that is why we should recognize the fact we are getting more people into work. we are growing our economy. we are keeping interes

parliament and chairman of the stop the war coalition really interesting to talk to you thank you for your time here naughty. bitcoins first ever a.t.m. has gone life clients in vancouver canal swap their digital currency for real cash so what is big coin and how can you turn a computer code into physical money well basically it's a currency used for online transactions to use it clients set up web wallets hiding the names behind a digital code the payment can still be traced then a transfer is done in a few clicks of a mouse banks middlemen and tax agencies are left out reducing fees and next you choose whether to shop online using big coins or sell them for any official currency such as the dollar or euro coins are collected through a process called mining nothing to do with manual labor but a chain of computers cracking codes and getting coins in exchange well jeffrey albert tucker from the foundation for economic aid to cation explains why he finds all this technology so impressive as your goal at this time i thought it was. all of this is just another technology you know that com

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well i think what we've seen now in the european parliament is that we have suspended the agreement or they have passed a resolution to suspend it so it needs to be approved by the nations in the european council this is one first step but then the next big step would be to think about is a safe harbor agreement and to come up with a general data protection. reform in your rope this is a process where the discussion is already running right now and i think this is a very good thing to do because you always have to take into consideration that surveillance the public private divide although these surveillance programs are done by the n.s.a. are done by the secret service that is maybe not really bound to the law in europe of course all data that is collected in any way can later be f. used and if you look at prism than many surveillance measures by the n.s.a. feet by. by. human common mr stone but you mention the issue of prison prison was actually a relative of the genie program that was used to spy on all the diplomats inside the united nations a young spokesperson for data protection