u.s. congress and lied outright when asked if the nsa is collecting data on millions americans. director clapper's response was, no, sir. as "the new york times" said today, even clapper had to say that that statement was absolutely false. the very first conversation i had with mr. snowden, he showed me the folder in which he had placed the documents and labeled it nsa lying to congress, that

u.s. congress has voted against closing guantanamo bay of course we're on hunger strike you reached its fourth month now the vast majority of inmates are taking part in many of them and are being forced president obama earlier promised to lift a ban on sending home some yemeni inmates that were cleared for release but the long suffering relatives of the inmates are skeptical he can or will stay true to his word. he met some of them. there some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo in one town of most and the emotional toll meant their relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of abdurahman ash batty a yemeni terrorist suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to terrorists almost an hour we had them america's support for human rights is merely a show and only cares about its own people well it destroys the rights of all others who have been suffering for thirteen years now. and yemen president obama's recent promise to l

u.s. congress has voted against closing guantanamo bay blocking the use of taxpayer money to house any of these haney's transferred from the prison hunger strike at the facility isn't a is false month and some long suffering relatives of the inmates from yemen are skeptical that will ever see their loved ones again despite obama's promises to send them how. that was such. that some might argue there's not all that much difference between the physical torture that many prisoners undergo montana mode and the emotional trauma and their relatives are forced to deal with at home like the family of abdurahman ash batty a yemeni terror suspects held at the controversial detention center since two thousand and two after his arrest the whole family was accused of links to terrorists you only know we have them america's support for human rights is merely a show it only cares about its own people well it destroys the rights of all others who have been suffering for thirteen years now. in yemen president obama's recent promise to lift restrictions off get detainees specifically from the country was g

u.s. congress does not have the information that it needs so they stuck with the problem after i was fired three senators asked for a g.a.o. inquiry into the corruption that i was reporting at the world bank senators lugar leahy and. walk us through what exactly you know where was this money being laundered to whom the money was going every which way because anybody that reported misconduct. was fired so in one case the borrowers were being over overcharged in another case i was reporting corruption in the philippines nine hundred million dollars worth of money that should have gone to fight poverty in the philippines instead went to a corrupt man lucio tahn who was in default on his loans philippine national bank went into default there was a run on the bank philippine that. the investment company tried to bail out the bank for five hundred million dollars and then the board was lied to and my story is about trying to uncover the cover up the cover up went all the way to congress and then it went to one hundred eighty eight. ministers of finance so this is corruption in the entire world a

u.s. congress does not have the information that it needs so they stuck with the problem after i was fired three senators asked for a g.a.o. inquiry into the corruption that i was reporting at the world bank senators lugar leahy and by. walk us through what exactly you know where was this money being laundered to whom the money was going every which way because anybody that reported misconduct was fired so in one case the borrowers were being over overcharged in another case i was reporting corruption in the philippines nine hundred million dollars worth of money that should have gone to fight poverty in the philippines instead went to a corrupt man lucio tahn who was in default on his loans philippine national bank went into default there was a run on the bank philippine that. the investment company tried to bail out the bank for five hundred million dollars and then the board was lied to and my story is about trying to uncover the cover up the cover up went all the way to congress and then it went to one hundred eighty eight. ministers of finance so this is corruption in the entire world

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u.s. congress. we want to make sure that the government will implement the agreement. >> we consider this relationship both nation to nation, but particularly for me a navy and a marine corps relationship to be one of the closest in the world and most important. >> he said the transfer will begin once an environmental assessment is completed in 2015. he called for u.s. cooperation in boosting defense with remote islands in japan. they have been aware of increased activity at sea. they hope to continue offering its cooperation. the top united states representative in japan is preparing to participate in an event marking a brutal chapter in the history of the two countries. he will be the first american ambassador to attend a war memorial ceremony in okinawa in two decades. it recognizes the end of organized military operations against u.s. forces in 1945. people will gather to honor the dead in the city, the location of the last major fight in the battle. officials from the u.s. consulate general and

u.s. congress for your concerned support for the families of the victims of that tiananmen massacre. since 1995, the tiananmen mothers have received 36 open letters to two congresses of china and china's leaders, calling for the reverse of the governments of verdict on the tiananmen incident, and demanding truth, compensation, and accountability. but we have not received any reply from the government. we ask the u.s. congress to urge president barack obama to demand our president xi jinping in their summit that china fulfill its international and domestic obligation. according to the centers of humanitarian principles and universal value, and bring the crimes against unity committee, to trial and reach just, fair resolution as soon as possible. it took the lives of our children 24 years ago. and it has been described as a right to freely mourn our beloved. please ask president obama to urge president xi to respect our basic rights as human beings. in the past 24 years, 33 members of the chairman mothers have passed away yearning for justice. and the rest are in despair. [inaudible]. t

u.s. congress loves missile defense, so he is in between there. my own view is a lot of what he talked about with the nuclear agenda -- at the banning of these materials that required treaties, we will not see this in the u.s. senate. what russia and the united states can do following the example, is w. bush come to an informal agreement or both sides agree not to do things. and it does not come to a treaty -- which would have a senate vote. >> we have had republicans say -- we are in the process -- of having to reduce conventional weapons. why reduce our nuclear weapons as well? >> these were created for a situation that no longer exists. the soviet union is gone. both sides had 20,000 nuclear weapons of peace, they still have 90% of all the nuclear weapons in the world. most analysts go from 1500 down affect -- this will not the united states but it will -- do something positive. the rest of the world as part of that bridge is part of the nonproliferation regime, wants to see them reduce their nuclear arsenal. states that don't get nuclear weapo

u.s. congress. we want to make sure that the u.s. government will implement the agreement. >> we consider this relationship both nation-to-nation and particularly for me our navy and our marine corps relationship to be one of the closest we have in the world and one of the most important. >> mabus said the transfer will begin once an environmental assessment is completed in 2015. onodera called for boosting defense for remote islands in japan. japanese leaders have been wary of china's increased activity at sea. mabus said the u.s. hopes to continue offering its cooperation. >>> the diplomat vying to be the top envoy to east asia referred to the territorial dispute between japan and china at his confirmation hearing. daniel russell says he'll do everything in his power to ease tensions over islands in the region. >> we have had this discussion directly in bilateral and in multilateral form with the chinese. and i think the chinese similarly are in no doubt that america stands by our allies. >> russell spoke in washington at his senat

u.s. congress, and got over 67 bills passed through congress including title seven, head start, national student loan program, but that preacher dr. butts had lifts us to the seventh heaven with his oratory and after the service was over as i followed the platform party out to the foyer of that great cathedral there i looked up and i beheld a beautiful quilt at the center of many other quilts that the quilting ministry of friendship church had put on display, and when i saw that quilt that caught my eye i said to the pastor "dr. clifford jones, i want that quilt. i want that quilt ." dr. jones says "it's yours". when he took me to the car the limousine was there waiting for me and before i close the door i looked at him again and i said "dr. jones i want that quilt". he said "i told you it's yours. i will have my secretary mail it to you .". two weeks later package appeared in my office. my secretary pearl said "here's a package here for you". i looked and saw it was from friendship church, and i opened it and low and behold there was my beautiful quilt, and when i opened it the quilt that i was

u.s. congress loves missile defense, so he is in between there. my own view is a lot of what he talked about with the nuclear agenda -- at the banning of these materials that required treaties, we will not see this in the u.s. senate. what russia and the united states can do following the example, is w. bush come to an informal agreement or both sides agree not to do things. and it does not come to a treaty -- which would have a senate vote. >> we have had republicans say -- we are in the process -- of having to reduce conventional weapons. why reduce our nuclear weapons as well? >> these were created for a situation that no longer exists. the soviet union is gone. both sides had 20,000 nuclear weapons of peace, they still have 90% of all the nuclear weapons in the world. most analysts go from 1500 down affect -- this will not the united states but it will -- do something positive. the rest of the world as part of that bridge is part of the nonproliferation regime, wants to see them reduce their nuclear arsenal. states that don't get nuclear weapo

u.s. congress. john dingell became the longest serving member having served in the house of representatives 20,997 days. that's more than 57 years passing the late senator robert byrd of west virginia. the michigan democrat was elected in 1955 to replace his father. dingell is now 86. for the record he said he hasn't decided if he will run again. >>> an update from london on the health of prince philip, husband of queen elizabeth. buckingham palace says the prince is progressing after exploratory abdominal surgery. no other details were provided. the 91-year-old prince is expected to be in the hospital for another two weeks. the queen continued with her schedule today, presiding over the opening of the bbc's new headquarters in london. and for a time during a live television broadcast it was the queen who was at center stage as the presenters looked back at their unusual guest. >>> cold war-era bomb shelters may be a thing of the past, but a california couple found one in the backyard of their newly

u.s. congress the infamous prison open by blocking the transfer of prisoners cleared for release we speak to the lawyer of one inmate who's been on a hunger strike detention without charge now for over four months. and twelve face trial on charges of mass disorder and violence against police that are rally for president putin was sworn in one year ago. for another for a six night running witnessed a similar scene clashes leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on protesters a third fatality has been confirmed in the unrest after a man died from head injuries and car a hospital activist one the police chief responsible for the violent tactics removed and urged officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want all those that have been detained released saying that could actually end the days of riots the turkish prime minister meantime returning from a trip to north africa he will be expected to do something about the public discontent with just seen demands for him to reverse all of his policies but it's not his arena reports or the one of his just to be looki

u.s. congress the infamous prison open by blocking the transfer of prisoners who've been cleared for release we speak to the lawyer of one inmate who's been on a hunger strike over its detention without charge now for over four months. and twelve russians face trial on charges of mass disorder and violence against police is that a rally before president putin was sworn in one year ago. for now though millions of americans are reportedly having their phone records seized without even knowing about it and the u.s. national security agency has allegedly secretly forced horizon one of the nation's biggest phone companies to hand over all of its call data let's get details on this now artie's tom barton joining us live here in the studio to bring us up to date on this a fascinating story a bit disturbing as well it sounds like massive sweeping surveillance what are the latest revelations that you know about you know this comes from britain's guardian newspaper who run an exclusive and they report that the the u.s. national security agency is who is who the agency that's doing this collecting the

u.s. congress keep the infamous prison open by blocking the trials of prisoners cleared for release we'll speak to the lawyer one inmate who has been on hunger strike over his attention without charge of a four months. also later twelve russians face trial on charges of mass designer and violence against police at a rally before president hussein was sworn in a year it got. millions of americans are reportedly having the phone records seize without their knowledge the u.s. national security agency has allegedly secretly forced horizon one of the nation's biggest phone companies to hand over all its core data and to give us more details here with me in the studio assays tom von essen hi there tom nice to see you again so what about these latest revelations because looks like it's potentially so we're being surveillance that well yes indeed you do i this was started by the british newspaper the guardian that managed to obtain documents we'll show you a little extract from those documents from the u.s. national security agency and a secret court there that they've used these documents we've

u.s. congress, to revise the formula. civil rights organizations argue that by striking down section 4 of the act, states may enact voter suppression measures threatening the rights to vote of communities of color across the nation and eroding much of the civil rights progress made since passage of the act in 1965. >> question, is the court right that the formula for applying the voting rights act needs to be updated? and if so, will congress pass new legislation doing so? >> no. i think the court was absolutely wrong. i think that they have castrated the voting rights act of 1965. you know, what we haven't seen a lot of in the discussion about this act over the last week is the fact that there was a mechanism in the law for you to be opted out, to sort of opt out of the law if you could prove that you had not engaged in any discriminatory election practices over the last ten years, you could apply to the department of justice and be taken off of the bad person list, the bad state list in the south. alabama never applied.

u.s. congress provides the funds that are going to be required to stay in the afghan army -- sustain the afghan army, that afghanistan will hold together, it won't be pretty, it will be deeply unsatisfying but it will accomplish core national security objectives of our country. >> john, thank you very much for joining us. >>> coming up how the pentagon will respond to a congressional push to stop buying service specific camouflage uniforms. you're watching this week in defense news. >>> this week in defense news is sponsored in part by bdo. people who know, know bdo. anyway the guys in my unit who'd been here before, told me just ride it out, keep my head down and remember the reason i'm here. and we're paying for it all with my cashrewards card from navy federal. we're earning cash back! bring it. brought it. brung. 4 million members. 4 million stories. navy federal credit union. >>> once there was only one camouflage uniform for the entire military but in the years since 9/11 each of the services has adopted unique patterns to suit their needs and bolster service pride, a total of at least 10

u.s. congress throws another photo at french efforts to close gone tunnel a day where prisoners have been hunger striking for the past four months sometimes break. speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit arabic. you're watching elsie's good to have you with us let's move on now and extreme opinions sometimes leads to an offensive tweet which could be the days land you in jail chris and labor situation in great britain west social media users have to watch what they post online abuse of commons have led to arrests across the country and activists worried the new is becoming too zealous about hunting down tweeting trolls on his staff investigates. we trust our officers with a baton we trust some of the c.i. sprit and yet for some reason we can't trust them a twitter account in the wake of the recent will it murder a number of arrests were made across the country after police responded to tweets it was the latest clear sign t

u.s. congress the infamous prison open by blocking the transfer of prisoners cleared for release we speak to the lawyer of one inmate who's been on hunger strike over his detention without charge for over four months. and twelve russians face trial on charges of mass disorder and violence against police at a rally before president putin was sworn in a year ago. the first night running turkey's been witnessing a similar scene clashes leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on protesters the third fatality has been confirmed in the unrest offer a man died from head injuries at a hospital in ankara activists when the police chiefs responsible for the tactics removed and urged officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want to all those that had been detained to be released saying that could actually end the days of riots and the turkish prime minister returns from a trip to north africa later he is expected to do something about the public discontent which is now being calling and making demands for him to reverse all of his policies but as all these are going

u.s. congress well they keep the infamous prison open by blocking the transfer of prisoners cleared for release we speak to the floor of one inmate who has been on hunger strike over his detention without charge over four months. and the u.s. probe taking a swing at swiss bank secrecy later a look at the clampdown on tax evasion and tax avoidance being embraced by global leaders. for another hero naughty for a sixth night running toki witnessed a similar scene clashes leading police on a leash in their water cannons and tear gas on protesters fatality has been confirmed in the on rest after a man died from head injuries in a hospital activists when the police chiefs responsible for the violent tactics removed and officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want all those that have been detained released saying that that could actually and days of riots the prime minister though returning from a trip to north africa later will be expected to do something about the public discontent which is seen demands for him to reverse all of his policies but his arteries are going to get reports out

u.s. congress throws another hurdle at fresh air fares to close guantanamo bay where prisoners have been hunger striking for the past four months all that in a moment will be right back. with. me instead. technology innovation all the its developments around russia we've dumped a huge earth covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. you're watching aussie welcome back an extreme opinion sometimes leads to an offensive tweet wish could raise days land you in jail that's increasingly the situation great britain what social media users have to watch when they post online abusive comments have led to arrests across the country and activists worry bee

u.s. congress has been speaking deliberating on for the past several weeks and. again raised eyebrows how come such talks going to happen and made initiatives to hold a peace conference to have both members of the syrian government and the syrian opposition at the same negotiation table i believe we can listen to what he would have to say. i can't imagine why weapons should be supplied to illegal militant groups in syria when the u.s. recognize that one of the key opposition groups al nusra is an officially recognized terrorist organization linked to al qaeda how can they give weapons to that part of the opposition where will those weapons and. that was the political situation as regards the situation in syria but they've also been some good news businesses from russia hasn't there at. all definitely a lot of people to mention lots of different economic reforms and several multibillion dollar infrastructure projects have also been mentioned but probably the biggest news for the. economics is part of the russian life and coming from the russian president was that

u.s. congress stories another hurdle for ships to close guantanamo bay where prisoners have been striking for the balls for months all that's in a moment plus all the stories we'll be right that. i. believe speaks the language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. in from the world talks about six of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing story for you to. slip in trying. to find out visit. at the peak of the morning rush hour on the moscow metro has sixty six people needing medical treatment seventeen of those had to be taken to hospital the details now from an off. movement of train says now been busy doing moscow's much although we did take several hours to fix that faulty power cable for now thousand people have been there vacuum waited in total over sixty passengers in need of medical assistance including one six year old boy most of the injuries are connected with smoke inhalation and three people are being treated in intensive care units now it all started to round eight school time the study keep going the morning rush hour when the metro is used by hundreds of thousan

u.s. congress tries another hurdle of fresh efforts to close guantanamo bay where prisoners have been hunger striking for the past four months all that in a moment we'll be right back after the break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it. and then something else you hear see some other part of it and realize everything. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of. the world including. clearance technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've. covered. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. use continues here in r.t. an extreme opinion sometimes leads to an offensive tweet which could nice days manager in jail that's increasing the situation in great britain where social media users have to watch what they post online abusive comments have led to arrest across the country and activists worry that the lord is becoming too zealous about h

u.s. congress. -- here he is talking about the current state of u.s. congress. [video clip] >> i feel troubled by the fact that we, the congress, did not seem to learn from the important lessons. that is the meaning of the body of which we are a part of. congress means coming together. together to come work for greek congress's -- for great causes in which they all have an important interest to share. we have forgotten this. i am hopeful that as we move forward it will come to our mind again how important it is that we pull together to work for a common good. that we come to something that my dad used to teach me, "i can't look at one of my neighbors and say, ' your end of the boat is sinking'". it is important we understand how important it is that this nation is a treasure beyond any pitted it is the first time -- beyond any. it is the first time a nation forsurvived as a democracy over two hundred years. preserving something of this kind is very difficult. when benjamin franklin came out of the constitutional convention one day a woman came to him and she said

u.s. congress. we are american. when i think of america, i think of america and i think of all of the amendments, all of the protections. i particularly think of amendment no. 4, which says that no one is going to be eavesdropping on me. we have laws right now that say that they can. host: congresswoman loretta sanchez, a democrat from california, her sister also serves in the house. what about a special committee? guest: but, if you are talking to someone for a long time and they say -- i know we are from the intel community and i do not doubt that you do good work and do not doubt that you are american and care about this country. but i think, though, as my father used to say, congress has given you a very long leash and maybe you are doing things out there that most americans really do not want to to be doing. maybe we need a committee that takes a look at the liberty on individuals as opposed to the security for the good of the whole. i think that is a real dialogue we should have. host: democratic line, wilbur.

u.s. constitution even the democrats are saying well this is legal it's been checked out by congress. but that's doesn't wash when it violates the direct persion provisions of the u.s. constitution which state that any warrant can't be a general warrant in other words they can't go mining for things which is what they're doing and also there has to be probable cause that there's been a crime committed well every citizen in america can't be. suspected of being a criminal now they're say they're not listening into the conversations of. conversations but the constitution doesn't say anything about that it just says if it's a search and this is a search and it's clearly unconstitutional even though the patriot act which is unconstitutional portions of it. ok's it so i think it's a very bad thing and also there's another program that goes that actually does capture the content of e-mails of photos that sort of thing on people overseas also captures americans as well whole reason but that the author of the three men suspected newsless that things that despite the bombshells surveillance reve

u.s. congress and nobody is listening in on phone calls without approval. he didn't get into the details of the fact that the special court is secret and that there's some debate in congress about how much oversight the program has but he did assure the german public this is a supervised program. it was a smaller crowd that came out five years ago. 200,000 last time. some 6,000, maybe even fewer this time. not just because of these issues but in other factors. his star has dimmed. he's no longer the rock star. now he's the world leader that's had to make difficult choices and that's hurt his star image somewhat. >> good to see you. thank you. >>> we're following this story. one of the fbi's ten most wanted fugitives has been arrested. this is out of mexico. >> walter lee williams is his name. he had just been put on the fbi top ten list this week. >> nick parker is joining us from mexico city. he was only on this list for a couple of days. how did that happen and how did they find him? >> reporter: that's right. it was a very quick apprehension. he was arre

u.s. congress, which as we look at from polls that lowes regard imaginable by the party of the american peoeand y here we are watching wt looks to me, there is a whip of the crch coissionnhis. an as iea a lot of, clucking going on, about going after thar do wells ynner doells. >> you tl me,here am i wrong? >> let me ump in, a former ranking member of homelan i can, attest first hand amount o cyber taxes fromhina,now crinal element in wor that want to take your work product and hurt us in any shape and form, wh regard to this young man. first of all they should have done a better job checking his qutaaions and security clearanc and the like is monitoring what he was doing have too many ctractors is problem number one. he is inhina, and conrned about civil rights and people's rights, are you kidding me? i question his motives, some opleall him a ho, som a trai i think he could have handl it betterf he had true conce anywhere our count was going th a lot of things the were doing. lou: congressman? >> it is obvious, one. let's look at theral government's orall survllance of arican citizens, conc