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Hello five pm saturday evening here in moscow this is r. T. At the weekend with me kevin owen and first on the israeli Prime Minister has ordered the country to withdraw from unescos he uns Cultural Heritage organization it follows a similar move announced by the United States in october over a perceived bias against israel is how that countrys envoy to the agency explained the decision that. Has broken records of people crissy incitement and lies against israel and the jewish people while polluting its noble Core Principles with politicisation and diplomatic terrorism that sometimes bordered on semitism with more on israels move. Comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the United States and israel of you know ask those activities now you know asco is the uns Cultural Agency now the Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesperson specifically cited what he called the attempts to disconnect the history of jewish history from the land of israel now unesco has angered israel over the past year they passed resolutions in which they said that israel has no right to jerusalem they said that the temple mount and the old city are both muslim the holy sites now as far back as twenty eleven go actually granted palestine full membership in its organization now this is danny the israeli ambassador to the United Nations this is him touching on the recent decision no unit. No empty speech you. Know didnt want to be revolution will ever do divide about. Recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from the nasco that happened in october and when the United States pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now when that happened israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a courageous and moral decision and praised the United States for doing that it stands for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization it has a number of tasks it fights violent extremism around the world it promotes female education it promotes Media Freedom it also protects certain cultural sites around the world now what is in question at the moment is what will happen to certain cultural sites now that both the United States and israel are no longer participants in this very Important International body. Lists World Heritage sites across israel of comprising with dozen places representing three thousand years of history in the post israeli newspaper columnist and or and believes unesco is also the platform for diplomatic action and the full israeli thinks may have but should be reversed its decision. Every u. N. Agency is a battlefield in the Foreign Policy and diplomacy arena and unesco is no different than the Human Rights Council and others but whether or not israel or should we throw from it is another matter altogether because just withdrawing just leaving the field to others is not acceptable to many israelis we have been through such cycles of un bashing. Eventually israel and presumably the United States too would come back having symbolized. Their displeasure. Is just a gesture one shouldnt read too much into it meanwhile both cars are in the west bank of seeing more clashes in the Third Straight week of unrest in that region fridays demonstrations left in dead more than sixty injured. Palestinian fattah parties called for christmas celebrations to be cancelled vowing more days of rage as they put it instead going on rest in the region comes in the wake of u. S. President donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel of course in the palestinian administered city of ramallah meantime Israeli Soldiers pushing back paramedics who would try to reach the injured troops used weapons and other forceful measures presenting emergency said preventing missiles and from reaching the wounded. And other developments on the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn Donald Trumps unilateral decision concerned that the dispute over the city status should only be resolved by talks only nine Member States eventually including the u. S. Voted against the resolution even so the countries even ambassador remained undeterred putting the focus on the few friends backing the jerusalem decision. This will make a difference on how americans look at the us and on how we look at country who disrespect them and the way and this will be remembered. Its. Its. More of the twists and turns over this jewish communities in germany say theyre now facing growing anti semitism many say theyve been the target of discrimination or harassment on a daily basis and they believe the problems we made worse by the us president s controversial decision to recognize your limits israels capital with more europe correspondent. Yeah. Israeli flags burning in the center of. The aftermath of the u. S. Decision on jerusalem but apart from protests its feared the backlash would overstepped the line into attacks against jewish people a Police Investigation is underway here in berlin following a shocking display of anti semitism outside of a jewish restaurant plus what i know from. My six me you wouldnt mention a problem for much need much of. It because. The owner of the restaurant says he expects these type of attacks considering the current climate it was a typical latest incident thing against jews the typical. Israelis bed story is a bit and go to the gas chamber in five years. We have unfortunately a lot of cases different in this similar to do mostly its an anemic we get a lot of phone calls with. In fact the leaders in the Jewish Community say that these type of incidents a far more common than we may think think its a horrible incident but i think its something what happens sometimes on a daily basis here in germany i wouldnt say that its that its a bad feeling as a jew living in germany but on the other side there are things happening and if youre a member of a community or an institution you get confronted with those kinds of incidents. Like really every day the u. S. Position on jerusalem has certainly added fuel to a backlash against israel but if you look at a study that was carried out just this year over sixty percent of the youths who were surveyed were from a jewish background said that they had faced until semitism. On a daily basis with almost thirty percent saying that theyve been targeted or harassed in the last year just this last month in the venting district of berlin a schoolboy was attacked by a group of classmates who told him that hitler was good because he killed the jews from the government side weve heard a strong response from the German Justice minister us any kind of anti semitism is an attack on everyone and its as a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an uptick in attacks in germany targeting jews that may seem easier said than done peter all over. The u. S. Olympic committee in the countrys gymnastics governing body are being accused of helping cover up years of sex abuse and child molestation in a lawsuit filed by a champion gymnast Mccullough Maroney she alleges to have been abused by a u. S. Team doctor for years and then paid to keep silent over it she also names other sports institutions too for preventing her from publicly coming forward with more details artists america. Mckayla maroney americas a limp big darling one of the worlds most famous gymnasts u. S. Household name and victim of childhood sex abuse that apparently took place over years and when she wanted to speak out both usa gymnastics plus the u. S. Olympic committee made her keep quiet rhody claims she was paid hush money and is now suing them for silencing her she hired a lawyer and asked for a settlement conference or mediation to get justice to what she didnt ask for was a draconian confidentiality agreement that prevented her from telling even her brother and sister about this and then i think even worse it said that you cant ever say anything bad about us if your masters ever for your whole life shes come forward with a horrific story of abuse by team u. S. A. s former doctor larry nasser it started when i was thirteen years old and it didnt end until i left the sport it seemed when ever and wherever this man could find a chance i was treated this carries night of my leg happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and night with the team to get to tokyo he had given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing i know i was alone with him in his hotel room getting treatment i thought i was going to die that night but one would naturally have expected usa gymnastics to support its crown jewel but the Organization Claims that she herself chose to settle this all quietly into in sixty mchale as attorney at the time Gloria Allred approached usa gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a system and agreements that included a mutual nondisclosure cools and a mutual disparagement moronis case is just the start over one hundred and fifty women have now accused the same doctor of sexual abuse i dont want to be in a courtroom telling about how a man you know pandered to me. Front of my mother when i was eleven the fact that he just thinks oh i flew to guilty and now you guys can start healing is ridiculous to me i dont think. I dont think he truly understands how many people are hurting and how bad people are hurting over this now dr nasser admits to exploiting his position to abuse his patients and he was recently convicted and sentenced to sixty years in jail but his victims believe justice has still not been served and its not just nassar who they insist must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect child athletes dealin pics are something that brings people hope and joy sure from the outside looking in its an amazing story i did it i got there but not without a price we discussed roadies claims with. In holland she was the first to publicly accuse former u. S. Team doctor larry master search was sold and she is no surprise she says claims of a big coverup. You know i wish i could say that i was surprised but the reality with usa gymnastics is they have a decades long policy of covering up sexual abuse and of and of silencing victims some of the most prominent coaches in the usa to have trained olympians those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too and again like like their member coaches they were allowed to continue praying on little girls and even their elite athletes for decades and usa jews response to that was was to defend in under a testimony to defend their policy saying they wanted to avoid a witch hunt so when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of supporting sexual predators a decades long policy of silencing victims by literally shoving reports in a file cabinet and then they can defend their actions by saying they want to avoid a witch hunt it shouldnt come as any surprise to us that theyre treating their elite athletes the same way theyre treating the youngest gymnast in their member gyms. Well you know mckayla said that she had signed her agreement in two thousand and sixteen but just a few months ago in august the o. C. Register which is a local california newspaper did publish that they had been able to confirm that another case had been settled in twenty fifteen with another victim of larry nasser in the lead gymnast so yes i think its i think its likely that there are others that have been silenced. I think there needs to be an investigation into whether your legal activities occurred there are very legitimate questions about whether or not this nondisclosure agreement was even legal under California Law because it did involve felony sex offense crimes and i think there needs to be a complete board change from the top down because these Board Members have have made it very clear that that the safety of little children is not their priority that they see nothing wrong with how they have handled not just the larry nassar situation but with how theyve handled sexual predators in the organization for decades when you have an organization like usa do that is in charge of our libyans that is in charge of the entire sport from the top down and they cant handle Something Like sexual abuse against little children yes i think it is time for the u. S. O. C. To look at simply removing their authority to run our Gymnastics Program in the United States because they have proven that they care about something more than the safety of their athletes and thats inexcusable. And all of that coming up off the bright red faces it. Floods of floundering will tell you what these financially break. Man made Global Warming incinerating causing. But the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so we do have donek adjustment to our algorithm will take out the city and alaska that would flag us to take action appropriate for survival of the species and were going to instead rely on our Balance Sheet and our algorithm like g. P. S. Monitor your heart thats pointing over a cliff i dont care if the clip is there a biography says its not there so i keep driving going to the families im going to go right over the cliff because after the data tell. Russian athletes taking. A live picture remains controversial what awaits the olympians in south korea and more important what awaits them after the good. Facebook fight against fake news has resulted in a boomerang effect with unexpected this the sites been trying to read flood articles that contain false information but forbidding fruit tastes the sweetest as jaclyn food or explains facebook sees itself on the front lines of the fight against fake news theres a huge amount of misinformation out there on the internet its a problem weve been working hard on at facebook and were committed to fighting it after all people want to see Accurate Information and so do we. That battle heated up in december two thousand and sixteen when facebook teamed up with Fact Checkers to flag stories it determined to contain socalled disputed content but when youre on the social media titans forced to admit not only is the method ineffective it may actually inspire the opposite of the desired reaction. Academic research on correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite of fact to what we intended apparently a fake news label actually makes people more interested for example facebook red flag this story by the new port buzz which claimed hundreds of thousands of irish people were brought to the us as slaves but the little red sign didnt stop its spread on the contrary traffic skyrocketed but facebook isnt daunted by the discovery that flagging stories has backfired coming up with a new plan to provide alternative articles on long side possibly false stories to give people more context but the question remains are those alternative stories definitely relevant and balanced and whos actually making that call the choice of the articles the choice of the outlets is going to reflect human bias he would bias is inevitable whenever human beings are involved theres always going to be a social political cultural and so on bias and the selection of those related articles is going to reflect that facebook obviously has an agenda the people who work at facebook have individual agendas and biases they might not even be aware of their own biases. As facebook struggle to contend with fabricated news stories circulating on this site seems to us some busted in the netherlands isnt helping matters much described as the. You mentioned in a debate. That there are no go zones in that. We would call it fake because i never said. Yes there. Goes another ones. Nose knows no goes or. Not its you have a problem with english is your second language ok. Fake news obviously i didnt call that big news i didnt you. Know no. I think thats to do with the second he said these words in the beginning from his stance as an politician and when he was the second time he was already elected as ambassador as an investor and just as the words were so thats kind of weird of course i dont think there will be any problems i think it will be sitting just like all the other best interests and people on the scene. For the headlines today u. S. Intelligence chiefs are urging congress to reauthorize the National Security agencys far reaching spying program which expires at the end of the as some good long do it they say that if lawmakers do not to renew it the countrys security will be undermined. If Congress Fails to reauthorize this or forty the Intelligence Community will lose valuable foreign intelligence information and the resulting intelligence gaps who make it easy for terrorists weapons proliferation is malicious cyber out says and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection the internet spying program started up in two thousand and eight basically gives an authority to intelligence organizations to collect data from foreign agents but it also allows for the interception of Prime Minister<\/a> has ordered the country to withdraw from unescos he uns Cultural Heritage<\/a> organization it follows a similar move announced by the United States<\/a> in october over a perceived bias against israel is how that countrys envoy to the agency explained the decision that. Has broken records of people crissy incitement and lies against israel and the jewish people while polluting its noble Core Principles<\/a> with politicisation and diplomatic terrorism that sometimes bordered on semitism with more on israels move. Comes on the heels of quite a bit of criticism from the United States<\/a> and israel of you know ask those activities now you know asco is the uns Cultural Agency<\/a> now the Israeli Foreign<\/a> Ministry Spokesperson<\/a> specifically cited what he called the attempts to disconnect the history of jewish history from the land of israel now unesco has angered israel over the past year they passed resolutions in which they said that israel has no right to jerusalem they said that the temple mount and the old city are both muslim the holy sites now as far back as twenty eleven go actually granted palestine full membership in its organization now this is danny the israeli ambassador to the United Nations<\/a> this is him touching on the recent decision no unit. No empty speech you. Know didnt want to be revolution will ever do divide about. Recently we saw that the usa had withdrawn from the nasco that happened in october and when the United States<\/a> pulled out of the nasco they specifically cited what they called an anti israel bias now when that happened israels Prime Minister<\/a> Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> called it a courageous and moral decision and praised the United States<\/a> for doing that it stands for the United Nations<\/a> Educational Scientific<\/a> and Cultural Organization<\/a> it has a number of tasks it fights violent extremism around the world it promotes female education it promotes Media Freedom<\/a> it also protects certain cultural sites around the world now what is in question at the moment is what will happen to certain cultural sites now that both the United States<\/a> and israel are no longer participants in this very Important International<\/a> body. Lists World Heritage<\/a> sites across israel of comprising with dozen places representing three thousand years of history in the post israeli newspaper columnist and or and believes unesco is also the platform for diplomatic action and the full israeli thinks may have but should be reversed its decision. Every u. N. Agency is a battlefield in the Foreign Policy<\/a> and diplomacy arena and unesco is no different than the Human Rights Council<\/a> and others but whether or not israel or should we throw from it is another matter altogether because just withdrawing just leaving the field to others is not acceptable to many israelis we have been through such cycles of un bashing. Eventually israel and presumably the United States<\/a> too would come back having symbolized. Their displeasure. Is just a gesture one shouldnt read too much into it meanwhile both cars are in the west bank of seeing more clashes in the Third Straight<\/a> week of unrest in that region fridays demonstrations left in dead more than sixty injured. Palestinian fattah parties called for christmas celebrations to be cancelled vowing more days of rage as they put it instead going on rest in the region comes in the wake of u. S. President donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel of course in the palestinian administered city of ramallah meantime Israeli Soldiers<\/a> pushing back paramedics who would try to reach the injured troops used weapons and other forceful measures presenting emergency said preventing missiles and from reaching the wounded. And other developments on the United Nations<\/a> General Assembly<\/a> voted overwhelmingly to condemn Donald Trumps<\/a> unilateral decision concerned that the dispute over the city status should only be resolved by talks only nine Member States<\/a> eventually including the u. S. Voted against the resolution even so the countries even ambassador remained undeterred putting the focus on the few friends backing the jerusalem decision. This will make a difference on how americans look at the us and on how we look at country who disrespect them and the way and this will be remembered. Its. Its. More of the twists and turns over this jewish communities in germany say theyre now facing growing anti semitism many say theyve been the target of discrimination or harassment on a daily basis and they believe the problems we made worse by the us president s controversial decision to recognize your limits israels capital with more europe correspondent. Yeah. Israeli flags burning in the center of. The aftermath of the u. S. Decision on jerusalem but apart from protests its feared the backlash would overstepped the line into attacks against jewish people a Police Investigation<\/a> is underway here in berlin following a shocking display of anti semitism outside of a jewish restaurant plus what i know from. My six me you wouldnt mention a problem for much need much of. It because. The owner of the restaurant says he expects these type of attacks considering the current climate it was a typical latest incident thing against jews the typical. Israelis bed story is a bit and go to the gas chamber in five years. We have unfortunately a lot of cases different in this similar to do mostly its an anemic we get a lot of phone calls with. In fact the leaders in the Jewish Community<\/a> say that these type of incidents a far more common than we may think think its a horrible incident but i think its something what happens sometimes on a daily basis here in germany i wouldnt say that its that its a bad feeling as a jew living in germany but on the other side there are things happening and if youre a member of a community or an institution you get confronted with those kinds of incidents. Like really every day the u. S. Position on jerusalem has certainly added fuel to a backlash against israel but if you look at a study that was carried out just this year over sixty percent of the youths who were surveyed were from a jewish background said that they had faced until semitism. On a daily basis with almost thirty percent saying that theyve been targeted or harassed in the last year just this last month in the venting district of berlin a schoolboy was attacked by a group of classmates who told him that hitler was good because he killed the jews from the government side weve heard a strong response from the German Justice<\/a> minister us any kind of anti semitism is an attack on everyone and its as a must never be allowed to have a place in society again but looking at an uptick in attacks in germany targeting jews that may seem easier said than done peter all over. The u. S. Olympic committee in the countrys gymnastics governing body are being accused of helping cover up years of sex abuse and child molestation in a lawsuit filed by a champion gymnast Mccullough Maroney<\/a> she alleges to have been abused by a u. S. Team doctor for years and then paid to keep silent over it she also names other sports institutions too for preventing her from publicly coming forward with more details artists america. Mckayla maroney americas a limp big darling one of the worlds most famous gymnasts u. S. Household name and victim of childhood sex abuse that apparently took place over years and when she wanted to speak out both usa gymnastics plus the u. S. Olympic committee made her keep quiet rhody claims she was paid hush money and is now suing them for silencing her she hired a lawyer and asked for a settlement conference or mediation to get justice to what she didnt ask for was a draconian confidentiality agreement that prevented her from telling even her brother and sister about this and then i think even worse it said that you cant ever say anything bad about us if your masters ever for your whole life shes come forward with a horrific story of abuse by team u. S. A. s former doctor larry nasser it started when i was thirteen years old and it didnt end until i left the sport it seemed when ever and wherever this man could find a chance i was treated this carries night of my leg happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and night with the team to get to tokyo he had given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing i know i was alone with him in his hotel room getting treatment i thought i was going to die that night but one would naturally have expected usa gymnastics to support its crown jewel but the Organization Claims<\/a> that she herself chose to settle this all quietly into in sixty mchale as attorney at the time Gloria Allred<\/a> approached usa gymnastics requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation the process culminated in a system and agreements that included a mutual nondisclosure cools and a mutual disparagement moronis case is just the start over one hundred and fifty women have now accused the same doctor of sexual abuse i dont want to be in a courtroom telling about how a man you know pandered to me. Front of my mother when i was eleven the fact that he just thinks oh i flew to guilty and now you guys can start healing is ridiculous to me i dont think. I dont think he truly understands how many people are hurting and how bad people are hurting over this now dr nasser admits to exploiting his position to abuse his patients and he was recently convicted and sentenced to sixty years in jail but his victims believe justice has still not been served and its not just nassar who they insist must be punished but the sports officials who failed to protect child athletes dealin pics are something that brings people hope and joy sure from the outside looking in its an amazing story i did it i got there but not without a price we discussed roadies claims with. In holland she was the first to publicly accuse former u. S. Team doctor larry master search was sold and she is no surprise she says claims of a big coverup. You know i wish i could say that i was surprised but the reality with usa gymnastics is they have a decades long policy of covering up sexual abuse and of and of silencing victims some of the most prominent coaches in the usa to have trained olympians those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too and again like like their member coaches they were allowed to continue praying on little girls and even their elite athletes for decades and usa jews response to that was was to defend in under a testimony to defend their policy saying they wanted to avoid a witch hunt so when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of supporting sexual predators a decades long policy of silencing victims by literally shoving reports in a file cabinet and then they can defend their actions by saying they want to avoid a witch hunt it shouldnt come as any surprise to us that theyre treating their elite athletes the same way theyre treating the youngest gymnast in their member gyms. Well you know mckayla said that she had signed her agreement in two thousand and sixteen but just a few months ago in august the o. C. Register which is a local california newspaper did publish that they had been able to confirm that another case had been settled in twenty fifteen with another victim of larry nasser in the lead gymnast so yes i think its i think its likely that there are others that have been silenced. I think there needs to be an investigation into whether your legal activities occurred there are very legitimate questions about whether or not this nondisclosure agreement was even legal under California Law<\/a> because it did involve felony sex offense crimes and i think there needs to be a complete board change from the top down because these Board Members<\/a> have have made it very clear that that the safety of little children is not their priority that they see nothing wrong with how they have handled not just the larry nassar situation but with how theyve handled sexual predators in the organization for decades when you have an organization like usa do that is in charge of our libyans that is in charge of the entire sport from the top down and they cant handle Something Like<\/a> sexual abuse against little children yes i think it is time for the u. S. O. C. To look at simply removing their authority to run our Gymnastics Program<\/a> in the United States<\/a> because they have proven that they care about something more than the safety of their athletes and thats inexcusable. And all of that coming up off the bright red faces it. Floods of floundering will tell you what these financially break. Man made Global Warming<\/a> incinerating causing. But the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so we do have donek adjustment to our algorithm will take out the city and alaska that would flag us to take action appropriate for survival of the species and were going to instead rely on our Balance Sheet<\/a> and our algorithm like g. P. S. Monitor your heart thats pointing over a cliff i dont care if the clip is there a biography says its not there so i keep driving going to the families im going to go right over the cliff because after the data tell. Russian athletes taking. A live picture remains controversial what awaits the olympians in south korea and more important what awaits them after the good. Facebook fight against fake news has resulted in a boomerang effect with unexpected this the sites been trying to read flood articles that contain false information but forbidding fruit tastes the sweetest as jaclyn food or explains facebook sees itself on the front lines of the fight against fake news theres a huge amount of misinformation out there on the internet its a problem weve been working hard on at facebook and were committed to fighting it after all people want to see Accurate Information<\/a> and so do we. That battle heated up in december two thousand and sixteen when facebook teamed up with Fact Checkers<\/a> to flag stories it determined to contain socalled disputed content but when youre on the social media titans forced to admit not only is the method ineffective it may actually inspire the opposite of the desired reaction. Academic research on correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image like a red flag next to an article may actually entrenched deeply held beliefs the opposite of fact to what we intended apparently a fake news label actually makes people more interested for example facebook red flag this story by the new port buzz which claimed hundreds of thousands of irish people were brought to the us as slaves but the little red sign didnt stop its spread on the contrary traffic skyrocketed but facebook isnt daunted by the discovery that flagging stories has backfired coming up with a new plan to provide alternative articles on long side possibly false stories to give people more context but the question remains are those alternative stories definitely relevant and balanced and whos actually making that call the choice of the articles the choice of the outlets is going to reflect human bias he would bias is inevitable whenever human beings are involved theres always going to be a social political cultural and so on bias and the selection of those related articles is going to reflect that facebook obviously has an agenda the people who work at facebook have individual agendas and biases they might not even be aware of their own biases. As facebook struggle to contend with fabricated news stories circulating on this site seems to us some busted in the netherlands isnt helping matters much described as the. You mentioned in a debate. That there are no go zones in that. We would call it fake because i never said. Yes there. Goes another ones. Nose knows no goes or. Not its you have a problem with english is your second language ok. Fake news obviously i didnt call that big news i didnt you. Know no. I think thats to do with the second he said these words in the beginning from his stance as an politician and when he was the second time he was already elected as ambassador as an investor and just as the words were so thats kind of weird of course i dont think there will be any problems i think it will be sitting just like all the other best interests and people on the scene. For the headlines today u. S. Intelligence chiefs are urging congress to reauthorize the National Security<\/a> agencys far reaching spying program which expires at the end of the as some good long do it they say that if lawmakers do not to renew it the countrys security will be undermined. If Congress Fails<\/a> to reauthorize this or forty the Intelligence Community<\/a> will lose valuable foreign intelligence information and the resulting intelligence gaps who make it easy for terrorists weapons proliferation is malicious cyber out says and other foreign adverse reason to plan attacks against our citizens and allies without detection the internet spying program started up in two thousand and eight basically gives an authority to intelligence organizations to collect data from foreign agents but it also allows for the interception of Americans Communications<\/a> in certain cases to know the latest his critics and social activists say they fear that if this is renewed its actually going to lead to increased levels of surveillance the proposed bill is not a reform measure on the contrary it would expand surveillance grants the government more authority and other provisions of pfizer and could be read to codify current unlawful surveillance practices attorney Michael Flanagan<\/a> outlined his concerns about the program under the law theyre allowed to listen for just a few seconds i mean its regulated down to to an actual time limit i dont know exactly what it is but its really a tiny amount of time that theyre allowed to listen but they get to keep going the same the same frequency you know keep listening for a few seconds and turn it off and start again to turn off and start again and we have more than a little bit of evidence that that has happened in an effort to listen in on other calls when theyre actually trying to listen to the american and so you have a ridiculous subterfuge gone through some some some crazy crazy handstands that have gone through simply to have intelligence agencies of the United States<\/a> spy on citizens of the United States<\/a> which is absolute theres no one in congress who would approve such a thing but this law allows them as you correctly observed a backdoor way to be able to do that whats going on here how would you feel if you looked up into the night sky and saw this. What is it sinister looking shape see the populous angeles of friday freaked out more than a few people they contacted Police Suspected<\/a> of being anything from maybe a u. F. O. To a missile attack so their lives in the sea at the explanations far more down to worth we can tell its actually the final launch from the year from space x. The private contract of course gets satellites into orbit and occasionally supplies the International Space<\/a> station looks like it all went well happy christmas to you guys up there. Down on earth friendly body guards are getting a boost in their hand to hand combat skills from one top mixed martial arts fighter guys names are to hes been training agents from the federal protective service his primary aim is to guard high ranking officials including president putin himself. Right has been a dream of mine since i was a kid to visit it and of course i never in general to be invited to train special forces so i was very excited enjoyed every second of this fortune professions so one goal is enjoy the of you when i get there with coach people those that understand the flames. The main thing in the fighting is not just the skill skill can be learned its the higher this prize of life for their country so theyre made great fighters no doubt a moment. Miss you guys you got to do well in the going to be cool. This is us to quote them out put it over and over some more you know i love the lift bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the base secure but its also over much more than water its about to hurt and the redistribution of all our west works on their date downwards we want all. Politicians to you so you can. They put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. So when you want to be president or injury. Or somehow want to. Have to go right to be precise with what was before three of them or cant be good good. Im Afshin Rattansi<\/a> my going on the ground here at the green felt tower in london arguably emblematic of a year of continuing post twenty zero eight crash collective economic punishment coming up on the show from grand fellow off verity to yemen and venezuela the legendary journalist john pilger the oscar winning director Barry Jenkins<\/a> we look at some of our favorite interviews of the drives this christmas we speak to Jeremy Corbin<\/a> shadow long johns the richard book and the man who served seven years on an indefinite sentence about why the government just still not releasing thousands who have. All the civil coming up in todays going on the ground but first while teresa mayes commissioned inquiry into the ground. Which killed at least seventy one people has already been met with skepticism by the local community it has media dominated by the effects of a financial crash nearly ten years ago and doggedly the powerful using identity politics to divide the working class Barry Jenkins<\/a> who picked up an oscar this year for directing his film moonlights had faith in the usa saying donald trump will not be able to enforce division i dont think he will be able to if he is i think it will say more about the country and it does about trump but i refuse to believe that he will at a certain point a policy is a policy and i think of certain things are taken from on the working class economy taken from the entire working class black white mexican asian whatever so i dont think so i have faith again im a Glass Half Full<\/a> person but when it comes to those this side of the pond doggedly fighting for workers solidarity they have merely come under a personal attack from a british only god going to media that according to the shadow chancellor John Mcdonnell<\/a> understands full well what Jeremy Corbyn<\/a> once for the u. K. I understand it all right i just dont like what were doing in the hands of the song the song sometimes of murder. Me. Everything we do the same with. What they do is they dont actually say you know what were doing. Distorted our views so much just switched off believe them. In the general election. Ever have another general election where the boat. Dont. Say the poet told us he was only getting discerning audiences for a revival of a play about the working classes Jim Cartwrights<\/a> the road in london hopefully playwrights who are writing about now and poets who are writing about now will speak with the same kind of anger. As Jim Cartwright<\/a> spoke in this play thirty years ago i think thats why its find in relevance with the audiences of london and of england its because it speaks to the place speaks to. You know there was a fire in london in a block of flats called tower which im sure youve heard about we started to ask the question why dont we know about the people who were in. Tower how how they become so invisible this play is about people who are not seen something echoed by one new labor m. P. Elected britains june general election universal credit is being rolled out in my constituency in december and whoever has decided that then clearly doesnt understand either universal credit or what happened then where in class communities over christmas you spend money. 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