22/06/2013 BBC Weekend News


22/06/2013

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Hello, good afternoon. The former American intelligence

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analyst, Edward Snowden, has been charged with espionage and theft by

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prosecutors in the United States. He fled to Hong Kong last month and

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leaked details of secret surveillance programmes. The latest

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documents, published today by the Guardian newspaper, suggest that

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GCHQ, the British government agency, is collecting data on hundreds of

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millions of emails and phone calls every day. Emily Buchanan reports.

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Every day we create vast streams of electronic traffic. Billions of

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phone calls, e-mails an internet searches. Now there are allegations

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that Britain is the world leader in monitoring them. For the last 18

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months, GCHQ has apparently been tapping into vast amounts of our

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personal digital communications. They store it for 30 days, so it can

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can be sifted and analysed. They are said to be sharing the data with

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America's National Security Agency. The revelations came from the NSA

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whistleblower, Edward Snowden, believed to be in hiding in Hong

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Kong. The US has filed spying charges against him. The officials

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in the UK argue that blanket monitoring is legal.

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The crucial question is not how much data could they collect but what can

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they get access to? Is it an intrusion on the privacy? There are

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billions of e-mails going around. Do you think that the Americans have

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nothing better to do, than go on fishing expeditions, that someone

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may be involved in something. It does not work that way. Critics

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worry about the surveillance of our private communications.

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It is the kind of information that could be abuse abused to blackmail

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us, to intrude on our freedom of conscious, to trued on private and

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family life. Who wants to live in a country where you never know if you

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are being watched? So if there is a new way to ensure security or

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invasion of privacy, the allegations will provoke intense debate.

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The Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned his party that a Labour

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government would not resort to extra borrowing to reverse any cuts

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announced by the government in next week's spending review. Ed Miliband

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told activists that the party would have to face the hard reality of

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Britain's economic situation. You think it will be different at

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the next election. I don't want anyone to be under illusions about

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thament the next Labour government will have to plan in 2015 on falling

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departmental spending. Our starting point in 2015/16, will be that we

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will not be able to reverse the cuts and on current day-to-day spending

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unless we find the money from savings elsewhere or extra revenue,

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not from more borrowing. Our Political Correspondent Alan

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Soady is me in the studio. Why is he saying this now? He will have seen

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the opinion polls that suggest that on the one hand the party looks

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lying it is ahead overall but when it comes to the question who the

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voters trust to run the economy, polls suggested that it is not the

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Labour Party. So his solution to regain that confidence is to have

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this speech today, to make this promise, or rather, to specify he

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would not be able to do much with the cuts that are in motion if he

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were to win the election in 2015. It is not all doom and gloom. He is

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saying that there are historic precedents of s things even when

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money is tight. Such as paying down debts, but also setting up things

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like the National Health Service. So he is trying to convince voters he

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is the man to take charge of the economy, the Conservatives, though,

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say that the voters will not belief him. That they don't believe he is

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strong enough to deliver. There is growing concern for

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thousands of people stranded in remote areas of northern India,

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following floods and landslides. More than 550 people are known to

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have died. Rescue workers say that many are without shelter.

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It has emerged an ambulance carrying Nelson Mandela to hospital two weeks

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ago broke down during the journey. A spokesperson said that the vehicle

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had engine trouble, that the former President was transferred to another

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ambulance. He insisted that Nelson Mandela was in no danger. There have

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been claims that Nelson Mandela was forced to wait for 40 minutes in

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freezing temperatures. The Brazilian President, Dilma

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Rousseff, has announced a series of reforms in the attempt to end

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nationwide antigovernment protest. Dilma Rousseff promised to improve

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the public transport and health services. The demonstrations that

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began over fare rises in Sao Paulo have grown into national protests

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over a range of issues from corruption to the rising in prices.

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The protests in Brazil have been going on for another night.

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24 hours after the million-man demonstrations, Dilma Rousseff

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announced a series of public spending reforms in a prime time

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broadcast to try to calm down the crowds.

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We are listening but we will not put up with violence. This should be

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peaceful, a free democracy, and we will continue therefore, to build

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our great country together. This video from Rio show what is the

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activists consider rough treatment. The President ed police action. A

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group gathered to protest at what they consider to be heavy-handed

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policing. Viral videos of demonstrators being beaten, sparked

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the mass action. They were drawing bombs and there

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were explosions and pieces flying everywhere. We were hurt in the face

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and hands. Protests have been breaking out

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across Brazil. Spread byword off mouth and social networks, this is a

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high-end neighbourhood of Rio, and this is the governor's house. Many

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people are still not convinced by the President's speech. More, bigger

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