S and not just in syria that all important with top Us Intelligence official. More on that and inexplicable of a syrian city captured by islamist leader and a shout a fan. Theyre easy to read there. I guarantee that you are watching arts america begin today with the news that the Obama Administration has decided on the next head of the National Security agency vice admiral Michael Rogers will take the place of general Keith Alexander who announced his retirement for later this brand is all according to information provided to the New York Times by senior us officials admiral drivers will command both an essay and Cyber Command the new pentagon unit and directs the countrys offensive Cyber Operations rogers is said to have more experience than his predecessor and code breaking in the design of americas new arsenal of Cyber Weapons however remains to be seen how youll respond to Civil Liberties issues that have engulfed the nsa in the past year. And speaking of the nsa tonights episode o
Hands of seven men. [ applause ] xi and six other senior officials appeared before the media inside the great hall of the people in beijing. Translator our responsibility is to rally and lead the party and Chinese People of all ethnic groups. We take up the historical baton from the older generation. Reporter chinas new leader vowed to take action on issues such as jobs, Social Security and corruption. Translator in the new environment, our party faces many tough challenges. There are numerous pressing problems within the party and senior ranks that need to be resolved, especially corruption and the acceptance of bribes. Reporter xi jinping is taking over the position of general secretary from hu jintao. He will lead the politburos Standing Committee, chinas main decisionmaking body. The number of seats on the committee has been reduced to seven from nine. Analysts say the party made the change to speed up the decisionmaking process. Xi jinping and another top official, li keqiang, hav
There to find their way into the site. But i am keenly aware when i write about china now i am being read not but just by my motherinlaw but by chinese. And i think that does raise your game. Again, i hope by it takes me back to a that you question ducked earlier on new technology and the effect that has. The New York Times benefited from the wikileaks story. The New York Times decided that it would send a team of reporters to another newspaper in england where the information already was, so it was no act of journalistic genius to go over there and pick up that information and then put it into the times. So what does that mean about the times and a fitting from wikileaks . Is that a good thing . Are they to be proud of the fact that they made that decision . You should really ask Arthur Sulzberger that. Bill keller. He was seated here, and i did ask him. What did he say . He made an effort to answer it, which is more than you are doing. [laughter] you see, im trying to understand. The
But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very opportune time, right in the midst of the leaks by Edward Snowden, who put a huge spotlight on several important surveillance programs. One of them is section 215, as you mention. Your board came out with a 238 page report last month. I would say it is arguably the most extensive analysis of the legal underpinnings and the utility of the 215 program, which is, as most of the public now knows, a program where the nsa collects metadata, data about phone calls of americans, and puts it in a database
Translator we wont let them hold a referendum. Well protest at the president ial palace, tahrir square, everywhere. And we wont let it happen. The president s supporters have been holding a sitin around the palace, where troops and tanks have been deployed. Translator we are determined to protect the president we elected democratically. President morsi says he has not changed his plans for the referendum, but many fear the violence will spread. At least 327 people are confirmed dead after typhoon bopha struck the philippines earlier this week. 250,000 people are living in shelters. Many have yet to receive any assistance from the authorities. Nhk worlds Charmaine Deogracias reports. Reporter typhoon bopha passed the philippines islands on tuesday. Heavy rains caused floods and an mud slides in Compostela Valley in the eastern part of the island. The category 5 typhoon toppled trees, knocked down power lines, and bursted river banks that carried these boulders, burying homes and familie