pr stunt? let s get started. all right our top story tonight voting rights. with republicans doubling down on their attempt to restrict the right to vote. senate democrats introduced new federal voting rights legislation this week. but its chances of passage remain dim. as roadblocks continue to play the upper chamber. that s inside democratic senator amy klobuchar, from highlighting the importance of the legislation this morning, in an apparent strike here on msnbc, watch. our job is senators right now, yes we have a lot to. do economically. but it is the oath we take. to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. we need federal voting rights to do that. all right so klobuchar is one of the sponsors for the freedom to vote act. let s take a look at what s in this new bill. automatic voted registration, an online registration, making election day a holiday, uniform early voting, and perhaps most importantly, a provision that will prevent state election sub
. it s an acceptable to place this as it were, told the tags near large settlements in american lives. the blower daniel hail is sentenced to almost 4 years in jail for leaking information on us going warfare we hear from others who also followed their conscience and shared government secrets. when we kill civilians and then put in the official report that they weren t children for example, they were goes, that is a war crime. it s really a war on truth. not just with the government is that war with its own people ah . are broadcasting. why direct from our studios moscow? this is our international. i m john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now clashes erupted in the central berlin when thousands of coverage skeptic gathered to protest long running restrictions with police detaining nearly $500.00 demonstrators. it s just over a day and city leaders ban such rallies over the risk of spreading the disease. yeah. ah, ah, the it was a very chaotic day today. here in bo
alike are unable to hold back the tears on day one of us congressional hearing into january is capitol hill, right? very supposedly balanced panel. spend the session largely bashing trauma supporters also in the program for you from to proves a new law restricting travel and entry to public places for people without so called covey passports. or the move is proving hugely devices amongst businesses on the public at large. ah, it s a busy night here and most go for your top news headlines. welcome to them. i m role research. so whistleblower daniel hill has not been sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking classified information about america s drone program. now while serving the background base and i ve got just on a decade ago, hale that helped identify targets, forest destination. when he returned home to the us in 2013, he shared secret details about the drawing program, with journalists up intercept, ultimately revealing the true extent of civilian casualties. both t
police. worldwide this is the international from moscow where it s just one of the morning on wednesday welcome to the program 1st for you a correspondent with the america had her twitter account temporarily suspended with the social network are you going to lift the block off the she removed a video of alleged u.s. war crimes which she d tweeted they were about to show you some footage of the video and just be warned that you might find it disturbing to watch 1st released by wiki leaks in 2010 the once classified u.s. military video appears to show the indiscriminate shooting of over a dozen civilians in a baghdad suburb from an american helicopter among those killed are 2 employees of the reuters news agency wiki leaks said it had managed to obtain the video from a number of whistleblowers america s racial blevins shed. told by twitter. so i was simply given a notice in which is that i was locked out of my account and the only way to get back into my account was to take dow
the background to the weekend s violent attacks on police in northern ireland. a very warm welcome you re watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron our top story this hour a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington s targeted drone assassination program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information his case comes amid a mass disclosure of similar crimes allegedly perpetrated by the u.s. . i have to tell you when he called me a few hours ago he was surprisingly upbeat and optimistic and he he remarked about how much press this issue has been getting since he decided to plead guilty so in the end i think that he thinks that this is been worth it that americans know more about the drone program now than 8 they did 6 months ago or a year ago and even though he s likely going to go to prison it was worth it the u.s. is flying these drones or at least it was until recently tha