more than one hundred killed and many others wounded in the rock as militants stage a nationwide of friends just days after al qaeda vowed violent comeback. the terrorist group also deepens its roots next door in syria with the war torn state now under international scrutiny over what might happen to its chemical weapons. and a poke at privacy social networks have complied with around and thousand requests to hand over personal data this year alone despite users setting their info to confidential. quote from our studios in central moscow here with r t m needs now with our top

story and the wave of terror in iraq attacks explosions and suicide bombings have killed at least a hundred and some of them across the country and left nearly three hundred wounded the seemingly coordinated assault turned today into the bloodiest episode in iraq since u.s. troops left the country government officials police and army units appear to have been the primary targets of the onslaught the attacks came just days after al qaeda as a new leader in iraq laid out that plants for the terrorist cell there are teas middies correspondent paul slayer reports. this is the most deadly attack in at least you know in iraq and what is a day yesterday that still some seventeen people killed now we're hearing from a security personnel spokesperson that the target of these attacks is predominantly security and iraqi police it comes just days off to a warning by the lido i'll cry that. iraq gaiety said he would be retaking

strongholds that had been those all day he would be pushing out the united states and its allies in an already of recording that was posted online he said and i'm quoting and he was referring here to the united states you will see that he didn't at the heart of your country since war has only just begun now these latest developments in iraq are parallel to what we seeing unfolding in syria but it is interesting that the mainstream media isn't largely choosing not to report on iraq to the extent that it is it is reporting on developments in syria so the questions being are still first me why is iraq not in the headlines to be a stand that's it really is and secondly when you look at talk currently on the table about whether or not there should be any kind of interference any kind of whiston outside interference in syria it simply raises the compounds particularly if you look at what has happened in iraq where there was an occupation for decades dave iraq we see chaos we see constance triumph we see a death toll that is constantly on the increase and concern is being raised whether

or not the same kind of somalia might eventually play on in syria. but commenting on today's cowardice in iraq jim brown from stop the war coalition says it's all part of a wider power struggle. one way or another we're talking about proxies when we talk about al qaeda in iraq or when you talk about this man yesterday making his statement i think we have to see it and see them as a proxy for what we call the saudi interest because there is this this great battle being fought. for control and influence and one side stands saudi arabia in general by united states and nato on the other side stand iran to present the united states as being some neutral part parties somebody with real interest would be quite wrong clearly the united states its interest in iraq has its

interest in iraq and one my or another is playing them out and i assured him that the united states would want a situation in iraq which was relatively stable but not out of control which was factionalized which minimized the rayney an influence for example but they certainly wouldn't want to eliminate the problem because that would reduce their boggling. well the impact of the swath of terror in iraq will be felt widely international relations professor mark almond from look at university in turkey says it bodes badly for the whole region. the situation until two thousand and three of course was that saddam hussein had tight control of the country afterwards it was the chaos in space that these kinds of terrorist groups to oppose the american presence there is a danger that the kind of bloody chaos that reigned after two personal history will come back and this could also spread across a great presence on the mediterranean coast of syria to war with iran and towards

her and so we have a very unstable situation and it seems to me the western states are playing with fire in that we saw you know small scale who i can and i stand in line he's responsible radical really only seem to subscribe to the one force for michael now in a much bigger area with much more important or source seems to be the danger of a very severe disintegration or the very least final of the civil wars with huge costs for syria while in a way we in the west and in the wider world what's happening in the arab world can come across and of pages but i'm afraid a great you know it is really about who or religious domination between sunni fundamentalists against shiites. his influence is being felt beyond the iraqi border in neighboring syria german intelligence apparently claims the terror group is behind almost one hundred attacks there since the beginning of the year fighters are believed to be working alongside syria's armed opposition which is now putting

all its effort into seizing control of the country's largest cities after the rebels failed attempt to take damascus the commercial hub of aleppo it now bears the brunt of conflict army and opposition clashes have been ongoing there for several days archies oksana boyko performance. art she was one of the few if not the only foreign crew that was able to travel to aleppo last than three months ago and from what we've seen there i can tell you that he's a very peculiar case for these whole syrian struggle no where you can see the kind of virgin's of the genuine democratic movement and pure criminal activity so vividly as in on one hand aleppo is home to a major university so a lot of people you meet there are liberally minded intellectuals they oftentimes disagree with the policies of bashar assad many of them call on him just that down

but at the same time they strongly object to the use of kalashnikovs who are any political games they don't want democracy to be delivered through these very bloody conflict through these very bloody struggle on the other hand aleppo is home to many militia groups this is probably because it's far more closer to the north and to the turkish border that is used to supply all those arms and in the letter you hear a lot of stories a lot of cases of industrial terrorism where shops and factories were sat on fire simply because their owners your fused to pay the so-called revolutionary tax that the free syrian army attempted to impose on local businesses there are also a lot of cases of key. net beings and those kidnappings are carried out not so much for political aims or goals but rather simply for ransom so a lever is indeed a very important strategic location for both the army and the opposition and the

battle for aleppo will be very important in determining the balance of power in the distribution of forces in these seventeen month long syrian conflict oh exon my continues to update us on what's happening on the ground in syria on her twitter feed she travels across the country and is visited a military hospital in the capital she says around one hundred soldiers died there in the last three days majority of them are in their late teens and early twenty's you can also follow the latest news from syria on tease me your feet as well. so israel says it's prepared to deal with syria's chemical arsenal if it falls into hezbollah's also seem collapse despite possessing such weapons damascus insists it will use them only if there's a foreign attack well some regional experts though think it's more dangerous if israel how the syrian rebels obtain that stockpile. i think that the

syrians are moving caches of of weapons of a conventional or an unconventional nature within syria that's their own prerogative of a sovereign state they have their rights and the prerogative of moving their weapons where ever they want at the same time if that's what the argument is as defending lebanon but then again let's see who is supporting the salafist on their monthly lists in syria who is supporting the. fundamentalists who are being smuggled smuggled into syria i think it's clear that g.c.c. and turkey are are doing that so of there's a danger of such weapons falling into the hands of these people then they are the culprit the would be exactly the alias and the united states. well plenty more to come this hour including europe's your u.s. farmers to say someone is milking the system they're not seeing

a drop of the earnings report or why they're making a splash outside parliament but. the people around the world trillions of dollars in paradise is appointed as the result of spending cuts in the crisis will be told to business just like twenty. israel's lax treatment of its own struggling citizens has seen some horrific acts of protest two people have set themselves on fire within just a week or so i mean albany from physicians for human rights points out that the government is increasing funding settlements in occupied territories at the expense of spending on society it is an issue of priority but it also in the issue of ideology the whole issue i'm not saying security is a non issue it is an issue and we've seen this as an example what happened lately in burgas about the attack on israelis it's not saying that the palestinian israeli

conflict or iran or syria is not an issue but there are also domestic issues and while if you take health for an example while the public expenditure on health has been gone down for the past three decades and has put israel in the lowest one of the lowest place compared to other developed countries i mean public that spends public expenditure is very low in israel as compared to other countries there is divestments in settlements there is just a recent survey saying that. expenditure on settlements on welfare in x. and settlements has been five times the amount that the expenditure on welfare inside the green line so it is a matter of priorities it is a matter of ideology and the whole domestic issue has been. has

no. not been dealt with for years. but israel's push for ever expanding settlements in the west bank is also the subject of debate nor to use cross talk coming up at fifteen thirty g.m.t. . i'm sitting in my parents were born there my grandparents are buried there my great grandparents are buried there i would like you to tell me why you a new york born white jewish man with no apparent. personal family ties beginning with your parents and going for why do you feel you have more rights than i do to live in that land or my parents who can't even step foot there. just to answer that question. millions of us turn to social networks like facebook and twitter to share our lives with friends and family but what you might not know is that you could be giving

away your personal data to governments as artie's marina portnoy explains no privacy settings can bar the authorities prying eyes. in the land of social media users tweet tag friend upload and share information at any given moment in the land of the free what americans post online can and will be used against them. according to twitter of the nearly twelve hundred government requests for user data filed in the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the u.s. government the micro message company says it complied with seventy five percent of user data washington requested social media in general twitter and facebook being prime examples of that are a part of an ever increasingly invasive police state in the united states it's it's not just about surveillance and about tracking and monitoring this is the way in

which they're consolidating control in the past year u.s. judges have forced twitter to turn over private or deleted data on users as part of investigations related to wiki leaks or occupy wall street. the ruling according to reports allows prosecutors access to tweets and additional information stored by twitter including the e-mail and i p address of a user it's more of more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online at a recent conference called how cars on planet earth former national security agent william binney detailed the demise of u.s. privacy protection which he says has been carried out by. washington for more than a decade it must of been right for you or the week after. they decided to begin to supply you with it's been he's spent thirty seven years working for the n.s.a.

before resigning to blow the whistle on what he calls the creation of an orwellian state your vote or for the very. least that we think is. true. at the height of his career binney served as technical director for n.s.a. as m group a branch that was reportedly responsible for eavesdropping on the world today he estimates that the n.s.a. has secretly compiled and stored more than twenty trillion files of e-mails phone calls and other data belonging to u.s. citizens when it comes to social media he says even users with the strictest security settings are not protected the reality of that is that that's not private at all if the companies don't have the government doesn't have it so either of them have it where they share with the unobstructed sharing of information is what's made half a billion people flock to social media sites like twitter but missing from the

terms of agreement is the monitoring that can be taking place as citizens are bursting their short messages into the virtual world. r.t. new york. there's more for you online at our dot com including the rage against police over a california killing when officers gunned down a twenty four year old president his neighbors marched and anger only to be hit with tear gas and have police dogs set on them. and here is what you get if you make a rat's heart cells with the silicone it's the world's first artificial jellyfish we'll tell you why this could be creature and say why.

europe's dairy farmers are feeling the squeeze they say big business is forcing milk prices down to below the cost of production and they say they're getting nowhere with the e.u. m.p.'s who they accuse of following the corporate herd here's our europe correspondent tess our sylvia. milk farmers have sprayed their fields with millions of leaders of milk in protest stormed any peace in strasbourg. that year after year they feel sometimes their voices are not heard when those policies are to have this advantage and therefore they feel they have no choice but to take their voices all the way to brussels. quite literally as hundreds of farmers from across europe tractors and cow stash isn't just against dropping milk prices and were lobbying lawmakers to take their interests into account in reforming policy yeah that's probably the supermarkets that. are saying.

the price will be it's the big supermarket chains one day banking and energy giants the next day the critics say those who end up getting their way the end are almost always the big guys with deep pockets commission as a whole consults much more with big corporate interests. than with all other kinds of interests in society it leads to very unbalanced decisions that are not serving the public interest in a recent report found that in the e.u. commission straight enterprise department expert groups that give crucial policy shaping advice are made up mainly of corporate representatives while farmers for example have a tiny zero point one percent share of the voice. and hope this adds a bit of volume to their cause in the mocker see it's always a good idea. whatever a proposal you have to come to brussels and to organize

a protest if you if you do it of course in a peaceful way but instead the sign of a democratic health but one of the biggest corporate lobbies in the e.u. finds no fault in business as usual a decision. or a legislation or a policy which is sort of biased black or white into either totally environmental or totally corporate interests not exist yet these people would certainly disagree they say in the end it's hardly ever the people who persistently take to the streets that run the real show. does or so you're r.t.d. brussels and then. coming up to twenty minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other stories from around the world thousands have marched through the mexican capital in protest at the country's presidential election results and regained nieto won just with just i should say over thirty eight percent but his

rivals accuse him of buying votes the runner up refuses to accept official results and is taking legal action he also claims media coverage was heavily slanted towards opinion. forest fires blazing in northeast spain have killed four people and left twenty four others injured a father and his teenage daughter died when they tried to scale down a cliff into the sea to escape the flames from the catalonia region yesterday tourists in the coastal town on the french border rushed to get out of the path of the inferno the fires cover an area almost twice the size of manhattan and are the worst for more than twenty years. a blast near the chinese consulate in southern pakistan has injured at least two people and explosive was planted on a motorbike parked near the building no one has yet admitted the attack on saturday ten people died and sixteen were injured when a suicide bomber struck at a military compound in the northwest we've got. the worst flooding

to hit the chinese capital in sixty years has killed thirty seven people drownings housing collapses and electrocutions cause most of the deaths after a trench all rains pounded beijing on saturday night storms in districts elsewhere in china have also left dozens dead as thought the capital alone has suffered one of the house those in dollars worth of debt which. will then you know joins us from the business desk in italy's leaders talking money in russia aren't they is just one day in my room he has met with prime minister with that if president putin is sore chief business or two he's been a core service details the deals that they've done. mario monti reaffirmed his commitment to maintain a friendly relationship that we've seen since the establishment's previous years now in terms of the that's what everyone wants to hear in particular we know that italian banks would like to russia's be to be two hundred seventy million euros

a massive run of eight moscow sports infrastructure also known as snicko and it's a lease tech and i'm going to renovate a soulful part that's located in russia far north we have another deal that has the it's a lease and of course a rolls there and basically there are all the financial details on their deal to develop to oil reserves in the black and barren seas and also we already have our melissa estimated that investments into those two shelves will exceed that won a billion dollars why not a deal with one billion euros this time around it's an investment and so it rushes in more places and this is why it's harley and develop ready sonnie the acar and of course italy is a very important partner for russia just last year bilateral trade increased by a quarter to forty six billion dollars that's almost pre-crisis and levels and of course as i said this is all about the trip was to establish the fact that the friendly relationship and mutually beneficial relationship will continue. because.

this. over two percent in the very first minute of trading is extending losses in the first though i agree new york. has blamed the strong dollar for reporting for today the false food joint that reports are coming in spain for a bailout officially to those of greece and portugal it means germany's finance minister in crisis talks to morrow it will close down in around twenty minutes time the country flows for a third month in a row investors are holding their cash. fearing the worst for the world economy the most on the greenback in two months on the news the euro is a multi. lows against rivals the spanish regions beg for financial assistance from would truth on the world super rich are hiding up to thirty two trillion dollars in offshore havens according to a new report that's the size of the u.s. and china's economy is combined it employs on paid tax of up to two hundred eighty

billion john christensen from text justice network which published the report explains. some of that money actually did return to these countries now some cases it does but it comes back dressed up as are in direct investment with all the tax breaks that it. comes with foreign direct investment this is a process known as round trip being which happens a lot of us in many many countries like brazil india a lot of the indian and brazilian campbell has moved offshore tax havens and comes disguised behind offshore companies so it's not clear that the region is really from india first place. but certainly a very large proportion of this capital doesn't come back into productive investment much of it goes around chasing speculative investment on the equity markets of the securities markets to the commodity markets and sometimes real estate markets in europe and north america so

a lot of this capital doesn't actually getting gauged in productive activity if it's just chasing rental incomes what economists call rent seeking if you can see even down to the kind of buying british football team. called futures ended last week record high levels as a drought in the united states continues to crops the organization for economic development and high food prices are here to stay in fact you can expect to pay twenty percent more for your average meal over the next decade called with a boost in global food up what will be hard they call instead for increased productivity. has been figuring out how to achieve all that. we're talking about the future of food so why precisely have i decided to. to a chicken farm well if you want an insight into the future of food in the coming decade you could do a lot worse than come to a place like this the o.e.c.d. and the food and agriculture organization have published an outlook of the future of the world food market in the next ten years main themes of that report supply

and demand sounds boring both of those undergo major changes first of all demand the world's population is still increasing combine that with the vast increases in wealth in the developing world people across asia and elsewhere want more food and more meat in their diets because they can afford it that's where chicken comes in it's easy to produce in vast quantities and a lot of efficiency has gone into it that means that it's going to make up a lot more of people's diets up to perhaps thirty percent along with other food sources that people want more of going on to supply simply isn't enough land in the world anymore that means people are going to have to increase productivity on the land that already exists the overall conclusions of the reports are that the demand for higher quality food more meter cetera things in people's diets means that it's simply going to have to get more expensive. who crosses all beyond the yoke now in

new york today we'll have more for you next hour all right thanks for that headlines are coming your way here on r.t. don't go away. most of the. more and more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can

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