beasts in which brighton if you. are from finest impression. starts on t.v. dot com. tonight an insurgent onslaught leaves over one hundred iraqis dead and the government stunned just days after al qaeda is the new head laid out his terrorist trying to do for the country. and 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. plus a poker privacy social networks have complied with around a thousand requests that have over personal data this year alone despite users setting their info to confidential.

updated news twenty four seven hello there this is r.t. my name's kevin oh it is now eleven pm here in moscow and first a wave of terror in iraq attacks explosions and suicide bombings have killed at least one hundred seventy people across the country and left near three hundred wounded the similarly coordinated assault turned today into the bloodiest episode in iraq since u.s. troops left the country government officials police and army units appeared to have been the primary targets of the onslaught the attacks also came days after al qaeda is new leader in the country later that day she has plans for the terrorist cell their. middle east correspondent paula sleep in now. this is the most deadly attack in everything you know in iraq and what is a day yesterday that saw some fifteen thousand people killed now we're hearing from a security personnel spokesperson that be targeted beef attacks it's predominantly security and in fact. police it comes just days after their warning by the leader

of al qaeda in iraq. gaiety that he would be retaking strongholds that had been those day he would be pushing out the united states and its allies in an audio 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're seeing unfolding in syria but it is interesting that the mainstream media is a largely choosing not to report on iraq to the extent that it is it is reporting on developments in syria so the questions being asked of firstly why is iraq not in the headlines to the extent that there really is and secondly when you look at the talk currently on the table about whether or not there should be any kind of interference any kind of whiston outside interference in syria that simply raises abalos particularly if you look at what has happened in iraq where there was an occupation for decades today in 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 scenario might eventually play out in syria. closely or there were commenting on today's chaos in iraq jim brown from the stop the war coalition says it's all part of a wider a 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 see them proxies for what they 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 by. on the other side stand iran to present the united states as being some neutral part parties somebody without real interest would be quite wrong clearly the united

states hide 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 to reign in influence for example but they certainly wouldn't want to eliminate the problem because that would reduce their boggling. the impact to the swathe of terror in iraq will be felt widely international relations professor mark colvin from a 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. will come back and this could also

spread across a great present from 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 western states 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 interest of michael now in a much bigger area with much more thought than your source seems to be the danger of a very severe disintegration or the very least final of the civil wars with officer here or 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 really just domination between sunni fundamentalists against shiites. as influence is being felt beyond the iraqi border neighboring syria to german intelligence apparently claims the groups behind almost one hundred attacks the since the beginning of the year to fight has a believed to be working alongside series armed opposition which is putting all its

effort into seizing control of the country's largest cities powerful rebels failed attempt to take the muskets than the commercial hub of aleppo has no bearing the brunt of the conflict in opposition clashes a bit on going there for several days covering the side of the story for us artie's . arts he was one of the few if not the only foreign crew that was able to travel to aleppo last in three months ago and from what we've seen there i can tell you that aleppo is a very peculiar case for this 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 the laptop 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 to step down but at the same time they strongly object to the use of kalashnikovs who are any

political games they don't want that democracy to be delivered through these very bloody conflict through this 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 first sat on fire simply because their owners refused 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 kidnappings and those kidnappings are carried out not. so much for political aims or goals but rather simply for ransom so it 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. one of our correspondents on the ground in syria the whole team doing their utmost to tell you what's really going on in the water country right now direct through twitter that's a great way to keep the rest of it off for example in damascus she says people are returning to the city now after security forces rebels complete description and traffic she says is returning to the road also covering what's going on there are trees we're finished as well she's now in a refugee camp on the syrian lebanese border where she says only those with views are getting desperately needed help but you can keep across all of these developments and so much more in syria on artie's main twitter feed as well. israel says it's prepared to deal with syria's chemical arsenal if it falls into hezbollah's hands it should assad's regime collapse despite possessing such weapons damascus insists it will only use them if there is

a follow on attack some regional experts though think it's more dangerous of israel helps the syrian rebels to obtain the 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 whatever they want at the same time if that's what the argument as as defending lebanon but then again let's see who is supporting the salafi fundamentalists 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. the differences of

approach in how to cure the crisis in syria and politics came up indeed the meeting between the russian a taliban leaders in the city of sochi thomas has been covering that. two world leaders are coming to the table and discussing their thoughts on how to handle the syrian crisis illustrating just how important this topic is and how it's on the minds of the leaders of the global community. prime minister monti of italy saying that syria should look to lebanon as an example stating that their system has worked really well for them and basically what they put in place is a system that allows for all aspects of society to have a representative in government saying that that is a good example for syria to use now president putin has not dismissed nor endorsed this idea listen to what he had to say on the subject of the should first of all there must be a complete halt to all violence and this is under both sides must come to the negotiation table where they would decide on the country's future and that future

must not be decided by a military defeat victory of one side or the other. and compromise. president putin going on to say also that an unconstitutional overthrow of the regime in syria will lead to a protracted civil war something that russia does not want and is trying to avoid and it would lead to a repeat of the bloody civil war that is happening in the bloody violence that is in afghanistan also that all sides need to come to the table and make an effort to engage in dialogue and you also said that it is possible for cooperation on the subject of syria pointing to the extension of the u.n. mission as. an example saying that this is how people have already worked together to try and resolve the crisis in syria so right now on the minds of international leaders trying to come up with their ideas how to resolve the syrian conflict. israel's lax treatment of its own struggling citizens assume some to reflect acts

of protest lately two people set themselves a light within just a week shawmut of me from physicians for human rights spoke to us and points out that the government's increasing funding settlement expansion 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 burgos 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 spans public expenditure is very low in israel as compared to other countries there is

vestments in settlements there is just a recent survey saying that. expenditure on settlements on welfare and acts 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. to come with the other big story of the day our top story the tragic unrest who was supposed to be a post-war iraq with someone who studied the effects of occupation there a debt first thought robert naiman music director of just foreign policy is on the line from washington d.c. hi there will but the majority of today's the turks were shiite muslims by the looks of it what is the significance of. well sadly there's

a trend in the region towards increasing security violence and clearly there are money and guns available for people who want to fuel the. seen evidence of that iran seen some evidence of that in syria and i think that there is a gap in terms of international response. trying to tamp this down you know there is there could be more pressure against the flow of money and guns that are supporting sectarian violence over the sheer magnitude of today's attacks extremely worrying i mean i guess raising phase of it could push iraq back into a sectarian war now the shiite population which is the majority they may let this go easy is it. no i mean in general the institutions of the shiite community in iraq could be disciplined about that. about their response to these events seeing that there are you know deliberately intended as

a provocation. if the if there is security retaliation there and the people there want you to text will have. what they want to so it's a political decision people in iraq whether to be. sectarian response not a necessary consequence stacks don't have to work. but there is always a possibility that if such attacks you know continuing escalate then people will. respond and all this of course just a month since u.s. forces withdrew saying iraq could now handle its own security training already isn't it. well look if he what was the alternative you know at some point the u.s. forces had to withdraw i think there was a strong case that the continuing presence of u.s. forces was not contributing to iraq's security and i'm glad the u.s.

force with drew and i wish they had withdrawn earlier but i'm glad that they withdrew it then last year i don't think there was a new. i was the situation was not perfect but a certain point you have this question not a situation perfect but are we making things better or worse by staying i don't think the u.s. forces make things better by stay. for. what was achieved by u.s. invasion by the i think by us and i think it was a catastrophe for the people here what you said on this hussein is gone so they can say he achieved that but you know gone in from egypt u.s. kenya and occupy the country just gone from libya the u.s. didn't. explore what was done in libya but you know compare what happened to iraq in picnic compared to what happened in iraq so i would never say that

he the u.s. invasion of occupation in iraq was justified by getting rid of saddam hussein i think the cost was too high and i think that the you know other events in the region show that there are other paths to dealing with with saddam and the invasion and occupation there was illegal under international law and we should just be on the iraqi people and let's focus back on these attacks today where the latest effort says olver al qaida do you think they go beyond these attacks. well i don't have access to special information it's entirely plausible al qaida is a loose network is not you know highly centralized the horror musician if you look at events in the past it was clear that the network was indeed behind characters like this and it is you know their modus operandi is you're sort of plausible and makes sense a way for them to. the iraqi franchise to reassert their relevance

and it clearly also has a spillover effect in the region it's not the only country where there's an issue of security and violence and there's issues security moms and syria issue of sectarian violence in lebanon so brave enough to carry in violence in iraq as a spillover or i would talk about syria how would al-qaeda benefit if assad folds. well the first of all they would claim it is a victory secondly there are clearly. some law office job herb's that are sympathetic to al qaeda. in iraq and claim this as a victory against iran the victory for jihad maybe depending on how the fall happens and what happens afterwards maybe they would have some bases in syria so clearly this is. a bring down something doesn't mean that there

are you know it's not a whole lot of people clearly it is a goal but it is a. sunni job just to bring down the saw robert thanks for your thoughts for we got to leave it there for tonight the robert naiman the policy director just foreign policy thanks have so much. next millions of us turn to social networks like facebook and twitter each and every day to share our lives with friends and family but what you may not know is that you could be giving away your personal data to the government's desire to use one important explains no privacy settings can the authorities prying eyes. in the land of social media users tweet tag friends 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 us 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 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 write a few more weeks. they decided to begin. with it's been the 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 for kerry is. that we see everything is set to turn key. at the height of his career binney served as technical director for n.s.a. as am 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 of 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 marina portnoy r.t. new york ball to the twittering of the business world daniel global markets a real fashion to the i don't know why the bring you something if you were clearly billions of dollars lost from the value of companies and emerging markets did worst of kosovo's its stock exchange h.q. she says trade is a bust from all sides today. i'm sure that the traders sitting in the r.t.s.

offices right behind me are pulling out their hair out about because the russian markets have dropped with a vengeance and what's more the russian currency took a beating as well but the situation isn't the only bad here it's a pretty much everywhere asian markets in the red europe followed suit in the u.s. dropped over two percent in just the first of war minutes all right but when it comes to russia rapidly declining oil prices as well as a capital outflow of eighty one million dollars. aren't helping matters but the main problem remains in europe it's tally and spanish stocks plummeted in fact in the us as sovereign born the old star rockets and when it comes to italy trading in some major italian banks are suspended for about an hour because of such steep drop all this comes over every new three years about the euro zone valencia said it would seek financial aid and this is the second region in spain to say that it might have to do the same and this was announced over the weekend also greece is

back in the spotlight after reports in germany suggest that the international monetary fund is set to stop eight payments to the country just seems one below after another and of course we all know that when it comes to markets it's a domingo of five and in this case it seems it's gone from bad to worse when you check those markets wall street down in spain bonds investors betting on the shares fooling that's known as short selling to stop the madrid bulls plunging the greenback the most in two months old the ruble today single currency is at multi-year rivals off to spain's. eurozone record living will proceed most five percent lower today russia also reported big outflows for the month while the world's super rich season being through its all thanks to thirty two trillion dollars in offshore accounts says a new report those the size of the u.s. and china's economies combined remains on paid taxes of two hundred eighty billion junkie. in sum from tax justice network which published the report says wealth is

barely trickling down. some of that money actually did return to these countries now some cases it does but it comes back dressed up as bar and direct investment with all the tax breaks the benefits that comes with foreign direct investment this is a process known as round tripping which happens a lot of cement from many countries like brazil india a lot of the indian and brazilian campbell has moved offshore tax havens and sounds discouraged behind offshore companies so it's not clear that the wells originated from india or brazil 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 investments in 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 income what economists call rates you can see even down to

a kind of buying british football team like. the food prices a rise in corn and soybean prices hit record highs on the terrible drought in the states with the organization for economic cooperation and development expensive food through the state because the food will jump twenty percent over the next decade so economists call for formals to get you from existing fields on both of those. we're talking about the future of food so why is precisely how i decided to come 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 the main themes of that report supply and demand sounds boring but 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 me to cetera things in people's diets means that it's simply going to have to get more expensive so food prices growing up to date news and views of the world like here sobering prosperity thanks to your now coming up the right to live in occupied land is up for discussion on this channel in people

cross talk the whole team here right after the headlines and they're next. question is that so much comments made me i'm going to make it a lot of the plane carrying up the look of the recently published report mine is really judge concluded that israel is not in fact occupying palestinian territories has engendered so why.

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