moscow assassinations bombings and attacks set the stage for the next iraqi election with resurgent al qaeda cells boasting that they're stronger than ever a report coming up this hour. angry crowds in cairo demand the resignation of the prosecutor general after arrest warrants were issued for four leading pro-democracy activists again live comment coming to. also headlining. the pressure to end their hunger strike while r.t. struggles to break a wall of silence from washington over the weeks long protest. and cleared of illegal protest charges in bahrain after spending two years behind bars we'll be hearing from a medic with firsthand experience of the case. hello

very good evening if you just joined us kevin owen here live at the new center tonight at eight pm moscow time as you just heard in our top story nineteen people have been killed a suicide attack struck several mosques in iraq the latest in a bloody campaign this playing on sectarian divisions regional iraqi election candidate narrowly escaped an attempt on his life after a bomb found in his home was disarmed five other candidates though i've been linked to in assassinations of bombings and raids this month and they're believed to be the work of al-qaeda cells catherine off just returned from the country indeed she described to my colleague ted we must say the atmosphere there right now. the iraq that we saw it really felt like a country that was still in some ways a war zone and on one hand you do have relative stability in the sense that there aren't tanks shooting there aren't soldiers with guns fighting but almost anywhere you go the first thing you see is massive blast walls all around the streets to

protect various buildings from suicide attacks such as the ones that took place today iraqis daily lives are guided by checkpoints that are set up almost everywhere that dictate where people can go anywhere you look on the street you see police officers military soldiers people with guns there may not be daily fighting and shooting but it feels like a country that is still under a military occupation except this time it's its own and the feeling really is that iraq never really recovered you know your. the thing that we heard from from almost everyone that we spoke to is that anywhere you go at any moment there could be a blast like this and how do you survive in a situation don't you feel safe. around i did not i mean it depends you know for example the kurdistan region is probably the only success story in iraq that has seen relative safety and stability but most of the other parts are so divided between sunni and shia factions christian neighborhoods churchmen neighborhoods

here kook where one of the blast happened today for example is a great example of a microcosm of everything that's wrong with the wrong you have all these different factions there you have the threat of terrorist attacks you have ethnic and sectarian divisions and of course you have the oil which has been the source of conflict between the iraqi government and the kurds and so it doesn't feel safe in fact we needed an armed escort to just get us to certain parts of the city because people you know if they see a foreigner if they see a stranger if they even feel someone who is not necessarily of their sect or or ethnic origin you stand out and you're at risk for some sort of an attack you being a journalist you on the ground you want to get the story you want to tell these stories what's going on to help people are coping and you didn't feel safe. so give us a picture of how ordinary iraqis feel every day having to deal with that what's their reaction to all of this it's a very mixed picture because on one hand the one thing that unites all the rockies regardless of their religion or their ethnic origin is this fear this fear of an attack that could happen any time but the other on the other hand i mean this is

their life they have to continue they can't just sit at home and wait for this instability to be over and so you know when we were driving through kirkuk we still saw schoolchildren getting out of their classes whistlestop people on the street but these people operate knowing that this kind of attack could happen at any point and we heard interesting ways of coping for example one man told us that he drives with all of his windows down now in case he is near a suicide attacks that the glass wouldn't necessarily shatter and harness his family another man who was actually injured in an attack that took happened to place several months ago said that he actually stopped going outside he says that you know we have democracy i can go outside but there's no guarantee that i will come home come back to my family and so in some ways it has been normalized to this violence because they have to cope with it somehow in other ways it really has changed their ways of functioning you know you don't go to for example to big bazaars you try not to gather in large groups i mean it's it's by no means is this life as normal in your opinion you've covered iraq for the very long time you've

seen how the country is what is your perception to that my perception is that most iraqis are united in their fear and they don't support al qaeda but because of the power vacuum that has been created because of the massive corruption that exists within the government because of the inability of the government to sort of you know effectively put controls on the country al-qaeda has been able or affiliated groups have been able to thrive essentially there isn't you know the yes on one hand and on on on paper there is a government there are military forces there is the police but at the end of the day look at what happened today and if there was stability if there was true and genuine stability these attacks wouldn't be able to happen and yet they do and they've been increasing. deborah swede's director of the world cup when you talk to this group she told us the current bloodshed in iraq is a direct consequence of the u.s. led occupation. all of what is happening in iraq right now i would

strongly argue is the fruit of this illegitimate occupation it may be that the u.s. wanted all of the instability and it certainly probably didn't intend an opening for its rivals to come in but that's exactly what's been created by the way the country was decimated democracy can't be achieved anywhere by the barrel of a gun by white phosphorus by starvation sanctions by all of the things that the us subjected the iraqi people to the american war is not over for the iraqi people and anything imposed from the outside first of all is never going to express the actual interests of the iraqi people and and also by create this very unstable political situation again after twenty years of u.s. sanctions and overt occupation in iraq the iraqi people are much worse off than

they were just let you know in two hours time we go to exclusive interview with the former head of the iraqi intelligence services american office he told us that iraq has descended into chaos because the u.s. invasion lives along to plan for stabilizing the country. cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but i want to say your scenario is for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.d. replied just let us eva three him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos and now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three we did warn the americans that if the regime would fold iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold. in the egyptian capital protesters have gathered in front of the prosecutor general's

office again today demanding his resignation voicing their anger against the muslim brotherhood on true's and carlos talk to now live father tell of the scene has there been a danger of violence there the crowds quiet to take it was the picture. here in the capital at the scene there's been no unusually quiet just hundreds of gabbett in front of the prosecutor's general office set off to the main opposition coalition an observation front called today's protest and they are accusing the brotherhood of controlling at the judiciary and also protesting against the recent summoning a fine very well known activists last week for their alleged involvement in the logic caches last week i've been listening to get to actually in the capital protest is that cheney shot the film with the prosecutor general's office and school for the arrest and summons in the current prosecutor kind of position the south is questionable off to the appeals court here in cairo at the time the presidential decree appointing him how do we have time finding outside of cairo in

egypt psychosis if you don't mix right now there are these street battles occurring between undercover protesters and what is yet to be identified and some people are saying that said they are pro president mohamed morsy supporters who are fighting the undercover protesters are there's a saying they're actually shop owners in that vicinity but what is being said to them want to talks and also the use of the shots i'm this really becoming quite fierce in alexandria the protests that we've done just that talked according to the presidential elections saying the president morsi has not implemented any change promised i mean he really is not facing up and actually you mentioned the briefing the prosecutor general can fly solo at first but what is the problem with the prosecutor general. this is all stemming out from an event last year when the president mohamed morsi issued a controversial can see something correction immunizing his. agrees and also

dismissing the then incumbent party general from the mubarak era as the only good man who is putting in place this said the current course he general kind of done that this is not you know one of the time because i think the previous was his general was with mubarak and however in the last few months i have with the behavior of the judiciary opposition forces sank to the brotherhood is very much controlling i see people off the country in particular that are angry because she general fulfilling this five commission a very well known to me and that if i think that he has been i think jailed under the i'm going to barak and will see under this ministry you are serious they have he told him in front of the she will face it she's never been psyching by that he will say i system was like oh god i'm cleaning up but i had a job on the opposition the president has rocked the last i will meet i was weeks it was a simple saying of the strong right i have against the recession he said that he would resort to exceptional measures if the country remains in the mess that it is and how she said in the streets i have all right i will do what i had seen how i

didn't specify how many people have been saying that perhaps i think you will see i was to go over the country was founded by the intervention of a by the army having none of this is crimes that would not die no between the opposition forces in particular enough to salvation front that i'm the president see i quit with five protests across the horizon when it was good and i'll see all road true friends will put their vote to reporting for a team from cairo. next merely two months since the guantanamo bay hunger strike began the still no sign of the crisis being resolved to some protest is reportedly close to death cindy put newco is a lawyer for one of the prisoners and is near come delta she outlined to us have clients plight and says the guards are resorting to harsh tactics to force inmates to and they come pate. the first say that i saw him he was very weak he had not been able to sleep because he said said the camp authorities had lowered the temperature in much of the camp to very very free temperatures it's it

appears that the guards here at the base are trying to end the hunger strike by making conditions more difficult for the prisoners here including making the rooms the camp very cold and he had lost forty pounds when i saw sam he used to weigh one hundred sixty seven edge is now one hundred twenty five pounds and when the prisoners began to strike it seemed that camp authorities began to treat someone harshly to try to end the strike and so many more men joined the strike to protest the searching of the qur'an and the worsening conditions and the more harsh treatment here there are many men who are cleared for release at least eighty six of them in now and they're also being treated as prisoners the refutation of the united states in the world is at stake here if the us does not come for table the

government authorities here do not come to the table and discuss it because he needs the improvement of the conditions here there are men who are going to begin to die well the u.s. government be facing uncomfortable questions over the hunger strike a guantanamo bay but it's failed to assure anyone that it's going to take any action no washington correspondent done it you can explain why her attempts to get an official response is still getting nowhere. not a word from defense secretary chuck hagel on the situation in guantanamo i was at a news conference with the defense secretary this thursday at the pentagon he never to my question i frankly don't know why i was right there in front of him raising my hand as everyone else said as you know half of the men in guantanamo have been cleared for release many of them years ago yet they're still there locked up stuck in this limbo desperate and i was going to ask when they will let these men go and whether it would make any difference if somebody died in this ongoing hunger strike again i never got the chance to ask that question the pentagon has just requested

almost two hundred million dollars to renovate the guantanamo prison that kind of investment may suggest that they're not planning to shutting down anytime soon at the beginning of the year the state department closed the office that was in charge of closing the prison i went to a state department briefing earlier this week again never got a chance to ask a question the only person who's been responding to our inquiries about the situation with the detainees was robert during the spokesman for guantanamo but the only comments he can offer are about the health of the detainees which is apparently deteriorating and also the latest numbers as far as how many detainees are on strike at the moment the latest we have from him is thirty one person but that's it there's complete silence on the most important questions about the future of the prison what's going to happen to these people president obama's spokesperson said the president's team is closely monitoring the hunger strikers guantanamo bay and i can tell you that the administration remains committed to closing the

detention facility at guantanamo bay but at the same time offering no specifics as to when and how and how are they going to do that if the pentagon is requesting millions of dollars to renovate it. got to treat you can i will since the hunger strike started artes of course spin seeking answers as you'll know if you've been watching us from the u.s. government as well as the detainees attorneys and international human rights groups for all the information we've gathered so far headed to our timeline r.t. dot com. also online to get a minute tonight taking a trip through a post tsunami ghost towns with amazing pictures the google street view is with out about it's got this virtual tour around a city right in the fukushima prefecture that was of course left in ruins by that terrible earthquake a devastating wave that followed it some amazing pictures there one to check him out and a late night launch. with the i assess in time for breakfast it's all go a russian soyuz rocket dock successfully after cutting a flight time from two days to just six hours find out how they did it r.t.

dot com. in bahrain twenty one doctors have been cleared of involvement in illegal antigovernment protests the rest was part of a crackdown on pro-reform demonstrations that started in february twentieth eleven doctor not to die for was on trial itself and spent some two months behind bars thinks the acquittal just a p.r. stunt though the government crackdown is set to continue we need to see the accountability established and those who are responsible of torturing the doctors and that is doing the doctors and putting forth charges and crimes against the doctors and giving them all this being all this time they should be brought to justice before we think of and i think it's just the doctor's case has this nature also a very high profile and there is zero international pressure to resign or is this case in particular. but seeing that the eve did the monarchy.

but it is there is the crackdown is still going on with the same intensity it has not changed in two years it has not gone live. also two bit later in the program we'll tell you about a new level of government snooping is coming up so we report on the f.b.i. the soon get the right to read your online text and voice conversations plans have provoked an angry reaction as you'd expect from more now than just ahead looking at as well other stories you've got lined up for you very soon bringing home the u.k. fears its citizens fighting in syria could pose a threat a terrorist threat when they return although it is still pushing the supply to the rebels more but after this break. good luck. was able to build a new. found anything mission

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well again britain's worried that its citizens to join up to fight alongside the syrian rebels could pose a serious terror threat when they return back to the u.k. the home office says hundreds of europeans are getting involved learning combat skills from groups like al-qaeda but it's not preventing of course britain and france at least from pushing to supply arms to the opposition in syria syria firth has got the story tonight. this is the first annual report on the counterterrorism strategy and in it they highlighted the growing security threat from syria where al qaeda affiliates were tracking hundreds of fighters from europe now let's take a look at some of what the report says and they said as and when u.k. residents for ten there's a risk that they may carry out attacks using skills that they've developed eva cvs now these are concerns that only been highlighted by the british government but

also being highlighted by the european members as well recently we saw the dutch heighten their security threat level as they said that they thought they had around one hundred foreign fighters that had gone to syria and these are also the concerns that i think you've been echoed by france as well say certainly not just a problem concerning flippant but one obviously that we've seen highlighted in this counterterrorism strategy report and certainly i think a lot of concern amongst the british authorities with seeing these young british people fighting in the war zone now i'm joined by freelancer in journalist money thank you very much for joining us we were speaking about this subject a couple of weeks before the report was released and obviously this is something that is already going on in the know you've spoken to the friends of the young british man he was actually the first confirmed british fighter he died over in

syria can you tell us a bit about that well you know. it was only twenty one when he died in syria and already he was a version of the libyan libyan war against gadhafi and despite his young age of the squad the focus. of the record is like he's very much. of the friends that i've spoken to is very much very british in many ways is a london boy despite that i think you found. in syria very attractive fish authorities are very concerned he says. highlighted in this count terrorism report how worried should they be how much of a threat do you think it is to britain well i think that the report said there were probably around one hundred fighters i think the real numbers probably are higher what would be most concerning for the british security services are british muslims of asian descent of the pakistan your bangladesh or india who might go to places like syria because they're the ones in the past ten years or so who've been involved in the most dangerous terrorist threats in the u.k.

and thank you very much for joining us on a describe the tsunami i don't think anyone could have had any idea of just how complex and how far reaching the implications of what is happening in syria right now be we had the u.n. envoy to syria speaking today calling for the desperately urgent need for all sides to come together once again trying to find a resolution to the conflict so if earth watch what you say during your private internet calls and chat small agencies have always been able of course requests some details of our communications where necessary but now the f.b.i. wants to go further much further listening and watching as you talk and type in real time you your point i've been finding out what this could mean then for ordinary americans. an estimated six hundred million people use skype to chat with family friends and colleagues i'm using the video ip service to talk to you all right now in this year a top priority for the f.b.i. is to gain the power to be able to monitor internet chats e-mails and basically all

on line correspondence as it is taking place washington is working on legislation that would force email cloud services and chop providers like skype to install in surveillance equipment within their networks that equipment would give the u.s. intelligence community the ability to monitor online correspondence in real time basically the same way that the f.b.i. could listen in on phone conversations with court approval under a love call to leave the phone companies were required by law to implement technology that allows this wire when you're looking at something like skype or some of the other networks those laws do not apply to these places and the f.b.i. is saying we need to change that law because when we go to a company sometimes we get cooperation and technical assistance sometimes we don't and that's just not enough courtesy of the electronic communications privacy act

the f.b.i. can already out says archives of emails tweets and transcripts but clearly that's not enough for the agency to keep tabs on what criminals would be terrorists and dissidents are saying online the problem is where we are today so the way that we communicate is really not limited to telephone companies and sort of the old fashioned you know picking the phone and calling someone you have i mean g. mail google voice dropbox according to google's latest transparency report the united states is the world leader when it comes to requesting user data on its own citizens f.b.i. general counsel andrew weissman says the agency is working to expand its internet spy powers by the end of the year and by then a skype chat between two people may include a bigger audience reporting from new york. r.t. . these folks in cyprus know as accused getting any shorter is banks reopened for a second day following the emergency two weeks shutdown but strict limits mean

a lot of people still can't get their hands on their own cash capital controls of effectively quarantined cyprus in the rest of the e.u. i will do so for at least another month not something which lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine says shows that the cyprus rescue has failed i don't think cyprus has been saved i think the people in cyprus believe that which which you have right now is the beginning of the end of the euro system the euro house is burning and there is no reason to have confidence in the banking system don't forget overnight they were shipping in billions of euros from germany into cyprus and then delivering them by truck because people couldn't live so if you don't have confidence in your banking system it's not going to work and the system itself the euro system is a failed experiment i was always opposed to it we should have nation states with their own sovereign system so this now has proven that it doesn't work and the

dictatorship from the european commission the european central bank and the i.m.f. to tell the people of cyprus you have to suffer as a result of this in a similar way the darling greece you're going to see this crisis interrupting spain in italy right now there is no government for all of europe is in a state of collapse with this is just the beginning of what we could see on a global scale right now. well we're on the case of it coming up soon blowing the whistle on corporate misdeeds in the late edition a break in the set that's all next program right after the break. plans to create

a medal for cyber warfare have been put on hold by the new defense secretary chuck hagel but should they have been put on hold i mean hackers a drone operators do play a real important role in modern militaries and there are already u.s. military medals for things that don't involve people shooting at you the antarctic a service medals given by the department of defense for service between fifteen and thirty consecutive days in antarctica although the cold down there is potentially deadly no penguins are going to storm the base with kalashnikovs the homeland security distinguished service medal has also never been issued to anyone on the battlefield because thankfully for america there haven't been any invading armies in the homeland so is there precedent for a medal like cyber warfare medals i mean yes just there is but when you think about it giving someone a medal for using a mouse to blow up blips on a monitor really seems to devalue the medals of the guys who are brave enough to storm the beaches on d.-day or slug through disease and snake filled swamps and vietnam so maybe for the sake of the prestige of the of their medals let's just let

the cybersecurity one go but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month so food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i didn't have a chance at the town i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so actually. a. little worse for delivering the life out of a. radio guy. they want.

to give you never seen anything like this until. what's up i doubt it martin this is breaking news that so guys monsanto was just granted even more immunity they already had up on tuesday obama signed what's been dubbed the month santa protection act so it was a small provision deceitfully disguise and slipped into the latest agricultural appropriations bill the fact some congressmen came out sense and said that they were told that this bill would have verge of government shutdown but they were completely unaware of the stipulations unfortunately these stipulations will do away with consumer rights and eliminate federal oversight for the continued use of genetically modified foods and the bill was signed despite an outcry over a quarter million people who signed a petition pleading with obama not to pass it this latest move sets yet another.