shock and confusion that the associated press reporters for the new service find themselves targeted in a massive u.s. government surveillance operation. cia agents carrying one hundred thousand euros in cash is caught red handed allegedly trying to recruit a russian intelligence officer. persona non-grata and says the incident still to blow to the country's relations. has been putin says he's against any actions that could worsen the civil war in syria that warning comes as israel's prime minister visits russia to his country was accused of bombing sites near damascus earlier this month and also. a video appearing to show a syrian rebel in the heart of a dead soldier human rights watch. next in revenge killings in the country's civil

war. online on screen international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow this is. a two hundred journalists and editors at the associated press have been targeted in a massive u.s. government surveillance operation against the new senate a p is calling the monitoring network created by the justice department itself unprecedented size and scope and a gross violation of privacy. has been tracking the investigation. the u.s. justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p. reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers a few believes more than one hundred of its journalists may have been caught up in

this surveillance week the a.p. boss called it a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations operate the justice department acknowledged having spied on a.p. journalists but cited a.p. is reporting on a cia operation in yemen last year and the government's possible hunt fleet a peace prize and said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation the administration's unprecedented one food leaks has had an enormous chilling effect on investigative journalism a number of journalists with major news organizations here told me that isn't it's never been as hard for them to do their job as it is now because sources that they had previously communicated with now either don't return their calls or say out front that they'd rather not talk they can go to jail the obama new situation has brought up more cases against whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined now as the news of emerged that the justice department has secretly cast this wife's

a veil is that journalists looking for we still don't know what the white house says it knows nothing about this and refers to the justice department and the justice department having acknowledged the phone taps came up with what some saw as as an orwellian response they said that they value the freedom of the press and that they're seeking to strike the right balance between the public interest in the free flow of information and the public interest in the fair and effective administration of our criminal laws that's according to their statement well it's not clear what quine dozens of a.p. journalists or their sources have committed to be caught up in this kind of a surveillance sweep but this is sending a chilling effect far beyond the associated press to all journalists that their records can be intercepted and sifted through like this and also meet some wish us authorities had to use some of that surveillance vaguer to keep an eye on someone like tom the boston bomber after all those red flags well or could it be that journalists are seen as more dangerous to national security these days. we also

spoke to activists who believes that the surveillance of a.p. reporters shows the u.s. government's hypocritical approach to press freedom it flies in the face of everything obama campaigned on about protecting protecting the press for tech whistleblowers this is this is very hypocritical all around the world all of a sudden the u.s. top starts talking about freedom of the press whenever they're trying to bring down destabilize the government in venezuela they don't like hugo chavez because he's defending the people so all the sudden they're talking about freedom of the press in venezuela but yet in bahrain there is a government that's in that is loyal to the u.s. government that it takes orders from wall street and all the sudden they look the other way while the suppression one consequence of this event scandal is that whistle blows will now think twice before calling the news desk that's according to investigate journalist and historian tony goes. individuals who whistleblowers etc

people with stories cannot know can no longer trust the journalists so if they go with confidential information to those journalists and have confidential phone conversations they are not no longer guaranteed those journalists can keep those conversations secret because the justice department is coming and on a massive trawl only hold two months one can understand it maybe if it's a small investigation over a couple of days or a particular phone line possibly but this is a phishing operation and it is an appalling attack really on the freedom of the press in america by a government that in the u.s. which is out of control and ultimately this is the rise of effectively a kind of police state where the government thinks it can do what it wants what we're seeing is erosion of some of the basic civil liberties that we've said for the last thirty forty years this is what we hold dear we're saying that all these terrible al-qaeda etc try to take those civil liberties away but al qaeda are taking away our own governments are taking them away. to wigs a map and

a stash of money to the federal security service says it's called a cia spy on a recruitment mission in moscow has been delving into the scandal according to the f.s.b. one of russia's security agencies ryan fogle was not in fact a third secretary at the political department of the u.s. embassy in moscow he was instead according to them a cia spy they claim that they caught him red handed trying to co-opt a russian secret special service agent operating in the north caucuses to work for the cia in a video sent to r.t. by the f.s.b. it was claimed that this video showed were one of the unnamed arresting f.s.b. officers showing his astonishment at the find. at first it was shocked that something like that could happen the f.s.b. has been actively cooperating with the u.s. working on intercepting threats to its national security the f.b.i.

chief has also visited moscow recently while barack obama and vladimir putin have reached an agreement that the country's secret services should book together and with all that in the background this u.s. diplomat has committed a major state crime against russia do you have any questions regarding what's being demonstrated you would know it must be said that this video that was sent to was cut out at the end of this question and so it's not known whether whether ryan fogle was allowed a chance to answer that question directed at him by the f.s.b. the f.s.b. also claimed that they found along with fogle a number of technical devices and other things that he used in his alleged operation among them written instructions to the agent that he was trying to co-opt also a large amount of money in cash and a little more strangely perhaps to wigs but they claimed he used to disguise

himself a map of moscow and a compost over the issue of the u.s. ambassador has been summoned to talk to the russian government and the foreign ministry has expelled mr fogel from russia. as of yet the u.s. embassy has made no comment on the matter but have been a number of high profile spying scandals between russia the us and other countries in recent years in october two thousand and eleven a couple in germany were put on trial for suspected spying for the soviet union and then russia for many years in june two thousand and ten anna chapman was one of ten who were arrested in the u.s. as part of a russian spy ring and in january two thousand and six the u.k. was accused of spying in moscow by placing secret cameras inside rocks around various moscow parks you think. from the answer coalition i spoke to an allele he

thinks the u.s. is waging an undercover war against moscow and i think the fact that the russian government has publicized this has made something of it means that the russian government is calling attention to the fact that the u.s. is doing something of a full court press on russia a shadow war so to speak they have the using the n.g.o.s and the penetration of russian society by us soft power through the n.g.o.s at one level trying to carry out many many intelligence operations to get russians to defect penetrating russian society i think also the u.s. media very favorable coverage to the russian opposition any protest that takes place in russia even if it's small gets enormous front page coverage while here protest movements in the united states get almost no coverage you see a general scenario being played out of hostility to the russian government even if there is still a magic overture is at another level a russian soyuz space capsule brings

a star back to worth. later in the program learn more about the canadian astronaut who's become a sensation on you tube. the first president putin is a world powers to avoid any steps that could escalate the civil war in syria his statement came after talks with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu whose visit to russia follows a series of israeli air strikes against syria more details from. following the talks in the black sea resort of sochi. the leaders of both countries seem very united in the idea that any more violence in syria will lead not only to severe consequences in the country itself but in the entire region pledging not to rock the boat and to continue working together in the search for peace in the meantime the need here in fort you took place shortly after air strikes in syria allegedly

conducted by israel which haven't been officially admitted but it's all of hasn't officially rejected them either israel is really unsatisfied and critical of moscow for supplying the asked three hundred air defense systems to damascus under arms deals which were signed a few years back before the conflict in the country started but if the arms shipments are not violating any international agreements the same really can't be said about one state is striking another state soren territory most western countries have clearly taken the side of the opposition pretty much since the beginning of the conflict but now they're talking about the need for a joint conference which would include the rebels and syrian authorities what russia has been calling for throughout the entire time also stressing that not all these rebels are opposition areas many of them are bandits or even terrorists and

this is proven by linked in the web including the latest shocking video which clearly depicts a syrian rebel fighter cutting the hoard of a dead syrian soldier out of his chest eating it on camera promising to do the same again and calling all the others to follow his example and into the devastating conflict in syria is something most people across the border in israel are eagerly awaiting results reports many believe that their government is actually intensifying the syrian civil war. it's a new offer and stand here so that they have to think one or they have to think one hundred times a day what to do with. armed men that have been given the green light to fire into israel retaliated by damascus for tel aviv the attack last week israeli officials have still not gone on record admitting they carried out two is strikes in forty

eight hours but most people here are certain they did and damascus a certain of it it didn't mince its words calling israel's actions a declaration of war the criticism echoes in israel as well arab citizens took to the streets to protest and while divided over the support of the side they were clear on one thing israel's actions are wrong jobber sol is a twenty four year old university student despite being some two hundred fifty kilometers from syria his heart is with its people. israel gives itself permission to attack other countries but does not accept any other country doing the same whether this strike cannot be legitimate and israel should be judged in international chorus. but far from being judged israeli support the actions of the government would be very frank i don't think that if we would have to do. for you we would've. remember even. i think.

it's a very small element on a very long. problematic relations between israel and syria but it might just catch up with the israelis assad says he's borders are open for palestinians wishing to take military action against the jewish state a sure sign some say that tel aviv has shot itself in the foot. has lost. never had. under tactics no official israeli policy to prevent. progs for of all most forms. i wonder if this is logical policy i doubt it very much and some in israel fear the violence one stop at the border after they finish from killing this very will go ahead to haifa. and to do that.

as what was once israel's most peaceful border threatens to become its newest battlefront policy r.t. tel aviv. a massive call but also has ripped through libya's second largest city which seen a surge of violence in recent weeks right off the break we look at why there's no sign of stability returning to the country almost two years after the fall of colonel gadhafi. wealthy british style. time to. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on. hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. pulitzer days nearly one hundred kuantan of the detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for good. news continues here on several people have been killed and dozens injured in the comp lost in the crowded streets in libya's second largest city benghazi this comes

amid a frantic pull out of foreign embassy staff from the country due to the recent rise in violence and according to a london based journalist sicken chandan the instability we're now seeing that is exactly the outcome that the nato intervention two years ago was aimed at achieving . remember in the first days of the pro nato libyan rebellion that more men could be set him so do you want to turn libya into somalia wolf and you doing the right thing go ahead and nato have no problem with this because the nato operation in libya is the model for regime change across the world and that's exactly what's been going on in syria as well and the security firms on the mercenary forms of the west are flooded tripoli since the fall of tripoli just just just less than two years ago so really it's a win win situation for nato and it's a lose lose situation for the libyan people. they took the first reports on a new project set to plug an area of rural england into the world wide web.

but may not be telling you how one label can mean a thing like tackling flow into that made by coin that really taking matters into their right hand. and still to come first a russian soyuz capsule and safely delivered through earth from the international space station canadian commander chris hadfield returns for all but with newfound celebrity status having recorded the first ever music clip in space which has gone viral on you tube attracting over six million hits it was opposed to the series of videos showing how everyday items behave in zero gravity on the show and toys explains. the crew of. zero seven m. has returned to earth safely landing in kazakhstan at just after six thirty in the morning moscow time and this is an incredibly experienced crew with russian cosmonaut. this is his second flight chris hadfield from canada this is his third spaceflight and thomas marshburn the united states astronaut this is his second

between them seven space flights with this incredibly experienced crew now it's always a great moment here at mission control when that capsule lands and they can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that they have accomplished a mission and done something pretty special now on this particular mission just a couple of days ago showing that nothing is ever routine when it comes to space travel thomas marshburn had to do an emergency spacewalk to help fix what was detected a coolant leak at the international space station that was a last minute decision that they decided to send him out just days before you scheduled to depart the international space station chris hadfield from canada has actually in particular gotten a lot of media attention he is arguably the most savvy social media astronaut in the history of space travel having almost nine hundred thousand twitter followers now one of the things that he became known for is conducting in

experiments in space connecting to regular people one of the experiments was showing people what it's like to cry in space what happens to tears with no gravity i mean they can't fall down so he simulated the conditions in space and produced a dramatic video one other thing he produced the video what happens when you bring out a wash towel in the space and shows what happens to the water and all sorts of interesting things with the surface tension and where does the water go if it doesn't actually fall to the ground chris hadfield is also in the process or has just completed recording the first commercial album in spaces so these are some of the things that be of accomplished on this particular mission but as. now the crew so is zero seven am back on earth safely and everyone it can know that a job was well done and mission accomplished. placing the stuff shown thomas that meanwhile back inside the earth's atmosphere remote controlled passenger jets could soon become a reality a prototype has made its first successful flight more on that on

a website of the moment. plus a deadly new virus first detected in saudi arabia is rapidly spreading around the world you can get all the details at home right now. it's. having an internet connection is crucial in the world where basic transactions are increasingly done online the british government has announced that its citizens will be expected to use the web to manage their welfare payments a tough call for unconnected rural areas. visited one community in northern england

that's preparing itself for the future by plugging itself in. the rolling hills and dales of the english countryside but what lancashire in the north of england has in secluded beauty it lacks in most income. despite major provided be tivo putting a feast in profits local communities like these haven't felt the benefit and of had to dig deep into their own pockets and land to try to get connected we have on camera a bt executive. power which is one of the highlights the hard choice over in the distance that survey english area i'd say to just look at the forces here for feel i should say it is just not economically viable for them to come out right away early to connect up the free for the project called broadband to the rural north all beyond the short might be in the early stages still but it could be set to make

this quiet local setting a global internet hotspots they have a fading into the ground the five world think cable them for advice be in for that connection all of it has taken years and passable planning and as you can see behind me a lot of hard work from the wall and to vote for the best part about it is that once it's all up and running this area is going to how much faster internet connection than the payout rates it's unlikely bt will be daunted by this local competition yet but the project is attracting high level attention. to government he's actually now seriously looking at can this be an example as i said for the rare ears and hopefully now they've actually seen a bill or not the from being on the ground regime to allow smaller groups like this to access the major problems that we're rolling out across the pond back in the fields and it's all hands on deck as volunteers look to get the community hey

connected now as you can see here before we've never met future of the before saddam so worked against the cold for you. there for her artsy lancashire in the north of england. well now to some international news in brief this hour in afghanistan three u.s. soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in the southern province of kandahar the soldiers who are serving among nato forces in the country were on patrol in the area when the blast ripped through their vehicle this comes just a day after three georgian soldiers were killed in a car bomb in the nearby helmand province. the chinese navy is flex its muscles conducting military exercises near what it calls the natural islands position of the west coast of the philippines in the south china sea and there is the spratly islands in the philippines five countries that circle the south china sea of make claims on some of the nearly thirty thousand islands that make up the archipelago.

nigeria's president has declared a state of emergency in three states in the northeast of the country his decision was prompted by a surge of guerrilla attacks with at least twenty three people killed in the latest round of violence reinforcements are to be dispatched in the tribal region with an order to demolish all islamist hideouts. and in the iraqi capital baghdad a group of government have opened fire on a shop selling alcoholic drinks killing at least eleven people and injuring five more iraqis fled the scene in four cars no one has yet claimed responsibility for the assault alcohol stores in iraq are frequently targeted by islamist extremist groups. we'll be back with more news with the news team in about thirty five minutes from now the main ton of the breakneck skies that will be looking at the human cost behind the cheap goods sold by global retail and stay with us for that it's if you can.

the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and notice pushing the keep you safe at any cost and lot more the new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy to

occurring if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that sample well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser chickens without their brains could be mass produced for human consumption so-called experts say that removing parts of their brain would be a more humane and stress free way to treat the animals which are subjected to life without natural light and packed into fecal filled cages on factory farms catering

to consumers interested only in the lowest price possible on their tumor filled chicken wing ready meal to further reduce costs spend suggested that the chickens have their feet removed to make room in the fecal filled cages the brainless footless chicken may be the food of the future but as the consumer of today stacey yes max that was a real headline from last year food of the future mass produced chickens without brains and these are philosophers and architects who are looking at more humane ways to raise these factory farm chickens which currently live in complete darkness which is very stressful for them packed into cages and they figured that you know if they removed the cerebral cortex it would be less have less sensory perception and just leave the brain stem so that it continues to grow and one of the theories is that they would put electric shocks into the muscles so they have some muscles that develop the meat you are what you eat. and i think this is an appropriate

development in the mass produced chicken development world is to simply have chickens without any heads or chicken without any feet because this is what the consumer demands the consumer there they don't have the courage to decapitate themselves they have the courage to hang themselves they don't have the courage to top themselves so instead they're going to be decapitated headless feedlots chicken well in fact there is a such things as. old pros any antidepressants anti-anxiety drugs and people consume them a mass quantities which is targets the exact same area as well the cerebral cortex so you don't have any sort of sensory perception some people are in fact doing it regardless of what you think it's a form of decapitation but i want to relate it to what the consumer is like today the drug addled consumer the decapitated consumer bangladesh factory collapse poll finds americans with little awareness outrage the deadly factory collapse in bangladesh more than two weeks.