it. says the risks and daunting of a cia spy goes against the u.s. russia spirit of trust while the scandal leaves the american agent at the musto walls uneasy with a steady flow of drugs and pounds over his clumsy scaled. the u. pledges multiple from a billion euros in tools in rebuilding mali at a major donors conference even as the eurozone economy shrinks for his six course that you know. also this hour security of a sanctity the u.s. government owns up to a massive invasions operation targeting journalists with the white house trumpeting

national security asa the be all and end all. the club of the nation's eager to cash in on. a richer that's getting bigger china and india and i'm getting a stronger voice when it comes to carving out their reach and. a new song russia and iran the wall this is all see with me your leisure and welcome to the program. russia has once again expressed of disappointment over the latest spying scandal saying this cia's actions undermined the government's efforts to cooperate as international media rushed among the unfortunate spite ridiculing his outdated equipment and clumsy methods. and gaia nature can try me now live with

more on this story nice to see you if you go if i still hear what exactly is russia saying on the issue well we spoke with the president's call for so it's quite surprising that this u.s. official was caught basically red handed trying to recruit an agent in moscow despite direct orders from the presidents of both countries to the security services to work together and on one side rather than against against each other and while perhaps these waters are simply getting stuck on some levels or of fishelson or are simply being ignored and while russia and the u. worse still have many mutual threats a lot of viewers were able to work together including security and. added that it's very unlikely that this latest spy scandal is going to ruin the relationship and guy oh why is this pious scandal being laughed at.

well the reaction in the media is a mix of irony and disbelief you hear comments like oh i didn't know spies wrote instructions or they will point out ryan fogle spy kids you know with the waves and the map and the money and washington post writes that the kid looks like cheap costume shop regalia so amid all these giggles you have comments raising doubts as to whether this was a cia operative on a mission the disbelief is generally based on this it looks too clumsy for the cia the cheap we structure is but the fact of the matter is that the guy was caught wearing that wig and there are photos of him in that way then you have others pointing at the fact that there was such a detailed photo and video material of the operation and trying to build some theories on that it was actually standard practice for the russian security service to record the operation in detail when they catch someone red handed them the truth or not choose to share it with the media of course so our colleagues here are

having both laughs and doubts about this story but then there were laughs and doubts when the russian if it be discovered the fake rock that was used by british secret services to aspire to russia back in two thousand and six british authorities denied the allegations six years later the former chief of staff to prime minister tony blair admitted that they were in fact true it was a fake rock with a transmitter inside planted in some park apparently spies would approach it with their laptops that it allowed to receive and send information at that time the story was ridiculed made it no less true though all right if you were going off and can live thank you very much indeed but that's how bad guys. and i have every f.s.b. official reportedly revealed that in january there was a similar incident when an american spy was also deported from the country and glenmore tree near harvey a british intelligence analyst brings business intelligence game between moscow and washington will go on and on it is a great success for the f.s.b.

the russian domestic security service what foley failed to do is follow a set of rules which the cia have always had it's called the moscow rules it requires you very the pattern of your behavior your constantly told what is happening remember that separate state. john kerry is currently meeting so gay lover of the russian foreign minister. this is going to be a most embarrassing encounter as far as the americans were concerned love robbed war have a smile on his face as for larger is the great game we're in this weekend to resistance that russia has scored america has lost but make no bones about it there will be a few recalls at the moment and before we know relations through that for normal

and as i say. the cia will replace only with another intelligence officer and the game will continue. and online will have collected a selection of top spying scandals of the twenty first century involving the e.u. ass and russia had to r.t. dot com for the background of this story. the u.s. justice department is on the bike food defending its massive spy operation against their sociedad press news agency about one hundred journalists and editors had their phones tapped for months with the revelations sparking widespread outrage on his little has been following the scandal. it's being called an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the associated press and its reporters. a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered

a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda their arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece says the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question. i've been a prosecutor since one thousand seventy six and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three most serious leaks that never see it put the american people at risk eric holder announced today that he was recusing himself from this a.p. investigation the prominent news agency condemned the government's actions in a letter to holder yesterday they could be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of the associated press. these

records potentially disclose information about the seasoned operations that the government there's no conceivable rights to know now the a.p. is asking for an explanation as to why the government pulled reporters' phone records without notifying them the worry now is the effect the news will have on the media and its sources i think the effect on the media has already been felt i mean you have sources that are being shut down doors just being shut in people's faces now that was probably the intention the intention was to scare. the turn off the faucet in other words from leaks in the wake of the controversy white house press secretary jay carney reiterated the obama administration's dedication to transparency he believes strongly in the need for the press to be unfettered in its pursuit of investigative journalism he also believes strongly as a citizen and as president in the need to ensure that classified information is not

leaked because it can endanger our national security interests there's a balance between transparency and national security has been a delicate one since nine eleven the obama administration has a history of aggressively going after whistleblowers prosecuting more people for leaking classified information than any other administration combined and washington was wall r.t. . and discuss the implications of the justice department surveillance mission with nick pickles direct big brother watch maker very welcome to the program nice to see you just as well the justice department i should say says it's investigating an extraordinary home fully does not call for extraordinary much of the. well the key question here is oversight is if this information is so critical that it would be impossible to go to a court to ask the court to give them permission to get this information and to authorize it properly the really concerning thing here is that those legal

safeguards appear to have been circumvented so the data was handed over without anybody external having a chance to scrutinize the application but their day at the end of the day all investigations all investigative actually did was gather call records where's the harm. well this is a news organization that breaks stories about incredibly sensitive issues and for a free press journalists need to know that they can work without their sources being compromised now there are legal routes for the u.s. government to get those records they can go to a court they can get a warrant if the the justification is there in terms of national security they could get that data but what's happened here is they've got a round up process avoided scrutiny of what had transparency and improve the process undermine the privacy and integrity of hundreds of journalists and also a number of commentators are holding obama responsible for this operation despite

him not knowing anything about it until it went public is that fair. well clearly the head of any government sets the tone in terms of the direction of travel but i think the important thing here is we do get to the bottom of why the decisions were taken to avoid going to court for scrutiny and then find out who thought this was proportionate because in any country and it's simply wrong for the government to try and pursue journalists to find out who their sources are alas there is an incredibly high threshold met and that investigation is very very targeted much of what is said to a.v. also to blame here they ran a story that was given to them by a whistleblower a story that the justice department says could have endangered people's lives is that responsible. well the interesting thing about this case is that the a.p. were actually talking to the government asking them about publishing this story

very agreed to hold off publishing it until the sensitive operation was over and the government itself was planning to announce the story the next day so the idea that somehow this information was never going to come into the public domain i think is wrong and the news organizations to do their job they need the confidence to tell whistleblowers their anonymity will be protected because that's an essential part of reporting things in the public interest and don't make you organization along with many others has warned of the abuse of surveillance powers despite your warnings little has been done why's that. well i think this case highlights around the world how far more needs to be done particularly in communications online to establish basic rights of things like journalists and freedom of the press or lawyers to communicate with their clients and indeed companies to do business with privacy unless a curate e respected by its national law and i think without sin in russia in britain or the

us the law needs to be strengthened to give people those assurances that the rights they have offline also apply online. nick because director of big brother watch thank you very much indeed nic and when you stick around after a very short break to stand that. well look it's. funny it's technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the huge earth covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture.

download the official application to you so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't work so how would your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. you're watching aussie line from moscow it's good to have you with us almost tougher year after french troops landed in mani to push back the rebels bombings and insecurity still plagued the north of the country it's a situation heads of state are hoping to solve as they gather in brussels for

donors conference that aims to raise needed two billion euros for the war torn country. has more now from the summit. and leaders from the e.u. and france as well as international donors are gathering today here in brussels to drum up and get aid and support for mali a country which has been dealing with the radical islamist militants as well as a political crisis for the last couple of years now we know that france has been very much involved in the country especially in the beginning of the year when it launched a military operation into the country a saying that they were there to fight off islamist militants away from key cities now france is also in the middle of withdrawing some four thousand troops from the country however it does plan to keep about a thousand troops in soon that what is seen as a long term a kind of posting in the country we have been speaking to some experts who are very familiar with counterinsurgency efforts and have had firsthand experience with them and they've told us here on our team that it's very difficult for counterinsurgency operations to be a short kind of war because as you drive out militants are from key cities they do

have a tendency to just keep coming back so there is a question of whether security is really in place the difficulty that any military intervention creates is that you chase the terrorists from one place they move they withdraw or they consolidate somewhere else where. they are less likely to create higher living areas of the state of chaos sort of they said ok. it's an idea a place is going to get out but it is they can see. what is their assets they followed the nation and the whites they know that sooner or later the intervention forces whether from mali or american our guys are sitting right there the occupiers the french foreign minister insists that security is largely in place in the country whether critics do question the extent of that kind of stability the mali may be seeing at the moment now there is no argument among everybody involved

that a stable mali is in the interest of a secure region. the regional security however there is that question of how sustainable and how effective the efforts have been so far there are also plans of having elections in the country in july if and when that does happen what kind of democracy and system will be put in place considering that the country is still facing some of those militant threats it's not one hundred percent out of the country competition i would be six vos natural resources taking a new twist china and india states hardly associated with the north pole and joining forces with four other nations that have been awarded permanent observer status to the arctic council and i have a call takes place now this cold crack. what we witnessed today at the arctic council in meeting was what some are calling an asian rush to participate in the group that the arctic council leaves the arctic area and the receding ice flows

have opened up shipping routes for asian nations particularly to take advantage of and there's also a lot of interest in the mineral resources specifically in the arctic area the us survey in two thousand and eight estimated that twenty two percent of the earth's oil and gas was under the arctic bad trouble is people aren't really sure how to divide it up so we've had strong proposals that the arctic be divided according to long to shoot or to close coastline exposure to the to the arctic area but there's also been a suggestion from the u.s. which is a permanent member of the council to an international zone be created free for all if you will a lot of people fear that that would open a pandora's box certainly the countries would who border the arctic region feel that might let players into the arctic area who don't necessarily have the best interests of the indigenous people of the arctic at heart. the u.s. plan funnily enough. finds echoes in china's stance towards the arctic where they

they now call themselves a near arctic nation and they would be delighted if the arctic was opened up and allowed exploration from nonspecifically arctic nations to get involved the interest in china in particular from china in particular but also from singapore which also join the council today is a major trading how they can shorten the transport time to european markets for the i phones the i pads the televisions what comes from the asian markets to to europe they can shorten that travel time or transport time by at least a week if not two weeks and this would basically help increase profit margins for those who would be interested on the other hand there are resources as well and the chinese as you know are very eager to. secure resources on a global basis we've seen their work in africa and i think probably was we'd see a continuation of that policy in the arctic. i'm now joined live by. a leading in research out of the arctic region and edward very welcome to the program you've

spent a quarter of a century researching this area is it worth fighting for. oh i think it is i think this is the last great frontier in the world and this is where the future of resources both any energy and mineral resources are going to be played out in a very big way how much affidavit take to explore the arctic. it's very very expensive it's risky it. with failure they've had to goes at it already in the canadian arctic i know the russians are well underway. but there has been very little success so far in this part of the world in exploiting those resources and getting them out but i think the technology now has has caught up the ice is retreating all things are lined up to suggest that it's it's this next attack so to speak is going to result in

something and of course in general is that much accepted to that now by the countries bordering the northernmost region so you mentioned canada and russia but what can you say in general and the whole activity that. well i think you know everybody everybody's looking at the arctic and suddenly it matters to the rest of the world is one of this place that you know that we sort of ignored we left of the polar bears to the explorers and now china's very interested south korea which is a big ship builder is very interested. you know italy has a research. research station you know it's fall harvest as does india. this is this is really everybody's kind of lining up there it's like a chess game right now everybody's trying to line up their their their ponds and trying to figure out how they can move into this area so there's a lot of dropping going on and i think things are going to play out very good a very big way to the be the future or council meetings yes and also about global warming that how much time will it take before the becomes no exploration friendly

band now more accessible. well you know if you'd asked me that question three four five years ago i probably would have said between twenty thirty and twenty fifty but it is retreating so quickly that now they're talking about within the next decade. you know the russians already made a. very successful ventures into the arctic with their ice breakers i think we really are looking at probably the next decade start seeing considerable activity you not part of the world and take on how the region should be divided and should it be divided at all. well it's going to be divided because you know there is a protocol in place the u.n. convention on the law of the sea and unfortunately the united states hasn't signed on to that yet. but i think that is probably the best and most effective for. by which to divide the arctic i think everybody has been playing including the

united states you know sitting over there. the only problem with this is that it's taking a very long time and whether it's going to be resolved in time to deal with the this resource structures i think the big question. all right edward. canadian research of the arctic region thank you very much indeed if you. are a simple telephone call with the noise now called gone tunnel inmates a degrading but a search according to prison as they allege that authorities are determined to stop the outside world learning about the desperate situation there up to eighty percent of inmates at the detention facility are now on the hunger strike that is marking its ninety ninth day and dr frank frank arnold from the medical justice network says torture that continues. repeated insertion of relatively worried bore feeding tubes is obviously painful. the joint task force piece shows that rather than

leaving the tube down as would be safe and. he's being removed and shoved back down routinely regularly and painfully with a patient in restraint over and over again the policy behind v.s.o.p. is to punish hunger strike for daring to protest. is a protest against what the strikers sees as denial of access to justice in this case a decade or more of detention without charge or trial or possibility of release and it's clear that the hunger strikers are being kept under weight and with origin the planning of their force feeding whether it's punishment as a means of control or some medical error so i think there's a real chance that something will go badly wrong and fairly soon that the doctors in guantanamo are in breach of their ethical duties by colluding in torture the medical association and the un agree with this these doctors like everyone else have duties to refuse unlawful orders and to expose abuse that was established in

new york because they do not want the hunger strikers do not trust and sometimes fear those who are responsible for cooperating and what they see as abuse so there is no doctor patient relationship their hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. the one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for. planning to spend nearly one hundred sixty billion pounds over ten years on new military equipment a large chunk of the money will go towards a new class of nuclear submarine where the project faces serious problems the sub's nuclear reactor isn't all functioning and it floods underwater. reports now on the high tech weaponry which is far from a state of the art. the cutting edge in military technology complexes

every decade tens of billions of pounds in the making these of britain's new class of hunter killer submarines and they've been making waves that lead to. serious problems from ground to. corrosion this is a. the astute on a jinx the damning description is a far cry from what britain's ministry of defense has hailed as one of the most technologically advanced machines in the world it's become clear that the problems could run deeper. is that. if. the design started in the mid ninety's a lot of it is electronics with all the electronics. present time to try and keep

up with that and you need to think about replacing equipment. as complete problem. but simple things become big problems in the northeast of england in barrow in furness is now the only site in the u.k. that designs builds and test submarines and that work forms the backbone of the economy here the current owner of the shipyard is defense systems not without its critics it's a company that shrouds itself in secrecy and it didn't disappoint when it came to addressing the alleged catalogue of errors with the submarine program having been beset by these design for allegations we asked the a to give us their side of the story but they declined to comment but the government order a seven submarines only to air in the water the ministry of defense is being forced into embarrassing admissions about what they've turned teething troubles. the

m.o.d.e. really has the stand back and say do we continue producing this loss of submarines or do we stop get it right and then start again with the launch of the third a stick class submarine still some way all the next couple of years but this project's kit three sink or swim time. so it's a barren furnace in the north of england. stay with us for peaceful of als crosstalk ask a quiz as his experts in serious on calling and more. wealthy

british style. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. choose your language. make it without any financial planner feel some of the. choose the news that concerns you. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact.