says the recent busting of a cia spy goes against the u.s. and russia spirit of trust on the scandal easy american agent at the mercy of the world's media with a steady flow of jokes and poems i mean his clumsy skills. here pinned down his page one point three billion euros towards rebuilding money at a major conference in brussels even as the eurozone economy shrinks for the six quarter in a row. security over sanctity the u.s. government turns up for mass surveillance operation targeting journalists with the white house trumpeting national security as the be all and end all. and also for. the club of the nation's eager to cash in on riches is getting bigger china and india getting

a stronger voice when it comes to carving up the region our top stories this hour. screen international news and comment live from studio center here in moscow russia has once again expressed his disappointment over the latest spying scandal saying the cia's actions undermine the government's efforts to cooperate american diplomat ron fogle was busted in moscow as he tried to persuade a russian special service officer to supply information. brings now more on the story. spoke with the president's aides who said 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 their security services to

work together i'd rather than against against each other and well perhaps these waters are simply getting stuck on some levels or of fishelson war are simply being ignored and while russia and the u. worse still have many mutual threats a lot of fears where they could work together including security and added that it's very unlikely that this latest spy scandal is going to ruin the relationship. the exposure of the cia spy here in moscow is filled to the political arena because the major boom in the media instead infortunate spies now being ridiculed for resulted equipment in clumsy methods and these garbage can has more all the media hype. 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 kid 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 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 wake 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 so it's actually standard practice for the russian security service to record the operation in detail when they catch someone red handed then they choose 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 f.s.b. discovered the fake rock that was used by british secret services to spy on 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 and it allowed to receive and send information at that time the story was ridiculed made it no less true though and if this be official reportedly revealed that in general there was a similar incident when an american spy was deported from the country and glenn will turn in a hole of the british intelligence analysts think this intelligence game between mosco and washington. and on. it is a great success for the f.s.b. the russian domestic security service what fairly fail 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 are concerned love rob or have a smile on his face as the great game will in this particular instance russia has scored america has lost but make no bones about it there will be a few ripples at the moment and before we know relations through back to normal and as i say. the cia will replace really with another intelligence officer and the game will continue. online we collected a selection of top spying scandals of the twenty first century involving the u.s. and russia and had already dot com for the background of this story. u.s. justice department is on the back foot defending its massive spoiler peroration against the associated press news agency about one hundred journalists and editors

at their phones temp for months with the revelations sparking widespread outrage on his list wall 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 they arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as 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 this was a very serious. a very serious leak and

a very very serious leak. i've been a prosecutor since nine hundred 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 and that is not hyperbole 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 associated press c.e.o. gary pruitt says quote these records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the a.p. during a two month period provide a roadmap to news gathering operations and disclose information about a.p.'s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right 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 liz wall r.t. . the government maintains that the case against a.p. is one of national security pickles the rich are big brother watch says that simply doesn't make sense i think about this case is that you were actually talking to the government asking them about publishing this story very aggrieved 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 for news organizations to do their job they need the confidence to tell whistleblowers they're on a liberty will be protected because that's the essential part of reporting figures in the public interest. the world's most maligned detention facility marks a dark milestone one thousand nine days of a mass hunger strike and authorities there appear to be piling on the pressure

inmates a quantum of reporting skule to harassment saying they're being subjected to painful and degrading searches reasons as telephone calls with their lawyers more on that coming your way this hour. the first competition over the arctic's vast natural resources is taking a new turn china and india countries hardly associated with the north pole joining forces with four other nations that have been awarded permanent observer status to the arctic council. explains this cold calculation to us. 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 oversees the arctic area and the receding ice flows have opened up shipping routes for asian nations particular 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 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. it would strews it can lead to research it says that international ambitions towards the region one hine despite extreme difficulties exploring the area it's very very expensive it's risky it. fraught with failure they've had to goes at it

already know that canadian arctic i know the russians are well underway. but there has been very little success so far in this part of the world and exploiting those resources and getting them out but i think the technology now just has caught up the ice is retreating everybody is looking at the arctic and suddenly 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 of the explorers and now china is very interested south korea which is a big ship builders very interested. you know italy has a research research station in no small part is as it is india. this is this is really everybody's kind of lining up there or it's like a chess game right now more news just ahead for us this is all up to you live in moscow stay with us.

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our big. dog called. he continues here not to use simple telephone call with lawyers now close guantanamo inmates degrading body search according to prison it's their lives that authorities it's time to stop the outside world learning about the desperate situation that up to eighty percent of inmates at the detention facility and now the hunger strike that is marking its ninety ninth day dr frank allen old from the medical justice network says torture that continues repeated insertion relatively wide bore feeding tubes is obviously painful. the joint task force peace shows that rather than leaving the two down as would be safe from treatment he's being removed and shoved back down routinely regularly and painfully with. the policy behind v.s.o.p.

punishment story for during protests understructure it is a protest against what the strikers see as ignore of our culture 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 meeting under way and look forward to the planning of their force 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 back to the doctors in guantanamo are we to the ethical duty by colluding towards the medical association and the un agree with these doctors like everyone else has a duty is to refuse unlawful orders and to expose. that was established new order because they do not want the hunger strikers do not trust and sometimes feel. responsible for cooperating in what they see as abuse so there is no doctor patient

relationship their hunger strike despair pushed to the limit. listen nearly one hundred kuantan of all detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for. more than one billion euros has been pledged by european countries and the european commission to help rebuild water this is bombings and insecurity still plagued the north of the country almost half a year after french troops were deployed to push back rebels. has more now from the summit. the 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 you know that france has been very much involved in the country especially in the beginning of the year every

operation into the country 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 and says in 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 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 to do. any military intervention creates is that you chase the terrorists from one place and they move through or they consolidate somewhere else where. they are less likely to be entirely new theories of the state of chaos sort of the. place they want to go but it is

just they can see. the weapons their assets they. have a right because they know that sooner or later the intervention forces whether their friendship in mali or america is not guys who are sitting right there the occupiers the french foreign minister insists that security is largely in place in the country however 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 a 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 to some city there

and then you'll do broad from the french antique leno group some of these says throwing money at it will not create a stable nation bring money in a system that is greatly corrupted and where the money never goes to the people that reading needs it and bring in the results you have to do it have a strong strong political institution you have to have a strong. aim to improve the conditions there while conditions of the people you have results in death case we are putting the stages one bit before another but in the in the wrong in the wrong since this part of the world has being directly. targeted by a lot of. countries. who are looking for the natural resources and france has a tradition of a very strong position in this continent and they are looking not to lose

disposition so they are showing their muscles if you want. to live here in moscow still to come in the program it's make or break time. rough. we're not talking about subway that's this great sin is being given to britain's new hunger to kill us and this of course at the subway it's a run into trouble we've come to hit the barrier but it's the submarines designed and built to find out what's going on and more on that story coming up. for us at least one person has been killed in libya's second largest city benghazi after more than stormed a police station it's been reported that the crowd gathered to secure the release of attorney then set the compound on fire comes amid a frantic pullout of u.s. and u.k. embassy staff due to the recent rise in violence lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine thinks the west could be leaving behind the mess it helped create when they created

a monster that they could no longer control and it's turning against them in a way there was absolutely foreseeable the fact the tony blair policy which obama kameraden circles you follow. in your with gadhafi in orchestra two thousand left created this condition which was understandable. mr knapp and we worked exactly. to the issues all throughout you know the parts of libya and now libya has become governor so even the people who hated the mess have to leave to protect themselves because nobody of the victim in this situation is completely out of control. time now for some other international stories in brief clashes broke out in the west bank between palestinian protesters and israeli security services the violence was sparked after thousands of palestinians rallied in the occupied territories to mark

sixty five years after hundreds of thousands of arabs were forced from their homes to make way for a new israeli state days called it nakba in arabic which translates as the catastrophe. there is a bomb blasts have struck across iraq killing at least fourteen people and injuring dozens more the deadliest attack a car bombing happened in the northern city of kirkuk killing eight people and wounding eight more a suicide bomber on a motorcycle later hit a police checkpoint in a city north of baghdad killing one security officer britain is planning to spend nearly one hundred sixty billion pounds over ten years on new military equipment a large amount of the money will go towards a new class of this submarine but the project faces serious problems the sub's nuclear reactor is malfunctioning and it floods underwater. reports on the high tech weaponry which is far from state of the. the cutting edge in military

technology. 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. 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. with. 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 then you need to think about replacing equipment. as complete

problem with. simple things. 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 a 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 to give us their side of the story but they declined to comment but the government seven submarines only two are 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 to 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 class submarine still some way all the next couple of years for this project kit three sink or swim time. so it's a barren thoroughness in the north of england. to bring it up to date for them not be back with more news with the team about thirty minutes from now but before that it is abby martin's breaking the set stay with us from there if you can offer the short break. for the. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia

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