decision makers struggle to plug a trillion year old tax home through it thrives at the highest levels of europe's political elite. u.s. government is once again caught spying on a reporter sending shock waves through the journal's community affairs that press freedom under threat. the u.s. senate panel backs a push for an to give the syrian opposition lethal aid making it the first such move by lawmaker says the beginning of the crisis.

live from moscow you're watching. e.u. leaders are facing tough talks on tax fraud in brussels they have a one trillion that you are slipping through their fingers every year well this is the time when they're struggling to justify painful austerity measures in forced upon crisis hit member states there's a city now reports the efforts in brussels look even less convincing in light of a tax scandals involving some of the used top politicians. tax evasion no that's a hot topic right now here in the e.u. especially as e.u. leaders have decided to go ahead and talk with the likes of switzerland so-called tax havens but are non e.u. members to establish some sort of a more transparent exchange of relevant of banking data and this also comes at a sensitive time for citizens there those who are asking at a time when they are having to pay higher taxes and deal with job losses those belong to the top one percent of the very wealthy of the countries get away with tax evasion and tax fraud have been speaking quite loudly about this clampdown on

so-called offenders and a number of scandals have arisen in various countries starting with friends of the former budget minister there had to step down from his post he's been accused of having a secret swiss bank account we're talking about an amount of six hundred eighty five thousand euros there and also another politician over in greece a former minister of finance there has been accused of being involved with one of the country's largest tax scandals us about one point two million dollars we're talking about here now over in germany the boss of one of the world's biggest football clubs byron munich he's also want to investigation for fraud of about millions of dollars there now here in belgium by queen fabiola she's been accused of trying to hide her wealth from tax authorities so that her heirs don't have to pay a seventy percent tax and another royalty over in spain princess christine as she's been indicted on charges of complicity in tax fraud that's amounting to about seven point eight million dollars but putting all these together it's just a fraction of the one at trillion euros of the european commission says is lost to

tax evasion and tax fraud each year the e.u. commissioner for taxation anti-fraud has expressed disappointment at the lack of progress made by the bloc there's still a level of opposition coming from a couple of countries namely austria and look some work both of which are keen to protect their own banking secrecy laws now this commissioner also pointed out the rather than relying on third party countries or non e.u. member countries like switzerland are more nicko the bloc should take bigger steps in imposing a tougher tax avoidance laws now today the summit is going to show whether leaders are willing to take that step or if all of this is just talk reporting from brussels. or even some it comes as a new poll shows fewer young europeans believe the crisis management efforts will be effective as you can see there's a huge percent of those who don't believe the future will be bright pictures even gloomy if we look at options concerning employment look at that in italy

a staggering ninety two percent of people there are pessimistic about job security and europeans are also becoming increasingly worried about having a secure pension thing a tiny minority saying they're confident about the future on this doom and gloom it's young people in particular you seem to have lost faith because all of the reports from portugal. with unemployment on the rise the portuguese of facing a new set of challenges if you don't want to be a statistic if you don't want to be a number you have to. be committed with their own responsibility of making your own job joe has done just that turning his back on an education in sociology the job in advertising he moved out of the city and now teaches people how to grow mushrooms you are used to a model in which the opportunity is given to you now the new model you have to make or an opportunity. drawn towards fungal farming juta the mushrooms recycling

abilities he says portugal's politicians could learn a thing or two from his projects we really really need to find new nutrients to spring to. really full natural. he's even found a good use for some of his old textbooks yeah the breeding ground for a potential new mushroom that's easy to grow by anyone but it's not only in the countryside that new agricultural projects are under way with the portuguese facing rising prices and ever decreasing wages urban farms like this one becoming a very important way to make sure families can put food on the table small allotments are springing up right in the heart of lisbon operating without proper planning permission the authorities turn a blind eye to their development. everything is just too expensive so i try to get everything i can't afford from my little garden sometimes

there is a good crop so i can sell it for extra cash and nothing goes to waste here even garden pests can have their uses if you know how i collect these snail from my crop when cooked right they can be quite tasty in fact many think of them as a delicacy. grilled or in a still unemployment is it a record high in portugal with pessimists suggesting it's only a matter of time before it passes the twenty percent mark economists in the country are accusing portugal's european partners they ignoring their situation people in the north should look more closely to the direct human consequences of these policies and if they have a better knowledge of what's happening in those fields they will change their mind about what needs to be done in the near very near future janno is somewhat more philosophical to be patient and things will come at a time. that's the best lesson i've learned with mushrooms peter all over

r.t. portugal. or at high level tax fraud record unemployment and grown despair among europeans we're asking you if you think the e.u. is heading or cast your vote at r.t. dot com and here are your options is it a financial collapse ahead or an end to the debt crisis in the poorest states be forced out of germany become increasingly dominant economic onto r.t. dot com and have your say. the scandal around the u.s. government spying on journalists appears to be spreading and latest twist it's been

revealed that personal phone records and e-mails of a faux news reporter was seized as part of a leak investigation which latest incident comes on the heels of an associated press wire tapping scandal when members of staff had their calls and e-mails monitored a washington correspondent on a church attack looks at the implications of these cases might have for journalism in america. journalists here especially those covering national security matters first saw their sources drying out because of the administration's unprecedented hunt for leakers and whistleblowers as if that wasn't enough of a blow to investigative journalism downturn they see that they themselves could be targeted as criminals for soliciting information from government officials the story of the fox news reporting best gated by the f.b.i. for having sought information from a state department official sent truck waves throughout the journalistic community the secret blanket surveillance of over one hundred a.p. reporters that was another shock all of this led to the question about whether the administration mistakes journalism for espionage to talk about this i'm joined by

tom hartman the host of the big picture here on r.t. . tom there's a department official who apparently leaked classified information to the fox news reporter he was charged under the espionage act the fox news reporter is being investigated as his accomplice the alleged crime the obama administration has used the espionage act this world war one iraq law to prosecute other whistleblowers if these people are being prosecuted as spies who is the enemy that they are spying for well if they were going to prosecute the reporters themselves then obviously the enemy that they're spying for is we the people people united states. to the most mileage they're not prosecuting the journalists but they are investigating the journalists as if they were criminals. back during the bush administration when judith miller had that information about them you have these they went to her and said please give us the information give us your phone records tell you she said no and she went to jail rather than giving up her sources so now

instead of asking reporters asking news agencies they're simply going in with all the power. over of the spy agencies of america. snooping on the borders i think this is a violation first about something that i personally found extremely alarming it was a new york times article from wrote a year ago about drone strikes and innocent people dying in. strikes and they cited no named u.s. official who said that those reports on civilians dying in drone strikes they help terrorists so if that's how they see those journalists maybe it's not surprising that they go after them like this there is there i've always been governments and people in governments who use the excuse that you know you're either with us you're with the enemy. you know they don't understand that there's also there's you know what's in the interest of the country and it may not be the best interest of the administration and this was the argument that was made about people who were trying

to win and johnson for the gulf of tonkin and obviously we've over and over and over again we've heard this argument and it just doesn't doesn't fly thank you thank you very much so spice terrorist helpers during this can be accused of all kinds of things i guess a responsible journalist in the eye of the administration would be the one who diligently copy paste only what the government decides to put out there on its websites and in press releases and that would be a said day for our profession in washington i'm kind of checking. in from the website truthout says the latest surveillance case means the very nature of investigative reporting is that risk. the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers of intimidating the free press one of the key issues here and i think this is very important is that the case fox news producer was actually a coconspirator in this this has never been asserted before as far as we know in

the united states wiki leaks a songe and bradley manning were outliers that there is a limit to disclosing government information but the reality is that the government often leaks information and if it leaks classified information and of course it doesn't prosecuted itself this is the nature of investigative reporting that the obama administration is going after obama ran in two thousand and eight and to a certain degree in two thousand and twelve on him playing at form that he would make government more transparent but instead he is making government more opaque meanwhile that the u.s. government's apparent war on whistleblowers gathers pace from iraq that some taking steps to shield the sources new york has millar's the system that allows people to not to mislead have leaked documents missed the legacy of the report not have details. one of america's oldest and most prestigious news publications is pulling

up page from wiki leaks and creating a platform for whistleblowers and sources to anonymously leak information the new yorker magazine has launched a strongbox and open source dropbox that allows people to send messages and leak information without their identities ever being revealed now the program reportedly uses multiple laptop thumb drives a rich and poor the best and lawyers that the new yorker never finding out where they're to come from this way if anyone in the justice department wants to know more of the information new yorker officials can tell them now strongbox is being billed as a secure digital route for sources to use the underlying code for strongbox is called dead drop it was preceded by wired editor kevin paulson and

the late hour in swartz the r.s.s. inventor and open source optimus swartz committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting the writing founder for downloading millions of online at the democratic polls and publishing them online for free today the obama administration's target has changed now journalists from the associated press and fox news are being investigated and persecuted for their reports on national security issues a climate that has caused the new yorker to combine the first amendment practices of drilling a song and aaron swartz in order to protect the bradley manning's of the world reporting from new york arena r.t. . also had few supports with syria from within news will also look to the school board to do what it takes to the president president. and that's the pentagon oss

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call it a killer though if they still sometimes. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact the lives choose be access to your office. about the program now the pentagon is asking for almost half a billion dollars to maintain an upgrade the guantanamo bay prison and into doubts there's any genuine intent from the u.s. authorities to close the facility when one hundred detainees have been on hunger strike for three and a half months now in protest a with a definite detention without charge on to talk to a form of god at the camp to hold books explained why most prisoners would prefer

suicide to starvation to being kept that some of the some of the tactics that i saw practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar kotter and a number of other detainees that they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program were it essential to move them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big idea of a sudden every two hours they would be moved and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more. probable to give up information during interrogation i think it speaks volumes about the conditions at guantanamo of obviously sink to have if suicide through starvation is prefer able to. staying alive and then going through the monotony of guantanamo existence the only reason the detainees are being force is the us military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to to

literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the us look bad in a global global perspective if the pentagon wants four hundred fifty million dollars more to maintain and restructure guantanamo i think that's basically just preparations for the next batch of people are going to bill. as it stands right now they've wasted so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money in guantanamo it's just ridiculous and absurd to think about but if we just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close that one where the. full interview with terry holbrooke's is available for you on our web site www dot com also that medical mismanagement is a fortune is through the way it's been revealed that supplies have a birth new drug where the seventeen million pounds it's been discarded in the county to be stored procedures. self-made space food all

possible as nasa designs three d. printers couldn't our astronauts to create some function nice to meals in orbit with details on that i once. the u.s. senate committee has voted for a bill to almost syrian rebels trying to topple president assad's regime it's the first time in two years of the ongoing civil war that americans don't make us have agreed to give the backing opposition lethal support for the bill it still has a long way to go before it could come into force weltering historian joe horn believes washington has learned nothing from its pos mistakes. the pressure has really been ratcheted up in washington with regard to these rebels the israeli lobby in particular has been quite energetic and quite active with regard to lobbying for aid to the rebels which is quite curious since if these rebels come to power i dare say that israel will have many sleepless nights the implications are

quite ominous obviously the u.s. authorities have not learnt the lessons of history for example we recall that enough ganesan out of the one nine hundred eighty s. the united states supported extremists and then on september eleventh two thousand and one those extremism those allied with them attacked new york city and washington we recall that the u.s. authorities backed extremists and libya and then also to bring eleven two thousand and twelve those extremists killed the u.s. ambassador chris stevens in benghazi and it's plunged the obama administration into the ground or at best a geisha and sadly and tragically it seems that they would like to see history repeat itself assyrians israeli army's have exchanged fire the disputed the golan heights on the next by tenet the front line attacks become more frequent in recent months israel launching airstrikes and then ask us as a team sport to snare explains there's at least one community in israel that's ready to defend president assad. we're ready to

die defending our people strong words from a chef preparing young men to go and fight in syria except his recruits are not rebel fighters or soldiers in damascus they're israeli druze a minority islamic offshoot we need to go help defend the community in syria and president assad. we have relatives there are people are there and they were attacking them in the name of islam. the tipping point came after rebels targeted the druze village of kind of near the israeli syrian border and killed seven people by the hundreds israeli jews volunteers started signing up short of i would be honored to be the first man who crosses the border to defend the druze community simon y d works in an israeli factory but feels it's only a matter of time before he'll be asked to cross the border into syria. i hope that they won't need us but you can't know what will happen now the situation in the

druze villages is stable but if this changes we will go for it we are waiting for the orders from our shakes and we are totally ready israeli jews who live in communities in the gulf and the golan heights after the forty eight and sixty seven war they found themselves cut off from their families in syria after israel occupied the heights those who live here on the israeli syrian border our residents of israel but see themselves as syrian they're loyal to the alawite regime who they see as a minority lock themselves they live in fear for their families in syria after the rebel assault on the druze village there and where we are under attack we're under foreign attack they're using foreign soldiers to fight inside syria and some syrians are helping them. some have other ways to fight back this man goes daughter door selling his book about a respected to share all the proceeds go across the border. the druze community in

israel collected one million dollars and sent it to the syrian druze from my abilities became we collected one million shackles people paid what they could in order to help their relatives in syria the core to fight has not yet been made but as the conflict in syria starts to spread beyond its borders more and more communities are being torn in some million regions says here run deep and when a relative is killed the test for tatar vendetta is likely to last for years. we are just waiting for an opportunity to help and we are ready to give our lives pointlessly r.t. on the israel syria border or look at some other international news in brief now didn't really have world homemade bombs and classed with police during protest of education cuts police responded with water cannon and tear gas thousands of marched through the city of operator on the mounting created cation conflict began two

years ago and has been gaining momentum the government still refusing to meet students. rescuers are continuing their search for survivors of the oklahoma city suburb of moore after it was struck by a devastating tornado number of reported dead has been reduced to twenty four including nine children more than two hundred people are injured in home neighborhoods destroyed. over one hundred iraqis have been killed since the beginning of the week in a way the sectarian violence that's flared up across the country a long lasting conflict between sunnis and the shia government has fueled protests bloodshed in recent years as artie's are in english the reports about tolerance a deeply divided country could be engulfed by a fully fledged civil war. recent invasion of iraq syria violence has been on the rise in the country particularly there you can see the invasion has set it off and has been rising every year even though the u.s.

troops may be out the violence continues to only get worse in fact if we just look at the numbers of just last week alone two hundred people have died in this of terry and violence and when we're talking about sectarian violence we have to understand that islam is composed of two main branches shia and sunni and they are constantly going at each other they have all these issues and questions and this point has been going on for centuries so really it's really hard to stop in fact the u.n. mission for iraq has said that since two thousand and two thousand and eight april was the deadliest month for more than seven hundred people were killed sixteen hundred were injured these attacks continue to happen almost daily bases and there it seems that there is no way for them to stop of course now we have the know we have the tribal leaders from the sunni provinces mostly to the west of the country and they're saying we will stop the attacks if you will give us autonomy and the prime minister nuri al maliki said he is going to think about establishing a ton of this region in that part of the country but he says of course it has to be

done through proper legal procedures and that means more time more people work and more bureaucracy and until until it's that actually happens who knows how much more blood will be shed and of course the wider fear in iraq today is that become this country today is what could be what we could be seeing in syria tomorrow and this is what we have to be paying a special attention to when it comes to iraq and of course to the region as a whole. going to ask that well coming your way next i'll show prime interest rates save the non-mainstream financial needs that was. all. downloaded the official publication yourself choose your language stream quality

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good afternoon to welcome the prime enjoy as time perry and boring reporting and washington d.c. and here's the stories that i've been looking at today. jamie is save america's fair headed leader of j.p. morgan chase has retained his role as chairman of the board is rumored some of the other board members of the board members will soon be departing but for now the too big to fail heads are breathing a sigh of relief as this proxy war was seen by some as a proxy on the entire industry keep your fingers crossed the other hand. out. if you feel bad that was the u.s. hitting the debt ceiling over the weekend this is no longer a front page or even page six news event is under a markable event went largely unnoticed but not by the treasury which now uses its arsenal of tools to rob peter to pay paul reminds us of bringing these toolbelt he's so fond of talking about you know the one that's going to help them reign in

price inflation in fifteen minutes later in the so going to talk about the debt ceiling in monetary madness with authors michael penned and mark in the land. and the senate tried to take a bite out of tim cook this morning but the apple c.e.o. didn't flinch up there getting police with accusations of tax dodging he said there's no tax if been going on but senators were quick to praise apple and its technological marvels but they weren't so patient with mr cook nonetheless he was quick to point out that the next match will be made in taxes certainly it won't be made by it's profitable ira subsidiaries. which has no employees i was at the hearing and i'll bring you a full report in the duel but for now let's get to what's in your prime interest.