decision makers struggle to plug a trillion euros tax hole fraud thrives at the highest levels of europe's political elite. the u.s. government is once again caught spying on a reporter sending shock waves through the journalist community is that press freedom is under threat. and the u.s. senate panel backs a push for an arms bill to give the syrian opposition lethal aid making it the first such move by the lawmakers since the beginning of the crisis. well the news and the very latest developments you're watching r.t.m.

kerry just. leaders are facing tough talks on tax fraud in brussels and over one trillion euros slipping through their fingers every year well this is a time when they're struggling to justify painful austerity measures being forced upon crisis hit member states especially also in our reports the efforts in brussels look even less convincing in light of 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 nowi leaders 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 a football clubs by in munich he's also want to investigation for fraud of about millions of dollars there now here in belgium macqueen fabulous' has been accused of trying to hide her wealth from tax authorities so that her heirs don't have to pay a seventy percent tax putting all these together it's just a fraction of the want to trillion euros of the european commission says it's 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 key 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. well the e.u. summit comes as a new poll shows fewer young europeans believe the crisis management efforts will be effective well there's a huge percent of those who don't believe the future will be bright as we can see here the picture is even gloomier if we look at opinions concerning employment in it's really a staggering ninety two percent of people there are pessimistic about job security

while europeans are also becoming increasingly worried about having a secure pension when your tiny minority saying they're confident about their future and amid this doom and gloom it's young people in particular who seem to have lost faith because all of the reports now 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 and social 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 your own opportunity. drawn towards fungal farming juta the mushrooms recycling abilities he says portugal's politicians could learn

a thing or two from his produce we really really need to find new nutrients to spring to live. every day full natural. he's even found a good use for some of his old textbooks yeah is the breeding ground for a potential new mushroom it'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. 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 snails from my crop when cooked right they can be quite tasty in fact many think of them as a delicacy. grilled or in the silliest unemployment is at 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 ignore in 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 joe is somewhat more philosophical says 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. where the high level tax fraud record unemployment and groan despair among europeans were asking where you think the e.u. is heading in cast your vote at r.t. dot com and here are your options is a financial collapse ahead or an end to the debt crisis in the poorest states be forced out all germany become increasingly dominant you can log on to r.t. dot com and have your say. the scandal around the u.s. government spying on journalists appears to be spreading the latest twist it's been revealed that personal phone records and e-mails of

a fox news reporter was seized as part of a leak investigation and this latest incident comes hot on the heels of an associated press wiretapping scandal and members of stuff had their calls and e-mails monitored a washington correspondent on a church account looks at the implications of these cases might 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 investigated 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 this informant 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 in the alleged crime the obama administration has used the espionage act this world war one era 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 best my knowledge 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 w m d's 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 you know from 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 and snooping on borders i think this is a violation of personal something that i personally found extremely alarming it was a new york times article from her out a year ago about drone strikes and innocent people dying in those. 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 with 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 website and in press releases and that would be a said day for our profession in washington i'm going to check in. i'm not calling from the website truthout says the data surveillance case means the very nature of investigative reporting is at risk. the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been kemah dating the free press one of the key issues here and i think is very important is that the case of 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 and bradley manning or out why is 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 on of course it doesn't prosecuted south this is the nature of investigative reporting that the obama administration is going after. in two thousand and eight and to a certain degree in two thousand and twelve on him playing at a form that he would make government more transparent but instead he is making. it more opaque on us to the heads of u.s. support for syria from within israel looks at a small border community ready to do whatever it takes to fund present that's not. and that's the pentagon asks for more money to maintain guantanamo prison and talk to a form of god who explains what's been driving indicates that the stump and sells for

months. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from. the streets of canada. showing operations are today. choose your language. with the if you. choose good the consensus. choose the degrade. choose the stories get him to. choose access to.

more international stories now the pentagon is asking for almost half a billion dollars to maintain and upgrade the guantanamo bay prison out into doubts there is any genuine intent from the us authorities to close the facility more than one hundred detainees have been on hunger strike for three and a half months now in protest over the indefinite detention without charge welty talks to a form of god at the camp explained why most prisoners would prefer suicide through starvation to being kept. 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 they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program or even essentially moved 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 move the height 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 bobbie sink to him 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 fed is that the u.s. 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 the global global perspective if the pentagon wants four hundred fifty million dollars more to maintain and restructured one ton of i think that's basically just preparations for the next batch of people are going to fill it. as it stands right now the weeks to so many millions of dollars taxpayer money in one ton of. 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 up one where the. well the full interview with terri help is a variable for you and i website that's artie dot com also their medical management has a fortune is thrown away it's been revealed that supplies of a birthing drug with over seventy million pounds has been discarded in the u.k. due to faulty storage procedures. self-made space food all

possible as nasa designs three d. printers that could allow astronauts to create some fresh and tasty means in orbit all the details on that on our website. and u.s. senate committee has voted for a bill to the syrian rebels who are trying to topple president assad's regime is the first time in two years of the ongoing civil war that america's lawmakers have agreed to give the backing opposition lethal support for the bill still has a long way to go before it could come into force author and historian gerald horne believes that washington has learned nothing from its past 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 learned the lessons of history for example we recall that in afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. 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 a ground of the best a geisha and sadly and tragically it seems that they would like to see history repeat itself. a syrian and israeli army's have exchanged fire in the disputed golan heights long alec's by a turn away of the front line attacks have become more frequent in recent months israel launching airstrikes the restless result is porous lyrics plays as at least one community in israel that's ready to defend

a president that. 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 cruise village 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 why the 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 are residents of israel but see themselves as syrian then loyal to the alawite regime who they see as a minority like him solves they live in fear for their families in syria after the rebel assault on the druze village of their adware. we're 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 door to 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 center to the syrian druze from my village but can we collected one million shackles people paid what they could in order to help their relatives in syria the court 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 family allegiances here randy and when a relativist killed the ten for tatar vendetta is likely to last for years but we are just waiting for an opportunity to help and we are ready to give our lives policy r.t. on the israel syria border. spoke to the south african president jacob zuma about ways of resolving the syrian crisis making its leader part of the solution the full interview is coming up there today but here's a quick point i don't know what is it that makes people think he should leave syria is a syria has been

a problem that has developed in syria is part of it he must participate in dissolving it what syrian people should do is to find a solution a solution that must be accepted by everybody in the clued in what happens to those who have been. on either side of the syrian situation has been allowed in the main by the members of the security comes well all been calling for. a kind of coming together of the syrian people to solve their problems that they should be helped to do so but some countries have been saying you know there was a time we could have come in we could have said solve the problems find a solution whatever views people didn't do so because it was not satisfying the interests.

a look at some other international news in brief now stock home has seen a third night of riots in a largely immigrant who's been a district the rest in the swedish capital is believed to have been triggered the police fatally shot an elderly man last week several arrests have been made many say violence as a result of police brutality and racism. students in chile have hurled homemade bombs and clashed with police during protest over education cuts at least responded with water cannon and tear gas thousands of marched through the city of the reason being the education the conflict began two years ago and has been gaining momentum of the government refusing to meet students tomorrow. rescuers are continuing their search for survivors in the oklahoma city suburb of more after it was struck by a devastating tornado a number of reported dead has been revised down to twenty four looting nine

children or two hundred people were injured in all neighborhoods destroyed. more than a hundred iraqis have been killed since the beginning of the week in a way the sectarian violence that flared up across the country last in conflict between sunnis and the shia government has fueled protests and bloodshed in recent years as artie's reports without tolerance 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 it 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 experian violence and when we are 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 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 on almost daily bases and there it seems that there's 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 the current

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. well next we saw the lights on the news you won't tell anyone else is breaking the sect's herriot. hold it. hold it. i love. that speech. you.

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live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i mean. i know that i'm still the same really messed up. in the all very sort of silly. it's. the worst you're going to see the only white house or the. radio guy for a minute from a. local are about to produce never seen anything like this i'm telling. you it's not guys i'm adding martin in contemporary times of consumerism and superficial commentary philosophy seems like a dying art which is why i'm excited to share an in-depth conversation i just had with dr noam chomsky philosopher linguist professor of political critic and author of over one hundred books the last fifty years dr chomsky has worked out of his mit

office where i sat down with him surrounded by large stacks of books papers and memorabilia he has collected over the years and it eighty four years old dr chomsky is as sharp as ever and is able to articulate his unique viewpoint on everything from media propaganda to the war on terror so without further ado my one on one with dr noam chomsky. so much for taking the time to meet with me it's a great honor to be sitting here and we're in boston cambridge actually but you know as someone who is a living in the aftermath of the boston bombing the chaos what did you think of the police and media response to them. i hate to second guess police to my impression was was it. that there didn't have to be that degree of militarization of the area.