it was. pakistan's new elected prime minister once again call for the u.s. drone strikes in the country it would take a look at the many civilian victims of america's war on terror. a major us cell phone network was forced by a top secret court order to fund over the phone records of millions of its clients to the national security agency. to bring the turkish prime minister to return to the country to phrase demands for him to resign over a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that's left bronson's injured.

international news live from moscow this is a t with me thanks for joining. us drone strikes on pakistani soil must end that's according to the country's new the elected prime minister who is once again demanded washington to respect his country's sovereignty this comes amid mounting reports on the many civilian casualties in america's war on terror is this a constant of months some of the report contains some graphic images. the locals call it death in the skies in pakistan's northwest tribal region an american drone as seen from the ground it's become the weapon of choice in the u.s. war on terror and this is the damage it can wreak under president obama more than three hundred such strikes on pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay a price this man is one of them i mean a lot was on his way to work at

a mine near his village when a drone struck the area he lost his leg in the attack three other miners who were with them lost their lives we live in constant fear of another strike we are simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for it's a hopeless feeling or to be death is above our heads all the time although the attack took place three years ago i mean a loss says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upsets his four children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and modify that even the fame arrogance should be able to tell an ordinary person from a television leader what they should know who they're killing of what did we do to deserve this. this is my ex and the grown arctic it's a question echoed by now darren who lost part of his hearing short term memory and nearly his foot when. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another

strike and it killed many more people attorneys out of bar has sued both the u.s. and pakistan on behalf of the civilian victims he says they're the voiceless people of the zeerust on isolated by geography and politics simply call it a concentration camp that you have built a wall of. military and militants and behind that wall you keeping more than eight hundred thousand people who are not allowed to come out and no one from the rest of the country is allowed to go in and that's a kind of tree which us is using to use and test its drone program in many ways the epicenter of the cia's highly classified drone program is a black hole on the map a region of pakistan off limits to outsiders especially westerners now evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these were smuggled to islamize bought from the tribal areas there are believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from

a war zone most americans never get to see the fragments collected by a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drone especially on children just images of the living and the dead for nor it's personal . to me whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep at night the children here have been traumatized by the drones the sound of a door banging shot is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war by carrying a drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you just why did the conflict. you're giving a reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the conflict . of course this is make me hate the americans we're angry and want revenge they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst enemy now while promising to rein in their use the white house says drones are both

legal and effective. part. of our. lives. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims you see catherine of r.t. pakistan. and while the u.s. authorities claim drones only hits military targets american media has been reporting that classified documents indicate the cia did not always know who they were killing during attacks and let's not take a look at some actual numbers there and according to the viewer of investigative journalist up to eight hundred and eighty four civilians have reportedly been killed and there's also estimated two hundred children are among the victims and meanwhile the number of drone strikes has increased

a six fold since president obama's who conflicts and chris words from the bureau of investigative journalism says with these figures in mind there needs to be much more transparency in the drone warfare. with so many civilians reported killed and yet the cia claiming that it's killed no more than fifty or sixty civilians i think there is need for an open not only an open inquiry but also for the cia to share the information meteors on who it was leaves its killed in places like pakistan or president obama's speech the other week did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we don't see signs of that just yet in pakistan we now have an incoming government that's making absolutely clear to the united states that it doesn't want these drone strikes i don't think they're going to stop most of that strikes there in pakistan these days i'm really not related to al qaida and to terrorist activities but really to the war across the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significantly over the ten years or so it's been

running we see the united states talking about using drones in syria for example we have had colds from iraq and wonder recently for the u.s. to use drones there so there's a concern among some that the u.s. will start to use these drones as an easy plank in their view of foreign policy under a time of three stop pakistani journey out talat masood said davis talks completely undermine the authority of the pakistani government as well. pakistan has been protesting and politically it has a very negative fallout in pakistan and it fuse militancy what exactly is happening is that although it may have certain tactical advantage in the sense that you know if pakistan does not have control then the drones at least some to some extent may contain the militants but on the political side it lowers the image of the state

in the eyes of its people it makes them feel helpless and then it also ruins the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan when it comes to the use of drones the americans have given the responsibility of using the drones to the cia as far as pakistan is concerned where is the rest of the countries apart from you your men have been given to the pentagon and they have also said that they would use that very discreetly but in the state of pakistan and afghanistan i think they don't even want to own it want to talk of using it you know discreetly. millions of americans are having their phones right calls harvested without their knowledge the white house has confront the u.s. national security agency is forced to rise in one of the nation's biggest cell phone providers to hand over its core data in bulk the company has decided declined

rather to comment on the issue tom barton brought me the details. this was started by the british newspaper the guardian that managed to obtain documents we'll show you a little extract from those documents from the u.s. national security agency and a secret court there that they've used these documents have taken a small extract to obtain the phone calls of millions of us customers of arisan one of the largest telecommunications companies in the u.s. wanting call detail records and what are those those records specifically their telephony metadata we're looking at the the the numbers of both parties of the phone call the one making the called one receiving it location data from the call the time of the call and the duration so although the the contents of those calls aren't mentioned. if and if the authorities wanted to they could look at who was calling who where when and for how long that's

a lot of data that you can use to try and pinpoint an individual and it's hoovering up all of that data does whoever their eyes and customers are yeah and how much of a shock this will be for americans it could possibly be a big shock there have been a number of surveillance scandals recently among them just last month the fox news reporter who's emails and phones were monitored to try and get down towards a story that they thought the government thought was based on a state department leak fox very angry about that in their statement they called it downright chilling that this man was was monitored there he is now really was doing his job as they said and also a week before that the department of justice caught having monitored around twenty phone lines of the associated press news agency in the u.s. there suspected they were trying to trace the leak of a story of

a foil to al qaeda bomb plot all of this building up. both of those stories creating a big for a this one probably likely to as well the bush administration admitted this kind of mass gathering of telephone data this is the first instance so barmer of ministration perhaps continuing something similar it's not known the full extent of this that it that it might get to it is very likely that it could create a lot of anger and for more we're now joined live by idea. from a libertarian pressure group of the freedom association idea thank you very much indeed for joining us now it's r c so the guardian newspaper discovered records of calls are collected within the u.s. and some of those coming into the country what kind of ramifications can this condo have globally well first of all the sort of ramifications most directly we see is that these conversations are taking place not just in the u.k.

but not just in the u.s. sorry but between the rest of us and and people outside the u.s. like the u.k. for example the ramifications go way beyond the borders of that country but i think secondly the point is that the wider point is that it sets a bad precedence and the end sets a standard the u.s. tries to position itself as a leader clue billy in terms of freedom and when they act like this other states are emboldened to take similar steps like the u.k. and other countries such as china and iran maybe and even dictation dictatorships around the world yes and this information comes just weeks after it was revealed that a number of a.p. journalists were bugged by authorities what does it say about these scale of domestic surveillance in the state. yeah well look we've known that america has an aggressive way of doing surveillance operations within the country and we've known it since the picture exact way in two thousand and one what we now know is that

this is continue to happen under the obama administration as well and i think that the second point there is that there seems to be a huge gap between what we the citizens or american citizens think that the government is allowed to do and the government agencies interpretation of what they are allowed to do and that gap is extremely and democratic. the data collected by the agency includes the telephone numbers the time and duration of each call but not that count and having possessing this information conduit much harm can it. well don't forget that they they have to look asian as well and just because they're the spying is happening digitally don't it doesn't make it any less real how would we feel if a government agent was following us around with a pen and a paper saying which number did you just dial and they may not actually have the content of the conversation they might be kind enough to say i'm just going to go and sit over there while you have this conversation with your friend but they still know who i'm talking to and what what number i'm calling and where i'm calling from which case i'm. intrusions are very real they may not be visible but they're very

real and that you often hear this argument that surely if you if you've only got something to hide that's when you need to worry but i think that's looking at it backwards isn't it that saying you could be a potential criminal and therefore i'm just going to i'm just going to spy on you anyway just in case you turn out to be a criminal that cannot be the way a liberal democracy works can it the company itself declines to come and according to the report it continues through the handover date on an ongoing daily basis who should be held responsible but and should anyone be shutting this operation down from your point. what are i'd like to give arisan the benefit of the dogs and think that they have used they they have exploited all avenues available to refuse handing out this information but we cannot ask them to act illegally what we can do as people is put pressure on our governments because they are our representatives and ultimately it will be up to us to put to make sure that our

representatives listen to us change the law and make sure that this sort of undemocratic practices cannot go on. india deputy director of the freedom association dia thank you very much indeed thank you very much for having me and news stories after a very short break here on our show to stay with. 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 is ok. i'm

charging bloggers a big picture. if you're. going to take three. three. three. three. three blog video for your media. a free media r.t. dot com. this is a welcome bok calls to apologize and step down well grade the texas prime minister when he returns home after working trip abroad later on says day. at a one out of a burst open he squandered on demonstrations that left thousands injured fresh

clashes broke out overnight and on corrupt police and leashed most here gas and water cannons on all. three people have died in that arrest which began as a small gathering in istanbul but spread like wildfire across the country in response to unprovoked pleas personality just by the knowledge the peaceful nature of the movement at once branded the demonstrators asked. back that's trim it a protest to say he's chasing ghosts as a rino going to school records. their kids in banners flags and tear gas turkey is going through a rough time right now so who's to blame but i'm going to consider the sincerity of these protests social media has been full of fabricated news baseless claims and accusations against me for days therefore we should hide these people from the trees they are accustomed to that these tactless people are tweeting and messaging that we are victims of violence and dying police panzers are crushing us and the

people who share these retreat these claims are just hundreds of fascists said prime minister go on for doesn't often african tour voices of dissent on istanbul's taksim square as well as many other squares and parks in turkey who louder but the turkish prime minister had by then already dismissed these voices as coming from drunkards and extremists the only types of people who attend protests in turkey according to this to completely dislikes a position. he take this as a personal offense. he used he's used to have. agrees from the public for a lot of time because he gained a. waltz of the concrete this time probably he didn't think that he didn't assume that there were these the protests will be so big everyone's feelings for the protesters however are mirrored by the people on tech scene who believe only one

has lost touch with reality and cares mostly about one person's opinion his own everybody was here being and everybody where people were. trying to resist and people were trying to keep the spark and he was telling that to be our good he was saying that. there is actually no project here going on and he changed his mind and he said there is no force a project that i will do what i want to do and then the resurrection of spies spies everywhere and this commentary on the protests the prime minister insisted there are hundreds of thousands of foreign agents working to upset the status quo in the country i don't insist that it's these very agents that have instigated the address in the first place and continue to work among the crowds encouraging dissent in turmoil today's newspaper quoted a non named source in the government who claimed authorities have arrested some fifteen foreigners across the country in connection with the protests ironically

many of them turned out to be nationals of iran a country which has been on early ones blacklist for quite some time but just a couple of months ago the prime minister cut a different picture delivering a heartfelt speech on the subject of human rights and freedoms. where there is no justice there is no humanity because there is justice and justice is excluded its place has shifted to man's identity the identity of human beings to speak it is impossible to claim that these people can build a decent life but in everyone's turkey lately people have been busy putting up barricades to keep police at bay rather than getting a prosperous future for themselves. istanbul. and of course our news and much more is just a click away of all my here's what's waiting here there right down. the side of a standoff kind of a gap of an enormous amount of data on her cap talks against the states coming from

america that beijing was accused of using computer hackers to steal u.s. military and commercial secrets meanwhile estate. escaping with his life to us on a sergeant pleads guilty to slow train sixteen afghan civilians in march twenty twelve for the sake of a. voiding capital punishment. twelve russians are in court on charges of inciting mass disorder and violence against bullies they were arrested for and quote house which ended in clashes in may last year on the eve of president putin swearing in ceremony off season exceed russia skis following the preliminary hearings. twelve people in the door all accused of inciting riots a year ago and made the six to eight to twelve and they could face up to eight years in prison if they're found guilty back then certainly just twenty four hours before the inauguration of president bush in moscow so probably the biggest

violence it has seen in years everything was going rather smoothly in the anti putin protest in the heart of most go until one part of the protesters attempted to break the police lines and move in a march towards the kremlin that's when the scuffles between the police and the protesters erupted which left more than eighty people injured and more than three hundred were arrested of course most of them were released straight away but twelve of them the police believe that they have enough evidence that these people were inciting riots and that's why this case has been going on for the last year obviously entering its final stage the court hearings in central moscow court now this case has been riddled with controversy of course with the opposition describing these people as political prisoners and demanding them to be released we are seeing something like this today as well there are soldiers there are tickets from both the opposition and the pro-government movements for the first are demanding the release of the prisoners the second the lights are demanding the justice to be so of course we keeping our thumbs here on the ground that will be

keeping our viewers up to date with all the latest details as this court session is progressing. the u.s. is fast learning that its military endeavors in iraq and no guarantee of financial reward that southgate was revealed beijing's now winning the race for iraqi oil becoming the country's biggest customer well she's case appealed them explain to me just how the chinese were able to do that. actually now iraq is one of the top oil producers in the world and china is the biggest purchaser of this and actually nearly half of the oil iraqi oil goes to china actually one point five million barrels a day that equates to actually they want to really extend their presence as well they want to get hold of oil giant exxon mobil's presence in the iraqi feels that they want to expand and if we just go back to before the war during saddam hussein's time during then there was lots of or sanctions that really affected the oil market because it meant that it was cutoff from the markets and since then the

market's been more open and more friendly business environment for the likes of china to take advantage of china did exactly that absolutely but makes the chinese so attractive as a customer well they've got plenty of money lots of disposable income but really it's the way that they handled the iraqi government they really had a relationship going on the contracts are strict they've dealt with lower profits in order to win these billion dollar contracts in the long run and there's lots going on they seem to be very committed in the long run china has set up an airport on the arabian border to actually transport these iraqi workers into the oil fields there's also talk of direct flights going from beijing into iraq into baghdad very soon and in hotels the staff are taken on a rocky accents in arabic in order to impress these chinese executives so does this all sound like good news or good news for china i would say but some people in the u.s. aren't too happy about it i'm going to quote someone right now is michael makowski

he was actually in the bush administration during the time and he's saying we lost our just to paraphrase him just he's saying the chinese had nothing to do with the war but they've really benefited in terms of finance and all late and air forces are helping to assure their supply of us a bit of it of conflict going on there and we know that china has actually benefited from the fact that that loan. that i didn't america the interest rate on those lies has increased because america now added more we know that they spent three trillion on this wall so this wasn't the outcome many were expecting from the two thousand and three invasion me man. next it will be lines behind the best of intentions charity diplomacy and business coming your way right after this short break.

the school board in batavia illinois has decided to punish one teacher for his bad behavior by putting him on a strict probation play or what did he do to be deserve be part of this probation planted he do select punch a student in the face or to go in some sort of horribly racist or sexist ranted for the class so he just reminded the students that as americans they have the right to not incriminate themselves to put it more simply he told the students that they didn't have to answer a questionable survey about drug and alcohol use and their emotional state since the data from this questionnaire would be sent back to the private company that created it this raises even more privacy issues than just the school knowing about the students personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they need to dial you know if you're going to live in a society based on individual rights it would help to actually teach children what those rights are but that's just my opinion.

download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. according to the law. usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the

u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular row appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr leto works issued a report which presented the problem to congress. president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive faster and

cost less. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo and u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayers' money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa the remaining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. was.