documents flush out the true extent of the united states surveillance network potentially blanketing the online world but the government insists it's protecting america. turkey's prime minister remains defiant over a wave of protests against him calling the rallies illegal but sparking fears of further division in the country. talks between the u.s. and chinese leaders are overshadowed by the country's fiery exchange of accusations and ask growing tension over america's p.r. campaign and beijing's domain. and divorce over duty president

putin says being in the top job is behind the split with his wife which the couple insist was amicable. this is thirty coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program the sheer scale of america's surveillance empire is coming to light with a new leak detailing a global system that logs potentially people's entire online life with some help from a few internet giants telephones haven't been spared either was the authorities reportedly collecting and storing the call records of americans on mass and washington is furious calling the leaks reprehensible and the surveillance necessary here's art he's an associate. after i stop in news that america's national security agency has

been collecting information on millions of customers of one of the country's biggest telecommunications providers arisan further information of the extent of surveillance conducted by u.s. officials has leaked out and nine major internet companies they include google facebook yahoo microsoft skype you tube apple a.o.l. and pal talk have been used by the f.b.i. and the national security agency to monitor photos videos e-mails audio and all other sorts of information tracking a sweeping scope of individuals online activity as reported by the guardian and the washington post a highly classified program dubbed prism accounts for almost one in seven intelligence reports made by the n.s.a. to the u.s. president and congress this is of course the first time that this prism program has been publicly brought to light u.s. officials in particular members of congress aware of this program have been keeping quiet about the sweeping activity of violating the privacy of american citizens and

of course so all of this comes after a secret court order was obtained by the guardian and uploaded online this document revealed that the u.s. telecom giant of arise and has been giving the n.s.a. information on absolutely all of the phone calls being made within the united states as well as between the u.s. and foreign countries according to the secret court order which was issued as we know in april and expires july nineteenth phone calls of millions of americans are being traced through arisan absolutely regardless of whether or not there is reason to suspect that subscribers are involved in any criminal activity and it's also been disclosed that this operation has actually been ongoing since two thousand and six and renewed every three months. so far reaction from washington has been one of anger and offensiveness with senate intelligence committee had feinstein standing by the surveillance saying it's called protecting america but let's get some global perspective on the privacy concerns here with. a human rights lawyer and campaigner

thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. to discuss this so how does it make you feel that even the connection in iran now could be monitored in real time in the not a good feeling or if you've been anywhere near where i would say you know wake up call for all europeans and everybody living in other countries as long as we're using u.s. based companies we are not. on the contrary we have to assume that we are under surveillance and not because we are suspects not because we are given anything just because u.s. is running the war on terror. but isn't that and people's interests for it to be monitored for example i mean the internet is a tool of communications a global tool of communications for a lot of people both people with good intentions and terrorists well certainly we can think of that surveillance under certain circumstances like a court order like a persecution with which made justifying surveillance in certain conditions but

here we are talking about get operations affecting everybody garters of suspicion we're going is there any crime he story or any behavior which would justify surveillance so democratic state democratic regimes this is not acceptable well this particularly come as obama wages what many call a war on whistleblowers so is he winning this one. i don't think so i think internet can not be forced to become silent it's too big even for us to be controlled and the more politicians want to control people exchanging information the higher is there is we kill is being. coming back as as a story we've we've more information and people defending their rights well on a governmental level dissing dad fears of data abuse are being slightly exaggerated

well i don't think that these few can ever be overexaggerated them or especially taking count of the amount of data we have online to talk about surveillance of all internet communication like e-mails like we share the information we exchange is our life it's a lot of information about me those of people and the possibility of creating profiles on that base that was the believe guessing our next move of controlling our behavior is huge it's really this they did or will described in his books and we have to be aware of this risks more than ever and i kind of human rights lawyer and activist thank you so much for giving us your thoughts on this issue here in r.t. . and coming up browsing online links to your favorite t.v. shows scooby comus thing of the past if you were in the u.k. . that's if the police have their way they are cracking down on torrent websites and threatening to put people running them behind bars for years.

and thousands of protesters show their anger in france and rage by the murder of an eighteen year old left wing activist after a brutal attack by skinheads the details are a little later in the program here in r.t. . turkey's prime minister is looking unlikely to easy as hardline stance towards the swelling nationwide protest against him. the movement's illegal and accuses its members of brutality and provocation as he addressed a cheering crowd of his supporters after returning from a trip to north africa some of those who gathered at the airport chanted let's go let's crush taksim well the plaza and central istanbul has become a symbol of a flourishing anti-government drive in turkey the demonstrators have been packing cities across the country for weeks now after police crushed

a peaceful environmental sit in in taksim square that ignited street battles which left reportedly three people dead in clashes which saw it tear gas water cannon and electric baton to deploy washington based foreign policy expert barbara slavin joins me now to give us more analysis on this well to barbara thanks for joining us here so what's your impression of howard is dealing with a protest against him. well so far i don't think he's doing a very good job and this is a huge blow to him personally to his image and also to the turkish model which he has been touting around the middle east as something that arab countries should emulate also take a look at his surroundings i mean the government specifically do you think they are united enough to prevent the taksim protests from undermining his leadership you know i think the damage has already been done you know as it's been pointed out this was a small environmental demonstration which turned into something huge after police

used excessive force against the demonstrators it's now spread throughout turkey and what it shown is that there is a great deal of opposition to heir to one personally and to the kind of creeping islamization that he's trying to promote. it comes just a couple of weeks after he had a trip to washington where he bragged about turkey's economic success and again talked about turkey is a model so i think it has done damage if you look at what's happened to the stock market in turkey to the value of the turkish currency clearly he needs to recalculate i don't think this tough guy approach is going to help turkey in the long run well yes clearly sending the message that those who protest against him are a minority do you agree. i don't think that's at all clear and frankly we will find out if he goes through with his plans to run for president in two thousand and fourteen he wants to change the constitution to create a sort of imperial presidency and then run for two terms as president this kind of

behavior is alienating people who are religious as well as those who are secular so i think he's taking a big big risk by deepening the divide among turks. let's now take a look at the issue of popularity i mean in light of the elections he's been already in power for more than ten years now and can be reelected. an unlimited amount of times if he was getting so wrong i mean if he was getting things in the country sarong why isn't he being voted out. you know well it's a parliamentary system and the a.k. party has been the largest party in terms of seats but i wrote a piece for hell monitor this week talking about the importance of term limits i think most people around the world understand that there is a limit to how long you can stay in power and when you go beyond two terms and in early once case more than a decade people begin to get tired of you no matter what country whether it's an

authoritarian country or a democracy and he really should i think quit while he's ahead because obviously the longer he's there the more people even people who were predisposed to like him at the beginning begin to tire of his manner of governing he's somebody who lectures who sermonize is he doesn't listen very well in my experience and i think this is really not a good model for a country that purports to be a modern islamic democracy well at this point we can see the society divided there are people who are into pro or do want cam and people who are against him so how do you expect things to develop between these two you are likely to see more confrontations between them. i'm afraid so it appears as though they are allowing people to remain in taksim square they're not using harsh methods against them maybe they're calculating that eventually people will drift away but as i said i think this is left a lasting damage to him personally and to turkey which of course has been you know

very successful economically it's attracted many many tourists from around the world people may think twice now about going to istanbul if there's tear gas going up and down is to call avenue and in taksim square while a lot of turks are proud of the fact that turkey is a secular state and juan is being slammed now for the islamization of turkey's secular society how much of this is true well we've heard talk about legislation that would limit when people can buy alcohol and consume it in public talk about restricting abortion he's urged women to all have three children of course you know his wife wears a headscarf all the rest there's kind of a question of that. that as well and i think that there are a lot of turks who are still loyal to the memory of auditor and who do not want to have this forced down their throats they want it to be a choice not something that the government tells them to do or

a barbara slavin foreign policy expert thanks so much indeed for your views here on our team that you're well and you watching r t coming to you live from moscow have more world news for you in just a couple of minutes don't go away. the civilized world produces more foods that it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every. where in the bill is the most. flood or drought to blame. it was a bad year without a train. we couldn't find anything but that. there was great hunger. it was

a good help comes too late and with good intentions. charity diplomacy and business want to. welcome back you're watching r t you know the u.s. and chinese leaders are about the whole there are summit which is already being labeled an historic meeting a there is a chill behind a warm smiles in california with the two countries clashing over a range of divisive issues including accusations that china has launched a cyber war against the united states as art has more in a fortnight now explains. after months of muscle flexing comes the handshaking u.s.

president barack obama and chinese president xi jinping will likely play nice for the cameras but behind the closed california mansion doors of this first bilateral summit a tense talk over a cyber espionage hacking and rules of virtual engagement think of it as well as the jumble of biological weapons convention so one can make fuel sorts of weapons that most countries agree not to do so or to use the. same thing is true of cyber everyone's going to be asked and nations are knowledgeable we can agree perhaps not to attack the children's interests or at least not to start doing however the u.s. has repeatedly accused the rising asian giants of widespread computer hacking just last week a report by the defense science board said nearly forty pentagon weapons programs and almost thirty other defense technologies were compromised by hackers some directly tied to the chinese military and government u.s.

manufacturers have also accused china of stealing patents and designs of high technology we're also clear eyed about the challenges in cyber. united states has expressed concern about the growing threat of cyber intrusion china's defense ministry has consistently denied claims that its military is engaged in hacking and in turn pointing the finger at washington the country's top internet security official recently claimed to have mountains of data pointing to extensive u.s. hacking aims at china later this month the country will be holding unprecedented military drills with special i.t. units and even nato is debating whether it needs a manual on cyber wars while washington casts china as the world's most dangerous virtual threat the u.s. has been cementing plans to take down the enemy billions have reportedly been spent to create forty teams of cyber agents that will allegedly serve to thwart hackers

while simultaneously launching offensive attacks against adversaries a cyber battlefield that many believe the us can't affectively control you have a government with many secure security holes in it you have a corporate sector that can keep its information secure i am seeing this as a war in which the united states is not winning no matter the amount of resources it is putting in or the tough talk and even experts at home say now is the time for the u.s. to be working together with leading nations like china to establish norms for cyberspace activity we want a global resilient open and secure internet if the u.s. and china fail to reach consensus on how to cooperate in cyberspace the consequence many believe could lead to a virtual cold war between the world's two largest economies and charted territory

that could inevitably turn the internet into a dangerous platform where friends become foes reporting from new york marina r.t. if the times correspondent pepe escobar thinks that countries with an axe to grind against the us could use cyberspace for their a vengeance. even i have they start talking about side or from china but before that u.s. had already lost but already does lead this ship cyber war play of the steps that virus against iraq so if we're going to have cyber war from now well he's not good at all these rogue us or from china it's going to come from the european union as well so the later it's going to come from iran and for other developing countries as well so if your country say that they are have the extreme of the broad view that it's truly global financial problems do coote counterattack and on

cyberspace. britain's police are gunning for young line pirates even if they just point people to where they can download content and they are climbing down on torrent websites that put up hundreds of thousands of links to copyrighted material as sarah first now reports it could now land the people that ran these businesses in jail. well there is one single favorite t.v. . listening to music or maybe sharing music with a file sharing is growing as more popular and as its popularity so you too does the file sharing site the torrent. link but that's a great unpopularity we've seen in the u.k. authorities alone with record company labels launching an on precedent and torrent

site campaign and the first sign of the clampdown by. came in the form of a letter from the national intelligence bureau and then it was that they found guilty of certain offenses to face ten imprisonment we're here to talk torrance with us unto him by digital policy blog. thank you for joining us i think of you first of all let's clear up because you can see here you know people on the. on their computers listening to music watching videos when it comes to torrents and sharing fights what's the legality what's legal what's not well that's one of the problems it's a completely gray area. if you take a copy of some picture or music and stick it on your website that's copyright infringement if you provide a link to somebody else's storage. then providing that link on the u.k. law is technically illegal however if you create

a website with thousands of socially and you can. make money from that web site under british law under u.k. law there has been a prosecution it's a ratcheting up of the rhetoric and these are actually nothing more because nothing is turning in the more since these losses of being an issue ok well we're certainly going to be keeping a very closely on what happens with the investigations will bring you all the latest when we. see london now the death of a young left wing activist who was brutally beaten by skinheads has spurred a wave of protests and fear through french society the teenager's murder has also pushed thousands of anti-fascist protesters out onto the streets just are silly reports now from paris. the police in france are investigating a case where an eighteen year old left a student was killed had died from injuries after being attacked by what police are calling a group of skinheads members of extremist fringe the far right parties and france

has been a seeing a violent protests in recent months with the legalization of gay marriage coming to the forefront of the political discussion let's get some more insight from journalists an expert on terrorism and extremism claude thank you very much for joining us today this incident of the leftist student killed by far right extremists police are saying what does this tell you about what's going on in france basically of course it's a tragedy a kid of eighteen being killed for political reasons it's stupid but it's many and . not. a few which advocates i think. but of course i feel that all the groups all the pretty good roots organization using advocating. this is a case of a right to stick sumus group or having killed a leftist student and you will have members of both sides weighing in on the issue

of course these should be explored. many probably and. they would use disprove. and they would explain that. which is of course not the case if it's not it's a problem of a few elements a few indeed a defile. of a spectrum of the society so i think to exploit it politically would be a mistake well you have now thousands of leftists who are protesting on the streets asking for those groups to be banned and what is your position on banning groups political groups in france i think in a democracy. you can say what you ones you can approximate what you ones but. no room i fink in a democracy if you hadn't seen folks using. it thank you very much for well with

incidents like these of course the questions will be raised on what are the root causes of things that happened like this on the streets now at a time when france is facing a recession economically a deeply unpopular president in place this is yet another issue that france will have to seriously deal with reporting from brussels i'm tess or cilia and listen to some other stories from around the world a human chain that's around a bosnia's parliament which blog more than a thousand people inside the building has disbanded by protesters are vowing to fight on to make the government pass a new law that will give newborn babies valued official identification numbers after the previous idea legislation lapsed in savagery the demonstrations were sparked after a three month old child was prevented from leaving the country for a lifesaving treatment because the infant couldn't get a passport. fighting continues to rage in suburbs in the south and east of damascus according to the opposition government troops fired missiles on

rebels in the syrian capital causing a major fire to break out the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has called for countries involved in the syrian crisis to make political progress on bringing peace to the war torn country president putin spoke in and two friends it speculation about his marriage announcing that he and his wife are divorcing after almost thirty years together the couple both told russian t.v. that they are decision was amicable more details from our days like here she asks. well if we say that this bit of news came as a complete surprise i would say nothing at all mainly because in the history of modern russia the history of soviet russia and in the times before that none of the top officials have ever made their family problems public in fact never voice their divorce in the case of putin's family there has been mounting speculation in the media especially the tabloid media about the that the climate of relations between the president and his wife this has been going on for several years already the

couple has been rarely seen at public different public events and have rarely been making comments about each other well now officially all of these rumors have been quashed by the president and his and his wife my job and all my activities mean i'm an absolutely public figure some people enjoy this and some don't some people simply incompatible with such a lifestyle my wife has done a nine year shift by my side basically the decision was mutual. appreciation. like that of most said it was incisive mutual decision our marriage is over because we barely see each other his job keeps him completely busy our children have grown up they live their own lives now we oldies i really don't like being in the spotlight all the constant travelling is difficult for me we simply don't see each other. on the internet in the morning literally exploded with comments and reactions on the presidential divorce with the president getting

a lion's share of criticism for making such a strong decision public there have also been of those who have been supportive of the president mainly because i'm certainly going all out going public with such a strong decision concerning the private life of a top official is a very brave move but regardless of how you look at the presidential divorce news this may actually be a sign of things to come that by going public with details of his family life put in may signal the whole new approach from the russia's top official stalwarts their private lives and maybe we don't know for sure but maybe the general attitude of the russia's top official store words their private life will be less secretive as it has been for many years now. and impacts the story of a family living with hiv and their battle to make the world a better place for those shunned by society.

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 being part of this probation plan to do so like punch a student in the face or to go on 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 student's 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 know 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. choose your language. make it with zero if you. choose to consume. choose the opinions that you think race to. choose the stories that if you. choose the access to. or are you.