satellite bugging by internet cafes and a blanket surveillance of diplomats are exposed by newly showing even former russian president medvedev was targeted by american and british agents. brayley's new york go in height dramatic military escalation on their doorstep as america moves to arm the syrian rebels and iran reportedly pledges troops to help the president. and syria push his money matters into the background the world leaders gather at the g eight summit in northern ireland shielded from protests by colossal ring of steel.

and i welcome you watching r.t. with me. now global leaders and even close allies who are all spied on by british and american intelligence according to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden he's leaked a new document showing that the g twenty summit in two thousand and nine was a surveillance playground with u.k. and u.s. agents attempting to bug senior figures like the russian president at the time dimitri medvedev let's bring in r.t. as you go piece of for this story what is being read into the timing of this expose well it's i mean it is a very significant because right now well another g eight summit is stored in the u.k. so obviously the story is going to create some additional tension perhaps obviously some people are going to need some explaining about this whole story since back in two thousand and nine well there. all of this is according to this former cia agent

. who claims that he claims that three out of the g eight leaders were under the full package of surveillance we're talking about phone conversations connections through embassies particularly in the russian president's case basically the lot and so there's also speculation that while. all of them may have been under this. surveillance well maybe. besides the u.s. president and british prime minister but while this is definitely this is definitely a big story and the timing is once again spirit significant i mean what we know it sounds extremely intrusive to i mean internet cafes it was a whole apparently huge scheme or a network of surveillance operations conducted by the national security agency in the u.s.

and its british analog and they actually reportedly set up these fake internet cafe's absolutely right for the delegates where the computers were bogged basically so their e-mails sort of automatically were sent or i guess copied to these security agencies then those we used blackberries then they found ways to take out data from them as well so it's an enormous amount of information a very important and possibly even classified stuff which was leaked or stolen from some of the most senior officials in the world and presumably now everybody must be feeling quite and come to a lot when attending it for this g. eight summit well like i said it's definitely going to create additional tension and while barack obama is going to put in his there since well last time it was needed if it was a present. thousand and nine but this is definitely going to be an interesting

conversation between then though i guess the british prime minister is also going to have to. do some explaining. the kind of scale of the school story that we're talking about leaders of the g eight so if they if they are under this kind of complete surveillance program then you know what's happening with just ordinary citizens including british and americans what's the story about that. if we look at future meetings between the heads of states there is an upcoming meeting between the u.s. president german. leader and so possibly this is going to backfire and everyone is going to start surveilling each other which it definitely doesn't do any good for improving trust between global powells well it will be interesting to see if

anything is said in this eternal when they when they meet or later today he will peace and thank you very much commenting on the g twenty to violence operation r.t. contributor. said he wasn't surprised adding that britain has a surveillance platform for the u.s. for decades. i think that kind of blanket surveillance we're talking about fake internet cafe's of the jewelry being set up blackberries routinely monitored that surveillance is being used and of course with their own the rage and presuming they were trying to make those talks amenable to washington and british interests these kinds of revelations show that when governments such as britain and the united states come close to worrying they will use this to try and persuade different officials of different governments to sway them for many years written knew or some british people realized that the national security agency was basically using the united kingdom and the largest spying out for the united states

is here in britain but who runs the spying who or where is the sovereignty perhaps british people will realize they are living in a state where their media and all institutions surrounding them all industrial aspects to civic society are under a kind of surveillance state that is not being covered in the news the problem is the mainstream media will try and prove this and say everyone knows that if everyone knew this all world leaders and all delegates at that summit in twenty nine knows that they are being surveilled then why do the british or american authorities do this here in london. america's spy tactics are facing severe scrutiny at home like to this hour we report on a raft of lawsuits against the government and why despite widespread criticism and anger it is being backed by u.s. corporations. the looming escalation of the conflict in syria has

grabbed the attention of world leaders gathering for the g. eight summit in northern ireland after the u.s. approved arms supplies to the rebels the question is whether its european allies will fall of seat. looks of what is at stake at the high level gathering. leaders of several of the most powerful nations in the world are gathering in northern ireland the start of the g. eight summit which britain is hosting the summit is going to be held at the very remote. where a fifty million pound ring of steel has been a wreck to in order to god against protesters and to provide security for the likes of us president barack obama russian president vladimir putin and on the various david cameron now extra police have also been drafted in from the u.k. mainland to help bolster security that this is one of the biggest security operations that northern ireland has ever seen now as host david cameron had planned to discuss issues such as global tax avoidance and sustainable economic

growth but it looks like the rising tensions over the escalating crisis in syria are going to eclipse that formal and jen and i'm going to be dominating the talks last week the usa france and the u.k. claimed that the syrian government had used chemical weapons in the usa has now pledged military support to the syrian opposition the u.k. hasn't gone that far yet but speaking off the talks were glad to meet putin in downing street yesterday prime minister david cameron. said his schools for bashar al assad to step down and said that the u.k. would be continuing to provide normally filleted and training to moderate elements of the syrian opposition now the russian government has questioned claims that the syrian government has used chemical weapons and a lot of movements and yesterday spoke about how dangerous he thinks it might be to all in the syrian opposition at the same time both leaders have stressed that they

have a common goal and that is a diplomatic and peaceful resolution to the syrian crisis they say that they're going to push g. eight leaders at the summit to try and edge closer towards organizing a peace. summits for both sides of the syrian conflict in order to get them around the negotiating table to hammer out a path to peace but the ante is upped so much over the past week it looks like it's going to be tough talking in northern ireland. r.t. . and around is reportedly gearing up to send thousands of troops to syria to beef up government forces against the rebel forces also went as far as proposing a new military from tyranny israeli occupied golan heights and coupled with american intentions to arm the syrian opposition israelis living in the area fear they are in for some big trouble reports iran just got that much closer

amid reports that iran is sending some four thousand rainy and revolutionary guards to help the syrian president bashar assad israelis living here in the golan heights are worried because now for the first time at least officially iran is on the border the rain you want war. the iranian warn. finisher. him to do it. like. this is an israeli bunker on the israeli syrian border less than a kilometer from here is committed that has been the scene of fierce fighting between assad's forces and rebel fighters with the american decision recently to arm the rebels one of the groups that will be most directly affected are israelis living here in the golan heights any increase in hostilities in the area will impact on their lives you know to be. jewish. to understand virtue. you need to fight for your place

in the last few minutes i've heard three explosions the united nations chief banking moon is warning of that the ongoing military activities in this area have the potential to escalate tensions between israel and syria and jeopardize the longstanding peace treaty between both countries and this is one of the questions that israelis who are asking if assad was to be overthrown would the forces that were placing be interested in maintaining the cease fire israelis unfortunately seeing. arms and weapons they're going to be used against in as as a threat from iran. in this board needs to defend itself these bunkers have been here for years but for decades there's been a sense of tranquility and predictability now all of that in situ change with america's decision to arm the rebels. never know what i mean you know probably it's

good for them and it's good for america otherwise they wouldn't do it maybe it's for the purpose of helping themselves and it's not about if it's good for israel or not there is fear we are afraid the rockets will hit us and it's already happened this is a society that attracts tourists but many fear it will soon attract soldiers and become active once again policy r.t. on the israeli syrian border. well syrian troops have been advancing in recent weeks while the leader of the opposition's free syrian army says it's in urgent need of weapons so let's have a closer look now at the balance of power at this stage amid reports that a rainin squad's could join president assad's forces it is lebanon's hezbollah which openly admits being engaged on the government's side the rebels are backed by al-qaeda linked jihadist searches the al nusra front as well as possibly mercenaries from the gulf states and the opposition enjoys widespread diplomatic

support in the west and the prospects of lethal arms supplies from the u.s. and some european allies despite warnings of die consequences even the most optimistic analysis of the rebels would have to admit there are a variety of people not only fighting assad but also fighting each other but the whole idea that we can be confident that we supply even if we give them to people we train will stay in those halves of those homes will turn against ours it seems to me to be extraordinary in practice our trade the risk that the sort of people who would actually break use these weapons may initially be probably against assad but we've seen from afghanistan over the last thirty years to the present day we do from the chaos in libya were american diplomats and have been killed british it's a very long war to think we. now coming up in a couple of minutes germany's playing for change the country's homegrown. back on

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enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. now with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back hong kong has launched an official investigation into the extent of the united states cyber attacks against its citizens alleged to number in the thousands the u.s. in the u.s. dozens of being filed against the government surveillance practices that washington is trying to downplay their breach when it comes to telephone calls nobody is listening to your. that's not what this program's about lawmakers themselves though are contradicting president obama it was earlier

alleged that thousands of n.s.a. analysts could listen to any phone call without a warrant but other government sources say official authorize ation is required it's also emerged that the scope of the surveillance operation and the help it received may have been underestimated is a washington correspondent danny. what edward snowden revealed could be just the tip of the iceberg we're learning that in addition to internet giants thousands of u.s. technology finance and manufacturing companies that include software and hardware producers banks internet security providers satellite telecommunications companies thousands are working closely with u.s. national security agencies according to the people familiar with the exchange the cooperation of some of the company says helped the u.s. government infiltrate computers worldwide so this certainly adds to edward snowden's account note and said he believes that the n.s.a. has carried out more than one thousand hacking operations globally snowden said he

was leasing the information to demonstrate quote the posse of the u.s. government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure unlike its adversaries he also said quote we hack network backbones like huge internet routers basically that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands. of people computers without having to hack every single one in these sources who speak on the condition of anonymity say u.s. companies help intelligence agencies do exactly that and they say it's not subject to any oversight now it's all done of course on the national security but there's some very obvious discrepancies here robert muller director of the f.b.i. for example he said the massive surveillance program that the u.s. has now could have prevented nine eleven then what about the fort hood shooting in two thousand and nine the perpetrator of that one needle molly cost son had been exchanging e-mails with anwar locky for

a period of time or time alonso are now i have multiple warnings over several years radical content on his you tube but web page. one may ask the question then why this massive collection of information when all of that was missed. the unwavering support of many u.s. firms to the government surveillance program is raising questions among experts and the public having pieced together rare comments from officials on this artie's lucy caffein of explains what is in it for the firms. this story certainly raises more questions than it answers as my colleague reported earlier we know now that thousands of companies have been sharing sensitive information with the u.s. government in exchange for various benefits now this raises concerns about the extent of the private sector collaboration with the u.s. government not to mention questions about what exactly those benefits were now the details may be murky at this point but let's go over exactly what information we have companies who did hand over data to the government got

a big thank you that's according to michael hayden who used to head the cia as well as the national security agency which runs of course the prism program and mr hayden told bloomberg this if i were the director and had a relationship with a company who was doing things that were not just directed by law but were also valuable to the defense of the republic i would go out of my way to thank them and give them a sense as to why this is necessary and useful all right well what kind of thank you exactly are we talking about here well again not a lot of details but anonymous sources did tell bloomberg that leaders of the companies who handed over data to the government were showered with attention and information by government agencies in fact in some instances that meant quick warnings about the threats that could affect their bottom line for example serious internet attacks and who's behind them of course this exchange of information is supposed to be voluntary and well at this point we don't exactly have evidence that

this is not the case but well most of the companies seem to have participated simply because the government asking for help one former c.e.o. paints a slightly different picture in two thousand and one when some telecom giants allegedly were asked to participate in an n.s.a. information sharing program one company qwest initially refused to play ball in according to court documents filed by its then c.e.o. joseph not cio as a result of that decision the company was denied lucrative n.s.a. contracts he believed to be worth fifty to one hundred million dollars retaliation he says for refusing to partake in the government's spy program. so to sum it up companies that share data are into government goodwill information about threats possible classified information and of course there's concern that those who did not play along could could have been left out of lucrative government contracts course we don't have more information on this but that's person i see the point the lack of transparency about this data swap is

a major concern now it's done in the name of security but at what cost and to whom this account for not reporting for our team in moscow. of the worst mahmoud ahmadinejad is about to hand over the iranian president see you can head to r.t. dot com for all the peaks and troughs of his time at the helm from standing firm to getting nuclear energy for the country to being ultimately my in the throes of an economic crisis also they're trigger happy in the u.s. where a gun maker is reporting record sales in a year of deadly shootings as americans react to the president's push for stricter weapon controls. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for asians to rule the day.

for years germany has seen a steady flow of immigrants from crisis wrecked countries like greece and spain but i was saying this is especially successful entrepreneurs are heading for the exits leaving europe's largest economy to capitalize on their business opportunities as peter oliver explains. packing up for a new life elsewhere yes and his family a joining a growing number of germans seeking a future away from home is here germany is a nice place right now the future looks really dark so we're getting out that's why his software business and plan tire company off the sale and he setting up a new business in canada away from what they see is shortsighted policies by german and european politicians. all they're doing is taking the debt higher and higher and by breaking their own rules it's something the family has been planning for

a long time after one and a half years their paperwork is now in the final stages as well as his family yes is also moving almost two million euros worth of business to canada people of always move to new countries in search of opportunities but last year saw over one hundred thirty thousand jet off from germany the most in a generation an increasing number of making the move to to concerns over where the country's economic july's among the most popular destinations were switzerland the united states australia and canada away from the e.u. the bureaucracy of brussels. does the feeling. we are going to see intrapreneur as leave europe it's one hundred times easier to shut down a business here than create one i do easy to block you. are on the side of the job creators. dr roth is

a lawyer in bavaria heading to new zealand he sees the current system in europe is almost comical the team get bored look at the ten commandments there are probably around five hundred no words here then the relations on something small like production can i mean that you know it's over ten thousand words most of the nonsense this will leave you running like a non-republican and so many laws no one is going to follow them. with dissatisfaction in the e.u. on the rise. germany runs the risk of seeing more and more of its job creators taking off to find new opportunities elsewhere please roll over party. roundups mother international uses our dozens of activists on the orange jumpsuits in belfast calling on the u.s. to close guantanamo bay human rights group amnesty organized the stunt ahead of the g eight summit in northern ireland saying keeping the prison open is clearly a breach of international law more than one hundred one town and i mean mates are

on hunger indefinite detention over forty of which are being painfully force fed in a procedure that has been labeled torture. turkish riot police are struggling to keep tanks in square clear of protesters with another night of street skirmishes two of the country's major unions have also called a one day nationwide strike against the government crackdown on demonstrators on sunday prime minister rallied tens of thousands of supporters in central east stamboul in a show of strength even as the central square was being played. and wiki leaks editor julian the sound she's made ecuador's foreign minister head of the diplomats mazing with the british foreign secretary the two are expected to discuss the whistleblowers fate sounds was granted asylum at the ecuadorian embassy in london last june but britain said it won't let him leave the country and violence has erupted for a second day in the brazilian capital as police rounded on protesters calling for more government spending on health transport and education they say too much money

is being wasted on sporting events with football's world cup to be held in brazil next year offices fired tear gas to disperse the six hundred strong crowd that had gathered in front of the national football stadium in brasilia. coming up next we head north for a look at everyday life from one of the world's coldest regions. you know what's worse than a crap bureaucrat a crook bureaucrat who sucks at being corrupt a scumbag bureaucrat in veronese russia just couldn't help himself and put some very hefty charges for services contracts for road repair and construction in just three years he was able to take enough of

a percentage off of these contracts though investigators raided his house he had the equivalent of over three million dollars in russian money all over his home news not mail dot ru claims he had entire laundry hampers and twenty five kilogram sugar sex filled to the brim with box first off when someone is this flagrant that means that he felt rather comfortable and not getting caught so there are plenty more of these guys out there but second this is an absolute slap in the face to russia taxpayers who are hungry for new roads i think for instance it's a flagrant in your face obvious crush corruption russia might need to reconsider that moratorium on the death penalty but that's just i mean. this is a year old ricci you know this car is being specially modified it's about to undergo one of the toughest all for journeys in russia and everything needs to be perfect.

this car is in you kusa one of the most extreme places on the planet you don't want to break down the pit out here but this whole jack is used to host the car up as. well plus with a shovel without one they would let you compete on the rise because the conditions can be pretty extreme. you'll probably need it. and once the new time is there and the motors. this is off to the races. ladies and gentlemen. your. home to the mammoth driving club and when these boys and girls get together they get a rather special sendoff. maybe the size of india but it's below freezing here for

at least seven months of the year and less than a million people are spread out over its three million square kilometers of space it's a vast wilderness but it's an off road drivers paradise but it might be one very first rally but we're not doing anything because of a larry and i are going to one of the world's most inhospitable places along one of its most infamous roads the pole of cold along the road of bones. we were heading to. the coldest inhabited place on the planet this small frozen town once recorded the temperature of minus seventy one point two degrees celsius we had a thousand kilometers to go and three days to do it. we started off in convoy across the frozen lenna.