to lighten our t. foreign leaders under surveillance the latest links from the n.s.a. whistleblower reveal how delegates of the g twenty summit in london four years ago a former russian president among them were targeted by u.s. and british intelligence. at some potential into the g eight summit so it can be right now in britain against a backdrop of anti hysteria tea protests. but if syria is set to take center stage for world leaders at the g eight to northern ireland looking to narrow the differences amid fears that the conflict is said to western aid even further.

hello very good evening chief you just joined us fairy good if you company my name is kevin owen of this is r.t. international coming to you live just after nine pm here in moscow british an american intelligence spied on world leaders and officials first new evidence from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden putting the recent surveillance scandal therefore on to a new scale delegates at the g. twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine among them russia's then president dmitri medvedev apparently had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted the leaked documents emerged as the u.k. hosts another major international gathering the g eight summit in northern ireland . because there. really is the worst possible timing for a story like this to come out where just kicking off the thirty ninth g eight summit here in la today now we know what we know from the documents that edward snowden has revealed is that the british security agency was spying on

foreign dignitaries at the last g twenty summit that the u.k. also hosted back in two thousand and nine so not setting a great precedent as host of a summit we had even reports that they set up fake internet cafes in order to intercept the e-mails of the whole delegations of foreign dignitaries and even tapping into the phone calls of the then president of russia dmitry medvedev so not a great atmosphere for the start of the g eight summit i think that some of the world leaders at the summit here today might be a little bit more careful about what they say over the phone or write him a e-mails in the light of this information now we know that david cameron in response to the news has already said that the u.k. just doesn't comment on security issues or masses of intelligence the g c h q story has a somewhat overshadowed what had become the main headline of this summit which is the escalating crisis in syria now we know that russia and the u.s.

approach the crisis extremely differently the british prime minister david cameron speaking yesterday off the talks with a lot of it between downing street called for bashar assad to step down he said that britain will continue to provide support to the syrian opposition we know that russian president vladimir putin well he his view is somewhat different he questions what will happen one of these weapons are provided to the syrian opposition nepali it looks like the g. eight leaders just can't get to terms with each other on this but how is the general public's reaction to this been of the gathering. well there has been an unprecedented amount of security at the summit here just driving through from belfast to law and last night just going through all the checkpoints there's police standing everywhere and they're guarding obviously the security of all these foreign dignitaries the world leaders that are here but they're also trying to

guard against any potential protest as a massive fifty million pound ring of steel erected around the resort itself where the summit is taking place and of the protests well there are forty been a number of them we've had a misty international marching through belfast in. calling for the closure of guantanamo bay talking about the hunger strike that's been taking place there the breach of international law the inmates being held without charge for years on end and it's not just sort of human rights cause as we've there's been a lot of anti globalist there have been trade unions taking to the streets talking about economic issues the g. eight summit was that it did come about initially as an as a nick economic summit and people talking about world hunger and poverty and questioning why world leaders on to addressing these issues for them really that

this represents this summit represents the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a very small minority so when it comes to the g twenty. if you could through the russian returns he told us the britain service is very much platform for united states for decades. i think that kind of blanket surveillance we're talking about fake internet cafes and education being set up blackberries routinely monitored that surveillance is being used and of course with their on 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 warning 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 outfit of the united

states is here in britain but who runs the spying who or where is the sovereignty and perhaps british people will realize that they are living in a state where the 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 this everyone if everyone knew this and all world leaders and all delegates at that summit in twenty nine know that they are being surveilled then why the british or american authorities do this here in london. disclosing documents proving surveillance at london's g twenty isn't the only thing of course is put edward snowden the spotlight today the whistleblowers in fact just been taking part in online q. and a session by the guardian newspaper in britain sarah first listening into that hi sara any more revelations come out. well you just dragged me away from twitter because there was that question answer sessions just finished of course the debate

around these answers still raging a hugely fascinating insights and a very fitting forum i think for the whistleblower who is behind the biggest leak in n.s.a. history edward snowden taking part in that question and answer session in the biggest question on everyone's lips was why hong kong that's where he traveled to shortly before these surveillance of this information had surfaced and that's what everyone wanted to they disapprove of the u.s. agency said you know systematically been gathering these vast amounts of thing and web data so this is amongst the first questions that were addressed and the answer to edward stating gave was that the u.s. government just as they did with other whistleblowers immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a third trial at home openly declaring me guilty of treason that's not justice and he went on to explain that the n.s.a. employees had to declare foreign travel thirty days in advance and in

a militant say he needed to tell to a country with the cultural and legal framework he said to allow him to work without being immediately detained in hong kong had provided that but as we said a huge response there were a huge number of questions asked in this public setting where people were offered to ask him anything and he indeed gave us as many answers as he was allowed in that time. it was reduced to some q. and i gather just finished now of course the world a lot of countries in the world furious with america america furious at him what's his response to these thirty more about why he's done all this. well absolutely that really good addressed during this question and answer session i think big part of the purpose was to hear his of course this is what everyone has been waiting for since these big revelations and that big leak and he addressed very directly the

question that a lot of people have put to him about the u.s. government's response that he's a traitor but also that he might have possibly handed a classified u.s. information to the chinese government and he gave he was pissed on that when he gave a flat no saying that he hadn't handed over that information and that he worked his journals he'd also talked about his disillusionment with the band the administration and the government calling it a predictable smear that he'd anticipated before going public not have to be said there were a few number of answers there was a huge amount of information given of course everyone's going to be combing through that now as indeed we are to really guess the bottom of what was said because of course this is really a huge fascination for people it was an absolutely massive leak and he gave his response to what the media response is being saying that initially he was very encouraged but unfortunately the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what i said when i was seventeen or what my girlfriend looks like rather than say

the largest program suspicion list surveillance in human history and in another answer he said the truth will out so certainly a very stark warning that as you stated may be a sign of things to come because of course there's a huge amount of information that we still don't know as well that information that he gathered during his time working for the n.s.a. is came through and he made that clear in the question answer session t. he wants to do this properly it's a fascinating debate one that's ongoing and of course we tell our viewers please to join in and get in touch with their thoughts on our twitter account absolutely as a twosome terms continue to unfold sir for london thank you very much. well as a sort of trick to try and go it's not just the u.s. government that is under fire for the extent of the surveillance but we want to why so many companies supplied the n.s.a. with data come from often looks at what might be in it for the first. 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 now 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 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 spy program. so to sum it up

companies that share data earned 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 personally 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 we seek out and over porting for our team in moscow well but to the jihad and all the knowledge we would british prime minister david cameron is keen to push forward the issue of tax evasion and i'm a colleague thomas nazis prisoners present a kiddy pool being talked about. well the international consortium of investigative journalists has come out with all these details and exposed people that are using tax havens from thirty countries literally hundreds of thousands of people have been exposed right now and this is all for a timely considering these are the people that exposed politicians rogue nations

that religious leaders oligarchs and we know that david cameron is using the g eight to really put tax evasion at the forefront and get international support for his laws that he wants to enforce he needs everybody to jump on the same ship so that everybody else that wants to avoid tax can go to another country and get away with it so taxes are all important because these are tough economic times in the u.k. yeah exactly we know that britain is dealing with stagnate growth at the moment it has been since the financial crisis but there's a bit of criticism going on because britain actually created the tax haven and is actually in charge of ten crown dependences and talk about guernsey jonesy all those countries are live man i love wives and there's a lot to talk about and he's got to get those countries on board he's held the fact that he has already done that but nothing has been put to paper just yet shown in all of this is easier said than done as in all things with politics right this is actually a tough task it is

a tough task just because it's so secretive but that secrecy is coming to a light at the moment because of exposé is like this is making mr cameron's job that much easier and i got i expect analysis on there so i said to ben aires who's the editor in chief of business new york magazine i said to him how realistic is it that we could have a tax tax haven free world. because it means you'd have to police the entire world think about the system is a necessary international. any country one tiny little country who chooses not to abide by this kind of was. as i say convenient service. as for people trying to hide money. means that the whole thing becomes a mockery there's no way of controlling it so you can work towards it you can it will take time and probably it's a good idea but you've got several countries like cyprus is the obvious example but luxembourg still switzerland before they were offering the services as

a business it becomes a big part of their economy and it's very difficult for a small country like luxembourg to tell them they can't do it because they have a lot of it making money so i think that one thing that can be avoided at the g eight summit is the topic of tax evasion. finance issues aside at the g eight meeting the spillover from the syrian conflict looms large that's after iran's now offered a helping hand to washington's at the same time provide lethal aid to the rebels. after the break.

from the national security state has given an inch would always take much more than a mile three years we were told the government is not spying on citizens now we know this is not true we're spied upon in an unbelievably massive way do we need a super computer to keep track of all the ways we are deceived. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. hello again syria's civil wars expect to be one of the main subjects of the g eight summit that's under way in northern ireland's we've been talking about. meantime

that conflict is expanding assad troops have made significant advances in recent weeks while the leader of the opposition's free syrian army says it's in urgent need of weapons now around and the latest thing there is reportedly gearing up to send thousands of troops to beef up the same. in government forces but it's lebanese hezbollah which has been openly gauged on a sad side the rebels are said to be backed by mercenaries from the gulf states and al-qaeda linked you how do such as the news reference now this as the opposition enjoys widespread diplomatic support in the west on the prospects of lethal aid jim brann from the stop the war coalition told us that any third party involvement will only fuel the conflict there is the fundamental question of sovereignty which those who wish to arm the rebels violate the fact is that there is a government of syria and there is international law in these matters and it's not the right of any other state to intervene in. a rebellion in another country

the opposition coalition in syria is extremely weak it's extremely fractured and it was actually set up outside of syria itself so if they can't even find a suitable party to support in syria because the thing is unreliable how on earth can they guarantee who gets the weapons that they supply i think the only serious possibility is if those who are pressing for intervention. to a very definite extent give up the precondition. aside shall not be president of syria i think without that such a fundamental principle i think that. the it's extremely unlikely that the talks go ahead. some sighs world news headlines in brief are rans elected president hassan rouhani said the country isn't ready to spend its in radio its enrichment of

uranium despite the sanctions and pressure from the e.u. in america that statement came during his first news conference where he expressed a strong wish to rebuild relations with western nations without anyone friday's presidential election in iran with just over fifty percent of the vote. in turkey the government's vowed to use the military to break the nearly three weeks long protests in the country's capital this would be the first time that islam is ruling party would resort to the army which is seen as the backbone of secularism in turkey in announcement comes amid a strike by unions over the tractor and i want to go straight to the. drenching rain and floods of rip through northern parts of india it's killed at least twenty three over fifty more reported missing tonight rescue teams are trying to supply drinking water and food to the region cut off after roads are washed away officials are warning of more casualties and destruction to say those downpours are expect to continue for at least the next three days. america's voice skepticism over north korea's proposal to launch high level talks between the two states to soothe the

tension on the korean peninsula the obama administration says any negotiation should come with concrete action from north korea asia specialist dr tim beal though thinks that america's reluctant because it won't benefit from peace in the region. the preconditions are there so that the negotiations won't get off the ground and one way or two if you don't want to have negotiations then the simplest way to do that and they don't. soldiers way is to demand preconditions of the other side of the excess so that i think that's what the american doing. then the question of course is you know why are they doing that why don't. you know that that's the difficult one i think basically the number of reasons but the main reason is is china they want tension on the korean peninsula as part of their containment of china so they're very loath to go show sions which

defused the situation. we're revealing tomorrow's technology at the paris air show we've got more pictures and a story of russia's new generation fighter jet though a u.f.o. because of its outstanding performance. both come. trigger happy and the u.s. is reportedly reporting record sales during a year of deadly shootings of course as americans react apparently to the president's push for stricter weapons controls it's actually increased sales report for much. more news today violence. these are the images. from the streets of canada. today.

germany has become a magnet for many immigrants in recent years seeking work outside their financially struggling homelands indeed a report by the paris based organization for economic cooperation and development shows the number of newcomers from greece and spain alone is more than doubled since the beginning of the crisis back in two thousand and eight but now. reports some successful germans are looking for a quick exit to. packing up for a new life elsewhere yes and his family are joining a growing number of germans seeking a future away from home is here germany is a nice place but right now the future looks very dark so we're getting out that's why his software business and plan tie a 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. among the most popular destinations were switzerland the united states australia and canada away from the e.u. and the bureaucracy of brussels. does the feeling. we're going to see intrapreneur is leave europe it's one hundred times easier to shut down a business here than create one it's still 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 it's almost comical the team get bored look at the ten commandments there are probably around five hundred no words here then i think 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 are a bit like your non-republican so many laws no one can follow them. with dissatisfaction in the e.u. on the rise. germany runs the risk of seeing more room or of its job creators taking off to find new opportunities elsewhere peter all of a party. up next tonight for sports fans rich said bring in the highlights from the past week's coming up after the break.

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bring you all the race news from russia on further afield so stay tuned. up for a challenge russia's waldon olympic champions flake spammer. souls of moscow challenge event capital hosts the first ever athletics world championships in august. while the top dogs new tricks former tennis great smile like a selfish martina hingis roll back the years pledge and exhibition torment in moscow. last fighting talk where you catch up with the american at mixed martial arts is john jones has been on this ever u.f.c. champion holds a master class in moscow. let's start with athletics where sprinter king would same bolds was back to his best so in the two hundred meters at the diamond league meeting in norway just a week after missing out on one hundred meters victory in rome of the six time olympic champion made a number of entertaining entrance is what stadium in also and the jamaican shrugged

off the relatively cold temperatures and the false start by dutchman trial the martina to blow away the remaining field of finishing in time of nineteen point seven nine seconds to break the track record of a twenty six year old is the only man so far this season and under twenty seconds sending out a warning to his rivals as he prepares to fan its two hundred metres crown the world championships in moscow in august. you never do is not a step up. to us in your short good for misuse just to ensure good form this season. your bloke so nordisk and see imagery in them so for me i never try the single old one person series my strongest because in charge of. people getting injured all the time and if i focus on one person who gets injured then walked. back in moscow and warden olympic gold medal winners.