top stories now t. tonight the u.k. stopping the world's phone calls on internet traffic to secretly collect data and share it with close ally the u.s. that's the latest revelation from the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden we follow it up. also weapons in the wrong hands president putin slams the u.s. for plans to supply to the syrian opposition known terrorist groups of fighting within it. and brazil more than a million protesters vent their anger at the government in major cities across the country but the second fatality now being reported the government's holding a crisis meeting over the worst protest the country seen in twenty years.

for a good evening to just past eleven. watching article when she lived with me kevin zero in this hour and first that fresh revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden he claims that britain collects stores and the shares data from monitoring global e-mail and social networks with the u.s. security agency just get more than marty's tests are a seller in london and got a huge account in washington d.c. testifying start with you first this is a new twist to the league some global surveillance we've been getting our last few hours bring us up to speed. certainly a new twist and it reveals a vast and compassing program operation in place by the few here in the u.k. it shows that they have been a collecting and storing vast quantities of information ranging from facebook posts

to phone calls as well as internet even internet histories basically they have had access to fiber optic cables like carry the world's phone calls if you remember you can the n.s.a. said that they did not record phone calls but according to these latest revelations by edward snowden that up to six hundred million quote unquote telephone events last year were recorded a day by you can imagine the vast amount of data that they are now able to tap into to store and to analyze and share with the u.s. as a national security agency or at the n.s.a. if you look at the document that snowden had provided the titles of some of the main components were mastering the internet or global telecom exploitation clearly there's no doubt as to what the objectives of these programs were having put them in the place and also the fact that the technology exists right now and that there have been in place for the last eighteen months is really a terrifying thought for private citizens because this kind of vast and compassing

kind of technology does not distinguish between innocent private citizens and targeted suspects and that has brought up the concern of course of security versus infringement of privacy and also there's another point to be made here that the guardian believes that reported that about the people what access to the database were about eight hundred fifty thousand and they say employees and private contractors with a top security clearance that's a lot of people with access to private information of u.k. citizens and beyond and also according to edward snowden g c h q have been even worse than the u.s. in their spying efforts here to sort of thanks from other skoda or washington or corresponding. revelations where we know tonight of course we've also only just been learning more about the u.s. in the fog of course it's no stranger to violence some of the revelations that have come out of the past few weeks. well kevin these revelations of course reveal

the scale of and the scope of cooperation between u.s. and british intelligence services which doesn't come as a surprise we knew about the n.s.a.'s intercept station that man was hailing north yorkshire in the u.k. we knew that the u.s. u.s. and british. very closely but from these revelations we learned how data collection has evolved and how dramatically it has expanded over the years one internal document quotes the head of the n.s.a. general keith alexander on a visit to the n.s.a.'s intercept station at menwith hill in the u.k. so here's the head of the n.s.a. general keith alexander in june two thousand and eight asking why can't we collect all the signals all the time sounds like a good summer project for men with u.s. officials are now up in arms of course defending this massive collection of data saying nobody's listening to your phone calls or reading your e-mails they say it's

the matter of data that they're interested in the call logs showing who called whom from which location and for how long but. it was reporting edward snowden's revelations show that they have an easy access to content as well as snowden also claims that the feis a court basically this secret in the face of court in the u.s. basically rubber stamps warrants for that kind of information gathering and the documents show that the feis accord let's say use data snagged quote unquote inadvertent delete. that they use so they are basically they basically give a warrant to target suspects but the court also says it's ok if you inadvertently kind of accidentally spy on millions of millions of people so if you accidentally collect millions of other communications of course and the use of that word

it would be funny if it were not said just keeps on ravel isn't it sort of sort of another gun if you can in washington d.c. the thank you both for that and then we value to go to our web site r t v dot com where we keep in twenty four seventh's to speed on this story like this from america coming in overnight as well as we get more on it also we want you to to join the debate in our facebook page to. president putin's criticize the u.s. for planning to send weapons to the syrian opposition warning that arms are ending up in the wrong hands it's one of the many crucial statements coming out of the annual economic forum the international forum is a business and previous book. is there covering it for us. the main sentiment coming from the russian president this time is that they're not the syrian people fighting the regime of bashar al assad but the rebels and the opposition and obviously he's been very critical and very vocal about the recent developments in surrounding the syrian conflict namely the calls across the atlantic to arm the syrian rebels to provide him with military training something discussed by

washington over the past several months or so but he will put it said that it's not only plain wrong to talk about a possible peace conference in geneva which would have the members of the opposition and the government at the same time you both happening at the same time of the talks to arm the syrian rebels is not only wrong but dangerous that could have very grave consequences for europe as well as the russian president was quick to remind us of one of the latest incidents which happened in the u.k. it has no direct relation to syria but he believes that may have serious and grave consequences for the european security in general who are you going to supply weapons to you all remember the terrible tragedy when the u.k. soldier was killed in london that's just terrible it's mostly people like those who murdered him in france you know son france what concerns us. another fresh concern we've heard from the russian president is that the arms which hypothetically may be supplied to the syrian opposition might eventually be found

in europe and even in russia it is an established fact according to the russian president that around six hundred mercenaries from russia and europe are fighting on the side of the syrian opposition and as long as there is no opposition to the to the opposition movement in syria it's unclear where the weapons will eventually end up at the same time but even if we can spoke about the recent g eight summit and said that there is no single position among the g eight countries on arming the syrian rebels not all countries agree that this measure should be implemented at the same time all countries of the g eight agree that a peace conference in geneva to have both the members of the syrian opposition and the. syrian government talking about a possible peace solution is something that needed urgently despite that we haven't moved anywhere closer to a real date of this as a media conference but it wasn't only about geopolitics warfare and economics here at st petersburg forum there are also some things to laugh about journalists decided to bring up a scandal of around eight years ago when u.s.

billionaire robert kraft accused the russian president of stealing his super bowl ring me back and said that he wanted to show this ring to the russian president vladimir putin allegedly putting it in his pocket and walked away which is that he knew nothing about that incident and in fact his reply caused a full roar of laughter at the press hole. because i don't remember mr kraft or the ring. i do remember some of the news was given if it's of such great value to mr kraft and is to him i would ask our factories to make a very good and expensive one for him out of the first missile and with a good strong thank. you know make announcements made by president putin to his interest the business elite in the forum with russia signing off and president to do with china because it will be later in the program artie's capability will be across the full year.

is focusing on brazil and a lot going on the second fatality now reported those clashes that have been rattling brazil the first victim was an eighteen year old demonstrator who died in the state of paolo when a car crash through a barricade what started as a demonstration over transport as now snowballed into a one million strong protest in both the more than one hundred cities across the country president temaru surface has held an emergency meeting with the country's key ministers following the most violent night of rioting over eight thousand police officers being deployed to rid the janeiro ahead of a football match. when activists attempted to advance on city hall the tear gas and rubber bullets and left dozens injured crowds have gathered in the capital brasilia to receive a similar response from authorities as he said now feel for beer reports. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets all over brazil in an unprecedented public protest the hottest sport of the unrest remains sell paolo with tear gas has been

fired protesters who tried to take over the local government building in the capital brasilia clashes have erupted when riot police faced off with protesters trying to break through towards the congress in rio de janeiro local police resorted to tear gas to disperse crowds marching towards city hall police say some three hundred thousand people have rallied but organizers claim it's twice as many there are reports that around thirty people have been injured earlier around eight thousand security officers have been deployed near the city stadium ahead of confederation scottish football match between the spanish and eighty football teams such rallies are believed to be the most violent in a decade the protesters say they are angry at the government's excessive spending for the two thousand and fourteen world cup another point of discontent is the increase of public transport fees in several brazilian cities the country's health authorities later reversed their decision to increase the first but this doesn't

seem to have a peace demonstrators they say they are also angry over the underfunded health care and education systems the unrest come six months ahead of elections in brazil and as we can see there are plenty of complaints to worst president dilma rousseff government the protesters say they will remain until they see change and promise a fresh wave of rallies to take place for the next days journalist and blogger severus and told me the brazilian economy is making huge leaps unlike many european countries therefore the root of the protests isn't about money. i would compare very much to the situation in chile a few years ago in chile as we're protesting against the high price for education that chile has a massive middle class which brazil has just gotten after fifty years of successful achievements of big achievement for brazil a dragon forty million people out of poverty and other things well i would say that this is the first revolt of the middle class of a classic middle class in

a certain way in decades and people are wondering if they could get better services and they could get better education better and better health it is not exactly above the economy because brazil is pretty much living through full employment and it's not doing that terribly compared to comparing to european countries i would say the protests in brazil they cook for a very long but then when they happen lots of vicious and this is the biggest one in all of time in a long long time so most of the issues brought about now are basically discontent with how government works well you tube channels corps in big focus some of the images of the brazilian protest you can head there right now get some more of these pictures you can see what's going on in the cities in the grip of the unrest the e.u. is heading in the wrong direction that's how more europeans are feeling according to recent polls and it's france the bloc founding member and traditional driving force indeed disenchantment with

a united europe apparently is rising faster nearly two thirds of french people questioned by this gallup poll this month said they were on a happy with where the e.u. was taking a look sixty two percent they say they're concerned by the rise of germany as a political force and they feel that brussels has mishandled the financial crisis soaring unemployment also another big food for thought it's fueling french euro skepticism it came hired a pole it comes as prison friends for elian's approval ratings plummeted to almost two fold since he took the top job last year french far right political leader marine le pen told us france needs an open debate on its relations with the e.u. now. but the if would call shock but the first of all you need to understand that the french do not really talk about this both e.u. and the euro a common currency virtually imposed on us i religiously defended here or in other words there is no diversity of opinion on anything you say against the euro this

will be equal to blasphemy is what i'm asking for is a referendum polls are a good thing but i do remember the polls promised that when asked about the european constitution france would vote for it at the end of the day fifty five percent of french citizens said no to the constitution and that's why we need a wide public debate a referendum to ask the people what they think about full border transparency with the shank in countries and about this currency that killed our economy we need to ask them how come the e.u. guidelines are more important than our own constitution which in shrines the will of a sovereign nation these essential topics have yet to become subject to public debate in france and i'm sure that if they were discussed today the french would opt for freedom and figures from britain to one of the most euro skeptic members of the right now seems they're over half the people surveyed in

a recent gallup poll said the block is moving in the wrong direction they thought but more than eighty percent said they disapprove of what promised to david cameron is doing this at a time when british workers are suffering i'm president of pay cuts even greater than those of the times of the great depression of the one nine hundred thirty s. i spoke to charlie kimba is from the u.k. socialist workers party he told me the burden of a stir it is all but fairly distributed. i don't see why we should be forced to accept these huge cuts in wages when at the same time the very richest people in society are making not simply the same money but vastly more money we're not talking here about even the one percent as opposed to the ninety nine percent we're talking about the zero point zero zero one percent the richest thousand people in society who at the same time as workers have lost fifty two billion that one thousand people a tiny percentage of society have grabbed an extra one hundred ninety billion pounds that's where the money has been siphoned off and that's true whether it's in

britain whether it's in greece whether it's in the spanish state whether it's in italy and that's why i'm quite sure that the sorts of turmoil that we've seen in greece in turkey and now in brazil is coming to other parts of europe as well there's one sector of the economy which is certainly booming at the moment and that's the manufacturers of tear gas because across many parts of the world anger is rising over the. coming up crushing the cash the u.s. army starts destroying a large stash costs leave military hardware afghanistan with billions of taxpayers' money ending up on the scrap a good report on that just ahead. is

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more than twenty people been arrested in turkey on suspicion of being linked to violence and anti-government rallies after three weeks now of street battles authorities in the country say they're prepared to allow one form of peaceful resistance that's that silent standing man protests that recently started in taksim square this is ankara riot police once again rained tear gas down demonstrators. was in the thick of it. i've just taken off my cast mask for a minute heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police water cannon shots into the center of this street your non corrupt dispersing crowd and when has . anything happening in mind the police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protesters have been so angry about in the past weeks they're saying the. prime minister otoh wants government is too authoritarian and

the police that are all supporting the government always well and they will do nothing to try and ease back concerns will this affect the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though anger on the street is very much continuing on a day to day basis to speak to this particular course right has become a scene for nightly confrontations between the police and protesters. however earlier in the week protests went on until a small out of the morning without incident yesterday and today. the police response very different with these vehicles charging in and chasing protesters down side streets liberal use of the water cannon which is strip the bomb puppetry and left deborah over the streets. really not the kind of response people were hoping

to see from a police force that has really come in for a lot of criticism from a lot of corners of turkish society in the last two weeks. our tom in anchorage now our online team is working twenty four seven of course to provide you with the very best stories and pictures of the big stories of the day is quick taste of what we've got lined up with an r.t. dot com talk about tonight the u.n. experts revealing the ugly truth of israeli army tactics including using palestinian children as human shields is disturbing story we've got the details lined up for you r.t. dot com was just another click away as well talking about singapore still choking in the huge amount of smaug there with levels of air pollution is said to be endangering the health of thousands that say it's going to go on for a long time to head to r.t. dot com for more pictures more videos of the eighty's that's obscuring that city stay right now. as the u.s. army rushes to complete its pullout from afghanistan parts of the country already turning into huge junkyards the pentagon is now destroying u.s. vehicles other valuable military equipment there despite the wall ready of an cost

american taxpayers more than six hundred thirty billion dollars author and activist david swanson told me this massive disposal of arms and waste in afghanistan will not go raise an eyebrow in washington. that's that you know small coin in terms of the corruption of the u.s. military which is just beyond measure remember while they're destroying seven billion dollars worth of vehicles and so forth the united states congress has just dumped another over eighty billion dollars into the ongoing occupation of afghanistan for the next year virtually the same amount as last year and as we talk about it winding down and ending at rushing to a close we're talking about at least another year and a half which is longer than most wars in world history have taken from beginning to end and this one's been going on for over twelve years still terry budget in the bill just passed by congress is increasing from last year and increased seen in

violation of the famous sequester limitation that is being used to eliminate money for food and health and housing and all things good and decent in the united states military budgets seems immune it just continues to climb and of course it is for a quick meant when you destroy the old equipment you know that the private car dealers would just love it if we all destroyed our cars and when i knew once as a business bosses and policy makers were around the globe a greyness told me on how to post economic growth and reform the world's finances the annual international forum in some petersburg social status and big economic announcements to president putin says russia signed off a massive deal with china to supply all with two hundred seventy billion dollars but it couldn't believe it was covering. the two hundred seventy really and dollar deal has been struck really supposed all expectations here in st petersburg between ross staffs and china and that equates to three hundred thousand barrels

a day that's on top of the three hundred thousand that is already delivered to china about three hundred sixteen tons that's a huge deal and it's a huge deal for a number of reasons we know that the eurozone at the moment is doing with a sovereign debt crisis the demand has gone down from there and europe has made no secret of the fact that they want to diversify. their demand as to where they get that oil from so this has to play into this as well but as far as china is concerned it's a popular move i've been turning to the business elite here and they say it's all about russia moving from now on you've only got to look at a map to see that it makes sense for these two countries to be dealing with each other to be striking out these multi billion dollar deals also for rough stuff then as a company it was great on the balance sheet we know that they acquired to be paid as a whole slate. and they are still paying the bills for that but i've got to tell you it's not all about china ross nafta been drumming up her plenty of deals here today they've been speaking to any exxon and also that's all as well so it will set

in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about shale gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia's let through the. resolution revolution i should say he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy well is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce the natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas boom. five its night's big stories in brief a suicide attack on

a packed shia mosque in the pakistan city push hours killed at least fourteen that explosion also injured dozens of worshippers many of whom are in critical condition no one said they did it but shiites have often been the target of sectarian attacks by sunni muslims in chile riot police have suppressed a rally by students dwelling education reform clashes reportedly broke out in the capital when some of the protesters tried to march beyond an authorized route stones were thrown at police they responded with water cannon and battered cheers experienced a recent resurgence in education protests over the soaring costs on affordable loans and poorly trained teachers involved. rescuers in india found dozens of bodies floating in the ganges river after unusually severe monsoon rains of struck the north of the country number of dead already past the one thousand mark with goals of building roads bridges because it was swept away by the deadly towards the indian air force has dropped food and medicine for people many of whom are pilgrims trapped in towns and villages cut off by the landslides. greece is facing

a quote issue regarding the very existence of the government and quote that's according to a leader of the junior coalition partner passed so it comes amid a political rally over the decision to replace the state broadcast t.v. with a smaller channel country democratic left party could now pull out of the ruling coalition because of his argument here to hold a broadcasting over a week ago it remains all fair despite a court ruling monday ordering it back on again. the philippines has destroyed five tons of ivory smuggled into the country from africa or it's the biggest known destruction of traffic ivory and amounted to millions of dollars worth of elephant tusks being crushed by bulldozers the stockpiles which was seized in several legal shipments is aimed to prevent it from being stolen warehouses and sold on the black market. thanks for being with this great programs wind up talking of which people of als here next after the break where america's geo political interests lie some

great topical chat coming up but just a couple of minutes from now. i know they track your poor ratings of the presidents of various countries by did know they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice i gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent among independents and even his in three rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things but longing for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome then please tell me how he differs from obama true obama could pronounce ninety nine percent of

the words on the teleprompter in front of him. both presidents have led expensive wars with questionable objectives bush gave us the patriot act and obama continued it with the n.d.a. both of them seem to like their drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's was flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion. you. lisa.