fresh revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the u.s. has been bugging tapping and cyber monitoring institutions in brussels washington and new york. riots rage in egypt at least three people are killed as supporters and opponents of president morsy clash with fears are growing of more violence still to come. tomorrow. top african riot police cracked down on protesting crowds for a furious with u.s. policies as president obama tours the continent in order to boost ties.

world news and analysis live twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. with me to see constant of new reports of u.s. surveillance are emerging from a german publication courtesy of edward snowden their spiegel magazine is reporting that they've seen a top secret u.s. document outlining how the country's intelligence had a bugged you offices and spied on the block's internal computer networks artie's peter all over has more. what's the the the documents that says that they received through edward snowden we're able to see part of says is that the national security agency were well spying on the e.u. just about everywhere they could that they were tapping phones they were hacking their computer networks at the un in washington d.c. also that they were booking premises in brussels and carrying out the same type of . phone tapping and computer hacking there as well germany him out is one of the

the countries that was most spied on as part of this prism operation by the n.s.a. something that raised a few eyebrows and certainly posed a few questions when chancellor angela merkel met with president barack obama a little while ago now what we're also seeing is that it's the same type of thing as this came out regarding the the booking of then president dmitri medvedev so it seems that no matter who you work wherever you were you were subject to wire taps and computer hacking and having your premises bugged by the n.s.a. now one interesting part of this article says this quote saying that you were a target a definite target for this type of surveillance and also says that five years ago the e.u. itself had looked into phone calls that had been made to them had traced phone

calls apparently back to a n.s.a. office that was based inside the nato compound in brussels so they certainly had suspected that they were under surveillance but it's a very different thing suspecting that somebody is watching you to then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they were watching you indeed we asked low david news the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament why the u.s. had for them to be its close ally as a target. my educated guess is that this has nothing to do with economic spying on the e.u. you know that the e.u. is for the moment negotiating a new free trade agreement the us well you have all the interest to know what you will poland he's already discussing internally off strategy that is one of the possibilities but this has been going on apparently for more than five years it traces back to dinah from nato headquarters while this even goes here decades

further into the show called echelon program from the seventy's the e.u.'s for example is stronger than ever militarily even technologically i mean the internet is an american invention but on the economic level it is losing ground everywhere but the brics countries there are doing that the e.u. is adding strong which i would rush with the outcome in latin america and the u.s. doesn't seem to get its economic. priorities imposed as it used to so what i series here is a big risk for economic spying is lake the diplomatic correspondence from the ecuadorian government suggest that juliana songe may have been pulling the strings at the country's london embassy to help edward snowden they claim that the wiki leaks founder had asked the consul there to issue a safe travel pass document for snowden which wasn't actually authorized by the

country's government or to his medina as following the story. the wall street journal has recently published information containing diplomatic correspondence with the door and government and particularly there was information concerning one ecuadorian diplomat who works at the country's embassy in london it was the diplomat who issued the controversial travel document for mr snowden and that's a later sparked a lot of debate now according to the car despondence the diplomat who works closely with the juliana songe and that information really provoked a lot of thoughts that mr sunshine could be perceived as running the showing that her door and he could actually be in the middle of handling the situation mr assange said that all that are just another terms to really take away the end to function from the c. rist exposures there were made to boy mr snowden and really the same comments came

from ecuador and the president are afraid of god rather sad odds to mr snowden's exposures are serious and very important and that they once again shed some light on the massive u.s. spying out for. now we're going to have to explain our actions because we're not the one spying on people and they said we have provided snowden with a document for travel now it is a problem for them and not what snowden actually revealed about cyber spying cases do you realize the trav they want to fall into what is really serious is snowden's whistle blowing there were also reports that door and president carter a out has held talks with the u.s. vice president joe biden however it was revealed that rare has not yet made up his mind on snowden's asylum application current he it is impossible for mr edward snowden to actually leave the share much of our international airport

which is based here in moscow and the u.s. . has revoked his passport which means that he neither can get a russian visa to actually leave the airport nor can he is the a rat sickly boy any tickets to have on the or adequate door so whatever the story develops now vinous willian president nicolas maduro will arrive in moscow on monday and that there are some speculations that his upcoming visit may actually resolve the situation in a way. meanwhile the father of the fugitive whistleblower believes that his son could return to the u.s. that is if certain conditions are met and he's outlined those terms in a letter to the u.s. attorney general eric holder longyou snowden says his son should not be detained before trial that's one of the conditions that he should not be subject to a gag order which is basically something that would ban him from talking publicly

about this issue and that the son should be allowed to choose the location where those core proceedings will actually take place now the elder snowden admits that he hasn't spoken to edward since april and insists that while the ex cia contractor committed a crime he is the traitor now the thirty year old n.s.a. whistleblower hasn't been seen since he's touched down here in russia and while snowden's future has been the subject of intense debate by the world's media investigative journalist duncan campbell believes that taking the media attention is taking the focus away from what mr snowden actually revealed. a lot depends on on russia but i think russian game will be a speed to stand back and as an international territory we can do nothing and wait for other players to act but i do think that the focus is wrong because all of this distraction about snowden and where the years and what he might do next has completely undermined the tremendous gravity of the successive documents and

revelations that he's made about lee the scope of american and allied spying on the civil and commercial affairs of the world i think that many americans recognize the true values for which their forefathers fought from the war of independence on words who would see in snowden a real hero but that is never going to be reflected in the demographics when the price is so tainted disgracefully so silent in simply reporting what he's got to say if there was a dissident in russia or china or the middle east speaking out in the way that snowden is doing it would have massive coverage that's not happening not even in the washington post which covered this first story deadly riots between supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi are heating up in egypt clashes have already killed several people including a u.s. national in the city of alexandria thousands are now rallying in to where square in

cairo they are demanding that the islamist leader step down what he's bill true has the details. the worst clashes were in egypt's coastal city of alexandria where we saw two people dead including one u.s. citizen the u.s. embassy for their part have removed all non-essential staff in fear that this could be a targeted attack in addition president obama came out calling for dialogue between opposition forces and the president's saying they must have a united stand the marines the u.s. marines reportedly have come up with a contingency plan should the violence continue against u.s. citizens so to me i saw in protests people ripping posters of u.s. buses at the car around five percent saying the mission brotherhoods who the president tales from is definitely following a u.s. agenda civilian grassroots campaign called commodity which means rebel who

collected at least eighteen million signatures calling for the president to step down they say he's incapable of running the country we've seen no change in the last year the islamists for their part those who support the president say that all these opposition protests are in a just a mess as the president was democratically elected as egypt when this is a why something security crisis many citizens are reaching out to private security firms to secure their homes and businesses i spoke to who are gearing up for tomorrow's protest who say they expect violence and this is something that they really fear in the shadow of the. building then december is preparing for the expected finance between supporters and opponents of the president on sunday someone says he has already fortified his small shop just of kyra's to his square with sheets of. list of got them in my kiosk has been robbed and destroyed a few times to produce clown shoes i'm going to vacate my shop and as i'm afraid of

what is going to happen in the violence i don't want to lose everything. with the police taking a back seat those who can afford it. a reaching out to private security firms like this one general manager a former high ranking police officer but though we add to what he says his company is preparing for the worst as protesters demand the resignation of missing brotherhood president mohamed morsi the man a they were on june thirtieth there may be violence between the opposition forces and the islamists so we're sending more people to the places were guarding we're giving our staff and clients special training and information how they can secure their premises and how they deal with clashes. companies like b r plugging the gaps amid a deepening security crisis across the country lynchings are on the rise the latest brutal mob killing happened just a few days ago near the capital civilians are increasingly armed and protests are becoming more violent as citizens bring guns to clashes leaving many to fear for

their deaths analysts say the breakdown of security is because citizens no longer favored police who have been accused of being reluctant to provide security they also blame the government which has failed to confront the interior ministry they are responsible for the bigger they're full of law and order if they don't take the necessary steps to fix it they may want to they may wish to but if they're not actually solving it the buck stops at their door it will find a very difficult to get the ministry of interior to reform after the police services to reform. precisely because inside the police force inside the ministry of interior there are so many people that are really quite opposed to the muslim brotherhood instead of promising change president morsi played with fire in his wednesday speech to the nation praising the police and thanking them for their work with the violence on the horizon many will be forced to attend egypt's new thriving private security industry to protect their own homes and businesses true.

a group of secular leaning deputies have resigned from egypt's acting parliament in support of the opposition rallies meanwhile dr saeed said death from the american university in cairo says he believes another arab spring type of uprising could be eminent because the is the us president hasn't delivered on his promises so far. the president one is is not the only thing the objectives of the evolution two he was considered the thing his own group at the expense of the national interests of the country and also a defense that. if the if he remained silent on them it is still in school years egypt would become like somalia sudan they were looking for egypt would be there gyptian evolution is going to be hijacked like what happened in the reagan revolution by those islamists who wanted the society to sleep and stay put

and do not intervene and lives in what the long the who on the spring is about pouring into account the government and now before you have to account the president because of the one you seem to believe both what people expect. for us have got a lot more stories for you coming up this hour including president obama's african tour which has been marred by protests as a group of people had rallied to condemn his foreign policy is watching our stay with us. good.

morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. corp to rule the day. welcome back and we see careful offender watching our t.v.

. there's no open arms from south africans for president obama on his crucial tour to the continent but protesters staging rallies to vent their anger at the u.s. leader south african riot police have fired stun grenades to disperse angry crowds and as part ahead of his visit to the city hundreds had been gathering for demonstrations against u.s. foreign policy in pretoria and cape town as well south africans had pardon me africans had high hopes when obama became the u.s. president but some feel that those have since been dashed american aid to africa has been severely cut while washington has stepped up military operations in the region those officials say obama's tour is supposed to promote u.s. investment and also to strengthen africa's democratic institutions but sound there have a different take on the matter here solly polya from the south african communist party. we feel that explains our programs. for instance this the basement of the offical months. it's an indication of where u.s.

interest on the kind of good clinton we were and that. bases all over the way that the u.s. has court in order that you can have. all its kind of diplomatic relations as well as trade missions we're not the sort of those who opposed to a system where the government getting engaged with the usa on trade relations what we're saying they must be cautious about this because this is this huge imbalance between which as in the u.s. and noting that transparency there is more than ten times the g.d.p. of the entire african continent so these. are. rights to a democratic dispensation on the continent development that many african governments may seek to choose for themselves. and acts of brutal violence allegedly carried out by a group of syrian rebel fighters has started outrage on

a verified video posted on the internet shows the beheading of three men i should warn you the following video you may find disturbing the footage purports to show supporters of president bashar assad being to capitated with a knife spectators at the execution include women and children now this comes just days after american media citing unnamed officials confirms that the cia has started to arm the syrian rebels archie's an associate churkin a looks at the possible ramifications. of bloody conflict raging on for over two years violence to get the syrian president to step down versus more violence from a leader refusing to do so at least ninety thousand lives taken and counting from the get go washington supported the opposition the u.s. is making a terrible mistake in giving this undifferentiated very oversimplified black and white picture that the rebel opposition really good guys and assad is the

bad guy it's a very very dangerous mistake. dangerous because the opposition is not even close to being a unified political force in reality made up of an array of groups. the free syrian army is a network of thousands of militias and maybe they they come up to about eighty thousand people what's scary is how many of these people want you know an extremist government and i think it's more you know it's at least half horrific videos such as this one have shown that in the uprising the enemy can not only be killed but. there's ten thousand fighters with al nusra front which is al qaeda in iraq reconstituted in syria they might as well call themselves al qaeda in syria but you know they want to rebrand while the west and russia remain at odds on where u.s. support of the opposition could lead. washington has its mind set on providing vetted groups of rebels with small arms and ammunition they're deluding themselves

they think that they can cherry pick which factions of the opposition to support but somehow or other we can control the flow of weapons because we give them only to select people. many experts indicate that american politicians are kidding themselves if they think the arms flow can ever be managed and this question of how to give arms to one group to keep them out of the hands of another can likely never be answered i don't know if i've even heard a clear and unambiguous answer. the obama administration or any foreign policy on about where those weapons are going and how we can actually secure in the fact that they're going into the right hands but you know who are the right hand me that russia which has been sending arms to the assad government under a contract that began before the violence says that the united states arming the diversified opposition would kill not only more people but any hope for peace

settlement potentially turning the syrian crisis into never ending chaos like of again a step even if assad is pushed out after years of bloodshed there are no assurances that his departure will bring peace moreover of the us goes ahead with any shape or form of involvement in syria which the opposition would embrace the tide could turn much quicker than american officials may desire loyalties are temporary and guns and weapons like diamonds are forever so today they may be your friend and tomorrow they're pointing to the sting you're at you can't resist that so that as many as seventy percent of americans want us to stay away from syria. after their mouth after over a decade of warfare in the middle east some wild horses were freed from foreign oil into the fire but left right it might be like you want to rethink it. that's it you're going to see. british prime minister david cameron has made a surprise trip to visit u.k.

troops in afghanistan who travel to the u.k.'s largest military base in the country where he pledged a permanent memorial to the hundreds of british service personnel who have lost their lives in the lengthy conflict now camp bastion was recently revealed to be holding almost one hundred afghan soldiers without charge for further discussion on this and everything at stake here in afghanistan let's cross live now to journalist and blogger also a bike who joins us live from london thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us i want to get right to to the crux of the matter here the deputy commander of the nato led forces in afghanistan has said that the west basically missed its chance to strike a peace deal with the taliban back in two thousand and two when the group was weak what is your assessment are these talks too little too late. i think it's a kind of saving face for the west now they've clearly lost a funny stone they can't leave they cannot withdraw the equipment or they cannot

withdraw the troops without the taliban. so if the taliban agree that they can leave without being fired upon right now the west is trying to save face they're leaving with their tail tucked between their legs and you know they could have negotiated from the very start but i think the u.k. wants to follow america's disastrous policy disastrous war in john just on it's been over ten years and where are we of in the same place the taliban are still strong. still operating in the region and the only thing the west has money should do is lose thousands of lives and spend billions of dollars there's also some a contradictory picture of the taliban here i mean on one hand we have the opening of the political office in qatar with taliban leaders suddenly doing press conferences issuing statements about peace and stability on the other hand we have a continuation of the same old violent tactics for example the latest brazen attack on the presidential palace earlier this week so which taliban is the real picture

here and what are the implant implications for these supposin peace talks i think sometimes we the media and sometimes the west oversimplify it you know we have the taliban which has its committee has a structure but then you have the fighters on the ground and not everybody fighting america and britain in afghanistan is the bloody violence so i think that you can have negotiations with the taliban got that but sometimes a fight is on the ground may disagree and they're not going to stop because the the main concern and their main asking point has been that the foreign troops leave afghanistan so big clearly not going to stop fighting until those troops have left the longest they're going to. those attacks so america and the west has to make its mind up about its policy because they may want to talk to the only one in the

know in their offices new set of offices but it has to be merged on the ground in afghanistan and very briefly i want to switch gears and talk about the detainees that have been held in camp bastion work david cameron has just visited now they've been there for a long period of time some up to fourteen months the u.k. has just begun to transfer some back this week but the reason that they claim to be holding them in the first place is because they feared torture in the hands of afghan officials so what do you think is behind this sudden about face. the west has clearly showed his hypocrisy about detain people without charge it's not like the british and americans have tortured people from going to animal bait to background may base they've been torturing people i think they've been holding these people without charge i think that they fear that if they let them go that they could end up fighting against them i think that's what's taking place i think that the british have held on to them because they fear that if they go they're going to going to pick up guns and fight against the british and i think that the

charge had to move to the afghans against it is a much of saving face journalist and blogger also a big thank you so much unfortunately we are out of time but of course those of us those of you viewers watching stay tuned to our washington studio breaking the set show with abby martin is up next stay with us you're watching r.t. . i love life but there is a lot of sick stuff going on on this planet for example according to bloomberg a hospital in chicago has been accused by the f.b.i. of cutting the throats of patients for big bags of cash a tracheotomy is a procedure to get air directly into the windpipe of someone who can't breathe by cutting a hole into it an f.b.i. affidavit based on tape recording says that the hospital knowingly and purposely sedated patients to the point that they couldn't breathe properly and would need

tracheotomy and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick out of his own days cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars a pop this alleged conspiracy between doctors and management is not the first of its kind at this hospital and administrator and five doctors have already been charged for medicare fraud for giving and receiving kickbacks not only is having a hole punched in your neck for money disgusting but it may also be lethal because patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients at other hospitals from tracheotomies throughout the state now how did the f.b.i. find out about this with three employees ratted out the hospital and worked with the f.b.i. to make a lot of incriminating voice recordings these people risk their jobs and possibly much more to do what was right and i salute them reading out evil is no wrong deed but that's just my opinion.

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