europe is outraged add to the us with a key trade pact under threat fresh leaks from n.s.a. whistleblower snowden show that america has been bugging tapping and cyber monitoring e.u. offices. we will snowden is still stranded in a moscow airport with ecuador pointing to russia to the slightest fate while the kremlin says the n.s.a. leaker's case is not on its agenda. angry crowds demand the resignation of egypt's president as he marks his first year

in the top job with both opponents and supporters holding mass rallies. so good to have you this evening this weekend of course our weekly show here in our team and i'm lucy catherine of thanks for tuning in the n.s.a. spying scandal continues to grow this time fueled by fresh exposures from edward snowden revelations of the european union offices being the target of u.s. snooping has actually set off alarm bells ringing across the block with the leaders demanding an explanation from washington well germany's justice minister has slammed the united states for its quote cold war tactics indicating a free trade pact with the u.s. could now be in jeopardy over all this the head meanwhile of the e.u. parliament described the situation as a huge scandal of those saying that more information certainly need us from its

ally meanwhile the belgian prime minister said that this is actually in fact called for the n.s.a. to immediately stop the program while look sumburgh foreign minister said that the united states should watch its own spies rather than snooping on its allies meanwhile his friends colleagues said that paris wants an answer from washington as soon as paul possible parties peter all over has more details. 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 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 is well germany came 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 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 bugging of then president dmitri made yet it so it seems that no matter who you were wherever you were you were subject to why you 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. 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 so then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they were watching you indeed. earlier i spoke to a doctor. an intelligence expert and political analyst about why the united states has stepped on its close ally now he told me that it's all about the money while tapping your international partners is no big news spying between friends between elements it's not absolutely new we have a hill over it or into some incident to solve one from the european parliament that we've had it came up it was to be discussed but then came september eleventh a few cells that one and that was

a new issue from that moment on the intelligence service that we need that we need to spying on allies this is just to protect you against terrorism you just mentioned terrorism but i mean these aren't these kind of three is can cooperate openly on terrorism they don't have to spy for terrorist purposes exactly you're absolutely right but so this is spying for economical reasons mainly it is economical espionage as it might seem to steal national secrets from companies to to destroy jobs and to import jobs to their own countries so what the americans like to do is to destroy jobs in countries like germany and countries like france but it is a reality about what we do with the public is just to say hello it is the chinese to spy for economical reasons it's a russian it is south korea or whatever but in reality of the biggest enemy obviously chinos the united states is the united kingdom so it's elyse it's fine

against all odds. well the latest leak comes on the heels of revelations about the so-called prism program washington has used it to collect massive amounts of data from all over the world which washington says was used for oil terror plots as well as to improve national security but our teams are going to lose go reported on the issue and she believes or she found out that the real terrorists could actually be out of reach of the snooping software. and there is suppose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prism only gathers data from the internet big players such as google facebook and so on but most of those who look forward to harvest or terrorist related information can find it only on the appropriate forums which are hidden deep within the so-called underwear none of these resources in that realm are actually indexed by the major search engines in fact google how that one point admitted that it indexes a tiny fraction of just one percent of all data that's available on the web if you

imagine it as an iceberg that you can understand that prism only covers the very top the very tip of the iceberg the rest of the information is actually not covered by prism according to dutch intelligence service but sensual terrorists go to these core forums which are highly encrypted and hidden deep within the web so one really needs to know what they're looking for and where to find it a case in point could be the brothers they have turned to one of the war no radical sources sometimes referred to as the vanity fair of al qaida though the websites existence is no secret for some reason u.s. security services failed to track down the brothers' activity even after a tip off from russia and thereby they failed to prevent the boston bombings so although the cia and the n.s.a. say their surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's e-mails. so if you're outside of the united states do you know if your online data is going to be gathered and closely

examined by this prism program we can log onto our to dot com and find out how the united states agency decides when to use its digital magnifying glass. ecuador's president meanwhile says that snowden's fate is out of his hands and that the whistleblowers next move might depend on what russia does u.s. vice president joe biden urged ecuador not to grant asylum to snowden but they can't do it anyway because he is not an ecuadorian territory moscow though says that they will not be discussing what to do with the thirty year old any time soon well for a look back at the whistleblowers journey so far here's r t is. names and snowden i'm twenty nine years old as soon as edward snowden revealed himself as the whistleblower he set off a catch me if you can hunch by the u.s. government want to get him caught and away is he now guessing game for the media after a tip off that snowden was on board

a flight from hong kong to moscow the media started speculating as to his next move edward snowden flew from hong kong to moscow say that he will be able to have on a flight the situation descended into a farce when a crowd of journalists boarded a flight from moscow to havana only to find that the whistle blower was not on board a presumed to be stuck in an airport transit say so we took off without it so we committed to a twelve hour plus flight that was essentially a waste of time the global public city had turned to one of america's most wanted men into a hero for some to others igs a traitor i think he has. committed crimes and in fact by violating agreements given the position he had. several countries have been tangled up in this case the with the veiled threats from washington and back and forth rhetoric we've registered objections to the authorities in hong kong as well as to the chinese government through diplomatic channels and we know that such behavior is

done to try to us hong kong and us china bilateral relations. that's for the possibility of extradition we do not have any such treaty signed with the united states but for ecuador a potential asylum destination snowden this is a move beyond mere rhetoric the country's move to scrub a trade agreement with the us risking economic losses standing its ground in the face of america's pressure added his government is also said to be divided the safe passage document dated twenty second of june obtained by weeklies will snowden from the ecuadorian embassy in london was not authorized meanwhile the mystery continues as to snowden is the next move he's now waiting at present korea to make a decision on the asylum application without a pressure from the u.s. also in him not to grant it the door and president also said that the media attention surrounding snowden has actually diverted from the real story that of the

n.s.a. surveillance documents but by snowden's own admission this was never going to be a story with a fairytale ending come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is among those who is labeled snowden a traitor for leaking that classified information now r.t. has spoken to rick band who is the founder of the swedish pirate party which is actually linked to the group wiki leaks now he believes that the u.s. is diverting attention from snowden's revelation by focusing on snowden and attacking us character. when you look at how us politicians are reacting to this both of the executive and legislative branches they are reacting by the book they are not talking one bit about the subject matter the u.s. has been caught doing but we're breaching the world's trust frankly but instead

trying to divert all attention onto edward snowden as a person on his cloak and dagger game and what a fascinating game it is where is he where do where did he go did he check not chicken is still at the airport has anybody seen him at all is very fascinating game it's very media friendly and therefore it works to divert attention but that's not what i think we should be doing what we should be concerned about is the fact that for example glenn greenwald the journalist the guardian who has been publishing the story i mean people are starting to call out him as a criminal and a nation that starts to brand reporters who disclose abuse of power as it's criminal. that is where the real cause for concern is at this point. more stories for you ahead this hour including a cool welcome in south africa we follow president obama's african trip that's been

overshadowed by a group protests that's coming up later in the program. egypt is boiling with anger a mess some two hundred thousand people gathered for a massive and morsi rally into where square in cairo live pictures you're seeing right here this is a protest marking the president's one year in power now his supporters have actually also turned out in huge numbers in the egyptian capital in a separate rally now as these live pictures from tough we are square indicate you can see a lot of people there opposition activists have been demanding the resignation of the islamist leader they say his policies have failed now clashes some clashes have been reported between rival groups in the cities north of cairo with the offices of egypt's muslim brotherhood being torched parties build true reports from the egyptian capital tens of thousands of people have gathered today to say to president mohamed morsi based saying he must be in the background you can hear

trying to shout which means please leave go out he said this is a make or break day i don't know if i speak you to protest as they told me that nothing's changed in the last year we've got i mean the economy worsening you and want to show it's just a credit crisis and horizon rights groups are reporting abuse is so still that the police haven't been reformed they're saying that he's incapable of running this country these protests has been going to be fooled by last week's campaigning full tomatoes which means we have to face a big mixing twenty two million signatures calling for the president's ouster meanwhile the president his boss says that he's staying he said he's democratically elected and therefore the only way that people can change is to find a box has to be the secular in the sentiments there at the moment is staying over at a mosque a few kilometers away. and they are saying that it's a bit that he was voted in this isn't just a mess and therefore who's going to leave in the schoolroom was

a dissident we've had reports there are classes in the government school receives a lot of tensions here because he didn't disagree devices and people are moving on either side in the last week we pose a scene outside of the missing brotherhood had to decide how it's run side by a bomb inside by protesters could take you know that and go on the missing motherhood ring which the president has from and the president himself the ministry for their part said they will intervene if they find it doesn't escalate that people here say they are leaving the setting up tends to be here they say for the next week until president morsi steps down every day local artists mahmoudiya coote paints a new government nero just as cairo's tahrir square his latest is in support of tomorrow to meaning rebel a grassroots campaign collecting signatures calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi how to get them up as a citizen i just want food health services and education we don't have these instead morsi gave his just three pieces of bread

a day you can see by his belly he eats ten in one meal. frustrated like many threw his support behind tomorrow they hope to install a transitional government and early presidential elections tomorrow first is right these can be found in the prospect capital not everyone believes the president morsi step down however the campaign has highlighted the problems in egypt. sentenced to prison for working for pro-democracy and egypt says the explosion of post revolution groups involved in civic engagement like tomorrow has been matched by government crackdowns you have activists being arrested campaign and and other areas you've had bad buildings they ransacked muslim brotherhood officials for their part have said that many of those coming out on june thirtieth of talks and the problems in egypt predate their president it's accumulation of thirty years of dictatorship. still we are suffering so.

that people can judge really if he could really deal with these struggles along however millions agree that morsi should be blamed although they still have to strike an accord as to what exactly they want to replace him with tomorrow maybe people or idea they decided they want to go with this political map that involves an includes the military for instance for internal security and this is something that others like me and other movements as well totally disagree with so you will have a different view coming up and in the future what ever the president's reaction to the mass protest movement it's clear that it's not going to beit true for r.t. kyra. a group of secular leaning deputies have resigned from egypt's parliament this in support of these ongoing opposition rallies now slaves to death from the american university in cairo he believes that another uprising could be imminent because he says the islamist president hasn't delivered on his promises. the

president. is not the enemy and the objectives of the evolution he was from salute the thing he is. at the expense of the nation of the country and the defense that if if the if he remained silent. for use egypt would become like someone. they were looking at egypt would be egyptian revolution is going to be hijacked like what happened. but against islamist who wanted the society to sleep and see. into the lives of what the long. spring is about. the future you have to account the president because of the one you seem to believe both what people expect we had our tea dot com always want to hear from you the

viewer so had over to our web site r t v dot com you can vote and let us know how you think this situation in tahrir square will actually develop and what the fate of egypt will be such take a look at how those of you who have already voted how that has actually broken down now here's our poll right here the majority of us so far forty six percent believe that morsi will essentially seize war power rule as a dictator twenty eight percent in the purple right here those of you believe that the government could in fact collapse that a political catastrophe could be in the works for egypt now a smaller percentage nineteen here in the orange believe that perhaps there could be a military coup in the works and then a very tiny fraction just seven percent believe that morsi will actually step down so it's not too late to vote just head over to r.t. dot com you can have your say and have that have that vote right right here on air . happened to the arab spring dream to egypt's first freely elected president bring any change fear poverty economic failure and phylis remain

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welcome back you're watching our team president obama has pledged seven billion dollars to fix frequent power blackouts in sub-saharan africa the big promise comes as the u.s. leader tours the african continent to boost ties however obama's trip has been tainted by protests now south african riot police have fired stun grenades to disperse angry crowds and as per the head of his visit to the city on saturday

hundreds had also gathered for demonstrations against the u.s. in other cities across the country more rallies are expected in cape town which obama's visiting on sunday protesters have shown frustration with obama's unfulfilled promises as american aid to africa has been cut while military presence in the region has increased. and organizer of those protests are called the no bomber protests across africa he says america's only approach to resolving this conflict he believes is more violence. than it is the to be your friend as long as you don't hold accountable in terms of fictions this would then be increasing the damage you chose instead to continue its ways i'm concerned that if your government is supposed to be opposed to that and so it doesn't assist in terms of the video. choices that must conclude that african countries must be able to be independent in the war on terror if he has to learn from those in the way he knows that conflict

in the world has to follow through and negotiate a truce this is the biggest lesson of the countries introduce obama and his administration and many of his successes you should the rest of them. switch roles in the case in point. the obama campaign ends up if you can conceive of many progressive organizations is opposed to precisely the ways in which the united states. but in these military prisons has to do with the size to be them. of course we're not only on air but online as well so head over to our web site r t dot com on your mobile phone on your p.d. a device or on on the computer and you can find out some of these stories take a look for example. one of the country of traditional values the u.k. is now breaking its stereotype by allowing husband and wife to officially trade places what does that mean i don't know i guess we both have to head over to our to come to mind out. and another click away online our sarcastic comment

or a terror plot violent threats over a computer game could land this teenager in jail for eight years this even though he did say he was just joking again our web site r t dot com will give the answers as to why american authorities won't why why they might arrest this kid. british prime minister david cameron has just visited kabul and part of the capital as well as the capital of neighboring pakistan islamabad this follows a recent policy shift towards the taliban in afghanistan they now want to bring them to the negotiation table the tour through the turban in a turbulent region is aiming to breathe new life into stalled peace talks the afghan president hamid karzai has said that the negotiation process is to go ahead despite an attack on the presidential palace earlier this week now the incident on tuesday once again thwarted in an already shaky deal meanwhile washington is

getting ready to pack its bags for a troop drawdown at the end of next year having not necessarily succeeded in bringing stability to the nation after just twelve years of war now. he's a former t.v. correspondent and expert on the taliban he believes that the hard line taliban will not compromise. originally we went into afghanistan solely to do to dismantle to destroy if you will the television government and to destroy the. this war has morphed into has evolved into a war against the taliban the taliban as the military will tell you are on the ascendancy they are not losing they're willing to they're willing to continue to go forward all been announced proclaiming to the world that they are a sovereign nation by calling themselves islamic emirate of afghanistan that they will not negotiate as long as any troops are left in the foreign troops are left to

afghanistan so how do you say you're going to win if you're going to leave and you haven't won the war so you have two governments you know the government of afghanistan and in the eyes of the world is a separate government of the taliban the president of afghanistan and the people you know what this. time for a brief look at some other headline news from around the globe. thousands have gathered on taksim square in istanbul demanding justice for a kurdish protester shot by police during rallies there according to local reports twenty arrests have been made so far crowds also vented their anger over there when these of a policeman from custody ahead of his trial for the killing of an activist in the capital ankara turkey has been in the grip of public unrest for almost the past month now. according to saudi arabia has sentenced seven cyber activists to between five to ten years in prison they were arrested a year and a half ago for urging protests and harming public girder via social media mainly

facebook although some of them say they personally didn't participate in the revolt some of the defendants claimed they were even tortured and forced to sign false confessions in pretrial custody and now all of the jailed members are shiite muslims which have prompted suspicion that the case was perhaps a biased by the country's ruling sunni muslim minority. in just a few minutes technology update it examines the latest major breakthrough for russia in the realm of medicine stay tuned. 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 tracheotomies 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. oh and welcome to technology update regardless of who you are and whether you live in moscow or anywhere else in the world we are like they're born a holiday wish economy grow hoping for good health to keep us in tip top shape the tech a team and i have struck out to find the latest improvements in russian and.