each one you should want your only. angry crowd pardon me while we have our weekly show here now snowden is still stranded in a moscow airport with ecuador pointing to russia to dislike his fate while the kremlin says the n.s.a. leaker's case is not on its agenda. you hear them angry crowds demanding the resignation of egypt's president asking marks his first year in the top job with both opponents and supporters holding mass rallies. meanwhile europe is outraged at the united states with a key trade pact under threat fresh leaks from the n.s.a. whistleblower snowden showing america has been bugging tapping and cyber monitoring the u. offices. so

good to have you with us this evening i'm lucy catherine often here watching our weekly wrap of the top stories that you've seen here on our t.v. as well as today's news well the n.s.a. spy scandal continues to grow fueled by fresh exposures from edward snowden revelations of european union offices being the target of u.s. snooping has set off alarm bells across the block with leaders demanding an explanation from washington about the issue now germany's justice mr minister has slammed the united states for quote cold war tactics indicating that a free trade pact with the u.s. could now be in jeopardy over this issue certainly a threat now the head of the e.u. parliament meanwhile described the situation as a quote huge scanned. although saying that more information was of course needed at

the moment the belgian a prime minister called for an immediate stop to the n.s.a. surveillance program look some foreign minister said that the united states should watch its own spies rather than snooping on his french its allies meanwhile the french his french colleague said the paris wants an answer from washington as soon as possible will artie's peter all over has more details on how the snowden bombshell has been playing out in europe. 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 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 came out as 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 bugging of then president dmitri medvedev so it seems that no matter who you were wherever you were you were subject to why it 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 so then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they're watching you indeed. and looks like germany is washington's main target in the e.u. spying scandal and according to the latest reports to an even larger extent than previously believed around a half a billion phone calls emails text messages and chat transcripts are being monitored by the n.s.a. every day earlier i spoke to intelligence expert dr coty about the snooping scandal he told me that's all about the go. between friends if we allies absolutely knew we had

a hillary or two sons and that to solve one from the european parliament that revealed all of. it came up it was to be discussed but then came september eleventh two thousand and one and that was it your 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 phrase 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 that 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 in countries like france that is the reality of what we do with the public

is just to say well it is the chinese to spy for economical reasons because the russians. sells curio or whatever reality of the biggest enemy on the united states is the united kingdom so it's a license fine against all odds. the latest leaks come leak comes on the heels of revelations about the so-called prism program that washington has used to collect massive amounts of data from all and all over the world which it says was actually used to foil terror plots and to improve national security but as artie's arena delusional reports the real terrorists could be out of reach for the snooping software. and there's the pose of course for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prism only gathers data from the internet big players such as google sky 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 don't want point admitted that it indexes a tiny fraction of just one percent of all data that's available on the web if you imagine 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 this or not have brothers they have turned to one of the war no radical sources sometimes referred to as the vanity fair of al qaida though the web site 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-mail. outside of the united states how do you know if your online data is going to be gathered and closely examined by the prism program we're going to log on to our dot com and find out why the u.s. agency decides decides when to use their digital magnifying glass abroad. ecuador's president meanwhile says that snowden's fate is out of his hands and that the whistleblowers next move it depends on what russia does now u.s. vice president joe biden urged ecuador not to grant asylum to snowden but they can't do it yet anyway because he's not physically on ecuadorian territory moscow though insists that they won't be discussing what to do with the thirty year old anytime soon well for a look back at the whistleblowers journey thus far here's our t. is to bag once a. bunnings 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 hunt 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 slew 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 had turned one of america's most wanted men into a hero for some to others exe 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 bag and forth rhetoric we've registered our struggle 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 detrimental to us hong kong and us china bilateral relations. as for the possibility of extradition we do not have any such treaty signed with the united states but for ecuador a potential asylum destination was snowed in things have moved beyond mere rhetoric the country's move to scrap a trade agreement with the us risking economic losses was standing its ground in the face of america's pressure agadez 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. are asking him not to grant it the dorian 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 you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow. they were secretary of state john kerry is among those labeling snowden a traitor for leaking the classified information r.t. has spoken to rick for quinn who is the founder of the swedish pirate party which is linked to wiki leaks now he believes that the united states is diverting attention away from snowden's revelations by focusing on the man himself. when you look at how us politicians are reacting to this both in 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 you 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 at 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 brown reporters who disclose abuse of powers as criminal. that is where the real cause for concern is at this point.

more stories ahead for you this hour including a cool welcome in south africa we follow president obama's african trip that's been overshadowed by some angry protests that's coming up later in the program. well on to egypt the country has been boiling over with anger demonstrators are said to be storming the muslim brotherhood's headquarters and cairo reports say that a protester was killed in the southern part of part of the south of the capital now these are live pictures from the egyptian presidential palace although is that darker square anyway opposition activists are demanding the resignation of the isn't the leader saying his policies have failed clashes are being reported between rival groups in cities north of cairo with the offices of the egypt's muslim brotherhood torch now cites a death from the american university in cairo believes that another opera is in

could be imminent of the islam this president hasn't delivered on his promises. the first one is not the only. thing. the experience. it's the. school use would become like someone. they were looking for. would be. is going to be heard what happened. to the society you sleep. in and lives in iraq the long. string of both. if you. count the president because of the one you can believe both what people expect.

while of course ija. has been it riled up in anger and we do have our choir our contributor bill true here on the line for us bell you have been outside of the presidential palace right now you've been to both rallies tell us a little bit about what you've seen on the ground the difference perhaps in the atmosphere between the two. things here it is jubilant but defiant seems as if you can see hundreds of thousands of people have gathered against president mohamed morsi on the first year of his you face me something right here and my country square is how which means to me what they're saying is that the president mohamed morsi is not fit to govern the country anymore that he needs to step down and if this is a make or break moment the cross roots campaign organize these things to protest the school to model the level they have actually practiced twenty two million

signatures calling for the president's house so they are just political parties to leave the foundations like so kind as you can see behind me there is to see the chips and shots of people holding red cards or something there you could find in a football match the symbol they say the president must mean people were bracing themselves for violence but so far here in the capital things have changed many quiet name all the few kilometers away easily misstating met a demonstration in a nearby mosque they say the president was democratically elected i think he should stay the only way that he should leave office is through the budget folks they say that one year is not moment to fix old problems because in the current regime however people here are very very determined they will not leave their promise and to fit into the president steps down to what we see is a divided egypt a one side of the supporters of the president and on the other side those who are against him which really people when they go to see this and any time soon and bell

these divisions certainly prompt fears at least of potential. flash's it seems like that hasn't gotten to that level yet i'm curious about the police presence there you had tweeted earlier that there wasn't as much visible presence at one of the rallies has that changed what are the authorities doing to prevent outright clashes between these two divided groups. whom we have seen a violence outside of the capital of between opposing groups in particular the mission but appears to be the group of the president's tales from their offices have been talking to him to get in the northern parts of egypt and ninety nine counts of this becoming a worrying trend of protesters fire bombing runs second phase of this is how much of that suggests in the last week also seeming to be an increase in the arms i'm bringing these weapons to protect the civilians and civilian caches all really points of finding people during themselves up here in the capital or something similar so you far it hasn't happened i think the military are on standby should

the situation disintegrate they have the power they said they would stick it once it gets involved in politics but should the situation escalate any further they will be forced to step in the policemen apiata tend to contain this violence over there what they what some of the just say is there a potty trained and able to deal with these very volatile situations and often make the situation worse using heavy amounts of take gas aggravates the two starts even mold people are still holding their breath for the final in the coming days at the moment here in the capital but it's peaceful but we have to see where the worst is yet to come well let's certainly hope that there is no worse to come but of course these things could escalate at any moment as we all know bill thank you so much for keeping us up to date on that. horrible week here at r t along with delivering the news also like to hear from you and we're giving you a chance to head over to our web site at r.t. dot com and to vote in an online poll to tell us what you think will be the fate of these protests here in egypt let's take

a look at those of you who voted how that's broken down so far. a majority so far forty six percent at least believe that morsi could actually align himself with the military and rule as a dictator in order to suppress the crowd now the next highest percentage twenty eight percent in the purple here believe that the government could in fact collapse from this unrest that there will be pretty peaceful that situation here nineteen percent of you believe that potentially there could be some sort of a military coup here and in egypt and a tiny fraction just seven percent believe that morsi could step down so of course it's not too late to vote so head over to our web site r t dot com we always want to hear from you the viewer. to the arab spring dream. first freely elected president change fear poverty economic failure and violence remain egypt's attempt to escape chaos even while we are.

egypt. chaos. you have these used also in tissue crime i would even say a story of terror and methods like spying and persecution and restrictions and indefinite detention for being on the rise how do you explain these paradox one thing we do know about them is. they will collapse with the exception this street is brutally.

seven billion dollars to fix frequent power blackouts in the subsaharan africa the big compromise comes as the u.s. leader tours the continent order to boost time however obama's trip has been tainted by some protests south african riot police have fired stun grenades just spurs angry crowds near johannesburg ahead of his visit to the city on saturday hundreds were gathering for demonstrations against u.s. policies in other cities across the country earlier as well now more rallies are

expected in cape. visiting on sunday protesters are showing frustration with his unfulfilled promises as american aid to africa has been cut or the military presence there has been increased. organized protests across africa he says america's only approach to resolving conflict. between your friend as long as you don't hold up in terms of its actions. in choosing. the. government is supposed to be opposed to that. it doesn't assist in. african countries must be able to be independent. if he has to. and. the biggest lesson of the countries intraday obama and his administration and

many. of them. and the case in point. is opposed to precisely the ways in which the united states. military presence has to do with. this week the british prime minister david cameron visited kabul afghanistan and the capital of neighboring pakistan it follows a recent policy shift towards the talabani in afghanistan the tour through the turbulent region aims to breathe new life into stalled peace talks the afghan president hamid karzai said that the negotiation process is to go ahead despite a brazen taliban attack on the presidential palace earlier this week washington is reading for a troop drawdown despite ongoing instability in the country following two thousand twelve years of war now auntie spoke to one man who's had personal experience in

dealing with the taliban author and journalist jerry van dyke was kidnapped by the insurgency group and held captive for forty eight days while on a reporting trip to afghanistan back in two thousand and eight he believes the taliban will not compromise. originally we went into afghanistan solely to destroy to dismantle to destroy if you will the taliban government and to destroy the al qaeda 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 to 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 any foreign troops are left in 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 have the government of afghanistan and in the eyes of the world this is a separate government of the taliban the president of afghanistan and the people

you know want this part. a brief look now at other headlines from around the world . a cordon 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 allegedly urging protests through social media although some of them personally didn't even participate in the revolt some of the defendants claims of who they were even tortured and forced to sign false confession in question is in the trial custody. at least thirty three people have been killed in two separate suicide bomb attacks in pakistan at least twenty four people were killed in one blast in a city of quite up and an earlier bombing in the northwestern city of peshawar had targeted a convoy of nato security forces most of the victims were civilians the attacks

follow a visit by the british prime minister david cameron. coming right up with our new show worlds apart and it looks at internet privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal stay with us. if you lived in the u.s. knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire life savings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial feelings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand irish employees have abused the

charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these people are very high on the ladder including an executive level official a criminal. gaiter and multiple bullies with security clearances much of the abuse is related to employees writing checks for big purchases which later bounced due to accounts being empty yeah the people who could ruin your life for what little financial folly seem to have no problem over drawing while they are living it up on taxpayer funded travel to keep things in perspective the i.r.s. is a huge organization so one thousand abusers is a minority but in the spirit of fairness i think these card abusers should be punished just as harshly as normal people who run afoul of the i.r.s. but that's just my opinion.

hello welcome to all the part you know that continuously islamic law like the land of the free because what we should be. killing maintenon to tell the story but we hope we can be found there maybe. they can we i'm sorry now first of all i would like to ask a question about shame i know that one of the reasons you a named your party the pirate party was because some of your critics really tried to put you to shame and i guess to undermine what you were doing at the time and i think in the coverage of the snow than a fair shaming and ad hominem attacks have very very prominent we've already heard all sorts of supposedly compromising details about his personal life that he hasn't finished high school that his former girlfriend was a stripper and so on rather than focusing on the substance of his revelations why

is that anything. that is very typical when a scandal like this surfaces rather than trying to answer the questions. of very much raised by snowden's revelations about what the united states is actually up to the. surveillance hawks in the united states and the security operators is doing everything it can to divert the attention from what's really important here and instead talk about the persian details of edward snowden what is at issue is that the united states has been betraying the trust of pretty much the entire world now was i think what do you think he thought significant about his revelations because in the words of one commentator we haven't really learned anything that we did in fact before right well yes and no you could assume that the united states was eavesdropping.