reaction. whistleblower edward snowden basks in an upsurge of support among americans while we were reports on one u.s. telecom company that is refusing to yield to government snooping. egypt will soon get a new batch of f. sixteen fighter jets from the united states despite promises true of u.s. assistance program while a poll of egyptians show that its weapons and money do more harm than good. and the u.n. chemical weapon team a sub syria's invitation to conduct a fact finding mission in aleppo after russian investigators say they found evidence that the rebels or not the regime have used toxic gas there.

thanks for tuning in it's noon here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching r.t. . well more americans consider edward snowden to be a whistleblower than a traitor a highly cited poll have found that fifty five percent of respondents were actually sympathetic about what mr snowden did while about a third were less forgiving washington is pursuing espionage charges against snowden for leaking the details of the n.s.a.'s surveillance systems it's a network that involves almost all u.s. telecom giants but one internet provider is standing firm refusing the n.s.a.'s advances and so far managing to get away with it or have an open spoke to the owner of x. mission pete ashdown. we have had situations where people inside the attorney general's office of slandered my business and said that we're supporting criminals we absolutely do not support criminals we just ask for a proper warrant and that seems to be too much to ask most of the time or the other

issue is that we saw with the n.s.a. . exposure that google and microsoft and apple and others were supposedly cooperating that's they're probably charging for that privilege so they're making a financial decision to open their networks for inspection by the n.s.a. and it's not worth it to me to do that i don't want to live in a surveillance of society and i'd rather stick by what our constitution says that we're protected by we surely i guess the big internet giants have got less to lose that big business is they've got less to favor of night yeah absolutely and but it's funny because i've got more to lose i mean i couldn't fight a protracted court battle but i'm willing to do it i'm willing to go to jail to protect my customers from being wholesale the monitor i find it surprising that a company with the resources of google. isn't more circumspect about the information they're giving away and what they're selling it begs the question how

long this has been going all that doesn't it of course a lot of may be familiar with that i think it's just come out now with snowden and his revelations is that what you think of him i think he's a hero and i think he's doing the right thing i think it's shameful that he's being treated like a criminal for standing up and reporting what i believe are illegal acts by our government people shouldn't be treated under the espionage act is the obama administration has done so many times to people standing up and believing that what is going on is wrong otherwise we have no recourse to turn our government around. now the insider threat program that is president obama's initiative that mandates federal employees to start spying on each other is coming under increasing scrutiny now the program itself which has offered that millions of government workers must watch their colleagues for whistleblower tendencies and report any suspicions to their superiors but as our washington correspondent guy nature can reports the government's own experts have grave doubts we learned that not only does the u.s.

government spy on everybody selling twenty communications but it also urges government employees to snitch on each other in fact there is a program in place it's called the inside just like program which is designed to reveal potential whistleblowers before they blow the whistle under this insider threat program unions of federal workers and contractors are instructed to recognize quote indicators of insider threat behavior among their colleagues and to report their suspicions to authorities now get this those indicators include an employee's financial problems working hours unexplained travel stress wars for instance and an f.b.i. insider detection guide warns private security personnel and managers to watch for quote a desire to help the underdog or a particular cause james bond want to be a divided loyalty allegiance to another person or company or to a country besides the united states under such guidelines anybody can potentially

be targeted moreover behavioral experts even those working for the government that the program will work and they say there is no proven scientific basis for these behavioral profiling to peaks but these are just fine program is for him to do is to reach to lots of baseless and. one wonders if this really has any purpose but to create an atmosphere of fear no wonder investigative journalists and their sources have dried up and government officials are afraid to pick up the phone especially now in light of edward snowden's revelations which make it clear everyone is under surveillance this kind of a witch hunt is definitely not something people expected from candidate obama take a listen this is from six years ago i will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom that means no more illegal wiretapping of american citizens these words perhaps a different future but it seems the u.s. is going back to the mccarthy days with the government urging people to spy on each

other to scare an insider from revealing what they see as the government's wrongdoings in this regard one also has to ask the question is there any other way one could learn about the government's wrongdoings done. from an insider to us the answer is obvious no. david lindorff he's an editor of an online news website and he explained why he believes the program could damage the u.s. government. it's an incredible extension of this stasi like you know the old east german style as the light approach to life in america and at the same time it's a completely. inefficient and failed way to try to run a government bureaucracy it's not about national security it's about preventing. people from telling the truth about problems with government about corruption about failed policies and so on and what it really is is the by many ministration has

gone even beyond the nixon administration from the seventy's in its fear of leaks and its effort to control the story it trying to prevent the press from getting access as to people inside the government who will tell them through what's going on so that all they get is public relations handouts from the government and it's trying to prevent the government from being embarrassed the surveillance running amok has brought down the prime minister of looks and barak not a man that you can see here john claud younger had served in the job for eighteen years which is frankly an e.u. record but he has just resigned over the country's intelligence agency's misconduct now looks and mark secret service has apparently bugged top politicians squandered bodger on flashing cars i don't go in massive power games in neighboring germany meanwhile chancellor merkel is treading carefully ahead of

a washington meet that she has softened her tone somewhat after demanding that the united states explain mass spying against germans after it had emerged that berlin had actively been colluding with the n.s.a. and some experts say that she could pay a heavy political price if it's found out that markel knew more and she lied on. and of course just to remind you the extent of the u.s. spying on germany as revealed by mr snowden's leaks the n.s.a. is reported to have made up to five hundred million data interceptions in a month now snooping in on people's phone calls messages and e-mails as you can see right there. the united states still plans to go through with the delivery of four f. sixteen fighter jets to egypt in the coming weeks now this is despite the egyptian military's removal of president mohamed morsi washington has been reluctant to label the egyptian overcall a coup since that would effectively bar assistance to the volatile state. correspondent bill true brings us the latest on how the country has been coping

with its transition. the supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy remain steadfast they're continuing their sit in another city in the capital they held a symbolic funeral for the dozens killed in violent clashes on monday morning between security forces and members of the sit in they marched from their mosque where this ongoing protest is happening to the presidential palace where they had a kind of standoff with republican guards this comes at a time when there's been an arrest warrant issued for the supreme leader of the muslim brotherhood mohamed. for inciting violence on monday if he is that this arrest will scupper any plans for the missing brotherhood's participation in this time here in egypt monday the interim president for his part issued a road map for egypt in the form of a constitutional declaration it said that there would be a new constitution and parliamentary and presidential elections within the six

months this was rejected by the most brotherhood and its political party the freedom and justice party if we agree with them all the way through went for the election when it was the law but is that missed or whatever and then the military would come back in one year to say you just repeat everything again start another it was you should start this what we are trying to say all the time is not about more serious it is about the values meanwhile the u.s. have responded in a manner which it doesn't necessarily reflect what commentators are saying here which was this is a military coup if this is labeled as a coup this would affect u.s. assistance to egypt the latest reports are that the u.s. are sending four x. sixteen fighter jets to egypt in the next few days this is part of a larger package of twenty fighter planes which eight of which were already delivered in january the spokesperson for the white house for his part said that they would not in the interests of america to reconsider its package of assistance

to egypt although president obama has promised to look into the aides and the plan for american support of egypt in the future. a survey of egyptian attitudes towards the united states reveals that people there haven't been satisfied with the u.s. role in their homeland now let's take a look at the numbers now back in may american researchers have concluded that about eight out of ten egypt sions felt negatively towards the u.s. with just sixteen percent having a positive attitude towards that country when it comes to president obama nearly three quarters were are unhappy with the way that he's handled american foreign affairs and that sentiment has been strong since president obama took office back in two thousand and nine now egypt's sions have been pessimistic about their country's dependence on u.s. financial and military aid with more than half of the population saying that it is harming egypt as opposed to benefiting it of course the recent coup may not have done much to improve america's image there are policy or has more on that.

i their message is clear they want the army out and morsi in but there's another message in between the patriotic chants anger against the west for its silence and implicit support for a military coup i just that's not much was i was there i was always in the egyptian street is littered with anti obama posters and each day more new ones appear we set out to find out who's making them and found the this is one of the oldest print shops in cairo in the last two years it's printing presses have grind to a halt we found the same in this shop and this one instead of making a killing there on the verge of bankruptcy things have not been going so well since the revolution things were better before we've been so slow for the past three years in that time i only had ten clients asking for posters so who is responsible for the anti america posters i'll search which to date in but by is

a pain to follow and hatred against america is growing each year washington gives cairo one point three billion dollars in military aid if america causes a coup it will be forced to stop but many fear the decision to say nothing except that it is reviewing the situation will ultimately backfire and fuel hatred towards the us and us i think they may get is this dealing with things in double standard so i would say i think i might have to give up a woman for a must is. equal to one thousand men standing supporting morsi and for different reasons there is no joy from washington even from the people who want to live in the states how madonna holds both american and egypt and citizenship two months ago he sold up ready to trade cairo for texas he feels washington is too deeply embroiled in internal egyptian politics and pulls the strings from a far i have no problem with american people have problems with american politics

which try to. interfere in the way we want to live and that's not right with washington and its allies refusing to show strong reaction to the recent turbulent events in egypt some feel it's enough to hate affair between the two countries we all. we all have american friends on the person. we are we have the fine this being said you don't expect that somebody will love sort of betrays you will all. disappointing shool old does not understand you all deliberately he. is refutes the truth as the unrest on egypt and streets grow maybe why the brotherhood now having trying to mock lucy and seen it fail will result to alms it spells disaster for everyone from the protesters on the streets to the people who just want a quiet life like muhammad in his printing shop all that president obama topic he

committed himself to saying is that he is deeply concerned by what is happening here in egypt meanwhile the it's no wonder then that posters like this will continue to be popular no matter who puts him policy on kairos. britain is closing in on its burgeoning illegal loan sharks some of which are hitting the poor would i want to bring interest rates of over five thousand percent while here what's being done about it. and starving in sympathy and will meet the human rights lawyer who has started his own hunger strike and solidarity with the guantanamo prisoners who are being subjected to what's being described as painful and degrading force feeding. the.

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syria's chemical weapons could become a catastrophic security hazard to the west should assad regime fall the u.k.'s intelligence service chief says the most worrying emerging terrorist threat is that if the chemicals actually fall into the hands of radical jihad as to have been attracted to the conflict there meanwhile the head of the u.n. chemical weapon fact finding mission has a step to the syrian government's invitation to visit the country president bashar al assad's government insists the u.n. should focus on an incident attributed to the opposition forces that took place back in march near the northern city of aleppo russia has recently presented evidence to the u.n. which it says shows the syrian rebels attacking regime forces with sarin gas the rebels in turn blame the government for the attack the u.s. britain and france saying they've seen no evidence that the opposition has acquired or even used chemical weapons meanwhile u.s. lawmakers are holding back on promised arms supplies to the syrian opposition

fearing that the weapons could end up in the wrong hands but anti-war campaigner richard becker told us that moscow's findings could be enough for washington to reconsider its pledge of lethal support. we certainly should be an eye opener for everyone who has any doubts about what's going on in the this latest report from russia and we've got to the use of chemical weapons by the opposition the intervention policy law it's going forward with the training of the forces of the you know opposition to the syrian opposition. pouring in finding that the cause is really just the right because there is a great deal of opposition inside the united states and there is you know you get inside the congress there is a great concern about where this will lead to and whether or not it will lead to a regional war or something even wider if the united states goes forward with a plan or its plans to achieve its objectives which is over it's really the

governments you're. president obama's policies towards conflicts abroad have earned him harsh criticism from one irish politician who is also the guest in today's worlds apart. now i ask you is this person going for the hypocrite of the century award because we have to call takings boy their right names and the reality is that by any serious examination. it's a war criminal and a war in syria that sparking a very passionate speech is also being waged on the slogans of democracy as it is being aided by the countries who consider themselves to be democratic but how is that democracy better than the authoritarian system that president assad has with regard to many of the fuse that are being put in the conflicts in syria i don't agree with the regime but i do not agree with many of the rebels and i believe the

future of syria should be dictated by the syrian people themselves which interference from external sources all of history shows no such where foreign intervention comes in in the so-called name of democracy it is ordinary people civilians who went to opening homeless who ends up being a new ends up in its very own stable situation and where unfortunately the middle east is being led to at the moment. of course in cash that full interview right here in our next hour. that is seems to be tightening around firms in britain who are offering so-called payday loans at exorbitant rates of interests eleven agents who are charged rates up to

five thousand percent say that they will stop providing that type of loan for a crackdown by the government's fair trading regulator meanwhile more renters are still to reply to an ultimatum to clean up their act artie's polly boyko reports on the human toll of vulture. louise and her husband were bankrupt when she took out her first payday loan she couldn't afford to pay it back sometimes they would call up and so do you want to so you really do you want to. take up take out another day learned that one and have a has more money and they still call of louise's two loans of two hundred fifty pounds each and it up costing over two thousand pounds the financial pressure meant that louise's two sons had to relocate to live with their birth father once things so. it just seemed to continue forever and it's still like that now even though it's been. eight months after we've paid them off when we're still going it

tough last year stretched budgets meant that britons took out two billion pounds worth of short term loans it's a burgeoning industry but it's taken hold it clee leaving government regulation to catch up you know it doesn't matter how careful you are with money sometimes you pay just one stretch far enough but there are remarkably few rules that govern how payday lenders or great customers are been refused credit by banks and here exhausted every other means of securing a loan can simply apply online and most are approved within moments which means they can get their hands on the cash within minutes the only problem is paying it back payday lenders can charge any rate of interest they like often up to five thousand percent the industry's been accused of bullying borrowers into taking out multiple loans lending money to drunk individuals people with mental health issues

and even children the office of fair trading has told the u.k.'s fifty pick just lenders to stop handing out loans irresponsibly up last year between the director of thirty six i think it's due to a combination of reduced income. and financial shocks the government needs to come forward with a rigorous plan in order to better protect trialist from payday loans longer is the u.k.'s largest payday loans company its new head of public affairs used to be an advisor to david cameron leading to accusations that the company is lobbying its interests with the government longer reportedly paid for meetings with conservative ministers they paid a in excess of opposing phones to about fifteen minutes with somebody from the government. that's not right you're using your employees were told you have money and because they want money for their relation with these companies no government money for nothing they are wanting something richer and the train of return we're

wanting is for people to buy trough to be free up to this double they have backed off for you well so far councils up and down the country have blocked access to payday loan websites from computers in libraries and public buildings to stop constituents be tempted by instant cash that will plunge them into debt it was hard because with. no petrol do you think you're going to pay it back in ten days well you want to say you hope to but when it comes to that you have got. to say. that many struggling britons despite being warned are still finding the instant cash all too tempting. r t london. and that the charge of murder has sparked outrage in southern russia online you can find out how locals have been

rallying for four days demanding that all chechens be expelled from their town following a bar brawl that had ended in the deadly stabbing. and four million pounds to watch one a man british security officials say scrutiny over the spiraling costs for the police to constantly patrol the ecuadorian embassy to keep julian assange from escaping that story and lots more for you. i'm also courts given guilty verdicts against the late lawyer sergei magnitsky the head as well as the head of the hermitage capital fund william browder in a high profile tax evasion trial well. outside of the courthouse hi there reno what more do we know. well at this point we know the judge has said that magnitsky is guilty and that william browder is officially considered his accomplice now magnitsky died in two thousand and nine after being in detention for almost a year after being arrested on charges of tax evasion. the case was dropped after

his death but has been renewed we do know that the prosecutor has asked for the. for the case to be dismissed after the. after the verdict in regards to sergei magnitsky and asked for nine years in prison in absentia for william browder of course neither of the neither of the defendants are at the courtroom at the moment so given used to being dead and william browder who is now u.k. citizen for simply not attending the court session the entire case has been rather well publicized and has served as they are reasons for a diplomatic row between russia and the united states. has blacklisted quite a number of russian officials whom they believe to be guilty in the death of sergei magnitsky in two thousand and and nine. they have frozen their assets and have basically prohibited them from entering the united states russia has retelling of the way they similar

a list of american officials who they believe. have been have been violating russia the russian human rights of russians living in the united states have also banned american citizens from adopting russian children the verdict is still being read at this point we're still don't know what that word next for william browder but it does look like a guilty for both parties in this case it will certainly bound to have some sort of international reaction there thanks for that update r.t. is every nickel reporting from outside the courthouse. the five month long hunger strike by guantanamo prisoners is gaining more sympathy it world why it some even being inspired to follow the detainees example letter and human rights lawyer clive stafford smith has now gone on a hunger strike of his own this in order to draw attention to their plight but the point of the series and i was in grant town in the last week and these guys a separate very badly and i think it's incumbent time outs on the outside it shows

some solidarity with them. to just get more attention. to go there is prisons are going through there i mean look i've been on a hunger strike now for twenty four hours they've been doing it for five months of course it's not the same i think the point is to get people's attention i mean when we talk about risking people's lives there are people who are dying in runtime and i just want this to stop i think it's really important that it stops some of the people who are my clients really do. a quick look at a world update now. southwest china is in chaos caused by what's said to be the worst flooding there in fifty years at least forty people are dead and dozens missing after a rain triggered landslides burd several homes in the such one province to the north twelve more were killed on tuesday after an unfinished coal mine workshop collapsed overall as many as two million people have been afflicted by. the man charged with carrying out the boston bombing two months ago has pleaded not

guilty to all thirty charges against him joe carter and i is accused of using a weapon of mass destruction which killed three people including an eight year old boy he also faces charges over the murder of a police officer after the attack took place and it is not yet known whether the death penalty will be pursued here. you're watching her t.v. do stay with us. she did laboratory. was. the most sophisticated which really doesn't sound anything. to teach religion why you should care about you and . this is why you should. only. technology.