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a very good morning from a great. welcome to the. germany has been working. with. program was revealed to the world by edward snowden according to. both germany's foreign domestic intelligence. programs. that washington explained. just a short while ago on the. german chancellor angela merkel had originally said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a.

internal documents that have been reported by big news magazine that well they were far more involved than she let on that indeed in fact they quote in the dish people article the internal memos that say that there was a willingness to take risks and pursue new opportunities for cooperation with the u.s. that was shown by the german authorities they also were talking about the head of the b n d germany's foreign security service that he showed an eagerness under desire to cooperate turns out that germany actually operated one of the main parts of the the expansive spying program that's called x. keyscore program that basically anybody who they were looking into they could find out exactly what was being searched online by that particular person and it's estimated around five hundred million data connections were being monitored every month by by the spying program here in germany alone so it was quite an extensive

program and it comes this news comes out is quite embarrassing time for german chancellor angela merkel there's an election coming up in september the involvement of germany in the n.s.a. spying program is being used extensively by the opposition and what this essentially means is that what mrs merkel was saying before she either. didn't know what her own security services were doing or that perhaps she has misled the german people in what she said by saying that well germany wasn't involved so it's come out of quite an embarrassing time for her with the election coming up it set certainly to be a major issue in the buildup to that vote that takes place on the twenty second of september but germany it seems far more. or involved in the n.s.a. spying program that perhaps they were left on for r.t. course want to. know angola merkel says america needs time for examination before it offers its explanation for spying in and on europe that's being seen as an

attempt to calm the initial outrage triggered by reports e.u. citizens were being monitored let's recall some of the quotes here on see for example bugging is not what friends do the other calling to merkel slamming u.s. actions as cold war tactics one german m.e.p. even compared this to the infamous secret police in east germany and that of the justice minister said the reports of two alarming to be ignored and former m i five agent she says the inconsistency between germany's official and the surveillance stance and its own operations would trigger much more anger and an awful lot more questions. we have a situation in germany where because of their historic experiences with the stop in world war two in the stars in east germany they put in place a very strong cast on constitution to protect people from invasion of their pretty pink spied on and this is what the germans have for decades taken for granted they

have certain legal protections i'm going to see this time and again when other european like lots of try to impose on germany where you know things like her facial recognition date are all google face to face that have been found in germany and yet the b.m.d. and even to intelligence agencies in germany have been doing this sort of spying so i think the hypocrisy it's quite astounding i'm ok it's a great deal of anger and questions rightly to how much the german government you know about what was going on and still to come here at r.t. how illegal foreign tapping of led to the resignation of luxembourg's prime minister you can learn more about the revelations of spying all across europe right now on the website artsy dot com. the n.s.a. surveillance using private fiber optic cables which serve about ninety nine percent of the world's internet and phone traffic but the details analysis reaction as well for this hour right now on the web site. right to see.

her struggle to shoot and i think the short. on our reporters were there and i instructed i. am. on my. thanks for joining us here on out c more than a decade after u.s. led forces invaded iraq there was a legacy of birth defects scientists blame the weapons used by the u.s. military for example in fallujah the number of fact it is fourteen times higher than that of the horror of atomic bombs dropped in the second world war. and found out that many other cities are suffering just as badly. not just one hundred

sixty kilometers south of baghdad the sacred shiite city is known for its holy shrines and is surrounded by one of the largest cemeteries in the world some of the heaviest fighting of the iraq war took place amid these graves its legacy still haunts the residents it was born with severe birth defects he's only eight months old but the doctors don't expect him to live past his first birthday. i felt dizzy or know what the news i ran out of the doctor's office and into a taxi. but for his mother there is no escaping the reality. her son has a nervous system disorder and his muscles are slowly wasting away. it's a recurring nightmare for leila and her husband three of their children were also born with congenital deformity as none of them survived and while they don't have proof they believe the radioactive ammunition used by american forces during the

war is to blame the rule isn't over yet if the americans are goon if suffering from the consequences spiralling numbers of birth defects and high miscarriage rates have also been recorded in. american and british forces used heavy munitions at the start of the war but our visit to knowledge off revealed that the phenomenon may be far more widespread in iraq than previously known dr sundin's and as one of the few scientists who's been documenting cancer and birth defects here and she says in the midst of a growing health catastrophe. after the iraq war rates of cancer leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically none of the areas affected by fighting so the biggest increases we believe it's because of weapons lead depleted uranium and hospitals here cancer is more common than the flu. depleted uranium or d u cuts through armor like a hot knife through butter more than four hundred tons of it is estimated to have

been used in the two iraq wars the vast majority by u.s. forces the pentagon did not respond to our request for comment but the military generally denies any link between exposure and cancer or birth defects it also says do you weapons are only used to penetrate enemy tanks but a new report funded by the norwegian government found that deal was used against civilian targets in populated areas including not just in two thousand and three it notes a lack of transparency by coalition forces over the use of depleted uranium but describes one incident in najaf where a bradley armored fighting vehicle for three hundred five d.-u. rounds in a single engagement. the heavy fighting may be over but in nearly every street we visited in this neighborhood multiple cases of cancer and children with deformities no one knows what's making people here sick the families want answers and they want to help us of is old enough for school but have to be cared for as if he's

a toddler he can't walk he can't speak he can't even go to the bathroom on his own use of brother is healthy but the family has buried two other children one severely deformed the other with a hole in her spine like many of the couples in this city they're simply too afraid to have another baby and they're left feeling totally abandoned no one cares about what's happening to the other families in this area even our own government doesn't do anything to help what can we do because our fate is a fate that many and not just suffer in silence. how it was the rockies lost their lives in the decade since the u.s. led invasion all across the country their memories are honored in cemeteries like this one the dead may be the most visible reminder of the human cost of the war but if the living victims of that war's talks look like to see who are still paying the price this accounting of our team not just iraq. and the doctors also fear that depleted uranium weapons have caused the spread of diseases not previously seen in

iraq and iraqi government stats show that cancer rates to have been steadily rising ever since the first gulf war back in one nine hundred ninety one but aussies at least told my colleague that it's still difficult to gauge the full extent of these problems. we've heard about the depleted uranium the birth defect story coming out of fallujah for example because there's been several t.v. pieces and print reports talking about and showing in fact we hear in r.t.f. showed the birth defects in the city of fallujah when we were completely stunned by is the fact that this is happening in many more cities that have been previously reported including knowledge of where we visited when we showed our filming her and i on the ground in the city literally every single residential street that we've visited in several neighborhoods we found multiple cases of families who had children who were ill families who had lost children had to burry children families who had many relatives who were suffering from cancer and while these people can't

necessarily prove that it was depleted uranium or are the causes of these diseases this is something that they say has risen dramatically in the years since the invasion how widespread is it i mean how far across the country the problem is that nobody knows exactly and that's because there haven't been large scale studies done we haven't seen a big teams of international doctors for example going in and sort of looking at different cities comparing the number of birth defect cases between the different cities there really simply are no reliable statistics for birth defects in iraq and so nobody can really say exactly how big this problem is and the big problem with with the iraqi government as well one of the surprising things that we found in speaking to the doctors on the ground is they say that they reportedly have been discarded or discouraged by the government from talking out openly about this to the press in fact the biologist that we had spoken to who was researching the issue

in the city had to give us the interview in the privacy of her home on the roof there instead of in her laboratory she said that there is an active sort of push by the government perhaps not to embarrass the coalition forces not to really talk about this issue which we were really quite surprised by we tried to visit the hospital in knowledge of that was dealing with. some of the victims some of the deformed birth defect children they didn't let us come in they didn't let us film in fact they didn't even let us do interviews with the governor with the families or the doctors working there at all the iraqi officials certainly have not put in the resources that they could be we spoke to families not jeffress that they've gone to local officials you know they've asked for help they've essentially told to sit by you know it's a really sad story and i dr chris busby his research to the effects of depleted uranium extensively he told us here about what he learned after visiting fallujah to see how civilians that have been affected. we went if we found the levels of

formation and cancer and we looked at the parents of the children with congenital malformation and we did analysis of their head to see what was inside their head that might be geno toxic might be the sort of thing that could cause congenital malformation and the only thing that we found was you rainey and we found your brain even the hair of the mothers of the children with congenital malformation is now that we know that you're a new ms do you know toxic that it causes these these levels of genetic damage and because of that it also causes cancer so you can work slowly back from that towards your brain you know the only source of uranium was the use by the american forces the american led forces of uranium weapons not only depleted uranium weapons as we later found slightly enriched uranium weapons which we believe they were using in order to cover their tracks so i think we have more or less proved these facts. were as a result of the use during the two wars of uranium and the particles that the uranium weapons produced. on the program here we're. tracking on syria

look at how britain's leader has changed his rhetoric on the conflict now admitting that there's too much extremism among the opposition. also ahead for you here on our t.v. from a golden sands resort to the depths of poverty we travel to j. wake his residents say they've been forgotten and leftover wrought by the british government all in a time of austerity that and the other world's top headlines and just. have seen the perception of the cost many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail storms people keep on going i don't expect anything just what i told myself i keep i'm going as long as my heart told me to that's all i want to get them. me here i. am carrying this saying.

do you want me to put a bandage here you know that's fine but a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them fainted with the evacuee three two wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring. three couldn't take three storage. arrangements three. three. three. three broken mediocre four year media project free video done to r.t. dot com. live from moscow thanks for joining me this morning now

a quarter past nine here from egypt stability remains elusive and it remains locked in a state of political violence six people killed in several militant attacks in the sinai peninsula egypt's border with israel and gaza dozens injured in clashes in the town of suez that's just north of the capital cairo street battles between islamists supporters and opponents of the ousted president morsi both sides using molotov cocktails ropes. meanwhile despite political divisions egypt has started to amend its constitution which is needed before elections next year but it's rejected the cabinet and its supporters vowing to continue mass protests sophie shevardnadze spoke to the son of the deposed president morsi to find out exactly what went wrong what his father was in power now what challenges egypt has for peace. harmony. his rule was democratic he was going to democracy you have both the ruling regime

and an opposition but the case of forces taking on a certain political stance is something unprecedented to see how this is sort of that a sure sign of the military takeover with all due respect there is no doubt morsi has a lot of supporters but in a very short period of time an overwhelming majority turns against him it's not about the military it's the people in a democracy such political differences and confrontations are normally settled through elections rather than tanks is there any true democracy we are no army commander discounts the will of the people and illegally deposes the president was that the coup is actually a crime committed by the egyptian military. and you can see the full interview with the son of the deposed egyptian leader that'll be at nine thirty g.m.t. right here on artsy in. the meantime here on the program are britain's prime

minister now changing his tune on syria david cameron said he still fully supports the opposition but admitted that there is too much extremism among the rebels that's quite a change from november two thousand and eleven about half a year after the syrian conflict erupted about then he called for more engagement with the rebels the following year he called for more international aid to put the syrian government under pressure fast forward a year he was still vehemently anti assad but not so sure that arms shipments were perhaps the way forward now syria's top rebel commander has already accused the british prime minister of betrayal after he abandoned plans to arm his fighters and the government it was strongly considering it and lobbied the e.u. to end an arms embargo this brings us to the president of the syrian government advancing on rebel militias the official opposition failing to unite and cameron describing the situation as a stalemate

a political analyst. explain what could be behind the u.k. leaders a sudden shifting position. i told him he will have difficulty getting . approval because there is quite a lot of i need a break after here out of this coalition partners the liberal democrats are a remark target supported we honed their economy opinion is not supporting rock is being realized in the west that no matter how much there are sure instance from western governments that. only the good guys will get help in terms of our supplies best not the case on the ground and saudi arabia is very worried about the rise of slamming fundamentalism in syria because jordan and some of their white cloaks the minute the united states and britain indirectly by

a turkey are helping the syrian rebels that has not stopped. to try to we go to open up the. go reports of at least fifty people now confirmed dead after a five point nine magnitude earthquake in western china nearly three hundred injured at this point though local media fearing that the number will rise with the search for survivors well under way and the quake was considered shallow striking twenty kilometers below the surface and residents described shaking windows and swinging lights but little major damage or panic several villagers their work cut off following this incident at a cancer province though it's actually one of the least populated in the whole country. at least one hundred people have been injured in during the regime's crackdown on protests over the past three days violence took place in several villages across the country amid growing unrest in the kingdom and i just

a few days ago the opposition leader to continue protests in the face of the government's iron fist policies he said that recent reports about an attack on a shia mosque have been fabricated to tarnish the protestors image of the oil rich state has been struggling to quell unrest since two thousand and eleven and the protest movement has not been put off by the imprisonment of hundreds of its members and the deaths of more than eighty. e.u. foreign ministers are due to meet to decide whether to blacklist as a terrorist group a briton accused of being behind last year's attack on a bus carrying israelis in bulgaria up to now brussels has resisted pressure from washington and israel to put the shia muslim groups military wing on the terrorism list many are concerned about the tension in lebanon hezbollah is an official part of the government but today's meeting of e.u. states is being held partly because hezbollah has now become involved in the syrian conflict with militants fighting on the side of president assad.

a much loved holiday resort just a short drive from london is now one of europe's most deprived areas it's home to junkies dealers and generations of families with no hope of employment. visited the forgotten seaside. golden sands beach front property and just a stone's throw from london wish you were here we have been really completely forgotten a lot of people are enough to enjoy you because that's the last place to go there's no work for everybody and i think this is going to continue for the next at least twenty years what could fix the problems of the day with money has been ranked at the bottom of the government's poverty index for england and wales for three years running it's a national embarrassment and. doing something about it we're trying to get in the technologies. of the country where you think in the end i don't think it's the third party polls in the whole of you. was once

a proud holiday location for london's burgeoning middle class says the town was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents were so cheap people started living here all year round it's in a flood risk zone which resulted in the government never investing any money into the area some parts of the town lacked tarmac roads street lighting or even pavements some of the locals say the cheap rent and precarious location has attracted vulnerable families and social problems we got drunk which we really don't want. a junkie up soprano's something because not throat and then it all gets low no portion forty percent of residents are either disabled or have a health condition that makes it impossible to work which might be just as well seeing as there are no jobs going in the town the last few shops that were hit have

been boarded up unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live heads append on welfare payments there isn't the word you say so if they've been used to just get enough of a moaning and sitting around so they're doing according to one local counsellor it's where. minsters idleness that's brought on j. wicks to mine is whatever problems we've got down here i think it's politically all of them to blame for whatever party they are it's something that they let happen it's a dumping ground at the end of the day we've been the most deprived area now for three years not one penny of we've got to come in and help it with the government counting pennies in austerity britain many here say that financial the chances of the town's redevelopment of washing away with the time. r t j wick sounds essex. good morning to you from moscow and nearly nine thirty on monday morning

just a moment here we'll be looking at what the russian orthodox believers are willing to endure in order to get closer to christian relics thanks for watching. i've talked to many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they had a gun that shoots bubbles or various people getting punished for their tweets and facebook posts it's all really abstract it's hard to truly get angry over until you see the results or playing a stupid video game just carter sarcastically said to someone who called him crazy oh yeah i'm real messed up in the head i'm going to go shoot a bunch of kids at school l.o.l. j.k. and for this bit of sarcasm he spent quite some time awaiting trial in a texas prison not only that according to his father he was being attacked brutally on many occasions leading to both to pull concussions and black eyes and in the end

he had to be thrown into solitary confinement for his own good you see this is the ugly reality of those who follow the bad side of political correctness you know i don't talk about these stories just for fun the main thing that i'd like to say is that it wasn't for some anonymous coward in canada turning him into the authorities for doing absolutely nothing this young man would not have to live with the memory and possible injuries from numerous assaults to the anonymous canadian who turned him in i sarcastically wish you a horrible fate but you probably get me arrested for it so just say that it's people like you who allow tyranny to exist but that's just my opinion. i just stood up and went. i didn't expect anything i just want i told myself that i would keep going as long as my heart told me to follow the people and that was always wanted at that moment which.

is but though i felt something i want to tell my future children about us i still don't know what it was maybe i'll understand it later i just was sitting and crying yesterday i can't explain. that i felt a lot here i was even a little scared by it all i remember one morning in the village of borgen it was three am and it seemed like people were coming up from the grass lots of them gathering with icons in their hands and moving forward a real sense of the russian spirit all moving together it was an amazing feeling it was. here there is no noise it's silent here everyone goes in silence singing and praying and i said it was.

i've heard about the curse sessions before but i never had any idea about how good it could be you feel free here i don't want to leave. the little risky procession of the cross the oldest longest and by far the biggest in russia. this is a grand and compelling sight celss march from kill off to the village a river and back almost a week they walk through woods and fields from dawn until dusk some best feet they carry backpacks and pray. i have sinned so much you say i'm carrying this scenes on my shoulders i see a lot i have a lot of say more than i know please forgive me they're only able to sleep for about three.