german intelligence is accused of using america's notorious surveillance program to its advantage. activities. german chancellor merkel faces stiff questions over just how involved germany was in the prison spying program. an epidemic. in iraq is blamed on the u.s. led coalition's use of depleted uranium in military we report from. the health costs is becoming increasingly visible. britain's prime minister admits there's too much extremism among the syrian rebels clearest indication yet that london is unwilling to go for full scale deliveries. behind the. top

stories this. life. in moscow with the twenty four hour a day a german magazine claims that intelligence services to be making active use of the u.s. national security agency's secret spying program that's raise questions over chancellor merkel's condemnation of washington's surveillance tactics. reports from. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly 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 dish big news magazine that well they were far more involved than she let on that indeed in fact they quote in the dish

legal 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. it's estimated around five hundred million. connections were being monitored every month by the spying program here in germany alone so it was quite an extensive program this news comes out is quite an 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 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 germany it seems far more involved in the n.s.a. spying program than perhaps they were let on before the original classified documents released by american whistleblower on the run edward snowden showed that the united states had been closely monitoring europeans especially germans and one german m.e.p. went as far as comparing the practice to the stars he is. infamous secret police the justice minister said the reports were too alarming to be ignored and merkel's response was bugging is not what friends do she also condemned what she called cold war tactics well earlier my colleague had to form a split would be a tricks of stork an election candidate for the alternative for germany party who

said the chancellor's statements don't stand up to scrutiny i don't have any reason to believe her everything she said so far has been a lie what we have discovered now is that the germans all are also using american technology for spying on the german people so it makes absolutely no sense to say that they would know that there was some spying going on mentioning it we shouldn't call it's buying but monitoring on every single citizen i don't thing that that eighty million people are monitored by anybody and the german government does not know it no i don't believe the chancellor because it has come out and said that its cooperation with the us intelligence did help prevent a major terrorist attack in germany in two thousand and seven so do you not think that will certainly sway people in germany to think well perhaps we do need something like this. when the when the federal minister

for interior. a business minister fredrik was asked specifically this question he couldn't even mention we couldn't even name the terroristic attack who've been prevented and then he later on he said well it was a terror terroristic attack but in a very early stage so i mean what is a terrorist a good tech in a very early stage so they haven't shown any evidence for what they what they're doing and this is why i can't believe them anything and you know monitoring eighteen million people round the clock seven days a week twenty four hours a day and declaring this war on terror i think that's ridiculous and this is what people starts to understand that monitoring everybody without any reason has nothing to do with the with giving city security to everyone this is what we don't believe. the u.s. is expresses concern over edward snowden's bid for temporary asylum in russia moscow's expected to grant that request and says the lack of an extradition treaty

with washington makes handing him over impossible or he's going to con explains. remember when journalist asked president putin about washington's request to extradite edward snowden he said quote russia is not going to extradite anyone no one ever extradite anyone to us russian officials were asked to expand on the extradition situation between russia and the u.s. and the officer for prosecutor general responded by saying that the u.s. does not cooperate with russia on the extradition of criminals take a listen socialist system with. the united states systematically refuses to hand people over to russia for prosecution including those accused of serious offenses so we have plenty of examples of such behavior around twenty cases in the last ten years because we've been denied the extradition of killers of outlaws and people implicated in corruption in washington so it's the lack of an extradition treaty which they themselves are not willing to conclusions now one of the names on that

list of russia's extradition requests that the u.s. has not acted upon is. a well known name in washington he is wanted in russia for terrorism he has a lot of was the right hand of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists. a quick reminder of what's in one thousand nine hundred five. when his gang attacked the city of boobs on office and took up to one thousand and eight hundred residents of that city hostage in a hospital including one hundred fifty children at least one hundred forty people died as a result of that attack and also as he gained power in the region shuttle bus i have stated his objective to have all muslim regions in russia break away from the country it was a call to start a war on all fronts and almost long with them was ill yes a lot of among some of us i was other crimes there was the hostage crisis at the moscow theater nord-ost in two thousand and two one hundred thirty people died there so the right hand of this monster in the us a lot of arrives in the west somewhere around two thousand and three settles down

in boston and receives political asylum despite russia's requests to treat him. as a criminal and send him back to russia at the beginning u.s. federal authorities appealed the decision of a boston court to grant a lot of asylum after all the us had by then recognized sire of this up in the us a lot of his boss as a terrorist but nothing came out of that appeal federal authorities later withdraw their opposition to granting him the us a lot of asylum after a number of political heavyweights in the u.s. turned in to support the chechen militant so according to russian officials there is no history of extraditions between the u.s. and russia instead there is a history of request ignored or requests tonight. the e.u. decides to put the armed wing of hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist shortly building to the possible motives behind the move and investigate what it will mean for both europe and the middle east. more than

a decade on from the u.s. led invasion of iraq the country seeing an abnormally high rate of birth defects health experts link this to the use of depleted uranium in military assaults in fallujah both mutations are fourteen times more common than in hiroshima after the second world war or explored the turnbull health cost of the war in the city of najaf. 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 and with 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 remember that the news i ran out of the doctor's office and into a taxi. but for his mother

layla there's 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 they're americans or goon but with suffering from the consequences. spiralling numbers of birth defects and high miscarriage rates have also been recorded in. more 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 joffe the areas affected by fighting so the biggest increases we believe it's because of weapons like 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 was used against civilian targets in populated areas including not jobs 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 fired three hundred five 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 help. 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 birdied two other children one severely deformed the other with a hole in her spine like many of the couples in this city are 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 suffer in silence. count what 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 talks look like to see who are still paying the price for this example of our team not just iraq. dr chris busby has been one of the most outspoken scientists researching the impact of depleted uranium and he told r.t. what he learned after visiting phoenicia we went to flu and we found the levels of concern about the nation 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 can cause congenital malformation and the only thing that we found was you radium we found your brain even the hair of the mothers of the children with congenital malformation is now that we know that you are

a new ms 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 the only source of uranium was the use by the american forces the american led forces of uranium weapons not only depleted uranium weapons but 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. and in iraq at least five hundred prisoners have broken to high security jails near baghdad city minutes installed the compounds killing dozens of police in a series of bomb and mortar attacks escapees include several senior al qaida members who were facing execution ten of the attackers also died in the raids which follow the surge in sectarian violence across the country that's claimed five

hundred lives since the start of. the british government appears to be rethinking its stance all the syrian rebels we go to details and analysis all nuts plus all the stories just ahead. i'm most interested in the situation. they. did a little. in the yesterday in. other states and in egypt. right to see. the first strike. and i think that your. reporters twitter. and instagram.

could be in the. britain's prime minister has signaled a change of heart on weapons supplies to the syrian rebels david cameron says he is still backing opposition groups fighting against the government but admits that these groups include in his words a lot of bad guys syria has the details from london this is and did come on the

back of a recent warnings from a military officials here saying that doing so could have brought britain in an all out war not to mention the reluctance of some members of his own party as well as it's probably the question of will the u.k. actually arm this is the answer in a number of different ways and is mostly in varying degrees of maybe and most likely so now with see you know that a david cameron has really taken a significant decline down in terms of rhetoric in an interview with the b.b.c.'s andrew marr you specially said that he fully support still the opposition however again said that the groups included quote unquote a lot of bad guys it's interesting to see how. throughout this conflict let's go back to the early days of the conflict back in two thousand and eleven were cameron have pointed out and put to put pressure on the assad regime that he had called on the international community to quote unquote and gauge the opposition and still maintaining a strong tone here after that he continued calling on allies to help the opposition and essentially push the idea of a syria without assad now this year there was

a bit of a toning down he did say we must think carefully before any course of action is taken bearing in mind that this statement was made after the u.k. and along with france had strongly pushed for the non extension of the e.u.'s arms embargo to syria in order to have more options in terms of action and a just this month the foreign secretary william hague had said that there has been no decision to send arms to the syrian opposition but nothing has yet been ruled out he said this a day after cameron had signaled abounding that idea of arming syrian rebels are drawing criticism from atop a syrian rebel commander in fact of betrayal and here we have a shadow foreign secretary douglas alexander commenting on the kind of contradiction in rhetoric coming from of the leaders of the government saying that this confirms the confusion at the still surrounding the government's approach to syria and that we arrive at the very latest statement of david cameron essentially calling the situation in syria a stalemate and again acknowledging the existence of bad guys as well as extremist

factions which he says the u.k. should have nothing to do with so he made it clear that the u.k. will not be intervening by supplying weapons although he also indicated that it could still a set of normal lethal equipment so will this be the last final position of the u.k. considering the number of times that rhetoric has changed perhaps perhaps the best a gauge for that will be how all of this translates on the ground in syria to sort of more of the story let's not go to lloyd to the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul awful who is in liverpool so what do you think has brought on this policy you turn from david cameron. well the problem david cameron has is that he seems to be out of kilter with the rest of his own parliamentary party he would get a majority in the house of commons to arm the rebels and you know he's certainly out of kilter with the british people let's not forget we've got our fingers badly burned in iraq with how the long war in afghanistan there is no appetite amongst the british people to get involved in the middle east and certainly not arm rebels

who we many people in britain consider to have serious links to al-qaeda the exact same people who made the drummer lee rigby so what about your party you keep do you think britain shouldn't get involved in any foreign conflict whether it's. arming them or or just supplies. well of course you have to take every case on an individual basis we certainly wouldn't involve ourselves in the middle east we certainly would involve ourselves in syria i mean who are these so-called rebels i think i was the first british politician actually on the world show on national t.v. in this country to come out against arming the syrian rebels because i simply said we don't know who they are and now the cia are telling those that they're linked to al qaeda and the best fighters linked to al qaeda the iraqi government have informed those that a large number of al qaeda have spread all over the border from northern iraq into syria to fight on behalf of these rebels and look the proof is in the posing

a lot of the areas that these are not flying the black flag of al-qaeda quite frankly we should have nothing to do with this whatsoever but thousands of innocent people are dying isn't this an humanitarian crisis something's got to be done isn't it. well there is a humanitarian crisis book look it seems to was as if crimes are being committed by both sides in the the russian envoy to the u.n. claims that chemical weapons have been used by these so-called rebels there have been over reports that chemical weapons have also been usually get organized nations by these rebels you're you've also got the obscene cases where example with a catholic priest being beheaded only a couple of weeks ago by these people and indeed we have the horrible spectacle of one of the commanders eating the heart out of a syrian soldier i mean quite frankly we should have nothing to do with this whatsoever and i for one do not want to see britain arming these so-called rebels and i certainly don't want to see a drop of british soldiers close spilt in syria do you believe that assad should go

. well look i mean that is the problem that you have is what comes next and i'm not saying the science is a good guy but look at syria prior to all this starting i mean syria was a country which was prosperous it was a country which was secular christians lived alongside muslims who lived along jews it was pretty much a peaceful place now what you've got is the problem whereby syria has slid into civil war and quite frankly i just think that the whole of the middle east at the moment is a tinderbox you've only got to look at what happens in egypt democratically elected president refused in the case of morsi and don't forget that these guys were muslim brotherhood and i don't have anything in common with the muslim brotherhood but he was democratically elected you got the muslim brotherhood and tunisia and libya quite frankly is a mess i think we better be careful what we wish for as a result of this arab spring just briefly you mention the tragedy of drama rigby

the foreign office as up to one hundred british muslims are fighting amongst the syrian rebels so is there really a security risk then that these people could pose when they do come home is is the rigby case indicative of that risk or could that perhaps be just a one off and it's an exaggeration that it could be some sort of domestic backlash in the. well i'm not sure it was a one off actually it was only a one off because they actually succeeded in hitting their targets i mean there have been attempts before which our security services have stopped and i'll be perfectly honest with you i would be very uncomfortable the bush sissons who have been out there fighting on behalf of the jihadists rebels as the b.b.c. in this country like to call them i would have them closely monitored once they enter britain paul awful deputy leader of the u.k. independence party live in the u.k. thank you very much for your time your thoughts thank you. the foreign ministers have agreed to blacklist the armed wing of the lebanese group hezbollah as a terrorist organization now that follows allegations that the group was behind

last year's attack on a bus carrying israelis in bulgaria and concerns over has been a support for government forces in syria but dr franklin lamb who's an international lawyer and political analyst sees the decision as a p.r. move that won't lead to genuine action they're still going to allow dialogue with his ballance political department just not a military way well that's nothing new how many european countries has been talking to the ball a military wing very secret they don't talk to anybody the other thing is that the e.u. . placements are kind of like the government of lebanon but that raises very interesting questions for among others lawyers you've got the hizbollah now that they dominate what the cabinet and also the legislature and the executive branch it would take a bite talian of lawyers to figure out the language and how you draw the line what did the e.u. do did they declare lebanon

a terrorist or are weighing because of the connection has bhalo supports the military we've seen that in the last several months does that mean that the lebanese army now is a terrorist organization and the americans and the others won't give up our use of machine races anymore i mean it raises lots of questions i think what we're going to see is a european do nothing i don't think it's going to have any impact on now on his follow which is a fundamental resistance organization and relies on the support from the people and not the europeans. and over naughty dot com you can find out how vulnerable gadget users have become in terms of private data security backers could be poised to get complete control of up to seven hundred fifty million mobile phones around the world without their own knowledge explain how online. also alarming new revelations on the fukushima nuclear disaster according to a japanese newspaper the number of liquidator suffering from radiation poisoning

has been underestimated by eleven times. we can divine reston suburbs of paris has reignited the public debate on multiculturalism the riots which saw hundred storm a police station was sparked by an identity check on a veiled woman well let's not discuss this with rashid because he's a businessman and political activist i understand you yourself asked for your citizenship to be revoked in the large of these latest developments why is that i think there is a big problem. between. the french population. is that. there is ten years that this problem is very very big. if we do. to integrate this. i think the situation will be difficult.

here but you are algerian. algerian descent you appear to have integrated success of yourself you're a businessman a politician why do you think you've been discriminated against and what are these problems that you're talking about. for me it's not difficult because i have by old business but for the five million people who are friends who try to find a job it's very very difficult when we are both live in the french society for example i have a business but what they try to do politics it's completely different why because the french establishment has big problem with french citizen who are mostly because they are afraid of both islam and their friends about.

religion because they know what is islam they do know what is the there will be called religion and a very very very they don't want to integrate a vis five billion of citizens if we if there is not be da shit between the french government of the french. and the pollution i think the situation will be very very bad that you have legs here but it was very real politic to at this time. it is a look but bob barr are many of those problems exacerbated by the fact that many of those immigrants don't actually speak the french language and understand the culture is that a fair accusation. it's not a problem of language of the arab league it's a problem between the french and my city the french at least and there will be

a legion because the only and we live in french who is. who we can't which we can see is only if we leave then the french easterly varies a big problem between the french state and the religion i think it is the real problem with say is it all about religion because thousands of migrants come to france because of its social security programs and they end up taking advantage of it isn't the government entitle to react to that. do you know of the french government has a lot more there for the french the birth has low body for the five million of. the who are living the friends the bird because they love their little clothes.