i know. i am. because are poised to gain full access to personal data on hundreds of millions of mobile phones worldwide party talks to the cyber expert who detected the threat. alert for paul claims one in five victims of u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are civilians as washington looks to expand drone warfare . and a british think tank warns of a massive wealth gap developing in the country due to welfare reforms described as speeded up factories and. i welcome it's good to have your company you're watching r.t.

coming to you live from moscow with me andrey farmer now hackers have the ability to hijack one in every mobile phones worldwide with a single hidden text message that alert has come from a leading german cyber security expert he claims the trick gives criminals instant control over mobile devices and can even provide them with access to personal banking data. explains hag. turns out that as many as seven hundred fifty million cell phones around the world could be carrying flawed sim cards that could potentially leave their owners vulnerable to financial fraud and surveillance now sim cards hold key user data and have up until now been generally known to be one of the most secure parts of a mobile phone however the recently discovered bugs could allow hackers to access personal information and carry out illegal transactions and this was researched and announced by thirty one year old ethical hacker and renowned german codebreaker

karsten know after repeated attempts to hack into sim cards over the last three years you know says a shocking number of them can be hacked within minutes no has discovered a way to essentially get complete control of an individual's phone by finding out the unique encryption key of each sim card with just one hidden text message allowing whoever breaks into the system to do whatever the user of the phone is able to do and what this means is if there is credit card information or pay-pal data on that given cell phone being broken into that information becomes acceptable and could easily be used often without the cellphone user realizing that this is being done before it's potentially too late artie's video agency abruptly spoke exclusively with course you know who described in more detail the threats that this could all lead to. short term threat on criminals finally. take method is fraught they will abuse the cards to send a message for instance they could also steal from them in countries where they're

disused looking at the midterm surveillance questions because to do encrypt hold the voice communications originating from the phone as well as data communication so all of this could be intercepted and decoded by a well equipped surveillance team now are no less known for his activity in exploiting vulnerabilities of secure systems and then providing companies with his findings so they. we can fix these issues before criminal hackers lay their hands on these technical flaws and he estimates that roughly a quarter of the total three billion sim cards using the data encryption standard throughout the world could be impacted by this research that is now conducted and supported you know that there has been no pattern identifying exactly which sim cards manufacturers are more for all the more vulnerable than others but the security expert says it will take hackers about six months to figure out how to do what he has done and releasing this information now gives manufacturers enough time

to catch up and fixing this problem at the u.n. international telecommunications union has dubbed these latest revelations quote highly significant and is now in the process of notifying agencies in almost two hundred countries. now u.s. drone strikes have caused an alarming civilian death toll in pakistan that's according to leaked documents from officials in islamabad the so-called precision strikes resulted in a total of seven hundred forty six deaths between two thousand and six and two thousand and nine and one fifth of those victims were civilians children made up a shocking twelve percent of the casualties however washington is showing no signs of scaling back its drone warfare program as artie's again reports. u.s. intelligence services want to have the world covered on top of spying on the world communications washington is expanding its drone surveillance operations as you know under the umbrella of fighting terror the u.s.

now operates a host of bases in the middle east and africa a lot of these operations seem to have little or nothing to do with u.s. national security like the work that u.s. spy drones do for the turkish military so u.s. camera equipped predator drones hover above the rugged border with iraq and stream high resolution imagery to the turkish armed forces helping them pursue fighters from the kurdistan workers party or p.k. kate here you see a kurd to got hold of some pieces of a u.s. drone that either crashed by itself or was shot down not clear so there's this synergy between the u.s. and turkey where the turks host the u.s. drone base and the u.s. does surveillance for them the u.s. is making other tradeoffs in the region and thanks to such favor exchanges it gets to increase its presence there often times against the will of the people in some of those countries for example the pew research center has just released a survey showing that eighty two percent of turks disapprove of the obama administration's international campaign of drone attacks but regardless of the

backlash the march of drones continues an expense for beyond known combat zones the commander of u.s. forces in africa told congress in february that he needed a fifteen fold increase in surveillance reconnaissance and intelligence gathering on the continent fifteen fold that's in africa the pentagon says the u.s. is also committed to increasing its surveillance in asia and the pacific. which effectively means beware china at the other end of the world in south and central america u.s. military commanders say they need drones for counter-narcotics operations so in every region on every continent there is something to keep an eye on but everybody understands that it's not just an eye wherever there are the spy drones there will be the predators waiting right behind to go on a kill mission and washington's request and that's where america's world policing or just often clash with international law in washington i'm going to show them in

other news at least five hundred escaped prisoners including senior al qaeda members are on the run in iraq but after gunmen attacked two high security jails near baghdad including abu ghraib killing twenty security personnel in the process so if loaned is co-director of the international action center says there's been no improvement in the security situation since the u.s. led invasion. grave itself as a prison was notorious for us torture techniques humiliation sexual humiliation tactics that were used it was turned back over to the iraqi government we have no idea if any conditions improved so there was a prison break that we do know but we also really know that it's a us war and occupation that consciously created the sectarian violence of

course al qaida or the government they don't serve the interests of the iraqi people but the policy of inflaming sectarian differences and consciously for mentoring and providing arms and funding and whatnot to groups who inflame sectarian violence that policy came from the u.s. of course a state of security for any of the people of iraq has been terrible has been terrible through the years of u.s. sanctions absolutely devastating during the u.s. invasion the years of occupation and it hasn't substantially improved since. also ahead for you this hour monsanto is beating a retreat from europe america's biotech giant dropped his bid to grow new genetically modified crops in the e.u. after widespread protests and resistance from the anti g.m. lobby group got warned that story shortly. u.k. think tank has warned that nationwide wealth inequality is set to skyrocket over

the next few years unless the government rethink its policy of slashing welfare the fabian society predicts that david cameron's economic strategy will cause the wealth gap to widen even more than it did during the nine hundred eighty s. and in half the time that margaret thatcher was in power they have branded the situation a speeded up action replay of that tourism r.t. sarah firth has been breaking down the numbers. well let's take a look at some of the details of that report published for the fabian review places the blame firmly on the coalition government's policies around cuts to benefit and tax credit saying that that is raising the inequality between the rich and poor now the projections that they make of the poorest families could be set at least twelve percent of their income on average that's compared to just three percent of the net

income on average for those in the second wealthiest tax bracket now some of the ways that that happens if you take a look at council tax in the u.k. for example that charge is a much higher percentage to families on those low to middle incomes whereas those in the higher incomes a much smaller percentage of their disposable income to council tax so you can already see some of the disparities there between how families are managing their income now this report coming at a time where we're expected some positive needs about the economy with g.d.p. figures set to be released and it's not that that's going to show some modest growth but i think what this report is trying to do is to bring the conversation back now to income equality and of course that comparison to that choice and you think would come as quite a shock to many in the liberal democrats in the coalition government he would have spent time he thought back in the one nine hundred eighty s. fighting against exactly the types of impact to the policies that are now acting as

part of the coalition government and really we spoke to the your thoughts of that report economist i would read you said the country's economic recovery is being pursued the expense of the least well off in society. obviously the u.k. has a pretty hard deficit in the public finances and we've been told that the austerity measures that the coalition government has introduced necessary to get the public finances back on track although they haven't really managed with so much of that so far but the point is that there was a that tax rises and benefit cuts and introduced the poorest families holiday than people long sort of middle hiring but next round of cuts stuns with a mining the sort of social security benefits and tax credits which people on low

incomes receive including one of our incomes in world you know so people who we should be trying to encourage and saying holidays it's going to mainly be families with children especially and so the young younger unemployed. while britons unemployed face the loss of those benefits they're also coming up against growing competition on the job market from foreign workers and according to a new study eastern europe a migrant actually stand a better chance of being given jobs in the u.k. than locals is artie's tessa arcelor reports. with long term unemployment in the u.k. hitting a seventeen year high long lines of job centers have become a typical and while many britons are struggling to find a job a recent report by to finish academics says that immigrants from eastern europe are seven percent more likely to be employed and this trend generally holds true in the

agriculture business on this berry farm here in kent the workers spend about eight to nine hours a day picking berries in the sun in the heat it is physical work now under the seasonal agricultural workers scheme of the u.k. it's estimated that there are thousands of foreigners working on the u.k. farms. robert pascoe who runs this farm says there are between three hundred and three hundred fifty immigrant workers during the harvest season mostly coming from eastern europe. probably in the majority we need a supply of people who come in for the summer season and that's not so popular amongst english people because they they want continuity it's not considered to be . a profession in the same time you've got a lot of keen enthusiastic and bright pins that come for six months and we see how bright they are they enjoy doing what they're doing and wish to stay longer and of

course they're becoming more. like a volley or romanian who's been working on this farm for nine years do you mind doing all this physical hard work and i think i'm doing that if i was moving during that i was. feeling in the back in my country the report comes on the one hand amid the government's goal of decreasing the net immigration to the tens of thousands and concerns that cheap migrant labor is decreasing local wages and on the other hand widely unpopular cuts to the u.k.'s welfare system which the work and pensions secretary says is in order to restructure the culture to. people from living off the dole and find work instead that most british people are strongly hardworking and you know industrious we've also got an element it's true i think we've got an element of people who don't want to work. but then you've got another problem which is the benefits trap and that's what we should be concentrating on how do we get people back into work how do we motivate young motivated and you

don't do that by bringing wives and wives of cheap labor who just get on because by the end of the year the e.u. is temporary work and travel restrictions of bulgarians a rumanians will be lifted giving them the same rights to work in the u.k. as other e.u. citizens farm owners speer this would lead to bulgarians and romanians leaving farm jobs for hotels and offices and are calling for more temporary workers from e.u. countries while others fear this will bring in an influx of immigrants accessing not only jobs but welfare benefits as well. r.t.e. can't. while europe's unemployment problem continues to deepen fiscal. hawley's head to our website. for an in-depth look at europe's economic challenges and still to come in the program this kind of egypt escape its vicious cycle of bloodshed we report on a nation that's been used by politics with supporters of rival groups fighting off

streets. across the country. calling. it

comes. to. choose the stories that impact the. speech. i. again now in egypt relentless battles between supporters and opponents of the president mohamed morsi are raising the specter of civil war going to tax have been reported in and around cairo the situation remains chaotic though making casualty figures hard to verify protesters have blocked several major roads and dozens of the calls have been smashed and torched on monday the army intervened to prevent thousands of islamised demonstrators from storming cairo's to risk where which has been occupied by anti morsy crowds for weeks

journalist mohammed sabri thinks the military's gearing up for tougher measures to curb the unrest i the muslim brotherhood are actually have proven over the past week specifically over this week or willing employing to get to continue to paralyze the capital cairo the paralysis of the city is in fact could in fact him there any any attempt to destabilize the situation by calling for elections or by trying to hold and assembly for the constitutional amendments which probably will lead to further violence it will also lead to harsh or crackdowns by the military the police force on for all wars year pro was a protest because you have evidence that. this movement is actually oil and is willing to use dollars orms against whoever opposes them. so with egypt

locked in seemingly never ending protests politically the country has gone full circle and is back where it started and that has left many feeling they've paid far too high a price in their struggle for changes artie's reports. it was egypt is in sadness he broke not feeling safe anymore from the day the revolution started we have not seen a happy day everything is going from bad to worse. fifty one people died in clashes on one day one of them are also noisy son. this was the moment of his death captured on film by the twenty six year old photographer he aims his camera towards a military sniper the sniper fires and then suddenly turns the rifle and points towards the camera lens the film ends and so too does a homage life. just so used to think about these children that die

and wonder what happens to their mother now i'm one of those mothers we used to say our country is the country of peace and security but all of that has changed. son of salad was one of those who fought for that change he quit his job in saudi arabia to return to egypt to be part of the revolution that overthrew president mubarak these are the ideals they fought and died for but more and more it seems they failed simple demands i think egyptians want to see quick wins they want to see people who are really keen on change but if that doesn't come i think i think you know with like well like you know going to the street in i think it's becoming like a ritual you know what we need to get away from it to start building. for how long can you just go to the street is a popular joke doing the rounds in the country right now egyptians don't topple a president every day only once every two years but underlying the humor

a glam reality a new pew research center poll has found that only thirty percent of egyptians think the country is headed in the right direction roughly three in four say the economy is in bad shape and fifty six percent are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working they want we deserve a better life we didn't revolve around the twenty fifth of the job to get such. terrible brotherhood talk and or think they can only benefit from egypt without getting scraps of the people for two years egyptians have been on the street more than two thousand people have been killed for the families left behind is a growing since the deaths were in vain. the revolution did not produce a positive outcome for the people it's like the revolution has a new and started no one in egypt is happy if you walk in the street everyone is depressed everyone is talking about the problems that egypt is going through. and

so two revolutions later egypt it seems has come full circle the army is back on the street for the second time in as many years ironically it's the only institution that continues to get positive ratings seventy three percent of egyptians believe it has a good influence on the country but with the threat of street battles just around the corner if it doesn't play its cancer right even that is city change policy r.t. cairo. we have plenty more stories for you on our web site including artie's investigation into the health costs faced by iraqis are to the u.s. led coalition's use of depleted uranium in military operations our correspondent went to a former war zone and met the communities torn apart by an epidemic of birth defects and cancer you can check that story out at r.t. dot com also there rivers of booze a quake in new zealand clears supermarket shelves of alcohol faster than

a drinking competition at an eighteenth birthday party you can look at the video footage on our in motion page and at our you tube channel. monsanto is feeling the pressure in europe so much so that the american biotech giant has decided to scrap plans to grow new g.m. crops inside the e.u. the company's been the target of massive protests across the region and beyond and environmental groups are happy to see them back artie's peter oliver has this report. here in europe we're hearing a resoundingly no when it comes to genetically modified crops so much so that the american g.m. giant monsanto is decided that they are not going to do any more business inside the european union that currently monsanto provides g.m. seeds two farms in spain in portugal to grow corn another thing is that corn isn't the corn that european consumers want they want things like this organically grown

or conventionally farmed that's what they want to see on their plates at home now monsanto had been in the process of applying for ten more licenses inside the e.u. this was to grow things like more corn as well as sugar beets and soya beans now they've decided that since there really isn't a market for these products in countries like here in germany as well as france some of the the most vocal and g.m. countries around the world as well as the amount of red tape and hoops that they would be made to jump through five fish oils that's prompted them to say forget about those ten licenses we're going to concentrate on our conventional seed business here in europe and forget about the g.m. stuff now they're not the first g.m. company to decide that europe isn't the place for them the german genetically modified food group b a s f decided last year to pack up their european operations and move all of their business to the united states so it seems that when it comes

to genetically modified food here in europe well it's a no from the consumers and it's a no from the politicians and the officials the consumers don't want to buy it and the politicians will make it hard for you to grow it and early and my colleague bill dodd talked to journalists william angle author of seeds of destruction hidden agenda of genetic manipulation and he thinks it's too early to call on sunday's decision a real victory for your. they're withdrawing requests for new approvals in the e.u. commission here and in europe it's but at the same time they're going to increase their pressure to import g.m.o. products from the u.s. and other countries into europe and one thousand nine hundred ninety they announced after they had a. closed door meeting with the president of the rockefeller foundation monsanto announced that it was not going to commercialize terminator technology that would have seeds of commit suicide after one harvest seven years later in fact they

acquired the company that had the patent together with the u.s. government on terminator or geo r.t.s. technology but by then the opposition had been disarmed they thought they'd won a victory all the anti g.m.o. n.g.o.s were either sleeping at the switch or looking elsewhere and there wasn't a peep of protest so i suspect they're trying to do something similar here you've written extensively about g.m. crops it just briefly what are the human environmental risks for those who want to wear the thing is a marketing fraud it's designed to lock farmers into long term contracts for those seeds once they get that their land is since you can't plant normal seeds for at least seven years after you plant a g.m.o. and strain the heavily with ground up the soils become toxic so you have to you're more or less. in slaved in this new new kind of serfdom as i call it in my book. is coming up to half past five here in moscow anything's time to talk money matters

prime interest is next. i talk to people many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they had to go. the truth bubbles are 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 really 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 bowl 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 fought the bad side of political correctness you know i don't talk about these stories just for fun the main thing 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. could you take three. three. three. three. three. three vote.

for your media drug free media. dot com. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring and i'm bob english and here's the story that we're tracking today. markets are being manipulated you already knew that when it makes the top. bold of the old gray lady and must really be egregious an investigation by the new york times reveals that goldman sachs has been manipulating the aluminum market per year coca-cola and other end users users have complained that waiting times for shipments have gone from weeks to months in the meantime our goldman friends charged needless storage fees and the same shenanigans exist in the copper in crude oil thinks of jamie dimon to be forget and will be.