it. was. genuine indignation over america's worldwide surveillance or election point scoring germany pushes for time to data protection rules following accusations of government complicity with the n.s.a. . as washington seek sanctions against any nation offering edward snowden asylum r.t. talks exclusively to the leader of nicaragua one of the country ready to take in the fugitive whistleblower. the syrian opposition presses the us to hurry up in sending arms to the rebels ahead of talks between the u.n. security council and the anti assad leadership. here gas clashes with police thousands of protesters converging on capital and rage by the assassination of

a prominent opposition party leader. hello good morning it's nice to have your company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me and very far. now whigs are edward snowden's revelations of the united states mass snooping operation against infuriated e.u. citizens germany is taking steps to address threats to previous see it wants to update u.n. data protection regulations with some top officials also calling for a suspension of the data exchange treaty between washington and the skeptics though suspect it's little more than general election campaigning as peter all of the reports from berlin. so two of germany's most senior cabinet members

have written to the e.u. counterparts to try and get them to push the united nations to change their current privacy legislation all seems well and good especially when he comes said that the current privacy legislation was written way back in one nine hundred sixty six long before things like mobile phones facebook the internet all of those things that the n.s.a. being apparently looking into now this could be a genuine effort by the by the german ministers to try and help the privacy of the people of the european union or it could be something of a smokescreen and a bit of damage limitation you have to consider that germany was one of the major health has for the national security agency when they were spying on people around the world in fact the b. and d. the german secret service operated one of the major parts of prism this was called the x. keyscore program that basically looked into what people were searching for online

and five hundred million data connections here in germany were checked or were available to be checked by the n.s.a. now this all comes after a week in which we've seen angela merkel originally claimed that she only heard about n.s.a. spying through the media at then turned out that in fact germany was one of these major partners now the germans have an election coming up a big general election coming up here at the end of september and the german people are understandably upset by the amount of information of theirs that was being looked at whether edward snowden knew that he could be a big influence in the german elections when he decided to leak these things will never know but what's the certain is he definitely and the information he's brought forward will definitely be used in the upcoming weeks and months before that vote or considering the involvement of germany endo the e.u. countries in the n.s.a. spying program it begs the question whether this is

a legitimate attempt to improve the previous c. of the citizens of the you or just politicians attempting to cover up the fact that they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. well the man who exposed the scope of the n.s.a. surveillance to the world is still waiting for the paperwork to allow him to leave a moscow airport transit that is u.s. lawmakers voted to introduce trade or other sanctions against any country offering asylum to edward snowden it was an issue by a republican lawmaker who earlier president obama not to go to september's g. twenty summit in russia because of the winter olympics in sochi moscow is currently considering snowden's application for temporary asylum while three latin american countries earlier said they would accept him one of those nations is nicaragua its president exclusively told r.t. why snowden would be welcome there. i think the threats coming from the us work

against them it's ridiculous a power like the united states threatening and young man who's had enough courage to tell the truth about something that went against his principles a man who realized at a certain point that he could cross the line of what is called intelligence work he understood where intelligence ends and lawlessness begins and that lawlessness has nothing to do with secret operations the war on terror with protecting state interests or with the search for scientific information a point when he sort of this is sheer madness because it isn't normal it's not like the us are forcing the europeans hand in this is just a they have something in common common positions a common strategy and the same desire for global domination they want to impose democratic principles on the world they want to judge all nations. and make a regular isn't the only latin american country that's rammed up his ante of u.s. rhetoric recently and snowden is certainly not the only bone of contention we take a look at what's alienating the people on washington's doorstep from cuba to

believe via in a few minutes time here on r.t. . syrian national coalition leaders have met with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry aging washington to get a move on with sending promised arms to the rebels that's the head of the planned in full session with the u.n. security council where the anti assad leadership will call despite the group having no official status the details now from artie's marina porter in new york. i delegate representing the syrian opposition is in new york city for a three day visit that kicked off thursday afternoon during a bilateral meeting between the group and us secretary of state john kerry prior to the closed door discussions kerry said that there could not be any military solution to the syrian crisis only a political solution not a political solution is expected to be ironed out at the upcoming geneva two conference co-sponsored by russia and the u.s.

however it is no secret that the syrian opposition would like to receive the weapons and military aid that the obama administration recently promised to deliver to rebels that are currently fighting against syrian president bashar al assad that topic was likely addressed when kerry met behind closed doors with the visiting delegation which is being led by the president of the syrian national coalition ahmed jarba what some experts are questioning at the moment is the overall legitimacy of the syrian national coalition critics say the group has no official power and lacks support and recognition inside of syria now the syrian national coalition was founded in doha and is based in stamboul some see this group as outsiders lobbying for more arms to import into syria's already bloody civil war during the meeting secretary kerry conveyed washington's commitment to helping strengthen the syrian opposition however several u.s. lawmakers have publicly opposed providing weapons to rebels arguing that the arms

can fall into the hands of terrorists and members of al qaeda who are fighting alongside anti assad groups now according to the un's latest figures more than one hundred thousand syrians have died in the nearly two and a half year civil war and with more weapons and ammunition expected to arrive in the country from washington ending the violence may be calm even harder reporting from new york marine up or ny on our team. well the number of lives taken by a series. her voice and i thought of reached more than one hundred thousand according to u.n. secretary general ban ki moon political science academic dr cullen cavell warns that president obama's overtures with the anti assad groups will bring nothing but more deaths anybody who stands arms to the syrian opposition they know that it's going to support their hearts. the

syrian government the established government they don't get arms as most governments in the world do on a legitimate basis but when you go in and violate international law and support our position fighters in a country in a don't go through it then you are declaring yourself at arms and at war with that country the united states along with saudi arabia got monarchs and declared themselves at war with syria and. violating international law we have violated not basic principles of democracy and americans are bright enough to realize. it is generally wrong in the middle east we just went through generally expensive wars in the last thousands of american soldiers and now we get. barack obama or john kerry john get us a third war it's ridiculous. president obama's plans to send arms to

the rebels has sparked criticism from will make is at home senator rand paul claims the white house is playing a dangerous game of double standards over syria and you can hear what he has to say at our take dot com. the number of people without jobs in france has reached a record high point two percent a shadow of a president who longs optimism that the country is being pulled from its economic model it's now on a twenty six month streak of unemployment growth and its maria maria explains the job crisis is seeing the french try their luck elsewhere. the grass is

not always greener on the other side even for those eurozone countries that are in dire straits even the block's biggest economies are feeling the pinch france is now officially in crisis at least in a job crisis the. recent data from french labor ministry paints a disturbing picture june so in another rise in unemployment with almost fifteen thousand people now out of work that's five hundred new jobless every day we there are more than ten percent of the version. here but of course are poor. but almost all of the regime is bottom. of the life. the reason behind the gloom is statistics according to the labor minister is expired the short term contracts that are never in you'd as cautious

companies can no longer afford to keep people securities entrepreneurs have no opportunity to develop tuxes are very high bureaucracy is terrible hiring people is a big problem and it's even worse to fire them the result businesses close and people are put on the streets. and like any other crisis hit countries young people are some of the worst heat youth unemployment in france is about twenty six per cent more than double the national average. of the business c.n.n. to the negative trend every year he says over six hundred thousand students graduate just to realize they're not wanted. for decades france was a rich country and our old people had money there is a curious situation today where by grandparents pay for their grandchildren's education but when these people's resources dried out what will we do some young people think they have the answer and that is to leave the country seven million

tourists come to admire the evil tower in paris every year that's around twenty thousand people every day france is among the most visited nations on earth but for its own citizens its charms that fading. this film producer from france moved to london for career reasons at home he says he didn't have a future he sings even before the crisis franz did little enough to provide the young and dishes with proper employment now after the economic meltdown those opportunities have shrunk to zero. is the whole system of the country moping and it's all stuck in this very if you're dissing you need to have this position and you need to study from this university so they're not really open to ambitious people oregon says he's unlikely to ever come back and it seems he'll soon be joined by many others these two french students who just began their studies their

plans to leave france on the first train after their graduation. but as a necessary sacrifice we can't realize their dreams here there nor particular but this friend adds it's a political message to the government that something's going wrong. well out of there is no direction we're going down the state has no precise line that doesn't something ugly and disgusting we're not going anywhere if the future is bleak the authorities try to remain optimistic president alond pledges to bring unemployment down by the end of the c.n. skeptics say that is only feasible if most of job seekers say to france. from paris economist alex cobell told us that france is staggering unemployment is dancing indecisive authorities two weeks ago the government promised to.

reverse the current trend of phrasing and i'm playing but the latest negative figures shouldn't surprise the. the media or the public because unemployment has been growing for the last twenty six months it's clearly a catastrophe and it shows that the lack of reform that current french government is is doing clearly doesn't pay off i think that the main problem is that when we talk about an employment we talk about. companies not hiring people and they don't hire people because there is no growth in frost's the resume person grosser stagnation in economic activity. still ahead this hour iraq is enjoying one of its deadliest months amid a surge in bombings and killings during ramadan we hear whether the country's security forces are losing control over the country thought to be on the brink of

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two unknown gunmen local reporter. has more from chinnis and there were hundreds and hundreds of submissions from our side of the main how are you now down to this the police used tear gas spirits the crowds multiple times as small who rejects soon. gathered in front of the ministry of interior swell and police used tear gas water to disperse the crowd but then there were different crowds in different places in every gesture to see him outside the hospital where bradley's by the was there were protesters outside of the headquarters of the brackets party government has been telling people that their lives this progress that we've made in see any concrete results. the constitution is not ready yet and it's been. two years since the national institutes secondly started working i. feel

like shit it's the next elections there is no specific date set centric so people have been already frustrated and that's mention the economy everything in such. a middle east risk strategist ana boyd told us the brummies murder will create huge problems for the ruling party no matter who is to blame. this is a very sensitive issue as you know the last time we saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets we saw strikes across multiple sectors. we have been identifying such a political assassination as a potential trigger for that kind of thing to happen again the problem is that no matter how much the party leadership try to rein in their supporters there's a very deep underlying political divide here between the secularists and the islamists within tunis here this is really all about determining the nature of what to his is going to look like socially as well as politically following the uprising in the revolution so it's a very contested area that is likely to be polarizing people very much already and

i think the assassination is just going to bring that to the fore once again. now at r.t. dot com slick moves come back to haunt halliburton the controversial u.s. congress admits destroying evidence related to one of the world's worst oil spills the gulf of mexico disaster in twenty ten online we'll tell you what's at stake for the company also that as tensions grow in asia japan considers whether its military should be beefed up so we can conduct preemptive strikes head online to learn more about the story it's. right to see. her story. and i think you're. on the record with.

the rampant violence in iraq during the holy month of ramadan has seen the latest assaults claim at least forty two lives it's thought the number of deaths in july alone has topped eight hundred the spiraling unrest follows al qaeda raids on two main prisons in baghdad which saw hundreds of inmates escape most of whom pose an international threat geo political analyst patrick henningsen believes it's yet more proof that the authorities are losing their grip on the country's security. iraq at the moment is only realizing seeing the fruits of the seeds that had been sown through a decade of occupation by the united states and other forces five hundred terrorists sprung from two different prisons. it's quite extraordinary i mean the

odds of this actually happening without any outside. help but say either from satellite from the telecommunications support this isn't a prison break that al-qaeda could organize all their own would have had to be either an inside job and also have outside support so it's quite extraordinary the ramifications of this for iraq. there isn't a lot of confidence in the security services in iraq after an event like this happened but i think we need to investigate further about how it happened and who might have been involved and helped. a quick look now at what else is happening around the world egypt's military has given the muslim brotherhood until saturday to join the interim government reconciliation plan the proposal is for fresh elections in the new year and a written constitution meanwhile egypt's bracing for mass rallies of the supporters of the ousted president morsi and those backing the temporary army leadership military chiefs have to immediately suppress any violence. i'm one of the drivers

of the spanish train which hurtled off the tracks at high speed has been taken into custody horrifying footage shows the train entering a curve it was thought to be one hundred ninety kilometers an hour more than twice as fast as it should have been traveling at least eighty people died in what is spain's worst rail disaster for more than forty years. in the closing arguments in the bradley manning trial prosecutors accuse the army privates of acting with evil intent and self interest and that he should be considered a traitor not a whistleblower manning is charged with twenty one offenses for revealing sensitive military data to wiki leaks he's already pleaded guilty to several of them rejects the charge of aiding the enemy which could see him jailed for life. now at sixty years since the cuban revolution which eventually toppled a u.s.

backed dictatorship it marks a turning point not only for the island but all of latin america where anti washington sentiments have grown ever since and looks at exactly what has been alienating the people on the united states door step. latin american leaders defiant speeches against the u.s. are a regular occurrence these days but what is fueling their indignation when we want the united states to be or foreigners like russia is or party like brasil like india like all other countries you know emerging powers are friends of us not our bosses the history of how washington eliminated itself the neighbors is best illustrated by the events that led to the cuban revolution sixty years ago back then the us supported the autocratic and corrupt regime of president bush who ruled the island for the benefit of very few people there the u.s. ambassador to cuba at the time early to shred of. said iran cuba

from the sixth floor of the u.s. embassy the cuban job to grow sugar and shut up some historians argue that the revolution and the subsequent alienation of the island state might have been avoided had the us be more considerate of the cuban people think we're washington went wrong was. in its convenient use of a rich elite class to rule account and their bastard rashed aspirations are pure lation it never really wanted or help cure aids it or live with the markers just four years ago the us supported the coup that deposed hundred democratically elected president since then the country has been descending deeper into an abyss of human rights abuses and instability the united states does not want a series of or more elect this is the reason they didn't like chavez goes out of

chavez they got morales. they got that's libyan guys and they got the guy in ecuador. and so if they get another one an underage. all. track child this is nationalization of the country's oil industry as well as his subsidized oil shipments to cuba that it would take at washington for use in two thousand and two the bush administration supported the coup against the late president chavez mass protests brought his back to power and set the stage for worsening relations with the u.s. he's not just for three years to be signed policies just in the benefit of your corporation and to destroy those countries those people in order to integrate their economies and to be less dependent on the u.s. politically and economically south american nations have joined in a union called humus for. what you have is

a desire on the part of the region to have rich own foreign policy and it's all economic policy they don't want to be manipulated and they want to be respected by having looked at latin america as its backyard to which it can dictate policies washington has alienated the people in a host of those countries people who would otherwise have nothing against the u.s. in washington i'm going to check and. i'll be back with more news in about half an hour's time in the meantime his abby martin and brightness of. the judges assess all. killed in the streets.

there women kidnapped and converted to islam by force. will there be another hero moses from the coakley christians of egypt to the existence of its future victims. the way of the cross. see. her little girl with her sleeves technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future of coverage. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean. i know that i'm still the same thing really messed up. in the

old story so i personally apologized and said. the worst sugarless a little flat out stupid. radio guy for minestrone click a. quote for a politician because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. and i mean martin and breaking the set well the house has voted on an amendment passed by congress and would have limited the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of phone records to just those who are being investigated and last night the debate on the amendment highlighted just how divided lawmakers really are. we're here today for a very simple reason to defend the fourth amendment have twelve years gone by in our memories they did so badly we forgot what happened on september eleventh the.