in about anything. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the dot com. genuine indignation over america's worldwide surveillance or election point scoring germany pushes for tighter 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's ready to take in the fugitive whistleblower. the syrian opposition presses the us to hurry up in sending arms to the rebels the head of talks between the un security council and the anti assad leadership. and turmoil returns to the birthplace of the arab spring is thousands of protesters clashed with police in two museums capital enraged by

the assassination of a prominent opposition party leader. and i welcome you watching r.t. with me andrey far. now weeks after edward snowden's revelations that 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 e.u. skeptics though suspect is 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 chip. after all seems well and good especially when he comes said that the current privacy legislation was written way back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six long before things like mobile phones facebook the internet all of those things that the n.s.a. being parents 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

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 zone as u.s. lawmakers voted to introduce trade or other sanctions against any country offering asylum to edward snowden it was initiated by a republican lawmaker who earlier president obama not to go to september's g twenty summit in russia and called for a boycott 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 and. i think the threats coming from the us work

against them it's ridiculous power like the united states threatening and young man who had enough courage to tell the truth about something that went against his principles a man who realized at a certain point but he could cross the line of what is called intelligence work he understood were intelligence and lawlessness begins and that lawlessness has nothing to do with secret operations who are in 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 of 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 nic a regular isn't the only latin american country that pays and to us rhetoric recently in snowden is certainly not the only bone of contention we take a look at what's alienating the people of washington's doorstep from cuba to bolivia that's coming up in a few minutes time here on our take. syrian

national coalition leaders have met with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry urging washington to get a move on with sending promised arms to the rebels but the head of the planned informal 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 portnoy 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 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 the 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 is 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 more niamh our team while the number of lawyers tell you can buy syria's civil war is not thought to have reached more than one hundred thousand according to un secretary-general ban ki moon political science academic doctor calling cavell warns that president obama's overtures with the anti sound groups will bring nothing but more deaths. anybody who stands on arms until the syrian opposition they know that it's going to support the joe hart's. now 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 the hash a lot and support our position fighters in a country an attempt to overthrow it then you are declared yourself at odds and at war with that country the united states along with saudi arabia and the gulf monarchs have 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 us that something is chamblee wrong in the middle east we just went through two terribly expensive wars. lost thousands of american soldiers and now we get. barack obama in john kerry john get us a third watch it's ridiculous. president obama's plans to send arms to the rebels has also sparked criticism from lawmakers 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 as r.t. talked. the birthplace of the arab spring is once again engulfed by protesters thousands clashed with police and security forces used tear gas to try and disperse the crowd angered by the assassination of a popular opposition leader mohamed brahmi was gunned down in front of his home by two unknown gunmen a local reporter see has more from chinnis. and there were hundreds and hundreds of

submissions to our side of the main haven't you now down to miss the police used tear gas spears crowds multiple times and small who rejects whom are gathered in front of the ministry of interior and police used tear gas water to disperse the crowd but then there were different crowds in different places and here dexter to see him outside the hospital where bradley's body was and where protesters outside the headquarters of bradley's party the government has been telling people that things this progress that we've made in see in the concrete results. the constitution is not ready and expand. two years since the national constitution center we started with the money. the elections the next elections there is no specific date set for centuries so people have been already frustrated and that is mentioned the economy and the people inside. middle

east risk strategist and a boy told us that brahmins murder will create huge problems for the ruling party no matter who is the black this is a very sensitive issue as you know 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 two days here this is really all about determining the nature of what to visit 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.

meanwhile iraq is ensuring one of its deadliest months i made a surge in bombings and killings during ramadan in a few minutes we hear whether the country's security forces are losing control over the country thought to be on the brink of civil war. france's double digit unemployment rate leaves no choice for the ambitious except to turn away from a country in search of a better life fast and much more coming up after a quick break. peace process what peace process the palestinians have suffered over four decades of illegal israeli occupation and over twenty years of the so-called american sponsored to go she should have gotten them preciously little why are obama netanyahu and abbas interested in history does it have anything to do with peace or are there other agendas in play.

i've seen the perception of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones from people keep on going i don't expect anything i just want i told myself i keep on going as long as my heart told me to that's all i wanted at the moment mickey i have sinned so mind she see i'm carrying these sayings on my shoulder. do you want me to put a bandage here no that's fine a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them fainted google read back to it three two wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring. hello again the rampant violence in iraq during the holy month of ramadan has seen the latest claim at least. forty two lines it's thought the number of deaths in

july alone has topped eight hundred aspiring armrests follows al qaida raids on two main prisons in baghdad which saw hundreds of inmates escape most of us 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 air or 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 road

for cations 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. sixty years since the cuban revolution which eventually toppled a u.s. backed the tightest ship it marked a turning point not only for the island but all of latin america where anti washington sentiments have grown ever since he looks at exactly what has been eighty nine thousand people on the united states door step. like an american leaders defiant speeches against the us are regular occurrence these days but what is fueling their indignation when we want the united states to be over foreigners like russians 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 its sell 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 us ambassador to cuba at the time earl of. sched iran cuba from the sixth floor of the us embassy the cuban jobber should grow sugar and shot 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 when all was. in it's convenient you are way rich elite class to rule come from jerry and their bastard rashed aspirations are pure lation never really wanted or helped

your age or allied 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 groups or more elect this is the reason they didn't like chavez goes out of sugar as they got morales and they got that's libya guys and they got the guy in ecuador. so if they get another one and one during. all. this is nationalization of the country's oil industry as well as his subsidized oil shipments to cuba that irritate washington for years in two thousand and two the bush administration supported the coup against the late president chavez mass protests brought charges back to power and set the stage for worsening relations with the us it's not just for freedom to decide policy it's

just the benefit of your corporation and to destroy those countries with 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 its own 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 both countries people who would otherwise have nothing against the u.s. in washington i'm going to check out. let's take a quick look at some other international news this hour egypt's military has given

the muslim brotherhood until saturday to join the interim government's reconciliation plan and to stop inciting violence the proposal is for fresh elections in the new year and a written constitution meanwhile egypt's pricing for mass rallies of the supporters of be amnestied president morsi and those backing the temporary army leadership military chiefs have to immediately suppress any violence. 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 what's thought to be at 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. closing arguments in the bradley manning trial prosecutors accuse the army privates of vaccine with evil intent and self interest manning is charged with twenty one offenses revealing sensitive military data to wiki leaks

he's already pleaded guilty to several of them but rejects the charge of aiding the enemy which could see him jailed for life so there's a bit from ground incentive for justice believes manning is being over prosecuted for leaking documents that never should have been classified. the government presented no evidence that he affirmatively intended to harm the united states which is what a traitor as i mean those that he's not legally accused of being a traitor that word does not appear in any of the statutes against him but i think we all understand that term to mean somebody who is an enemy of the state and sets out to harm the country there's been no evidence of that i mean one thing that this case has demonstrated is that the government keeps secrets that it shouldn't be keeping in a million years and does so frequently the charges that the government brought against manning addressed only a subset a tiny subset of the information that he allegedly disclosed because so much of the information is quite obviously not sensitive and didn't cause any harm and we just

don't have a good system in place for dealing with people who leak classified information when that information was improperly classified in the first place and what we have instead is over prosecution. as always there's plenty more on our website at the moment including slick moves come back to haunt how the person of the controversial us can go more of the myths 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 now at stake for the company. as tensions grow in asia japan's reviewing its defense strategy to be ready to conduct a preemptive strikes if necessary head on line and then a bit. right from the scene. first for you and i think you're.

on our reporters' twitter. instagram. the number of people without jobs in france has reached a record high tempo point eight percent to cast a shadow over president along optimism that the country is being pulled from its economic maya it's now on a twenty six month streak of unemployment drove his brief an ocean or explains the jobs 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. recent data from french labor ministry paints

a disturbing picture june so in another rise in unemployment with almost fifteen thousand more people now out of work that's five hundred new jobless every day we say there are more than the present of the provision in the broad yes but for soft for the boy but almost ten percent of the division is bought on board but for that biased. 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 secretly 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 caught in the streets. and like in 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. b. 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 one to. be 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 peoples 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 counted my 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 are fading. and this film producer from france moved to london for career reasons at home he says he didn't have

a future hearings even before the crisis france did little enough to provide the yarn 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 have just begun their studies their plans to leave france on the first train after their graduation sixty he's and this is server that is a necessary sacrifice we can't realise her dreams here but there are your particular. friend adds it's a political message to the government that something's going wrong. when all of there is no direction we're going down the state has no precise line if it doesn't

something ugly and disgusting we're not going anywhere because the future is bleak the authorities try to remain optimistic president alond pledges to bring unemployment down by the end of the see year skeptics say that is only feasible if most of job seekers say or who are to france. or r.t. from paris. and coming up next here on our tape cross talk panel look at whether the fresh round of peace talks between israelis and the palestinians can make headway in their decades long conflict.

boy oh boy there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there for a mysterious extra planet strip killian creatures living among us but there also may conspiracy theories that are very plausible and some that are well actually true one that i've heard for a long time is that they are specifically trying to fill the police with dimwits to abuse the american people which is silly right right well according to a.b.c. news a discrimination lawsuit revealed that robert jordan was denied the chance to become a new london police officer because he was too smart his entrance exam score was a thirty three which is an i.q. of one hundred twenty five and it was just too high to allow him to defend the public good that police department only accepts candidates who have scores from twenty to twenty seven the logic is that people who are too smart get bored as policemen and they're more likely to quit after years of costly training. yeah this is proof of a conspiracy theory well the lowest score of the accept is still around an average

i.q. so that doesn't mean they're specifically trying to fill the place with sub par people but it does seem really weird to fear people with high i.q.'s entering the police force this case that the confirms nor denies the conspiracy theory but is definitely food for thought and does a kind of not make sense to discriminate against anyone ever for having a high i.q. i don't know but that's just my opinion. more news today. games. these are the images croque world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to operations are today.