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. plus the syrian opposition presses the u.s. to hurry up in sending arms to the rebels ahead of talks between the u.n. security council and the anti assad leadership. and more return to the birthplace of the arab spring are protesters clashed with police and she is the is capital enraged by the assassination of

a prominent opposition party leader. hello there is good to have you company you're watching our take coming to you live from moscow now weeks after edward snowden's revelations of the united states mass snooping operation against infuriated e.u. citizens germany is taking steps to address threats to privacy 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 change their current

privacy legislation that all seems well and good especially when you consider 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. 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 when you have to consider that germany was one of the major helpers 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 claim 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 and other 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 cap the paperwork to allow him to leave a moscow airport transit zone that is 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 urged 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 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 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 on nations. well you can argue it isn't the only latin american country that's rammed up its anti 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 bolivia in a few minutes time here on r.t. . syrian national coalition leaders have met with u.s.

secretary of state john kerry urging washington to get a move on with sending promised arms to the rebels that's ahead of the planned informal session with the u.n. security council where the ante is sad leadership were called 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 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 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 upper nile r.t. . the number of lives taken by series. war is now thought of range more than one hundred thousand according to the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon political science academic dr calling cavell warns that president obama's overtures with the anti sad groups will bring nothing but more deaths anybody who stands on 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 our genetic war with that country the united states along with saudi arabia got 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 something is generally wrong in the middle east we just went through generally expensive wars in the last thousands of american soldiers and now we got. barack obama or john kerry or john king as your third watch it's ridiculous and president obama's plans to send to the rebels has also sparked criticism from lawmakers at home senator rand paul claims the white house is playing a dangerous game double standards of assyria you can hear what he has to say at dot

com. i. i. i. i i i i i. the birthplace of the arab spring is once again engulfed by protests is that clashed with police in china zia security forces used tear gas to try and disperse the crowd angered by the assassination of a popular opposition leader mohammed but army was gunned down in front of his home by two unknown gunmen local reporter for the has more from tunis and there were hundreds and hundreds of submissions outside 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 swallow and police used tear gas water to disperse a crowd and they were defeated crowds in different places and we were dexterous you onside the hospital where bradley's body was they were protesters outside of the headquarters of. the government has been telling people that gives this progress that we've made and see and hear concrete results. the constitution is not ready yet it's been. two years since the national can see the state where cannot be . the elections the next elections there is no specific date set sector so people have been already frustrated and that's a measure of the economy ethical. middle east risk strategist and a boy told us that 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 last time we still hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets we still 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 and this is really all about determining the nature of his he 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. coming up shortly iraq's and during one of its deadliest months amid 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 plus the unemployment rate leaves no choice for the ambitious except to turn away from a country in search of a better life we've got these stories and more after a quick break. people's wages that going doll the amount of people working is going up and that they're doing jobs that they increasingly hate just for a small box apartment of extortion out run and pretty soon people are going to be stuck and trapped in a cycle of oppression and a new leader is going to come into power is going to flip the switch and it's going to be talking to. the judges a sense of. children the streets. that

women kidnapped and converted to islam. will be a look at europe as for the coptic christians of egypt to the cross to. its future victims. the way of the cross. again the rampant violence in iraq during the holy month of ramadan has seen the latest claim at least. the lines is thought the number of deaths in july alone has topped eight hundred sparling on rest follows al qaeda raids on to nine prisons in

baghdad which so 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 negritude on the country's security iraq at the moment is only realizing seeing the fruits of the seeds that have 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 an inside job and also have outside support so it's quite extraordinary roaf occasions 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. it is sixty years since the cuban revolution which eventually toppled a u.s. backed the title it marks a turning point not only for the island put all of latin america away anti washington sentiments have grown ever seems looks at exactly what has been alienating the people on the united states' door step. latin american leaders defiant speeches against the us are a regular occurrence these days but what is fueling their indignation when we want the united states to be or foreigners like russia's or a 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 we made it 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 us ambassador to cuba at the time url to shred of. said i ran cuba from the sixth floor of the us embassy the cuban jobber should 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 come from jerry and their bastard rashed aspirations are pure lation it never really wanted or help here aided 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 or more elect this is the reason they didn't like chavez goes out should be as they got morales and they got that's libyan guys and they got the guy in ecuador. and so if they get another one and i wonder if. all. track chavis 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 for you to decide policy it's just the benefit of your corporation and to destroy those countries or people in

order to integrate their economies and to be less dependent on the us 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 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 out. a quick look now at other stories making headlines this hour egypt's military has given the muslim brotherhood until saturday to join the interim government three conciliation plan and stop inciting violence the proposed this 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 leadership military chiefs have to immediately suppress any violence. one of the drivers of the spanish train which hurtle off the tracks at high speed has been taken into. the horrifying footage shows the train entering the coup that 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 road disaster more than forty years. and in the closing arguments in the bradley manning trial prosecutors accuse the army privates of acting 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 those but rejects the charge of aiding the enemy which could see him job for life but it is

a bit goldstein from brennan center 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 is 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's 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. of course we've plenty more on our website and on there right now slick moves come back to haunt burton big controversial u.s. conglomerate admits destroying evidence related to one of the world's worst oil spills the gulf of mexico disaster in twenty ten online we tell you what is now at stake for the company. and the biggest attack since the start of the internet log on to r.t. dot com to find out high for russians and a ukrainian managed to trick giant corporations and swipe more than one hundred sixteen million credit card numbers from the. right to see. first rate. and i think you're.

on our reporters were there. on. the number of people without jobs in france has reached a record high tempo point eight percent it casts a shadow over president along as optimism that the country is being pulled from its economic maya it's now in a twenty six month streak of unemployment growth. 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 what are sought for them but almost all of the division is bought on board for that bias. the reason behind the gloomy 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 just want to put moores have no opportunity to develop tuxes or 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 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 a 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 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 have evil tower in paris. three year that's around twenty thousand people every day france is among the most visited nations on earth but for its own citizens it's 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 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 disabled 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. that is a necessary sacrifice we can't realize or dream to hear that there are no opportunities here but 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 because of

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 these here skeptics say that is only feasible if most of job seekers say or who are to france. or r.t. from paris. coming up after the break. the talks of the developer of the digital currency big going. boy oh boy there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there for a mysterious extra planet strip killion 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 fool 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 average i.q. so that doesn't mean they're specifically trying to fill the place with subpar 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. right see. first really listen i think the term limits the libyan army foreigners living in the live. live live. live .