but the story tonight new n.s.a. leaks are revealing a top secret u.s. government program that gives intelligence analysts full access to everything millions of users do online. u.s. whistleblower bradley manning is convicted on charges ranging from espionage to computer fraud invoke a wave of international criticism because lawmakers in europe urging the obama administration to release the army private. the u.s. secretary of state is in islamabad hoping to ease tensions with the new government there over america's controversial drone strikes on pakistani soil.

leaving nine pm here in moscow money was kevin zero in this is r.t. international is very good to have you with us this hour as i just been saying that a new surveillance leak courtesy of edward snowden has uncovered a vast u.s. monitoring program named x. keyscore that allows countless analysts access to quote nearly everything people do online is going to cross it showing he's going to teach a can is in washington what more do we know about this story that's come out today . well kevin the guardian relying on documents provided by edward snowden has revealed the details of another n.s.a. program that again as you said collects nearly everything a user does on the internet it's called x. keyscore according to these documents it allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through that's databases that databases containing e-mails online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals remember snowden's video interview where he said i sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone from you

your account and to a federal judge or even the president if i had a personal e-mail well x. keyscore is apparently how it is done snowden has leaked the n.s.a.'s training materials where the agency boasts that the program is the widest reaching system for developing intelligence from the internet to the material also shows that the program operates on more than seven hundred servers and one hundred and fifty sites around the world so if prison was not enough now we learned about the existence of of this seemingly even more far reaching program will flush on the bones of those claims as a bit of the official reaction. from the. well kevin of course these latest revelations contradict the n.s.a.'s claims that no analysts can look at the data without a warrant actually yes there is a response they say allegations of widespread on checked. unchecked analyst access

to n.s.a. collection data are simply not true other than that we know that these revelations these most recent revelations come as senior intelligence officials testified to the senate judiciary committee this wednesday releasing classified documents in response to snowden's earlier revelations on ball collection of phone records and also the surveillance court oversight and one of the documents says these programs are authorized to collect in bulk certain dialing routing addressing and signaling information about telephone calls and electronic communications such as a telephone numbers or e-mail addresses so at least they're admitting to bulk collection of information here and a list then also the. these documents go on to say that analysts review their numbers addresses times and dates of the

communications but not the content of the calls or the e-mail messages themselves according to these documents which again contradict snowden's. claims that they did have analysts to have access to to the content of these of these records you know but the fact that the government has to respond to these concerns is all already a win for edward snowden but whether or not any was anybody's going to do anything about it today but he's going to act to reversing the abuse programs that's that's that's still a big question i mean last week congress killed the legislation that would make the n.s.a. walk back some of its powers but the bill was. they killed by just twelve votes so it was two hundred seventeen against and two hundred fifty five four in the house so even though the bill was killed we see a substantial support for for transparency

a demand for transparency if you will. but so. even though we don't know if this can actually lead to any changes with with this with regard to these programs but certainly his revelations have triggered a discussion absolutely going to come from still to live in washington d.c. well the man behind the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden is still stuck in a moscow airport transit zone where he's still waiting for his request for political asylum in russia to be processed his father says the f.b.i. is trying to persuade him to fly don't moscow to make his son go back to the u.s. talking to russian television early along snowden said that if he was that his son the shoes he would not return back home let's listen your family as well and we love you we hope you are healthy we hope you're well i hope to see you soon but most of all i want you to be safe i would also like to think president

vladimir putin the russian government for the what i believe the courage and the strength and conviction to keep my son safe although i know that assurances have been provided that he would not be executed or tortured if he were brought back the fact is no assurances have been provided that he would be given the fair trial. it was another american whistleblower who probably manning has been found as we know not guilty of one of the most grievous crimes under american law that of aiding the enemy but nonetheless is still staring at the prospect of life behind bars the sentencing of the twenty five year old responsible for the largest leak of classified documents in the country's history is now on the way and those hearings could indeed drag on for several weeks the trials already provoked a strong reaction around the world and as unsettled lawmakers in the u. prompting some of them to words the u.s. government to free manning and the peace indeed from france sweden spain portugal

ireland croatia germany signed a letter to president obama in the u.s. defense secretary they say that manning is not a traitor and that he had the best interests of his country at heart lawmakers also expressed their concern over the u.s. war on whistleblowers more generally saying it undermines democracy on both sides of the atlantic they say they went on to say manning has suffered too much in spending over three years behind bars already including ten months in solitary confinement the message is that manning should be free to soon as possible we earlier talk to him which showed sees a member of the european parliament one of the signatories to this letter here that was sent to president obama he explained to us what was behind sending this letter . political gesture that is also aiming at trying to communicate to the american public as well as to the administration and to the authorities we need to check up what is wrong what is the contents of this trial and we hope that our just increasing awareness whistleblowing should be interest of the united states of

democracy and democracy in other states a part of the world we have to request to to rethink the democratic behaviors united states in the international community jeremy zimmerman is a spokesman for the paris by a citizen advocacy group he told my colleague josh the implications of this trial go far beyond the bradley manning case what is happening to bradley manning is totally unrealistic he has been telling the truth he is being courageous to expose crimes and lies and he is the one going in prison right now so the only realistic option is that bradley manning will go free the question is when will it be president obama will we have to to wait should be public outcry all of the world's before he goes free are technical questions well ok and in light of what's happening the letter that was written from

a piece calling for bradley manning's release what is it i mean is it just a political gesture or is it likely to lead to something well this situation is political by its nature because beyond bradley manning it is also the beginning of the persecution of it was snowden it is dozens of blowers that are being persecuted by due u.s. government so this is political this is one of the most powerful governments in the world being afraid of its own citizens being afraid of truth being afraid of justice so it is a matter that concern us all and i understand that some any would like to. to make a political stance about it the question of what effects it will have well we will see but it is by nature a very political issue. took to the streets of new york to gauge opinion she found that the strong support for mining scores there. union square has been something of a stomping ground for bradley manning supporters in new york city you see over the

years many rallies have been held here in honor of the army private first class intelligence analyst now manning has been found guilty of downloading and releasing confidential u.s. documents that subsequently disclosed illegal activity and crimes on the part of washington manning faces up to one hundred thirty six years in prison instead of telling you how the public is reacting to this news we're handing our microphone directly over to the citizens bradley manning didn't commit any crimes would be like as if you shot me and the camera man said hey i've got this voted you have this crime and he. you know put it out there for justice and instead of trying you they try him and it doesn't make any sense it whether it's mr manning or snowden. i think they're doing a good thing because the american people are basically enslaved and they're you

know they're told what to do by the media and they follow orders it would appear to me that the manning verdict would be sending a message to edward snowden i'm sure he's listening to news in better hands in russia than manning you see there. abide by whatever we do i want to just salute bradley manning we were in support of you if you look at the apache helicopter video which probably the most famous one. it's important for the american public at least you know what is actually going on in the war i think something needs to be done as part of like that from a legal standpoint needs to be changed because like the american public needs to know about things like that now although manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy charges he may be punished for the rest of his life for presenting the american public with the truth reporting from new york for an up or nine our take. nichols will be. you know the latest from bradley manning sentencing that continues at fort meade maryland as the situation develops over the coming hours and days

hope you can stay with us for that close to home just bit later in the program in fact more talks but no agreement deep rooted feuds between the israelis and the palestinians looks set to remain unresolved at least until next april when the sides hope to come up with a final status deal to talk about that in just a minute. i would rather i asked questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my go larry king now right here on r.t. question more.

wealthy british style sun. time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds of reports on a. new a secular state john kerry has now arrived in pakistan hoping to strengthen dialogue with the country's new government topping the agenda of the cia's already deadly drug strikes on pakistani soil the issues become all the more controversial since classified documents were leaked showing every fifth victim of the attacks is a civilian and it has cost the upcoming visit with u.s.

foreign policy on this front. key himself just two years ago when he was the head of the senate foreign relations committee it correctly said that afghanistan is a sideshow and of the main event which is pakistan so he understands the importance of having good relations with pakistan and the first step to doing that is to end the drone strikes mediately because they've turned eighty percent of the population against the united states they strengthen the pakistan taliban they've made it impossible for the us to cooperate with the pakistani government and safe and it's nuclear weapons he did touch on it just now i just want you to elaborate on it a bit more you said how much the population i guess naturally are against it more and more then i guess it's driving a maybe into the hands of terrorists the pakistani taliban were far weaker in two thousand and three than they are today as a result of our drone strikes of we've put tens of thousands of people into the

pakistani taliban and strengthen them and the pakistani government has not shown itself particularly capable of controlling them several dozen u.s. national security experts have said and very clear terms that these drone strikes are not harming the pakistani taliban but actually helping them recruit members this is a strategic catastrophe without power alone american history. look at what we're covering all live if you are t dot com we're covering there al qaeda pledging to spare no effort in freeing prisoners from guantanamo bay that's the latest line from them because we more details about that r.t. dot com want to check it out also don't try this at home as they say this is the man who flies by plane is own custom made jet very goes and takes some guts isn't it you much more that video online and plenty of others as well of course r.t. don't go. after

a three year hiatus peace talks between israel and palestine are now starting to get back on track so far the only result has been agreement to hold further talks in two weeks' time but over the coming nine months negotiators are aiming to wind out their key disputes washington which is hosting the go says the aim is to reach a final status agreement but there's no compromise on the horizon so far the goal is a two state solution which would see israel co-exist peacefully alongside a new palestinian state but the two sides will first need to tackle a number of divisive issues israeli settlement expansion the status of jerusalem and the fate of refugees the palestinian students also want israel to return land it seized in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven artist has the story of one arabic speaking minority fighting for equal rights in israel. each weekend his radius flock to this truce village on the top of mount carmel the shops are busy the restaurants full and the laughs flow as freely as the wine there is very good

restaurants here in the area it's very welcoming like a lot of drinks. they make you feel really comfortable twelve thousand inhabitants of a sphere village have opened their doors to tourists it's a way of bringing in cash while preserving the traditional trues lifestyle. kamel above owns a popular cafe that would not be out of place in tel aviv or any other israeli jewish city. the people who come here usually look for something with sense of something they can only find within the druze community what they don't look for and don't see is something just as authentic a community floundering on to a lack of basic necessities the druze are an arabic speaking people who follow an offshoot of islam they hold a distinct place in israeli society as the only major non jewish community whose majority of members are drafted into the israeli army. has lived here for twenty years his home still has no electricity and only three years ago did he get running

water i served in the army my kids will serve as well will live in israel but we don't receive what the israelis are getting i don't know why we don't ask for special privileges just electricity crews and arab villages have always received less funding than jewish areas resulting in poor quality of education in arab schools and weak infrastructure and social services. our relationship with the jewish communities around us is perfectly fine no problem but our relationship with israel establishment is different for the trees people are not with the druze people we have difficulties on many levels first of all getting budgets approved for planning and then the planning itself. most of these radios who visit here are bolivia's to the problems and even those who know prefer to look the other way i haven't heard my own so i myself don't know about it i read that there was some problems regarding some of the just but i don't know if it is really

government approved drugs or yeah i've heard about it. the problem. a lot of problem and three were. treated. trouble building because of the limited space in building but it's not only about turning the other cheek and choosing not to see there are israelis i've spoken to here feel nothing about adding racist slurs about arabs and in eating in the restaurants but getting them to admit it on camera is almost impossible. the problem is not on my side i know the language but they don't understand mine i served in the military i understand them but they sometimes come with certain prejudices about the druze and we surprise them by how alike we are. but not enough and like it seems to stop them living in very different worlds policy r.t. is fear village northern israel. used to reason proof now in iraq new deadly blast

ripped through two mosques in baghdad it killed at least nine people it comes after al qaeda linked group confirmed that it carried out a series of bombings which left sixty dead across iraq on monday the government says the country is now facing a full on war against sectarian extremists who killed five hundred people in july alone egypt's military backed government so will the police now to break up wall street rallies by supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi the cabinet says further rioting would pose a threat to national security meantime three senior members of the muslim brotherhood movement are to stand trial on charges of inciting violence morsy was overthrown earlier this month and protests by supporters have been continuing unabated despite the security crackdown. in london thousand people have taken part in a rally against the government's plans to slash the legal aid budget it's the latest in a string of protests triggered by a controversial proposal to slice over two hundred million pounds from public

spending on assistance in criminal cases the demonstrators therefore claim the cutbacks will put justice out of the reach of the poor and vulnerable even when able to afford a legal defense. it's a leave the highest court hearing silvio berlusconi's challenge against tax fraud conviction a lower court earlier sentence the billionaire former prime minister to four years behind bars but lawyers say he's unlikely to serve actual jail time but a scary insists the charges against him as well as a separate case of hiring an underage prostitute are politically motivated if the latest appeal is overturned he'll face a long term ban from public office potentially plugging the governing coalition into crisis. the collapse of the world's biggest fertiliser cartel has sent shock waves through the industry pushing down shares in producers of the sole nutrient potter panic speed spreading on stock markets since the russian giant ural carly decided to pull out of a joint venture with its bellary space partner is out his business correspondent

katie pilbeam. all of this occurred potentially result in lower food prices because farmers will pay less for their first eliza's. at the store their pay less their first rise is to grow their crops and also those discounts on to the consumer at the checkout all this could mean an increase in the size of crops of people who get to enjoy a biggest soybean for less bought for potage producers a potential price war could have a catastrophic effect on the global industry meaning smaller companies would be forced to squeeze their prices to compete in just a couple of hours after the season was made global protest companies lost billions of dollars now the reason why this has triggered such a huge reaction on the stock market is because together these two companies set the price for about a third of the world's supply and this is spread alarm through the u.s.

canada and germany where rival companies took a nosedive amid fears over a new era of low freely traded prices but while the paradise companies are set to lose billions in profits and thousands of miners could lose their jobs the winners would be farmers around the world who spend billions on first lies every year and now stand to benefit from a smaller bells crazy pilbeam a. grip a recession it's the smallest banks that are taking the biggest hit it seems to people all over travel to one small german village to find out how one bank of the merging to stay afloat normal lives. it's not all big city banks with bailouts bonuses and big shots in rural germany this small town has all its financial needs taken care of by just one man you constantly announce a new war here we only concentrate on people from gams failing if you live ten kilometers away sorry you can't be

a customer in fact the furthest away one of our customers lives is about seven hundred meters. with only nine hundred customers peter believes he can offer something that big banks can't. and he has to personally people get a personal service here i know everyone who comes in of course i do or they're my neighbors this means there is a big trust the are just a number or part of a money making machine and when our t. stopped by at this one month bank we found that the man in charge wasn't alone the regulators were going through the books like they do in every other european bank. to a once a year someone counts for four weeks i think it's a bit too long but hey that's the way it is even as we live more and more of our daily lives online in small towns like this one is still a place for the face to face because a bank sometimes i need to go to the city banks are all run by machines don't even get me started on the internet the concept we have here we're all members not

customers. it's hardly the most modern of operations opened at the end of the nineteenth century some of the equipment looks like it isn't much younger now wouldn't mind forking out my predecessor had a quite specific grip you can see here over forty years he wore the pain away all the modern stuff doesn't look right here if it works why buy new. so how do all or. even the youngest in town a case of full having their own individual money boxes to make sure they aren't sheepish about saving. they even get a lesson every now and again to make sure that they know that not everybody should be trusted not see it ok who wants to count your teacher's money. leave me.

right now. with twenty sure me ok you got me. make everyone gets a lollipop. due to the cost of running them small rural banks of all but disappeared for most of germany but the people of the town of. want to hang on to this for many more years to come peter all of a southwest germany. coming up next has america's famous motor city become a capitalistic failure subject to problem and trash right after the break. we are facing a lot of problems. because no one no good schools.

no permits when you feel part. of the local what's not enough wealth is a wall in the local needs you when you're going to see l.n.g. most mortgages just. don't get. done for my prop artist i was fired i must fight so. i'll fight. all right.

that afternoon and welcome to private interests i'm harry and boring and i'm bob inglis let's get serious today's headline. it's official what bitcoins are under intense scrutiny and thailand the central the central bank of the former kingdom of siam said big points are not a currency and the nation's a legal infrastructure at which includes capital controls simply does not have a place for big coins so it's illegal for tie residents to buy sell or trade crypto no one currency and issue and try authority said that coins could not be moved into or out of the country rendering any current stockpiles worthless just contemplate that for a moment apparently alaska senator ted stevens internet tube simply don't exist in thailand which you would think renders the entire argument moot of course it doesn't so up next with senate laws gravity when here in the us the big points immunity is getting proactive about getting ahead at such legal threats there is now

a committee for the establishment of the digital assets transfer authority or data that is working with regulators and authorities in fact there is another big conference going on today and we'll be covering these issues and this week and the meantime i'll be breaking down and other legal issue the volcker rule and just a bit and i'll be talking to richard wolffe about dysfunctional detroit in just a minute and speaking of dysfunction or capital markets might have a shining night we'll have to see but there's a new exchange in town. and it's expressly designed for large investors who do not want to be gamed by high frequency trading so instead of allowing client computers to sit right next to the extreme his own servers will be in the super building so instead of the delay of ten million service like in the current industry standard the delay will be three hundred fifty million sort of seriously folks this is what trading has come to. and this is what saying you are prime interest.