the surveillance. in the u.k. . companies secretly british spy agency unprecedented access to traffic and your phone calls. me over in washington debate over the valences swept under the rug along with snooping initiatives all this despite most people's apparent disapproval of it all. in the u.s. keeps its citizens away from the middle east due to an unspecified terror threat look at the butterfly effect of washington support for the rebellion in syria.

a very good morning to you from all of us here in moscow. live top world headlines . a fresh surveillance scandal unveiling in the u.k. it's been revealed that major telecom companies are secretly collaborating with the british intelligence agency giving it unlimited access to the private communications of millions of customers documents naming a rise in business vodafone cable and bt among the companies aiding g c h q a to intercept much of the world's online telephone traffic but all of this story recently leaked by the whistleblower edward snowden course it comes on the heels of previous revelations showing the agency was generously financed by the n.s.a. this report from london. these are three big companies and the four smaller companies really making up a large part of the high capacity undersea fiber optic cables that really make up

the backbone of the internet's architecture now these fiber optic cables carry vast amounts of data for millions of uses back in june the guardian newspaper had revealed details of the c.h.p. is so-called data hoovering programs not this was where he said it's alleged were able to tap into these fiber optic cables and installed bars amounts of data for up to thirty days now this was named operation temper and a german newspaper has just published what it's alleged is the most sensitive aspect of this operation and that is the name of the commercial companies that were passing along this information that telecommunications providers can be compelled to cooperate with requests from governments under the nine hundred eighty four telecommunications act but what privacy advocates are really concerned with here is that these big companies haven't been giving enough of

a challenge to requests for this large scale surveillance the company have yet to respond to these specific allegations but the german newspaper saying that the details that they've gone through and this is from the big chunk of information leaked by whistleblower edward snowden prior to his gaining asylum in russia and germany service of this really shows now that telecoms firms were far more complicit in u.s. u.k. spying activities than had previously been thought a hundred million pounds were provided by washington t d c h q over a period of three years now they were payments that were made to secure access to the british in british intelligence gathering programs and returned it was alleged to teach he was required to quote pull its weight so you can see that really a lot. questions that can be raised again about that complicity between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence gathering and i think the levels that that has been going to and of

course you've got this large amount of information that was leaked by edward snowden that's being king seeing now it has all these details coming to light it sort of seems to push it further every time is it more like this shed on the relationship between the two countries but here at r.t. we spoke to former m i five officer and he marshawn she says that despite the fact that close cooperation between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence is nothing new the latest revelations show it all in a rather do one thing that people tend to forget is there is an old program of mutual assistance which was called echelon which was exposed in the one nine hundred eighty s. and then fed into the european parliament in the one nine hundred ninety s. which led to a report that said that europe should develop its own standalone internet infrastructure and not depend on the u.s. infrastructure of course this came out just before nine eleven and was lost in the sort of security panic that happened afterwards so this is

a resistance to be going on for decades let's have no doubt about that and it's also been a very good way for the n.s.a. and h.q. to circumvent domestic laws and domestic warrant to requirements so they can spy on each other and then feed each other the same information they would back without having to go through the courts so it's always been quite corrupt relationship however i think these revelations that came out in the guardian take it to a whole new level we are now looking at g t h q it's actually prostituting itself to the n.s.a. they are saying we can get around some of your laws we can help you we will go to the nth degree to help you give us your money. and i while the backlash from snowden's latest leaks is expected in the u.k. in the us the government is diverting public attention from the much criticized practices artie's guy nature can has a look now at why a people's discontent is simply being ignored. while edward snowden as the messenger remains the focus of everybody's attention the u.s.

government is trying to kill his message or at least contain it senior intelligence officials have testified in congress so boring everything is done in accordance with the law congress has already killed the bill that would make the n.s.a. walk back some of its powers so as of now no concrete steps have been taken to rein in n.s.a. surveillance but call school reform keep coming lawmakers are putting forward new initiatives earlier this week the president met with members of congress specifically to discuss slash and gamble of course attacking snowden is much easier for the white house defending this of the one state and here's what president obama said about that just in the wake of snowden's revelations and if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust congress and don't trust. federal judges to make sure that we're biding by the constitution due process and rule of law then we're going to have some problems on that trust issue

a gallup poll shows fifty three percent of americans now disapprove of the government surveillance programs thirty seven percent approved another poll by the quinnipiac university conducted just in the wake of snowden's revelations shows forty five percent of americans say the government's anti-terrorism efforts have gone too far restricting civil liberties three years ago that percentage was twenty five so it's a massive shift in attitudes bomb makers certainly have to respond to their constituents concerns and we hear many of them say something has to change something has to be done but is longer snowden's own destiny remains the top story it will be much easier for the government to sweep the debate under the rug in washington i'm going to. hear it all to respond to and from the reporters without borders a few things washington's tough stance on edward snowden is actually aimed at dissuading any potential was simple i was from coming forward in the future. i just

would like to remind you they're the last fare of war of war against we saw glowers scenes. twice abducted in one thousand nine hundred seventeen. prosecution have been launched against whistleblowers given and there the obama administration its kid and the obama administration hopes that this war will discourage any potential we saw grow or to. to reveal any information that you also have to understand that here and us any information related to national security is considered a secret is considered classy fight so everything is classified so it's really easy to become a creamy no in the eyes of the obama administration if you're revealing any information which are related to national security well edward snowden's plight has now turned him into a virtual star a new smartphone application called snowden three d.

puts a digital version of the whistleblower in a never ending choice from what looks like a cia agent now in the process the man on the run is collecting u.s.b. sticks and laptops containing sensitive information players can also resort to a coal uncle puton option to get the help in the form of a hydrogen bomb there's also a restart button which allows players to try again if the character gets caught up something the game designers seem to believe might actually happen to the real life edward snowden. so just turning ten minutes past the hour here in moscow it's r t washington's issued a travel alert for its citizens visiting the middle east and north africa this due to an unspecified terror threat by al qaeda though with a specified time table that's just a day after it announced it's about to temporarily shut twenty one of its embassies

in the region this weekend and the menace comes from the very groups fighting on the side of the rebels in syria backed of course by the west but author and historian gerald horne he finds it rather ironic i think that what do alert basically reflects is the fact that the united states' policy in the part of the world has backfired for example in syria united states has basically encouraged if not supported a war against the damascus based regime of all sot this is involved a number of u.s. nationals and european nationals going into syria to fight with the so-called jihad this is given to shut me armed to a kind of back force this is such as they are in syria which is tied to al qaeda and iraq which kinda like smoke has been engaged in the spate of car bombings in baghdad in the surrounding region so it seems to me the state department basically reflects a failure of u.s. policy now the backlash from the insurgent groups linked to al-qaeda has also

affected similar and smaller communities in the region around two hundred kurdish civilians taken hostage in syria this following clashes with the jihadists shortly after one of the code leaders was assassinated. picks up the story. considering the complexity of syria you have to understand that there are dozens of groups of people who are divided by either faith or nationality or ethnicity all of them are also involved in this bitter battle which has been going on in the country for the last couple of years kurds are among the biggest ethnic groups kurds are actually the largest nation in the world that does not have a state the dream of statehood is something that kurds have entertained for hundreds of years they are originating in iraq turkey and in syria now increasingly kurds in syria are coming under under extreme pressure from the radical groups which have permeated syria and are affiliated with al qaida recently of severe

clashes broken out in several villages on the border between syria and turkey primarily in the northern all that province several hundred kurds have been taken hostage by fighters of all loser in front and they're also helping videos posted on the internet which claim to be pictures of kurds who have come under attack from the from the extremists truly horrific pictures now the kurdish militia has called them kurds in the region to unite in their struggle against the radical islamists or to lead it with al qaida forces are also dreaming of their own state and it's not other than syria that they're planning to initiate their state out in fact they're saying they're going to get right to it's immediately after ramadan ends and that is just in a week's time so the situation in that region is in creative incredibly harsh and literally boiling at this point as we're having a very having again hundreds of people abducted from their homes we're also hearing

about people being killed just for the simple reason that they're kurds and it really doesn't seem like anybody is especially paying attention primarily the western media there is very little information on the subject if you try to look for it. and there with the terror threat on the rise in the middle east across the atlantic domestic borders are being tightened as well but it's not winning everybody's praise that's one of the topics in the spotlight today of breaking the set with abby martin before we get to it is a preview. while we focus on the threat of terrorism abroad seems like things are missed here at home exactly what my next guest has experienced first hand as she worked as a customs and border protection officer on the border of mexico we had very specific alerts that on fourth of july two thousand and four members of al qaeda were planning to cross the borders into the united states using our land borders was mexico and on that date i saw that twenty three people from terrorist countries were allowed to enter the united states and none of the proper checks were done

they were not enrolled in any databases no one bothered to take their fingerprints they were pretty much just flashed across and no one knew about it when i brought it up to the port director who told me to take it to intel law and behold on this date of special importance everyone in intel was given the day off their door was closed and i reported this to the f.b.i.'s joint terrorism task force and myself became the enemy of the state for embarrassing homeland security and so instead of investigating that which they closed was no action annoying vestey ation they opened fifty four investigations against me and they sent a black hawk helicopter to raid my home they had my husband and i twice maliciously prosecuted and imprisoned and we had to fight back to clear our name. in the world you've never seen anything like.

this could not be with us here and i'll show you today still to come for you in this hour it is chief commenting on the situation in egypt as the militant group's leader claims more sees ousting was a western plot we report on the continuing protests by the supporters of the toppled egyptian president that's in just a few minutes time. also a distraught mother of a diplomatic wrangle the fight continues for legal aid to a russian programmer snatched by the u.s. from the dominican republic without moscow. consent or even knowledge that's also just ahead for you.

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breaking the set with. chief who's accused washington of conspiring with the egyptian military to overthrow mohamed morsi. made his first public comments on the situation in egypt since the ousting of the country's as the most leader his supporters meantime continue to stage mass demonstrations across the country another night of on rest so police firing tear gas on one of the marches or the military warning to sit ins would be stormed. as the latest from the capital that. of course we've had this sort of forty hour deadline for an interior ministry you said off the two days they will erect this is a barricade around these two cities pulled it out to the leader mohamed morsy in the capital they've said this will mean that people can leave the city and then i go to enter it's a kind of besieging now in the run up to this we have had to mass protests in support of the deposed leader across the country thirty four marches in toto one of them which ended up in the media production city which is in six books through the

district of the capital resulted in clashes with security forces peachtree take asked the protests to stand they have been attempting to have a new city in their hundred apparently barricades managed erecting temps there which is why the security forces cracked down on mount speaking to protesters today in one of the main sit ins here in the capital they tell me that they will think about possibly setting up a new sit ins like this one the media city if these big cities here to another city and easier on cleared by the security forces in the next few days it's very tense here with the heavy deployment of troops and the military and expected clashes on the horizon when the interior ministry takes the plunge and actually does try and evacuate these people because there are a lot of people in the streets as opposed to the ounce to me that there really are tens of thousands of you know women and children who are in these sit ins and you

think go in all guns blazing it will be a bloodbath so we have to see how the situation develops overnight and in the coming days or the loads of stories on the website for this hour right now at r.t. dot com for example too young to drink alcohol but old enough to own a weapon america's national rifle association has asked the country's supreme court to allow guns to be sold to those under the age of twenty one the full story and we actions on the web site right now. so is the u.k. government's quest for two. natural gas seeing yet more of the controversial technique despite huge environmental concerns.

for the story of. the mother and despair and a foreign ministry. suspected of cyber fraud was shipped to the u.s. from the dominican republic but russian officials as well as the. whole month later . investigate. he's accused of being a must to internet fraudster alexander punin is currently believed to be in a prison in the u.s. state of georgia extradited there last month from the dominican republic his friends didn't know what happened to him or telekinesis only after one month we found out he was indeed arrested and held there but that's all we know that even his own mother was left in the dark eager belgium was there when he was already on his way back to russia we were waiting for him at home but he didn't arrive he simply disappeared a keen computer programmer from near moscow the twenty four year old was wanted for

embezzlement through internet scams used on banks including u.s. ones of at least five million dollars the russian government has lashed out at the u.s. saying he was snatched without their knowledge plus cash and was about someone steals that well once again faced with their arrest of a russian citizen on a u.s. warrant in a third country who considered this practice which has become a vicious tendency completely unacceptable. referring to a bilateral agreement in one thousand nine hundred nine russia's foreign ministry says the u.s. should have told them about russian nationals they wanted to rest when we asked the u.s. embassy in moscow about the matter they declined to comment none of it helps alexander's mother who remains convinced of her son's innocence then went to anybody i don't believe his cell so much money i'm not saying that just because i'm his mother i spoke to his friend the one who invited him to the dominican republic and he asked if my son even had any money his friends told me that he had been borrowing from

him. and there are more cases like alexander's says the russian government where extradition is have been made without their knowledge in july the russian dimitrios enough was extradited from lithuania after allegedly importing hundreds of thousands of pieces of military equipment from the united states to russia. and in two thousand and eleven a pilot constantinian to shinku was sentenced to twenty years in prison in the us after being found guilty of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine there he was extradited from liberia in may two thousand and ten in each of these cases the russian government thought that they weren't informed in time by u.s. authorities with edward snowden's asylum worsening relations cases like alexander plans will do little to help tom watson r.t. moscow. straight to the r.t. world of that we go starting with fifty five american army soldiers they've been

suspended over their involvement in sexual assaults or the move followed a report ordered by the defense secretary chuck hagel richard feel that more than twenty six thousand troops experienced unwanted sexual contacts in just the last year alone or their numbers are on the rise military officials say many victims still won't come forward as they are afraid of retribution. a black box recording from a spanish train which to rail of last week killing seventy nine reveals the driver ignored three warnings to slow down the train was almost three times over the limit when it flew off the rails of criminal investigations on the way and the drivers charged with reckless homicide. had to morocco a number of people including journalists have been injured when police broke up a mass rally against a royal pardoning of a spanish paedophile at the man who is serving a thirty year sentence for raping and filming children aged fourteen fifteen but was released by the king as part of a group of spaniards the spanish monarch had requested to be pardoned the move

sparked outrage by activists across the country demanding the decision be revoked and the spaniard it brought back to jail. all right now is membership bad for business almost eighty percent of u.k. bosses think so in a recent poll they voted in favor of holding a referendum for breaking away from the union only reports. ever thought that switzerland was missing out by not being in the european union nope well now its image that the majority of britons also think that they'd be better off alone after the british group think tank found that fifty four percent of u.k. citizens believe that britain would benefit from leaving the european union and joining the european free trade association instead following the examples of switzerland and norway which by the way have been thriving while the european union is in economic turmoil at the same time the debate of whether or not britain should

stay or leave the e.u. has been getting louder amongst british businesses now to talk about the issue i'm joined by dylan shop from business for britain didn't your organization is urging the government to renegotiate the e.u. membership but what's wrong with the status quo when at the moment british business is subject to huge amounts of regulation and red tape that originates in brussels not only that the great single market which is what we were sold in one nine hundred seventy three when we joined is actually restricting the amount of trade that british businesses can do with the rest of the world. economies in the middle east in the southeast asia and in south america we hear a lot of businesses complaining about e.u. regulation costing them money how does it cost them money well you've got to go through all different businesses if you go to startups you have to comply with a ridiculous number of laws just to be able to employ people just be able to make your workspace compliant going up further. they have to check off

a number of products before they even get them into other european countries and when it comes to the big countries there's reams of regulation which actually prevents them importing and exporting into and outside of the european union if they want to keep us as part of the union they have to give us a bit more of what we want because up until now it's been a lot more of what they want to launch out from business for britain thank you very much for talking to us so with three out of four bosses in the u.k. saying that they're for an in-out referendum in twenty seventeen there's definitely no shortage of opinion on the matter from london. so be warned if you follow a terrorist concern with the f.b.i. you're going to be the one who gets busted a very disturbing break in the in just a moment.

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what's going on guys i'm abby martin welcome to breaking that this is that so an effort to extend a personal introduction the pakistan's new prime minister secretary of state john kerry made a special visit to the country this week the trip was supposed to focus on strengthen the relationship with pakistani leadership but instead it kept getting overshadowed by just one little issue drones it's a topic heavy on the minds of pakistani citizens who've been subjected to the terror the once daily drone bombings for years a practice that has only grown exponentially under obama's leadership in fact according to government officials the u.s. just launched another drone strike in the country this week killing at least six people don't worry though they were all suspected militants which we already know means absolutely nothing so understandably kerry was hounded reap.