in the u.k. snowden's latest leaks show how leading telecom companies secretly gave a british spy agency. access to net traffic and phone calls. washington. has swept under the rug along with counter snooping initiatives despite most people's apparent disapproval of it all. and as the u.s. keeps its citizens away from the middle east due to an unspecified terror threat we look at the. washington support for the rebellion in syria.

thank you for sharing some of your saturday with us here on. live in moscow let's get straight to your top world headlines now a fresh surveillance scandal is 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 of horizon business vodafone cable and bt among the companies are aiding g c h q to try and intercept much of the world's online and telephone traffic all of this being leaked by the whistleblower edward snowden now it comes on the heels of previous revelations showing the agency was generously financed by the n.s.a. this reporter sara in 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 go back into the guardian newspaper had revealed details of the c.h.p. is so-called data in programs not this was where he said it's alleged were able to tap into these five or 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 newspapers saying that the details that they've gone through in this is from the big chunk of information leaked by whistleblower edward snowden prior to see his gaining asylum in russia and the 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 a hundred million pounds were provided by washington t g 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 low. lot of questions that can be raised again about that complicity between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence gathering and i think the level also that has been going to of course

you've got this large amount of information that was leaked by edward snowden that's being came seeing now it has all these details coming to light it sort of seems to push it further every time is it more like the shed on the relationship between the two countries of course want to surface reporting there in the meantime we spoke to a former m i five officer i mean marshawn she says despite the fact that close cooperation between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence is nothing new the latest revelations do show it although in a whole new dimension 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 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 resistance has been

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 q. to circumvent domestic laws and domestic warrant to requirements so they can spy on each other and then feed each other the same the information they need back without having to go through the courts so it's always been quite a 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 d.t.h. q effectively 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 while the backlash from snowden's latest leaks is expected in the u.k. in america the government is diverting public attention from the much criticized practices artie's garniture can has a look at why the peoples of 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 suring 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 and general of course attacking snowden is much easier for the white house defending disability 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 approve and now the 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 his longest 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 and see if we have a chance to speak with. from the reporters without borders a few things washington's tough stance on edward snowden is simply aimed at dissuading any potential whistleblowers 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. which was abducted in one thousand nine hundred seventeen. prosecution have been launched against we sell blowers so given under the obama administration it's good that the obama administration hopes that this war will discourage any potential that we saw grow or two. 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 now in the face of the obama administration if you're revealing any information which are related to national security in the meantime edward snowden's plight has turned him into a vote you will start a new smart phone application called snowden run three d.

it puts a digital version of the whistleblower in a never ending chase from what looks like a cia agent 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 so-called cold uncle puton option to get help in the form of a hydrogen bomb there's also though a restart button which allow the players to try again if the character gets caught perhaps something the game's design is a seem to believe might actually happen to the real life edward snowden. i thank for joining us here on arts he wasn't and has issued a travel alert for u.s. citizens visiting the middle east and north africa this due to an unspecified terror threat by al qaeda though with a specified time table it's just a day after it announced it's about to temporarily shut twenty one of its embassies

in the region this weekend with the u.k. and germany closing their missions in yemen that the menace comes from the very groups fighting on the side of the rebels in syria back of course by the west the author and historian gerald horne he finds it all rather ironic i think what do alert basically reflects is the fact that the united states' policy in that 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 saw 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 shot me armed to kind of back force this is so just in syria which is tied to al qaida in iraq which in the last month has been engaged in a 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 and the backlash from the insurgent groups linked to al-qaeda has also affected smaller communities in the region around two hundred kurdish civilians were taken hostage in syria this following clashes with jihadists shortly after one of the code leaders was assassinated in a good takes out 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 how 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 severe clashes have broken out in several villages on the border between syria and turkey primarily in the northern all the province several hundred kurds have been taken hostage by fighters of all loser front and they also help in 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 are deleted 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 as we're having again hundreds of

people of ducted 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 it with the terror threat on the rise in the middle east across the atlantic domestic borders being tightened as well however it's not going down very well and that's one of the topics in the spotlight of today's breaking the set with the martin here's a preview of a disturbing discovery. 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 there 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

where 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 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. if you've never seen anything like.

you with us here in our so you thanks for joining us today as to look come for you in this hour. chief comments on the situation in egypt as the militant group's leader claims he's ousting was a well lot to report on the continuing protests by the supporters of a toppled egyptian president in just a few minutes time. also i distort mother i did fifty wrangle and the fight continues for legal aid to a russian program a snatched by the u.s. from the dominican republic without moscow's consent or even knowledge for that matter that is ahead for you with the rest of the world's top headlines. we'll look at. sunny's technology innovation called the least of elements from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. you know how sometimes you see

a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. actually we can with. some of. the fumes get consensus here. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact your life choose me access to.

a lot of headlines together for us this hour here on our. let's get straight into it now it is chief is accused washington of conspiring with the egyptian military to overthrow mohamed morsi. he made his first public comments on the situation in egypt since the ousting of the country's islamist leader his supporters though continue to stage mass demonstrations across the country another night of unrest so police firing tear gas on one of the marches or the military warning to citizens would be stormed auntie's bill true has the latest from kyra. of course we've had this sort of forty hour deadline from the interior ministry he said after two days they will erect this is a barricade around these two sit ins for that ousted leader mohamed morsy in the capital they've said this will mean that people can leave the city and then i 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 people says peachtree take asked the protest instead they have been attempting to have a new city in hundred apparently barricades managed erecting tents there which is why the security forces cracked down on mount speaking to protesters again one of the maintenance 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. nasr city and easier on cleared by security forces in the next few days it's very tense here with the heavy deployment of troops on 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 in support of the ounce to me that there really are

tens of thousands of but 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. are many more stories for you this hour on our web site including a relief for gay rights campaigners in russia during the olympics daughter called me can read about the myths and facts on how the country is dealing with its equality movement rather harsh criticism from the west. and they do have a look at our vision section where we've got a stunning pictures from glow. including.

before we get to the world update now the story of an undercover arrest that left a mother in despair in a foreign ministry. suspected of cyber fraud was shipped to the u.s. from the dominican republic russian officials as well as the man's family only learned about it all a month later. he's accused of being a must to internet fraudster alexander punin is currently believed to be in a prison in the us state of georgia extradited there last month from the dominican republic his friends didn't know what happened to him for telecommuters 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 eagan 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 king computer programmer from the moscow the twenty four year old was wanted for embezzling through internet scams used on banks including us ones of at least five million dollars the russian government has lashed out at the us saying he was snatched without their knowledge plus cash and was about someone to us that well once again faced with the rest of the russian citizen on the u.s. warrant in a third country we consider 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 jenny went to anybody and i don't believe his soul 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 john had any money his offense held me that he had been borrowing from him and then you. and there are more cases like alexander's says the russian government where expeditions 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 or 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 and into the r.t.

world out there we go now starting with eastern afghanistan the city of jalalabad for at least eight people killed and more than twenty wounded after a bomb went off near the indian consulate and local officials say a number of children are among the dead and the suicide attack was followed by gunfire near the diplomatic mission reports say all the staff inside escaped unheard of violence in afghanistan continues unabated and jalalabad has frequently been the target of taliban attacks. thousands of pro palestine supporters in the iranian capital have rallied to denounce israeli politics in the west bank people carried banners and charted slogans demanding a boycott of israel and the end of the occupation of palestine the crowds also called on governments around the world to press television for a political solution to the continued border disputes and that of the end of settlement politics. of black folks recording from a spanish train wish to rails last week killing seventy nine reveals the driver

ignored three warnings to slow down the train was almost three times the limit when it flew off the rails a criminal investigations underway and the driver has been charged with reckless homicide. but to morocco where a number of people including journalists have been injured as police broke up a mass rally against the royal pardoning of the spanish pulled a while the man who is serving a thirty year sentence for raping and filming children a. between four and fifteen but released by the king as part of a group of spaniards who the spanish monarchs had requested to be pardoned and the move just sparked public outrage by activists across the country demanding that his decision be revoked and the paedophile put back behind bars. where the cars report coming your way after twelve thirty pm g.m.t. are we ever going to get any good news from max and stacey we'll have to wait and see. how's this for positive financial news a man in china has had

a six inch long worm removed from his brain now you might ask how is this good financial news quite obviously is proof that we can remove the six and shore analysis six foot long tapeworm investing the vital organs of our global financial system and all the headaches and migraines that our bank failures and quantitative easing would disappear he was suffering from fainting fits kind of like our market flash crashes and the thousand point drop in the dow back in two thousand and eight and then he was also suffering from pain from migraines exactly like our financial markets but what is happened here is the so-called doctors of this financial system like the central banks and the treasury department's look at the system and they don't even look for the tapeworms but they just keep on throwing more nutrients at the system imagine having a kidney stone this size and having to pass this through year or year rethrow ok no

chinese doctor in finishing powdering is going to be able to remove a kidney stone out of your reach for the size of this and this is jamie in the reserve on the american economy is a kidney stone the size and that of passing that through your your resume that's what jamie does to us every day that's the pain you're feeling in detroit that's the pain you're feeling is suppose plus the pain you're feeling in your jobs becoming worthless all of this is it needs to be eradicated. because a report of twelve thirty g.m.t. stick around if you dare for that of the meantime though i'm stepping aside it to our washington d.c. studios we go the latest edition of prime interest thank you for trying.

i've got a big question for you how stupid can stupid terrorist paranoia get according to for progressives dot com the texas department of public safety demanded that any women entering the state senate hand over any tampons or pads before entering wow so why would they do this are they really that scared that some terrorists are planning to sneak a bomb into the place at any cost according to news dot yahoo dot com the official reason is that they're afraid of people using projectiles as a form of protest against a law that would really restrict abortions will know i kind of see abortion is an issue that people really get furious over now it kind of all makes sense but what what's that they're afraid of projectiles but people with guns were allowed to take them into the senate are you kidding me i think the second amendment does a lot more good than harm by i think it goes without saying that for women to concealed carry their hygiene items they should need a permit or permission from anyone but that's just my opinion.

good afternoon and welcome the prime interest them hereon bring in i'm bob it would get to today's headline. the time jobs are we found it like a broken record and yet the unemployment rate ticked down this morning from a seven point six to seven point four percent the number of payrolls or jobs added with one hundred sixty two thousand and that sort of expectations and as usual we'll largest contributing factors were part time and low quality jobs so basically bernanke you encode. complete freedom to do whatever they want come september and

according to financial experts the september epilepsy meeting is the big one because that's when our beloved chairman gets to take softball questions from such journalistic luminaries as john wilson rather and then the undependable that would be more bond buying into a madness and are we witnessing a label or. alive or was this scandal that involved interest rate fixing it and now the three hundred trillion interest rate to rid of the market is under scrutiny if the f.c.c. is investigating over the lack of any substantive conclusion to sell for market manipulation piece there's not that an encouraging price today pay them speaking of swaps is it library docs recorded telephone calls and emails show that traders of wall street banks instructed a firm to buy or sell as many interest rate swaps as necessary to move the benchmark rate by bringing the measure of the banks to a profit on separate derivatives trades that they had with their clients were waiting with bated breath on this one to the.