i. was. the surveillance scandal snowboards in the u.k. is snowden's latest leak show how leading telecom companies secretly gave a british spy agency precedented access to net traffic and phone calls but in washington the page over massive valences swept under the rug along with counter snooping initiatives despite most people's apparent disapproval of it all. in the u.s. citizens away from the middle east to to an unspecified terror threat we look at the butterfly effect of washington support for the rebellion in syria.

a welcome you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrey farm. 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 verizon business vodafone cable and bt among the companies aiding g c h q to intercept much of the world's online and telephone traffic were lead by the whistleblower edward snowden this comes hot on the heels of previous revelations showing the agency was generously financed by the n.s.a. r.t. sarah firth has more now from london. these 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 t.c.h. call data hoovering programs not this was where t c h q it's alleged were able to tap into these five or optic cables and installed vast amounts of data for up to thirty days now this was named operation temper and germany's paper 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 his gaining asylum in russia and the german if they visit 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 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 alone. lot of 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 came seeing now it as all these details come to light it sort of seems to push it further every time there's it more light is shared on the relationship between the two countries while former and i five officer says despite the fact close cooperation between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence is nothing new the latest revelations show it 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 eight 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 up just before nine eleven. in 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.

. 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 needed back without having to go through the courts so it's 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 g.h.q. effectively prostituting itself to the n.s.a. they are saying we can get around some of your lord we can help you we will go to the nth degree to help you give us your money. and while a backlash from snowden's latest leaks is expected in the u.k. in the u.s. the government is diverting public attention from the much criticized practices. and takes a look at why the 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 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 slash and download of course the tracking snowden is much easier for the white house defending this surveillance 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 lawmakers 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 get. well. from reporters without borders things washington's tough stance on edward snowden is a dissuading and the potential whistle blows from coming forward. i just would like to remind you there 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 whistleblowers given under the obama administration it's clear that the obama administration hopes that the war will discourage any potential we saw glow 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 eyes of the obama administration if you're revealing any information which are related to national security what edward snowden's plight has turned into something of a virtual star a new smartphone app called snowden run three d. puts a digital version of the whistleblower in a never ending chase what looks like to be

a cia agent in the process the man on the run is collecting u.s.b. sticks and laptops containing sensitive information and players can also resort to a call to uncle putin an option to get help in the form of a hydrogen bomb and there's also a restart button which allows players to try again if the carrots it gets caught something the game's designers seem to believe why that shouldn't happen to the real life snowden. now washington has issued a travel alert for u.s. citizens this is in the middle east and north africa due to an unspecified terror threat by al qaida with a specified time table that's just a day after it announced it's a back to temporarily shut twenty one of its embassies in the region this weekend with u.k. and germany closing their missions in yemen the menace comes from the very groups

fighting on the side of the rebels in syria backed by the west author and historian gerald horne finds it ironic i think that what 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 basically encouraged if not supported a war against the damascus based regime of all stock this isn't involved a number of u.s. nationals and european nationals going into syria to fight with the so-called jihad us this is going to shock me arm to all kind of back forces was so just they are not refract in syria which is tied to al qaeda and iraq which in the last mark has been engaged in the spate of car bombings in baghdad and the surrounding region so it seems to me the state department a lot basically reflects our 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 following clashes with jihadists shortly after one of the kurd leaders was assassinated. has got 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 a city 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 date 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 are under extreme pressure from the radical groups which have permeated syria and are affiliated with al qaida recently severe clashes

broken out in several villages on the border between syria and turkey primarily in the northern province several hundred kurds have been taken hostage by fighters of a loser front and they are 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 house call 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 there are plenty to initiate their state out in fact they're saying they're going to get right to it 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 this very happening 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. now with the terror threat on the rise in the middle east across the atlantic domestic borders are being tightened too but it's not winning everyone's praise that is one of the topics in the spotlight of breaking the set with abby martin and you can watch the full show later on but here's a quick 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 day 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. never seen anything like.

breaking the set a little later on i was still plenty more to come including his chief comments on the situation in egypt was than the two groups leading times more seized sting was a western paul report on the continuing protests by the supporters of the president in a few minutes time but also a distraught mother and i did much to wrangle the fight continues for legal aid to a russian programmer snatched by the u.s. from the dominican republic without most. consent or even knowledge that say is just ahead. you know 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. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

technology innovation. developments around russia we've. covered. choose your language. we can with. some of. the consents to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose to stories could impact. the access to. al-qaeda is chief has accused washington of conspiring with the egyptian military

to overthrow mohamed morsy. a haiti made his first public comments on the situation in egypt since the ousting of the country's islamised leader his supporters continue to stage mass demonstrations across the country another night of unrest so police firing tear gas on one of the marches while the military warned to citizens would be stormed. brings us the latest from the divided country. of course we've had this sort of forty hour deadline from the interior ministry who said after two days they will erect a sort of barricade around these two sit ins for the 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 total one of them which ended up in the media production city which is in very sick for

probably the district of the capital resulted in clashes with security forces who tricked a gas the protesters that they have been attempting to have a new city in apparently barricades as manager erecting tents there which is why the security forces crack down on not 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 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 in support of the ounce of 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 and pull guns blazing it will be a bloodbath so we have to see how the situation develops overnight and in the

coming days. we do have plenty more stories on our website including early full gay rights campaign is in russia during the sochi olympics and that r.t. dot com read about both the myths and the facts on how the country's dealing with its equality movement amid harsh criticism from the west and have a look at invision section where we've got stunning pictures from global. including the latest anti-government protest in rio de janeiro single head there are more like catching snapshots. the story of an undercover arrest that's left the mother in this pair and the foreign ministry ranged alexander payne in suspected of cyber fraud was shipped to the u.s. from the dominican republic but russian officials as well as the man's family only learned about it a month later artist tom barton has more. he's accused of being

a master 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 for telecommuters only after one month we found out he was indeed arrested and held there but that's all we know. 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 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 last question 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 us should have told them about russian nationals they wanted to arrest 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 can write anything 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 even had any money his friend sold me that he had been borrowing from him. and there are more cases like alexander says the russian government where expeditions have been made without their knowledge in july the russian dimitrios tin off 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 constant in the ira 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 but they weren't informed in time by u.s. authorities with edward snowden's asylum worsening relations cases like alexander patterns will do little to help tom watson r.t. moscow. a quick look now at some other stories from around the world this hour in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad at least nine people have been killed and more than twenty wounded after a bomb went off near the indian consulate local officials say a number of children are among the dead the suicide attack was followed by gunfire near the diplomatic mission but reports say all staff inside escaped unhurt violence in afghanistan continues unabated in jalalabad has frequently been the target of taliban attacks. thousands of propellants time supporters in the uranium

capital tehran have rallied to denounce israeli politics in the west bank people carried banners and chanted slogans demanding a boycott of a trial and the end of the occupation of palestine the crowds also called on governments around the globe to press television for a political solution to the continued border disputes and the end of settlement politics. and they morocco a number of people have included journalists have been injured as police broke up a matter alley against the royal party of the spanish pay to file a man was serving a thirty year sentence for raping and filming children aged between four and fifteen but released by the king as part of a group of spaniards who the spanish monarch had requested to be pardoned the move sparked outrage by activists across the country demanding the decision be revoked and the paedophile brought back to jail. and the black box recording from a spanish train which do you rode 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 investigation is underway and the driver has been charged with reckless homicide. or the kaiser report is coming your way in the next hour or so are we going to get any good news from max and stacey he's a quick snippet. poses 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 or analysis six foot long tape worm investing the vital organs of our global financial system and all the headaches and migraines that are bank failures and quantitative easing would disappear he was suffering from fainting fits kind of like our market to flash crashes and the thousand point drop in the dow back in two thousand and eight

and then he was also suffering from painful 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 the past history 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 measure 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 in municipalities those the pain you're feeling in your jobs becoming worthless all this is it just needs to be erratic. types of the cause report there in the next hour or so coming up next though it's

breaking the set with happy man. remember we talked about clothing for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible drones well freedom fashions as i like to call them are continuing to expand although the fact that our drones infrared eyes are very scary the more common street cameras are way more likely to want to average day violate your privacy and thus they invented the justice cap this hat blocks your face with the lights from face recognition software all the camera will see is an anonymous glowing ghost i personally haven't tested this thing out nor have i seen it with my own eyes and wearing three aaa batteries on your head at all times does seem like a bit of a bother but hey if you really want to be left alone and you're willing to throw

down a few dollars this looks like a pretty good fashion statement to me the sad thing is that this sort of invention shouldn't need to exist people shouldn't have to live with the constant fear of unlawful consent less observation but sadly they do so invaders keep the freedom fashions coming but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food ice and try it because you know how bad the less and less. i mean . i. really miss. very

closely. worst. white house of a good radio guy committed. to good use never seen anything like this until. what's going on guys i'm abby martin welcome to breaking the set so an effort to extend a personal introduction to 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 strengthening their 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 air bubbles 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 repeatedly by pakistanis wanting to know when the u.s. would end its drone war there and it's not just the locals in kerry's pakistani counterpart. stressed that the answer isn't a slow draw down but instead an end to the strikes altogether and finally unable to avoid deal with it in the room any longer kerry responded to question on pakistani television. the timeline that you fought or ending this. strike with i think the president has a very real and we hope it's going to be very very soon oh my god very very soon it's amazing it was almost a legitimate answer almost but even that vaguely positive affirmation was too good to be true the only hours later the.