when. i. ran over. the surveillance control the spirals in the u.k. amid new revelations naming three telecom giants who allowed a british intelligence agency to look through the private data of millions of clients. and in the u.s. debate the mass surveillance is swept under the carpet while whistleblower edward snowden dominates the headlines. america always on its citizens to stay away from the middle east in light of a major al qaeda terror threat with some experts saying washington's policies in the region continue to fuel resentment.

and i welcome you watching r.t. me and three. there have been further revelations in the ongoing spy scandal in the u.k. the world's major telecommunications have been working alongside a british intelligence agency handing over swathes of private data documents leaked by u.s. whistleblower edward snowden she jest that the rise in business vodafone cable and bt were among those who gave g.c.a. unlimited access to their network of cables their collaboration allowed the agency to harvest millions of phone calls e-mails and facebook conversations and this comes in the wake of reports that america's national security agency is generously funding british surveillance the details now from artie's sarah. credibly high profile names in the telecommunications industry and 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 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 install bars amounts of data for up to thirty days now this was named operation tempora and the 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 they were all given top secret code names bt it's alleged code named remedy verizon business allegedly named dacron 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 of the company and 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 one 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 in return it was alleged the g c h q. is required to quote pull its weight so certainly the backlash that

you're going to see and are already seeing if you take a look online at some of the customer comments of course huge concern that these very well known companies it appears have allegedly breached their customer's privacy in this way while the british us tip for tat spy affair is nothing new to former m i five officer who says that in the last few years is has added 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 thousand nine hundred men 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 not depend on the u.s. infrastructure of course this came out just before nine eleven last in sort of security panic that happened afterwards so this will 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 you 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 needed back without having to go through the courts so it's always been quite a corrupt relationship 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. and while the scope of american led surveillance is raising eyebrows across the globe nothing has been done on capitol hill to curb the practices. and explains what the government is doing to plug the voices of discontent both at home and abroad. 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 the flooring 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 for reform keep coming lawmakers are putting forward new initiatives earlier this week the president met with members of congress specifically to discuss slash and paying the scandal 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 bothered 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 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 take it. from reporters without borders things washington's tough stance on edward snowden dissuading any potential whistleblowers 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 adopted in one thousand nine hundred seventeen. prosecution have been launched against we so blowers have been and they are the obama administration it's clear that the obama administration hopes that the war will discourage any potential we saw glow or 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 knol in the eyes of the obama administration if you're revealed any information which are related to national security what i would snowden is not only made it into the media headlines but has also become the hero in a new video game a new smartphone app called snowden run three d. puts a digital version of the whistleblower in a never ending chase from what looks like a cia agent in the game the man on the run is collecting u.s.b. sticks and laptops containing secret information if caught the digital snowden gets a one way ticket to. a cool uncle putin option which drops a hydrogen bomb on the chinese or however can help him avoid the scenario and then

there's always a restart button available which allows players to try again. was . the. thank you as. now a suicide attack on the indian consulate in afghanistan has left at least nine people dead and around twenty injured in the latest case of violence against civilians a recent un report shows a staggering hiking casualties among non military in the country with the media tell surpassing one thousand three hundred people but dr bit to day from the university of north korea says the taliban only one sympathy among locals because of the u.s. military operation but western horses that are neutral. couldn't actually. gone into the english legal community and never tried to understand their

needs and instead trying to invent dear defined. ways of. running a stated region was not. created. in the first you have to actually in our. tradition a lot you have to be in the confidence it is only in one stage to. the developing countries are incapable only juge sagal problem. well afghanistan is among twenty one countries where the us is decided to close its embassies on sunday amid fears of an al qaeda terror threat most of the nations are in the middle east and it's not yet clear when the facilities will reopen washington has also issued a worldwide travel alert author and historian gerald horne says america's regional

policies have backfired. i think that what this 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 assad this is involved a number of u.s. nationals and european nationals going into syria to fight with the so-called jihad or this is given to shut me armed to. back forces was such as they were from and syria which is tied to al qaida in iraq which into line a smoke has been engaged in a spate of car bombings in baghdad in the surrounding region so it seems to me the state department alert basically reflects a failure of u.s. policy. well the fear of a terror attack isn't just specific to the middle east with america feeling under constant threat but as artie's abby martin discovered sometimes the government

chooses to turn a blind eye here's a preview of what is coming up in breaking the set of three thirty pm g.m.t. . what 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 though 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 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 no one knew about it when i brought it up to the point 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 investigation 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 terror response in the middle east is also taking its toll on smaller communities in the region a militant just how do you screw affiliated with al qaida is holding some two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria following an attack which claimed the life of one leader. as this report. 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 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 are also helping videos posted on the internet which claim to be pictures of kurds who have come under attack from the from the feeling of the

extremists truly horrific pictures now the kurdish militia house call them kurds in their 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 none 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 as we're having again hundreds of people of 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. well to alan see now is a representative of the foreign affairs and relations office of the kurdish democratic union party in syria and he thinks militants are now resorting to brutal tactics

throwing desperation it will be for that given that means that as these terrorist groups are using in that and they cannot. resist. that defend of the kurdish forces because the kurdish forces on the ground are protecting themselves they are not that at picking anybody and all the kurdish people now are supporting them and they're defending themselves and these groups are failing and they are running away from their attacks and out for they are using this as a method to keep not lost people. in that end of the day they will exchange the survey of the arctic meet to exchange. has just gone a quarter past five paper moscow we've got more news coming up after a quick break.

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you with r.t. welcome back now al qaeda is chief has criticizes largest groups in egypt for taking part in democracy saying legitimacy lies only ensure a law ours our here he also accused washington of conspiring with the egyptian military to overthrow mohammed morsi meanwhile a police official says the muslim brotherhood can remain a part of the political process if its supporters abandon their mass citizens artie's peltry brings us the latest from the divided country. what is extremely tense here is of course we've had this sort of forty hour deadline for an interior

ministry who said after two days they will erect a sense of 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 total one of them which ended up in the media production city which is in. the district of the capital resulted in clashes with security forces take asked the protestors that they have been attempting to set up a new city in apparently built barricades as well as record saying tense which is why the security forces cracked down on not speaking to protesters the day in one of the main sentence 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 are cleared by 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 hours to be that there really are tens of thousands of women and children who are in these sit ins and you think go in on all guns blazing it will be a bloodbath so we have to see how the situation develops overnight and in the coming days. there's been a deep sigh of relief in the american state of illinois where marijuana has been legalized medicinal. go online to r.t. dot com to find out how the government plans to the people in need from those looking to abuse the plant. and go boils over in the moroccan capital after a convicted paedophile this path. dramatic photos you can find. dot com.

the arrest of a russian computer programmer suspected of cyber crimes has caused another spat between most of moscow and washington alexander punin was whisked off to the u.s. from the dominican republic after appearing on an interpol wanted list but russian officials as well as the man's family only learned to back it a month later. as more. 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 but 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 to 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 u.s. ones of at least five million dollars the russian government has lashed out at the u.s. saying he was snatched without that knowledge plus cash and was about somewhere to your well once again faced with the rest of the russian citizen on the u.s. more and in the third countries would consider this practice which has become a business 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 writes any opinion i don't believe his tell us 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 events hold me that he had been borrowing from him and then you know let me ask 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 constant indian ocean crow 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 plans will do little to help tom watson r.t. moscow. some international news in brief now the winner of iran's presidential election has run he will officially take the top political post later today in a ceremony in toronto he promised reform and an end to the country's international isolation as part of his election platform is no gration comes a day after he marched with millions of iranians to mark the day in support of the palestinian people. in the south of england a protest against oil drilling has entered its tenth day oil exploration operations have finally begun after a delay caused by nonstop protests by local residents those who live closest to the drilling site are concerned that if for all gas is found hydraulic fracking will be

used to extract it destroying the environment in the area. and the series of attacks across iraq have left at least fourteen people dead gunmen killed several people in two different cities near baghdad including a woman and her two daughters in the town of baquba the roadside bomb and to create also left a man and his eleven year old son dead as they were walking in the city center the last three months of into religious violence is the worst to hit iraq since two thousand and eight. and in croatia one person has been killed in up to fifteen injured when a train hit a bus in the south of the country the collision happened as the burst was attempting to cross a railroad line a crossing ramp malfunction has been initially blamed for the incident. still ahead money matters explained in prime interest in a couple of minutes. i

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 to 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 oh well no i kind of see where you 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 to welcome the prime interest them harry and bring in i'm bob english ok today's headline. left time jobs are we founding like a broken. record it yes 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 a bit short of expectations and as usual the largest contributing factors were part time and low quality jobs so basically bernanke you and co have complete freedom to do whatever they want come september and according to financial experts the september a full and meeting is the big one because that's when our beloved chairman gets to take softball questions from such journalistic luminaries as john and to defend the undefendable that would be more bond buying into a madness and are we witnessing a label or. a lie were was the scandal that involved interest rate fixing and now the three hundred trillion interest rate derivatives market is under scrutiny and the f.c.c. is investigating over the lack of any substantive conclusion to silver market manipulation piece there's not an encouraging press today for you and speaking of swaps is.