oh. i. see. her strong. and i think. on the record. on. the surveillance controversy spirals in the u.k. amid new revelations naming three telecom giants who are a british intelligence agency to look through private data of millions of clients. and in the u.s. debate over massive violence is swept under the carpet while whistleblower edward

snowden dominates the headlines. and america calls on its citizens to stay away from the middle east in a light of a major al qaida terror threat with some experts saying washington's policies in the region continue to fuel resentment. and i welcome you watching our tape with me and very far back now there have been further revelations in the ongoing spy scandal in the u.k. the world's major telecommunication firms have been working alongside a british intelligence agency handing over swathes of private data documents leaked by u.s. whistleblower edward snowden suggest that arise in business vodafone cable and bt were among those who gave g c h q 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 agencies generously funding british surveillance the details now from r.t. sara for. well some big names in there for the telecommunications companies bt vodafone cable verizon business these three big companies along with four other smaller companies have been named now those companies operate a huge share of the high capacity undersea fiber optic cables and that carries data for millions of uses now back in june the guardian newspaper had revealed details of an operation named tempera that head it was alleged been looking at the data hoovering programs from the british spy agency g c h q and that had said that you were able to access these companies fiber optic cables and access that huge chunk

of information that was being carried in and store it for thirty days data that's been released by whistleblower edward snowden prior to his gaining asylum in russia some of the companies have actually come back in the wake of these claims and have said that the questions relating to national security are for governments to answer not for the telecommunications companies but bt spokesman reported as having said they can reassure customers they're complying with the law and not disclosing customer data in any jurisdiction and less legally required to d. so now under the one nine hundred eighty four telecommunications act these companies can be compelled to cooperate with governments and pass along that information if legally required to do so the question for privacy advocates right now is going to be whether or not these big companies are actually challenging and nothing when asked to parse over this big chunk of information and of course this

is just the latest in a sense of revelations that look into the level and scope of snooping by u.s. and u.k. intelligence agencies and indeed the degree of cooperation between the two countries now some of the recent revelations say the g c h t had actually been fun. it by washington to the tune of one hundred million pounds that was for a period of over three years and those payments made to secure access to british intelligence gathering programs and in return its allies that g.c. were required to quote its weights and other way other barriers meant a real headache for downing street and those communications companies obviously going to be fearing a backlash from their customers over those alleged breach of privacy while the british us tit for tat spy affair is nothing new to according to former m i five officer any machine who says that in the last few years it's 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 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 up just before nine eleven and was lost 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 in the back without having to go through the courts so it's 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 effectively prostituting itself to the n.s.a. . and one of the scope of american led surveillance is raising eyebrows across the

globe nothing has been done on capitol hill to curb the practices artie's 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 pay you to get involved of course attacking snowden is much easier for the white house defending disability. 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 biting 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 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. tell from how again from reporters without borders

things washington's tough stone some edward snowden is aimed at dissuading any potential whistleblowers coming forward i just would like to remind you. the last fare of war of war against we saw glowers since the. was abducted in one thousand nine hundred seventeen. prosecution have been launched against we sell blowers have been under the obama administration it's clear that the obama administration hopes that the war will discourage any potential that 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 face of the obama administration if you're revealing any information which are related to national security but i would snowden is not only

made the headlines it's 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 a man on the run is collecting u.s.b. sticks and laptops containing secret information and if caught the digital snowden gets a one way ticket to guantanamo bay a call uncle putin option though would drop a hydrogen bomb on the chaser however and that can help him avoid that scenario and there's always a restart button available which allows players to try. it was. 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 hike in casualties among non military in the country with the media tulsa passing one thousand three hundred people talked a bit that day from the university of north korea says the taliban only one sympathy among locals because of the u.s. military operation but western forces the two knew just. couldn't actually. gone into the engage problem legal communities and never tried to understand their needs and instead of trying to intimidate and dear defined democracy down to wind who is of. running a state it was not like. slater created the scene. in the first c.e.o. have to actually in. tradition the local or you have to be in the confidence it is

only in one stage to argue that the developing countries are incapable only juge sagal problem. but afghanistan is among twenty one countries where the us has 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 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 saud 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 our. back forces sources such as they are in syria which is tied to al qaida in iraq which in the last 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 attack isn't just specific to the middle east but america failing on the constant threat but is. not in discovered sometimes the government chooses to turn a blind eye has a preview of what's coming up in breaking the set later this hour. well 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 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 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 best aviation 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. this as a little later on the terrorist violence in the middle east is also taking its toll on smaller communities in the region a militant jihadi screen. is holding some two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria forming an attack which claimed the life of one leader on. 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 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 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 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 extremists truly horrific pictures now the kurdish militia has called them kurds in their 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 still the situation in that region is incredibly incredibly harsh and literally boiling at this point as we're having a very 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. dr allen simo 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 through desperation. it would be follow that could not make it as these terrorist groups. and they cannot. resist. and all of the kurdish forces because the kurdish forces on the ground

protecting them solve their own not that at taking anybody all the kurdish people now are supporting them i'm going to keep sending them solve these group or failing and they are running away from there. for they are using this as a method to keep not post people. out and in that end of the day. exchange the survey of the arctic meet to exchange. a new president is taking the reins of power in iran hassan rouhani has been officially endorsed by the country's religious leader amid questions about whether the west is really trying to make the most of the fresh start we've got this story quite right . 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 you don't know i'm tom harkin welcomes a big. old . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. choose your language. make it without medical center still some of. the concerns you. choose to use the degree to. choose the stories that if you. choose the access to.

welcome back hassan rouhani has just been endorsed by around supremely due to become the country's next president will officially take the oath of office in parliament on sunday rouhani promised reform and then to the country's international isolation is part of his election platform but the u.s. now showing few signs of trying to engage with the new leadership political analyst professor side mohammad marandi says the importance of the presidential post in iran should not be underestimated what's interesting is often within the western media when it's convenient they say he's powerless but when it's not they say he's a threat like the former president ahmadinejad but here's a very powerful figure he is the second most important person in iran then he has the vote over half of the iranians and in another election that had

a very high turnout over seventy two percent almost seventy three percent if the united states is a willing to take this opportunity to reevaluate its policies towards iran and take a serious step forward the iranians and president rouhani will definitely be willing to make a positive move themselves and to move towards the approach. meanwhile and qaida is chief has criticized islamist groups in egypt for taking part in democracy saying legitimacy lies only ensure a law ours our haiti also accused washington of conspiring with the egyptian military to overthrow mohammed morsi while a police official says the muslim brotherhood can remain a part of the political process if its supporters abandon their mass sit ins artie's bell tree 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 from the interior ministry who 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 total one of them which ended up in the media production city which is in six or pretty big districts of the capital resulted in clashes with security forces three take gas the protesters that they have been attempting to have a new sit in apparently built barricades as well as records in tents which is why the security forces cracked down on not 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 nasr city and these are are cleared by security forces in the next few days it's very tense here

with a heavy deployment of troops in 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 you know women and children who are in these sit ins and you 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. we've got plenty more stories on our web site too including a deep sigh of relief in the american state of illinois where marijuana has been legalized for medicinal purposes go online to find out how the government plans to the people in need from those looking to use the. more than two weeks of war games. russian and chinese armies assemble for a massive joint drill check out the photographs and the videos at r.t.

of. the arrest of a russian computer programmer suspected of cyber crimes is caused another spat between moscow and washington alexander palin 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 about it a month later 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 us 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 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 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 when you went to anybody and i don't believe his tell 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'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 constant indian ocean crew was sentenced to twenty years in prison in the u.s. 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 puns will do little to help tom watson r.t. moscow. some other international news in brief now in the south of england a protest against oil drilling has entered its tenth day or the exploration

operations have finally begun after a delay caused by nonstop protests by local residents those who live close is to the drilling site are concerned that if oil or gas is found i draw that fracking will be used to extract to destroy the local environment. and a 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 a roadside bomb in to crete also left a man and his eleven year old son dead as they were walking in the city center the last three months of interreligious violence is the worst to hit iraq since two thousand and eight. as promised up next is abby martin and breaking the sound.

remember we talked about calling for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible drawings while 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 inventors keep the freedom

fashions coming but that's just my opinion. please. please. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the left side but i don't . i mean. i know that i'm. really not so. we're all for it so mostly. it's the. worst year for the food white house soup of a. radio guy minutes from a click. away what we're about to do because you never seen anything like this i'm

telling. you. what's going on guys i'm abby martin welcome to breaking at this is that 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 the relationship with pakistani leadership but instead it kept getting overshadowed by just one little issue drones the 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.