access all areas millions of people's internet and phone data is being harvested by british intelligence agency according to reports that leading telecom companies gave it g c h q unfettered assistance. while in the u.s. calls to scrap a massive n.s.a. surveillance program are ignored as politicians seem more intent on attacking edward snowden. and america warns its citizens to stay away from the middle east because of fears al qaeda is planning a major terror attack with some experts saying washington's policies in the region continue to fuel resentment.

and why for moscow this is thomas going to have you with us some of the world's leading telecom companies have been exposed as giving a u.k. spy agency complete access to their networks giants like for eyes and business vodafone cable and british telecom were among the companies on the list published by a german newspaper that's according to a fresh round of revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden documents released by him suggest seven companies have been secretly providing g c h q with unlimited access to their network of undersea cables that has allowed spies to allegedly tap and store data for millions of phone calls emails and facebook chats is comes as g.c.a. h.q. reportedly got one hundred million pounds from washington in exchange for access to the u.k.'s signal intelligence programs or t's first has details. 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 has revealed details of an operation named tempera that head it was alleged been looking at the data hoovering programs for the british spy agency g c h q and that had said that they were able to access these companies fiberoptic cables and access that huge chunk of information that was being carried in and store it for thirty days data that's being released by whistleblower edward snowden prior to his gaining asylum in russia not 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 that complying with the law and not disclosing customer data in any jurisdiction and less legally required to

decern under the one nine hundred eighty four telecommunications act these companies can be compelled to cooperate with government 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 enough when asked to parse over this big chunk of information and of course this is just the latest in a search 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 that a g c eight he had actually been funded by washington to the tune of one hundred million pounds now that was for a period of eva three years and those payments made to secure access to british intelligence gathering programs and in return is a list the g c h q were required to quote pull its weight another will embarrass

him 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. r.t. sara first reporting for us there now british intelligence analyst glenmore trinny or harvey says u.k. and u.s. spies helping each other goes back a long way back in the one nine hundred fifty s. there was an arrangement between the united kingdom the united states canada straight and using an old was a old information and g.c. h.q. like the n.s.a. and it's a very busy place in their operations in fact there are three main locations in the united kingdom menwith hill you know how to get. the big dome. the stone off as they call it it shows them and when so formal these have all been funded in the main by the national security agency and the management mentioned was

that there are seven hundred fifty national security agency american employees working now so they meld together they might as well be known as the n.s.a. g.h.q. there are so close 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 are these going to can comment on 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 so boring everything is done in accordance with the law congress has already killed the bill that would make the n.s.a. walk back some of its powers so as of now no concrete steps have been taken to rein

in n.s.a. surveillance but call 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 download of course the tracking snowden is much easier for the white house defending the 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 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 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 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. the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance program didn't escape the attention of those attending a major annual hacking conference in las vegas one of the participants who goes by the nickname vince in the bay told our t.v. given the government's much criticized snooping methods it's unfair that hackers are portrayed as bogeyman. the term hacker is sort of been demonized and. made into almost as a slur in the media and general you've got barack obama who is just brushing off edward snowden as just a hacker and playing it off as if that's

a bad thing i don't believe edward snowden hacked anything he just simply revealed information that he had already had access to and i don't think that's fair to hackers at all and a lot of it is to me is just curiosity i think because people just want to go into networks and see how they work or you know. some people are doing it for security purposes to you know find vulnerabilities in a network and those are hackers they they get paid to try to break into systems they have good intentions in mind they're so so just suggests call somebody off the cuff a hacker as if he's you know automatically a crew that as if that means you're a criminal automatically i think that's really unfair. there's obviously an entertainment component to this as well as edward snowden has not only made headlines he's become the new hero in a video game a new smartphone app called the 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 you can see him running through right there if he's caught in the digital snowden gets a one way ticket to guantanamo bay there's also a call uncle putin option which drops a hydrogen bomb on the chase or allowing the player to escape. the u.s. state department has issued a temporary worldwide travel alert amid fears of a major al qaeda terror attack washington has already ordered the temporary closure of twenty one american embassies in the middle east due to the threat the u.k. germany and france have also followed suit and announced that they too will close their missions in yemen author and historian gerald horne says america's regional policies have backfired i think that 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 isn't involved a number of u.s. nationals and european nationals going into syria to fight with the so-called jihad this is given to shut me armed to a kind of back force this was just no knows where from and syria which is tied to al qaeda and 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 the conflict in syria is growing increasingly better with the involvement of extremist militants the violence from al-qaeda linked groups has spread to ever more remote communities in the country about two weeks ago around two hundred

kurdish civilians including women and children were taken hostage in syria after clashes with jihadists that followed an attack which claimed the life of one kurdish leader. has the story. so during 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 that kurds are actually the largest nation in the world that does not have its 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 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're also helping videos posted on the internet which claim to be pictures all but kurds who have come under attack from the from the dead for you to 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 completed 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's immediately after ramadan ends and that is just and we saw it and 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. and coming up in our program police in turkey have once again used tear gas and water cannons against protesters. the government is accused of intensifying its crackdown on those angry at what's seen as prime minister. rock band blood hound gang has been banned from a music festival in russia after one band member shot the country's flag into his underpants on stage that after a short break. reverberate through the centuries when vengeance called for blood. hanging in this member years. and faith in the caucasus.

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i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. and welcome back you're with our team in central istanbul turkish riot police have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse small groups rallying against what's seen as prime minister erdogan is authoritarian policies hasn't been intensifying

its crackdown on demonstrations that have rocked the country since may with some lawmakers saying the ringleaders could face life imprisonment alif a cool in istanbul based journalist witnessed the police intervention here's what she had to say actually people came back in the day we did social media and then we called and they said at one meeting people that think they did i would like hundreds of people were in fact think today while they were getting to sleep at that with no official fiction that protests are illiterate or forces are not a low do whole thing was in a sequestered in a very cold this street because especially on fridays and saturdays there are a lot of people and the police actually closed the full street both to give the park to give the parties the fact that to hold the class has tried it in the park across the may after that there was some small group attacked by the police and it still goes on all the way through thinking because nobody knows who is the

organizers of this today and the police is right now actually at full people we want to be political journalists. with local. streets also with your gas and we want to know what is this. hassan rouhani is now officially iran's president he was endorsed by the country's supreme religious leader rouhani was elected in june promising to end of the country's international isolation but his inauguration it was greeted in the u.s. by calls from over seventy senators for tougher measures against the islamic republic political analyst professor saeed mohammad marandi says that the new president should not be underestimated what's interesting is often when 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 he is

a very powerful figure he is the second most important person in iran and he has the vote over half of iranians and in the in the not election that had a very high turnout over seventy two percent almost seventy three percent if the united states is willing to take this opportunity to really evaluate its policies towards iran and take a serious step toward the iranians and president rowhani will definitely be willing to make a positive move themselves and to move towards rapprochement. for more on this as well as many other stories you can always head to our website or t. dot com here's a quick preview of what we have lined up for you right now. in fact some of you might be wondering if america has just gotten bigger or should its neighbors be worried after the head of the senate intelligence committee included both mexico and canada and what is considered homeland territories and a chart she used at a briefing find out more online plus.

they have discovered what they call a graveyard inside our own solar system many of the comments are only dormant but you can head over to dot com to find out what could bring them back to life. american rock group the bloodhound gang have got them banned from performing at a russian music festival the band has been splattered with eggs and tomatoes on their arrival in the country after their bass player shoved the russian flag down his trousers during a gig in ukraine earlier my colleague discussed the story with our correspondent.

now the famous american punk band the blood hound gang had a concert in the city of odessa in ukraine several days ago and during that concert will be able to see that in the video now the bass player jared hasselhoff took out a russian flag all of a sudden and put it into his trousers before taking it out and throwing it into the crowd the front man of the band jimi properly later intervened said that he did not support of this action which is hard to believe because several days before that concert they had a gig in key of and during that concert jimmy properly was shouting the f. word russia from the stage now this story gets even more crazier because this band was supposed to perform this weekend in russia in south and part of the country during the combine a festival they came over there they were told that they will not perform because the ministry of culture deemed this act is very offensive and that and they canceled their performance still they received their money and were on their way back to the airport when they were thrown at their bus to majors and there was even

a small demonstration in front of the front of the bus so they arrive to the airport went into the v.i.p. section when several men stormed into the base of the section and attacked the band reportedly one of the members of the band was strangled with this american flag so we can definitely say that this time lot on again would not need any water to let things burn because their bridges with russia are totally torched so after getting clearly a very angry reaction after arriving here in russia earlier you said you weren't too sure what the motivation was did they try and explain what did happen because obviously there are a lot of questions when they arrived in russia why did it happen while they try to apologize and said they did this simply to their fans in a death so of course they are a punk band they're no strangers to different sorts of controversies and during concerts in moscow and they've had lots of concerts in russia i've been to several of them personally they've been chanting something anti-american so this is like

maybe their definition of controversy another time but definitely the antics with the flag putting it into the trousers this is something and seen before just as the attack on the musicians in russia something unseen before as well. for more news around the world let's take a look at our world updates now police have broken up a sit in staged by hundreds of leftwing protesters in a small city in northern germany activists were trying to prevent a vigil by far right groups in memory of nazi war criminals who they say were abused after world war two the annual vigil that was supposed to last for hours was cut short by forty five minutes some protesters are facing charges for resisting authority. flooding has forced more than five thousand people to flee their homes in northeastern china trench all rains hit the region in the early hours of friday morning sparking mass evacuation of residents to safety water levels are still rising as for the rescue efforts are underway. new zealanders

found ten new zealanders on terror excuse me the world's largest dairy producer announced it had found the bacteria that causes botulism the country's authorities ordered a global recall of up to one thousand tons of dairy products botulism is a potentially fatal paralytic illness which affects the muscles and can cause respiratory problems. tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the taiwanese the capital to vent their anger over the death of a young conscript a twenty four year old died of heat stroke after being forced to perform excessive physical exercise as punishment for misconduct incident happened three days before the end of his compulsory military service the defense minister has already resigned while eighteen army officers have been charged in connection with the case . a series of shootings and bomb attacks across iraq have left at least one

thousand dead many of them civilians the deadliest attack took place about one hundred kilometers north of baghdad when a convoy carrying a top military commander was ambushed by a gunman commander scaped with six of his bodyguards were killed the country's suffering in the worst wave of violence in five years the death toll now exceeds four thousand people since january alone. and coming up our team looks at the ancient custom of blood feuds in russia's caucasus region and how they're changing in the twenty first century stay with us. i've got a big question for you how stupid can stupid terrorist paranoia get according to

four 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 playing to sneak a bomb into the place at any cost according to news at 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 well you know 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 but 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.

cleaning his gun after being on duty is a matter of priority it's almost a ritual for him and he's helped by his seven year old son. i want my son to be a soldier everybody in our family has been a military man. my father and even my grandfather and his time it's always been that way you could say our family loves weapons. and already disassembled a pistol by himself and knows where each individual part. is it's not too heavy for him it's just his hands are too small. this is

being prepared for adult life in chechnya several generations of the family have followed the chechen code every shooting is answered with another. they have taken revenge for each one of their murdered clan members. yes very much so he says are you going to carry a gun i will he says we have always had respect for weapons and i suppose it's been that way for centuries it's hard. ismail's grandfather of. the church and world for father. to also trained his children nephews to handle weapons when they were still very

young. being able to handle a gun is one of the most important skills for a chechen man. during the chechen war. group of separatists fighting against russia in a bid to achieve independence for chechnya. but when the gunmen turned ideological war into a business by abducting and killing people for money. to the federal forces after they guaranteed amnesty hundreds of gunmen surrendered at that time. to handle weapons they might not be necessarily directed against. it's possible my children. during the war. killed.