syrian kurds search across the iraqi border fleeing of times by al qaeda linked rebels who see the war in syria becoming more than just about regime change. you've had your fun says the british government as it forces the newspaper at the center of the snowden surveillance leaks to destroy its trove of data the report on how far authorities are going to muzzle the media. and with political and sectarian chaos rocking egypt its economy seems to be forgotten with the latest wave of violence threatening to cut off one of the country's main sources of income tourism.

oh. it's eight am here in moscow you're watching archie live with me and he's now a good to have you with us our top story iraq is facing and unprecedented influx of refugees almost thirty thousand people have crossed its border with syria since thursday the lion's share of those displaced are kurds who have found themselves caught in the middle of the war for more our chief correspondent in the region paul this leader now joins me live paula we're seeing one of the largest border crossings migration since the syrian conflict began in twenty eleven how are the iraqi is the iraqi government coping with this. well we heard from the united. they say that the exodus shows no signs of slowing down and it's straining both very resources as well as those of iraqi relief agencies as you mention there is an unprecedented influx of refugees thousands of syrian kurds are

pouring into iraq's antonymous kurdish region now when we talk about the kurds we're talking about the largest minority group in syria they make up roughly about ten percent of the country's twenty three million they have no state of their own which is why they reside in parts of syria turkey and iraq the main concern that is being expressed by would be fakin sees is that so many of them are now stuck out in the open at at the border or at emergency reception areas with little to no access to basic services and maybe half of them are children the problem only exacerbates an already problematic with e.g. response in iraq that is struggling from being the new straits just. what exactly is behind this mass migration and why kurds. well the point needs to be made that these codes are not fully clashes between

government forces and rebels but they're running away from the spin off of this conflict their escape in the raging battle between kurds an islamist militia for control of large areas of northern syria where these codes know in fact it's home to most of the syrian kurdish minority the syrian government pulled back from this vast region more than a year ago they gave the kurds more ptolemy but they left the area extremely vulnerable as this kurdish journalist explains. why you always do i'm always sort of regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and their allies reside have three security because a slum a spear going to campaign against the kurds who are refusing to join their ranks their ethnically cleansing kurds the town of tell of this scene the ethnic cleansing operations begin on the twentieth of july when militants launched attacks against kurdish villages saying members of the kurdistan workers' party were hiding

there. now we have been seeing reports that al qaeda linked groups are reportedly aiming to set up and islamised area on islamised region in this particular area this anti could push is that surviving syrian rebels and they accuse the kurdish fighters of siding with the regime of syrian president bashar assad but that is an allegation that the kurds tonight they say that they are neutral in this whole conflict but the problem is that the confrontation has broken out into open warfare we've been hearing reports of massacres behaving kidnappings and other atrocities that are being perpetrated against the kurds again i want to make the point that the priority of the rebels and most of the reason chris to me what we're seeing is is is shifting from purely wanting to find against the regime and to draw other attacking minorities

establishing essentially a jihadist state this is a conflict that goes well beyond borders. and doesn't eat our cheese poles clear thanks for helping us understand this mass influx of kurds into iraq well we spoke to has some mohammad ali the kurdistan democratic party representative in europe he believes that the assault on the kurdish territories is aimed at undermining a political solution to syria's bloody conflict. that the state specially turkey doesn't do not like the situation in the kurdish lands so they are supporting. attacks and firmage about the most are tax and the slum state of iraq unleavened. and helping them to hit. by. terrorist attacks and this comes in time when we must head to the geneva two

conference and discuss the future of syria and the position a political position of further go to shit on salvation and this is serious because her and. they want to chaos in the kurdish area and show that there is no stability in syria and each part of the opposition connected with another state for international power that has its own interests so i think the solution in syria must be. became in the confines of generic. so if we can again united syrian opposition engineer we can succeed and save syria from destruction. massive floods sweep across russia as far east the region main city to have the most to defend itself from the advancing waters as we continue to bring you the real life stories from the devastation. and when your

home is no longer your castle even a thousand pound dad can now force brits into selling their houses to the government changes a credit long. but first the british government it seems has had enough of the media's coverage of surveillance leaks and is taking action u.k. newspaper at the forefront of spying revelations has been coerced into destroying computers containing data embarrassing to authority. the justification that chinese spies might somehow find their way into the basement of the guardian's london office and yes according to the editor it was all done in the prime minister's name he describes how the government sent agents to oversee the destruction of computers the editor outs of the guardian fought the order to the last but relented when authorities threatened legal action this revelation comes just a day after british police detained the partner of the guardian journalist heading the report on surveillance rights groups denounce the detention demanding to know

why it was made in the name of counter-terrorism a fact that lawyer and writer eva golinger finds very worrying. says clearly violating all concepts of what freedom of the press are i mean we're talking about a journalist a media outlet journalists who are now also being threatened intimidated their spouses partners as well being detained and interrogated and so clearly i mean there's been a decision made that anything related to edward snowden must the capture it no matter what violating anyone's rights the rights of journalists the rights of the media and basic civil rights in general we're talking about a search that's going on for edward snowden or or a searching capture as it would be knowing where he is and they're trying to get him by any means necessary and it's the united states is leading that effort it's not the u.k. and it's not of the european nations what i believe is that the washington to

simply put out there to all of its allies look anyone related to edward snowden must be detained if they come into your territory and the u.k. abided by that and did their duty so without a question washington is the sort of intellectual off there behind the detention of david and whether or not they were directly involved they were notified we know that the white house has admitted to that and that notification in itself shows that the u.k. felt they had to tell the u.s. hey look we've got one of the guys you know it was that they were looking for the approval of the united states which i'm sure they got. the media and rights groups are demanding the british government explain itself or use the anti terror laws to arrest the partner of a journalist amnesty international directly condemned the detention calling it a petty and vindictive action or offer david swanson says mr miranda's the tension is a warning to all journalists engaged in sensitive work there will be exceptions there

will be people like graeme greenwald who say i'm inspired to continue all the harder and edward snowden and others but for the most part we are hearing journalists say my sources are drying up we're seeing journalists get scared and we're seeing journalists move aggressively to the side of the government the effect is going to be fear and intimidation the broadest effect and discrediting of the united states government but i think if you ask the u.s. government or the u.k. government if they're willing to talk about it they'll say they were trying to protect classified information and probe prevent its publication but here is the root of the problem this information is classified because there are over classifying trillions of documents a year and they're classifying all crimes and abuses and assaults on human rights and constitutional rights under the u.s. constitution we know what sort of information this is much of it has already been published by the guardian they are trying to cover up crimes and so there aren't

two sides here there are there isn't the privacy side of the concern and then the government's concern too to rightfully protect classified information this is information that never should have been secret and it's secret only because it won't stand the light of day obama vowed that there are plenty of checks and balances on n.s.a. surveillance to keep the agency in line but an internal audit shows thousands of interceptions each year each year that are illegal even by the agencies and miss him so how did it become so powerful or does this the captain of investigate. inside america's national security agency the. embassy rolls or overstepped its legal authority the n.s.a. is a big scary surveillance monster that knows everything we do propel to mainstream news headlines by controversy the n.s.a. is still largely shrouded in mystery and now headquartered in the fort meade army base in maryland it trumps even the cia as america's most secretive intelligence agency now the n.s.a.

doesn't have spies out in the field instead there are more than thirty five thousand employees who pour over e-mails computer searches phone calls and personal data and while it's by laws state the n.s.a. is only to conduct foreign intelligence the agency has taken a massive turn toward spying at home but the n.s.a. wasn't always so intent on spying on americans it began under a different name in the one nine hundred thirty s. as a secret cryptologic service that broke foreign enemy codes in wartime the attack on pearl harbor pushed america to take intelligence more seriously and world war two the agency's missions including to sites ring communications from both nazi germany and the japanese navy and to encrypt american messages but then came the cold war three people of the world to work for. creating their freedom and with the cold war the formal birth of the n.s.a. in one nine hundred fifty two president truman authorized the creation of the agency to coordinate communications intelligence the spy center was so secret at

the time the joke was the initial stood for no such agency decades before the agency was collecting massive amounts of phone and internet records it was collecting telegraph records in an operation that raised similar legal issues and worries about the lack of oversight in fact its existence wasn't even publicly acknowledged by the government until the one nine hundred seventy s. the watergate scandal brought america's domesticity spying to light what. counterintelligence object. was it to richie being. and opening the mail what most of us would assume to be very patriotic. americans what possible justification was there. to misrepresent. capability at any time could be turned around on the american people. and no american would have any privacy left such as the capability to monitor everything telephone conversations

telegrams it doesn't matter. there would be no place to hide in one nine hundred seventy eight the government pacifies a the foreign intelligence surveillance act forced the n.s.a. to get warrants from special courts before it could spy within the u.s. but with the fall of the soviet union the n.s.a. is mission seemed less urgent but nine eleven would change everything terrorism became target number one the n.s.a. would get a big budget man a new mission president bush would go on to sign an order launching the n.s.a.'s domestic spying program and telecom companies were secretly approached by the government and asked to participate in two thousand and six it was revealed that the n.s.a. had been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of americans using data provided by a.t.m. tea horizon and bell south the n.s.a. had been tapping into people's lives well since then scandal after scandal would keep the n.s.a. in the spotlight what began as a small organization responsible for making and breaking codes would have all been

to a super secret multibillion dollar agency with a capacity to pry into every aspect of americans lives and as edward snowden's leaks would eventually show that his person what it did those accounts and of our team moscow. now remember you can always log on to our website for more on this story also there for you today check out the amazing pictures the japanese volcano eruption that smoke announced covering the whole city. but two of spanish fishing boats stage a protest in disputed waters. i made escalating tensions between london and madrid over the territory find out what sparked the animosity at r t dot com. ijaz authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed mohamed baiji this comes as a new report by human rights watch which accuses the country's military of unlawful mass killings in this crackdown on pro-democracy supporters the watchdogs

investigation claims police are deliberately using lethal force on protesters who don't pose and you threat violence rocking the whole country has caused arrives in militancy on the sinai peninsula near the border with israel the latest attack there claimed the lives of twenty five police officers and israel is beginning to feel the effects of the chaos across the border as former israeli enterprise euro explains television is going to stand by the military government egypt because it prefers that to an islamist democracy. the military regime in arab countries as betty that is and it is bad it's non-democratic it's dictatorial but it's much much much better then a regime which is terrorist inclined the muslim brotherhood has an agenda which transcends egypt it transcends in fact even the muslim world it's a terror organization which has few elements which are always also civilian in

nature military click on the other hand has limited to egypt and therefore for the sake of regional stability for the sake of the world at large and for the sake of israel i believe it's much better to have a military regime rather than a muslim brotherhood regime in egypt. u.s. has suspended military aid to egypt as it rolls whether to admit there was a coup in the country and cut the supplies completely that's according to a senator's office you foreign ministers are also said to review bear aid and loan contracts and as egypt economy plunges deeper into crisis amid the unrest one of the country's top sources of income tourism is now under great threat our chief business reporter katie bill beat pilbeam now joins us to tell us more how big is the tourism industry. it's one of the most popular places to go and it makes up

twelve percent of the egyptian economy one in eight egyptians what it in and around the industries are not just hotels but restaurants to guys museums camel rise all sorts of things. and i can tell you that prices have been slashed considerably and that's because warnings have gone out from all sorts of countries germany italy belgium switzerland france even russia too which is significant because russia quite so the most amount of terrorists go to we know that you don't need a visa to go there so it's a very popular base russians are renowned for their resilience to going to personal going really do you believe that the warning signs of now come from the russian government say do be careful and only go if it's absolutely necessary exactly what the british government of said as well. because its company is too big energy companies including shell b.p. . huge natural gas companies they are halting production or even sending people

home and just sending out warnings so they've got a bad tourist season the season either way is so and how much money are we looking at here well since the trouble started say going back to twenty eleven a sum of two point five billion dollars has been lost and that is expected to reach three billion by the end of the u.s. so is significant indeed international aging mentioned the u.s. does that from the gulf states egypt has received about twelve billion. a year is the usual so we considering bag grants to now while the egypt does have an oil industry has textile textiles. industry international aid to stay afloat is and also at the moment it's not looking too attractive to international investors either. the economics is not looking too healthy it's so interesting and also we kind of focus on the violence in the clashes and no one is really looking at how much money country is losing and how back came out of the

chaos as well katie pilbeam thank you very much for your analysis. one of the biggest cities and business hubs in russia's far east is in danger of being swamped by the most powerful floods the region has seen in more than a hundred years is now on the front line in the fight against the de lucia which is expected to deal its hardest blow in the area in the next few days archies paul scott reports now of the aftermath of the flood will be felt walang after the water

recedes. for many in russia's far east the misery continues homes uninhabitable lives turned upside down around thirty thousand people have seen their property submerged causing a logistical headache for authorities r.t. traveled with emergency crews as they conducted one patrol in the village of bailey good. this resident dismissing the chance to leave choosing to remain with her fifteen cats i will leave my pads and they don't evacuate cats where we do take pets i told you we do and i also wanted my books in my records to be rescued no sorry there is just no room for books well there is no point buy a new ones once it's over so i'm here to the beater and. the emergency services work isn't restricted to aiding just humans these bears were tricky customers because at least now enjoy dry land after days in this half submerged cage. we feed these beers twice

a day in the morning and in the evening we've got fodder for them at the moment rescuers efforts are relentless there's no rest bite but there are fears the situation could deteriorate we expect things to get a bit worse right now it depends on how much excess water they're going to dump in the hydro power station local emergency crews are getting support not just from other regions and volunteers but also the military the defense ministry says almost five thousand personnel are in the region as well as seven hundred thirty military vehicles such as this which helps them get to even the remotest of regions there are also boats planes and helicopters now it's not just evacuations that have been concerning emergency services in recent weeks they've also been reinforcing people's properties and a number of temporary manmade dams have also sprung up including this one just outside the city of black investments with tentative reports suggesting water levels in some parts of the region have already peaked the some faint optimism the

worst is over. once the water recedes the real extent of the damage will be revealed causing new an untold challenges to the hundreds of people affected here. altie the on the region. mother nature has also hit turkey forest fires in the west of the country have destroyed three hundred and seventy hector's of woodland in just one day the blaze broke out in twenty three places across the region and were found by high winds several homes were evacuated but no casualties have been reported firefighting helicopters and hundreds of ground forces have now managed to bring the flames under control. u.s. prosecutors are demanding army private bradley manning spend the majority of his remaining life in custody asking the judge to give him sixty years in prison is attorney argued for a shorter sentence saying manning deserves to have a life the whistleblower responsible for the biggest leak of classified data in u.s. history was found guilty of twenty charges in july. alarming

news from fukushima where radiation levels in seawater have been found to be higher than ever radioactive water used to cool reactors is reportedly leaking from underground tanks at the stricken nuclear power plant the issue of storage has been a growing problem since may and radiation levels in the area are now thousands of times above safe levels. u.k. police have arrested more than two dozen activists including a green party m.p. at an anti fracking rally in a village south of london there's now a standoff between officers and campaigners joined by residents who are fearful of plans to drill for shell gas in the area the demonstration in home was supported by activists in london who glue themselves to the entrance of the p.r. firm that represents core drill and the company behind the drilling lease had to use a special solution to separate the glued activists were blocking the way to the building

. lenders in the u.k. of been given the key to getting their hands on a formerly untouchable assets now hundreds of thousands of british homeowners are at risk of losing their houses even over in significant debts archies probably boycott investigates. frankie's ran up several thousand pounds worth of credit card bills that he can't pay off and because of new laws he could lose his home as a result welcomes from our humble abode new regulations state that an individual needs to just a thousand pounds on their credit card or personal loans for a lender to force them to sell their home through court nobody asked me or twisted my way to take out the credit right that small during entirely but the word unsecured was attached to it unsecured borrowing is borrowing that it isn't attached to anything initially you're not at risk of losing anything if you don't rebuy but after government you tan all that changed a charging order is a way for

a lender to secure a debt from a credit card or a personal loan against an individual's house back in two thousand and ten the coalition government promised to make the threshold for charging orders over twenty five thousand pounds but they changed their minds which means that frankie is now being pursued by the by and can face is losing his house over a debt of six thousand pounds we want to about the threshold set at twenty five thousand pounds if we want it but extra layer of consumer protection the government has made it easier for lenders to get charging orders frankie says he feels angry about the coalition's change of heart the situation should never have come about because the governments of moved the goalposts and i should never because to me unsecured means unsecured. but it's not like they'll secure more property when i didn't sign for a secured loan he's not alone britain's office of fair trading has already warned major banks over threatening to force debtors to sell their homes have

a debt of just over a thousand pounds but the justice ministry says that by introducing the threshold they're actually helping protect debt as people having to sell their house to pay off debts should always be a last resort we want it to stay that way which is why we've introduced a minimum threshold on charging orders that provides appropriate protection to creditors and debt is one ensuring that even fewer people have to sell their homes but house prices in the u.k. are on the rise and debt charities are predicting a surge in charging orders because of a debt as house gains value its sale is guaranteed to return that debts to their creditors it's very disappointing that they produce that threshold because the one thousand pounds is an incredibly low sum of money to i want to own a credit card or personal life and we don't think it should ever be the case anyone is it is a danger of losing their home over such a small sum frank he says he can't afford to pay back his debts how does it make you feel the thought of losing your home. do you think it makes me feel my ortho

for really sick and more war through was a really sick over it it's something in the good times we took pride in playing and the bad songs we've struggled very very hold this extra pressure financial pressure is causing a rift between. our relationships were strong and. last and with his court date penciled in for september it's beginning to hit home for frankie he could lose the house he's lived in for over twenty years over six thousand pound credit card bill. r.t. london next on our interior disturbing tactics that us police have been filmed using to. interrogate suspects.

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