syrian kurds surge across the iraqi border fleeing attacks 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 report on how far authorities are going to muzzle the media. and with political and sectarian chaos wracking egypt its economy seems to have been forgotten with the latest wave of violence threatening to cut off one of the country's main sources of income tourism.

from our headquarters in moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now a good to have you with us our top story this hour iraq is facing an 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 and starts he's paul this leader reports this is yet another sign that the conflict can't be contained within syria. the exodus shows no signs of slowing down and it's straining both very resources as well as those of iraqi relief agencies there's an unprecedented influx of refugees thousands of syrian kurds are pouring into iraq's autonomous 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 exacerbate an already problematic refugee response in iraq that is struggling from being filmy stretch well the point needs to be made that these kids are not fleeing 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 and islamised militia for control of large areas of northern syria where these codes live 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 well you know you always dream our suburb regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and the allies reside have three security because islamists begin to campaign against the kurds who are refusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of taylor beyond the scene the ethnic cleansing operations begin on the twentieth of july when militants launched attacks against kurdish villages saying. the kurdistan workers party with . al qaeda linked groups are reportedly aiming to set up and islamised area on islamist 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 denied 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 creasy what we're seeing is it's 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 when we spoke to her son mohammad the leave 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. some international powers especially turkey are taking a stand against the kurds and support attacks from all kinds of doings and these low mix state of iraq and to live and it also launched attacks against the kurds to

give these groups the upper hand and this comes at a time when we should be moving towards peace negotiations where a solution to the syrian crisis should be discussed as well as the kurdish issue the rebels have links to foreign states who have their own agendas in syria the ones chaos in the area to show that syria is far from stability. massive floods sweep across russia as far east the region main city doesn't to defend itself from the events in waters as we continue to bring you the real life stories from the devastated area. and when your home is no longer your castle even a thousand pound dead can now force brits into selling their houses after the government changes a credit law. the british government it seems has had enough of the media's coverage of surveillance leaks and is taking action the u.k. newspaper at the forefront of spying revelations has been coerced into destroying

computers containing data embarrassing to authorities the justification that chinese spies might somehow find their way into the basement of the guardian's london offices 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 at the guardian for the order to go boss but relented went to far to threaten legal action this revelation comes just a day after british police detained the partner of the guardian journalist heading a report on surveillance rights group denounced the to. the detention i should say demanding to know why it was made in the name of counter-terrorism a fact that lawyer and writer eva golinger finds very worrying. this is 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 search and capture as it would be knowing where he is and they're trying to get it 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 are using add to terror laws to arrest the partner of a journalist and is the international directly condemned to ted turner calling it a petty and vindictive action although david swanson says david moran does detention is a warning to all journalists engaged in sensitive work. there will be exceptions there will be people like greg 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 prayer 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 that are illegal even by the agencies that miss him so how did he become so powerful aren't is the captain of investigative. inside america's national security agency i was she rolls her overstepped its legal authority the n.s.a. is a big scary surveillance monster that knows everything we do propelled to mainstream news headlines by controversy the n.s.a. is still largely shrouded in mystery and now headquartered in a fort meade army base in maryland trumps even the cia as america's most secretive intelligence agency that the n.s.a. doesn't have spies out in the field instead there are more than thirty five thousand employees who pore 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 in world war two the agency's missions including to ciphering communications from both nazi germany and the japanese navy and to encrypt american messages but then came the cold war three people but there were two of the four. grieving there. and two 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 in opening the mail what. most of us would assume to be very patriotic. american what possible justification was there. to mis represent. 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 passed the foreign intelligence surveillance act force 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 at his person what it did those accounts and of our team moscow we have more news coming up on our t.v. after this short break stay with us.

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the arabic to find out more visit our big don't go t.v. don't call. here with r t live from moscow egypt's authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed badie this comes as a new report by human rights watch is released accusing the country's military of a lawful mass killings and its crackdown on pro-democracy supporters now the watchdogs investigation claims police are deliberately using lethal force on protesters who don't pose any threat i haven't rocking the whole country has caused a rise in militancy on the sinai peninsula near the border with israel the latest attack there claiming the lives of twenty five police officers and israel is beginning. to feel the effects of the chaos across the border as former israeli

diplomat or plane tell me it is going to stand by the military government in egypt because the prefers that to an islamist democracy. 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 the military click on the other hand has an agenda 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. the u.s.

has suspended military aid to egypt as it molds whether to admit there was a coup in the country and cut the supplies completely that's according to a senator's office a human the search are also set to review their aid and loan contracts and as egypt's economy plunges deeper into crisis or maybe arrest one of the country's top sources of income tourism is now under greater threat our chief business reporter kitty pilgrim is here in the studio to tell us more katie how big is the tourist industry in egypt it is huge it makes up twelve percent of the whole of the egyptian economy and one in eight egyptians work in and around the industry restaurants hotels skies water sports you name it and it has taken an absolute battering and that's because warnings have come from the likes of germany france switzerland sweden and even russia now warning people to even not go or be vigilant when they do go or only go absolutely essential now russian is significant

this warning from russia because this equates to the most amount of as it is that go to egypt is incredibly popular one of the reasons is because. they're still growing better it will cause but apparently now the numbers are just starting to dwindle and apparently by september we might have a situation where there will be no russians a tool and we know that russians normally go into mother was so this is a problem for egypt having said that it's not just tourism either it's companies there as well we've got huge energy companies including b.p. shell there as well. general motors as well all these companies are either halting production sending people home or just watching the situation to see what happens and i wanted to mention that british airways as well they've even their flights to online till six to take it to the curfew and. if they see that it is safe to do you say and how much money are we talking about

a lot of countries are big. it's rethink their aid to egypt which is billions of dollars a year plus the tourism what are the losses look at why well since twenty eleven we're looking at two point five billion dollars that has been lost because of the chaos is expected to reach three billion by the end of the year and as you say aid is absolutely essential for the egyptian economy during the morsi regime they had a number of twelve billion coming from the gulf states now these are being reconsidered because of the political situation there we know has changed and the e.u. is also we negotiating bad loans to as far as the egypt economy is concerned they need this money because they do have industry that they have oil companies they have textiles they have chemicals they have materials but it's not nearly enough to sustain the economy and as far as international investment is concerned it's not looking too attractive right now because of all the instability it's like a vicious circle because of course those billions being lost will only affect the chaos exact for the world i should isn't it really is kitty pilbeam our business

reporter breaking down the situation in egypt thanks for that. one of the biggest cities and business hubs in russia's far east is in danger of being swamped by the most powerful flood the region has seen in more than one hundred years is now on the front line in the fight against the delos which is expected to deal its hardest blow in the area in the next few days as artist paul scott reports the aftermath of the flood will be felt long after the water recedes

. for many in russia's far east the misery continues homes uninhabitable lawyers turned upside down around thirty thousand people have seen their property submerged causing a logistical headache for authorities all t. traveled with emergency crews as they conducted one patrol in the village of bella 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 paths where we do take pets i told you we do and i also wanted my books and my records to be rescued no sorry there is just no room for books well there is no point by new ones once it's over so i'm here to the beat around. 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

bears twice a day in the morning and in the evening we've got father for them at the moment rescuers f. . it's a relentless there's no rest bite but they're all 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 hydropower 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 they're also bloats planes and helicopters now it's not just evacuations that have been concerning the mergence the services in recent weeks they've also been reinforcing people's properties and a number of temporary manmade 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 something to 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 move region. and mother nature as also head turkey forest fires in the west of the country have to strike three hundred and seventy five is a problem in just one day a place 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 until control. pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has been in dictate on three charges over the killing of opposition leader and former prime minister benazir bhutto she was assassinated at an election rally in two thousand and seven when sheriff who returned from a self-imposed exile earlier this year to run for office found himself under house arrest fighting

a number of charges including the killing is denied the accusations the case has been adjourned until late august. if lenders in the u.k. of been given the key to getting their hands on formerly untouchable assets now hundreds of thousands of british homeowners are at risk of losing their houses even over insignificant debts artie's polly boy investigates frankie's run 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 new regulations state that an individual needs to own 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 mile for somebody to psych out the credit right that small are doing and so i like 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 repay but after government use ten or that changed the 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 i returned to 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 to buy 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 of come to me unsecured means unsecured. but it's not like they'll secure the 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 over debts 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 it's very disappointing that they produce that threshold because that 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 that make you feel the thought of losing your home. do you think it makes me feel i mean i feel 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 sourness we've struggled very very holds 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. r.t. london. i'm next in the second part of our special report on interrogation tactics in the u.s. . you know people in moscow say they're like who websites and facebook groups about the

childfree lifestyle which i didn't believe until i saw the cover for the aug twelfth copy of time magazine yes child free is no real thing sadly basically these are people who have started a cool trend of not having children and using their time and resources completely for themselves you know if you don't want to have kids that is your business and i really couldn't change your mind even if i wanted to but there are people all over the internet who are just swimming in their own self-satisfaction like pigs in slop because they are part of the no kids trend the sickening part about this trend or should i see mentality is that these people glow in the door themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t.

shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion. the crime is that of viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank sterling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty.