syrian kurds surge or crossed the iraqi border fleeing attacks by al qaeda linked levels you 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. with political and sectarian chaos rocking 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 .

it's ten am in moscow eight am in cairo you're watching r t with me and he said now wait 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 as archie's paul asli reports this is yet another sign that the conflict cannot 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 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 fatal diseases that so many of them are now stuck out in the open at the border or at emergency reception areas with little to no access to basic services and nearly half of them are children the problem only exacerbate an already problematic refugee response in iraq that is struggling from being for me straight these kids are not fleeing the 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 kurds 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 lift the area extremely vulnerable as this kurdish journalist explains well you know you always do i'm

always sort of regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and the allies reside have free security because islamists begin to campaign against the kurds who are refusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of colombia the 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 their al-qaeda linked groups are reportedly. you mean to say tap and islamised area one 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 as 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 interviews increasingly 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. but we spoke to haass on muhammad 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. because the. international powers especially turkey are taking a stand against the kurds and support attacks from occurring doing so newsroom and these lawmakers 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 were 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. a massive flood sweep across russia as far east the region's main city does the utmost 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 debt can now force brits into selling their houses after the government changes a credit law. but first the british government it seems has had enough of the media's coverage of surveillance leaks that is taking action and you can use paper at the forefront of spying revelations has been

coerced into destroying computers containing data embarrassing to far at least 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 adds that the guardian fought the order to the end but relented when authorities threatened legal action this revelation comes just a day after british police detained david miranda the partner of the guardian journalist heading the report on surveillance rights groups denounced the detention demanding to know why it was made in the name of counter-terrorism affair. 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 for 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 searching 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 just 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 stimulate put out there to all of its allies look anyone 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 that sort of intellectual off or 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 using terribles to arrest the partner of a journalist amnesty international directly condemned the detention calling it a petty and vindictive action author david swanson says david moran does 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 or there or 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 agency's admission so how did

it become so powerful or does this the caffein of investigates. inside america's national security agency either she rolls or 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 now 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 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. watch the watergate scandal brought america's domestic spying to light what.

counterintelligence object. was that you were cheating in opening the mail what. most of us would assume to be very patriotic. americans what model justification was there. to mis represent a. 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 to 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 which changed 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 evolve into 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 i slowly what it did there's a cow fan of our team moscow we're going to take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with more news.

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egypt authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed body this comes as a new report by human rights watch accuses the country's military of unlawful mass killings and its crackdown on pro-democracy supporters but watch fox investigation claims police are deliberately using lethal force on protesters who don't pose and the threat of violence racking the call country has cost 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 rome ettinger explains tell of eve is going to stand by the military government in egypt because it 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 a 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 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 mauls whether to admit there was a coup in the country and cut the supplies completely that's according to

a senator's office e.u. foreign ministers are also set to review their aid to aid and loan contracts i should say and its egypt's economy plunges deeper into crisis amid the rest one of the country's top sources of income tourism is now under greater threat artie's business reporter katie pilbeam has more. one in eight egyptians work in and around the industry restaurants hotels or skies water sports you name it and it has taken an absolute battering that's because warnings of come from the likes of germany france switzerland sweden britain 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 about the visitors that go to egypt is incredibly popular but apparently now the numbers are just starting to indulge and apparently by september we might have

a situation where there will be no russians a tool and we know that russians normally go no matter what so this is a problem for egypt having said that it's not just to raise them 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 really the whole team 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 tool six to adhere to the curfew and will not be landing if they see that it is unsafe to do so it is 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 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 negotiating their loans to as far as the egypt economy is concerned baby this money because they do have industry there 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. 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 daily news which is expected to deal its hardest blow to the area in the next few days and start to support 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 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 bella goody. 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 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 and there's a 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 accusations 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. ot the move region. when mother nature has also hit turkey forest fires in the west

of the country have destroyed three hundred seventy hectares of woodland in just one day the blaze broke out of twenty three places across the region and more fanned 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. pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has been indicted 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 star of 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 denies accusations the case has been adorned until in late august. lenders in the u.k. have 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 in significant debts artie's polly boy 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 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 take out the credit write that small are doing 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 use 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 change their minds which means that frank who 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 because we want it back 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 car hold back 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 which is 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 lonely or filth or really sick and more war three 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 holds this extra pressure financial pressure is causing

a rift between. our relationships are strong and. last and with his court date penciled in for september it's beginning to hit home for frankie could lose the house he's lived in for over twenty years. r.t. london. just after this break abby barr looks at the reality of american israeli relations breaking the set is coming your way.

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white house soup of a. radio guy and for a minute from a clip that i want what we're about to give you never seen anything like this until . the following folks i'm having martin in the break in the set so president obama arrived in israel today what is now the most well documented trip the president has ever made along with a new mobile app that will let you track obama during his visit to the israeli government has helped the local contacts that finally trademarks they make relationships between the two countries this is the official logo of baraki and b.b. twenty thirteen as part of this big publicity stunt a bizarre video recently surfaced on the internet check out.