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 syrian kurds search across the iraqi border fleeing attacks by al qaeda linked rebels you see the war in syria becoming more than just about regime change. what's with the political and sectarian chaos racking 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 eleven am in moscow you're watching are to live with me and he said now it good to have you with us our top story this hour the british government it seems has had enough of the media's coverage of surveillance leaks and is taking action and u.k. newspaper at the forefront of spying revelations has been coerced into destroying computers containing data and barassi into authorities the justification that chinese spies might somehow find their way into the basement of the guardian's london offices all the details now with our t's tests are joining us live from the british capital tessa how did the guardian end up smashing its computers in the basement. well the editor of the guardian alan rusbridger have written about the process the time it took to get to that point actually and he had been contacted he said about two months ago by by government officials demanding the

surrender or destruction of all materials in their possession relating to surveillance of the surveillance operations and covered by edward snowden and then he said that a month later he was again contacted from what he calls quote unquote at the center of government in which he was told quote you have your fun now we want the stuff back and he had written that there were subsequent meetings with certain officials certain government officials and in those meetings when he tried to explain that the guardian would not be able to continue doing their jobs without this trove of data they told him quote you have your debate there's no need to write any more and quote we know the debate that this has brought up really is security versus privacy and the extent to which governments should be allowed to was spied on their own citizens or others now of this is he said also rusbridger said to the government that if the british government continues to legally block the guardian from doing

what they are doing they'll simply do it outside of the country and he said that this is where it actually took what he calls a bizarre turn he says to g c h q a security experts as the intelligence agency of the u.k. oversaw the destruction of hard drives and computers in the basement of the guardian in making sure that there were not any pieces that could be handed on to chinese agents so this alan rusbridger the editor of the guardian described as a very surreal or bizarre encounter and despite all of these events what some are calling as intimidation from the government or is that it is disproportionate at the guardian insists and it says that it will continue to report on the documents and the data that edward snowden had handed over to them. and it's just incredible all of this comes just a day after the partner david miranda of a guardian journalist the guardian journalist working on snowden's materials is detained by authorities for some seven hours yeah that's right he was held at that

he through airport i believe it was for more than that where he was questioned but he says six different agents and let's remember he was stopped under the schedule seven of the terrorism act of two thousand i wanted this the police can actually stop any individual and question them for up to nine hours to determine if they are terrorists or involved in any terror potential terrorism act against the u.k. and i'm david miranda explained that he was held for a very long time and he have talked about his experiences during that detention. they were threatening me all the time in saying i would be prudent jail if i didn't cooperate they treated me like i was a criminal or someone about to attack the u.k. it was exhausting and frustrating i knew i wasn't doing anything wrong. now why this is this has caused quite a doubt that if we look at the data from the home office they said that more than ninety seven percent of examinations under this specific law lasted less than an

hour a lot of questions being raised as to why he was held for that amount of time and already politicians and including david anderson who is the independent review were of this terrorism legislation have been asking for an explanation on why police have treated miranda this way certainly. to keep it for as long as mine because that's extremely unusual looking at no more than a very few dozen people a year who were kept for that length of time why was it that they wanted to question him the police are only allowed to ask questions aimed at determining whether somebody is a terrorist is that what they thought and if so on what basis. now this as this story continues to develop and continues to unfold we're getting a glimpse of what appears to be how far the a british government is willing to go in order to get a hold of those information or destroy the data that the guardian has and to stop

the reporting on the global surveillance of covered by edward snowden well lots of reaction from around the world to these developments tests are sylvia live for us in london thank you for that. america says it was notified ahead of the move that the u.k. intended to detain david miranda but says that the decision was london's alone lawyer and writer eva long go longer says while that may be strictly true it's not the whole story this is clearly violating the concepts of freedom of the press. and a journalist a media outlet a journalist. there are 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 for a certain capture as it were the knowing where he is and they're trying to get it by any means necessary and it's the united states he's 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 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 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 for using anti terror a wall to arrest the partner of a journalist amnesty international directly contemp the detention calling it a petty and vindictive action author david swanson says david miranda is detention is a warning to all journalists in gauged and 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 prayer prevented 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 that are out 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 agency's admission so how did it become so powerful caffein of investigates. inside america's national security agency ever she rolls her 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 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 the very 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 buying to light what. counterintelligence object. was it. being an opening the mail what. most of us would 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 high in one nine hundred seventy eight the government pacifies a the foreign intelligence surveillance act force the n.s.a. to get warrants from special courts before it could spy within the us 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 r t moscow. massive floods sweep across russia as far as the region's rain does the utmost to defend itself from the advance a water as we continue to bring you the real life stories from the devastated area . iraq is facing an unprecedented influx of refugees almost thirty thousand people have crossed the border with syria since thursday and the lion's share of those displaced are kurds who found themselves caught in the middle of the

war as our polls the 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 training both very resources as well as those of iraqi relief agencies thousands of syrian kurds are pouring into iraq's one ton the most 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 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 in the 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 there is scaping of 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. more than a year ago they gave the kurds more time than me but they lift the area extremely vulnerable as this kurdish journalist explains. regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and allies reside have security because islamists become a campaign against the kurds who are refusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of 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 aiming to set up an islamicist 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 kristie 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 we spoke to hans and 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. that. some international powers especially turkey are taking a stand against the kurds and support attacks from al qaeda. and the islamic state of iraq and the leavened it also launched artillery 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. stay with us here on our table got more news after the.

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a little too much of angles to the story. here. the spanish find out more visit actuality. it gives authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed body this comes as a new report by humans rights watch accuses the country's military of a lawful mass killings and its crackdown on pro-democracy supporters the wash logs investigation claims police are deliberately using lethal force on protesters who don't pose any threat violence 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

diplomats grow adding their eggs. telhami is going to stand by the military government in egypt because it prefers that to an islamist democracy. and 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 infect 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 supplies completely that's according to a senator's office e.u. foreign ministers are also set to review their own contracts and as egypt's economy plunges deeper into crisis it may be on route one of the country's top sources of income tourism is now under greater threat but now our business reporter katie pilbeam has more than 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 of 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 but apparently now the numbers are just starting

to do and apparently by september we might have a situation where there will be no russians a tool and we know that russians normally a waltz so that this is a problem for egypt having said that it's not just them either it's companies there as well we've got huge energy companies including b.p. . 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 we shared their flights to online tool six to adhere to the curfew and that will not be landing if they see that it is on say today you say 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 and 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 their loans to as far as the egypt economy is concerned they need 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 which is expected to deal its hardest blow to the area in the next few days and as scott reports the aftermath of the flood will be felt long after the water recede. 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 storage fees altie traveled with emergency crews as they conducted one patrol in the village of bailey. this resident dismissing the chance to leave choosing to remain with her fifteen can't. leave my parents and they don't even like you. tatts wait 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 bears 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 they're also bloats 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 the number of temporary manmade downs 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 but 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 paul scott. the ammo region. mother nature has also hit turkey forest fires in the west of the country have destroyed three hundred and seventy hatters of what's been in just one day the blaze broke out in twenty three places across the region and were 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. army prosecutors are demanding that private private bradley manning spend the majority of his remaining life in custody asking the judge to give him sixty years in prison his attorney argued for a shorter sentence say manning deserves to have a life that whistleblower responsible for the biggest leak of classified data in u.s. history was found guilty of twenty charges back in july. british and levels in sea water have been found to be at their highest level ever at the

fukushima power plant in japan radioactive water used to cool reactors is reportedly leaking from underground tanks at the stricken facility storing the water has been a growing problem since may and radiation levels in the area are now fouls in times of safe levels. of next max and stacey taking aim at the big businesses and corrupt bankers it's the kaiser report. you know people in moscow say they're like all 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 you have child free is no real thing sadly these are

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 in adore themselves are 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.

well to the kaiser report imax guys are guys done it mom and pop have gone and done it again playing the greater fool i guess that's why the wealth of mom and pop investor is going the way of the mom and pop convenience store fricken extinct right stacy exactly max well there's a myth going around that this is an unloved bull mark.