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 we report on how far authorities are going to muzzle the media. 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. and with political and sectarian chaos wacking egypt it's a commie 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.

you're watching r t live from moscow with me and he said now it's good to have you with us straight to 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 embarrassing to the authorities the justification that chinese spies might somehow find their way into the basement of the guardian's london offices archies tests are sillier reports now on what the newspaper's editor had to say. 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 uncovered 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've had 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 guard would not be able to continue doing their jobs without this a true over of data they told him quote you have your debate there's no need to write any more and quote now 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 now he said that this is where it actually took what he calls a bizarre turn he says to g c h q a security expert says the intelligence agency of the u.k. oversaw the destruction of hard drives and computers in the basement of the guardian to 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 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 nine hours. yeah that's right he was held at the heathrow airport where he was questioned but he says six different agents are david miranda explained that he was held for a very long time and he had 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 or of this terrorism legislation have been asking for an explanation on why police have treated miranda this way why was it necessary to keep him for as long as because at sixteen really unusual you're 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 british government is willing to go in order to get a hold of those information or destroy the data that the guardian has and just stop

the reporting on the global surveillance uncovered by edward snowden well reaction to mr miranda's detention has been nothing short of an outcry here's just a little of what's being said glenn greenwald called it intimidation reporters without borders said it was inexcusable after the c. international commented to saying it was a petty and vindictive action by the u.k. and the brazilian government criticized the unjustified detention of its citizens author david swanson says david miranda detention 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 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 there 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 now america says it was notified ahead of the move that the u.k. intended to detain david miranda but says that the citizen was london alone lawyer

and writer eva gold interest says that while many be it may be strictly true it's not the whole story. 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 for 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 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

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 there behind the detention of david and whether or not they were directly involved they were notified we know that the white house is 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. obama vowed that there are plenty of checks and balances on n.s.a. surveillance to keep the agency in line but in internal audit shows thousands of interceptions each year that are illegal even by the agency's admission so how did that become so powerful catherine of investigates inside america's national security agency i was she rolled her over its legal authority the n.s.a.

is a big scary surveillance monster that knows everything we do propel to mainstream news headlines like controversy the end. say 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 the free peoples 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 thought you were achieving in opening the mail what most of us would assume to be very patriotic. americans in one nine hundred

seventy five then senator frank church had warned that the n.s.a. spying powers could come to haunt american citizens 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 manumission 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 i slowly what it did who seek out front of our team moscow. massive floods are still sweeping across russia as far east the region's main city does most to defend itself from the advancing waters as we continue to bring you the real life stories from the devastation. iraq is facing an unprecedented influx of refugees almost thirty thousand people have crossed its border with syria since thursday and the lion's share of those

displaced are kurds who are from themselves caught in the middle of the war and as archie's paul of the reports it's 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 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 seizes 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 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 as this kurdish journalist explains well you know you always dream i was sort of regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq resides have three. because islamists begin to campaign against the kurds who are refusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of. ethnic cleansing operations begin in the twentieth of july when militants launched attacks against kurdish villages saying members of the kurdistan workers' party were hiding there al-qaeda linked groups are reportedly aiming to set up an islamicist area on islamist region in this particular area this anti kurdish push is in fact a viable 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 deny they say that they are neutral in this whole conflict that goes well beyond borders. and we spoke to his son mohammed 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 serious but bloody conflict. 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 they

want chaos in the area to show that syria is far from stability. stay tuned for more of today's story after the break. the a. little oh. i. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's

all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. the. arabic to find out more visit our big don't know it's called. egypt's us already is have to take in 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 talks investigation claims police are deliberately using lethal force on protesters who don't pose any threat violence afflicting the entire country has caused a rise in militancy on the sinai peninsula near the border with israel the latest

attack there saying twenty five police officers ambushed and executed and israel is beginning to feel the effects of chaos across the border as former israeli diplomat room adding their x. . claims telhami 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 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 a splendid 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 foreign ministers are also set to review their aid and loan contracts and as egypt's economy plunges deeper into crisis and may be on a raft one of the country's top sources of income tourism is now under greater threat argues kitty pilgrim host of venture capital has more. one in eight egyptians work in and around the industry restaurants hotels to risk eyes water sports you name it and it has taken an absolute bashing of us 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 quite so the most amount of as it is 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 into matter what so that 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 either halting production sending people home or just watching the situation to see what happens this 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 is absolutely essential for the egyptian economy during the morsy 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 too as far as international investment is concerned it's not looking too attractive right now because of all the instability. well remember you can always log on to our website for more on this story also there for you today check out these amazing pictures of a japanese volcano eruption that was spewing smoke in mouse covering a city. kind of what tale of spanish fishing boats are protesting disputed waters near. amid escalating tensions between london and madrid over the territory find out what sparked the animosity at r.t. dot com.

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 de lucia which is expected to deal its hardest blow to the area in the next few days and as artie's posco reports the aftermath of the flood will be felt wong 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 altie travelled with emergency crews as they conducted one patrol in the village of. this resident dismissing the chance to

leave choosing to remain with fifteen. i will leave my paths and they don't evacuate paths where we do take pets i told you and i also wanted my books and my records to be rescued there. 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 father 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 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 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 paul scott r.t. the i'm all region. mother nature has also hit turkey farse fires in the west of the. seventy acres of woodland in just

a 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. army prosecutors are demanding that 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 assent to 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. the tokyo electric power company has admitted that containers at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant have leaked three hundred tons of contaminated water radiation levels and sea have been found to be at their highest ever level near the power plant radioactive water which is used to cool the reactors is reportedly leaking from

underground tanks at the stricken facility storing the water has been a growing problem since may and radiation in the area is now thousands a thousand times above safe levels. 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 is deny the accusations the case has been a joy and intil late august. up next smacks of stacy take game big business and corrupt bankers in the kaiser.

you know people in moscow say there are like whole web sites 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 adore 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. well it was a cry as a report on max kaiser guys don't it mom and pop you've gone and done it again

almost blowing 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 stacey exactly max well there's a myth going around that this is an unloved bull market by mom and pop that they have not participated in this rally in the dow and the s. and p. well well mamma papa vespers blow it again data shows that the ordinary retail public mom and pop are back on wall street and have no according to the investment company institute the great american public has poured ninety two billion dollars into the stock market via stock mutual funds since the start of the year now if you put that into context last year at the in the beginning of the year they withdrew one hundred eighty billion dollars at it's low but the mom and pop investor are the average investor let's give you.