eight pm tuesday evening and moscow the top stories tonight the british government goes all out to block revelations of mass surveillance the paper that first published the snowden leaks says it's been forced to destroy its trove of data. as scandals continue to unfold around the u.s. national security agency and its surveillance practices we look at how a once a low key organization responsible for code making and code breaking has become so powerful. also had lightning to die turkey's prime minister claims that he has evidence that israel was behind the coup in egypt where the resulting chaos has claimed almost a thousand lives and cripple vital industries. and human tide of desperation the tens of thousands of kurdish refugees fleeing across the iraqi border as their homes in syria are targeted by al qaeda in the red.

which is joining us is kevin and here it r t h q tonight our top story then the british government's attempts to stem the tide of articles of mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications just a day off to glenn greenwald's partner was detained at heathrow airport the guardian's editor came forward describing how the authorities pressured the newspaper to destroy documents provided by n.s.a. leaker edward snowden the u.k. government reportedly confirmed the move was sanctioned by the prime minister himself. is in london with the latest. ordered to the editor of the guardian newspaper alan rusbridger who had written. it would happen over a period of two months that he was approached by officials that claimed to

represent the views of the prime minister and had demanded the surrender or the destruction of all the information that they had on the documents and data that edward snowden had given to the guardian so in those subsequent meetings that he had with those so-called security experts or officials rusbridger had said that he was exploiting the job of the guardian that they needed that information to continue doing their jobs and to which these officials apparently had told him quote do you have your fun and now we want the stuff back and you've had your debate there's don't need to write anymore and that is how those two security experts had ended up in the basement of the guardian offices right behind me overseeing the destruction of some of the computers and hard drives in the office now this so was written by the editor just a day after david miranda the partner of glenn greenwald of the guardian a journalist that had first written about it though say and it's a global surveillance information that he was detained miranda was detained up

heathrow airport for about nine hours questioned by about six agents now he was detained under such a schedule seven of the terrorism act two thousand that this allows the police to basically detain anyone for up to nine i was in question that but miranda had told the b.b.c. that he was not actually asked questions about terrorism but in fact questions about the activities of guardian journalists with regard to and they say stories he also talked about what exactly happened at the tension they were threatening me all the time in saying i would be prudent jewish 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 so there's already been an outcry from politicians understandably journalists but also from the independent review we're out of the terrorism and legislation here in the u.k. he said he wanted to get. to the bottom of this said david anderson also said he wanted a briefing from the home office and scotland yard as far as the home office is concerned and they said that david miranda possessed highly sensitive stolen

information that would help terrorism and also be challenged those critics to think about condoning the leaking of the sensitive documents a let's get more insight on this from gavin macfadyen director for the center of investigative journalism from city university thanks very much for joining us but first of all let's comment on what actually took place at the guardian offices where you had hard drives and computers destroyed what do you make of this kind of action from the government it's very forceful it's you know of a country where they would smash it up and smash the people up here they tend to be very polite so it was all done in a rather gentlemanly sort of way but with the force of the state the full force of the state was behind everything they said and so nobody was going to disagree with it understandable that journalists would be upset by this but the government seems to believe that they are justified in their actions that they have the right to do so and that they are in the right saying that the police have a duty to protect the public but actual secure security an obligation if they want to protect the public to tell the public what it is they're protecting them from

a generalized statement about terrorism in general doesn't really do the trick you've got to be able to say well the information he's got what in danger of the public for the following reasons you've got to have reasons for it no such reasons have been advanced so that no questions were asked about terrorism they were only asked about the guardian the about the journalism issues thank you very much for your thoughts there so as we continue following this developing story it does give us a glimpse of perhaps how far it appears that the british government is willing to go in terms of stopping that reporting on n.s.a. and global surveillance and getting hold of those documents and i had contacted the g.c. h.q. today and they said they are aware of the story in the guardian have no comment to make. well we're going to try to get you reaction throughout the night i can tell you very shortly we're going to talk to me and don't tease the editor of the website politics talk. joining spit late hopefully in a couple of minutes time well so far the n.s.a. leaks to the media attention don't seem to have had any impact on the agency's

surveillance practices president obama's promised more oversight but not less snooping what is loosely careful off looks next and how the organization became so powerful. the site 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 the 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 main craving 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.

want the watergate scandal brought americans down must explain to light what. counterintelligence object. was it hard to achieve being in opening the mail what. most of us would 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 high in one hundred seventy eight the government pacifies and the foreign intelligence surveillance act forced the n.s.a. to get warrants from special courts before it could spy within the u.s. but with the fall of the soviet union the n.s.a. is mission seemed less urgent but nine eleven 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 what 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 at his person i sleep what it did there's a cow fan of our team moscow. plus promises kept to the british side of this no talk to me and done to the editor of the website politics. is on the line from

london i. believe the high end are you surprised to hear the guardian claims that prime minister cameron personally approved an attempt to force the newspaper to destroy the data or it had. no not really i mean it would be quite strange of course if the white house had been warned about what was going to happen given a heads up in their own words and the prime minister i'm so for the not been informed so of course it's quite useful for downing street to be able to say that it is you know just leaving the sorts of the police but of course the prime minister would have been very well informed throughout i wonder how far this went up just out of interest as regards washington goes you think would have got as far as the president will know it's very difficult to tell at this stage obviously the white house has been about as a chiefs about the situation as downing street has been everybody wants to keep their hands rather clean of this and so they see where it goes and of course one direction and that's downhill swords or ended up in scotland yard and they're the

ones who take the flak and presumably none of the praise of course if it works out about information that was deleted the editor of the guardian the editor in chief the guardian the said basically two members a g c h q to the headquarters behind you there stood over him basically while this information was deleted but he also said it was a kind of a pointless exercise because they've already got copies electronic copies of that information abroad anyway. i'm sorry could you repeat i didn't cut out of it yeah i mean i just really wanted to ask you about the proceeds of the proceedings that went on in the editor in chief of the guardian had stated that there were two members of the g c h q basically standing over him while he deleted this information but it was a pointless exercise because that information is already closed they've already got copies of it electronic copies of broad anyway so why did they go through this rather feeble process or look silly. yeah i didn't get short of that but i think i got the gist of it is quite right that the guardian of course is working in an

international media climate can always pause materials around quite easily this is a situation that actually russia was faced with when i when snowden was training asylum puton said well you know one of the conditions of asylum is that you don't do anything else to damage the united states but of course from certain suspects if you could just say the fault was already with the guardian now that situation is flipped and the guardian can say to government officials well of course you can come and tell us the story but we can do all of our work from america where the guardian has an operation as well so we work in an international climate all media operations it's actually quite hard for the national state to do much more than complicate the investigation very difficult for it to shut it down how is this going to fight britain's reputation for press freedom. so i don't see a bit noisy way also to cause how is this going to affect reputation for press freedom that. i beg your pardon again i can i get one more to

apologize how is this going to affect britain's reputation for press freedom now a reputation that it holds dear apparently. yeah this is a very damaging moment actually for britain's reputation for free speech is being laid bare the way that the british state is very prepared to use terrorism legislation to use accusations of terrorism in order to shut down what looks to be journalistic practice good healthy investigative journalism but his reputation is on the line in a rather big way it's not getting much coverage here in the u.k. but in actual fact the u.k. ambassador to brazil was being summoned by its foreign minister today to answer questions the way this goes down in the rest of the weld looks very bad indeed and opens up britain to allegations of hypocrisy that it would not face of it had conducted itself in a rather different way ok and done thanks for braving the traffic for us there much appreciated ian dunn editor of politics don't kowtow u.k.

live on the line from london. let's take a look now at more the big news stories the saving of the day and a massive stream of refugees from syria has crossed the iraq border almost thirty thousand people have been on the run from the war zone since thursday now most of them are kurdish women and children who have had to leave after they were attacked by islamist rebels linked to al qaida and its out he's pulled a slayer reports next 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 nearly 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 into be a raging battle between kurds and islamised militia for control of large areas of northern syria where these codes live as this kurdish journalist explains well you know you always dream always sort of regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and 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 halabja the scene ethnic cleansing operations begin on the twentieth of july when militants launched attacks against kurdish villages saying members of the

kurdistan workers' party were hiding there 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 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 deny they say that they are neutral in this whole conflict that goes well beyond. it is. a head few the relentless floods the put sways of russia's far east into a state of emergency to bring you more life stories from both the decided to stay put despite dreadful forecast even heavier rains. how does the sentencing of whistleblower bradley manning looms washington's accused of trying to draw public attention away from the crimes the army private uncovered we talk about that too off this really quick break.

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and the judge in the court martial of us on the whistleblower bradley manning is no considering what sentence to hand earlier prosecutors demanded sixty years in jail for manning claiming that he'd acted as a determined inside there in leaking classified data but author david swanson believes that by prosecuting the whistleblower washington simply trying to rush its own wrongdoing under the carpet well much of what was leaked by bradley manning is still rather absurdly treated as classified during the trial despite its being public and its poll and its publication being the crime at issue is so that the government of the united states is not openly in these crimes

and is in fact upset purely as far as i have been made aware by their being made public rather bradley manning was falsely depicted as a as a confused and troubled young man on able to think clearly when he when he acted. a couple stories on our website r.t. dot com force feeding a ton of a base seems to have inspired a federal judge in california he's now given orders for the highly controversial practice to be used to break up prison hunger strikes in the golden state and get more on that story or to call. for tiller of faddish fishing boats staged a protest in disputed waters with your brawl to remit escalating tensions between london and madrid over the territory again fun of a spotlight on an animosity here go on for months now oxy dot com. turkey's prime minister claims israel has a hand in the coup that took place on the third of july in cairo where the one says

that they have evidence of television was involvement in the overthrow of egypt's former president morsi he also accuses the west of trying to grouse control of other country's democracies and one cited in the names of jewish intellectuals that he met in france two years ago who claimed quote the muslim brotherhood won't be in power even if it wins the election meantime the past week's turmoil in egypt claimed almost a thousand lives both civilian and law enforcement the latest attacks in twenty five policemen ambushed and executed the chaos in the country's raised fears that the violence might breach egypt's borders perhaps a former israeli diplomat you are met and says television will stand by the military government in cairo because it's preferable to an islamist democracy or. a military regime in arab countries as betty that is that 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

trend since 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 limited to egypt is. 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 rest played plaguing egypt has taken a heavy financial toll the u.s. has frozen some of its military aid to cairo and is considering a permanent bloc and the e.u. is also raise doubts over whether ongoing aid and low should continue to put the main damage to the economy has come from the loss of two isn't a key source of revenue for egypt katie pilbeam host of venture capital show explains more. it's hugely important it makes up twelve percent of egypt's g.d.p.

that's equivalent to what u.s. manufacturing contributes to the u.s. economy as well as that one in eight egyptians work in the industry in and around it whether it's in a hotel restaurant water wars or taxes or just this week it's been a bad week because we've had museums and architectural sites being closed down but let's just have a look at demonstration as to how those numbers have declined you'll be able to see that in twenty ten the year before the revolution the industry was booming with a record fourteen million tourists arrived thirteen percent of g.d.p. at that point one in seven egyptians what inter has plummeted q nine and a half in twenty eleven and is yet to recover a rebound was expected this year but those estimations have now been revised to see violence has taken off again so as you can see that it's been a time these two years absolutely and there's been warnings come out in abundance from all sorts of countries germany austria sweden switzerland breton even russia

now says twenty eleven they've already lost two point five billion dollars if the violence continues to escalate we're looking at three billion by the end of the year that's incredibly substantial when you consider that the egyptian economy is in a fragile state is it isn't because of the violence over the last two years they've had to rely on international aid they managed to accumulate twelve billion from the gulf states but now those loans are lying in the balance because the political situation is obviously different now companies jumping ship to lot of companies beside in the region a lot of oil and gas wells the. general motors as well as shell all that and they too are issuing warnings to their employees and the real concern the overriding concern is investment into the region because we know egypt is very much reliant on that they have suffered a few downgrades recently as well from credit rating agencies to this we don't want the investors follow in the direction of the rest. kitty pilgrim

a great new show she's got into now state of emergency has been declared in several regions in russia's far east where those floods are forcing thousands of people out of their homes to. those floods are expect to get worse as well by more heavy rains the government's promising compensation for the damage early estimates say costs are already nearing three hundred million dollars now artie's paul scott's in the stricken area with a painful consequences will be long felt 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 tatts which we do take

pets i told you we do and i also wanted my books in my records to be rescued no sorry there is just no room for books well there is no point buy a new ones once it's over so i'm here to the bitter end. 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 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 they're also bloats planes and helicopters now it's not just. 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 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 r.t. the amel region. come about the bright much the stacy are here the take on the finances of fleecing humble homeowners the cause report on air them right after this quick break.

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