tonight the british government goes all out to block revelations on mass surveillance the paper that first published the snowden leaks says it's been forced to destroy its trove of data i've come in on that coming up. scandals continue to unfold around the u.s. national security agency and its surveillance practices we look at how the no one slowed key organization responsible for code making code breaking has become so powerful. turkey's prime minister claims he's got evidence that israel was behind the coup in egypt where the resulting chaos is played almost a thousand lives and crippled vital industry. also a human tide of desperation as tens of thousands of kurdish refugees flee across the iraqi border as their homes in syria are targeted by al-qaeda linked rebels.

live from moscow says r.t. it's just after nine pm now it's coming. our top story the british government's attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalists behind the publications just today after 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 supported he confirmed the move was sanctioned by the prime minister himself. is in london with the latest. according to the editor of the guardian newspaper alan rusbridger he 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 god and 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 and it's a global surveillance information 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 and 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 ask questions about terrorism but in fact questions about the activities of guardian journalists with regard to. also talked about what exactly happened at that detention 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. i knew i wasn't doing anything wrong now there's already been an outcry from politicians understandably journalists but also from the independent reviewer of the terrorism the legislation here in the u.k. he said he wanted to get to the bottom of this 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 the challenge those critics to think

about condoning the leaking of the sensitive documents let's get more insight on this so 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 well 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 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 the journalist 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 protect the public but actual secure secretly 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 would in danger 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 the 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 but have no comment to make let's go to guardian h.q. know lindsey german is there from stop the war coalition hi there lindsay nice to see you tonight to go do you know to trim chief says that the paper transferred its reporting of the n.s.a. to new york shortly after they were forced to get rid of this information by g c h

q are you surprised by that and b. why do you think it's taken so long for alan rusbridger to come forward now and tell us about this information. well i think most of us all surprised at the actions of the british government over this kind of thing oh i think it's very shocking i think it's very shocking because attention onto the terror laws for nine hours and those i think alan rusbridger should have made public this information whether happened and i personally don't think he should have destroyed the files i think he should've said to the previous government if you're going to put pressure on me then take me to cool and we'll have a public hearing about this so i think it's regrettable but i think it shows you exactly how warrington how damaged the governments of the world are by these revelations that have come from various of the whistle blows most recently edward snowden them where they are very worried about the fact that people can find out

what governments are doing but it should be another month of democracy that you can find out what your government is doing and i think this is what investigative journalism should be all about as far as david miranda is concerned in this questioning for nine hours is there any justification for it in your view if maybe national security could have been at risk every shape or form. i can't imagine any reason why somebody who is in transit from birth to rio de janeiro should be stopped today for our own. there are security risk i think the government security forces all very very quick to use these terror laws anyway we know that many of the cases that they investigate these laws turn out to be. not involve any terrorism we're told in this case we're talking about journalists and people who work with journalists investigating what governments do more governments cover up so i think there's no question of national security here what they don't want is

people to know some of the things that they've revealed and this is something that i think the people of this country in the other countries should be able to have more access to this kind of information not less interesting to the reporting of it was actually transferred from britain to america the home of all this n.s.a. sky lynn the first place isn't it yes it is it is wholly our will make his name. but a british newspaper has to report from new york which does have very high levels of surveillance but i think it also tells you about the level of violence in britain about the cia about the various violence there and many people are extremely worried in this country that this violence is now a very serious part of government policy it's not about keeping us safe it's about making sure that they know everything they want to know about individuals who in a white challenger and we have to really reject this and we have to oppose it in

every way that we can do on the law and of course you know a few days ago we kill exposed a large amount of data but it was encrypted data and they said they're really going to give the kid it's kind of protection if you like if it ever happened to snowden of anything ever happened to his son you see we're going to see more of that. well i wouldn't be surprised because i think the people who do that this was a plus we've seen what's happened to us and you still in the ecuadorian embassy we've seen what's happened to edward snowden. the united states all trying to get back and trying to get back from where he is in russia at the moment and i think we will see more and more people who will feel quite frightened about putting out this information because of the very high penalties that the people who give the information are now subject to the germans mr franks your thoughts live from london . thank you very frank you very much. well so far the n.s.a.

leaks of the media attention don't seem to have had any impact on the agency's surveillance practices president obama's promise more oversight but not less snooping comfort of looks at how the organization became so powerful. inside america's national security agency i was she rolls her overstepped its legal authority the n.s.a. is a big scary surveillance monster that knows everything we do propelled to mainstream news headlines by controversy the n.s.a. is still largely shrouded in mystery and now headquartered in the 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 and world war two the agency's missions including decisive ring communications from both nazi germany and the japanese navy and to encrypt american messages but then came the cold war three people of the world who work for. grading 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 that it was collecting telegraph records in an operation that were used 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 america's domestic spying to light what. counterintelligence object. was it hard to achieve being in opening the mail what. most of this would be very. american in one thousand seventy five event 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 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.'s 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 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 is person i sleep what it did this account for r t moscow a massive stream of refugees from syria's crossed iraq border almost thirty thousand people been on the run from the war zone since thursday now most of the kurdish

women and children have either leave after their homes were attacked by islamist rebels linked to al qaida. found out it's another sign that the conflict can't be can tell you 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 being spun 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 always sort of regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and their allies reside have three security because islamist begin to campaign against the kurds who are refusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of halabja 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. 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 leaning that by the 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. paula slayer thanks for being with us tonight coming up in just a couple of minutes with me kevin oh in the relentless floods that put swathes of russia's far east into a state of emergency we got more life stories from those who decided to stay put despite it all despite the dreadful forecast to promising even heavier rains they say the situation is going to get worse we're on top of that plus the sentencing of bradley manning is looming prosecutors might be pushing for a lighter sentence but as we head later in the program it's likely to make no difference at all for the army private about more than just stuff of this great.

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twenty one eighteen moscow time the judge in the court martial of u.s. bradley manning's now considering what sentence to hand prosecutors initially said money should spend life behind bars claiming that he doubted as a determined insider in leaking classified data that led to the reduce the demands but as author david swanson explains next it'll make no practical difference for the whistleblower i think that we're dealing with a judge who has allowed the prosecution all sorts of abuses thus far who has operated on a decree by the president the commander in chief of everyone in the military that bradley manning was guilty before the trial began i think the judge is going to listen very carefully to the prosecution and that they have effectively made a life sentence seem like a compromise between free and bradley manning and giving him two life sentences

which was the original proposal of one hundred thirty six years later then reduced to ninety now reduced to a requested sixty but it's a life sentence and you can't get worse than that it's not a compromise. on a web site r.t. dot com force feeding of guantanamo bay seems to have inspired a federal judge in california has given orders for the highly controversial like this to be used to break up a prison hunger strike in the golden state when we don't more about that come from us tonight going to a lot of clicks and the flip filter of spanish fishing boats staged a protest in disputed waters near gibraltar and met those escalating tensions right now between london and madrid over that territory funny what sparked it all and the ongoing animosity calm. turkey's prime minister has accused israel of orchestrating last month's military coup in egypt stop bedouin also claims western powers are working to undermine other countries democracies to anyone cited an unnamed jewish intellectual

a two parent met in france two years ago who claimed quote the muslim brotherhood won't be in power even if it wins the election and quote meanwhile the past week's turmoil in egypt claimed almost a thousand lives now both civilian and in law enforcement with the latest attack saying twenty five policemen ambushed and executed the chaos in the country's race feels that the violence might reach egypt's borders but former israeli diplomat your met in jail says tell of evil stand by the military government in karo because it's preferable to an islamist democracy. a 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 the military click on the other hand has 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. you know rest plaguey egypt's taken a heavy financial toll to the u.s. has frozen some of its military aid to cairo and is considering a permanent bloc and the e.u. has also raised doubts over whether ongoing aid loan should continue but the main damage to the economy has come from the loss of tourism a key source of revenue for egypt artie's katie pilbeam host of venture capital explains but 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 or taxes or just this week it's been a bad week because we've had museums and architectural sites being closed down but i 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 arrive thirty percent of g.d.p. at that point one in seven egyptians what it 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 the violence has taken off again so as you can see that it's been a small to assert time these two years absolutely and there's been warnings come out in abundance from all sorts of countries germany austria sweden switzerland 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 company is jumping ship to lot of companies beside in the region a lot of oil and gas while the. general motors as well as shell are all there 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 if you downgrades recently as well from credit rating agencies to this we don't want the investors fully in the direction of the us. kate it will be. a state of emergency has been declared in several regions in russia's far east where floods that are forcing thousands of people out of their homes are expected to be worsened by more heavy rains the government promising

compensation for the damage early estimates say costs are already nearing three hundred million dollars artie's paul scott's of the stricken area where the painful consequences before long after these waters recede. 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 hats 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 of medium you've got 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 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 there are also boats 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 who scott's. the move region. coming up the stories of those who've been jewed and sometimes illegal police interrogations of the united states is the next program after the break. you know people in moscow say they're like home 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 yet childfree 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 say it mentality is that these people glow in the door themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t.

shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion. the video might be shocking but it's simply a ploy used by us police offices. filming with their own cameras they inform this woman called dalia that husbands just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they suspect she may have caught a hitman to murder a spouse. try to cut.

back. with a camera. that. in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse done. what they want is a confession and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination of dalia that led to the truth and then eased the way to her prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation where everything might fall into place which explains why in the united states this method of investigation has been pushed to its very limits more than anywhere else in the world how does the interrogation take place is it an exact science can you tell when the suspect is lying and can you trust the confessions.