but from moscow at ten 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. as scandals continue to unfold around the u.s. national security agency and its surveillance practices we look at how a once ok organization responsible for code making and code breaking has become so powerful. turkey's prime minister claims he's got evidence that israel is behind the coup in egypt where the resulting chaos has claimed almost a thousand lives and crippled vital industries. plus two human tide of desperation as tens of thousands of kurdish refugees fleeing across the iraqi border it is their homes in syria targeted by al qaeda linked rebels.

if you just joined us this is r.t. live from moscow as a said kevin owen here this hour our top story the british government's attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance has gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications just a day 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's reportedly confirmed the move was sanctioned by the prime minister himself sara sidner 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 with 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 do we 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 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 at 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 of 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 this is a story is he also talked about what exactly happened at that detention they were threatening me all the time in saying i would be prudent jury which 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 were out of the terrorism the 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 the challenge of those critics to

think about condoning the leaking of the sensitive documents now 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 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 them 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 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 would 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 them about the journalism issues thank you very much for your faults 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. and we'll be talking to our feel with cage prisoners live from london little bit later on hopefully now so far the n.s.a. leaks of media attention don't seem to have had an impact on the agency's surveillance practices president obama's promise more oversight but not less

looping artie's loose caffein of looks at how the organizations become 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 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 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 to work for. creating 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 america's dumbest expiring to light what.

counterintelligence object. was it to richie 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 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. 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 what it did. r.t.e. moscow. ok let's focus now them back on the british side it mentioned just no good talking to and feel he's from the human rights group cage prisoners i'm pleased to say joining us now live in london from outside the guardian building hi there on

word nice to see the expat with us david miranda was detained under this anti terrorism law should you seven of the terrorism act is that law as you see being misused as far as he's concerned. ok schedule seven is a very abusive law and we've we had case prisoners we've we've got that many testimonies of people who've been. with i knew. a valid justification held for many many hours and screen then interim gaited of things that are very little to do with terrorism just like mr miranda. and i to lead the very problem is not with the way the. law is used but is the law in itself. abuse of powers to police and security agencies. for mr marandi i can see very clearly it was nothing to do with terrorism has everything to do with. being

a whistleblower and bringing together tension of the public. some of the abuse that the american authorities are carrying. so does the main things that you talked about this small being abused and you represent people that have fallen foul of this law if you like what's wrong with this because is it because this law is badly worded and is open to abuse or just this law is wrong as you see it full stop. it while this law grants power. just enormous i. like to put it very simply you have more rights if you're suspected a criminal in a police station if you're an innocent man questioning the airport issue in a police station suspected of a crime even murder you have the right. to remain silent silent to an extent you have the right to a lawyer and access rights as well when you're held under schedule seven even though you're told you're not suspected of anything because there's no need for

suspicion to to detain people at the airport you have no right to remain silent otherwise you face prison term and you have no right to to a lawyer so does the problem so what's the point of this law then if you see it is it just need to mediation tactic or is it genuinely there to ensure security for a country. while from what we know and i've been through it myself the questions i asked have very little to do with terrorism and security we're asked to do it has everything to do with profiling. religious or ethnic or political myself been detained for nine hours and the questions that were put forward to me was nothing to do with terrorism had to do with my religious practice . my ideas of what folly sign and iraq in my work with the cage prison is and just same for many many we've got countless testimonies of young muslims being detained

in all communities and not the end of the day very often they bring m i five to them and try to pressurise them into working for them for forty. five and spying on their community which is an acceptable or interesting to hear how you've been affected by this to the same way it sounds like they've been around the thanks for your thoughts thanks for being on the program and we appreciate it you're very welcome to say the. feel with human rights group cage prisoners speaking to us. now a massive stream of refugees from syria's crossed iraq border almost thirty thousand people have been on the run from the water on zone since thursday most of them a kurdish women and children who had to leave their homes after they were attacked by islamist rebels linked to al qaida as paul asli reports now 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 fatal diseases that so many of them are now stuck out in the open at the border or at emergency reception areas with little to no access to basic services and nearly half of them are children these kids are not fleeing the clashes between government forces and rebels but they're running away from the spin off of this conflict they're escaping the 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 do i'm always sort of regions where the militia

of the islamic state of iraq and their allies reside have three security because islamists began to campaign against the kurds who were fusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of caleb yard 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 and islamised 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 al 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 slip ahead the relentless floods the put swathes of russia's far east into a state of emergency we'll bring you more life stories from those who decided to stay put despite dreadful full cost and even heavier

a. bus as the sentencing of whistle blow bradley manning looms we look at the army private chances of ever being a free man again the story of me kevin o. and right after this break. we'll look at. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia. the future of coverage. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

which. we can. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to. the judge of the court martial of u.s. bradley manning is now considering what sentence to hand prosecutors initially said manning should spend life behind bars claiming he'd acted as a determined insider in leaking classified data they made to reduce the demand but it's all for david swanson explains 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. over our website dot com force feeding at guantanamo bay seems to have inspired a federal judge in california he's given orders for the highly controversial practice to be used to break up a prison and a strike in the golden state when we get more on that a lot of people concerned about out he don't come also getting a lot of clicks tonight to the first tender of spanish fishing boats that says

staged a protest now in those disputed waters near job role to meet the escalating tensions between london and madrid over the territory find out what sparked all this a little while back at r.t. dot com. turkey's prime minister has accused israel of orchestrating last month's military coup in egypt tabata one also claims western powers are working to undermine other country's democracies to add a one cited an unnamed jewish intellectually apparently met in france two years ago who claimed the quote muslim brotherhood wouldn't be in power even if it won the election and quote meanwhile the past week's turmoil in egypt almost a thousand lives both civilian and law enforcement the latest attacks and twenty five policemen ambushed and executed the chaos in the country's raised fears too that the violence made great change its borders but former israeli diplomat you're a messenger says tell of evil stand by the military government in cairo because it's preferable to an islamist democracy. and 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 transcends egypt it transcends in fact even the muslim world it's a terror organization which has few elements which are always also civilian in nature 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. the unrest plague pledging plaguing egypt has taken a heavy financial toll the u.s. is considering a permanent block of military aid to cairo and the e.u.

has also raised doubts over whether the ongoing aid and loan should continue but the main damage to the economy has come from a loss to resume a key source of revenue for egypt katie pilbeam host of venture capital explains a bit 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 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 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 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 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 ones 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 if you downgrades recently as well from credit rating agencies to this we don't want the investors fully in the direction of the rest. kitty pilgrim from a business department state of emergency has been declared in several regions of russia's far east where floods are forcing thousands of people out of their homes and those floods are expected to be worsened by more heavy rains the government is 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 would be felt long after those waters recede. to many in russia's far east the misery continues homes uninhabitable lives turned upside down around thirty thousand people have seen their property submerged causing a logistical headache for authorities r.t. traveled with emergency crews as they conducted one patrol in the village of bella

goody. this resident dismissing the chance to leave choosing to remain with her fifteen cats i will leave my pads and they don't evacuate cats 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 this air hydropower station local emergency crews are getting support not just from

other regions and volunteers but also the military the defense ministry says almost five thousand personnel are in the region as well as seven hundred thirty military vehicles such as this which helps them get to even the remotest of regions there are also boats planes and helicopters now it's not just accusations that have been concerning emergency services in recent weeks they've also been reinforcing people's properties and a number of temporary manmade 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. 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 amel region. will mess they'll keep you posted other get on after the break up to martin looks at the reality of american israeli relations breaking

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many i mean family and sad towns as i'm speaking really messed up. in the old story so closely. it's. worse for the little. white house chief of a. radio guy and for a minute from a clip that i want to quote we're about to give you never seen anything like this until. the following folks i'm having martin in the breaking the set so president obama arrived in israel today what is now the most well documented trip the president has ever made along with a new mobile app that will let you track obama during his visit to the israeli government has helped local contacts that finally trademarks they make relationships between the two countries this is the official logo of baraki and

b.b. twenty thirteen as part of this big publicity stunt a bizarre video recently surfaced on the internet check out. something. thank. you welcome president obama to express our appreciation for what is done for the fonds between the united states and israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the united states to the security of israel is going to. believe it or not because this. in a parody it was actually uploaded by the israeli embassy in washington you know their marketing campaign is so good that it almost makes me forget about all that warmongering about iran and the apartheid being practiced against palestinians almost but not quite so well the corporate media continues to fix.