this is 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 loci organization responsible for code making and code breaking has become so powerful. also turkey's prime minister claims he has evidence that israel was beyond the coup in egypt where the resulting chaos has a thousand lives now and crippled vital industries. plus human tide of desperation the tens of thousands of kurdish refugees fleeing across the iraqi border as their homes in syria targeted by al qaeda linked rebels.

from moscow just after eleven pm in your with r.t. my name is kevin i went for it if you company just mention that 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 after glenn greenwald's partner was detained 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 for sanctioned by the prime minister himself. in london with the latest quarterly to the editor of the guardian newspaper alan rusbridger he had written. it what happened over a period of two months that he was approached by officials that coolly. 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 that 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 that 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 and this allows the police to basically detain anyone for up to nine i was and questioned 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 a stories he 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 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 david anderson also said he wanted the 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 terrorist. and also they challenged 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 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 or 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 them 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 but have no comment to make. to the reporting for us will the editor of the go. explain why he gave in to pressure from government agents and destroyed those drives carry information. we were faced effectively with an ultimatum from the british government that if we

didn't hand back the material or destroy it they would move to a law that would mean prior restraint a concept that is anathema in america and other parts of the world in which the state can effectively prevent news publisher from publishing. and i didn't want to get into that position and i also explained to the u.k. officials we were dealing with that there were other cup is. already in america and brazil so they wouldn't be achieving anything but once it was obvious that they would be going to law. i would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting but i don't think that we had snowden's consent to hand the material back and i didn't want to help the u.k. authorities know what he had given us so to me i was not going to hand it back to the government and i was happy to destroy it because it was not going to inhibit

our reporting we would simply do a problem erica and not from london go into what he'll expose first and kristen have said this is the new harsh tactics against journalists come as no surprise you have been warning about this for years let me remind you that three years ago when we were under massive attack even under dress threats and the journalists in the mainstream media did not come to our defense or even work directly against us we said you should to think twice because you're next and that's exactly what has happened in the escalation in the war on journalism we see the phone records of a.p. journalists in the states being seized we see an attempt to brand in the us journalists who were working with blowers us coconspirators who could be prosecuted and now we see this recent develop in the u.k. this is part of an escalation against the freedom of the press and we weren't about this a years ago. so far it seems the n.s.a.

leaks and the media attention don't seem to have had any impact on the agency's surveillance practices president obama has promised more oversight but not less snooping artie's lucy caffein of looks at have the organization became so powerful . inside america's national security agency ever she rolls her overstepped its legal authority the n.s.a. is a big scary surveillance monster that knows everything we do 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 and held more to 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. people of the world to work for. being 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 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 to originating in opening the mail what. most of us would be very patriotic. americans in one nine hundred 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. 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 me and a new mission president bush would go on to sign an order launching the n.s.a.'s domestic spying program and telecom companies were secretly approached by the government and asked to participate in two thousand and six it was revealed that the n.s.a. had been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of americans using data provided by a.t.m. 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 what it did this account and of our team moscow. a massive stream of refugees from syria's crossed iraq border

were almost thirty thousand people have been on the run from the war zone since thursday most of them of kurdish women and children invertor leave their homes are attacked by islamist rebels linked to al qaeda and that is paul asli reports next it's another sign of 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 base but north 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 dream always sort of regions where the militia of the islamic state of iraq and their allies reside have three security because islamists begin to campaign against the kurds who are fusing to join their ranks ethnically cleansing. the town of colombia 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 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. the kurdistan democratic party representative in europe claims the plight of the syrian kurds plays into the hands of those with an interest in prolonging the conflict. that. some international powers especially turkey are taking a stand against the kurds and support attacks from al qaeda. and the islamic state of iraq and the leavened it also launched artillery attacks against the kurds to give these groups the upper hand and this comes at a time when we should be moving towards peace negotiations where a solution to the syrian crisis should be discussed as well as the kurdish issue the rebels have links to foreign states who have their own agendas in syria they

want chaos in the area to show that syria is far from stability. ahead there like this floods the push sways of russia's far east into a state of emergency and bring you more life stories of those who decided to stay put despite dreadful forecast promising even heavier rains. buses the sensing of bradley manning looms we look at the army private chances of ever being afraid manic edge to couple stories out of the break thanks for being with us we do appreciate.

we speak your language. school music programs and documentaries and spanish matters to you breaking news a little tuna tip angola's stories. you hear. it all teach spanish find out more visit. again the judge in the court martial of u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning is now considering what sentence to hand

prosecutors initially said money should spend life behind bars claiming he acted as a determined insider in leaking classified data and they then lead to reduce their demands 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 freeing 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. much more than the coming twenty four hours until now on our website

right now if you want to check it out to force fit in at guantanamo bay seems to have inspired a federal judge in california we got the story that he's given orders for the highly controversial practice to be used to break up a prison and destroy in the golden state more than r.t. dot com i'm a following this up to a flotilla now of spanish fishing boats to stage to protest in disputed waters near gibraltar amid ongoing at escalating tension between london and madrid over the territory find out what sparked it all calm. turkey's prime minister has accused israel of orchestrating last month's military coup in egypt to do and also claims western powers are working to undermine other country's democracies to do and cited an unnamed jewish intellectual that he apparently met in france two years ago who claimed the muslim brotherhood wouldn't be in power even if it won the election meanwhile the past week's turmoil in egypt now claimed almost a thousand lives both civilian and in law enforcement with the latest attack indeed

same twenty five policeman ambushed and executed the chaos in the country's racy is that the violence might breach egypt's borders to former israeli diplomat your messages says televisual stand by the military government in cairo because it's preferable to an islamist democracy for the. 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 in fact 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 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 egypt's taking a heavy financial toll the u.s. is considering a permanent block all military aid to cairo in the eight years also raised doubts over whether ongoing aid and loans should continue but the main damage to the economy has come from the loss of tourism lately a key source of revenue for egypt katie pilbeam host of venture capital explains. 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 arrive it 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 the violence has taken off again so as you can see that it's been a small church time these two years absolutely and there's been warnings come out in abundance from all sorts of countries germany austria sweden switzerland britain 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 we'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 also jumping ship to lot of

companies beside in the region a lot of oil and gas was the 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 from a business team a state of emergency has been declared in several regions of russia's far east where those floods are forcing thousands of people out of their homes are expected to be worse and more heavy rain the government promising compensation for the damage early estimates say costs are already nearing three hundred million dollars artie's paul scott's in the stricken area with the painful consequences will be long felt after those 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 bailey good. 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 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 have been around. the emergency services work isn't restricted to aiding just humans these bears were tricky customers because at least now enjoy dr 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 stations 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 accusations 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

postcards. the move region. has a real mess there over the philippines to thousands face the same plight the monsoon in a tropical storm above massive flooding across the country claimed at least seven lives more than one hundred thirty thousand others affected the french rain continues to batter the capital with flights that were canceled schools offices and embassies closed off all manila is under water the national weather agency's issued its highest alert saying flood levels are said to the boys will keep an eye on that as well. pakistan's former president pervez musharraf has been charged in connection with the two thousand and seven assassination of opposition leader and former prime minister benazir bhutto he denied the accusation when he appeared in court amid tight security the sheriff returned from his self-imposed exile earlier this year to run for office but ended up under house arrest for a number of charges including bhutto's killing his trials been adjourned because of

taliban threats against bashir. more news twenty four seven if you not me a t.v. could see a website tarty dot com macos x. and stacey take on the finance he is with fleecing more humble homeowners because report on air after this break. you know people in moscow say they're like whole 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 yes childfree is now a 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 kaiser report imax guys are gonna stir it mom and pop you've gone and done it again almost playing the greater fool i guess that's why the wealth of mom and pop investor is going the way of the mom and pop convenience store fricken extinct right 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 by a stock mutual funds since the start of the year now to put that into context last year at the in the beginning of the year they withdrew one hundred eighty billion dollars at its low but the mom and pop investor are the average investor let's give you a visual demonstration of what happens to these poor people oh my goodness cohen if that was my net worth i just went into that those fair you see they always come in at the top and they come in with borrowed money they come in with margin margin if they should miss it i'll try to get margin debt is never been higher than it is right now same thing for the bond market stacy that's why the vast majority of it testers were oh my god oh my goodness gracious of the vast majority of investors they came into this market.