partners in surveillance comes under fresh fire for helping the n.s.a. spy on millions of germans every single day. the un is pressing for access to the scene of an alleged chemical attack in syria here on r.t. we investigate how the ongoing chaos is now allowing al-qaeda linked organizations to thrive. and egypt to pose dictator leaves prison the question on whether he will serve life behind bars for the deadly crackdown during the twenty eleven revolt still though now remaining anon saying.

good morning to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. life with your top world headlines the german government's increasingly on the defensive over its cooperation with america's national security agency has now been forced to publicly deny accusations by a german newspaper which claimed many of the country's computers work as a back door for the u.s. organization and this all comes in the aftermath of edward snowden's revelations that germany is in fact the top gear appear in target for the national security agency the overseas surveillance which berlin itself helped to facilitate apparently targeting around half a billion german data connections every single month this includes a phone calls emails text messages and web chats and all the data ends up being stored right at the n.s.a.'s headquarters very near washington d.c. tens of millions of german connections are track and recorded every single day and

that number doubles during the holidays all of it now reporting on exactly how deep the surveillance runs. should the average person be concerned about their online information being stored by security services you can analyze a person's social graph as it's called so you will know with whom this prisoner is in contact with and you will be able to identify all the communication partners and also the type of communication so often and are to respect events in germany the country's highest court ruled that storing data on citizens was unconstitutional however leaked documents show very close ties between the german b.m.d. and the n.s.a. with information on germans being passed from one to the other all in the name of security says the woman at the top would not but since it's impossible to have security without inconveniences those involved in data protection say the

inconveniences of now gone too far and we had suspicions that such a scheme was in place but not the sheer the mere extent of this regular and and. unwarranted and disproportionate measures that are taking place taken place by foreign intelligence services and we definitely need limits and effective and transparent controls the major worry for the individual is that a system that we are told is there to protect society has been used to keep the indiscriminate what we do online this istomin is not working for law enforcement this is no are catching us this is about taking all of our communication and allowing to identify our communication. it's fairly common practice for an employer to check out a prospective employee on social networks to find out more about who they are about to hire however the level of information gathered by security services is in

a different league entirely with this level of information you could see exe. who people call in e-mail on a regular basis see that's it doctor the employer may think this guy's going to have too many sick days and go elsewhere using information that's supposed to be confidential on social networking sites like facebook people freely give away information about themselves but long after you've clicked like on a web page or even search for something online that information follows you like a shadow they will know what you have been in the last three four or five years maybe what you have been interested in through all the time you might not even remember yourself would you have been looking on google but this is tim will know peter oliver artie berlin and across in the united states independent private messaging websites are now coming under fresh pressure to share their data with the

n.s.a. earlier my colleague mattress or he spoke with the founder of one such site he wants to move his resources offshore in order to protect privacy what's happened is the spies have turned the companies like apple and google into spies themselves i think the whole n.s.a. spying has had a seriously. negative impact on the trust and faith people have in the political and legal system in the united states at this point i think that people are looking at moving themselves their assets and their information offshore. one of your previous interviews you had said that you feel the u.s. could turn into electronic prison can you elaborate on a little bit well if everyone's watching everything that you do and you don't know where that information is going there's no recourse in terms of what happens with the information there's no recourse in terms of. how you can remedy things you know for example the no fly list there's no way you don't even know you're on and

so you go to the airport and they say you can't fly and there's no way to get yourself off of it and you don't know what got you want in the first place so you know that's just for flying now we start talking about the electronic surveillance it's becoming a serious problem for for a lot of people lot of people are now starting to realize that the terrorists aren't the people they're after it's the people who are just ordinary people paying taxes and doing their jobs president obama has said some privacy could be breached in order to provide security where do you think privacy rights are headed in the u.s. where they're headed in the u.s. i don't think they exist anymore in the u.s. that's what i'm hearing from our customers they are you know they understand that there's been it's not just a privacy breach it's like the whole dike has to spin completely excavate in the oceans been pouring in. still to come for you this hour here on say that of tackling nature's wrath the worst yet to come as the russian emotions use of a series of brace to evacuate more people due to catastrophic flooding that's in

the country's far east a report from one of the worst hit regions in just a few minutes. but for the meantime here on the program the u.n. is pressing for its inspectors in syria to be allowed access to the scene of an alleged chemical attack a rebel fighters sif accuse the government of gassing more than a thousand people on the outskirts of damascus on wednesday the claims being strongly rejected by all thora t's meantime the un has an immediate probe into the matter however is said right now there is no evidence as yet that any use of. of chemical weapons has taken place historian a market man who's been closely following the conflict he says the allegations against the assad government simply don't add up. the syrian government would have to be not only very brutal but very stupid to have done this in a period when u.n. chemical weapons inspectors are just down the road in damascus would be you'd have to see if they had done this if they had launched a very large scale for surely they would have sent in special troops under the

cover of the chaos caused by such an act occupy the area in order precisely to prevent kind of films and pictures of merging politically sent around the world by the opposition this after all this american troll by the opposition so a further problem arises with the demands of syrian government permit experts to visit to see syrian government doesn't control the scene of the crime if it was crimes we committed it's up to the rebels if we see no attempt to press for rebels to cooperate so in fact it seems to be probably designed to embarrass the syrian government say why don't you let the experts go to the scene where in fact they don't control the scene we couldn't guarantee their security or even possibly enable them to enter the areas where these attacks were supposed to have taken place i mean while al qaeda affiliated groups have been taking advantage of the ongoing civil war by gaining control over various chunks of northern syria guy nature can investigates how the uprisings breathing new life into the militant

organization. while washington says he has crippled al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan wising from the ashes of the arab spring is new all different affiliated groups metastasizing in the middle east and africa feeling more and more comfortable in countries torn apart by terror in the north of syria in the territories presumably controlled by the rebels the al qaeda affiliated is planning to announce an islamic state terror is not the only way they're winning support their exercising its soft power to somewhere between preaching terror here you see militants doing some ice cream diplomacy with children and al qaeda sponsored ice cream contests for kids what could be more innocent all kind of minded or affiliated groups feel very comfortable in the post revolution care also libya in iraq after a decade of civil war still stages terror on a regular basis in less than

a week more than two thousand prisoners many of them fighters have escaped from prisons in iraq libya and pakistan those were violent raids around the same time washington closed almost two dozen of its missions in the middle east and africa fearing some major terrorist attack and yet at the same time washington says this as a result of the enormous pressure we've put on the group we have eliminated all of al qaeda senior leadership in afghanistan and pakistan and because the current leaders leaders of al qaeda core so worried about their personal safety they are far less able to plan attacks the question some ask is how can washington simultaneously be so paranoid about the war on terror and be so dismissive of the threat of terror at the same time in different countries the u.s. has repeated we put the threat of terror on the backburner for some greater goal in of ghana's than the goal was to defeat the soviet union the u.s. directly helped al qaeda and bin laden there in iraq the goal was to get rid of

saddam hussein there was no al qaeda in iraq before the civil war broke out fall. lowing the u.s. invasion now in syria the greater goal is to remove assad from power too often would helping al qaeda directly or indirectly become the tradeoff that the us was willing to make to achieve a greater gore whatever it was but having made the trade off the us would then spend decades fighting what it had sparked in washington i'm going to check out and we spoke to colin campbell the author of exporting made in america democracy it believes washington's mistaken and its handling of al-qaeda. al-qaeda is merely an instrument that the united states has. developed. as facilitated censors origin's in afghanistan we funded these foreign mercenaries these jihadists are a security agency believe they are so. they can manipulate

these your heart as. to their own ends but it's a cynical paternalism the many of the jihad and should be aware of because they see them as easily manipulable but as we saw with the september eleventh two thousand and one on the attacks on the united states and other attacks that is not the case there will be blowback because these fighters have their own goals to achieve and it does not include any type of alliance with the united states they will take direction from the united states in their current goal to overthrow bashar al assad in syria they will take the money from the gulf kingdoms and pocket it but should they gain anything and it means sort of stability you can expect that they will strike back. it is friday morning here in moscow thanks for joining us for the program here on out say i just

a moment after the break i would look at what the release from prison of egypt deposed dictator of means for the nation's heaving society do stay with us if you can. this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the scene push the security play your party is it the. shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our t.v. . king right to see. first street. and i think picture. on our reporter's twitter. instagram.

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a lot from moscow it's not far off from larry king but for the meantime egypt's toppled dictator hosni mubarak has actually left jail has been moved to a military hospital where he will remain under house arrest the former president still awaiting a retrial of his complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters in the twenty

eleven revolution reporting from cairo. no. this was the chant the united to his square and the nation of the barak get out during two thousand and eleven january revolution millions called for thirty years of dictatorship to come to an end a year later with hosni mubarak on trial the nation was still hopeful for justice crowds called for the aged autocrat to be sentenced to death but now off to several rounds of deadly street bias that led to two coups and just say the two years to her ear is empty. the minute she is overseeing a second transitional period and the one time leader is out of prison the country is going to be unsafe because his release will only inflame the situation people are afraid he might make a return as president people came to the streets in two thousand and eleven oskin

for the ouster of hosni mubarak and bread freedom and social justice but years later the situation in cross the country is a lot worse the daily street battles that broke egypt have left hundreds dead economy is in freefall tourism has dried up and sectarian violence is on the rice with the release of hosni mubarak from prison for many this is the final straw was island with the release means to january revolution didn't happen and also didn't happen writes one where the revolution and the miners are now lost was no no court order the deposed leader be freed from this prison in cairo although he still faces a retrial for his alleged involvement in the killing of protesters and will be kept under house arrest some feel the court system has let him down there are claims vital evidence in the proceedings had been destroyed in the country who are disappointed in how the trial went they were hoping that the country would try harder and keep him behind bars but swear angry because we didn't want him to be

out. activists who are planning new protests say freeing of the ex-president is another sign that the army backed government is trying to back the clock i feel that we haven't progressed at all right now mubarak's release is symbolic of where we are now in the revolution i mean we never really managed to change anything at the top and this is why this is just a perfect reflection of our inability to change anything really and this is why we have to keep going forward but with his release it seems to me like we have a lot of work to do. in the meantime the eighty five year old mubarak will stay in a minute she hospital to await his next court appearance which is likely to trigger more protests and that's the last thing the divided country needs right now. for. kyra. and i we spoke to a pro-democracy spokesperson and a lot mohamed i think so the current military backed government has plenty of

mubarak supporters deep within its ranks who have simply just forget their ex boss from prison it comes at the total no surprise that mubarak was released at the end of the day it was sisi and the military junta releasing their boss and it's the judges the corrupt judges are releasing the one person and the the head of the state that people went out on the twenty fifth of january but newson to tell you what we're seeing now is not only the return of the mubarak regime it's actually the return of the head of the fire continue as well egyptians went out on the twenty fifth of january revolution we wanted a free country and we wanted the judiciary to actually be that that represents the people not the one that was appointed by mubarak it's it comes as no surprise at all the those who oppose where appointed by mubarak are the ones that actually got him released from prison. are less of a check now of some of the stories artie's web team of lined up for you so far this

morning exhausted by the hustle and bustle of air travel as we know it you can find out. not offering an alternative for those with splenda plenty of a money i decided to sort of platforms that used to the launch of apollo mission. as a time taking away ahead of australia's federal election in september julian son choose a means to clinch a seat in the senate with his wiki leaks party as admitted neglecting his brainchild those details also on online for you right now. right see. first rick. and i think that you're. on a reporter's when you're. in. the

. arts and it's time for the world update finale bradley manning has announced that he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman and would now like to be known as chelsea he's launched a bid to undergo hormone therapy while incarcerated military prison that's just a day after he was sentenced to thirty five years in jail for twenty separate charges including espionage and theft the twenty five year old revealed data about u.s. army atrocities committed in iraq and afghanistan in the biggest leak of classified military info in history he's also now written a letter to barack obama requesting a pardon but said if rejected he would serve his time knowing that sometimes one has to pay a heavy price to live in a free society and manning had spent three years in detention awaiting his fate and later in breaking the set with abby martin should be looking back at what the whistleblower went through a jury in those times here's a quick teaser of what's coming up at ten thirty am g.m.t.

. manning spoke of his experience in the leg irons which are handcuffs that essentially chain your legs together and his treatment solitary was locked up for twenty three hours a day so it was so traumatizing that when he was finally transferred to a medium security prison in two thousand and eleven he felt uneasy moving freely around his cell block manning was subjected to additional restraints story a nine month period where he was confined to scratching suicide prevention bedding and every night he was forced to strip down make it even be made to remove his eyeglasses and reading material from his cell but yet the military contends the treatment was proper. that's interesting that one government proper treatment is another man's torture so let's break that set. of you've never seen anything like that.

are we coming to you live from moscow was more than fifty thousand people have now been affected by massive flooding in russia's far east and one of the worst hit spots continues to be the city of. scott i spoke with him just a short while ago. water levels in some parts of this region have already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy knots of six hundred and forty two centimeters in the authorities say that at the moment the water stands out above seven meters and with the rain set to continue on the water levels continuing to rise we could push the eight metre mark which puts the city in real jeopardy now the problem is being caused by the river which you can see behind me it's boston's banks and the real fear is now that it's going to trickle in and start to submerge the city authorities are working around the clock to try and prevent that from happening you can see the sandbags behind me dams have been built but the problem is the water levels continue to rise the dams need to rise with them so it's

a twenty four seventh's around the clock job to try and reinforce the city around eight hundred fifty people have so far been evacuated from the states you all to be asked to leave their property some decided to stay some have decided to go those that have gone have been housed in temporary accommodation sent is in places like schools and sports arenas and sports complex is the authorities say they can house around four thousand five hundred from the city at the moment although that figure is expected to rise to about ten thousand should the problem we are right two planes of humanitarian aid are also heading this way from moscow including things such as food drinking water and medicine president vladimir putin is heading this way early next week along with prime minister dmitri medvedev and they're expected to assess the damage which at the moment is mainly the rural remote areas on the outskirts of the city where entire communities have been submerged and destroyed but the fear is with the water level still rising this city could be at risk and the problem could yet get

a lot worse before it turned over to larry king let's jump into the back now as israel says it's bombed militant targets in lebanon in retaliation for cross border attacks the day before on thursday four rockets landed in northern israel causing damage but no cash. to ease the attacks were claimed by an al-qaeda linked sunni muslim group as soon after the incident is ready prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed a tough response. the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant tepco has admitted it needs overseas help to contain the radioactive fallout that's after one of the temporary tanks used to store highly contaminated water sprang a leak this week with the incidents or as much as three hundred tons of radioactive liquid discharged japan's nuclear watchdog says it's the most serious crisis to hit the area since the post tsunami meltdown of twenty eleven. until russian cosmonauts have completed a space walk to upgrade the international space station of the more than an hour of

effort and still do you telescope mount despite working with faulty equipment the camera has a floor and another space walk will be needed to fix the problem and nasa meanwhile has suspended its own space will sit investigates how the helmet of one of the astronauts actually filled with water during a walk this july. has been a pleasure having you with us here on c just a moment larry king talking to veteran congressman ron paul about the present and future of u.s. politics live from moscow in saudi. they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and while obama snubbing

a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stone incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel a date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake this canceled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really sent a bold and possibly dangerous political message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk in the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the shrimp cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the student but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson verda commandment yeah that is how you could shows people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because still pretty much did the right thing. but that's just my opinion.

he was the father of the tea party movement a strong voice of dissent still captivates and leads a large american audience who call for change he's the former congressman presidential candidate ron paul plus daniel ellsberg the original government leader forty years ago with the pentagon and is now supporting n.s.a. leaker edward snowden it's all next on politicking with larry king. live the politicking on larry king we start the program with the former congressman and presidential candidate ron paul an old friend he joins us from clute texas where he does his shows for the recently launched ron paul channel on the internet and he's the father of the current united states senator and possible presidential

candidate rand paul ron a before i ask you about your new program and everything attested to it are you in the republican party politico says that you are you've got a detente with the party and you're closer now is that true. well i haven't paid much attention to that i haven't been involved i've never been too interested in politics in spite of the fact i spent so many years there but partisan politics turns me off but they haven't really talked to me i haven't talked with them in this state time and i have no idea what their they're talking about because i talk to some people who want to you know emphasize the big ten and others are still i'm happy about the way they were treated if they were supporters of mine how they were treated before so from my viewpoint i don't pay a whole lot of attention to it because i'm much more interested as i have been for many years on education on monetary policy and foreign policy and i don't think we get very far.