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 allowing al qaeda linked organizations to thrive. and egypt's deposed dictator leaves prison or the question on whether he will serve life behind bars for the crackdown of the twenty eleven revolution remains unanswered. your top world headlines that lie from moscow it's r.t.

with me rule re sushi thank you for joining the program today 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 that many of the country's computers work as a back door for the u.s. organization it all comes in the aftermath of edward snowden's revelations that germany is in fact the top european target for the n.s.a. in fact the overseas surveillance which of berlin itself helped to facilitate apparently targets around half a billion german data connections every month now this includes phone calls emails mobile text messages and web chats all the data ends up being stored right at the n.s.a. its headquarters next to washington d.c. and tens of millions of german connections are tracked and recorded every day and that number actually doubles during business rather busy holidays are pretty well

over now reporting exactly how deep does the surveillance really run. 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 prison is and contact with and you will be able to identify all the communication partners on lot of the type of communication so often and often 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 or not but since it's impossible to have security without inconveniences those involved in data protection say these

inconveniences have now gone too far and we had suspicions that such a scheme was in place but not the sheer the mere extent of these 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 is tim is not working for law enforcement this is no are catching 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 it. actually 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 all over r.t. early. and across the in the united states independent online resources are coming under fresh pressure to hand over user data to the n.s.a.

earlier my colleague he spoke with the founder of an encrypted private messaging service who now wants to move his website offshore in order to try and 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 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 everybody is 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 now 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 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 a lot of people a 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 just been completely excavated the oceans been pouring in. thanks for joining us here on our to today still to come for you in this hour about of tackling nature's wrath the worst is yet to come but russian emergency services are braced to evacuate more people at this catastrophic

flooding in the country's foreign minister our report from one of the worst hit regions that's coming your way in just a sec. for the meantime though here on the program on r.t. other un's pressing for its inspectors in syria to be allowed access to the scene of an alleged chemical attack a rebel fighters have accused the government of gassing more than a thousand people on the outskirts of damascus on wednesday though the claims have been strongly rejected by the author of the u.n. has ocean immediate probe into the matter said there's no evidence as yet that any chemical weapons have been used historian mark armin who's been closely following the conflict says the allegations against the assad government just don't add up. the syrian government would have to be not only very brutal but really stupid to have done this in a period when you were in chemical weapons inspectors or just down the road in damascus certainly you'd have to see if they've 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 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 far the problem arises with the demands of syrian government permit experts to visit to see syrian government doesn't control the scene of the crime which was crimes we committed it's up to the rebels we see no attempt to cross for the rebels to call for it so in fact it seems to be probably designed to embarrass the syrian government so why didn't you let the experts go to the scene where in fact they don't control the scene you couldn't guarantee their security or even possibly enable them to enter the areas where these attacks were supposed to have taken place. and in the meantime al-qaeda affiliated groups have been taking advantage of the ongoing civil war by gaining control of the various chunks of northern syria has gone

a chicken now investigating how the uprising is breathing brand 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 pair is not the only way they're winning support there 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 mind it or affiliated groups feel very comfortable in the post revolution 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 all qaeda 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. knowing 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 goal 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 had a chance to speak to call income fell the author of exporting made in america democracy he believes washington's badly mistaken in his current handling of al qaeda. al qaeda is merely an instrument that the united states has. developed. is facilitated sensors origin's in afghanistan we funded these foreign mercenaries these jihadists are a security agency believe that they are so. they could manipulate

these your heart as. to their own ends but it's a cynical paternalism the many of the jihad is should be aware of because they see them as easily manipulable but as we saw with september eleventh to chose along 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 directions 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 total stability you can expect that they will strike back. it's also a lot for moscow with me rory sushi in just

a moment egypt's deposed dictator he's just walked out of prison and we'll see if that means we're back in just. choose your language. because we know if they're going to stay still some of. the consensus get to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories get him to. choose the access to.

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live live. live . a quarter past the hour here in moscow it's odd to. cross talk soon for now egypt's toppled dictator hosni mubarak he's left jail and been moved to a military hospital where he will remain under house arrest and the former president still awaiting a retrial though of his complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters in the twenty eleven revolution in cairo with our report beltran i

know. this was the chant the united to his square and the nation and the barak get out during two thousand and eleven january revolution millions called for thirty years if you take the ship 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 in just a to two years to empty. up the minute she overseeing a second transitional period and the one time leader is out of prison and the country is going to be unsafe because his release will only inflame the situation people are afraid that 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 is cross the country is a lot worse the daily street battles that broke egypt have left hundreds dead economies in freefall tourism has dried up and sectarian violence is on the rice with the release of hosni mubarak from prison to many this is the final straw. the release means to january revolution didn't happen and the june revolution also didn't happen rights won by the revolution and the martyrs are now lost. and no court ordered the deposed leader be freed from this prison in cairo all the. he still faces a retrial to his alleged involvement in the killing of protesters and will be kept under house arrest some feel the cool system has let him down there are claims of vital evidence in the proceedings had been destroyed. in the country who were 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 but. 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 but 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. from cairo. and i would talk to pro-democracy spokes person who thinks that the current military backed government has plenty of mubarak supporters deep within its ranks who have simply not worked hard to free their ox ex boss from prison. it comes at

all 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 big mission to talk to what we're seeing now is not only the return of the mubarak regime it's actually the return of head of the dark ages as well egyptians went out on the twenty fifth of january revolution we wanted a free country and we wanted the judiciary to actually believe that that represents the people not the world and it was appointed by mubarak it's it comes as no surprise at all that those who oppose where appointed by mubarak are the ones that actually got him released from prison. i later got some other stories that are web team have been lining up for you on the web site every hour by the hour exhausted perhaps by the hustle and bustle of travel as we know it the moment your own solo

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so now eleven twenty am here in moscow bradley manning is asking barack obama for a pardon however in his letter to the president the whistleblower said that if indeed his request is rejected he would still serve his time knowing that sometimes one has to pay a heavy price to live in a free society and this follows a decision by a military court to jail manning for thirty five years on twenty separate charges including espionage and theft as well the twenty five year old revealed data about u.s. army atrocities committed in iraq and afghanistan and the biggest leak of classified military information in history during the trial manning's defense had warned of his gender identity crisis but it wasn't until thursday that he launched a bid to undergo hormone therapy to live the rest of his life as a woman. had spent three years in detention awaiting verdict and a bit later here on r t on breaking the set abby martin will be looking taking a look back at what the whistleblower went through during those times that here's

a preview of what's coming your way 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. up. if you've never seen anything like that.

just. for now though 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. and i spoke about this just a bit o. water levels in some parts of this region hope already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy six hundred 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 both states buttocks 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 downs 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 been evacuated from the city or to be asked to leave the property some decided to stay some have decided to go those that have gone but being 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're 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 rule the remote areas on the outskirts of the city where entire communities have been submerged and destroyed but the

theory is with the water level still rising this city could be at risk and the problem could yet get a lot worse. ok for the meantime proceeding cross talk with the world update as israel says it's bombed a militant target in lebanon in retaliation for cross border attacks the day before on thursday four rockets landed in northern israel causing damage but no casualties . sunni muslim group soon after the incident israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu a tough response. and the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear test has admitted it needs overseas help to contain the radioactive fallout that's off the one of the temporary tanks used to store highly contaminated water sprang a leak this week against a console that discharge as much as three her. tons of radioactive fluid but japan's nuclear watchdog says it's the most serious crisis in the area since the post tsunami meltdown in two thousand and eleven. and two russian cosmonauts have

completed a space walk to upgrade the international space station after more than an hour of effort the parents told the new telescope mount despite working with faulty equipment the camera has a flaw and another space walk will be needed nasa meantime has suspended its own space walks as it investigates how the helmet of one of the astronauts somehow filled with water during a walk this july. a converted a russian a ballistic missile has successfully put a south korean imaging satellite into orbit the launch took place from an underground silo in the southern your roles on thursday under the so-called d.n.a. program that's known by western observers as satan during the cold war and the russian missiles began to be changed into carrier rockets in the one nine hundred ninety s. this program is run by russia together with ukraine and kazakhstan and after today in our credit eighteen a successful launch is. what i'm stuffing inside the people of l.

he comes across talk. they see geopolitics is a lot like a schoolyard and what obama snubbing a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stoughton incident sounds kind of a mature 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 the canceled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relation. which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really sent a bold and possibly dangerous buckle message but obama did was more like

a minor annoyance he told us 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 stone debacle but this grandstanding just comes across a silly passing something like a new jackson vet a commandment yeah that is how you could show people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because stone pretty much did the right thing but that's just my opinion. but if you're going to like these. people.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure leg. below and welcome to crossfire we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle writing in protesting middle classes all across the world middle classes from the traditional rich to emerging economies feel the pain of the global financial crisis with newly earned wealth and better education millions to man governments to be more accountable and have strategies to meet rising expectations the failure to do so has led to mass protests and political.