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. investigate how the ongoing chaos is allowing al qaeda linked organizations to thrive. and egypt to pose dictator leaves prison or the question on whether he'll serve life behind bars for the crackdown during the twentieth revolt now remains unanswered.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm rule research with this hour's 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. security 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. well the overseas surveillance which in itself helped to facilitate apparently targets around half a billion german data connections every single month and this includes our phone calls emails mobile text messages and web chats all the data ends up being stored right at the n.s.a. headquarters near washington d.c. tens of millions of german connections are tracked and recorded. every single day

and that number actually doubles during busy holidays are pretty relevant now reports on exactly how deep the surveillance truly 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 prison is and contact with and you will be able to identify all the communication partners and also the type of communication so often and us in respect to 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 is 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 of 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 is being used to keep the indiscriminate what we do online this is tim is not working for law enforcement this is catching rock to 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. so

hire however the level of information gathered by security services is in a different league entirely with this level of information you could see exactly who people call in e-mail on a regular basis see that's a 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. meantime across the united states independent online resources are coming

under fresh pressure to hand over user data to the n.s.a. earlier my colleague mattress or spoke with the founder of one encrypted private messaging service who actually wants to move its web site off shore in order to protect its 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 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 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 excavated the oceans been pouring in. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today still to come in this hour that of tackling nature's wrath the worst is yet

to come and the russian emergency services are braced to evacuate more people due to catastrophic flooding in the country's far east our report from one of the worst hit regions in just a second. but for now 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 have accused the government of gassing more than a thousand people on the outskirts of damascus on wednesday but the claims have been strongly rejected by authorities the u.n. has an immediate probe into the matter however it said right now there's no evidence of any chemical weapons have been used historian mark almond who's been closely following the conflict says the allegations of chemical usage just don't add up. the syrian government would have to be not only very brutal that really stupid to have done this in a period when u.n. and chemical weapons inspectors are just down the road in damascus secondly 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 to be 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 was crimes we've committed it's up to the rebels we see no attempt to press for rebels to cooperate so in fact this seems to be probably designed to embarrass the syrian government say why didn'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 and i mean while al qaeda affiliated. they've been taking advantage of the ongoing civil war by gaining control of the various chunks of northern syria. now investigating how the

uprisings breathing a whole new life into the millers and. while washington says he has crippled al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan why is even 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 there exercising its soft power to somewhere between preaching terror here you see militants doing some ice cream diplomacy with children and all kinds of 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 chaos of 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're 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. as we pitted we put the threat of terror on the back. for some greater goal in of ghana stan 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 following the u.s. invasion now in syria the greater goal is to remove assad from power too often would helping 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 tradeoff the us would then spend decades fighting what it had spurred in washington i'm going to check out. we had a chat with colin cover of the author of exporting major american democracy he believes that washington's badly mistaken in its current fling of al qaeda. al qaeda is merely an instrument that the united states has. developed. and facilitated centers of arjun's in afghanistan we've funded these foreign mercenaries these jihadists are a security agency believe that they are so. they can manipulate

these your heart as. to their own ends but it's a cynical paternalism that many of the jihad is should be aware of because they see them as easily manipulable. but as we saw with september eleventh. 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 i just have a quick break here on our table back with

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or at a quarter past the hour moscow time it's our technology update soon for now though egypt's toppled dictator hosni mubarak he's left jail he's now been moved to a military hospital where he'll stay under house arrest the former president still awaiting a retrial over his complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters in the twenty a level revolution in cairo with this report bill true. no no. this was the chant the united to his square and the nation mubarak 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 in 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 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 in 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 for many this is the final straw. in the release means to january revolution didn't happen and also didn't happen writes

one by the revolution and the miners are lost i don't know 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 of vital evidence in the proceedings had been destroyed. and people 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. i'm here about who we spoke to our pro-democracy spokesperson. in things that the current military backed government has plenty of mubarak supporters deep within its ranks who have simply freed their exports from prison. it comes at the tool no surprise that mubarak was released at the end of the day it was sisi and the military junta releasing their books 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 the head of the american dream 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 a tool that those who oppose where appointed by mubarak are the ones that actually got him released from prison let's check out some of the stories that the web has been lining up for you this hour on the web site exhausted perhaps you are by the hustle and bustle of air travel as we know it can launch your own solo flights as not so as hooking up with those with spare money and the chance to follow in the footsteps of apollo by flogging off its historic launch pads those details online for you right now. as time's ticking away ahead of australia's federal election in september julian. clinch your seat in the senate with this wiki leaks party has now

admitted to neglecting his brain child find out why online. right to see. her straight. and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. or it's twenty minutes past the hour moscow time. he and bradley manning's asking barack obama for a pardon in fact however the letter he sent to the president there was what i did say that if indeed his request is rejected he will still serve his time knowing that well sometimes one has to pay a heavy price to live in a free society but this follows a decision by

a military court to jail manning for thirty five years on twenty separate charges including espionage and theft of the twenty five year old revealed data about u.s. army atrocities committed in iraq and afghanistan the biggest leak of classified military data or in history and that manning had spent three years in his detention awaiting the verdict during that time manning's defense had warned he was going through a gender identity crisis but it wasn't until thursday that he formally launched a bid to undergo four mon therapy to live the rest of his life as a woman named chelsea now throughout his time in detention the un condemned what it called cruel and inhumane treatment that he was given later on a break in the search with abby martin should be looking back at exactly what the whistleblower had to and do a quick preview of what's coming up at ten thirty am g.m.t. . manning spoke of his experience in 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 been 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. if you've never seen anything like. thanks for joining us here on r.t. and more than fifty thousand people have now been affected by massive flooding in russia's far east i want the worst his sports continues to be the city of. now has

the latest from that region water levels in some parts of this region have already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy six hundred and forty two centimeters in the floor of the 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 been evacuated from the city or 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 centers 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. we have no with a choice but to deal with it everything's ruined in our place water is everywhere even the walls are soaking wet and all our new furniture is floating we don't know where to live now 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 of the problem could

yet get a lot worse before technology let's jump into the r t world update now with israel saying that a 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 the attacks were claimed by an al qaeda linked sunni muslim group and soon after the incident the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he vowed a tough response to the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant tepco has now admitted it needs overseas help to contain the radioactive fallout that's after one of the temporary used to store highly contaminated water sprang a leak this week the incidents or the discharge of as much as three hundred tons of radioactive fluid japan's nuclear watchdog says it's the most serious crisis to hit the area since the post tsunami meltdown of two thousand and eleven.

two russian cosmonauts have now completed a space walk to upgrade the international space station after more than an hour of work the pair installed a new telescope mount despite working with faulty equipment and the camera there has a flaw and another space walk will be needed to fix the problem and nasa meantime has suspended its own space walks i should say as it investigates how the helmet of one of the astronauts managed to fill with water during a walk in july. and converted russian ballistic missile has successfully put a south korean imaging satellite high into war bit at the launch took place from an underground a silo in the south in your rules on thursday under the so-called new program it's known by western observers are satan during the cold war or the russian missiles began to be changed into carrier rockets in the one nine hundred ninety s. the program is run by russia together with ukraine and kazakstan and after today

can now credit eighteen successful launches. so scanning layers of rock for precious diamonds it's no easy task however in just a few minutes technology update tells you how you can do it and perhaps become a millionaire live from moscow it's on. they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and what 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 the

cancelled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really isn't a bold and possibly dangerous but a call 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 storm debacle but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson varick amendment yeah that is how you could shows 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 he sees things that scientists people don't notice. he's.

but he hears things most people never to call him disabled but he's the world's first deaf and blind doctor of science. professor i think the other support of. the great life lived against the odds. hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show we learn how to cook the silly one i like hot my food water. our design classic still has room for improvements. on how to recycle high.