comes under pressure helping the n.s.a. spy on millions of jobs every single day. you went. to the scene of an alleged chemical attack in syria iran. is allowing al qaeda. to thrive. dictator leaves prison while the question on whether he will serve life behind bars for the crackdown. remains.

the latest world news live on r.t. i'm rory sushi it's a pleasure to have you with us 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 us security organization and all comes in the aftermath of edward snowden's revelations that germany is in fact the top european target for the n.s.a. now the overseas surveillance which self-help to facilitate apparently targets around half a billion german data connections every single month and this includes phone calls emails mobile text messages and web chats all the data ends up being stored right in the n.s.a.'s headquarters near washington d.c. and tens of millions of german connections are tracked and recorded every day and that number actually doubles during busy holidays. are now reports 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 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 also 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 will not put in it's impossible to have security without inconveniences those involved in data protection say the 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 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 is being used to keep the indiscriminate what we do online this is tim 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 exam. 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 and will know peter all over r.t. early and across in the united states independent online resources are now coming under fresh pressure to hand over user data straight to the n.s.a.

earlier my colleague spoke with the founder of an encrypted private messaging service he wants to actually move his website offshore this in order to try and protect some form of 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 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

now for example the no fly list there's no way you don't even know you're out until 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 is just been completely excavated the oceans been pouring in. still to come for you in the program here on r.t. that over tackling nature's wrath the worst though is yet to come 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 few minutes. but for now here on our russia has urged the syria north to cooperate with u.n. inspectors who are currently pressing to be allowed access to the scene of an alleged chemical attack in the country a rebel fighters have accused the government of gassing more than a thousand people just outside damascus on wednesday but the claims have been strongly rejected by dorothy's the u.n. has urged an immediate probe into the matter however it said there's no evidence as of yet that any chemical weapons have been used historian mark armin who's been very closely following the conflict and says the allegations of chemical use simply 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 u.n. 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 act occupy the area in order precisely to prevent kind of films and pictures of merging little beads 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 were committed it's up to the rebels if we see no attempt to press for rebels to call for it so in fact it seems to be probably designed to embarrass the syrian government to say why didn't you let the experts go to the scene where in fact they don't control the scene and therefore couldn't guarantee their security or even possibly enable them to enter the areas where these are. this was supposed to have taken place meanwhile al qaeda affiliated groups have been taking advantage of the ongoing civil war by gaining control over various chunks of northern syria.

now investigates how the uprisings breathing a whole 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 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 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. i'm in different countries the us has repeated we put the threat of terror on the back burner for some greater goal in of ghana's stand the goal was to defeat the soviet union the us 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 us invasion now in syria the greater goal is to remove assad from power too often and 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 trade off the us would then spend decades fighting what it had spurred in washington i'm going to. and i was supposed to call and the author of exporting major american democracy believes washington's role but mistaken in his current handling of al qaeda. al qaeda is merely an instrument that the united states has. developed. and facilitated. the argentines in afghanistan we 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 all right after a very short break here on egypt opposed leader he's just walked straight out of prison details just a moment. the interview. cut. to.

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a. pretty upscale and let down the freedom to cost. quarter past the hour here in the russian capital it is r t egypt's toppled dictator hosni mubarak he's walked out of jail he has been moved to a military hospital where he will remain under house arrest the former president still awaiting a retrial over his complicity in the killing of many jury in the two thousand and eleven revolution reporting from cairo. i. know there are a mark 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 they 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 over two years to where is empty. the military 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 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. than the release means to january really didn't happen and also didn't happen writes one where the revolution and the miners are lost i was you know no court

ordered 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 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. 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 move protests and that's the last thing the divided country needs right now. kyra. i know we had a chance to speak to activist mohamed she thinks the current military backed government has plenty of mubarak supporters deep within its ranks who have a simply knowledge is freed their ex boss from prison. it becomes a 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 begin to talk what we're seeing now is not only the return

of the mubarak regime it's actually the return of the head of the entire country 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 and told that those who oppose where appointed by mubarak are the ones that actually got him released from prison or let's check out some of the stories are web seems to be lining up for you this hour at r.t. dot com for example if you're exhausted by the hustle and bustle of traffic as we know it perhaps you can launch your own solo flight nasa's hooking up with those who are loaded with a chance to follow in the footsteps of followed by floating off the historic launch pads are up for grabs are up for sale those details that are to dot com this hour. and time is ticking away head of australia's federal election in september julian choose a means to clinch your seat in the senate with this wiki leaks party has admitted

to neglecting his brainchild those details also online right now. right to see. first rate. and i think that you're. on our reporter's. instrument. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow bradley manning is now 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 serve his time knowing virt well sometimes one has to pay a heavy price to live in a free society and this follows a decision by the military court to jail manning for thirty five years on twenty

separate charges including espionage and theft the twenty five year old revealed data about u.s. army atrocities committed in iraq and afghanistan and this in the biggest leak of classified military details in history a manning had spent three years in detention awaiting his verdict during that time manning's defense had warned that he was going through a gender identity crisis but it wasn't until thursday that he formally launched a bid to undergo hormone therapy to live the rest of his life as a woman named chelsea throughout his time in the detention the u.n. condemned what it called cruel and inhumane treatment that he was given and later on our breaking the set abby martin looks just what the whistleblower had to endure here's a quick preview. 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 or she's going to be like her. or at least bring up some numbers for you here are looking at a more than fifty thousand people that have been affected by massive flooding in russia's far east one of the worst hit sports continues to be the city of. and i spoke to one of paul scott earlier in the program and he told us about it. water

levels in some parts of this region have already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy five six hundred and forty two centimeters in all thirty 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 as 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 so far been evacuated from they say to 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 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 a 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 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 step aside for sophie shevardnadze for now the r.t. world update starting with israel says it's bombed a military target south of beirut in retaliation for cross border strikes the day before although the attacks were claimed by al-qaeda linked harvests some reports say israeli jets hit a palestinian group that maintains a military base in lebanon and supports the syrian regime on thursday the israeli army's that missile shield reportedly intercepted one of four rockets fired from lebanon two of the missiles landed in israel causing damage but no casualties while a third one fell short. the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant tepco has admitted that it needs overseas help to contain a radioactive fallout and that's after one of the temporary tanks 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 and 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. a converted russian ballistic missile has successfully put a south korean imaging satellite into orbit and the launch took place from an underground silo in the southern year olds on thursday under the so-called program known by western observers as a satan during the cold war the russian missiles began to be changed into carrier rockets back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and the program is run by russia together with ukraine and kazakstan and off the today canal created eighteen successful launches. and i'm stepping out the way for our teaser sophie shevardnadze and another edition one of the latest in diffuse live from moscow it's r.t. thank you for watching today.

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 cancel 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 good 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 at 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 show 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. hello welcome to sophie and i'm sophie shevardnadze and today we're looking at friends senate leading thinkers after we are said the margins of the politics. in a presidential. race last year this woman is definitely gaining a stronger footing with her people and her ideas are quite controversial.

marine le pen once a political outsider now breathing down the neck of the establishment challenging patriarchy and politics her popularity rising is all stare at me in joblessness batter europe. in multiculturalism graveyard where social unrest is rife could she meet the way she have the strength to save the sinking ship to return from simple pleasure. from conflicts in colonialism culture shock under brussels bankruptcy we talked to the leading woman in french politics. with it and the european parliament committee almost unanimously voted to lift your immunity because of alleged racist statements you made three years ago why now and why is to parliament so united in this question.