it. was. a major u.k. web spying bases uncovered in the middle east intercepting vost quantities of data on behalf of other intelligence agencies. also this hour the un is pressing for access to the scene of an alleged chemical attack in syria we're investigating how down going chaos is allowing al qaeda linked organizations to thrive. and egypt's deposit dictator leaves prison while the question of whether he will serve life behind bars for the deadly crackdown during the twenty eleven revolt remains unanswered.

this is coming to life from moscow hello and welcome to the program the u.k. has been running a major surveillance base in the middle east as part of a big one point five billion dollars spying project the information has been uncovered from data leaked by the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden the details now from his lower smith. time it's an exclusive to the independent newspaper and they're saying that britain is running this secret internet monitoring base in the middle east to basically look at all traffic that goes in and through the middle east they intercept vast quantities of emails telephone calls general internet traffic you name it to pass on then to western intelligence agencies and of course to be used by g.c. h.q. here in the u.k. what it does is basically it taps into undersea cables which are called by some the backbone of the internet so they carry all internet traffic all around the world extract the data and then that's passed after it's been de coded of course the

national security agency in america it's particularly valuable they say because it can access cables that pass between submarines so that's obviously highly secret data but the program can literally intercept everything that goes over the internet it's done much more widely than just in the middle east as part of this billion pound project these why drain is the global interception of all the digital data that goes to the internet there's more than half a million miles worth of cable running all over the world cable sort of about that big about as big as a garden hose and it contains all the world's e-mails tweets texts literally everything that goes over the internet these cables make landfall all around the world where the data is then passed on to domestic networks and it's much easier and probably cheaper to tap on land so they gain access to the landing stations the security agencies they use small devices which capture the light that's being sent through the cables send it through

a prism which decodes it and copies it and turns it into readable data it's practically imperceptible to people who are using the internet intelligence agencies of course deny that they're collect doing any kind of wholesale collection of data that goes through the internet they say the operation is targeted at security preempting terror attacks and an organized crime but previously organizations very much. doubt that. the n.s.a.'s overseas surveillance reach has also sparked plenty of controversy in here up where the german government is increasingly on the defensive over its corporation with the notorious agency despite being a key nato ally germany is in fact the top european target for the u.s. according to edward snowden's revelations the cross atlantic surveillance which berlin itself helped facilitate apparently targets around hof a billion german data connections every month this includes phone calls emails mobile text messages and web chats all the data ends up being stored right at the n.s.a.'s headquarters near washington tens of millions of german connections are

tracked and recorded every single day and that number doubles during busy holidays reports now on 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. n. 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 is being used to keep the indiscriminate what we do online this is tim is not working for law enforcement this is no our 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 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. exactly who people call in email 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 done we'll know peter all over r.t.

early and across in the us independent online resources are coming under fresh pressure to hand over user data to the n.s.a. and i'm iconic matras that spoke with the founder of encrypted private messaging service and that's to move his website 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 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

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 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 to spin completely excavated the oceans been pouring in. and coming out this hour touching nature's wrath the was is

yet to come from an emergency service is a breeze to evacuate more people would use a catastrophic flooding in the country's far east our report from one of the region's interest of human. russia has urged the syrian authorities to cooperate with the un inspectors who are currently pressing to be allowed access to the scene of an alleged chemical attack in the country rebel fighters have accused the government of gassing more than a thousand people on the outskirts of damascus on wednesday the claims have been strongly rejected by authorities the un has urged an immediate probe into the matter however it said there's no evidence as yet of chemical weapons use historian mark almond has been closely following the conflict as delegations against the assad government don't add up. the syrian rebels would have to be not only very brutal but very stupid to have done this in the period when un and chemical weapons inspectors are just down the road in damascus secondly you would have seen 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 attack to occupy the area in order precisely to prevent the kind of films of pictures of merging thirty three percent around the world by the opposition this after all the american told by the opposition so far for the problem arises with the demands of syrian government permit experts to visit to see the syrian government doesn't control the scene of the crime if his crimes were committed it's up to the rebels yet we see no attempt to press the rebels to cooperate so in fact this seems to be probably designed to embarrass the syrian government so why don't you let the experts go to the scene where in fact they don't control the scene for couldn't guarantee their security or even possibly enable them to enter the areas where these attacks were supposed to have taken place. meanwhile kind of groups have been taking advantage of the ongoing civil war by gaining control of the chunks of northern syria and she's going to check on

investigates how the uprising is 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 mind it 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 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 sole 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 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 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 conon cavill the author of exporting made in america democracy believes washington's mistaken and its handling of a kind of. al-qaeda is merely an instrument that the united states has. developed. is facilitating. the argentines in afghanistan we've funded these foreign mercenaries these jihadists are a security agency believe they are so. they can manipulate

these your heart as. to their own hands but it's a cynical or terrible ism the many of the jihad is should be aware of because they see them as easily manipulated both but as we saw with september eleventh to those along the attacks on the united states and other words. 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 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. right after the break egypt's deposed leader is out of prison look at what it means

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i. i. this is us he welcomed back egypt toppled dictator hosni mubarak has left jail and been moved to a military hospital where he will remain under house arrest the former president still awaiting a retrial on his complicity in the killing of hundreds of protesters in the twenty nine revolution our correspondent boucher reports now from cairo i know. 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 in just over two years to where is empty i the military overseeing a second transitional period and the one time leader is out of prison going to 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 asking 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 to many this is the final straw was island with the release means to january revolution didn't happen and also didn't happen right. and where the revolution and the miners are known last i don't know no more outer 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 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. 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 with mubarak's releases a 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. cairo. and mohamad things the current military backed government has plenty of mubarak supporters within its ranks have simply freed the expo's from president. it comes at all no surprise that mubarak was released at the end of the day it was sisi and the military junta releasing the 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 listen to talk and what we're seeing now is not only the return of the mubarak regime it's actually the return of the head of the arcadian 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 to 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. time now to check on some stories and here's a web team had lined up for you it's also why the hustle and bustle of air travel as we know it well known child you follow solo flight nasa is helping out those with plenty of spare change with the chance to follow in the footsteps of apollo by floating off with historic launch pads read all about it on line.

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already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy thousand 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 another problem is being caused by the hour more river which you can see behind me it's lost its banks and the real fear is now that it's going to trickle in and start to submerge the city thirty's are working around the clock to try and prevent that from happening you can see the sandbags behind me dams have. being 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 state to be to leave the 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 as 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 rural 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. and some more international news for you right now and we'll begin with the most recent reports of two powerful explosions in lebanon the largest northern city of tripoli four people have reportedly been killed and forty wounded

one of the blasts occurred inside a mosque while the other went off in the city's neighborhood of maner setting off a fire afterwards and we're also hearing a hardline muslim cleric was praying inside the mosque and was apparently targeted it's not yet clear who is behind that and of course we'll bring you more details as we get them. israel says it has bombed a militant target south of beirut in retire action for cross border strikes the day before although that tops were claimed by al qaeda leaders jihad it's some reports say israeli jets hit a palestinian group that maintains a military base in lebanon and suppose the syrian regime of thursday the israeli army is 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 fell short. the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant tepco has admitted it needs overseas help to contain the radioactive fallout that's after a while the temporary times used to store highly contaminated water sprung

a leak this week the incident saw the discharge of as much as three hundred tons of radioactive liquid japan's nuclear watchdog says it's the most serious crisis to hit the devastated area says the post so now the meltdown in twenty eleven. scanning wrong for precious diamonds is no easy task but in a few minutes technology chapter eight tells you how the process can become a whole not easier. 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 date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake this 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 cold 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 stone debacle 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 stone pretty much did the right thing but that's just my opinion.

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