big british broadway's will change the middle east the u.k. runs a secret snooping station intercepting e-mails phone calls and web traffic the latest leak from whistleblower edward snowden revealed. the doctor says online reports accusing the syrian government of a chemical attack were released before the alleged incident even happened after he looks at how terrorist groups are taking advantage of the chaos in the region. and the prison release of age of the departed leader hosni mubarak stokes under among the supporters of his ousted mohamed morsy who remains in detention.

this is these who live from moscow hello and welcome to the shop the u.k. he's been operating a secret data gathering base in the middle east part of a one point five billion dollars investment in global surveillance these are the new revelations from edward snowden published in the british media and she is laura smith has the details on the latest for us. 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 d.c. h.q. here in the u.k. and 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 extracts the data and then that's passed after it's been de coded of course to 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 over the internet says 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. and we are constantly learning more about the massive collection of data but what exactly does it mean for the average citizen. you will know. with and you will be able to identify all the computers and also of the type of communications. examines what exactly intelligence agencies can find out about your life a little later in the program. russia says online reports accusing

the syrian government of carrying out a mass chemical attack near damascus were published before the alleged assault actually happened moscow's calling on the syrian opposition to allow u.n. inspectors into the science while the u.n. chief was urging the government to give approval for an investigation rebels say wednesday's at a time claimed up to thirteen hundred lives of those reports have still not been independently confirmed sources within the russian foreign ministry suggest the rocket loaded with chemicals was fired from an opposition controlled area however the u.s. and says the rebels are not capable of carrying out such attacks and france has already called on force to be used if the report was approved to be true so with the syrian government under pressure from washington and its allies. can explores now how radical is groups are taking advantage of the region's turmoil while washington says it has crippled al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan why is in from the ashes of the arab spring is new or 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 al qaeda is exercising its soft power to somewhere between preaching terror here you see militants doing some ice cream diplomacy will. children and all kind of sponsored ice cream contests for kids what could be more innocent. minded 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. has repeated we put the threat of terror on the back burner 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 following the u.s. invasion now in syria the greater goal is to remove assad from power to often would

help being directly or indirectly become the tradeoff that the u.s. was willing to make to achieve a greater goal whatever it was but having made the tradeoff the u.s. would then spend decades fighting what it had spurred in washington i'm going to come. it is been bracing them easier to promote itself recently by launching an online magazine even allegedly attempting to advertise itself by it and earlier this month and account portably belonging to the terrorist group asked to its followers for p.r. ideas but the campaign was torn apart by trolls and security analysts jan berger urged social networkers to bombard their count was mocking tweets unless now have a look one of them included a proposal to release a film entitled dude where's my car bomb another user advised to use more cats and there was also a suggestion to open a fast food chain called jihad joe's among other ideas was to osama bin laden's

porn collection on e bay and all this training calls the account to be suspended of course but beyond the humor colin campbell who wrote exporting made in america democracy believes the us is paying the price on al qaeda to exist in the first place. al qaeda is nearly an instrument of the united states. developed you know. facilitated. arjun's in afghanistan we've funded the foreign mercenaries. are a security agency believe they are so. they can manipulate these your heart goes out to their own hands but it's a sort of journalism any other jihad and should be aware of because they see them as easily manipulable but as we saw with also general lot of.

the attacks on the united states and other attacks that is not the case. islam is support has of the ousted mohamed morsi are gathering for fresh rallies across egypt after friday prayers army and police forces are on standby in cairo in case violence breaks out a proud has come a day after the country's ex-president hosni mubarak was freed from prison and placed under house arrest in a military hospital but baraka still jihadist on trial for allegedly ordering the killings of protesters during the twenty seven revolution belcher reports now from cairo. this was the chant the united to his square and the nation barak get out during two thousand and eleven january revolution millions called for thirty years if it takes a 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 bed now after several rounds of deadly street bias that led to two coups in just over two years to where is empty. the military are 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 that 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 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 on the release means to january revolution didn't happen and also didn't happen writes one by the revolution and the martyrs are now lost oh no no 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 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 with 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. kyra. and homages has them and barak friendly egyptian military has simply released that formally to from prison. it comes at the total no surprise that mubarak was released at the end of the day it was sisi and the military junta releasing the 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 reproduce and 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 mubarak regime 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. right after the break a whole towns and govt laws have already broken into central old records but the levels are still expected to rise to bring you all the latest from flood stricken far east russia it's all coming up in a few minutes. as the media lead us what we believe. are the sea pushes your. way your party is it. their shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics.

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your launching aussies good to have you wear those welcome back leaks german security documents have shown the country doesn't trust the new windows eight system fearing it provides the n.s.a. with remote access that's according to one of the country's newspapers although the german government denies it and any reports indicators of the country was a major target for u.s. intelligence that's remind you how much data said the n.s.a. collected there so it's been more active in germany than in any other e.u. state targeting up to a hof a billion data connections every month phone calls emails mobile phone messages on the web chat logs all of that data eventually made its way to the n.s.a. headquarters in washington but in apparently allows this as snowden's leaks indicates they work with the n.s.a. no questions asked and on a regular day off to set him in and german connections are watched and that could double woodring particularly busy times how much and how exactly is the every

citizen affected by this speech to or never finds out. 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 communications partners and also of the type of communication so often and also 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 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 to me 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 e-mail on a regular basis see the 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 back in the u.s. now those online resources who make privacy a priority are being pressured into sharing customer information with intelligence

agencies we've been covering this shutting down of the lobby email provider which was used by edward snowden and my colleague mark tries or earlier i spoke to the founder of another encrypted messaging service who told him that privacy just doesn't exist in america anymore. 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. time now to look at some of the stories aussies on line

team has prepared for you right now or a little thought oh amongst a blaze swallows a tonka in eastern siberia injuring some and causing devastation watch this shocking footage on our in motion page right now. class on a bound to defend freedom but apparently not freedom of the written word go in time of prison and fines detainees from reading bleak russian classic the gulag archipelago leading to accusations america is ignoring its own values on a whim i doubt more dot dot com. right to see. her story. and i think the true. on our reporters would. be a. massive

flooding continues to devastate the far east with more downpours expected and here's a move at just how big the flood zone actually is it's proles over three russian regions and to give you an idea you could feed the whole of france and germany that . are in our pockets that have avoided flooding but many more have simply been engulfed the main city within the flood stricken area raises the same freight. has more now on the die a situation that for us. well water levels in some parts of this region have already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy knots of six hundred and forty two centimeters in north already say that at the moment the water stands out above seven meters and with the rain set to continue on the water levels continuing to rise we could push the eight metre mark which puts the city in real jeopardy now the problem is being caused by the river which you can see behind me

it's boston's banks and the real fear is now that it's going to trickle in and start to submerge the city authorities are working around the clock to try and prevent that from happening you can see the sandbags behind me dams have been built but the problem is the water levels continue to rise the dams need to rise with them so it's a twenty four seventh's around the clock job to try and reinforce the city around eight hundred fifty people have so far been evacuated from the city or to be asked to leave their property some of decided to stay some have decided to go those that have gone but being housed in temporary accommodation centers in places like schools and sports arenas and sports complexes 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 it deteriorates to 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 ruled 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 a risk in the problem could yet get a lot worse. and to some other news from around the wild a sour to. the lebanese city of tripoli have killed up to nineteen people wounding thirty five others want to splash in came just as friday prayers were about to and at last. where hezbollah dissident cleric preachers it's not clear if he was inside a second blast had washed clothes in a mosque in the mina district authorities are so far reluctant to comment on the situation and no one has claimed responsibility for about. security forces have fired tear gas at protesting students in colombia's capital responded

woods with homemade cocktails the black clad the youths are said to be part of the urban section of the fark terror group the closures come amid mass demonstrations of farmers miners and truckers over the country's dismal economic state. your prey told the crippled fukushima nuclear plant tepco has admitted it needs overseas help to contain the radioactive fallout that's up to one of the temporary tunnels used to store a highly contaminated water supply and a leak this week didn't assault the discharge of as much as three hundred tons of radioactive liquid japan's nuclear watchdog says it's the most serious crisis to have the devastated area says the post tsunami meltdown in twenty about that. and up next he'll announce he for years laurie kane talks to veteran congressman ron paul about the president and future of u.s. politics.

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 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 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 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. dramas that try to be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change rights no. picture folks stay. home to the morgue to. look to. me. please speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school

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