the gritters brothers will shrink the middle east to the independent newspaper says the u.k. is running a secret snooping station intercepting e-mails phone calls and letters like. russia accuses syria's opposition of came during an investigation internet age chemical attack that's been blamed on the government said how terrorist groups are taking advantage of chaos in the region. and brace for more unrest in egypt is a mishap called for new protests a day after deposed leader hosni mubarak was let out of prison and start the anger among muslim brotherhood supporters.

international news life from moscow this is with me here thanks for joining us the u.k. reportedly been operating a secret data gathering base in the middle east part of a one and a half billion dollar investment in global surveillance britain's independent newspaper claims it up taint this information from edward snowden's leaks or the n.s.a. whistleblower himself says he has not released any information links to these allegations are his lowest may have had a tease. well the independent friday morning published an article that said for leaks made by edward snowden about this secret internet monitoring station based in the middle east to intercept all sorts of internet traffic in and through the middle east and then pass that on to western intelligence agencies basically what it does is taps into internet cables that run into the the sea extracts that data and then passes it to g c h q here in the u.k. and to the n.s.a.

in the states is particularly valuable according to the independent because it can access cables that apos between submarines to very sensitive data and it's part of this much larger project which is designed to to intercept global digital communications all over the world e-mails text messages literally everything there are over whole a million miles of cable internet cable that's called the backbone of the internet running under the sea all over the world and they carry all the world's internet traffic so e-mail tweet text phone calls facebook entries every time you send an e-mail to anyone in a foreign country and if you have to cross the border you have to go through these cables the cables that make landfall at various points if we show you a map of how the cables lie you can see that a lot of them make landfall in the u.k. those transatlantic ones so the u.k. is very important in this operations married now says that this week didn't come from him a tall and glenn greenwald in the guardian says that it's the type of disclosure it's exactly the type of disclosure that the journalists working with snowden have

deliberately avoided given that it relates to middle east surveillance and the potential of. operations that then did release that will snowden says that he thinks it was the british government itself he says that the government's trying to trying to make out that the leaks from snowden are generally harmful across the board not in the public interest across the board and that these they're doing that by deliberately releasing harmful information themselves and pretending that it comes from him in order to discredit him and the journalist that he's working directly with glenn greenwald says that the very moment that there's this huge scandal over the detention of his partner at heathrow airport or over the weekend and the government's trying to tell the courts that the really the release of this information is not in the public interest it could potentially be dangerous here is a disclosure that could potentially be dangerous so it really fits in according to the guardian and to snowden himself with what the government's trying to do. in the

way clinton managed mosque near damascus russia slams the syrian opposition for ignoring calls to allow u.n. inspectors safe and the you want she has been pushing assad's government into giving approval for un team to look at the science that's not. going to shrink is joining us now live as a rino so you want to specter's are in syria reggie white come they get access well basically part of it is because the alleged attack supposedly the supposed leak took place actually happened and it's territory controlled by the syrian rebels so considering the fact that there are very severe clashes taking place even to today on friday between the forces and the opposition forces it's incredibly unsafe for any team was pictures to get there and you know russia has turned to the syrian opposition asking them to provide to guarantee state passes for any team of inspectors into the areas of alleged. that request hasn't been honored by the

syrian opposition as a few yet all on top of that moscow is also decried the calls coming from some european countries who say that the u.n. should use force in syria if the claims of chemical attack are indeed proven true but again all of it all of it ends up at the stumbling block of the possibility for the team of u.n. inspectors who are already in syria to investigate the earlier reports of all the chemical attack at least simply cannot get to the area which is controlled by the rebels of this point on top of that russia has also cited its own sources in syria claiming that a rocket indeed has been fired on wednesday morning but it also came from the rebel controlled territory and was very similar to another rocket fired some time ago by the by the extremist fighters operating in the area and with the rockets which was laden with someone known chemical agents at the end it all comes down to the

minister. foreign affairs is saying that this is yet another wave of anti government syrian propaganda directed at discrediting the government of bashar a lawsuit. going to live many thanks indeed. meanwhile the pressure on the syrian government is being made why is america insisting that the rebels are not capable of carrying out such attacks and for more let's now talk to michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the u.s. secretary of defense mr maloof great to have you with us on r.c. thank you very much for joining us so where do these assumptions that rebels can be behind these chemical attacks come from. well i think that they're erroneous the fact that. the syrian rebels have been able to acquire these weapons principally from iraq and then the shipping through turkey i think and then and

then the use of them in areas that are under their control i think is. something that does warrant further investigation i understand that president vladimir putin of russia has documentation that he recently turned over to them you went to to look into these allegations and i think that that's something that has to be taken very seriously and i haven't heard any results of that but a lot clearly the. chemicals that we've we've heard about have actually may have come from iraq. and then shipped into turkey and and that the opposition indeed does have that capability and in fact the fact that these attacks are occurring within their air the areas that they're controlling is i think something that is very telling on the one hand and the fact to now that we're getting some other information that perhaps the filming of what we saw the other

day might have occurred prior to the announcement and and publicize the of the attack that killed from one to five hundred based on reports is also something very disturbing and again this is all in areas that are controlled by the opposition the syrian government has actually called upon the u.n. to investigate but they cannot. open up areas that are under the opposition control they can certainly. ask that the u.n. come in and look at whatever documentation they might have so i think that this is a very serious development and that what's happening is that there are regular media is just assuming that it's the it's the syrian government when in fact they're being fed information from the opposition so i think everyone has to be very. policymakers need to be very careful before they take any action based upon

the latest report middle of president what has happened is a tragedy president obama said the use of chemical weapons is the red line and it was crossed according to the state department a couple of months ago so what kind of action can we expect from from washington. i think it's going to have to be very very cautious. i think i think the most that we can do from the u.s. standpoint right now without create without getting further involved and having troops on the ground is to call for investigations and and press for press for information and do that and do the analysis and the research. the fact the fact that this information is coming from the rebels i think is something that taints the taints the evidence in the first place but secondly we have we have intelligence means to determine often where this what the source you know this was but to actually put troops on the ground to bomb or anything of that sort will

create even more havoc and if you bomb a chemical weapons facility you're creating plumes of smoke that will drift over highly populated areas so i don't think that bombing in that respect would be an option a very serious option might be able to send in some special forces troops but the area so the way that area the area is controlled you have government forces in one area you have opposition and another two to engage and maybe try to dismantle or to neutralize any of those chemical weapons facilities in under government control very difficult and serenely well whatever the opposition has is also very serious very briefly if you can please the international community of course is pushing for a thorough investigation into the incident but it is actually possible given all the violence and and fighting right now in the region. i think it's going to be

extremely difficult the it's clear that well the government itself invited the u.n. inspectors in but the fact that the opposition is not allowing them into really thoroughly research i think is something also that's very telling it's going to be very very difficult to really get to the bottom of this latest episode. and michael maleev former senior security policy analyst in the office of the u.s. secretary of defense mr maloof thank you very much indeed thanks for having me. the turmoil in syria and across the region is proving ground for the groups that's adding a new dimension to the u.s. war on terror he's going to explain. why 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 kind 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 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 are 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. as we pitted we put the threat of terror on the back burner for some greater. goal in of ghana is that the goal was to defeat the soviet union the u.s. directly helped al qaeda and bin laden there in a walk 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 al qaida 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 right after the break whole towns and go if you want to bring growth into central levels it's still expected to rise bring you the latest from flood stricken far east russia it's all coming out in just a few minutes. to the. gunman still central to texas on this one show we found out why security state may soon be a girl's best friend and i really can you dream machine make sure it's workers so it's got a design classic still has room for improvement and we learned how to dispose of tires or improve roads anything else would. be our day.

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army and police have been deployed in cairo in case violence breaks out the protests come a day out of the country's ex-president hosni mubarak was freed from prison and placed under house arrest in a military hospital and baraka still ga to stand trial for allegedly altering the killings of protesters during the twenty eleven revolution. reports now from cairo . i know. 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 after several rounds of deadly street bias that led to two coups in just over two years to harir is empty. the military 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 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 rise with the release of hosni mubarak from prison to many this is the final straw. the release means the january revolution didn't happen and the june revolution also didn't happen rights won by the revolution and the martyrs are now lost oh 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 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

r.t. kyra over recent months egypt has suffered from the blindest civil unrest in its modern history the muslim brotherhood has called on its supporters to continue protests against the interim military rule which set down president morsi and his staff on the hammad believes they need on the bank government is destroying all hope of a democratic egypt. at the end of the day what we're seeing is nothing to do with the muslim brotherhood or morsi this is a country this is egypt it's bigger than any faction it's bigger than any political or religious group we have about ninety million egyptians living in egypt and the military coup in the military did they came and wiped away all our democratically elected institutions the people in power the ones that were ousted by the military rule were chosen by the people the some themselves what we are witnessing today is people who lost in elections coming back to to power on the back of tanks and

anyone who came out to oppose them and say no this is not the right thing to do and this is the egypt we want where ultimately either put in jail or killed. and time to look at some of the stories and he's online team has prepared for you today well inside of a monster blaze follows a ton crane eastern siberia. entering some and causing devastation the shopping footage is now in motion page write down. on a bound to the found freedom but apparently not freedom of the written word gone tom a prison found the detainees from reading bleak russian classic the gulag archipelago leading to accusations of america's ignoring its own values on the web to find out more about it our. right to see. her story. and i think you're.

on our reporters would. be in the. league 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 but according to one of the country's newspapers although the german government denies it earlier reports indicated the country was a major target for u.s. intelligence that's remind you how much data the n.s.a. collected so the n.s.a. has been more active in germany than any other e.u. states dog saying up to hoffa began data connections every month phone calls e-mails mobile phone messages and web chat logs all of that data eventually made its way to n.s.a. headquarters in washington but apparently allows this as snowden's leaks indicates

they work with the n.s.a. no questions asked on a regular day off to set a million german connections are watched and that could double during particularly busy times how much and how exactly is the average citizen affected by this speech to all of our 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 communication partners and also 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.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 would not put since 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 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 entrance . each you worry for the individual is that a system that we are told is there to protect society has been used to keep the indiscriminate i what we do on line the system is not working for law enforcement business now 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 exactly who people call in e-mail on a regular basis see 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 or 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 of a r.t. early. massive flooding continues to devastate the far east where the more downpours expected is a look at just how big their floods are naturally is it sprawls over three russian regions and to give you an idea it could fit the whole of france and germany in that there are pockets that have avoided flooded flooding but many more have simply been and gulped about as the main city within the flood stricken area rest the same fate as his passport has more now on they die a city that. well water levels in some parts of this region have already broken records that have stood since the eight hundred seventy pounds of 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 now the problem is being caused by the 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 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 are all said to be asked to leave their property some of decided to stay some have decided to go those that have gone have been housed in temporary accommodation centers 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 rule 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 in the problem could yet get a lot worse and now to some other news from around the while the sound seemed to have a blast tang as he must say the lebanese city of tripoli have killed twenty seven people according to authorities injuring two hundred fifty at is one thing the line is awash baithak one mosque to. which reported with reporter links to see where his opposition minutes later a second blast hit cry of prayers at a mosque in the mena district no one has claimed responsibility for that. security forces have fired tear gas at protesters students in colombia's capital responded with homemade molotov cocktails the black lodge youths are said to be part of the section of the fog terror group the closures come amid mass demonstrations of farmers miners and truckers over the country's dismal economic state. and up next

and all new technology i have to own. 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 cancelled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really sent a bold and possibly dangerous political 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 student 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. hello and welcome to technology all bates on today's show will and it's called the silly one i like my splitter.