helping the. millions of people who paid off well for global web giants supported. by edward snowden. the us navy presence in the mediterranean. over the latest alleged chemical in the water. for the. white house for. the prisoner which is now.

a rather rainy saturday morning here in moscow. google yahoo microsoft and facebook all of them received millions of taxpayers' dollars from the n.s.a. . helping to illegally spy on unsuspecting web users that's according to the latest top secret files leaked to the media by edward snowden it is the first direct evidence of a financial relationship between the web and the u.s. surveillance agency details here. judgment which was declassified on wednesday by the obama administration found that the agency was unable to separate purely domestic communications from foreign traffic now while the n.s.a. reportedly began working on a solution to the process that had been ruled illegal tech companies including google yahoo microsoft and facebook allegedly incurred cost certification demands

the entire process reportedly costed prism participants millions of dollars to implement each successful extension and those costs. covered by an arm of the n.s.a. known as special source operations according to the guardian newspaper n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has described special source operations as the crown jewel of the agency that handles all surveillance programs that rely on corporate partnerships with telecoms and internet providers to access communication data now this revelation is being considered evidence that a financial relationship between tech companies and the n.s.a. has existed and as the guardian newspaper put it the disclosure that taxpayers' money was used to cover the company's compliance costs reeses new questions surrounding the relationship between silicon valley and the n.s.a. now the guardian reached out to be a legit prism participants for

a response about receiving financial reimbursements from the u.s. government now yahoo spokesperson admits that the company has requested reimbursement quote consistent with the law facebook responded by saying it has never received any compensation in connection with responding to government data requests google did not answer any of the specific questions that were asked by the guardian newspaper and microsoft declined to give a response on the record so not only are we now learning that taxpayer dollars may have financed government programs that broke down barriers that protected citizens privacies the companies that are listed as prism participants are still denying any involvement with the surveillance program. the u.s. navy is expanding its presence in the mediterranean it with a fourth cruise missile warship of the moves a response to be escalating conflict in syria i mean why washington the defense department is to assess america's options for the war torn country and that's

despite a statement by barack obama that the u.s. must be wary of involvement in costly interventions attentions have been running high following accusations by the syrian. opposition forces gassed hundreds of people near damascus on wednesday. from the university he believes the possibility of the us individually in syria is turning now into an imminent threat . judging from the statements that been made certainly in the house of representatives in congress there is a general sentiment towards some form of intervention which might come in the form of a tactical strike in the use of cruise missiles although there is still reservation us to the extent that such an intervention will take at this point it will be probably a minor one with the use of tactical weapons with more the united states still remains rather bruised by involvement in afghanistan and in iraq so if they risk

being involved and i certainly do not see a commitment of ground forces of any. sort what unfortunately i do see happen is the destabilizing of the situation the united states does take this route of intervention it's a fair point to make that moves are being made to initiate some strike. whether it's going to come in light of the u.n. investigation or whether it's going to come in light of anything else for means to be seen but i think it's fair point to say that the united states is putting the pieces into play a possible strike. in the meantime the syrian opposition has pledged to guarantee safe access for a u.n. team to inspect the side of the alleged deadly chemical attack. if that's a promise which can be kept. i have to understand that this statement came from the syrian national council which is essentially based in turkey and it's a bunch of men in suits and they're notoriously disjointed there has been

a lot of criticism about their actions they can't seem to come to an agreement at the same time we also have to understand that we're talking about syria which is at this point penetrated by a whole number of rebel fighters a lot of who are actually associated with al qaida who are not exactly working together with the s.n.c. so this is the can say yes of course come in and take a look and actually they're insisting that the u.n. inspectors have to come and take a look and do their investigation within the next forty eight hours it's absolutely vital but the same time there is no guarantee that they will actually provide safe access considering that this is the area where the fighting continues between the forces and the rebel forces and of course u.n. inspection team it's been in the country for a few days anyway looking at previous reports no camera starts but what sort of progress has it made any developments not entirely because you have to understand that these are these reports that they're now investigating came a month ago right on the very similar circumstances again they were coming from the syrian opposition takes several months for the u.s. for the team of the u.n.

inspectors to get there but the irony is that we still have absolutely no credible support to those statements as well in fact russian ministry of foreign affairs said that there has been a rocket fired indeed on wednesday but it was very similar to a rocket that was fired by the syrian opposition some months ago and that rocket was indeed laden. with chemical agent of unknown origin and just finally what is the international. is behind this alleged chemical lobbyist like russia for example there are some countries that are calling on and mediate investigation they're saying the u.n. should pay very close attention to these reports there have been some studies which insist that u.n. security council should immediately look into this into the into the abyss. and if the chemical attacks are proven to have taken place then the u.n. should use force on syria and russia again reiterated their point that this is

absolutely unacceptable to exert this kind of pressure on the syrian government which by the way seems to appear as if they are absolutely willing to offer to cooperate with the u.n. inspection team in terms of this alleged attack and the supporters of russia has actually said that this looks like another wave of anti government syrian propaganda which is essentially being perpetrated by the syrian opposition and i michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the u.s. secretary of defense he says unverified reports are released by the opposition could ultimately just be misleading the media 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 but so i think that this is a very serious development and what's happening is that the 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 careful and certainly policymakers need to be very careful before they take any action it's going to be very very difficult to really get to the bottom of this latest episode. from moscow it's r.t. and still to come for you this hour more pain before all of us of the stricken city of skid prepares for record flooding as volunteers and emergency crews fortify defenses and evacuating more people away from the bursting of the river details on that very soon. are ten minutes past the hour here in moscow for the meantime on the program two hundred days of force feeding coupled with alleged abuse by prison guards have failed to break the resolve of dozens of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay and the protests that began back in february and went on to involve

most of the captives of the notorious facility it's put fresh legal and public pressure on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut down the prison which is currently holding one hundred and sixty six people let's give you some numbers here and see thirty seven of them are still refusing all food at the moment in protest of in definite detention forty six are being held without charge or trial with no freedom inside eighty six cleared for release years ago but still in a state of legal limbo thanks to the policy of washington of keeping the prison open meanwhile it's all costing taxpayers rather a lot of money two point seven million dollars a year per detainee that is dozens of times higher than the sum needed to house a convict at the most expensive prison in america all in all it's bringing the total annual cost of guantanamo to four hundred fifty million bucks my colleague bill dodd spoke with lawyer carlos warner who represents several of the inmates he

says the white house is simply refusing to shut down the prison. the words that i hear from the camp are just as bad as they've always been suffering to feeding people not getting along no communication with the military so although the military is telling us that the numbers have gone down that's not the story that we're hearing we're hearing that again there's still that this horrible suffering going on and this is the two hundredth day of this and we've heard accounts of horrific to tell you the treatment by the prison stuff including allegations of sexual abuse is anybody actually investigating these allegations now sexual abuse i think goes around these these searches these growing searches that they began and they did these searches obviously to keep my clients from talking to me in terms of investigation i don't think anybody's investigating that the camp says that we're doing this for security purposes but that's preposterous when you consider that the client isn't even seeing a lawyer the clients with soldiers talking on the phone entire time in the present

obama hasn't kept his promise to close the prison that cost millions during a time of budget cuts then the states will lose to make sandwiches cleared for release so what will it take to finally close down guantanamo guantanamo is a political animal it's run by a phobia here in the united states and it's going to take a lot of hard work like people not only like people like me but but some people in washington in order to close it and right now you don't see that the president has the authority to transfer these individuals now he can do it under the current law with no exceptions and he's choosing not to do so and he's even said that there are several countries that are ready willing able to take these individuals we know there's eighty six of them that are cleared for release the president has done nothing on that yet let's turn our attention to egypt where fresh clashes between supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi and the military have reportedly left one person dead and dozens wounded in the capital cairo one hundred scattered in

the streets for what the muslim brotherhood dubbed a day of my. despite the return of the military to power in egypt president barack obama says that while the u.s. is reevaluating its relationship with the country it's unlikely he will cut off aid he added that stopping the handouts wouldn't affect what the interim government does at this point america needs to take into account what's in the long term interests of the egyptian people and of america itself defense consultant or mo in our off things the administration just wants to keep a friendly government and. the americans are ensuring that they have a friend in power they will always provide aid and this is why they're not cancelling aid at all obama's statement makes it clear that he's supporting all the u.s. government is supporting the present status of the military being in power to say that they're concerned about what has been going on the toppling of morsi and his

detention that's just trying to fool the citizens of egypt. resume normal relations as soon as the civilians. go back home you know or stop protesting. the military and the united states government have had a very cozy relationship for decades so that's that's not going to change. are still to come in the program. against the law. approved. by security. machine make sure its workers.

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it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm wrong. rescue teams and the military are raising their alert as massive floods continue to devastate our regions in russia's far east and the worst is yet to come as the country's emergency ministry now says the peak of the disaster is expected later than originally forecasted and were now hit in early september and with more downpours on the horizon and water levels could top the eight metre mark in the worst case scenario and to give you an idea of just how massive the flooding of the area has been so far the hard hit territory sprawl over three russian regions which could actually fit the entirety of france and germany combined now there are pockets that have avoided flooding but many more areas have been engulfed and the main city where the flood stricken land is a risking the same fate as paul scott now reports on this dire situation. bass is a city under threat

a city on the edge of the moment water levels are continuing to rise with the peak not expected for another twenty four hours or so now as the hour more river to my right that is causing all the problems it's breached its banks and these are beginning to filter through to the city now work is continuing to reinforce the city around fifteen kilometers worth of dikes have been built like this one and they are being reinforced and raised along with the water levels now despite the perilous situation authorities say that they are prepared for the worst. organizational issues are worked out it could be some setbacks but the main point is that there are no big teams and all eyes are work will work for the good now around two and a half thousand people have been affected by the flood so far in and around the city in the majority of those people have been housed in temporary accommodation centers that provide things such as food drinking water shelter and medicine and basically rest bite from the floods there are around seventy that have been built

in and around the city and sports arenas and schools for example and this resident told r.t. that she simply doesn't know what to expect when she returns home. everything has been washed away firewood the second poor is already been flooded my flat is on the first floor and there are one and a half metres of water there i'm here now but all my furniture all my clothes are there now president vladimir putin is expected in the city and in the region early next week to inspect the damage to these floods of course but if the water levels continue to rise and they show absolutely no sign of receding it could be a while yet before the full extent of the damage is revealed right now over at r.t. dot com for this hour faulty expectations japan's nuclear regulator slams as in adequate the latest inspection of radioactive water tanks at the fukushima nuclear plant the details of that right now the report is online. plus a ticking time bomb an aging population could cause the global economy to explode

by twenty fifty we've got the story of how pension payments for the growing number of people aged over sixty could become an untenable burden for the world's top economies and read all about. first rate. and i think. our before we get to the kaiser report for now into the odds he will drop dead starting with iraq a suicide bomber has killed at least twenty six people and wounded dozens more in baghdad the attack occurred in

a crowded park in the north of the capital or the latest us soldiers brought the death toll for the day to thirty six after a wave of attacks in central iraq. two deadly bomb targeting mosques in the lebanese city of tripoli have killed at least forty two and injured more than three hundred and fifty one blast claimed the lives of worshipers at the mosque home to a cleric with reported links to syria's opposition minutes later a second explosion occurred during friday prayers at a mosque in the mena district and no one of this point has claimed responsibility. and a u.s. soldier responsible for the killing of sixteen afghan civilians has been sentenced to life in prison without parole or robert bales stormed a village in kandahar province in twenty twelve in the middle of the night shooting families while they were sleeping attorneys say that the assault came as a result of stress and trauma suffered during military operations the staff sergeant apologized for the killings and pleaded guilty in june to avoid that.

to believe you were at least thirty people have been killed and sixty injured in a riot in the largest maximum security prison. some prisoners were shot others were burned to death in the fight between rival gangs as in many latin american jails inmates largely control the inside of the fist of the facility which holds about thirty five hundred prisoners most of them awaiting trial. it is a world's first a new israeli law demanding that more models prove their body mass fits within health regulations and the legislation was designed to cope so were the numbers of young girls suffering from eating disorders pulis lee went to investigate the rules of being there just. in a world where you can never be too rich or too thin violet to rise is an exception a model who's trying to put on weight i know i always add healthier food but now i

try and eat more sweets more carbs more protean to try and gain some weight it's in line with the new israeli law the first of its kind worldwide models now have to provide a medical report of every photo shoot proving their body mass meets world health organization standards advertisers also have to clearly mark images they've digitally enhanced to airbrush away the kilos from the not quite perfect models that. on one hand i am for the law if it means young man women won't harm themselves by becoming underweight but on the other hand there are girls like me who are naturally fans and who can work because of it. a recent study found that nearly a third of all young women believe anorexia is a way to gain social acceptance but it means that israel now has one of the highest eating disorder rates in the world the statistics are staggering at least one in twenty young israelis suffers from the problem dr felt at the toko draft of the law

she believes the fault is with the fashion world that promotes pictures of skinny models in israel if you have kids every year develop it in this order five percent of them develop a new rx which means that they may die. in the first cause of death among the under ration up to the age of twenty four they're from the north but critics question how the law will be enforced many model agencies have not come on board one other say the needs to be a better way of measuring just how underweight models actually are i think they took a very big issue very big problem and tried to solve it in the wrong way make her do black this make her go to whatever they think and this is how you know for really not. the number which is worth in this she issues she's in good shape for shot one shot it's a painful reminder of the many years she spent as

a causative believe make eating and throwing up her food in private today she's a life coach hoping those who might not come to her because of problems with food but who inevitably struggle with what they eat the problem. is not about food the problem is in motion now and you can tell someone to gain weight if she still has this. problem with food then with herself so you didn't ask thing as many as seventeen million people suffer from eating disorders across the globe governments have taken steps to prevent so-called size zero medical problems but unlike israel all have so far shied away from legislation usually in india banned underweight models from the catwalk after two and a wreck six models in europe y. and brazil died the u.k. and u.s. have guidelines but the industry is self-regulated. it's still too soon to say whether this new anorexic law will become the model for the fashion industry its intentions might be good but it's up against

a multi-billion dollar dieting fashion and advertising industry policy r t tel aviv it's good to have you with us here on our to show you in the russian capital up next on the program roxanne stacy administering a fresh dose of financial thrashing the victims the big boy bankers life from moscow retorts.

if you review these economic ups and downs in the final month they belonged to the new york sang i and the rest because i was going to be taking will be every week on a. morning news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day.

welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know the dutch have got the economic bliss. private debt has got them down the housing bubble is bursting bursting bursting the economy is contract ing stereo is biting on. and unemployment is rising but how is this possible when the dutch current account is positive the government deficit is smaller and exports are doing well something does not add up we need to bring in stacy herbert to see what the frick is going on over there in the netherlands max remember at the beginning of this financial crisis when it was an economic crisis across europe and we needed to bail out greece and spain and italy and portugal and all these people with a profit get bad spending governments of the south well you know now that the

netherlands were always the one that were pushing the most foster care itty but it turns out private debt might matter more than government debt and the situation deflating housing bubble at heart of netherlands economic blues household spending has been falling for three straight years and it dropped again two point four percent year on year in the second quarter dragging the entire economy down with it so they just economy shrank for the fourth quarter in a row point two percent compared to portugal by the way which is growing ok so this is a reverse of the wealth effect people say you know what let's blow a real estate bubble and people will feel wealthier and they'll go out and spend but here in the netherlands they created a housing bubble housing prices are now down and you've got all this debt which is down creating huge drag on the economy yes.