helping the n.s.a. spy on millions of people paid off well for the global. support into the latest surveillance. by edward snowden. of beefing up of the u.s. navy presence in the mediterranean. an american intervention in syria controversy over the latest alleged chemical attack in the country. but one. blames the white house for failing to take action to stop the. two hundred day.

good morning to you from all of us in a very rainy moscow it's now a. life with the hour's top headlines google yahoo microsoft and facebook all of them received millions of taxpayers' dollars from the n.s.a. in return for helping to illegally spy on unsuspecting web users like yourself and that's according to the latest top secret files were leaked to the media by edward snowden and it's the first direct evidence of a financial relationship between the web the u.s. surveillance agency that's got some details now with an important. judgment. by the obama administration that the agency was on able 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 costing prism participants millions of dollars to implement each successful extension and those costs according to u.s. documents were covered by an arm of the n.s.a. known as special 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 raises new questions surrounding the relationship between silicon valley and the n.s.a.

now the guardian reached out to the alleged 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. now the united states navy is expanding its presence in the mediterranean with a fourth cruise missile armed warship at the moves a response to the escalating conflict in syria and meantime in washington the

defense department is set to assess america's options over the crisis that's despite a statement by barack obama that the u.s. must be wary of involvement in further costly interventions the tensions have been running high following accusations the syrian opposition that the forces loyal to assad had allegedly gassed hundreds of people near damascus on wednesday benoit kept mark from the university believes the possibility of the u.s. intervening in syria is now turning 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 in 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. i mean while the syrian opposition has pledged to guarantee safe passage for a u.n. team to inspect the side of the alleged chemical attack. discussed if and if indeed that's a promise that can even be kept. you 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 call 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 you an inspection team it's been in the country for a few days anyway looking at previous reports no coverage 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 they're 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 minister 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 some unknown origin and just finally what is the international. is behind this alleged chemical a lobbyist like russia for example there are some countries that are calling on an immediate investigation there saying the u.n. should pay very close attention to these reports but there have been some studies which insist that u.n. security council should immediately look into this into the into the this. 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 these alleged attacks and foreign affairs of russia has actually said that this looks like another wave of antigovernment syrian propaganda which is essentially being perpetrated by the syrian opposition and we spoke to michael maloof a former senior security policy analyst at the office of the u.s. secretary of defense he says that an unverified reports released by the opposition just ultimately mislead the media. the syrian government has actually called upon the un 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 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 . not twenty two minutes past the hour here in moscow thanks for joining us on the program two hundred days of force feeding coupled with alleged abuse by prison guards failed to break the resolve of dozens of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay the protest that began in february went on to involve most of the captives at the notorious facility and has put fresh legal and public pressure on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut down the prison which

currently holds at least one hundred and sixty six people now thirty seven of them are still refusing all food or this in protest of the case of indefinite detention for the six is being held without charge or trial with no freedom inside and eighty six have actually been cleared for release that was years ago but they're still stuck there because of legal limbo created by washington keeping the facility open and running and in the meantime it's costing u.s. taxpayers two point seven million bucks that's a detainee and that's dozens of times higher than the sum needed to house a conflict of the most expensive prison in america we're looking at a total annual cost here of four hundred and fifty million dollars and my colleague bill dog 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 hundred day i know we've heard accounts of repeat detainees 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 posture is when you consider that the client isn't even seeing a lawyer the clients with soldiers talking on the phone entire time not present obama has kept his promise to close the prison it cost millions during a time of budget cuts then the states will lose to make some are actually cleared for release so what will it take to finally close down guantanamo guantanamo is

a political animal it's run by the in 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 or close it right now you don't see that the president had to already to transfer these individuals now that 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. not egypt where fresh clashes between supporters of ousted president morsi and the military of a reporter left the one person dead dozens wounded in the capital cairo hundreds gathered in the streets for what the muslim brotherhood dubbed a day of matson. spite the return of the military to power in egypt president obama has said that while the u.s. is reevaluating its relationship with the country it's unlikely to cut off any aid

he added that stopping the handouts wouldn't affect what the interim government does and at this point america needs to take into account what's in the long term interests of america and that of the gyptian people the defense consultant marina both thinks the administration just wants to keep a friendly government in cairo. the americans are ensuring that they have a friend in power they will always provide aid and this is why they're not canceling aid at all. and 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's going on the toppling of morsi and his detention that's just trying to fool the citizens of egypt they'll resume normal relations as soon as the civilians. go back home you know or

stop protesting what the military and the united states government have had a very cozy relationship for for decades so that's that's not going to change. still to come for you this hour here on out see more pain before it all comes to an end i'm afraid for the stricken city of paris for record flooding as a volunteer crews fortified defensive. yet more people away from the bush. crew is right in the thick of it following developments we'll have a report coming your way shortly. also a live report on germany that's giving a chance to move to the next level with the country now the first to recognize the virtual currency for legal purposes those details are just ahead for you they want to.

react to situate. him to reports. no i will leave it to the state department to comment on your. security on the job. thank you. when you question the press for a change when you. get ready for a. freedom of speech in. the freedom to. first street. and i think.

worldwide news live from moscow this is artsy germany's turning itself into a magnet for a bit coin lovers this week the maverick virtual currency was recognized for legal and tax purposes inside the country a bit coin first burst onto the global scene back in two thousand and eight when an anonymous creator published a paper describing how the virtual currency should be operated since then it's been gaining more fans and momentum all across the world it's now accepted at thousands of small online merchants and the value of individual bit coins hit a record high this april with a current see that was being traded to over two hundred sixty u.s. dollars and amid a growing buzz the bitcoin could someday hijack the greenback the american

government decided to probe it earlier this month a u.s. authorities claim the currency could be used for criminal activities ranging from drug smuggling to child pornography are a lot easier peter all over now joins us live to give us the latest details on this story here on the program good to see you peter so we're talking about a quite a significant chapter of a bit coin in this development. yes it's a real step towards it becoming a universally accepted legitimate well the option to state issued currencies now it is quite popular here in germany particularly here in berlin where if you go to some bars and restaurants you can actually pay for food and drinks there using coins as well as other online stores that accept them for just about anything else you can you can want to buy now what has actually happened by the german finance ministry they've declared that big calling is now a wonderfully titled unit of account what that actually means is it's not

recognised as a an official currency but it is eligible to be taxed now that means that anybody who speculating in big coins say that you you're buying them to try and trade them to try and make a little bit of money you mentioned earlier that the the exchange rate that because into dollar has rocketed sometimes it plummets it's currently at around euro terms around eighty euro per bitcoin anybody speculating on big well if they sell them within one year of buying them they could be eligible for capital gains tax however that all sounds great for the tax man it may well be a lot harder than that sounds because of the actual nature of bitcoin it is a p it's appear online currency it's essentially anonymous spying by the entire nature of it it would be very hard to track down just who was selling to whom for tax purposes so that might not exactly work out how the state funds use it

but what it is is official recognition for a currency that is growing in popularity we're seeing the united states supreme court actually look at them in recent times that you mentioned investigation there they've also as part of that they they have accepted them as a similar type of name is a unit of account as they. here in germany however some countries haven't taken as much as they may have wanted to thailand for example that make them illegal you're not allowed to own them you not allowed to sell them you're not allowed to say even to try and buy anything with them from thailand so some countries are accepting because you know as this you you potential state but currency of course it can't be devalued or increased by any state by because there just isn't one that controls it it's all comes from the computers it all comes out of mathematics. it is therefore regulated by any state authorities or some countries jumping on it like here in

germany others like thailand are just not interested in our to course want to do all of our things or for the meantime here on our rescue teams and the military raising their alert as massive floods continue to devastated regions in russia's far east the worst is yet to come 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 has been so far the hard hit territory sprawl over three russian regions which could fit the whole of france and germany combined there are pockets that have avoided the flooding but many more areas have been engulfed the main city within the flood stricken land risks the same fate as artie's paul scott now reports. 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 is the more river so that 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. we're going to use racial issues are worked out it could be some setbacks but the main point is that there are no victims and all eyes are work will work for the good now around two and a half thousand people have been affected by the floods so far in and around the city in the majority of those people have been housed in temporary accommodation centers to 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 in sports arenas and schools for example and this resident

told r.t. she simply doesn't know what to expect when she returns home you know everything has been washed away. firewood the second floor 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 that 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 or every hour we're loading up all the latest stories on dot com and for example one of them right now you can find that of faulty expectations plans nuclear regulator as in adequate the latest inspection of radioactive water tanks at the fukushima new. planned details of that report online for you this hour. start of a ticking time bomb

a story on how pension payments for the growing number of people aged over sixty could become an untenable burden for the world's top economists those details are also on the. right. first right. and i think that you're. going to. be. before step aside abby martin for now let's jump into the sea world update we'll start with a suicide bomber in iraq that has killed at least twenty five and wounded dozens more in baghdad and the attack occurred in a crowded park in the north of the capital and the latest of soldiers brought the death toll for the day to thirty six people this offer a wave of earlier attacks. two bombs targeting mosques in the lebanese city of

tripoli have killed at least forty two and injured over three hundred fifty the local numbers that one blast claimed the lives of worshippers of the talk one mosque that's home to a cleric with reported links to syria's opposition a minute later a second explosion occurred during friday prayers at a mosque in the mena district and no one as of yet has claimed responsibility. a u.s. soldier responsible for the killing of sixteen afghan civilians has been sentenced to life in prison without parole robert bales stormed a village in kandahar province in two thousand and twelve in the middle of the night shooting families while they were asleep as attorneys say the assault came as a result of stress and trauma suffered during military operations but the staff sergeant did apologize for the killings and pleaded guilty in june to avoid the death penalty. at least thirty people have been killed and sixty injured in

a riot in believe years largest maximum security prison. some prisoners were shot while others were burned to death in a fight between rival gangs. many overcrowded latin american jails inmates laws and the control the inside of the facility. why wielding her trusty sledgehammer be mocked and breaking the sat in just a moment. you know people in moscow say they're like whoa websites and facebook groups about the childfree lifestyle which i didn't believe until i saw the cover for the aug twelfth copy of time magazine yes childfree is no real thing sadly basically these

are people who have started a cool trend of not having children and using their time and resources completely for themselves you know if you don't want to have kids that is your business and i really couldn't change your mind even if i wanted to but there are people all over the internet who are just swimming in their own self-satisfaction like pigs in slop because they are part of the no kids trend the sickening part about this trend or should i see mentality is that these people glow in the door themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else and nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t. shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church child free but that's just my opinion.

live. little. live. little. lives. lead . you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean family and sad to tell you that i'm still the same really messed up. in

the old story so closely. it's. worse sure to look a little like how sick of a. radio guy for a minute. but i want. to do good you've never seen anything like this i'm told. welcome to breaking the set i'm your host abby martin you know it seems that on every issue important to americans the problem reaction solution is always framed by the two dominating political parties in this country the problem is that these two teams democrats and republicans more closely resemble a single party one that stands for and periods and then corporate gain yet several political ideologies are gaining traction in the us but i virtually no representation in the political and media stuff. so if you've tuned into the show

hoping to hear the dueling perspective of democrats and republicans well you've come to the wrong place because today i'll be hosting a discussion with people who represent the voices of a growing alternative will be talking about libertarianism anarchism and socialism philosophy is gaining momentum as more people are becoming disillusioned with the status quo to talk about everything from the role of government to an ideal society i'm joined now by a brilliant panel and breaking the sets first ever alternative voices debate starting with scott crow author of black flags and windmills and founder of the anarchist common ground collective and peterson production director at freedom works and editor of libertarian republic dot com and eugene puryear former vice presidential candidate of the party for socialism and liberation thanks so much all of you for coming on face or tragedy or are we start to this epic debate or conversation rather i want to briefly outline your political ideologies in about a minutes time.