this is why you should care only. helping the n.s.a. spy on millions of people has certainly paid off well for the global giants according to the latest surveillance. by edward snowden. the us navy presence in the mediterranean sparking fears of an american intervention into syria all amid controversy over the latest alleged chemical attack in the country. and germany's giving bitcoin a chance to move to the next level with the country. to recognize the virtual currency for legal purposes.

good morning. google yahoo microsoft and facebook all of them received millions of taxpayers dollars from the n.s.a. all in return for helping to illegally spy on unsuspecting web users like yourself that's according to the latest top secret files leaked to the media by edward snowden and it is the first direct evidence of a financial relationship between the web and the u.s. surveillance agency details now with our. 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 according to u.s. documents were 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 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. some participants are still denying any involvement with the surveillance program. this is r.t. the us navy is expanding its presence in the mediterranean with a fourth cruise missile armed warship the move the response to the escalating conflict in syria and meanwhile in washington at 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 in involvement in further costly interventions tensions have been running high following accusations by the syrian opposition that assad's forces gassed hundreds of people near damascus on wednesday the analysts. believe the possibility of the u.s. intervening in syria is now turning into an imminent reality. judging from the statements that have 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 reservationist 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 without 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 of any sort what unfortunately i do see happen

as a destabilizing of the situation the united states does take this route of intervention it's a fair point to make but 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 for a possible strike. and in the meantime the syrian opposition has pledged to guarantee safe passage for a u.n. team to inspect the site of an alleged deadly chemical attack earlier my colleague bill dogon artie's arena discussed that perhaps if that promise can 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 he 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 his 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 of 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 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. like russia for example there are some countries that are calling on immediate investigation they're saying the u.n. should pay very close attention to these reports of bloodshed 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 alleged attack of 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 the unverified reports released by the opposition could perhaps be just to 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 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 . thanks for joining us here today on r.t. it's ten minutes past the hour moscow time germany is now turning itself into a magnet for a bit coin lovers this week the maverick virtual currency was recognized for legal and tax purposes in germany a bit coin first burst onto the global scene back in two thousand and eight when an anonymous create have 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 and is now accepted at thousands of small online merchants in fact the value of individual bit coins hit a record high this april with a currency being traded at over two hundred sixty u.s.

dollars and amid all the growing buzz that bitcoin could someday hijack the greenback the american government decided to probe it earlier this month and u.s. authorities claim the currency could be used for criminal activities ranging from drug smuggling to child pornography. peter all of her and i spoke about it a short while ago he has this to say. what has actually happened by the german finance ministry they've declared that big calling is now a wonderfully doli titled unit of account that actually means it's not recognised as a and official currency it is eligible to be taxed now that means that anybody speculating on well if they sell them within one year of buying them they could be eligible for capital gains tax however i got all sounds great for the tax man books it may well be a lot harder than it sounds because of the actual nature of bitcoin it is a it's appear online currency 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 however some countries haven't taken as much as they may have wanted to thailand for example that make them illegal you know allowed to own them you know allowed to sell them you're not allowed to even try and buy anything with them from thailand so some countries are accepting this you potential state 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 parties prodromal right now is to become for you

in this hour more pain before it all comes to an end the stricken russian city of paris now for a record flooding as volunteers and emergency crews fortify defenses and evacuate yet more people away from the bush river cruz right in the thick of it following developments. plus a lawyer for one ton of my baby. detainee's blames the white house for failing to take action to stop the mass hunger strike at the prison which is now. of two hundred. wealthy british. market. really happening to the global economy.

global financial headlines. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for a. living. so i could have you with us here on r.t. a 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 in fact of the protest that began back in february went on to involve most of the captives there at the prison and it's put fresh legal and public pressure on president obama to finally deliver on his promise to shut down which are currently holds one hundred sixty six p. . people now thirty seven of them are still refusing all food this in protest of the indefinite detention and forty six are being held without charge or trial with no freedom inside eighty six formally cleared for release years ago but still remaining in a state of legal limbo because washington continues to keep the facility open in the meantime though it's costing u.s. taxpayers rather a lot to a point so seven million per detainee that's per year as well that is a dozens of times higher than what you would pay for to house a concert at the most expensive prison in america that brings the total cost though

we're looking at a four hundred fifty million dollars price tag per year and my colleague 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 just now 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 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 camps that were 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 not present obama hasn't kept his promise to close the prison it cost millions during a time of budget cuts then the states will lose didn't make the 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 in order to close it and right now you don't see that the president has the authority 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 just a couple of clicks away right now at the story of faulty expectations japan's

nuclear regulators inadequate the latest inspection of radioactive water at the fukushima nuclear plant the latest details of that report on. and for you right now . a ticking time bomb a story on how pension payments for the growing number of people over sixty could become an untenable burden for the world's top economists that's also at r.t. dot com right now. to see. first rate. and i think you're. going to.

the rescue teams in the military are raising their alert as massive floods continue to devastate regions in the russia's far east the worst there was supposed to be yet to come more downpours on the horizon and water levels could end up topping the eight metre mark that's in the worst case scenario and to give you an idea of just how massive the flooding has been so far the hard hit area the territory's sprawl over three russian regions that could fit the whole of france and germany combined now there are pockets that have managed to avoid the flooding but many more areas have been engulfed for example but off scale that's the main city within the flood stricken land and that's looking at some very worrying days ahead. reports on the situation. base is a city under threat a city on the edge at the moment water levels continuing to rise with the pink 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 is 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 tools 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 the 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. she simply doesn't know what to expect when she returns home. 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 at 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. before we get to the day let's shift gears to egypt now where fresh clashes between the supporters of the ousted president morsi and the military reportedly killed one person and dozens more wounded in the capital cairo hundreds gathered again in the streets of what the muslim brotherhood dubbed this time a day of martyrs despite 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 won't cut off any aid yet of

it stopping the handouts wouldn't affect what the interim government does and at this point america needs to take into account. in its best interests as well as that of the ships and people of defense consultant. ministration is just trying 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 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's 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. is the r.t. world out there we go let's start with iraq where a suicide bomber has killed at least twenty six and wounded dozens more in baghdad and the attack occurred in a crowded park in the north of the capital the latest assault has brought the death toll for the day to thirty six this after a wave of earlier attacks. and two bomb targeting mosques in the lebanese city of tripoli have killed at least forty two and injured more than three hundred fifty that's according to local officials one blast that claimed the lives of worshippers of the 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 at this point no one 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 robert bales stormed a village in kandahar province and twenty twelve in the middle of the night shooting families while they were asleep attorneys say the assault came as a result of stress and trauma suffered during military operations at the staff sergeant apologize for the killings and pleaded guilty in june to avoid the death penalty. and at least thirty people have been killed and sixty injured in a riot in bolivia's largest maximum security prison in. some prisoners were shot others burned to death in a fight between rival gangs as in many overcrowded latin american jails inmates largely control the inside of the facility. are nearly time for max keiser for now though it's a world's first a new israeli law demanding that models prove their body mass that they need to prove it that it fits within the regulations of health advises that it's lation was designed to soaring numbers of young girls suffering from eating disorders. went to

investigate. 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 more carbs one priority 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 hide any about the whole question on one hand i am for the law means young men and women won't harm themselves by becoming underweight but on the other hand there are girls like me who are natural with their hands 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 doctor fella dr cole drafted the law she believes the fault is with the fashion world that promotes pictures of skinny models in israel if you have kids in the rear develop it in this order five percent of them develop an aura which means that they may die before you and the first cause of death among the under ration up to the age of twenty four is there 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 job black just make her go to whatever they think and this is how you know for real

. not just the number the wealth. she's in good shape for shot one shot it's a painful reminder of the many years she spent as a concert believe make eating and throwing up her food in private today she's a life coach helping 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 these. problem with food then with herself so you didn't last 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 mix of models in europe why and brazil diet the u.k.

and us 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 well thank you for sharing some of your saturday with us here on our street today just a moment on a making mincemeat out of the money makers the cars were for just a second. 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 stoughton incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the grow you do when

you're sixteen would do care to date just to show you how much you feel. those are hurt but some mistake the 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 a 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 still pretty much did the right thing but that's just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report max guys are you know the dutch have got the economic . private debt has got them down the housing bubble is bursting bursting bursting the economy is contract ing stereo is biting. it's and unemployment is rising but how is this possible when the dutch current account is positive the government deficit.