the olympic flame is about to be passed on from greece to russia to begin its month long epic towards a country and england sortie for the twenty fourteen winter give. no excuse for internet out an image see it's revealed the n.s.a. has been snooping on those who generally need online privacy on the web site giant said desperately move to amend their reputations. a fifth straight day of deadlock sees a u.s. government in paralysis and with economists a warning off in ending disaster we report on what the red and versus blue standoff is costing america. and switzerland's plan to pay its citizens nearly three thousand dollars a month or whether they have a job or not we tell you want to.

live from our headquarters in moscow this is our t.v. you're watching us here with me to be on with so let's take a look at our top story this hour. the olympic torch of the twenty fourteen winter games is about to be handed over to russia it will fly to moscow off the colorful ceremony in athens to kick off with sixty five thousand kilometer talk of the host country artes and reform reports from the greek capital. today here in athens the russians will officially get their hands on the lympics flying for saatchi twenty fourteen the torch relay started in a limpia last weekend and it will arrive here at the planet in the stadium and then the to the flame itself will be handed to the russian olympic committee during an

elaborate ceremony well this stadium is pretty significant because it did host the very first one in the olympics back in one thousand nine hundred six it has been beautifully renovated in those marble white t. is will be full of members of the public and also dignitaries a little later on and they will sit down to enjoy an hour long spectacle and that will start with the greek figure skater brian awesome of course is running into the stadium with the olympic torch and he will then light the cauldron here to signify the end of the great leg of the relay and then the flame itself will be handed to a member of the russian olympic committee in between that of course there will be official speeches to be an orchestra orchestra here as well as the choir what then i hear you ask all the flame will be actually be put into a small lantern and that will be taken to the russian embassy here in athens before being flown back to moscow tomorrow for the start of the russian leg of the relay a whopping sixty five thousand kilometers long and all being well that talks will

arrive at the stadium in sochi for the start of the opening ceremony on february the seventh so the countdown continues and the buildup continues here in athens and i'll be giving you live coverage when it gets under way andrew farmer bharti. for the n.s.a. no one has good enough reason to seek and then maty on the web fresh reveals that whether it's protecting business secrets or shielding their identity from an oppressive regime the agencies are emptying crippin crusade even targets complex systems to develop for those who generally need privacy meanwhile the internet tag giants are in damage control mode asking the federal courts let the reveal details about n.s.a.'s data requests from ports. in the wake of the u.s. national security agency scandal much of the tech industry has been critical of

government snooping some companies named as partners in the n.s.a.'s prism program including google and facebook even sued the u.s. in order to set the record straight they're hoping to fight the perception that the n.s.a. has direct access to their servers but transparency might come with financial incentives the snowden leaks prompted dire warnings from internet giants predicting that. of billions of dollars in revenue abroad as scared users turn to local alternatives one industry nonprofit survey found that ten percent of two hundred seven officials at non american companies canceled contracts in the wake of the leaks fifty six percent of non-u.s. respondents said they were hesitant to work with u.s. based cloud computing firms some researchers even predicted the cloud computing industry as a whole could lose up to one hundred billion dollars by twenty sixteen but so far none of that has panned out in fact some of the internet giants who helped the n.s.a.

gather data on people overseas say privately they felt little if any impact on their business and when it comes to internet empires some of those very same firms dominate the internet traffic across the globe. google and facebook rule most of the world that's according to a new survey from oxford university as this map shows the only major countries not under their sway are china and russia also kazakhstan korea and japan here local providers have managed to maintain their domination of the market and there's a number of theories as to why one is that cloud customers have few good alternatives american firms have most of the market and switching costs money another reason is that tech buying companies elsewhere believe their own governments have scanning procedures that are every bit as invasive as the american programs and so despite the spying revelations it seems to be business as usual for the tech giants who worked with the n.s.a. reporting from moscow i'm lucy catherine of r.t. . the founder of and securely email provider used by edward snowden was forced to

shut down his service after working on it for nearly ten years he repeatedly refused to provide the f.b.i. with access to his service in christian keys later levinson explained to our t. why he preferred to close rather than disclose. i took the stance that i did not try and protect a single person but because i was concerned about the invasion and the sacrificing of everyone's privacy rights that was accessing my system i know they threatened me on more than one occasion with jail i think the only reason they didn't do it is because if they had the service would have eventually shut down on its own with nobody to maintain it and the only reason they didn't arrest me after the shutdown was because of the media the public city but it's pretty scary to to think about what lengths they're willing to go to conduct these investigations and you know effectively what's going on is just completely undermining what little trust there

was in commercial technology products here in the u.s. google yahoo facebook they've been fighting requests via the pfizer court they've been fighting requests like the ones that i received. the fact is they've been losing. five days of government shutdown have done little to cool tempos in washington with republican and democrat lawmakers becoming a budget technicalities what's worse it doesn't look like the crisis will end anytime soon and could even get a whole lot worse spiked with the seventeenth now that's one lawmaker is have to raise america's debt ceiling in order to pay our debts otherwise that means default the repercussions of which could would be horrendous for the world economy currency hundreds of thousands of us stayed to workers that have been laid off in the u.s.

with organizations as big as the and its leaves are forced to wind down wind down operations. who used to oversee the international space station for houston told us that they will be long lasting off to shore. there are missions that are coming up in say four or five or six months fairly critical motions or missions that robotic flights are going to the planets they have launch windows that have to be maintained and if their workers are furloughed that work and being done and so there is going to be an effect on the line and i was the director of the johnson space center and we were flying the space shuttle and of course flying missions to a mirror to time so we had to maintain a schedule so i managed to keep the work orders. working and we kept the work going on in the johnson space center and the kennedy space center in florida and we didn't really have an impact but this time with about ninety seven percent of the

workforce at the johnson space center laid off there will be an impact on the wind . imitating the u.s. economic lifestyle which led to the global crisis five years ago could be harmful for other countries later this hour max and stacy shea whether copycat rings could lead. of course only in the u.k. would they come up with an idea of backing their wealth of creating wealth through property so this is the first head by max and it's turned crown estate into sovereign wealth fund labor m.p.'s to urge basically this is a great idea because other countries like norway famously have a sovereign wealth fund from all that north sea oil china has trillions of dollars in reserves made up of a chilling us dollars and then more chileans of other currencies britain however they sold sixty percent of the gold under gordon brown they have no sovereign wealth fund and they've got an economy that's overly reliant on fraud and re hypothecation so yes i say to the queen elizabeth respectfully return all of that

the news to collateral into something that can help the nation think of it as being on the vanguard in this global financial war and when it's not sexy don't you want to be a war queen you can be like there's a financial war going we're going to put up the palaces collateral defy the financial war you know it's exciting get on t.v. make a few speeches you could make a movie about you you'd be as famous as some of these previous monarchs but made movies about that are now canonized in hollywood you too could be famous in hollywood too yes. switzerland could soonest on its citizens a monthly salary of almost three thousand dollars just awful being they've let you have how now up for a national vote having received the backing of one hundred thousand signatures in principle with an extremely social safety net but there is behind it have bigger plans he has on.

by the truckload the proposed basic income initiative arrived with a splash and the promise of two thousand euro a month for every swiss citizen intended to let them live without basic financial worries imagine you're being born and society tells you while calm you will be cared for and asks you what you want to do with your life what's your calling imagine imagine that that feeling that's a whole different atmosphere parliament were presented with a petition signed by over one hundred twenty thousand people proposing the idea of paying everyone if they work or not so switzerland is set for referendum. it could be one of the landmark historical moments like the abolition of slavery or the civil rights movement of course those who don't want it will find excuses i know but those who do want it will find solutions and. campaign is announce their

intention to spread the wealth with a glitzy stunt four hundred thousand swiss francs about three hundred fifty thousand euro worth of gold coins deposited on the square in front of parliament what this initiative hopes to do is to switzerland's huge mountains of gold into the base for all its citizens when you look at the globe say ok if we want to go a pilot project what do you do you pick a small country ok the contrary which is i'm embarrassed about all the independence you know we're not part of the you but here for this project it could be could be an advantage apart from being independent of brussels supporters a sighting another major reason for this idea to be successful here. if there is anywhere that can find its way through and great now we have the ball rolling in stone to a yes or no where. it will then be up to lawmakers to determine exactly where the

money will come from unless those financing issues are worked through and with the prospect of tax rises it may prove difficult to convince enough swiss that the idea of money for nothing is a good one the older generation they lived their whole lives in and out of the system so it's it's hard for them to actually realize what this means and they have fear of course of their pensions and everything and they don't instantly gets that it's actually everything placements of an order system the concept behind the initiative is that the current system of work and pay is outdated for a progressive nation like switzerland but with the question of would swiss people want to work if cash is just thrown at them it could turn out to be a gamble too far for voters peter all over the switzerland. coming up the take the rigs a right to reply we travel to meet the creator of the russian oil platform stone by

greenpeace activists to hear their thoughts on the protest. and fight as a political group his fellow withdrawal from syria but the lebanese militia strong hand in the volatile middle east shows no sign of weakness that's coming up in our . dramas that can't be ignored. stories others who refuse to notice. the faces changing the world right now. the picture of today's. politicians from around the globe. if you look at the videos we get from syria these days you know people chaput

chopping off eating the intestines this is probably far worse them something that you play even that hollywood movie advised the united states of america to stop supporting people who have ideologies that can crush humanity in the name of religion in the name of interest in the name of any political. thanks for staying with us here on our team in the netherlands taking russia to the international maritime tribunals like using it up on willfully seizing the greenpeace cheap acting drives some rice use during last month's oil rig protest police say the environmental is the posed

a threat to the platforms and probably use has charged them with piracy is more if a national has met the rigs crew for bass side of the story. there's a. question for the. teapot over there is and telling. to. many other religions that typically. prevail as long ne'er was preparing to become russia's first offshore oil rig in the arctic other nations won't catch up until at least two thousand and twenty very early warning the rings captain was informed that the arctic sunrise vessel was just a few kilometers away and that its behavior was out of ordinary. the worldwide automatic identification system also known as they can track almost any sheep

within a twenty mile zone and know their unique identification and position course and speed if it wants to be seen for them balloon drifted on the books witness on the road the boat was identified as the arctic sunrise but then it disappeared from our radars which could only mean they switched off their systems it constantly changed course and speed was approaching and then moving away from the rig again one point they breached the three mass safety zone around the rig for ten to twenty minutes. before the captain told us he tried to contact the suspicious vessel sent a message warning not to approach the reek any closer it was met with silence the rules captain twenty five years at the helm was not aware of the crew's intentions but you could imagine the war as he had experience with dealing with greenpeace activists before. last august greenpeace's arctic sunrise brought

a dozen environmental activists to the platform for a protest over the dangers drilling could pose to the environment they use drugs. to reach the righ and eventually managed to get on it and spend about ten hours there the head of greenpeace russia used the success to accuse the rig's management of been unable to provide security which could have disastrous consequences if it had been a terror attack the official claimed a year on the pressure group tried to repeat the stunt for the captain it was like deja vu he saw first two and then three boats approaching the rig bridge and its safety zone protected by international maritime law he should act. for reaction from the rigs crew as well as border forces patrolling strategic waters was well coordinated and quick they stopped him what happened next the world learned from various videos later pasted on the web. we knew it was greenpeace

vessel but as to who was on board and what their aims were we had no way here or there could have been anyone there especially when we saw them launching speedboats they used these ropes to try to get on board and two of them succeeded we continue talking to them in english they did in the bay there was a woman and a man and this is when the order forces had to intervene. or what were you about a court order for and they posed a minor threat until the attempted to board the platform and that we have to prevent by all possible means because they could damage equipment and sabotage our work this rig is a place of extreme danger. the rigs crew says it learned lessons from last year and jokingly thanked the activists for helping them improve their ability to protect their righ but for the activists themselves thirty people from nineteen countries including russia this is no joke they're all now charged with piracy if

convicted they could face up to fifteen years in jail it's off to the law now to decide if nationality from the charas sea in russia's north. she had no gun and a one year old toddler in her car but a thirty four year old woman was shot by officers after trying to ram her way into the white house grounds and they didn't police on the hate raising chase through the capital we've got the story online. and putting down roots in a stand against aggression at our t.v. dot com meet the man who's planting seeds of resistance in the west bank. right see. first street. and i think you're. on our reporters were very.

hizbullah has reportedly pulled large numbers of its troops out of syria the way they've been fighting against the opposition rebels is for the lebanon based militant group had up to ten thousand people in the country but that may have a gentle to just a couple of thousand artie's policia traces the record rise of his beloved from a small militia to one of the most powerful political and military forces in lebanon. remember this war hizbollah fired almost four thousand rockets into israel seven years on the pads for the missile also no problem in washington to say the group has more missiles than most governments in the world they had some thirteen or fifteen thousand. before that and now according to.

fifty thousand it's from a small militia that emerged in the early eighty's hizbullah has grown to an organization with six malignancies government and radio and satellite television station and programs for social development it's been called a state within a state has one law work only for this bill are is a very interesting combination is not just a political party and not just a resistance group but a combination of both they have a political wing and military wing and an economic wing it builds a very respectful place in south lebanon and in the places where the shia are living in lebanon. the movement once hospitals clinics schools as well as agricultural centers that provide farmers with technical assistance and training it supports families of fighters who die in battle but hostility to israel is the party's defining platform especially since may two thousand when the last israeli troops left lebanon largely because of the success of his bill of fighters but

where is his bill is popularity peak today and opinion over the organization is divided most of the arab and muslim world see hezbollah as a resistance and social movement more powerful than the lebanese government but the united states european union of course israel and others regarded as a terrorist organization terrorist organization the terrorist organizations like hezbollah it's starting to. as a terrorist organization to take action against its recent intervention in syria has also been highly controversial beirut and many in the international community have criticized the group for to. the side of the syrian president bashar. assad is human have a long history of. community in lebanon because by the way the leader of the ahmed movement. gave. the tape in one thousand nine hundred seventy four seventy five which for the first time. since the

lebanon war even a nine hundred eighty two syria has supported to develop islamists there she had organisation which became his but between eighty two and again five. syrians gave their strategic umbrella this alliance grew stronger because of common cause it's kept iraq from becoming the predominant regional power and stopped israel's efforts to bring lebanon into its orbit. what i can tell you is that syria is a key element in an axis of resistance this is why no one knows for sure how an american aggression against syria might play out of intially not even the americans who would be pushing for an intervention in. israel has already trying to hand and although she won't publicly admit it it's widely accepted tel aviv was behind at least four military strikes inside syria aimed at preventing weapons from being transferred from damascus to hizbollah in a shift from her usual noncommittal public stance tel aviv also recently called for

assad to be toppled but any attack on syria will undoubtedly invoke his below retaliation a scenario that could make the war in two thousand and six look like a minus wobble policy r.t. and of if you look around the world there are some other news this hour a nato airstrike in eastern afghanistan has killed five civilians according to local officials but it's being denied by the u.s. led coalition which insists it targeted insurgents and was presumed coordinated attack afghan officials have repeatedly blamed nature dreams for causing civilian deaths during military operations against militants. and they're gonna libyan military imposed south east of tripoli has killed fifteen people several more were injured as a soldiers came under attack from vehicles equipped with machine guns by meanwhile leaders one of the laws are strongholds of for supporters of the former leader moammar gadhafi where the government is shrugging to control rival militants

competing for influence. clashes in kenya s'pore city of mumbai to have left at least four people dead after violence erupted over the killing of the muslim cleric police used tear gas to disperse a crowd after they said at a church on fire wounding seven people dead cleric was associated with the al qaeda linked islamists who attacked the westgate shopping center in nairobi last month killing sixty seven people. coming up the mag has a personal message for the queen on how to fill up into his national conflicts within the kaiser reports up next.

recently the ministry of internal affairs of russia declared that they're going to address to increase operations in and around the moscow subway system with a major emphasis on illegal immigration there's an odd paradox when people talk about dealing with illegal immigration in terms of what the police should do people want the police to deal with it but any means of trying to actually do anything or generally taboo any form of asking people to see ideas viewed as an invasion of privacy or racial profiling well i don't know how exactly anyone can prove they are or aren't a citizen without id and if you're looking for people who are forward and thus different then how can you go about looking for illegals without looking for people who are different i.e. profiling if you were looking for a criminal of slavic origin in uganda when the police be wrong to stop me due to standing out from the crowd i don't think so that's not racial profiling it is just common sense obviously it is best to fight the causes of illegal immigration rather than asking for id in moscow subways but they have to do something so i guess id

checks are here to stay but there's a big difference between looking at someone's passport and doing stop and frisk or involuntary blood and urine tests that is what immigration control goes over the line but that's just my opinion. but with the kaiser report imax kaiser financial holocaust financial chair financial apartheid yes all the cost and terror and apartheid of the lions and tigers and bears of our day but dorothy you can rise up just click your heels and storm the palaces with

a collateralized debt obligation of your own so let's take buckingham palace kensington palace st james palace and windsor palace rolled up else isn't a one and a highly leveraged collateralized palace obligation and re conquer the world we can do it there are these with a royal ass a yacht of our own the people's infinitely re hypothecated palace obligation bonds what a fantastic idea stacy number of course only in the u.k. would they come up with an idea of backing their wealth of creating wealth through property so this is the first head by max and it's turned crown estate into sovereign wealth fund labor m.p.'s to urge britain's eight point six billion pound crown estate should be turned into a sovereign wealth fund to rival governments backed investment funds that have sprung up across europe the middle east and asia in the last twenty years a group of labor m.p.'s will say this week basically this is a great idea because other countries like norway famously have a sovereign wealth fund from the all that north sea oil britain could have had a sovereign.