drop. their limpid claim is about to be passed on from greece to russia to begin its epic toll of the country ending in sochi for the twenty fourteen a winter games. no excuse for internet anonymity it's revealed the n.s.a. has been snooping on these who generally need online privacy while the web's giants are desperately moved to mend their reputations. but first straight day of deadlock sees the us government in paralysis with economists warning of the impending disaster we report on the world to the red versus blue standoff is costing america . and us so it was planted to pay its citizens nearly three thousand dollars a month to whether they have a job or not to tell you why. live

from moscow this is our team you with me tom would say let's take a look at the 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 to a colorful ceremony in athens to kick off a sixty five thousand kilometer top of his country are to enter formal reports from the greek capital. today here in athens the russians will officially get their hands on the lympics flame 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 will 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 firing off more courses running into the stadium with the limpid 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 for the flame will be actually be put into a small langton 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 parties. for the n.s.a. no one has good enough reason to seek anonymity on the web a fresh legal reveal said to whether protecting business secrets or shielding their identity from an oppressive regime the agency's empty encryption crusade even targets complex systems developed for those who generally need privacy meanwhile the internet tech a giant sign damage control mode asking the federal court to let them reveal details about n.s.a.'s data requests you see cattanach reports. in the wake of the u.s. national security agency scandal much of the tech industry has grown 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 american businesses would lose tens 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 not american companies cancelled 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.e. . the founder of in a secure email provider used by edward snowden was forced to shut down his us

service off to working on it for nearly ten years here previously refused to provide the f.b.i. with access to his service in christian keys laeta levinson explain 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 and have done little to cool tempers in washington where republican and democrat will make has a big of a budget technicality and what's worse it doesn't look like the crisis will end anytime soon and could even get a whole lot worse by october the seventeenth or not that's one lawmaker is the have a to raise america's debt ceiling in order to pay our debts otherwise that means default the repercussions of which could be horrendous while the world economy currently hundreds of thousands of state workers have been laid off in the u.s. with organizations as big as nasa forced to wind down operations who used to oversee the international space station from houston told us that there will be

a long lasting off the shocks. there are missions that are coming up in say four or five or six months early critical motions are immersions a. lot of whites are going to the planets they have launch windows that have to be maintained and if the workers are working and being done and so there is going to be in effect on the one i was the director of the johnson space center and we were flying the space shuttle and of course flying missions to time so we had to maintain a schedule so i managed to keep the work orders. working and we kept our word going on in there to johnson trade 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 sort of laid off there will be on a project on the line. imitating the you was economic life style which led to the

global crisis five years ago you could be harmful for other countries later this hour max and stacey show where the copycat moves 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 know 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 hi poppy. say to the queen elizabeth respectfully return all that the news to collateral is 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 the spam is that some of these previous monarchs that made movies about that are now can i was in hollywood you too can be famous in hollywood too yes. so if the land could soon start paying its citizens a monthly salary of two thousand euros just for being the their ideas not for national votes having received the backing of one hundred thousand sicknesses in principle with an extreme social safety net but days behind it have bigger plans is our t.s.p. donovan's or. cash by the truckload the proposed basic income initiative arrived with a splash and the promise of two thousand euro a month to every swiss citizen intended to let them live without basic financial

worries imagine you're being born and society tells you well 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 closing 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

this initiative hopes to do is to in switzerland huge mountains of gold into the base for all its citizens when you look at the globe say ok we want to do a pilot project what do you do you pick a small country ok a concert 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 another system so it's it's hard for them to actually realize what this means and they have fear of course off their pensions and everything and they don't insist it gets that it's actually everything placements and over the system the concept behind the initiative is that the current system of work can 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 so rigs a right to reply we travel to meet the crew of the russian oil platforms told by greenpeace activists to hear their thoughts on the protests. and nato is accused of killing ag and civilians again the alliance denies the missing its militant targets along that after the break.

we're watching our team the netherlands is taking russian to the international maritime tribunals like using it as an willfully seizing the greenpeace ship optics it's used during last month's oil rig protest police say the environmentalists pays a thread to the platforms employees and has that charge them with piracy charges maría financial has been to the to great at the center of the storm. but there is.

really to. prove as long there was preparing to become russia's first offshore oil rig in the arctic other nations want to catch up until at least two thousand and twenty very early warning their rigs 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 their ai as can track almost any sheep within a twenty mile zone and know the unique identification and position course and speed if it wants to be seen through them balloons with us on the roads 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. the captain told us he tried to contact the suspicious vessel sent a message warning it not to approach the reak any closer it was met with silence the roods captain twenty five years at the helm was water well the crew isn't tensions but you could imagine the warst he had experience with dealing with greenpeace activists before. last august when pieces of tick sunrise brought a dozen environmental activists to the platform for a protest over the dangers drilling could pose to the environment the use drug 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 approach and the rig breach in its safety zone protected by international maritime law he should act. 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 idea there could have been anyone there especially when we saw them launching speedboats look they used these ropes to try to get on board and two of them succeeded we continue talking to them in english they didn't the baby there was a woman and

a man and this is when border forces had to intervene. or what were you about a court order and they posed a minor threat until they 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 sank 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 tourist see in russia's north. she had no gun and a one year old toddler in her car but a thirty four year old woman who was shot dead by officers after trying to ram her

way into the white house grounds and leading police on a hair raising chase through the capital we've got the story online. and putting down roots in a stand against aggression that our t. dot com meet the man who's planting seeds of resistance in the west bank. right to see. first for you and i think you're. on our reporters were very. revealing. afghan officials have blamed a so-called precision the nato strike for the deaths of five civilians including three children the coalition dismisses the accusation saying the casualty reports

show no civil you make temps afghanistan expert detective party from roehampton university near london joins me now right. to party why do you think there's such a discrepancy in the reported deaths just hopeless life can these attacks be. there is no one hundred percent certainty that such strikes from. a articulate or fairly high altitude can be precise in fact last night's attack. is part of a pattern this has happened in the past this has happened in the latest strike. there may be an intelligence failure the people who were killed were carrying their rifles they were going forward shooting at night

this is. this is a hobby or a lot of afghans and it seems this strike took place because these answers were mistaken militants. insurgents remain very active in afghanistan how else can the u.s. bring these targets down. well enough last time but actually every adult he's a gun or has the ability to go the interesting thing in the latest trade if the reports are to believe is that. some of them were as young as twelve years of age so there were. there were certainly why is if or circumspect. it is difficult to differentiate between soldiers and ordinary afghans but that's where intelligence comes in

afghan security forces the army and police are in the forefront the americans are not fighting mainly underground so it is their job to collect accurate intelligence passed on before some struck are launched speaking modern civilian deaths they have been ruining relationships between washington and kabul for you know a long time now what do you fact kendis have in the long run in terms of their relationships . well the american forces according to president obama's decision going to withdraw are certainly most of them are going to be really drawn by the end of next year two thousand and fourteen. the relations between. the afghan government and the americans on the ground remain quite tense the world

the issues. of deaths of civilians there will continue to be tense as the americans will drop and in the long term. they will be at harm as far as relations between the two countries are concerned for how well he was not relations devil. after the americans have drawn has yet to see and hear the evidence then is not the only country suffering civilian casualties from america's so-called pinpoint strikes who can convince the u.s. to consider whether it's time to rethink this approach. it's only the americans who will have to rethink in view of domestic pressure i would say russia does not work great deal however. decently the united nations mission in afghanistan in its latest report did point out that civilian deaths in afghanistan had

increased in the first six months of two thousand and thirteen about thirteen hundred or more have been can route. we're talking about civilians and two thousand five hundred had been good and since then the killings have gone out so. international organizations like the united nations and the international red cross or some pressure why releasing information from time to time but did it is known to be domestic pressure and in america will be more effective. and what would happen if they just handed over the missions to the avg in official theory in terms of targeting those militarism cell would that not be a better solution to what's going on right now the short answer is that as long as the american forces are there we will keep with them there and

deter and that is airpower the other problem is that afghan air force is not. as you know as well as the americans in this city take your party from the roehampton university then expert on afghanistan just sharing his that thoughts and that with us on this issue thank you . a look around the world are some other main news this hour an attack on a libyan military post south east of tripoli has killed fifteen people several more were injured as the soldiers came under attack from vehicles equipped with machine guns but anyway lead is one of the last strongholds for supporters of the former leader moammar gadhafi where the government is struggling to control rival militants competing for influence. clashes in kenya's part city of mumbai serve left at least four people day after violence erupted over the killing of a muslim cleric reece used tear gas to disperse the crowd after they said

a church on fire wounding seven people the 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 delves into this cuomo slums in bangladesh labor as he is toxic chemicals to turn leather into place states and for that. you know i'm old enough to remember reruns when gomer pyle used to cry citizen's arrest when he saw something wrong in mayberry and a new law in russia could allow our city average to do the same thing by helping to

enforce law in the country this low allows citizens to protect public order by becoming volunteer workers deputy policeman and even forming people's militias which will in theory prevent crime or at least allow the police to be informed more quickly and accurately of course this like any project which sounds nice on paper is all about the implementation so we'll see how these deputies and militias will work overall i think this won't have much of an effect on crime but it could have a huge impact on non-criminal bad public behavior you know i am not the bravest guy on the planet and it's hard to confront a group of five drunk guys who are just as big as you who are acting like idiots on the street but doing so with ten stone sober militiaman buddies could provide a much more convincing argument for the drunkard's this could be a big step forward for democracy when you actually have at least a scrap of power or control over the events in your neighborhood then you're sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion.

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