live for marty at nine pm moscow time flames handed to russia in a distinguished ceremony in athens on sunday will begin its tour of the country arriving in sochi for the twenty fourteen winter games. no excuse for internet a number to reveal the n.s.a. has been snooping on those who genuinely need online privacy while the web giants desperately move to mend their reputations. fifth straight day deadlock sees the u.s. government in paralysis with economists warning the pedicures aster in the program we report on what the red vs blue standoff is costing america. and switzerland to pay its citizens nearly two thousand euros a month whether they've got a job or not we'll tell you why. it's

kevin owen here at r.t. tonight our top story that the limpid torch of the twenty fourteen winter games has been handed over to russia really it's now going to fly to moscow after a colorful ceremony in athens to kick off its sixty five thousand kilometer tour of the host country to farm reports next to the festivities in greece and the flames. well the olympic flame for saatchi twenty fourteen has officially been handed over to the russian olympic committee and it took place here at the historic and i cost stadium during an elaborate ceremony that started with the greek figure skater pony artist mark courses running into the stadium with the torch that's the same torch that was lit up at ancient olympia just under a week ago and since then the torch is being doing a tour of greece but that greek leg of the relay did come to an end today and you

may have seen the torch was then given to the deputy prime minister of russia dimitri course and he received it from a promise who is in fact the president of the helen nick olympic committee and if you look closely you may have seen that that torch was then used to light a small lantern and it's that lantern that will then be taken to the russian embassy here in athens this evening before being flown on a plane to moscow tomorrow for the start of the russian leg of this allin pick torch relay sixty five thousand kilometers long it will see that torch go to the top of mind tell bruce it will see that torch go to the bottom of lake baikal it will also go to the north pole and also be fired into active space for a space walk up at the international space station before coming back down to earth in time to light the limpid colder and in sochi the opening ceremony on february the seventh so it is a fabulous journey it's a journey that will cover the length and breadth of russia going across all nine

times owns and it is believed it will give ninety percent of the country a chance to actually see through its very significant it should be spectacular and it's well worth looking forward to it's all about trying to show this link between the ancient games and the modern games because you have to remember that two and a half thousand years ago became to actually started in a limb here and that's where this torch was lit it's really trying to show the link between the ancient and the modern games that we have enjoyed today in the form of the summer games but also the winter games that take place and will take place in sochi on february the seventh. we take a look at the highlights of the olympic torch handover ceremony on our website most our t.v. or com to see a live coverage of it from. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. really by fourteen thousand

people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp dick torch relay special coverage on our. next tonight for the n.s.a. no one has good enough reason to seek anonymity on the web now a fresh leaks revealed that even people try to shield their identity from an oppressive regime spent on earth by the agency's anti christian crusade this is the internet it's tech giants are in damage control mode to ask the federal court to let them reveal details about n.s.a. data requests lucy calf now for ups it all up tonight. 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 well the founder of a secure email provider used by edward snowden indeed 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 encryption keys that eleven explain to auti 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 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 that published it 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 fai's

a court they've been fighting requests like the ones that i received. the fact is they've been losing. the states for next story to five days of government shutdown has done little to cool tempers in washington with republican and democrat lawmakers are still bickering over budget what's worse does not let the crisis is going to end any time soon either it could even get a lot worse over the seventeenth thoughts when the lawmakers have got to raise america's debt ceiling in order to pay off debts otherwise the default repercussions of that would be a red as for the world economy currently hundreds of thousands of state workers have been laid off in the u.s. with organizations because nasa falls to wind down operations we spoke to george abi he used to oversee the international space station for who's to he told us there will be a long lasting aftershocks. there are missions that are coming up in say four or five or six months fairly critical missions or missions that robotic flights that are going to the planets they have launch windows that have to be maintained and if

the workers are that working 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 mirror to that 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 line . imitating the u.s. economic lifestyle waste led to the global crisis five years ago could be harmful for other countries talking about that at nine hundred g.m.t. tonight max and stacey. of course we 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 headline 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 got an economy that's overly reliant on fraud and really hypothecation so yes i say to the queen elizabeth respectfully return all that unused 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 a palace as collateral defied 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 space mist and some of these previous monarchs that

made movies about that are now canonized in hollywood you too can be famous in hollywood to just. about a spoken and going to. get citizen was a monthly salary of two thousand euros just for being with me correct the idea indeed for national vote have been received back and if you know surprisingly of a hundred thousand signatures in principle that's an extreme social safety net but those behind it go bigger plans peter all of. 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 column and we're presented with a petition signed by over one hundred twenty thousand people opposing the idea of paying everyone if they will or not so switzerland is say the referendum. then we should be. 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 break no we have to ball rolling stone to a yes or no question it will then be up to the lawmakers to. 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 hard for them to actually realize what this means and they have fear of course off their pensions and everything and they don't instantly gets that it's

actually everything placements of an older system the concept behind the initiative is that the current system of will can pay is outdated for a progressive nation like switzerland but with the question of would swiss people want to work cash is just thrown at them it could turn out to be a gamble to farm for boat says peter all of. the switzerland. coming up on the program with me kevin i'm in tonight the arctic regs right to reply we travel to make the crew of russian all platform stolen by greenpeace activists to hear their thoughts about the protests also had to in a couple of minutes snakes is accused of killing afghan civilians again well the lines deny it's missing its militant targets the arguments going back and forth about the latest on but to right after this break.

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to be in the. netherlands is taking russia to the international maritime tribunal now accusing it of unlawfully seizing the greenpeace ship sunrise used during last month's all rigged protest police say the environmentalists posed a threat to that platforms employees in the charge and with piracy. has been out to the arctic rig at the center of the storm to get their thoughts on it. there is and. went to.

prove as long or 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 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 balloons you see on the books 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 reek any closer it was met with silence the rules captain twenty five years at the helm was also well that cruise and tensions but you could imagine the worst 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 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 this 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. 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 did in the bay there was a woman and a man and this is when border 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 are 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 rich nationality from the charas sea in russia's north. porters the detained activists are rallying around the world for australia to brazil demonstrates is demanding the release of those arrested aboard the arctic sunrise the protests are expected to gather steam to tens of thousands are expected to attend rallies across forty five countries according to greenpeace. you may call the pictures yesterday if you didn't she had no gun another one year old toddler in

a car but a thirty four year old was shot dead by officers after trying to ram her way into the white house grounds and leading police on a hair raising chase shortly afterwards to the capital we've got more of a story online and more of those pictures too. by putting down roots in a stand against aggression at r.t. dot com we invite you to meet the man who's planting seeds of resistance in the west bank. right from the scene. of. first street. and i think you're. on our reporter's twitter. instagram i. will be in the. afghan officials have blown your so-called precision nato strike for the deaths of

five civilians including three children the coalition dismisses the accusation saying the casualty reports show no civilian victims are gonna start expert party told to see things u.s. intelligence needs to do a better job in fact last night's attack. is art of. this has asked this is how the latest strike. me be an intelligence failure the people who were who were carrying their rifles they were going for shooting at night this. this is. a lot of afghans and it seems this strike took place because the. answers were mistaken and militants. also brief tonight an attack on

a libyan military post southeast of tripoli has killed fifteen people several more were injured the soldiers came under attack from vehicles equipped with machine guns but they were leaders one of the last strongholds for supporters of the former leader moammar gadhafi with a government struggling to control rival militants competing for influence. the military spokesman named now the four members of the terrorist group killed during their deadly rampage in that now in the kenyan capital he said. dolly from sudan led the assault two weeks ago that left sixty seven dead earlier private kenyan t.v. station broadcast security footage of the assault showing the terrorist walking calmly through the westgate shopping center. the leader of the group that claims to be behind the attack is thought to have been the target two of a raid by foreign forces in southern somalia now al shabaab says turkish and british troops carried out the a solve them al qaeda linked base both governments deny any involvement al-shabaab says one of its militants was killed. as followers

reportedly pulled large numbers of its troops out of syria where they've been fighting against the opposition rebels it's thought the lebanon based militant group had it ten thousand people in the country at one point but that may have now do into just a couple of thousand artie's paula slayer traces the rapid rise of hezbollah from of smallish two 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 group has crippled 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. years 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 seats in the labor government and radio and satellite television station and programs for social development it's been called a state within

a state has one who are the only for this bill are is a very interesting combination it's not just a political party and not just a resistance group but a combination of both they have a political wing a military wing and then 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 path for 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 regard it as

a terrorist organization terrorist organization a terrorist organizations like hezbollah it's starting to me 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 taking. the side of the syrian president bashar. assad is human have a long. trip we go shared community in lebanon because by the way the leader of the ahmed movement. gave. dictating one thousand and seventy four seventy five which for the first time. since the lebanon war even and nine hundred eighty two syria has supported to develop islamist organization which became his between eighty two and ninety five the syrians gave their strategic umbrella this alliance grew stronger because of

common cause it's kept iraq from becoming the predominant legion of 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 eventually not even the americans who had been pushing for 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 beloved television a tsunami and that could make the war in two thousand and six look like a minus level policy on t.v. innovative. programs continue after the break tonight we'll be looking at the toxic

environment in poverty stricken indian workers who provide europe with its cheap lever interesting story next on our t.v. . 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 tends to. and 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 are sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. after decades of prosecuting a coburg proxy war against iran can washington change its behavior.