i'm going to make it to the end. and stop filming them i'm just going to the left i don't know what to do. rochelle receives the olympic flame jews are additional handover ceremony in athens and on sunday will begin its tour of the host country arriving in sochi then for the twenty fourteen winter games. also in the headlines this morning no excuse for internet anonymity it's revealed the n.s.a. has been snooping on those who genuinely need online privacy while the web's giants desperately move to mend their reputations. a fifth straight day of deadlock sees the u.s. government in paralysis with economists warning of impending disaster in this program we report on what the red versus blue standoff is costing america. and switzerland's planned to pay its citizens nearly two thousand euros a month whether they've got a job or not you tell me why. for

a good morning to light it every company which is joy this is kevin owen here in moscow this morning just after midnight here now our top story on our team this morning dylan picked torch of the twenty fourteen winter games was earlier handed over to russia now it's set to fly to moscow after a colorful ceremony in athens to kick off its sixty five thousand kilometer of the host country when it gets here he's under pharma reports next in the festivities in greece and the flames further. while 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 an ancient olympia just under

a week ago and since then the torch is being doing a chore 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 paused and he received it from a promise who is in fact the president of the hello nic 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 olympic 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 olympic cauldron in sochi at 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 time zones 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. and you can take a look at the highlights that olympic torch on our website our t.v. dot com lot of coverage there from athens for you. the olympic torch is on it's a big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two

thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others pays. a living torch relay special coverage on our. next morning for nasa for the n.s.a. rather no one has to go enough reason to see anonymity on the web no matter whether you are conducting sensitive research or want to guard your business from competitors a freshly shows the no match for the n.s.a.'s anti encryption crusade meantime the internet tech giants in damage control mode to their asking the federal court to let them reveal details about n.s.a. data requests to see caffein offical story. 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 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 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.

but it is far from business as usual for the founder of one secure email provider that was used by edward snowden he's been forced to shut down his service after working on it for many ten years now that evidence and repeatedly refused to provide the f.b.i. with access to his service encryption keys explained 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 the media the public 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. five days of government should so little to cool tempers the washington will republican and democrat lawmakers are still bickering over those budget technicalities won't work it worse it doesn't look like the crisis is going to end anytime soon could get a whole lot worse indeed by october the seventeenth that's when lawmakers have to raise america's debt ceiling in order to pay off debts otherwise that means default the repercussions of that would be horrendous for the world economy currently hundreds of thousands of state workers would be laid off in the u.s. with organizations as big as nasa forced to wind down operations meantime britain is dealing with his own deficits in a very different way come up with twenty three thirty g.m.t.

my sky is it weighs in on london solutions. 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 really hypothecation so yes i say to the queen elizabeth respectfully turn 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 the palaces 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 this famous and some of these previous monarchs they've made movies about that are now canonized in hollywood you too can be famous in hollywood too yes. so it sort of stopped paying its citizens a monthly salary of two thousand euros just for being there the idea is now up for a national vote of and receive the party of a hundred thousand signatures in principle that's an extreme social safety net but those behind to go big plans peter all of a. 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 your wellcome 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 a 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 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 turn switzerland huge mouthfuls 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 citing another major reason for this idea to be successful here. if there is anywhere that can finance this it's with you and greg 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 off their pensions and everything and they don't instantly get that it's actually everything placements and over the 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 votes is peter all of a. switzerland. coming up with a program the arctic rigs right to reply would travel to meet the crew of the russian oil platforms told by greenpeace activists to hear their thoughts on the protests. also coming up to nato is again accused of killing afghan civilians but the alliance for its post annoying missing its militant targets as it put it we've got the arguments on both sides after the break.

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so picture. from around the globe. looking. to see. the netherlands has taken russia to the international maritime tribunal accusing it of unlawfully seizing the greenpeace ship arctic sunrise used during last month's already protest investigators have charged the environmentalist now with piracy saying they pose a threat to the platforms employees at his roof or national is very arctic rig at the center of the storm. but there is. really.

pretty 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 the 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 for them balloons with on the books with us 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 at one point they

breached the three mile 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 roods captain twenty five years at the helm was water well the crew isn't tensions but you could imagine the worst 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 the use drugs or drink is 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 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 stop 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 up

article or 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 up to the law now to decide regional shawty from the charas sea in russia's north in terms of porters of those detained activists are rallying around the world demonstrators demanding the release of those arrested aboard the arctic sunrise those protests are expected to gather to tens of thousands of likely to attend rallies across forty five countries according to. one lived in cultures pictures yesterday we got them r.t.

there kong she heard no gun shot a one year old toddler in a car but a fifty four year old woman was shot dead by officers after trying to ram her way into the white house grounds and then bleeding police on a hair raising chase through the capital war of r.t. dot com. and putting down roots in a stand against aggression also on a website with you to meet the man who's planting seeds of resistance in the west bank. afghan officials are blaming a so-called precision nato strike for the deaths of five civilians including three children the coalition mode dismisses that accusation saying there casualty reports show no civilian victims have got a stern expert party thinks u.s. intelligence needs to do a better job. in fact last night's attack. is part of. this is how i ask this is how the latest strike.

me be an intelligence failure the people who were rude were carrying rifles they were going for shooting at night this. this is. a lot of afghans and it seems this strike took place because these students were mistaken as militants in briefer smalling now three blasts across iraq killed at least forty eight civilians one of the explosions struck a cafe the mainly shia town north of baghdad which in jude a similar deadly suicide bombing only several weeks ago nearly one hundred have died this month alone in iraq's violence where more than twelve hundred perished in september international community sounding the alarm over iraq's increasingly beleaguered security since the nato led invasion. military spokesman's name the other four members of the terrorist group killed during their deadly rampage of the

shopping mall in kenya in the kenyan capital he said. only from sudan led that assault two weeks ago that left sixty seven dead earlier a private kenyan t.v. station broadcast security footage of the assault showing the terrorists apparently walking calmly through the westgate shopping center. has been lost and has 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 up to ten thousand people at one time in the country but that may no dwindled to just a couple of thousand artie's paula's sleeper next traces the rapid rise of hezbollah 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 coupled with missile also no problems in washington to say the group has more missiles than most governments in the world

had some thirteen or fifteen thousand. before that and now according to. the fifty thousand. from a small militia that emerged in the early eighty's hizbullah has grown to an organization with six malignancies government a 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 an economic wing it builds a very respectful place in south lebanon and in the places where the shia are living in lebanon are. the movement ones 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 beloved fighters but where is his bill is popularity peeta then 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 to. on the side of the syrian president bashar al assad regime had a long history of. community in lebanon because by the way the leader of the ahmed movement. gave a. date in one thousand nine hundred seventy four seventy five which for the first

time recognize the. since the lebanon war even a nine hundred eighty two syria supported to develop islamist organization which became his 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 eventually not even the americans who have been pushing for intervention in israel has already tried to hand and although she won't publicly admit it it's widely accepted tel aviv was behind at least for 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 well i'm doubted he invoked his beloved television a scenario that could make the war in two thousand and six look like a minus level policy r.t. can have a. hughes continues here in moscow just over half an hour's time coming home for the break though we continue a look at the toxic environments one of the workers the provide european markets with cheap leather. recently the ministry of internal affairs of russia declared that they're going to drastically increase operations in and around the moscow subway system with

a major emphasis on illegal immigration there is 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 are generally taboo and 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 foreign 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.

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