this is our take tonight russia receives the little pink flag during the traditional handover ceremony in outlands on sunday it will begin its epic tour of the country arriving in sochi for the twenty fourth winter games. no excuse for internet and anonymity it's revealed the n.s.a. has been snooping on those who genuinely need online privacy while the web giants desperately move to mend their reputation. a fifth straight day of deadlock sees the u.s. government in paralysis economists mourning of impending disaster we report on what the red vs blue standoff is costing american. and switzerland's plan to pay its citizens duty two thousand euros a month whether they've got a job or not we'll tell you why.

over a good morning if you just joined us money kevin owen it's just after one am here in moscow this is our our top story than the olympic torch of the twenty fourteen winter games has been handed over to russia after a colorful ceremony in athens earlier now it's set to fly to moscow to kick off its sixty five thousand kilometer to host country. reports next on those festivities in greece and the flames future. 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 tennis and i caught stadium during an elaborate ceremony that started with the greek figure skater johnny 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 with that greek leg of the relay did come to an end and you may have seen the torch was then given to the deputy prime minister of russia dmitri course and he received it from spirit 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 has officially been taken to the russian embassy here in athens it before being flown on a plane to moscow for the start of the russian leg of this allin pick torch relay is sixty five thousand kilometers long it will see that torch go to the top of mantell 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 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 is 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. under farman you take a look at the highlights of the olympic torch handover ceremony on our website r.t. dot com to see all our coverage earlier from athens. the olympic torch is on its big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face.

a limp dick torch relay special coverage on r. . and d. last cup later today as well when it arrives in moscow. next for the n.s.a. no one has a good enough reason to seek anonymity on the web anymore no matter whether you're conducting sensitive research or want to guard your business from competitors a fresh league shows that no match for the n.s.a. and encryption crusade meantime the internet's tech giants are in damage control mode asking the federal courts not reveal details about n.s.a. data requests you see caffein off reports for ati. in the wake of the u.s. national security agency scandal much of the tech industry has gone 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's far from business as usual for the founder of one secure email provider used by edward snowden he was forced to shut his service after working on it for nearly ten years later levinson repeatedly refused to provide the f.b.i. with access to his service encryption keys explained to us 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 affectively 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 shutdown of a little to cool tempers and washington still lawmakers are still bickering over budget issues specifically obamacare republicans refusing to agree on a spending bill unless the president's signature health care law is delayed or stripped of funding what's worse it doesn't look like the crisis we're going to suit could even get a whole lot worse by the seventeenth why because that's when lawmakers have to raise america's debt ceiling to raise it up in order to pay off debts otherwise it means default the repercussions of that would be horrendous for the world economy currently hundreds of thousands of state workers have been laid off in the u.s. with organizations as big as massive falls to war and then operations meantime britain is dealing with its own deficits in a very different way coming up at twenty three thirty g.m.t. most kinds of ways in our 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 their 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 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 the palaces collateral defy the financial war you know it's exciting get on t.v. make a few speeches you can make a movie about user space missed that some of these previous monarchs made movies about that are now canonized in hollywood you too can be famous in hollywood to

just. stop paying its citizens of monthly salary of two thousand euros just for being there your ideas for national vote to date having received the backing of a hundred thousand signatures in principle it's an extreme social safety net but those behind it apparently go big plans is peter all of it. 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 come you will be cared for and i ask 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. then. 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's anywhere that can find this it's with you and greg now we have to ball rolling 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 all their pensions and everything and they don't instantly get that it's actually everything placements in the old 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. the switzerland. coming up rigs right to reply we travel to meet the crew of the russian oil platforms told by greenpeace activists to hear their thoughts on the protest. make has again been accused of killing afghan civilians but the alliance to nice missing its militant targets is that what it was about online after the break. i.

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over. and over again the netherlands is taking russia to the international maritime tribunal accusing it of unlawfully seizing the greenpeace ship six sunrise used during last month's olrik protest investigators charged the environmentalist meantime with piracy saying they pose a threat to the platforms employees. to that very arctic rig at the center of the storm. the teapot over there is and to tell you. when to. really set to begin. pretty as long there 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 the unique identification position course and speed if it wants to be seen for them balloons you see 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 all the rules captain twenty five years at the helm was not so 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 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 approaching the rig bridge 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 this time 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 have 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 four 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 picture a c. in russia's north talking to those activists meantime their supporters are rallying around the world demonstrators dividing the release of those the rest of the board the arctic sunrise the protests are expected to gather steam to tens of thousands likely to attend rallies across forty five countries according to greenpeace. shared no gun and the one year old toddler in a car but a thirty four year old woman was shot dead by officers after trying to ram her way

into the white house grounds and leading police on air raids and chase through the capital we've got more of that story on one of those pictures too putting down roots in a stand against aggression at r.t. dot com we've got you to meet the man who's planting seeds of resistance in the west bank. afghan officials blaming a so-called precision nato strike for the deaths of five civilians including three children the coalition for its part dismisses that accusation saying the casualty reports show no civilian victims of gonna start passing things u.s. intelligence needs to do a better job. in fact last night's attack. is art of. this is how asked 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 the. answers were mistaken militants. also had learned this morning three blasts across iraq and killed at least forty eight civilians one of the explosions struck a cafe in a mainly shia town north of baghdad which in g. endured a similar deadly suicide bombing only several weeks ago to nearly one hundred have died this month alone in iraq's violence where more than twelve hundred perished in september the international community is sounding the alarm over iraq's increasingly beleaguered security since the nato led invasion. a military spokesman is named now the four members of a terrorist group killed during their deadly rampage in amal in the kenyan capital he said. danny 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 soul showing the terrorists apparently walking calmly through the westgate shopping center as blood was reportedly pulled large members of its troops out of syria where they've been fighting against the opposition rebels thought the lebanon based militant group had up to ten thousand people in the country at one point but that may have dwindled now to just a couple of thousand parties paula slayer traces the rapid rise of hezbollah from a small militia to one of those 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 thousand. before that 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 milligan his 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 the terrorist organizations like hezbollah 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. on the side of the syrian president bashar al assad regime has a long history of we go shave community in lebanon because by the way the leader of the ahmed movement. gave a fatwa a religious dictate in one thousand nine hundred seventy four seventy five which for the first time. since the lebanon war in.

syria has supported to develop islamist organization which became his what 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 would be 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 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 scenario that could make the war in two thousand and six look like a minus twelve all policy r.t. can have a. should someone says in the news just over time to break the set discussing tonight the death of a recently released louisiana prisoner who spent forty one years in solitary confinement for an unfair trial this is the international. 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 peoples 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 militiamen 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.

hey guys welcome to breaking the sat i want to take a moment to pay my respects to a man named herman wallace who died today from liver cancer at the age of seventy one c. wallace was a former inmate of louisiana state penitentiary in angola and spent the last forty one years of his life in solitary confinement earlier this week he was released from prison after a judge granted him a new trial because of the unfair jury selection of all white males during his first one wallace was originally in prison for robbery and moved to solitary after allegedly stabbing a prison guard during a riot he claimed that he was singled out because he was a member of the black panther party and organize protests against prison conditions now after years of appeals wallace's murder conviction was finally overturned unfortunately he died shortly after being released and while some are happy that at

least he's spent his last hours as a free man it's an utter travesty that wallace lived the last forty one years and a tiny cell virtually no human contact all for a crime he may not have committed because that's twenty first century justice in the most incarcerated country on earth. the please please take a look very hard to take a. look. at you that had sex with the perfect hair.