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direct from our studios in moscow. thomas. now the olympic torch of the two thousand and fourteen winter games has been handed over to russia after covering its final leg in the greek capital it will now be flown to moscow to begin its sixty five thousand kilometer tour of the host country. reports on the festivities in greece and the flames the future round. 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 tennis and i caught 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 and you may

have seen the torch was then given to the deputy prime minister of russia dmitri cause and he received it from a promise who is in fact the president of the hélène 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 this before being flown on a plane to moscow for the start of the russian leg of this a limb 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 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. farmer there for a start you can head to our website for the highlights from the olympic torch handover ceremony on our t.v. dot com we've got in-depth coverage of the grander spectacle of. 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 face.

a live torch relay special coverage on r t. and america's national surveillance agency is in an apparent crusade against any online privacy according to another fresh revelation from edward snowden's leaks the n.s.a. has repeatedly targeted a web service that is often used by journalists and businessmen to make their internet communications anonymous meanwhile several tech giants including google and microsoft are currently suing the u.s. for the right to disclose the scale of their cooperation with the agency. has more . 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 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. the founder of an email service that was used by edward snowden attempted to defy f.b.i. requests to provide the security codes to the system that's been revealed in documents recently disclosed by a u.s. court but he judicial standoff eventually led. him to make the painful decision to

shut down his service office and explained it to r.t. earlier why he chose to do so. 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 it's now five days of government shutdown have done little to cool tempers in washington where lawmakers are still bickering over budget budget issues specifically obamacare republicans are refusing to agree on a spending bill unless the president's signature health care law is delayed or stripped of funding with a new deadline established lawmakers must raise america's debt ceiling by october seventeenth for the country to pay off the money it owes currently hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been laid off in the u.s. with organizations as big as nasa forced to wind down operations otherwise it will mean default which would have horrendous repercussions for the world economy as professor william robinson from the university of california predicts. if the u.s. congress did not approve or blocked raising the debt ceiling really that would

spark a global economic crisis it would be tremendous for if the u.s. government would stop making payments on its bonds on again on its debt that would throw the entire global economy into a crisis date investors institution versus individual versus what a time to pull out of the u.s. this would throw stock markets into a worldwide into a major crisis sooner or later the dollar cannot continue and this is just another sign of the weakening of the dollar as the international reserve currency and so these types of crises are going to continue to come up with is the long term context in which this takes place and that's the climb the gradual decline of the united states as a hedge amount of power worldwide politically and economically well meanwhile britain is dealing with its own deficit in a very different way coming up later this hour max kaiser weighs in on the london's 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 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 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 their gold under gordon brown they have no sovereign wealth fund and they've got an economy that's overly reliant on fraud and re hypothecation so yes i say to the queen elizabeth respectfully return all of that unused collateral into something that can help the nation think of it as being on the vanguard in this global financial war and mean 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 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. still ahead in the program as international tensions around the rest of greenpeace activists keep mounting we travel to the russian oil rig where it all started just a few minutes of the crew of the drilling platform shared their firsthand accounts of the events that led to the detention of the campaigners. plus a citizens in switzerland could soon have the opportunity to choose their vocation without needing to take wages into consideration the nation's government is debating an initiative to pay each citizen an automatic two thousand euros a month the story and more after a short break right here on our team. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations today. there's a nine story building i noticed that standing on its roof was a man in civilian clothes holding a sniper rifle. to say something that offends so they believe that they do use blank or wooden shells but the building was good for him how much time it took to restore it. rebooted for yeltsin in the referendum the deputies of the supreme soviet didn't appeal to us out all we had to

support yeltsin otherwise it would have been civil war. and welcome back to your watching r t russia has rebuffed the netherlands an initiative to launch legal action over the prosecution of greenpeace activists moscow authorities say they repeatedly demanded the arctic sunrise vessel registered in the netherlands to halt its activities charged with piracy the activists were arrested on the ship after an attempt to board a russian oil rig artie's may finish now has traveled to the same brig to find out the crew's accounts of the events. precious little the. teapot over there is and it. went to. really set to begin.

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 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 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 a 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 read any closer it was met with silence the rules captain twenty five years at the helm was not aware of the crew isn't tension but you could imagine the worst he had experience with dealing with greenpeace activists before. last august when pieces 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 to reach the righ and eventually managed to get on it and spend about ten hours there the head of greenpeace russia used the success to accuse the rig's management of been unable to provide security which could have disastrous consequences if it had been a terror attack the official claimed

a year on the pressure group tried to repeat the stunt for the captain it was like deja vu he saw first two and then three boats approaching the rig bridge and its safety zone protected by international maritime law he should act. 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. with use of

article four for tomorrow they posed a minor threat until the attempted to board the platform and that we have to prevent by all. 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 fifty 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 regional shawty from the tourist see in russia's north meanwhile around of the globe are thousands have protested to demand the release of the activists demonstrations were held under the slogan free arctic thirty which is the number of people detained greenpeace said that protests were scheduled in over forty

countries with dozens gathering at a rally in russia's capital as well. we have plenty more stories for you on line as well including working to death in japan employees of some companies are dying from strokes or heart attacks and other health problems found to be related to overworking we can head to our to dot com for the full story. plus on the motion page of our website we have footage from the moscow international festival which is expected to attract over three million people these stories and much more online. so it's could soon start paying its citizens a monthly salary of two thousand euros just for being there the ideas now for a national vote having received the backing of one hundred thousand signatures in principle it's an extreme social safety net but those behind it have bigger plans here's artie's. cash

by the truckload for the proposed basic income initiative a rolling with a splash on 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 paula meant to have presented with the titian signed by over one hundred twenty thousand people closing the idea of paying everyone they will know it 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 solution once and. campaign is

announce their intention to spread the wealth with a glitzy stunt four hundred thousand swiss francs three hundred fifty thousand euro with the gold coins deposited on the square in front of them and this initiative hopes to do is to in 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 sightseeing another major reason for this idea to be successful here he had a good if there's anywhere else that can find its way through and break no we have to ball rolling stone to a yes or no where. it will then be used to determine exactly where the money will

come from unless those financing issues would 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 force their pensions and everything and they don't instantly get that it's actually a replacements on 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 people willing to work cash is just thrown at them it could turn out to be a gamble to fund the boat says peter all of the switzerland it's now take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines around the world for you this hour starting with the u.s.

navy seals they've conducted an operation in some the somali town of barra way reading a villa of a senior leader of the al shabaab militant group according to reports troops didn't find their target though earlier it had been suggested that the militant leader had been killed the operation was carried out as a response to a deadly attack on a nairobi shopping mall last month the took the lives of sixty six people and it comes as a group of armed men seized a suspected key al qaeda member blamed for the u.s. bombings of the embassies in tanzania and kenya in one thousand nine hundred eighty . two iraq where several blasts across the nation have killed at least sixty six civilians a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of shiite pilgrims in baghdad another explosion occurred inside a cafe in the north of the capital the recent spike of sectarian tensions left more than one thousand dead in september alone. the nine year old girl has

been seriously wounded by a shooting in an israeli settlement in the west bank officials reported that she was hit by a single shot while playing outside the attack was reportedly carried out by a palestinian sniper from a long distance an investigation is currently being conducted now hezbollah has reportedly pulled a large numbers of its troops out of syria where they've been fighting against the opposition the rebels it's thought the lebanon based militant group had up to ten thousand people in the country but that may have dwindled to just a couple thousand artie's policy or 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 has crippled the missile also no problems in washington to say the group has more missiles than most governments in the world they had some thirteen or fifteen thousand. before that and now according to.

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 is 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. 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 as 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 time to name his bollocks 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 two. the side of the syrian president bashar. assad regime had a long. trip we go shave community in lebanon because by the way the leader of the ahmed movement. gave. the tape

in one thousand nine hundred seventy four seventy five which for the first time. since the. war even a nine hundred eighty two syria has supported to develop islamists there she had organisation which became his but between eighty two hundred five. syrians gave this strategic umbrella this alliance grew stronger because of common cause it's kept iraq from becoming the predominant regional power and stopped israel's efforts to bring lebanon into its orbit. what i can tell you is that syria is a key element in an axis of resistance this is why no one knows for sure how an american aggression against syria might play out of intially not even the americans who would be pushing for an intervention it. israel has a way to try 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 his but. in

a shift from her usual noncommittal public stance tentative also recently called for assad to be toppled but any attack on syria will undoubtedly invoke his beloved teddy ation a tsunami and that could make the war in two thousand and six look like a minus level policy on t.v. and if. we gave you a tiny taste before but now the full thing of max and stacey discuss how britain should deal with its economic problems it's going to be entertaining and it's right after the break right here on r.t. . 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 is 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 tense told. 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 were sure

feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion. of the kaiser report imax kaiser financial holocaust financial chair financial apartheid yes all the cost and terror and apartheid of the lions and tigers and bears of our day but dorothy you can rise up just click your heels and storm the palaces with a collateralized debt obligation of your own so let's take buckingham palace kensington palace st james palace and windsor palace roll the palaces into one highly leveraged collateralized palace obligation and re conquer the world we can do it there are these with a royal as.