olympic torch relay. on. this is today britain's intelligence chief warns the country is facing his grave this terror threat from al qaeda affiliates so i think thousands of islamic extremists living in the u.k. . president obama says they'll be no negotiations with his opponents until the shutdown is over and the debt ceiling is raised with america's costly political impasse now to its ninth day. and. the enemy of my enemy is my friend unlikely allies israel and saudi arabia now reportedly team up to take on syria and iran.

just joined us is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight just past seven pm here now moscow time and first of thousands of islamic extremists living in the u.k. could attack at will that's the warning from the country's security chief sharing his fears in his first speech since taking over m i five andrew parker also admitted that you cain telegin services were not perfect as he put it. this. the specific league named al qaida and its affiliated groups in pakistan and yemen as being the most direct and immediate threat to the u.k. and he had referred to the groups that had successfully been able to smuggle some explosives onto planes in the last four years and also raising it be a conflict in syria he echoed the same concerns as several other european governments have been expressing with regard to individuals who had gone over to syria to fight and that have been coming back to the country that he raised the point that there are some sunni extremist groups in the syria who are aspiring to

attack western a country is now having given these warnings he also defended the need for intelligence services to be employing the kind of vast surveillance that they've already had of course this is one this side of the story the other side being the recent public backlash we've seen on the activities of the intelligence services let's get more insight on this whole story the new warnings from the gym brad from the stop the war coalition thanks very much for joining us what do you make of the statements of the m i five achieved i mean why issue the warnings now if we look at the terrorism act for example that's already in place this is never really last priority with this government there are certain things that he said that have some logic and there are certain things that he said the on the face of it have no logic clearly there are people from this country to go to syria and. there's some possibility that they may cause some problem coming back here because they will aim to come back at that that has a certain logic those people keep fighting in syria coming back what about the british extremists who maybe have been involved in attacks elsewhere and they have

to bolster this idea of the war on terror as a coherent saying where the threat is coming from about their authorities nothing to do with what the british government does it comes from out there and that remains they have to present the thing that way we are justified in what we do because of the threat that already exists rather than that we are creating the threats. president obama is refusing to have budget for the republicans until congress and the government shutdown and raises the debt ceiling it's just over a week now before the u.s. runs into cash in its ability to borrow more money putting the nation in front of a very real risk of two fold. the latest from new york i ninety a government shutdown with a credit default looming in the wings washington's failure to so far agree on a budget or how to pay its bills has given an entirely new meaning to american exceptionalism hundreds of thousands of americans are losing paychecks and social benefits because u.s.

officials elected to lead this country are engaged in a bitter fiscal deadlock on tuesday president barack obama said he would be willing to negotiate on budget issues only after republicans agreed to reopen the federal government and raise the debt limit without preconditions republicans meanwhile are insisting on deficit reduction talks as a condition for raising the federal debt by october seventeenth members of the party have demanded also that obama's health care be delayed or defunded in return for approving funds to end the government shutdown of president obama warned the public that an economic shutdown the first in history would be dramatically worse than the current reckless government shutdown and while washington's temper tantrum remains on full display economist max wolf says the world is watching with oil and growing less impressed with the economic and political experiment otherwise known as the united states i do think we will see the debt ceiling get resolved however

with each day where the dysfunction is more obvious more out of control and larger it becomes harder to have faith tomorrow it becomes harder for the markets it becomes harder for americans it becomes harder for the population of the world to have faith in brand america government america and people begin to unfortunate and unpleasant and unflattering questions about america's future now china which owns a reported one point three trillion. dollars of u.s. government debt recently reminded washington that the clock is ticking and urged u.s. lawmakers not to repeat the mistake of two thousand and eleven that's when the debate over raising the u.s. debt ceiling. reading downgraded and japan's finance minister also recently said a failure by the u.s. to quickly resolve its political deadlock over government finances could damage the global economy in the meantime the u.s. government shutdown has reportedly delayed trade talks between washington and brussels it has also forced president obama to skip asia pacific economic

cooperation meeting this week ceding valuable ground china reporting from new york r.t. . while anxiety over washington's inability to solve his political mess is a goal for nations around the globe with many countries risking their economies being compromised by close ties to the u.s. meantime both democrats and republicans are refusing to capitulate costing americans hundreds of millions of dollars every day let's take a look at how political impasses like this works in other places and where lawmakers couldn't agree on a budget but they got through it straight here for instance want to shut down back in one nine hundred seventy five hour for budgetary squabbles or the queen stepped in fired everyone that new elections have been a problem since they were when congress failed to pass a budget in brazil but seven years ago no big deal just some limits to salaries and current expensive the picture in israel a sensible plan if they didn't get a budget every year by december thirty first deadline the autumn of revert to the previous year's budget to get through the emergency but the united states

democracies got no such mechanism to resolve the deadlock renowned split the cold commentator in america noam chomsky explains how it all evolved. from in the parliamentary democracy. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation the way the economy structured time to go into it but one of the effects of these changes it's basically the new liberal programs and they're having the same kind of effect. as the narrow the. direct wealth to the very narrow sectors the increasing inequality it has an immediate effect on politics and parliamentary democracy as a parent gets more concentrated political power does as well. by now elections are almost it's simply talk of democracy

both political parties have drifted to the right the u.s. is still one party state the business party. well we'll track his progress of course while this rumbles on while it does hundreds of thousands of people on unpaid leave because of the government shutdown but officials have made an exception for some federal workers you know more about than of the mountains breaking the sixteen thirty g.m.t. today. eight hundred thousand federal employees have been lingering without a national parks monuments of the sort graveyards all closed why do you. drum circles ordered and kindergarteners plainly both looking but there is one group of federal employees deemed as so moved by it all to this country that they have been ordered back to work now you probably think i'm talking about when safety inspectors considering how ninety one percent of imported seafood isn't being checked and the fact that three miners have already died since the shutdown because

of lack of oversight on the job but no i'm talking about the industry that this government favors the most defense secretary of defense chuck hagel recently ordered most of its three hundred fifty thousand civilian defense contractors back to work citing that they are so critical to protecting national security they have got to keep the military industrial complex move and keep them happy after all war is what's funny in this economy and i write. oh. yeah i'll be here again on arrow just but our twenty five minutes time we're keeping a close eye on developments on capitol hill of course as well lotty dot com latest updates and expert analysis for you twenty four seven. now there could be changes to the charges facing the arctic sunrise crew after new details emerge in the investigation over the dutch vessel evolved in last month's greenpeace protest of

his then see france's across this one. investigators found drugs and including poppy straws and wood is reportedly morphine along with dual purpose devices this was discovered in the arctic sunrise when investigators did a search of the vessel according to the investigative committee this means the thirty people that currently face piracy charges could face even more charges and of course that means facing. tougher jail sentences if convicted for its part green feet greenpeace says it's very skeptical about this information drugs are very strongly prohibited. in its entire organization and so of course it sees no reason any of these activists would have brought that sort of paraphernalia on board also it's wondering if the morphine and to purpose devices that the investigators are talking about is in the morphine and devices that the doctor at the on the on board doctor would keep in the cabinet thirty people do remain behind bars despite

repeated appeals by various lawyers to secure their release so this of course all kicked off back in september when the arctic sunrise was essentially the staging area for the activists who then launched their motor boats drove the boats up to the russian oil rig on the petra sea and attempted to then scale the oil right that's when the security forces came out the netherlands which has to citizens involved in this debacle has launched legal action against russia to secure the release of the activists so this will be an international court so this will definitely not be going away any time soon and we will of course be keeping a very close eye as events unfold. you know there's a france there's a ready different drama playing out for the netherlands to the country's foreign ministry now has apologized to moscow in the last few hours for its police beating up that russian diplomat moscow demanded explanation soon after the incident happened on sunday russia's embassy in the netherlands says the dutch police

officers accused dimitri botha did of mistreating is children the diplomat there reportedly opened a door to a group of security officers who said his wife had been in a car accident then apparently they broke into the official's house and attacked him with a weapon in front of his children before briefly detaining him for his part president putin described the assault as a blatant violation of the vienna convention. thanks to company on r.t. with me kevin owen still to come watch out for the eagle i might look like a bird or a where is it here it is but it's actually a high tech spy a device that can fly a hundred meters above the target without detection feathers and off we go bird spotting just a few minutes from now. so

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for the conflict in syria rocket mr politics the entire middle east old regional alliances are being broken a new ones are being forged in their place now to unlikely friends israel and saudi arabia don't even have diplomatic relations but they have now probably managed to find common ground polis live reports next to the country's united front against the syrian government that is close ally iran. there's an unexpected union forming right now in the region between israel and saudi arabia unexpected because on the one hand while the two shape common rivals in egypt and syria saudi arabia particularly recently has been pouring millions of dollars of aid into palestinian projects both in gaza and in the west bank the potential impact of such an unlikely union cannot be overestimated israel brings to the party excellent propaganda skills saudi arabia on the other hand is able to tap into a vast reservoir of petro dollars israel too has unparalleled influence over american

foreign policy and the result of these two countries working together is shaping international responses no doubt about it rumors reports about. corporation secret meetings started to appear following the second lebanon war two thousand and six. when it became clear the iran is to become a major player here in our immediate region but also. in the gulf but this cooperation between israel and saudi arabia is problematic because saudi arabia gives so much support to the palestinians just recently it gave some ten million dollars to enrich the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees this is in addition to an extra two hundred million dollars that was donated to palestinian infrastructure projects one such project is in russia in

gaza where homes are being rebuilt for palestinians whose lives were destroyed during the last israeli war the result is that on the one hand you can see them. cooperate prizzi's and when it comes to iran on the other hand they had close contacts with hamas on the one hand the initiate there are a peace initiative. we've. worked to support him directly al qaida or. this is the ambiguity you can find in the. saudi policy many are asking the question whether israel isn't shooting itself in the foot by forming an alliance with a country that supports its enemies policy r.t. east jerusalem well despite the differences israel and saudi arabia share views on key regional issues both countries want regime change in syria with saudi arabia strongly backing the rebels and both nations also see iran is their main geo

political rival they want to neutralize the islamic state the israelis and saudis united in the backing of the military government in egypt too which is taking a strong stance of course against islamist so where does that leave the united states that well it could now find itself in a more difficult position to exert its influence on the region according to investigative journalist robert perry. it had this building up of mutual interest between these two very significant powers in the middle east so it raises the question of whether this very significant although unlikely or a sort of fairly unusual odd couple relationship between saudi arabia and israel might present might create a new superpower in the in the middle east if saudi arabia and israel could figure out a way to work together you would have you could have israel providing it's very tremendous sophisticated political operations involving both the israel lobby back in the united states it's six opposed to cater propaganda techniques with what the saudis

have which is vast amounts of money united states might find this problematic in that while while both saudi arabia and israel are american allies if the two of them or to collaborate more formally on some of these issues like syria for instance or ran or egypt that could put the united states in a position of not being able to work its will with quite the freedom that it's had in the past let's go back to a top story now the new chief of the i five is when the britain is facing his biggest threat from thousands of islamic history missile ready living in the u.k. we've got a bit of a delay on the line let's talk to a highly must moodys a labor m.p. and then the emmy's head which is arguably britain's most ethnically diverse city hi there good evening thanks for being with us and welcome britain this do about this threat that the new chief of m i five talked about how effective would anything they do be anyway.

well i think so far it's been significantly effective we've got a fairly good security agency working alongside the police force at the moment they're managed to for literally all the plots in seven seven so therefore i think we're doing quite quite quite well respected doing that and i think it's largely due to the intelligence community in the agency that is doing that and i think particularly the last few plots that are that have been sort of uncovered by the security services a couple of them in birmingham. have been because of the vigilance of the security services but one lapse of course will help to break loose couldn't it. so that that is always i think the case is something like what has happened in

kenya were to be perpetrated would cause. a real shake up and a real shock to the system. that is now the difficulty that we have and i think anybody anywhere in the west that has way you have that such a huge freedom of movement of people in a particular environment if that was to be overtaken by a limited number of people will be automatic weapons i think would cause significant problems and i think that is the biggest threat to anybody or any country at the moment in the world how in the u.k. will the muslim community react to this statement come out today then. i think by and large the muslim community is aware of these things i think we've had a number of plots that are the have been interrupted by by the security services they know this is high on the end i think there's two issues here i think there's an

issue of lot of people not just the muslim community but but predominantly most of the people who are concerned there. big brother watching what's going on and i think the big issue is that the amount of access that the intelligence services have to most people's data in terms of telephone data e-mails and even the internet websites and those sort of things i think. apprehension by a lot of people and then there's the other side to it which most people are saying well if you doing nothing that is the that contradicts that your security position is fine and there's no problem and i think it well what ellie what the chief does say any report as they're not spending hours i think is well closer to interrupt here a bit of a delay they're worried about is it likely to stoke islamophobia i'm thinking you know look what happened back in the early summer with the murder of lee rigby back

in last may there was a there was a rise in attacks on muslims ism a phobia was reported the figures are going up are you worried that today statements going to affect that again. no i certainly don't think that i think more importantly what the issue here is a lot of people about the civil rights people not being sure whether their mails are being read generally across the whole united kingdom a lot of people are very concerned about that and i think that that is the issue that he's trying to head to say look we might have access to all these e-mails and all this stuff but we don't go through your private stuff what we're doing is sifting through. through through computers of some keywords and we'll put a long look at certain e-mails which we think are threat could point telegraph would frank surveillance program labor m.p. from birmingham u.k. sure thank you. let me take through some world news in brief now we start with news

the middle east to water bombs that hit an israeli army post in the golan heights wounding a soldier there according to the military they were apparently launched from syrian territory israel says it returned fire the golan heights with under israeli occupation since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven fire from the civil war in syria has occasionally spilled into the area in recent months. six workers at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan have been exposed to radiation after one of the mistakenly removed a pipe connected to a water treatment system there several tons of contaminated water spilled as a result but that contained within the treatment facility it is the latest though in a string of errors at the crippled plant which suffered triple melt after that earthquake and tsunami two years ago because she was operated tepco has been lambasted for failing to control radioactive water leaks. roadside bombs killed eight in iraq the explosion hit a truck carrying workers south of baghdad the bloodshed in the country's riches wracked by terrorist attacks has reached

a level not seen no since two thousand and eight more than two hundred iraqis have died from blasts and shootings this month alone. but only stations are closed as a version where people have been choosing their president exit polls put the incumbent leader. way ahead of his rivals with a whopping eighty three percent of the votes he's being so confident of victory they didn't even run an election campaign if confirmed it will be his third term in office and lives families virtually unbroken control of the country now for forty years. the birds may be watching you and we're not talking paranoia here it seems a spanish manufacturer is now come up with a new surveillance drone disguised as a bird which even apparently mimics its flight path and sarah first reports on how several countries militaries alarming up for feathered air force may be. is it a bird is it a plane well actually if you guessed. you'd be almost right this is one of the

new strains on the market is this company maxim's defense unit x l this behind the creation of this and aerial vehicle o u a v this is a drone with a difference it's been designed to look like a native birds now it's already in operation as a bird strike avoidance system but next say that they want to expand its uses as a surveillance drone it could also eight firefighters all be used in drug trafficking operations the known as sheppard mill was showcased at this year's international in london the average price is one hundred thousand euros and giving a whole new meaning to bird's eye view the company claim it's so well camouflaged compared to standard u a v's the fly about a thousand meters and texted this train can fly just one hundred meters above the

enemy without being seen in fact in the sky. which this is thing. one of the front of the other at the bottom. in real time information. to decide what to do or the information to. go. simply to. the drones being tested by the spanish military but expo say that they're already in port to sell it to several other countries armed forces the drone is currently not available for civilian purchase expelled told r.t. . his boots the birds but by the end of the year they hate to sign two important contra. well they they won't disclose. and she joined campaign is a concern and this is yet another development the kid make it harder today when and

how the story he's keeping their eye on you. son of the times to win which shot dead on a crowded commuter train but no one witnessed it sad story this one a lot of passengers in california pulled out these toyed with it then shot a student in the head. but no one saw it part of they were engrossed with their phones and tablets to the t dot com. and it might be some light at the end of the tunnel oh for julian assange choose not left ecuador's london embassy for almost a year and a half his asylum ally is now asking an international criminal court for help. here with the news take you through the evening that's my lot to see tomorrow maybe up next greenpeace tactics of the center of debate in people of elle's latest cross-talk right after this break good evening.

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