during where we have children being picked off the streets where we have. homes where torture is. not in itself a former. u.s. ambassador over the latest revelations of n.s.a. spying. plans huge fines to stop illegal transfers of personal data. germany's green dream morphs into a nightmare for the consumer as. energy. bills also. would be the crisis of confidence a series of scandals leaves the reputation of u.k. politicians at rock bottom the british public saying they can't be trusted particularly when they are wrong.

worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me rule research. news today let's get straight to it right now the u.s. ambassador to france has been summoned over reports the n.s.a. spied on its citizens the call comes just as brussels pushes through a new set of rules aimed at stopping the transfer of personal data to third countries it's the first attempt at legislation in reaction to the revelations of whistleblower edward snowden the measure would make america's secret court orders powerless forcing companies to comply with european laws fines running into billions of euros are designed to discourage anyone from violating the new law snowden's findings actually. forced e.u.

political groupings to reach agreement over an issue that has caused a two year gridlock well among the priorities of the new law is that limiting data collection to the minimum necessary which also is protecting an individual's right to erase any private information stored online let's get details now joining us live here on r t alexander dicks at the berlin commissioner for data protection thank you so much for coming on our big hello to you from the entire r.t. news team here in moscow why is the e.u. doing this trying to protect citizens private information protect it from who or first of all the european commission has proposed this measure already in january two thousand and twelve well before edward snowden initiated these revelations on the n.s.a. program but the this measure has been debated controversially for some time and now thanks to mr snowden's revelations there seems to be consensus at least in the

european parliament or the committee will vote on this measure tonight but this is not the end of the story because the e.u. governments will have to agree also and hopefully the whole measure will come will be adopted before the european parliament is reelected next may so as you say as you say certain european politicians working to protect the online information of citizens cross the e.u. and as you were mentioning there regarding edward snowden the former whistleblower his revelations are european agencies were often sharing people's data with the n.s.a. do you really think we still supposed to believe though that they're not still in bed together. well one has to be quite clear about this the european union has no jurisdiction to regulate the activities of intelligence services but if they agreed to to require illegal bases for transfer of personal data to third

countries as has been proposed in the parliament now this would be a major step forward because then there would have to be a political agreement between the governments also between the us and the european governments what intelligence services should be allowed to do in the future so it's a two step process today is only this is a general measure which cannot directly influence the activities of intelligence services but it's an important step forward and what does this mean though for the average person such as yourself and me as well well the the rights of the european citizens will be strengthened if this measure is adopted in europe there will be still would probably be problems to effectively control and monitor what intelligence services are doing but the problem is much larger than this i think because google amazon and facebook and apple and all the other big american companies need strict rules which they have to attain to when they want to do

business in europe and when it comes to these rules are facebook google apple apple and so i want to you actually think that they will pay these rules if they come into effect. they will they will certainly have to because the sanctions in visits by the european commission and the parliament indeed are so heavy that they will certainly think twice before starting to break these rules now certainly in the wake of edward snowden and his revelations one of the more recent ones showing the united states was eavesdropping on the former mexican president felipe calderon and now today we're just hearing the u.s. ambassador has been summoned to the french foreign ministry on allegations of spying as well just what is washington up to. well it is difficult to tell at the moment we have to accept that apparently the national security agency is monitoring the entire global telecommunications going

on and we have to achieve a political agreement international agreement that this is inacceptable and has to be limited this applies to other intelligence services as well not only the american ones but this is a major issue which has to be addressed by the by the governments on an international plane and when you talk about it being on an international plane it seems that snowden's leaks have caused a chain reaction from countries rushing to protect their information and not just in europe or america but central and south america latin america as well i'll be seeing this becoming a global phenomenon maybe well certainly governments and nation states thinking how to protect their citizens against excessive surveillance and this is a good development because citizens deserve protection of their rights and they do not deserve to be subjected to to automatic is automatic surveillance of whatever they doing online or whomever they are communicating with they have to be limits to

surveillance taking into account that they need to be effective measures to combat terrorism and other crimes alexander takes the burden commission of a data protection joining us live here on r.t. many thanks indeed thanks for your time today. are still to come from the program here on our t.v. that of murder in bahrain the country's police allegedly shoot dead an opposition activist sparking yet a new wave of program form protests that story and the rest of the world headlines are coming for you after the break. for the immediate time being here on our t.v. robin hood like subsidies for green power driving the e.u. towards an energy crisis that's actually according to europe's top utilities firms the problem they say is billions in taxpayer handouts are killing innovation and competitive nurse and the results are there for all to see for example let's bring

you some of the issues of the energy costs in the e.u. and elsewhere for example the china are right there at the far end a kilowatt hour is going to cost you around seven cents in america so a few cents more than that double it you've got france though at least some of the prizes are being kept down due to the out of nuclear power though almost double that again and you've got germany twenty seven cents four times higher than that of china needless to say it's bad news for industry at a time when the e.u. desperately needs to get back on its feet economically now germany has actually found a way around it instead of taxing businesses and factories it puts the entire burden of subsidies on ordinary households and as artie's peter all of a found out families are having a tough time keeping up with the appetites of the green lobby. well the. support for green energy is anchored in the german psyche it gets back even when it harms us that hurt is being felt in germany. i went to meet one girl in mother who

was finding paying for power a real problem. one day i saw it almost doubled two hundred zeros it was not possible for me to pay. across europe energy prices for homes have risen by seventeen percent over the last four years one of the reasons for price rises is the subsidies being paid out for solar and wind energy germany is set to spend five hundred fifty billion euro on a plan to take eighty percent of its power from renewables over the next thirty seven years those costs being passed on to the concert that's why it's being sold on the message that it's either wind energy or radioactive catastrophe this plays on these fears and makes money for the wind energy providers after the fukushima nuclear disaster germany increased its commitments to ditch atomic power

bases seen more coal power plants having to be built to take up the slack the increasing cost is causing problems for manufacturers from the our industry is suffering big companies may decide that it's just too expensive and look to relocate. despite remaining heavily reliance on coal as a source of power germany sees itself as a trailblazer of renewable energy but that innovation comes at a cost to both the consumer and to the country's industry piecer all over r.t. . the german government is reconsidering its subsidy program with angela merkel expected to look at exactly how the handouts work but for now the anger continues to build as artie's katie pilbeam explains as consumers continuously see their utility bills rise the conflict between competitive business and the. us is escalating the decisions to subsidize selected technologies have our energy

prices so for example we rein in on germany for now then subsidies for renewable energy all running at around sixteen billion euros a year and that's rising and in total says the introduction that sixty billion there now the value of you tell it is on global stock exchanges all over the e.u. have gone from around one trillion euros in two thousand and eight to lessen hoth of that now so as a consequence it's perhaps not surprising to me that investors are losing interest now german utility company they seen their share price drop seventy five percent since their peak in around two thousand and seven and this is what we see of the company has to say about that soon on impress the top so while the energy companies are losing patience our money environmentalist will they are pleased but the question is can they go bill economy and the average consumer afford renewable

right now war can it afford not. not to be ignored britain wants the best of both worlds and is just authorize the construction of a new nuclear power plant or the first new generation it will be built by a french led consortium in a cotton. the plan it will help power the u.k.'s grid for fifty years fred wrote the director of the young voices international advocacy group he says conventional energy is needed as well because green power pushes up the prices imagine you have various consumers going to a grocery store supermarket some of them just want to buy a bottle of beer for one euro and others say no actually i would like to buy a bottle of champagne for thirty euros in the german and energy markets actually different people work the champagne buyers would pay something like two euros and all the beer by us would also pay to yours that ought to subsidise the champagne buyer and that's basic and the energy market if you buy energy from legacy energy carrier such as coal our nuclear power you subsidized those which do not energy for

much higher price and that other renewable energy such as a winter in solar power it's a bulletproof investment at the moment to build a wind well in your yard or to put some solar up on notes under your roof government is subsidizing the loans you need to actually afford these things and then you get a guaranteed prize for every kilowatt hour you produce that's a bulletproof investment and a lot of people are doing this because it's a good way to make money but at the end it's us consumers paying for it and to london now where the british public thinks that politicians rarely tell the truth and are unlikely to own up if indeed they make mistakes a recent poll shows just how little faith people in the u.k. have in those they elected to represent them so hear it and see we dispatched laura smith on to the streets of london to dig up the latest. cash for questions selling access to the prime minister and of course m.p.'s abusing their expense accounts

the story that just keeps on giving all of these scandals and more have come together to undermine the moral capital of politicians and the amount of trust the able to command with the public a poll done earlier this year said britain's think politicians tell the truth less than bankers all real estate agents don't and nicholas allen co-author of a new book on ethics and politics says this creeping loss of trust goes right to the heart of the dishonesty of all governments and there is a perception i think that politicians have. become less and less on it's less ethical in the way they conduct both state politics if people perceive politicians to be generally immoral and dishonest the politicians are going to lose a certain amount of moral authority politicians governments need a moral authority if they're going to lead the public lead society down quite

difficult policy parts the times we live in to mond difficult policy poets raising the pension age of paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with austerity they all require a real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as i found out outside their offices over there in port house politicians. i mean girls otherwise they wouldn't be there with you for the but more i think that it's a group of people away from the barman revealed frost you know the pretty stuff people in this became something on how would i come across or how on your say so i suspect in general i know very much the government is trying to do something about it focusing on greater transparency with money how politicians spend misspend cash but don't surveillance spying do. for laying on stony ground rob a touchingly o.-p.

pulling the u.k. really wants is to know that when a politician says he or she will do something they'll do it and that could be the hardest thing of old for the political class. are still to come here on the program or naughty a multi-polar world in the making a russian leaders they're getting together right here in moscow all amid growing calls for limits on so-called western nation. to syria stop at the state broadcaster too afraid to appear on television. targeted by rebels trying to stop the government's message from getting out of. a very short break.

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international news live from moscow it's r t with europe and america struggling the brics powerhouses are looking to take up some of the economic slack the russian and indian presidents are meeting right here in moscow to try and prove that power really is shifting to other parts of the world but earlier in the program here on r.t. i discussed it with. we're talking about the possibility of moving away from this so-called auld world order enough of the cold war rhetoric are saying a lot of political analysts out there and as well as leaders of the brics countries what are these countries well let's look at the letters they're essentially standing for brazil russia india china and south africa and these countries are covering more than one quarter off the planet. coverage and people living in these countries comprise almost half of the world's population is forty four and

a half percent so definitely countries and people to be contented with and to listen to so the members of these countries came together and said hey finally it's about time we stepped away from the germany of the united states and the old europe they have already decided that they should be doing business in local currencies as most people know many certainly that india is surging economy in the world one of the biggest importers of oil to showing the effect of that economy but when it comes to today's meeting though can you give us a broader scope what's india's role here india's role should not be underestimated in fact just recently there has been reported by transparency international which said that out of all brics countries as a matter of fact india has placed at the top as the most open country when it comes to corruption and actually business dealings so that is one thing to keep in mind another thing to keep in mind is china which is also india's neighbor it is just a centrally issued a very large statement when it comes to de americas of americanization of the world

essentially what beijing is saying is that the dollar isn't helping the economy the currency in fact is dragging the world economy down and it's time to step away from it and look for other options as the ministers get together here and those from india and of course there with their russian counterparts here and in the capital economic speech discuss but of course politicking as well now absolutely you are there we cannot get around that of course and if you look at the map you look at india. and then you see other countries next and we're talking about of dallas and and pakistan so obviously the two issues which are on the table is fighting terrorism and of course that lange drug trafficking that is something that moscow and new delhi will put their heads together on and hopefully come up with a few solutions in that regard as well you can always go online for many more stories including for this underground runaway certainly a scare in the moscow metro as a driver falls out of the train to his death leaving

a dozen packed carriages hurtling on to the next station with no one behind the wheel. also online right now about a banking goliath j.p. morgan set to pay out a record thirteen billion dollars to settle criminal proceedings into an alleged information coverup that helped to plunge the global economy into a crisis that's online if you're right now. the meantime though the date has been set for the long awaited peace conference on syria and the so-called geneva two talks will start on the twenty third of november the government of bashar al assad has reiterated its willingness to take part though stressing it will not negotiate with terrorists and this comes after thirty people were killed in a suicide truck bombing at an army checkpoint just outside the syrian city of hama and the blast set a nearby fuel tanker on fire causing several more explosions and despite an army installation being the target most of the dead were civilians also sixteen more

people were victims of a blast on the outskirts of damascus the capital does remain the main objective for opposition fighters to do and targeting civilians as artie's reports they're also seeming bent on scaring and killing journalists who work for the state media. these pictures were long time coming syria's state t.v. . headquarters in flames the attack occurred just hours after rebel groups warned they'd shower damascus with mortars. and i think their main goal is to intimidate people to stop us from working they want us to think twice about working for syrian t.v. like other employees of syrian state t.v. this woman is afraid to show her face she is one of the names listed in this website set up by the rebels and each a name and photograph is the word one to those with crosses through them are people

who have already been killed. the irony is that those who make t.v. are now too afraid to appear on a show this video editor was given an ultimatum either come work for us the rebels threatened or we'll kill you he managed to escape but a few weeks ago he came home to the message wherever you are you dog of the regime we will find you painted on his front door this with us i've lost the feeling of fear after i saw a man beheaded in front of me and mortar shells falling all around you forget what fear is but the pain and heartbreak remain idea buses brother ali carmel was an editor in chief of the syrian news agency he was killed by four bullets shot at close range after masked gunmen broke into his home. the strange thing is that we were never afraid for him we were afraid for my other brothers quine the army without our lead to severe in you'll be safe but they kill him because they don't

want anybody to tell the truth even just those appearing on t.v. are being threatened they call a couple of time to adjust to say that your body will be shut off from the head they said we know who you are we not the location we cannot kill you we're going to cut your head from the body you are. this is what they say exactly the fear for many is that this list is long there were many names on it and scenes like this could well be repeated until.

the blast damage at least four coaches and derailed the train. an afghan army special forces commander has defected to a taliban allied group is the first known case of an officer switching sides in the country's fight against insurgency officials say he sent some of his subordinates on leave and paid others to go sightseeing then raided the team supplies taking about thirty guns binoculars and night vision goggles throwing them in a humvee and then tearing away. now perform protesters spilled onto the streets of bahrain's capital after the death of an opposition activist they accuse regime forces of killing hussein. who had already been sentenced in absentia to fifteen years in prison for speaking out against. the gulf country has witnessed regular demonstrations for now for more than two years the opposition continues to accuse the monarchy is refusing to talk about.

staying with the uprising ongoing in bahrain as i was saying at least two years it's been going on now and all of these at sophie shevardnadze discusses the prospects of the uprising what could be a solution at the end of it with prominent bucker a human rights activist maryam how watching us live from moscow this is. it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of field detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tearing conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while the mayor the prosecutors say he funneled millions of dollars to himself and family members all while detroit moved headstrong towards the bankrupt state it is in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes

but because he got punished the judge who could fix them stated why this is such an important case she said at the very least a significant sentence will send a message that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated yes sending a message you see corrupt officials are usually cowards and they do what they do because they feel they can get away with it when you start to put the fear of god into them they start to behave much better so the question is will the mainstream media grab the story and really use the conviction of detroit's former mayor is an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just my opinion. hello welcome to sophie and co sophie shevardnadze bahrain seems to have remained

unaffected by the arab spring however local activists say it's because of governments having hail that puts down any dissent what's really going on in a tiny al kingdom how did black reign manage to stay out of the media raiders and what is in store for them. in the world gripped by a revolution. few countries have remained on a track to what's called bahrain has seen protests dissidents jailed in opposition to. the stability political oppression in the middle east who's the fight for freedom. which sucker flies is worth beginning and which will break shoes. and our guest today is miramar howard jaya human rights activist whose father is a prominent bahraini dissident currently jailed following anti-government protests

in two thousand and eleven we are great to have you with us today so to be honest it's really hard to understand what's going on in bahrain you know when it comes to this form of rule one some say it's a dictatorship even a tyrant a others say it's a legitimate constitutional monarchy committed to reform with certain democratic values how do you see. well i think that you know describing it as a constitutional monarchy is very problematic when the constitution of the when actually gives absolute power to the king that means it's not really a constitutional monarchy yes there's a constitution but just the presence of a constitution within a monarchy system doesn't make it a constitutional monarchy we're looking at a situation where we have a parliament and behind and made of two houses but they don't have legislative or monitoring power so overall you can call it an absolute monarchy which is oppressive so you would say it's a dictatorship or you wouldn't go that far yes definitely say it's

a dictatorship and people don't have the right to vote they don't have the right to influence the legal system when there is no fear an independent judiciary when the ruling family basically decides the ins and outs of everything in the system whether canonically politically or socially then yes you can definitely call it a dictatorship but you say protests never stop in bahrain does it mean people aren't afraid of consequences and i think the consequences are very real and people know that the consequences exist but it's because people know that stopping now and stopping the protests now would mean going back to a situation that was worse than what existed in two thousand and ten before the protests started in behind and so people also believe in the demands that they're calling for they're calling for human rights they're calling for an elected government and many of them are calling for the stepping down of the ruling family and that's why they continue to protest almost on a daily basis.