so it's a business model they made a decision. for all these demands official answers from the you are some boss about over the latest revelations of n.s.a. spying just as the e.u. plans huge fines to stop transfers of past. germany's green dream moves into a nightmare for the consumer and sparks and handouts for renewable energy and the billions to bells and. treat every girl's otherwise it would be the. crisis of confidence a series of scandals leaves the reputation of the u.k. politicians at rock bottom with the british public saying they come to be trusted even to admit when they're wrong.

and you saw in russia and around the world this is the with me. thanks for joining . edward snowden's revelations strike again france has summoned the you are some boss today and demanded an explanation of following reports that the n.s.a. spied on millions of its citizens. joins us now live from nor how tense looks like indignation is coming from told us now. paul that's right to france is certainly not happy with the latest revelations from ennis a whistleblower edward snowden's leaks at the interior minister calling all of this shocking and unacceptable especially the extent to which the spying was happening in a report that was a published in the newspaper it says that between december tenth two thousand and twelve the eighth of january twenty fifth thirteen the n.s.a.

recorded some seventy point three million phone calls in france and what has angered authorities even more is the fact that it's allegedly not just terror suspects remember this is the justification for the practice in the first place but also politicians and businessmen and some government officials and the fact that it's reportedly a systematic recording of targets communications a very similar reaction that you see coming from another country a high level call the nation of the embassies actions coming from mexico which alleges that the n.s.a. also had hacked into the e-mail of its of the president felipe calderon in two thousand and ten now we know that the u.s. director for national intelligence has been defending the legality of these practices but certainly it has not stopped these diplomatic roles from happening it has also spilled over into a business such as the e.u. u.s. trade talks of france certainly not happy about this having already summoned the u.s. ambassador in paris to explain everything that's been going on. being done to curb

this for an intrusion on then. we've seen a reaction coming from individual entities across europe here and in other countries that say for example in germany telecom has been pushing to have all of the data communication just limited to local german servers in order to stop spying from outside specifically the united states and also brazil had planned on having a secure e-mail service also to thwart spies but on a broader scale be you with set to sign a vote on a new regulation essentially bans and transfer data from e.u. member states to the united states in reaction to all of this is the first major move really after the edward snowden leaks and also it would hope to subject a largely u.s. or foreign corporations as well as social media providers to follow laws or say

seventy five's numbering in the billions as has been reported so we are seeing backlash from all levels even up to the highest levels here in europe against the embassies activities. line from london test i thank you very much indeed for that we appreciate it and among the priorities of the new law tessa just mentioned there is limiting data collection to the minimum necessary while also protecting an individual's right to raise any private information stored online and under dick's butt and commission of data protection things this is a good stunt but still not enough. 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 a legal basis for transfer personal data to third countries as as being proposed in the parliament now this will 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 in important step forward this is r.t. and still to come for you this hour murder in bahrain the country's police allegedly and opposition activists sparking a new wave of the reform protests. robbing you'd like subsidies for green power are driving the e.u. towards an editor crisis this according to europe's top utilities the problem they say is billions in taxpayer handouts are killing innovation and competitiveness and the results are there for all to see and looking at the cost of energy in the e.u.

and elsewhere in china for example a kilowatt hour is going to cost around seven cents. in the u.s. a few cents more double that and you've got france where prices at least are kept down by nuclear power almost double that again and you've got germany at twenty seven cents four times higher than china needless to say that's bad news for industry at a time when the e.u. desperately needs to get back on its feet economically. and that germany has found a way around it instead of taxing businesses and factories oppose the entire burden of subsidies on ordinary households and as askings peter i want to found out families are having a tough time keeping up with the green lobby is appetite. 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 pockets right now i went to meet one billion

mother who's finding paying for power a real problem. not my. one day or so it almost doubled two hundred euros 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 consumer 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 this is seen more coal power plants having to be built to take up the slack the

increasing cost is causing problems for manufacturers from the other be our industry is suffering big companies may decide that it's just too expensive and look to relocate despite remaining heavily reliant on coal as a source of power germany sees itself as a trailblazer of renewal energy but that innovation comes at a cost to both the consumer and to the country's industry peter all of a r.t. . the german government is reconsidering its subsidy program with angle of merkel expected to look at how the handouts work but for now the anger continues to build as i choose k. to people being explained 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 rein in on

germany for now and subsidies for renewable energy are 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 you that investors they are losing interest our german utility company they've 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 synonym press to talk so while the energy companies are losing patience our money the environmentalists will they are pleased but the question is can they global economy and the average consumer afford renewable right now war can it afford not to worsen at least was the best of

both worlds and house just authorized the construction of a new nuclear power plant the first in a generation to rebuild by a french led consortium under according to the plan will help power the grid for fifty years and fred roeder director of the young voices international advocacy group says conventional energy is needed to because green power pushes up prices. imagine you have various consumers going to a grocery store or a 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 at the german end of the energy market it's actually different to people who worked the champagne by us would pay something like two euros and all the beer by us would also pay two years of autumn to subsidize the champagne buyer and that's basic in the energy market if you buy energy from legacy energy carrier such as coal or 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 vest and at the moment to build a wind well in your yard or to put some sort up on those under your roof government is subsidizing them you need to actually afford these things and then you've got to go and treat fries 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 the british public things politicians of ready to tell the truth and unlikely to i don't know if they make mistakes a recent poll shows just how little face people in the u.k. have in those day elects to represent them or a smith has this traits of london to find out. 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 britons think politicians tell the truth less blanco's all real estate agents don't to 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 legitimacy of all governments and there is a perception i think that politicians have. become less and less onerous 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 and politicians governments need moral authority if they're going to lead the public lead society down quite difficult policy parts the times we live in dimona difficult policy poets raising the pension

age paying taxes to pay off the deficits everything to do with. 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 calloused house politicians. remember to go there would be there with you for the more i think it's a group of people away from the former reagan frostiness the. pains the brains of thing on how i come across or how. i suspect in general i know very much the government is trying to do something about it focusing on the greatest transparency with money how politicians spend misspend cash but don't or islands. falling on stony ground rather touchingly old people in 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. coming up on r.c. a multi-polar world in the make a russian under eighteen leaders get together in moscow made growing calls for limits on western domination. and in syria stop a big state broadcaster are afraid to appear on t.v. after their colleagues are targeted by rebels trying to stop the government's message getting out that's not a short break. i save money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building or through the open window. i searched through the internet typing things like i'm looking for you i'm waiting for you i wrote i'm waiting for you i'm looking for you i didn't care at all what

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you're watching on. seelye from moscow it's good to have you with us let's move on now with a europe and america struggling breeks powerhouses are looking to take up some of its economic slack the russian and indian presidents are meeting in moscow to try and prove that power is shifting to other parts of the world and my colleague a discount space with. their own. 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 centrally 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 really have already decided that they should be doing business in local currencies as most people know many certainly that india is a surging economy in the world one of the biggest importers of oil just 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 is just a centrally issued a very large statement when it comes to deal america's americanization off 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 that 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 to it and we're talking about afghanistan and pakistan so obviously the two issues which are on the table is fighting terrorism and of course about laying 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. and of course can go online as well for more stories including underground a runaway scare in the moscow metro as a driver falls out of a train to his death leaving

a dozen parked carriages hurtling on to the next station with no one behind the wheel. and the banking go liar j.p. morgan is set to pay out a record thirteen billion dollars to settle criminal proceedings into an alleged information color of that helped launch the global economy into crisis that's online for you at all to dot com. the day has been set for the long awaited peace conference on syria the geneva two talks will start on the twenty third of november the government of bashar al assad has retreated its willingness to take part but stressed it won't negotiate with terrorists this comes after thirty people were killed in a suicide truck bombing at an army checkpoint outside the syrian city of hama the blasts at a nearby fuel tank on fire causing several more explosions despite an anon installation being the target most of the dead were civilians and sixteen more people were

victims of a blast on the outskirts of damascus the capital remains the main objective for opposition fighters who often target civilians and as artie's policy reports now they also seem bent on scaring and killing state. these pictures were long time coming syria's state t.v. hit quarters in flames like the attack occurred just always after rebel groups were and they'd showered damascus with mortars. you know. i think their main goal is to intimidate people to stop us from looking 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 the each a name and photograph is the word one tid 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 it 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 this 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 bus his 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 and ricky and the strange thing is that we were never afraid for him we were afraid for my other brothers quine the army without i believe the civilian he'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 know the location we cannot kill you we are 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 are many names on it and scenes like this could well be repeated until every last one of them is deleted policy r.t. damascus syria. let's not check some other world news in brief this hour an explosion on the passenger train has killed at least six people and wounded over seventeen others in pakistan they jump high express was traveling to a cancer one a bomb planted on the rail tracks exploded near a station in balochistan the blast damaged at least cultures and cause the train to

do you rail. and i'm going to almost special forces commander has defected to the allied group is the first known case of officer switching signs in the country's find against insurgency officials say his son heard about his subordinates on leave and paid others to go sightseeing around on a rate of between supply is taking about thirty guns binoculars night vision goggles and a military vehicle. the court of human rights in strasbourg says it cond may make a ruling in relation to the second world war massacre of polish officers in the soviet union it said it was not able to decide on the fairness or russian investigation into the carolinas and rejected appeals by the victims' relatives let's not get more from lindsey fronds. so what more do we know at this point.

but what we've learned so far is that the court has said it does not have the jurisdiction to make a ruling of whether or not russia carried out an effective investigation in to the massacre of nineteen forty the russian investigation took place between the years of one nine hundred ninety and two thousand and four but the european convention on human rights didn't take effect in russia until ninety eight that leaves an eight year span where the court says it doesn't have the do right or the authority to really really look into the way that investigation was conducted and make a ruling on it another. the descendants of the some of the victims of the massacre . brought this claim to the european court of human rights after the court was initially divided over a decision on this very case and that's when the polls appealed that decision back in february and now we have this ruling now the case of course revolves around. and

the nine hundred forty massacre of over twenty thousand poles who were buried in the cotton forest so this is in western russia now for years it was blamed on the nazis but it was later surface after the soviet union admitted that it was in fact joseph stalin who had. ordered the killing of the polish people in this case now in one thousand nine hundred the russian state media published a message saying that stalin secret police and stalin himself were responsible for this and the same day president of the soviet union to tell gorbachev apologized publicly for it over the years has the investigation that was begun as i said in one thousand nine hundred carried on certain documents were declassified others were not and this was where some of the descendants of the victims were very unhappy numerous cases of documents were not only declassified but in fact in two

thousand and ten published online however the descendants were not happy with with the ability to get into some of these classified documents and the russian government ruled that as foreign citizens they weren't allowed to to look on those classified documents. so that's where the strasbourg court was brought into the case now the court did rule in fact russia was in violation of article thirty eight which was providing all necessary documentation the document that was not handed over was the reason in two thousand and four that russia decided to stop the investigation so that is where the poles did receive one small victory in this case we've got no word yet on what the descendants the claimants in this case will do next but if history is any teacher they may not they may not. no statement has been made at this point you know all right lynsey from sleazy

thank you very much indeed for that tom today's we have pushed it. and now i'm finding love again is the old coming up next hour a documentary about two very different individuals who decided to spend their lives together. it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of failed detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tiering conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while mayor yeah 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. morris how dare you. and what's your name. since i was born i haven't been able to get all my body was slowly changing my spine was curving my ribs were tightening well i guess you can see for yourselves. at first the doctors told my parents i wouldn't make it to five years when we went

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i can think what you could possibly do to make my hair beautiful. dress them up with her and i was always still as a girl to catch them and so i and the ones who didn't notice me were mostly drunk men just didn't go for me. my life seemed pointless i was twenty one and my peers all had families or at least boyfriends. everything was as it should be for them but nothing like that was happening to me the sinner's went outside i could hear people laughing behind my back i know i know this stick insect requires in medina cricket see the huge snow is some seriousness what i had to do with. i was always an ugly duckling. it was more or less fine when i was a kid but what kind of life is this for a grown man.