bronze demands official and so it's going to be you are some vita over the latest revelations of n.s.a. spying just as the plans of huge fines to stop transfers of data. germany's green dream moves into a nightmare for the consumer as parks and hunt out for renewable energy and billions to bills and. treat every girl so otherwise it will be the. crisis of confidence in a series of scandals that leaves the reputation of the u.k. politicians at wrong bottom or the british public saying they can't be trusted even to admit when they're wrong.

and you saw in russia and around the world this has r.c. with me your national problem thanks for joining us. out of snowden's revelations strike again france has summoned the us some bosler and demanded an explanation following reports that the n.s.a. spied on millions of its citizens. reports now on the international indignation being triggered by the leaks. france is certainly not happy with the latest revelations from ennis a whistleblower edward snowden's leaks 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 limo newspaper it says that between december tenth two thousand and twelve an 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 condemnation of the n.s.a.'s actions coming from mexico which alleges that the n.s.a. also had hacked into be 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 we've seen a reaction coming from individual entities across europe here and 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 to sign a vote on a new regulation of essentially bans any transfer of the 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 you last 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 n.s.a.'s activities and among the priorities of the new law is limiting data collection to the minimum necessary while also protecting an individual's right to raise any private information stored online and i was under dick's berlin

commissioner for data protection things this is a good start but it's not now 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 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 soon important step forward and former m i five agent anaemia schoen believes the e.u. will have to get rid of its technical dependence on the us to succeed in its quest

for privacy. i do think it's good first step it's certainly something that the european community tried to do over ten years ago they tried to do two years ago and were lobbied out of it by washington and edward snowden's disclosures ensured that they now have to do it one would hope as brazil is doing that we would look at how in europe we can protect our communications infrastructure the hardware that at the base of everything we use because if we can't trust that at the moment we can't because it's very much under u.s. control then we have some serious problems it could also be a very good business opportunity for european countries to develop their infrastructure and start using things like open source software so that they're not u.s. dependent and i think that might be the way to go in europe certainly to protect ourselves against this. regis and omnipotent snooping that we've seen over the last few years from the n.s.a. . the country's police allegedly shot dead an opposition activist spiking

a new wave of priority for priority in bahrain. robin. now robin hood like subsidies for green power are driving the e.u. towards an energy crisis this according to europe's top utilities france the problem they say is billions in taxpayer one hundred hours are killing innovation and competitiveness and the results are there for you to see looking at the cost of energy in the e.u. and elsewhere in china 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 down by nuclear power and almost double that again and you've got germany at twenty seven cents four times higher than in china needless to say news for industry at

a time when the e.u. desperately needs to get back on its feet economically and germany there has found a way around it instead of taxing businesses and factories it was the entire burden on subsidies on ordinary households and as the owner of found out families are having a tough time keeping up with the green little bit appetites. well they're good dunker support for green energy is encouraged in the german psyche goes back even when it harms us that it is being felt in germany. i went to meet one mother who was finding paying for power a real problem. 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 concert that's why it's being sold on the message that it's either wind energy or radioactive catastrophe this plays in 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 reliant 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 peter all over r.t. . the german government is reconsidering its subsidy program with angela merkel expected to look at how the handouts work but for now the anger continues to build to people they are explain. as consumers continuously see their utility bills rise the conflict between competitive business and the. us is escalating decisions to subsidize selected technologies have bumped up energy prices so for example we rein in on germany for now and 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 less than half of that now so as a consequence it's perhaps not surprising to you that investors are losing interest our german utility company eon 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 the 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. and fred wrote a directional the young voices international advocacy group told us how green power is pushing 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 people who work the champagne by us would pay something like two euros and all the beer by us would also pay two years of the order 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 energies 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 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 brison at least one is the best of both wiles and has just also wise the construction of

a new nuclear power plant the fast in a generation it will build by french led consortium and according to the plan will help the u.k.'s grant for fifty. and breaking news for you this hour an explosion on a bus in the southern russian city of volgograd has killed at least six people talk to lindsey phones for more detail see a lot of confusion i was happening well do we know and what's being said that. well preliminary report stated that this was a gas explosion perhaps a technical mishap with the gas powered buses that are so often used in that city however reports have come through that a possible explosive device may have been found on the bus right now we are looking at six people killed twenty injured a number of them critically injured this took place as you said in volgograd on the

number twenty nine bus police say there were forty passengers total on that bus when the explosion took place so. obviously the officials in the case are looking at a criminal investigation right now to see if an explosive device was used if it was a gas explosion so we'll be keeping a very close eye on the situation as it unfolds again six people have lost their lives and twenty are injured at this point yes that's right lindsay and i'm just reading the latest information and an agency reports that some fragments of an explosive device have been found at the scene of the explosion of course we'll be keeping you posted on this story how it develops ok for a moment and into france thank you very much indeed for that. now the british public things politicians rarely tell the truth found all unlikely to own up if they make mistakes a recent poll shows just how little faith people in the u.k. . elected to represent on. the streets of london to find out for.

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 than funny because it'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 just mystery 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 their 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. the old require a real moral authority something politicians arguably just don't have as i found out outside their offices over their import calloused house politicians. i mean girls otherwise they wouldn't be there with you for the more i think of each group of people away from the barman revealed frost you know the pretty stuff depends became something on how would i come across or how. 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 and misspent cash but don't to alan's

. if it's a 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 here and i'll see a multi-polar world in the making russian on a intending to get together i mean glowing coals for limits on western domination. of the state vocal style too afraid to appear on t.v. after their claims by rebels trying to stone the government's message getting out of the reich. wealthy british style some time to tighten the front.

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around russia we've got the future covered. well again this is our sea welcome by with the europe and america struggling there breaks powerhouses are looking to take up some of the economic slot the russian and engine leaders meet in moscow to try and prove that power is shifting to other parts of the world and my colleague laurie sushi discussed this 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 their essential for brazil russia india china and south africa and these countries are covering more than one quarter of the planet's land coverage and people living in these countries comprise

almost half of the world's population it's forty four and a half percent so definitely countries and people to be contended 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 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 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 with their russian counterparts here and in the capital economic speech discuss but of course politicking as well 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 afghanistan and pakistan so obviously the two issues which are on the table is fighting terrorism and of course battling 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. the date has been set for the long awaited peace conference on syria and the geneva two talks will start on the twenty third

of november the government of bashar al assad has reiterated its awareness to take part trusted would 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 glass at a nearby fuel tanker on fire causing several more explosions despite an army 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. reports now they also seem bent on scaring and killing state and. 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 showered damascus with mortars oh you know. i think their main goal is

to intimidate people to stop us from hooking 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 web site 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 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 if 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 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 a mosque gunman broke into his home and got a victory rally the strange thing is that we were never afraid for him we were afraid for my other brothers quine the army without our lives a civilian will 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 it say that your body will be shot off from the head they said we know who you are we know 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 every last one of them is deleted policy

r.t. damascus syria. and of course you can go online for more stories including underground runaway scare and the moscow metro as a driver pulls out of the train to his death leaving a dozen parked carriages hurtling onto bin next station with no one behind the wheel. and bonking go lie us j.p. morgan is set to pay out a record thirteen billion dollars to settle criminal proceedings into an alleged information coverup that helped. launch the global economy into crisis that's on line for you at. the court of human rights in strasbourg says it can't make a ruling in relation to the canteen massacre of over twenty thousand of polish officers imprisoned by the soviet union during the second world war it said it has no authority to decide whether russia conducted a full and fair investigation into the killings the call did criticize moscow for

not handling over handing over a copy of the official order that ended a probe into the massacre which it was obliged to do in their appeal on the victims' relatives it was still rejected the court decided a failure to show families classified data did not constitute a violation of human rights. poor reform protesters spilled onto the streets of bahrain's capital after the death of an opposition activist they accuse regime forces of killing hussein mahdi her baby had already been sentenced in absentia to fifteen years in prison for speaking out against the government the gulf country has witnessed regular demonstrations for more than two years now as the opposition accuses the monarchy of refusing to talk about her feelings or to say if you show now they discuss the prospects of the uprising with prominent bahraini activist. and here's a taste of what's coming up for you at two thirty pm g.m.t.

. what is anarchy i mean looking at the situation right now where we have a crackdown. almost on a daily basis where we have people getting arbitrarily arrested from their homes during night raids where we have children being picked off the streets where we have people attacked with tear gas inside their homes or torture it's rampant is that not in itself as a form of anarchy we don't really have a system that is you know governed by a legal system there are no laws basically the police or free to do what they want government officials are free to do what they want in my opinion that is an anarchy in itself. and let's go now told breaking news story at this hour an explosion on a bus in this southern russian city of volgograd has killed at least six people

leaving many more wounded. linsey from more highly so still a lot of confusion and fear is coming in from all the grand no doubt panic so you won't do we know so far. well forty people were on board the number twenty twenty nine bus in volgograd when the explosion took place it was originally thought to be a malfunction of the gas equipment on the bus but now we're getting reports that remnants of an explosive device were found near this scene investigators are obviously looking very closely at the matter there was no fire after this explosion and obviously experts are at the scene to figure out what caused it and obviously they know what kind of an explosion would cause no fire to take place after the fact now what we know right now is that six people have lost their lives and many are injured ten of them critically injured at this point so what was thought to

be a malfunction on the bus has turned into a criminal investigation we will of course be keeping a very close eye. on the situation as it develops throughout the day. all right lanes of france thank you very much indeed for that and coming up next on our piece of that in his counseling of the serious challenges confronting john is. 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 him 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. is a. glowing

welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle is real journalism i think it. past and much of the western world in the name of security challenging the official media message of the elites is often met with serious threats and reprisals whistleblowers are damned and made to feel severe consequences what remains is a deafening echo chamber warning all to get in line. to cross out the state of journalism i'm joined by david swanson in charlottesville he is an author and radio host who works for roots action dot org and in san francisco we cross to robert rosenthal he is the executive director of the center for investigative reporting all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in any time you want robert if i can go to you first in san francisco what is the state of investigative journalism in light of all of these affairs with whistleblowers and i don't have to name names because we.