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a new meaning new apologies for washington as the german leader complains directly to reports the n.s.a. tapped private phone. this is just about some experts. believe that. is a real. a very good morning to you from the entire. i've got your top headlines for this hour a key gas pipeline in syria has been blown up much of the country including the capital into darkness and the government accuse the rebels of sabotage with the blast reportedly being followed by heavy gunfire. middle east correspondent paula.

damascus and huge parts of syria are now in a state of blackouts we're also hearing that coastal cities in the west of the country as well as parts of the aleppo province in the north are also experiencing pollak cuts now this comes after an attack on a gas pipeline that supplies power stations in the south of the country the pipeline is near the airport which is around twenty kilometers from the capital city damascus residents saying that they heard a massive explosion they heard heavy machine gun fire and they also saw a fire at the international airport one resident saying and i'm quoting now that the whole city just went dark the government has blamed rebels for this attack that cause them terrorists the fighting on the ground is continuing however and one of the fallouts of this conflict is that in many situations it is putting brother against brother this is young work sell to damascus ten months ago it was home to

one point two million palestinians today tempest seemed to remain the price of room so it's acutely here where it's divided families and put her brother against brother. lee betrayed and we do not trust them anymore eight days ago and his wife came home for ten long months they'd lived on the streets not once giving up the hope they'd return this is what waited them and the will come we are coming to kill you bashar scribbled on the walls whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the walls and build them again it could not be worse than this. for one year syria's palestinians managed to stay out of the conflict but the infiltration of foreign fighters with big dreams and even bigger promises of money forced the residents of yarmuk to choose sides and take up arms

against people they've known their whole lives. i have some friends fighting on the other side who are not friends anymore the ones who displaced us from our houses and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. each day abu movie leaves to fight them but not before he struck furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these bullet riddled walls is as dangerous as it is outside his two sons as vulnerable as their mother every time the father walks out the door but it's always a painful farewell all morry carefully helps her husband prepare for battle she knows he needs to go but each time he leaves behind the same unanswered question. every day when he says goodbye i wonder if you will come back or not like when he got injured he didn't come back i want to find him in hospital there are

a lot of men like him and women like me but not a lot of fighters have bought their families back to your mork the snipers are in shooting range and three days earlier shrapnel from a bullet blinded up to maurice lift eye but the thirty three year old doesn't have a choice he has nowhere else to move his family and while the southern part of your milk is still in the hands of the rebels his home or what remains of it has been freed by palestinians who like other more we are fighting alongside the syrian army and. when i go to the battlefield my mind is always with my family and i hope i will come back safe to them to take care of them and i pray that if i get martyred they will find tender people to look after america. the frontline is near two streets away but for and he's come aids the battle hits closer to home each time they take aim to secure the streets for the families often it's

a neighbor friend and sometimes even a brother who is pointing a gun back at them point of c r t. syria international inspectors are actually in syria at the moment overseeing the destruction of the country's chemical weapons and the facilities designed to build them and some are wondering whether the nationwide power shortage could actually be an attempt to undermine their work the attack in damascus today the shutdown of damascus the power outage this is a terrorist act and right now john kerry's very happy chuck hagel is very happy president obama is happy this is what their policy is the fund and finance and coordinate through the joint special operations command and the cia this kind of terrorist actions against the people of syria they may be partly designed to carry out a disruption of the weapons inspections because the kinds of trouble getting into

areas that are under the rebels control where chemical weapons we nisshin seem to have been used there's been lots of near misses mortar attack shell means and other kinds of military. disruptions of the weapons inspectors program and much of it and i think almost all of it is coming from the rebel side because perhaps they have something to hide. in the meantime of the rebels are still reluctant to negotiate with the syrian government putting together a list of conditions that damascus should make before they start talking other moans are actually made at a friends of syria gathering in london this week moscow believes the communique of the group of eleven states who sympathize with the opposition came up with could actually jeopardize any chance of dialogue in fact so the resolution from the london conference clearly says that assad should not have a role in syria's future it places the blame for the conflict squarely on damascus and says it's clear who carried out the chemical attack in august moscow took issue

with the wording because it claims it could provoke the assad government into backing out of forthcoming talks in geneva and more on this now with these guy nature can syrian rebels are not a unified force very far from it although the u.s. and its allies have proclaimed the syrian national coalition as the only legitimate representative of the syrian people but it's pretty much clear to everyone that the coalition doesn't even represent all rebels let alone all syrians last month a number of rebel commanders signed a statement breaking with the opposition's leadership and calling for rebel groups to unify quote in a clear islamic frayne those who are really trying to make the geneva peace talks happen say the only way not to let radical forces completely take over syria would be through an agreement between the syrian government and the moderate syrian opposition yet the so-called moderate syrian opposition says they're not even sure whether or not to participate in the geneva talks they have

a meeting coming up on november first to make a final decision and for a while now the syrian opposition has been saying they would not sit down with quote those who have blood on their hands of the talks have been put off several times for that reason this time there is a chance that the meeting will happen because the opposition is not saying that assad has to go before the talks. so what could actually happen if the rebels did come to power in syria we put this question to u.s. defense analyst ivan eland here's what he had to say the al-qaeda groups are done now dominating the opposition they're the most ruthless and oftentimes when you have a big civil war a chaotic civil war the most ruthless conning people rise to the top and i'm afraid that the west is in an illusion that these rebels are going to be some sort of a democratic force and i think oh obama now he's wised up to that i think and he's always been a bit reluctant to get involved in this with heavy amounts of u.s. aid and i think even the turks are now attacking some of the rebel groups they're

threatened by some of them on their borders and they have been supporting the rebel groups and probably steer are supporting someone so the situation is getting very chaotic but i think that the rebels if the rebels take over are you could have you know you could have an al qaeda dominated portion of syria. are lost to come on the program here and seeing clude ing unrest threaten the slow boil of. of the thousands thronged the streets of the capital calling for the government to stick to its promise to resign and pave the way for new elections. plus trade with the west and the east that was the decision facing the leader of ukraine today as he meets with me and. ten minutes past the hour almost time as the most maligned jail on the planet guantanamo bay keeps its affairs and scandals under wraps and find out just how far they'll go to make sure nothing gets out. to

see a chicken crew visiting the facility sent us this report but only for the footage being taken and carefully censored by one ton of other stuff. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garnham we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to every week we get media like yourself international media local media whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing and the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it advised by our

policies here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personnel we talked to on the ground we as journalists access to detainees aside are asked to be very careful about the shots we filmed all the backdrops and at the end of each day videos are reviewed and any shots deemed unacceptable are deleted this one will be ok because palm trees are not too controversial remind you of any frowned upon seaward like censorship it's in this series the program established to. program accomplished within the purview of sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cell phones are banned from camps we're not supposed to put anything on facebook or anything like that or you know even worry about talking about it over the you know anything over the phone this said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of getting the operations of detainees you know we get their mission so we try to photograph them down we are warned violations of media ground rules may result in restricted access denial of

future visits and or remove all from guantanamo bay if people just kind of mislabeled it and have a call to get for be just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is under the twenty's and getting the detainees side of what goes on it get most apparently just couldn't be done after an extensive explanation of how exactly we are to film the prisoners the amount of detainee face time we get a total of one minute and five seconds through a dark glass window the reason we're given out of respect for them and and not using them is as you know. you know. making them some kind of curiosity you know on film a thing like that we don't want to do that despite our requests to not even film but at least witness more real prison or life a high ranking guantanamo admiral convinces us that we actually have

a lot more access than we think you're seeing what there is to to see you know. given the amount of time that you have here to to see if we are as transparent as possible after one minute glimpse at one detainee our schedule is in fact all booked up i think i mean they they were taken to the detention camp kitchen to witness how well things run their will since we're not really being allowed to close to the detainees this might be the closest glimpse of their life we might be getting today we're being told the that these are the meals that they're offered on a daily basis. we're also taken to the only local radio station all made up like zombies in the audience military personnel serving at the base do you do any news related to the one time detention camp. why not read that to public media because. you know there's enough journalists over there covering their music sports and talk radio pure infotainment brains here. and

so we learned they were not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one ton of cuba. so i know you say you know what it's like for journalists visiting guantanamo but for lawyers representing the. harder martha raye know who represents a number of the she says regulations leaver unable to even mention the alleged torture of clients the rules and regulations that are governing the military commissions are incredibly confining for defense counsel they're subject to very strict protective orders that require them to keep classified information classified so for example the lawyers representing the men accused in the u.s. for the men now call the nine eleven five. they are seeking to disclose facts of their client's torture to various international tribunals and they're unable to do

that right i mean there's there's no doubt the u.s. government the gauged in torture it's a it's it's publicly known and it's right and they're on able to do that because they can't share what their clients have told them with these outside decision makers and fact finders. is doing his best to tell you about what goes on guantanamo bay prison allegations of torture physical and legal mistreatment and cover ups those findings a lot of them at r.t. dot com right now and while you're there you can also check out that story about the operators of fukushima setting a date for its most difficult cleanup operation yet it will take at least a year to remove the fuel rods which radiation levels the equivalent of fourteen thousand. just one mistake start a nuclear and. polluting out of this world not quite space tourism but if you have a spare seventy five thousand dollars specially designed helium powered vessel can

take you to the edge of the void plus more on that right now on our website. turning our attention to tunisia where a raid by security services on a house about two hundred fifty kilometers south of the capital has ended in a bloodbath after a gunfight broke out with islamist fighters six policemen and one gunmen were killed in the fighting another officer died in a separate clash with militants north of tunis although his are cracking down on fighters it says taking advantage of modern rest in neighboring libya to import and launch attacks ongoing protests have forced the government to announce it will resign or talks with the opposition on when to hold new elections have been pushed back to the end of the week because of the violence a prime minister of tunisia told me that its government is doing all it can to deal with social problems before new elections are held. having to be led since the

beginning of the revolution in twenty eleven when we were down with the despotism of the heads of state a country started to focus its efforts on democracy after a lengthy dialogue we had successful and legitimate official elections the current constitutional institutions will be temporary until we accept the new constitution and hold. actions under it at the same time since the revolution so far we're solving social and economic problems we managed to achieve some progress in this however these problems have become more complex and require more time but north africa expert most. rather skeptical of the prime minister will go through with his promise to resign despite the increase of often deadly violence the arab spring has obviously failed i mean it's been an arab nightmare really they haven't resolved anything the islamists have been strengthened by arms flowing out of libya into the region and we've seen molly's been sucked into this as well

a lot of terrorists coming out of libya have been carrying out operations in tunisia and the prime minister has promised to step down which is probably something he doesn't intend to keep a promise he doesn't intend to keep. the youth have had enough the years of ben ali's misrule and now these people are delivering the same i will get to the r.t. world update shortly on the program for an hour for one another a day and another excuse for the n.s.a. spying activities fresh from having to make an apologetic call to france barack obama has now had to speak to germany's angela merkel to explain a report suggesting that her mobile phone was among those under surveillance that are all of our reports. well it just keeps on coming when it comes to who the u.s. allegedly spying on now the latest allegations surround the personal mobile telephone of german chancellor angela merkel now there were allegations made that

the united states were or had hacked into and was spying on her personal communications now these allegations were taken seriously enough by the german security services the b n d and german chancellor angela merkel herself to pronto to put a phone call in to president barack obama directly from the white house what we've heard is a statement saying that the united states is not and would not spy on the german chancellor's communications notably from that statement did not say whether they had done in the past but if you look at the record and what's been coming out about the united states spying program you can see why the german chancellor would be taking this very seriously we've seen allegations of an extensive spying campaign taking place in brazil also likely sions that over seventy million phone calls we'll listen to in france also when you add to that video communications were apparently being looked at inside the u.n. general assembly and it doesn't seem like there's anybody who is out of reach of

the n.s.a. spying program deutsche telekom announced just recently that they would only use internal german servers for german to german e-mail communications to try and cut off any kind of outside access to information it was being to being bandied around within germany to try and stop trying to assure its customers that it was going to stop the n.s.a. from from getting a hold of their information now we've also seen political action taken the european parliament has suspended the swift agreement with the united states and that was an agreement that would share banking data it was supposed to try and tackle terrorism to try and stop transfers from one bank account to another that were being used to fund terrorism around the world now it emerges that the n.s.a. may have been using that to spy on european citizens personal data so that's been suspended there is fallout heading the united states is where you as these allegations mount up that they're watching just about everybody's every move. and

hear about see we spoke to chris to host government and business consultant he thinks that even though germany's reaction looks like outrage it's nothing but a joint performance with the u.s. . i don't believe a bit that they were not listening into the mobile phone off german chancellor merkel everybody who is officially here in germany knows that whenever he uses the phone when he uses e-mail whenever a uses a cell phone or fixed line doesn't matter what. twitter is are so everything will be listened in that will be recorded is open to spying also our governments will do the same as the other many other stepdown especially of course within they took and they will say we would not accept that that's unacceptable and please americans make sure that this doesn't happen and this is all blah blah you know it all the time they count on it this is happening everybody knows it it's open to talk about

official says so this is just for the count. but washington's main justification of the n.s.a. spying program is that it helps to thwart terror attacks but on our web site right now you can read a report suggesting that the agency's activities were nowhere near as affective as the u.s. government would like the public to believe. could be the last chance for ukraine and russia to avert a trade war that threatens to sink exports eastward and the leaders of both nations meet today in belarus ukraine is edging towards a trade pact with europe despite opposition both at home and from its neighbors. reports on exactly what's at stake. the funeral of independence this is how ukraine's movement but i guess by describe the him in signing of an association agreement between kiev and the european union. our government doesn't tell the truth about what will really happen with our economy health of his g.d.p.

relies on export and half of it almost evenly split between russia and the european union agriculture bosses are happy believing their goods will be in demand in europe but other vital sectors of industry like. machinery are under threat say economists are railway. can be sold to the european union because the technology is different because the different european union can be substitution for the serious market. employed. probably you can close the spectrum some enterprises in ukraine export up to seventy five percent of what they produce to russia vladimir putin made it clear if key of aligns with the e.u. moscow will take protective action but judging by political course potential economic risks are not worth the sweat. will be joining

a unity of different values were human rights are protected e.u. will help ukraine sort out its human rights institutions banners like these are part of a long standing national wide conveying to persuade ukrainians their future lies within the european union in fact according to the recent opinion polls more than half of the country want to be part of the e.u. and more than forty percent say yes to the association agreement but it will not become a e.u. member anytime soon says ukraine's only recognized you are skeptical. association backed would bring only one way benefits. we are not see you members we won't take part in decision making but will have to carry out someone else's decisions ukraine tries to sit on to cheers saying both the e.u. and the c.i.s. are regarded as strategic trade directions with moscow refusing that ukraine could enjoy trade privileges with both the e.u. and russia at once it's read how the country would feel after it makes this leap of faith at the eastern partnership summit in vilnius on the vendor of the twenty eight. reporting from. are some of the global headlines for you for the r.t.

start with pakistan that secretly supported u.s. drone strikes in its territory despite publicly condemning a top secret cia document obtained by the washington. outlines an agreement on the program between two thousand and seven and two thousand and eleven islam about received intelligence gained from the strikes with everyone being hailed a success which only kill terrorists that's despite an unofficial count of almost a thousand civilian deaths. and mourners clashed with police at the funeral of a seventeen year old boy in bahrain's capital protesters said the boy was shot in the head by security forces police claim who's killed by an explosion and was wanted for previous attacks offices closed the main highway and resorted to tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds your position accuses the government of violent crackdowns have been demanding human rights reforms and now for the past two years. and the massive wildfires in southeast australia may have been caused by

military exercises involving explosives as despite on the training manuals warning live fire activity should take into account the risk of starting bushfires a new south wales has been the worst hit over two hundred homes destroyed so far one man losing his life the blazes are still out of control but fears of a make of being formed at. around ten thousand students have joined a three day protest in madrid against spanish government cutbacks they're angry about a bill passed in may which means students now have to choose between an academic education to reduce youth unemployment and they're also against increased university fees and a reported policy making it more difficult to receive. why next here on r t in the kaiser report brits selling off their family silver has it really

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