to the police. the dog side of war black out in syria after a terror attack on a key gas pipeline the latest hardship to hit a population gripped by conflict. the price of room. and we have exclusive footage from the city of an everyday battlefield for families who refuse to leave their homes. every secret as you thought. crude. prison showing off their. very deserts and alone dejected inmates on a concrete floor you're seeing what there is to see you know and i'll report. to see if the u.s. military that's coming your way in just a few minutes. also. means new apologies for washington as the german leader

complains directly to barack obama over reports the n.s.a. was private. everybody knows it's open talk about officials so this is just. supposed to believe it. isn't real. for the full analysis. worldwide news live from moscow it's all it's he with me rule resewn show you it's good to have you with us today a key gas pipeline in syria has been blown up leaving much of the country without power for several hours and the government accused the rebels of sabotage with the blast reportedly being followed by heavy gunfire middle east correspondent paula. well we're just hearing from the russia today arabic correspondent in damascus who

says that power has been restored to the country but this follows a night of panic in which need capital city damascus was plunged into darkness there were also huge parts of aleppo in the north and the west of the country that were in blackout after rebels hit a gas pipeline not far from damascus that supplies power to the south of the country by all accounts this does seem as if it was a well planned orchestrates an effort that had been in the making for quite some time there was also a military checkpoint in the west that came under fire there were casualties there there was also a church in the town of dumas that was bombed this in addition to the two main squares in damascus these are the squares of my yard and other c.n.n. and they were also hit by mortar shells not i visited the town of young walk which is on the front line from where i filed this report. and this is young more sell to damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million palestinians today

tempest seem to remain the price of ruin so it's acute here where it's divided families and pitted brother against brother. lee betrayed we cannot trust them anymore eight days ago abu movie 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 way to 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 you to choose sides and take up arms against people they've known their whole lives

. i have some friends fighting on the other side they're not friends anymore the ones who displace those from our house 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 wards 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 favor all movie carefully helps her husband prepare for battle she knows he needs to go but each time he leaves behind the same an onset 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 left 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 they care of them and i pray that if i get martyred they will find tender people to look after them. the frontline is near two streets away. and he's come maids 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's pointing the gun back at them point of c r t yeah look syria. now international inspectors are in syria at the moment overseeing the destruction of the country's chemical weapons on the facilities designed to build them but some are wondering whether the nationwide power shortage earlier today could actually be an attempt to try and 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 is to 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 their weapons inspections because other weapons inspectors have had all 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. and 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 about the demands that were made today friends of syria gathering in london this week and moscow believes the communique of the group of eleven states who sympathize with the opposition the communique they came up with could ultimately jeopardize any chance of dialogue and the resolution from the london conference clearly says that the assad regime should not have a role in syria's future places the blame for the conflict squarely on damascus and says it's clear who carried out the chemical attack in august now moscow took issue

with the wording it was a claims that could provoke the assad regime into a backing out of the forthcoming talks in geneva a us defense analyst ivan eland told us how this overwhelming support of rebels could very well backfire in the end the al-qaeda groups are dot 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 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 live from moscow it's on it's he was the most maligned jail on the planet at guantanamo bay prison keeps its affairs. and artie find out just how far they'll go to make sure that nothing gets out. artie's an associate and her crew they went to visit the facility they did send us this report however only after the report was carefully censored by the staff at guantanamo bay. 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 or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it divides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personnel we talk 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 a car or a car program accomplished within the group regulations 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 are even wary about talking about it over the you know anything over the phone the said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of getting the operations to detain easier to get their missions 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 removal from guantanamo bay. people just kind of mislabeled it and i have called it a call for bia just not. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is os i'm going to news and getting the detainee's side of what goes on at 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 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 time to teach them. to public media because you know there's enough journalists over there covering that music sports and talk radio pure infotainment rains here. and so we learn there we're not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one tunnel bay cuba. and i want to tell you about what goes on. you can also i bear in mind that many stories still to come in the program for example trade with the west and east. for the best of both worlds trouble. media gets its teeth. based in the u.s.

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the sun. the future. it's r t live from moscow thanks for joining us another day and another excuse for the n.s.a.'s spying activities fresh from having to make an apologetic phone call to france barack obama has now had to speak to germany's angela merkel to explain the reports suggesting that her mobile phone was among those under surveillance. by now joining me live from berlin for the latest on this good morning to you peter do we have any idea what their leaders may have been talking about. well we have

statements from angola merkel staff as well as from the white house about what was discussed what the nature of the sperm call was now it originated through intelligence that was that came out that angela merkel's personal telephone had been listened to by the n.s.a. now this information was taken seriously enough by the german security services under by mrs merkel herself to prom to get on the phone to the oval office and speak directly to the president barack obama now the spokesperson for angela merkel said the chiefs wanting an immediate and comprehensive clarification about these allegations and if it turns out that they had been listening into her personal phone calls that would be completely on acceptable now that's been echoed in the front pages of the newspaper newspapers here on thursday in germany they're talking about it being the biggest affront to chancellor merkel and to the german people if they had been if their leader had been being spied on by the by the united states

and also talking about it being an attack on her political hearths now in response to these allegations the white house released a statement saying that they were not and would not be spying on the personal communications of german chancellor angela merkel no notably absent from that statement with any reference to whether they had done in the past now perhaps not semantics or perhaps that's something that could come out in the future that this if this does develop that angle merkel's personal telephone calls were being listened to by the n.s.a. so as he said people in washington right now is in denial over this or denying any allegations of spying on angela merkel's personal mobile phone there in various forms or another we've heard this song and dance before peter we're looking at all just a case of lip service here so far perhaps any legal reaction to this. well the reaction that we've seen from the n.s.a. spying scandal has been visible just about everywhere it started off with with

demonstrations most notably here in berlin we saw quite large demonstrations but that's now starting to take a more a more concrete form a more political form we've seen the european parliament suspend the swift accord with the united states now what swift is is it was a system whereby data banking data could be exchanged between europe and the united states it was supposed to. aid in the fight against terrorists so that any money transfers that were going through europe that were perhaps going towards aiding terrorists could be tracked now that's been suspended amid allegations that the united states was using it to spy on european citizens. we're also seeing tougher laws that have been put in place well they've been suggested should be put in place by europe or new countries sharing any data with the united states and the european parliament saying that they will do everything they can but it's up to the individual member states to put in tougher laws of their own to try and plug what seems to be a very leaky ship here in europe with information on personal information from

their from citizens going to the united states quite freely now we're also seeing businesses jumping on this telecom companies of course they are the ones that bear the brunt of any information being hacked we've seen deutsche telekom launching a campaign here in germany saying that they will only use german servers for german to german e-mail communications on the the proviso that we're going to we're not going to let any foreign country look at your e-mails it's only going to stay in germany and hopefully that will try and convince consumers that deutsche telekom of the people to go to because the n.s.a. have less ability to get their hands on that data now outside of europe we've also seen developments in brazil where they're wanting to put in place a new completely encrypted e-mail system that was after allegations revealed swiped scale snow. being on the brazilian people by the n.s.a. as well so we're starting to see those demonstrations turn into really concrete

action taken to try and cheer up people's information and keep it away from the prying eyes of the n.s.a. it seems certainly pretty you talk about concrete action and certainly seeing in various parts of the world in varying continents countries are battening down the hatches with personal and private data thank you. well though we did speak to crystal hole still here in our 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 of german chancellor merkel everybody who is officially german you knows that when ever he uses the phone when he uses e-mail when it really 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 others have done especially of course with took and they will see we're not to 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 count on it this is happening everybody knows it it's open talk about fischer's so this is just for the. well washington's main occasion of the n.s.a. spying program is that it helps to thwart terror attacks on our website though you can read a report suggesting the agency's activities were nowhere near as affective as the officials would like the public to believe. thanks for joining us here on r.t. it is being reported in america that the head of a russian cultural exchange program is being investigated by the f.b.i. the security agency is reportedly knocking into his alleged spy activities i spoke to our teams are going to. at this point we know that there are several outlets and

american news outlets which are saying that the f.b.i. is looking into the hundred thirty people roughly who have gone there to russia on a cultural exchange program over the last twelve years the head of the exchange program he cites of his now being investigated as a man who have who have been viewing these young up and coming americans as possible intelligence assets the man himself the results of had this to say on the subject matter. it's some kind of witch hunt the purse to young boys and girls that have gone to russia demanding to be told to watch the hows and whys they're trying to instill a fear of russia in american society there is no concrete evidence of misters eyes of guilt presented by the f.b.i. but we do know at this point that they have found it suspicious that those who have gone on trips to russia again on a cultural exchange program i must remind you those who have gone on these programs have stayed in comfortable foretells have gone to various russian cities such as moscow and st petersburg and have on occasion even met with some people from the

male circles we do have this reaction from the russian embassy in the united states let's have a listen such horror stories a reminder of cold war days it's a blatant attempt to distort the activities of the russian cultural center whose goal is to develop trust and cooperation between the two countries but so far all this hype is coming just from news outlets f.b.i. themselves are neither confirming nor denying these reports and as we all know really the man in question mr. hasn't been proven guilty and he should remain innocent unless proven otherwise now it could be the last chance for ukraine and russia to avert a trade war that threatens to sink exports eastwood's the leaders of both nations are meeting today in belarus ukraine is edging towards a trade pact with europe despite opposition at home and from its local neighbors. elected a chef school now reports on exactly what's at stake. the funeral of independence

this is how ukraine's movement but i'd describe the him and 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. city equipment can be sold to the european union because the technology is different because the standards are different european union can't be substitution for the serious market. cloyd here are probably you can't close the specs for 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 there so it 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 economy the association pact 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 two cheers saying both the e.u. and the c.i.s. are regarded as strategic trade directions with. refuting that ukraine could enjoy

trade privileges with both the e.u. and russia at once it's read how the country would feel makes this leap of faith that the eastern partnership summit in view on the member of the twenty eight. reporting from kiev in ukraine by the international headlines in brief starting it with pakistan that secretly supported u.s. drone strikes on its territory despite publicly condemning them a top secret cia document obtained by the washington post newspaper outlines an agreement on the program between two thousand and seven and two thousand and eleven islamabad received intelligence gained from the strikes with everyone being held a success which only killed terrorists and that's despite an unofficial count of almost a thousand civilian deaths. mourners a clash with police at the funeral of a seventeen year old boy in bahrain's capital protesters say he was shot in the head by security forces police claim the boy was killed by an explosion and wanted

for previous attacks offices closed the main highway and resorted to tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds at the opposition accuses the government of violent crackdowns and have been demanding human rights reforms now for the past two years. so for hungry and homeless a special documentary coming your way in just a second. with economic downturns in the final. days. and the rest. will be a prickly. put

it in a life. time peter limone. a pleasure to have you with us here on our team today.

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