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a concrete floor you're seeing what there is just to see. our report censored courtesy of the u.s. military in a few minutes. hello and welcome to r.t. twenty five. our top story now. and another day another apology demanded for the n.s.a. spying activities the german foreign minister has summoned the u.s. some bastard to get some answers over allegations that washington topped angle of calls for and just previously been dubbed the chancellor because of his reliance on the demise. of a has more now from darlin. the statement from the foreign ministry that alerted us that the german the us ambassador to germany had been summoned

stress the fact that foreign minister vest developer would be meeting with him in person now usually a junior diplomat would have taken a meeting like this but the german side wanting to get to the bottom of these allegations is as quickly as possible now this follows up a phone call from angle and merkel directly to barack obama on wednesday after the news broke that perhaps the united states had been listening into the personal phone calls of the german chancellor now a spokesperson for i'm glad merkel said that if this turned out it had happened it would be completely unacceptable and said that angela merkel wanted an immediate and comprehensive response from the united states from the u.s. side where the white house issued a statement saying that the u.s. was not listening into angela merkel's phone and had no intention to do it in the future we have seen action starting to take place over the n.s.a. spying revelations that have come out following edward snowden's leaks of course it

started off as just demonstrations all across europe some demonstrations here in berlin but we're now starting to see real developments the european parliament. has suspended the swift accord with the united states know what the swift agreement was as it shared banking data between the united states and the e.u. it was supposed to allow terror investigations to see if money was being used from e.u. accounts to help fund terrorism also the european parliament has said well they've tried to put in place some tougher laws on data sharing with the with the united states and also told member states to put in place their their own. their own precautions to try and plug holes in what seems to be a very leaky ship of data here in europe with all of that that leakage heading towards the united states now it's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. and. the sparks person for days have protection and n.s.a.

spying and the pirate party says so far the leaks have proved the n.s.a. is good at abusing privacy but not fighting terrorism and. the conservative government was protecting the secret service cooperation between the german services and the n.s.a. over a long time so i think edward snowden is right when he says that the german secret service and the german government is in bed with u.s. authorities and n.s.a. if you look at the whole n.s.a. scandal there have been so many leaks and so many documents i have not seen until today a single document that can prove that a terrorist attack was. was came out because of the n.s.a. spying programs so there is no success rate right now we're all that we see from the documents and from the leaks that came out is an ep use of these surveillance

measures. and on our website read an independent report suggesting the agency is experiencing is we're nowhere near as effective as government would like the public to believe. we're going on now i k gas pipeline in syria has been blown up leaving much of the country without power for several hours the government accused the rebels of some buttons with the blast reportedly being followed by having gunfire middle east correspondent paula fear. 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 the 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 constraint of 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. 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 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 ten percent remain the price of room so it's acute here where it's divided families and pressured brother against brother. they betrayed us 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 well 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 us and we'll 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 young to choose sides and take up arms against people they've known their whole lives. and i have some friends fighting on the other side we're not friends anymore the ones who displace those from our housing and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. each day a bomb movie leaves to fight them but not before he stuck furniture high against

the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these political riddled wars 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 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 on 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 yarmulke 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 sued by palestinians who like abu 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 more. they will find two hundred people to look after him out. the frontline is near two streets away but for other movie and his comrades the battle hits closer to home each time they take and to secure the streets for their 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. yarmouk syria. international inspectors are in syria at the moment overseeing the destruction of the country's chemical weapons and the facilities designs to build them and some are wondering whether the nationwide power shortage could 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 is to fund and finance and coordinate through the joint special operations command in the cia this kind of terrorist actions against the people of syria may be partly designed to carry out a disruption of the weapons inspections because other weapons inspectors have had all kinds of trouble getting into areas that are under the rebels control where a chemical weapons we nisshin seem to have been used there's been lots of near misses and mortar attacks showings 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 the rebels

are still reluctance to negate say it would be syrian government putting together a list of conditions damascus should make before they start talking the demands were made at a friends of syria gathering in london this week and most believe they can unify a group of eleven states who sympathize with the opposition came up with could jeopardize any chance of dialogue the resolution from the london conference clearly says that assad should not have a role in this serious he checked at places the blame for the conflict squarely on damascus and says it's clear who carried out the chemical attack in august moscow took a show with the wording because it claims it could provoke the assad regime into backing out of the forthcoming talks in geneva u.s. defense analyst ivan eland told us how this will welding support to rebels can backfire. the al qaeda groups are dying 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 you could have you know you could have an al qaeda dominated portion of syria. this is coming up in the program trade with the west and these ukraine's attends for the best out of all this world's trouble. and also this hour the american media gets his teeth into spy allegations against a russian diplomat based on these was something he has labeled as nonsense and an

echo of the cold war. as the media leave us so we leave the media. love to see bush and see to. play your part of the visit the. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics.

three. three. three. three. three. video for your media. free media r.t. dot com. hello again this is the welcome bond as the most maligned jail on the planet gone tunneled day keeps its affairs and scandals under wraps and also you found down just how father will go to make sure nothing gets out and a sitter going to visiting the facility is sent as this report but only after the footage has been taken and carefulness censored by kong timeless 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 or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides 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 our. 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 get more operations the detainees you know they get their vision so we try to photograph them to take 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 they have called the good will for just not. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more oss and detainees and getting the detainees side of

what goes on and 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 and things 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 it 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 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. like. that. 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 is doing its best to tell you about old goes on a gone time with a prison allegations of torture of physical and illegal mistreatment and coverups all of our findings are online as for you and also that molly gears up for war

against unruly citizens find out about the enormous almost tender plays by the monarchy which is looking to buy more tear gas canisters and the country has its people. and balloon out of this world not quite space tourism but if you have spent seventy five thousand dollars a specially designed helium powered vessel can take you to the edge of the void of piss on a website. it's being reported in america the head of a russian cultural exchange program is being investigated by the f.b.i. the security agency is reportedly looking into his alleged spy activities and she's really going to report 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 you results of is now being investigated as a man who have who have been viewing these young up and coming young 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 how's and why's there 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 it was those who have gone on these programs have stayed uncomfortable 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 two parties 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. in tunisia a raid by security services on a house about two hundred and fifty kilometers south of the capital has ended in a bloodbath after a gunfight broke out with islam is fighters six policemen and one gunmen were killed another officer died in a separate clash with militants north of tunis authorities are quieting down and fighters it says are taking advantage of unrest in neighboring leave to import arms and times and go in part has forced the government to announce it will resign but

talks with the opposition on when to hold new elections have been pushed back because of the violence the prime minister told r.t. his government is doing all it carol to deal with social problems the for. the lead since the beginning of the revolution in twenty eleven when we were done with the despotism of the heads of state our 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 elections 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 moyen raouf is skeptical the prime minister will go through with his promise to resign despite the increase of often deadly violence there. the arab

spring has obviously failed i mean it's been an arab nightmare really they haven't resolved anything the islam is been strengthened by arms flowing out of libya into the region and you see mali is 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. years of ben-ali is misrule and now these people are delivering the same it could be the last chance for ukraine and russia to avert a trade war that threatens to sink cave's exports eastward the leaders of both nations meet today in batteries ukraine is edging towards a trade pact with europe despite opposition both at home and from its neighbors and she's an expression of skin reports now and on what's at stake. the funeral of

independence this is how ukraine's movement but i'd describe the imminence signing over 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 you're 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 after 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 betters 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 no. we are not a human 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 vague how the country would feel after it makes this leap of faith at the eastern partnership summit in vilnius on the vendor the twenty eighth. reporting from grain. up next on aussie breaking the sets in which on the mountain talks about how communities around the world have force against corporations taking that lund to one. new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is their opening pandora's box

it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are banned in most other countries the body is trying to take a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i've heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money effort and lives and you need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night after work to go on an ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because it's fighting the drugs and not the reason why people take them which is to escape reality why do people want to escape reality because in modern times or post modern times we live a soulless pointless isolated consumeristic existence of working in a pointless office job just to get poor so we can scrape by and get some cheap plastic junk at walmart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with

something through a needle but that's just my opinion. do you know what's on your dinner plate i mean really know what's on your dinner plate sure may look like chickens steak or a hamburger but there's probably a little something extra in there too arsenic you know the deadly poison and antibiotics shock in the about eighty percent of all antibiotics sales in the u.s. go to livestock alone since the one nine hundred forty s.

the livestock industry has been adding these drugs to animal feed and nurture reduce infections and make them eat more appetising lead pink but these antibiotics also double as growth hormones so that now chickens look like this yes that's the difference between a chicken from the one nine hundred fifty s. and the factory farm chickens of today pretty disgusting but at the end of the day it's always been about profit not humanity. and the desire for massive profit could be killing you a recent report by john hopkins university claims that the excessive use of animal antibiotics is putting people at risk by creating antibiotic resistant bacteria according to the centers for disease control twenty three thousand americans die every year from antibiotic resistant infections unfortunately money signs are stalling congress for regulating these antibiotics but thankfully after years of legal battles the f.d.a. announced earlier this month it will finally ban the really out of the four arsenic

drugs that normally go into the animal feed and could be wrong it's a step in the right direction but let's be honest if it took decades to get the deadly poison arsenic banned how long is it going to take until we're no longer eating frank and chicken. is that the piece of the problem it was terrible a girl i'm very sorry to take a listen once again to plug the plug that never had sex with that their lives let's call it was. just so. listen the citizens. lists.