olympic torch relay. on the. crossing before in line washington is accused of topping the very top in germany snooping on chancellor merkel herself an operation for linda man is immediate also . the secrets of the detainees that stayed with the wardens his current spittle is gone total of a sparkling clean brings and fine dining contrast of all the ill fated inmates experience last time and you're seeing what there is just to see you know. our pulled censored by the u.s. military is coming up in just a few moments. on the life that brought darkness is recovering after an alleged strike on a key gas pipeline that power out across much of the country while the rebels

launch a major time on the capital the price of room. here. in the devastated syrian city of yarmouk and every day battlefield for families who refuse to leave their homes. and a very well welcome to all seeing twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you national power top story now. the scandal around allegations the u.s. is spying on its european allies is snowballing with germany becoming the second country this week demanding a full explanation from washington a fresh wave of indignation was spawned by claims the n.s.a. was monitoring the follow on conversations of chancellor merkel south of the show no reports now on the potential consequences if the grave breach of trust is proven

between the close allies. 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 if perhaps the united states had been listening in to the personal phone calls of the german chancellor now a spokesperson for angle of 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 with some demonstrations here in berlin but we're now starting to see real developments the european parliament 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 that 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 janet who is a spokesperson for data protection on the pirate posse if there is despite current righteous anger the german authorities are reaping well they have sown by fully complying with the controversial surveillance practices over here on. 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 embedded 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 while all of that we see from the documents and from the leaks that came out is an ep use of these surveillance measures on the impacts the n.s.a. revelations have had on the business community is the focus of today's kinds a report and here's a little what's to come for you later. and i say revelations kill i.b.m. hardware sales in china wednesday evening it was i.b.m.'s turn to confess that its hardware sales in china had simply collapsed every word was colored by edward snowden's revelation about the n.s.a.'s hand in glove collaboration with american tech companies from start ups to mastodons like i.b.m. well this is interesting because it shows the commercial impact of the spying scandal ultimately the idea that spying is making people more secure is going to

backfire because comparatively america is crashing and won't have any money at all to buy even a slingshot much less a cruise missile because no foreign government will do business with them and china of course has trillions of dollars in reserves and like warren buffett brought bought into i.b.m. at the high one seventy's he had a nice run now it's back to what he paid for he famously says really buys things that he understands they were going to stand corporate espionage. one of the world's most attention grabbing prisons gone time of day has long learned how to don't tang's by reporters. decided to check for itself on what life is really like than the citric in his report has been censored by gun thomas. 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 garner 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 or local media or 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 divides by our policies here even though transparency is a word brought up 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

a series of program established to a car or a car 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 to detainees you know maybe their mission 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 if people just kind of mislabeled it and have a call to get it just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is os and the 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 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 it 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 there 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 that might. need 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. meanwhile the detainee lawyers claim visiting that clients is much harder when they come or is are all of. the rayna told us should believes one no one stat is when the inmates torture and 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 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 be 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. about reporters available on our website and it's also part of our special series on gone tanabe which is airing weekly here on r.t.

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a huge chunk of the country including the capital was left without an atrocity for several hours the power outage reportedly followed by a rebel attack on damascus was blamed on a strike on a k. gas pipeline our middle east correspondent tried to sort through the events of the night. the capital city of 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 orchestrated 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 dad 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 walk south damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million palestinians today tempest seemed to remain the price of world peace now it's acute here where it's divided families and pressured 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 young men to choose sides and take up arms against people they've known their whole lives. from friends fighting on the other side we're not friends anymore the ones who displaced those from our housing and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. each day abu movie leaves to fight them. but not before he stuck furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these bullet riddled boards 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 fave whirl all movie 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 that they care of them and i pray that if i get more tired they will find tender people to look after america. the frontline is near two

streets away but for other movie and his comrades the battle hits closer to home each time they take an aim 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 closely r.t. yarmuk syria. the country's wind power outage came while the international inspectors are in syria saying the destruction of the country's chemical weapons and some experts believe the blackout was a rebel attempt to disrupt that was ask is 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 the 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 that's our website right now employees that just pulled figure when you get into securing new storage space after waltzer as the site is bracing a powerful typhoon in the coming twenty one days. and also that a ton of that led to a tragedy california cops should dread a thirteen year old boy carrying an assault rifle that turned out to be a dummy and go the full story.

we have bee eyes as if the suspect a russian official who had a cultural exchange program in the you was a recurring spines but the un calling investigation has been welded both moscow and the man himself. now reports during the course of the last twelve years this russian culture or extreme center in washington sent around one hundred thirty americans to russia for being for their troops including mules and accommodation and now the reports in the us mainstream media suggest that the f.b.i. is suspect its head you resides of of recruiting agents or more of these travelers

who include governmental aides and senior business executives and others and reportedly the f.b.i. has been interviewing these people some journalists america speak with some of them as well in fact they said they saw nothing suspicious on these trips and hoped that this program would continue in the future and you results of himself has also made a statement. 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 we've also heard from the russian foreign ministry which said that these reports have nothing to do with the reality and from the russian embassy in washington which said that such heavy accusations have to be backed by some concrete evidence otherwise the reports are merely an echo of the cold war era which does nothing positive for the relations between the two states and now a quick look at some other world news in brief this hour in bahrain has clashed with police at the funeral of a seventeen year old boy only attests to say the youngster was shot in the head by

security forces but officials denied accusations police resorted to tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the angry choirs and be savages meanwhile the human rights groups out of the bahraini government plans to purchase one point six million tear gas canisters and number five exceeding the country's total population . thousands of students have taken to the streets of madrid in the ongoing protests against biting cuts to the education sector the demonstrators also voiced their anger over the increase in college tuition fees that have priced one thousands of youngsters out of universities spain's overall twenty six percent unemployment rate is one of the worst in the e.u. while more than half of the country's youth are without jobs. east or west which is best for ukraine that could be decided today as the country's leader meets with president putin in belarus is eyeing a free trade agreement with the e.u.

despite already having one with a washer and other former soviet republics. reports now on what's at stake. the funeral of independence this is how ukraine's movement but i'd describe the him in 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 how it was 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 railway. 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.

those employed here are 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 you will help ukraine sort out its human rights institutions betters like these are part of longstanding 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 no. we are not a human we will 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. and up next stay same month discount how western countries that selling off state assets to stay afloat and the kind of report to stay out in. 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. it

would turn save money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead for the next building through the open window. i search through the internet typing things like i'm looking for you i'm waiting for you. waiting for you know i'm looking for you i didn't care at all what this man would be a lie. with you know you won't the better is. everything about him i have grown to love every here every one of. them actually be helpful other guys who drink beer in a bench i've always promised that if she ever realizes it's too much for her and she decides to leave me i will accept her decision without criticism because it's

her choice. welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are de gaulle the dollars are gone or the army is trading at a twenty year bitcoin is surging toward two hundred dollars and gold is heading east because they're taking down empires stacking is the new sacking oh if only the united kingdom weren't such a second rate nation they'd be more successful like the can do an optimistic

chinese so said the u.k. chancellor george osborne while on a trade visit to china of course i was born wasn't referring to his class either the banking class for in china banks caught committing fraud are not held by the state as heroes but met by a hail of gunfire from the state. you know when george osborne suggested the brits are second rate he was referring to those in the jumper class the sort that jumps off apple factories after months of hard low paid labor now that's straight to a new liberal potentate right stacy herbert yes max and you know this george osborne is kind of a fair weather friend to america because while de gong was downgrading the u.s. debt and gold was soaring and heading east he was over there in the east as well he was heading over there with the gold all right well as you say he called britain

second rate george osborne says second rate britain must rediscover its can do attitude chancellor dismisses suggestions that china has a sweatshop economy and wishes britain would be more like the communist country. you know he wants brits to work for lower wages that's why the bank of england said we're going to keep interest rates low in seoul employment goes higher that means that they want wages to trend lower to be on a par with china so the job everyone employed but making subsistence wages used to be here subsistence farming used to be the do rigueur economic model here in britain under the lords and ladies and kings and queens of the feudal period now they wish to return to that as part of meal feudalism so george osborne can be piggly wiggly georgie porgie putting a pod up on his throne making all sides of commandments all day long and not.