mention to the ways that some. of our minds. close before the line washington's accused topping the very top in germany's snooping on chancellor merkel herself and operation bolin demands in major dollars to. the secrets of the detainee's us a would be wardens screw explores gone tunnel day was pumping clean of rings and fine dining contrast to what they may have experienced and you're seeing what there is just to see. our poll is censored by the us military is coming out in a few minutes. and the lines that brought the dog see were is recovering after an alleged strike on a key gas pipeline. across much of the country while the rebels launch

a major time on the campus. the price of crude. he reports from the devastated syrian city of. an every day bottle filled whole families who are please tell me that. you saw russia and around the wall this is o.c. with me here national problem thanks for joining us. the scandal around immigration as the u.s. is spying on its european allies is snowballing was germany becoming the second country this week demanding a full explanation from washington a fresh wave of indignation was sponsored by claims the n.s.a. was monitoring the phone conversations of chancellor angela merkel herself piece on a 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 vesta velour 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 well 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 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. anderson on this one are joined live from brussels by glenn ford he's a former member of the european parliament mr ford welcome to art see it's very good to see here with us so talking about this latest n.s.a. scandal why exactly would the u.s. be spying on the leader of a country that has long been a very close ally. but they routinely spying on everybody and everything why i mean angela merkel surprised that they're listening to her conversations who do they think the u.s. was spying on the local taxi drivers to berlin. while most people who are at the top i mean if you're spying on your allies which the u.s. has been doing you're clearly by angela merkel part of the whole and the president the prime minister's all the other member states of the european union and we frankly i'm surprised at how slow the reaction is being and i believe that you've

been pushed into it by public opinion more than anything else because there's nothing new in the last few days but increasingly public opinion is is outraged by what's been going on right and back in june right after the very first away with indignation president obama said that all those surveillance practices inherited from the bush era would be revised and reviewed but let's not take a listen to what president obama had to say than to get that with let's now take a listen to what i have been able to do is examine. and scrub our intelligence services are operating and i'm confident that at this point we have struck the appropriate balance. so mr flynn what would you make of that. well i mean i slightly unconvinced frankly i mean if you've got a boat a multi-billion pound spying operation if you start excluding the france and until

merkel there is somewhat of a spying operation these are the fundamental reasons i'm quite how they manage to spy on everybody apart from angel americal i don't know. but germany is not the only country which is furious about the whole thing because we know that france and a silly i'm not happy either do you think they will be able to get together and stance a gather against all is going on around them well i hope hopefully and we've got the european summit starting today and actually on the agenda is data protection interesting me so they're almost by accident that we understand that both francois hollande the president of france and angela merkel the chancellor of germany are going to be raise this issue this evening why anyone would be against trying to make sure that if you want our data and our information is protected from anybody including the americans i can see and certainly public pressure is mounting the

parliament also has a special committee of inquiry meeting that will report before the european elections in may which i presume on the face was terrible thing it is going to make for strong recommendations as well and what kind of a long term damage can the n.s.a. scandal potentially inflict on washington's relations with its e.u. allies. oh well billions of pounds worth because of course from the very beginning of negotiating a free trade agreement between the european union and the united states the t t i p frankly i'll be very surprised if there aren't in the in that agreements and demands for some commitment from the united states actually to not spy on on the government so its allies deviously are trying to spy on germans french british to anyone else you may be engaged in terrorist activity right and what about all the measures that are taken now in europe i'm talking about the new data protection system the legislation i should say new legislation data protection legislation the

suspension of the swift agreement will that prevent the u.s. well let me clear this worst of. the awful lot of voted and asked for the swiss agreement to be suspended the european commission that would have to if you want to undertake that suspension and there's no indication that european commission is going to follow that up at the moment but it is a very clear political signal from the parliament that quite how indignant m e p's are about this if you are right well mr glyn for unfortunately we have to leave it there glyn ford former member of the european parliament live from brussels mr ford thank you very much for that. thank you and the bonds the n.s.a. revelations have had on the business community is the focus of today's kinds of report and here's a little awards to come for you later today. 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. is 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 competitively america is crashing and it 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 buffet 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 things that he understands they weren't you understand corporate espionage.

one of the woes most attention grabbing presidents go on time of day has known learned how to don't report and now secret decided to track for itself what life is really like that and to see churkin his report has been censored by going ton of us don't. 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 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 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 our. program accomplished within the purview of sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cellphones are banned from camps we're not supposed to 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 the detainees you know make it 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 removal from guantanamo bay. people just kind of mislabeled it and i have called again for bia just not really. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is os 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 the 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 say 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. 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. the zany noise claim visiting their clients is much harder when the cameras are all of one of the terrorist suspects says they were seeing severe head injuries while in the cia custody which is not being treated in the county and already resulted in memory loss and to measure advocates rayna told as she believes when no one's that is one the inmates on 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 is no doubt that the u.s. government to gauge torture it's a it's publicly known 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. but reporters available on our website and it's also part of our special series on gone tanabe which is airing weekly healing i'll say. and still ahead for you this hour an american spy flick the f.b.i. investigates a russian diplomat believed to be recruiting loans but leaves most coupons old cold war era on the geishas that official site had nothing to do with the reality that's after the break.

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hello again this is our scene welcome back so you were as a recovering from an almost nationwide blackout overnight when a huge chunk of the country including the capital was left without electricity for several hours the power outage reportedly followed by a rebel attack on damascus was blamed on a strike on a key gas pipeline middle east correspondent for us here try to sort through the violence 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 is 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. this is young walk south damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million palestinians today ten percent remain the price of world peace so it's acute here where it's divided family and put her 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 us and build them again 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 know their whole lives. from friends fighting on the. here are not friends anymore the ones who displaced us from our house and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. on each day a bomb we leaves to fight them but not before he struck furniture high against the windows to protect his family from snipers life inside these political little boys

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 for world all movie carefully cops her husband could pay for battle she knows he needs to go but each time he leaves behind the same one on said 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. the snipers on 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

sued 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 because they care of them and i pray that if i get more teared they will find tender people to look after them. the fun time is now two streets away but for. 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 when you see r t. syria the countrywide paying while the international inspectors are in syria overseeing the destruction of the country's chemical weapons and some experts believe the blackout was a rebel attempt to disrupt that was the attack on 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 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 for you right now employees are japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant securing new storage space for highly radioactive water as this site is bracing

itself powerful typhoon in the coming twenty four hours. and the toy that led to a tragedy california called a fifteen year old boy carrying an assault rifle that turned out to be a doesn't mean it got the full story online. the f.b.i. says it's a suspect so russian official who has a cultural exchange program in the you are also recruiting spines but the ongoing investigation has been welded both moscow and the man himself he's the group's going off now report during the course of the last twelve years this russian call

to extreme center in washington sent around one hundred thirty americans to russia fully 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 journalist mona should 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 was 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 quick look at some other world news in brief in bahrain mourners clashed with police have the funeral of a seventeen year old boy protesters say the youngster was shot in the head by security forces but officials deny their accusations police resulted to tear gas and stun grenades to despise the angry crowds of the servers in a while for human rights groups out of the bahraini government or plans to purchase one point six million tear gas canisters a number of exceeding the country's total population. thousands of students have taken to the streets in madrid in the ongoing protests against the biting pass to the education sector but demonstrators also voiced their anger over the increase in college tuition fees have prized of thousands of youngsters out of universities spain's overall twenty six percent unemployment rate is one of the

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