the phone line washington's accused of tapping the very top. secret detainees a safe with the. crude. sparkling clean rooms and nutritious food controls inmates claim experience first. you're seeing what there is to see. or report since above the u.s. military's coming up in just a few minutes from now. that's brought the darkness serious recovering after a strike on a gas pipeline. across much of the country. a major attack on the camp.

the price of crude. reports from the devastation syrian city of everyday battlefield families refuse to leave their homes. for most of us and here in the sky where it's just eight pm this is a twenty four hour day 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 sparked by claims the n.s.a. was monitoring the phone conversations of chancellor angela merkel herself ports and the potential consequences if the grave breach of trust is proven between the close. 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 of 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 huge 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's also starting to put a real dampener on potentially multi billion dollar trade deal between the e.u. and the united states fury over the latest n.s.a. spying claims are already overshadowing the e.u. summit leaders from several european countries have sided with germany and france saying that snooping on allies is unacceptable but a former member of the european parliament in ford told my colleague event of the indignation has come too late. i'm surprised at how slow the reactions breanne and i believe that he's been pushed into it by public a pretty more than anything else because there's nothing new in the last few days

but increasingly public opinion is is that right by what's been going on right and 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 bonk 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. i'm killer miracle that is not much of a fire operation of the fundamental revision i'm quite how they managed to fall on everybody apart from my angel a miracle i don't know. the impact the n.s.a.

revelations of had on the business community is the focus of today's cars report here's a little of what's to come later this hour. 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 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 bounce back to what he paid for he famously says really buys things that he understands they weren't going to stand corporate espionage. because report coming away to late to one of the world's most headline grabbing prisons guantanamo bay has to george media attacks point reporters and the t.v. crew gained access to check for yourself what life is really like there and start to check in as reporters being censored by the content of my 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 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 have do

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 up 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 with regulation sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cellphones 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 the said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of getting the operations of the detainees here not make it 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 remove all from guantanamo bay if people just kind of mislabeled it and they have a call to go for bia they're just not leading. 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 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 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 were on their bill 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 and attention can you give. that 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 if you want to see that again that report is available right now on website it's also part of our special series on guantanamo bay which is airing weekly on. a real life american spy flick the f.b.i. investigates a russian diplomat believed to be recruiting goals. cold war era allegations that officials say have nothing to do with reality that i'm all. for the break.

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continues here on r.t. in bahrain eight documents been leaked by a human rights group exposing the government's plans to ship massive amounts of tear gas in the country the document shows the ministry of defense has asked for quotes from order of one point six million tear gas canisters a number greater than bahrain's one point two million population tear gas has been use extensively in the government's crackdown on dissent with reports of people's homes or even places of worship being hit human rights activists claim since the start of the uprising in two thousand and eleven it is responsible for thirty nine

deaths and that is only the confirmed cases it's also reportedly responsible for causing miscarriages blindness and serious breathing problems want to discuss this further we're joined live by a member of the u.k. based human rights organization bahrain watch. so why do you think the government could be placing an order for vast quantities of tear gas. well bahrain's been leading a campaign of spiral spiraling repression since two thousand and eleven and the number one technique or weapon that they've been using for the repression is the use of tear gas and i'm not surprised starting to run out because they've been firing. an estimated one hundred shots a night. villages civilians on civilians on protestors men women and children under disabled like you said we've recorded over thirty nine deaths from the excessive

use of tear gas and part of these deaths are direct body shots on the head and neck so you say you're not surprised they're running out the fact that they are ordering more does that suggest that they're actually battling to contain the protests and more protests are on the way is that what they're anticipating. well what we've recovered is the time the documents of a proposed shipment of one point six million tear gas kind of kind of. what we believe is no shipment has been made yet the process of licensing approvals from authorities so with the campaign that we've unleashed at the moment is trying to prevent that shipment from reaching bahrain to prevent tear gas from being used against civilians just how can you do that though how you would you physically i know you're in the u.k. where the order could be placed how as a group could you actually stop those tear gas canisters getting to bahrain.

all the campaign that we've set up is called stop the shipment and it's base based on previous campaigns that we've witnessed and we've set up a website with a template e-mail. it's a global campaign that people can send e-mails to the manufacturers and these export officials we've noticed similar trends in other countries such as turkey where thousands and thousands of e-mails were sent to this manufacturers and public pressure can cause of origins to shift the decision to prevent this tear gas shipment from reaching bahrain what's your overall aim here at the human rights group are you also in favor of the toppling of the bahraini government there if so would that really stop the human rights issue ongoing bearing in mind of course what we've seen in countries such as libya and egypt where the governments of toppled the situations. turned out to be chaotic and not good for human right.

well bahrain which is an independent nonpolitical crew group what we concentrate on what we have been concentrating on is arms exports surveillance technologies and the reformation pro process undergoing in bahrain. whether or not the regime will be toppled or or will remain is not a question for bahrain watch to answer now as i said earlier we can see you there in the u.k. which clearly is largely supportive of bahrain what sort of political pressure are you as a group putting on the u.k. government now briefly. well we're trying to work trying to lobby parliament here in the u.k. and. successful protests organized last week in front of the south korean embassy

because we believe that one of them manufacture is is the number one supplier of tear gas in bahrain and we've also there's also been a protest organized tomorrow morning outside the south korean embassy we haven't received a response from bahrain directly in regards to the statement which points towards the notion that there is in fact a shipment going through and that they're trying to ignore it so public pressure. fades away we have had successes over thirty thousand e-mails have been sent to these manufacturers and we've had the korean federation of trade unions send a letter direct to the to the korean officials asking them to prevent this shipment from reaching bahrain ahmed thank you very much indeed for joining us live from bahrain watch group. now over on our web site at the moment r.t. dot com employees at japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant are securing new

storage space for highly radioactive water is the site is bracing itself for a powerful typhoon in the coming twenty four hours. and the choice that led to the tragedy california cops shoot dead a thirteen year old boy carrying an assault rifle that turned out to be a dummy because the full story online right now. syria's recovering from an almost nationwide blackout overnight when a huge area of the country including the capital was left without electricity for several hours the power outage was blamed on a rebel strike on a key gas pipeline it was followed by reports of heavy fighting near the capital as anti assad forces try to break through into the city the syrian conflict has

claimed more than one hundred thousand lives dividing families and turning former friends against each other of course travel to the tell of yarmouk where bloodshed has become an everyday reality for families living there and 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 acutely here where it's divided families and pitted brother against brother. lee betrayed and 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 world 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 know their whole lives. and i have some friends fighting on the other side we're not friends anymore the ones who displaced us from our houses and destroyed our homes are not our friends. with. each day a bomb only leaves to fight them but not before he struck 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 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 yarmulke 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 to take care of them and i pray that if i get more

tired they will find tender people to look after america. the frontline is now two streets away but for and his company the battle hits closer to home each time they take aim to secure the streets for the families often it's a neighbor friend and sometimes even a brother who is pointing the gun back at them point of c r t. syria well the countrywide power outage came while the international inspectors in syria overseeing the destruction of the country's chemical weapons and some experts believe the blackout was a rebel attempt to disrupt 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. now for a quick look at some other world news this thousands of students who take the streets of madrid in the ongoing protests against by to pass to the education sector demonstrators also voiced their anger over the increasing college tuition fees that employs thousands of youngsters out of university. twenty six percent unemployment rate is one of the worst in the e.u. and half the country's youth without. somalia now where the army

reinforced by french and u.n. troops have launched a large scale operation against the militants in the north of the country the mission is aimed at preventing a resurgence of terrorist movements in the region on wednesday a suicide bomb attack on a u.n. base left to troops from chad that in january this year front sent troops to mali to help the government in combating is the most rebels. f.b.i. says it suspects a russian official who heads a cultural exchange program in the u.s. of recruiting spies but the own going investigation is but will that both moscow and the man himself you go to prison off reports during the course of the last twelve years this russian culture exchange center in washington sent around one hundred thirty americans to russia fully paying for their trips including meals 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 managed to 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 the results of himself has also made a statement. it's some kind of witch hunt the first two young boys and girls that have gone to russia demanding to be told the waltz 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 it was 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. that brings up today for the moment but with a new team with more in just a half an hour from now the mean time max and stacey discuss hell western countries are selling off state assets to stay afloat that is in the cards or.

sigrid laboratory mccurry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything too much mission to teach me the creation and why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the. economic down in the final month they. sang i and the rest. a little bit every week.

welcome to the kaiser report imax qais are they going it the dollars are gone or they aren't big is trading at a twenty year high bitcoin is surging toward two hundred dollars and gold is heading east because for 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 i.e. the banking class for in china banks there is 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 such a great 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 first rate to a new liberal potentate right stacy herbert yes max even 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 well as you say he called britain second rate george osborne says second great 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 is so they'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 that everyone employed but making subsistence wages used to be here subsistence farming used to be the 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 doing jack nothing well the other thing i want to point out is that he should look in the mirror and look what his government is doing because in china they are a command and control economy just like the u.k.'s command and control economy but the difference is that in china they have a sovereign wealth fund they also have

a five year plan here we have a sovereign debt fund is the highest debt ratio in the world to g.d.p. . in the world and they also have nearly five day plan they only operate for this to get through this week as long as house price continues to rise this week as long as the markets stay up this week that's all they think ahead is five days as you point out china's got a huge sovereign wealth fund britain's got this huge sovereign debt problem and their plans are really minute by minute day by day as a debt holik they should be going to debtors anonymous and they should be getting on some kind of twelve step program or george osborne is powerless over this country's debt and he needs to seek a higher power well it's also proves that we do run on a ponzi system here because a ponzi scheme needs constantly to have new money coming in and here we always have a five day plan because that's that's every week you have to get a new ponzi is to come into the scheme.