good. luck to. america's national security agency is exposed to listening in on the phone conversations of a thirty five world leaders further complicating relations between the u.s. and its allies. we are not i mean we don't really mean we don't want to be. hard to from the n.s.a. spying scandal elite is also faced with the flow of refugees from war torn states which hospital putting pressure on a number of european countries plus. they wanted to cut period before and pretty much work american protesters a rage against police brutality as an authorial purpose bring cop walks away with cash compensation almost equal to what his victims received.

from moscow this is largely you with me on would say let's take a look at our top story the. the n.s.a. have been spying on thirty five world leaders that's according to the most recent revelations from agency leaker edward snowden european leaders have lashed out against washington's practices calling them and unacceptable breach of trust artist has us cilia reports. the latest document that edward snowden there provided the guardian we do see some some more insight into the process of how this global surveillance was actually working and the fact that it had spied on the thirty five world leaders is one side of the matter on the other hand it would also encourage a senior officials belonging to departments such as the white house the state department or the pentagon to share their contacts with them encouraging them to

give the phone numbers of these people that they wanted to spy on and put them on this surveillance list and also what's interesting that came out of this document is also the fact that it was a knowledge that the eavesdropping the listening in on these hundreds of people of thirty five world leaders actually did not produce much it produced quote unquote little reportable intelligence and also it's had some very real consequences already going up to the legislative level in the e.u. for example would be a parliament backing a new rules to restrict the flow of data to the united states and also every piece now calling for a suspension of the u.s. bank deal talks very angry leaders coming from europe for example you know the latest with germany's chancellor angela merkel having called the u.s. president barack obama to ask for an explanation because of the suspicions that her phone was being monitored we also know that french president first of all on her dad asked for explanations on why seventy million french citizens were being spied

on the recent revelations have said washington into another spin of damage control u.s. government officials reportedly now have to let foreign into intelligence agencies know what further information edward snowden my princess or relations and security expert. points out how the whistleblower has brought the spotlight on the issues of the surveillance state. this is the classic fire game of wanting to on the one capture or trying to plug the particular leader mcconnell tactic on the other turned also disclosing to a certain extent how much the. other powers and i think this is the classic double bind so washington is finding it so that the world a lot of this is embarrassment and i think this at the end of the snowden has also made clear that he's very sensitive to the security implications of what he also discloses and he's trying to demonstrate the problem of the surveillance state

rather than the more sensitive material that might be arising in standard intelligence gathering procedures the place on a daily basis. we're closely watching all the developments related to the n.s.a. scandal here on araa to log on to our website to at r.t. dot com for the latest updates videos and expert analysis. america's spying practices are not the only issue on the minds of the european leaders gathered in brussels for the e.u. summit the massive flow of illegal immigrants a subsidy discussed a week after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean artie's paid all of our way to discover how days you are hardly welcomed to build their new lives away from home. we have feel we are not and the moment we have feeling we all want to be jobless homeless and thousands of kilometers from home this is the reality for refugees who were forced to flee violence in libya and twenty eleven there is no option not even allowed to work in

germany since i've been to germany i just slip and it's what i do they arrived in europe through its early however the italian authorities told them they couldn't stay and sent them packing with five hundred euros and give me some money i should go bank and collect the money i have the right to go anywhere what i want to go sawyer just to leave it like yeah to live it to live because it truly is disaster and the european law it's really shouldn't have done that it's the responsibility of the member state where refugees arrive to look after them by sending these refugees away it's left them in a difficult legal predicament my document is get an expert and the five hundred year is finished can't go back i can't i can't even go back to italy to renew even my document. for fox for over a year more than five hundred from all over sub-saharan africa being packed into

this camp in the german capital i don't. know how you put it if they'd been working in libya when colonel gadhafi was toppled a new nato backed war the documents these people have gives them access to basic medical care nothing else mentions it in now in berlin and it's up to germany to find a solution to their problems we're trying to get them residents permits for now there is no long term solution they have no right to work no right to social housing and are forced to live on handouts there's a feeling in the camp that e.u. members who took part in the twenty eleven action against libya have a responsibility to help i see this is. odd you appear you do because that's it lol. that. i could get are distributing we because. the world today is germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in a city park these people came here because they were fleeing violence but in

running for their lives they found themselves stuck in limbo here in the e.u. peter all of a r.t. . outrage over what protesters call an epidemic of police brutality has spilled onto the streets of dozens of american cities demonstrators vented fury at alleged racial profiling and excessive use of force by those who claim to uphold the law but as art is worried about my reports some police officers are even cashing in on controversies they spot. the next u.s. law enforcement official to face off against unarmed peaceful protesters may easily get away with brutalizing them and even be rewarded afterwards remember that horrifying video of a university police officer spraying pepper spray into the faces of students who were seated on the ground well that man has been awarded nearly forty thousand dollars in workman's compensation john pike sued the university of california davis

claiming he suffered from depression and anxiety was brought on by death threats against him and his family following the two thousand and eleven incident last week a judge approved the thirty eight thousand and fifty nine dollars worker's compensation award settlement between pike and u.c. davis now initially pike was placed on paid administrative leave after pepper spraying u.c. davis students during a protest in support of occupy wall street he was fired eight months later however an internal university investigation concluded that he acted appropriately a u.c. davis student we spoke with expressed shock over the lucrative award doled out for police brutality. what the pepper spray led to was not following orders and they wanted us to be an example for what you shouldn't do as a student and they wanted to put fear into people and it pretty much worked i

remember after the pepper spray happened i went home and was deeply afraid of ever protesting again the police a slap on the wrist maybe for a moment awarded later people are like he got money and like that was a good thing when really he would stop putting like trauma and fear and weapon on other incidents of police brutality extend from the west all the way to the east coast of the united states last month here in. new york city police officers attack students who were protesting visiting professor position given to axial age erector david petraeus at cuny the city's official university her testers were hunched slams on the ground and six students were arrested jailed and arraigned on charges of obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly

conduct however there's been no reports of the officers involved being penalized or charged with misconduct according to the latest confirmed figures there are close to one thousand four hundred federal civil rights cases pending against the new york city police department reporting from new york. r.t. . while the police brutality is also in breaking the thread to where the team takes a closer look at one particular case. don pike policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars in worker's compensation from u.c. davis you see back in june filed a claim with the university saying that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage i can totally relate releasing an entire can of mace on a group of students can really give you a case of pretty bad p.t.s.d. in fact maybe we should start giving all the cops who participated in occupies

a brutal crackdown on protesters comp money watching old ladies cry and dirty hippies bleed from their head as a result of your actions can really take a toll on one's mental health so make sure to give a shed a tear for john pike today and let's go break this. coming up on r t turning upside down. right. is we have the actual can explore in some africa period of a. reverse up on the rise among the white population who will look into that show with me. also i hate with a good look at the many inconsistency even the west and. one of russia's most high profile prisoner to stay with us for more on the. realities speaking its mind and threatening to pursue

a number of policy departures regarding its relationship with washington refraining from a coveted seat on the united nations security council the sodas are furious over washington stance on syria and the failure to support a meaningful peace process in the town for the palestinians the kingdom of saudi is going out on its own but where. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images both world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations to rule the day.

i. should have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. live from moscow you're watching our team the country that overcame the ugly era of

a pod tade is feared by some to be sliding back into the dock as pasta but now it's all africa's a white population that's not to be becoming a victim of racism artis policia investigates. cooney marie is preparing for genocide against his people his plans are in place his community is ready to flee but we've been planning for eight years it started simple the idea was to give people an option we've divided the country into twenty seven provinces and divided those further into groups each group has its own plans. since one thousand nine hundred four when south africa elected its first black government with nelson mandela to home into power more than three thousand white farmers are said to have been murdered relatives claim finding and prosecuting the culprits has never become a priority of the south african police. when south africa's president jacob zuma sang the song last year many off economist so

it is another nail in the coffin sealing their fate there are some three million off economists who live across south africa descendants of primarily northern europeans who arrived in the country three to four centuries ago genocide watch. right now where is a stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killing storm gustav mahler and his team are afraid they will seven could start any moment a form intelligence officer in a south african army it was easy for good stuff to read the warning signs. we have believers in our bible it says if you notice warning signs you must convey it if you don't you will have blood on your hands. as head of the movement gustav has established a countrywide operation with more than one hundred safe areas the idea is that when the alert is given people will be notified by islamists each will drive to a meeting point from where they will travel in convoy to pre-designated safe areas

one of the main centers is here in south africa's fourth oldest town half an it the death of nelson mandela is a risk scenario he's a political icon and his passing could see violence flaring up again from a legally sanctioned economic discrimination against whites to the farm murders targeting afrikaners the problems are only getting worse according to the save lenders as many as eight hundred thousand white mostly off the consulate in south africans support the movement many have already begun collecting blankets and other emergency provisions wendy macfarlane is a mother who worries for her son's future she joined the state hundreds because it gives her some control of a situation she'd otherwise feel powerless about on the breaks are there is a place i can go where i can be safe i joined to give my son and myself a place to go likely forefathers the same plant as vowed to fight for their country and while the south african government is aware of their efforts it hasn't

commented policy or r.t. half when it eastern cape south africa. quinten and gilsey a spokesperson for the south african e f five party says the problem lies in an entirely different area. at the moment sort of because one of the most politically stable countries in the entire world take into consideration that we are able to maintain. political stability with the things that cause wars in other countries so i don't think that there are any tensions except in the economic sense the other commission the congress government has just merely propitiate it every show lies forms of on a sheep and the. inequalities and unemployment and sort the the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and redistribution that privilege white people on. our say dot com a close and counter recently scientists rang the alarm bell over an asteroid that

has a slim chance of it on earth in twenty thirty two now and not the russian astronomers find another celestial body potentially capable of bringing apocalypse to our planet later the same read all those details on our website. plus a new region town deprived of sunlight during the winter has played a giant varos on top of the surrounding mountains that will be in light into the valley to cheer up the locals had online to get the details of that story. right. first. and i think you're. gonna reply what. i.

am. russian police have detained a man carrying a grenade and several blocks of t.n.t. on. the arrest happened in russia saw the written stuff report we. have opened a criminal case against a thirty year old on charges of illegal arms trafficking incident comes just four days after a suicide bomber attacked a bus in the southern russian city of. grabbed killing of six people. right ten years ago today so one of the marines publicized arrests in russia that of oil tycoon. had the whole scheme he's been portrayed by the media as both a martyr and a villain r.t.c. for peace cannot has been cutting through the spin to force. he was the richest man in russia and one of the wealthiest in the world while his or company you guess at

one point was the waters in the currency suddenly in two thousand and three make of that of course he was arrested and then found guilty of fraud and sentenced to nine years then in a separate criminal case against him along with his former business partner but only a bit of it of course he was found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering worth millions and now is expected to be free from jail in two thousand and fourteen to lose the because of it of course he remains one of the most controversial figures in russia's fierce criticism of the kremlin giving him both supporters and critics here in the country but in the west despite the serious crimes he was found guilty of he's mainly presented as a victim of political repression for more in the western image of russia's former altar i call them here is that this report by my colleague could be in there today major media outlets in the west portray me. as a victim of politics but back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the same outlets presented a different picture of the former oil tycoon. that of

a man who used dodgy and elaborate schemes designed to evade taxes and stripped his companies minority shareholders of their profits be used every trick in the book in one thousand nine hundred nine u.s. outlets were writing about how low russia fell letting the yukos oil company operate the way they did about yukos his actions being a major affront to foreign investors they were asking why isn't the russian government stepping in to her because he's played this game i mean at the moment he's crying the rule of law but in the ninety's when it suited him. he noted it or . manipulated the system to his advantage but around the year two thousand cut off his started working to repair his tainted image abroad he invited international auditors started pouring millions of dollars into lobbying in london and washington former secretary. state henry kissinger a became an honorable trustee of the open russia foundation set up and financed by

. and from the bad boy of russia's bandit capitalism in the eyes of the west transformed quickly into a man who the world could do business with around the time of his arrest in two thousand and three the tycoon was in the process of selling a quarter of you closest oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or chevron sensually all of the worlds of russia's oil and grow materials resources would have been transferred to western shareholders of which khodorkovsky was a major shareholder. russia could not afford this. and here in the us the attitude of the media towards mikhail for the books he seems to have changed with the realisation that the west benefited or could have benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to show. more news now from around the world a blast at a sweet factory in northern mexico has killed one person and left at least forty

others injured with many people still missing it's not that a boiler exploded on the second floor of the building calling the floor to collapse three hundred people were inside during the incident and rescue teams are searching for survivors. police and students are clashed in the spanish capital madrid thursday night after a day of mass demonstrations across the country several people were said to be arrested and injured as after thousands of poured on to the streets protesting against austerity cuts university fees and education reforms over half the young people in spain are unemployed as of the cash government has had public spending across the board. a thirty six year old man is holding twelve people hostage inside a fast food restaurant in the south west german city of freiburg the suspect is believed to be armed police have sealed off the area and are trying to negotiate

with the man who is known to have made any demands little move towards indicate that he may be the owner of the cafe and some of the people inside with him could be his relatives. as buttering me authorities continue their crackdown on dissent or their riot control tactics are being experienced a u.k. based human rights group has lead a documentary reading the government's plans to have a huge amount of tear gas shipped into the country now according to the documents the ministry of defense has place an order for one point six million tear gas canisters remember that iraq reign only has a population of about one point two million people the government has been extensively using the gas to suppress the opposition with the reports of people's homes and or even places of worship being hit us as the start of the uprising in twenty eleven tear gas has been responsible for almost forty deaths and is

according to this according to the human rights activists it's also reported to blame for miscarriages blinders and serious breathing problems human rights activists ahmed i least purchase about the worrying statistics. 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 ripper assertion is the use of tear gas and i'm not surprised it's starting to run out because they've been firing. an estimated one hundred shots a night on villages civilians and civilians on protesters men women and children on the disabled like he said we've recorded over thirty nine deaths from the excessive use of tear gas and paul of these deaths direct body shots on the head and neck. up next here on r.g.p. to live out and crosstalk.

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. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the saudi

pivot speaking its mind in threatening to pursue a number of policy departures regarding its relationship with washington refraining from a coveted seat on the united nations security council the saudis are furious over washington stance on syria approaches to iran and the failure to support a meaningful peace process on behalf of the palestinians the kingdom of saudi is going out on its own but where. to cross talk saudi arabia's foreign policy i'm joined by my guest in washington james carafano he is the vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the heritage foundation also we have me he is founder and director of the center for democracy and human rights in saudi arabia and we cross to jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and publisher of loeb log dot com all right gentlemen close up rules if it means you can jump in anytime you want jim if i go to you first in washington these words coming out of riyadh is that bluster

i mean the united states and saudi arabia are attached at the hip and they have been for for decades it's just words coming out of riyadh well i don't think i have any particular insight into what what king abdullah is thinking and obviously he's kind of the supreme decision maker it's not that words are not just coming out of out of riyadh itself they're they're coming out of washington because prince turki just gave a very fiery speech and defiant speech. at a conference here a couple of days ago. i think there are two schools of thought one school of thought here believes that it is mainly bluster that. saudi arabia is so closely and tangled particularly on the military and security front with the united states that it really can't sue for divorce but there are others who believe that saudi arabia is really quite serious and that it's looking for other foreign partners great powers in.