world's attention to the ways that some jobs gulag of our smarts. america's national securities agency is exposed to listening in on the phone conversations of thirty five world leaders that are complicating relations between the u.s. and its allies. we are not i mean we don't really we don't want to be about from the n.s.a. spying scandal leaders also faced with the flow of refugees from war torn states which has been putting pressure on a number of european countries. wanted to put fear into people and pretty much word american not protesters rage against police brutality as a notorious pepper spraying cop walks away with cash compensation almost equal to what his victims receive will speak to one of them in just

a minute. but it's my day here in the russian capital you live with us on our t. it's good to have your company with us i'm tom with a top story. 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 just saw 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 acknowledge that the eavesdropping the listening in on these hundreds of people or 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 the new rules to restrict the flow of data to the united states and also every piece now calling for a suspension of. bank deal talks very angry leaders coming from europe for example you know the leaders would be 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 francois lot had asked

for explanations on why seventy million french citizens were being spied on the recent revelations have cited washington into another spin of damage control u.s. government officials reportedly now have to lead foreign intelligence agencies know what further information edward snowden might possess foreign relations and security expert benoit says the surveillance state is now the one in the spotlight . this is the classic fire game of wanting to on the one capture or trying to plug a 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 at the moment a lot of this is embarrassing and i think at the end of the snowden has also made clear that he's very sensitive to the security implications of what do you 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 log on to our website at r.t. dot com for the latest updates videos and expert and that. america's spy and practices and all the only is see on the minds of the european leaders gathered in brussels for the e.u. summit a massive flow of illegal immigrants a subsidy discussed two weeks after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean or disappeared all of a one to discover how there is law how do you welcome build their new lives away from home. we have feet we are not 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 sleep in it that'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 to livy to leave because it leaves disaster on the european law it's really shouldn't of done less 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 getting expert and the five hundred year is finished can't go back can't 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 they've been working in libya when colonel gadhafi was toppled in the 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 grammont so 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 the problem of order to appear you do because that's. i could get are distributing we because yet i would go to work today as 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 over r.t. . outrage over what protesters call an epidemic of police brutality has spilled onto the streets of dozens of american cities demonstrators wondered fury at a leisure racial profiling and excessive use of force by the race in plain to uphold the law but as r.t. is worried about my report 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 spring 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 the 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 ward 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. 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 attacks students who are protesting a visiting professor position given to a director david petraeus at cuny the city's official university her testers were punched slammed on the ground and six today and said 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 to 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. . well the police brutality is all from breaking the center where the team takes a closer look at one particular case. john pike the policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars and workers' compensation from u.c. davis you see back in june pike filed a claim with the university seen that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage i can totally relate releasing an entire can of mace on a group a lazy 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 let's go break the. coming up on r t turning upside down. right. stage or level six. is when the actual killer storms and south africa appears over various state on the rise among the white population we look into that. also ahead we take a look at the many inconsistency in the portrayal of one of russia's ways high profile prisoners you're watching the.

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watching our team of a country that every came the ugly era of upon tade is feared by some to be sliding back into the dock possed but now it's all africa is why population that's said to be becoming a victim of racism. investigates. cooney movie 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 as 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 plan and so forth 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

some perfect as president jacob zuma sang the song last year many off economists saw it as 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 we're the stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killing stalls gustav mahler and his team are afraid they've all seven could start at any moment a form intelligence officer in a south african army it was easy for gustav 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 off the corners the problems are only getting worse according to the state 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 joins us eight hundred 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 state land as well 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 kills the a spokesperson for the south african e f f party says the problem lies in an entirely different area. at the moment so that 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 course of wars in other countries so i don't think that there are any tensions except in the economic sense the commission the congress government has just merely appreciate it every show lies forms of ownership 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 r.g.p. dot com a close encounter recently scientists rang the alarm bell of an asteroid that has just a slim chance of hitting earth in twenty thirty two and our russian also must find another celestial body potentially capable of bringing up. apocalypse to our planet later this century all those details and that story on our website. i know we should ton deprived of sunlight during the winter as plain jayanta mirrors on top of the surrounding mountains there will be more light into the valley to chair up the locals had on line to get all the details of the glitzy project. right. first street. and i think you're.

on the record what. i. am. ten years ago today i saw one of the various publicized arrests in russia that of oil tycoon. scheme now he's been portrayed by the media as both a martyr and a villain are going of has been cutting through the spin for us. he was the richest man in russia and one of the wealthiest in the world while his or company eucharist at one point was the waters in the currency suddenly in two thousand and three macarthur 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 given 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 on the western image of russia's former altar i call him here is that this route for my colleague 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 album is presented a different picture of the former oil tycoon or. that of a man who used dodgy and elaborate schemes designed to evade taxes and strip his company's 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 over the floor 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 qatar. 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 christmas oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or

chevron consensually 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 post he seems to have changed with the realisation that the west benefitted world could have benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to go. wheelin pick flame has certain it's lived on the north pole as part of a special stage of the sorcery twenty fourteen relay something that never has happened before now it's also been a record breaking journey in terms of speed of the season it took a nuclear icebreaker exactly ninety one hours and twelve minutes to reach the world's not point in complete darkness during the polar knives now the team of told

the bear is included members from the all arctic nations all the arctic nations and you can also follow the relay to you by logging onto your our to dot com website for. more news from around the world and now a blast at a sweet factory in northern mexico has killed one person and left of these forty others injured two with many people still missing it's thought that a boiler exploded on the second floor of the building course in the floor to collapse three hundred people were inside during the incident and rescue teams are searching for survivors. police and students clash 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 called on to the streets protesting against austerity cuts higher university fees and education reforms a half of young people in a spain are unemployed as a cash strapped government has

a public spending across the board. german police have arrested a thirty six year old man who barricaded himself inside a fast food cafe with twelve other people the suspect two's of kurdish origin called the police saying he wouldn't be able to attend a court hearing on a drug offense even shot himself in the cafe with his relatives and friends the standoff lasted for several hours with security forces may go shooting with the men until he gave himself up. as well creamy authorities continue their crackdown on dissent of their riot control tactics are being experienced a u.k. based human rights group has leaked a document revealing the government's plans to have a huge amount of teargas shipped into the country according to the documents the ministry of defense has a place an order for one point six million tear gas canisters but this number

exceeds the entire when population which is one point two million the government has been extensively using the gas to suppress the you opposition with reports of people's homes or even places of worship being hid now since the start of the uprising in twenty eleven tear gas has been responsible for almost forty dest that's according to the human rights activists it's also reported to blame for miscarriages miscarriages blindness and serious breathing problems now human rights activists of middle east spoke to us about the warning statistics. bahrain's been leading a company of spiral spiraling repression since two thousand and eleven and the number one technique or weapon that they have been using for the requests in is the use of tear gas and i'm not surprised it's thought to run up because they have been firing. an estimated one hundred trucks a night on villages civilians on civilians on protesters men women and children

under the same boat like he said we've recorded over thirty nine deaths from the excessive use of tear gas of these direct body shots on the head and neck. up next a trip into the world of gadgets and gizmos in our technology update that's just ahead here stay with us. 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 they are opening pandora's box it has at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores what you're 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 is fighting the drugs 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 wal-mart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just let. alone

welcome said old your date's is the end of all it's all but not the closing in moscow but luckily for us the someone hasn't finished everywhere so we see we pop culture going straight to the song winter is knocking at moscow's door between normally sit on a long johns just yet so we travel to europe to soak up some rays imbibes a culture and see what's going on in the world of technology fronts was europe's largest exporter of electricity last year but despite this upon the steam power the country is still looking for new energy sources and even has to bring the power that drives the song down so we're. there's a lot of energy in france and i'm not just talking about the street dunces the country ranks second in the world in terms of nuclear power stations but with

growing environmental and safety concerns the sun may be setting on nuclear energy as we know it's so many says from around the world have come to discuss a possible shift away from nuclear fission. there are currently one hundred eighty five nuclear power plants in europe and another seventeen on the way sunsets almost a third of the total with fifty eight plants producing seventy eight percent of the country's energy needs only stations have produced well over one million cubic meters of radioactive waste ninety percent of which is stored in. three facilities this is where nuclear fusion comes in almost the difference. nuclear fission isn't normally found in nature it's the process by which heavy elements split to form lighter elements and has been created by mankind to make poa stations and nuclear bombs. in a typical reaction a neutron hits isotope which caused it to destabilize and splits into small elements and neutron.