some. of our designs. leader signed lack of trust in relations with the u.s. after the national security agency was exposed listening in on the phone conversations of thirty five has of state. we have not we don't want to be. apart from the n.s.a. spying scandal leaders are also faced with a flow of refugees from war torn states which has been putting pressure on a number of european countries plus. what if you put fear into people and it pretty much where. american protesters rage against police brutality as a tory is fair for a sprain cop walks away with cash compensation almost equal to what his victims received.

this is already coming to you live from the russian capital marina joshie welcome to the program. e.u. leaders have admitted in a statement that lack of trust with america could affect the fired against terrorism and a brief statement heads of state said that diminishing trust could complicate future collaboration between countries now this follows the latest leaks by whistleblower edward snowden that revealed the national security agency had been spying on thirty five world leaders are just as are cilia reports. in 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 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 a u.s. bank deal talks now for more on this let's now bring in former u.n. diplomat who is live for us from belgium mr innes thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. well it looks like europeans are making shrank statements there but when do you think they'll start switching from words to action. well of course the situation is

great historic units proportions discounters there's nothing comparable in recent history so what i'm saying is so far my guess is if if history can listen. don't you they will not they will not that big and the real measure stated will remain states who have mental problems or been well you know let's take a look at their really history of their relationship regarding data protection and data protection specifically well measures were supposed to be launched. two years ago but were sort of prevent it from. happening but washington lobbyist so won't brussels succeed this time or you think if you said brussels you should distinguish between the european commission you'd be in and the european parliament the components are certainly going to demand some strong measures they're going to go back on stare on the propositions or they're made in the past and they're going to

said this nonsense has changed i mean there is also talk about ending the swift banking agreement with to the us the cooperation on banking issues so on that level yes that it will do something the whole matter is the european union the parliament so it is not the one that really the size that you've been commission and then we already have a statement like out of who the e.u. commissioner on the trade who says no we should go on with your houston's new free trade agreement so what does that tell me the job was just like i said on the longer term and a few weeks out of the media on down the big issue it will just go on and business as usual that is my expectation well let's take a look at ads in our germany and france here who say they are determined to establish the so-called no spy agreement with the united states before the end of the year so what do you make of this i mean do you see it as a sign of progress no absolutely not did this what is. you you

get an ally spying on you and say what we need in those by agreement not what you do is you take measures just like the brazil had before saddam and the u.n. general assembly if they really mean business france and germany then they will say oh what dilma rousseff the boot was on the twenty first at the it's a good idea these five principles of having another kind of internet not that is something that so far they have not done yet on the contrary the statement of missile and president and been downplayed and only in the rest of the ok well how can any kind of scaling back and cooperation work count that many european intelligence agencies collaborate closely with and i say well the thing is of course that when used because that's sort of spree supposed to speak with partnership i mean it's corroborated big this is huge upon on the other side so he's basically having their assists on the side and yes that they use

them for me there's not a element there that does not discover this now about what the u.s. is doing. so far as far as i can tell the european number stays their own intelligence isn't just in my country in belgium in france in germany are also doing this kind of spying so we have not seen the end of discount and yet well look at the situation that we have here at hand as we can see the n.s.a. leaks have upset a number of european states and u.s. allies so where does that in your opinion leave the united states. well the thing is the economic and political dominance of the u.s. is waning anyway even before this town and what this is doing is even i mean accelerating is true i mean the u.s. may be military rule number one in the world for many years to come but they're losing ground on the economic issues everywhere and when and why i mean did their

problem is not that their spine their problem is the score a lot of this year they have been god it's flying not that's another that's another matter altogether their defeat is why do they do that not to chase terrorists they do there for economic reasons they want to know what you are going to do the world the brics countries throughout asia do or into they are afraid that they're losing ground if you see the pacific trade agreement is not working out so yes they have a big problem all right a lot of interest former u.n. diplomat thank you so much for sharing your his with us here on r.t. you can now we are closely watching all the developments related to the n.s.a. scandal so log on to our website which is our team dot com for the latest updates videos and expert analysis. on america's spying practices are not the only issue on the minds of european leaders gather at an brussels for the summit

the massive flow of refugees is set to be discussed weeks after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean i despair all over when to discover how those who are hardly welcome build their new lives away from home. we have feed 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 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 to livy to leave because it is disaster on the

european law it's really shouldn't have done last 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 go but i can't i can't even go back to italy to renew even my document. fall far 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 with trying to get them residents agreements 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 this italian. you are good to go are distributing we. have begun to work today as germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in a berlin 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 piled into the spilled into the streets of dozens of american cities demonstrators event a few worry at alleged racial profiling and excessive use of force by those who claim to uphold the law but as it is marina burnett reports some police officers

are even cashing in on controversies they sparked. 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 being says 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 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 a slap on the wrist maybe for a moment awarded later if people are like he got money 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 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 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 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 issue of soaring police brutality is also breaking the set where the team takes a closer look at one particular case. 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 seen that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage i can totally relate see 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 and let's go break the. well coming out here and the program turning upside down. right where the stage a little six. is we have the actual experience in south africa fear is

a very reversed apartheid are on the rise among the white population and we'll look into that shortly. also ahead of the program we take a look at demand and consistencies in the portrayal of a one of russia's most high profile prisoners. or a. very hard. to get. that

back would that hurt right there. please. please please. please please. please. please. the. welcome back this is our t. now the country that overcame the ugly era of apartheid is feared by some to be

sliding back into its dark past but now it's south africa's white population that said to be becoming a victim of racism are just fall asleep or 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 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 some africa's 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 where is a stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killings dogs 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 and 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 safe 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 us a plunders 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 for fathers the safe and 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 and. a spokesperson for the south african f f party says the problem lies in tire only different their 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 the. politicos that b.v.t. with the things that cause wars in other countries so i don't think that that are in need tensions except in the economic sense of the commission the us government is just a push to eat it every show lies forms of ownership and. inequalities unemployment and so the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and redistribution that privilege white people. and energy dot com our website a close encounter of recently scientists rang the alarm bell over an asteroid that

has a slim chance of hitting earth and twenty thirty two and now russian astronomers find another celestial body potentially capable of bringing apocalypse to our planet later the century and all the details on our website of course r.t. dot com plus. enter we didn't town deprive of sunlight during the winter has placed giant mirrors on top of surrounding mountains that will be white into the valley to cheer up the locals had a line to get all the details of the project. ten years ago today so one of the most publicized arrests in russia that of oil tycoon male. has been portrayed by the media as both a martyr and a villain. 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 mcculloch 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 what it was 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 and for more on the western image of russia's former altar i call him here is that this route for 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 an 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 snorted 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. of state henry kissinger of 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 oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or chevron and potentially all of the wealth 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 benefitted were could have benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to go. now the olympic flame has shown its line on the north pole as part of a special stage of that sort she twenty fourteen relay something that never been done before and it's also been a record breaking journey in terms of speed and the season it took

a nuclear iran breaker exactly ninety one hours and twelve minutes to reach the world's northernmost point in complete darkness during the polar nights the team of torchbearers included members from all the arctic nations and even the follow the relay to you by logging on to r.t. dot com. now more news 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 manny people still missing it's thought that a boiler exploded on the second floor of the building causing the floor to collapse three hundred people were inside during the incident and rescue teams are searching for survivors. police and students clashed in the spanish capital madrid and thursday night after a day of mass demonstrations across the country several people were said to be arrested and injured and that's after thousands poor it into the streets protesting against austerity cuts higher university fees and education reforms over half of

young people in spain are jobless as a cash strapped government has cut 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 who is of kurdish origin cold police saying he wouldn't be able to attend a court hearing on a drugs of fans he then shot himself in a cafe with his relatives and friends standoff lasted for several hours with security forces negotiating with the man until he gave himself up. just a few moments here on r.t.e. breaking the sound of the abbey martin 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 their opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances. as 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 is 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. woods good folks welcome to breaking the set i'm and will rob lowe filling in for abby martin hey remember the viral video that came out of the height of the occupy movement you know the one showing a cop at u.c. davis pepper spraying a line of students. to

have a restraining. pretty brutal right well good news justice is finally been served that's right john pike the policeman in the video who was merely watering is hippies has been awarded a much deserved thirty eight thousand dollars in workers' compensation from u.c. davis you see back in june filed a claim with the university seen that he suffered from quote unspecified psychiatric and nervous system damage i can totally relate see 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 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 it shed a tear for john pike today and let's go break the.