speech a little of the freedom to watch. the leader side 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 heads of state. we have not we don't seem 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. why don't you put fear into people and pretty much work american protesters rage against police brutality as atory as pepper spraying cop walks away with cash compensation almost equal to what his victims received.

for be a mosque you're watching r.t.l. moreno joshie welcome to the program leaders have admitted in a statement that a lack of trust with america could affect the fight against terrorism and a brief statement and hands of states diminishing trust could complicate future collaboration between countries this follows the latest leaks by whistleblower edward snowden that revealed the national security agency had been spying of thirty five world leaders are just are silly and are reports. in the latest document that edward snowden that 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 the 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 talk to the editor of politics dots. on r.t. think it's much mr dunne for joining us here so as we can see we have received a statement on n.s.a. spying how would you assess its strength i mean in other words are we likely to see any action following it up. more absolutely i mean it comes at a time when e.u.

is meeting for instance the summit we're seeing a very strong push by france now to try and get some kind of control over me something that looks like european sovereign over data and that would come in the form of putting sort of taxes on data transfer and trying to take a much more stringent approach to the companies to predominantly american companies for policy information on so you know we often see rather quite concrete action responding to some very very tough rhetoric from the e.u. commission which is not prone to issuing tough rhetoric when things considered usually it speaks in the sort of diplomacy talk now it's using a much more robust language which does suggest that action is coming. well is he said this is tough rhetoric but what's interesting to see i mean the developments that will follow or not whether there will be any switch from words to action well speaking of action we at this point can see that germany and france are determined to establish so-called no spy agreement with the united states before the end of the year but then what about the u.k. why is the u.k.

so quiet at this point regarding this one. yeah that's interesting i don't think it's helpful when we address these sorts of issues to think of the u.k. as a separate entity from the u.s. in many other issues it obviously is for instance on certain types of munitions and of course in domestic policy but when you're looking at what we're looking at now the u.k. is essentially indistinguishable from the u.s. and certainly do see h.q. works in partnership with the n.s.a. perhaps more of the sort of subservience incorporated partner. but nevertheless there's really no point trying to distinguish them while the reason that london is being very quiet is because london has its own secrets which will probably come out in the laundry over the next few weeks well the fact that you just mentioned that g c h q works closely with the n.s.a. in fact this is what one of the leaks by snowden stated how will that that affect any measure that you were preparing. yeah i mean nothing is going to change the

relationship between london and washington certainly nothing of this magnitude it's quite possible i mean it seems to be the case that to some extent the n.s.a. has overheard some conversations that david cameron has been having on his phone even that won't make any difference at all with the relationship the intelligence security relationship between the two countries is so deeply enmeshed and it's in the u.k. he's perceived security interest to stay in this status with america so that the relationship will remain fundamentally unchanged or that will happen is that london will do its very best to prevent the measures taking place of the european level and that's something that it's already doing by claiming economic and tax over into over issues of whether you tax day to transfer so already you know you're seeing the way that london will continue to approach this do nothing will change well my last question as someone on a general know here when all countries are said to engage in some sort of spying to protect national security as they say if the cause is safety of citizens why is

there such a backlash. i mean i don't think anyone is particularly convinced when a government says that it needs powers for the safety of its citizens governments very rarely do anything without saying that it's for the safety of the benefit of the citizens but people are not so naive for dishes to presume the such a thing might be true in fact the reason that governments do this is because they want greater control in the case of the n.s.a. typing quits because they want more information about the eurozone crisis about her attitudes on syria when they topped the french public extraordinary amount seventy million phone calls in space of just one month the n.s.a. was managing to record it's because they've decided that the best option is for them to get all the information so that they then have the option of sifting through what they want as a matter of fact this doesn't work you actually as you sort of alluded to earlier both too much information to properly analyze and you're much better off taking a proactive response to those arguments that do interest you rather than going for the full blanket but that's not to stop the government the public aware aware of

these sorts of facts and that's why they're completely unconvinced by the argument that is being done on that right and thanks so much for your thoughts it was and on the editor of politics our guest here on our team. and we're closely following all the developments related to the n.s.a. scandal of course here on r.t. and you can also log on to our website or to conver the latest updates videos and expert analysis. america's spying practices are not the only issue on the minds of european leaders gathered in brussels for the e.u. summit the mass of flow refugees are set to be discussed weeks after hundreds of people have drowned while trying to cross the mediterranean artist peter oliver when to discover how those who are hardly welcome build their new lives away from home. we have feed we are not and the money we have feeding 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 and eat 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 soyou just leave it leave yeah to leave you to leave because it leaves disaster on 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. it's left them in a difficult legal predicament my daughter might just get to next friday and the five hundred euros finish can go but i can't i can't even go back to italy to renew even my documents. 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 tell me that they'd been working in libya when colonel gadhafi was toppled and 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 with trying to get them residents permanents 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. all due to appear you do discuss this that's. not true you are good people are disturbed people we because lead the way because of going 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 spilled into the sheets of dozens of american cities demonstrators van appearing at alleged racial profiling an excessive use of force by those who claim to uphold the law but as are reports some police officers are even cashing in on contra 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 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 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 we got money in a way that was a good thing when really he would still 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 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 on braking to set 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 in workers' 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 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 this. and coming up on r t turning upside down. right we're the stage or little six. years we have the actual can explode in south africa fear is every verse apartheid are on the rise among the white population will look into that shortly also i have. to take a look at how the man inconsistences in the portrayal of one of russia's most high profile prisoners.

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welcome back this is our team the countries that all work a game 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 artist polis leader investigates. 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 economists saw it as another nail in the coffin sealing their fate there are some three million afrikaners 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 stalls gustav mahler and his team are afraid they will seven could start any moment of 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 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 brakes 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 satan and his vow 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 saying there was a a spokesperson for the south african if after 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 the photos the beauty with the things that cause wars in other countries so i don't think that that are in need to except in the economic sense of the commission the congress government is just me and we appreciate it every show lies

forms of ownership and the. inequalities unemployment and so the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and redistribution that privilege white people. and archie dot com a close encounter recently scientists rang the alarm bell over an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting earth and twenty seven and two and now russian astronomers find another celestial body is potentially capable of bringing apocalypse to our planet later the century all the details are on our website r.t. dot com. wasn't are we just town deprived of sunlight jury in the winter has placed giant mirrors on top of surrounding mountains that will being white into the valley to cheer up the locals so have a line to get all the details of the glitzy project.

they olympic flame has shown its light on the north pole was part of a special stage of the sochi twenty fourteen relay something that never has been done before and it's also been a record breaking journey in terms of speed and the season it to the nuclear ice breaker exactly ninety one hours and twelve minutes to reach the world's northernmost point in the complete darkness during the polar night the team of torchbearers included members from all the arctic nations and you can follow their relay to you by logging on to our home. now ten years ago today so one of the most publicized arrests in russia that of oil tycoon mail how to kosky has been portrayed by the media as both a martyr and a villain artie's a corpus going up 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 you guys at one point was the waters in the suddenly in two thousand and three macarthur because 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 that 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 than the western image of russia's former altar i call him here is that this reform 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 album is 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 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. 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 you could sue spoil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or chevron sensually 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 exit of the media towards mikhail for the books he seems to have changed with the realisation that the west benefited were khuda benefited from his actions in washington and got instagram. and this article to some other stories from around the world iraqi health officials say nine people have been killed in the country on friday people died in bomb attacks in homes of police officers near baghdad while

another explosion ripped through a market south of the capital killing five iraq is experiencing some of its worst violence in years a recent report found more than six thousand people have died there since the beginning of the year with almost a thousand deaths last month alone. police and students clashed in the spanish capital madrid on 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 poured 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. the thirty six year old man who barricaded himself inside a fast food cafe with twelve other people the suspect who is of kurdish origin called the 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 the standoff lasted for several hours with security forces negotiating with the man until he gave himself up. up next a trip into the world of gadgets and gizmos in our technology update don't go away that's just ahead here in our team. 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 out and ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because as 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 wal-mart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just my opinion. hello

welcome sight all due dates is the end of october not sickles again here basco but luckily for us the sun hasn't finished everywhere so is the we pop culture course that the song winter is knocking at moscow's door but we're not ready to die alone 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 france was europe's largest exporter of electricity last year but despite its opponents in power the country is still looking for new energy sources and even has to bring the power that drives the sun 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 is really no it's so ministers from around the world have come to discourse of possible shift away from nuclear fission. there are currently one hundred eighty five nuclear power plants in europe and another seventeen on the way france is almost a third of the total with fifty eight plants producing seventy eight percent of the country's energy needs all the 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 our stations and nuclear bombs. do typical reaction a neutron hits isotope which.