destroyed. a breach of trust either leaders expressed frustration with their a long time ally after reports that u.s. intelligence has been eavesdropping on dozens of world leaders also. we have seen we are not we are we are we can be as migrants from africa and the middle east rubble to rebuild their lives on the other side of the mediterranean report from a refugee camp in the heart of europe. and do us for these men who pepper sprayed a group of peaceful protesters is awarded compensation for psychiatric damage and a ruling that's likely to fuel anger over police brutality.

seven pm in moscow you're watching our memory and josh welcome now the e.u. showing mounting frustration with its ally across the atlantic and demanding explanations over the u.s. government's intrusive surveillance practices and the ongoing european summit in brussels all eyes are now on the n.s.a. as fresh revelations of spying on european leaders forced them to reconsider their partnerships with washington france and germany are demanding talks with the u.s. on the issue by the end of this year the latest n.s.a. leaks shows the agency has been eavesdropping on the conversations of thirty five world leaders the e.u. has issued a statement a warning that a lack of trust with washington could damage cooperation in intelligence gathering one top of that germany has decided to team up with brazil which was also targeted by the n.s.a. to push for a u.n. resolution restraining. u.s.

surveillance well let's now cross live to our correspondent who's got more for us so tessa do tell us about the latest and i say leave and you know it's been causing such a stir in brussels so tell us what's the fuss is all about here will this is the document that does say that up to about thirty five world leaders so will be spied on by the national security agency or the n.s.a. and aside from that it also provides a bit more insight into how the n.s.a. actually works in the mindset that they have a meeting that they were actually encouraging senior officials in various government departments like the white house the state department to share those contacts of important or individuals in the world in order to be added to that list that surveillance list and also what's interesting to note in the latest leaked by edward snowden is that the acknowledgment in that document that all of this extensive spying has produced very little quote unquote very little reportable intelligence and that really is where the debate is whether all of this could be

justified in judging from the op war coming from leaders here in europe where they don't seem to be very convinced. well it's now analyzed you know the impact of these revelations on the u.s. and the e.u. relationship what more can you tell us. here was a meters gather in brussels what's interesting to note is that they were actually supposed to be talking about different topics like the growing refugee crisis or the economy but this was all overshadowed by the end of season spying allegations and this lack of trust that the e.u. had mentioned they issued a statement that they said that this distrust of the u.s. could jeopardize or prejudice any good necessary call for ration needed in intelligence gathering we already know they're being called by n.d.p. suspend the terrorist finance tracking program we know this is very important for both for both parties and also france and germany having a cold for talks with the united states in fact asking for new rules new surveillance rules a no spying agreement by the end of the year and asking other members join the

initiative if they want to do was well senior german officials will be on their way to the white house very shortly to discuss this as a german chancellor angela merkel was very upset with a suspicion that her phone was being monitored but in general leaders have also said they vowed to continue this transatlantic partnership although given the we know that the diplomatic channels right now are very very busy because of a lot of fences that have to be mended from the united states side while we're also been hearing the u.n. can get involved in this so what do you know about that. indeed to say it's going up another level as well this is an issue in this survey of by germany and brazil also they want to a propose a draft u.n. resolution through restraint of foreign spying activities basically it doesn't directly touch on the n.s.a.'s activities nor will it necessarily kerr directly the activities of the embassy but it does call for an expansion of international privacy rights it must be noted that this draft had already existed before the

internet but this time germany and brazil wanted to be specifically applied to all communications and there is no question about why they're pushing this initiative it is certainly the displeasure that they've have towards the u.s. over at the n.s.a. spying activities are a test thanks very much indeed for bringing us to some data source only there. now italy has thrown its support behind france and germany in their calls for a probe into u.s. intelligence activities and editor of politics dot co dot u.k. says the backlash from the e.u. is only likely to escalate. into some very very tough rhetoric from the e.u. commission which is not to issue a tough rhetoric with things considered usually it speaks of the sort of diplomacy now it's using a much more robust language we still suggest the action has come. and while that commotion hate sob british prime minister david cameron is staying conspicuously

silent some reports suggest he was pressured into signing an e.u. statement expressing deep concern over u.s. surveillance but chancellor merkel has said cameron continues to support the n.s.a.'s activities and don says a prime minister's stance is not surprising. the u.k. is essentially indistinguishable from the u.s. and certainly juicy h.q. works in partnership with the n.s.a. but it's more 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. despite the eaves pressing its growing discontent with washington skeptics say these concerns are unlikely to go beyond formal statements u.n. diplomats a lot of on those to earlier explain why. john and a few weeks after the media hold down the big issue. of business as usual that is

my expectation they will not that big and you measure it will remain states for mental public opinion. and we are closely following the spying fallout over on our website r.t. dot com where the detailed updates and analysis immigration is another issue it's had at the e.u. summit in brussels hundreds of africans drowned in the mediterranean sea earlier this month trying to reach european shores in overcrowded boats governments in southern europe are demanding more help from the rest of the e.u. to cope with the inflow of migrants are all over met some of the people who fled their homelands. we have feed we are not anymore 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 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 in soy 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 of done less it's the responsibility of the member state where refugees arrive to look after them by sending these refugees away left them in a difficult legal predicament my document is getting next right 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 why did you 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 paint 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 grammont so for now there is no long term solution they have no right to work no right to social housing and the 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 the guess is that it's i live alone. you. are distributing we. have begun to work today as germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in the 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. . and coming up a role reversal in south africa some are fearing a return of apartheid but this time it's the white population that could be on the receiving end of racist policies we take a closer look shortly. for task have been taking to the streets across the u.s. this week over what they call an epidemic of police brutality anger over excessive use of force and alleged racial profiling has sparked unrest in dozens of cities meanwhile a policeman has been awarded generous compensation for psychiatric damage after he passed sprayed a group of peaceful protesters are reports. 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 dollar 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 doled out for police

brutality that's 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 we got money and like 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 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 punished 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 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. harsh police tactics are in the spotlight in today's breaking the sabbath you can watch the full show in just over two hours time here in. 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 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 the. political prisoner or a convict to see coming up we take a closer look at the shifting attitudes towards russia's most high profile prisoner and that that's and a couple of minutes here on our team. well into the future. thirty four countries spend over billion euros

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welcome back this is r.t. now after living through the dark days of apartheid some south africans are now worried that history could be about to repeat itself but this time it's the white population who have the most to fear they believe a new racial divide distorting to emerge as artie's falsely or in our reports. 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 ninety ninety 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 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 the stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killings 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 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 afrikaner as 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 a say two 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 for fathers 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 a spokesperson for the south african economic freedom fighters party says the country simply try overcome the deep inequalities left by the colonial era. 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 move team. photos the beauty with the things that force wars in other countries so i don't think that there are any tensions except in the economics that the a commission the congress government with just me and we appreciate it every show life forms only sheep and. the qualities unemployment

and so the idea is to break the type of colonial modes of economic planning and redistribution that privilege white people on. our web of stories for you including japan's adverts to save face in the wake of the fukushima disaster the government's about to introduce a law imposing jail time and those who blow the whistle on matters of national importance are all the details had to r.t. dot com. plus video surveillance backfires on police in the us as an officer is caught on camera shooting a mentally handicapped man who showed no signs of aggression we got that shocking video and the full details on the story over on our website party dot com. right now see. first street. and i think that you're.

on our reporter's. instrument. that has been exactly a decade since the name how khodorkovsky first grabbed the global media's attention russia's then richest man was arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion and has remained behind bars ever since with almost a year to go before his release the former oil magnate still divides public opinion as are now explains. he was the richest man in russia and one of the wealthiest in the world while his or company us at one point was the waters in the suddenly in two thousand and three me felt 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 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 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 him here is that this reform bill 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 or. 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 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 it 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 that 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 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 attitude of the media towards mikhail for the post he seems to have changed with the realisation that the west benefited or could it benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to go. on to some other stories now from around the world in syria a car bomb ass killed at least thirty people including children and injured over one hundred others the blast went off near a mosque in damascus suburb the attack comes a day after a gas pipeline supplying a major power station caught fire and incident at the government blamed on rebel

fighters. an explosion at a candy factory in northern mexico has killed at least one person and left dozens more injured with several still unaccounted for a boiler is believed to have caught fire in the facility near the texas border causing the ceiling to collapse three hundred people were inside the building at the time rescue teams are still searching for survivors. clashes broke out overnight in the spanish capital madrid between police and students as a day of nationwide demonstrations to sand it into violence education spending cuts and rising tuition fees have sparked a wave of strikes at schools and universities across the country the reforms are just the latest in a raft of government to stare the measures and come at a time of record unemployment was nearly fifty seven percent of young people out of work. in bahrain

a document has been leaked by human rights group detailing the government's plans to ship huge amounts of tear gas into the country according to the data the ministry of defense has ordered one point six million canisters that's more than the country's entire population security forces have used the gas extensively in its attempts to suppress opposition rallies with reports of people's homes or even places of worship being targeted since the start of the uprising two years ago tear gas was cars around forty deaths according to rights activists and it's also been blamed for a miscarriage is blindness and breathing problems human rights campaigner ahmed ali talk to us about the numbers. 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 over one hundred shots

a night on villages civilians on civilians on protesters men women children under 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. next trip into the world of gadgets and gizmos in our technology update that's just ahead here in our city. 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 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 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. alone

wilkinson knows your dates it's the end of it so but not supposing it must go but luckily for us the someone hasn't been used everywhere so. go in search of the song winter is knocking at moscow's door which we normally sit on our own johns just yet so we travel to europe to soak up some rays imbibe the culture and see what's going on in the world of technology fronts with europe's largest exporter of electricity last year but despite this abundance in power the country is still looking for new energy sources and even has to bring the power that drives the song down to the word. there's a lot of energy in france and i'm not just talking about the street dunces.