a breach of trust leaders expressed frustration with long time ally to reports that u.s. intelligence has been eavesdropping on dozens of world leaders also. not . as migrants from africa and the middle east struggle to rebuild their lives on the other side of the mediterranean we report from a refugee camp in the hearts of europe. and the u.s. policeman who pepper sprayed a group of peaceful protesters is awarded compensation for psychiatric damage a ruling that's likely to fuel anger over police brutality our top stories this.

live for most studio center here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm this is twenty four hours a day now we're going to start with some breaking news here on r.t. an earthquake has been reported off the coast of japan near the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant with a magnitude of around seven point three the tsunami advisory has been issued with the waves not expected to be higher than one meter tepco the company the operates the plant has ordered its workers to keep away from the sea wall and we'll bring you more details as soon as we get them here. the e.u. summit has just drawn to a close in brussels the talks were dominated by the latest u.s. surveillance revelations which of force european leaders to reconsider their partnerships with washington now france and germany are demanding talks with the u.s. on this issue by the end of the year the latest n.s.a. leak shows the agency's been eavesdropping on the conversations of thirty five world leaders the e.u. has issued a statement warning that

a lack of trust with washington could damage cooperation in intelligence gathering and on top of that germany has decided to team up with brazil which is also targeted by the n.s.a. to push for a u.n. resolution restraining u.s. surveillance on his to syria has more on the discontent in brussels. up to about thirty five world leaders were being spied on by the national security agency or the n.s.a. 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 leak by edward snowden is that the acknowledgment in that document that all of this extensive spying has produced very little quote unquote to 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 but they don't seem to be very convinced 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 any pieces to spend 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 eve members to 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 the a suspicion that her phone was being monitored that's going up another level as well this is an issue in this day of by germany and brazil of so they want to a propose a draft u.n. resolution to restrain foreign spying activities basically it doesn't directly touch on the n.s.a.'s activities nor will it necessarily directly the activities of the embassy but it does call for an expansion of international privacy rights it

must be noted that this drop 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 the n.s.a. spying activities. well spain has some of the u.s. ambassador over the latest reports of n.s.a. eavesdropping on its officials including the prime minister but laws kay he's from the u.k. pirate party he says either leaders never showed the same concern over snooping on their own citizens revelations of the monitoring of world leaders phones and showed the breathtaking double standards of our ruling elite suddenly when it's a case of calls. telephone being tapped then we have the likes of kiefer speaking out and saying it's a real scandal when actually when it's a case of ordinary citizens that's what the real scandal is the real scandal is the

true extent of mass surveillance in the e.u. and of course beyond. and while that commotion heats up british prime minister david cameron has avoided direct criticism of u.s. spying antics he's actually pointed the finger at snowden and those publishing the n.s.a. leaks accusing them of undermining security some reports suggest he was actually pressured into signing the e.u. statement expressing concern over u.s. surveillance or laws kay believes that the prime minister has failed to defend his country's interests in this matter what's been clear is that david cameron is not willing to speak up in defense of britain and the british people when it comes to mass surveillance and indeed we've seen the extent of g.c. h.q.'s collusion with the n.s.a. for example in the tempore a program we've seen massive harvesting of the data through the fiber optic cables so i'm afraid we need to start to take responsibility in the united kingdom

despite the e.u. expressing its growing discontent with washington skeptics say these concerns are unlikely to go beyond formal statements u.n. diplomat earlier explained why. on the longer term and a few weeks after the meet year gone down the big issue it will just go on and business as usual that is my expect this not that big and the real measure of it will remain states with mental problems. and we're closely following the spying fallout over on our website at the moment audie dot com with details updates and plenty of analysis. on immigration is another issue rearing its head 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. met some of the people who have fled their

homelands. we have feel we are not on the money 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 sawyer just to leave it like yeah to live it to live because it is a 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 left them in

a difficult legal predicament my document is get an expired 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 put it that 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 here now in berlin and it's up to germany to find a solution to their problems with trying to get them residents governments 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

a problem of our do appear you do because this italian it lol. i distribute we. have to go to work today as germany decides what to do they get ready for a second winter in a bill in 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. . if you live from moscow with twenty four hours a day coming up this is a role reversal in south africa some of fearing a return of apartheid but this time it's the white population that could be on the receiving end of racist policies take a closer look shortly. but first protesters have been taking to the streets across the u.s. this week of what they call an epidemic of police brutality the middle of the unrest a policeman has been awarded generous compensation for psychiatric damage after he pepper sprayed a group of peaceful demonstrators wanted me to put not 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 officers spraying pepper spray into the faces of students who were seated on the ground well that man has been awarded nearly forty thousand dollars in workman's compensation john pike sued the university of california davis claiming he suffered from depression and anxiety was brought on by death threats against him and his family following the two thousand and eleven incident last week a judge approved the thirty eight thousand and fifty nine dollars worker's compensation award settlement between pike and u.c. davis now initially pike was placed on paid administrative leave after pepper spraying u.c. davis students during

a protest in support of occupy wall street he was fired eight months later however an internal university investigation concluded that he acted appropriately a u.c. davis student we spoke with expressed shock over the lucrative 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. stop on the road maybe for a moment awarded later if people are like we 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. a month here in new york city police officers attacked students who were protesting visiting professor position given to director david petraeus at cuny the city's official university her testers were hunched 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 you know lies 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. joined live by. a student at u.c.

davis and he was involved in that protest which marina reporting on which resulted in the pepper spray incident now tell us what do you make of the fact that the police officer has been awarded compensation for psychiatric damage. when i was first like when i heard the news i was instantly reminded of. why i was in shakespeare's henry the six the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers because i'm sure everyone's out. who in their right mind would award john pike money. i mean it's ludicrous moreover you try to tell us what will happen in the protests you were involved in and some of your friends were those who were pepper sprayed to tell us about we've seen video footage of all of it but tell us what they told you. i mean i was there during the paris spring i was already. in a jail cell being held on on the u.c. campus. i mean it's terrible it was terribly painful and it

shocked a lot of people into not wanting to protest in the future why were you put in jail and what did you do. the arms linked you were. fellow colleagues professors and students and refused to disperse during a dispersal and you were breaking the law. and i don't believe i was breaking the law in fact we won a civil lawsuit proving that we didn't right so you had the case later prove that you were indeed innocent why do you think the police are behaving in this way is it because they've been told to from the top all indeed do they feel threatened and provoked. i don't think that they felt threatened and provoked i think that it's a symptom of. proliferation of liberalism in private industry and now do is there just for police action is just that it's

a private industry what to tell explain that bit more how come private industry makes police act in fairly what some people say brutal ways. i mean they're being given orders to protect private land was the idea behind why we shouldn't be standing in the first place it's the idea behind what happened in occupy oakland that's the only real impetus that sounds police are out. to do these actions it seems i don't think. they're really affected by. you know protests where people come about and be shouldn't be grue lauzon people i think really we need to start from the situation and private industry what about the actual police actions and selves we've seen a lot of protests in the us against police behavior do you think there will be any change at all. i don't think so not a as a result of protests against police brutality like i said unless we rid ourselves

of this fetish. industry and. you know i don't think that the impetus for police actions of that sort is going to start but nevertheless the police have got a job to do haven't they that you would obviously acknowledge that certainly i believe that the original job was to protect and serve which i don't think happens much anymore and willis put you off protesting in the future. certainly not and are you prepared although last time you obviously cleared of not breaking the law but if you were deemed to be breaking the law or you perhaps felt that you had the chance to do so would you would you actually contravene the law and be prepared to be arrested again certainly the law is meant to be challenged. or are you not because that's what we have time for thank you very much indeed for joining us u.c. davis student an occupy activist live in r.t. thanks for joining us. a prison a political prisoner or perhaps a convicted coming up we take

a closer look at the shifting attitudes russia's most high profile prisoner that is coming away in a couple of minutes. i just want to keep building. in this country. where we have a. sixteen year old children who are being schooled in these woods which is encouraging complete non-integration. wealthy british. market. to the global economy

with. headlines kaiser reports. he's continue living through the dog 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 is starting to emerge a. report. 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 where the stage or level six. level seven is when the actual killing stalls 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 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 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 a say 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 satan and his vow to fight for their country and while the south african government is aware of the efforts it hasn't commented policy or r.t. half a net eastern cape south africa the spokesman for the south african economic freedom fighters party says the country simply trying to overcome the deep inequalities left boy the colonial era. at the moment because all of the most politically stable countries in the world take into consideration able to maintain. stability with things that cause wars in other countries so i don't think that

there are any tensions except in the economic sense the african national government is just merely. forms of ownership. inequalities unemployment. the idea is to break that type of. of economic distributing that privilege white people on the. team has lined up plenty of stories for you including japan's efforts to save face in the wake of the disaster the government's about to introduce a more imposing jail time and those who blow the whistle on matters of national importance details and that had to r.t. dot com and we've got news concerning shortly here on r.t. plus foreign allies impact towards reaches the north pole for the first time ever as part of the sortie twenty four team relay got all the best images from that globe spanning journey.

in exactly a decade since the name. 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 there was a year to go before his release the former oil magnate still divides public opinion . explains. he was the richest man in russia and one of the wealthiest in the world while his or company you close 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 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 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 and for more on the western image of russia's former altar 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 albums 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 a little but in the ninety's when it suited him. he ignored 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 the scheme 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 close is oil fields to american fuel giants either exxon or chevron and potentially all of the wealth of russia's oil and raw 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 that post he seems to have changed with the realisation that the west benefited or could have benefited from his actions in washington i'm going to stick up. now back to our breaking news story this hour here in r.t. live pictures from japan now a country now that has expanded its tsunami advisory to five prefectures after an earthquake struck off the codes near the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant with a magnitude of around seven point three authorities say the waves are not expected to be harder than one meter to go the company that operates the plant has ordered its workers to keep away from the sea will more details to follow as soon as we get them here on and. i'll be back with more news in just over half an hour from now in

the meantime so if you look at how immigration is polarizing european politics that's coming your way in a couple of minutes after the break. 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 one 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 wal-mart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just been. broken

closer to being selfish ever not saying migration has always been seen as a way to find out about your. money and clean up from the troubles of your homeland conflicts and economic change and wrongs of languorous talking about stirred up strong. during. many neighbors live in peace and what should be done for that. an arab spring tide. an unprecedented population wave exposing fortress europe's policy failures immigration is changing and challenging europe polarizing its politics and unsettling its societies how can a stream isn't be sidelined and the fear factor eliminated from the european frontal.