another day and yet more damaging revelations the case communications head called his documents reveal the lengths he went to keep them out of valence programs. also in the u.k. the prime minister failed to convince his european partners to come back home business red tape after reports that the regulations are costing british taxpayers tens of billions of pounds a year plus. the weakness of most of the real history but this is the first time to be a big claim is that the north pole i don't see crew follows the sort she twenty fourteen torch rally into the polling night we'll be bringing you spectacular images of.

my from here this is our two international thanks for your company kevin now in our top story tonight british intelligence has been trying desperately to keep its surveillance practices secret wary of public anger and legal challenges it's a merge into an internal documents leaked by edward snowden obtained by the guardian newspaper but first reports next the spy agency's worst fears seem to already be coming true. these latest documents reveal the long fight that g c h t had against making insists that evidence admissible in criminal trials now one of these memos detailing that g c h t's main concerns with reference to agency practices in the extension scape of the would lead to a damaging public debate now ironically of course that public debate already taking

place in the case at the moment on the back of those edward snowden revelations and for the first time in a few weeks we're going to see the heads of m i five and i six and he giving evidence in public now that will be broadcast by our sas like link although there will be a short delay now perhaps we'll see as this public debate unfolds wheeling out some of their media friendly people the documents also revealing that they had a list of people they could rely on for press handling but the guardian newspaper really pulling no punches in their piece today saying that the revelations once again calling into question the lack of effective legal protections when it comes to insert ssion evolve communications in calling this a breach of trust by the u.k. government on the grandest scale. of course this follows a stormy brussels over the us government spying programs from some germany voiced

their own grove reports of the n.s.a. has been tracking the phone calls of thirty five world leaders a joint statement friday want of a lack of trust on the issue and it could have transatlantic cooperation germany also to meet with brazil to push for a un resolution to safeguard internet privacy former cia analyst rima governed thinks the n.s.a. slid out of control. i don't know what they would learn from under the medical cellphone that they wouldn't what they wouldn't learn from other more traditional or other technical sources so for them to admit that front but nothing of much value boys again that's an indictment of how they allow this kind of thing to run amok without any adult consideration of the consequences and american internet service providers are also feeling the pressure crypto seal which allows users to browse the internet anonymously is closed down following the same path as love a bit the email encryption service used by a snowden of

a big closed in august refusing to cooperate with the n.s.a. could still co-founder ryan lucky told us what was behind his decision they would require a search warrant to extract keys and if you're under the new. lot of a case they can use a pen or a disorder as is their id order which is a much lower standard to compel providers to turn over keys so we can't really operate in that environment so we preemptively shut the service down it was too risky operation being threatened with jail or prison for running a computer service for people is a very very scary proposition and i personally have no interest in going to the meantime crowds in washington d.c. gathering to protest against mass surveillance organizers say it'll be the largest pro privacy rally in u.s. history activists from the stop watching his campaign will be delivering a petition to congress calling for surveillance supposed to be reformed we talked to one of the people behind the initiative. if there is anything hurting anyone it is the n.s.a.'s activities and to hide behind the secrecy that's enabled those

abuses to continue themselves is is cowardly quite frankly in a democracy and if these programs are as an important to national security as they claim and are in fact compliant with the constitution which they are not they should survive the light of day and it's long overdue for congress to have a transparent debate about whether or not we want to live in a country with prevailed pervasive surveillance or instead we actually mean it when we sing anthems at baseball games about living in the land of the free all right let's. say crowds are gathering in washington d.c. to protest against mass surveillance we're going to say it's going to the largest pro privacy rally in u.s. history campaigners from the start watching his group delivering that petition as we just mentioned let's talk to richard becker rees on the line now organizers say this is going to be a historic progress richard and he will come painters you are what makes it so historic. well i think that we see that people all over the united states are taking action against this incredibly

invasive surveillance that the government is carrying out against everyone both here and around the world and this is clearly a violation of the u.s. constitution it's clearly a violation of privacy and the rights of the people so it's very important that people speak out take action and rally and demonstrate against this this practices of the government which are really reprehensible and really drawn a petition now calling for legal reforms but is there any chance that congress has actually got to listen to the end of the days and the thing really going to change despite the voices of protest. well i think so i think that the what can really bring about change is the action of the people the movement of the people none of the progressive changes that have taken place over the history of the two hundred plus years history of the united states have ever originated inside

of congress or in the white house or in government at every level they've always come from the grassroots they've always come from the people's movements and if there's going to be real change and there will be it's going to come again from the grassroots from the organization of the people because a lot of this was spot most but in fact bad snowden's revelations in the first place but he's a criminal in the u.s. are the people in power really going to want to negotiate with him well you know snowden is a hero from out of the plans that you talk to though doesn't it what he has done oh of course it depends who you talk to the people who want to keep all the secret who want to be spying on everyone not only in the united states but all around the world their quote unquote allies as well as and i mean they don't want this to be known we wanted to be known and we're grateful. to the brave action that snowden's taken and also to to see manning previous to this with the wiki leaks

exposing these things need to be known and people have a right to know if the people don't know what the government is doing democracy and the notion of democracy is a joke but of course huge big debacle over the ledge to from top again to angle of merkel's phone we're hearing now the latest reports the last hour or so a bomber say he knew nothing about it but hang on he's the guy at the top how could he not have known about it if it had. yeah it's common these these kind of assertions are comical and you know it shows i think the that the united states the relationship with other countries is based on this notion of quote unquote american exceptionalism and there is in fact an american exceptionalism that no other country in the world spies and everybody else and all of and all other countries that feels free to intervene in all of their countries and the fact that this is come to light shows the real nature of the relationships that even among the allies

they are in contention in competition with each other and not to mention the kind of relationship that. it's carried out against those countries that the united states considers to be its enemies what about that review committee commission that a bomber all did last summer to look into how the n.s.a. operates what came of that with any conclusions well i don't think that we have much confidence in that i think that that was a reaction on the part of president obama and his administration to the anger that these revelations have generated among u.s. public you know at the very beginning they tried to get over with the n.s.a. revelations by saying oh everyone just about everybody says if you didn't do anything wrong you don't have anything to worry about they're glad the n.s.a. spying is going out well you know that line collapsed very quickly so they've moved on and now they're trying to appease people by saying well they've set up a review commission in reality this vast secretive

agency and it's not the only one that's doing spy and there's a number of them that are doing spy and i really contrary to the interest of the people of the united states and contrary to the interest of course of the people of the world civil rights activists which should back a thanks for your thoughts thanks for being on our. thank you for coming up for more opinions and updates on the n.s.a. spying fallout we've got more opinion hopefully in the next hour to come and it's also on our web site as well r.t. dot com plenty there got full coverage of the journalists and activists supporting the stop watching us campaign against states of a. right to see. search for you and i think you're. on a recorder's twitter. instagram. for

the. the olympic torch has reached the north pole for the first time ever as part of the ambitious sochi twenty fourteen relay team james brown joined the arctic voyage boarded you clearly it's break. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any down doesn't it you might think it's just before the dawn or just before the sun certains but actually we're right smack bang in the middle of the day in fact it's just gone twelve thirty in the afternoon but of course the further north we go the less daylight we're getting that polar nights are coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth now. the faith that you can see everything is getting rather

busy and excited up here and we're all with mama bridge for the final approach. sorry lympics flame we think so you can make its way on to the north pole. top of the world. but it's not often you get to witness a moment of real history but this is the first time to be in a big moment ever been made of the north pole exactly that. i'm here to see.

and while that historic journey continues europe's leaders have been grappling with more monday matters stifling red tape in fact friday somebody in brussels failed to persuade the rest of the block to curb what it sees as pointless regulations that are taking a heavy toll on u.k. taxpayers laura smith reports from london. david cameron's in brussels this week to demand the return of powers from the u. and he's got a new weapon in his all marie a report by think tank in europe fall from being a net beneficiary of all of brussels rules and regulations that really costing the u.k. taxpayer a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year in europe has looked at the hundred most expensive regulations stuff like rules on working hours g.m. food and a range of other addicts and found that in at least twenty four cases the cost outweigh the benefit even according to the government figures meaning that it's

knowingly spending taxpayer money for no return in other cases the report found the benefits of the regulations have been involved stated. that in the case of climate change regulations around ninety five percent of the expected benefits totally failed to materialize but this study only covers the top one hundred others it's just the tip of the arts. and regulation which doesn't include. it is just red tape obviously if britain left the e.u. tomorrow those costs wouldn't just disappear but at least say critics it would be british regulation of the british people are down and many see cameron's proposals for reform to this european summit as his first step in trying to change the

balance of power with brussels ahead of the referendum he promised the british people. twenty one fifty moscow time for break you can choose in america's expanding waistlines we. created. cannibal can pop in if they're very sweet very savvy and very salty and they caught up with it was full for it coming up we take a closer look into why people get hooked on high fat and high sugar foods and why efforts to fight the trend so far fighting. on the money with the business over russia.

one hundred days remaining. days of flame. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations. again nato member turkey's coming under fire from exile allies for considering

a multi-billion dollar military contract with china holding talks with a chinese firm to co-produce a missile defense system however the u.s. insists the deals incompatible with nato as defense framework as they put it. bad she explains what's motivating to. american. system is all of it so that the americans control the entire system if it is deployed rare as china offering turkey to produce together. to control. together and provide turkey along control of the entire system seems the sides agree the deal would be a purely commercial decision however the us is still holding discussions with turkey on the matter professor about she went on to tell us that ankara wants more leverage in its relationship with washington. the turkish government. of course negotiate this situation with the americans but the americans have to make this

concession that turkey is taking part in the production mechanisms and process until now it was always offset. their plans and in turkey this was their new way of thinking a new set of confidence that turkey wants to be part of the entire process while tensions are running high within nato take his bid for membership in another block the european union is not seeing any progress as artie's many financial reports next and chris growing increasingly frustrated. always the bridesmaid but never the bride progress over turkey's accession to european union could be best described as . this is like a. platonic love affair the europeans doesn't want turkey to go away totally but there's a want in the house the talks started in two thousand and five but brussels still

says turkey is not yet ready with the eurozone debt crisis raging turkey's membership plans look far less tempting everybody's concert. in new further enlargement of the european union whether it's on the balkans or in turkey . because much more trouble more problems for the european union turkish authorities say they are still keen on joining the e.u. family but there has been conflicting signals from an impatient and current prime minister erdogan recently threatened to turn away from e.u. if the country doesn't become a member before two thousand and twenty three many green with that sentiment believe in a fast growing economic and strategic power will not profit from joining a political and economic zone in deep trouble it's very clear that brics countries have the future of the world the usa and the european union the don't know when

and how they will overcome this economic crisis they are not going well and they did everything and they don't have any strategy to do now but the turkish opposition believes it cannot make prosperity is not the main issue they say membership might help improve the domestic situation in the country where spiritual groups can't operate freely and last year turkey was accused of jailing more journalists than any other country in the world and the turkish policy at the moment. no policy i mean the europeans. i don't really want turkey discover this very comfortable with that because they don't want to you we think this is wrong because we feel your accession is a strategic call for turkey for its democracy for that secular democracy approach it being a member of the euro tried to communicate your nations and while the political scene between brussels and and current goes up and down more and more people are

becoming disenchanted with the idea as turkey has europe minister once said membership is like a pregnancy you either are or you are not where they go she says now continuing for eight years turkey is definitely not still and it seems to want it less and less reflection r.t. from turkey. on top of that quake and tsunami warning in the last twenty four hours no more bad news for japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plants getting more unwelcome attention now from a cleanup workers did a major blunders in the plant's operations and accused the management of exploitation even mafia connections with more we've got on our website. maha hopes to this is a disappointment a much anticipated biopic on wiki leaks founder julian assange has got a hostile reception to find out why the fifty states being the critics. the u.s. a piece of the rights become a case health concern affecting one in three adults some say the normans

a direct result of the tricks that food companies used to get consumers addicted to their products. vesta gets. it's the richest country on earth where banks can't fail and waistlines can't stop expanding waistlines in america are growing alarming new study showing half of all americans could be obese and less than twenty years sugary drinks and wider waistlines go hand in hand with one out of every three adults clinically obese and forty percent of children officially overweight experts say food has become a drug and. cooked and marketed by an industry banking on addiction what is food science has done it's got lab and they've created these chemical concoctions that are very sickly very fatty and very salty and they caught up with point scientists and food industry whistleblowers say big food companies engineer processed foods and beverages with ingredients that pique the taste buds while tricking the brain

to think you're still hungry causing you to eat more but in a country where diabetes high cholesterol high blood pressure and heart disease are becoming all too common among millions of children and adolescents why don't food corporations create healthier recipes in one word. we are doing mommy. health. another major profit generating ingredient for big food is marketing in the u.s. there is virtually no regulation of food and drink advertising even when it's hard it's children. last year entertainer beyond say in a fifty million dollar endorsement deal with pepsi this came as the american heart association released a report finding that twenty five thousand obesity related deaths in the u.s. back in two thousand and ten were linked to the over consumption of soda and other sugary drinks in france they have

a warning label on it much like we have warning labels here in this country on cigarettes they put a warning label on processed foods it says warning this food make be harmful to your health while europe. and countries require genetically modified foods to be labeled in the u.s. the biotech industry and corporations like pepsi co and coca-cola spent millions last year to defeat a california ballot initiative for g.m.o. labeling it's very difficult to get the right labeling standards on to the packaging is big pushback with. producers who do not want to label what really is going into a food supply whole foods market our grocery chain with three hundred thirty nine stores recently announced that it will begin labeling on all g.m.o. foods within the next five years it will be the first and only u.s. retail store to require the food labeling on the other hand when it comes to soda regulation is off limits new york city mayor michael bloomberg recently lost his

fight to limits the extra large serving sizes of sweet beverages in an effort to fight obesity. i. am very late and so to lovers like v.p. want to be sarah pailin have celebrated the fact that americans can continue consuming and alarming amount of high fructose corn syrup and empty calories in one giant cup not sure if miss palin knows about the medical warnings indicating that if the country's health trend continues at its current pace nearly half of all americans will be obese by twenty thirty marina portnoy r.t. new york. so world news in brief now tonight a green peace activist taking his campaign to new heights in france he suspended himself from the eiffel tower in protest against russia's detention of thirty members of his organization. mountaineering tent from the second story then unfolded banner before firefighters took him down two hours later last month the

greenpeace team attempted to board that up to gold drilling platform they are still being held but russian prosecutors this week reduce the charges against them from piracy to hooliganism. hundreds of protesters attacked a bus station in brazil's largest city cell polo after a peaceful march against high ticket prices turned ugly face to ask the crowd after rioters vandalized turnstiles and cash machines and set vehicles of light up to seventy eight arrests were made brazilians have been running against mismanagement of public services cities throughout the country since june and has also been fueled by the government's massive spending on preparation for the twenty fourteen world cup. i see here from part of berlin several hundred people have been taking part in an unauthorized demonstration at the brandenburg gate the rally against police brutality and journalists persecution of asylum seekers was organized online at the same time fallon's of people in hamburg marched in support of african refugees

around three hundred migrants in africa and are living in the city seeking residency and the right to work. rainier media says the authorities have hanged sixteen rebels in retaliation for the recent killings of border troops earlier the state news agency reported that seventeen soldiers had died in clashes no pakistan they were reportedly ambushed in the mountains outside the town of sort of on iran's southeastern border that area's known for its interethnic tensions it also was a major drug route to to europe. russian security services have discovered a large cache of suicide belts and other explosives in a house in the southern republican dug a stun it's believed the sites a workshop and headquarters for terrorist operations are going to go to reports we're talking about almost hundred of kilos in the teensy equivalent of a very have to amount of explosives as a matter of fact on top of that there were also women's wigs found as well as the car license plates this was found in a house which of course is now basically is remaining is smoldering rubble as of

this point and the authorities are sifting through trying to find more clues as to who this house might have belonged to and of course all of this is happening just days after a massive terrorist attack in the russian city of volgograd in which six people were killed more than fifty how been injured over a short regions are now on alert for possible signs of a terrorist plot taking place. thanks to company tonight just ahead the latest from the world of business and finance salty's people of oil is on the case and on the money straight after this 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 they are opening pandora's

box it has 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's 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.