world's attention to the place that some. of our time. i. think i. thousands of protesters converge on the u.s. congress to. the national security agency. another day and yet more damaging revelations to the case communications had cooled his documents until the legs. went to keep them out of valence programs. but it's not often you get to witness him over the real history but this is the first time i've been a big claim is ever been made of the north pole. crew follows the sochi twenty four torch relay over that night will brief spectacular images from.

all over a good morning for me kevin always a pleasure to have you company just joined us at our two international it's not just after midnight here in moscow the top story the developing story this. flooding capitol in washington d.c. venting their fury against the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance practices the organizers say it's the largest pro privacy rally in u.s. history he's going to count is there with those demonstrators. people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they say that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights were taken away from them against the tradeoff between security and liberty between security and

privacy and they say it is a false tradeoff also people here say that they are tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet what people here why they demand a meaningful surveillance long before they came here with a petition with more than five hundred thousand signatures on it demanding congress investigate the n.s.a. spying programs the senate judiciary and intelligence committee. hearings they want

to so they want to make sure that their voices are heard congress is now divided into those who demand a drastic overhaul of the spying programs and those who suggest. a bit more oversight now one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers some people are asking is it really possible because so far a new light that's been shed on the watchers was through whistleblowers gone into account reporting in a washington d.c. america but the n.s.a. is a cause for them to fall over its overseas activities as well revelations third party eavesdropping on key allies including german chancellor angela merkel in europe however we're now getting reports in the last few hours of president obama told in a phone conversation he had no knowledge of what was going on to civil rights activist richard burka. the united states. 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 other 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 not to mention the kind of relationship that. it's carried out against those countries that the united states considers to be its enemy. occasions to american internet service providers are also feeling the pressure crypto seal which allowed users to browse the web anonymously has closed down following the same path as love a bit that was the mailing christian service instantly used by edward snowden lavabit close in august off refusing to cooperate with the n.s.a. now cretu seal co-founder ryan lackey tells us what was it designed to hide his decision to close down. they would require

a search warrant to extract keys and if you're under the new. law which case they can use a pen or a disorder or a gay 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 to operate 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. and reporting to this morning british intelligence has been trying desperately to keep its surveillance practices secret wary of public anger and legal challenges if the details came out the alleged details that emerge from internal documents leaked by edward snowden detained by the guardian newspaper but a set of first reports next to spy agencies worst fears could already be coming true. these latest documents reveal the long fight the g c h 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 i want to clear of course that public debate already taking place in the cape 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 my six and t.c.h. he giving evidence in public now that will be broadcast by our satellite link although there will be a short still a 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 inception of all communications in calling this a breach of trust by the u.k. government on the grandest scale sort of heads of britain's intelligence agencies group you know before and presumably the servants explain some of their actions to form a more five agents only mushroom she was moved so as the issues are getting enough attention of the u.k. . the guardian is certainly of fighting forward on this issue there's no doubt about that but the rest of the media tends to be on the sort of the government and on the side of the head of m i five and you parker who recently went public in a very rare speech and said that well by putting this information out there we're protecting our terrorist enemies we're we're helping them we're giving them information that they can use so this is a media self into ship or in the u.k. which i think it will be unique in most western democratic countries and they are

abiding by that and it has stifled the debate for more opinions and updates on the revelations of keep on coming on the u.k. intelligence agency we invite you to head to our website r.t. dot com. impact talk shows reach the north pole for the first time ever as part of the ambitious twenty forty relay r.t. james brown joined the arctic voyage on board a nuclear icebreaker carriers. 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 the polar nights are coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth now.

faith 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 can see you make its way on to the north pole. top of the world. was. the 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 right. and i'm here to see.

your love a little bit of history being made there well while that historic journey continues europe's leaders meantime been grappling with more monday matters stifling red tape in fact friday summit in brussels britain 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 has got the story 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 armory a report by think tank in europe far from being a net beneficiary of all of brussels rules and regulations that. the u.k. tax a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year open europe has looked at the hundred most expensive regulations stuff like rules on working hours g.m. food and

a range of other diktats and found that in at least twenty four cases the costs outweigh the benefits 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 vastly 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 of those have shown it's just the tip of the arts. ninety billion pounds in regulation which doesn't include. 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. many see cameron's proposals for reform into this european summit as his first step in trying to change the balance of power with brothels ahead of the referendum he promised the british people. coming up for the big question who cashews it on america's expanding waistline. they preach chemical concoctions that are very sweet very fatty and very salty and they caught up with your so much with love including me well we took a close look into why people get hoped. i should have food and why efforts to fight the trend a so far failed. order . great

hopes for freedom and democracy. substituted by great disenchantment. what was expected to be a blessing to the country. turned out to be its curse. georgia the story of the disappointment. dramas that can't be ignored to the. stories others refused to notice. the faces changing the world. food picture of today's lives. on demand from around the globe.

dropped. to fifty. again thanks choosing artie's forty minutes past midnight moscow and afghan soldiers been killed after he turned his gun on the international troops he was serving alongside a military base outside kabul and at least one nato soldier was wounded injured it's the fourth such incident so far this month it's already packed the party told me what he believes is behind these attacks first of all there is really a lot but see humiliation. over the last ten years twelve years of occupation. most of the fighting is being done by afghans. about one hundred thousand foreign troops are protected by contractors so

there is a feeling in afghanistan both in the army and the police and in the civilian population that the americans and other nato troops are actually protecting themselves and getting ready to get out and nato member turkey is now coming under fire from exile ice for considering a multi-billion dollar military contract with china anchors holding talks with the chinese firm to co-produce a missile shield however the u.s. says that deal could undermine allied air defense systems we spoke to dr hussein back she explained what's motivating. the american. system is all this so that the americans control the entire system if it is deployed rare as china is offering turkey to produce together. to control. together and provide turkey along control of the entire

system. well sally sides agree the deal will be a purely commercial matter but the u.s. has launched technical discussions now with turkey but the potential impact of these plans professor back she again telling us that ankara now wants more leverage with its relationship with washington. the turkish government. of course negotiate this situation with americans but the americans have to make this concession that turkey is taking part in the production. process until now it was always off set of the plans and in turkey this was a new way of thinking a new third pontin's turkey wants to be part of the entire process and while tensions are running high that within nato turkey's bid for membership of another block the european union isn't seeing any progress and as artie's riffel national reports next anchor is growing friess increasingly frustrated because of

that fact. 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 war 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 travel 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 total 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 at

this rate of comfortable with that because they don't want to you we think this is wrong because we feel your accession is a strategic goal for turkey for its democracy for that secular democracy approach it being a member of the euro the community of nations and while the political seesaw between brussels and current goes up and down more and more people are becoming disenchanted with the idea as turkey's 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 scare in the wake now japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant getting more unwelcome attention we're talking about online a former

a cleanup work is pointed to major blunders in the plant's operations and accusing management of exploitation even matthew connection. got the story. from a high hopes to bitter disappointment to much anticipated biopic wiki leaks founder julian assange just got a hostile reception to find out why the fifty states being put it we invite you to head to our web site. the u.s. a pieces he writes become a key health concerns affecting one in three adults these days some say though the phenomenon is a direct result of the tricks that food companies use to try to get us lowly consumers addicted to their products or to investigate. 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 in 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 science has done in the 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. another major profit generating ingredient for big food

is marketing in the u.s. there's virtually no regulation of food and drink advertising even when it's hard to teach children. last year entertainer beyond say in a fifty million dollar indorsement 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 cigarettes a warning label on processed foods it says warning this food may 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 big push pack with the producers who do not want to label what really is going into a food supply whole foods market or 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. may 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. scary prospect williams in brief now a greenpeace activist has taken his campaign to new heights in france a study from the eiffel tower and protests against russia's detention of thirty members of his organization the manhunter mountaineering tent from the second floor of the tower unfolded banner before firefighters took it down again two hours later last month the greenpeace team attempted to board that arctic all drilling platform is still being held but russian prosecutors this week reduced the charges against them from piracy to hooliganism. hundreds of protesters have attacked a bus station in brazil's largest city sao paolo after a peaceful march against high ticket prices turned ugly police tear gassed the crowd after rioters vandalized the turnstiles and cash machines and set vehicles in place at the seventy eight arrest made their resilience of

a rally against mismanagement of public services in cities throughout the country since june and is also being fuelled to by the government's massive spending on those preparations for the twenty fourteen world cup. i stopped short there from a part of berlin several hundred people taken part in an authorised demonstration at the brandenburg gate the rally against police brutality and germany's persecution of asylum seekers was organized online at the same time fastens people in hamburg marched in support of african refugees around three hundred migrants from africa in fact in a living in that city seeking residency and the right to work. iranian media says the authorities have hanged sixteen rebels in retaliation against the recent killings of border troops earlier the state use agency reported that seventeen soldiers had died in clashes near pakistan they were reportedly ambushed in the mountains outside the town of sort of a norm around southeast

a border the area known for its interethnic tensions also lies in a major drug routes to europe. thank you for choosing to international for your news i'm kevin o. in with the next full news bulletin in thirty four minutes time open job maybe then between now and then georgia chooses its next president on sunday next that on this channel we profile the country's turbulent ten years on the meaning. it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of failed detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tearing conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while mayor yeah the prosecutors say he funneled millions of dollars

to himself and family members all while detroit moved headstrong towards the bankrupt state it is in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes but because he got punished the judge who could fix him stated why this is such an important case she said at the very least a significant sentence will send a message that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated yes sending a message you see corrupt officials are usually cowards and they do what they do because they feel they can get away with it when you start to put the fear of god into them they start to behave much better so the question is will the mainstream media grab the story and really use the conviction of detroit's former mayor is an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just my opinion. a different georgia was built in front of the very eyes of tbilisi citizens to me architecture was dismissed and the president personally approved the new ridiculous

constructions bridge or console she. pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city it's clear that the georgian authorities were keen on putting form over substance besides the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several point just skyscrapers were built. philly regarded everything is personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of girlfriends the boulevard was closed off of course this is outrageous this was the case not just in but to me. to tbilisi to. georgia's ruling elites combined a passion for western ways with. traditional majority of georgian spiegel i understand the russian language and the history of every family is linked with

russia and all of a sudden georgians were forced to think that anything russian is bad lessons were dropped from curriculum in schools and movies with and from television a new generation of georgians grew up not knowing a single. we don't get to speak russian often. there is much more practice in english. to be looking for the cause of this hatred to anything russian demonstrated by seconds really does seem strange because they were all born and grew up in this. we're always looking for some philosophical roots for these phenomena. so you ask why there is a simple reason they link their career their wellbeing their future the only with.