thousands of protesters converge on the us congress demanding new laws to end mass spying by the national security agency. another day and yet more damaging revelations to the case communications headquarters is still human sort of build the legs that the features you won't see to keep the mass surveillance program secret. an epic moment as the olympic torch reaches the top of the world. where it's not opening to witness the birth of a religious group but this the first boy to be the big boy relevant to the world all right you know. join our team's crew as it follows the software twenty four

thousand torch relay into the polar night. live for moscow studios you're watching r t thanks for joining us crowds have flooded capitol hill 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 artie's got a chicana as any american capital. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one 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 in 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 and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he would sure be in jail by now people at this rally dows of people in fact demand a meaningful surveillance a long way for him they came with a petition signed by more than five hundred thousand people demanding congress investigate the n.s.a. spying programs through the senate judiciary and intelligence committees planned

hearings on those programs so they want to make sure that their voices are heard actually one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers but the question is is there really possible because so far any light that's been shed on the watchers was through whistleblowers in washington i'm going to check on. the n.s.a. has been under fire over its overseas activities as well revelations that it's been eavesdropping on key allies including german chancellor angela merkel we've got here are outraged that since emerged that president obama has told merkel in a phone call he had no knowledge this was actually going on and i asked charlie mcgrath from wide awake news about what else might have missed the president's eye it could be a lot i mean you know our n.s.a. our security induction complex our security state our alphabet agencies that are

watching the people of this country in the world they seem to taken on a life of their of their own i find it hard to believe that the president and states doesn't understand who it's terrifying if it is true that our president and our congress has no idea who the n.s.a. and all these other alphabet spy agencies are listening to tracking monitoring including the american people let alone you know scores of leaders around the world so the president coming out saying he didn't understand well that's terrifying in and of itself statement alone coincides with the signing of the patriot act how has post nine eleven security really benefited the united states and what you've seen and in your time as a journalist since since nine eleven it's not benefit of the american people it's not been for benefited freedom or sovereign nations on this planet one bit you know the placate us with platitudes from washington d.c. that we're safer world but we're not we destabilized the world hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have died in the name of prosecuting a war on terror and we've lost our freedom in this country the result has been

a global effort to put the hands and the power of surveillance in the hands of very very few and it's terrifying we need to wake up to it. british intelligence has been trying desperately to keep it surveillance practices secret wary of public anger and legal challenges that's emerged from internal documents leaked by edward snowden and obtained by the guardian newspaper but as our teaser furth reports the spy agency's worst fears are already 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 and the extent and scope of the would lead to a damaging public debate now ironically of course that public debate already taking place in the 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 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 delay now perhaps we'll see as this public debate unfolds d.c. itchy wheeling out some of the 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 now by the g c h q story broke david cameron signed the e.u. memo against u.s. spying former m i five agent and he told us how the prime minister was essentially

backed into a corner. well you would have to do that to be like and i'm glad merkel has to say that she is outraged about the fact that her but personal phones have been intercepted by the and say when the unit will disclose just came up with snowden saying that we will all be in state of mind and surveyed our politicians was slightly less indignant should we say i think cameron has to do this he asked to show that he is concerned about the issues of surveillance but we have to also acknowledge that g.h.q. and the german v.n.d. intelligence agency have been reportedly very close allies and have been doing the dirty work for the n.s.a. so let's not lose sight of american internet service providers are also feeling the pressure. for. people to be very very very probably first place of no interest at

present. crypto seo allowed users to browse the web anonymously but it's closed following the likes of lavabit email encryption service used by edward snowden that closed in august after refusing to cooperate with the n.s.a. on line watch our full interview with the seal founder brian left. now for the first time in its history the olympic torch has been let on the north for its part of the ambitious saatchi twenty fourteen relay in four months the flame will travel thousands of kilometers across russia by torchbearers on foot by car seaplane train and even slay before it reaches the host city of the weather games in february artie's james brown witnessed the epic journey at the top of the world. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any doubt doesn't it. you might think it's just before the

dawn or just before the sun sets 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 coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth now. you can see everything is getting rather busy and excited and we're all bridge for the final approach. sorry lympics flame to make its way onto the north pole. were sent to the world.

well it's not opening the whistleblower the real history but this is the first time a deliberate claim is ever been made of the north pole exactly that. and it is a. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a living torch relay. m r t r g. a membership fee of twenty seven billion pounds a year is it up to make anyone wince for britain that's the price of being in the e.u. club the prime minister says it's too much of it just goes to red tape but he's failed

to convince the others in the group that they should drop some of the stifling and overreaching regulations artie's laura smith reports. 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. fall from being a net beneficiary of all of brussels rules and regulations. the u.k. tax a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year in europe the hundred most expensive regulations stuff like rules on working hours g.m. food and a range of other addicts and found that at least twenty four cases the cost outweigh the benefits even according to the government. meaning that it's knowingly spending taxpayer money to know. in other cases the report found the benefits of the

regulations have been involved. in that in the case of climate change regulation around ninety five percent of the expected benefits totally failed to materialize but this study only covers the top one hundred of the it's just the take of the arts. and regulation which doesn't include. it is just red tape obviously if left to morrow those costs would disappear but at least say critics it would be british regulation british people. many see cameron's proposals for reform to this european summit as his first step in trying to change the balance of power with brothels ahead of the referendum he's promised the british people. there's

a reason americans are losing the battle of the bulge. the war god would say great . we are putting money. from the lab so the flag our t. look said who's benefiting from those lip smacking concoctions that are piling on the pounds after the break. from some of the sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing and. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. give room for them to enter our territorial waters they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe.

to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. choose your language. kill it we kill with oh if you're going to kill some other. treatments good use good consensus yet you. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories that impact the lives who choose to be access to. a new green and blue attack at a military base outside kabul has left one afghan private dead and at least one nato soldier injured that's a fourth such incident this month involving afghan servicemen turning their guns on the international troops there working alongside middle east expert deepak tripp

posse believes that nato forces are more concerned right now about protecting themselves rather than afghan civilians first of all there is really a lot to mediation. over the last ten years twenty years or what you know most of the fighting is being done by afghans while about one hundred thousand foreign troops 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 truly protecting themselves and getting ready to get out. nato member turkey is coming under fire from its allies over its talks with a chinese firm on building

a multibillion dollar anti-missile system the u.s. has voiced its concern warning the deal could undermine allied air defenses analysts dr hussein bug cheesey explained what's motivating turkey the american. system is all these are 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 and five system. even though washington's a bit upset the deal is hardly likely to threaten turkey's membership of nato both agree it would be a purely commercial matter professor bob cheek told r.t. that china seems to be stirring up its international clout many. in nato circles through the turkish nato if such a decision is going to be realized but i don't think so that turkey is leaving nato

because of distances from the question is. china of course is the winner of the game that china is now attracting. like turkey or maybe some other. little girl also. influence barges decision we will see. online for you right now there's a new government ministry in venezuela created purely to make sure everyone is feeling more cheery and more of the deputy ministry of supreme social happiness how it's supposed to put a smile on the faces of people through social programs. also think this is a rock think again about the technology that's far from being stone age complete with camera alarm system and online access.

one in three americans are carrying way more weight to make shut but how much is there obesity down to cover chemical conjuring by the major food companies parties more important has been finding out. 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 scientists on the lab and they've created these chemical concoctions that are very sickly very fatty and very salty and they caught up with one scientist 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 when one word would say great. we are putting money. 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 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 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 is big push back with the 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. 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 merino porton i.r.t. new york the dangers of literally throwing money at a problem are looked at later this hour when max and stacey are here for another kaiser report. it's an interesting to us from trolling for good he said his mind

quantitative easing underpins wall street such that any signs of a weak economy push the market higher the markets get bloated as soon as there's any bad signs it is the refined bread the process foods are put into the system people are like yes this is great because now the fed's going to feed us more hot air of quantitative easing but we've talked about collateralized for obligations bonds on the show before that ben bernanke you know mark carney are trying to monetize their flatulence that's the that's the economic growth in the u.k. they talk about g.d.p. annualizing at three percent growth but debts annualizing at nine percent growth and higher if you put the bits that are off the balance sheet like on the bank of england back into the mix and debts compound at twenty percent a year so three percent a year in g.d.p. growth even though it doesn't even discount for the actual inflation number the fact is you can economies in negative territory they're living on carny farts they're living on cordie far to their that's their entire economic so-called growth

. a look now at some other international news stories greenpeace activists has taken his campaign to new heights in france suspending self i feel tower in protest against russia's detention of thirty members of his organisation hanging from the second story unfold a banner before firefighters brought him down two hours later last month a greenpeace team attempted to board an arctic oil drilling platform they're still being held but russian prosecutors this week reduced the charges against them for piracy to hooliganism. and these saudi women have got behind the wheel and are breaking the law with an online protest to get the right to drive and the islamic country over sixty of them posted videos on you tube in their third major stand for their rights in twenty years this time they attracted a record number of activists earlier this year thousands of saudis signed an online

petition calling the prohibition on women drivers as outdated. in brazil a peaceful rally against the high cost of public transport turned violent when hundreds of protesters attacked a bus station in sao paulo rioters destroyed cash machines and set fire to a bus while police responded with tear gas hundreds of people have been detained there have been protests in brazil since june over what's seen as the mismanagement of public services and massive spending on the twenty fourteen world cup. ahead as promised it's the kaiser report.

new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is their opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are banned in most other countries the body is trying to take a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i've heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money effort and lives and you need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night after work to go 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 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. you know the u.k. . there's a new line of underwear that filters out farts using chemical warfare technology these new underpants neutralize odors up to two hundred times the stinky strength of the average flatfish

a mission alas even these underpants are not powerful enough to mask the stench of the foul when spewing forth from the mouth of the average central banker with their quantitative easing wreaking more havoc on the bowels of the financial system than refined bread to a constipated i.b.s. patient no i think jeremy paxman wrote that no only gold silver in bitcoin can neutralize the stance of central bank policy stacy herbert what is all of this about well max's underwear actually called shreddies and they're manufactured here in the u.k. now regarding the central bankers and their spewing this flash of submissions well alan greenspan was is in the news and he's new he's famous of course for his silent violence of. silence but deadly alan greenspan as he famously said if you think you know what i'm saying that i didn't express myself correctly. well he spoke in fed speak which is that he spoke so much nonsense people just took it as

a good news almost all voters big cigars you know that's the way such a black gentleman should big make it stink make it obviously stinky not the silent but deadly stink about greenspan who speaks in code saying nothing except that isn't bad what the financial terrorists. well alan greenspan is in the news because he's pushing his book greenspan admits he knew there was a bubble in two thousand and eight but refuses to apologize here he is on c.n.n. we see i think we should take a look at this clip here. we missed the time. terms of the fifty. who all of us knew there were bubble but a bubble in the no question give you a question. i will remember on one condition of the darwin down twenty two percent one are for the record the wrong all time i thought we were going to run two through two problems no.

no to be sure we were stretching go for a while the fed opened up the spirits well this is an ongoing debate whether the fed should manage the economy and the monetary policy based on what they call just a clean up operation after these bubbles bursts that are guaranteed to happen because their policy is only one policy not to print money there is no policy by the federal reserve to try to manage the effect of monetary policy has on prices we see the complete opposite in china now where they're taking an active role to try to pull back on the bubble we see a very different approach in the e.c.b. and germany which tries to of course into the mandate of a central banks there to manage monetary policy in a way that you don't create these incredibly distorting bubbles but because the distorting bubble creation by the federal reserve bank alan greenspan and.