on. another day and other tragedy in iraq endures a series of blasts that kills more than sixty people as a merciless campaign by the nation's al-qaeda cell shows no sign of easing. the war that we had to terrorists the way they were doing the more terrorism appears waste war how the brainchild of asylum bin ladin has spread its wings from central asia all the way to the atlantic since washington launched its war on terror. and president obama has reportedly known for years the n.s.a. was spying on the german chancellor yet chose not to stop but a claim that the agency strongly denies.

this is r.t. coming to live from the russian capital a marina joshie welcome to the program a series of bombings has ripped through iraq killing at least sixty six people such coordinated attacks have become the hallmarks of a country's al-qaeda cell its bloody efforts to undermine the authority of the iraqi government have already made this year as a deadliest in the country since two thousand and eight let's look now at the roots of the crisis well from nineteen ninety six to twenty eleven al qaida was based in afghanistan where it enjoyed the protection of the taliban and was also present in pakistan its expansion gathered steam after washington launched its war on terror in response to the nine eleven attacks the us invasion of iraq prompted radical islamist terror to declare is there a legend of bin laden's network in two thousand and four two thousand and seven saw a powerful jihad his group in. north africa unite under the name of al qaida and

the islamic maghreb and spread its operations across the region two years later the yemeni and saudi branches merged to formal caught in the air b.n. peninsula and says than the terror network's been gaining ground with new cells emerging in the region as the arab spring unfolded artie's got it she can investigate. u.s. intelligence officials speaking anonymously of course say they're not concerned that al qaeda affiliated groups in syria are shifting some of their focus from toppling bashar al sought to launching extra law for asians against the west one u.s. lawmaker pointed out that's exactly what happened even ganesan which led to nine eleven they are now focused on fighting assad but very soon they'll be focused on something else we have michael here a former pentagon official with me mr maloof where are the. groups headed in your opinion the. forces that are there. are

now attempting to look at syria in the long term to be under a caliphate and their spring throughout the entire region when you look at a map of the whole area stream from the arabian peninsula to all the way across north africa and into the magreb right. at the foot of southern europe and that is here the strategy is to ultimately move into europe according to various estimates more than ten thousand committed members are operating just along syria's eastern border with iraq it's reported to be more than the number of jihad in iraq during the u.s. led occupation worth mentioning it was the u.s. invasion that brought terror into iraq this graph from the national consortium for the study of terrorism and responses to terrorism shows the spike of terrorist attacks in iraq following the u.s. invasion the u.s.

now shrugs at all these terror that iraq has to deal with every day calling it well panes of democracy similar attitude the u.s. helped to kill qaddafi now the countries involved in chaos and terror again you hear pains of democracy but as these extremist groups in different countries become more and more organized as a network it's difficult to ignore them. monster that's spreading through the region the west thinks drones are the perfect tool to deal with terrorists they say drones are the solution but on the receiving end those drone strikes are seen as acts of terror when they kill innocent people and they help terrorists were quote more terrorists most recently tour of course came out by amnesty international and human rights watch they looked into u.s. strikes in pakistan and yemen human rights watch found that in the strikes that they had investigated seven percent of those who died were civilians washington says they've decimated al qaeda solution but it seems al-qaeda has metastasized and

continue spreading with drone strikes and brewing civil wars in washington i'm going to check on. how george county has a former diplomat in the u.s. foreign service says there are inconsistences in the decisions made by policymakers in washington we should reasonably assume that within the u.s. government they have exactly the same data they know that the more that we attack terrorists the way that we're doing the more terrorism appears and so then the question is well if we're creating more terrorists through our end of terrorism activities why are we doing it there's no sensible strategy there's no consistent logical strategy behind us actions we're taking things one piece at a time so here we support one group there we suppress the same group here we talk about terrorists and their we support terrorists in syria there's there's no real consistency in that that shows that that's very strong proof that there's no

thought behind what what we're doing the way that they like even if you don't like what they're doing and this it's really pretty simple it's it's just the way the people are normally in the world you get human beings aren't meant to be masters of other people in the u.s. has not learned that lesson. as o'connell linked militants push on with their offensive against the government in syria more civilians are stepping forward as civil war volunteers. but nothing is more precious than our country only homeland when i was raised. coming out with me to a syrian woman who was putting her alive on the line to the fan her country and children.

a german news outlets just president obama has been aware of the n.s.a. tapping chancellor merkel's phone and let it go on for years this comes after reports stated that he confirmed to angela merkel over the phone of the practice in a phone call merkel said monitoring would be a breach of trust if confirmed and that spying on france does not work of allah apologize and reportedly claimed to have had no prior knowledge that it was going on but germany's build newspaper suggest he knew about the spying and germany's leader and courage it claim denied by the n.s.a. call him up and from the international action center says that if the roles were reversed the u.s. wouldn't leave a single stone unturned to punish the spies. say you say cuba had been tapping the

united states or iran had been tapping the united states there would be actually be sanctions and retaliation but in this instance that they are you know what's going to what's going to happen who's going to hold the united states accountable you know it's the same goes to the civilians who've been killed by drones what are they going to do you know the u.s. is the force of economic power in the world and military power and they're the ones who get to punish people it's it doesn't seem to be the other way around it really kind of blows away many illusions people have about you know international order and international law all right historian gerald horne believes the american spying in germany is driven by economic reasons and potential financial gains more than anything mr obama is in the position where he has to deny what is painfully obvious you should recognize that one of the many reasons why the united states spies one chancellor merkel is economic espionage it is to see us corporations like ford or in competition with folks wagon with software manufacturers in competition with

a.p. for example and siemens of germany is in competition with g.e. by booking telephones at a high level in berlin and states can get information that can be very helpful to the competitive worth of these german corporations and of course here on ars he would like to know what do you think about the developing scale around us spying practices and we are asking you how will the revelations that the n.s.a. bugged angela merkel's phone affect e.u. america ties so do you log onto our t dot com to vote in our latest weapon. and now let's take a look at the votes that we've got so far well as you can see the most popular opinion seems to be that the e.u. will introduce highly encrypted communications for all top officials to protect countries against us snooping over a quater of those who have participated in our online. the bomb will apologize

strangle merkel and offer to spawn i do cameron instead will slightly fewer than that think european governments will restrict access to private data raising the costs for u.s. businesses in the e.u. and the minority at this point which stem president per se and believe a germany is offering snowden a songe asylum in return for launching a cyber counterattack against the u.s. so go to r.t. dot com to have your say and while you're online get the latest updates on the story and many others. such as reports that tens of millions of phone calls in spain were intercepted and stored by the n.s.a. last year read up on the spread of the american spy web on our website also online today. a schoolboy from canada pleads guilty to hacking government websites and passing the data to anonymous in exchange for video games or more about the twelve year old prodigy on r.t. dot com. drugs some at least sixty percent of what you

imports came from illegal fishing. 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. on foot the territorial waters the fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to do illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. look which is also actually it's go back to libya because for all the criticism that you have about russia and syria russia doesn't want to see syria explode everyone thinks it's russia trying to protect its friend is by geopolitical i just know it's about a. and they could explode and ag explode in

a really vicious fashion say a way for me to go to the islands of the horse because we're not doing the old in a civil war is that your position no matter who is it is so you're saying if we just want to shoot people that doing something that isn't evil we're doing nothing and only one hundred in a lodger to be heiress richie to your publisher you know you're the is one of my million across the political i'm neutral you handle it on the interest ok you do you good you finish the russian line with no no no i'm not going to be in the line of peter lavelle either to my mind. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of

our government and across several we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class by job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try to fix rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america have october ready to join the movement then welcome to. the. cretaceous three. for chargers free. range month free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media oh don the hard. dot com.

welcome back this is r.t. as a human cost of the spiraling syrian conflict amounts civilians are being increasingly caught up in the fighting and some are now facing no other choice than to your list in the military and head to the front line artie's bosley or met one syrian mother who's taken the safety of her children into her own hands miriam is getting ready for work like women around the world she enjoys putting on makeup before heading to the office but miriam's job is a little different to most the twenty three year old is heading to the syrian frontline it gives me great satisfaction being able to defend my country against terrorists who want to destroy it. it's strange to find women here in the line of fire even more so because miriam is a mother her sons are just four and six years old. i signed up because of them

i'm not afraid any move because i've stopped worrying we're in a state of war but every day miriam sees the reality of war more than one hundred thousand people most of them civilians killed the people who lived in these homes will have friends and family all of them have fled most of them will never return. there i'm most afraid when most of bombs fall in our posts and there is shrapnel if you days ago the terrorists launched rockets a town checkpoint the rockets are not accurate sadly they had a civilian building and many people died were rescued a few and carried them to hospital this used to be a school playground but children's laughter has long been drowned out by the whistling of bullets. i was kidnapped twice the last time for two months they arrested me when i was in civilian clothes this is back to doug was cooperating with the army i denied it and luckily they eventually let me go but the risks facing a woman in uniform are often far greater than for

a male counterparts several of miriam's female colleagues have been killed while held hostage often it's nothing more than luck that separates the living from the did my family worries a lot but nothing is more precious than our country the homeland where i was raised it's true my children are very precious very important but my country is the move. and despite the price it's a job she's proud to wake up to each day from the bonds of women have been in the syrian army since the seventy's there's even a special military college for them but usually they jobs are administrators of and in a just stick this but times however cord for desperate measures point to. damascus . and coming up in the program sinking outside the box. with critics of the looming housing crisis with the world at an all time high in the u.k.

right now we're going to be telling you why some people are telling away from bricks and mortar and instead turning to a big shipping container is the solution. an ally of georgia's billionaire prime minister has won a landslide victory in the country's presidential elections this marks and to a decade in power by president how saakashvili his allies face a blistering defeat of the pope well let's get now the very latest from artie's refinished who's been following events in the capital tbilisi hello to you maria so tell us what these elections mean for georgians. well indeed georgia dream

call ation over the country's prime minister a billionaire or even ishmael is celebrating the victory now as exit polls say a man a forty four year old philosopher go get marvellous really ahead of twenty two other candidates including but crowds endorsed by the country's outgoing president mikheil saakashvili and his united national movement the former parliamentary speaker has only confirmed his defeat and congratulated his rival upon the good results but another favorite of this race as a veteran politician here in georgia one of the leaders of the two thousand and three rose revolution here in the country the first color revolution but so regime change in the former soviet republics has claimed that it's too early now for anybody to open champagne because official results will only come out in two weeks and she has claimed for everybody to wait till that moment but it's interesting that this year's presidential election here in georgia is interesting not because

of twenty three protests opponents who are in the least but because of one man who couldn't take part in that because the law prevents mikhail saakashvili from running for president again and sunday's vote in fact marks the end of his nearly ten year long presidency and this is why all those we have been able to speak to here in belief have told us this is a vote is less about welcome in the future but and rather about saying goodbye to the country. it's past and personal to me he's known in the west as the man who brought democratic changes here to georgia and there are many people here in the country who share this opinion saying that he was the man who made the country turn away from the soviet past and move towards civilized world but his legacy is very controversial he was once very popular leader of the rose revolution but those who started this revolution with him accuse him of buddha no thought of terror and

regime with repressions and oppression of the opposition million people who fled the country in fear of those repression the country has many of those who are specially recognized as political prisoners and the big hero revealed last year showing inmates in the georgian jos beaten and humiliated were the last straw for georgian public to reject mikhail saakashvili and his policy and his party so the legacy of make us like this really is something that many people now question move on who is going to run this country for the next year these. primaries thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subject down for following the developments in georgia for us here on r.t. now as the occupation of palestinian territories continues to spark deadly clashes and international controversy some israelis are stepping forward with revelations and i witness accounts coming out r.t.

so be sure now as he speaks with an israeli military whistleblower who explains why he's against keeping the palestinians penned in. send nineteen year old taking year olds to court to control millions of people through the barrel of the gun most of us untrained i have to say that for example i was trained for eight months before i was sent to active duty for the first time out of this eight months seven months seven months and three weeks had nothing to do with what i was doing in my in my in the remaining of my service i was trained as an infantry soldier to fight another army and this is the case for most soldiers so you get there two to the west bank or two you know around the gaza strip unprepared to deal with civilians unprepared to control civilians the only thing that you are fed with is fear and hate and you know you are constantly told be be careful of the palestinians if you turn your back to them they will stab you in the back you're told when i got to the west bank i was told that we need to show the ship what esteem is that there is a new sheriff in town i'm quoting here israelis got killed in the last ten or

twenty years or we have seen much more palestinians got killed but it doesn't change the basic fact here that the reality of occupation existed ten years ago and twenty years ago in forty years ago and in this reality both sides suffer both israelis and palestinians if we want to have people not getting killed over this. debate over this conflict anymore we need to india occupation that would be the best solution for both sides. now take a look at some other stories from around the world argentina's president has suffered a loss in the mid-term elections after an opposition candidate clenched victory in the country's key province this means cristina fernandez won't be able to push through a constitutional change to allow her a third term in office has been out of action during the campaign did emergency brain surgery in a cold war argentina which has one of the world's top grain exporters struggles to

keep up with rising food demand and attracting investment to exploit its oil reserves. police use baton tear gas and around seven hundred animal rights activists in southern france clashes erupted during a protest against an upcoming bullfighting festival spanish style condos are how the nanny towns in the south of france and dozens of schools offertory adore training. in madrid sauza as have been protesting against a court ruling in favor of the basque separatist movement last week the european court of human rights ordered spain to release a tourist member of the armed group as del rio she had been in jail since late eighty's for her role in twenty three killings john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation says the strasburg court is doing exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to but it's incredible isn't it that european court of human

rights should intervene in this way to alleviate the sentence of a woman who has been convicted of the due process of the murder of more than twenty three people this woman is a mass murderer and the idea that a european court of human rights which was set up to safeguard citizens against the abuses that could be. committed by states because through him citizens that such a body should now be as it were to be in favor of people who have themselves over grossly abused the rights of citizens by murdering them. as the high cost of living puts a strain on more and more people in the u.k. many embrace their idea that less is more and some get creative was what couldn't should be considered a home artists are first takes us to an open house when addressing the issue of the food of all housing that one learns in charities being thinking outside the box but

when it comes to the solution it's inside that counts meet the my pad shipping container doubles as a low cost. renting in london is particularly expensive and once again we seeing rents hit record highs so we're going to go up and take a look inside and see what this is all about. oh man. thank you very much yes this is my yeah this is the my. desk here inside the my pads been designed to provide those who need it most with affordable independent living and just seventy five pounds a week the my pad certainly cheap by london standards i think it's difficult for anybody right now to get. comfortable accommodation. about you know pay in. the projects the brainchild of timothy payne. this is

essentially this is a shipping container from china this is a shipping. bread you cover over a great big boat the projects already received planning permission and funding is expected to come from the greater london authority initially this project will be soley for young people the charity works with society just take. for money to them because the moment they get into work they can't afford to live in a hostel and they can't afford to live anywhere else because doesn't make any moral or any economic sense. as i did then life is brilliantly innovative it's been designed as a quick fix now there's planning permission for thirty more things to be built next year but predictions say that if bracing continues at its coverage rate of building them by twenty twenty and we face a short full of two million homes in the u.k.

so you can see the scale of the problem and it's why will started out as a local temporary solution could end up becoming a more permanent fixture surface say london and coming up next we hear from an israeli military whistleblower who is strongly against the ongoing occupation of palestinian land. to the. audience technology innovations of all the years developments from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style.

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