the place that some gulag of our minds. calls for and i say reform grow louder and long washington's political elite but intelligence chiefs remain defiant warning of drunks to call sequences if the spying program is tailed. independence or security london threatens to deny access to its intelligence services if scotland was separation from the united kingdom. canadians get the thrust ever be to coin an a.t.m. swapping digital codes for cash a look at why global users attending to the unstable sign of currency.

news from russia underground the while this is the with me you know the hello and welcome to the program. in the u.s. political opinion tools these spying practices that caused a storm of global criticism looks to be shifting both republicans and democrats have called for reform of the n.s.a. was lawmakers proposing a ban on the agency collecting data in bulk the intelligence community is however strongly opposed testifying before the house intelligence committee and a say director general keith alexander forcibly forcibly warns that limiting this surveillance program could result in the country being attacked this year was echoed by the u.s. intelligence chief who said reforms would lead to greater risks this is all happening against the ban crop of a growing diplomatic round with america's european allies demanding answers over allegations their courage their citizens and leaders were spied on and e.u.

delegation is currently in washington but some and may peace still feel not enough is being done to stop you asked surveillance though i think that the reaction of your european union it's not enough we cannot only only say all this a problem we will see you know we have to see in our relationships with us see we suspend to do relationship especially to rid a discussion between trade agreement discussion it's a capacity of a science in order to say to the you know we don't accept what you do with the spying questions we are not in the past with the dividing of the world in some blocks we are the move throughout all of the relationship we have to change our way to do and also always to spy because it's not normal multilateral relationship. the white house has already made steps to coattail the n.s.a. in particular a strapping on the u.n.

headquarters in new york to be reduced but to what extent does the us president actually control the agency's activities and how aware was hailed spying on europe's leaders and citizens these are some of the questions raised in peaceful levels the latest episode of crosstalk coming up later today but here's a quick preview. what jay carney the president spokesman said is that the president knew nothing about it however the n.s.a. is doing a great job what they're doing anyway so it really does raise some very troubling issues does the president have control over the n.s.a. does seem though are was i mean even more seriously was this an operation approved under president george w. bush that's gone on and they've not bothered to inform the president the united states is being run by remote control by a group of corrupt companies and these companies want the n.s.a. to find out secrets trade secrets from all the companies in the world this is this is what they're doing this is unacceptable the american people deserve

a better government than this. and it's not just the market spying that's been the focus of media attention lately newspapers have published claims over russia's activities as host of the rison g. twenty summit and she's really going to take another hit. during the g twenty summit which took place in st petersburg this year guests including political leaders world leaders have received gifts backs which contained flash cards as well as phone chargers which according to the newspapers are essentially spy ware now these allegations have already been denied by the presidential spokesman a russian presidential spokesman who said that as a matter of fact it looks like. just an attempt to sway the attention away from real problems towards imaginary ones and because the newspapers didn't particularly cite to any of their sources specifically is it

a fact italian government itself is already starting to look into these allegations in order to find out where exactly there is damage from. the british government is pushing hard to persuade schools that independence is not the way to go the home secretary is now warning that by gobbling it alone school and made him lose access to intelligence services leaving at a greater risk. has started the claims. she says that any scottish independence words undermine the fight against organized crime cyber attacks terrorism and things like that because scotland would have to build up its own security infrastructure as it would no longer necessarily have access to intelligence that comes from the u.k. or indeed from other countries that currently. information the scottish national party has said that it's ok declaring independence for scotland would reduce the risk of terrorist attacks because it says that part of its independence party would

get rid of the nuclear arsenal on its submarines and it would also not take part in any more what it calls illegal wars it's really the latest in a series of kind of threats and speculations both sides of this the scottish national party in scotland in the parliament here in westminster have been tapping into these kind of emotive issues the s.n.p. uses these age old rivalries between between scotland between england and scotland and also taps into this nationalist sentiment meanwhile the westminster parliament which obviously wants the u.k. to stay together fought stuff like this in the past it said or if scotland declares independence you won't necessarily be able to use the pound anymore you might have to apply to join the euro you probably wouldn't be automatically in the european union in nato so this is just another one of those things if you do if scotland declares independence it will be worse off as

a westminster parliament scotland has already called this irresponsible it says it's politicizing security and antiterrorism and scottish national party member has called this project fear. and of course we're keeping an eye on the independence debate in scotland as well as attempts by the u.k. government to avoid separation not going to our web site r.t. dot com for expert opinion and perspectives from the scottish public. because a first ever a.t.m. has gone live clients in vancouver has now can are sworn their digital currency for real cash so orders bitcoin and how can you turn a computer code into physical money basically it's a currency used for online transactions to use it klein set up web wallets hiding their names behind a digital code the payment can still be traced though making a transfer happens in a few mouse clicks buying some middleman and taxing agencies are left out so in

that reduces fees next to you choose whether to shop online using bitcoins or sell them for any official currency like dollars a year ago and so on and so forth the concept remains extremely vulnerable to a volatile exchange rates bitcoins are collected through a process called mining it has nothing to do with manual labor rather a train of computers computers cracks clothes and gets coins in exchange and jeffrey albert taco from the foundation for economic education explains why you find the technology impressive. a year ago at this time i thought it was insane but this is just another step in tech and technology you know they come along every few days and they flame out so i'm a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i get into the future of the world monetary system is cryptic cryptography and this kind of crypto market based currency it's quite spectacular and i tell you it only use it only

takes a few times using bricklin to realize this is incredibly easy it's much much easier than credit cards and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit card system it's just a superior technology the u.s. has its reasons to beat coin expansion it's been labeled a currency online activities like gambling and even gun running and make change rate is so volatile it's gone from a low point of dollars in january to two hundred and six to six dollars per coin within just a few months and despite that jeffrey tucker believes it's here to stay. really it's funny that it to be an alternative currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of a cabinet calculation so you can do your accounting then in fact people do this all the time and you can enter into the big trading because fear and live a wonderful life meaning that you can bypass the government currency entirely the

u.s. is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high costs associated with a.t.m.'s it doesn't surprise me that it started in canada rather than the us the us will lose out if it continues this trend towards regulating cryptocurrency. bitcoin may be only four years old but it's already had more than its fair share of controversy the currency materialized in two thousand and nine created by students researches and hobbits a year on there was a famous sale where somebody bought perhaps the world's most expensive piece or ten thousand bitcoins as some now worth about two million dollars by twenty eleven because value had gone up a thousand fold a single piece was selling for more than the british pound european year and american dollar at this point more than a thousand online merchants and organizations like we keep easier were accepting

bitcoins as payment and donations as well and earlier this year the bitcoin market tops the billion dollar mark and is believed to have grown by another five hundred million since then the net wide adoption of the bitcoin was picked up on by financial sources worldwide eager to time and regulate they say. but the money laundering concerns and shady online activities last month so online black market silk road raided and shut down by the f.b.i. up to thirty million dollars worth of bitcoins were seized during the operation but . the tree of bitcoin office bit corny x. says the currency is only getting stronger as a result. we've got any money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on a public ledger your name is attached to it but if somebody wants to find out who is making that transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of that they ended up shutting down the silk road beastly the

black market e.-bay and they actually shut that down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of people associated it associated big going just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for both twelve hours and since then people realize that it's not just about the black market and it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually gone up one hundred percent since then. this is also coming up later this hour the budget of green and entry public pressure at least the british government to pledge a constant green energy taxes as the industry is accused of being too expensive and noncompetitive. on behalf of thousands of miles but they've still got a long way to get home says survivors from a cia drone strike in pakistan go to washington to tell best story more after the break.

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choose the opinions the great. choose the stories get in. choose be access to. this is r.c. coming to you live from moscow welcome back the u.k. is rethinking its policy towards green energy taxation the prime minister pledged to cut so-called green levies which i'd have to the sun to end the trade bills. went to find out why the move is being biased by a majority of brits. talking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget when terrorists setting in as our announcements that energy prices are set to rise yes again now roughly ten percent of the u.k.'s average

household energy bill is made up of so-called green taxes and the prime minister david cameron has pledged to do away with them in order to help out struggling brits now the ideas proved popular for a country battling with austerity according to a recent poll by savation some sixty percent of brits object to having to shell out for the green levies to sort of. push their world you know a book about what they were just pushed away and soon it was a choice he was cheap with his daughter who would not prefer the profits an option really reduces terms that noise free well spoken never said let's see bills come down to hear us rush out of the opposition leader ed miliband says that green levy's aunt to blame for britain's high energy prices but the government figures show that green taxes are at one hundred twelve pounds to the average household energy bill in the u.k. now roughly half that money goes toward supporting cleaner greener energy such as

solar panels like the ones like a tit on the roof of london's blackfriars train station but as the latest survey shows for the brits counting the pennies to keep warm this winter concern for the environment is going to have to come in second from now polly boyko r t london. the debate over the benefits of the green power is not just a british issue experts are warning the german plans to switch to renewable energy will mean the country's demands for power can be met this may result in blackouts costing germany hundreds of millions of euros and professor frank andrews from the class hall university of technology and believes green tech is not worth it. well there's one principle problem if you rely on winter no dollar energy you have to be a real thank you for all the energy of the wind blows or if the sun shines if

there's not a case of more energy so if you have industry country which needs a base lot of energy you need a backup power plant so we have from germany mills to ation. that we build more and more with moves more and more solar panels but they will never deliver you a stable energy so we have coal power called fire power plants and this will increase the cost. in germany and as mentioned we have a situation that in principle nuclear power plants are forbidden so they are no longer accepted by the people and therefore this renewable energy is oregon or called renewable energy use or regarded as without any alternative and of course you've got more stories waiting on line for your including an opportunity not to be missed the u.k. hard to attract is an hour of investment by becoming the first european state to islamic bonds head to our family. and also the olympic countdown

of just one hundred days before the sochi opening ceremony as r.t. dot com we've got more on guard as well as the current whereabouts of the games iconic symbol. a year on and still no answers for a pakistani family which now only survived a cia drone attack they traveled thousands of miles to capitol hill to tell their story the strike killed their grandmother but no militants so the victims oss congressman why their horror was started in the first place. most of the briefing.

this was the first time actual victims of us drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing through on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables in the garden. i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when the skies are gray and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this kind of run the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not

afraid of being bombed that any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america they have no idea why our village in my house was targeted. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. actually being in

a concentration camp where they're being picked on this is off what kind of. if someone has long been or someone is driving. less you see that this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's therefore a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice in washington i'm going to check out . and congressman alan grayson who is a vocal opponent of drones arranged for the iran family to meet u.s. lawmakers and he told r.t. he believes pakistan is perfectly capable of handling militants itself. taxes the third largest recipient of military aid from the united states and year after year receives approximately a billion dollars in aid while you ask yourself why are we doing this when there are alternative means that come nowhere close to doing this kind of harm to

innocents and inflaming of foreign public opinion for instance given the fact that we are giving a billion dollars you know pakistan when we have the pakistani army arrest the one hundred or two hundred or even five hundred militants that we believe could possibly one day pose some kind of threat to the states and some other wild news in brief in age or be dead he's a leader of the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party was arrested by police as some are right. is accused of inciting violence and should appear in court along with al sadr president morsi and several other brotherhood key figures next monday earlier this year the group was bond and hundreds of observation detained in a police crackdown following the ousting of president morsy interline. surrounded and on karrar against his conservative government on the country's republic day police used tear gas to stop people marching towards taksim square spot of celebrations today marks the ninetieth anniversary of the turkish republic

which was founded by moustapha the took the riots following yesterday's clashes with police over the government's refusal to detain a politician accused of killing a protest. twin suicide attacks targeting soldiers and anti al-qaeda militants have code twelve people in iraq and injured at least nineteen the fast explosion hit a sunni leader attending a celebration dinner in northern baghdad the second blast in muscles saw a suicide bomber detonated his conny a police checkpoint more than seven thousand people have been killed in violence inside iraq they say here. the british economy has grown slightly in recent months prompting the some politicians to insist the nation is on the road to recovery but the positive mood isn't being shared by everyone. visited one region that's far from back on its feet. once providing the life blood to the british economy now much of

a person's industrial infrastructure lies in ruin but whilst full industrial hubs like leeds and manchester have risen from the ashes many smaller northern towns and cities have had a harder time reinventing themselves and a recent article in the economist magazine took it one step further suggesting that rather than further investment in places like middlesbrough or burnley and whole decaying towns and cities should be left behind it's true that economically britain remains a deeply divided country but with all this talk of failing towns and cities we thought we'd come and speak to some of the people who actually live in them and find out what they have to say about it all and say we've come to the market town of burnley in lancashire in the north west of the country. so. people services. burnley's friendly.

and good a football. needs help i'm going to leeds thankfully here. because i don't want to be year in my. opinion might be divided but burnley which was recently named the most enterprising place in britain deserves that accolade says n p called in but this is the university college. which transformed. into a purse of learning for future people. through the course northwest of the country unemployment has continued to rise despite falling marginally across the. u.k. on paper talk of abandoning some of these towns may carry some weight but try

telling that to the people he's livelihoods and indeed lives centered around such town horde. r.t. reporting from burnley in the north west of england. then for a bank with more news for us that's five minutes time but coming up next states abby martin with breaking the set. approximately sixteen percent of resume 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.

get on for the day enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. she turned his lover into an amazon. that had been my dream for so long. but he couldn't hold on to their race such a thing as ours growing a teacher and now she runs her own muslim factory where they throw down a challenge to man there's no alcohol or smoking under even coffee is forbidden they worship the earth fire and water. and learn martial arts. will he ever be able to win her back man versus woman on r.t.

. to least be told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about seventy yards p. interviews intriguing stories for you. troy's arabic to find out because it arabic don't know it's called. the the. hey guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set on this day last year new york and new jersey were getting wrecked by superstorm hurricane sandy overall the storm cost the city's sixty five billion dollars and took months of cleanup efforts no doubt it was a devastating storm and as we look back one year later what have we learned from the next time

a storm this size hits we do know that the subway system will probably be shut down again due to massive flooding keep in mind there are still hundreds of people living out of hotels because they don't have a home to return to i'm sure congress eventually agreed to send fifty one billion dollars in relief to the victims of sandy but we don't know where that money went according to national center for disaster preparedness only twenty three percent has been disbursed of the agencies directly involved in relief efforts and only fifteen percent of that has actually reached the hands of the victims but a lack of financial aid isn't the only glaring problem here those who were fortunate enough to rebuild post sandy are doing so in locations that are red zones for flooding related disasters in the future basically they're setting themselves up for disaster all over again which brings us to the elephant in the room and no one not talking about chris christie i'm talking about climate change half of the politicians out there want to stick their heads in the sand and keep denying the obvious fact that climate change isn't only real it's all.