find out me visit our big. goals for and i say reform grow louder among washington's political elite but intelligence chiefs remain defiant warning of drastic consequences if the spying program is curtailed. independence or security london threatens to deny access to its intelligence services if scotland world say yes to separation from the united kingdom. and canadians get their first ever beat coin a.t.m. the small thing digital clothes for couch look at why global users are turning to the unsustainable cyber currency.

hello and welcome to our c twenty four hour news live from moscow i mean you know our top story now in the u.s. political opinion towards this spying practices that caused a storm of global criticism 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 how strongly opposed it is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beating. it is to give up a program that would result in this nation being attacked testifying before the house intelligence committee n.s.a. director general keith alexander forcibly warned against a lifting of the surveillance program this year was echoed by the u.s. intelligence chief said reforms would lead to greater risks this is all happening

against a bank draft of a growing diplomatic with america's e.u. allies demanding answers over allegations their citizens and leaders are worse planted on our european correspondent tessa we will join us later this hour with more news but now. and now the british government is pushing hard to persuade schools that independence is not the way to go the home secretaries are now warning that by going in scotland may lose access to intelligence services and leaving it at a greater risk laura smith has started the claims for this. she says that any scottish independence would 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 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 a separation so log on to our website at r.t. dot com for expert opinion and perspectives from the scottish public. because for us to ever a.t.m. has gone live clive's in vancouver can our small bear digital currency fall real cash so big coin and how can you turn a computer code into physical money basically it's a currency used for online transactions to use it to use it client set out web

wallets hiding their names behind digital code the payment can still be trays that making a transfer happens in a few mouse clicks and banks middleman and taxing agencies are left out reducing fees by that next to each choose whether to shop online using bitcoins or some of those for any official currency like dollars euros etc the concept remains extremely vulnerable to or late to exchange rates bitcoins are collected through a process called mining but it has nothing to do with my annual labor rather a chain of computers plaques cards and gets coins in exchange and jeffrey albert tucker from the foundation of economic education explains why he finds a technology impressive. a year ago this time i thought it was insane but this is just another student technology you know they come along every few days and they flame up so i'm a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i'm getting that

the future monetary system is crude 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 brick when you 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. and the u.s. has its reasons. bitcoin expansion it's been labeled a currency for online activities like gambling and even gun running and the exchange rate is volatile the low point came in january this year when they value was just thirteen dollars and two hundred sixty six dollars has been behind its point and it took just a few months to get back before sailing and despite the ups and downs geoffrey taka believes it's here to stay. really it's floated to be

a lot of terms of currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of calculation so you can do your counting then and so people do this all the time you can enter into the us your little one to life meaning that you can bypass the government currency entirely which the us is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much higher costs associated with a.t.m. so it doesn't surprise me that it started in canada or the us the us would lose out if it continues this trend towards regulating. so 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 researchers and hobbits a year on there was a famous sale where somebody bought perhaps the world's most expensive pizza for ten thousand debate coins a sum now was about two million dollars by twenty eleven bitcoins value had gone up

a thousand fold a single piece was selling for more than the british pound european you are and american dollar let's move on now at this point to more than a thousand online merchants and organizations like we could be were accepting bitcoins as payment and donations earlier this year bitcoin market tops the billion dollar market and is believed to have grown by another five hundred million says that the next day the net wide adoption of the bitcoin was picked up on by a financial sources worldwide eager to tanks and regulates this new phenomenon 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 say million dollars worth of bitcoins were seized during the operation but the true damage to the tree of bitcoin officer at cognacs says the currency is only getting stronger as a result. we've got anti money laundering policy in place where we live it users to

three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on a public ledger your name is in it but if somebody wants to find out who is making the transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of the shutting down the silk road and even the black market and they actually shut down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of people associate associate big going just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for bo 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. and let's now go top top story on the bomb drop of a growing diplomatic ground with america's e.u. allies demanding answers of allegations that citizens as well as their leaders were

spied on and we can go live now to our correspondent see there that's a nice to see you so e.u. officials are in washington what exactly is expected from them mission. well there is a delegation of the e.u. officials and separately a delegation of german officials who are in washington to speak with the members of the u.s. administration as well as intelligence chiefs to discuss this latest revelation on this national security agency's spying operations on up to thirty five world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel as well as allegedly tens of millions of the french and spanish citizens as well now the outrage europe has been possible we have on the work that the confidence of our country towards the west has been quote unquote sake of that we also remember the recent the e.u. official statement talking highlighting the distraught. that this these allegations

have actually created and all of this anger spilling over not just in terms of diplomacy but also in the transatlantic deal some of these calling for the stalling of that so we see a direct impact of consequences of these allegations but the frustration right now is not just going one way because they're also frustrated reactions coming from the u.s. the n.s.a. chief having said that the nato allies that willingly shared that information with the u.s. and then he said that these allegations of widespread spying were in fact completely falls and misunderstood by the courts as well as reporters and he reiterated that it's not actual phone contents but the message data and phone numbers are to ration calls also he expressed frustration that the u.s. the european governments the cannot question reports coming out of the media if indeed it turns out that intelligence services here europe that those information with the u.s. however regardless of there's still a very strong impetus from the e.u. to push the u.s.

to adopt a new overseas a surveillance guidelines from the e.u. already back stricter new guidelines on the data sharing with third parties especially the united states and europeans in the past few weeks they really have been adamant that they need a rethink of the intelligence process this is what they're hoping to get out of this and need to give the u.s. of this visit to washington seems to be a step towards that direction. european correspondent. live from paris. and i will be back with more news break including a look at this. from green and stay with us. he turned his lover into an amazon. that had been my dream for so long. but he couldn't hold on to the research the thing is i was growing

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this is breaking news now at least ten people have been wounded after an explosion ripped through a shop and russia's southern regional on maltese hills are coming and of course we'll have an update for you as soon as we do it the u.k. is a rethinking its policy towards great energy talks ational the prime minister pledge to count so cold green levies which i'd have to some to ensure bill's point of boyko went to find out why the move is being bogged by a majority of the public. talking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget winter is setting in as our announcements that energy prices are set to rise yes again number of the ten percent of the u.k. so after it's 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. for the world you know so about what it is cost to wait and see if the choice is cheap with a shortage of prefer the profits an option really reduces terms that moiety welspun never said let's see bill's been done to hear us rush out of the drought 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 adds 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 that catered 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 for now polly boy r.t. london. the debate over the benefits of the green power is not just a british issue x. poso warning but german plans to swish they were nubile 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 out front and those from the university of technology believes green tech is not worth it. well there's one principle problem if you rely on winter not dollar energy you have to be a real thank you for all the energy if the wind blows or if the sun shines if this is 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 you know the situation. 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 because renewable energies are regarded as we thought and the alternator has always got more news for you waiting on line including an opportunity not to be missed the u.k. outrank billion in investment by becoming defined as two european states. islamic bonds had to ask them not. and also that families and friends are reunited after israel releases twenty six palestinian prisoners touching pictures

an hour in vision section for you. a year on and still no answers for a pakistani family which now really survived a cia drone strike they traveled thousands of miles to capitol hill to tell their story the strike killed their grandmother but no militants so the victims asked congressman why the cobol standard in the first place chicana was at the briefing for us. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. 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 heart was with these drone victims were appealing to one of the public 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 between this kind of the draw 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 his 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 at 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 we have no idea why our village in my house was targeted. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers for 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 these 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 population of. actually living in a concentration camp they're being picked on the this is off what kind of. if someone has long been or someone's 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 is 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 run family to meet u.s. lawmakers and he told r.t. he believes pakistan is perfectly capable of handling militants himself. pakistan is the third largest recipient of military aid from the united states and year after year receives approximately a billion dollars in aid why 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 foreign public opinion for instance given the fact that we are giving a billion dollars a year to 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 united states. and you can go now to breaking news this hour at least ten people have been wounded after a powerful explosion ripped through a shop in russia's region of dagestan. going all the joins me now live here in moscow hugo or a please tell us what do we know at this point well at this moment we are receiving different information but according to preliminary reports the blast took place in the center of much guard the capital of russia's southern republic of dagestan in front or near the entrance to a local liquor store also reportedly around ten people were injured they have now been hospitalized and investigators are now looking at what could have been the cause of this explosion or perhaps who could be behind the blast and so they're just on is one of the most volatile republics in the caucuses. all right.

with. your thank you very much indeed for that and of course will continue to have a very close eye on this story and all bring you more days as soon as we get them to some other world news in brief now in egypt the deputy leader of the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party was arrested by police is accused of inciting violence and should appear in court along with hours of president morsi and several other brotherhood q. figures next monday earlier this year the group was banned and hundreds of activists detained in a police crackdown following the ousting of president morsi in july. protests erupted in ankara against conservative government on the country's republican day police used tear gas to stop people marching towards turkish seems square as part of the celebrations the day marks the nine to five overthrew of the turkish republic which was founded by

a turk the riots followed yesterday's clashes with police over the government's refusal to detain a policeman accused of killing a protester. twin suicide attacks targeting soldiers and al-qaeda militants have killed twelve people in iraq and injured at least nineteen the first explosion hit a sunni leader attending a celebration dinner in northern baghdad and the second blast in mosul saw a suicide bomber detonated his car near a police checkpoint more than seven thousand people have been killed in violence inside iraq this year. the start of the twenty four scene sancia winter olympics is now just one hundred days away the international olympic committee pays a visit to the host city to see for himself how preparations are going to joins us now live from such a full nor high that poll so does the city and feel like it's almost already tell us. yes well as you mentioned the new president of the international olympic

committee thomas has been in sochi all week to mark one hundred days until the start of the games and he's just given one of his first interview since being appointed in the new role he gave it to r.t. now we sat down and discussed a whole host of issues surrounding the sochi games notably of course the so-called gay propaganda law here in russia the planning of nontraditional sexual relations to minors now on monday president putin said that everyone is welcome in sochi regardless of sexual orientation and this is the message that has for spectators who are concerned about the law. we've got provisions are coming along. very very encouraging when you see the sports facilities. we can be very very confident that we have excellent conditions here during the games the last one hundred every games this is. you know the

last great show the last leg is over. to the there are many reasons to be confident there is no reason to be complacent this is. so the message then from the new i.o.c. president is that the venue will be ready on time of that he is confident but the final one hundred days are set to be the busiest. right paul thank you very much indeed for that. paul scott live from thank you. and up next the nasi a man versus woman we'll look at combat schools in ukraine interest and.

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