many questions but no one. gave. information. looking into us comes away empty handed while an internal review into america's surveillance activities continues. it is laughable it is just about as laughable that's wall street banks regulating themselves. they're human beings after all there's no reason to expect if they enjoy being here as torture accusations keep piling up in the guantanamo bay prison officials inside the try to convince our crew. joint force feeding. secret deal to watered down e.u.

regulations. brussels. and industrial giants. everybody here at all good morning to you and welcome to the program. live in the russian capital where it's just off to nine. why do you spy an e.u. delegation has met america's intelligence officials face to face to hear their firsthand explanations how the u.s. national security agency was apparently not only tapping the phone calls of millions of europeans but also intercepting the communications of world leaders as well but the missions members were clearly disappointed by the response they got. and reports from washington. the e.u. delegation came to get answers from the n.s.a.

and they got nothing keith alexander told members of the e.u. delegation that they were not spying on european citizens on a massive scale obviously there is no way of checking it i caught up with some members of that delegation who said this is that alexander gave some figure some information that don't clarify. the situation this is. justifiable we are lies the master of violence cannot be based on on the question against the terrorists and of course not to do to have information about telephone or fungal or medical it cannot be justified in the fight against terrorism here at the figures we have seen the europeans have helped him to collect information about as a regions of afghanistan yemen and so on not overall. figures. in terms in german need to get into the french german authorities to observe it would have done them. yet so keep alexander told them whatever intelligence european

agencies are sharing with the n.s.a. is from war zones again no way of checking any of that so was that just a symbolic gesture on the part of the e.u. delegation to ask those questions well they definitely need to show european citizens that their representatives are not completely new so they came to washington express to reserve to indignation quite reserved and agreed to cooperate further we've seen it before now a special intelligence committee has launched a review into the u.s. surveillance activities overseas and may even try to restrict them although this is something the n.s.a. chief is trying hard to prevent have a listen it is much more important for this country that we defend this nation and take the beatings and it is to give up a program that would result in this nation being attacked. shows there is little chance the u.s. will give up its why it's happening that's also according to american geo political

analyst eric draitser. appear to intrust the scene bureaucrats like clapper and others who have been caught lying publicly on the record to congress and to other policymakers and officials about the nature of these programs about what the united states is doing about its very operations in the most public sense of the word and so we are to entrust these people with some kind of an internal review it is laughable it is just about as laughable as wall street banks regulating themselves . and more details on the techniques of the n.s.a. uses are still being revealed a report in the washington post shows the agency has been harvesting huge troves of data from google and yahoo how by breaking into their communications links this leak sketch from an internal presentation shows how the n.s.a. intercepts google traffic by tapping into the company's data cables millions of records collected in this way every single day it's all part of

a program code named muscular and there's a doodle for you right there you can see the n.s.a. engineers seem to enjoy what they're doing if that smiley face as anything to do with it. still to come here on r t that of bye bye bailout. the number one priority would be to make a decision that is based on what is the best and most curable and sustainable exist for people for economy and the head of the irish government and kenny talks to our t. about becoming the first country to leave an e.u. bailout. and the syrian conflict is forcing millions out of their homes as most of them can't go too far having to stay inside the country constantly under threat the terror attacks we meet one such family in just a few minutes. but for now here on the program on our t.v. no matter how hard the u.s. government is working on mending the shattered image of the guantanamo bay prison

the flow of criticism continues to pour down on the infamous facility and you report via a u.s. based human rights group has found systematic violations at the site and called for its immediate closure and l.t. is an associate she actually went to guantanamo to see what it's like for herself is her exclusive report. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own on torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without

charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water and it's nice there's nothing really bad and i here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place and you get around all the other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy candle to house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it in we give the patient

a choice do they want to have the key which is agent it will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i

might feel it uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what they're saying any more because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request a client the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. to the chair legs to the ground. strap across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalist and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to

harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank heavens meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five told single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem that detainees have behaved better there will be warded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and r.t.

one ton of cuba another scandal the prison last week james cornell the lawyer of a man accused of aiding the nine eleven attacks has claimed that his client now suffers from major health problems after he was tortured by the cia he had this to say to us here at dot's. immediately upon being transferred to guantanamo bay mr obuchi went to the medical staff and complained that he had suffered a head injury while in cia custody nothing was done to follow up on that there's no investigation into someplace else told military commissions there's no investigation into the possibility of a federal civilian court there are still a significant number of people who are on hunger strike at guantanamo bay who are being force fed and sometimes hospitalized the most important question is the silencing of the defendants that they can't tell anyone whether that's the un special rapporteur on torture or members of congress and their staff who are

investigating the issue they can't tell anyone about what happened to them in cia custody that's what we're challenging because if we can break the silence on that question there could be real movement on guantanamo bay. and there are more first time reports from guantanamo on our website but also what. about a. japanese government plans to take up the cleanup of the fukushima nuclear disaster away from the plant's operator that means expenses now could all fall on the shoulders of taxpayers. also a lot of me. as for most influential man of the year i'll be at the praise comes with a liberal dose of ready made to dictate cliche. i know c.n.n. the most n.b.c. fox news have taken some knocks lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to

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deep in talks behind the back of brussels of a watering down e.u. laws in return for helping to weaken environmental regulations britain wants to aid in safeguarding the leeway enjoyed by bankers it's all drawing accusations of cynical disregard for that of the public good and this report right now to want to use laura smith with friends like these who needs enemies david cameron. we negotiate with the e.u. the need it all together and germany. holds the entire project together and yet these two countries are reportedly cutting a secret deal to protect their main industry again e.u. regulation it's a tit for tat britain is proposing to support germany to delay the introduction of a cap on carbon dioxide emissions. and in return

britain is seeking germany's help to protect the banking sector from the brussels regulations the proposed deal may also include germany's help. something the tory policies controversy against the tide of public opinion but it's not just. practically every member has something to complain about. pricing policies spain is unhappy with. others criticised budget contributions. and whether it's good. or punishing economic. receiving all combine to undermine the project but now that two of the most powerful members. to defy the rules of the organization it looks like.

a whole new level. however the e.u. countries continue to bicker. there are actually growing signs of economic hope the irish government has said that it will soon leave the program that was forced upon it when it came close to bankruptcy that was now five years ago. caught up with prime minister kenny. worked out by political leaders not financial institutions like the european central bank. well officials might have if you political leaders have got to decide in the interests of europe and that's the decision that was made it's very clear it's referred to in all of these and since. i would walk after promise and i'll start this we will be the first eurozone country to exist below the number one priority would be to make a decision that is based on what is the best and most curable and sustainable exist for our people for economy owned was forced country having to deal with the scale

of borrowing to support to recapitalize banks and not have the facilities that are available from the european perspective that we have negotiated with our colleagues they thank you union supervision and new regulations and the possibility of recapitalization. so what does it take for people nor sorts of walks of life to survive in today's economic rat race and find out in the kaiser report that today you know it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place said the red queen to alice it takes all the printing you can do to keep in the same place said the banker is to bernanke it takes all the working you can do to keep in the same place said the near futile factor that jumps we have to work for a living but i say not only does it take all the running printing working but it also takes all the bombing stealing and the fraud exploring and dying shaking breaking and taking to stay in the same place isn't that right stacey.

are the cards report throughout the day here on r t for an hour though to washington we go where the iraqi prime minister is asking the u.s. to bring its airborne muscle to his country to tackle the snowballing violence and more than four hundred people have been killed in iraq this month alone and my colleague bill dawe he spoke with karen kwiatkowski she was in the u.s. air force she believes bringing more weapons to the country will only worsen the situation. airpower is not the solution to the kind of sectarian strife that you're seeing in the urban areas all it's going to do is what it's done for twenty years it's going to destroy buildings and people pollute the environment it doesn't work very well and you mention collateral damage well that's the rule that's kind of the rule when we use air power we expect and we get plenty of collateral damage and you can't you can't really make up for that by saying i'm sorry you said earlier the only pointing the finger of blame at the political system that the prime minister there but just how much is the u.s.

responsible for the situation now in the wrong oh my goodness i mean you know twenty years you know nine hundred ninety nine hundred ninety one we've been the bombing the dozen years of vinyl between then a second invasion then we put in place puppets who marquis amazingly is still there one of the guys we've been working with for a decade these people do not have the credibility that they would need to be true leaders political leaders of a unified iraq and they're facing problems that are well beyond their capabilities . the. let's get straight into it for you right now egypt students the former president mohamed morsy sparking protests at the university in cairo on wednesday demonstrators smashed windows threw chairs they covered the walls and for fiji insulting the current military government security forces did storm the campus off the stuff requested intervention to try and the disorder. government forces have

taken control of the main base of the m twenty three minutes of the democratic republic of. the rebels seized a large part of eastern congo at least eight hundred thousand people have been made homeless the rebels leader was reported to have crossed into uganda to sign a peace deal and this comes after told last week and led to a very intense infighting. i looked at the maps here of five thousand people evacuated from a town in mexico after a major leak in a petrol pipe and the fuel spouted up over a field just metres from many homes officials say thieves tapping into the pipe caused the rupture the energy minister said that some four point seven billion dollars worth of fuel has been stolen in just the last five years. and al qaeda linked militants are related killed at least thirty civilians in mortar shelling in the syrian province of. a local story the survivors show signs of chemical

poisoning meanwhile the long awaited talks on peace in syria may come a month later than planned stalled by a split or rebel representation of the syrian national coalition says it wants to be the only voice of the multi faction opposition. so. that all a syrian conflict has already caused more than two and a half million to flee their country yet about twice that number of had to leave their homes but stay inside syria and as their plight that often gets overlooked as are his policy reports too high but mark live is a refugee in her own country forced from her home by civil war she and her daughters are hiding some two hundred kilometers from the village in a three room apartment they share with another family their crime supporting president bashar assad. the terrorists want to kill me they broke into my house to find me they looted everything they kidnapped six members of my family all because

they are looking for me a lot has been said about the desperate situation facing refugees who fled across the border to neighboring countries but most of those forced from their homes by the spiraling violence are displaced within syria to solve these internally displaced people remain extremely vulnerable and their numbers continue to swell. i've been told many times to stop supporting assad and everything will be fine but i won't change my principles and they will win we will fight his first got hold of too high but she was eight months pregnant they keep her so badly she lost the baby but she refused to change her politics. i ran away with my children my mother is very dear to me it is now the second aid faster all that has passed without me being with her my mother has god by her side he will not abandon her they are kidnapping young people sixteen year olds and they are cutting

them into pieces when asked if she'll give herself up for family sake through high by emphatically says no. if i die i want my daughters to continue in the same way everybody is going to die my mother may die but she wanted their last victim i may die to. syria's death toll stands at more than one hundred thousand with no sign of fighting a beijing for many internal refugees home remains a distant dream for those like through high but it's only their ideals that gives him the strength to carry on. the r.t. damascus syria or a nine to twenty five am here in the russian capital this is r t thanks for joining us today just a moment oksana boy because coming in worlds apart is next. morning

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations. at the plentiful supply it was terrible to say

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a lot of welcome to worlds apart after decades of condemnation and plant destruction chemical weapons seem to be back in use not only as toxic agents but increasingly as agents of influence of a public opinion that pick legal hype every round the use of chemical weapons how to disarmament well to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by paul walker a program director at green cross international and one of the world's top experts on chemical weapons mr walker thank you very much for your time now the demolition of chemical weapons seems to be a very popular theme you with a war than prize givers recently the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has just been. awarded the nobel peace prize you are about to receive the so-called alternative nobel prize but i wonder if it isn't too early to celebrate

because sure more than sixty percent of the world's declared chemical weapons have been destroyed by being remade i mean stockpiles arguably a represent the biggest challenge i think that's a very good question i think first of all i i feel very honored to receive the right livelihood award so-called alternative nobel nobel prize and i'm very pleased that the opi study you has received the nobel peace prize now whether this is too early i would say no. it's certainly too early to syria i mean we still have to wait and see how the syrian declaration goes with the whether the process of inventory and destruction goes well and that will take probably you know the year or so. but i think the nobel peace prize and the prize of the alternative nobel awarded to me are really recognizing well over two decades of work that many of us particularly the opi study you and there are many many inspectors that are now.