our strike never turned world's attention to the. raises alarm on america's drone campaign which has taken hundreds of innocent lives despite u.s. claims that very few civilians come under fire. when a drone hate i was with my grandmother everything became. a pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress how her home was destroyed and her grandmother killed. the e.u. isn't satisfied with washington's explanation of n.s.a. surveillance allegations germany wants edward snowden himself to shed some light on reports chancellors of phone being tapped. germany. and the state is going to

repeat itself. parties are roughly video agency speaks to n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who is skeptical that america will stop its surveillance anytime soon. and behind the barbed wire travels to the notorious guantanamo bay detention camp where the military staff denies that the facilities dark reputation mired by allegedly torture and suicides is anywhere close to reality. and you're watching r t as we recap the week's top stories i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. now a pakistani family that witnessed a cia drone strike which killed their grandmother headed to washington this week to

testify before congress or he's going to church or can it was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the deadly attack. 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 girls right so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing through on a 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 this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases between this 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 at any moment. my mother was killed my children are 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 hands to talk to. 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 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 a lot kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running and. 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. living in a concentration camp with being picked on this is off work kind of close to if someone has a long beard or someone's driving over the mess you he and this is how they're being targeted and at the same time to nor to be in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public corporate notice in washington i'm going to check out . according to the us of the three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been carried out in the past decade have claimed a few civilian lives but local reports indicate at least nine hundred innocent people including two hundred chilling children have been killed in pakistan

documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took of the story of the raymond family as inspiration for his latest movie and says the public doesn't understand the consequences of drones people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading that the drones were killing only high value targets represented an imminent threat it doesn't make sense it's just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which is part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant thing there so people said it doesn't matter as important is that you know the families seeking to all kinds of americans people who have a mother or have a father and who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan

that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and drawing we have to change all of our. well this week of u.s. drone program has also dealt a blow to the peace process in the country a strike killed the country's taliban leader just a day before a government delegation was set to start negotiations with the group the nation is now on high security alert over fears militants could retaliate pakistan's interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end the violence a local expert told us he believes it's the pakistani people who will pay the price the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because we. had made it a precondition but the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the

dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big continued so i knew what he was going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executors not of all rolled into one without any of thought it to. and the e.u. delegation and a separate group from germany were in washington this week to try and find out more about the n.s.a.'s alleged spying activities but the diplomats and didn't get the answers they were looking for the e.u. group failed to get any clarification on reports that world leaders were spied on and whether or not the white house knew about it it remains to be seen what actions europe will take now after relations with washington took a serious hit germany has been a fuming over allegations that angle of merkel's phone could have been tapped since two thousand and two three years before she became chancellor one of the country's and m.p.'s wants edward snowden himself to testify on the matter because he doesn't

trust u.s. intelligence officials in chongqing basically if you will because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. american security officials and the policymakers have been placing the blame on each other over who is responsible for organized a global surveillance here is u.s. secretary of state john kerry explaining why the white house didn't know what

exactly the n.s.a. is doing. it is. saying all it is there is that there are over. now that statement doesn't match up with the explanation given by the n.s.a. chief keith alexander he says his agency was being told who to spy on by policymakers including u.s. ambassadors despite the ongoing surveillance scandal and what seems like a rift between u.s. intelligence and of the state department nothing will change that's what the man who has been releasing these n.s.a. leaks glenn greenwald told r.t. is roughly video agency. who she knew brazil germany. and speed of course in the united states is going to repeat it continuously for the next several weeks or months almost every country around the world be very clear

objective of you say is to not just go out but to keep it for as long as they can so the big any time. if you're a citizen whose behavior you want to also learn everything they've been doing in terms of who they think you are. meanwhile edward snowden explained why he gave out these n.s.a. documents in the first place let's take a look at his manifesto of truth published in germany's spiegel magazine as the name implies the n.s.a. whistleblower insisted that people who tell the truth are not committing any crime but some governments don't feel that way according to stoughton he blames them for unprecedented campaigns of persecution in response to the leaks the manifesto says society has a moral obligation to ensure that there are laws which limit surveillance and protect human rights ultimately snowden is glad his leaks led to a debate over surveillance which could create reforms and who is a whistleblower with m i five thinks the problem is that current legislation isn't

keeping up with advanced spying technology. who is actually breaking the law because all the ground that eat my agent she saved allowed to smile next to appear to be very legally. but we seeing in the last decade is that here technological scale spying industrial scale spy and it's the new technology has allowed this to happen and the laws which is supposed to be democratic and we see how we are spied on are just not keeping up the twentieth century nor so now we're getting the twenty first century tech. and later in the program state of denial. if you ask 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 think that in just a few minutes we've reported from the notorious one time obey detention center where over a dozen inmates are undergoing a daily torture force feeding procedure described by the staff there as merely

uncomfortable but. syria takes one more step towards being free of chemical weapons with the successful destruction of all its production facilities after the break we take a look at the disarmament challenges that still lay ahead before the war torn country. with. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've. covered. it's. time. to. find out what's really happening to the global economy. headlines.

today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. and you're watching the weekly here. now eight months in over a dozen guantanamo bay inmates still remain on hunger strike protesting their indefinite detention and the alleged use of torture camps staff force feeding those refusing to eat

a procedure that has been described as brutal and extremely painful. to travel to the prison to investigate what is really happening there. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous president no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own autumn 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. furnace of water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around 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 camp delta 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 the 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 they will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube.

most of our patients have been using olive oil they seem to like it 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 for speeding 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 this 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 pieces of had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard of. 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 uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing anyway because they know it sounds stupid i volunteered that the procedure be demonstrated on me requesting 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 journalists and just tell them you know about their 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 you 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 fold 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 behave better there will be boarded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from 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. one ton of cuba. we've always got more news waiting for you on our website including a story where britain has scrapped a plan to force people from india pakistan and some african countries to make

a cash deposit of over three thousand pounds for visas on a website you can read more on the policy that caused outrage at home and abroad. plus new name new life blue photons an airline proposed for some swedish citizens to change their name to klaus and in return would help them set up a new life in berlin. dot com to learn why this campaign failed. this week syria passed a milestone in its chemical disarmament successfully destroying the on time all of the production facilities the united nation of all of its existing stockpiles is now scheduled to be completed by the end of june but as our policy or reports from damascus meeting that deadline could be a major challenge. dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention

a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we should eliminate. what about a week but you know this is a very complicated the process complications filled by so called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate on inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't furby blamed the rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until. both. sides being

visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling the. two groups two of them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission if undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapon stockpiles in the midst of a civil war surely with syria actually stop producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed up to rockets with seven gets fired at damascus the suburbs those responsible austerlitz knowledge the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed or removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances

policy r.t. damascus. now while some rebel groups have been accused of hampering the disarmament efforts damascus has been very cooperative this is according to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that is overseeing the process let's hear what michael lohan the head of its public relations department had to say to r.t. . well this was an extremely important. milestone and the all of the chemical weapons and chemical weapons production facilities and mixing for all of that is now first of all under international control secondly the syrian government confirmed that they have what we say functionally destroyed critical quitman which is needed to run their production making their chemical weapons production facilities and what we call these mixed and building all of that has now been rendered inoperable we have gotten all of the cooperation from the

syrian government authorities that have been required for us to conduct our verification activities there was a lot of skepticism that we would be able to reach the. point that we've reached today so we're doing a lot better than a lot of people would have expected it. is now take a swing around the globe to look at some other world news for you this hour at least nine people have been killed by a string of insurgent attacks targeting security forces across iraq in the central city of bakuba three police officers died and scores were injured after three suicide bombers blew themselves up one after another the surge in violence over recent months has claimed thousands of victims with authorities struggling to contain the bloodshed despite wide ranging operations and to tighten security. at least six people including one child have died after a ferry capsized off the coast of thailand near the popular resort of. twenty people remain unaccounted for there are reports that up to two hundred were on

board even though the maximum capacity is one hundred fifty and the accident is being blamed on an engine problem which forced passengers to rush to one side of the vessel causing it to flip. meanwhile another boat has capsized off the western coast of me and maher leaving dozens of people missing there it was reportedly headed for bangladesh carrying about seventy passengers with only eight found so far the incident comes amid the un warning of the start of an exodus from the country's state which has been torn by ethnic clashes as many as fifteen hundred people have fled in the last week with several reports of drowning . now the world's first bitcoin a.t.m. was opened in the canadian city of vancouver this week the machine allows users to exchange their cyber currency into cash and vice versa let's now take a look at how bitcoin works basically it is

a currency used for online transactions and to make it work clients set up web wallets hiding of their names behind a digital code banks middlemen and then tax agencies are all left out of the process reducing fees but the payment can still be traced next you choose whether to shop online using bitcoins or sell them for any physical currency such as the dollar euro but coins are collected through a process called mining which is basically a chain of computers cracking codes and getting coins in exchange but it's not all clear sailing last month the f.b.i. shut down the online black market silk road seizing nearly thirty million dollars worth of bitcoins jeffrey albert tucker form from the foundation for economic education calls the currencies rise simply spectacular. a year ago this time i thought it was insane i mean i thought well this is just another technology you know they come along every few days and they're flameout so on

a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i'm getting that the future of the world 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 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 or all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit card system it's just a superior technology. now coming up we take a closer look at illegal fishing off the coast of west africa but before we go here some of the week's images from the olympic flame record breaking journey across russia. with the last and then one hundred days before the winter games the olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station the torch is passing through towns and cities of the world's largest country currently touring russia's

north and don't forget it r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from the olympic flames marathon. remember way back when we first talked about the first downloadable guns that could be printed out on a three d. printer at home while technology moves pretty quickly because british police have already busted in legal armory pretty out firearm parts and special three d. printers this technology may make gun control literally impossible in the same way that banning and burning books has become futile and the past they used to be able

to just burn books or forbid them from being printed but in the age of the internet all you need is a scanner and an internet connection and the information that's found in a book cannot be destroyed because it is out there on the magical ether of the air at so basically the near future any person with even half a brain and some patients can start making guns in their basement which means that gun control laws will basically become pointless because they'll never be able to catch all the people doing it no it will be able to take the guns not even obama or the hardest of hardcore liberals this technology could be the best thing to happen to the second amendment ever but fascist my opinion.

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