action to the place that something gulag of our minds. crowds in hundreds of cities across the globe take part in a million mask march against corruption corporate greed an online privacy breach of . tensions between germany and the u.k. over spying allegations grove berlin accuses london of breaching international law by using its embassy as a surveillance post. and reaching for the stars the olympic torch for the winter games in sochi prepares for liftoff and its first ever space for the reports from the launch site. a nationwide strike increase shuts down public services in transport for twenty four hours as protesters go all out against a steady program whipped by the country's international lenders.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me marina josh. fox knight to congo bill field this year activists in more than four hundred cities around the world turn out for the million mask march to show their anger at corrupt politicians corporate rule and states surveillance and london the night was marked by bonfires scuffles an arrest crowd started a fire near buckingham palace and block parliament square sara for us was there. we were trying to the first about the protests the lithium ion the leather cargo group read a lot of resistance from the protesters that sort of other people know more live as well mostly even more than not only the laws. but very very very ugly right at the lake right and clear the right level you know with little movement look and know

exactly that that it would be a. book rather unexpectedly the million mom march here in london has paid. the fees that have me from the houses of parliament where they were protesting and they won't write down all of them out here in london if you look behind him they're all walking down the hall with buckingham palace. well the man must protest this here in london have ended up outside buckingham palace. the other of them even making it across the day we seeing prices breakouts and i between police and protesters and some of the groups been saying often as he said coming over way down here of course this maybe is being taking

place in cities around the world tonight but here in london protesters ending the day outside buckingham palace serafin oxy longer than across the atlantic protesters in the united states also took their chance to deliver a firm no to corporate greed and privacy breaches crowns marched through downtown los angeles to shows here solidarity with the movement many of them aligned to the occupy wall street front on the east coast the activists also gathered outside the white house to protest how washington correspondent garnished you can report. here in washington you have different. protest groups are marching under the umbrella of be anonymous they protest different things to protest what they see as a police state they focus against the persecution of whistleblowers they protest against all same told the world's biggest producer genetically modified seeds so generally speaking they see themselves as a movement against the government and corporations taking advantage of the people.

who are. so we're standing next to the white house what do you want president obama to hear you want president obama to hear that five years after the financial crisis the banks being bailed out we're still suffering people are still struggling they're drowning in debt we live in a country that's fundamentally unfair we no longer have the rule of law from the n.s.a. to edward snowden to chelsea manning all over the world people are speaking out whistleblowers are speaking out regular people are speaking out and saying enough is enough we want justice we want to know and people ask if the decentralized massed movement like this can achieve anything other than just making noise well last year they were instrumental in informing people about the cisco legislation that would provide legal protection to internet giants that funneled private information to their users two thousand agencies and now in light of edward snowden's revelations they demand a drastic overhaul of the n.s.a. . while the movement rolled out and almost every continent in europe france italy

and portugal saw crowds gathering in the streets wearing masks elsewhere in canada mexico and brazil demonstrations also drew crowds in japan australia and new zealand the guy fawkes mask has become a symbol of the protest movement and a top selling i am online abbi martin looks at its significance. to be hard pressed to not find this mask at a recent protest but ironically every time the mask is purchased time warner gets a cut just because of time turners move even from the company also trademark the mask but despite this disturbing contradiction the mask still serves a very noble purpose it's helped to give activists immunity and identity to anonymity.

the spying scandal between germany and britain is gathering force berlin has warned london that using it to embassy as a surveillance post is illegal under international law the allegations of u.k. snooping come on the heels of another revelation america's unprecedented spying on the german chancellor argues or smith has the details that we know of course that it wasn't just the u.s. who was eavesdropping on the germans it's revealed revealed that britain probably was to this information comes from the edward snowden leaks from n.s.a. documents from aerial photographs and of course from past form and it suggests that the u.k. has its own nest of intercepting equipment on the roof of its own embassy which of course is in the heart of not very far from the german parliament toll fell from calls. to see pictures of it it's pretty obvious that it's that it's a sort of white box. this equipment intercept mobile phone calls and it's well

known that angela merkel conducts a lot of government business through mobile phone calls and also through text messages can also incept wife i data and long distance communications right across the german capital so it's incredibly intrusive syncros really awkward for the british red faces all around the british ambassador has been summoned to the german foreign minister to try to explain himself in german and u.s. diplomatic relations really has an extraordinary since this since this was revealed and we can expect the same for the u.k. if the ambassador isn't able to provide an adequate sense of the nation and the first test of those relations particularly between the u.s. and germany is coming up next week this basically trade negotiations between the u.s. and the european union understandably those in now in jeopardy now not everyone in germany is convinced that their government was unaware of its allies spying antics and we talked to one of those skeptics from the pirate party. the german

government of course didn't notice what was happening on the roof top of the u.s. embassy and the u.k. embassy because it's clear for everybody who looks at that big what's going on there but i think that the german interior secret service they're not a nod to investigate on the las and this is simply because germany right now is such a class pot now of the b. of the u.s. and they want to become a first class partner so our government is simply selling our privacy and their own privacy to climb up the ladder also how this hour and best a geisha a chance light on military torture in the u.s. and in the camera report shows that while the fans department and the cia mastermind the abusive treatment doctors and medical staff are more hands on. the such a twenty fourteen winter olympic torch relay is approaching and

a story checkpoint final preparations are being made to senate into orbit martin andrews is at the cosmic draw where the launch will take place. well the countdown begins and away less than twenty four hours before this russian space rocket jets off into space with the three crewmembers supplies and of course the olympic torch it will take between six and eight hours to reach the international space station ten minutes just to reach zero gravity and once connected with the international space station tomorrow only the second time in history that they will have three so those capsules on board and a total of nine crew members so even though will be quite cramped from tomorrow late afternoon will certainly be a party as for the space walk they call it have the naked flame in the vacuum of space and they also can have the flame inside the i assessed you to safety procedures but they do have

a modified towards take that outside the i assess on the ninth of november cosmonauts on a cut off and he will be making that historical space walk on there for the night and they will then be returning with three remaining crew members back here on november the eleventh once the torch is back on terra firma will then continue its journey around russia in total will be covering sixty five thousand kilometers of terrain covering eighty three regions of russia it will go on to lake by cal to the bottom of the lake in siberia the largest freshwater lake in the world and will eventually make its way to the top of mount elbrus the tallest mountain in europe ahead of its final journey to the opening ceremony insulter in the black sea on the seventh of february and on line we're following every step of the olympic flame journey around russia and beyond and you can keep an eye on the record breaking torch relay.

in northern china a series of explosions outside a regional communist party's office has left one person dead and eight others injured ball bearings placed in small homemade bombs hit several government employees who were on their way to work in the city of taiwan to discuss this i'm now joined by joseph chang professor of political science at hong kong city university thank you so much mr chang for joining us here on our team to discuss the situation there so what is your take on the situation in this is clearly an attack against government officials so who could be behind this attack them you know basically two types of terrorist activities in china one kuyt comes from well organized groups especially the groups ethnic minorities such as the quake was even. but it's another type tends to be isolated incidents from individuals who feel very much as we do because the person no

experiences like treatment in the head and sort of public security that now people who have been wrong to in court cases. unjustly punished and so on unfortunately these incidents tend to have a certain demonstration effect that is people take such that they have learned. from the media what we see just a week ago there was another attack which chinese officials call the next attack in a terrorist attack could we be seeing a new tendency in china of terrorist attacks as we don't hear of terror acts happening in the country very often what are your thoughts on this. wow the party is about to hold is third and the re meeting of the central committee in a few days time so terrorist acts wrong about this time of the year will tend to

attract a lot of media attention including international media attention so that is probably why you have a higher incidence at the same time because of the two types of terrorist activities that i have just mentioned you do expect that these incidents of terrorist acts will probably increase in the coming years and this is a kind of our economy day and on term talent for the public's security apparent to those of china why is it just said that these attacks are aimed at attracting public and media attention but could there be something out of that you know these groups responsible for perpetrating these attacks that they want to track attention to or want something from the government. it's possible but at the moment

a certainly we do not see any. humans or rules tend to try to exact certain concessions from the good woman through such terrorist acts the public security or parrot is in china remains very powerful and it is not imagined that this chinese so forty's few will make concessions to eternal respectability s. . well let's now take a look at the situation in china from you know both perspectives from the perspective of economics and of course politics china has been undergoing free market reforms for the past a. couple of decades net right now has a new leadership in pin but how much of a reformer is he politically and economically. apparently the new data ship is rather keen on economic reforms you know coming panda remeeting of

a central committee it is expected to discuss the economic development strategy for the coming ten years or so see typical add on to new leadership as the first to preen omes tended to deal with person no arrangement so i think be brought the rest of the economic form quite well defined the real challenge is effective policy implementation as these reforms will bound to come across resistance our best interests at the same time this is also a matter of putting out a power rickey's because their leaders certainly can't handle too many things within the star peter time at the moment we do not see any intention to engage in serious political reforms the new do seem to be appeasing the left and right while maintaining balancing strategy. all right joseph chang passer

a political science at hong kong city university thank you so much for giving us your perspective on the stray ssion in china and we'll be back with more news right after this break stay with us for. world. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the. economic downturn in the final. days of the deal sank night and the rest of that life was going to be taking the lead every week.

welcome back here with r.t. now a terrorist attack in the center of damascus has left at least eight people dead according to local media the blast comes a day after international talks to a on the crisis were postponed or just fall asleep you're joins us live now with more. so paula what do we know about these attacks.

well the news just in is that at least eight people have been killed and many more injured in the capital city of damascus as a result of an explosion that happened at the entrance to the railway building among those injured are women children and construction workers there is no group that as of yet has come forward to claim responsibility for this attack but the government is calling it the work of terrorists which does refer to opposition and rebel fighters who have been battling it out with the syrian president bashar assad at the same time there's been a second incident of violence in the southern city of suede and now there we are hearing that a suicide bomber drove a car into a building belonging to the syrian military intelligence that car exploded and they too there have been quite extensive casualties at the moment there's been no confirmation however from the damascus government so we're relying on reports from live in these television what is interesting and perhaps particularly concerning is

that sway to is considered a very secure area so the fact that someone was actually able to enter a building belonging to military intelligence is going to be of great concern to the damascus government and then in another incident in hama province they we're hearing that a gang has attacked a military outpost again no word there of casualties but this has been a bloody few hours of violence in syria. about the much anticipated geneva two talks are once again full bag why is that. well as you correctly say the geneva two talks had been planned for later this year the latest word is that they've now been delayed with no safe date as to when they will resume the only date being given is november the twenty fifth and on that date you'll have russian as well as american delegates getting together under the arms

of the united nations league envoy lakhdar. he me and hopefully even and this is the word from him himself they will be some progress made the problem is the sticking points which first and foremost is the division within the opposition and they also are insisting that the syrian president bashar assad is removed before they're prepared to come to talks and obviously this is not something that damascus will ever agree to there's also a lack of agreement over whether or not he ran should be involved in these talks now all of this is happening while the united states has announced what it's calling skepticism over the fact that they are asking whether or not assad has handed over all information regarding his chemical weapons damascus did hand over a seven hundred page document but the united states says it is looking to see whether or not some of the chemical weapons stockpiles in syria have in fact not been disclosed now this comes on the back of several weeks of foreign inspectors working inside syria and up until now the word from these inspectors has always

been positive positive that they they they say that the damascus government is constantly copulating taking them to the sites and actually missing the deadlines if not in fact some of the deadlines it's meeting them ahead of time the final deadline by when damascus has to have destroyed all its chemical weapons stockpiles is the middle of next year and the latest word on that was that damascus was on track to do that. paula thank you very much for bringing us the very stuff there. to other stories now the day greece stood still public services in transport have been crippled by a nationwide strike against tightening a stairway to around fifteen thousand people joining the twenty four hour walk out the move coincides with the arrival of the country's international lenders now as a choice by many of destroying greece the creditors are there to convince the

government to take another couple of billion euros for next year's bailout while athens says it needs five times less serious not is from the civil servants confederation and greens believes he's country is stuck in a vicious circle we want to send a message to the government and through the door that it is enough with this kind of a study of the policy that policy has. already for three years they promised that it would be a development in that gone through it when it should be a growth but you said of these we see the growing up we see unemployment and when we don't see any result in the numbers in the us and the statistics in the figures so for public debt than the public deficit all these loans everybody knows that all this money they're giving they're going to have to pay back this loans these situations you're not going to do any more. and we've got plenty more for you online including a ban on towns in a focus exclusion zone are just like here shanties in japan now working on a report from the scene of the twenty level nuclear disaster you can follow him on

twitter and instagram to find out how the situation is developing there. headed our you tube channel we've got some breathtaking fruitage of a man rocketing through the skies with a jet pad near mount fuji. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying corporations room today. u.s. medics working for the military have been accused of using torture to gather intelligence from terrorist suspects and then a panel report suggests the department of defense and the cia ordered doctors to carry out kata following their use and in purpose pet you waiting

a law i that these methods are safe and effective instant terry geisha techniques there is no question that they were torture they were dangerous they were abusive they're not effective in a listening accurate information and they are wrong. now if you look at some other stories from around the world congolese rabble say here and here armed insurgency and will now use only political means to attain their goals the m twenty three group have been fighting the government in the eastern democratic republic of congo since twenty twelve however the militants were forced out of their strongholds last week in a founts of launched by the congolese army backed by un troops at least eight hundred thousand people have fled their homes since the start of the fighting. an egyptian court has upheld their ruling imposing an outright ban on the muslim brotherhood back in september the group was stripped off its legal status following

the army's overthrow of president morsi in july key figures in the brotherhood including the deposed have state are currently facing charges of inciting violence those trials as well as well as the future facing egypt been under discussion in pinole of else crossed. the trial has been adjourned it started it's already been adjourned has been described by morsy supporters as illegal unfair unjust and unconstitutional how do you react to that there are signals on those signs that we have seen that may make us believe that this struggle is turning to be a political feud oh the most illegitimate institution in egypt right now is the judiciary they were able to go through a full trial an appeals process to take on hosni mubarak for the crimes of the allegedly committed during the two thousand and eleven uprising and now you see the crimes of the muslim brotherhood being put on trial and if they are found guilty there may be an appeals process there may be another acquittal. of next artie's

guided tour of the world's most controversial jail guantanamo bay our viewers in britain though get to find out how much the recent spying scandal is costing the prime minister now a new show going on the ground. well see british science it's time to look for. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. what's happened is law enforcement and the national security agency has gone behind our collective backs and tried to accomplish this using the courts in secret and

that's truly what the issue is a broken whatever trust and violated whatever trust we may have had and that's the real issue and they're going to have to earn that back the hard way. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to shut. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand and nine hundred two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killed and. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp the torch relay. on r t r two dot com.

is a. following welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lobo the trial of mohamed morsi. what is this trial all about constitutional legitimacy or political retribution can morsi get a fair trial for the military backed government the trial is key to showing its plan for transition towards democracy how sound of a plan is this and what message does this trial send to the muslim world. to cross not the situation in egypt i'm joined by shadi ta in washington he's an egyptian political activist and in pittsburgh we cross the great roman is a former israeli official in the ministry of defense and ministry of foreign affairs right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in

anytime you want very much encourage him to go to washington first should be in washington the trial has been adjourned it started it's already been adjourned has been described by morsy supporters as illegal unfair unjust and unconstitutional how do you react to that well first thanks for having me on your show. we can.