place that some gulag of our time. britain's turn to explain the country's intelligence chiefs vice public questioning and just how close they were to america's spy agency and its notorious intrusions worldwide. plus it's not only the u.k. under scrutiny it's three other allies joining the spy team aimed at keeping tabs on all corners of the world. also report from guantanamo bay on how guards are kept compliant prisoners a former detainee tells us a tool just so intricate that was practically custom made. the torch takes off the limping goes into albeit ahead of a unique space for. broadcasting

twenty four seven live from moscow view with our take. on the heels of american intelligence bosses insisting they've done nothing wrong it's time to hear from britain u.k. spy chief c. going public for the first time to testify on britain's collaboration on global spying more details from our london correspondent sara. for the first time you're going to have the three heads of prison spy agencies in the same room being questioned by m.p.'s now that's part of the session this is going to be broadcast satellite link is going to be live but there will be a short time delay just in case anything's revealed that could be considered a threat to national security so who exactly do we have in place hot seat so we've got so elope and the director of g c h q and parker he's the director general of

m i five and we've got john soyuz who is the every state's chief now they are going to face questions from the intelligence and security committee. as part of an inquiry into the oversight of u.k. intelligence agencies following concerns about the scale of mass surveillance that of course coming of the edward snowden revelations now what you're not going to hear because this is a public session is details of only going intelligence operations in that technique so it's unlikely for example that you'll hear any mention of project tempore that of course being the secret program to do with the gathering of web and. now this is going to be of course widely scrutinized by people who are watching it's the first time it's happened but this is really going to rest of what exactly

is the. and if you're expecting anything new to emerge or to see the intelligence chiefs in trouble don't build your hopes up at least that's according to investigative journalist tony goes really well be sure your sins will find you out i think this is going to be quite interesting the only trouble is that the committee that's grilling them the intelligence and security committee is faulty faulty in itself some out of risk into the chairman is actually very much weighted in with the military industrial complex himself is what working for one of the defense contractors so that's part of the problem here is we're likely to see quite a lot of rehearsed our answers and actually not very good theater well according to the n.s.a. leaks british intelligence was able to monitor the six hundred million communications every day so who is looking at them well eight hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s.

contract is had access to british databases. by the u.s. had access to the british spy ring master at its berlin embassy which was holding an ear up to germany's government but britain isn't the only one helping washington keep a close eye on the world is. expected. intelligence services of five english speaking countries have joint resources to spy on the whole world the u.s. is the most resourceful its closest ties are with britain's jussi h.q. but canada australia new zealand are also contributing australia backs up washington by keeping tabs on asian countries from the documents group by edward snowden who learned that. embassies across asia pacific host this highly sensitive intelligence block from program as part of the five eyes network it's not just terrorists that the five eyes are looking for a former australian intelligence officer privy to the program said the main focus

is political diplomatic and economic intelligence most recently the east timorese government complained publicly about australian spying during negotiations on the future of the timor gap oil and gas reserves canada two is interested in natural resources and is accused of actively spying on south america edward snowden revealed that canada with the help of the n.s.a. hacked into the brazilian ministry of energy and mines he also exposed that the u.s. has been spying on brazil's national oil company edward snowden revealed some details of how the five guys operate but even before intelligence officials made no secret of their quote unquote orwellian cooperation i met yesterday with our five guys colleagues and one of them. offered up the term of papias become popular and his current results go to efficiency dividend which is. the orwellian euphemism for cuts. for these intelligence services it looks like

a give and take relationship a two way street or should i say a five way street in washington i'm going to check on our team. meanwhile germany has told the u.k. that using its embassy as a spy post is illegal under international law britain's ambassador has been called in by the german foreign minister after the surveillance center was revealed in an edward snowden leak but what do the german people think about their government being spied on by an ally peter oliver has been finding out. the fallout from the revelations that britain may have had a spy nest on the roof of its embassy in berlin it being felt right across germany here in rural northern bavaria the local newspaper carries the headline now even the british as spying on us it also has a picture of the locations of the british and american embassies and where the various listening posts were supposed to be now the people who we speak to here say

this really isn't what friends do to one another i should terms it's shocking we've been friends with britain for a long time outside of our knowledge dish i think it's shameful what they've done and they don't care. right now try to do the disgusting but nothing will get done. that you think it's not ok but what can we do against this type of operation the response from britain that they don't question when it comes to matters of national security hasn't done anything to ease the concerns of people all across germany who are left wondering just how much of their personal and private data has been listened to or looked at by their allies in the united kingdom all of which could lead to some potentially interesting talks next time david cameron meets with anglo merkel but could end up having some rather toxic implications for relations between two of europe's major powers. the u.s.

says it's looking for a breakthrough first step with a ran and analysts know exactly where to start. they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions or killing ordinary iranians diabetic's cancer patients they will feel. the call for the west to make humanitarian concessions if they want anything concrete to come out of the talks on iran's nuclear program which are due to begin in geneva we've got more on this just ahead plus against the backdrop of renewed terrorist strikes in syria the destruction of the country's chemical weapons is stays on track they be inspectors but experts tell us the u.s. is probing deeper. to spark intervention. on its way to space having blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome a couple of hours ago.

it's being taken to the international space station by the ai assesses multinational thirty eight crew as part of the sochi twenty fourteen olympic torch relay it's already been to the north pole and is expected to dive to the bottom of russia's deepest lake before reaching the peak of europe's highest mountain in this chapter it's truly unique is the symbol as never been on a space walk before atlanta has more on the mission. what comes up must come down and there's no truer phrase when it comes to the russian winter olympic flame the crew and symbol of the upcoming winter games meet on the international space station cosmonauts. will take the modified torch on a space walk roughly four hundred kilometers above once fully docked with the current crew this will be only the second time in the history that three soyuz

spacecraft and nine crew members have been aboard the lab complex at the same time millions will watch as the torch makes history safety and physics mean they card like the torch in space the design has also been changed so it can't fly away. with it it wouldn't make much sense everyone knows there can be no flame in outer space as nothing burns there and it doesn't make sense to fake it after circling the planet several times the torch will come back to earth with the three returning crew members on the eleventh of november to continue its record breaking relay with the world's attention on this historical moment it's a nervous time for everyone involved. we only need to prepare psychologically because you can't just before miss work mechanical you or some routine job after all we are dealing with a symbol here if you will of i was always good it was the country working together for the better of everybody. planning so in a small way i think it's great that we bring this to the international space

station which is another invasion of international cooperation over the coming weeks thousands of torchbearers will join the olympic relay cross sixty five thousand kilometers of terrain covering all eighty three regions of russia once complete it will be the longest relay in the history of the winter olympics the two will culminate in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi by the black sea feb seventh in the mean time the olympic torch meets the final frontier a moment that promises to be truly out of this world martyrdom dru's r.t. baikonur and we will be following the olympic torch a space odyssey as it docks maybe i assess later today and of course our team will bring you the spaceport itself live on saturday.

a u.s. judge has ordered thousands of guantanamo bay documents to be declassified it's mainly correspondence between the white house and the red cross which is hoped will shed light on what prisoners have been forced to go through and r.t. crew recently toured the facility facility and today we find out how they try to keep up morale the world's most maligned prison. despite misconceptions give lho is not just a geo to be or not to be shot it's also a forty five square mile military base with no plans of going anywhere full of signs of a stablished american life it is a navy base and we just happened to have the camps in here home to the only mcdonalds on cuban soil a subway sandwich shop a starbucks and a taco bell you got busted vested financial interests there you go to starbucks and . all of these other places that help to set up

a logistical support for the troops that are all over the there are about five and a half thousand people living and working on the base roughly half serve the actual detention center the u.s. government has been leasing this territory since one thousand nine hundred three for just over forty five hundred dollars curiously that is still the price today but it's said that the cuban government has been refusing to accept this money for decades the castro government said you know we don't want this lease anymore in the united states' position was that it's a binding lease and in the lease it actually says that it can't be broken unless both sides both countries agree to that that strikes me as a very odd contract servant territory that the u.s. has occupied against cuba's wishes since one thousand fifty nine most officers come here for short term of up to nine months or longer deployment of two to three years far from home life isn't put on hold and you can't date certain people where you can certainly have if it's away from your like rank system then you're allowed to

there's the downtown and open air movie theater playing all the hottest hollywood blockbusters and it ticky bar to let loose after a hard day's work even though most say schedules aren't that intense anyway we actually get quite a bit of time off like a man and we go to be an end of year as our activities for people m.w. are stands for morale welfare and recreation. almost every sport known to man is available to team get well on state of the art facilities. i love it it's a lot of people think there's not much to do but there's definitely an abundance to do. being in a remote location doesn't even have to affect eating habits and all you can eat lunch costs just under five bucks and breakfast is half that price a downside though information or lack thereof or due to a lot of the t.v. programs broadcasting here are army focused. and internet is almost nonexistent the base dubbed no stream

a stand by some soldiers even so we're told those serving here are banned from looking at websites like wiki leaks for example once classified always classified. even if the information has long been made public there are other strict regulations in place to fun fact about guantanamo apparently a life of an costs here a little more than a life of a detainee if you run one of these babies over the fine is ten thousand dollars. there's a very strict speed limit in guantanamo and it's a very slow speed limit and people say that that's that's all about the quantised somewhat ironic at a place marred by human rights scandals officials make a point of showing journalists how well prisoners two are kept and thirteen here we're now in a typical cell for a compliant detainee at guantanamo they would be allowed to eat books have to face here some head and shoulders shampoo the less compliant ones have to wear the orange uniforms and get only two books at

a time who's going to the other side so you can see the books detainees can't come in here but the prisoner library lovingly displays the best of their art for t.v. crews to see a lot of pre-selected books to avoid certain topics violence sexual and religious stuff controversy shelves packed with magazines d.v.d.'s and video games plenty of ways for legit prisoners of war to pass the indefinite time they're kept here without charges and party guantanamo bay cuba or david hicks spent five years at guantanamo and was released like most other detainees only arthur admitting guilt he now wants his convince his conviction overturned citing similar cases as for his time in the facility he tells us he enjoyed torture that was tied to each detainee weaknesses. oneself and everyone else was tortured. on

a daily basis on minutes from typical physical beating a whole range of thought the logical ploy there was medical experimentation that was very scary to be subjected to. forced to take injections or. what those were did not tell us or the reasons they constantly change if you refuse to take injections or the pills had no patience and they sent in this squad who would beat them to bones or broken if aaron cells or cages that had cement floors once the tiny with basin removed it up hoses and swelling brushes to remove the blood from the cement floor. just ahead when next for the trip to talks on iran stay with us. for a great big game are you paying prisoners a dollar

a day to do it or ten to twelve hours of work per day they're the most productive workers in america are the prison population and the policy makers in washington want to turn the whole population into a prison population and then they can say look this is so productive willing. to look at all these license plates the get the stamp. telemarketing telling people to put a lot of tickets and go to the casinos and blow their water taxes so. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to shut. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp torch relay. m r t v dot com.

again a new round of diplomatic wrangling is set to begin in geneva over iran's nuclear program the six powers of russia the u.s. china germany the u.k. and france want commitment from tehran on an atomic enrichment deal for its part around one surely from crippling sanctions that have cut the value of its currency in ha ha made in maadi is a journalist based in tehran and he says the talks were hanging in the balance no one can can expect a major breakthrough as long as the israeli lobby is putting pressure on the western side if western side one still respects the radian rights to enrich uranium. if they are ready to respect that right i can do in teeth from

my sources close to the negotiating team that the talks are definitely succeed otherwise if they're not going to respect your right to enrich uranium it's not going to get anywhere iran says we're going to be more cooperative we're going to be more transparent at the. same time we don't want the other side to be more serious that is they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary iranians diabetic's cancer patients have affiliates they're not harming the government they're harming ordinary people. and if you can be turned tweets from israel's using the twitter hash tag stop the charm offensive to stir up a warning that terrans diplomatic overtures are only skin deep we explain more on line also there if you want to get up to speed with the million mass marches around the world on guy fawkes night do you look online for who turned out where and what really the root of their anger is anonymous three to get their crimes against corruption cards and all seeing surveillance. the heart of the

syrian capital has once again been torn by a deadly bombing while a wave of attacks battered the rest of the country even a previously peaceful south failed to escape violence this time hit by an alleged suicide blast his our middle east correspondent paula slayers. 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 backing 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 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 and the attacks come in the wake of no movement on the diplomatic front there had been hope that geneva two would bring together the syrian government and the opposition before the end of the year but the latest word now is that on november the twenty fifth if the russian as well as the american delegates. of the united nations arab league envoy lakhdar brahimi will meet and only even perhaps will they agree on a date by when to have this next round of negotiations 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 now this comes on the back of several weeks of foreign

inspectors working inside syria and up until now the wood from these inspectors has always been positive. the syrian chemical disarmament process is flowing smoothly and the government's giving full support to the international team of experts there according to the body overseeing the operation nonetheless washington is meticulously checking president assad's declaration of stockpiles suspecting him of hiding sites geo political historian mark owen and thinks the u.s. is still hunting for a pretext for an intervention. the hawks in washington people like susan rice the u.s. ambassador to the united nations were bitterly disappointed by the do you want to resolve the chemical weapons question useful and they're resorting to the tried and trusted arguments used against saddam hussein twelve years ago of years ago that is to say. saying that even though he seems to be going along with the inspectors you can vote inspectors are not finding any evidence of cheating and it must be somehow

or other because that's what are the state would do and the irony of the current situation is that obama has around him in his national security team a number of people who are as unilateralist as ever george bush was it's just they use the rhetoric of humanitarian isn't just the car bombing but in essence it's really an exercise in brutal power politics dressed up with. kindness concern refugees as well as outrage at alleged use of chemical. a quick look at some other stories now police in turkey have clashed with students angry at the organization responsible for university education they claim the board is a remnant of be dictatorial coup one nine hundred eighty and shouldn't have total responsibility for higher education that previously occupied the dean's office at the anchor a university and set documents on fire eleven activists were arrested. shooting

has broken out at a barber shop in the us city of detroit leaving two people dead and seven injured police say two cars pulled up in front of the premises the people inside the vehicles then started firing at each other it's not clear what sparked the killings but gambling is known to take place at the shop the test results show that former palestinian leader yasser arafat could have been killed by poisoning the swiss forensic team that examined his body says if found levels of the radioactive substance polonium there were eighteen time. the normal yasser arafat's body was it in the year ago after his widow asked for a post-mortem to be carried. elsewhere greek workers have held a twenty four asked reich over the money saving measures enforced by international lenders flights have been delayed in hospitals and schools affected by the stoppage representatives of the financial troika are in athens to talk over whether to

release more money to the government the general secretary secretary of one major greek union says the penny pinching has to stop we want to send a message to the government and to the troika that it is enough with this kind of austerity policy this for policy for. already for three years they promise that it will be a development in the country that we should be a growth but you said of these we see poverty growing up we see unemployment people and when we don't see any result in the numbers in the us and the statistics in the figures of public debt in the public deficit. now the troops and some of the finest some forms of military hardware back on moscow's red square at the moment this parade marks the anniversary of a similar event back in one nine hundred forty one when soviet troops went straight into battle from the square november the seventh seventy years ago german forces came as close as seventy kilometers to the capital today showcase wasn't limited to

a demonstration of military muscle the center of moscow also saw a special performance recapping and reconstructing some of events from the second world war. over to washington nine for abby martins breaking news that. illegal immigration is a hot topic and everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i would occur just on vacation got into a taxi driven by a former migrant worker who used to make a living in moscow he told me that he really worked hard driving unloading trucks after five years he came back home and bought a house yes for the seller that russians can't even survive and he was able to buy

a house employers in russian america say that locals don't want to work or demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future one compared to a local who can't even make ends meet while you could see why the market workers are a lot more motivated let me put it to you this way if you knew that you had to work five hard years of some awful labor awful conditions somewhere far away like brazil or germany what would be able to pay off the house would you do it i think you would let's not buy into this myth that locals in country x. don't want to work they just don't want to work in complete futility for table scraps but that's just my opinion. the deeds the. economic up and downs in the final months day the deal

sank night and the rest because i was doing the ac will be every week on the. seventh. of the. what's up freedom fighters i'm out in martin and this is breaking the sat so yesterday was voting day and many americans took to the voting booths to cast their decision for what corporate puppet they want representing them in their respective cities i know i know i know i'm sorry i'm so cynical about this so-called representative democracy but let's be honest the big corporate donors behind these candidates are really the ones calling the shots but before you bury your head in the sand quite yet hold on there's some great news to report as well and the fact that through these local elections there is potential for great change see largely through.