britain's turn to explain the country's intelligence chiefs faced public questioning on just how close they were to america's spy agency and its notorious intrusions worldwide plus is not only the u.k. under scrutiny as three other allies join the spy teen keeping tabs on all corners of the globe also we report. on how guards are kept compliant and prisoners while a former detainee tells us of torture so intricate it was practically custom made. the top takes off the limb pickard kong goes into albeit the head of a geek spaceport.

there it's good to have you company with r.t. now hot on the heels of american intelligence bosses insisting they've done nothing wrong it's time to hear from britain u.k. spy chief said going public for the first time to testify on britain's collaboration on global spying more details now from our london correspondent sara for. for the first time you're going to have the three heads of britain's 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 any things 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 he and parker he's the director general of m i five and we've got john soyuz who is the state's chief. 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 a 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 asked of them and if you're expecting anything that you ought to see the intelligence chiefs in trouble don't build your hopes up at least that's according to investigative journalist tony gosling. 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 the intelligence and security committee is for four to fourteen itself so america rifkind who is 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 according to the n.s.a. leaks british intelligence was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day and who was looking at them eight hundred fifty thousand n.s.a.

employees and private u.s. contract is had access to british databases and there's the question of whether the u.s. had access to the british by mast and it's been really an embassy which was holding an ear to germany's government well britain isn't the only one helping washington keep a close eye on the world is. expects. 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 leaked by edward snowden who learned that. embassies across asia pacific coast based highly sensitive intelligence plucked from a program as part of the five 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 that pop is become popular and his country's growth the efficiency dividend which is. the orwellian euphemism for cuts in 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 these embassy as a spy post is illegal under international law britain's. bassett has been called in by the german foreign minister after the surveillance center was revealed in an edward snowden leak but what do the people the german people think a bag government being spied on by an ally has been finding the fallout from the revelations that britain may have had a spying 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 trying to do a 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 and so questions when it comes to matters of national security doesn't do anything to ease the concerns of people all across germany who are left wondering just how much of their personal and private data is being 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 role that toxic implications for relations between two of europe's major powers.

the u.s. says it's looking for a breakthrough first step with the rand and analysts there know exactly where to start. they have to stop lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are giving ordinary iranians diabetic's cancer patients. to call for the west to make humanitarian concessions if they want anything concrete to come out of the talks and iran's nuclear program which she to begin in geneva we've got more on that just ahead plus against a backdrop of need terror strikes in syria the destruction of the country's chemical weapons stays on track say the inspectors but experts tell us the u.s. is probing deeper sensibly to spark intervention. feeling picked torch is on its way to space having now blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome artie's martin andrews was there to see it. we have

a nervous crew on board we have a mic out today who's the only cosmonaut on board we have rick mastracchio from nasa and we have coochie what cata who is from the japanese aerospace exploration program that will then say you can hear that the noise the engines have been ignited around ten seconds before the the bottom four metal frames will open and then we should have launch is going to get very noisy so that you enjoy the ride take a look. wow that is something else what a sight you can really feel the sound waves reach all the journalists here and what a frenzy of press we have here we have people from all over the world it's now blasting off to the atmosphere at

a speed of around the three thousand mph that's five thousand comes his power that's four or five michael four for four or five times the speed of sound for more information on the trajectory of the rockets the soyuz russian made spacecraft alan seed the journey of the olympic flame take a look at this package what comes up must come down and there's no true phrase when it comes to the russian winter olympic flame once the crew and symbol of the upcoming winter games meet on the international space station cosmonauts cool and said go to sun ski to take the modified torch on a space walk roughly four hundred kilometers above once for the doctor with a current crew this will be only the second time in the isis history the three soyuz spacecraft and nine crew members have been aboard the love complex at the same time millions will watch as the tool makes history safety and physics mean they come 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 that 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 historic 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 always good to see countries working together for the better of everybody on the planet so in a small way i think it's great that we are in this similar to the international space station which is another indication of international cooperation over the coming weeks thousands of torchbearers will join the olympic relay across 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 but all culminating in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi by the black sea february 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 follow the olympic torch in space odyssey as it docks with the i.s.a.'s later today probably actually within a couple of as and of course r.t. will bring you the space walk itself life 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 and it's hoped it will shed light on what prisoners have been forced to go through an r.t. crew recently toured the facility today we find out how they try to keep up morale of the world's most maligned prisons. 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 the 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 and in one 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 wait and certainly have if it's a when friendly or like rank system then you're allowed to there's the don't tell an 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 time off like a decent man and we go to the beach and our activities for people to do m.w. are stands for morale welfare and recreation. almost every sport known to man is available to team get 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 an all you can eat lunch cost just under five bucks and breakfast is half that price a downside though information or lack thereof for a decision a lot of the t.v. programs broadcasting here are army focused. and internet is almost nonexistent the beast 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 were now in a typical cell for a compliant detainee at guantanamo they would be allowed to eat books help. piece here some head and shoulders shampoo the less compliant ones have to wear the orange uniforms and get only two books at a time because go to the other side so you can see the books detainees can't come in here but the prison or 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. david hicks spent five years it. was released like most other detainees only are admitting guilt he now wants his conviction overturned citing similar cases as for his time in the facility he tells us he enjoyed torture that was tailored to each detainees weaknesses. one self and everyone else was tortured on our on a daily basis of minutes from our typical physical buildings a whole range of sort of logical ploys those medical experimentation that was very scary to be subjected to we wore them off to take your injections or.

what those were did not tell us or the reason they go would constantly change your refused to take injections of the pills. and they sent in this white squad who would beat them to your bones of broken. cells or cages and cement floors one to the time he was beaten remove that or use hoses and scrubbing brush is to remove the blood from the cement floor with r.t. today it's just coming up to twenty past twelve here in moscow and just ahead where next for the tricky talks in iran and why the tanks are right in force in red square that's coming up.

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that again now a new round of diplomatic wrangling is set to begin in geneva over iran's nuclear program the six powers of russia the us china germany think you can france want commitment from toronto on and on an atomic and richmond deal for its part around once relief from crippling sanctions that have cut the value of its currency in half a mahdi is a journalist based in tehran and he says the talks are hanging in the balance. no one can expect a major breakthrough as long as the israeli lobby is putting pressure on the the western side if the western side wants to respect iranian right to enrich uranium if they are ready to respect that right i can guarantee from my

sources close to the negotiating team that the talks with definitely succeed otherwise if they are 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 you 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't beat them twenty israel's using me twitter hash tag stop the charm offensive to stir up a warning that terrans diplomatic overtures are only skin weeks playing more on the line also with r.t. dot com carol exclusive gallery in japan's fukushima plant is updated daily and it's being collated by our correspondent who's there right now a legacy. 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 sat failed to escape violence this time hit by an alleged suicide blast here's 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 with two 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 psuedo now there we're 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 and the umbrella 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 uniques of foreign inspectors working inside syria and up until now the wood from these inspectors has

always been positive well with more on the syrian chemical disarmament process is flowing smoothly and the government is 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 that coloration of stockpiles suspecting him of hiding sites geo political historian mark allman thinks the u.s. is still hunting for a pretext for an intervention. the hole is in washington and people like susan rice the u.s. ambassador to the united nations were bitterly disappointed by the deals who was all the chemical weapons question peaceful and their results in light of the tried and trusted arguments used against saddam hussein twelve years ago that years ago that is to say. saying that even though he seems to be going along with the inspectors even though the inspectors are not finding any evidence of cheating you

must be cheating somehow or other because that's what a tate would do and the irony of the current situation is that a bomb has a around in his national security team a number of people who are as unilateralist as ever george bush was it's just that they use the rhetoric of humanitarianism to justify bombing but in essence it's really an exercise in brutal power politics dressed up with the vocal human kindness concern refugees as well as outrage at alleged use of chemical weapons. a quick look at some other stories now police in turkey have clashed with students angry the organization responsible for university education they claim the board is a remnant of the dictatorial coup nine hundred eighty and shouldn't have total responsibility for higher education that previously occupied the dean's office angry university set documents on fire eleven activists were arrested while. riot police have stormed the state media building in athens to protesters who have

occupied it for five months scuffles erupted between authorities and activists greek state t.v. was shut down in june as part of deep budget cuts the general secretary of one of the 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 should be a growth but you said of this we see property growing up we see unemployment people we don't see any result in the numbers in the us and the statistics in the figures are for public debt and the problem you see. elite troops and some of the finest samples of military hardware are back on moscow's red square just parade that home today 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 though the center of moscow also saw a special performance recapping a reconstruction some of vents from the second world war. coming up artie's guided tour of guantanamo bay prison. 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 want to kurdistan vacation gutted to a taxidermy 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 from the seller that russians can't even survive and he was able to buy a house employers and russian america say that locals don't want to work are demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future one compared to a a local who can't even make ends meet while you could see why the migrant 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 under awful conditions somewhere far away like brazil or germany what would be able to pay off a house would you do it i think you would let's not buy into this myth that locals and 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. says the media leave us so we leave the baby. bush and secure the. party

is the. shoes that no one is a game with to get they deserve answers from. politics. yes. people i want to. work cleaning up something that is quite simply a mess. a station i made was to order the closing of the prison. when. the president did not keep his promise. two years later one time i was still operating.