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 did you carry under scrutiny as three other join the spy team aimed at keeping tabs on all corners of the globe. but also we report from guantanamo bay on how guards are kept compliant prisoners while the former detainee tells us of torture so intricate it was practically customary. and the top takes off. goes into albeit ahead of a unique space walk. and

i welcome you watching r.t. with me. now hot on the heels of american intelligence bosses insisting nave done nothing wrong it's time to hear from britain u.k. spy chiefs are 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 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 delayed just in case any things were built that could be considered a threat to national security so who exactly do we have in those hot seat so we've

got so elope and the director. and parker he's the director general of m i five and we've got john sawyer who is the chief. they are going to face questions from the intelligence and security committee. as part of an inquiry into the oversight of the pay intelligence agencies following concerns about the jail 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 details of on going intelligence operations and their techniques 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 the. david galbraith professor david galbraith from the university of bath joins me now to talk more about this. are you expecting tough questions to be asked today. questions will be asked to do largely along the line that the u.s. . national security chief. james clapper. some time ago. and so i think the guys the people that are in charge and are going to give evidence today the chief. and i five and i sixty believe they're in trouble i believe that they are in trouble but i would say that's all of the trouble i mean i think that is much is our security services have a responsibility to make sure that we're safe and secure i think that our politicians have an even greater responsibility in having oversight and i think that most definitely many politicians will be expecting. you know some serious

answers to the questions of why did they have greater oversight and do you think there will be serious actions against than then or will list just be a dressing down do you think. i think there will be serious i think there will be serious questions but whether or not we get to see the serious questions in terms of how do we take this forward will be another question and i think that in fact what we're going to see is much more of the dressing down in fact at this is very much but you saw it in the case of the senate investigation of the national security and and the n.s.a. and america is very much a dressing down but very much and an idea about how the american government would go forward in terms of an oversight and you would imagine that the same thing would happen here in britain mostly because of the sensitive nature of thinking about you know how to bring in g c h q. now you're a professor in media law what do you think will be the hardest question they will face today well i mean actually i'm

a professor of international security i think i think within that remit of media and international security the biggest question is going to be. largely around effectiveness is this an effective way in order to monitor threats to national security and if it is shown that it is affected then i think that the question around oversight and its relationship to the way g c h q and then they say with corporations such as everything from google to apple to everything else that we understand and we trust in our own commercial lives i think that's going to be a serious question if we can make it seem or rather of g c h q or national security choose can make it seemed as an effective way to protect national security that i imagine that that the future is going to look much like it does. now away from this inquiry the british government and certainly its intelligence services are in hot

water because they've been accused of having a spy nest on their embassy in berlin and the german government has come out and said that is in breach of international law what's your opinion. well i mean it most certainly the history around international law in terms of espionage is very difficult and. the ordinarily under under international law and terms of diplomacy is that. courts have to state when they are collecting data and of course as we know both in the case of. the americans and british elsewhere as long as well as saying the russian and the chinese elsewhere are invited that rarely happens and so therefore in many cases it's a so we nudge nudge center towards an intersection and so where you don't expect that you're going to see a great deal of forthcoming when states decide that they want to peek and look at

other states even when it's you know a strong nato ally whether it's an e.u. member state whether it's a trust or democracy i think there's a great deal of interest in what you know lies behind decision making at least in the state send and i would imagine that that that that g c h q who are in a say your cia or in my six or whatever was very much interested in giving a brief as to you know how it was going to go about collecting data from the german perspective i would be very angry i would be very angry that something like that would be sitting on our on top of the british embassy i would be very angry that bit of backed with everything having come out that it wasn't made clear to the germans that what was happening and so therefore it doesn't look very good to the germans that we increasingly get in a sense kind of a worsening relationship over intelligence and intelligence sharing we have one at a time now we have to leave a bit thank you it it will be fascinating to see how things develop today thank you

very much that said professor david galbraith from the university of bath thank you you thank. well 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 and essay employees and private u.s. contractors had access to british databases and there's the question of whether the u.s. had access to the british spy amassed that it's been really an embassy which was holding an ear to germany's government while britain isn't the only one helping washington washington keep a close eye on the world. explains. 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 coast there's highly sensitive intelligence collection 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 that pop is become popular and his current results grow the 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. well powers are about to launch a new round of negotiations with iran on the country's controversial nuclear program washing. and says it's hoping for a breakthrough for an iranian analysts say they know exactly where to start and. they have to start looking genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary really and diabetics cancer patients. the call for the west to make humanitarian concessions if they want anything concrete to come out of the negotiations which

are due to begin in geneva we've got more on this just ahead and against the backdrop of renewed terrorist strikes in syria the destruction of the country's chemical weapons. inspectors but. the u.s. is probing deeper. to spark intervention. now the live picture which is on its way to space having blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome. was there to see it off. 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 i'll let you enjoy the

ride take a look. wow that is something else was a sight you can really feel the the sound wave 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 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 and indeed 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 and secularism ski will take the modified torch on a space walk roughly four hundred kilometers above once for the doctor with the 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 lab 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 mechanically as some routine job after all we are doing with a symbol here with you will of the fans 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 invasion 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 martin andrews r.t.

baikonur. and we will follow the olympic torch in space odyssey as it docks with the i assess later today and of course will bring in the space walk itself live on saturday. iow willing to engage yourself in a debate when. i would be pressing not only of war legalisation of cannabis in our land but can painting for the abolishment of those punishments and say united arab emirates well look at what their own situation here first and we've seen with the countries easiest to solve with their countries that you mentioned there it's an even bigger problem and i would be opinion of the opinion that it is actually union

rights to consume what you want so long as it isn't herring older so this is actually a bigger issue and then kind of. the sulfur in cheek that i have over my own body. welcome back and us 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

when a nazi crew recently toured the facility and today we find out how they try to keep up morale of 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 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 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 server and 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 a whole life isn't put on hold and you can't date certain people wait and certainly have if it's away from your 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 of time off like a tsunami and linger to be an end of year as 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 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 an all you can eat lunch cost just under five bucks and breakfast is half that price a downside though information or lack thereof or just 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 so for a compliant detainee at guantanamo they would be allowed to eat books have a 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 i was 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 david hicks spent five years at guantanamo and was released like most other detainees only after admitting guilt he now wants his conviction overturned citing similar cases for his time at the facility he tells us he enjoyed torture that was tailored to each detainee weaknesses. most simple as word. was self and everyone else was tortured on our on a daily basis of minutes from physical beatings all right and you saw the logical choice there was medical experimentation that was very scary subject threw them off to take your injections or. what those were did not tell us or the

reasons i would constantly change your refuse to injections of the pills. and they sent in this squad that would beat them to your point of broken. souls or cages and cement floors once of the time he was beaten removed it or use hoses and scrubbing brush is to remove the blood from the cement floor. a new round of diplomatic wrangling is set to begin in geneva over iran's nuclear program the united states wants around to hold free rein in enrichment for six months in exchange for a partial lift of the crippling sanctions against it that would buy time for the two countries along with the other negotiating powers which are russia china france and germany to strike a long term deal marty is a journalist based in tehran and he says the talks are 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 the western side one school respects 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. at the same time iran wants 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 the heart 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 failed to escape violence this time hit by an alleged serious

side blast here is 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 the russian as well as the american delegates under 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 weeks of foreign inspectors working inside syria and up until now the wood from these inspectors has always been positive. let's have a quick look at some other news police in turkey have clashed with students angry at you organization responsible for university education they claim the board is

a remnant of the dictatorial coup in one nine hundred eighty and shouldn't have total responsibility for higher education that previously occupied the dean's office angry university and set fire to documents eleven activists were arrested. and riot police have stormed the state media building in athens to protesters who have occupied it for five months scuffles then erupted between your thirty's and activists greek state t.v. was shut down in june as part of deep budget cuts. coming up next it's worlds apart. 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 drawn 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 in russia in america say that locals don't want to work or are 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 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.

alone welcome to well the part has been and notable warming up and polls today cannabis legalization increasing take it even though governments in around a while then not really a rational to follow through on that. will arlen become the next to decriminalize marriage may want to discuss that i'm now joined by loop. a member of the irish parliament and a long time supporter of such moves mr flanagan thank you very much for your time i know that you've been complaining for cannabis legalisation pretty much throughout your political career but most recently it seems that there is

a real momentum towards that not just in our land but also but in much of around the western world why do you think that is well i think at this stage the vast majority of people in the western world have worked. the criminalization of cannabis users is not working and in our system is that there are up to two hundred fifty thousand people who use cannabis every year there are one hundred thousand people who have ended up with a criminal record for position as a result of this and at this stage i think people have worked out that the current strategy is not working it's leaving money in the hands of the criminals and it's actually making cannabis a far more dangerous substance now i know that you recently introduced a bill on the cannabis legalization to the dole the irish parliament and some of your fellow in peace have been pretty skeptical some are even openly critical of such a proposal with all the aware and those that you mentioned earlier why do you think .