i'm going to. britain's intelligence chiefs face a public grilling on their role in u.s. led mass surveillance but it's not only the u.k. under scrutiny as three other allies team up with a spy network. cleanup workers out of pushing with nuclear plant gear up for the most dangerous operation since the two thousand and eleven disaster the removal of highly radioactive fuel rods energy grew travels to the exclusion zone and. the torch takes off the olympic icon goes into orbit and out of a unique spacewalk. thirty

coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing now hardly heals of american intelligence bosses insisting they've 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 spine more details are now from our london correspondents their first. 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 any things revealed that could be considered a threat to national security so who exactly do we have in the hot seat so we've got so elope and the director. and he's the director general my five and we've got joan sawyer who is the state's chief

now they are going to face questions from the intelligence and security committee. as positive 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 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 that. and it looks like the british government is desperate to stop the flood of spying revelations back in july the offices of the guardian newspaper which had

some of the files were raided by g.c. h.q. agents and hard drives were destroyed a month later david miranda the partner of foreign guardian journalist glenn greenwald was detained for nine hours at his or airport and he was in transit between berlin and rio de janeiro after meeting a filmmaker who was involved in the break. that leaks the man is challenging his attention although british authorities insist miranda's actions constituted terrorism and finally last month prime minister david cameron threatened publishers of intelligence leaks with legal action but has there been a national security david galbraith believes the government's going too far. i do think the public has a right to know exactly the over already i think asians of the intelligence community most definitely i think that the issue around how far the u.k. government can go in squeezing an independent and independent newspaper or news organization is totally is totally unacceptable within a democracy and we have

a strong judicial system which is suggesting that in fact the government is going too far and its crackdown on the government but the key thing is that we have to have trust in our politicians that they will have proper responsible oversight of the intelligence agencies otherwise we're no different than the other not at all. now according to the n.s.a. leaks british intelligence was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day he was looking at them eight hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s. contractors that had access to british databases britain spying mass to add is berlin embassy also appears to have been one of the magic tools the u.s. has been using to spy on germany but britain isn't the only one helping washington keep a close eye on the world has gone it's gone now 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 g c 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 one 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 previous 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 called 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 five ways in washington i'm going to check out our team. and up ahead we'll report from guantanamo bay on how guards are kept compliant and prisoners docile plus we hear from a former detainee who spent years the facility describing to us torture so intricate it was practically custom made. and to

japan now the country is bracing itself for the most dangerous operation at the fukushima nuclear plant since it was crippled by a quake and tsunami in march twenty seventh the company a running the facility plans to move radioactive fuel rods to safe storage are just joining us now live from japan or actually hi there well tell us why is this operation so dangerous. you know usually this operation is not so difficult it happens at nuclear stations more than four hundred of them on every day bases across the world but of course in fukushima case this is something unique and very risky now the fuel rods are extracted from pools using automated cranes that most of the stations at fukushima not only these pools where these rods and each rod weighs more than two tons not only these pools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so every rod has to be extracted from the pool manually now imagine provided that these these rods cannot even hit each other

this may cause a nuclear a chain reaction and grave consequences now imagine if a human error or for use as an earthquake and this area is very seismically active just last week ten days ago there was a earthquake in the area a seven point magnitude earthquake not far from the station so anything like this god forbid of course but anything if anything like this happens then the consequences could be even more severe than what it is now but the tepco company running the fukushima nuclear up process and the japanese government are now in a vicious cycle situation because on the one hand they need to remove these fuel rods they are contaminated the water as has been reported in the waters of the fukushima nuclear power plant and on the other hand of course this is a very risky venture because they have to literally extract every rod and there's more than a thousand of them and each drop has to be extracted manually indeed it's a very complex facility and you've traveled to the exclusion zone we know that what did you see there what do you witnessed there. well i just we just returned from

the fukushima exclusion zone the closest we could get to the nuclear power station was about six kilometers the final checkpoint before you enter the completely no go zone we actually managed to sneak inside the no go zone on the other parts of the area and what surprised me the most and i've been to the chernobyl exclusion zone and many times that some of the towns and villages just ten fifteen kilometers from the nuclear power stations have now been reopened for people who were literally saw the people rebuilding their houses to be fair the radiation levels there are quite low they're lower than in some of the european cities in fact but sixty seventy kilometers from the station the places which have never been in the exclusion zone which had always been open to the people we've managed to find hot spots of radiation with about three. hour and this is exactly the chernobyl radiation level the ones i witnessed in chernobyl and many occasions and this is of course creating a huge discourse and discussion in japan whether it was the right decision to

reopen these areas because again if any earthquake or any calamity happens again then these people would have to be reevaluated again even if that's provided of course if there will be anyone to evacuated depending on the scale of a possible tragedy just picking up on what you said about the discourse has been opened by the situation in japan how strong is the anti-nuclear movement in the country. well in fact in the fukushima region itself there are several n.g.o.s who do not believe the government and the tepco organization in their measurements of the radiation levels the one which struck me the most and we talked with them yesterday the movement called the mothers of fukushima these are ordinary women who are afraid for the safety and health of their children they bought three meters which the cheapest of them costs around a thousand u.s. dollars and they are just but strolling the areas taking their own measurements and sending them to the government but the government as they say is doing nothing it's not considering the radiation measurements as if they're trying to play down the

scale of the things happening even in tokyo in front of the industrial ministry there's a peek at there's a protest happening for already eight hundred days with the people there protesting against nuclear energy and the actions of the government and the tepco they told me today which also was quite shocking to me that they are against the idea of holding this summer olympics and talking in twenty twenty so you can see how serious the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement is now in japan even though they say that their voices being often silenced by those that power. thanks so much for bringing us this update live from japan and christina can solve founder and host of the new radio doubts that engineers will be able to pull this off given the level of damage at the plant. the more i study this problem in fact i've been up all night reading i haven't even gone to sleep. the more that i look into this i don't know how japan thinks to pull this off the pictures that have been released go

at the amount of damage that the racks in the pool have sustained there's no way that they're going to be able to hold those assemblies out. and do it without bumping into other stings and that's where the danger is the other problem is we have three molten cores that we don't even know where they are in it it's really surprising that there isn't a single expert who's called for ground penetrating radar in order to identify where the squirrels are so that that problem can also be addressed now washington says it's hoping for a breakthrough first staff and nuclear negotiations with iran and analysts there say they know exactly where to start. they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary radiance diabetics cancer patients. have a call for the west to make many terror and concessions if they want anything concrete

to come out of the talks which are about a began in geneva more and that just to have. a russian soyuz spacecraft carrying the olympic torch has now reached the ira it's about to be taken aboard the station and france as mission control with more for us there. hello there lindsay so do tell us what's happening is everything going to plan. well travelling at nearly five thousand kilometers per hour it is now there with us now is that that's thanks to the expertise of three people hailing from russia japan and the usa respectively. and richard mr akio and once fully docked it'll be the second time in history that three soyuz spacecraft have been docked at the i assess along with nine crew members in the lab complex itself now of course the sanitary checks have got to go off without a hitch first for those hatches can be opened by the torch has been in space before

the first time was in one thousand nine hundred six aboard a space shuttle that was for the atlanta summer games and then four years later in two thousand for the sydney summer games but it will be making history this time it's because of this is the first time it will actually go out on a spacewalk that will take place on saturday thanks to two russian cosmonauts of course for obvious reasons it can't be lit in outer space but this symbol of sportsmanship and unity will still be out there taking a walk nonetheless of course you can catch all the details of that right here on our t.v. on your computer or your mobile devices and of course on television but before i get ahead of myself why don't we take a look at how this torch left to the earth just a couple of hours ago early this morning artie's on martin there at baikonur cosmodrome and he gives us a look at how it all happened by the way. you can hear that the noise the engines

have been ignited around ten seconds before. we should have. so that you enjoy the ride. wow that is something else was at the site you can really feel the sound waves reach all the journalists here what a frenzy of press we have here we have people from all over the world. ordering productivity gains are you paying prisoners a dollar

a day to do either ten or twelve hours of work per day they're the most productive workers of america or 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 the so productive willing. to do all these license plates of the good to stand oh there's. more to be getting people to play a lot of tickets and go to the casinos and blow their want of taxes so. the limpid torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through to some nine hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp dick torch relay. on r t v dot com.

welcome back here with our team now a new round of diplomatic wrangling is set to begin in geneva where iran's nuclear program the united states once iran to hold a raman richmond for six months 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 hotter madi 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 dead western side ones to respect iranian right 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 with different to 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 to be out of sight 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 there not harming the government they're harming ordinary people. and if it can be then tweet them israel is using the twitter hash tag stop a charm offensive to stir up a warning that to ron's diplomatic overtures are only skin deep. and some of the world's largest oil companies could be about to find themselves in the dock they're accused of fixing the price of crude to fill their coffers go dirty dot com for the details. 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 hope it will shed light on what prisoners have been forced to go through and our crew recently toured the facility and today we find out how they try to keep up morale at 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 so when 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 me see i'm 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 decent man and linger to be sure and there are activities for people to do m w r 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 beast dubbed new 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 the 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 too 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 who 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 milicz 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 and david hicks spend five years out one time and was released like most other detainees only after admitting guilt. citing similar cases and asked for his time at the facility he tells us he endured torture that was tailored to each detainees weaknesses more a simple. well silvan everyone else was tortured. on a daily basis for minutes from physical beatings all right and you saw the logical ploys there was medical experimentation. there is scary to be subjected to

we will often take your injections or. what those were did not tell us all of the reasons i would constantly change used to injections of the pills. and they sent in this well scored. points of broken. they're in so little cages that cement floors once to the time he was beaten remove it or use hoses and scrubbing brush is to remove the blood from the cement floor. and lawyers from around the world police in turkey has clashed with students angry at the organization responsible for university education they claim the board is a remnant of a dictatorial coup off nine hundred eighty and should have told responsibility for higher education they previously occupied dean's office and anchor university and said documents and fire eleven activist were arrested. riot police have stormed the

state media building in athens turfing out protesters who have occupied it for five months scuffles and erupted between the authorities and activists state t.v. was shut down in june as part of deep budget cuts the general secretary of one major greek union says a 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 i have. already for three years they promise that it will be a development in the country if we it should be a growth but you said of these we see poverty growing up we see unemployment people and we see we don't see any result in the in the numbers in the us and the statistics in the figure so for public debt and the public deficit. test results show that former palestinian leader yasser arafat's could have been killed by poisoning the swiss forensics team that examined his body says it found levels of a radioactive substance polonium that were eight hundred times higher than normal

yasser arafat's body was exuma a year ago after his widow asked for a post-mortem to be carried out. next abby martin pulls apart the key failings of the obama presidency in breaking sat. illegal immigration is a hot topic 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 driver 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 cellar that russians can't even survive on 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 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 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. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. to

be in the. what's up freedom fighters' i'm out in martin and this is breaking the set so yesterday was voting day and many americans took to the voting booths to cast their decision for what corporate profit 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 before you bury a head in the sand quite yet hold on there's some great news to report as well as the fact that through these local elections there's potential for great change see largely through ballot initiatives huge shifts are made that are extremely significant and several states voters are presented with opportunities to directly

change policy from marijuana to gay marriage citizens in portland maine voted to legalize possession of marijuana for recreational use that's huge michigan residents put the state on the right side of history by approving a law that would make it a legal to discriminate against a person's sexual orientation not to mention illinois state government's historic legalization of same sex marriage making it the fifteenth state to allow the right to marry for all sadly and washington state voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have made it the first state to mandatorily label genetically modified foods due part to a massive december mation lobbying campaign from the biotech industry so i guess the moral of the story that has broken as this current system is remember we can still change what most affects our lives in our communities now let's keep doing it and let's go break the set.