then you get this again today that you do alterations which work with the british legal phrase that yes i can give you that guarantee believe that it's true the much anticipated u.k. intelligence chiefs televised public hearing fails to explain their mass surveillance operations as full compliance with the law becomes the response to war previously kids. report from guantanamo bay prison guards feel the comfort of billions of dollars being spent to keep their spirits up. costs here a little more than a life of the detainee if you bring one of these babies over the fine is ten thousand dollars but away from the soothing privileges the inmates have being served with tailor made talk sure instead there's one former inmate tells.

the sochi olympics talks reaches the r.s.s. after an historic launch from the baikonur cosmodrome we've got the pictures to. me are two central a.p.m. very good if you choose kevin zero in here this hour it's good to have your company our top story hot on the heels of american intelligence forces trying to justify mass surveillance it's britain's spy chief now given the floor to explain themselves but what's been expected to have been a grilling over widespread spying so far looks more like a q. and a session on counterterrorism sara first been following the hearing we're talking to very soon tonight well most experts predicted that the intelligence forces were unlikely to find themselves in hot water on the journalists who released snowden's documents this take a look at. the efforts the british government's made to plug the leak shui back in

july the offices of the guardian newspaper which had some of the files were rated by g c h q agents and hard drives were destroyed a month later you may recall david miranda partner of former guardian journalist glenn greenwald was detained for nine hours at heathrow airport he was a transit between berlin and rio after meeting a filmmaker who was involved in breaking the leaks now that man's church challenging his detention through the courts or the british authorities insist miranda's actions constituted terrorism professor of international security david galbraith believes the government's going to far. i do think the public has a right to know exactly the overall ramifications of the intelligence community mostly 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 the government is going too far

and its crackdown on the government but here is that we have to have trust in our and out of the titians that they will have proper responsible oversight of the intelligence agencies otherwise we're no different than any other not asking. what according to the snowden leaks you can tell agents was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day they were the only ones either that had access to the may turn hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s. contractors' could also dig into u.k. databases and this garniture can explains next britain wasn't alone in helping washington keep an eye on the world. 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 there's highly sensitive intelligence plucked from the 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 to 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 part has become popular and his countries are code 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 r t. well as promised let's go live now to london talk to sarah first she's been following that historic public testimony by the you can tell it's a cheese for us either sara so the british public restaurant easier is everything but explain. well in that hour and a half session we certainly had some interesting questions put to the three chiefs of the spy agencies here in the u.k. as to the own says i'm not sure that everyone's going to be fully satisfied now i'm going to take because those you know wide range of issues discussed they will take

you to the juicy bits if you like because obviously this questioning coming at a very sensitive time on the back of the edward snowden revelations of massive valence now we heard a question put to the chief of t.c.h. he said in love as the quieter of the three i think it's fair to say throughout the entire session now he was asked why it was necessary for the majority to have intelligence gathered in the attempts to catch the minority doing wrong and he answered that with an analogy of a haystack so trying to find a needle in a haystack essentially saying that they don't look innocent hey if you like is an analogy that he used a fair bit in that questioning authority attracting a little bit of ridicule or light perhaps a little bit vague but also when he was pushed later on in that session to

substantiate some of the claims that are being made about why this surveillance takes place and claims that it made him public he said one of the questions being that the public support the agency's powers that they want more transparency his reply to that was look if your threat or if you're in contact with someone who is a threat you may be being monitored if not c.t. then you won't be say a fairly predictable response i think we've heard similar before we also saw the m i five key parky he was pushed on his claims recently that the guardian revelations had been if he'd said give it to terrorists now he was also substantiate that claim and he said it. be difficult but he could do it in private not here i think is really the crux of the issue with what we've seen taking place today because it is the first time this sacred evidence has been given it's been described here in the u.k. as historic but right at the start of that session we heard it being said that

witnesses wouldn't be asked to reveal anything secret so you're never going to get in-depth detailed information that a lot of people have been requesting but also a lot of the answers that we saw from the chiefs especially from the g c h q had we're centrally saying look take it on trust we're not snooping is. people saying why start don't do that if they were asked to snoop think will carry out and i think the problem here for the british public is that with those answers being asked to take a lot of this on trust is they going to say that much of that trust has actually been and where you did in the wake of the edward snowden revelations so it's certainly going to be interesting seeing the information as it came dangerously said the first time this sort of thing has taken place certainly i think a lot of questions in many of the members of the public mind that will have been left on answers you know sort of for the month of the. busy news hour coming up here on r t bit later in the program japan's braced for the most dangerous

operation of the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant since that awful meltdown in twenty eleven later this hour we talked to a veteran of the nuclear industry about the risks involved also. we have come here to do serious business to make concrete progress e.u. expresses optimism over the current round of nuclear talks with iran but that approach isn't shared by everyone as we report. we don't want the other side it to be more serious that is they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary iranians. next though the cost of maintaining one of the planet's most notorious jails. set to hit five billion dollars next year artie's crew went to the come to find out exactly what american taxpayers are paying for. 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 established 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 home 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 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 decent man and linger to be an end of year as are active things for people to do m.w. our 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 were now in a typical cell 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. so you can want show reports from behind the camps was including conversations with the remains of the

lawyers online. we got special coverage there lined up. the search for twenty forty torch relay has taken a cosmic twist another memorable moment in the journey of a. multinational crew card on board the arsonist international space station the friends witnessed the event from mission control. just at the international space station and as you're seeing right now i think the new clue is disembarking they hatch has just opened and one crew member and the torch if you would be the first to make it out now of course the crews are very much other it's very exciting where everyone sort of people very bonded i'm very excited to see this sort of very quick trip just drive hours so it's very exciting to see this actually happen live and a lot of smiling faces around here of course the family members are also being broadcast from baikonur of course they're very relieved to see their loved ones arrive safely all because now of course the big event after this is saturday when

the torch will make history by going on a spacewalk it will be tethered to two two cosmonauts before as to spend several hours in outer space of course we'll be bringing you that live here on our show you can follow us on twitter you want to mobile devices on television and we will be bringing you this live on saturday but for now everyone is just very excited that what started early this morning in baikonur because now and it was such excess. above about four hundred kilometers actually about the earth so here i mission control if you're in moscow and it's been a success and the video is just amazing to watch. history being made but just the first step of course in the leg of the torch relay our correspondent bruce has more now on what's next for the game symbol. docking confirmed for four twenty seven am central time and now the crew and symbol of the upcoming winter games have met on the international space station cosmonauts cut off and so go to san scheme will take the modified torch on

a space walk roughly four hundred kilometers above earth fully docked with the current crew this will only be the second time in the isis history that three soyuz spacecraft and nine crew members have been aboard the lab complex at the same time millions will watch as the top makes history safety and physics mean they can't like the torch in space the design has also been changed so it can't fly away. 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 his work mechanically as some routine job after all

we are doing with a symbol here. is always good is the country working together for the for everybody on the planet so in a small way i think it's great that we bring this to the international space station which is another reason asian 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 culminated in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi by the black sea february seventh in the meantime the olympic torch meets the final frontier but here we are. a moment that promises to be truly out of this world martyrdom dru's r.t. baikonur. in r.t. will bring you more on the record breaking torch relay for those twenty fourteen

winter olympics in sochi looking ahead to saturday when the torch is taken on the historic space walk we'll have special coverage of that amazing event live hope you can stay with us for that and that more news just ahead to back to the president right after this break. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through to some nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people for sixty two thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others faced. a limp the torch relay. on r t r two dot com. only for a great productivity gain aren't paying prisoners a dollar

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margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. the again words of guarded optimism over iran's nuclear crisis solution once again heard in geneva where a fresh round of talks between tehran and six world powers have got underway officials say an outline of a long awaited deal is emerging world powers are offering a partial easing of sanctions if iran freezes some parts of its nuclear program

michael mann's spokesman for the eve foreign affairs chief catherine ashton who chairs the nuclear talks told r.t. this promise but it's ultimately up to iran to end the standoff. the signs are good in the fact that we are getting into the detail in a way that's really never happened before under the previous iranian government we have come here to do serious business to make concrete progress the iranians have expressed the wish to do the same so what we hope is that they will follow up their words their good words with good deeds in the negotiating room a have to make a certain number of undertakings and guarantees this is about the iranian nuclear program where the international community has justified concerns so they have to make that step and really you know agree to do certain things that the international community is demanding for example it's all about the enrichment of uranium which is currently being reached in iran to a level which is not necessary for a peaceful nuclear program therefore there are certain things that they have to do of course this is the negotiations that both sides have to be flexible but the

first step really needs to come from the iranian side but earlier i spoke to marty he's a journalist based in turan he disagrees that the talks success depends purely on iran and 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 wants 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 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. 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 there not

harming the government they are harming ordinary people's. well outspoken advocate associations israel is increasing resorting to twitter with the hash tag stop the charm offensive spreading the message the rounds diplomatic efforts of nearly a façade we've got that story online also two from r.t. dot com and the trial over the acid attack on the bolshoi theatre is artistic director continues the victim himself speaks out about the assault and demands almost one hundred thousand dollars in compensation. for. a nuclear cleanup team in fukushima is preparing to move the power plants fuel rods to a safer location it's the most dangerous undertaking at the japanese facility since it was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami two and a half years ago has got the latest. extracting these rods from the balls is a really hard task because each one of them called ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they could not even hit each other that's would cause a nuclear chain reaction 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 the typical company running the fukushima clear 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 contaminating 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 rod has to be extracted manually we also managed to take a peek inside the no go zone in other areas and you know what what shocked me the most that surprised me the most and i'm saying that by my experiences of travelling to the explosions only in chernobyl that in the fukushima area the towns which are just close to the station ten fifteen kilometers away from the station they have been reopened for residents were literally saw people rebuilding their houses in this area in case anything happens these people would have to be relieved evacuated

again and or putting themselves under very serious risk well in fact in the fukushima region itself there are several n.g.o.s who are do not believe the government and the tepco organization in their measurements or 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 which the cheapest of them costs around a thousand u.s. dollars and they are just trolling 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 is a peek at it 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 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 our

correspondent has just been told her that it's not life to power x. but i'm going to send someone first on a high that just how dangerous is the removal of this fuel rolled operation that they're going to carry out you know it's very dangerous it's never been done before but it has to be done it's not like it can be avoided the risk of keeping nuclear fuel way up in the air and you will get in the seismic problems of a building that's been exploded far too since we're so it has to be moved. the problem will be that we've got tokyo electric moving it and there's not a lot of faith in the world for the competency of tokyo electric just really quickly the cleanup team says pulling out the fuel rods is a very important step just clarify for me again why is it so important to get them out of it not leave them where they are to most safe place them well there's more radioactivity in that pool then all of the bombs that were ever hired in above

ground testing so we have the equivalent of seven hundred nuclear bombs were material in the fuel pool and they're like cigarettes crushed in a cigarette you know in the pack it's not priced. ripples out easily but these are not going to pull out easily and the fear is that they might release the radiation that's inside them. the trunk about united for a of a full recap of the next day or two i was going to send the nuclear experts thank you. think you've been with us too coming up much space explore merican paradox off the brake with growth has become simply too expensive to sustain. 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 got into a taxi term 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 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 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.

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