live from the r.t. news center attack in a scandal in scandinavia now sweden's revealed as being on the spying game helping the n.s.a. snooping on the russian leadership also that is. the christian community. religious officials plead for action to protect syria's christians but a group of nuns is still being held by rebel forces. no doubt where the united states stands on america weighs in on ukraine's ongoing crisis supporting the pro opposition as protesters give president. i'm ready to pick up any keep forty seven and start shooting looks at ukraine's nationalist groups and the claims they're hijacking the country's pro e.u.

demonstration. for a good evening to light and have a company join us is kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. tonight in moscow our top story that sweden has been helping america's n.s.a. to spy on russian leaders and provided washington with a list of high profile targets swedish state t.v. side documents leaked by whistleblower edward snowden the program which unveiled the claims is called mission investigate its chief editor told us what they found out. we have revealed that. the very close relationship between the swedish defense radio authority f.r.a. and their american counterpart n.s.a. and according to the documents. that f.r.a. have spied spying on the russian leadership and they are passing this

information on to n.s.a. we got access to these documents thanks to edward snowden so for we have don't have any details more than the documents are mentioning. that they're talking about unique intelligence they're talking about classic intelligence and they also mentioning cables the spokesman of f.r.a. didn't give any comments but. when axed asked about being. seen as a leading partner that's the way they spell it in these documents for a is a leading partner to n.s.a. then he says ok that's flattering he ses so that's the only comment we have received so far the swedish foreign minister's since commented on the allegations

saying they would affect his country's relationship with russia a correspondent in europe peter oliver also looked into what else is a. we tried to contact both the f.r.a. and president putin's spokes person both of them saying they don't comment on these type of matters now they separate document that was released was there was to address two n.s.a. personnel that were working with the swedes and i told them that they should thank sweden for the continued work on the russian target know all of this coming out showing this that sweden is just another part of the system of this this widespread global n.s.a. spying program that seems to be to looking into many other countries and has many of the countries working as partners with it and this information of course comes out on the same day as it's been revealed that the n.s.a. tracks the mobile phone records of five billion people per day those mobile phone records of course would allow you to know where somebody was moving around the world so it seems that months after we first heard from the leaks of edward snowden

revelations continue to come out this time showing that sweden was helping the n.s.a. to spy on russia so why sweden well eighty percent it seems of russia's international internet traffic goes through the country and of course russia is not alone in being subject to the allegations of high profile snooping by the n.s.a. germany's to speak of magazine revealed earlier this year that the agency and targeted chancellor angela merkel also reportedly on washington's radar brazil's president dilma rousseff as well as the russian prime minister and former leader dmitri medvedev he was spied on apparently at the g twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine when some help from britain's g c h q. where the n.s.a. reportedly harvesting data as well from hundreds of millions of ordinary people cell phones i asked earlier intelligence analyst glenmore traina harvey just what they hope to get from all this information. the volume of information is extraordinary and remember it has to be stored and they have storage facilities

both outside of the united states and here what they will do is they will discover let's say that someone is using a cell phone a mobile phone and it it's just like the. navigation system you have in your motor car that it's linked to satellites you can say we're at any given time that car is well you can also say we're a mobile telephone a cell phone is located you can pick up that if the particular phone is one that you have an interest in and you then know you see the pattern of where it's been in touch with all the billions of holes probably ninety five percent of them. just go into the hopper they stay there because. you know the analysis goes back and you can see patterns emerging and so it's said that unless you revert to good old fashioned handwriting and live in

a cave you can't hide these days you can be tracked anywhere. i sleep well we're closely following this developing story more expert analysis on air and online at r.t. dot com. next cause a mountain for broad international effort to secure the release of twelve nuns tonight reportedly held by radical islamist rebels in syria the women were seized from a monastery during an opposition assault on a predominately christian town there and as paul asli reports next it's the latest in just a series of attacks on religious targets in the country. twelve nines and three of they hope those who belong to the orthodox monastery of moola are believed to have been moved to brood now according to syrian opposition activists the women will move for their own safety but earlier religious officials said that the women were abducted by members of the al nusra front which is affiliated to al qaida the syrian observatory for human rights says that the women were taken after several

days of intensive fighting during which the almost refined find to eventually manage to capture the old quarter of moola and various reports point to the fact that these are mr fund fighters entered the orthodox monastery in the same tone of muna where these women were well there's a lot of concern particularly amongst christians living in syria as the attacks against their communities seemingly escalate we have heard from the pope who has recited a prayer for the safety of these women and earlier we at r.t. spoke with the international christian concern who said that they were extremely worried and extremely troubled by this incident in particular they have called on rebel forces to ensure the safety of these women and also make sure that all lines of communication with them remain open there are several muslim clerics who have also condemned the abduction in the strongest terms we denounce their deeds confirm

that terrorism is a savage monster which wants to do with our all religious and humanitarian values they came to cuba and kidnapped a few muslim in moms and christian priests in our judicial like they kidnapped priests and priestesses and events in one dangerous conspiracy. of the church in syria which they want to carry graphic to the stone age genius or to run for into the country many christians have left they're now living as refugees elsewhere and . mascots because they're so fearful of the situation the last time that i was in syria i visited the city of homes where both feasting on me as well as people who are returning to the question quarter showed me around advantage in churches and spoke about the fear that they to have as attacks on the christian community inside syria escalate. screens now is video allegedly showing another rebel attack on

a christian side in syria this is an ancient orthodox one a street near damascus the opposition justified the assault with claims of government troops using it as a firing position of the rebels and reached for. several people reportedly would be let go to a priest who originated from syria he told me that christians are being used as cannon fodder in this ongoing conflict thousands and thousands hundreds of thousands of christians where this place from their homes and a lot of christians were killed we still have two bishops missing from from a little we don't know anything about them they are being used by both sides. as a political card because the regime wants also to free to to show that they are protecting the minorities specially the christians and they are begging for for the international community to interfere to release the nuns wear

the the rebels they are turning the blind eyes to the al qaida and the islamists to target specifically christians there is a systematic attack on all the christian community in syria and hundreds of thousands of christians were displaced. senior american diplomats waded into ukraine the rest encouraging the opposition and their own going pro e.u. mass protest. this is ukraine's moment to meet the aspirations of its people or to disappoint them and risk descending into chaos and violence there should be no doubt where the united states stands on all of this we stand with the people of ukraine who see their future in europe and want to bring their country back to economic health and unity. system secretary state retore nuland

who's speaking at a preplanned regional security summit in kiev meantime the opposition in ukraine has delivered an ultimatum to the president threatening to set up a round the clock blockade of government institutions in less than early election is held there's a really good reports next the nature of the protests is shifting. oh laurie to crane glory to the heroes it's day fishel slogan of the hard line nationalist movement known as the ukrainian insurgent army and a chant heard among the crowds in key of these days here is just a couple of these protesters cheerleaders mr elect founder of the nationalist party and the man inspired by the actions of the u.i. a's wartime militias they took up machine guns and fought the russians the germans and the jews those who quote wanted to take away our ukrainian land and this is. another far right activist from the radical nationalist but movement so we needs

war that's the main thing an organisation like cars can't exist without war. is one of those suspected of arranging the bulldozer action key of over the weekend men will present the ultra nationalist sentiment that is popular in western ukraine which has traditionally gravitated towards europe the rather than moscow many hope we will fight for the european union until the end and even if they bring your tanks we will win. i'm ready to pick up any keep forty seven and start shooting up to a thousand people go to kiev every day and our motto is together till the end of our resistance forces consist of afghanistan war veterans and former security service officials recent polls show the country's as sharply divided on the issue with more than seventy percent of those living in western ukraine favoring the deal with the european union but that drops to less than thirty percent in the east in

kiev what began as a campaign over trade ties with europe is now descending into rallying cry for ukraine nationalism good enough to know when these people are being passed off as innocent kids who suffered during the peaceful protests i'm sorry i've seen others there who clearly were nonmilitary and then there were others would not have in their pockets why would anyone do that why. going to a peaceful protest. yet it seems to be escaping some of europe and america's political heavyweights that there is a rowdy right wing driving force taking root you know go scope r t kiev. these efforts may be in vain wooing ukraine right now because in a few minutes we hear about the struggle in keeping its current citizens out of poverty plus two out of the cradle of yemen's military devastated by one of the bloodiest terrorist rates the country c.d.'s we got a lot of comment coming up about all that he says were local journalists as well just.

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orders. logan was the who keeps the welcome mat down for potential new members it could be setting itself up for trouble ahead one of the impending threats is widespread poverty existing within member states currently with over twenty percent of the blocks population living on the brink they say it pans out some fear the block won't be able to handle this burden here's why look at the figures boag area is one of these most impoverished countries nearly half of its population is close to the bread line roommate is not far behind one of four out of every ten there find it hard to make ends meet course you think greece one of the bailed out countries there slightly over thirty percent of the population still struggle to make

financial demands its not alone among the major economies italy and spain they've got roughly the same proportion of people under pressure from harsh austerity measures if more than a quarter it appears can off its head a food bank in rome in fact where essential provisions are handed it to the city's poorest. marco used to work as a pizza your many talents used to call it the golden skill which would always get you work in rome but it didn't hold true for marco one day he was sacked and has not been fired since he's been living on the street for about four years now and says at forty six he sees little chance of fixing his life he asked us not to reveal his identity. when you live on the street survival is what takes up most of your time simply getting a shower is a challenge it takes so much time to take care of yourself like a normal person you reach the end of the day and you're exhausted and depressed. would be an economy going through its longest recession since the second world war

over twelve percent of adults are unemployed while four out of ten young people don't have a job there are no official figures on the homeless we have any type of food nothing you can get for free from somewhere more italians are beginning to turn to charity and humanitarian aid for help two years ago we had about fifty five percent where for no surrender forty five percent value and today we have about sixty five percent valiant thirty five percent for us completely. everything on the shelves is free given in exchange for points allocated to low income families by the global charity network. most of the food is near its expiration date except for specially labeled aid it's really similar to an ordinary supermarket you've got bread pasta dairy products vegetables and so forth but the one thing which really stands out are these packages with signs saying not for sale

this is humanitarian aid from the european union and all together these products make up around a third of all the stuff here. kerry does is now raising the alarm saying around one third of all italian children are at risk of poverty and are lacking basic essential such as protein rich foods heating and clothes equal to skin off our t. rom. osborne international red cross survey says europe's experiencing is worst humanitarian crisis for decades milledge were unable to afford a roof over their heads with a seventy five percent increase in people relying on food aid across the continent it was a should european director spoke to us and said that the number of people having to turn to charities be on their worst that they should. what we have seen since we did our first survey in two thousand and nine and on to two thousand and thirteen is that the crisis that are really taking root at community level at individual level and that household level to

a different degree because people today has used all their savings there is nothing left we are seeing a rapid decrease in what we call the middle class people the british red cross what they are doing right now in what they lost more than a month is that is the biggest food distribution campaign since the say concluded or it is serious in even for the ones of us working in this business on a daily basis we were shocked when we saw their cumulated data across europe yemen's defense ministry complex in the heart of the capital in shaken by car bomb more than two hours of intense gum fighting the very reports of at least thirty deaths and dozens more injured the managing editor of the yemen times square was details of how these tragic events in sanaa unfolded earlier. one of our reporters at the we think that the hospital morgue he personally counted the

bodies i mean dead bodies at the place gunfire started following the explosion at the western gate of the ministry of defense and it was like that. the second car we armed men we get many military uniforms they entered the compound and started shooting and started chasing soldiers yemeni soldiers and it was. a total chaotic situation i would say it was. country asli even more than two hours after the first explosion there is a hospital or the hospital or the and they usually he's going to use for for a high ranking military men a yemeni and those people armed men entered the place they started shooting at the

. medical staff and by now we have a report about at least two foreign medical staff are among the dead at this point we can't say that the been the they were just targeting high ranking people but deplane ricci's kind of the yemen at the heart of yemen's security and defense. ministry i think the they just target they just wanted to target anyone at the place medical the staff soldiers high ranking military men all together. if as we're listening to the midterm adamu good small news news or just couple of minutes ago i received the latest confirmation from a yemeni officials they know saying that the death toll has gone up fifty two people died in the attack earlier on let's get some more in-depth analysis on it go live to london shall shew bridges the security analyst and former u.k. turn to counterterrorism intelligence officers are there charles has good news

coming through from yemen tonight it appeared to be a very well coordinated attack didn't it in the heart of the country's main city or was it say about the strength of insurgents in yemen these days. yes in many ways without that death toll and of course it's probably far from the final figures yet it's very high and it may well be that we might find that senior officials in the defense ministry amongst these casualties and indeed as you say it does appear to be a very well planned coordinated and executed attack but that isn't at all unusual with the kind of people that we're seeing from. insurgents of various he's within the very much chaotic state in many ways yemen actually is a part of it's very. different sort of geographical areas there's a lot of geopolitics at play in yemen of course a lot of economic factors that produces. instability uprisings in different parts

of the country now al qaida and arabian peninsula a cop who it is assumed at this stage is carried out this attack of course some monks the world's most feared if you like jihadist al qaeda offshoots in terms of for example the numbers of the quantity if you like of terrorists that threaten the west i mean to divest of the world from al qaeda one might look to syria but in terms of quality in terms of sheer technical expertise it's for many years now been held that those within a q.a.p. within yemen largely based in yemen. for which the most dangerous threat to the outside world and indeed of course within yemen itself and today is a classic example of that taking advantage we should say of what seem to be weaknesses within the system within the security system in terms of i understand that a lot of construction work is currently going on on that building that was attacked

today which may have given opportunities that are successful exploited yeah we saw some pictures coming through the aftermath that showed a hospital bed surrounded with blood it looks like vulnerable people were attacked here while you were nischelle thought who do you think was carried out the attack i . i hesitate to use the word responsible as ever who do you think. it's certainly as you mentioned earlier and it really only a contributor a leader that was over a number of groups at play and indeed a number of outside forces different countries of course active and of intervene for their own political reasons within yemen of the last couple of years especially it does at the moment bad the hallmarks and again to use that well hackneyed phrase but it does seem to bear the hallmarks of a q a p al qaeda in iraq. they have certainly the ability to carry out such well coordinated such detailed and very successful attacks from that perspective but also of course they have

a continuing ongoing motivation largely. at the behest of the us it should be said for better or worse in this case the. the new relatively new yemeni government has carried out relatively in conventional terms at least successful campaign an offensive against al qaeda in specifically in the southern provinces of yemen the response to that of course is quite predictable where al-qaeda and of course all if you like is limited to any if you like guerrilla forces where they are faced with a conventional onslaught such as they faced from yemen and indeed from u.s. drone attacks over the past couple of years their response will be to move away from conventional warfare they will move away from occupying the towns and cities which is what they were doing in turn a couple of years ago he's very effective. terrorist attacks not only have we seen these very successful in terms of mass casualties particularly against. for example

the armed forces night to some nights recruits were killed in a very big blast in sana last year for example but also in terms of specific targeting of very senior officials such as generals and defense and other officials really it does come very much within the abilities and the motivation of this group charles a final thirty seconds we've got you on the line could you just outline for us briefly the key factors contributing to the country's instability right now and indeed what's your prognosis for the. the problem is that you've got a multitude of players here you've got a share insurgency in the north in which saudi arabia is involved in one way or another you've also got economic problems in terms of a large number of people employed a particular mix the u.s. has been exacerbated amount by saudi arabia if you like expelling a lot of foreign workers which impacts more yemeni young people than anything else and also of course you've got the united states again for its own reasons attacking al qaida for better or worse effectively from

a tactical perspective we train strikes again that is making. a kick out not against the u.s. because it comes reach the u.s. necessarily but against the yemeni authorities in a way it's a rerun of the situation in pakistan and will probably continue to be in that direction i am afraid to say understood charles shubert thank you for your time security analyst and former u.k. turned counterterrorism intelligence off appreciate it ok we're heading into a commercial break now i've got some great programs lined up of course throughout the course of the evening next we go on a spiritual journey in fact one of russia's only is the most isolated christian want to trees monasteries right after the break. we often see the middle east as

a place of constant turmoil and revolution but people in thailand seem to be very fired up as well masses of protesters are force a government ministries to shut down by storming them with human waves one such ministry is the thai equivalent of the american f.b.i. which has been accused of killing around ninety people in a crackdown on those who support ousted prime minister taksin shinawatra who is the brother of the current leader while people are crying out for democracy with accusations of violence against protesters so where is barack obama john kerry the mainstream media. i mean whatever some group of rebels protestors or i mean freedom fighters rise up for democracy are we supposed to arm them like in syria and or bomb their country back into the stone age like in libya serbia iraq some protest explode across the mainstream media with calls for intervention and others are almost totally silent like thailand and bulgaria where there have also been strong winds of buildings less than a month ago i might be a conspiracy theorist but the selective coverage and selective concern for some humans rights and off the rights of others well it smells a bit fishy to me but that's just my opinion.

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