valence does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect but not not willingly. clappers statement was revealed to be erroneous just months after the testimony of edward snowden's revelations about mass u.s. surveillance american lawmakers have criticized the justice department for failing to open clappers case he and others who have held administrative power must be held accountable to the same laws that govern the people of the united states he admitted to lying to congress and was an remorseful in flippant about it the integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community. political analyst charles alltel

says clapper's case fits into a larger pattern of failures to prosecute can be taken very seriously but to date it is seldom been prosecuted aggressively and depending on the facts of the case. prosecutors may make a determination if they only want to go forward with cases that are easily won when you look past the narrow issue of clapper and you look at the long period of president obama's tenure for eight years which is only now beginning to come under the kind of scrutiny i felt it deserved a long time ago what you see been a longstanding pattern and practice of harnessing the machinery of the fearsome machinery of the us federal state against enemies of the obama administration and in favor of friends of the a bomb in a straight and that's the larger story are not simply whether clapper should be prosecuted for the one instance that's admitted where he did lie under oath to congress. rushes a defense ministry has released

a video of tests of his latest missile systems among the new weapons is the hypersonic kinja or dagger missile which can go ten times the speed of sound and is said to be capable of outsmarting all current existing defense systems and then there's the side about rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile which has a vast range and can carry multiple nuclear warheads artie's what i was granted exclusive access to russia's latest nuclear deterrent. meet satan as natives come to cool this v thirty six and

two hundred and nine tons of nuclear ged and it is a paradox these things evolution. it like the end of human civilization and yet. that very fact the guarantees that new same man will lead the press the red button. thirty six m. carries as many as ten nuclear warheads as well as decoys and counter-measures its beat in service for nigh on food see years now he's time for something new

something a little more powerful. a swedish zoo was receiving death threats for the controversial practice of healthy animals. it's regrettable but necessary.

yeah i think it's the best way to help the taking care of the animals you simply look at the lead. and sometimes they've got surplus and sometimes we need to use an audience it's. the surviving to use the cost through animal lovers to think that animals shouldn't kill it on the raw hunters the feel animals but i've been through that still several times it's a beautiful place and i take my kids i mean it's easy for some to desert your tools

but this needs to kill and. there's no reason for violence threatens us in the first going on that is terrible but those people just don't understand how to run the suv. now live. i said joining us here on r.t. international on this day the russian a presidential election is now less than a week away just a moment we speak to one of the kind. of fight for many flips over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch. well the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman to just kill the narrowness and spend the children twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else not

to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy but great so what more chance for. a nice minute. told me it's so also not accepted will bed wetter than russia and all the us is deciding maybe off what german companies or european companies are investing in or which infrastructure we are building interim n e or and injure up i think it's a trim and it's a european decision. good to have you with us today it is exec seven days until the presidential election here in russia and ati is starting its special coverage.

but you know thank you. yes i will check up because i don't know it's. really made before but it doesn't seem like. much but what it was it was the end of what you did after you don't get it but. i'm sure. which. one on the chin that. you said he just didn't look at your.

stupid look at. you did you put up with him go to sleep with him he would never. do it you. would be. we spoke exclusively to one of the hopefuls pawel being in the concert of for the communist party he's a fifty seven year old director of a fall and his left wing platform proposes nationalizing big industries and banks critics though accuse him of keeping his own earnings in foreign buying something he denies. asked him about some of the pressing issues facing russia and russian society. there is terrorism appears in places where people live in poverty and an environment for terror groups to develop first and foremost we must get rid of such environments people must be employed if a man has a job with a decent wage and cares for his family he won't become

a terrorist if he has no job and has fallen for certain doctrines imposed on him he becomes easy prey for terror recruitment i'm talking about the domestic situation as for terror groups existing outside of the country we must fight them very hard the good guy should be strong and pull no punches. personally i think the european union pictures russia is a threat in order to conceal a date its internal policies i'm getting the impression that the e.u. authorities present russia as the enemy to consolidate themselves while doing so they're lobbying for defense spending why would you unleash an arms race if you already have a lot more weapons than we have and your military budget is bigger than ours i believe someone wants to escalate an arms race even more and for that reason it must be shown that there is some sort of threat in existence.

we can put this issue to a referendum but i can tell you ninety nine percent of russia's population will be against same sex marriage it's certain so why raise the issue it's like asking muslims whether they'll eat pork they won't although in many other states people eat pork and there's nothing wrong with it but muslims won't be doing it in russia people have certain moral norms and we must consider this fact so as of today we don't have any grounds even to propose the issue of same sex marriage to our nation other people throughout the week here on our teams or national we'll be introducing you to russia's presidential hopefuls and how they view the future of the country and the world and on sunday march eighteenth to join us for our special coverage election night live on r.t. international. the independence movement in catalonia shows no sign of dying down five months on from the referendum that was branded illegal by the spanish.

forty five thousand protesters attended a rally in barcelona on sunday calling for a new government that will work towards catalonia session from spain people charge of their support for the former capital and president carter as. he and four other separatist leaders are currently out of the country and could face prosecution if they come back home demonstrators also demanded the release of local politicians jailed for their roles in last october's vote after the referendum madrid of course imposed a direct rule on catalonia and jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign says the spanish government is simply failing to uphold basic democratic rights. i think what the spanish government is attempting to do is to grain people don't know and of course say it's not the number of please one week tonight is to send rioters and with probability seems soldiering within the last week has been to try and

strangle the mood by feeling people are using b.d.s. administrate techniques to strangle the possibility of establishing an end and we have to look at this and actually start to question what democracy really means and the european context i have not seen enough internationally and i have proceeded piñon when it comes to what's going on in past what it means not only to get the situation on pigeon what you have in peace and you know you have a champion and join the south which isn't in who's been a text is be anointed was the leader and it had won a parliament and even be able to leave the jail on monday to attend the beat that's been ruled by the spanish supreme court so democracy is under attack in very obvious ways and it's important that the international community the e.u. and protect your rights to stand up on the state of democratic rates and it's not doing so for. a group of fraudsters has been busted in some petersburg for selling fake passports though fake not in the way you might expect.

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a good. fit with. the false hope for the future for what's good for the for. a passenger plane has crashed while landing at katmandu airport in the poll officials say of course fire and skidded to a stop in a field next to the runway it's clear how many casualties there might be seventeen passengers rescued so far no fatalities reported as of yet officials say sixty seven passengers and four crew were on board we'll keep you posted on any developments here on r.t. as they come. for joining us on this monday more of your worldwide news headlines at the top of the hour.

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dark secrets nobody knows. many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany in jeopardy opposition from europe and the united states to project survive its core as well as the energy speaker of the christian democratic union party in the german been to. fight for.

a new russian pipeline to bring natural gas directly to germany bypassing transit routes. and states cut out as well as making. up to four american gas instead. of even more dependent on russian natural gas cheaper energy for all. of the political pressure from all sides will be tough and indifference. for the energy speaker of the christian democratic union party in a german bundesliga welcome to the show great to have you with us lots to discuss germany has given the green light to the north stream to pipeline which will bring the natural gas from russia to germany directly via the baltic sea polland and the baltic states and other e.u. members opposed to projects but opposition to the project comes from countries who currently do transit business with gas from and stand to lose if the pipeline is

built does it actually about trying to reduce dependence or really about lost revenues. first of all i think it's good to have a brooch act like north stream too because it brings diversification diversification and the transport off natural gas and diverse more routes and more diversification means more liquidity in the european market and that increases the security off supply not only for charo money. increases the security of supply all over europe and so basically i think it's a good idea to have to set this new pipeline sharp but why do you think countries in european union oppose it because they're losing revenues or because they want to reduce dependence what is the core cause of the opposition i think i

think it's a mixture of course may be a great day fia that they who was transit capacity or trans. transport. fees but. i personally think that it will crane will. be indicated in the future as well but they also have to have west and infrastructure because the full structure is quite old and there are really no investments needed and there is opposition from poland as well poland fears to be even more. dependent so russian gas but if if they think if we have a diversification and if we have more routes a pipeline to which we have an option one definition we have we have to grind it drowns it we have several. capacities and pop plants and mediterranean

sea and then we have a lot of elenchi terminals. at the moment they are not fully used the capacity is only used by fifteen to twenty percent and so i think this brings competition to the gas market and we also have storage capacity all over europe and competition normally bring slower prices and so what the consumer and also always industry can benefit for it and therefore i think we have to convince a lot of european partners that it's a good idea gas a plaster here of have been disrupted several times in the past years because of kiev moscow disputes over ukraine and gas import debt so isn't moscow's goal to avoid the unreliable transit partner legitimate enough and is it north stream to going to bring in more reliable gas supply to europe. most free to is the

shortest way to bring to gus to central europe and the european union we still working on to having a. single market on energy and on us gas as well and so we implemented for example reverse flow with so that we can also supply. the countries and europe or in eastern europe so hopefully. we will have an additional increasing off to security of supply so of course when it comes to gas and oil and energy in general it. oftentimes becomes a political thing for instance the polish prime minister says nordstrom too as a political project aimed at undermining central europe there's a ukrainian member of parliament his comparing the an astute with a molecule ribbentrop pact in the thirty nine how are statements like that

affecting the projects perception in your country in germany. we say and we think it's not to put it to go pro checked it's private approach it's privately motivated it's privately financed there is no public finance if you look maybe to what the post polish government now at the moment tries to add to this that pollution. elenchi terminal all they have learned she told me one day old on to build a new pipe and that this system may be or will be supported for example by the european union and i welcome this brooch act as well because it also diversifies their roots and to diversify. the markets and so we can bring more competition and more security of supply now the european commission wants to take over and not stray into negotiations from germany and bogged down in

the office and red tape all germans insists it's their rights to handle talks on their own well berlin confront brussels over this. we are negotiating at the moment and. it mentioned before we want to have a single european and achieve market also and gas as well but we also have a national. end of she makes so far for example to terminate we decided to face out nuclear others decide to face it nuclear or to stay with nuclear and if the european commission would take over responsibility or they would give the final approval for. pipelines or for oil and cipro checks or also for storage maybe facilities that it would take directly to nationals over and it t. on the energy mix and so i think. it's not

a good idea to have it for both this perspective of the economist magazine quotes a european commission official as saying that if it was dinner wager instead of oil that would be no problem so this has nothing to do with gas this is a european commission's personal grudge against gas from the right. i'm not sure about. if this is. against gospel but the. european commission and a lot of. member states and also from critiques from the parliament from other european parliament they are afraid to be more dependent to russian gas and so that. because the resources we have into europe in you would in all see are shrinking norwegian or in the north north sea or and great britain also in the netherlands and so there it there is the fear that the dependency but

if you have a pipeline this pipeline you can move it if you like elegy ship or an oil tanker at the he can go from qatar to japan as well as to western europe for example and a pipeline east area so i see a pipeline. brings up both way dependence we need the gas russia needs the money for fro the gas to and. for the. for the federal of the budget and the two. to do out of i don't think so. i'm not too afraid that that will increase i'll attempt and dependency so like you're saying to europe's gas demand is expected to rise within the next decade with british and dutch production falling in norway freezing some of its oil and

gas projects brussels wants to pull the plug on gas from here up but does it have a backup plan for the day here or faces a gas shortage. that there are a lot of scenarios and i know a lot of perspective if the gas. demand will increase or. stay. the same nobody knows exactly what we are doing heavenly. we're working heavily on the renewable sector for example but i think gas will play a key role even in the renewable in the future if you look to electricity we need backup capacity and this has to come out from conventional and i think also from a two point from a decarbonising point a few it's better to have gas and makes in the long run then for example a hot coal oil. coal so i think gas is. intelligent patna for

the renewables and we can also use this pipeline system for transporting hydrogen for example or. things so this infrastructure is not only limited to defrost and therefore i think a pipeline system combined for storage capacities and then she terminals all over europe is a quick thing and i would win situation for all participants here paying commission wants to man the e.u. gas directive and propose changes will actually harm nordstrom to germany saying that they possible amendments aren't applicable under here opinion or international law so why would russell's come forward with proposals that are known to the bat. yeah that's the moment to be negotiated and there are. at the moment talks at the moment there are. some lawyers on. breaking on that and

finally we have to find a solution and i hope that we've. a common solution for europe which in greece is secure to a full blood supply for everybody and went up like the five european companies germany and france united kingdom austria invested ten billion euros in a project should in brussels protect their interest as well we we have a market or in. approach in europe we want to have a single european and achieve market and we want to mobilize as much private money as possible for increasing and building the infrastructure. so that's the one side and we have to balance it on the other side of course. the european commission is concerned as some of the states going about that dependency on russia or to.