couple of hours after the accident we heard first blaming of russia that highly likely russia was responsible of the murder over attempt of murder and now we see we see words of experts and experts are forgiven for four or four. p.c. w. . that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks is it contradictory yes it is. ten past here in moscow it's been revealed that the much praise security of the virtual currency bitcoin and may have indeed been compromised by the u.s. national security agency classified documents provided by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden demonstrate the efforts by the agency to track down users of the currency it's something previously thought to be practically

impossible antti correspondent digs up a story question what's in it for bitcoin buyers besides the price boom last year when its rate kept go and up people got themselves to was to get rich but bitcoins have been luring enthusiastic with something else since long before the twenty seven thing boo no central bank control privacy and transaction anonymity i'm sorry this could have all been an illusion you haven't followed at snowden or have you. the n.s.a. worked urgently to target bitcoin users around the world according to classified documents provided by snowden so let's look into the national security agency files which caught the eye of the intercepts journalists back in the days when the bit corn was only worth less than one hundred bucks march twenty third teeing the u.s.

was already working hard on tracking down crypto wallet holders and the n.s.a.'s number one priority among the new currencies was bitcoin they did come up with a mysterious tool called monkey rocket and guess what analysts of found value in the monkey rocket access to help track down sanders and receivers of bitcoins how much value is the question here that no one will give you an answer to but come on the n.s.a. is almighty when it comes to getting hold of all kinds of data so no matter how underdeveloped monkey rock it was back then the agency could have filled in the missing puzzle pieces using a stunning array of other spying tools the whistleblower suggest with this sort of information in hand putting a name to a given bitcoin user would be easy monkey rock it is also described in the files as a non-western internet and on them is ation service how many bitcoin owners have so

far been tricked by the n.s.a. into using this product that we can only guess there was never trust in the institutions like the n.s.a. ever since know it and originally came out with this revelations a lot of the pretense of stopping terrorism but most of the governments want to know what all of their citizens are doing all of the time so nothing really changed reading the latest reports over a block chain and what the n.s.a. is trying to do to track it i'm not surprised at all because it was never really doubt anonymous and one people were thinking of it as anonymous. those who were proven to be wrong time and time again the core properties of bitcoin and confiscate all assets if held properly and censorship resistant of value transfer hopefully have an embodied tools will come in the near future but we're not there yet we're in march twenty minutes actually five years since these n.s.a.

memos where it said we should do our best to track down bitcoin users were written but the guys at the snooping agency haven't really been wasting time a million to train coal in moscow. so i think that the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi will run for president if elections manage to go ahead this year his father was driven from power and killed in twenty or eleven while holding no official position saif was one of the most recognized persons in the country he was even described as the defacto prime minister during his father's rule saif was then held captive for six years before being released last year amid political unrest and we heard exclusively from saif lawyer on the presidential bid. difference that islam has lots of supporters ordinary people there even those who are against moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven and now we support the views of his son the situation we have in libya now is the result of the destruction of all the

state institutions not only the toppling of the regime forty countries to diggins libya back then our country was bombarded and shelled all the military and civilian infrastructure was destroyed many civilians were killed and now saif al islam has put forward a comprehensive overview of the situation in libya that's a reform project which will bring calm back to libya there are many young patriots in libya now they are so enthusiastic they're not concerned about political affiliations the main thing they care about is a patriotic spirit and they see it in the reforms by saying. they view them as an effective tool to fight corruption after the nato led ng coersion a civil war has raged in libya since more market he was overthrown with a power vacuum two competing governments are vying for control of the country the conflict has led to a massive migrant crisis widespread terrorism as well as violence among tribal

militias the lawyer reveals that life is still in danger. as about saif al islam whereabouts are kept secret for security reasons as his lawyer i would do everything to protect saif al islam from all anti libyan plots masterminded by the countries interfering in libyan affairs as promised saif al islam will make a speech when the right time comes then everything will be revealed libya will return back to its roadmap will become a democratic sovereign state a state where the law will triumph libya will no longer be a country of organized crime illegal migration human trafficking as it is described in the media we will defend the interests of the libyan people and will protect its resources which cannot be squandered the libyan people must decide their future themselves. by just a moment here at r.t. international we have many more stories coming your way including facebook's chief opens up about the data harvesting scandal more on that just

a moment. when lawmakers manufactured him sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent. to ignore middle of the room signal. the real news is really low. level walk off selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings produce to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they're going. to stop spreading tell you that every gossip and tabloid bias files before they. buy them off after doesn't tell

you on the cool enough and let's fight their product. all the hawks that we along with our good ones. good to have you with us today facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network it was revealed that the postal details of his customers were being used for political purposes and a lengthy facebook apology detailed exactly what went wrong with privacy policies and what steps have been taken to solve the problem he added that the company quote will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everyone going forward now to remind you that the scandal involves a data gathering cold cambridge. it worked with multiple u.s.

presidential campaigns including donald trump and reportedly harvested the details of fifty million facebook profiles for its political operations the company is now under investigation and has even suspended its chief executive however despite the fact that the scandal concerns an american tech giant and american data mining company there are still been bizarre attempts in the media to tie the whole story to russia. so. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be horrible waking up every day guessing that what russia is songe boughts or hackers have cooked up today cambridge analytic i had powerful connections to candidate trump including one time top adviser steve bannon and billionaire donor robert mercer so presidential son in law jared cushion or and

consultant brad parr scale brought in the company which is now accused of utilizing data from fifty million facebook users without permission facebook was how donald trump was going to win wait a sec something's wrong where's the bad guy who do we blame this on. there it is questions are also swirling about a possible link to russian metal cambridge c.e.o. reached out to julian a songs of wiki leaks seeking access to e-mails from hillary clinton's private server there's no evidence ricky leaks had such information but wiki leaks was releasing e-mails from the computers of other democrats which authorities say were hacked by russians and another trump advisor roger stone great innings i actually communicated with this what how do you even make the connection what's your logic if someone speaks to a songe their russian agent there is zero connection here other than the word

russia being in every other sentence there is only one explanation cnn's report must have been put together by a random generator literally this explanation makes more sense than cnn's report at savage the d.n.c. oil trump the russians cambridge had because we've got the key words just fill this. basis with whatever he also directly message to russian hacker he says he did nothing wrong and despite another claim that cambridge had ties to a russian oil company the campaign insists there were never any links to russia are you comfortable that the trunk campaign through their cameras analytical had a connection to wiki leaks. they did have a connection of wiki leaks let me demonstrate if you are of average height and your

birthday is in july you are closely tied to a sound see how easy it is let's do this again if you like snow and the russians like snow you are aligned with russia or if you want lots of money and all of us have lots of money you are susceptible to russian influence it's all nonsense but who cares it's about getting the keywords out there about confusing and confounding not explaining or investigating keywords people keywords. the russians everywhere. widescale home foreclosures by greek banks have triggered riots in.

people gathered in the city center on wednesday to protest against the scheme the rally was part of a nationwide. movement led by the leftist popular unity party. greeks are being repossessed through digital options to meet the demands of international creditors. dozens of children in the moscow region are being treated for gas poisoning people in the town. believe a landfill site they blame the landfill site i should say they gathered outside the hospital as well where the children were taken and the crowds booed the regional governor when he came to visit. i was it was

the all one hundred eighty people in the area are suffering from noise and dizziness the landfill site has allegedly made the ad to upset a former presidential candidate sen yourself jack visited the hospital and spoke to one of the children being treated. in this case photo she was if if they kept a wish that they were if i was. a little boy was making was that i think it's just less it was you know this was a kid you have to stick to it but you would just tell you if it is because i do know she only well let's just say just that there are many parents among the protest as a way of buying those with a message as a stop poisoning our children and the valar columns we are suffocating video agents he talked to some of the residents he blew me wendy's night emissions happen my

child coughs as if he's suffocating he can't sleep he cries he has a sore throat but it isn't just an ordinary quote still pretty good question fights when we put the kids to sleep we see the doors and windows with the wet towels so that they won't brave the sand was good when you wish it was up if that's unbearable the smell is awful we adults suffer when our children suffer more we're always nervous sometimes we don't even know whether they will wake up in the morning because many suffer from asked my or alex just. the slightest would if the children are dizzy they vomit the teachers have to call ambulances my son goes to the local school he's just eight we just want people to hear us our cry for help and following the outcry from residents the russian general prosecutor's office has said it will launch a probe into the poisonings. why well that is it for us forward now that we are back at the top of the hour with more of your news.

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only women themself a much larger fish was once there that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not cleared for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes.

the theorists hypothesis to heard about do you suppose it's association a ninety five to ninety eight percent i find incredible it's almost two approaches a very seriously if one wants to fix the mechanisms that are a fatal blow through the chemical weapon circumcision she played a role in constant mediation then i think we have to look at the facts and the procedures for affordably approach in the infamous moves to be here. for a single purpose. they have a super. training very young. eight months of intensive school.

wraps. and they save lives. greetings and salutations so for many especially on a national level politics is a game of sumter you see fantasy sleight of hand style dance of distraction and manipulation pay attention to this large loud shiny thing over here while the secret hidden wizards behind the curtain pull the strings over here on your life liberty and happiness normally your elected leaders can play this game without

a glitch and avoid making any public decisions or displays that show them for the showmen that many of them truly are but sometimes there is a glitch in the political matrix and they vote or leak pulls back the curtain this week had to go on tuesday while saudi arabia is crime crown prince was wined and dined and shined all over washington d.c. the men and women of the united states senate were forced to put their campaign trail promises of peace and goodwill to the test as they voted on whether or not to withdraw u.s. military support of saudi arabia's ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in yemen they failed that test fifty five to forty four the senate voted to continue helping saudi arabia drug us made bombs on the starving war torn nation of yemen the second crack in the facade came with reports that congress has decided that the sexual

harassment settlement cost racked up by lawmakers year after year will continue to be paid for by taxpayer dollars. senator kirsten gillibrand who prove who spearheaded measures to reform capitol hill's workplace misconduct system was livid telling the media that killing these reforms begs the question who are they trying to protect i can't think of any legitimate reason to remove this language other than to protect members of congress over tax payers and congressional employees. pro-war pro sexual harassment this is united states of american car rules now let's start watching the hawks. what would it. look like. as you keep the ball out of it. like you that i got. this.

week so. well for the watch of the heart sometimes over a time top of the list and congress is once again not shocked me in the least of their by their inability to do simple as simplest of things to make humanity a slightly better place yeah it's funny how they just can't quite get over that hill now there's already a turnover mcgrath's holding out there's always something like the one we saw we couldn't do it for this reason or this one really limits what it's called raising that they possibly have of saying you know what taxpayers should pay for stevie's i mean pick monsters in congress to go about harassing men and women and that's that's what you're saying stuart the spokeswoman for the set of majority leader

mitch mcconnell has an answer for you but he was lying to congress it was deliberate his comments saying well this important issue is being discussed at no time was language from senate julep senator joe lieberman's bill adopted to the legislation and or stripped. that i mean i don't know if. that's for other people to decide but that sounds an awful lot like mansplaining to me to senator jill brown was use kind of words saying they basically took the language of my there's no make the on this bill you're not going to vote it no honey you're just so it was never really there to you know but we haven't taken it off yet it's gaslight and yeah it's literally that's gaslighting that's oh no you're crazy it wasn't there you're crazy you're the one who's always getting a little emotional the congressional harassment reform idea was that members of congress congressman personally pay for sexual harassment settlements when they're when they're found liable when they're found guilty so lawmakers can tap but one

currently what's going on right now as we've seen is that lawmakers can tout taxpayer funds to settle with victims playing this game of like well is not really liable we may or may not be there but will settle anyway unless the victim opts for privacy under the access omens with and automatically be made public which i think is important if the victim of that harassment is ok with people knowing about it is ok with that it needs to come out we need to how much money was spent for these people to go around being scumbags and who was being settled with what do i read in the sons of like ok like you're somebody comes forward and says that this guy discriminated against me or this person social unrest was real and this person is an elected official yes we should know about this and i think it's absolutely rid don't kill this leave ridiculous on the taxpayers' go for their misdeeds but i guess that's kind of the american way these days you know that's that's kind

of like hey you know what put it on the taxpayer well you know what we'll pay for it to be fine the taxpayers pay for it but we're not so much money from saudi arabia. because then i know you saw our illustrious leader standing there with his little tag board. little posterboard a vicarious all the fabulous things we're going to sell see you could murder people in yemen oh at the expense of yemeni lives yeah good point and a crime or grand i mean the crown that slip of the tongue and have you know it's funny because the u.s. just weren't clear u.s. provides a solid coalition with intelligence for congress and some mid-air fire refusing everything they need to wage this air war of this catastrophe humanitarian catastrophe in yemen three. congressmen came forward to try to withhold that to basically do congress's job and say look you have to get our authorization to involve our military we're right with a war that we really have nothing to do with you know those were bernie sanders of

vermont mike lee republican of utah and chris murphy the democrat of connecticut. as i said earlier ten democrats democrats voted with the republican majority including the senate armed services committee is ranking democrat senator jack reed of rhode island and senator joe donnelly of indiana they all voted to basically say no words totally cool for the military your taxpayer funded military to be aiding saudi arabia probably what i said humanitarian catastrophe i believe it is one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time going on in yemen but we're coordinating this you know that's what we do from onset of our bernie sanders who actually put up the car and put up the boat actually said some will argue on the floor today we're really not engaged in hostilities we're not exchanging fire people please tell that to the people of yemen whose homes and lives are being destroyed by weapons marked made in the usa dropped by planes being refueled by the u.s. military on targets chosen with u.s. assistance at some point the united states and our government can't keep pushing

this off and saying other people do it and playing their version of what about islam there has to be some understanding that your actions have consequences or your population will not care that there are consequences for act and i'm sorry those democrats in congress. being a betting the president that you hate the most by giving him this blank check to use the military whatever you want food for thought. earlier this year we reported on south africa's water crisis and while extreme conservation efforts may have pushed the country's day zero the day the country runs out of reusable usable fresh water deep into the rainy season which may ultimately save the city's water supply that doesn't mean that there are not lessons to be learned because according to a new report south africa may just be the canary in the coal mine for an impending freshwater crisis of global proportions unesco the united nations educational scientific and cultural organizations new world water development report paints a dire picture for the future unless major global changes are made to how we use

and recycle our water supplies the guardian reports that according to the study more than five billion people could suffer water shortages by two thousand and fifty due to climate change increased demand and polluted supplies the development report goes on to predict that by two thousand and fifty somewhere between four point eight and five point seven billion human beings will live in areas that face water scarcity is for at least one month each year this is up from the three point six billion people living under those conditions today so with the world now staring down the reality of losing one half of life's two most important components just how will humanity solve the problem and the answer might be a lot more simple than we've been allowed ourselves to think and treated intriguing to have these numbers for a lot of. the bird that we've let it go because for good solid use water oxygen one hundred year when you go for the things in order to go without food for a week and i go without water for a few days. how do we let a good or this is

a little old. and the answer to all this when was the moment because of how much humans use a lot of water so your average human uses about forty six hundred cubic kilometers of water every year which is kind of imagine how big that is it's a lot and why our systems right now are plumbing systems later in the united states maybe in other countries might be a little better. in the united states they're not meant for conservation go they're meant for power in you. know when we're talking about a world population that's supposed to be very ready for this we're about to have a lot of neighbors the world popular supposedly nine to ten billion the year twenty fifty. seven point seven right. and global demand has increased six fold over the past hundred years and grows at a rate of one percent a year to get you know of the consumption of water and seventy percent of our water's used for agriculture yes as they're saying that that's how much they used

to remember how much of it goes to agriculture it takes much more water to raise a cow than it does to plant. it's amazing and the report essentially says that change is still possible but only if we go towards more of a major based solution idea or rather you know rely more on what earth provides and how earth tempers and distributes water rather than manmade rather than infrastructure great infrastructure as it's called most right i mean you can only build so many dams you can only build so many awkward for us because there's opera for us are already in distress. you can't you know we've we've put dams on whatever places that we can get water from and we've put pipelines down we all know that but ultimately if you can't keep them filled or you can't do certain things it's not going to help and one of the the answers the main answers lie is in that seventy percent number that you mentioned ok seventy percent goes to agriculture yet where is this wonderful ag culture that is it's literally throwing water into areas where there isn't water pumping up from other places or as we've seen going into

groundwater and using it like on and planting it takes a lot of water so i think one of the things is moving over to more kind of conservation agriculture i think you know talk of talked about it a lot i think one of the saviors of urban food deserts is having hydroponics and things that are grown and side because you don't lose water or do you can reuse water you can do tons of things out of it and i think doing the. and more indoor environments and letting the land rafts and letting water replete you know repeat itself and clean itself to nature does that but we don't given enough time yeah it's interesting how much it goes back to kind of like big corporate in desert you know the idea the we're going to just kind of go through and lay waste to the land because they don't want out of and you know why it's because industrial farms farms and i'll tell you what they don't do they don't rotate crops properly they don't take care of the water they don't care for the land the way that farmers family farms a one per.