greenwald at the guardian we know that the n.s.a. spy program implicated the u.s. in a wide range of surveillance of its own citizens but also on foreign government. courses led to relations between the u.s. and latin america to sour and some of the leaders of latin american countries have called on president obama to publicly apologize for what the n.s.a. has been conducting is through its spy programs now brazilian president dilma rousseff who now open the u.n. general assembly debate postponed her state visit to washington which was supposed to take place in october that was in response the u.s. spying on her personal communications with top aides now that visit to the to the white house would have been the official state visit during president obama's second term it would have been the first visit from a brazilian leader in almost to the white house in almost two decades but clearly this shows how upset and angry the brazilian government is in the fallout from the n.s.a. spying revelations this is now just the first world leader that is addressing the internati

said that the white house's initial reaction to the n.s.a. spying revelations have worked against the interests of u.s. tech firms that are operating abroad now this is the first time we've heard from the heads of such big corporations speaking publicly about the n.s.a. scandal while acknowledging that the spy agency requests use user data and those requests can't be rejected in the meantime it seems that every week the public is receiving new details about how pervasive the n.s.a. is taxes tactics have been and how much authority this agency actually wields extraordinary to think the c.e.o. of yahoo says she could actually. treason charges how big corporations. have a big corporations being before the government in this sort of way. well i think that there's an effort from everybody we've interviewed over the course of the past months there's clearly a consensus that there is an effort there's a push to silence these corporations but it appears that these big data companies like facebook yahoo and google are beginning beginning to follow in the foo

n.s.a.'s program spying on her personal communications as was reported by documents leaked by n.s.a. whistles whistleblower edward snowden the n.s.a. spied on the brazilians president's personal communications as well as brazilian citizens this is not something the brazilian president is happy about or latin america in general is happy about many heads of state have called on us president barack obama to publicly apologize for the n.s.a.'s pervasive spy program so we can expect that she will be addressing this surveillance system that the u.s. has in place now after the brazilian president wraps up her address to the international community u.s. president barack obama will take to the podium there may be an awkward moment we'll have to wait and see the u.s. leader of course is expected to address several issues he may speak about the n.s.a.'s spying program but he also course is expected to talk about iran's disputed nuclear program syria's chemical weapon use and peace talks between israel and palestine let's remember that failed middle east peace talks led to the palestinians to se

general assembly by lambasted in washington for the n.s.a. spying scandal and demanding an apology for being snooped on. russian investigators for piracy charges against greenpeace activists saying they may have endangered the region's environment that's after they tried to climb onto an offshore oil platform in protest against drilling in the arctic. meanwhile the arctic sea focus of top officials in ecology experts who flock together in russia's north and countries are beginning to see the oil and gas treasures being revealed by the melting ice. this is a party live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day speaking at the u.n. general assembly in new york barack obama has defended america's foreign military interventions and stressed that washington must remain heavily engaged in the middle east now that's after his brazilian counterpart took the chance to criticize the u.s. for the recent global spying scandal well we hope to get more from auntie's marina porter from new york live a little later this hour here on r.t. . greenpeace activist

plus brazil's president cancels a state visit to washington over n.s.a. spying allegations to take a look at the measures the country is mulling to protect itself from the u.s. cyber surveillance. iran seems to be offering an olive branch to the west ahead of next week's un general assembly meeting a change of tone that first appeared with the election of a new president has become especially noticeable this week here's a look at some of hasan rouhani is moves that may be signaling a thaw first in a recent interview he made it clear iran will never pursue nuclear weapons adding that his government might be ready to strike a deal with the west rouhani further address the topic of cooperation when he made his case for putting an end to frosty relations and engaging in constructive dialogue in an open letter to the washington post newspaper and in a conciliatory gesture iran released almost a dozen political prisoners this week two of them renowned human rights advocates at the core of this push to defrost relations is an exchange of letters between rouhani and pre

as the n.s.a. spying scandal continues to undermine america's global standing one u.s. ally is not willing to forgive and forget brazilian president dilma rousseff has canceled her scheduled visit to the white house next month pulling out of what was supposed to be the first official state visit of u.s. president barack obama's second term it would have also been the first for a brazilian president in nearly two decades in addition to breaking dates for cilia is also taking steps to divorce itself from the u.s. centric internet while seeking its own sovereignty in cyberspace president rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater brazilian online independence including storing citizens data locally to protect from n.s.a. snooping according to reports the brazilian government is also planning to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to europe and also link to all south american nations currently most of brazil's global internet traffic passes through the united states now experts say if other nations follow in brazil's footsteps the us cloud computing in

and trade was sent by boston washington for the n.s.a. spy scandal and demanding an apology for being a wild time. russian investigators filed piracy charges against greenpeace activists saying they were have endangered the document that's after they tried to climb on to an offshore oil platform in protest against drilling in the arctic. meanwhile the focus of top officials on the coach expos hope flock together in russia's north that says governments are beginning to like the oil and gas treasures being revealed by the melting items. this is our see coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program speaking of the u.n. general somebody new york bomber has a defended america's foreign military interventions and tries that washington must remain heavily engaged in the middle east after his brazilian con devolves to the chance to criticize the u.s. for the recent global spying scandal let's cross live to our marina portnoy who's in new york for us hi there marina so how did obama justify his position. well u.s. president barack obama

said the white house's initial reaction to the n.s.a. spying revelations have worked against the interests of u.s. tech firms operating abroad now this is the first time we've heard from the heads of such big corporations commenting on the n.s.a. scandal and acknowledging the wealth of information that was provided to the n.s.a. and the knowledge no request can be rejected but for the public every week citizens are receiving new details finding out more and more about these pervasive n.s.a. tactics what's been going on how deep the surveillance it has been and continues to be. much history to the government trying to silence a big corporations that. no one. it appears that these big data companies are beginning to follow in the footsteps of smaller companies that have stood up to the n.s.a. and refuse to comply with their spying requests for example. the owner of x. mission internet the internet provider called x. mission he told r.t. that the only solution for keeping the government from spying is using encryption and having service providers

n.s.a. scandal while acknowledging that the spy agency requests use user data and those requests can't be rejected in the meantime it seems that every week the public is receiving new details about how pervasive the n.s.a.'s toxic tactics have been and how much authority this agency actually wields in all of this is an indication of the n.s.a.'s power and that power actually recently came to light this week when a cute computer science professor at john hopkins university a prominent university in the united states was out. forced to deal take down one of his blog posts on the university's site after he posted an article about america's spy program now the post was written by cryptography professor matthew green it was highly critical of the n.s.a. specifically how why he says the reckless reckless behavior of the agency and attacking online security astonished him now green said the acting dean of the engineering school of the university told him that he doesn't take down his post his critical posts on the n.s.a. he would need a lawyer and this of course left us professor fearing for his academic

general assembly washington for the n.s.a. spying scandal and demanding an apology for. russian investigators for piracy charges against greenpeace activists saying they may have endangered the region's environment that's after they tried to shore oil in protest against drilling in the arctic. is the focus of top officials and experts who flock together. countries are beginning to oil and gas treasures being revealed by the melting ice. from our studio in moscow where it's just turned eleven pm this is r.t. with international news and comment speaking at the un general assembly in new york barack obama has defended america's foreign military interventions and stressed that washington must remain heavily engaged in the middle east that's after his brazilian counterpart took the chance to criticize the u.s. for the recent global spying scandal. is in new york with the latest so. syria to give up its chemical. but what price. well centering on syria at the start of his speech u.s. president barack obama called on the international community to enforce a ban on chemical weap

of yahoo suggesting that even talking about the n.s.a. spying program could amount to treason top stories this hour. live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned eight pm this is r.t. with international news and comment the syrian army is battling small groups of rebels who remain in the ancient christian village of. opposition fighters linked to al qaida had been in control of the area for almost a week reportedly looting religious sites and forcing residents to convert to islam a gun point. made it to the village following reports that government troops have recaptured it but found pockets of resistance remaining. but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out. but some of them were killed some of them escaped the locals joined the army to defend the native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms of the so-called national defense but the terrain here is very difficult with mountains and caves but we know the area better so we are carrying on with the operation and. we com

for the n.s.a. spying scandal revealed by whistleblower edward snowden and tells us how cross to our correspondent in new york not so high that marina. when who can hear her now so and see her actually but if you can hear a scenario so be it marina so the brazilian president certainly didn't mince her words when addressing washington. the yuan the general assembly. she certainly did not and she really jumped right into it within a few minutes of her speech of brazilian president dilma rousseff addressed the n.s.a. spy program saying that the u.s. surveillance state has caused around the world she spoke. of the surveillance that's been taking place not only in the us but in on foreign governments and foreign institutions she said without the right to privacy there is no freedom of speech there is no democracy she also proposed. multilateral internet government framework that would establish some rules in which governments would operate and hit governments from doing exactly what you.

n.s.a. operations that we have against other countries because as we all know all countries spy on each other where state law is a question is hash tag ask make make the most popular one is how can citizens protect that data and communications while still using popular corporate software the first thing i would recommend to the average person on the street is use whenever you're out in the public or using public wife thought is use a v.p.n. service because what that immediately does is it creates it takes your data and it kind of puts it in an encrypted envelope so people can really intercept and spy on that could a boycott of time to train like i pod and phones like arisan and good go and i said . to and i say. no no i mean this is like the form of activism were you you have you know a group of individuals whether it's like lulz or anonymous and they break into stuff and they try to get the media to cover the message they want to send but at the end of the day it really doesn't change behavior of a government agency or a company basically they go out and try to prosecute the guys do. gratz o

as the n.s.a. spying scandal continues to undermine america's global standing one u.s. ally is not willing to forgive and forget brazilian president dilma rousseff has canceled her scheduled visit to the white house next month pulling out of what was supposed to be the first official state visit of u.s. president barack obama's second term it would have also been the first for a brazilian president in nearly two decades in addition to breaking dates for cilia is also taking steps to divorce itself from the u.s. centric internet while seeking its own sovereignty in cyberspace president rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater brazilian online independence including storing citizens data locally to protect from n.s.a. snooping according to reports the brazilian government is also planning to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to europe and also link to all south american nations currently most of brazil's global internet traffic passes through the united states now experts say if other nations follow in brazil's footsteps the us cloud computing in

as the n.s.a. spying scandal continues to undermine america's global standing one u.s. ally is not willing to forgive and forget brazilian president dilma rousseff it has canceled her schedule. a month of pulling out of what was supposed to be the first official state visit of u.s. president barack obama's second term it would have also been the first for a brazilian president in nearly two decades in addition to breaking dates for cilia is also taking steps to divorce itself from the u.s. centric internet while seeking its own sovereignty in cyberspace president rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater brazilian online independence including storing citizens data locally to protect from n.s.a. snooping according to reports the brazilian government is also planning to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to europe and also link to all south american nations currently most of brazil's global internet traffic passes through the united states now experts say if other nations follow in brazil's footsteps the us cloud computing industry which stores da

n.s.a. online spying scandal spreads even wider universities as well as getting in on the action following secret. personal data from students. just after eleven am on friday here in moscow it's r t with me let's get straight to your top world headlines right now. thirty one people feared dead after a blaze broke out overnight at a psychiatric facility in northwestern russia six bodies have been found so far twenty three people though already taken to safety. france has the latest. the fire reportedly broke out in the evening hours and in me in a wooden an excess of this facility in the northwest of russia near the village of luka apparently this wooden and extent does the men's ward many of these patients were bedridden at the time witnesses are saying that they saw a person within the facility who was engulfed in flames before the structure caught fire obviously investigators are taking a very serious look at this and trying to ascertain the the cause of this blaze now crews arrived within minutes but it is said there was very heavy smoke and rescuers have spent the morning searching the surrou

n.s.a. online spying scandal spreads even wider universities as well. following. personal data from students. from moscow it's now at ten am on friday. world headlines. well we have reports now of up to at least four dead thirty four feared to have passed after a blaze broke out overnight at a psychiatric facility in northwestern russia three bodies have been found at least twenty three though have already been taken to safety. now joining us here on r.t. the latest on this developing story good to see you again. bring us up to speed no please. rory the fire reportedly broke out in the evening hours and in me in a wooden an excess of this facility in the northwest of russia in your the village of luca apparently this wooden and extent does the men's ward many of these patients were bedridden at the time and witnesses are saying that they saw a person within the facility who was engulfed in flames before the structure caught fire obviously investigators are taking a very serious look at this and trying to ascertain the the cause of this blaze now crews arrived with

also this hour is syria iran on the n.s.a. spy scandal i.g. to dominate discussions at the u.n. general assembly in new york. and kenyan forces are clearing the westgate mall for misses following a four day hostage crisis with authorities saying british and american nationals were among that. you so russia under on the wall this is all see with me hello and welcome to the program. says she greenpeace activists south facing charges of piracy after trying to board a russian oil platform in protest against drilling in the arctic both russian and foreign activists are among those being investigated and for more let's now go to our season. he is here in the studio with us had alex say so what exactly are the protesters accused of and tell us more about the charges how serious the charges seem to be serious because according to the russian investigators these activists violated an article of the russian criminal code about piracy organized by a group of people and the maximum prison sentence for that violation is fifteen years with a half a million ruble fine as well according to the

spying agencies and the technology giant. >> as the n.s.a. spying scandal continues to undermine america's global standing, one u.s. ally is not willing to forgive and forget. bras i will -- brazilian president rousef has cancelled her planned visit to the u.s., and it would have been the first for a brazilian president in nearly two decades. in addition to breaking dates, brasilia is also taking speps -- steps to divorce itself from the u.s.-centered internet while seeking its own place in cyberspace. the president has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater online independence, including storing izz -- citizens' data locally to protect from snooping the and they are proposing to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to europe and all south american nakeses. currently most of the internet traffic here passes through the united states the experts see if other nations follow in brazil's footsteps, the u.s. cloud computing which -- industry could lose billions of dollars by 2016. brazil's path follows revelations that the n.s.a. hacked into

the director of intelligence in the us has said the wide ranging leaks on the n.s.a. spying program have fueled an important debate on the tradeoff between privacy and national security but he says he's a warrior there are more revelations from whistleblower edward snowden on the way and earlier we spoke to renowned former hacker kevin mitnick here in our moscow studio while he believes snowden's secretly can be criticized his still feels the revelations were crucial for americans. i have some mixed feelings that he did cross the line when he revealed n.s.a. operations that we have against other countries because as we all know all countries spy on each other i think is a whistleblower you know i don't look at him as a true i'm actually glad that he revealed what the national security agency was doing at least against americans by violating our constitutional rights to privacy that's dead very damaging right because this was you know it was kind of like how i felt in a lot of colleagues in the information security world felt we already felt this was already being done but th

n.s.a. online spying scandal spreads over wide universities to getting in on the following digital sign posts personal data. breaking news this hour here on the. let's get straight to it right now up to thirty five people a feared dead after a blaze broke out overnight at a psychiatric facility in northwestern russia two bodies have been found twenty three people though already taken to safety. joining us here with the latest on this breaking news story here on. the very latest from you please. well roy what we can tell you this morning is that overnight the fire broke out any wouldn't and it's reportedly the men's ward of this facility the eyewitnesses say that before this structure actually caught fire. there there was one patient that was seen in gulf in flames obviously investigators are looking very closely at that see if that was the source of this this very tragic fire over one hundred rescuers are on scene right now searching the area for people who may have escaped but ran away out of fear or who ran away injured and are at this point possibly hiding they also police are also stating

had been billed as a clash of the political titans barely touched on one of the key issues the n.s.a. spying scandal and the topic of surveillance in the crowd is also made for the future of democracy is small enough they say is that my concern now young people especially in the future so that's why i'm in the green party and it's for those reasons that way to young germans go to the pose of the twenty second until a merkel shouldn't rely on them voting for peace or all of a germany. if the break can be martin follows the political scandal triggered by revelations of us spying on brazil. i got some angry but polite messages after i came out in favor of the foreign adoption ban of russian children by people in the usa this is not a dig on america i think russia or any country that respects itself should export any children to anywhere at all people tell me that i'm paranoid that the decision to stop the foreign adoptions punishes the children when a massive reuters investigation called the child exchange has exposed some dark secrets about adoption of foreign children they expose often by usi

n.s.a. was spying on other countries and world leaders turns out the people in those countries don't take too kindly to having their privacy invaded and now one country is standing up to uncle peeping tom resilient president dilma rousseff just postponed a trip to d.c. and protest the u.s. surveillance and now the government is working on ways to circumvent the n.s.a. altogether one such plan would require internet service providers to set up local data storage centers protected under local privacy laws and brazil's postal service is taking it one step further by developing an encrypted e-mail service so here's to hoping other countries take a cue from brazil and stand up once and for all to america's global spying machine . the but. it was a little very hard to take a. look. at her had sex with her but there are those. that. aren't about you but when i think about monsanto the first thing that comes to mind is food safety and i mean number one after all i'm talking about a company that went from producing cancerous gems like d.d.t. p.c.b. as an agent orange do you not agree reengineering a s

n.s.a. the united states to spy on german citizens so greece and the n.s.a. emerging as the the two things that these the two main candidates can go head to head on however what we are going to see though is them slam each other too much personally it's very likely that on the two after the twenty second when the vote is here in germany these two might have to sit down and talk and i in out in bash out a coalition that could lead germany in the coming years. right and so the break will mean the russian man who gave a stay with this. many gay bars are starting to refuse to sell russian vodka as a means of protesting the homosexual propaganda laws in russia as i've said before boycotts are a great way to put pressure on people but are they putting pressure on the right people not only is it racist to assume that hurting the vodka flow will deal a massive blow to the russian economy but it is also racist to think that any vodka with a russian sounding name is itself russian and many videos angry gay bartenders were pouring stolichnaya vodka which should be put o

n.s.a. the united states to spy on german citizens so greece and the n.s.a. emerging as the the two things that the two main candidates can go head to head on however what we are going to see though is them slam each other too much personally it's very likely on the to after the twenty second when the vote is here in germany these two might have to sit down and talk and i in out in bash out a coalition that could lead germany in the coming years. inches away from a rock n roll death the passengers of this car in taiwan miraculously escaped unharmed when this giant boulder threatened to crush them at r.t. dot com to see the full version of this amazing footage plus come rain or come shine in this time it looks like it'll be rain the world's top military bands turn out in the finest for rehearsals and a heavy downpour to delight the crowds at red square you can enjoy that video on our website in motion page. monday marks one thousand days of confinement for wiki leaks editor julian most of it under house arrest but since june two thousand and twelve the whistle

rousseff announce that she will be postponing her visit to the white house in protest calling the n.s.a. spying a violation of state sovereignty. look the situation is getting out of hand and the u.s. government is only exacerbating the problem this arrogance needs to stop now we spied obama's baseless rhetoric this country is no more exceptional than brazil. or any other country in the world so let's stop acting like it. still to come hip hop artist marcel joined been a break the sage stick around. old . technology innovation. developments around russia we don't know if you have heard. unexplored and talk to go what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. now i only go to the docks. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where they live what to eat and what are they actually doing it on top to go. a few. economic ups and downs

n.s.a. the united states to spy on german citizens so greece and the n.s.a. emerging as the the two things that the two main candidates can go head to head on however what we are going to see though is them slam each other too much personally it's very likely that on the to after the twenty second when the vote is here in germany these two might have to sit down and talk and i in out in. a coalition that could lead germany in the coming years. now for some other news making headlines around the world in our world update this violent clashes have broken out during protests against the president in mexico's capital hundreds for police as seven days of mass demonstrations across the country came to a close and it is only one year into his presidential term but has already angered the public by proposing to privatized the country's oil production. thousands gathered in remaining as capital against toxic mining plans for the transylvanian mountains the country's government was also condemned for giving it support canadian firm plans to export gold using twelve tho

n.s.a. the spying scandal they don't want. any journalism at all they don't want any objective analysis of what's going on in america at all if you provide objective analysis they will kill you as we saw with michael hastings just like the state murder aaron swartz the state murdered michael hastings they don't want any kind of objective reporting whatsoever on their financial jihad to exterminate the american people that's the risk is that you get exterminated so you mentioned the fact that because of the dollar system as a world reserve currency the five thousand princes of america do not need the working class to create wealth they don't need to manufacture it because they could just print dollars and make the chinese work and send it over to them for free essentially just like saudi arabia can print oil essentially by putting in a straw and out comes the oil well here we're going to turn to this next headline about manufacturing in the collapse of manufacturing and why that's happened in america extra costs to make google

n.s.a. the united states to spy on german citizens so greece and the n.s.a.emerging as the the two things that the two main candidates can go head to head on however what we are going to see though is them slam each other too much personally it's very likely that on the two after the twenty second when the vote is here in germany these two might have to sit down and talk and i in out in bash out a coalition that could lead germany in the coming years. artie's peter oliver there may be one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world but the infamous attitude of the french could be doing the country's tourism trade home so much so that in these dire economic times a drive has been launched to get locals to smile and encourage travelers to spend more or just as a city or reports. going to go up are you. smiling faces the belie a troubled economy with the number of job seekers rising to three point twenty eight million in july from the twenty seventh month in a row and a budget deficit the government can barely rein in france has been walking on eggshel