any encrypted system they wanted to get access to the sensitive personal data of millions of uses laura smith is here to help explain just how big this is laura one of these agencies capable of in terms of snooping. well if you read through the newspapers on this this morning it seems that they're capable of doing practically anything essentially all of the stuff that you do online the emails that you send the banking data that you when you transfer money shopping all those passwords that you've created to protect yourself online even your medical records it turns out that the guarantees that you've been given by the internet companies that all that stuff is protected are rendered practically worthless by this. and of course they can be accessed by governments which is key here but they can also be accessed by criminals who use a century the same technology so this is the national security agency in the u.s. and also g c h q in the u.k. and they've got this battery of methods that they use to get into your personal stuff the n.s.a. it turns out has control over setting of the international en

laura smith in london meanwhile creators of spy were reaping huge profits from government snooping schemes it's a calling the latest invention investigation by wiki leaks which has revealed cozy ties between private i.t. firms and intelligence agencies if you want to find out more about that we've got a really good report lined up for you on the website www dot com. back to our top story out israeli sushi standing by for us in some pittsburgh with the latest from the g. twenty summit. it is a pleasure to have you with us here on the costing line for the g. twenty twenty thirteen annual summit here in some petersburg as you said you can tell it's now heading towards nighttime it's just about a twenty past nine in the evening here in the northern russian capital the venice of the north and it's been a beautiful day so far of course day one of the g. twenty summit. the host of venture capital our business program now joins me live here on the set and a great to have you coming to you you were down at the constantine palace yesterday one of the g. twenty what you know will if you take all the

to whose communities thrive for more than a century now though they're being forcibly cast out laura smith reports next on how it's a trick the ukase pulled off before. it's a tiny island in the mid atlantic made of volcanic rock and covered in pigeon guano but to eight hundred people it's home but now the story of ascension island has all the hallmarks of being another diego garcia the british owned indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived there for generations. good memories. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this because they are enjoying the. islanders accuse the british government of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the islands a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population is already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers retired or unemployed people over eighteen have to leave and the similarities with

but with public transport being expensive and crowded people are choosing pedal power as artie's laura smith reports. to some it's a trend to others it's a hopi and to many more it's just a way of getting around with public transport at breaking point roads clogged and finances tight london's commuters are increasingly ditching. the to the fighting system early on here you know all the cars on the road. and you just. can guarantee that i'm always there on time. just outside where you stand so i paid and so it's yes it's much easier for you in chocolate doesn't even own a car and he's found a way of capitalizing on london his passion for cycling he's opened a cough a way you can have your bike repair it while you eat it's just gone nuts over the last of the last ten years. and yeah we're prepared if it's in from the weekend oh as we get larger crowds we get people who cycle just because they commute might be to get people a right to get. and it's not just the u.k. that's getting on its bike in recession hit spain bikes and now out selling cars for the first time joining fellow pigs countries

laura thanks very much for this interesting discussion that was laura smith executive director of openights group jim killick. well we're continuing our extensive coverage of the g. twenty summit and that's getting under way in the same bed as today. now it may be political crunch time at this year's g. twenty summit by as always finance won't be far behind aside from the usual talk of crisis and unemployment the leaders are expected to discuss tax evasion a new world bank and forge fresh economic alliances cave hill them from r.d.s. venture capital program is insane but has worked with more on what's to be explored . job creation that's one of the central themes we know that there's still two hundred million people across the globe still searching for work seventy three million of those are you we know in the likes of spain and greece wanting to use are looking for jobs that's really a central theme going on here and the implications of that because as we know there's already a witness social unrest in certain parts of the world to do with the fact that people can't find what's that i

military base and some of the residents on that island a crying out for help because of it is laura smith reports. the tiny island in the mid atlantic major volcanic rock and covered in pitch and water no but to eight hundred people. but now the story of ascension island has all the hallmarks of big the diego garcia the british and indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived there for generations islanders accuse the british governments of. operating families who've been there for more than a century ten years ago when all the difference britain was promising democratic institutions for the islands a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by. community is replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people eighteen had to leave and the similarities with diego garcia dates and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and subm

public transport being very expensive and crowded people are choosing pedal power to get around laura smith now reports. to some it's a trend to others it's a hobby and to many more it's just a way of getting around with public transport at breaking point roads clogged and finances tight london's commuters are increasingly ditching food wheels for to the fighting system millionaire you know just all the cars on the road all the buses and all the delays and huge sailing thrill doesn't guarantee that i'm always there on time always get a parking spot just outside where you stand so i'd hate to say yes it's much easier for you in chocolate doesn't even own a car and he's found a way of capitalizing on london his passion for cycling he's opened a cafe where you can have your bike repair it while you eat it cycling is just going nuts in london over the last well over the last five to ten years. and yeah we've heard from if it's in from the weekend yeah oh as we get larger crowds we get people who cycle just because they commute they want to get from a to b. to get people in rice to get well so a

interest groups over the proposals have been roundly condemned by both nobody ists and their opponents laura smith explains why . they know being in the u.k. and people think. it began in one nine hundred ninety four with cash for questions a newspaper claimed a parliamentary lobbyist had brought two conservative m.p.'s into asking questions in parliament then last year that was cast for cameron when a conservative party treasurer was filmed apparently offering dinner with david cameron and the chance to influence government policy snit just two hundred fifty thousand pounds and most recently three lords and an m.p. or accused of apparently offering to do polling meant to work in exchange for cash in the sunday times sting so david cameron's had enough in a bid to prevent yet a novice will his party's introduced a bill to regulate lobbying but the proposals are third week that anti-doping campaigners and lobbyists themselves are united in their opposition what the ridge that provides transparency it doesn't stop politicians behaving badly we have nothing to fear from the. influx we've been calling

encrypted system they wanted to get access to the sensitive personal data of millions of users artie's laura smith explains just how big this is. it seems that they're capable of doing practically anything essentially all of the stuff that you do online the emails that you send the banking data that you insert when you transfer money the shopping all those passwords that you've created to protect yourself online even your medical records it turns out that the guarantees that you've been given by the internet companies that all that stuff is protected are rendered practically worthless by this they've got these super computers which basically use brute force to break codes and then here's the kicker it turns out that they're collaborating with the internet service providers themselves secretly also inserting back doors into commercial encrypted in software so again in on the ground floor and it turns out has made significant inroads into breaking into hotmail google yahoo and also facebook where they don't work or don't stretch to of course there are all of these things direct taps that they've got

of recommendations to ease the nation's war fatigue and drum up support for military campaigns laura smith examines the methods being worked out. how to sell a war to a british public that's not buying that's the topic of the latest study by the ministry of defense reacting to what the paper calls a wrong assumption that the british people has become risk averse in a nutshell the paper says it's not that people don't want war it's that they don't understand how it will benefit them so in an effort to explain war better the think tank make some recommendations. make a large investment into drones suggesting that if people in foreign countries they killed at arms length the british public mind so much second use more contractors aka must raise rather than british soldiers to lessen worries about casualties to use more special forces soldiers because apparently the loss of elite soldiers doesn't have such an impact on the public because that role is perceived as inherently more risky and full something military families are already calling disgraceful reduce the profile of repatriation ceremo

digital trails of students attract in used as institutions open their doors for yet another semester laura smith now looks at the risks of so-called data collection. remember the film minority report it's the one where tom cruise is the car in the future and uses pax in the day to stop crimes before they happen while the fictional future is now universities are our allies in the electronic trail of students how often they use the library what books they guess out even where they parked their cars to create a picture of them and how they learned they use the data in different ways the different you need the marketing courses but also to predict which students are likely to fail or dropouts and here's where it fits into nineteen eighty-four territory in the dystopian novel any negative thoughts is thought crime every party member has a telly screen in his or her home which the thought police use to watch them and record anything that resembles an unorthodox opinion or in the struggle now look for a university in the midlands says it's considering doing something frighteningly similar monitoring st

about to step on the electoral test it could be crunch time for the single currency as aussies laura smith reports. it could be make or break for the euro zone as the german election approaches europe's a region still stuck in recession with outbreaks of social unrest and some believe the outcome of the election could be a catalyst for change i think speaking to vats of klaus the former president of the czech republic a capital markets conference here in london he compares the european project to communism and says the time is now for the people of individual european countries to stand up and say the emperor has no clothes. everyone who. sees that it's impossible to continue. radical change. is. speaking about a fundamental transition fundamental transformation something we in parts of europe in east central and eastern europe experienced two decades ago. to wake up and to do the same and how likely is it do you think that that will have its will stand up and say ok. the question is. started to really. come from brussels klaus envisages europe as a conglomerate of seoul for an independent

ascension island and say that similar to this island here in the squeezing the life out of the home laura smith reports the tiny island in the mid atlantic made of volcanic rock and covered in pigeon but the eight hundred people. but now the story of attention island has all the hallmarks of being another diego garcia the british indian ocean island whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived through generation. good memories. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this because they are enjoying the. islanders accuse the british government of. operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers retired or unemployed people over eighteen have to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american

rights activists have grave concerns over the real extent of the dangers they pose as our tease laura smith reports. imagine the feeling of fifty thousand volts puffing through. people who. say it's a massive shock that starts in your liver and kidneys courses through your heart and brain it feels like it's being. told feyerick it's been cold and yet instances of tasering by police albright is the only time in the u.k. more than doubling between two thousand and nine two thousand and eleven that's of great concern to human rights groups who say tasers all the more they should and the police seem to think they are but a potentially lethal weapon being rolled out to huge numbers of offices you have to have a dish fifty pounds and. you might get it from. a friend around the field it's much more serious much more of a big concern because in the hands of people who aren't trained to the sufficient level thing you risk. is happening tasers were originally only given to highly trained marksman but they're now being issued to specialist units on the beats a total of fourteen thousand seven hundred

money doing this millions of pounds are paid to independent consultants to oversee the process as a laura smith now investigates. we call it all sterile but it's increasingly looking like ordinary people are the only ones tightening their belts and that's certainly not watching the pennies that the host of government here in whitehall still a department like the ministry of defense have done in the mining and in total it cost them three hundred million pounds in redundancy payments but as covenant. by the front. for every few months it would be seen by the back door and not just staggering eight hundred million. cases in the capital self-restraint in two thousand and. seven emails apartment and. a million pound notes to help with special projects in areas like the railways and a further three hundred twenty eight million. payrolls like short manages allowing for some overlap with the figure is that eight hundred million his conservative estimate to see whether this is really the colossal waste of money it sounds i want to talk to the taxpayers the fire. i own our cash is big but it's a huge was

sharing their grievances with the prime minister during a private discussion next week are just laura smith has more well basically this is a move to make internet service providers essentially police the internet so it's a voluntary thing so far but if the likes of these big sort of internet writers here in the u.k. virgin media bt b. sky b. talk talk that kind of people if they sign up is understood what they'll do is create a database of repeat offenders if you like repeat illegal downloads that first be sent a letter if that letter was then ignored they would see sites being blocks they could potentially see the slowing down of the internet connection and a thing right up to and including a prosecution now jim collector of the open rights group is here to talk to me about this he's our go to guy for all things concerning internet and rights on the internet now these i s p's policing the internet basically though they'd be doing it at the behest of an on behalf of these rich huge industry titans music business film business will they be willing to do that you think is it legal is should