u.s. national security agency installed listening devices in eu offices in washington and new york. they say they eavesdropped on meetings on eu officials. they cited a secret document leaked by snowden. the article said nsa workers hacked into computer networks to intercept documents and e-mails. eu leaders responded with strong words. >> i was shocked in the case. if it is true, as a european representative of the institution like a representative of an enemy. >> reporter: the report also describes a u.s. spying program in germany. it says the operation is as comprehensive as the ones in china and iraq. u.s. agents monitored about 500 phone calls and e-mails every month. german prosecutors have launched an investigation. the document leaked by snowden also points to spying on other u.s. allies. a report in the british newspaper "the guardian," said the u.s. had surveillance systems in 38 embassies and diplomatic offices in washington and new york. that includes france, mexico, south korea and japan. japan's chief cabinet secretary said his government will ask the u.s. to confirm w

u.s. national security agency. the 30-year-old flew from hong kong to moscow after revealing that the nsa agents collected phone and internet data at home and abroad. authorities want him returned to the u.s. to face espionage charges. snowden has been seeking asylum from more than 20 country and u.s. officials revoked his passport and asked governments not to help him evade prosecution. egyptians are observing one of the most important days on the muslim calendar. with clouds of tension and uncertainty over their heads. they are holding the first friday prayers of ramadan. mohammad morsi supporters are gathering to protest what they call a military coop. members of morsi's power base and other groups arenize mass r capital. many gathered near the presidential palace. >> translator: i came to show that most of us egyptians want to see morsi back in power. we don't approve of the interim government. >> translator: this is an important day for muslims. i pray to alla for victory. >> the military deposed the president

u.s. national security agency has been spying on them. rts of list in the brazilian newspaper include not just u.s. surveillance on political internal affairs and military countries like venezuela, but also commercial spying into the energy sector. brazil, venezuela, argentina, and mexico have all substantial reserves of oil and gas. journalist who broke the leaks provided by edward snowden , there is more to come. >> there are things that the nsa is doing that no one knew they were doing that is extremely consequential. it involves massive invasion into private lives and communications. there is more of what they are doing and what we have got. hashe high-tech spying infuriated latin american leaders. >> we sent a formal request for an explanation. we are waiting for a formal response from the united states. is sent shivers down my spine that we find out that the u.s. is spying on all of us. a follow-up is only the beginning. the close aide of resilience president-- brazilian says they must have a hard response to prevent the united state

u.s. national security agency and shared the results of controversial surveillance. german magazine speakle printed it with the man snowden. they had coded e-mails before he blew the whistle on surveillance activities. snowden said german agents worked together with the u.s. and as the personnel asked him, u.s. and german agents discussed how to protect politicians in case surveillance programs will reveal. the leaders previously claimed they were not informed of the extent of u.s. surveillance. >> policy makers at the bank of japan are getting ready to meet. and analysts are predicting that they will say something positive about the economy. joining us now from the business, good morning. what should we watch out for? >> any change in language. specifically we are looking if are a word that these haven't made in more than two years. the word recovery. the bank of japan are preparing if are a two-day meeting and they are expected to upgrade the assessment of the economy. the bank's most recent talk showed business sentiment is improving across many industries. indece

u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's quote cold war tactics. plus the wounds of civil war in mali are yet to feel as the country head towards its first post conflict election with security threats still looming.

u.s. national security agency wiretapped european union facilities both in the u.s. and in europe. the report was based on documents leaked by former american intelligence contractor edward snowden. european commission president manuel barrosa and german chancellor angela merkel met in berlin. they announced the launch of working groups to look into the reported surveillance. white house officials say the first meeting is scheduled for monday. european leaders had expressed concern about the spying allegations. they said they could derail negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement with the u.s. eu officials say the trade talks will go ahead as planned in parallel with the working group's investigations. >>> american technology visionary who transformed the way people work has died. he invented the computer mouse and helped introduce innovations that shaped the way we communicate. he began work on computer technology when he joined the stanford research institute in 1957. he invented the mouse in 1963 and gave the first public demonstration five years later. and he explained h

u.s. national security agency contractor has been stranded at a moscow airport since last month. he's facing espionage charges for exposing a secret u.s. surveillance program. a russian lawyer who met snowden last week said the american fugitive handed in papers on tuesday to seek temporary asylum in russia. a spokesman for the russian migration service confirmed that the documents had been accepted. the spokesperson said a decision on whether to grant snowden asylum will be made according to the law. snowden told the lawyer and human rights activists last friday that he planned to seek temporary asylum in russia, and then he'll fly to one of the latin american nations that have offered to grant him political asylum. russian president vladimir putin has said russia will grant him asylum on the condition that he does no harm to the u.s. government or the u.s.-russia relationship. the focus has now shifted to how russia will deal with snowden's request. the u.s. government continues to demand that russia hand over snowden. now, under russian law, a decision on an asylum request has

desperately trying to put some legislation going through the house about cutting the national security u.s. national security agency budget which of course the national security agency very much in the spotlight from the leaks made by edward snowden the republican senator said that he's got sort of bipartisan support this happening all the while while this drama is unfolding share much of a war. he just tweeted in the bus three minutes the never before can he remember a sitting president trying desperately to make an emergency statement against legislation that president obama fervently believes in the n.s.a. spying program we know that in the past forty eight hours we've heard the secret fisa court yet again that's statements coming out of the guardian yet again they've approved the bugging of the rise in customers and as far as we know other customers of other telephone networks in the united states president obama is not giving up on this there's no letup in this and there are people in the european parliament that take a different view and presumably will look to see some european politicians so in the european

u.s. national security agency is building a new outpost here in germany. >> the report says that the site will be used to monitor communications. germany's forein intelligence service has denied the claims. >> could israel and the palestinians be on the brink of new peace talks? u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been driving a round of diplomacy, and he says the gap between the two sides has narrowed very significantly. >> today, top palestinian leaders gathered to discuss whether to take the plunge. so far, they have failed to arrive at a decision. >> palestinian factions came together to discuss recent u.s. peace efforts, and whether to resume talks with israel. leaders say they are willing to return to the negotiating table, but president mahmoud of us -- abbas' party alone have also laid out clear conditions. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has spent months trying to kick talk the peace talks, which have been stalled since 2008. his latest proposal has won over the powerful arab league. he's appealing to israel to seize the moment. >> israel needs to look hard at this initiati

u.s. national security agency. >> our position on this remains what it was and is quite clear, which is that we believe there is ample legal designation for the return of mr. snowden to the united states, where he is charged with serious felonies. >> meanwhile, the u.s. government could be forced to reveal more details of the spying program that edward snowden brought to the world's attention. we have more on that from washington. >> a federal judge has ordered the obama administration to declassify the ruling which justifies the existence of -- the data collection program aimed at u.s. citizens and anyone else communicating with u.s. citizens. a program which the giant internet company on new has resisted, trying to take part in, because it did not want to reveal the private information, it said, of its customers and users. however, the government was able to compel young new as well as other companies, such as facebook, to turn over that information in what it considered a massive and necessary national security surveillance program. however, the government now agrees that it is going to h

u.s. national security agency is building a new outpost here in germany. >> the report says that the site will be used to monitor communications. germany's forein intelligence service has denied the claims. >> could israel and the palestinians be on the brink of new peace talks? u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been driving a round of diplomacy, and he says the gap between the two sides has narrowed very significantly. >> today, top palestinian leaders gathered to discuss whether to take the plunge. so far, they have failed to arrive at a decision. >> palestinian factions came together to discuss recent u.s. peace efforts, and whether to resume talks with israel. leaders say they are willing to return to the negotiating table, but president mahmoud of us -- abbas' party alone have also laid out clear conditions. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has spent months trying to kick talk the peace talks, which have been stalled since 2008. his latest proposal has won over the powerful arab league. he's appealing to israel to seize the moment. >> israel needs to look hard at this initiati

u.s. national security agency in germany? assuming that chancellor merkel's chief of staff is correct in saying that germany did not actively provide the americans with massive amounts of private data, that is a relief, but what if authorities knew about it and just looked the other way? many germans believe the german government knows a lot more about this than it is letting on. >> there have been these allegations that chancellor angela merkel and her government knew about what was going on at long time before it became public. do you think that has damaged her reputation? is it going to hurt her at the polls when the national elections take lace in september? >> it's interesting -- a new poll came out on thursday showing that again, most germans do believe the government knows more about the snooping activities than it is letting on, but people also expect the german government to have secret intelligence that remains secret in the interests of security. so far, chancellor merkel does not seem to have suffered a knee polit

u.s. national security agency in germany? assuming that chancellor merkel's chief of staff is correct in saying that germany did not actively provide the americans with massive amounts of private data, that is a relief, but what if authorities knew about it and just looked the other way? many germans believe the german government knows a lot more about this than it is letting on. >> there have been these allegations that chancellor angela merkel and her government knew about what was going on at long time before it became public. do you think that has damaged her reputation? is it going to hurt her at the polls when the national elections take lace in september? >> it's interesting -- a new poll came out on thursday showing that again, most germans do believe the government knows more about the snooping activities than it is letting on, but people also expect the german government to have secret intelligence that remains secret in the interests of security. so far, chancellor merkel does not seem to have suffered a knee polit

u.s. national security agency. he said they shared the results of controversial surveillance. "der spiegel" printed the interview from may with the former nsa man snowden. before he blew the bhisle on activities. german agents worked together with the u.s. nsa personnel helped germany analyze data passing through the country. snowden said u.s. and german agents discussed how to protect politicians in case surveillance programs were revealed. european leaders previously claimed they were not informed of the extent of u.s. surveillance. >>> japanese prime minister shinzo abe has spent his first six months in office working to revitalize the economy. voters will soon have a chance to judge him on t results. they cast ballots in an upper house election later this month. opposition parties hold the majority of seats in the chamber. abe and his liberal democratic party aim to wrestle back control. in the days leading up to when japan decides, we'll be looking at some of the key campaign issues and hearing from voters about what matters to them. candidates from these nine parties are

u.s. national security agency used to spy on people. the scandal affects europe in particular. the u.s. reportedly monitoring 2 million data set and france, and in germany, the figure stands at 10 million. even the european parliament has apparently been targeted. members of the parlor tarik -- parliamentary institution in sweden spoke about it. >> we need to cancel safe harbor agreements with the united states now. they also need to make the decisions not to enter into trade negotiations for someone who clearly shows no remorse at backstabbing his country, and initially -- additionally, we need member state governments to show the political courage to stay with the public interests of european citizens. >> the scandal leads as european parliament continues its discussions on personal data. the biggest issue lies in making companies adhere to stricter legislation. online privacy is indeed a matter of urgency. "we could make it mandatory for european businesses that collect, process, and sell data to also obtain explicit consent from users for each type of data processing, that they are

u.s. national security agency has worked closely with germany interdicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's quote cold war tactics. but spies sprouts and accusations aside the talks are still set to open over an ambitious trade deal between the e.u. and the united states.

u.s. national security agency operates under wraps under secret orders nobody knows how much exactly they spent to tap fiber optic cables or to collect data on americans and the rest of the world but we do know that the n.s.a. storage facility alone cost some one point seven billion dollars that the center in utah is capable of storing every e-mail voice mail and social media communication it can get its hands on the government is certainly very reluctant to discuss its snooping activities with the public they just repeat the mantra it's done to keep america safe but as americans learn more about the price they pay for the presumed safety they are becoming increasingly wary in the latest polls we see a significant shift in public opinion you see three years ago twenty five percent of americans thought that the government went too far in restricting civil liberties. three years later we see forty five percent of americans think so we see that with knowledge comes opposition how can you oppose something that you know nothing about right so perhaps not surprisingly the government is doing ev

u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's new war tactics. let's buy spats and accusations the side talks are still set to open over ambitious trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. could even go to early morning to you it's eight am here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine of it of course you're tuned in to our team but we begin with egypt where there are unconfirmed reports that police have been using live bullets and tear gas against supporters of the ousted president morsy there are also unconfirmed reports that sixteen people have been killed in the those details have come from tweets posted by the muslim brotherhood's media spokesman among others the footage that we're about to show you there it is right there has been distributed by the muslim brotherhood apparently showing some of the victims although we can't verify this video independently just yet now it is thought that the increased level of force has been used in two places so far near the cairo university as well as the presidential g

u.s. national security agency won't closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's old cold war tactics. plus the wounds of civil war in mali are yet to heal as the country heads towards its first post conflict election but security threats still looming. that early afternoon to you ten am here in the russian capital and lucy catherine of when you're watching our team well on to our top story now reports from egypt say police have used live bullets and tear gas against supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy the army though has been quoted as saying that aren't terrorists groups are behind the gunfire of the number of deaths is unclear at the moment the muslim brotherhood claims that thirty four people have been killed but the military says there are five fatalities well from cairo here's our middle east correspondent paula slayer. the military allegedly using tear gas and live bullets to disperse pro morsy crowds at both cairo university and the presidential guard we all received this information from tweets being posted by the muslim brotherhood

u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's quote cold war tactics. let's buy spats and accusation the side of the talks are still set to open over and vicious trade deal between the e.u. and the united states.

u.s. national security agency secret spying program now that has raised questions over chancellor merkel's earlier condemnation of washington's surveillance tactics of the reports from. german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by news magazine that well they were far more involved than she let on that indeed in fact they quote in the dish beagle article the internal memos that say that there was a willingness to take risks and pursue new opportunities for cooperation with the u.s. that was shown by the german authorities they also were talking about the head of the b n d germany's foreign security service that he showed an eagerness under desire to cooperate turns out that germany actually operated one of the main parts of the the expansive spying program that's called x. keyscore program that basically anybody who they were looking into they could find out exactly what was being searched online by that pa

u.s. national security agency is embed with germany and other western states when it comes to cooperating in a worldwide surveillance and that's the latest bombshell in the german media from whistleblower on the run edward snowden emerged during an interview he gave before fleeing to hong kong well snowden says agencies work together with no questions asked concealing their sources to protect top level politicians from public backlash all these statements appear to contradict what the german chancellor said about us moving practices angle merkel earlier slammed the n.s.a. as cold war tactics adding that spying on france is unacceptable germany's intelligence chief also insisted he knew nothing about the widespread surveillance carried out by the n.s.a. libertarian activist aaron conic says politicians have lied to their citizens and need to be held accountable. politicians and honesty that's an oxymoron that's a contradiction in terms we all know that and it is law it's all be part of the job they lie you fall the elections and they don't keep their promises soft about things that's not a

u.s. national security agency is alleged to be working closely with billet in its secret surveillance activities no snowden says agencies share information with no questions asked concealing those sources to protect top level politicians from any public backlash the statements appear to contradict what the german chancellor said about u.s. snooping practices angela merkel earlier slammed the n.s.a.'s cold war tactics adding that spying on friends is unacceptable germany's intelligence chief also insisted that he knew nothing about the widespread surveillance carried out by the n.s.a. rebecca harmes is a german a politician a member of the european parliament a joint. snow from brussels to discuss this to discuss this further let's catch up with hi rebecca thanks for taking the time to be with us and given snowden's recent revelations you think german officials were being entirely year on this than about what they knew or what they didn't know. so there are several accusation. in public are so we have the problems of the spy program of the secret service of the united states we have accusations a

u.s. national security agency operates under wraps under secret orders nobody knows how much exactly they spent to tap fiber optic cables or to collect data on americans and the rest of the world but we do know that the n.s.a. storage facility alone cost some one point seven billion dollars that the center in utah is capable of storing every e-mail voice mail and social media communication it can get its hands on the government is certainly very reluctant to discuss its snooping activities with the public they just repeat the mantra it's done to keep america safe but as americans learn more about the price they pay for the presumed safety they are becoming increasingly wary in the latest polls we see a significant shift in public opinion you see three years ago twenty five percent of americans thought that the government went too far in restricting civil liberties to. three years later we see forty five percent of americans think so we see that with knowledge comes opposition how can you oppose something that you know nothing about right so perhaps not surprisingly the government is doing

u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's quote cold war tactics. the wounds of civil war in mali are yet to heal as the country heads towards its first post conflict election with security threats still looming. this is already coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program a peaceful sit in to support ousted president morsi has turned deadly with forty two people understood to have been killed the muslim brotherhood claims police and the army used live bullets and tear gas on campaigners during dawn prayers outside the republican guard headquarters the military blames the gunfire on terrorists who it says stormed the barracks and that two hundred attackers have been arrested losing confidence. speaks among these developments with our middle east correspondent. the situation here in egypt is deteriorating and deteriorating fast the entire it nasa city where these clashes happened is in lockdown the military has closed off the whole area and as a result ambulances are unable to

u.s. national security agency isn't bad with germany and other western states when it comes to cooperating and worldwide surveillance and that's the latest bombshell in the german media for a whistleblower on the run and word snowden emerged during an interview he gave before fleeing to hong kong. well snowden said as agencies work together a with no questions asked concealing their sources to protect top level politicians from public backlash these statements appeared to contradict what the german chancellor said about u.s. snooping practices. earlier slammed the n.s.a. as cold war tactics adding that spying on friends is unacceptable germany's intelligence chief also insisted he knew nothing about the widespread surveillance carried out by the ana say well we have now i'm gonna libertarian activist and filmmaker aaron panic joining us from berlin to talk more about this good afternoon good afternoon thanks so much for joining us or so. given the situation the question here is are german politicians entirely honest about being outraged about american spying activities what's your take wel

u.s. national security agency has worked closely with germany interdicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's quote cold war tactics. but spies bats and accusations aside the talks are still set to open over an ambitious trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. not i am here in the russian capital i'm lucy coughing up and thanks for tuning in to our team we begin with our top story first to the developments in egypt where there are unverified reports the police are using live bullets and tear gas against the supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi again i should stress these are unconfirmed reports but we are hearing that dozens of people have been killed let's turn live now to cairo to our middle east correspondent paula slayer paula what more are you hearing on the ground. well we're receiving unconfirmed reports that as many as thirty four people have been killed and scores more wounded the military allegedly using tear gas and live bullets to disperse pro morsy crowds at both cairo university and the presidential guard we are misleading this information fro

u.s. national security agency had worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's pulled cold war tactics. plus the wounds of civil war in mali are yet to seal as a country heads towards his first post conflict election security threats still looming. great to have you with us this monday eleven am here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine elf and you're watching our t.v. well in our top story egypt's muslim brotherhood claims police and the army have used live bullets and tear gas against supporters of the ousted president morsy and the dozens are dead now the military is being quoted as saying that armed terrorist groups are behind the gunfire and that five people have died well live to cairo now for a middle east correspondent paula slayer paula what more do we know a lot of conflicting information here. well yes there is a lot of conflicting information according to the muslim brotherhood some thirty seven people have been killed including children the health ministry on the other side is saying that fifteen people have died while the army is

u.s. national security agency has carried out covert surveillance on french and e.u. high ranking officials both of home and abroad monitoring millions of emails and calls blogger and internet freedom fighters and mark says paes have always existed but the way the game is played has been transformed what is interesting it's to figure that the n.s.a. doesn't spy on people only for terrorism to fight terrorism but also for political and also economical reasons because we know that they are using this spying system to help american companies steffanie used to work as a journalist in the soviet union at the time of the cold war he says he has an impression that nothing has changed since then or almost nothing. at least it was clear at the time there were two sides two lines today it's not certain who is friend who is rival there's good question if there are friends at all true friends not sure it is. france america's nato partner has been supporting its most controversial initiatives over the last decade sharing risks and expenses cost in both money and human lives. we're

u.s. national security agencies know allegedly he says be working closely with secret surveillance activities it's pointed out on the board snowden says agency share information with no questions asked concealing their sources to protect as he puts it top level politicians from any public backlash these revelations appear though of course to contradict comments from german chancellor angela merkel she early you may recall recently slammed what she called the n.s.a. sco quote cold water act six she said that spying on friends is unacceptable how do those things gel well rebecca holmes is a german politician and member of the european parliament she told me she's concerned that a number of european states could be violating privacy laws. i'm very concerned about the way how united states of america but especially also europeans european governments european secret services are dealing with citizens' rights with the freedom of citizens in europe so for example. the is sure and your communication to a telecommunications is protected is based on laws in germany for all citizens and obviously so th

u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's cold war tactics. plus the wounds of civil war in mali are yet to feel as the country heads towards its first post conflict election with security threats still looming. thanks for tuning in at one pm here in the russian capital i'm lucy confident of and you're watching our t.v. well on to our top story a peaceful sit in to support egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi has turned deadly with forty two people now understood to have been killed the muslim brotherhood claims police and the army use live bullets and tear gas on campaigners during dong prayers outside of the republican guard headquarters but the military blames the gunfire on so-called terrorists saying that five people have died well live to cairo now to our middle east correspondent paula slayer paul walk us through the events of this morning what happened. well the situation here in egypt is deteriorating and deteriorating fast the latest figures we have from the health ministry of cheap people did. and some

u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's quote cold war tactics. plus the wounds of civil war in mali are yet to feel as the country heads towards its first post conflict election with security threats still looming.

u.s. government and the national security agency i think nobody nobody germany expected that in this number yeah but five hundred million german e-mails and calls are intercepted h.e.i. by the u.s. but isn't that a price worth paying for safety as chancellor merkel believes no not at all because you have mentioned the numbers what does that mean it means that the n.s.a. and they have by the way the right to do it in germany there is a special agreement after the wall came down with the full plans to treat you in germany that the americans can spy into the german systems and the government knows that so the german government did know as well so but however these big numbers five hundred billion informations day by day month by month you know that means that they copy each and every thing that means that they call peace specially the communication between the big companies and truly bought siemens mercy does have you ever been involved in terror attacks not at all so it is obvious that the american side tries to get informations on german business on the corporations on knowledge and so on an