RussiaToday-Video-News-World:Code Cracking: NSA spent billions to foil safeguards of web privacy

If you think encrypting online data could save it from the prying eyes of the NSA or Britain's GCHQ Edward Snowden's latest leak will disappoint you, to say the least. It shows America spent billions of dollars in the past decade on breaking protective codes - opening up what you thought was private.
The European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship has spoken out on the NSA's global snooping, as Peter Oliver reports.


Syria government forces are conducting an operation against Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebel fighters, who have besieged the ancient Christian village of Maaloula. The army says the extremists have taken strategic positions on nearby hills - and there are still rebel forces inside the village. Maria Finoshina reports from the outskirts of Maaloula.


The US Secretary of State's on a fresh bid to woo European ministers, in a last-minute effort to drum up support for a unilateral strike on Syria. This, after the international chorus of voices against the move grew louder at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg. Even France, which earlier backed unconditional US action, now says it will wait for the results of the UN's probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. Political commentator John Wight joins RT to discuss this issue.