:00:21. > :00:24.Hello, good afternoon. The former American intelligence
:00:24. > :00:27.analyst, Edward Snowden, has been charged with espionage and theft by
:00:27. > :00:32.prosecutors in the United States. He fled to Hong Kong last month and
:00:32. > :00:35.leaked details of secret surveillance programmes. The latest
:00:35. > :00:37.documents, published today by the Guardian newspaper, suggest that
:00:37. > :00:47.GCHQ, the British government agency, is collecting data on hundreds of
:00:47. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :00:54.millions of emails and phone calls every day. Emily Buchanan reports.
:00:54. > :00:58.Every day we create vast streams of electronic traffic. Billions of
:00:58. > :01:02.phone calls, e-mails an internet searches. Now there are allegations
:01:02. > :01:09.that Britain is the world leader in monitoring them. For the last 18
:01:09. > :01:14.months, GCHQ has apparently been tapping into vast amounts of our
:01:14. > :01:20.personal digital communications. They store it for 30 days, so it can
:01:20. > :01:25.can be sifted and analysed. They are said to be sharing the data with
:01:25. > :01:28.America's National Security Agency. The revelations came from the NSA
:01:28. > :01:33.whistleblower, Edward Snowden, believed to be in hiding in Hong
:01:33. > :01:38.Kong. The US has filed spying charges against him. The officials
:01:38. > :01:42.in the UK argue that blanket monitoring is legal.
:01:42. > :01:48.The crucial question is not how much data could they collect but what can
:01:48. > :01:51.they get access to? Is it an intrusion on the privacy? There are
:01:51. > :01:57.billions of e-mails going around. Do you think that the Americans have
:01:57. > :02:01.nothing better to do, than go on fishing expeditions, that someone
:02:01. > :02:05.may be involved in something. It does not work that way. Critics
:02:05. > :02:11.worry about the surveillance of our private communications.
:02:11. > :02:15.It is the kind of information that could be abuse abused to blackmail
:02:15. > :02:19.us, to intrude on our freedom of conscious, to trued on private and
:02:19. > :02:25.family life. Who wants to live in a country where you never know if you
:02:25. > :02:31.are being watched? So if there is a new way to ensure security or
:02:31. > :02:34.invasion of privacy, the allegations will provoke intense debate.
:02:34. > :02:37.The Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned his party that a Labour
:02:37. > :02:45.government would not resort to extra borrowing to reverse any cuts
:02:45. > :02:48.announced by the government in next week's spending review. Ed Miliband
:02:48. > :02:52.told activists that the party would have to face the hard reality of
:02:52. > :02:56.Britain's economic situation. You think it will be different at
:02:56. > :03:01.the next election. I don't want anyone to be under illusions about
:03:01. > :03:07.thament the next Labour government will have to plan in 2015 on falling
:03:07. > :03:14.departmental spending. Our starting point in 2015/16, will be that we
:03:14. > :03:18.will not be able to reverse the cuts and on current day-to-day spending
:03:18. > :03:24.unless we find the money from savings elsewhere or extra revenue,
:03:24. > :03:30.not from more borrowing. Our Political Correspondent Alan
:03:30. > :03:34.Soady is me in the studio. Why is he saying this now? He will have seen
:03:34. > :03:38.the opinion polls that suggest that on the one hand the party looks
:03:38. > :03:42.lying it is ahead overall but when it comes to the question who the
:03:42. > :03:46.voters trust to run the economy, polls suggested that it is not the
:03:46. > :03:52.Labour Party. So his solution to regain that confidence is to have
:03:52. > :03:55.this speech today, to make this promise, or rather, to specify he
:03:55. > :04:01.would not be able to do much with the cuts that are in motion if he
:04:01. > :04:06.were to win the election in 2015. It is not all doom and gloom. He is
:04:06. > :04:11.saying that there are historic precedents of s things even when
:04:11. > :04:14.money is tight. Such as paying down debts, but also setting up things
:04:14. > :04:18.like the National Health Service. So he is trying to convince voters he
:04:18. > :04:23.is the man to take charge of the economy, the Conservatives, though,
:04:23. > :04:26.say that the voters will not belief him. That they don't believe he is
:04:26. > :04:31.strong enough to deliver. There is growing concern for
:04:31. > :04:35.thousands of people stranded in remote areas of northern India,
:04:35. > :04:41.following floods and landslides. More than 550 people are known to
:04:41. > :04:47.have died. Rescue workers say that many are without shelter.
:04:47. > :04:52.It has emerged an ambulance carrying Nelson Mandela to hospital two weeks
:04:52. > :04:56.ago broke down during the journey. A spokesperson said that the vehicle
:04:56. > :04:59.had engine trouble, that the former President was transferred to another
:05:00. > :05:03.ambulance. He insisted that Nelson Mandela was in no danger. There have
:05:03. > :05:06.been claims that Nelson Mandela was forced to wait for 40 minutes in
:05:07. > :05:13.freezing temperatures. The Brazilian President, Dilma
:05:13. > :05:17.Rousseff, has announced a series of reforms in the attempt to end
:05:17. > :05:20.nationwide antigovernment protest. Dilma Rousseff promised to improve
:05:20. > :05:25.the public transport and health services. The demonstrations that
:05:25. > :05:31.began over fare rises in Sao Paulo have grown into national protests
:05:31. > :05:36.over a range of issues from corruption to the rising in prices.
:05:36. > :05:40.The protests in Brazil have been going on for another night.
:05:40. > :05:44.24 hours after the million-man demonstrations, Dilma Rousseff
:05:44. > :05:47.announced a series of public spending reforms in a prime time
:05:47. > :05:52.broadcast to try to calm down the crowds.
:05:52. > :05:57.We are listening but we will not put up with violence. This should be
:05:57. > :06:03.peaceful, a free democracy, and we will continue therefore, to build
:06:03. > :06:09.our great country together. This video from Rio show what is the
:06:09. > :06:14.activists consider rough treatment. The President ed police action. A
:06:14. > :06:18.group gathered to protest at what they consider to be heavy-handed
:06:18. > :06:22.policing. Viral videos of demonstrators being beaten, sparked
:06:22. > :06:27.the mass action. They were drawing bombs and there
:06:27. > :06:30.were explosions and pieces flying everywhere. We were hurt in the face
:06:30. > :06:36.and hands. Protests have been breaking out
:06:36. > :06:40.across Brazil. Spread byword off mouth and social networks, this is a
:06:40. > :06:45.high-end neighbourhood of Rio, and this is the governor's house. Many
:06:45. > :06:51.people are still not convinced by the President's speech. More, bigger