tv Episode 1 Al Jazeera November 3, 2017 3:00pm-4:00pm AST
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just doesn't go away. living out of the trophy. follows a group of. veterans. as they struggle to get their lives back. at this time. i'm richelle carey and take a look at the top stories. syrian state television says the army and its allied forces have pushed eisel out of the eastern city of hers or it was i suppose last remaining syrian stronghold in the capital of an oil rich
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province bordering iraq and in neighboring iraq the army and shia militia fighters have captured the last international border under control forces have also entered the town of. province on the western border with syria a lawyer for the deposed cattle on president says his client will appeal any belgian approval of extradition to spain a spanish judge is deciding whether to issue an international arrest warrant for carla's pushed him on friday he missed a summons to a spanish court on thursday because he's in belgium seeking what he says is freedom and safety the deposed leader and his sacked cabinet are being investigated for sedition following last month's declaration of independence. former cabinet members have been jailed and another was being detained in madrid attended thursday's high court hearing that pushed him on missed the deposed leader says their detention is an attack on democracy. the spanish government decision to imprison the
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cabinet members of the legitimate government of catalonia is a very grave mistake it is a grave attack on democracy imprisoning political leaders who have ample citizen support is an act that violates the basic principles of democracy america's top diplomat will visit me in march to discuss the wreckage of crisis secretary of state rex tillerson is expected to meet leaders and officials on november fifteenth pressure is mounting on the white house to impose measures against me in mars government and the us senate a bipartisan group has introduced a bill which would restrict military cooperation until violence stops the refugee chief has expressed disappointment for the organizations failure to stop conflicts that have displaced nearly sixty six million people worldwide. told the un security council the countries are more focused on short term interests. have we become unable to broker peace i ask this question here in the security
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council who is the result they peace and security because i see the direct impact of these failures every day on the lives of tens of millions of people forced to abandon their homes with green prospects of being able to return sometimes for generations when i meet their first question is not about food or shelter about peace and security because it is security and peace that will convince them to return home the un wants australia to restore food water and health services to six hundred refugees who are refusing to leave its decommissioned prison camp on the guineas mannus island services were ended when the camp closed on tuesday but the refugees are too scared to move out into the community because of previous attacks from locals australia runs off for present plans to house refugees who try to reach the country by. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he hopes the u.s. middle east peace initiative can work and claims president trump is taking
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a fresh approach that yahoo is in london as part of a visit to commemorate the scenario. ration issued by britain's cabinet it marked a turning point in the effort to create a state of israel and i think what is being discussed right now. and i was interested in our concerns known. to mr trump. is he wants to he's coming out of. sort of roof russian. can do that sort of stuck in neutral for twenty years trying to. go to the bar. twitter says a former employee used their last day on the job to shut down president donald trump's account on twitter it was reactivated after eleven minutes now the company at first said that human error led to the closure of the account it's working on
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a state of universally deception i took an oath to support for the constitution i take an oath supporting feticide started selling that was important and it was early act to call these people super heroes it is not so good because it sets the up. for some people they are super heroes for others simply traitors whistleblowers like daniel ellsberg thomas drake william binney and would snowden. hackers and activists like the wiki leaks founder julian assange and the former british secret service agent an emotional they want to support the complete surveillance of our society they oppose intelligence agencies governments and corporations and for this they are threatened hounded and imprisoned. why are they so committed to what drives them. to.
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san francisco california. the cradle of our modern day. puter industry home to creative technicians and visionaries hackers and whistleblowers. in a suburb of san francisco lives the godfather of all whistleblowers. daniel ellsberg . and probably the only whistleblower that i know of who can make a living as a lecture because i'm the one who was put on trial for a hundred and fifteen years on the one who isn't involved in the president being resigning because of his crimes against me so he made me notorious enough. that i can make a living here who looks and. ellsberg studied economics science at harvard in the
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one nine hundred fifty s. after graduating he enrolled like many fellow whistleblowers in the military. and of. you she courage here all around you of the conventional sure high courage you've been trained for you've been disciplined for but you see it it happens you have the training works and people are risking their bodies and they're really. every minute. at the end of the one nine hundred sixty s. ellsberg worked at the u.s. embassy in vietnam. he became known by publishing the secret pentagon papers which proved that the us president had lied to the american public about the vietnam war for years. ellsberg decided to make the documents public after meeting peace activists who had
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refused the draft. i would not have thought of doing it if i didn't have the example of many many people . who are going to prison for nonviolent resistance to the craft. in one nine hundred sixty nine else greg began smuggling parts of the pentagon papers out of the government agency he worked for and copy them over the following months. a total of seven thousand pages of secret documents. in march one nine hundred seventy one he passed the documents to the new york times who eventually printed them. ellsberg surrendered himself and was charged with theft and unauthorized possession of pentagon material. the trial collapsed when it came to light that nixon and illegally wiretapped
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ellsberg. and agents had broken into his psychiatry ists office. ellsberg thereafter remained a free man. if they arrest me or indict me then i will say it was only me. patricia the state next to me didn't cooperate. so happens and she i couldn't figure out why she wasn't indicted by the way because she had don't want to copy. her free card her fragrance folded paper or here i thought it was because she didn't want such a beautiful woman sitting next to me at the defense table in front of the jury. i would advise people now not to do what i did to reveal themselves if they can
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avoid it. i reveal myself for this same reason you know did. essentially we knew that other people would be suspected maybe even charged with cancer consentual evidence against. people who might look more more guilty than you did. in a way i would rather take the risks of democracy and the risks or should. mr daniel ellsberg. we have a third analyst who will be joining us from russia one of the one of my
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real heroes and i think many people in this room many people in the hacker community many people in america. edward snowden welcome. thank you. more than forty years after daniel ellsberg n.s.a. employee edward snowden emerges as a whistleblower the usa now has a new public enemy number one. thanks to manning and now to you and getting more favorable publicity. in forty years is already had. because suddenly people who were all for putting me in prison for life before now realize that i was really a very good guy i was the. i was the good whistleblower and so i'm i'm totally you of course rejected this from the beginning that i didn't want to be a foil for. showing a badly to people that i totally admired there was
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a moment of hope x. hobart's conference in july in new york city. ellsberg was having a live conversation with snowden we have a right as americans and as members of the global community and know the broad outlines of government policies that have a significant impact on our lives and i think that's something that tom grant showed me how to do the right way. there was a moment where he said. very clearly very distinctly that i showed him the right way. i had always hope that it's now become a law. thomas drake served during the cold war in europe in the one nine hundred eighty s. with the u.s. air force which included work as a signals analyst on spy planes hoovering the soviet union so my day job is to
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retire this is a better country. and they're right by the way was computers. yes you know it was a vast world that you're now you gave you both ways particularly in europe very quickly you have these photos of yours down you know chaos and beautiful. gallagher's of them are. in the one nine hundred ninety s. drake worked as a software developer for the cia in september two thousand and one he was hired as a senior analyst by the n.s.a. . my first ever job as nine eleven we were working you know sixteen eighteen hour days i mean it was that those four months after nine eleven are a blur because as it was just. your network we recognized that this was a significant event in history.
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whatever you got in a fight whatever you got the labs we need it whatever tools you can use to prosecute those behind. nine eleven do it. i was selected as the designated senior executive and say the lead up that effort to find anything we had to fight and so i did and that's where i brought to the attention of others tools techniques programs things there are in the lab things are pilots things that were being dissed testbed the mantra that went out from n.s.a. by general hayden he kept going around saying we just need to make americans feel safe again feel safe even at banners. and i discovered during those first couple three weeks after nine eleven all this information that we as you imagine was pouring in after nine eleven literally being use to monitor and survey l. and intercept u.s.
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domestic communications on an extraordinarily broad scale. i was finding this out within days of nine eleven and others were coming to me saying what are we doing top. among the snowden documents were figures for the u.s. secret service budget. since september eleventh they supposedly doubled by twenty five billion to fifty two billion u.s. dollars in two thousand and thirteen. the surveillance programs continued to metastasize they continue expand it in ways that still have not been fully revealed. and this became sort of the collect all mindset mentality what does that lead to well yes. you have these other interesting arrangements with certain internet providers and telecommunication concerns it's a temptation is are enormous and it's like
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a you know give us access or back in or open it up and that's what happened i mean and now you're seeing a lot of this unfold. the national security agency n.s.a. for short the largest foreign intelligence agency in the usa has been responsible for the worldwide monitoring of electronic communications since one thousand nine hundred fifty two. some of the thirty five thousand employees weren't comfortable with the massive expansion of surveillance since september eleventh. all of the colleagues that i knew which was just a handful bill binnie ed loomis kirk we chose to retire from the n.s.a. . in late october two thousand and one they realize what was happening they could not stand by and see the subversion of the constitution and all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance they left the agency i begged them to
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stay i chose to remain and fight from within as long as i could i got mad at them you know so i my my objective was that counterattack i don't believe in defense you know just sitting back and being defensive i mean you have to get out there and attack so that's what i started doing that was my point it's time to attack so basically was a declaration of war. against my government. william binney mathematician and programmer initially worked for the n.s.a. as an analyst then later as the technical director of the secret service. as the boss of a six thousand strong team he developed a wiretap program that anonymously filtered and processed large volumes of data. i tried to do the the right thing right after nine eleven trying to make
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a contribution that would make a difference they refused to accept it so it was basically blocked that there was nothing i could do they would accept nothing from me the n.s.a. directors decided against the program from vinny's team and i opted for another they collected much more data. the problem is i helped in designing the system that's in use. because i knew what was possible once they started using those programs and opening it up to massive data input on everybody in the planet so it was pretty clear that it was obvious to me how they were using it and what they're doing with it so i mean because i understood the design of the systems. and so after that when they started spying on us citizens violating the constitution i had to leave i couldn't be a part of all the criminal activity that was going on and that's fundamentally i call that treason against the country. so i got out at the end of october following
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day two thousand and one. one year later but he submitted a complaint to the u.s. defense department for wasting state funds the complaint was examined but had no effect the patriot bill binney became a combative whistleblower a role model for many today. the sun as he says his friend came here intelligence senses in ten years you know if you. believe he represents the path to the side that you live this race like two hundred and you said this integrity is true see. this is yours and i was as his entire intelligence or worse of you. so thank you
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though. i knew every major leader in this a general hayden personally and i have to say that i have met more people with true will take ready character since i left so. while binny opted out of the system his colleague thomas drake fought against the violation of civil rights from within the n.s.a. . my new for the moment i stood up to my own supervisor and i went to her and said what are we doing violating the prime directive to cannot spy and americans are war you don't understand. i confronted my boss i go to the o. the office general counsel i confront him and then he says i don't ask anymore questions. they are faced with a dilemma i didn't give the order i'm not. the one that was implementing the survey
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of the master valence program the digital dragnet what do you do i chose to pull the whistle. but how do you do that knowing there's a master valence program and knowing the n.s.a. was targeting targeting journalists. i made arrangements an encrypted form to communicate. anonymously with this reporter. then i made a decision that i would meet the reporter. that was in february of two thousand and seven. the journalist subsequently published a number of articles about the waste and mismanagement of the n.s.a.
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the repercussions were enormous but the n.s.a. let the attacks come to nothing as drake did not prove the central part of his criticism with documents. this tactic suddenly stopped working in two thousand and thirteen. edward snowden's material that stuff he took out made it absolutely impossible for them to deny what they were doing because it simply laid out in their terms on their slides what they were doing and it was impossible for them to deny it. so i don't think mr snowden was a patriot. the way in which these disclosures happened have been. have been damaging to be united states and damaging to our intelligence capabilities. people ask if i see it is the patriot or traitor you know that's the headline in all these things edward snowden patriot or that drives me nuts the very thought you know that people could regard it was
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a traitor we will likely. face is the cost in human lives on tomorrow's battlefield or in in some in some some place where where we will put our military forces you know when we ask them to go into harm's way and i think that's that's the greatest cost that we face with the disclosures that have that have been presented so far no one was the one person in the n.s.a. who did what he absolutely should have done how many people should have done what you did. what snowden is revealing is a global trait to attention for tomorrow she and he. being a patriot doesn't mean you know obedience to authority. putting aside your obligations to your people to your country for the benefit of your
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government is the opposite it isn't. until the revelations by edward snowden the warnings of intelligence agency critics were always shrugged off a speculation only after he had published all the original and it's a documents was there proof and concrete evidence provided for the first time. documents all the difference it is more risky to do that it also makes all the difference in terms of political effect snow manning and i gave the documents less than one percent of the start and documents have been published that's terrible. the terrible thing first those documents do not belong to a journalist they do not belong to a good side so they do not belong to the national security agency they belong to history they are part of something that humanity has gone through every single one
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of us have been has been a victim of national security agency spying all human beings who use the internet are victims of it and the victims deserve to know what has happened to them. i think the opportunity is in producing a very broad global outrage about what has happened in every country and informing all the victims of that surveillance about what is actually happening to them and releasing enough documents so that all the technical industries. hackers and computer programmers can think of and other governments can work out how to
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protect us. julian assange hacker and journalist who was interested in computer programming from an early age as a teenager he had already happened to foreign data systems and military networks later he studied physics and mathematics in melbourne in two thousand and six he founded the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which publishes secret documents of governments intelligence agencies and corporations kind of ellsberg was an insider and inside was an insider. would say that i was never in side up. i was. inside. you know tray and intelligence and big companies. as a computer hacker and later as an alibi analyst analyzing them material. so i had exotic came sense for what they were about that i never had the fear that one should work for these organizations. the people who were in the u.s.
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national security system it was like there are drug. drug out that made them powerful because there were groups that had a lot of power and that system has a way of talking about how the world works and how the united states empire is a good thing i can take a long time towards that drug out of the system i don't know it's because nearly entirely works that out of his system but the more recent whistleblowers they still have perhaps some way to go the only difference i have from a charge is i think the only view is i think that he probably believes more in the value of total truth or near total transparency than i do.
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november on al-jazeera. in a historic visit the pope will travel to me and my bangladesh bringing more focus to the plight of the region just. a new six part series about extraordinary lives of the common people from across tunisia. as the u.s. backs away from the paris climate agreement well diplomats will be gathering in bone to restate that commitment. from the heart of asia one when east brings captivating stories an award winning feel. as tensions on the korean peninsula remain high president trump embarks on a five nation tour to east asia november on al-jazeera. sixty seven words that spelled promise for one people but ended up a disaster for another. that led to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians one hundred years on
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al-jazeera world tells the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east for seeds of discord at this time. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the wound. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring you the news and current of friends that matter to you. al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey and other top stories on al-jazeera. syrian state television says the army and its ally forces have pushed out of the eastern city of to absorb that was the last remaining syrian stronghold and the
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capital of an oil rich province bordering iraq and in neighboring iraq the army and shia militia fighters have captured the last international border under eisel control the forces of also enter the town of al khan on barre province on the western border with syria. lawyer for the deposed catalan president says his client will appeal any belgian approval of extradition to spain the spanish judge is deciding whether to issue an international arrest warrant for callers proved on friday he missed a summons to spanish court on thursday because he is in belgium seeking what he says is freedom and safety to depose later in a sack kapanen are being investigated for sedition following last month's declaration of independence at eight months former cabinet members have been jailed or was being held in madrid they attended thursday's high court hearing that missed . is that their detention is an attack on democracy.
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america's top diplomat will visit me in mar to discuss the one hundred crisis state rex tillerson is expected to meet leaders on november fifteenth pressure is mounting on the white house to impose measures against me on mars government. the un wants australia to restore food water and health services to six hundred refugees who are refusing to leave its decommission prison camp up on again a man a silent services were ended when the camp closed on tuesday but refugees there they say they're too scared to move out into the community because their previous attacks from locals australia runs offshore prison camps to house refugees who try to reach the country by boat. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he hopes the u.s. middle east peace initiative can work and claims president trump is taking a fresh approach and yahoo is in london as part of a visit to commemorate the scenario of the balfour declaration that was issued by britain's cabinet and it marked
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a turning point in the effort to create the state of israel. those are the headlines continues to keep it here on al-jazeera digital dissidents is next thanks for your time. and wiki leaks highly explosive documents can still be published anonymously that otherwise would be withheld through nondisclosure or censorship. according to wiki leaks all documents are checked for authenticity one major aim is to force corporations and intelligence agencies to abide to more transparency and social responsibility to shed light on their well kept secrets which cover up illegal and immoral behavior. many years to get on here as in front of if you're going to. fall in love yvonne does dominant. make it
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fun for you or somebody kind of dog in afghanistan for the i thought i was sort of afghanistan's and this just as a rhetorical counterattack just like something out of kindergarten it is to say no no no you do that. and. unfortunately the u.s. press is sort of. so vile that it pretty prince this nonsense so what he needs reveals very concretely very strong accurate documentation how the us is our own records shows that it was involved in one way or another in the deaths of more than one hundred twenty thousand people in iraq and afghanistan between two thousand and four and two thousand and ten. and the u.s. government's response is maybe hypothetically as a result of this release of this material some afghan family or u.s. soldier. could face risks that's the standard accusation or like what tom drake did
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threaten military lives well exposing corruption fraud waste and abuse doesn't threaten military lives continuing them threatens military lives now the end result is that they are forced to admit last year on the earth that a single person had been harmed as a result of publications. songe demands the protection of individual privacy on the one hand and on the other radical transparency of governments and corporations but one of the motives of whistleblowers why do intelligence insiders step forward into the light risking their careers their lives to expose the wrongdoings of those in power. is there
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a common name a collective mission of this broad alliance and wild mix of patriotic exceeded service agents and our captors cyberpunks and intellectual publicists. the common theme with among all of us is that we support human rights and that we support the public's right to know information and especially when it threatens the public or threatens the democracy or freedom of individuals i mean that's the kind of common theme that goes through all of it i think but it's a lonely act that you come it as one person but i was convicted by the truth of what i knew so i made a conscious choice to yes violate a non-disclosure agreement and we also took the oath to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic so that means even our
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government if it's violating the constitution so we have we have the responsibility to stand up against that it's the moral agency you're confronted by activity that demands a response. and you're in a pipe swear you have access to information you have access your eye witness series such an eyewitness or you or you were brought into awareness. five. and what you had to have a specific going past him. when he's been off the mind i'm just monday's contest is conduct of one's initiative under suspicion with you but some of us have office then than. that of tons of my fondest bits and but out of tons. of done on site this does. have an advantage. so all of sudden bosses wouldn't need someone to fuck. off and mention the fed it is recently.
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this is invisible owing for from. the. high profile leaks we fund fund for many funds no. state does fund but this kind of. this is absolute no definition and i know stephen's equal have always just i mean this to call these people super heroes is not good because it. will say well they did it i admire that but me i'm not a superhero who thinks of themselves as a superhero me not you know we're sixteen year old. dream you know. if you get your excuse for not doing it it doesn't take a shipper here and these people know that these people were going to take a ship or here with michael in the fog it was no wouldn't it is the name be on to a. few months to
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a month on clothes and most of whom this is. often. becomes act you know who become to be anyone because of us and we could put in who become t.n. of the on the inside thing was going with this off. fifty push it's own somebody's khana in space on the do it's of interest because that's the one although that's because in the in the chilis it was snowden intended on the at least seem to be in . thirty eight the same ve in. the same the. time this is kept out of what i see when was it was no didn't and it's not in this i mean it in seen him on the snowden or does it seem under julian especially to be interesting in the many coming to tony's top of the top officer vowed not to let this be a nation. that is not sufficient to have to the consequence of events.
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then you still have no if someone dies the message was the up this with the best is about does a slow down a t.v. . when done that conflict kids design does testify to the picking of what so ever on this must a new pledge to ensure fat doesn't mean we have a new mindset to most this tool. each democracy punch which he executive branch in each country whether it's going to be democratic or not knowing everything is going to the private lives of all of their citizens rictus leaders through journalists their judges and their ordinary people could be turned into informants. with those people knowing almost nothing
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about the government the government be ok with sugar too and the people being transparent you guys this is the most ridiculous i've ever seen you know you sure everybody in the country and everybody in the world you're not an invalid. and so your secret. if you don't have prissy in your communications you can't guarantee they can hold a telephone conversation or rational mellow view stuff from the internet or read books and once that is known to the authorities and it can you begin to sell censor what you say and what you read. and immersion is a former agent of the british national intelligence agency m i five. he begins with drop a little bit below normal life because you're told you can't mention your being a christian by five and that means that people tend to focus much more on their life within and i thought i'd say begin to socialise
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a lot more with other people there because you can talk about stuff. and also you end up mainly in the relationships with your fellow intelligence officers it's how i met my former partner and colleague david shayler. when schiller made the illegal practices of the intelligence service public and supported him in becoming a whistleblower. in one thousand nine hundred seventy shortly before the publication of the secret documents the couple flew to france. they went underground for a year and subsequently lived in paris for to use in two thousand they returned to london or went to prison. was spared since then she fights for government accountability and campaigns for the rights of whistleblowers when david shayler and i ended up going on the run after doing the whistle on a series of crimes when i thought. we were very conscious of exactly how they could be termed here as an investigative yes so where every week. thought well the
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telephone might be compromised the computer might be comprised there might be microphones in where we were living there might be video cameras recording what we did and also people might be turned to report against us so they're all these different techniques that they can use and this is way back in the ninety's analog we are so even at that point when we are on the run from m i five cross europe we use the only sure fire way that we need to communicate to each other securely which was to put a piece of glass or ceramic on a surface and put one sheet of paper on it and then you cover it so that nothing can read what you write in the paper you don't say anything you just write what you want on the piece of paper and then you allow the other person to read that message so there is no order they can be no video and there could be no imprint under that one piece of paper then of course you have to get rid of that piece of paper so you have to burn it up over as the ashes and the cost it the wins or to actually
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doesn't do because we know that our computers our telephones all of that can be compromised the video can be switched on maybe the audit commiseration mostly they can log what we write on the keyboard they can even and this comes from the snowden disclosures they can even use my queries apparently to beam into the screen and read what you're typing. we live in a digital world where little remains unseen turning privacy into another luxury good. bleak science fiction visions of a powerful surveillance apparatus with seemingly endless technical possibilities.
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now only seems a question of time how does this change our behavior if every move we make every word we say is recorded a nationalized which rolls will we have to play and whose writing script. having lived with that sense endemic surveillance i can tell you it's a corrosive to human spirit so once you lose that sense privacy and you start to self censor you start to be an effective and fully integrated system of that country supremacy in my view is the last defense against a slide towards a police state or to tell a terran isn't if you let go of your rights from moment you've lost them for a lifetime and that's why this matters is because it happened and we didn't know me or told.
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us you said you had nothing to hide see and nothing to worry about i have nothing to fear your hero language ok fine church church if you're going to do it at her house yes well just give me your keys yeah a car rental car rather read of this is yes you have your purpose do you use google eulogy you know. you have facebook will give you know your passwords your medical records truck goes over to me to oh by the way all those bank accounts and all the records you're just given to me for safe keeping you have independent courts can you have an independent press. none of the n.s.a. now has the potential to know every source of every journalist and every story. following the e-mails following the phones following the people with their g.p.s.
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with their with their rifle. this is. the op this year here and and i'm asked it of all hong. and they are to master the order general is not about swearing and it's not about to ring me it's about surveillance us. it's about watching the company for everybody in the country and on a global scale. in harsh contrast to the recently emerged facts great public outcry has not yet been heard. now why don't people care in the u.k.
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it's a very easy answer partly it's cultural because he's still in love with james bond and our political leaders immediately came out in defense of the intelligence agencies saying we know what they do they follow the law everyone go back to sleep don't worry so the brain you see it in the u.k. it wasn't i think as i said usa brazil and germany but it's amazing how quickly people forget. in this and this does minus eight out of. the imperial into next move in pursuit of intelligent course well it's about persuasion and something came down dozens of them. putting so gross me in bushland then having talked to the nixon burger. king in that.
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when it became known in autumn two thousand and thirteen that the private cell phone of german chancellor angela merkel was tapped by the n.s.a. the public outcry in germany was initially large until then the german american friendship had been close and germany believed to be an equal partner the united states. new friends spine and friends of course they do it everybody does next i mean we caught the israelis spying on us several times what did that do to our relationship but not really anything because we know everybody does that ok if you are a leader of a country in the world you are a target everybody wants to know what you're thinking so you are a target friends and foes right everybody's looking to see or trying to find out what you're thinking universally true i mean that's that's why diplomacy was started right back and thousands of years ago so so i mean it's nothing new
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chancellor merkel when she found out as to her private phone was being tapped i mean she should have and understood that from the beginning i mean there and her security should have told her that from the beginning and given her some protection since all the leaders understood it the fact that it's exposed you have to be a object maybe publicly but in reality afterward you the relationship is too important to jeopardize just for a simple thing that you already knew was happening. as a humanist and i know that this you mention. this into this year that in different states in fairness there would be key leaks against the n.s.a. a fair bit. flows. today or two on buzz or hossam for you see. feel iced over school and good. kind on the mukesh cuts on the getting votes again the cinema before government to only give us a visit that's only part my. problem
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in relation to bob surveillance is exactly the same thing as the problem of global warming it's like i say it's not that i'm all effect here right now individually why is global warming interested in your and why's and i say interesting you quote a warming affects everyone because in general changing things folks ions affects everyone because it leads to a general change in the nature of so i say sure quite
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a warming is invisible. impenetrable you only kind of glimpse maybe today was a bit harder i don't know if that coincidence or not. similarly massive surveillance is invisible it's conducted these points that connect continents together or by the n.s.a. he's taking its fangs into google. and these are extremely thorough physical and complex technologies that everyone except specialists does not understand specialists understand that and saying everyone else my god can you see what's happening certainly relation to greenhouse gases climate scientists understand that saying my god can you see what's happening in the case of. climate science well there's a counter lobby which is the fossil fuel companies and all those profiting from that in the case of boxer violence there's the silence industry and intelligence agencies and so on and all those who are sucking down that information and profit
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from it and form a law in the other direction so very similar. the fear of terrorist attacks makes the mass surveillance a necessary evil for many the much quoted if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear often legitimizes the snooping of covert agencies yet many are unaware of the actual extent of the surveillance. basically a big program which provides the raw data that then be analyzed it so it can be subjected to rules written. for. it says everything do. is being analyzed it's being reviewed it's being measured. but the intelligence services are not the only one that i am opposed to. since
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there was stuff this i don't sponsor now and it's just there and. v.h.f. it is like not to see their stuff to thank us and just. to be honest. we don't really know what exactly happens with our own digital trails our data is transferred invisibly to huge data centers. sublimating into a complex new identity creating our digital self. smartphones capture a communication behavior along when where and with whom we talk. the data we create assembling our digital self is also of interest as a juicy source of information for the intelligence community. but i wonder who is clueless like that and it's not just i phones that's all it's life it
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is i mean most smartphones of all these days. they were tapping the fiber lines between the google servers yet. they didn't even know this is going on google they got. by had a lot of. surveillance and. also tracy had to as a light it came out it was spying on us and the national security agency it was asserted there was a risk plane coming to the embassy to apply for asylum. you've got to remember that inside the intelligence community there tropper these things they're holding these guys up and as examples to say look if you say what's going on he's not lying even if this even if you do it for the right reasons even if you do want to the right way there was no record.
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everything you do is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured. by foot and it's not just i phones that i was laughing i mean most small fans of these days at the moment we are in a state of the universe flint said redwood started something that was for a week act i would rather take the risks of democracy than the risks of the dictatorship digital dissidents at this time on al-jazeera. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way you treat. our impeccable service remains but none comes from breaking heat is
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from the waves. of the east. the spring showers long spells of rain efforts to janeiro just easing up towards the side of brazil heavy showers since and really wet weather also pushing across the river plate into a good parts of. the cloud in the rain that will not just way further north and east as we go on through friday process guys come back in behind what to say was at about twenty four degrees but that right it is gathering is making its way further north which is heading towards rio for sas dice and really wet weather in the cars here seventy percent eastern side of powerglide but not as let's say fast south and east you see more heavy showers here as well as the usual down poles they continue across the amazon basin further north as a very heavy rain recently made its way towards bogota colombia seeing some big
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down post long spells of fright and also some big pile they switch i believe was a violent house storm which has recently hit bogota and that has left really quite a covering of us nice know if anything but that's soft while the said he left some pretty awful conditions for some the slippery weather the nasty weather will continue for a little bit of time that for the showers and all the spells of frank coming through showers extended towards guyana pushing towards that a society of the caribbean. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. is it whether online we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on sat. one but. this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag eight a stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global
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