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 do you i'm getting more favorable publicity. and in forty years. 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 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 admire there was a moment of hope x. hobart's conference in july in new york city. ellsberg. i

was having a live conversation with snowden we have a front as a mayor and as members of the global community and know the broad outlines of the hard 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 hoped that isto become a long. straight 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 a reconnaissance orbiter country. and thereby by the way it was

computers. this is it was a vast a world that you're now you you bowl is particularly your very quickly you know the old for this. is you know chaos beautiful. version of that 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 on you know sixteen eighteen hour days i mean it was that those four months after nine eleven are a blur because as there was just. your net we recognized that this was a significant event in history. 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 are in the lab things are pilots things that are 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. domestic communications on an extraordinarily broad scale. i was finding this out

within days of nine eleven and others were coming to me say 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 and two thousand and thirteen. the surveillance programs continue 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 your. area zation you have these other interesting arrangements with certain internet providers and telecommunication concerns it's a temptation is are enormous and it's like 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 and 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 stay i chose to remain and fight from with it 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 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 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 of at the end of october

day two thousand and one. one year later binney 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. this illness is his friend came here telling integrity of the fifty two. elderly her presents the patches the side of it you between two money clip that series like two hundred and it's no use to tell you this integrity is pretty. as is yours. it's a worse of you. so think you know. i

knew every major leader in the city general hayden personally i have to say and i met. with through the taker the character since i left sid. 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 on americans our war you don't understand what i confronted my boss i go to the o. the office general counsel i confront him and then he says don't ask any more questions. now you're faced with a dilemma i didn't give the order i'm not the one that was implementing the survey of the master valence program the digital dragnet what do you do i chose to blow

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. honestly 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. 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 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. 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 as 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 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. you know who was the one person can i say who did what he absolutely should have done how many people should have done what you did thank what. is revealing if you'd go boo tripped to attention for democracy any. being a patriot doesn't rule. obedience to authority. putting aside your obligations to your people to your country for the benefit of your government is the office and it isn't.

until the revelations by edward snowden the warnings of intelligence agency critics were always shrugged off as speculation only after he had published all the original n.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 trick. manning and i gave the documents less than one percent of the starting documents have been published that's terrible terrible things those those documents do not belong to a journalist they do not belong to or. to the national security agency they belong to history. something that has gone through every single one of us have

been has been a victim of the national security agency spying all human beings is the internet. the victims of that and the victims deserve to know what has happened to them. so 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 go over and over governments can work out how to protect those. julian a son hacker and journalist who was interested in computer programming from an

early age as a teenager he had already hacked into 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 . was an insider. would say that i was never inside. i was. inside. you know titans or big companies. as a computer hacker and later as an owl and almost analyzing their material. so i had it set it came sense for what they were about but i never had the fear that one should work for these organizations. for people who were in the u.s. national security system it was like there are drug. drug 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 and i can take a long time towards that drug out of the system and is nearly entirely washed that out of his system but the more recent whistle blows they still have perhaps some way to go the only difference i have for massages i think the only difference is i think that he probably believes more in the value of total truth or near total transparency tonight is. on counting the cost this week young and unemployed in africa's most populous nation why joblessness is such

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for supporting u.s. military intervention. you will go by. i think that some europeans made a mistake when they supported the american war in iraq can you ask any of the coalition countries was it necessary to intervene militarily in iraq and divide it and kill millions of its people i think the also made a mistake when they bombed in libya and killed more than one hundred thousand civilians can these errors be corrected i think they made mistakes in the destructive policy approach in syria and are making more mistakes with venezuela and the us government is promising a strong response against pakistan which it blames for the worst attack in indian administrate kashmir and decades at least forty four indian soldiers were killed by a car bomb on thursday pakistan deny supporting the group the claimed responsibility for that attack india has vowed to isolate islamic jihad and remove its trade privileges some and pakistan's envoy in served a diplomatic notice demanding action. spain's prime minister has called for

a general election after losing a keep budget after sanchez wants the snap poll to happen on the twenty eighth of april this will be the third election in four years on wednesday politicians who support independence for the catalonia region were among those who voted against the proposed budget they're angry about the trial of twelve separatist leaders on sedition charges china's president xi jinping has met members of a u.s. trade delegation as part of efforts to end a trade war between the world's two largest economies as treasury secretary steven action is in beijing to work on an agreement on the tariffs the two sides are trying to reach a deal before march first when the u.s. plans to increase levies on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports as president donald trump says he will declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border wall with mexico earlier though congress did pass a spending bill with money without money rather for the wall trying to avoid another government shutdown. so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera we work

hard you now to digital dissidents. 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 were 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. to get on. the phone what we want does. make it fall on. somebody's kind of dog in afghanistan i also have afghanistan saying this just as a rhetorical counterattack just like something out of the car just to say no no no you do that. and. unfortunately the us press is sort of. so. that preprinted this nonsense so what he needs reveals very concretely. streaming accurate documentation of 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 us 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 threaten military lives exposing corruption fraud waste and abuse doesn't threaten military lives continuing them threatens military lives now the end result is that the force admit last year on the earth that a single person had been harmed as a result of publications.

sun's 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 a common name a collective mission of this broad alliance and wild mix of patriotic it secret service agents and arctic hackers cyberpunks and intellectual publicists. a 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 that 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 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 pious where you have access to information you have access your eye witness such an eyewitness or you or you were brought into awareness. especially when you've got someone have

a specific going to see it. when he's been off them on them just mondays contests gunnies divines initial event association with events on this. then. my phone baskets in and out of tons of. buses are done on site this does. have an advantage. so all of sudden bosses would need someone to fuck. off and mention the fed it isn't me. this isn't this is going for. the. high profile leaks we fun fun fun mending fences no don't think. it does fun but it's kind not when it's. this is absolute no definition and i know steven's equal have always just i mean. to call these people superheroes is not so good because it. will they get it i remember that period not me i'm not

a superhero who thinks of themselves as the superhero me not you know we're sixteen year old. dreamer. gets you excuse for not doing it it doesn't take a should prepare these people none of these people were going to turn the ship or here with michael in the fog it was no wouldn't it is the name go on to a. few months to a month on clothes and most of whom this is. often installed the. only sign in. fact you know who become to be annoying because of us and we could put in who becomes the end of the on the inside thing was going with this off. to push its own somebody khana is persona to do is of interest because that's all in all though it's because in the in the chilis it was snowden intended on the at least seem to even. seem to even want to seem to give him this is.

what i see when was it puts no didn't into somebody and seen him on the snowden or does it seem untrue julian dismissed it to be interesting that you know many come in to told us top of the top officer vowed not to let this be an issue for months and that. is not tradition have to include a sequence of events. then he still had no from one of. the up this with the best of a dozen slits are many identity for. does. the picking of whatsoever on this must a new pledge to ensure that. we have a new mind to most this tool. each

democracy punch with. each country whether it's going to be democratic or not knowing every she is going to private lives of all of their citizens to religious leaders through journalists their judges and their ordinary people could be turned into informants. i wish those people knowing almost nothing about the good of the government be or create that should go to and the people being transparent you guys this is the most ridiculous i've ever seen you know you fire everybody in the country and everybody in war all 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 once that is known to the authorities and it can even begin to self censor

what you say and what you read. and. is a former agent of the british national intelligence agency m i five. even going to withdraw a little bit feel 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 a lot more with other people there because you can talk that stuff. and also you end up mainly in the relationships with your fellow intelligence offices it is 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 the whistle on a series of crimes when i thought. we were very conscious of exactly how they could be termed here celeste it is so where every week. thought well the telephone might be compromised the computer would be completely honest 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 the end of year so even at that point when we were on the run from ever cross europe we used 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 a piece of paper and then you love the other person to meet that message so there's no order they can be no video and there could be no in print under that one piece of paper and of course you have to get rid of that piece of paper so you have to burn it up pulverised the ashes and the cost it the winds all to do because we know that our computers our telephones all of that can be compromised the video can be switched on the audit committee switched on maybe they can log what we write on the keyboards 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. now only seems a question of time how does this change our behavior if every move we make every word we say is recorded and analyzed which roles will we have to play and who's writing the script. having lived with that sensing demick surveillance i can tell you it's a corrosive to human spirit so once you lose that sense prissie 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 us how innocent 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. you say you had nothing to hide see it nothing to worry about i have nothing to fear you'll hear all the language ok fine church heard your individual or her house yes well just give me your keys yet are already rather read of this yes you have your purpose do you use of google eulogy you know it is you have facebook or

given all your passwords you have a medical records trudeau's over to me to oh by the way all those bank accounts and all phone records you just give me for c.p.p. can have independent courts can you have an independent critch none of the n.s.a. now has the potential to know every source of every journalist of every story. by following the e-mail. following the people with their g.p.s. with their rifles. this is. the op this year here and. same to. master the world in general is not about. it's not about surrendering me it's about surveillance of us collect 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. it's a very easy answer partly it's cultural because he still in love with james bond and 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 train you sit in the u.k. and it wasn't i think in as i said usa brazil and germany but it's amazing how quickly people forget or in this and this thousand. the next move in for sort of endorsement of preservation and something kind of. put me

in bushland. t.v. nixon burger. king in that. 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. to france fine print of course they did everybody does this 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're 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 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 hypnotist and i know look this you mention. this into this year that are in different states and that would be key leaks it's the n.s.a.

affair the. t.v. or tool muzzle ha's intrusive. kind on the mukesh getting votes in the us and then the before google not to only give us a visit that's owns it but my. problem in relation to bulk surveillance is exactly the same as

the problem of global warming second i say it's not that of all effect here right now individually why is global warming interested in year and why is in a st it's a new global warming affects everyone because in general changing things folks surveillance affects everyone because it leads to a general change in the nature of say oh i say should or warming is invisible. impenetrable you're only trying to glimpse maybe today was a bit harder i don't like when sentence. similarly massive surveillance is invisible it's conducted at these points that connect continents together or by as i was taking its fangs into google. and these are extremely sophisticated 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 through a relation to greenhouse gas as climate scientists understand it 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 surveillance industry and intelligence agencies and so on and all those who are sucking down that information and profit from it and for all 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 after legitimizes the snooping of covert agencies yet many are unaware of the actual extent of the surveillance. basically a big digital program which provides the raw data and then we analyze it so it can

be subjected to rules written. or. it says everything do. is being analyzed it's being weighed it's being measured. but the intelligence services are not the only ones monitoring communications and processing massive data. also pride. corporations like google amazon facebook and apple collect millions of pieces of information about us to analyze and monetize. that's a click is a south fork that's not on sacked that i am personally sent there or stuff this i don't since they were that's is this there are nine v.h.f. and a slick not a c.

there or stuffed i guess it does i'll skip all i did the other isn't 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. i don't do those coolest life. and it's not just i phones that's all this life it is i mean most smartphones of these days. they were tapping the

fiber lines between the google servers yet. they didn't even know this is going on . i had a lot of. surveillance and. cheese heads who has a right it came out both spying on us and the national security agency it was asserted there was a risk plane coming into the embassy to apply for asylum. you've got to remember that inside the intelligence community there trumpeted these things they're holding these guys up and as examples to say look if you say what's going on. even if this even if you do it for the right reasons even if you do it at the right way there will be a good record. everything

you do is being analyzed it's being weighed it's been measured i'm going to listen to it and it's not just i phones that honestly things i mean most small things are these days at the moment we are in a state of the universe that started something that was for a week that good rather take the risks of democracy through the risks of dictatorship digital dissidents on al-jazeera.

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some wet weather from time to tide putting myself just that in kingston in the sunshine some trial. some sunshine to n.c. parts of the us but still a fair old legacy of cloud into the eastern seaboard for it's high temperatures not doing too badly in the d.c. area around seventeen celsius some wintry weather there into central parts war heavy rain and also some snow to the west. the weather sponsored by qatar and. when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. in the meaning. of the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them in almost. any. sound other boxset this is us. on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where every. this is al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the theatrical presentation they are attempting on february twenty third will not happen. on israel's president nicolas maduro tells al-jazeera he

will not let us aid into his country. and your promise is a crushing response to an attack on mr kashmir that it blames on pakistan. democrats in congress want a president not to abuse his power threatens to declare an emergency to build his wall on the mexican border. and. have. their training camp killed ten people. to the. game at the. stadium. and as well as president has accused the u.s. of trying to destabilize his country an interview with al jazeera. opposition's call to bring aid on feb twenty third as nothing but political theater and anyone

except it were also criticize european nations for supporting u.s. military intervention. i think that some europeans made a mistake when they supported the american war in iraq can you ask any of the coalition countries was it necessary to intervene militarily in iraq and divide it and kill millions of its people i think they also made a mistake when they bombed libya and killed more than one hundred thousand civilians these errors be corrected i think they made mistakes in the destructive policy approach in syria and i'm making more mistakes with venezuela. this does not happen and will not happen any material that comes from outside the country must be subject to certain conditions such as inspection and taxes in all countries where the by. and then there will be no problems there for the trickle presentation they are attempting on february twenty third will not happen.

yes after conducting a dialogue with the opposition in the dominican republic we agreed to hold the yearly presidential election in the first four months of last year after which part of the opposition withdrew and did not sign the agreement and eventually it was agreed on may twentieth these elections were conducted according to the law and the constitution and with international and local observers ten million voters participated in the elections and eighty six percent of the voters voted for me therefore the interim legislative elections were done and anything else is just whims and attempts to destabilize the country from the white house. venezuela's top court has ruled that opposition appointed oil executives must face criminal prosecution the opposition controlled congress has named a new board of directors for the state oil giant as well as its u.s. subsidiary

a move walk on by washington decision by the supreme court which backs president maduro is the latest move in a tussle for control of venezuela's oil revenue when imports from caracas. in the capital of the country with the world's largest fossil fuel reserves practically everything you see was built with oil money and now that money along with an israel is oil production has been reduced to a trickle. last month the us blocked the transfer of dividends from citgo the state oil companies us subsidiary its crown jewel. citgo represents about seventy percent of in as well as hard currency a government that is already experiencing an unmanageable fiscal deficit and is suddenly deprived of seventy percent of its income and a government when no one who lend it money is simply economically unviable. that's the point of the u.s. sanctions to strangle than israel economically to force president nicole last month

a little out. we had a lot shipment of medicines to last the country. and a large batch of rule materials for food the contras frozen the contracts are cancelled and the money seized they suffocate us stede our money and then say hold on to the scrum and put on a show for the world venezuela with dignity since no to the global show. and now to add insult to injury the opposition controlled legislature has named a new board of directors to take over the u.s. based company. citgo operates refineries and supplies some fifty five hundred petrol stations in twenty nine u.s. states. and israel a supreme court which is loyal to president. issued a rapid response. so this is yet another assault by the national assembly which has been declared unlawful against

a video as well as most vital resource its decision regarding p.b.s. say a constitutionally protected company void and have no legal effect the judge also ordered the extradition of the board members named by the national assembly the trumpet ministrations prepares to announce u.s. war sanctions aimed at further tightening the economic news on president of the sea and human got access. the venezuelan opposition's envoy to the u.s. is trying to shore international support to help bring aid into his country but the u.n. which recognizes the president has called for talks every elizondo reports from washington d.c. . a ballroom full of diplomats to show support for venezuelan opposition leader want to. build is the first annual global conference on the humanitarian crisis in venezuela and hosted by those washington advisors diplomats from sixty countries attended most of whom recognized as president the interest in the meeting was high

the organizers announced they reached one hundred million dollars in pledges in aid money but it's unclear where that money will go but one of those top advisors rejected claims that the aid is being used for political means by all sides saying it will many variations. we're not looking then the corner all of a teacher if you will so many cmos and for some for these. many that in issue when we are working today this was very much a day about competing diplomacy here it was about showing support for one quite though but in new york at the united nations the scene was much different. flanked by ambassadors from several countries that support president nicolas maduro in russia china and iran but as well as foreign minister jorge adi has a struck a defiant tone in venezuela there's only one government the government of press in the dodo so no one can gave that line sword specially this man who was

self-proclaimed who self proclaimed himself president of venezuela in the middle of a street of a demonstration was without any constitutional framework that as well as foreign minister met with the u.n. secretary general on monday the un recognizes maduro but is calling for talks the clearer and even more serious needs to find a to to start serious political negotiations but it's increasingly clear both sides are committed to entrenching themselves with countries that support them rather than talks with the other side gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington. and his government is promising a strong response against pakistan which it blames for an attack on indian administered kashmir the killed forty four of its soldiers on thursday delhi has summoned pakistan's envoy and handed over a diplomatic protest note as deny supporting the group thought to be behind the attack or remain last more. scenes of devastation body parts

strewn across the highway in indian administered kashmir dozens were killed when a car packed with explosives rammed into a truck that was part of a security convoy india's prime minister narendra modi observed a moment of silence to remember the victims before he gave a strong warning. i want to tell the terrorist groups and their patrons that they have committed a huge mistake and they will have to pay a big price for this. it's the worst attack to hit the disputed himalayan region in three decades the park some based on group jaish e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack all those slum about denies any involvement india has accused it of allowing armed groups to operate freely pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they've always condemned heightened acts of

violence in the valley india has taken diplomatic steps including shutting down trade between the neighboring nations. has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the area tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades. this latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigators are still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target what is the nature of explosion. what led to just. as india's national investigation agency. activists are homeless street indian administered kashmir with many empty packs and slogans and the government is shut down into that in some areas the military has imposed a curfew in parts of india in the midst of kashmir in the attempt to restore calm.

among the al jazeera and he and pakistan have fought three wars over kashmir since one thousand forty seven and nine hundred eighty nine a rebellion by pro independence and pro pakistani fighters broke out it was triggered by a disputed election tens of thousands of people were eventually killed last year the first joined her human rights report on kashmir concluded that indian forces committed atrocities with quote your total impunity the report also blamed for abuses then it went on to suggest that pakistan is supporting armed groups who report also accuse indian forces of using excessive force against civilian protests which have intensified since two thousand and sixteen everyone jacob is director of the in a pack conflict monitor and dependent research initiative that studies conflict patterns between india and pakistan he joins me now via skype from new delhi thank you so much for your time so india has said that it will isolate haq

a stand what what does that mean to you. well i guess initially means they've got to support it all and the war that it's within the international community to jenna baucus time to stoke with them or for that goes against india had to go to the united nations to go to the united states anybody is going to send the war to soak or stand by india. at ten o'clock is. just opening what it is doing that is what india has said that that will when india has shut down its trade the most favored nation status has been been drawn from the company of the iraqi commission but i don't think the isolation of pakistani supposably at this point of time it's easier said than done ok so if we think that.