trying corporations rule today. this is r.t. coming to life from moscow the headlines asylum to nowhere ecuador grants doing a sun political refuge while blasting britain for using blackmail and threats in its desperation to seize the whistleblower. on protesters the riot get their final day in court as a verdict looms in the trial over the controversial mob prayer in russia's major can see role that grab global attention. next are tina hughes author and journalist now me wolf who says a crackdown on whistleblowers could expose corrupt u.s. officials to. sorry for the mix up

and our special interview is coming your way. naomi wolf author journalist activist thank you for sitting down with r.t. today it's always a pleasure marie and i first question for you recently u.s. defense secretary leon panetta announced and ordered pentagon officials to begin monitoring major news stations in the u.s. to see if any media outlets are disclosing classified information as a journalist and as an american what is your take on this i mean you know my immediate take is a profound feeling of nausea and it's sense that somehow the united states has collapsed into you know the soviet union circa sort of mid thirty's. this is horribly foreseeable but i can't believe it's come to this. the bush administration begins trajectory. seven or eight years ago by saying ok we're going to start to

react to be the espionage act and they threatened to go after the new york times you may remember when they broke the swift banking story about how at that time it seemed so quaint how the government was monitoring people's private financial transactions. but what's so dangerous could have been warning people about for years is that journalist's job is to publish classified information journalists like first of all this is a white house now to weigh houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to what was so blowers want to release specially you know torture that they've engaged in methods of torture fraud corruption they're classifying it you know i've had conversations with representatives legal representatives of people in guantanamo who tell me that they can't tell me how their clients have been tortured because it's classified and they would get in trouble because of the way the government is

over classified it's not national security information it's the government you. using classification as a way of protecting its own corruption and fraud but what's so scary about this is that anyone who's a journalist who tells the truth and there's nothing wrong with. their jobs will say and i said this when julian assange was arrested that up and down the eastern seaboard in dinner parties and cocktail parties the elite media stream all we do all day long is talk about classified information and trade classified information share classified information and kind of show how when we have a quest of information because it means we are being effective at our jobs that's not the same as leaking it i do agree that someone who actually leaks classified information knows that they're breaking the law you know i'm not saying there's no reason not to have classification in a working democracy but the job of journalists is to publish classified information

that is brought to them that's in the public interest and so now if you've got the government saying they're like literally it's like mafia tactics can't believe it's come to this the government is same to journalists everywhere in america. we're going to intimidate you and we're going to threaten you and we're we're threatening you with with serious legal penalties like prison time if you do your job and i mean it's like that's what they do in china you know i mean i just can't even believe it's come to this obviously journalists publish classified information because that's how we know we're living in a democracy you brought up joining us on trying to avoid leaks what do you think will happen to him if he ends up in the u.s. i mean in an ideal world obviously i believe in the rule of law in an ideal world you know he would go safely to sweden and you know the women who have accused him would have their day in court he would have his day in court and justice would be

impartial i don't think that's what's happening in his case i think that it's a global. kind of. manhunt to. punish and silence a whistleblower publisher again not a leaker publish a publisher i just want to stress this bradley manning leaked the material allegedly you know and so he has to deal with whatever he's going to use you joining us on the potty is the publisher like the new york times similar to that exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is too. much . and so i think that. there is no way that he can. have an impartial trial in sweden but quite apart from that i think i'm very concerned that there's sort of national pressure on britain and on sweden by the u.s. there's some evidence of this interim creek who's a really good investigative citizen journalist has document

a lot of the seventh that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a sauna to us and then have him be the highest profile you know journalist in guantanamo and. you know where where you go from there people have been there for ten years without charge or trial and i think that that's not just to silence him again i think it's also to send a message to anyone else who might leak you know compromising or embarrassing or problematic material about the united states government earlier this year you threw your support behind a class action lawsuit filed against us president barack obama and his defense secretary over the national defense authorization act when you were reporting about that bill you said in quote included powers that could bring the authorities of guantanamo to america's courthouses streets and backyards in may a judge suspended section ten twenty one of the n.d.a. you were actually in the courthouse it's quite amazing this this judge more than

anyone so ok the national defense authorization act is absolutely terrifying piece of legislation section ten twenty one was the section that explicitly said this gives the president the power to round up anyone without charge or trial and hold them forever. chris hedges a very brave journalist brought this forward as well as many activists including an occupy activist from london and. the president's lawyers were in the court and i was there. listening to this and to my shame there was like there were like one and a half reporters and in the room you know none of them from each or u.s. news outlets well the most important thing ever to have happened to that point was happening and the government's lawyers basically confirmed that chris hedges could be detained forever for reporting on the taliban a reporting on people who could be classified as enemy combatants they confirmed

that that was indeed the case or if someone wrote a book about you know enemy combatants that in any way was sympathetic to the point of view that you know the u.s. had too much power in this part of the world or you know crazy examples of sweeping powers to detain american citizens and to criminalize to send criminalize journalism and so this very brave. judge listen to the evidence which was hard to miss because. it was so confirmed by these lawyers that that's what this would do and she suspended that part of it and so saved you know the constitution where the due process clause is which guarantees everyone in america the right to a trial i still can't understand why this story specifically the n.d.a. has not been a bigger story in mainstream media in the us this was a huge huge issue and this bill was signed into law when people are celebrating new

year's eve new year's eve and then somebody heard about it i mean as you media why do you think that at least you know i want to i want to ask you that what when you talk to journalist guy friends who are journalists you know senior people who are running major news sites and pins i'd say did you know that the due process clause was suspended on new year's eve and they're like what no surely not and they don't believe it because they didn't see you know a wave of coverage any coverage would be buried obfuscated and no one's giving these people orders to not cover it i was listening to these historic arguments of the american presidents lawyers saying yes we have the right to round up journalists that journalists have the right to hold him forever and there was no a.b.c. no n.b.c. no n.p.r. no c.n.n. no fox news nobody was there you know and the best explanation i have is like denial you know let me be it's such

a huge story that no one can really believe this is really happening so we can't cover it but i do think that what we're seeing right now and i predicted this would happen in november of last year is that like why the violent crackdown against occupy why the violent criminalization of dissent why the bullying of journalists now. i think it's linked to what we're seeing in the news right now of this huge fraud being uncovered in the banking sector h.s.b.c. you know billions of dollars in fraud bank of america wells fargo barclays bank of england fraud for fraud not like marginal fraud but clearly systemic and i just wrote a piece about this for the guardian you know clearly systemic tim geithner finds out about in two thousand and eight you know right sneaky mail doesn't leak the news doesn't call a press conference and then you know becomes treasury secretary so it's clear that you know there's a small group of guys and girls who are in on massive massive massive fraud and.

so the occupy movement journalists you know threaten to uncover a lot of crimes if the books are ever opened in an e-mail world in an electronic world these crimes are forever last forever so that now is my working theory about why we're seeing such sudden violent crackdown on reporting on dissent on whistleblowers that otherwise a lot of people would go to jail for the crimes that they've been committing occupy wall street is a movement that really raised awareness and pointed attention to the fact of money flowing from wall street to washington influencing policies the economic problems have not gone away since the fall of two thousand and eleven they've only gotten worse occupy wall street though has sort of died down a bit why do you think that is well in the fall of two thousand and eleven you know american citizens gather together and spoke up and protested in occupy public spaces and they were shot with rubber bullets they were given you know lengthy jail

sentences they were arrested for staying on the sidewalk as i was and my partner was you know lawfully obeying the law were arrested oh yeah. yeah i was arrested for standing on a sidewalk telling occupy protesters what their first amendment rights were to protest. you know and that we were facing fifteen days in rikers island which is a violent prison yeah it makes you think twice about going out to use your first amendment rights i mean occupy protesters were you know mays they were power hosed they were. they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know for didn't use the bathroom they were tortured you know as much as the civil system allows you know every activist you know assumes that their e-mails are monitored their phone calls are monitored i mean it's just a complete sense of big brother is a hair's breadth away i think i am frightened seeing countries like britain sleepwalking into okaying legislation to institute. this kind of surveillance but

really in europe people still feel they have some privacy they can go to march and they can go home. i'm sorry to say that when you get this matrix of surveillance plus police brutality plus laws that suspend due process it's very effective at breaking down protest now let me flip it around and say having studied closing societies and societies that we opened democracies mass protest is the key to reopening democracy then we will thank you very much in saying don't think you might think. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future however. admission of

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asylum to nowhere ecuador grants join a political refuge while blasting britain for using blackmail and threats in its desperation to seize the whistleblower. again their final day in court as a verdict looms in the trial over the conover chaumont prayer and russia's major cathedral that grab global attention. plus the un security council withdraw as the international monitoring mission in syria rebels they are pledged to step up their fights and threaten to join forces with al qaida. sports anything that's.

hello there welcome to the sport someday turn out to good havoc. and coming up in the bulletin. shock defeat olympic champion andy murray is out of the tournament in cincinnati after losing to jeremy chardy in straight sets. moves shake is a moderate is said for out while goes to sunderland with two days to go before the new english premier league season. and no escape to victory the amazing story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose a food bowl over freedom. so let's start with tennis where and tomorrow he's out of the cincinnati masters a tournament heading into the open which starts in ten days the newly crowned impact champ and surprisingly at last a frenchman jeremy chardy. had beaten easily his opponent previous times they had played but this time charge it needed only two sets to claim

a six four six four victory and a place in the quarter finals i still. broke three times and. you know. who's going to have a lot of close games on this first. enough joneses. next hour for charities hamas and paltrow saw fit to troitsky in three sets that world number nine improved to six wins and no defeats in his career gains this. i in the meantime roger federer had no problems in the last sixteen as he beat nineteen year old australian benetton which six two six four the world number one swiss will take on an american mother fish that is the local favorite and the two time runner up at the tournament defeated roddick step on it also in straight sets

six three six three that was his first victory over the track in five career matches. thanks also through second seed novak djokovic handed their passage into the last eight as niccolo dividend rate high after losing the first set six times continue for the russian who's been without a title for more than fifteen months with joke of each hunting for his second straight crown and fourth of the season. sending him his way is through out to see them are unsure if the crowd advancing after beating pablo. in straight sets. thanks on the women's side olympic champion serina williams dispatches to their advanced power and it was a back and forth match looking for serena still needed just over an hour to book a berth in the quarterfinals american looking for her fourth consecutive title since lifting the wimbledon trophy last month. there was also

a joyful serene is. venus as the doubles olympic champ and only three games on her way to beating italian sorry ronnie six three six love. now to football now where in transfer news lewis has signed for sunderland on a one year deal the thirty four year old former france striker left top number of last. season and could make his debut at arsenal on saturday while around madrid are finally close to signing tottenham midfielder look after increasing the offer to forty seven million dollars a twenty six year old is expected to help talks with officials and undergo medical and agreed within the next forty eight hours new spurs manager says the club will try to replace the winger before the transfer window closes in a fortnight focusing on such a strict castle. to newcastle we need to treat.

because you thought of them drawn to the difficult game as well. leading. up to the final we had to go. so. you know i think it's it's two teams that want the champions league qualification you could see the fighting for the same objectives we want to make sure that this year we can do it for that and we would have to see if we are able to do that. in england. says he's happy about a strike force for their fast approaching season the manager spoke out after signing robin van persie from the another forward is set to join when rooney and understand well that and change it could go up front the move ponting ferguson to compare his forward line with his trouble winning score of nineteen ninety nine as

the red devils prepare for their season opener at everton on monday. we go back to mention one season. to eat in. or you know the food was in europe so i think i'm going to have. to leave to. go or you know. is. a poor one prince's quote is committed to this cause is the moment. now to the story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose to spend an extra year in prison so he could play football in twenty ten months similar out of sent to jail in chile for three and a day after being caught carrying six kilos of cocaine in such children books intended to take to europe the speed the right food to use to play for russian

second division team score and soon word of football skills in the prison yard chilean national coach claude borg a former professional and prison volunteer franklin lobos who arranged for the now twenty four year old to train with a local professional team santiago morning well ahead of now trains there every day accompanied by a guard before being back behind bars every evening this month he could have returned to russia thanks to an amnesty but wouldn't have been allowed back into chile for exec eight so instead he chose to finish his sentence and stay with his team. well. it has been almost two years now playing football in jail we just play baby and not every day i need to work and work hard make sure i'm fine physically technically and we do everything so i can come back. if you're not awake you're going to make mistakes but if your wife gives you another chance you have to take it through food book which is what he wants then it's even better.

now. defended his return to next year as a telling writer prepares for this weekend's indianapolis grand prix in america with his current team to thirty three a two year deal with the japanese manufacturer following his less than perfect stint with an outfit that means it will once again team up with bitter rival and currently. switch came under fire from ottawa a case of stoner. took the trouble to explain his decision. my choice is because i understand what is the best the best the bike the more competitive bike for. the next two years that maybe the end of my career or maybe not but anyway the last part and. this is the choice and is

a great i'm very sad also because they find a lot of good people we had we had great times together we. but unfortunately we're not able to to achieve that result. so it's a change of scene for us here but it was a change of support for some of his fellow riders the likes of denny pedro and ben spears enjoyed a very american day out ahead of the race of baseball a lesson to take their minds off their motor g.p. duties while call edwards and hundred of his oars that were among those practicing their swear by the greens a game of golf yearling that away from the tarmac. i find i soak it and rush a youth team are aiming to defend their title as the journal juno club world cup gets underway and as remarked courser of reports it will be more of

a challenge this time around for the red army. this standoff between russia and kind of the certain they want for the ages but they think they're kolob world cup which will be held in russia for the second time this and other great ice like it for the sion vying for the genesee. a year ago it was russia's red army that raised the inaugural trophy following a confident when against the czech side energy the international ice hockey federation was so impressed with introductory tournaments that it decided to award the junior club world cup a permanent place on its calendar over fishel events the unprecedented decision by the i.i.h.f. to sanction its tournaments in only the second year of its existence generated huge interest from the world's top junior leagues with ten teams from europe and north america jets a story the battle for the world's top globe trophy in siberia next week but for now they are in moscow embrace in their first international experience is my first

time playing in a tournament like this you know so far away from home and you know i'm just very excited we don't really know what to expect it's all fired up about why we're here watching this game but but yeah we're all really excited and we know it's going to be a tough tough opposition and a tough tournaments but we're looking forward to last year's events featured eight teams that were in large part no match for the russians but the competition will be much tougher this time around the waterloo blackhawks have already proved just bats in moscow with americans claiming a fight to win against the red army in a pretty tournaments exhibit again many of these guys want to have the opportunity at some point later to play for a us dame or to play professional hockey whether interact with us or with international players pardon me and so from that standpoint this is going to be an invaluable experience and it's one that only a few of the players on the blackhawks have ever had prior to right now the new where all of the junior club world cup will be determined according to the folding

format ten seasons have been divided into two. pulls for a single round robin contest group winners will then proceed to the title match which will be staged in front of over ten thousand fans and the home arena of the gauge l.t. . r.t. moscow. well that's all the sports news for the moment i'll be back with more and fast on how and i say by how. well the. science technology innovation all the latest developments

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