what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines you want to report on are . you watching r t if you're just joining us welcome let's take a recap of our headlines a vocal reaction greets news members of the controversial punk band pussy riot they'll spend the next two years in jail following their political protest and in russia's main cathedral. given asylum but still trapped of bridges on reeves by aquittal is acceptance of julian assange as a political refugee saying the whistleblower is still subject to arrest and won't be allowed to leave the country. and a row the u.s. hacker group claims it's behind an attack on the r.t. web side in an attempt to silence coverage of julian assange on. now joining

us on just case has raised numerous concerns among journalists and activists who fear being prosecuted for doing their job next r.t. interviews author and journalist now me walz who says the u.s. government is especially tough on those exposing officials wrongdoings coming up next. 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 its 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 began this 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 a journalist's job is to publish classified information journalist like first of all this is a white house now to wait 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 up when we have 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 leak or a publish publish 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 you see joining us on the potty is the public like the new york times exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is too. much. 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's that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite astonished 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 so 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 you know crazy examples of sweeping powers to detain american citizens and to criminalize dissent criminalize journalism and so this very brave. judge listened to the evidence which was hard to miss because. it was so confirmed by these lawyers that that's what this would do. she says spend at 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 right and i just wrote a piece about this for the guardian you know clearly system system

. that the 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 the 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 to 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 democracies memory well thank you very much and thank you mining.

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ignore the plane. stage or show. a vocal reaction greets news members of a controversial punk band pussy riot bill spend the next two years in jail putting their political protest done in brussels main cathedral. given asylum but still read britain's unmoved by echoes acceptance of julian assad as a political refugee saying the whistleblower is still subject to arrest and one be allowed to be the country. and de roy u.s. hacker group claims it's behind an attack on the odd new website and i intend to find in the coverage of julian assange. sports news next with kate.

thank you for joining me the latest here that a. dynamic boss former cuban coach douglas rescue has become the new manager are you not my must go on a three year deal. done deal with robin van persie completes his thirty eight million dollars move from hospital to manchester united on a four year contract by lucas moderates he said the realm of bridge. shock defeat olympic champion andy murray crashes out of this is not the masters are losing two world cup the thirty eight year in charge. but first a football way down the trust who has three year deal after leaving his role as kabban coach on tuesday the former chelsea right back left his job as head coach after the closing down side after three years he took the side back to the premier league in his first season in charge and followed that up and successive six and eight place finishes the forty four year old to find his former club how their fans

for their support but said he is looking ahead to in view challenge while new club demand was finished fourth last season though are currently languishing at the bottom of the table opting for mark is having failed to score goals however they all through to the playoff round in the europa league after a seven two aggregate thrashing of scottish side done do united. staying with football and robin van persie has completed his twenty four million dollar may or twenty four million pound move from austin to manchester united after signing a four year contract the twenty nine year old netherlands strikeout had spent eight years with the gunners winning the f.a. cup in his first season and he finished his last campaign with a league best thirty goals and overall tally of forty four in fifty seven games for club and country two of those coming against united meanwhile his new manager sir alex ferguson says he's happy with his strike force for the fast approaching new season and percy joins wayne rooney have a hand as danny welbeck and shinji kagawa are up front as the red devils prepare

for their season i've been at everton on monday. to go back to the ninety one season when i had to eat in bed turn me in or you know defeat the best strikers in europe so i think i'm going to have. to. go for you know those from times he was a. combination. but it's great to have a poor van persie is called his comment is called as is the moment. well meanwhile another transfer in years never saw a sign for sunderland on a one year zilber thirty four year old form of on strike i left talk to him at the end of last season and could make his debut at arsenal on saturday while realm of data finally close to signing tottenham midfielder lou come on rich after increasing their offer to forty seven million dollars the twenty six year old is expected to hold talks with reality shows and undergo

a medical and agrees terms within the next twenty four hours alone you spurs manager andre lashed for says the club which tried to replace the winger before the transfer window closes to get a phone line for focusing on saturday's trickier than at any cost. through to me that's the way it is never an easy trip. i think what's your thought and drawn but at a difficult game as well. we're leading most of the to the final minutes ago of the game so. you know i think it's it's two teams that want the champions league qualification you could say that fighting for the same objectives we want to make sure that this year we can push through with that and we will have to see if we are able to do that progressively between bases. france that matches the late game on my saturday seven opening fixtures elsewhere as we had almost no sunderland post nor educate p.r. take on this one is being promoted reading welcome stoked steve clarke these west

brom against his former side level four and west ham return to the top flight by aston villa. while on sunday champions league winners chelsea go to awaken in the lunchtime game before manchester city begin the defense of their premier league title with a hunk that against promoted southampton up song during the service is off the prolific robin van persie was controversial mancini chipping cross city but as you know i did not talk at all. i said this serious because because it and i played for that i don't always every year for twenty years and and also if we won the last gender shape we can change the easy way. for the series i think that we are following for that that are now we've got betsy my bet is a really top player was the best striker last year and we we do want to add in that would be one of the best. couple of striker around the premier league. now seven time mota j.p.

champion valentino rossi has defended his decision to return to yamaha next year it's all right there is preparing for this weekend's indianapolis green in america with his current team to kasey such a three year old has now signed a two year deal to rejoin the japanese manufacturer following a disappointing two year stint with the italian outfit this means rossi will once again joining a rival and runs only made a full day runs like this which came under fire from forward you can see right the casey stoner rossi has explained his intent. my choice is because i try to understand which is that the best the best the bike the more competitive bike for 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 pity i'm very sad those who because they find a lot of good people we had we had great times together we try

to move but unfortunately we're not able to achieve that result. so it's a change of team for rossi but it was a change of support for some of his fellow riders the likes of danny but there are some and ben space enjoyed a very american day out ahead of the race with a baseball lesson to take their minds off and go to jail. while colley had words and are rarely busy or so were among those who were practicing their swing on the nearby greens for. the old old rivalries away from the tarmac. revving onto i thought the where siberia news team the skyhawks are looking to give a russian team x. second straight victory as their city hosts the junior club world cup but cancer of reports might be more difficult this time round. standoff between russia and kind of the certain they want for the ages but they think they're cold world cup which will be held in russia for the second time this is another great ice like it for the sion vying for the genesee. a year ago it was russia's red over me that raised

the inaugural trophy following a confident win against the czech side energy the international ice working federation was so impressed with introductory tournaments that it decided to award the junior club world cup a permanent place on it's kind of their over fishel events the unprecedented decision by the i.i.h.f. to sanction in 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 very very excited we don't really know what to expect so far that's kind of 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 tame or to play professional hockey rather 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 winner of the junior club world cup will be that sermons according to the folding format ten seasons have been divided into two. 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 whole marino of the gay joke team. cost of r t moscow and finally

the story of the convicted russian drug smuggler who chose to spend an extra year in prison so he could carry on playing football in two thousand and ten maxine mckew others were sent to jail in chile for three years under the day after being caught carrying six kilos of cocaine inside children's books he intended to take to europe however the speedy right photo used to play the russian second division team the school and soon word of our russo's football skills in the prison yard reach chile national coach in the borg and former professional turned prison volunteer franklin lobos who arranged for the now twenty four year olds to train with local professional teams santiago holding oh my look at yourself now trains there every day accompanied by a guard for 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 a decade so instead he chose to finish his sentence and stay with.

the u.s. to go on and. it has been almost two years now playing football in jail we just play baby football and not every day so i need to work and work hard make sure i'm fine physically technically and we do everything so i can come back. to get us away you can make mistakes but if your life gives you another chance you have to take it and if it through food book which is what he loves then it's even better which i thought that's all the sport for this blows and i'll be back in just under two hours but still and. the news secret laboratory tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care watch only on the dot com.

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