you're watching our t.v. if you're just joining us welcome to viewers just arrive in time for a recap of the headlines our top story vocal reaction greets news members of the controversial punk band pussy riot that will spend the next two years in jail pouring their political protest stunt in russia's main cathedral. and the verdicts botany needed stall the international reaction with protests held across the globe and the u.s. even calling a review of the case. given asylum but still trapped britons are moved by ecuador's acceptance of julian assange as a political refugee saying the whistleblower is still subject to arrest and won't

be allowed to be the country. and a rogue a us hacker group who claims it's behind an attack on the r t u website in an attempt to silence coverage of julian assange. right still on julian as sun chase case has raised numerous concerns among journalists and activists who fear being prosecuted for doing their job next year on r.t. interviews author and journalist now me walz who says the u.s. government is especially tough on those exposing officials wrongdoings. 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 in a 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 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 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 who want to know 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 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 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 party is the publisher 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's 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 has a really good investigative citizen journalist has document a lot of the seventh's 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 an 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 are 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 or 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 descent 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 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 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 opinions i don't 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 liason e-mail you know writes need 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 is 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 gathered 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 mazed they were power hosed

they were. they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know for britain to 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 the way 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 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 democracies then we will thank you very much and

don't think you mind me. oh. that's. phone watches show every single night. and waiting for you to stumble and i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and she phoned me. you know we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning. the only chance to get rid of him. just to reveal him. me double operation on archie.

top stories you're allowed to see a vocal reaction means news that members of the controversial punk band pussy riot will spend the next two years in jail following their political protests done and russia's main cathedral. and the very day it's gotten even needed stormy international reaction with protests held across the globe and the u.s. to even calling a review of the case. given asylum but still trapped britons unmoved by editors acceptance of julian assange to the political refugee thing 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 odd to you website in an attempt to flog an coverage of julian assange. next to sports news with katie.

hello and thank you for joining me for the friday night sport round up to that. dynamic volves former cuban coach don but rescue has become the new manager of the moscow on a three year deal. while on the deal because he can beat his thirty eight million dollars from boston all to manchester united on a four year contract luca moderate who they are madrid. and patient while number three rafael doll was rushed his return from a knee injury to be forced to withdraw from the us i. but first a football way down but rescue has become the new manager of the number moscow on a three year deal after leaving his role as good bank on tuesday the much l.z.

right back left his job as head coach because the downside after three years he took the team back to the premier league in his first season in charge and followed that up with successive six and eight place finishes the forty four year old thanked his former club how their cries for their support said he was looking ahead to new challenge what new club do not have the force last season that we're currently languishing at the bottom of the table after four matches having failed to score a goal however they are through to the playoff round of europa late off a seven two aggregate thrashing of the scottish side on the united one next host terek on sunday. staying with the ball and robin van persie has completed his thirty eight million dollar move from austin to manchester united after signing a four year contract the twenty nine year old netherlands strike out won the f.a. cup in his eight years with the gunners and finished last season with the league best thirty goals and overall tally of forty forty fifty seven games but club and country with two of those coming against united will meanwhile his new managers are

alex ferguson says he's happy with his now five man strike force for the fast approaching new season comparing it with a squad that won the unique trouble in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine as the red devils prepare for their season opener at everton on monday to go back to the ninety one season when i had. to eat in bed or you know the full best strikers in europe so i think i've got two words that i know which are literal. where when they get down the rabbit go well you know it's fantastic voyage in a poor. combinations. but it's good to have a poor one forces qualities committed to this cause is the moment it's always difficult to find a perfect match but i do feel that this is the perfect match for me. just united briefly. if you look at all the

players from which this united. stadium manager. my choice was made. if you understood. what it means our rail would have finally close to signing tottenham midfielder luka aldridge after increasing their offer to forty seven million dollars the twenty six year old is expected to hold talks with rather facials and undergo a medical and agreed terms within the next twenty four hours spurs manager andre be nationalised says the club which try to replace the window before the transfer window closes in a fortnight focusing on saturday's tricky open at the newcastle. going to be part of the way he's a trip. drawn but a difficult game as well. we're leading most of the to the final we had to go to the game so. you know i think it's it's two teams that want

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 on the week to week basis. that match also is the late game among saturday seven opening fixtures in england elsewhere are still greek sunderland full of house nor h t p are taking swanzy promoting reading welcome stoke steve clarke leeds west brom against former side liverpool and west ham returned to the top flight to sit in that one on sunday champions league winners chelsea get a weekend in the lunchtime game before manchester city begin the defense of their premier league title that how much i guess providing southampton bounce after acquiring the services on the perfect driving around percy coach by that time on charity is tipping cross city rivals united for the title. i said this is serious because because i'm going to play for that i've always every year for

twenty years. and also if we won the last jump there shipper we can change the easy way. for the series i mean that we are forty four 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 strike around the premier league. tennis now rafael nadal says he won't rush his return to action after withdrawing from the upcoming u.s. open due to an a problem the eleven time grand slam winner hasn't played since his shock second round exit at wimbledon in june while the twenty six year old's priority now is full fitness while expecting a live picture in andy murray to do well at slashing meadows. the normal think is. com back to number three after your supplement happy for him for me i have been in the top two of the ranking for the last eight years and. this time of make my

career that important think is complete like i did last the first six months of the season having the chance to win a marathon that i blew it. to make that important thing is be healthy. now seven time motor g.p. champion valentino rossi has defended his decision to return to yamaha next year it's all in rider is preparing for this weekend's indianapolis grand prix in america with his current team as you can see the thirty three year old has now signed a two year deal to rejoin the japanese manufacturer following a disappointing two year stint with the italian at that this means rossi will once again doing rival and current standing around like this which came under fire from forward to cathy ryder casey stoner rossi has explained his new turn. my choices 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 beauty i'm very sad also because they find a lot of good people we had we had great times together we. moved but unfortunately we're not able to to achieve that result. so it's a change of team for rossi but it was a change of sport for some of his fellow reuters as the likes of dani pedrosa and ben speeds enjoyed a very american day out ahead of the race with a baseball lesson to take their minds of their motive. colleen edwards and then they had a busy zero so were among those who were practicing their swing on the nearby grave as the game of golf fueled all rivalries away from the tarmac. now i'm leaving on to i saw key west siberian news team the ohms colts are looking to give a russian team a second straight victory as the city hosts as their city host of well cup what is

your uncle's or of reports it might be a little more difficult this time around. stand up between russia and kind of the certainly one for the ages but this year kolob world cup which will be held in russia for the second time 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 hockey 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 it 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 distort the battle for the world's top club trophy in siberia next week but for now they are in moscow embrace in their first international experience as 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 not 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 competition 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 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 black box of 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 pools 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 marina of the gauge i've been gort almost. cost her of r t moscow how finally as the new football campaigns gets underway across europe red bull salzburg jonathan soriano has already put himself in contention for a penalty miss of the season despite a super bowl which just see him become the butt of us negus top scorer with goals from five games the twenty six year old and david to produce this spectacular and this goof ball well beyond much to his investment plans to cap it all this side when it's on the news to know how to pay him as they say it wasn't ok.

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