welcome back to watching our team here a look at the top stories join us on just said to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador as the diplomatic standoff between britain and the latin american nation continues one suggested it could strip ecuador's embassy of diplomatic privileges to move in and arrest a song has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now. a proto mockers the activists in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online protests there are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking further unrest across the gulf state. and a two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing stunts

in russia's main cathedral provokes a strong reaction and russia and around the world dozens of activists have been detained during rallies both for and against the group. you an observer mission in syria expires later on sunday and it ongoing clashes between rebels and government forces meanwhile russia says the u.s. will violate syria's sovereignty if it opposes a no fly zone on the country the move to help libyan rebels topple their government last year. joining us on his case has raised numerous concerns among journalist and activist who fear of being prosecuted for doing their job next r.t.d. use author and journalist now me wolf who says the u.s. government is especially tough on those exposing official wrongdoing. 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 begins 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 a journalist's job is to publish classified information journalist 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 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 overclassifying it's not national security information it's the government. 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 show how 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 cost 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 no 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 a publisher i just want to stress this bradley manning leaked the material

allegedly you know and so he has to deal with whatever you see julius on as the problem is that publishing like the new york times exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is too. much. and so i think that. there's no way that he can. i 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 us there's some evidence of this interim creek really good investigative citizen journalist to document a lot of the sevenths that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a song to us and then have him be the highest profile you know journalist in guantanamo and you know where where do 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 in the room you know none of them for major 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 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 dissent criminalize journalism and so this very brave judge listened to the

evidence which was hard to miss because. it was so confirmed by the 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 mean it 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 would 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 criminal ization 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 but not like marginal fraud but clearly systemic right 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 most an e-mail you know writes an e-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 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 then 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. they were power hosed they were they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know for didn't use the bathroom we were tortured you know as much as the civil system allows you know every activist you know assumes 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 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 democracy then we will thank you very much and don't think you mind me. if you. really take three. three. three. three stooges free.

and free blog video for your media project free media are to. join us on to set to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador the international diplomatic standoff continues for the latin american nation warning britain of grave consequences if they strip ecuador's embassy of diplomatic privileges to move in and arrest assad has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now. a pro-democracy activist in my brain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online but the protests there are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking further unrest across the gulf states. two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing and put in stands and russia's main cathedral provokes a strong reaction in russia and around the world dozens of activists have been detained during rallies both for and against. the u.n.

observer mission in syria expires later on sunday amid ongoing clashes between rattles and government forces while russia says the u.s. will violate syria's sovereignty if it imposes a no fly zone on the country the move that helped libyan rebels topple of their government last year. that's the headline here in our team sports next with me treat. their welcome to the sports update in our teeth thanks for joining us this hour coming up. five spots are come from behind to be true been to one in a grouping game in moscow while a commodity for suniel. game week five of the washington premier league. well number one against world number two and federal will play in the fun of it since in the masters. and crash course takes pole for the

indianapolis grand prix while casey is among those who was injured during qualifying. so that's where football and music and morrow scored from the penalty of sport with six minutes to go to ensure a spot came back to win two on a time to rubin in the russian premier league still smarting from last week's farm no demolishing as an eight when emery side conceded ten minutes before hof time line for siphoning at penalty for rubin and not her making no mistake from the sport this fifth of the season to become the league's top scorer one nil it stayed until the the seventy third minute to encumber of fed in a corner for brazil a new boy romulo to head home is made in golden wash of his spot debut and in a frantic last ten minutes that referee once again to point to the sport's after villa turn was brought down right on the edge of the area of cooley said the keeper

the wrong way then rubin hit the bar but the side hung up for victory to go level on points with current leaders zinni. also are looking mighty if struck twice in this second half to seal a sunni a victory for philippic a sado now. in the sixty fifth minute from the corner. goal of the campaign and. opened his telly for this season i see at it a late second full of call to wrap up this call line look i want to now move up to thirty two points behind spot time. well i've sicamous now that i. despise being held goalless draw attention to second from. it was a scintillating opening day of the season over in england where two teams scored five goals for the first time in the opening fixtures for fifty eight years old

versus sunderland was the only goal this game bought across london newborn ladan outreach to a brace full of fresh snow which five neal and nicole and nothing also struck twice as swansea triumphed five at q.p.r. had some ben arfa natta the late penalty as newcastle want to one attempt to talk them out for the stoppage time penalty health readings one all droids home to stoke was brought. still won three zero at home to ten men liverpool and kevin nolan first half strike helped west ham beat arsenal villa one nil. over to tell us where roger federer will play novel in the cincinnati must find of they talk to a place in the world won their respective semifinal matches in sets that this beat porter of argentina which broke him to go for two in the opening set out to take in

six three then he broke him again for a c. one lead in the second set and eventually claimed it six to the match. yeah i mean . just from the first match was. was quite slow. progress in the court but after that was was really good. in the federal beat fellow swiss stanislaus for inca seven six six three it will be the seventh time that federer and djokovic have played for a tournament title the last time in twenty seven and dubai for drug which for cincinnati example three years ago this we've sleaves their research fifteen to twelve. exciting match up you know between the world number one world number two and. he's demand to be the guest of the hardcores at the moment still because he has had so much success throughout the us open and then just american or cold has been almost dominating them so i can stop him in the finals tomorrow i'll give it

everything i haven't see if it's enough or not. in moto g.p. spend a day or pedrosa has taken pole position for the indianapolis grand prix so honda rider completed the course there in one minute thirty eight point eight one three seconds current overall lead the hole for the rent of spain was second while a telephone hundred of his daughter was third fastest the qualifying was marred by several crashes involving americans bent space and nicky hayden spears was not injured but homestar hayden will not take part in the upcoming race australian casey stoner also crashed medical tests showed a torn ligament after doctors originally thought he had broken his right ankle it's unclear whether he'll race on sunday or not. thank as important to keep people in such good focus on the on the right thing in we need some good laps in i think this is being used quite good on the bike now to. do good

tomorrow this position is good also in part due to. a thirty x. now and russia has followed up her olympic trials by winning the women's three thousand meters tipple chase at the latest dam a league meeting in stock home olympics champion completed the distance in an impressive time of nine minutes five point zero two seconds just six seconds up side the world record the fastest time this season and beating the record for the meeting while high jumper and the teacher of also successfully followed a herd in betrayed by winning with it will suit me to fighting to miss is lower than in london. while back on the track of the olympic four hundred meter champ and sanya richards ross didn't disappoint the crowd just as she did in the london final the american overcame britain's christian group and she also picked a month mulcher of brits one in the final metres of the heat to win it in

a time off for tonight point eight nine seconds. in the women's one hundred meter hurdles it was a limbic silver medalist dawn harper who took the top almost after losing out to australia as the seller posted in london of america import like time off twelve point six five seconds to claim a victory. and finally when it comes to surfing not many will think of russia as a hot spot for the sports bar r.t. caught up with the country's first professional surfer jean craig who was in moscow to promote a documentary on the rise of russian surfing. my family on and up in california. living on the coast. and coming from russia had a affinity for nature. and i found

a new sense of freedom. when i first saw the ocean it was limitless and challenging. usurpers in my city which was monterey going to capture the stoke stokers of the surf slang for. positive vibration. and that caught my curiosity it was something very different. and i started trying and my area was not a popular thing ocean was called big waves and no such thing as a sort of school. but i kept trying and trying and on christmas day i remember i called my first three waves. and that changed the course of my life. surfing originated in polynesia an ancient polynesian and everybody surfed but the

king's program of the sport. of royals had bigger boards they had their own private server breaks and songs on the whole very rich tradition of culture so yes it's a sport of kings and when you get a one a more thing when you catch your first wave you'll feel like a king or queen. i've seen him got chased out of the water by him and i had a friend when i first started surfing in monterey and get killed by a shark. and. it's they're part of the environment we are part of the food chain where. we go surfing. so just one of those things but i think a lot of more people get hurt driving cars than. getting attacked by sharks so. i don't think about it too much.

russians whatever they do they do bury good russians are very enthusiastic and they embrace it with a lot of passion. as in the case of surfing whatever the activity. i live in bali and there is like russian communities build just people that fall in love with surfing and go there to surf so i think the future of this is fantastic. and who knows maybe in the future there will be a world champion rest surfer. treat the ocean with respect. and very important treat other. bigger fellow human beings with respect. and like i always say and that's been my my motto and my slogan for many years live the life you know. so from the finale.

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