welcome back you're with our teeth joined us on just set to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador the international diplomatic standoff continues with latin american nations warning britain the 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 problem often see activists in bahrain get 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 state. two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot performing an anti put in stands in 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 group. the u.n. observer mission in syria expires later on sunday amid ongoing clashes between rebels and government forces meanwhile russia says the u.s. will violate syria sovereignty if it imposes a no fly zone on the country a move that helped me get rebels to topple their government last year. doing us on this 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 we wolf 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 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 a journalist's job is to publish classified information journalists 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. 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 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 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 you see julius on as the

problem 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. 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 that 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 the 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 include 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 confirm 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 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 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 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 fraud fraud not like marginal fraud but clearly systemic crowd 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 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 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 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 emails 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 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. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style something that's not on. the. market why not.

find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on r g. join us on set to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador the international diplomatic standoff continues with a latin american nation warning britain of grave consequences if they strip ecuador's embassy of diplomatic privileges to move in and arrest a sound has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now. pro-democracy activists in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online but the pro task there are far from dying with a verdict only sparking further unrest across the gulf state. and two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing an anti puttin stunt in russia's main cathedral provoked a strong reaction in russia and around the world dozens of activists have been detained during rallies both for and against the group. the u.n. observer mission in syria expires later on sunday and i'm going clashes between

rebels and government forces meanwhile russia says the u.s. will violate syria sovereignty if it imposes a no fly zone on the country a move that helped lead in rebels topple their government last year. sports news next here on our. follow the sports or not see the headline. five black spots are come from behind to beat rubin two one in a gripping game in moscow while looking multi-plane two nil at fault in game five of the russian premier league. well number one against world number suit djokovic and federal will play in the final of the since it met. and crush cost benefit takes pole for the indianapolis grand prix while case is

still a is among those who was injured during qualifying. for bowl and images of scored from their penalty spot with six minutes to go to ensure a spot came back to him to want to tie him to rubin in the russian premier league still smarting from last week's five no demolishing at this innate emery side again considered ten minutes before half time like a siphoning of pounds or for a been ambitious not making no mistake from the sport this fifth of the season to become the league's top scorer one nil it stayed until the seventy third minutes when come by or a fed in the corner for brazil a new boy to tell him his amazing goal in russia on his spot debut and in a frantic last minute referee once again had to point to the support service and was brought down right on the edge of the air and only sent the keeper the wrong way then rubin the home side come up for victory to go level on points with current

leaders zinny it. also struck twice in the second half to seal eight mill victory at philippi the satan the third in the sixty fifth minutes from my corner for they produce a third goal of the coming. opened his telly this season as i did a second full of code to wrap up the school are. two points behind part time. well give us another road despite being how to draw. from some bristol. three games are shadowed for sunday words none was good who are still without a victory and a goal to their name this season grozny premier league new boys will be tested quite safe. while sinise go to a much color without defend alexander midfielders or get him out and striker

alexander because. it was a great 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 versus sunburned was their only goal this game across london loved and patrick now today a race that's full of fresh norwich five and. also struck twice by swansea triumphed five nil as q.p.r. at them but after a late penalty as newcastle want to want to turn to talk to them and i don't really want to stop stoppage time help dreading snatch one oldroyd. draw mr powell said but still want time to time at liverpool and kevin nolan's first half strike helped west ham beat arsenal below one nil. over to tennis now where roger federer will play not in this. final the top two players in

the world won their respective semifinal match is in straight sets the. pool to argentina djokovic broking to go to the opening set out to take it six three than he broke in the. for it see one lead in the second set and eventually claimed six two and then. yeah. just from the first match was. was quite slow. in the cord but then was was really good. fellas we stand 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 eleven dubai federal be chuck which for that cincinnati title three years ago this we sleep they create serious fifteen to twelve i was exciting match up you know between the world number one and world

number two and he's demand to be to get in the hole because at the moment still because he has had so much success throughout the u.s. open and then just american or quit has been almost dominating them so i can stop him in the finals to more i'll give it everything i haven't see if it's enough or not. in moto g.p. . has taken pole position for the indianapolis grand prix that wraps a honda rider completed because there is one minute thirty eight point eight one three seconds and it will lead the into off spain was second while his order 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 coming race casey stoner also crashed medical tests showed toward ligament after doctors originally thought he had broken his right ankle it's unclear whether he'll race on sunday or not. it's important to keep

people in. on the writing in we did some good laps in i think this is being used quite good on the bike now to. do good tomorrow. position is good also in. two thousand and one place in beach volleyball brazil's the roots of franco and juliana silva have won the last grand slam of the season that most or all and that defeated the telling two of many got angry chicle laurie in the gold medal match the brazilians to the first set twenty one to sixteen but in the second their own ends nearly all say the side are making it a bit of a nail biter that will reset and so that eventually playing to twenty two to twenty one the title germany's cutting norwood and look at some of the to pull away and use it to recall brushwood to take the ball. and finally when it comes to surfing

not many will think of russia as a hot spot for the sport but 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. but. my family ended 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. few surfers in my city which was monterey enough 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 caught my first three waves. and. changed the course of my life. surfing originated in polynesia an ancient polynesian and everybody surfed but the kings for them it was a sport. of royals have bigger boards they had their own private server breaks and songs on the whole very rich tradition and culture so yes it's a sport of kings and when you get a one on one more thing when you catch your first wave you'll feel like a king or queen. i've seen him chased out of the water by him and i had

a friend when i first started surfing in monterey and get killed by sharks. and. it's their part of the environment and we are part of the food chain where. go surfing. so it's 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 very 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 russian communities build just people that love the 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 world champion rests here for.

the ocean with respect. and very important treat others. for your fellow human beings with respect. like i always say and that's been my my motto and my slogan for many years live the life you know. ok up to date now i'll be back with more sports news for you from around the globe and toss time on out same weather is next stay with us. well for america science technology innovation all the rest of elements from around rush hour we've got the few jerks covered.

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