today right now we are waiting for july first public statement since being granted asylum by. lawyer reiterated that his client is ready to go to sweden if he's given. be extradited to the u.s. from. punk band pussy riot. years behind bars women's performance was ruled to be. outside the. court and the woman. human rights activist. government protests

through speeches and online posts. rights movement in the state. the un observers mandate for syria. with a new peace envoy confirmed. reports suggest. the regime and president. public appearance. certainly raised numerous concerns among journalists and activists who fear being prosecuted just for doing their job. interview author and journalist named wolf who says that the u.s. government and governments around the world has basically attacking worldwide whistleblowers. naomi wolf author journalist activist thank you for sitting down with r.t. today it's always a question of marine 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 has document a lot of the seventh that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a saunter 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 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. listen 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 records 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 and you know 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 saying don't think you might think.

it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future . today's headlines on the week's top stories we're right now waiting for julia first public statement since being granted asylum by ecuador but outside the embassy a. client is ready to go to sweden if he's given guarantees that he won't be extradited to the u.s. from the. punk band pussy riot. in russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars the woman's performance was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred outside the court both in support and against the women. human rights activist. jailed for three years he was found guilty of inciting anti-government protests through

his speeches and tweets this while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf state. the un's observer mission in syria runs out later on sunday with a new peace envoy confirmed. reports suggesting u.k. intelligence is helping the rebels attack the regime. right now it's time for the sport. hello welcome to the sport on the action packed sunday here's what's coming up top and bottom bottles done for just here's a rock bottom dollar coast to record before it's got to go to war darby and angie face leaders of meet on a big day in the russian premier league. english champions league winners chelsea we're going to before manchester city starts their title defense at hundreds of times and in the english premier league. and talk to tussle world number one roger

federer will face number two you know that djokovic in the final of the cincinnati masters each went through in straight sets. but it's kick off with football when you coach down but rescue has led out to do not my last go for the first time as the rock bottom side has to reckon the first of three big matches in the russian premier league this sunday former chelsea right back agreed to take up the role on friday after leaving his post as combatant boss three days earlier gulden ahmed went into the match with no points and yet to score illegal off the full game so far this season and took leave three months a request from out of this guy go to promoted mordovia and then the last game is a mass watering prospect as unbeaten leaders need to go to angie this in petersburg side all without top scorer alexander because of golf but are looking for their fifth straight win from five to restore that three point lead is fatah as on saturday the moscow side bounced back from last week's five nil demolition byes and eight as we die emery's men rallied to win two one attempt to be i guess i have and

the penalty for the visit is ten minutes before our time the past national made no mistake from the spot is fifth of the season to become the week's top scorer and one nil it stayed until the seventy third minute when the meet you come out of bed in a corner for a brazilian new boy romelu to head home his maiden goal in russia on the spot on debut and in a front. the last ten minutes bellison was brought down right on the edge of the area and come by our office who essentially keep it the wrong way and then the box that the home side hung on to victory to the. white house well i thought he struck twice in the second half to see a two no victory a boulder philippe criseyde a netted in the sixty fifth minute from a corner of the ecuadorians third goal of the campaign and. opened his tally for the season as he added a late second looking to wrap up the scoreline and go so two points behind that

attack. was in the race to fifth despite being held to a goal a strong attempt to second from bottom last. while over in england this sunday manchester city begin the defense of their premier league title after a pulsating opening day of the new season the city manager of the country has to rivals manchester united as favorites to clinch the season is proud of their city arguably have easier the tooth as they has promoted side mountain but before that champions league winners chelsea have gone to no up already that was within six minutes and there were going to ice do branislav ivanovic and frank lampard penalty still to nil ninety minutes go off. while on a thrilling saturday off move us to sunderland was the only real game was full of thrashed north five nil and swans also tried five minute keep peel off hasn't been off as late and he gave new cars away a two one win over tottenham and adam in the form of a stoppage time penalty helped reading drop one one with stark west from the

stunning ten man of the ball three nil and kevin nolan hit the weather as west ham under. twelve a new league a season in spain has also kicked off this weekend and tito villanova is prepared by his first match in charge of boss a lawyer at home to wales also doubt this sunday he says he'll continue in the style of his mentor at guardiola he won fourteen titles in just four seasons as boss or aim to reclaim the time. well madrid who won with a record points haul of one hundred but says it will keep calm and carry. not want to go another team just sees the change of coaches continue to notice a change if they were on an up or mountain training without the ball but the training regime is the same as it was before in the way we prepare for a game the big difference is the person transmitting the massive that's the big difference that was made the other one right allan not the defensive then any good title at home to yeah it's just i mean yes. the very difficult match.

couldn't live. without it if it. were one of the most difficult. but i think. you have the natural tendency to feel. in preseason. games you can make mistakes because of because of that. tennis now roger federer faced novak djokovic in the cincinnati masters final after the world's top two both went through in straight sets and then takes over medalist federer overcame fellow swiss and doubles partner stanislav brinker seven six six three the victory also means federal will stay top of the world rankings even if he loses the final against big brother djokovic the swiss leads their head to head record fifteen thirteen top

seed quite the statistics. exciting match up you know between the world number one and world number two and his demand to be there gets in the hole because at the moment still because he has had so much success throughout the u.s. open and then just american hard court has been almost dominating them so i hope i can stop him in the finals tomorrow i'll give everything i have been serious enough not well meanwhile djokovic beat upon martin del potro to avenge his defeat at the hands of the argentinean in the bronze medal match of the olympics the serbian saved all six great forty two faced to east eighty six three sixteen victory in just under an hour and the heart. while on the winning side actually colbert set up another upset to reach the final after knocking out inform serena williams the german proved too strong for error approach petra bit of a overcoming eight seconds it was six one two six six for the world number seven is now just more the step away from her title this season. and standing in the way

is former french open champion nalini the chinese stop this so dropped the second set but still prepared to give williams seven five three six six one gnarly moving into her second straight final though she's been without a title now for more than nineteen months. now to measure g.p. and dani pedrosa has taken pole position for this sunday's indianapolis grand prix in a qualifying session marred by crashes the repsol honda rider was faster than current overall leader by those five holding the reins a. there that is ios over stood however americans have been speeding making haven were involved in a collision species was on injured but hayden won't take part in the race astray and casey stoner also crashed tearing his ankle ligaments and it still i doubt if he will race later this.

what's important to keep people in keep focus on the on the right thing in we did some good laps in i think the setting is quite good on the bike by now to. do a good tomorrow start position is good also in pulp too so it wouldn't start and end with days. and finally when it comes to surfing not many would think of russia as a hot spot for the sport but also he caught up with the country's first professional surfing jean quaid he was in moscow to promote a documentary on the rise of russian surfing. so. 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. you surfers in my city which was monterey and i captured 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 cut 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 have their own private server breaks and songs and the whole very rich tradition of culture so yes it's a sport of kings. and when you get a one more thing when you catch your first wave you'll feel like a king or queen. 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. that's they're part of the environment and we are part. the food chain will 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 the embrace with a lot of passion. as in the case of surfing whatever the activity. i live in bali and there is russian communities building 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 a world champion rests her for. the ocean with respect. and very important treat others. for your fellow human beings with respect. and like i always say and that's been my my model and my slogan for many years live the life you know. and i suppose i should say.

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