scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report. from the heart of moscow this is our top story for you right now julian says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistle blowers to shed light on the crimes of the powerful and he just made his long awaited statement on the balcony of ecuador's london embassy. police ready to arrest him a soon as he sets foot outside the building. in other news here on r t the punk band pussy riot. 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. human rights

activist of our job is jailed for three years he was found guilty of inciting antigovernment protests through his speeches and online tweets while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf. and the un observers a mandate for syria runs out later on sunday with a new peace envoy already. and as reports suggest for the meantime. helping rebels attack the regime. right now is. numerous concerns among journalists activists who fear being prosecuted for just doing their job interview author and journalist naomi wolf she says the u.s. government is especially tough on those exposing official wrongdoings. 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 to wait houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to what whistleblowers 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 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 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. yeah 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 he's going to use you 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 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 it's a really good investigative citizen journalist has document a lot of the seventh that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a song to us and then have him be the highest profile. 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 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 wasn't 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 and inside 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 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 was an 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'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 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. 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 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 no 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 thank you mine. from plans to. screen stocks

on t.v. dot com. the headlines on. the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistle blowers. the crimes of the powerful he made his long awaited statement. london embassy british police is ready to arrest him as soon as he sets foot outside the building. in other news the sentence for a punk band pussy riot. in russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars a woman's performance was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred outside the court both in support of and against the women's. rights activist. three years he was found guilty of inciting government protests through his speeches and online posts although while the equal rights movement continues to

gain momentum in the gulf state. and the un observers mandate for syria. with a new peace envoy already being confirmed. reports suggest. helping rebels attack the regime. headlines. from the world of sport. and i thank you for joining me for the sports update and here are the headlines big battles manager dunga trust who has a nightmare debut as he's nine do not know whose side lose to want to time to rag. on jihadist leaders then he later in the russian prime really. baffles champions league winners chelsea win tonight at wigan and manchester city are set to start their title defense at home to sat down to in the english premier league. and talk

to tussle world number one roger federer will face number two you know that joke of it in the final of the cincinnati masters each went through in straight sets. but let's kick off with football where it was a nightmare debut for manager down to trust you and his nine month a common wasco side slumped to their fist great defeat losing to want to take ten months or ek in the russian premier league lot imo one nil down after half an hour thanks to mats a reverse but was thrown second half a lifeline after wrecked were reduced to ten men and valor shoes are finally netted in others first league goals this season but with eight minutes to go nearly cost was sent off and reversed completed his brace two one and then dilemma has kevin kerr on you dismissed and to rest to the point well meanwhile to scott have kicked off a promoted mordovia and later unbeaten leaders is a need to go to angie the visitors are with our top scorer alexander looking for their fist win from five to restore their three point lead and the spotlight and on

saturday the moscow side bounce back from last week's five nil demolition buys anita's unite emery's men rallied to win to want to turn to rubin i guess i have earned a penalty for the business ten minutes before the time i'm the best no two made no mistake from the spot his fifth of the season to become the league's top scorer and one nil it stayed until the seventy third mix when dmitri come out of fed in a corner for brazilian you going to head home his maiden goal in russia on his spotlight debut well in a frantic last ten minutes balloting was brought down right on the edge of the area and lot of coolly sent the keeper the wrong way but then redeem it because i thought the home side they still hung on for victory to our well as well archimedes struck twice in the second half to seal a two no victory longer make i say they netted in the sixty fifth minute from a corner for the ecuadorians third goal of the campaign and three switched off his

tally for the season as he did a late second look oh to wrap up the scoreline and go thirty two points behind sparta. was not raised to fit despite being held to a goalless draw a to. the second bottom crossed off. all over england the sunday match the city are about to start the defense of their premier league title after chelsea wrapped up a two no win it we're going to run a solid out of that strike and a frank lampard penalty all within the first seven minutes help the champions league winners overcome a battering platic side while city manager roberto mancini has tipped rivals manchester united as favorites to clinch this season's crown though city have arguably the easier writing of the two if they had promoted southampton in just over ten minutes. while on a thrilling saturday arsenal vs sunderland was the only nil nil while full of thrash norwich five nil and swans we also try and five nil if you feel our problem bad office late penalty gave newcastle a two one win over tottenham and adam uniformed stoppage time penalty help writing

drop one one stoke west brom stands ten manager paul three nil and kevin nolan his the winner as west ham aston villa one nil. while the new legacy and inspiring has also kicked off this weekend and tito villanova is preparing for his first match in charge of barcelona at home to real sociedad this sunday he says he'll continue in the style of his mentor pep guardiola he won fourteen titles in just four seasons as boss of aim to reclaim the title from arch rivals rail madrid he won with a record points haul of one hundred but boss is new coach says he'll keep calm and carry on. already but if you're going to want their team to seize the change of coaches continue they'd notice a change if they were running up and down to training without the ball but the training regime is the same as it was before in the way with. the big difference is the person transmission the mass which that's the big difference the question rather than as a matter of which one digress but in the meantime re-allocate saw the defense of

their leader time to time to balance here an opponent that coached goes a merino isn't underestimating. very difficult much. could leave. you're going to go without without the chute. you know one of the most difficult opponents but i think. it was sort of like this when used against. such a tough opponents you have the natural tendency to feel stealing in pre-season and many many times you make mistakes because of because of that on to tennis now roger federer will face now about 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 status last above rinker seven six six three the victory also means phadrig will stay top of the world rankings even if he loses the final against big brother to which the swiss

league's their head to head record fifteen thirteen and the top seed home white is to test. exciting match up you know between the world number one and world number two and he's the man to beat i guess on the whole course at the moment still because he has had so much success throughout the u.s. open and then just american harcourt has been almost dominating them so i hope i can stop him in the finals tomorrow i'll give everything i have a serious enough and well meanwhile job of h.p. to juan martin del potro to avenge his defeat at the hands of the argentinean in the bronze medal match at the london olympics the serbian saved all six break points he faced east to a six three sixteen victory in just under an hour and a half. on the women's side i mentioned served up another upset to reach the final after knocking out inform serena williams the german too strong to ever approached it's about overcoming a second second level to win six one two six six pool while number seven is now

just one step away from her title this season. and standing in the way is former french open champion ali the chinese star also dropped the second set but still prevailed against being a swimming seven five three six six one gnarly moving into her second straight final though she has been without a cycle now for more than one two months. now and to match a g.p. and an ip address has taken pole position for this sunday's indianapolis grand prix in a qualifying session marred by crushes the repsol honda rider was faster than current overall leader fellows funny jorge lorenzo for. the busy oh so was third however americans ben species and nicky hayden were involved in a collision ts was uninjured but hayden won't take part in the race. an australian casey stoner also crashed tearing his ankle ligaments but he has

since been declared fit to race into this. was important to give a good goal in such good focus on the on the right thing we did some good laps in i think this is being used quite good on the bike now till. tomorrow the start position is good in pump to start and then when things. finally when it comes to surfing not many would think of russia as a hot spot for the sport but aussie 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 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 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 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 of culture so yes it's a sport of kings and when you get a one on more thing when you catch your first wave you'll feel like a king or queen. i've seen him i've got chased out of the water by him and i had a friend when i first started surfing in monterrey and get killed by a shark. and. it's they're part of the environment and we are part of the food chain. i'm going to go surfing or. 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 very good russians are very enthusiastic and they

embrace with a lot of passion. as in the case of surfing whatever the activity. i live in bali and there's like russian communities buildings has people that fell 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 in my slogan for many years live the life you love. in this post ask so.

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