you're watching our t.v. if you've just joined us a very well welcome to you here's a recap of our headlines julian assange says the u.s. will stop prosecuting whistle blowers aiming to shed light on the crimes of the paul paul made his long awaited statement on the balcony of ecuador's london the embassy for watching british police ready to rest and soon as he sets foot outside the building. and other news of the sentence for punk band pussy riot anti putin stunt in russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars the women's performance was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred outside the cold crowds relit both in support and against the women. and bahrain's prominent human rights

activists in the bill read jab's jailed for three years he was found guilty of inside to an empty government protests through his speeches and online posts all the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf state. the u.n. observers mandible syria runs out late on sunday with a new peace envoy confirmed and as reports suggest a u.k. intelligence is helping rebels attack the regime. joining us on this case has raised numerous concerns among journalists and activists who fear being prosecuted for doing their job next r.t. interviews all that and journalists now we wall who says the u.s. government is especially tough on those exposing also issues of 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 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 the 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 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 total 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 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 and so 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 do you go from there are people in 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 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 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 i senior people who are running major news sites and pinsent 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 criminals ation 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 from 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. 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 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.

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observers mandate for syria runs out later on sunday with a new peace envoy confirmed and as reports of jazz u.k. intelligence is helping the rebels look to their regime. with pride kate is up next with the sports. hello welcome to the latest sport on a busy day of live action and here are the top stories. big battles manager don because who has a nightmare debut as nine nine do not know you used to want time to tell that what this guy triumphed three nil up mordovia are about to house leaders is innate in the russian top flight. while english battles champions league winners chelsea win two nil at wigan and manchester city have started their title defense at home just up front and it's a crack up in the premier league and utah for world number one roger federer will

face number two not just reaching the final of the cincinnati lost as often each went through in straight sets. but let's kick off with football where it was a nightmare debut for manager dunga trust you as he's not a known did on the moscow side slumped to their fifth straight defeat losing two on its home to ten monterrey in the russian premier league although i'm a world war milled around alcohol for now thanks to say the verse but was wrote a second top lifeline after correct were reduced to ten men like you got to find the net to deny most of the first week goal this season but with eight minutes to go was sent off and leave us completed his brace two one and then deny what had kevin kirani dismissed and to reckon took the points he wants out on top huge amounts of going up and alexander plough know full score to take out three nowhere that promoted mordovia and he doesn't eat all preparing to kick off without top scorer alexander has gone but looking for their fifth win from five to restore

their three point lead over spartak kick off just over ten minutes time. and on saturday the moscow sides project that is bounced back from last week's five nil demolition by is an eight as you know i am reason man rallied to win to want to time to remain bank aside and a penalty for the visitors ten minutes before half time impressed not to make no mistake from the spot his fifth of the season to become the leaks top scorer. and one is stayed until the seventy third minute when dimitri gambaro fed in the corner for a brazilian new boy romelu to head home his main goal in russia on the spot i debuted and in a frantic last ten minutes balloting was brought down right on the edge of the area income bar of who essentially the keeper the wrong way but then rubin hit the bar but home side hung on to victory two one. what else we're looking at he struck twice in the second half to see the two no victory vulgar philippe criseyde i netted in the sixty fifth minute from a corner the ecuadorians third goal of the campaign and this should go open his

tally for the season see how the late second rocco to wrap up the scoreline and go thirty two points behind attack. while crosses are rose to fifth despite being held to a goal this draw at home to see a lot of our stuff. meanwhile over in england the sunday manchester city have begun the defense of their premier league title off to chelsea wrapped up a two know when it wigan lot of branislav ivanovic strike and frank lampard penalty helped the champions league winners go to dial up within the first seven minutes as they held out against a baffling matic side for me while city are leading three two and a time to promoted southampton david silva missed a penalty then call us ten as i think the second five minutes before the interval but substitute rickie lambert came off the bench and levelled on the out and let in steven davis did exactly the same things but saints in front but as in jack it has snatched the go back to the champions and samir nasri has put them in front page of all minutes gone six weeks ago. while on

a thrilling saturday arsenal vs sunderland was the only nil nil game while for them to thrash nor h five nil as ones we also try to fight you like you feel hasn't been off as late penalty gave newcastle a two one win over tottenham and president of forms stoppage time penalty reading draw one on the style west brom stones ten money liverpool three nil and kevin nolan his. whereas west ham aston villa as one will. call the new league a season in spain is also kicked off this weekend and tito villanova is preparing for his first match in charge of barcelona 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 realm of red one with a record points haul of one hundred of us as new coach says ok calm and carry on with it appears to be about. the team just sees the change of coaches continue to notice a change if they were on an opera 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 transmission the masses that's the big difference made by the meantime ralphie start the defense of the league title a time to volunteer and its highest it. is an interesting night. very difficult match. that. couldn't live. without the defeat. one of the most difficult opponents but i think. you have the natural tendency to feel. in preseason. games you make mistakes because of because of that. now into tennis and the battle of the top two players in the world is just underway in cincinnati with roger federer taking on novak djokovic in the final of the mark well that was the fastest out of the

blocks leading three love at the moment in the first set top of which is looking to change back to back grounds though after his crime in toronto last week but federer are yet to win a tournament since this in these records in the seventh inning to the trophy last month as to advance this far lympics silver medalist federer overcame fellow swiss and doubles partner stanislaw survive rinker seven six six three the victory also means federer will stay top of the world rankings even if he loses to joke of it the swiss leads their head to head record fifteen thirteen. well meanwhile djokovic beat one 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 great points he faced to ease two eight six three six two victory in just under an hour and a half. while on the women's side and jimmy carter served up another upset to reach the final after knocking out inform serena williams the german proved too strong

for error prone petra creative or overcoming a second set what will to win six one two six six four the world number seven is now just one step away from her third title of the season. and standing in the way as former french open champion i leave the chinese star also dropped the second set but still prevail against business williams seven five three six six one gnarly moving into her second straight final though she has been without a title now for more than mine two months. now on to my g.p. and danny but risers taken pole position of the sunday's indianapolis grand prix and a quarter flying session mogwai crushes the repsol honda rider was faster than current overall lead and fellows find it for gain or ends i want to tell you and read a video so was third however americans ben species and nicky hayden were involved in a collision species was uninjured but hayden was take part in the race later. while a strike in k.c.

stoner also crashed tearing his ankle ligaments but has been declared fit to race later this sunday. and finally when it comes to surfing not many would think of russia as a hot spot for the sport but also a 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 ended up in california. living on the coast. there and coming from russia affinity for major. 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 my area was not a popular thing ocean was called big waves. no such thing as a sort of school. but i kept trying and trying and on christmas day or even recalled my first three waves. and i think that changed the course of my life. surfing originated in polynesia in ancient polynesia 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 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 teen or

a queen. i've seen them chased out of the water by them 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 when we 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 is 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. before we go is just on study were in the search and final minutes of stoppage time at the city of manchester stadium and city a still late in southampton three two and that's all sports news i think. the. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got a few jerks harbored.