you're watching our t.v. has just joined us welcome to you let's take a recap of the headlines julian assange just says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistle blowers they need to shed light on the crimes of the powerful he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of ecuador's london embassy fourteen british police ready to arrest him as soon as he sets foot outside the building. in other news of the sentence for punk band pussy riot and to do that 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 court crowds rallied both in support and against the women. left brains prominent

human rights activists now bill ritter is jailed for three years he was found guilty of inciting antigovernment protests through his speeches and online posts while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf states. the un's new peace envoy for syria admits his first task is overcoming security council divisions and as reports suggest u.k. intelligence is helping rebels attack the regime. just as case has raise numerous concerns among journalists and activists who fear being prosecuted for doing their job next r.t. interviews author and journalist now me wolf who 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 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 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 do 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 julian assange founder of wiki leaks 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 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. 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 documented 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 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 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 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 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 my senior people

who are running major news sites of pins i'd 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 in 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 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 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 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 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 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. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from love. and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project said rovs wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the trenches they are extraordinary okupe said the flow you see in the churches is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look at and it opens their eyes that. what can be

achieved by using your imagination. cheering us on says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistle blow was aiming to shed light on the crimes of the powerful he made his long awaited statement on the balcony over at google's london embassy forcing british police ready to arrest him as soon as he sets foot outside the building. and in other news of the sentence for punk band pussy riot n.t. putin's dunton russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars the women's performance was ruled to be we're going to the motivated by religious hatred now outside the quarter crowds rallied both in support and against the women. but brains prominent human rights activists not bill reject his jailed for three years he was found guilty of inciting and see government protests through his speeches and online posts while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf states

. and the un's new peace envoy for syria admits his first tosses over the coming security council decision that as people suggest u.k. intelligence is helping rebels attack the regime. tried cages next to with the sports. hello and welcome to the latest sport on a busy sunday a lot of action and top stories. big battles coach down but rescue has a nightmare debut as nine manned anomalies to want to time to terror or to scott triumph three no it's not over yet and steve does it eat in the ocean top flight. while the english battles manchester city fight back to be promoted southampton three two in a thriller all champions league winners chelsea win two no wigan on the second

crunch day in the premier league. and russia's fed world number one roger federer sweeps aside novak djokovic to take the cincinnati masters crowd with a week to go until the u.s. open. but let's kick off with football as russian premier league leaders the needs are at mega rich and looking for their fist win from five games so far which would see them go three points clear at the top so these are without top score alleys and there goes your golf but comes and indeed they are not gave them the lead twenty minutes in as a defending champions continued which saw them fridge their second straight title last season. alex i thought equalized ranji up to sixty five minutes and won one it remains in the dying minutes in pakistan while it was a nightmare debut for band manager down but just go ask his nine man deny my most their side slumped to their fifth straight defeat after losing to want to thank you ted none to rank damo one nil down after half an hour thanks to much they reversed but throw the second half a lifeline as tech were reduced to ten men. finally netted dahmus first league goal

but with eight minutes to go because it was sent to. repress the p.t. it is braced to one. before had been crowned you dismissed and to read the posts. so back and forth much just outside. moscow but it was a one way street for test stuff as the army men tribes three no new boys moved over to change their third victory of the campaign zoran touch each opened after thirty minutes. the russian midfielder islands are going to double their lead right before the break alex in the sun i completed the rad twenty it's just. what i started they started bounce back from last week's five nil demolition byes anita's you know yammerings men rallied to win two one a time to be alone because i have and a fantasy for the visitors ten minutes before half time the press not sure made no

mistake from the spot his fifth of the season become the league's top scorer and one of its day into the seventy third minute when digicam are affected a quarter for a brazilian new boy. over his maiden goalie russia on the spot and debut and in a frantic last ten minutes belet in was brought down right on the edge of the area and come our of who we sent the keeper the wrong way then rubin hit the bar but to slide on don't think the tree was. full as well after what he struck twice in the second half to see they to know victory vulgar philippe chi sado netted in the sixty fifth minute from a corner doreen's third goal of the campaign. which opened his tally for this season's a late second philosopher to front up the scoreline and go third two points behind but attack. the rest of us despite the health above the store at home bottom lost

are. now everything else i mean i was really grabbed a late winner as defending champions manchester city came back from two goals down to be promoted southampton three two in the opening games as the premier league campaign with seventeen it's gonna cost as was top ended in the penalty area but goalkeeper kelvin davis a silver came at it then. five minutes before the interval has finally put city in front however only our saints substitute rickie lambert came off the bench and immediately levels and scene in davis quickly did the same to make it too warm to the visitors had injected and snatched the ball back to the champions as we grabbed the we're not ten minutes from the time why don't we get a branislav evanovich strike and frank lampard penalty help chelsea go to no luck with in the first seven minutes and then they held on against battling that excite you know. what on an equally thrilling saturday also versus some blood was the only neil no going wild for them thrash norwich by mail that's one thing also trying to buy q.p.r. hasn't been off as late penalty gave newcastle

a two one win over tottenham and out in the fall and stoppage time and o.t. helped reading drop one wasn't static west brom star whose ten liverpool three males kevin nolan hit the winner as west ham beat aston villa one they'll. call meanwhile so you know where i will undergo a scan on the knee injury he picked up in manchester city's we notice atlanta this sunday the twenty four year old striker collapsed following a challenge eight minutes in the argentina start school the winner against q.p.r. on the final day of last season to secure city the title and netted twenty three league goals in his debut season well earlier this month city gave up in their pursuit of striker robin van persie you joined manchester united on friday and new signing van persie will be the focus as much as united go to everton on monday night to complete the first weekend of fixtures in the new english top flight season. now into tennis and world number one roger federer has cruised past second right now about jackets to secure his twenty first masters title in cincinnati this time had recently beaten his serbian rival in the semi final at wimbledon and

federer again was in imperious four in the first set taking it to love the first time that djokovic tried failed to take a game off their eight twenty eight matches between the two well then he went down to the wire in the second set but the world number one prevailed in a tight tight break to winning two sets to play for six crown of the season and cement his. script out of the top of the world rankings. balance of our g.d.p. in dani pedrosa started on pole position for this sunday's indianapolis grand prix which is now underway after a qualifying session marred by crashes the repsol honda rider was faster than current overall leader and fellows finding a full day or enzo was tired and where the physio so was heard however americans bend species and nicky hayden were involved in a collision species was uninjured but hayden didn't take part in the race and. australian casey stoner also crashed he tore his ankle ligaments but was declared fit to carry on his right. now debate volleyball where

brazil's olympic bronze medalist larissa franca and giuliana so a have won the last grand slam of the season in poland the reigning to a champions beats the italian pair of mathematics at the and get it get back in the gold medal match the brazilians took the first set twenty one sixteen but in the second their opponents fought back and almost forced a decider. and so eventually claimed it twenty two twenty six the title was in the bronze medal match germany's cup you begin to send the russian ukrainian column a and you got to be a make over. while there was also success for the olympic bronze medalists in the lens final as the latvian jew of martin's brought ins and younis met in a speech there austrian opponents in a close to setter it was the latvians a first ever victory at a world tour event with an american team completing the poem the i'm in.

and 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 is in moscow to promote a documentary on the rise of russians are. ok. 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. usurpers in my city which was months away 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 caught 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 have 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 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 a shark. and. it's they're part of the environment and we are part of the food chain when. go surfing. so it's just one of those things but i think a lot of more people get hurt driving cars them. 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's so much 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 a world champion rests her for. the ocean with respect. and very important treat other. bigger 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. and that's all things must ask i think. an. admission is free could you take three years for charges three majors three. three stooges free. download free broadcast live video for your media projects free media hard.