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join us on and speaks out for the first time since being granted asylum in ecuador saying the u.s. must stop the witch hunt on a whistle blower's. hundreds of supporters turned out to his statement as did hundreds of police officers who were again floated in their desire to arrest him more coming up in just a moment. as syrians get a reprieve from violence and remember the death of the end of ramadan our t.v. is it's a village where people are trying to build their own grassroots governance to our way conflict and hatred. plus an imminent threat or a demonized minority we investigate the growing presence of radical muslim groups at the heart of europe.
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join us sanchez called for the u.s. to stop the persecution of whistleblowers who expose a crimes of the powerful the plea was made in his first speech since ecuador granted the we can weeks out of her asylum a son has been sheltering in the nation's along an amnesty for more than two months now avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes which he denies there is laura smith has more there were several speakers who came on the floor today in essence the sort of hold up act his longtime supporters including tara kelley the renowned station list but of course there was a serious message behind all this the old out to support the innocence and he really wanted to speak to the people she thanked them he thanked particularly the supporters who were out here in their hundreds and he thanked them from have for having been here on wednesday night as well when he says that when he was in bed he heard small rooms old police coming up the fire escape inside the door in and. see
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building hair and guns and that they back self at the last minute and presumably that is in response to the perceived threats by the foreign office head that they would not hesitate to break into the embassy but try to separate the you kids diplomatic status and break in that two to arrest him but he said he knew that there would be witnesses thanks to the supporters and saying he knew that everything would be ok he'll say thank you i would do it for holding the constitution of you know that constitution which includes a universal citizenship he thanked the stall for this very cramped embassy which he's been staying for the last two months presumably getting in their way quite a bit and he will say one of the most important things he said was he called upon the u.s. to still put he called the persecution of whistleblowers that's just terrible about the united states must renounce its witch hunt against wiki leaks. the united states must assume its investigation. the
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united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. or else the court of. the united states must pledge before the world that it will look as you journalists are shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. i'm very lucky to be joined now by one of these whistle players that craig murray who is the film of bush's ambassador to as bad as pakistan and a whistleblower himself you the whistle on these government abuses and i'm told until craig thanks very much for talking to us now that what you think julian assange as this case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers. i think up close and play there's a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes on the latest of a whistle blowing because obviously it's quite difficult for states to convict people of telling the truth about state's misdemeanors. what you do is you. with
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the charges very often sexual charges because that destroys the personal reputation the foreign office now insists that it didn't mean to say that it would storm the embassy to go in and arrest julian assange what do you make of of william hague's comments and of the foreign office attitude in general while upon the offices law and in its attempts to back down because it's time to sell so diplomatically isolated it most certainly did say that both in person and in writing to the government of ecuador. at the very moment it was saying about fifty policemen moved into the building but not into the actual plant containing the ecuadorian embassy there's no doubt whatsoever that this was a deliberate attempt to ditch the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office and what do you say to william hague. william hague bill is made to pull themselves the. first time he wants gave a media interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with
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a threat to storm could do in an embassy now laura smith also spoke with paul with a member of the ukraine a panther party who believes that the actions of the british government have made the country will bad in the eyes of the world. it's such a turnaround from last week where we were all so proud to be british and now this week because of the actions of one full foreign secretary we have to hang our heads in shame i mean this whole secret made against the best legal advice of violating another country's you know territory in service of a european a restaurant which hasn't even been properly filled i find and on a on the case where there are still no charges of the light my feeling is that if if nobody in the british government has has the courage to stand up against you know this this european arrest warrant then the best thing we can do. is pass it on to a nation which clearly has found some courage to stand up against this sort of oppression but it's quite right what
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a song says that this season will abide wounded american pride this is all about the americans having been discovered doing something wrong but instead of going and fixing a place wrote broadly in jail for coming up on two years and then they go off to the person knew who made the information public and coming out of the program keeping an eye on their own. time right countless any point at this point any word would have from approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery you are that there is no location that you can go to on the public street and in most buildings where you're not being video art he looks behind the surveillance cameras in america to find out who is actually watching. meantime the united nations observer mission in syria has officially come to an end the newly appointed many airlines are bringing me is now tasked with reinvigorating the peace process moscow has voiced its regret that the u.n.
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mandate couldn't be prolonged and has warned washington against imposing a no fly zone over syria something that helped topple the gadhafi regime in libya syria experienced a law in fighting words manny spending their sunday praying. to mark the end of a holy month of ramadan president bush on a lawsuit was shown on state t.v. praying in a mosque his first public appearance since last month's bomb blast killed his top security officials some residents of aleppo the country's commercial hub went out to sweep the streets littered with debris and shrapnel after weeks of street battles between the regime unravels she looks unavoidable visited one southern village to see how people there are trying to build better lives for themselves despite the bloodshed. to reach all in syria have become painfully accustomed to neighbors and relatives coming to pay homage to yet another of the fallen there few tears at least in public the dead are considered martyrs now and have been a distance of loss suffocating. the sound was an army captain who was taken
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down by a sniper in damascus and learn from who we want to see to his killers that is that violence is the worst solution it only leads to more violence this is the six victim in the village of dying in southern syria all of down were serving in the army and all were killed far from home the village itself hasn't seen any violent clashes and for the locals it's no coincidence. so they call it a civil council it was established when their pricing in syria started to turn violent but the specific goal of keeping armed groups at bay locals figured out the best way to do that is through embracing greater freedoms. our main demand is greater freedom of speech we all have enough courage to express ourselves and with
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the world they have come up with their own six point plan that aims to reduce corruption and create more opportunities for the young their dissatisfaction is seen here as the main driver of clashes in the north something that these elders are trying to avoid not so much to preserve the assad regime but rather to preserve their community should be let alone no matter how we differ we all need to protect our way. and so far this strategy has paid off there are still those who oppose the government but even stronger they oppose death and destruction human lives is the most important. we should stop firing and. talk we can discuss anything. and. it should be like a meeting together and better for us and for our country these grassroot experiment in reconciliation is all the more striking given that this there which
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has a long history of armed resistance outcry was the birthplace of the syrian revolution against the french two years long it claimed thousands of lives and left more than one hundred thousand homeless maybe that's why the locals are so eager to avoid new revolutions. in that revolution our country again sovereignty and independence from the colonizers and the violence of the past year is aimed at stripping us from it remember what a lot of that in addition to direct. lucian of the credentials local state pride in having good business acumen not surprising that there cuckoo ations of costs and benefits is not on the side of. this analogy it's like syria in miniature muslims jews christians out awaits some of them support the government others oppose but most of them agree that there is nothing more precious than peace. it's not going to r.c. the village of al qaida in syria now so i have this hour on r t a look at hardline
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islam islam any europe there's an organization called it much because of how he that has been based here for the last three years it's allegedly a salafi story because asia that preaches radical islam for the website has been blocked and there's no easy way to get in touch with them so we decided to come here and find out what we could. our correspondent of us to gauge the roots of radicalism in belgium and attempts to stop a becoming part and parcel of european life. recent reports published by work in the east have revealed that the us government is using highly advanced spyware to watch its own citizens the system called trap wire allegedly accesses all surveillance cameras nationwide and sands collected data to a main database where the images are stored are. more about the mysterious software . on any given day some twenty million people are making their way through new york city what most if not all are oblivious to is how closed circuit cameras filming
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from nearly every corner are being utilized according to wiki leaks documents c.c.t.v. cameras throughout america are monitoring encrypting and storing nearly every move americans are making in public lands they only program what is called rob wire and right now i'm joined by i think that peter steve from to find out more about it steve what you trip wire pools that trip or is owned by the abraxas corporation for breakfast software no. it was developed by three former cia agents. it is a socialist system that takes data everything from facial recognition to suspicious activity reports a license plate reader turmeric for all sorts of knowing that all the data that it feeds it into a software system that turn. to predict if there's going to be
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a terrorist attack on a location. theory behind trouble is that there's going to be a certain kind of. for a target. so this system looks for people acting in a way consistent with terrorists doing reconnaissance on a target and then if such a person is suspected it takes that person's face which has been filmed and tries to match it to databases of known or suspected terrorists it's fire. first of all anything on the public street is legal i can take a camera and falling everywhere you walk on the public street i can record every building you go into i can write down your license plate i can take photos of everybody you meet with and in fact as an investigator it's something that i and my team in fact do on a regular basis you have no expectation of privacy out on the street walking driving meeting with people talking to people at this point right getting things.
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countless i'd point at this point anywhere in manhattan from approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery you are could there is no location that you can go to on the public street and in most buildings where you're not being videoed this this part of america that's equivalent to the eye of god i can follow you to camera to camera if you started walking south and you walked all the way to the battery so i would have you on camera constantly your entire. images. and yes. they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted to a subtle store took a look. at it and what by. others me most about this program is it gives a full so it's a secure it gives
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a false sense of security to the public now that it's out in the public eye that it gives a false sense of security to the law enforcement agencies through central stations two blocks down that way to farm a terrorist i can put a backpack on my shoulder walk into the middle of groups local station during five o'clock friday rush hour right now i'd settle for explosives and there is nothing that trip or can do to protect me or stop me so then what is the point that. you know well the point of trip wire is to make a ton of money for the people that sort of push but to not be so not be flip about it the theory behind for up are is good implementation. in my opinion not particularly of. artsy new york. now don't forget to visit our website for more on the stories we're covering on the air and there's of course plenty for you to check out other t. dot com including. all the world a stage occupy wall street is to be revitalized on broadway find out more about
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plans for a future hit. plus choppy waters for swimmer michael phelps how he could be stripped of your one of the medals he won in london for appearing in an advert for louis boitano but the full story is available on our website r.t. dot com. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are old today. this is arche line from moscow the role of sharia law in the heart of europe a nightmare for some and established goal for others many belgians are becoming increasingly alarmed by a reported rise of islam a stick to it in their country but muslim community leaders have warned of the dangers of demonizing the manny through the actions of a small few s.s.r. cilia now reports we're hearing to walks
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a district in the village of the local media here have reported that there's an organization called it much because of how he that has been based here for the last three years it's allegedly a salafi story because asia that preaches radical islam for the website has been blocked and there's no easy way to get in touch with them so we decided to come here and find out what we could. but we couldn't get much of a few residents have also made it clear that we weren't welcome local media reports say that this organization was founded by two brothers who studied in saudi arabia and preaches a form of hardline islam that is quote unquote tough on both muslims and non muslims alike citing an anonymous source. i'm scared for my children because when i play music these people come and harass me that it's not normal my kids are around them they bother me to see their aggressive to you because they have a camera it's not normal i know they saw me speaking to you so i'm going to get into trouble i know it it's difficult because older style of feasts who are
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radicals of course but all of them are no terrorists. have to make clear distinction between their original movement conservatives one to believe they are very conservative but not violent radical islam has received much media attention as of late in june and the leader of another radical group shari'a for exult him said it previously given as an interview was arrested for posting an internet video urging quote his brothers and sisters to fight against nonbelievers after a woman was detained for wearing a face veil clashes later erupted between muslim youths and police in retaliation for the woman's detention and days later a french muslim stabbed two policemen in brussels saying he had come to attack policemen and take revenge on the belgian government for banning the burka the german intelligence service said its most recent annual report that salafism was
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the fastest growing islamic movement in the world and that it calls for replacing national legal frameworks with sharia law offered by means of a violent struggle against the state but abdelkader a theologian at the main islamic center and mosque in brussels and himself a salafi just explain. that the actions of a minority add to the confusion in the way muslims are perceived it acidifies what is salafi if we take the definition of salafi it means looking at our predecessors and going back to the very first ways of islam what it can be the beard the clothing even smiling can be part of the prophetic tradition and salafi is not a call for war it's not a call for jihad it's not to ask people to be full of hate on the contrary salafi is a religion is for extremists you find them in every religion for us we are moderate and we're in the center but what of those who are not moderate. like
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these that offer speech which are completely opposite of those in society they don't know where the are they choose the wrong place but it's not in a country like belgium that you can offer that kind of speech because it doesn't work but in the end there's a small if they're not the majority within their community. authorities and experts agree that the challenge lies in identifying radical groups with the potential for violence at intercepting the radicalization process of young people before it's too late tester cilia r.t. brussels. else take a look at some other stories from around the world live you know forty's have detained thirty two people in connection with bomb attacks that left two people dead in the country's capital on sunday all those arrested allegedly belong to a network of loyalist of the country's former leader moammar gadhafi and have been receiving financial backing from abroad levy remains unstable since the nato backed popular uprising resulted in cut out his ousting and death last year the country is currently governed by an elected general national congress. a court in china has
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given the wife of former high ranking politician a span a death sentence after she admitted to killing a british businessman the trial of girl kyla i lasted just seven hours and was close to international media the case created a major political crisis in china sky lies high. billionaire of books ally have been considered as a possible future chinese leader is currently under investigation on separate charges. that roadside blast has left three soldiers from new zealand dead in central afghanistan in a separate incident a man dressed in afghan police uniform killed a nato service member in the country's capital the violence by apparent afghan security forces against coalition members as reason recent weeks claimed by the taliban as one of their anti nato tactics nato forces are scheduled to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen. members of somalia's new parliament are
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being sworn in however the presidential elections have been postponed there's been no centralized government control there since the outbreak of the country's civil war but a small part of it was ruled by a transitional federal government the country is regarded one of the poorest and most violent in the world with a lack of law and order resulting in rampant piracy off its coastline. the israeli palestinian conflict has been going on for decades and it's not just political issues that are of importance next hour r.t. talks to a former israeli prosecutor who believes money for the west bank will be better spent at home here's a quick preview. we're talking about problems economy problems in israel severe economic problems in the israel but when the government is talking about the west bank the program they cannot make programs vanish because if they want to remove. thirty people in the open now. which
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is somewhere around somewhere else because the supreme court of justice a freezer ordered and then the government has a lot of money to bring them there or to be new houses or to be the new. settlements. and we are going straight to the world of business and our focus today is women and it was not just today but today especially so because the world's most promising emerging market of roominess women's incomes worldwide that's a job more than china and india's economy combined finds a new report to such an apology as the story. was of business in the moscow business center but just a couple of decades ago you wouldn't have seen so many women these ladies have probably just days praising all of this talk markets but the investor story they may be over the king is the ladies themselves hence the young says women represent
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the biggest developing market globally and could save the ailing world economy this emerging market is not part of the brics lot it will come from there at the moment more than a quarter of women in developing countries a cop told from the economy they count almost a billion and once they get involved the practice of these new workers will. greater than that demographic explosion in the past century parents and younger expect that in the next five years women's income will grow by five trillion dollars to eighteen trillion dollars globally which will double the g.d.p. growth of india and china together investor advisor say this is currently the most exciting growth story but to capitalize on it the financial world ruled by a man so the started investing in women. in executive positions so the message from as the youngest for a man to invest more in the women before we start cashing in on ourselves that
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yellow brick wall of business r.t. moscow europe just open heart as the e.u. moles buying lots more bones from trouble solving members moskos booking the trend of most emerging markets which are down today as china's economy falters could stall for the ruble on the road this morning the euro has just swung into the black on the greenback and was looking to stall selling i phones and i pods dollar richt moskos in pittsburgh the firm currently goes through mobile operators and franchisees and it's an uneasy relationship to mobile network and is publicly slow and pulls high prices in other forced restrictions the world's top tech firm is also on direct sales here and job to do more for unix delivering up absolutely danny and thanks very much indeed for the sounded and very shortly here in our team parallel valen his gas brush up on some political geography in crossed before that though i'll bring the headlines to stay with us.
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