join us on speaks out for the first time since being granted asylum in ecuador saying the u.s. must stop the witch hunt on whistleblowers. hundreds of supporters turned out to his statement as did hundreds of police officers who were against school states in their desire to arrest him more coming up in just a moment. that syrians get a reprieve from violence and remember the dad of the amount of ram it down r.t. visits a village where people are trying to build their own grassroots governance to outweigh conflict and hatred. plus an imminent threat or a demonized minority we investigate the growing presence of radical muslim groups at the heart of you are.

in the russian capital you're watching r.t. join us on she has called for the u.s. to stop the persecution of whistleblowers who expose the crimes of the powerful the plea was made in his first speech since ecuador granted that we can lease editor asylum a sound has been sheltering in the nation's london embassy for more than two months now avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes which he denies are just or smith has more that was several speakers who came on before julian assange says that a woman packed his longtime supporters including tara kelley the renowned station list but of course there was a serious message behind all this that they're all out to support you in essence and he really wanted to speak to the people to thank them he thanked particularly the supporters who are 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. i was in bed

he heard swarms of police coming up the fire escape in sight the door an embassy building here and guns and but that they backed off 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 try to reveal your kids diplomatic status and break in that to to arrest him but he said he knew that there would be witnesses thanks to the supporters and so he knew that everything would be ok he also thanked at the door for holding the constitution of you know the constitution which includes 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 also one of the most important things he said was he called upon the u.s. to still put he called the persecution of whistleblowers let's just hear a bit of that the united states must renounce its witch hunt against wiki leaks.

the united states must assume its an investigation. the 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 not pursue journalists for 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 craig murray who is the full bush's ambassador to as his back is don and a whistleblower himself he blew the whistle on government abuses involvement in craig thanks very much for talking to us now what do you think julian assange case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers. i think of course and labor has a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later today was blowing because obviously it's quite difficult for states to convict

people of telling the truth about state's misdemeanors so what you do is you. with other charges very often sexual charges because were destroyed for 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. officers law and in its attempts to back down because it's found to solve so diplomatically isolated it most certainly did say about both in person and in writing to the government of ecuador. at the 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 to ditch the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office and what do you say to william hague. william hague nearly as major pulled himself he. first time he wants 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 a threat to storm vehicle during an embassy. fauresmith also spoke with paul within a member of the u.k. the panel's party who believes that the actions of the british government have made the country look 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 poor foreign secretary we have to hang our heads in shame i mean this whole thread 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 out and and on a on a case where there are still no charges have been laid 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 and it's quite right what a song says that this is all about wounded american pride this is all about the americans having been discovered doing something wrong and instead of going and fixing a base throw bradley in jail for coming up on two years and then they go after the person who made the information public. coming up in the program keeping an eye on their own. account was i don't eat at this point at this point maybe we're going to have the approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery you are but there is no location that you can go to on the public street i did most buildings where you're not being video art he looks behind a surveillance cameras america to find out who is actually watching. the united nations observer mission in syria has officially come to an end the newly appointed

mediator lakhdar brahimi is now tasked was that reinvigorating the peace process moscow has voiced its regret that the u.n. mandate could be prolonged and has warned washington against imposing a no fly zone over syria something that helped topple the kid off the regime in libya. syria experienced a law in fighting with many spending their sunday praying to mark the end of the holy month of ramadan president bashar al assad was shown on state t.v. praying at a mosque his first public appearance since last month's bomb blast killed his stop 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 which is it's on a boy go visit of 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 are few tears at least in public the dead are considered martyrs now and have been but the sense of loss is suffocating. her son was an army captain who was taken down by a sniper in damascus and you can learn from who we all want to see to his killers that is that violence is the worst solution it only leads to more violence. this is six victims in the village of dying in southern syria all of them 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. but they call an outcry a civil council it was established when the uprising in syria started to turn violent but the specific goal of keeping armed groups had by 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. they have come up with their own six point plan that aims to reduce corruption and create move up to me she's put the young 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 no matter how we differ we all need to protect our home. 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 of what. we should stop firing and we can talk we can discuss anything. and. it should be like meeting together and it's the better for

us and for our country these grassroot experiment in reconciliation is all the more striking given that this village 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. in addition to their revenue. missionary credentials local state pride in having good business acumen not surprising that their cuckoo ations of costs and benefits is not on the side of violence this village is like syria and miniature muslims jews christians our wits some of them support the government

others that pose but most of them agree that there is nothing more precious than peace it's not going to artsy the villages in syria. well so how the south we're on our t.v. you look at hardline islamism in europe there's an organization called it might cause a policy that has been based here for the last three years to legibly 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. respond the best to gauge the roots of radicalism in belgium and attempts to stop a becoming part of parcel of european life. recent reports published by we can leaks have revealed out 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 sends collected data to a main database where the images are stored archies more in

a fortnight and covers 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 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 the clinton family program it's called trap wire and right now i'm joined by mike that either steve to find out more about it steve what is trap wire or is that trip wire is owned by the abraxas corporation or actually abraxas software now. it was developed by three former cia agents. it is essentially a system that takes data everything from facial recognition to suspicious activity reports a license plate reader cameras for all types of intelligence and all the data and

it feeds it into a software system that it tends to predict if there's going to be a terrorist attack on a location the theory behind trap wire is that there's going to be a certain amount of kind of look for a target to say so this system looks for people acting in a way consistent with terrorists doing reconnaissance on a target and that 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 strathyre. first of all anything you do on the public street is legal i can take a camera and follow you 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 doing. 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 here giving no anything. that is. not. a countless i think at this 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 your camera to camera to camera if you started walking south and you walked all the way to the battery top i would have you on camera constantly your entire. here and if you can't i think yes well they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted to

a central storage location like father you are certainly not taking what bothers me most about this program is it gives a false sense of security it gives a false sense of security to the public now that it's out in the public eye and it gives a false sense of security to the law enforcement agencies prince interest stations two blocks down that way if i'm a terrorist i can put a backpack on my shoulder walk into the middle of grand central station during five o'clock friday rush hour right now and set off an explosive and there is nothing the trap art can do to protect me or stop me so then what is the point that. you know well the point of trap wire is to make a ton of money for the people that started it but but to not be to not be flip about it the theory behind trap wire is good the implementation. in my opinion not particularly effect marina for niamh artsy new york. well don't forget to visit our

web site for more on the stories we're covering on air there is of course plenty for you to check out at our t dot com including all the world a stage occupy wall street is to be revitalized on broadway and find out more about plans for a future hit. another giant step for humanity's made by nasa's curiosity robot as it zaps its first rock on mars. plus choppy waters for swimmer michael phelps how he could be stripped of eleven medals he won in london for appearing in an advert for the movie top gun the full story is available at r.t.e. dot com. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to preach and to rule the day. now the rule of sharia law in the heart of europe and nightmare for some and

established go for others many belgians are becoming increasingly alarmed by a report of the rise of islam ost activity in their country but muslim community leaders have warned of the dangers of demonizing the mannie through the actions of a small few missteps or cilia reports over here into walks of district in leah's belgium the local media here have reported that there's an organization called at michael's apology that has been based here for the last three years it's allegedly a salafi story because asia the preachers of radical islam are 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 islamic that is quote unquote tough on both muslims and non muslims alike citing an anonymous source woman is off i'm scared for my children

because when i play music these people come and harass me as not normal my kids are around them they bother me jussi they're 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 all the feasts who are radicals of course but all of the terrorists. to make clear these things. there is another movement conservative one to believe they are very conservative but not violent radical islam has received much media attention as of late in june the leader of another radical group sharia for belgium could previously given us 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 of its most recent annual report that cell if ism was 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 ist explains 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 it can be the beard the clothing even smiling can be part of the prophetic tradition 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 we're in the center but what of those who are not moderate. groups like these that offer speech we. completely opposite of belgian society they don't know where they are they choose the wrong place 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 those are small groups they're not the majority within their community. authorities and experts agree that the challenge lies in identifying radical groups with a potential for violence and intercepting the radicalization process of young people before it's too late to us are still here r t brussels. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world. libyan authorities 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 either remains unstable since the nato backed popular uprising resulted in good office ousting and death last year the country is currently governed by an elected general national congress. a court in china has given the wife of a former high ranking politician as a spam a death sentence after she admitted to killing a british businessman the trial of gu kailai lasted just seven hours and it was closed to international media the case created a major political crisis in china as kyla's husband billionaire box ally had been considered as a possible future chinese leader but he's currently under investigation on separate charges. a top u.s. army general is in afghanistan to discuss the latest wave of attacks where the country's officials violence by apparent afghan security forces against coalition members has substantially risen at least ten u.s.

troops have been killed in this way over the last two weeks claimed by the taliban as one of their anti nato tactics nato forces are scheduled to leave ghana stand twenty fourteen. members of somalia's new parliament are 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 in one thousand nine hundred one but a small part of it was ruled by a transitional federal government the country is regarded by the poorest and most violent in the world with a lack of law and order resulting in rampant piracy off its coastline. 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 former israeli prosecutor who believes money used to build more west bank settlements and displacing palestinians in the process will be better spent at home here's a quick preview. we're talking about problems say 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 vanished because if they want to remove. thirty people in the open now. which 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 build new houses or to be with a new. settlement. all right switching now to the world of business and danielle bushel is full of the latest news for us there danielle over to you harbor in the women's income why the more than china and india's economies can one finds a new report or two thoughts in a public over 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 praising all this talk muppets but then back to the story that maybe overlooking is the ladies themselves ernst and young says women represent the biggest developing market globally and could save the ailing world economy this emerging market is not part of the brics mammas will come from there at the moment more than a quarter of women in developing countries a cop pulled from the economy they count almost a billion and once they get involved the practice of these new workers will be greater. then that demographic explosion in the past century parents and younger expect that in the next five years women will grow by five trillion dollars to eighteen trillion dollars globally which will double the do to be growth of india and china together investor advisors say this is currently the most exciting growth story but to capitalize on it the financial world ruled by man so start investing

in women in training help them build businesses and promote a stronger female presence in executive positions so the message from as the youngest the man to invest more in women before we start cashing in on ourselves but your business r.t. . moskos just slipped into the red on the back of other emerging markets all news china's economy is faltering spain and italy e.u. top performers monday meanwhile as brussels malls buying lots more of their own wanted. the euro high it's been a top seed turvy day and the greenback is now sliding choruses and delhi india wants to would join america's exxon mobil italy's norway to top the vast oil reserves hidden under the. agreement says india will pay a premium for to call it fines there were russia's rules and it gets expensive drilling under the permafrost saudi arabia has overtaken russia as the world's top

producer and most going needs to find new deposits forced to regain top spot and jump to the marina one of more for you next down as the daniel thanks very much indeed as always and in just a couple of minutes on r.t.m. it's the environmentalist versus big corporations in a special report coming your way shortly after the headlines.

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