julian assange speaks out for the first time since being granted asylum in ecuador saying the u.s. must stop the witch hunt on whistleblowers hundreds if the post is turned out say his statement was hundreds of police officers who were against. him coming up in just a moment. as more fighting in syria kills of six softer a brief reprieve from violence to mark the end of ramadan we've it's a village where people are trying to build their own grassroots governance to outweigh the conflict and the hatred. plus an imminent threat for a demonized minority we investigate the growing presence of radical muslim groups right at the heart of europe.

it is a pleasure to have you with us on this monday here on artsy i'm a rover suchet live in moscow julian assange has called for the us to stop the persecution of whistleblowers who expose the crimes of the powerful and the plea was made in his first speech since ecuador granted the wiki leaks editor asylum has been sheltering in the nation's london embassy now for more than two months avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes which he continues to deny. with us more on this. there were several speakers who came on the floor today in a sound sort of whom are packed his longtime supporters including tara kali the renowned station list but of course there was a serious message behind all this that the old out to support innocence and he really wanted to speak to the people she thanked them he thanked particularly the supporters who were out here in the hundreds and he thanked them from having to

having been here on wednesday night as well when he says that when he was in bed he hurts to moon's old police coming up the fire escape insights the door an embassy building here and guns and 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 but try to refer 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 so he knew that everything would be ok he also thanked that could 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 the

fact the united states must renounce its witch hunt against wiki leaks. the united states must assume its investigation. the united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. or else the court of. the united states must quit before the world that it will not position journalists for shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. but very lucky. joined now by one of these with two players craig murray who is the full bush's ambassador to as bad as pakistan and a whistleblower himself he blew the whistle on government abuses. craig thanks very much for talking to us now what you think julian assange is this case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers. i think of course and labor is

a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later today it was all 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. have a charge of story often sexual charges because where 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 you what do you make of of william hague's comments and of the foreign office attitude in general colophon offices law and in its attempts to back down because it's trying to solve 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 i would say to william hague. where william hague believes major

pulled himself and he. 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 a threat to storm could do an embassy. well or a smith also spoke with a poll with and a member of the u.k. independence party he believes that the actions of the british government have made the country look rather bad in the eyes of the world. it's such a turnaround from last week where we're 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 on a case where there are still no charges have been laid my feeling is 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 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 in fixing a throw bradley in jail for coming up on two years and then they go after the person who made the information public. we are coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us today yes still to come in this program keeping an eye on their own. account was. this point at this point any werman how 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 good

you looks behind the surveillance cameras in america to find out who's actually watching here. or and activists in syria say six people including women and children have been killed in clashes between government forces and rebels and the fighting in the southern city of daraa comes at the end of the u.n. observer mission in the country i followed the law in fighting on sunday as many people spent the day praying to mark the last day of ramadan some. residents of aleppo the country's commercial hub went out to sweep the streets of course littered with debris and shrapnel up to three weeks of battles. on a boy visited one in southern delicious see how people there are trying to build better lives for themselves to spite the ongoing 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 but the sense of loss is suffocating. the sound was an army captain who was taken down by a sniper in damascus and learn from what i want to see to his killers is that violence is the worst solution it only leads to more violence this is six victim 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. so they call it a civil council it was established when the uprising 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

the world they have come up with their own six point plan that aims to reduce corruption and create more opportunities for the young that 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 a law 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 of what. 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 village has a long history of armed resistance. 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 at the moment what a lot of. in addition to die. revolutionary 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. this now it's just like syria and 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 envoy car see the

villages in syria. and still ahead for you this hour here on out see a good look at a hardline islam as i'm deep in europe. there's an organization called that might cause a policy that has been based here for the last three years it's allegedly a salafi as organization that preaches radical islam and 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 all course want to test their why they're investigating the roots of radicalism in belgium and the attempts to stop it becoming harder and apostle of european life. now recent reports published by wiki leaks have revealed that the u.s. government is using highly advanced spy away to watch its own citizens the system is called truck and it allegedly accesses old surveillance cameras nationwide and sends collected data to a main database where the images are then stored as more important covers more about this rather 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 land dowling's program is called problem wire and right now i'm joined by peter steve from mom to find out more about it steve what you strap wires who are always in trouble or is owned by the abraxas corporation or actually abraxas software no. 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 the show if you look at all the

data that it feeds it into a sort. for a system that it tempts to predict if there's going to be a terrorist attack on a location the theory behind trap was is that there's going to be a certain kind of. for a target a set 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 folly 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 now getting anything. that is. a countless i think 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 he walked all the way to the battery so i would have you on camera constantly your entire. image. and yes. they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted to a subtle storage location like. the. i think what

bothers me most about this program is it gives a false so it's a 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 groups interest stations two blocks down the what if i'm 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 the trip wire 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 tripwire is good implementation. might not particularly affect marina for niamh artsy new york. i don't forget you can always i visit our website have more of the stories we're covering on air and always many

other items you to check out as well of course at odds he taught com for example or the world stage occupy wall street is to be revitalized on broadway and find out more plans for this possibly it's going to be a future hit say some. and then of a giant step foot humanity is made by now says curiosity robots as with using a specialized laser it zaps its first rock on boss. plus choppy waters for swimmer michael phelps how he could be stripped of the limping medals he won in london for appearing in an ad but for louis freeh told that full story also at r.t. dot com. it's one of the olympics done and dusted of course but the sport never ends here when i see why because you know neil joins us next of course with a taste of what's coming up including the amateurs who make professional footballers green with envy they certainly do we are talking about something a little bit quirky little bit unusual the national freestyle football championship

surely these guys. messi and ronaldo wish they could do what they can do we've got the moscow leg of that coming up in iran twenty minutes time here on our team sport plus of course all the weekend's action elsewhere. but us are looking forward to that unit for now though the rule of sharia law in the heart of europe a nightmare for some established goal for others many belgians are becoming increasingly alarmed by a reported rise of islam and activity in the country but most of them community leaders are warned of the dangers of demonizing the many through the actions of a small fee you as an artist has or are silly or reports over here into walks a district in belgium now 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 asian that preaches radical islam and 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 me word 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 but it's not normal my kids are around them they bother me to see 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 older style of feasts who are radicals of course but all of them are no terrorists us to make clear distinction between there is another movement conservatives one to believe they are

very conservative but not violent radical islam has received much media attention as of late in june in the leader of another radical group shari'a for exult himself and would 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 its most recent annual report that salafism 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. is that the actions of a minority add to the confusion in the way muslims are perceived in a city if you say 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 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. it's like these that offer speech which are 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 in experts agree that the challenge lies in identifying

radical groups with a potential for violence at intercepting the radicalization process of young people before it's too late tesser cilia r.t. brussels by let's go straight to the libyan capital tripoli to kick off the art world updated for forty years or detained thirty two people in connection with the bomb attacks that left two dead in the country's capital on sunday all those arrested allegedly belonging to a network of loyalists to the former leader moammar gadhafi had been receiving financial backing from abroad libya remains unstable since the nato backed popular uprising resulted in khadafi is ousting and death last year the country is currently governed by an elected general national congress. according china has given the wife of a former high ranking politician a suspended death sentence after she admitted to killing a british businessman in the trial. lasted just seven hours and was. close to the

international media the case created a major political crisis in china as catalyze husband billionaire bo is eli being considered as a possible future chinese leader he's currently under investigation on separate charges. a top u.s. general in afghanistan is there to discuss the latest wave of attacks with the country's officials of 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 the new anti nato tactics and nato forces are chargeable to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen. the members of somali as a new parliament are being sworn in however the presidential elections have been postponed there's been no centralized government controlled since the outbreak of the country's civil war back in one thousand nine hundred ninety one but a small part of it was ruled by a transitional federal government the country is regarded as one of the poorest and

most violent in the world with a lack of law and order resulting in rampant piracy along the coastline. why was it done you'll soon of the business for although the israeli palestinian conflict of course has been going on for decades and it's not just political issues that are often porton it's just a few minutes we talk to a former israeli prosecutor who believes that money being used to build more west bank settlements and displacing palestinians would be better spent at home here's a preview. we're talking about problems economic problems in israel severe economic problems in the israel but when the government is talking about the west bank they probably take a number of problems vanished because if they want to remove thirty people in the. area which is. somewhere

else because the supreme court of justice of israel ordered and then the government has a lot of money to bring them there or to build new houses or to build a new. settlement. was promised over to daniel bush we go there you are good to see you today is a bit of a peculiar conversation we've got from boy toys to the fairer sex daniel women of the world's most promising emerging market what on earth are you talking as women's incomes will jump more than china and india's economy is combined finds a new report to such a political move or has the story. was of business in a moscow business center but just a couple of decades ago you wouldn't have seen so many women these ladies have probably just fears that they stray zinc on this talk markets but then that's the story they may be overlooking is the ladies themselves henson young says women represent the biggest developing market globally and could save the ailing world

economy this emerging market is not part of brics not it will come from there at the moment more than a quarter of women in developing countries like qatar from the economy. they count almost a billion and once they get involved the pact of these new workers will be greater than the 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 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 for a man to invest more in the women before we start cashing in on ourselves that yellow brick wall of business r.t. moscow the most biggest for this month for the top trading partners china

economic headwinds spain and italy e.u. markets monday is brussels malls buying a lot more of their phones both the footsie and the banks pretty much unchanged this hour the euro the greenbacks going up and down all day is now sliding to both currencies and india is in talks to join america's exxon mobile it's a lease any. time. which is green as india will pay a premium for crude it blows nifty cash for expensive drilling into the permafrost saudi arabia's overtaken russia as the world's top producer needs to find new deposits to regain top sport europe today we will have more for you nextel looking for daniel times. just a moment back with the headlines when you can stay with us here on.

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