julian assange speaks out for the first time since being granted asylum in ecuador he says the u.s. must stop the witchhunt whistleblowers hundreds if the forces turned out say his statement was hundreds of police officers who were against in their desire to arrest him more coming up in just a moment. as more fighting in syria killed six people after a brief lull during the final day of ramadan t.v. it's a village where people are trying to build their own grassroots governance to overcome conflict and hatred. plus an imminent threat or a demonized minority we investigate the growing presence of radical muslim groups right at the heart of.

it is an hour three pm on monday moscow time this is our life with me rule received 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 that's 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. this. julian assange is the sort of home a fact that his longtime supporters including tariq ali the renowned station list but of course there was a serious message behind all this the the old out to support innocence and he really wanted to speak to the people she thanked them he thanked particularly the supporters who are out here in the 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 hurts wounds old police coming up the fire escape inside the door an embassy building here and downs 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 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 saying he knew that everything would be ok he also thanked i could do it for holding the constitution of you know that constitution which includes a universal citizenship we thank 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 arab it that

the united states must run up its witch hunt against wiki leaks. the united states must alone it's beyond investigation. and 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 move to zero journalists for shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. not very lucky to be joined now by one of those ways to play. craig murray here is the full bush's ambassador to as his back is done under whistleblower himself he blew the whistle on government abuses and same fold and. craig thanks very much for talking to us now it looks you think julian assange is this case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers while i think of potently there's 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 misdemeanors so what you do is you . with the 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 today what do you make of of william hague's comments and if the foreign office attitude in general well upon the officers law and even 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 that fifty policemen moved into the building but not into the natural plant containing the ecuadorian embassy there's no don't whatsoever that this was a deliberate attempt to teach the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office i would say to william hague. where william hague really is made to

pull themselves it's not 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 a threat to storm could do an embassy. well or a smith also i spoke with paul with you member of the u.k. independence party he believes that the actions of the british government have alternately 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 arrest from which hasn't even been properly filled out and and are not 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 but it's quite right what a song says that this is all about wounded american pride this is all about the americans having being discovered doing something wrong and instead of going in fixing a place throw bradley in jail for coming up on two years and then they go after the person who made the information public. he watching r.t. still to come in this program for you keeping an eye on there are. countless. points at this point any word from approximately fifty ninth street all the way down to the battery you are at there is no location that you can go to on the public street and in most buildings where you're not being video we look behind the surveillance cameras in america to find out who's actually watching. now

activists in syria say six people including women and children have been killed in clashes between government forces and rebels fighting in the southern city of daraa comes at the end of the u.n. observer mission in the country it follows a brief lull 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 they went out onto the streets lit. with deborah and shrapnel after three weeks of battles. for your president one southern finish to see how people there are trying to build better lives for themselves despite 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 haven't but the sense of loss is suffocating. as

sound was an army captain who was taken down by a sniper in damascus and learned but i want to say to his killers 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 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 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 at bay the 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 many 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 we look 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 are opposed to 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. 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 remember what a lot of. in addition to their. listen rick 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 milans this analogy is like syria and miniature muslims jews christians our weights some of them support the government others that pose but most of them agree that there is nothing more precious than peace envoy to our see the village of outcry in syria and they're still ahead for you this hour here on

our to look at hardline islam as i'm in the heart of europe. so i do apologize a bit of a technical glitch is going on right there perhaps somewhere there's a mouse true want to cable but whatever the case our correspondent a tester australia investigating the roots of radicalism in the heart of belgium and the attempts to stop it becoming part and parcel of european life. right now a recent report published by wiki leaks have revealed that the us government is using highly advanced spyware to watch its own citizens the system called trap while i literally access is all surveillance cameras nationwide and sends collected data to a central database where the images are stored. uncovers 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. only program is probably wired right now i'm joined by my leaders steve. find out more about it steve what you strap wire or is that trip or is owned by the abraxas corporation we're actually up. xa software no. it was developed by three former cia agents. it is essential a system that takes data everything from facial recognition to suspicious activity records a license plate reader camera records all types of telescopes and all the data and it feeds it into a software system that it tempts to predict if there's going to be a terrorist attack on a location. theory behind trap wire 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 if strathyre. 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 getting things.

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 or 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 if you will. all the way to the battery so i would have you on camera constantly your entire. images are going. yes well they are they are encrypted at the point of recording and then transmitted through a subtle stored for like law that you are serious about taping what bothers me most about this program is it gives a false 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 prince 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 a group so it will station during five o'clock friday rush hour right now i'd settle for an explosive and there is nothing the trap art can do to protect 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 to not be flip about it the theory behind trip wire is good the implementation. in my opinion not particularly effect marina poor nial artsy new york. want to forget to visit our website on. more of the stories we're covering on air and always plenty of other items for you to check out as well including all the world is a stage occupy wall street is to be revitalized but this time on broadway find out

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increasingly alarmed by reported rise of islamist activity in their country but most of them are community leaders have warned of the dangers of demonizing the many through the actions of a small few. reports over here into walks of district in the belgian the local media here have reported that there's an organization called it might cause up how he that has been based here for the last three years it's allegedly a salafi story because asian 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 use a few residents have also made it clear that new 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 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 all the solar feasts who are radicals of course but or all of them are no terrorists. to make clear distinction between the reason of the movement to be conserved. one to believe they are very conservative but not violent radical islam has received much media attention as of late in june it is the leader of another radical group shari'a for belgium said it 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 authored 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 explains that the actions of a minority add to the confusion in the way muslims are perceived it acidifies of 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 and 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 for extremists you find them in every religion well for us we are moderate and we're in the center but what of those who are not moderate. groups 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 there's a small groups they're not the majority within their community. authorities in experts agree that the challenge lies in identifying radical groups with it the tension through violence and in intercepting the radicalization process of young people before it's too late yes or silly r t brussels. libya kicks off the r.t. world update now its wealth or abuse of detained thirty two people in connection with bomb attacks that killed at least two in the country's capital on sunday all those arrested allegedly belong to

a network of loyalists of the country's former leader moammar gadhafi and have reportedly been receiving financial backing from abroad libya does remain unstable since the nato backed popular uprising resulted in khadafi is out sting and killing last year the country's currently governed by an elected general national congress . according to china has given the wife of a former high ranking politician a suspended death sentence after she admitted to killing a british businessman the trial of goo kailai lasted just seven hours and was close to international media the case created a major political crisis in china as a husband billionaire bows eli because it was a possible future chinese leader he's currently under investigation on separate charges. a top u.s. army general is in afghanistan 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 a claim by the taliban as one of its new anti nato tactics and nato forces are said you will to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen. the members over somalia's a new parliament are being sworn in however the presidential elections those have been postponed there's been no centralized government control there since the outbreak of the country's civil war back in one thousand nine hundred ninety one but a small part of it has been ruled by a transition. the 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 a rampant piracy all up and down the regional coastline. now the israeli palestinian conflict has been going on for decades and it's not just political issues that are of importance the next hour to talk to a former israeli prosecutor who believes that money used to build more west bank settlements and displays for the palestinians would be better spent at home it's

a preview. we're talking about problems economic problems in israel severe economic problems in israel but when the government is talking about the west bank it probably will not have 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 to bring them there or to build new houses or to be a new. settlement. oh doherty's i don't know bush well there you are good to see you again daniel the time of the hourly britain's update as i understand it the women of the world's most promising emerging markets rue their incomes will drop more than china and

india's economies combined find a new report to turn a political move or has the story. corps 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 peers day's trading 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 bricks. a lot of people come from there at the moment more than a quarter of women in developing countries like cottle from the economy they count almost a billion and once they get involved the impact 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 advisers say if this is currently the

most exciting growth story about to capitalize on it the financial world ruled by mansell started 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 women before we start cashing in on ourselves but you have business r.t. moscow and there are most biggest fall this month for the my six top trading paul the choice of his economic headwinds spain italy a utah performers monday is brussels malls buying many more of their bones the euro the greenberg has been off and on all day is now sliding to both currencies and india is installed to join america's excel mobile italy's any. two top russia's rich is the agreement as india would pay a premium for oil it finds that while russia's role in it gets cash for costly

drilling on the the saudi arabia's overtaken russia as the world's top producer almost zero now needs to find new deposits to keep up production growth today were in use in interviews on the web site daniel thank you. back in a moment the headlines then it's time to our step aside for more. well tempered debate with crosstalk.

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