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given a son his future is still up in the air months of the week he said it's a makes his first public appearance in months calling on the u.s. to stop hunting down whistleblowers. the diplomatic break the union of twelve latin american countries down by ecuador following britain's perceived threats to doing embassy direct to the sun coming up in just a minute. the u.n. has a new peace envoy for syria says stopping the civil war is now his main task. thousands of syrians flee the country for neighboring refugee camps but jordan with its own lack of resources struggles to deal with the influx more from the jordanian syrian border in just a few moments. and no peaceful post gadhafi libya the new authorities a sweep up thirty two loyalists of
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a former regime accused of bomb blasts that came a year after rebels took control of the country. you're watching our t.v. live from moscow with me to bomb would say first south america's foreign ministers have condemned to britain's thread to storm london embassy to arrest julian assange on sunday the weekend leaks editor finally made an appearance in public calling for the u.s. to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers he was granted asylum last week but remains ensconced in the embassy to avoid extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crimes allegations his origin is lord smith. the atmosphere here outside the ecuadorian embassy on monday is much calmer than it was on sunday although there are still few hardcore. police and media and of course
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supporters who have set up camp pen and look like they're going to be headed for the long haul not many but still some keeping witness to what. the ecuadorian embassy sunday of course saw his first statement since he went into the ecuadorian embassy two months ago there was really a rally kind of a con of the like atmosphere with a variety of speakers leading up to coming out onto the balcony behind me and addressing his supporters and his followers he thanked a lot of people he also told a story about how on wednesday night he heard swarms of police coming up the fire escape inside the ecuadorian embassy here stopping short just outside his bedroom and for some reason backing off that he thanked these supporters who were here that bearing witness to that and making sure that nothing happened he also thanked for doing what he called holding the constitution and of of universal sisson ship you
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say thank the star for this very cramped embassy he must be getting under their feet quite a lot but one of the most important things he said was that he called on the u.s. to stop the persecution of whistleblowers united states must renounce its witch hunt against wiki leaks. united states must be doing its investigation. united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. oil supporters. the united states must wage. that it will look as you journalist for shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. this situation of course is now developing into a full blown diplomatic britain says that it still seeking an amicable solution to
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all of this and british officials in aquittal are seeking to resume official talks but that might not be easy after person to ecuador at least to suggest that it might revoke the diplomatic status at the embassy behind me and this storm it with police to be able to arrest. the twelve member union of south american nations has backed. developed into really a standoff with neither country apparent what it's about down to dinner stone just spanish know about his own says that he's going to know to no seat with the un international court if julian assange is not allowed to leave. and laura smith also spoke to whistleblowing human rights activist craig he says campaigns against those revealing embarrassing state secrets have become common. i think up fortunately there's
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a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later today was a glowing 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 claim with the other charges very often sexual charges because that destroys the personal refutation colophon office is the law in michigan it's 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 but moved into the fire escapes there's no doubt whatsoever that this was a deliberate attempt to ditch the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office and the courses backfired spectacularly because the whole world is at the age by this where william hague really is made a fool of himself the. first time he wants
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a media interview in which he said that as a student he 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 in an embassy. still to come for you this hour dealing asuncion maybe busy with his own problems but the work of wiki leaks continues. at this right now let's give him a little standing with something that is. funny i write. i maybe i can support at this point any word 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 according to recent reports published by the whistle blowing web site of the us government is using highly advanced spyware to watch its own citizens leaving them with no way to hide. the newly confirmed peace envoy for syria says his main task is to stop the civil war in the country this as a u.n.
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observer mission they has come to an end amid escalating violence tens of thousands are fleeing to the conflict to neighboring states including jordan policia has the latest from the border. well i'm standing here at the border crossing between jordan and syria it's one of the main border crossings between the two countries but security here is tight and border controls are very very effective and this is a way for a man to deal with the growing influx of syrian refugees into this country now according to jordanian estimates at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees are currently in jordan they being housed him if he camps along this border with jordan in government has build forts in the process of building another one but the situation in those camps is alarming and has caused humanitarian groups to talk about a humanitarian crisis we know that the camps are overcrowded people there have little to no access to water and electricity at the same time to the closest was broken out in the jordanian health ministry is talking about health risks they were
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clashes last week between some of those refugees trying to break out of those camps because they actually can't leave them without permission now the violence behind me in syria is starting to spill over into to jordan today there were four shells that landed here one of them badly hurt a young jordanian killed in a number of people were rushed to hospital so that as the syrian violence creeps closer and closer into neighboring jordan the united nations observer mission has expired with no real peace prospects on the table in fact the situation in syria has actually gotten worse with violence that spiraling out of control just today monday there were heavy blasts and violence in the capital city of damascus we know that a number of people in the international community have expressed regret that the observer mission is wrapping up we're hearing from the now newly confirmed new peace envoy that it is his intention to stop the civil war in syria and at the same time he has welcomed the ran into peace talks he says that there needs to be
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a concerted effort by the international community to deal with the syrian violence as far as russia goes moscow has said it it regrets the fact that this observer mission is wrapping up and that all that is being left in damascus really. a small office to deal with a very big problem the russian foreign ministry has said that the idea that is being put forward to create security zones unilaterally is an idea that will not work that cannot be any kind of unilateral actions and that what is needed is a collective action by the international community action that is based on the document that was adopted at the geneva conference earlier this year in addition to this moscow has said that it is concerned by reports of more evidence that is coming forward that syrian rebels are receiving the weapons that have been smuggled in from libya in addition to this we also know now that the opposition is using british intelligence that is hoping that with its rebel attacks on government forces so a lot of new evidence coming to the fore and certainly as the situation in syria
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does not seem likely to hold anytime soon don't forget to visit our web site for more on the stories we're covering on their excluding anger in the song it's a young girl with mental health problems was beaten and charged with blasphemy for reportedly banning pages of the koran she could now face the death penalty for more details of visit our t.v. dot com. and while you're online head over to our you tube channel you there you can see the pussy right copycats that are popping up over the world this latest show of support causing disruption in one of germany's made at people watch it in porn on you tube. thirty two people have been arrested in libya in connection with recent bomb attacks in the capital all those detained us said to belong to a network of loyalists of the country's former leader moammar gadhafi and have reportedly been receiving financial backing from abroad political analysts and
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middle east consultant of b.t.s. says it will get much worse in the country before there's any chance of it getting many better. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a force regime we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which was again a force regime and as you would expect there will be breakaway groups because at the end of the day although gadhafi was a fraudster in many ways he brought that country from the doldrums into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to pull the string and say oh and of course that's failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion occur like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and egypt. american drones have fired multiple missiles into a region on pakistan's border killing at least ten suspected militants and the
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first strike of two vehicles carrying insurgents away hit while in a separate attack a home was destroyed for more on that story we're joined live by senior retired officer of a pakistani air force sultan am holly thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. mr haile the how accurate is the end summation that only militants die in such attacks as the full details of the strikes haven't been revealed and no proof is ever been given. the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has declared that any able bodied person. who can become sort of their militant vill be considered a militant irrespective of the fact whether the person is a terrorist or not this is in fact puts the onus of proving their innocence on the people who are being targeted and this is not only unjust but it is
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a mockery of all kinds of human rights and especially coming from a country which calls itself the champion of human rights it is not following the general conventions it is not following the united nations it is not even following its own human rights charter which has been highlighted in its own constitution if you look at the inscription on the statue of liberty which says give me your huddled masses your poor and your homeless it appears that it is making a mockery of that too because it is turning these people homeless it is killing these people maiming them and calling them terrorists to boot. un human rights groups have repeatedly urged an investigation into such killings saying more data and videos should be postie independent assesses why doesn't the us allow an end to the so-called conspiracy of silence. well you see so happy that. the united nations. human rights has
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made a statement and has called for the videos to be released only in the month of june . the chief commissioner for human rights visited pakistan and was aghast at the violation of the sovereignty of the country as well as the human rights which are being trampled by killing innocent people and the only reason why the united states is banking upon the use of drones is because it considers it means by which its own troops its own people are not put at risk and sitting from ten thousand kilometers of fires over a. hellfire missiles on unknown people little. terrorists is. cost effective for it because it is not exposing its own people to the danger. violating let me just jump in there while you're talking about america and its drones i mean they deeply unpopular in countries where they use which you know
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there's an argument now that while the use of these joints you try to wipe out the terrorists in effect if you use create more of them a double edged sword in many ways. well it's not just a double edged sword it is creating a greater hazard because what is happening is that the terrorists who are targeted whether they are killed or not is that it is guess because there is no in teligent information available but the fact is that the people who are killed. the relatives of the victims are approached by the terrorists and they are told that sense. for their letters have been targeted and killed it is high time that you can take revenge and in fact the number of terrorists who are being groomed and recruited in this way is rising so it is not just a double edged sword it is counterproductive and it is increasing terrorism rather than reducing it still the u.s. claims that drone strikes do bring success and there's still an effective tool to
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strike at targets way more conventional weapons qand that's a fair argument isn't it. well it may be a fair argument for people who are sitting so many thousands of kilometers away but you see as i just explained to you people like john brennan the national security adviser has declared that since two thousand and eleven not a single collateral damage or innocent civilian has been killed just because they have changed the very dimension of describing the definition of a militant but you see the fact is that yes there are other ways of dealing with them because if you have proper human intelligence if you have the use of resources then maybe you can achieve the target easier but in this case to start with it is illegal because pakistan is not at war with the usa if the us is using drones in afghanistan or iraq it is understandable because it is a theater of war pakistan is not a war that therefore it is
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a totally illegal use of our veterans as in a country whose sovereignty is being trampled on but let's leave it right there thank you so much mr harley a senior retired officer of the pakistani air force giving us his views on these drone strikes out in pakistan thank you for your time sir. you're welcome. cried every single second of every single day the u.s. government has secretly spying on its people this according to e-mails released by wiki leaks the system called a trip wire collects data from all surveillance cameras nationwide and sends it to maybe server at an undisclosed location in a partner has been uncovering 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.
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cameras throughout america are monitoring encrypting and storing nearly every move americans are making in public opinion their lives program is called trap wire and right now i'm joined by peter steve to find out more about it steve what you strap wire for is a trip wire is owned by the abraxas corporation or actually abraxas software now. 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 telecom 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 the theory behind trap wire is that there's going to be
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a certain kind of look for a target a cell so this system looks for people acting in a way consistent with terrorists doing reconnaissance on a target and that at 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 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 do. 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 me anything. that is. not. countless
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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 subtle storage location like either you are serious about 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
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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 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 porton i am artsy new york. to other news in brief now egypt's president mohamed morsi will visit iran for the summit at the end of the month it is a first trip by an egyptian leaders says relations with to run broke down decades ago the invitation was delivered earlier this month by iran's vice president for his high ranking official to visit in this car and to iran have not had full
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diplomatic relations says nineteen eighty following iran's islamic revolution and egypt's recognition of israel. then you as a military top general martin dempsey has arrived in afghanistan for a meeting with senior afghan officials over a recent wave of so-called friendly fire attacks against international forces and the latest on sunday two afghan police men turn their weapons on u.s. troops on the border with pakistan killing one ten u.s. soldiers have died in such incidents in the last two weeks alone. the wife of a former chinese communist politician has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of a british businessman who never denied she poisoned neil heywood in november last year for supposedly threatening her son after business deal a suspended death sentence usually result in life imprisonment in china a husband who was a contender for the top position of the communist party but has not been seen in
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public since his wife's trial. thousands of people have been told to leave their homes as intensive by wildfires in north or in california threaten rural communities the fire has already destroyed four homes and some one thousand square miles of forest and it's spreading rapidly more than three thousand homes are threatened by the escalating blaze a series of lightning strikes in the area believed to have sparked the fire. barbara to katie now with all the market action in business and good times for apple but not so graceful phrasebook then katie no you got some winners and losers haven't you sorry that's the problem with the markets today apple is losing the rally as the biggest guy you know meanwhile is still challenging times for facebook as you say tabbies the biggest loser in the session but even a strong performance by the tech stocks generally can't really turn investors away
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from the overriding concern about europe's debt crisis now european markets are also closed for this monday we'll see some figures if we may you'll be able to see they generally tend to speak for themselves. but of a few grevilleas in the workhouse always but i'll continue chatting away now as we can see we've got the wall street figures up for you just that you can see that but the dow jones and the nasdaq up thirty six basis points in negative territory just as i say the markets are continuing to carry all out today progress is european markets though as i say they are indeed prizes monday and it was a negative finish and that's because of course you want to get bulls today in the us as investors weighed in on the crucial your attorneys in meetings that are taking place this week going to be more showing those for sure and really top of the agenda is expected to be greece's request for an extension to its bailout plan that's causing exchange rates and the common currency continues to stay afloat although still giving back most of the guys of the european central bank said that
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they were told to plan to tap government going yields in the euro zone was mis leading so as you can see is gave you that it's relatively flat meanwhile the russia group is finished up trading for today but it did have a mixed performance i gave the false give currents is a lot of investors also on the fence because federal reserve meetings are coming out this week minutes from the meeting i should say on this is the close for the russian markets in a different and negative territory this monday and that was russia's top trading partner china struggles through the. and strengthen that take you told us that he despised positive domestic first of all russia's first half retail sales growth will by seven of the country's g.d.p. be increased by four point four percent in the first six months of years is international pressures that are taking place results you write this book brant crude it was hovering around one hundred fourteen and it's to do just that on the barrel and the us ahead of the closure of a key u.k. filled in the middle c.
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and with expectations of more demand for the northern hemisphere winter i didn't want to be thinking about we're just not that lovely summer here in moscow isn't a topic so that is indeed the markets open back in about fifteen minutes and i'll have more markets for dave. bing you know again i was just thinking about that. you know they're doing very well despite the fact that they in the smartphone tablet battle with samsung right now absolutely it's really quite vicious in the world of technology to have a oh dear we have to wait and see i mean basically in the news women making you know the strides the servo bateson going out love the jacket soak up soak up the sun that's what we should be doing but we're right here be thankful that are. right in just a couple of minutes on large t. the environmentalist's versus big corporations in a special report first the headlines with me.
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