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live from moscow this is he with me let's get straight to his lama right now pakistan's a newly elected prime minister wants an end to u.s. drone strikes in the country the demand was one of the first things he did on beginning an unparalleled nonconsecutive the u.s. claims its only target militants but activists say nearly a thousand innocent people have been killed and pakistan's high court has declared them illegal. went to meet some of the victims of drone warfare we should warn you that some of the images are in this report. the locals call it death in the skies in pakistan's northwest tribal region an american drone as seen from the ground it's become the weapon of choice in the u.s. war on terror and this is the damage it can wreak under president obama more than three hundred such strikes on pakistani soil against alleged al qaeda and taliban suspects. but ordinary civilians also pay

a price this man is one of them i mean a lot was on his way to work at a mine near his village when a drone struck the area he lost his leg in the attack three other miners who were with them lost their lives we live in constant fear of another strike we are simple villagers who are stuck in a war that we didn't ask for it's a hopeless feeling or to be death is above our heads all the time. although the attack took place three years ago i mean the law says the pain is still severe the sight of his injuries upsets his four children meanwhile depression anxiety and lingering fear have pushed him to take up tranquilizer pills and that if i get in the americans should be able to tell an ordinary person from a taliban leader that they should know who they're killing what did we do to deserve this. this is my ex and he did it in drone arctic it's a question echoed by now dar who lost part of his hearing his short term memory and

nearly his foot on. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us outside far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another strike and it killed many more people attorneys out of bar has sued both the u.s. and pakistan on behalf of the civilian victims he says they're the voiceless people of was nearest on isolated by geography and politics by simply call it a concentration camp that you have built a wall of. military and militants and behind that wall you keeping more than eight hundred thousand people who are not allowed to come out and no one from the rest of the country is allowed to go in and that's a kind of tree which u.s. is using to use and test its drone program in many ways the epicenter of the cia's highly classified drone program is a black hole on the map a region of pakistan off limits to outsiders especially westerners now evidence of the drone strikes is almost impossible to get but these for smuggled to islam about

from the tribal areas there are believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see. fragments collected by nora but a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drones especially on children disturbing images of the living and the dead for nor it's personal. but did you see him whenever my three year old daughter hears a plane she runs inside and won't sleep that night the children here have been traumatized by the drones the sound of a door banging shut is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war by carrying out drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you are just widening the conflict you're giving a reason to people who were not part of the conflict to become part of the conflict . of course this is made me hate the americans we are angry and want revenge

they've destroyed our lives my parents my wife my children we all see america as our worst enemy now while promising to rein in their use the white house says drones are both legal and effective that's. all that's on. us. that's. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims. pakistan. and the us media is meanwhile reporting that classified documents indicate that the cia did not always know who they were killing during the attacks in pakistan there have been rallies against those operations with activists claiming hundreds of innocents have died let's take a look at the impact these drone strikes have had since they started there back in two thousand and four eight hundred and eighty four civilians reportedly killed

that's according to the bureau of investigative journalism estimated that nearly two hundred children are among the victims and the use of drones has spiked significantly since president obama took office a six fold increase compared to his predecessor george w. bush chris woods who is from the bureau of investigative journalism he says there is little transparency about these ongoing operations with so many civilians reported killed and yet the cia claiming that it's killed no more than fifty or sixty civilians i think there is need for an open not only an open inquiry but also for the cia to share the information the carrolls on who believes it's killed in places like pakistan president obama's speech the other we did seem to promise more openness but unfortunately we're not seeing signs of a just yet it in pakistan we now have an incoming government that's making absolutely clear to the united states that it does not want these drone strikes i

don't think they're going to stall most of the strikes there in pakistan these days are really not related to al qaida to terrorist activities but really to the war across the border in afghanistan and the drone war has changed quite significantly over the ten years or so it's been running we see the united states talking about using drones in syria for example we have had colds from iraq and rwanda recently for the u.s. to use drones that so there's a concern among some that the u.s. will start to use these drones as an easy plank in the view of foreign policy. good to have you with us here today still to come for you this hour. going nowhere republicans in the u.s. congress the infamous prison open by blocking the transfer of prisoners cleared for release we speak to the lawyer of one inmate who's been on hunger strike over his detention without charge for over four months. and twelve russians face trial on

charges of mass disorder and violence against police at a rally before president putin was sworn in a year ago. the first night running turkey's been witnessing a similar scene clashes leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on protesters the third fatality has been confirmed in the unrest offer a man died from head injuries at a hospital in ankara activists when the police chiefs responsible for the tactics removed and urged officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want to all those that had been detained to be released saying that could actually end the days of riots and the turkish prime minister returns from a trip to north africa later he is expected to do something about the public discontent which is now being calling and making demands for him to reverse all of his policies but as all these are going to reports out of the one of his just to be

looking for scapegoats. there. plugs in tear gas turkey is going through a rough time right now who's to blame. there is a problem called twitter right now and you can find every kind of why there the thing that is called social media is the biggest trouble for society right now said prime minister. before dissing often african tour voices of dissent on istanbul's taksim square as well as many other squares and parks in turkey. but the turkish prime minister had by then already dismissed these voices as coming from drunkards and extremists the only types of people who attend protests in turkey according to this to completely dislikes a position to. take this as a personal offense. he's used to have.

agrees from the public for a lot of time because he gained a. waltz of the contrary this time probably he didn't think that he didn't assume that the protests would be so big everyone's feelings for the protesters however are mirrored by the people on texan who believe only one has lost touch with reality and cares mostly about one person's opinion his own everybody was here being and everybody where people were. trying to resist and people were trying to keep the spark and he was telling to be are you. saying that there is actually no project here going on and that he changed his mind and he said there is of course a project and i will do what i want to do and then the reserve spies spies everywhere and this commentary on the process the prime minister insisted there are hundreds of thousands of foreign agents working to upset the status quo in the country i don't insist that it's these very agents that have instigated the unrest

in the first place and continue to work among the crowds encouraging dissent in turmoil today's news paper quoted in. unnamed source in the government who claimed authorities have arrested some fifteen foreigners across the country in connection with the protests ironically many of them turned out to be nationals of iran a country which has been on everyone's blacklist for quite some time but just a couple of months ago the prime minister cut a different picture delivering a heartfelt speech on the subject of human rights and freedoms. where there is no justice there is no humanity because there is justice and justice is excluded the place of justice shifted to the man's identity the identity of human bein's to speak it is impossible to claim that people can build a decent life but in everyone's turkey lately people have been busy putting up barricades to keep police at bay rather than getting

a prosperous future for themselves it isn't always going to istanbul. ok let's get some more of the situation from dr johan a political scientist from sort of a university and joining us live here on r t good to see you today so the turkish prime minister first accuse the opposition then extremist elements then now foreign agents for the rest in seems to many that he's blaming everybody but it was self. well this is politics you should understand this kid not because it's a totally one. and i'm going to be. the first. and foremost political reality. raising for everyone including mr ed on so it's not surprising to me. that one is looking for some kind of you know i'm trying to do this but i'm sure that i don't is very pragmatic and very experienced parameters that soon he will come up with some more you know substantially solutions about

this you say favors where you say substantial explanations he's back in town after his north african trip later today people are expecting him to address these issues though he certainly does appear to be blaming just about anything and he can he can throw his book at twitter facebook social network when it comes to the organizers of these protests just who exactly are today. well this is as i said. the phenomenon i mean which is very surprising for us because so far there was this also modest protest of the one which is it's not social you can talk sense what's right now an organized mainly booze is what i was on created but what you see on the streets are young people who cannot even remember to add on turkey so these are i don't recall the. production i mean his success the fruit of the lawns economy the phrase in the last the chief economist crisis so the main focus is individual

autonomy so the case is about the life the another bar high politics of old fashioned secularism they're not talking about protecting him other than they're focusing on the autonomy individual to mean they denied life so it's a very difficult to imagine or after one because everyone has never faced such a real opposition so far he has been successful in challenging the traditional hopeless position but this time it's resourcefulness equal and to a large extent i can usually say that even among the protesters there are different people from different backgrounds some conservative groups in fact some square protesting the government. for certain is doing so you say these protesters are basically organized about her complaints about daily life it's not that rather it is social logical it's not about economics or something about they something that concerns about the ring is a medication of turkey but the other one despite a close relationship with the united states with actually criticized by washington

for allowing the use of excessive force against protesters to think of america's position could actually play into the hands of the demonstrators here this is also another interesting point because things are happening very quickly i mean even surprised to see how international media is becoming very critical about everyone because in the last ten years in international media i mean in the western media in brussels in london and new. the one has been presented as fact really was democratization and legalization is a model for the arab countries but for the first time the one is new criticism of course is this is important in turkey turkey. relations with russia china india russia and so forth but mainly talk is part of the verse through security groups so to choose any government for the shoot to divert let them know it is thinking about what's happening in turkey and also unique this is why this process are doing it in many ways because these protests so far she's been labeled that since before this

because they have been successful in changing the international perception of the one i'm watching what people changing about everyone from thailand to another to media. in which is becoming a kind of list so and so forth so it is also surprising to us because as i said in the last ten years alone has been presented as single of them a position so long governments will carefully about how and why do some traditional media react when you think interesting how you call these protests successful protests ultimately affecting the global outlook towards or the one that is perhaps not the beacon of freedom and democracy as some in the west might seem to suggest dr your hand by cheek a political scientist from sort of a university thanks for joining us here in our team today. now you can follow all the latest developments on tokyo's unrest online we've called the live coverage the

activists we've got the best pictures from the scenes some of them are rather graphic as well fire them with our last call. part of your stay with us here on r.t. in a moment we'll tell you why guantanamo bay is staying open and how one of america's largest mobile networks is routinely handing over telephone records straight from the government.

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artie's coming to you live from moscow with me war received millions of americans are reportedly having their phone records seized without their knowledge the u.s. national security agency has allegedly secretly forged risin one of the nation's biggest phone companies to hand over all of its core data let's get some more details on that right now it is tom barton joining us live here in the studio to talk with us rushing in on this story it certainly sounds like potentially sweeping surveillance here one of the latest revelations you know about your list comes from the britain's guardian newspaper in an exclusive they report that the national security security agency of the u.s. is collecting millions of people's data from their phone calls those with the company of risin one of the u.s. is largest telecoms providers there this order coming from a top secret court the foreign intelligence surveillance court on april twenty

fifth and the data itself telephony metadata that's the numbers of both parties in a phone call the location data of that call also the time and duration of all those calls the contents of the conversations are not included but you can imagine how anyone is looking at that could find out who is talking to who where they are when they call and how long before you can really zoom in and pinpoint someone from that kind of kind of data and this state has been given every day for around three months up until july the nineteenth this is unbelievable you're talking about the u.s. national security agency using a secret court to secretly steal everybody's phone records from the biggest mobile network provider in the united states one would only imagine that when it comes to the average american finding out about this they're going to be appalled horrified and downright angry if you could indeed be like that two u.s. senators who. have perhaps been hinting about this is not sure what precisely they

were ending about they have said that when it comes to u.s. citizens if they find out about how the u.s. has interpreted certain laws in terms of what data they can gallop and phone calls they would be stunned to find out the extent to which this is going on it's not totally the first time the bush administration admitted large scale collection of telephone data and there was a huge four over that this is really the first indication that the obama administration may have continued those practices as well and the real key point here that this is. mass scale hoovering up of this information regardless of where the people are says suspected of criminal activity as well and that's what could really create a big furor here is that there has also been recently some other surveillance scandals involving the bollard ministration last month a fox news reporter had his e-mails and phone calls monitored because

the government was trying to find the source of a leak story in the state department fox replying to that's called it downright chilling that they done that doing what they considered the reporter just doing his job really and the week before that the justice department was found to have monitored twenty different phone lines of the associated press news agency huge for war over that as well you would imagine that back in two thousand and one with the patriot act being implemented you know there we had sweeping invasions of privacy to many not surprising considering the terror attack but now two thousand and thirteen what is going on r.t. is on barton thank you. well us republicans have again scuppered president obama's pledge to close guantanamo bay congress they prevented the use of public money to move detainee many of whom have been refusing food for over four months all in protest of their indefinite detention lieutenant colonel barry when god who represents one inmate and says obama does have the power to free the prisoners is

just not trying to use it under the national security was great he can do that with the secretary of defense he does have that power it's time for the straight into you to report up or to at least tell us what's really going to happen the president does have the authority to release him from guantanamo bay to include men like shakur aamer back to london. ally of the united states a hunger strike there's no sign that there's any time to close you don't want it sort of hunger strike i mean my client reports that all of his personal possessions are still confiscated toothbrushes so good letters from home his attorney client. privilege to keep us at communicating between each other it's all been taken in not returned he asked me he said hey what kind of people voted to fund prison that's ninety five percent full of men who haven't been charged with

a crime after eleven and a half years i have to tell you and only answer for it is a mystery to me what kind of person says we don't care if you've done your city to guantanamo bay or just on the ground here in one town i'm ok here's the no change whatsoever and everybody's sort of waiting for washington to kill some leadership. twelve russians are due before a moscow court later today on charges of mass disorder and violence against police and they were arrested following protests which ended in classes last year in may of president putin swearing in ceremony let's get details now. he's following the case are joining us here live on the program alexa good to see you again today why why is the case so high profile and any big expectations for the softer news. well the court session has just started it's unclear how long it will last probably it's the first session of many people in the door all accused of inciting riots

a year ago and made to six thousand to twelve and they could face up to eight years in prison if they're found guilty back then certainly just twenty four hours before the you know gratian of president bush and probably the biggest violence that has seen in years everything was going rather smoothly in. the heart of most go until one part of the protesters attempted to break the police lines and move in a march towards the gravel and that's when the scuffles between the police and the protesters the rapid which left more than eighty people injured and more than three hundred were arrested of course most of them were released straight away but twelve of them the police believe that they have enough evidence that these people were inciting riots and that's why this case has been going on for the last year obviously entering its final stage the court hearings in court now this case has been riddled with controversy of course with the opposition describing these people as political prisoners and demanding them to be released we are seeing something like this today as well there are soldiers there are pickets from both the

opposition and the pro-government movements the first are demanding the release of the prisoners the second are demanding justice of course we keeping our times here on the ground and will be keeping our viewers up to date with all the latest details as this court session is progressing. to postpone the election if you're bored right thank you sir you know just a few minutes here on the program we'll be giving you a special documentary into hunger in africa live from moscow it's. the school board in batavia illinois has decided to punish one teacher for his bad behavior by putting him on a strict probation play or what did he do to be deserve be part of this probation planted he do select punch a student in the face or to go in some sort of horribly racist or sexist ranted for

the class so he just reminded the students that as americans they have the right to not incriminate themselves to put it more simply he told the students that they didn't have to answer a questionable survey about drug and alcohol use and their emotional state says the data from this questionnaire would be sent back to the private company that created it this raises even more privacy issues than just the school knowing about the student's personal lives i would like to commend this teacher john dryden for actually going above and beyond and telling the children something they need to dull you know if you're going to live in a society based on individual rights it would help to actually teach children what those rights are but that's just my opinion. we speak your language i mean some of the will inevitably and. use programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. a little tune in to angles to the stories. that

spanish find out more visit. according to the law usaid is allowed to up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been incredibly effective why. lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the us government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. so even today the food must first be

balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in our in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr works issued a report which presented the problem to congress president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive faster and cost less. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo in u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayers' money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the.