you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. the whistleblower behind the disclosure of the massive u.s. surveillance operations comes forward to saying he'd rather suckle flies all than idly watch the american government destroying people's privacy. the u.s. also comes under flying out for its johnson the gulf monarchies where activists claim new controversial internet regulations have led to arrests and to further curbing our freedoms. molly and mineral wealth a global policy are drawn to one of the poorest countries on earth to exploit the natural reach. of the war torn nation.

and a rosy estimates of the french president suddenly declares the end of the eurozone crisis but that's cold comfort for those facing record high unemployment and topples geraghty across the continent. live from moscow this is all with me to say it's good to have you company with us this morning. there's also a bombshell leaks of that reveal the massive scale of you with surveillance has on mosque himself twenty nine below former cia technical assistant edward snowden disclosed the documents that proved washington was secretly collecting phone records and spying on the internet activity of millions of people exposing to possible prosecution explained his motives with the need to inform the public of

the operation and president obama's failure to provide the transparency that he promised i could be you know rendered by the cia i could have people come after me or any of their third party partners you know they would they work closely with a number of other nations or you know we make a pay off the triads for you know any any if their agents or assets we've got a cia station just up the road in the consulate here in hong kong i'm sure they're going to be very busy for the next week. and that's that's a fear i'll live under for the rest of my life however long that happens to be you can come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries the no one can meaningfully oppose them. if they want to get you they'll get you in time meanwhile the u.s. department of justice has already launched an investigation into the leaks already

talked to a former m i five office lane whistleblower any muschamp about what's making people in the intelligence community reveal the truth despite fears for the future. this happens time and time again and as the the powers of the states and the powers the corporate the corporate estate become greater and people come more concerned about civil liberties not just within their own countries but also the implications around the world people are worried about this the implications so i think that more young people within the intelligence agencies are going to think well actually are we doing this for good reasons or bad reasons and they will speak out well often people who do blow the whistle do try and deal with it in-house i mean certainly we did you go to your boss if you say this is wrong you say that you know press we should learn from mistakes made or whatever it is and they tell you just to shut up not rock the boat and hollow orders now particularly we're looking to situation where intelligence agencies are being asked to spy on their fellow citizens or to draw up cia drone kill lists across the middle east or to kidnap and torture people terrorist suspects and we have

a situation now where young people are going to be coming into this and thinking all is this right should we be doing this to our fellow human beings and if it's not right what can you do raise the boxes that goes no way you're told to shut up. the only other way and in this internet age i think is to go public and get the maximum exposure. as always we eager to hear your views on the story we covered today in our online poll we're asking what the future might be for edward snowden now that he's come forward let's take a look now as to how the opinion is divided online also third of you predicted that he might share bradley manning's of fate and will be thrown into jail just a little bit less than twenty seven percent to say that he'll follow julian assange for example and seek refuge in a frenzy at the sea and then a quarter of you that diverted reckon the case is too complicated to make a prediction and less than twenty percent of you there believe that snowden might

be eliminated to form preventing any further than leaks so very few are to dot com to let us know what you thing. right it's not just the infringement of people's privacy that's put washington under fire support for several gulf states where a crackdown on internet freedom has reached new highs resulting in arrests and bans is also causing deep concern art is your gold piece going up explains. let's now take a look at the u.s. friends who are known to have somewhat suspicious methods of upholding the democratic freedoms of their citizens qatar the united arab emirates kuwait bahrain and saudi arabia in saudi arabia local media has reported that the of toadies asked mobile providers to find ways to monitor encrypted messaging and apps like viber skype and whatsapp and said that if these applications could not be monitored they would then be blocked while last month senior saudi religious clerics declared those who use twitter are risking their nation end quote lose both this world and

their afterlife let's move on to torah now seen by many as a regional media hub a state which openly supports radical freedom fighters in syria is now looking at punishing websites and social media with new internet codes under the new draft the authorities will be allowed to remove news videos or post even factual ones if they think the violate the sanctity of privacy this brings us to the united arab emirates a country ruled by seven hereditary rulers were political parties are banned by a law their citizens can be jailed for tweeting like the recent piece of a man who received ten months behind bars for describing the legal process around a group of civil society activists quote in bad faith in kuwait this year alone at least six journalists and dozens of activists have been arrested on charges that include insulting the emir on twitter other widespread charges for online criticism from users are threatening national security and offending religion all on the web

. are anything but virtual and sometimes stretch to two years behind bars despite kuwait being poured into the international covenant on civil and political rights finally last but not least moring last week six bloggers were given one year in prison each after they were found guilty of misusing the right of free expression and insulting the king even though apparently their angry tweets were merely criticism of the authorities given this disturbing string of incidents across the gulf states many wonder why washington is ignoring the persistence human rights violations thing i do is very excellent. addressing these gross human rights violations is problematic for the obama administration you see america has military bases throughout the gulf region which not coincidentally helped form a strategic envelope around iran additionally the us is in the midst of a major buildup of american military forces in the persian gulf more warships

additional attack aircraft and most recently a laser weapon system have been deployed to the region in two thousand and ten president obama struck a ten year sixty billion dollar weapons deal with saudi arabia and despite bahrain's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters the u.s. has reportedly continued to provide tens and tens of millions of dollars worth of weapons ammunition vehicle parts and communication equipment to the country now critics accuse the u.s. of conveniently turning a blind eye to human rights violations in the gulf region for its own interests and geo political purposes bush. when it comes to. police who has been running. for two hundred thirty years there is. jails people toward just people murders people and. no repercussions only.

so the bahraini government armaments will you keep selling them all sorts of. you know who is to enforce their brush and. who is it's silent over here in the united states most americans do not know we are supporting this sort of political as long as the gulf states continue standing under america's protective umbrella experts believe those nations will remain emboldened to violate human rights and democratic principles with impunity reporting from new york. r.t. . police have once again clashed with protesters in turkey's capital on a tense night all the nationwide anti government demonstrations started as a local environmental campaign last month as soon escalated into violent clashes but even the tear gas and water cannon has failed to dent in the activists. going to go with the details now well again the protesters have come under fire from police in on caracas is the second day in

a row that such such an event has happened in fact on caracas one of those is that one of the turkish cities which has been under a lot of pressure when it comes to public reacting to the protests in fact it has been gassed or somehow the water cannons have been used on protesters almost every single day off the protests which have been going for more than a week at this point almost two weeks in istanbul the worrying trend here is that the prime minister don't want continues to talk about his supporters who are also getting ready to go to the streets for interest don't want to feel. their patience is running thin and those who are siding with the prime minister are ready to take to the streets and express their points of view is that of course happens then all of allister experts are predicting that extreme civil unrest in the country and all of them of course are hoping that that will not be the case as it stands at this point people in istanbul show absolutely no determination to go anywhere they have been camping out here and don't seem and gassy part for more than

a week at this point their main demand is also to see the prime minister leave his post but the prime minister obviously has made it clear that he is not going anywhere. international relations expert told the prime minister everyone has become a hostage to his own self centered politics. this is the problem as well as his hoped for trump card he's playing on the cult of personality and anybody who lives . in flight magazines as well as political programs and so on a. promise to he's the man behind. the gun control because it dangerous for concisely because. the prime minister is the problem may mean the people in his party who are perhaps chafing under his very heavy handed and dominant personality may perhaps begin to feel they could pull the rug from underneath him he would the party itself would not. and you can always catch up with the stories we're covering

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find out more visit. in a surprising show of optimism french president francois hollande has declared the end of the eurozone crisis but is a word that unlikely to sound convincing to many europeans facing record high unemployment and pay for belt tightening measures all across the continent as artie's says also your reports even the heart of the e.u. brussels they also offer any opportunities for those left without work and the means for survival. i'm forty seven and never thing i will go from no to both as for was nobody. nobody needs me you know how can i say i'm messing around. i don't see any future for us here we have to go back and back to their native rumania nico at the mill you ran into financial

trouble after getting a bank loan four years ago in order to repay the debt they thought they'd try their luck elsewhere a fruitless journey that took the from italy germany denmark and i'm sure done before finally ending up here in the e.u. capital brussels really can't find anything. they tiny and people complains they don't have anything to work we try to go to germany. he's much tougher than you know because we don't know the language only british is the same like anybody everybody say we don't have anything to work everybody complains. all of this part of the field where we've been. it's an unpleasant situation that's quickly becoming the norm in the crisis stricken european union and the seventeen nations euro zone in april the jobless rate went up yet again to

twelve point two percent compared to twelve point one percent didn't march that's nineteen million men and women in the whole e.u. twenty six point five million people are out of work the figures are even worse for the other twenty five's as youth unemployment in some countries has gone through the week. in greek basic any strange thing out of ten and beyond people are out of the job that there's just incredible labor mobility last week greece so that they can move from a high unemployment area to open employment area like for example germany clearly that's easier. done that for people like nikko and his wife what these latest unemployment figures show is something already known that europe is struggling to find ways to create jobs but what they don't show are the day to day lives of the twenty six and a half million unemployed europeans many of whom are desperately finding ways to put an end to their struggles to end up taking. yes yes

i know that a lot of people are telling about the losses side lost a generation if you compare the youngest group with the middle age group over the only strange group if not the youngest the biggest problems is to middle age category was most problems after forty forty five your chances of finding chances are you're really very limited so you're almost on them for the life of being unemployed until you're your pension and that is exactly why meek is now forced to think about woodturning who to me via i want to go back home because. i don't see anything here. it's very hard to find a job and everybody look at you like you don't really want a war like you are how can i say like a suspect in. some way we have no idea we are here for luggage a man who want to steal something we don't go we go give them away because they

think see they don't belong here this is too close to be like a big family but nothing like that. i'm very sorry to say that but. this are still the r.t.e. brussels. and outside of the monetary union europeans are still feeling the pinch with that and austerity still brain a painful being a pin painful mixture artist business presenter katie pilgrim takes a look at how the british are coping. british people are feeling the pinch at the supermarket the petrol pump a monthly utility bills are rising while wages remain the same the economy is two point six percent smaller than the pre recession pages you can see just here more than five years on and the difference between germany and the united states is is evident to see just here the u.k. is significantly behind us for inflation then this means british families are

struggling to make ends meet food prices in april were four and a half percent higher than in the same month last year while energy prices were up two percent at the same time the rising cost of living means consumers are losing their appetite for shopping and this puts the british recovery on hold the main worry is for britain's right now include not being able to afford university tuition fees paying the mortgage or even getting one in the first place the spiralling cost of childcare so i asked brenda kelly from id markets what the underlying problems are starry she tends to make it a little bit more difficult for people what we do need to see is consumer recovery consumer confidence recovery and of course if you're a sturdy in in there and of course high debt both from a public and private sector point of view it doesn't necessarily inspire confidence and without back you want of people spending you will have people pretty much saving and trying to deal of ridge and pay down their debts or all of this doesn't

listen to convince the british public that awful starting measures are boosting the british economy. some other world news in brief for you this hour a large scale militant attack is under way at kabul international airport in afghanistan police say insurgents have seized a building outside the airport and opened fire some of them are reported to be wearing suicide vests series of explosions has also been heard outside the facility which houses a large nato base and will bring you more on this as we get it. at least seven people have been killed and dozens wounded in the yemen's a capital so now when the police report of the use the live ammunition on shia protesters the demonstrators had gathered outside the headquarters of the country's internal security service demanding the release of political prisoners yemen has

been plagued by sectarian violence between the shia minority and the ruling family for almost a decade. the. protesters in spain have rallied against the continued cancer to social welfare and i'm going home if the actions demonstrators marched through central madrid are waving play cards and chanting slogans against the impunity of major financial figures and institutions three years in spain are there for help from the e.u. and the i.m.f. to save its banking system. after lengthy negotiations north and south korea is set to hold two days of high level talks later this week in seoul the new south korean president says he wants to reestablish with pyongyang after months of growing tensions while the north says it's looking to kick start joint commercial links along the border which were closed after the country was hit with more u.n. sanctions hitty to the head of libya's military has reportedly resigned after

thirty one people were killed in clashes between protesters and militia in benghazi the crowds demanded the government sanctioned armed groups to be immediately disbanded two years after the fall of moammar gadhafi militias are still dominate parts of libya and have increasingly tried to shape the country's politics africa affairs expert aiyar johnson has says people have every reason to be afraid of the gunmen the militias seem to be controlling the ground they are dictating the pace of reforms and and of course they look like excessive pressure on the government to carry arms have relied on the militia some of them at least provoke their ranks and short their positions so out this just shows that the militias are not trusted by the people the people who want to claim back their life and they want to claim back their own democracy they feel and they don't trust them they concerned about their guns because they last year they tried to demonstrate in revolt against all the

vote of their communities these militias clear go lower. the newly sworn in the pakistani prime minister has summoned to the u.s. envoy a drone strike killed seven men in the northwest of the country the attack comes just days after no was so relieved once again called on washington to hold the strengths and respect the country's sovan team meanwhile the us president continues to defend the deadly program claiming it actually saves more lives than it takes but the latest attacks only adds a to a warring tally of america's drone war in pakistan almost nine hundred civilians have died in the attacks which supposedly only target terrorists of those of two hundred well almost children the number of strikes has risen sharply during barack obama's presidency six times war than under his predecessor there's a chasm all the looks add to the impact of various we're getting caught in the line

of fire. 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 was on his way to work at a mine you're his village on 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 we're stuck in a war that we didn't ask for it's a hopeless feeling or to be just as above our heads all the time. although the attack took place three years ago i mean new laws 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 modify it in the same arrogance should be able to tell an ordinary person from a television leader what they should know who they're killing of what did we do to deserve this. this isn't my. brawn arctic it's a question echoed by now darren who lost part of his hearing his short term memory and nearly his foot when. the drone shockwave was so intense that it threw us i saw it far from the place where we were sleeping after several minutes there was another strike and it killed many more people in many ways the epicenter of the cia's highly classified drone program as 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 were smuggled to islamize bought from the tribal areas they're believed to be fragments of actual hellfire missiles retrieved from a war zone most americans never get to see the fragments collected by

a local journalist who spent years documenting the civilian toll of drone especially on children just images of the living and the dead for nor it's personal . to me 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 shot is enough to terrify them. and that fear can turn to anger a new generation radicalized by the war. drone strikes killing innocent people who are not part of the conflict you just why did the conflict you're giving the 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 it ever was up on the. latest. polls. when translated by defense that's cold comfort for the victims you see cough no party pakistan coming no way peter lavelle and his guests are ready to raise the temperature cross-talk is up right up to the spring.

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free. old free broadcast live video for your media projects a free radio don carty dot com. lisa . cohen welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter all about the age of pill popping to what degree is big pharma hijacking captured the western medical establishment what is the real aim of the pharmaceutical industry to make people healthy or to generate healthy profits for themselves and is there anything we can do to break this unhealthy addiction. to cross talk big pharma i'm joined by david healy in bangkok he is

a professor of psychiatry at cardiff university and author of the book farmageddon we also have martha rosenberg in chicago she's an investigative health reporter in author of born with a junk food deficiency and in new york we cross to josh bloom he's director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the american council on science and health in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want david if i go to you first is the western world. over pharmac age if i can use that term. yes it is we use more and more drugs for conditions that we don't need to read treatments for but we need our drugs to work well for conditions we do need treatment for and the pharmaceutical industry is less and less able to produce the kind of treatments that we need at the moment but on the country though if you and if you hoed shares in any of the pharmaceutical companies you're doing quite well because they've been making massive profits.