you can come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free. the whistle blow up behind the disclosure of a massive u.s. surveillance operations comes forward saying he'd rather sacrifice all the naively watch the american government destroying people's privacy. there was also comes under fire for its stance in the gulf monarchies where activists claim new controversial internet regulations have led to arrests and further curbing of freedoms. for mali and mineral wealth a global policy of drawing to one of the poorest countries on earth to exploit the natural riches of the war torn nation. and in turkey police crackdown on protesters for ten tonight in the row with their rallies in the

capital demanding the prime minister resigns gaining momentum. it's nine am into the russian capital you're watching r t live with me to say it's good to have you with us the source of a bombshell leaks that revealed of the massive scale of u.s. surveillance has on mosques is himself twenty nine year old 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 himself to possible prosecution he explained his motives where 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 a people come after me or any of their their third party partners you know they would they work closely with a number of other nations or you know they could pay off the triads you know any any if their agents or assets we've we've got a cia station just up the road in the consulate here in hong kong and 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't 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 beaks argued talked to a former m i five officer and whistleblower any much song about what's making people in the intelligence community reveal the truth just might feel as well their

future. this happens time and time again and as the the powers of the states and the powers the corporate 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 we doing this the 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 and certainly we did it and you go to your boss and you say this is wrong you say that you know perhaps 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 get to hear your views on the stories we covered today in our online poll we're asking what's the future for edward snowden now that he's come out forward let's take a look now at how the opinion is divided so i thought almost a third of you actually predicted that he might ship bradley manning's fate and will be thrown into jail just a little less believe he'll follow julian assange his example and seek refuge in a friendly embassy twenty five percent of you a quarter voted they reckon the case is too complicated to make predictions and less than twenty percent of fears snowden might be eliminated to prevent any further leaks now go to r.t. dot com and let us know what you think. it's not just the infringement of people's

privacy that's put washington under fire support for several gulf states where crackdown on internet freedoms has reached new highs resulting in a rest and bans is also causing deep concern is the 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 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 a new internet called under the new draft of 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 but the jail sentences are anything but virtual and sometimes stretch to two years behind bars despite kuwait being poured into the international covenant on civil

and political right finally last but not least one ring 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 and many wonder why washington is ignoring the persistent human rights violations the art is marina but my head takes a look 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 systems 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. when it comes to. police who has been running. thirty years there is. jails people toward murders. no repercussions only. so the bahraini government are not meant in them all sorts of. you know to enforce their brushing. who is it's silent in the united states most

americans do not know we are supporting this all referred to 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. . coming up later in the program a rosy as to made the french president suddenly declared the end of the euro zone crisis but that's cold comfort for those facing regular high unemployment and top austerity across the continent. with france in the middle of a troop withdrawal from mali and u.n. peacekeeping forces still deployed them the country is facing growing uncertainty and it's not just security that's on people's minds many fear that international involvement might not be limited to military operations with one of the country's

few thriving industries apparently being i'd buy foreign corporations are g.'s a maria for national digs into the story. little mina entertains herself while her entire family is at work her mom dad brothers and sisters are all miners at one of molly's many so-called traditional gold mines. make a hole the size of a body with this and then we dig deeper and deeper. the industrial mines with serious investment from big foreign companies work with machinery although often referred to as government mines they're all in fact private with only twenty percent of their revenue been paid into the country's coffers those who work in traditional mines don't have to pay the authorities but at the same time they don't get any help either the hell is narrow and deep they dig until they strike gold or some of the mines here go down the depth of sixty meter is the equivalent of

fifteen or twenty story building the tunnels are so cramped there is barely any room for movement here with no support structure it looks like nick loves it and it won't carry here missy or someone. that was overseas she. got her this mine and tells me here is ten here working on the ground for hours it wasn't very hard why i'm asking that if here minutes bridge becomes difficult with a lot of oxygen. this is the hardest part of a very long process rocks are extracted before been pounded sifted and washed. if the team gets lucky their hours of back breaking work will produce some grains of gold the mind raised by the sale will then be divided between all those who went down the pit sometimes as many as a thousand miners. are not happy as i work more hours than i get for having spent around five hours here we are dirty exhausted and terribly dehydrated people here

usually work from ten to eleven hours per day every evening they're paid but not in cash they're given rocks taken from the mine this may contain gold if it doesn't they're just left empty handed this game of luck is for many mullins of their only way of getting paid but it seems their dreams of wealth in one of the poorest countries on earth could be dashed as the government moves to ban traditional mines you know it's on a huge scale we lose a lot of money the black market is growing there's no proper tax system and we don't get a penny from it. but officials complain the traditional gold exploration is not about helping the poor to become more affluent but about exploding them to make the wealthier much richer than they were before molly's gold expiries have more than tripled in the last decade yes mullins indeed seem not to be man the beneficiaries but not all believe the authorities intentions will diminish poverty. they only

care about the corporations are going to come in and take over our country's mineral wealth certainly they don't care about ordinary people. this november a joint mollen suisse venture will start operating the country's first gold refinery with a monthly capacity of half the country's any oil production it will require a huge increase in exploration at least seven chinese geological agencies have already arrived in the country with many more likely to follow. this is a little. we'll these others change anything for the better for people the future of these people remains uncertain like their income and it's not clear whether those two have even they made their place on the african sun. from mali.

and in a few minutes high dead and austerity making life harder and harder for the british as the government struggles to keep the economy out of recession that's just state . i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find by feel larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. i

will be here very. very. very few. thank.

you and i think. seriously very very. thank. you if. you want me to be in. the meeting if you actually move the move. thanks for staying with us here watching our team police have once again clashed with protesters in turkey's capital on a tense might of nationwide anti-government demonstrations let's start of the as a local environmental campaign last month as soon as today into violent clashes but

even tear gas and water cannon has failed to dampen the add to this mood artie's we're not going to go with the details now well again the protesters have come under fire from police and on karate this is the second day in a row that such such an event has happened in fact all cries one of those is that one of the turkish cities which has been under a lot of pressure when it comes to police reacting to the protests in fact it has been gassed or somehow the water cannons have been use of 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 according to a don't want he's done 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 that all of allister experts are predicting. 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 in taxi man and in gas the park 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 his prime minister everyone has become a hostage to his own self centered politics. this is the problem for one 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 opponents say. the prime minister is the problem may mean the

people in his party who are perhaps chafing under his very heavy handed 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 of the stories we're covering for you online of the latest news analysis and comment are just a click away at r.t. dot com and here's what's waiting for you right now after sending a rat hurdles a worms and a monkey into space in iran announces a new benchmark in its program find out what that is online. so one of russia's most celebrated ballet dancers. will not have his contract renewed to find out why the theater has dubbed one of its household name and r.t. . we speak your language or not at the.

program. story. here. find out more visit. in a surprising show of optimism french president francois hollande has declared the end of that the eurozone crisis but as words are unlikely to sound convincing to many europeans are facing record high unemployment and painful belt tightening measures all across the continent and as artists are silly reports even the heart of the e.u. brussels of fails to offer any opportunities for those left without work and a 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 to germany denmark and i'm sure done before finally ending up here in the e.u. capital brussels really can't find anything. they tell me and people complain if they don't have anything to work we try to go to germany. is much tougher when you know because we don't know the language only british is the same like anybody everybody say we don't have anything to what 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 course is strictly the 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 in 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 roof in greece any strange things out there and young people are out of the job this is 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 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 your peers many of whom are desperately finding ways to put an end to their struggles to end up thinking. yes yes i know that a lot of people are turning about the loss side of the generation if you compare the youngest group with the middle age group or with the only strange group is not the youngest. the biggest problems is to middle age category was most problems after forty forty five your chances of finding churches other really very meaningful still you're almost gone for life being unemployed until you're you mention and that is exactly why mika is now forced to think about woodturning who to noumea 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 we want to war like

you are how can i say like a suspect in. some way we have an idea we have here of luggage a man who want to steal something don't go with luggage in the way this they think see they don't belong here this is you have to post to be like a big family but nothing like that. i'm very sorry to say that but. just our sylvia our t. brussels. and outside the monitory union europeans are still feeling the pinch or with the debt and austerity still being a painful mixture arches 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 war 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 ivy markets what the underlying problems are staring 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 of your stir in there and of course high

debt both from the public and private sector point of view it doesn't necessarily inspire confidence and without that 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 does little to convince the british public that the measures are boosting the british economy. some of the world news in brief for you this hour one of these a seven minute have been killed in the field taliban attack at kabul international airport in afghanistan insurgents a seize a building outside the airport an open fire some of them report of the wearing suicide vests a series of explosions wealth are heard outside the facility which houses a meter. at least seven people have been killed and dozens wounded in yemen's the capital sana when police a report of the used in live ammunition on shia protesters the demonstrators had gathered outside the headquarters of the country's internal secret service

demanding the release of political prisoners young men has been plagued by sectarian violence between the shia minority and the ruling sunni for almost a decade. coming up on our t.v. a spiritual quest or to meet a very special community a special report is just a couple of minutes away to stay tuned. six a day ago residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out

just for speaking of the other language to be sure yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and four years ago do america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the u.s. department of commerce a trial. not all of them are canadians if the usa is going to have millions of tourists arriving and traveling by air then don't be surprised when they speak their own languages if you're going to throw foreigners off of airplanes just for speaking their native languages then you're going to have to basically throw people off of half of the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion .

but you. know that if. they resettled here in the nineteenth century. and then some of the move to canada . he was how do they handle their faith teachings from generation to generation.