you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from where this was a blower behind the disclosure of a massive u.s. surveillance operation comes forward saying he'd rather sacrifice all that idly watched the american government destroying people's privacy. the u.s. also comes under fire for its stance in the gulf monarchies where activists claim new controversial internet regulations have led to arrests at a further curbing of freedoms. and interrogate the police crackdown on protesters for a cancer night and a row with security forces rounding on activists not only in the streets but in the social media as well. plus hungry for malya mineral

wealth as global powers are being drawn to one of the poorest countries on earth to exploit its natural regions has a special report from the war torn nation. it is to be a mosque here you're watching our team with me marina josh welcome to the program. the source of the bombshell leaks that revealed the massive scale of u.s. surveillance has amassed himself twenty nine year old former cia technical assistant edward snowden disclosed the documents that prove washington was secretly collecting phone records and spy on the internet activity of millions of people exposing himself to possible prosecution he explained his motives were the need to inform the public of the operation and president obama's failure to provide the

transparency that i 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 they could pay off the triads 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 that 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 other leaks r.t. talked to a former officer and was a blower and he was shot about what's making people in the intelligence community

reveal the truth spied circe for their future and this happens time and time again and as the the powers of the states and the powers the corporate the corporate estate become greater 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 for good reason good 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 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 well 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 in in this internet age i think is to go public and get the maximum exposure well as always we are eager to hear your views on the stories we cover today in our online poll we're asking what the future of my the for edward snowden now that he has come forward so this is how the opinion has divided so far as take a look. well almost a third at this point predict that he might share bradley manning's fate and will be thrown into jail just over a quater reckon the case is too complicated to make predictions and a little less than that believe he'll follow julian assange does example and seek refuge in the friendly ambrosi well less than the twenty percent of this point fears snowden my be eliminated to prevent annie further leaks let us know what you think on this issue by logging onto our t dot com and let us know what you think.

it's not just the infringement of people's privacy that's but of washington under fire support for several gulf states were a crackdown on internet freedom has reached a new highs resulting in arrest and bans is also causing deep concern are going off 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 authorities 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 damnation 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 it's 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 bahrain 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. and given this disturbing string of incidents across the gulf states manny wonder why washington is ignoring the persistent human rights violations there are just more 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 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 but. when it comes to. mind our own believe who has been running. for two hundred thirty. people told us murders. no repercussions will be. so empowering the government on the banks we. also do.

is to enforce the russian. tourists asylum in the united states most americans do not know we are supporting this order. 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. . what you are to live from moscow coming up later in the program rosie estimates the president suddenly the players the end of the euro zone crisis but that's cold comfort for those facing record high unemployment and tough stared across the continent. a roadside bomb has struck lebanon's main be rude to damascus highway this comes shortly after syrian troops with the help of hezbollah fighters regain control of the town of qusayr near the lebanese

border analysts say to dances made by the government could prompt washington to approve lethal aid to the rebels as early as this week our middle east correspondent paul as leader reports. obama administration could decide this week whether or not to approve lethal aid for syrian rebels the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has postponed a mideast tour to participate in these talks now according to officials they will also weigh the merits of the list a likely move of sending me a u.s. air power to enforce a no fly zone which of course would be a very controversial decision at the same time lately a falls in the u.s. marines have been deployed along jordan's border with syria and this is according to israeli and iranian media this deployment is unrelated so we're being told with the joint military exercise that started on sunday now the united states has deployed if sixteen jets and missiles which can be used against planes and other missiles to dawdle and according to washington it might keep going in the country

off to these drills the action of course has raised concerns in the international community russia says the deployment is and i'm a construct of state that threatens to expand the conflict and many are questioning whether or not the u.s. is preparing to carry out an incursion in syria and if so this of course will only further worsen the situation there many complain and incite far more controversy we continue to hear reports of direct foreign involvement in fact we're just hearing reports now of three belgian citizens who were killed in syria fighting for the rebel front now experts say that as many as two hundred belgians could be fighting in syria right now they would have come in through the turkish border and belgian police have a really a waste of civil citizens who have returned to the country after fighting and being radicalized inside syria this is not the first time that we're hearing of foreigners fighting in syria we have heard of americans fighting there in the past

all of this is happening in light of the moves made by the syrian president bashar assad's forces in fact we're hearing reports that assad's troops are poised for an attack on the key city of holmes which could cut off syria's. the opposition formed the south of the country where we're also hearing that as many as five thousand has been a fight has reportedly not inside syria helping the regime puts on with its campaign after capturing the town of course song we haven't lebanese border last week. and i'll be back with more news in just a few minutes don't go away. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on

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now with france in the middle of a troop withdrawal from mali and a un peacekeeping force is still deployed there 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 well one of the country's few thriving industries apparently being i by foreign corporations are just more even digs into the story little mina and attains herself while her entire family is at work her mom dad brothers and sisters are all miners and one of molly's many so-called traditional gold mines. will make a hole the size of a body with this and then we dig deeper and deeper. the industrial mines the series investments from big foreign companies work with machinery although often referred to as government mines their role in fact private was only twenty percent of the revenue being 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 have a depth of sixty metres they go and over fifteen or a twenty story building the tunnels are so cramped there is barely any room for movement and no support structure it looks like nick loves it and it was carried here for so long as you know someone. who you thought was overseas he. i tell this mine to tell me what it is and here work it on the ground for hours if it wasn't great what i'm asking is that if your minutes bridge becomes difficult with the lack of oxygen. this is the hardest part of a very long process rocks are extracted before being pounded sifted and washed if the team gets lucky their hours of back breaking work will produce some grains

of gold the money raised by the say you 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 just left empty handed with 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 that it's on a huge scale a lot of money the black market is growing there's no proper tax system and we don't get any from a. book with a monthly budget officials complain the traditional gold exploration is not about

helping the poor to become more affluent but about exploding them to make the wealthy much richer than they were before mose gold experts have more than tripled in the last decade yes mullins indeed seem not to be among the beneficiaries. but not all believe the authorities intentions will diminish poverty and that it will by use of guns is the only care about to begin with rationing so i don't want to come in and take over our country's mineral wealth and certainly we don't care about ordinary people stuff it just picked up on the back of it is that this november a joint mollen suisse venture will start operating the country's first gold refinery with a monthly capacity or profit countries any old 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. along will 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 they'll still have even their meager place under the african sun. raphael shotty from mali. now police have once again kalash with protesters in turkey's capital and towns night of a nationwide and say government demonstrations what started as a local environmental campaign last month soon escalated into a violent clashes but even tear gas and water cannon have failed to down been the activist mood are to go as the details. this is still going on people are saying they're not backing down they're going to continue to protest and it's not all fun and games protesters have come under fire from police and on kharaj this is the second day in a row that such such an event has happened in fact on the rise 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 that 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 according to or don't want to see. 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 all of them of course are hoping that that will not be the case as the sounds of this point people in istanbul show absolutely no determination to go anywhere they have been camping out here in texas seem and in gezi 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 thirteen activists have been arrested in turkey for what authorities describe a social network post that inside of hatred and invited people to stage provocations jeremy salt from bill candy university says prime minister are the ones few willing to protest with his combative stance. i don't think this is going to. crackdown on the social media the central problem now is that there are very serious differences within the government of what's going on between the prime minister between the president and between the deputy prime minister bullet orange but one has not changed his position of he hasn't backed off one of a bit and he's used very kind of aggressive language against the demonstrators he's calling terrorists vandals wreckers marauders luce's so forth and so on does then said that they dare to insult him was the prime minister of the opposition party.

very careful not to kind of talk to closely to these demonstrations but demonstrations as we sort of talk risk where there's no kind of central body people gather in the streets and that's the whole nature of the of the protests this spontaneous the grassroots people who want to join a political party or political movement they represent a broad range of interests ever again. in taksim and that of course had to take across the country the symbols are very important here because texas was developed in the one hundred twenty s. a symbol of the modern secular turkish republic now mr i don't want to turn it into symbol of something else he wants to put up his old. put a mosque or totally change the face of taksim square but it will represent what he wants to become which is a much more religious society. catch up with the stories we're covering for you online the latest news analysis and commentary just a click away at r.t. dot com and here's what's waiting for you there right now. after sending

a rat turtles worms and a monkey into space iran announces a new benchmark in its ambitions space program find out what it is online plus. one of russia's most celebrated ballet dancers. will not have his contract renewed find out why the bolshoi theater is dropped one of its household names dot com. and a surprising show of optimism french president francois hollande has declared the out of the eurozone crisis but his words are unlikely to sound convincing to many europeans facing record high unemployment and painful belt tightening measures all across the continent and as artist has our affiliate reports even the heart of brussels fails to offer any opportunities for those left without work and a means for survival. i'm forty seven and never seen the

goal from door to door press corps 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 they ran into financial trouble after getting a bank loan four years ago in order to repay their 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 tiny and people complain 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 english in the sand like anybody and 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 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 greek any strain six out of ten young people are out of a job that has just incredible labor mobility has to increase so that they can move from a high unemployment area to open employment area like for example germany clearly that's easier said than done though for people like nico 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 thinking. yes yes i know that a lot of people are telling 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 chances are you really think you need me to say you're almost for the life being unemployed until you're your pension and that is exactly why meek 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 chu like don't we want

a war like you are how can i say like a suspect you know. on the subway we have idea we have here for luggage a man who want to steal something don't go with luggage in the way it's they seem to 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. just our sylvia our t. brussels. else take a look at some of the stories from around the world. at least seven militants have been killed a large scale taliban attack at kabul international airport in afghanistan insurgencies the building outside the airport an open fire some of them were poorly wearing suicide vests a series of explosions were also heard outside of the syllabi which houses a large nato base. and has frozen security and economic

pacts with south sudan is tangent ask away it's between the two it follows an order of by the sudanese president holds all cross border transfers from the south you claim to the neighboring government is supporting rebel groups in sudan a stoppage comes just three months after the country's and a dispute over the cost of oil transfers south became in a panic in twenty eleven following decades of war. when car blasts and a suicide bombing have left at least fourteen people dead in the town just north of the iraqi capital baghdad the attacks targeted a busy market in a shia area no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack and the country seen a recent surge of shia sunni violence coming up here in r.t.d. a spiritual quest to meet a very special community of report is just a couple of minutes away stay with us.

six san diego 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 another language to be here 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 us department of commerce and trust me not all of them are canadians if the usa is going to have millions of tourists arriving in 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. of pill popping to what degree is big pharma hijacking captures 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 down addiction. yet. you you said.