you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free of risk. was a lower behind the disclosure of a massive u.s. surveillance operation comes forward saying he'd rather sacrifice all the 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 and a further curbing of freedoms. in turkey police crackdown on protesters for a tense night in a row with security forces rounding on activists not only in the streets but in the social media as well. plus hungry for a mali

a mineral wealth as global powers are being drawn to one of the poorest countries on earth to exploit its natural riches party has a special report from the war torn nation. the starting coming to life from the russian capital a marina joshing 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 advert 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 were 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 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 leaks are to talk to us former m i five officer and was a blower and he was shot about what's making people in the intelligence community

reveal the truth despite serious for their 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 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 for 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 do is you go to your bosses 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 follow 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 shuttle. the only other way and 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 and today in our online poll we're asking what the future might hold for adult snowden now that he's come forward let's take a look at the vote picture so far well almost a third of those who participated in our online poll predicted he might share a bradley manning's fate and will be thrown in to jail just over a quater reckon the king's is too complicated to make prediction of this point and a little less than believe he'll follow jewel in a songes example and seek refuge in a friendly embassy less than twenty percent and at this stage of fierce noda my be eliminated to prevent any further leaks so let us know what you think on this issue

by logging on to r.t. dot com now it's not just the infringement of people's privacy that's put washington under fire support for the several gulf states were a crackdown on internet freedom has reached 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 medias 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 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 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 war 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 ported to the international covenant on civil and political right finally last but not least barring 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. now given this disturbing string of incidents across the gulf states many wonder why washington is ignoring the persistent human rights violations there are days maria 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 playing it leading turning a blind eye to human rights violations in the gulf region for its own interests and geo political purposes. when it comes to. running. for two hundred thirty. joules people told us people mothers. no repercussions from the united states so the bahraini government on that once we saw in them also. you know has

to enforce russian. tourists silent. 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. new york. r.t. coming up later in the program here on our team rosie asked him it's french president suddenly declares the out of the eurozone crisis but doubts that could come forward for that those facing record high unemployment and a stereo cross economy and. a roadside bomb a struck lebanon's main beirut to damascus highway this comes shortly after syrian troops with the help of has fighters regain control of the town of qusayr near the lebanese border analysts say the advances made by the government could prompt

washington to approve lethal aid to the rebels as early as this week our middle east correspondent policy your reports a bomb the administration could decide this week whether or not to approve lethal aid for syria rebels the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has postponed a mid east to participate in these talks now according to officials they will also weigh the merits of the list and likely move all the same to me u.s. a power to enforce a no fly zone which of course would be a very controversial decision at the same time maybe a phone thousand u.s. marines have been deployed along jordan's border with syria and this is according to israeli 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 jordan 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 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 food 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 belgium police have a radio base that several citizens who have returned to the country off the fighting and being radicalized inside to syria this is not the first time that we're hearing of foreign is 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 armed opposition from the south of the country we're also hearing that as many as five thousand has been a fight has reportedly not inside syria helping the regime press on with its campaign after capturing the town of course song we haven't lebanese border last week. while back with more news very shortly stay with us. i would rather questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why i'm going by go larry king now right here on r.g.p.

question more. when you take three. three. three. three. three. three blood video for your media project free media zero down to our t.v. dot com. welcome back here with our with france in the middle of

a troop withdrawal from mali an 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 with one of the country's few thriving industries apparently being i by foreign corporations are 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 one of his 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 the series investments from the companies who work with machinery often referred to as government mines there are only facts private 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 go down at the depth of sixty meter is the equivalent over fifteen or a 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 was carried here was really serious about. real dollars overseas she. got her this mine it tells me her wrist band here working on the ground for hours and it wasn't great was why i'm asking that if you're minutes bridge it becomes difficult with a lot 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 same you will then be divided between all those who went down the peat 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 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 that it's on a huge scale with a lot of money the black market is growing there's no property tax system and we don't get a penny from. the market but officials complain that traditional gold exploration is not about helping the poor to become more affluent but about exploding them to

make the wealthy marsh richer than they were before. mollies 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 is going to hit their will by using guns is the only care about to begin with ration so i don't want to come in and take all that on the trash mineral wealth and that's certainly what i want to hear that ordinary from the stuff that you just got on the back of it is that this november and joined 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 the law will these others change anything for the better for people for 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. or a fashion r.t. from mali. now police have once again clashed with protesters in turkey's capital on a tense night of nationwide anti-government demonstrations what started as a local environmental campaign last month soon ask away to into violent clashes but even tear gas and water cannon have failed to downplay the activists mood. 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 karate 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 some 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. 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. an 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 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. well thirteen activists have been arrested in turkey for what authorities describe a social network polls that inside of hatred and invited people to stage provocations jeremy salt from university says prime minister ever wants fueling the protests with his calm but if stance i don't think this is going to. crack down 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 average but mr erdogan has no chance to visit him at all he hasn't backed off one little bit and he's used very kind of aggressive language against the demonstrators he's calling terrorists vandals wreckers marauders looses so forth and so on and is then said that they dare to insult him as the prime minister of the opposition party the main opposition party so it's very careful not to kind of too closely to the

demonstrations but demonstrations as we risk where there's no kind of central body people gather the streets and that's the whole nature of the of the protests this plan is the grassroots they're not people who want to join a political party or little movement they represent a broad range of interests that will come together again. in taksim and that of course had this across the country symbols are very important here because the developed in the one hundred twenty s. is a symbol of the modern secular turkish republic. a symbol of something else he wants to put up his old. the. the face of taksim square but it will represent what he wants to become which is a much more religious society. and you can always catch up with the stories we're covering for you online so the latest news analysis and comments are just a click away at our t. dot com and here's what's waiting for you there right now. they're sending

a rat turtles arms adam monkey into space the ron announces a new benchmark and it's a vicious space program to find out what that is on line. of russia's most celebrated ballet dancers an eagle eyed tsiskaridze will not have his contract renewed find out why the bolshoi theatre has dropped one of its household names are to dot com. in a surprising show of optimism french president francois hollande has declared the aunt of the euro zone 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 artie's tests are still in our reports even the heart of the e.u. brussels fails to offer any opportunities for those left without work and a means for survival. i'm forty seven and never saying i will go

all 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 nicola to mildew ran into financial trouble after death 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 if they don't have anything to work we try to go to germany. he's much tougher you know because we don't know the language only english is the same like anybody everybody's saying we don't have anything to work everybody come

playings. 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 nation 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 week. in greece any strange thing out of ten and beyond people are out of a job that has just incredible labor mobility has to increase so that they can move from high point employment area to open employment area like for example germany clearly that's easier. said the done that for people like nicole and his wife what these latest unemployment figures show was 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 going about the loss side of the generation if you compare the youngest group with the middle age group or with 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 churches are 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 whole 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 don't we want to war like

you are how can i say like a suspect you know. we have idea we have here for luggage a man who want to steal something don't go with luggage in the way this they think see 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 on our case here in just a couple of minutes with a round up from the world of sports don't go away. 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 for those who come to 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 and trust me not all of them are canadians if the us is going to have millions of tourists arriving in traveling by air and 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. wealthy british style it's not on.

the. markets. scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy kinds of reports on our. hello welcome to the r t sports show twenty six action packed minutes of sport from russia and around the world coming up in the cape partridge and here are the top stories. we know problems while number one serena williams beats defending champion maria sharapova in straight sets to clinch her second french open crown. plus lisbon last portugal would be russia one nil in the world cup qualifier to go top of group best with fabio capello's men have two games in hand.

and top give frenchman evangel extends his lead in the overall standings after dominating russia's first touring car race in moscow. four weeks football and racing to come but first to tennis after world number one serena williams beat number two maria sharapova for the thirteenth time in a row to clinch her second french open title europe of zero was the defending champion in paris and took a two lovely lead before losing. the first set six four while a single break of serve in the second was enough for williams to take it by the same scoreline and secure her sixteenth major title but only her second on the paris clay courts after last winning the event eleven years ago the american sealed the deal with ace number ten it's thirty one she's the oldest winner at roland garros in the open era and hasn't lost to sharapova since two thousand and four are in my position to be in the final and i did.