you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and . be completely free of risk. the man who exposed washington's all seeing spy network justifies his actions saying it rather lose freedom to watch his government destroy privacy. the us isn't the only one pledging no mercy for those who speak now it's it's golf friends are taking it out crackdowns to a much greater levels you're reporting about. violence and amal you threatens to destabilize the whole of north africa according to the u.n. even as international business vultures seek to get all the gold they can from the countries mines. the storm over syria says military advances speeds up the

debate in washington on arming the rebels while u.s. gathers troops jets and missiles nearby. it is five pm moscow you're watching r t m we're going to josh welcome to the program. now the man who blew the whistle on unparalleled u.s. surveillance webb has identified himself saying he expects to be made to suffer for his actions twenty nine year old former cia technical assistant edward snowden is now holed up in a hong kong hotel afraid to leave his room for fear of retribution but he says he has no regrets and that exposing washington spy network against hundreds of millions of its own citizens was too important. i could be you know rendered by the

cia i could have a people come after me or any of their third party partner you know they would they work closely with a number of other nations or you know me because pay off the truck 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'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. now the united states criminal che's has begun with top officials calling for snowden to be prosecuted to the harshest extent of the law intelligence analysts glenmore treanor harvey told us washington will try everything to catch the whistleblower they will

use all the palos available to them both legal and dare i say it illegal we've heard of rendition well he's he's too high profile at the moment i think to be spirited away so i do think that they will pay for the legitimate operation but there's no surprise about this it's a huge embarrassment it's a political embarrassment there is a phrase closing the stable door after the horses bolted well the thing is that with that was snowden he has given away so much information it is difficult to stop things now but they they will not stop this is the way that the intelligence services get their information nothing will change. well as always here in our if you would like to know what you think on the stories that we cover for you here and today on our web site r t dot com we're asking what the future might hold for

edward snowden let's now take a look at the answers and what we've got so far from the viewers who have participated in our site vote as you can see almost a third predict that he will probably share the same fate as bradley manning that is imprisonment and just over a quarter reckon that the case is too complicated at this point to make any predictions now slightly fewer of the viewers believe he'll follow jewel in a saunders example that is probably seeking asylum in a friendly country and stays there and less than twenty percent of this point fear snowden might be eliminated for fear of future leaks do what is not what you think on this issue by logging on to our dot com. now when it comes to getting heavy with whistleblowers and free speech advocates the u.s. need look no further than its own gulf allies several countries there have cracked down with arrest and incarceration to keep people quiet on and off line as you were just going on now explains. so now take a look at the u.s.

friends who are known to have somewhat suspicious methods of upholding democratic freedoms of their citizens to are the united arab emirates kuwait bahrain and saudi arabia now in saudi arabia local media reports that the authorities asked the 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 then they would have to be blocked while last month senior saudi religious clerics declared those who use twitter are risking quote demonstration and lose both this world and their afterlife let's move on to qatar now seen by many as a regional media hub which openly supports radical freedom fighters in syria while it's now looking at punishing websites and social media with a new internet coach under the new draftee of gaudi's will be allowed to remove news videos or posts even factual ones if they think the violate the sanctity of privacy now this brings us to the united arab emirates

a country ruled by seven hereditary rulers were political parties are banned by law and their citizens can be jailed for tweeting like the recent case 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 now in kuwait this year alone at least six journalists and dozens of activists have been arrested on charges that include insulting the mirror on twitter other widespread charges for criticism online 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 being party to the international court and on civil and political rights now finally last but not least reign 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. well there is also a question over why the u.s. hasn't been all that forthcoming over human rights violations in the gulf states despite championing its own global democracy credentials more on that side of the story from artie's marina. 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 but. when it comes to. believe. there's been running. for two hundred thirty years there is. jails people toward just people murders people and. no repercussions will live on it so so the bahraini government on that once we. all sorts of. you know has to enforce their russian. tourists asylum here 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. . ten nights of tear gassing in turkey as a country prime minister hits out anti-government protesters labeling them or authors who lack respect for islam that's coming up here in r t. a roadside bomb has struck lebanon's main a beirut to damascus highway damaging some vehicles and it came shortly after syrian troops with the help of housefull off fighters regain control of the town of qusayr near the lebanese border the syrian soldiers advances seem to be pushing rebel supporters to spar washington into action spotlessly are now reports. on the administration could decide this week whether or not to approve lethal aid for syrian rebels the us secretary of state john kerry has postponed a mid east tour to participate in these talks now according to officials they were

also the merits of the a list a likely move of sending a u.s. air power to enforce a no fly zone which of course would be a very controversial decision at the same time lady 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 sixteen jets and missiles which can be used against planes and other missiles to jordan and according to washington it might keep him 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 take 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 wasted 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 armed. this and from the south of the country we're also hearing that as many as five thousand hezbollah fight has reportedly now inside syria helping the machine play sun with its campaign after capturing the town of course song we have the lebanese border last

week. international lawyer and political analyst dr franklin lamb believes the decision to send arms to syrian rebels will return to haunt president obama i think the obama administration is willing to do this in a modest way only to placate some of the neo cons and some of those in congress as you know the american people are behind this only twenty four percent in a recent poll said that they would think that that would be a wise power for the americans over a half want to stay out of it so i think there is some chance but still there is a remaining problem for the administration finding a reliable group to give these arms to that would really do any good given all the all the divisions and whatever obama does he's going to get burned on this because the congress has certain factions are going to say look you're game to the wrong ones and then we're going to have these arms i'll use. you

know some sort of massacre and then it's going to bite by. now plan b. comes to greece quite literally i have the founder of a new party offering an alternative to greece tells r.t. what's at stake for the usa already racked state as a troika inspector is a rival to push for more cuts.

wealthy british soil it's time to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. welcome back you're watching r.t.l. armed separatist groups in northern mali pose a serious threat to security across the region and african u.n. peacekeepers don't have the equipment they need when they deploy next month those

damning conclusions are from a u.n. report released on monday but security is not the only concern for mali's people worry if it often reports on the fear that global gold diggers are ready to plunder the contractors resources little known mina and attains herself while her entire family is at work her mom 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 there are only facts 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 how is narrow and deep they dig until they strike gold or

some of the mines here have a depth of sixty metres they go in over fifteen or twenty story building the tunnels are so cramped there is barely any room for movement here and no support structure looks like. it was carried here or so mysterious above. i mean i was i was overseas see. that oh this mine it tells me here is ten here working on the ground for hours and it wasn't great was. that it here minutes bridge 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 there hours of back breaking work will produce some grains of 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. i'm not happy as i work more hours than i get for having spent

around five hours here we are dirt exhausted and terribly denied rate it's 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 with this game of luck is for many molly ends of their only way of getting paid but it seems the dreams of wealth in one of the poorest countries on earth could be dashed as the government moves to ban traditional mines. it's on a huge scale with a lot of money the black market is growing there's no property taxes today and we don't get a penny 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 explode to them to make the wealthy much richer than they were before mose gold expertise has 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 is by using the only care about being a liberation so i don't want to come in and take over her mistress mineral wealth when it's certainly clear that ordinary people suffer just because of that it's. this november joint ballance we spend sure will start operating the country's first gold refinery with a monthly capacity of half the country's annual production it will require a huge increase in exploration at least seven chinese divulging clinton cities have already arrived in the country with many more likely to follow a little longer where will these others change anything for the better for people for. the future of these people remains uncertain about like their income and it's not clear whether they'll still have even their meager place under the african sun . original shakti from mali.

well they have endured ten nights on tear gas and water jets but the tens of thousands of puerto gannon to stand taksim square remain resolute continuing their call for the prime minister to resign but premier are maintaining his tough stance warning demonstrators that his patience was wearing thin are these are any of those reports from the heart of the on rest. 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 cause 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 to use 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 if that of course happens then 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 and taksim and gezi park for more than a week at this point their main demand 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 we've got a full timeline of the turmoil in turkey and our website r t v dot com well but

there was trouble at work take a look at this. it's a rare twist for holiday makers in france when they catch sight of attorney a rare phenomenon on that side of the atlantic. stepped off the space ladder for the wrong it's got a new satellite monitoring station saying it's now well on the way to becoming a fully fledged cosmic research nation get the details on our website r t v dot com . well days after admitting it had miscalculated the devastating effects of a stair to grease the international monetary fund delegation is returning to athens and they will be joined by e.u. and european central bank chiefs who still demand the greek government fire for thousands more state employees in return for bailout cash but the former leader of the syriza party that now leads the opposition says the time is ripe for

a plan b. one come in the boat has a plan they and the boat going to sink. to find a diplomatic. visit victor this isn't racial we have to find it would be because of prolonged the. destruction for. almost twenty five but a servant you know would be them before five year. four or five times the unemployment rate that we've had before we ever. hold you for. a month of this is premiering as surprising show of optimism the french president's declared the and of the eurozone crisis by francois lon's words are unlikely to sound convincing to europeans during record high unemployment and

painful belt tightening measures across the continent s.s.r. cillian are reports even in brussels at the heart of the e.u. has few opportunities for those left without a livelihood. i'm forty seven and never saying i will go from go to go through as for was nobody. nobody needs me you know how can i say i'm not a saint. 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 it back moved 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 of brussels really can't find anything. they tiny and people come planes they don't have anything to work we try to go to germany.

he's much tougher you know 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 things out there and young people are out of the job this is just incredible labor mobility has to increase so that they can move from high unemployment area to open employment area like for example germany clearly that's easier said than done though for people like nicole 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. who are desperately finding ways to put an end to their struggles to end up taking. yes yes if you compare the youngest group with the middle age group will be the only stage group is not the youngest. the biggest problems is to middle age got to be what's most problems after forty forty five through a chance the funny jokes is really thrilling me so you're almost gone for the life being unemployed until you're your friendship and that is exactly why mika is now forced to think about what you're the rule to me via i want to go back home because the. i don't see anything here. is very hard to find a job and everybody who could chew like you don't we want to war like

you are how can i say like a suspect even if i don't understand we have no idea we have here for luggage a man who want to steal something we don't go we go give them away it's the same see you don't belong here this is you supposed to be like a big family but nothing but. i'm very sorry to say that. this or sylvia or t. . now look at some other stories from around the world and government workers in the us kashmir angry at being underpaid and job insecurity to their fury to the streets riot police had to come in to disperse them after several hundreds rallied over the year temporary contracts and getting regular cell arrays public sector workers there have increasingly started taking to the streets to get leaders to consider their demands. afghan soldiers have killed all seven

attackers at kabul international airport after a large scale taliban assault armed with rocket propelled grenades assault rifles and at least one large bomb insurgencies one of the buildings an open fire. heard outside of the silty which houses a large nato base. larry t. a spiritual quest to me a very special community. 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 forms a code 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 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. we speak your language as any form of the will inevitably you. will use programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news

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