you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies. completely free from risk the man who exposed washington's all seeing spy network justifies his actions saying he's willing to sacrifice his freedom in return for giving the public a choice some surveillance. the u.s. isn't the only one pledging no mercy there for those who speak out it seems its goal friends are taking internet crackdowns to much greater levels we've got a report on that the. violence in mali 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 country's mines. and a school of a serious military success spurs washington wards directly arming the rebels while

american troops jets and missiles gather nearby. to get even with his r.t. just past ten pm now here in moscow and our top story the man who blew the whistle an unparalleled u.s. surveillance web's identified himself said he expects to be made to suffer no for his actions twenty nine year old former cia technical assistant edward snowden was until monday holed up in a hong kong hotel afraid to leave his room for fear of retribution but he says he has no regrets big motivated by an overriding need to expose just how vast washington spy web had become. even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded and the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude. to where it's getting to the point you

don't have to have done anything wrong you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend you've ever discussed something with and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wronged or united states criminal chases already begun now indeed with top officials calling for edward snowden to be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law will the whistleblower himself doesn't hold out much hope of escaping given his knowledge of how intelligence agencies operate i could be you know rendered by the cia i could have 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 trial 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 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. well analysts say there's going to be plenty of hurdles should the u.s. seek snowden's extradition from hong kong berta treaty for such matters does exist between the two because more thoughts on this ongoing predicament with investigative journalist tony gosling live from bristol in the u.k. tony hi there i mean i guess one argument here is that snowden exposed the existence of a system that was designed to prevent terrorist attacks he's made that note now to extremists so surely that's espionage isn't it. well this is got nothing to do with

terrorism or terrorist attacks this system is actually designed to trawl all information and let's think about what that means it includes all of the communications of political officials or political representatives m.p.'s includes lawyers people who might be defending us in court it includes journalists this is an absolute probably i would say the biggest phishing operation in history everything is being kept from all these people now if you look at what rupert murdoch did with the news international scandal to do with phone hacking what was happening there was information was being garnered and then used against people and if you got every think that anyone has ever said in private you can take down just about anybody on the political scene i mean we've seen quite a lot of these takedowns so that's the real danger here this is a massive phishing operation and the data can be used to take out and also course undermine the rule of law and effectively that's what's been going on within the

national security agency and probably here in d.c. h.q. all we're asking for is the rule of law and we've had enough of them using these intelligence agencies this whole thing of national security to cover up their own crimes somebody has authorized these cave in and somebody has carried them out and if they haven't got warrants from judges to do the surveillance then they've broken the law what we need is a some kind of serco to go into these intelligence services and clean them up otherwise we're heading down as daniel ellsberg was saying the road to tyranny right ok the whistles now be blown we'll talk about what we have for the future another whistle immediately more immediately what's going to happen the snowden thing. well i would hope that there will be a movement in fact it's already happening on the internet straight away pretty much to protect him and look after him i mean he is the latest really is an e in series of people we've had julian assange to begin with someone that's working in the public interest exposing criminality and international war crimes is

incarcerated in london bradley manning strands just starting and and of course snowden is just the latest in this link and i would imagine there will be attempts to protecting. the general public in the way certainly he's been working in our interest making sure our taxpayers' money is not misused by these intelligence he says his biggest worry now is the big guys are going to be after him what he says his biggest worry now is we're not even going to change the despite all this. well this is why i'm calling for this is i'm sure there's many politicians lawyers journalists and ordinary people right across the west that want to see our intelligence services clear their act up clean their act up because this is no good we can't have them simply able to break the law and saying crying this basically crying wolf saying all national security national security we're not going to allow the police in here we need the police to go into these agencies and and ask

questions if necessary arrest intelligence officers who've been involved in this but the key thing is to find out who has authorized this in the first place and it's those people unless we send those people to jail came in we are really in a dangerous situation where we could be living in a what is effectively a tech not krissy that is to say democracies out the window those that own and control the technology that surround us this surveillance technology will be able to take down anybody take out anybody blacken the name of anybody that they wish to this really is a mixture between a kind of orwellian state which was talked about boy george orwell in this country and also i somehow warned us that the military industrial complex. get on top and it seems most of our politicians and now and now and many of our journalists in the west are on the back foot investigative journalist tony goes living in a bristol studio tonight thank you for your thoughts could have been the program thanks but as always i do want to know what you think of this story what do you think now is going to happen to edward snowden that's the big question thanks

taking part in our web poll if you have been telling us what you think is going to happen let's say oh it's unraveling here the majority here the majority if you get fifty percent think he's going to face imprisonment like bradley manning a bad fate awaits twenty four percent of you interesting this you're not jumping the gun you're saying it's too hard to predict the situation's too complicated to say exactly what's going to happen you want to bide your time twenty four percent of you think he will get a country that will side with him doesn't like he's going to be hong kong and china . and he'll face a similar kind of setup like a son just going through at the moment twenty two percent of you think we're going to be assassinated still plenty of time to have your say r.t. dot com poll for the night for you. now when it comes to getting heavy we were so blows and free speech advocates the u.s. need look no further of course in its own goal of several countries there of cracked with a woman in kuwait given eleven years in jail on monday for insulting the emir on twitter. going off reports next that on how the gulf gets tough on the internet.

let's now take a look at the u.s. friends who are known to have somewhat suspicious methods of upholding democratic freedoms of their citizens the united arab emirates kuwait rain and saudi arabia in saudi arabia local media reports 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 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. punishing websites and social media with a new internet coach under the new draft the 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 the 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 rain 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. was also a question of why the u.s. hasn't been all forthcoming over human rights violations in the gulf states to despite cerm putting its own global democracy credentials more that side of the story from zero to zero point nine now 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 us 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. people toward murders and. no repercussions will leave. so the bahraini government on the once we. all sorts of. you know has to enforce their russian. who sits silently 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. . when activists from bahrain has managed to get asylum in britain the court sentenced. to fifteen years jail in his absence because he managed to escape before the police came knocking on his door i asked ali why you'd followed found the authorities to him if anything the you do it is upsetting the government unless you are supporting the regime itself what i did is sure that will. last for allowing the people of bahrain to. participate in the exchange their ideas and brainstorming and think tank platform for them to move towards the twenty one century. that's what the region doesn't want one it in bahrain they don't they don't want their people to be educated and to know they are right i went into

hiding for two years and i was applying high live in security to protect myself the opposition and behind is very very strong you can see more than three hundred thousand on this theory that it's just because it's peaceful and because of this or the money no one is talking about it. tonight set to gassing in turkey we talk about coming up with the country's prime minister his. protest is laden with a role the lack respect for islam itself the break. i told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to put the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point to say. to carry out a call is all you're talking no. thank you no more weasel words.

when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you punch be ready for our. freedom of speech. down to freedom to cost. if you. are going the syrian rebel rushnell coordination board is calling on all foreign fighters no matter which side they support to leave the country that's after syrian

troops with the help of hezbollah fighters are going controller turn of course near the lebanese border the syrian soldiers advance is see the reporting rebel supporters to spur washington into action is paul a sleeper for. a bomb the administration could decide this week whether or not to approve a lethal aid for syrian rebels the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has postponed a mid east to participate in these talks now according to officials they were also way the merits of the in this unlikely 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 maybe a thousand u.s. marines have been deployed along jordan's border with syria and this is according to israeli and in rainy and 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 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 rebels front now exposed states that as many as two hundred belgians could be fighting in syria right now they would have come in through the. belgian police have a review of a state civil citizens who have returned to the country after fighting and being radicalized inside syria this is not the first time that we 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 opposition from the south of the country we're also hearing that is many as five thousand hizbullah fighters are reportedly now inside syria helping the regime place on with its campaign after capturing the town of qusayr are near the lebanese border last week . or at least. that's because we know it was somewhat certain actions or possibly for syria to contribute russian returns is joining us now the one from london what's the charts do you think that present the. sanction certain weapons to the syrian rebels any time soon maybe even within the week. well most analysts in the united states are saying that if he did do that that would be very much against the desires of the american people and probably most of the u.s. congress so president obama must be weighing on that pretty heavily as he speaks

with john kerry who presumably has paula said was supposed to be in israel unbelievable that in the past twenty four hours we now have another video of a fifteen year old being executed by rebels and yet the americans are thinking of al qaeda in syria and of course they had this huge drill including five hundred british soldiers as well as a forward a half thousand americans in jordan along with their f. sixteen s and all their armor trying to frighten off the assad government and it's therefore wargames there for protection but is there a chance they're going to be used for real do you think they're certainly offensive weapons as opposed to the defense systems that are being placed there by the russians as part of that deal and if there was going to be a no fly zone the united states would have to destroy the defense systems that russia has supplied which of course would be in complete violation of the united

nations security council because they don't have a resolution obama i mean they've been leaks of the past over the weekend suggesting certainly to c.b.s. news that obama was changing his mind and really was leaning towards the rebels from israel we're not getting that kind of view they're saying they take no sides in the conflict i think the zionist government there realizes very clearly what hezbollah can do what would be pushing him to change his mind. there are of course the neo cons there is a new national security adviser susan rice and others are surrounding president obama such as that hillary clinton i think he himself certainly and again we're speculating because they selectively leak so one day they're leaking to the washington post new york times and voices and one thing. or another so it's very difficult to summarize exactly what they're leaning towards if you interviewed any land any pundits in the world certainly the mainstream media in america they're all

saying president obama has no appetite at all for a no other war but i think the key thing here is the neo cons the apac lobby in washington must be saying hezbollah must not be allowed to triumph again because but having said that anyone who knows about the middle east has a bullet can even defeat the united states as great as proxy which is the power of israel really briefly in the battle between hizbollah really briefly what future for those peace talks the secular state john kerry pledged to encourage ship back in may ways that going to go obviously the rebels have torpedoed those talks try to the latest we're hearing is they won't take place this month but they're due in july presumably the reason why there's no date that's been properly agreed it all depends on this week's decision from the white house on whether what will be defacto al-qaeda in syria will to contribute or should return to thanks so much for your thoughts cheers. coming up on the program plan b.

comes to greece quite literally up ahead then the founder of a new party offering an alternative to greece tells us what's at stake for certain right state as the troika inspectors arrive to push for more cuts. next separatist groups in northern mali pose a serious threat to security cross the region african u.n. peacekeepers don't have the equipment they need when they'll deploy next month those damning conclusions are from a u.n. report released monday but security is not the only concern for mali's people. reports next on the fear the global gold diggers ready to plunder the country's precious resources. little 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

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 their 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 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 twenty story building the tunnels are so cramped there is barely any room for movement here and no support structure looks like nick loves it and it won't carry here so mysterious someone. who you thought was overseas he. can tell this mine and tells me here is ten here working on the ground for hours it wasn't really what i'm asking is that if you're 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 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. as i work more hours than i get for having spends around five hours here we are dirt exhausted and terribly dehydrated people here usually work from ten to eleven hours per day every evening they're paid but not in cash. 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 molly ends are 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 or that even

if it's on a huge scale with a lot of money the black market is growing there's no proper taxes to it and we don't get it handy from a. book with a monthly budget officials complain a traditional gold exploration is not about helping the poor to become more active and to develop exploiting them to make the wealthy much richer than they were before the mall is gold expiries 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 palpitate is dented at their will by using guns is the only care about you think i would ration so i don't want to come in india to call them and i trust mineral wealth then suddenly i don't care about ordinary people stuff it just picked up on the bottom that is that 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 deal logical 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 they made their place under the african sun. refashion r.t. from mali. the folks on the latest are in turkey no for next couple of minutes turkish prime minister read it one set to meet with organizers of the ongoing protests according to his deputy the demonstrations of never going on for ten nights has been tear gas and water jets thrown at them but the huge crowds of again been pouring into istanbul's taksim square remain resolute they're continuing their call for the

prime minister to resign but telling his tough stance at the same time warning demonstrators that is patience is wearing thin at his regular school reports from the heart of the unrest. 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 in on caracas is the second day in a row that such such an event has happened in fact on cause one of those is 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 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 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 destry 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 in all of allister experts are predicting that extreme civil unrest in the country and all of them of course are hoping that that will not be the case as it stands at this point people in istanbul show absolutely no determination to go anywhere they have been camping out here 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. but sure as the protests in turkey before flying to berlin he joins us from berlin now and the list which has him for a couple of minutes hi there thanks for being with us we've seen some very volatile images from the protests of this elsewhere this past week i guess the fuel to the the woods the prime minister used to label the protesters as the road isn't hooligans for poor yes or no. wall.

that's correct how he puts that even feel to the protest even. over his li anecdotal evidence says that these people were not they were not ordering electrolytic c.s.i. just it and also there were surveys conducted that showed that these were just ordinary people who were basically concerned about their personal liberty and the way the country was going so the way you put it that they were marginal stuff they were extremes just made it worse let me get this straight away you are there's not that's where we really came to talk to you as far as you're concerned from what you see you think the violence here where it came from is all totally one sided yeah. well it's it's difficult to predict what will happen but it's indeed a good move that. moves to. speak with the organizers and

that's how only the violence may end and actually the violence stemmed from the police in the beginning that's that's one friday morning there were clashes that's when it all started so the only response to well this will indeed. be a opening of dialogue from the side of the government that's what people have been asking for let's talk for a minute about the people that are there at this protest people who walks of life this protest has grown rapidly a lot of different people together is there any one goal that unites them all the initially it was about the gears of park only but that doesn't environmentalists concern was a concern against and urban project. it didn't have many people involved but only one the police intervened with harsh while and that's when it started to become it started to involve evolve into a mass demonstration so first the rage against police brutality and second the ever

creeping government authoritarianism and. personal fight paternalism is what unites the protestors even though they come from different. struggle now what's going to make the protesters back down or are they willing to carry on do you think from the people we've spoken to. so far yes they were planning to carry on less makes an apology so that's the first step that of course the park was an iconic issue so even though there are a lot of people who are not from the environmentalist background it still remains as an iconic issue on the agenda so as to ensure people that the park will not be demolished the tax and project will not go as planned and of course he has to admit that some of the policy should proceed. without public consultation doesn't seem to

be listening at the moment do you think you will get your way. i don't think you will get away with apologizing like i said without admitting that some of the worse you use the word wrong. even while all the official demands of the gears apart protests. demands so they want to get support the motion to stop they want the police brutality to come to an end these are demands that the prime minister can't easily accommodate so they're not necessarily asking him to resign when people say that i think there's a ambit claim that so its initial. initial demands came through on sort of party in the morning don't tell me explain in the last ten days do you think any progress has been made at all really. well some but not from the side of the prime minister so it was made from the deputy

minister when our daughter was in africa the president but not from out on the protests are very much personal so people expect something from our go on thanksgiving to see us and talk to some. of the protests travelling from berlin thank you. well we've got the full timeline of what's been happening in turkey over the last ten days as a say about to go come our website what is there to this trouble at sea elsewhere take a look at these pictures you will want to come in concert with this twist for holiday makers in france when they quote sort of this tornado coming up in a rare phenomenon of course on that side of the atlantic you wouldn't be underneath it more pictures of it and step up the space that are for a rat got a new satellite monitoring station let's say saying they're on their way to becoming a fully fledged cosmic research nation again a lot more on our web site about that tonight.

six india 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 u.s. 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. the age of pill popping to what degree is big pharma hijacking can't. the western medical establishment what is the real of the pharmaceutical industry to make people healthy or to generate healthy profits for themselves and is there anything we can do to bring this under health the idea of. well again days after admitting that it had miscalculated the devastating effects of a sterile greece the international monetary fund delegations returning to athens the bit joined by e.u. and european central bank chiefs will still demand the greek government fire four thousand more state employees in return for bailout cash but the former leader of the sort of supporting that now leads the opposition says the time is right for his

new party called plan b. you know for one come on the board has a plan me and the boat going to sink. if you will to further the plan b. this visit was used crucial. to find it would be because the longer the. structural fall for goose. was twenty five. the law would be going to fall for the year. four five on employment free the week before. i recall you for without employment to this is. early this week a surprising show of optimism the french president declared the end of the eurozone crisis but france well as words are unlikely their design convincing to many europeans injuring record high unemployment and painful belt tightening measures

across the continent and a test for sooner reports even brussels at the heart of the few opportunities for those left without a livelihood. i'm forty seven and never thing i will go from door to door with as for was nobody. nobody need 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 nicolette to mildew ran into financial trouble after denny backman few years ago in order to repay the debt they thought they'd try their luck elsewhere a fruitless journey that took the italy to germany denmark and answer done before finally ending up here in the e.u. capital brussels really can't find anything. they tiny and people complains they don't have anything to work we try to go to germany.

is much tougher than you know because we don't know the language only british in the sand like anybody and everybody say we don't have anything to watch 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 in 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 week. in greece any strange thing out there and young people are out of a job that is just incredible labor mobility last week greece so that they can move

from hype and employment area to open employment area like for example germany clearly that's easier. done that for people like nikko and his wife what these latest unemployment figures show is something already known that europe is struggling to find ways to create jobs but what they don't show are the day to day lives of the twenty six and a half million unemployed europeans many of whom are desperately finding ways to put an end to their struggles to end up taking. yes yes i know that a lot of people are telling about the losses side lost a generation if you compare the youngest group with the middle age group or with the oldest age 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 really very limited so you're almost for the life of being unemployed until you're your pension and that is exactly why meek is now forced to think about

woodturning small to medium 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 a war like you are how can i say like a suspect you know i don't understand why 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 seem see they don't belong here this is you posed to be like a big family but nothing like that. i'm very sorry to say that but. this or sylvia r.t. brussels. will do stories in brief tonight afghan soldiers are killed all seven attackers a car bomb the national airport for a large scale taliban assault armed with rocket propelled grenades assault rifles

at least one large bomb the insurgents seized one of the buildings and opened fire a series of explosions were also heard outside of a city which houses a large nato base. government workers in india kashmir angry are being underpaid and job insecurity took their fury to the streets police riot police indeed to come to disperse them after several hundred rallied over the temporary contracts of not getting regular salaries public sector workers they have increasingly started taking to the streets to get leaders to consider their demands several car blasts and a suicide bomb attack of ripped through two iraqi cities near the capital it's killed up to twenty two the attackers targeted bustling food markets in both cities reportedly to provoke a civil war no word she had admitted the violence but local al-qaeda linked militants have become notorious for bombings like this kind of thing around two thousand people have died in sectarian violence now in iraq a. british court sentenced six men talk to nineteen years in prison after they

admitted plotting an attack at the march of a far right english defense league a gathering five of the men took a bomb and sawed off shotguns to the rally last year but arrived two hours after the march ended their conviction comes amid increased religious tension in the u.k. right now after the gruesome slaughter of british soldiers by islamic extremists in london. just as in bosnia are continuing their fight to force the government for a new law in issuing national id numbers marching in their hundreds to the capital the previous law lapsed in february babies born since then have them being given official registration documents like passports devastations began more than a week ago when thousands of angry parents besieged parliament inside the. thanks me with a certain i will become the new breed of british conservative politicians tells us why the younger generation there are being attracted to more right wing ideas these days so a couple of minutes. i

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i'm talking to dominic rob he's a member of parliament and a representative of an emerging group of young right when it is in the conservative party they have recently written a book called brittania unchained rob in the book you say that the british are idlers obsessed with the idea of the gentleman what does that exactly mean do you think the british are living beyond their means when we actually do is we quote the great british historian niall ferguson who says europeans are the odds the world and we look at how britain has become steadily more europeanized over time we're not saying all brits are lazy far from it what we're saying is you have

a shrinking proportion of people in britain who are pedaling harder and harder to sustain not just our economy but also to pay for the vital precious public services we all enjoy and that is not sustainable economically it's also socially divisive so we do need to look at things like welfare dependency we also need to look at things like marginal rates of taxation hard work should pay that's the message we sending out in the book that's interesting because a recent report shows that more than hoff's of the households in this country take more from the states then they contribute well there's some interesting i think the center for policy studies is produced this report and it's fascinating because there's lots of talk for example about a wealth tax but actually what you've got at the moment is something like the top ten percent paying something like fifty five percent of income tax overall and actually until you're earning something in the region of forty thousand pounds a year you don't actually net of all the other things you take out a payoff intact pay any tax and so i think it's quite interesting and within the

concept of hysterically and fairness actually we probably don't have a wide enough tax base at the moment and and we are going to work a bit harder and we are going to put it more it we're going to have to retire a bit later what i think it's questionable whether we need quite so many people staying in full time education for so long what is. the idea of youth apprenticeships the fourteen to sixteen year old i was a labor idea that was abandoned actually something quite sensible to look at i think it's also about saying you know you don't need to be to be a success in this country don't have to go to university the vocational route is also critically important so we're looking at this in the round but it's certainly true to say that we must make sure that hard work pays all and all those things more to do with the economic situation rather than people not working hard enough not wanting it enough it's partly about that but let's face facts since nine hundred fifty the average working as in this country have come down by third so it's certainly bit of that as well you can look at the difference between private sector pay and public sector pay over rule public sector pay is higher than private

sector pay if they were low around and less productive there are differences between sectors and between between professions so does that actually fit a very crude stereotype or sort of stink sions but overall one of the things we're going to have to do if we're going to keep up with the ambitious hungry industrious countries spanning asia to latin america we're going to have to make sure that hard work pays and exactly what you said is the british way of life in danger but i think so remember what not ferguson historian says is that there are a few key things that made britain great in the nineteenth century and one of them was hard work a lot of people are working their socks off i think what we need to see is that those that work the hardest you know the grafters the growing does the structure of the strivers need to make sure they see the fruits of their labor and that's the key message your great proponent of a free market so let's talk about that for one of the results of a free market is that it makes it easier to fire people among other things but

surely it must also then be made easier for a business is a bank has to face the music if they do screw things up so instead of bailing them out they must be allowed to fail how likely is that to happen in a country like this where there's such a strong corporate banking lobby. it's an interesting question and i don't believe in unfettered or on reservedly in the free market we need the rule of law we need competition or we need regulation i think the idea that you have known is a rather extreme the question is how has the pendulum swung too far the other way and not just that we got too much regulation but we got the right kind of regulation of banking sector and the city wasn't under regulated because wasn't smart regulation so i think that's an element i think the banking reforms absolutely critical but look i would like to see for tough a prosecutorial approach to white collar crime in the same way as i would to counter terrorism and actually what we've seen is that the serious fraud office is

quite a weak institution if you look at things like false accounting and some of the other crimes in the in the sort of white collar sector actually our conviction rate is not needed robust enough if you're fiddling the system if you will breaching the law then certainly should be brought to book make no bones about that one example of an embryonic free market is russia twenty years ago and free market was seems like something that's never actually achieved but in the process of trying to get a lot of people are forced into poverty and made redundant so unless society is perfectly just and free from corruption a free market surely will always work best for those who hold the economic reins where the big probably had russia is that the institutions that guarantee the rule of law would be the nascent or fatally weak and let's be clear about it in the same ways in democracy but also in a free market you need strong institutions you need the route of floor that's what was missing in russia so i think britain's in the same kind of situation but actually some of the stuff about cronyism and the complaints about the banks is

actually i think that if those that have clearly broken the criminal law was seen to be brought to book without scaremongering without bashing the whole industry without becoming anti aspirational and and and tarring everyone that makes money creates wealth creates jobs for the same brush i think that being important message to send to the public that you can't get away with murder if you're at the top end of the income scale we do see charges brought against corporations they don't win that inquiries and launch but nothing ever seems to come of it what can be done about that. well i think for example in the legal vote interest rate rigging. i mean the thing that strikes me and people said is the legislation strong enough and broad enough in order that prosecutions can take place to deal with that kind of behavior i mean fraud is already a criminal offense false accounting is already a criminal offense i don't think personally the key issue or the overriding issue is lack of legislation what you need is

a serious fraud office which is equipped with the expertise and the manpower it's not hugely expensive when you think of all the other money that goes into a regulator e bodies but to have the villain the vic and the robustness to take on and prosecute when the case is there when they've got enough evidence that's where we lack we lack a sharp enough prosecutorial cutting edge and you seem to be advocating a more results driven society in which as you say the talented and the hard working have nothing to say but what about the average that the mediocre if you like that always going to exist in society whereas that place. is believe in a compassionate conservatism we should have a safety blanket for the vulnerable for the sick the disabled for the homeless or that of course it's critically important i also think that for the strivers on the middle income jobs actually they should see more the fruits of their labor that's the whole point about lifting two million people out so the income tax at the lowest end and making sure work pays in that welfare dependency doesn't become

a lifestyle choice so so absolutely out think that the tax rates need to be addressed across the board but let's also bear in mind that one percent pay something like thirty percent income tax in this country ten percent pay fifty five percent this idea that we could plug that hole by walking because unionize to do it but you know if you want to do it in fact some catharsis for the country you know there's an argument for i'm not you know frankly i think you it's not it's a bit of a lynch mob but don't pretend kid ourselves for a second that that will plug the debt hole this country is it but some might say that smacks of social engineering essentially. well as i think so i think what he's trying to send is that message which is that if you will for example we've talked about helping benefit and benefits for example if white why should a home here on the on the lower middle income who have got you know say two children and they take

a financial decision can we afford to have more children shouldn't actually families on welfare that have more and more children shouldn't they take some responsibility as well i mean that i think a lot of people for a lot of people that will strike a certain degree of resonance there's a government strategy that politicians have been talking about where regions that do well economically get rewarded and incentivized for that but regions that do badly are essentially left to fester that's also presumably a free market idea but how is it justifiable in terms of fats i think it's right to say that we want to incentivize growth and that actually if you're taking the kind of measures locally that can attract business you want to see more the revenue but from that that's a positive incentive but there's a huge amount being done on infrastructure h s two money going into road and rail but also broadband to try make sure we've got the infrastructure the not just boost britain's competitiveness as a whole but a trucks investment to parts of the country which haven't seen huge private sector

investment the some time that is very much the one nation ideal and vision that both george osborne and david cameron talking about doesn't all of this in summary needs to the u.k. becoming an even more unequal place than it is already well labor talked about equality for years and yet according to the gini coefficient which the the won't tell me is the is the measure of inequality just got inequality in britain got worse what we call it we're not going to plug the inequality problem by spending more money but the truth of the matter is that in the twenty first century with globalisation with intense competition george osborne talked about this competition from latin america from asia. the number one priority is economic growth if we don't drive the dynamism of the private sector and get economic growth who will pay for the who will create the jobs who will pay the revenue for our precious public services if we can't compete then frankly working you know it's a bit like saying a list we've got the money coming in unless we learning all keep you know debating

about how we're going to spend that money frankly is an academic conversation we've got to make sure that bedrock fundamentals for our competitiveness are in place and off to that we will hopefully be in a position that we can look at not just for. the diaries on the lowest incomes and for the vulnerable but also make sure that we can take measures to make sure hard work pays make sure the strivers the middle classes see more than money back dominic rob thank you very much thank you. technology innovation and all the developments from around russia we go to the future covered. i will be very. very.

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