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was carried. on the streets and online supporters of edward snowden that the man who blew the whistle on america's mass internet surveillance called for him to be pardoned as a government pushes for his prosecution. this as a former cia technician disappears from his hotel in hong kong way he was hoping to avoid actual dish injury us. and a more peacekeeping forces head to mali in a bid to bring stability to the volatile region amid mounting criticism over the french military operation that many say only made things worse.
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wherever you are wrong the world this is are you with me to mom would say it's good to have you with us this morning the man who leaked details of a top secret surveillance programs in the u.s. is receiving growing support from the american public tens of thousands have signed an online petition urging president obama to pardon edward snowden as u.s. lawmakers are pursued to prosecution there's also been a fundraising effort to pay for his legal defense and a rally on the streets of new york artie's marina was at the demonstration. braving some very whites and chilly weather dozens of new yorkers have come out into the street to show their solidarity and support with n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this of course coming just twenty four hours after the twenty nine year old revealed himself as the man who handed over classified documents to the guardian which then exposed the national security agency's program
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prism i think the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model now prism allowed the national security agency's extensive internet spying on records of digital communication and allowed the government agency to surveil u.s. citizens in real time now the revelations that have come about through snowden's leaks of course challenges the ongoing war on terror for nearly twelve years the u.s. government has changed its policies change legislation in the name of which they said was to keep americans safe wars waged overseas and our privacy a roading here at home those american citizens that we've spoken with say that snowden sacrifice should not be in vain and there needs to be a bigger dialogue about the way in which the u.s.
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government is acting behind the backs of its own citizens now of course this blockbuster of a story has caused many to wonder if the u.s. government will still move forward on lecturing and pointing fingers at other countries such as iran and china for the way in which deals with its citizens are now it has been revealed to the entire world that the u.s. is keeping very close tabs on everything that americans are doing at home and even abroad reporting from new york marina r.t. . make sure you also log on to our website because we'll bring you all the latest updates and global reaction to the national security agency. between one year old whistleblower has meanwhile jumped out of sight in hong kong ahead of a likely push by the u.s. government to have him extradited to face charges he's been holed up in a hotel you can see here making his identity known to the media snowden is hoping
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to avoid prosecution by being in hong kong a chinese territory has an extradition treaty with the u.s. but exceptions can be made for political offenses a process could take months or even me as michael ratner is an attorney for we can exaggerate a sanji who says that a young americans are willing to go to great lengths or to reveal how the u.s. government really operates this shows you how bad the situation is and how much courage these people have after the u.s. has hit these people with sledgehammers manning a sign i am and you still get people like likes not like we're snowden coming out again so it indicates that there's a tremendous amount of courage of young people to try and reveal the criminality and surveillance and the state that we have here the legal part has to do with the laws that this country passed post nine eleven in particular courts that are
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essentially and pick and decides are all those and a president who is willing to or so terribly approves just massive surveillance i think the terrorism is used as an excuse to be able to surveil and keep tabs on every single american to prevent are really a change in government what's happening is they've hired thousands tens of thousands of young people into this network of erik's the surveillance network and a lot of the people have contracts it still takes courage once you have conscience but we're seeing that happen not snowden manning. and and those are heroes. and this latest explosion of u.s. government surveillance is among the issues taking center stage on the kaiser report here's a quick preview while you can catch the full version at seven thirty g.m.t. . adam smith warned people of the same seldom made together even for merriment and diversion but for the conversation ending in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices that's
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fricken adam smith who said that stacy max for proof of this we are going to look at an image of man of the same trade getting together for the purposes of merriment and diversion it would look like from the photo in this is barack obama in february twentieth eleven meeting with steve jobs to his left mark zuckerberg of facebook to his right then you see the c.e.o. of twitter the c.e.o. of yahoo across the table as the google c.e.o. eric schmidt larry ellison and the president of stanford university the last supper . you know it's an undertaker's convention it's the moment when barack obama complicit league bed with these guys who run prism essentially that's the moment i mean look at that dinner look at that image this is when barack obama so actually took the constitution and wiped is but with it and it's the moment of supreme treasonous action by the president eyes states america is dead seventeen seventy
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six to present thanks parrot you killed a country. right so it was intelligence officials are allegedly making no secret of the fact that they want the n.s.a. whistleblower to disappear and show you log on to r.t. dot com or to read all about it. and while you're there you can also see why do we keep leaks of founder julian assange had to say about edward snowden's whistle blowing after all that and much more just a click away. edward snowden's revelations of mass telephone and internet monitoring by the n.s.a. has ramped up the global debate on the surveillance of citizens and the frames once again the multi-billion dollar internet firm says privacy track record has caught them before our business presenter katie pilgrim takes a closer look at their social media titans. web sites like facebook google and
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instagram have been mining the personal information of their hundreds of millions of users through their computers all mobiles every day from our favorite sports talk designers on diets you name it we talk about it they make a digital note of it on this personal data is big business most of all stick with greece some of what we can be used to our target our friends do use us to deal even the new revelations that our private data is being abused to make these huge companies even richer it's a little to quench our enthusiasm for them well at least for now take verizon for example the biggest u.s. cell phone network with one hundred twenty one million subscribers is accused of handing over millions of phone records to the u.s. government but as you can see despite the scandal the company's share price is actually managing to game still valued at around one hundred billion dollars i recently google with more than thirteen billion hits
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a month the company's street view service was fined seven million dollars in the u.s. because as well as photo mapping the streets their cars were scooping up data on people's e-mails passwords web histories from their own crypted home and wife i signals google is still was almost three hundred billion dollars facebook with its one point one billion users as had more than a few privacy complaints in recent years there was the farmville breach back in twenty ten will face but was found to be giving out the game is identification numbers to bird party apps but the company is still worth nearly seventy billion dollars so some of these scandals appear to have dented the value of these companies so do we no longer care how intrusive they are that's what i asked leading media consumer has done you are now. it's clear that certain privacy rights and norms have been have been violated but we have to see really how this situation
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pans out before we make any judgment it's very difficult for consumers to just leave facebook or any other platform because it's not something about either google or facebook but it's something about the internet as such consumers would have little eternity of to move to other platforms because they have all been a little stands now complicit in providing data so for now i just to switched into these sites but the more their spam is up on news these more frustrated we're becoming and that greed might just make us finally log off from what a fast becoming anti social networks are it is every marvelous bring to the authors of the untold history of the united states they say there's nowhere left in the u.s. where big brother can see. u.s. government now intercepts more than one point seven billion messages a day from american citizens one point seven billion that's e-mail that's telephone
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calls as other forms of communication director at one point seven billion we've got this apparatus set up now with hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people over a million people with top security clearances we've created this kind of nightmarish state they said in one nine hundred eighty four kind of state in many ways we say well five million or five million clearances one million top security clearance that's a pretty heavy number you know which we are living in a fishbowl and i think the sad part is that kids the younger people except. they're used in very they don't say well you know and it's true i mean how can we follow wives everybody but the truth is that we're all ultimately watching ourselves it isn't oh well you know. it may not be oppressive on the surface but you know hearts we have to have certain with there's no place to hide there's no. really no place to.
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most stories ahead for you a little later iraq is plagued by the worst bloodshed. travels across the country torn by them in violence. and. why do they report is in a few minutes. the u.n. is preparing to deploy a new peacekeeping force in mali made warnings that separatist groups in the north pose a serious threat to security across the region this is the mali and government and that rag rebels on the go sheet a deal to allow elections to go ahead next month but as archie's maria financial reports many believe an earlier military campaign by france only open the door to more bloodshed. france says it's done its job well in mali killed most of its islamist insurgents
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destroyed the infrastructure and pushed the rest of the country but the people who gathered here in the center of the northern city of gal think france's mission isn't complete. the french are making excuses because our enemy is holding kadar they must resolve this before any elections or negotiations take place france should defend our community not try to keep us in our place. in the desert capital of kiddo has been out of governmental control since last year first it's been captured by terrorists indigenous african people fighting to create a breakaway state in the north of mali then the radical islamists came the un sardine group believed to have ties with al qaida the two factions came to an agreement to establish an islamic autonomy when the french military came they drove out most of the islamists but tour except artist are still there mali and forces haven't been able to enter the town for months now something that's never been
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a problem for french troops who have an air base in the baltic or that the criminal who have contacts with the separatists but we don't have coordination with them we don't discuss things with them they don't attack us and we don't consider them enemy but we don't have any reason to attack them. what the touring separatists do attack is the mollen military in the areas around and kid else to witnesses heavy fighting yet the french army so far refuses to engage with the rebels and can tell regardless of the threat they may pose to molly's territorial integrity and next month's presidential election the palmer they will bore you with your mic our military part is over the rest is merely an internal problem. the mali tour of conflict is indeed very much a local fight after independence from france the torrens usual territory across more than mali and algeria was divided in mali it led to years of violence but our
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exit mostly populate the north of mali here in the southern part of the country you will not find many whites this is how other ethnic groups with significantly darker skin called there are no magic neighbors and this geographical division only deepens antagonism but some believe this internal conflict could never stay as intense without outside help france has been openly supporting what it regards as an oppressed and discriminated minority shortly after the french intervention the defense minister in paris suggested ethnic tour rigs in northern mali should have some autonomy even the. political muscle in the world will begin all over again because of the behavior of the french they support the two oregon balian against all the tribes and cities in the north of mali which just alienated them from the rest even more. than two separate groups which claim there's so aim is to defend the towns from the rigs. they say there were only belongs to them but we don't
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agree so with they are two different or. they came first then the islamists arrived after them they open the door for radicals to come into our land. last week president a laundry seeds of peace prize for the operation in mali but it's still unclear whether what the french troops will soon leave behind can truly be described as peace and what peacekeepers officially coming to the scene these july will have to maintain. for mali. and in syria western powers a look to said to the rebels to consider sending one. opposition fighters up to s.f. forces make significant gains in the north of the country we have the details just ahead. nobody chooses to be homeless no one chooses to me and now sorrow. isidro for the show to.
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get in the six pm get out six p. six. day war room a serene school or a man not to have namely the class people in the. days know who are against the war. it's tough to think about all of the homes that have been searched and to know that many may not have only been lost due to won't never be but they're also due to for closures they never should have. told you my language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to stay current
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a comment on your latter point of the month to say to mr kerry a car is on the docket no gonna. do no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a bad. freedom of speech and a little bit on the freedom to question. welcome back you're watching our team at least seventy people have been killed and two hundred thirty injured in iraq during just one day in the latest spike in violence suicide blasts roadside bombs and gun battles rocked the country on monday continuing weeks of bloodshed which has claimed nearly two thousand lives or since april much of the violence is blamed on sunni islamist insurgents with the minority protesting for months against the shiite led government arches loosely cavanagh
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went to investigate the sir terry intention. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really healed tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand the divisions we have to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the end bar province following the u.s. led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become the focal point of the anti-government protests. for several months now every friday this scene prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today
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a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be and closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target. one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family and escaped a flu jab. the demonstrators complain of discrimination arbitrary arrests detention even torture under the rule of prime minister nouri al maliki charges that the government denies. the government systematically driving sunnis from
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baghdad this isn't a secret migration is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in the shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this resident prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area the people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families for safety some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they build the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis. like they made the proportions for the seventies for this. and for the dish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on iraqi youth
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a generation separated by the threat of violence. it really affects us and causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out publicly in some neighborhoods i could get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace as the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future lucy catherine of r.t.e. baghdad some other world news that making the headlines of this demo. wanted by police using rubber bullets and water cannon in overnight clashes in ankara the unrest was blocked more than a week ago riot police crackdown on the sit in over plans to redevelop of park in taksim square in the capital turkey's prime minister has now agreed to meet with protest organizers in a move seen as his first apparent concession after he repeatedly dismissed them as vandals and hooligans. of these are two people have been
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killed and five injured after part of a residential building collapsed in the indian city of mumbai dozens of victims are here to be trapped under the rubble all the block housed at least sixteen apartments and a car showroom monsoon rains are being blamed for the collapse. was . parts of central europe remain on high alert as a deadly floodwaters continue to rise tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in german east german city of mustard bugs after a dam burst on the flooded colin river elbe disappointed recalls that water levels were receding accused twenty one people have been killed in the region more than a week of intense flooding the clean up operation is expected to cost billions of euros. washington is debating whether they should arm syrian rebels after
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us our forces made recent advances and recaptured a key city the u.s. could approve a lethal aid for opposition fighters in a matter of days a no fly zone could also be under consideration syrian government forces are making gains in the country's north are preparing for major offensive against rebel held areas in aleppo the opposition has only wanted the u.s. it could face devastating losses without greater support that's made reports of new atrocities by extreme is fighting in the ranks of the opposition a source senior old boy is reported to have been killed and for. and of his family by jihadist kids some of bethlehem political writer dan glass broke up things as sending weapons to the opposition would only sabotage any chance of peaceful. big part of what these kind of announcements and kind of briefings are is actually a psychological operation to boost the flagging were of the rebels and we see this every time the government forces get the upper hand on the ground as they have done
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in recent weeks retaking qusayr and starting to retake as you mentioned your reporting possibly retaking homes and every time the rebels are facing these kind of losses on the ground what we see is the western powers holding out this carrot of don't worry keep fighting there's weapons on the way and even the prospect again of arms supplies has already served to sabotage the possibly of peace talks and in this case it was britain and france in particular who are responsible for for deliberately sabotaging the peace talks there on the table because as soon as these talks were announced what did britain and france do they use their muscle they use their kind of economic bullying ability to push through the e.u. basically lift the legalisation of sending weapons to the rebels i want this message sent to the rebels was done by the negotiating don't go to peace talks keep fighting we'll send you the weapons. up next a local beyond the mainstream economic headlines to reveal what's in me all my
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good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm perry i'm boring and washington d.c. of kids who are heavily. apple is not snooping on you they promise along with google microsoft and other tech giants this is after the now infamous security leaker edward snowden went public over the weekend allowing his name to be revealed we reported friday that nine at tech companies face a whistle blowing allegations and the press and they allow director government
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access to their servers which they now strenuously deny snowden that the twenty nine year old booz allen employee has drawn support from some unlikely that such as michael moore and glenn beck. and microsoft's former chief privacy officer advisor at caspar bowden went as far as to compare cloud that data outside the u.s. as a privacy guantanamo bay will dig into the fine print of the security of mobile payments and just a bit and while we're talking about apple they just are sure to lisa jackson through the revolving door she will become their environmental adviser the green hired gun was once head of the environmental protection agency under obama she also served as john corps imes chief of staff when he was governor of new jersey the wall street journal's and joseba rag you accused her of being and abusive regulator and that her role may.
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