supporters of edward snowden the man who exposed the true extent of america's past of violence network paid for washington not to prosecute as he disappears from his hotel in hong kong the ultimate whistleblower wiki leaks during the stange exclusively tells r.t. that he fears snowden will be persecuted for years. president putin says however essential government surveillance must remain legal during a q. and a session here at the r.t. need to send. hundreds of leads again stormy. square is a crew from r.t. to arabic channel is caught up in the heavy crackdown.

there welcome you're watching r.t. with me andrey farm. cia man who blew the lid off america's fast n.s.a. public surveillance net is promising more explosive revelations edward snowden supporters are mobilizing to with tens of thousands signing a petition to pardon the whistleblower earlier kevin owen spoke to wiki leaks editor jude in the sun he said that snowden faces years of persecution as more and more whistle blows is scared into silence. empathize having dreams of a very similar situation myself. trying to actively support through this interview or in other ways mr snowden's plight already we have seen that the department of justice united states has taken up the issue has been many calls

for his prosecution in his family has been raided in heavenly by fleece already starting yes he will be subject to prosecution by united states for use i'm certain of that maybe sources are quite scared i mean we're saying. colleagues of mine have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because of the crackdown against bradley manning and that's what that whole trial is trying to achieve it's trying to set a precedent for the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with me and that's the death penalty you face. an outrageous president any. communications of information to the media can be prosecuted for aiding the enemy and as a result. sentenced to death and that's that really it's the end of national security journalism united states if the president is the bush you still hold up in the ecuadorian embassy given the clampdown that might come down now whistleblowers

after what we've seen over the last couple of days what do you think your personal chance is on of walking free anytime soon what keeps you going. what keeps us going is the worldwide support that we have which is really quite extraordinary yes which leads to the banking blockade that's cut at about ninety five percent of its finances but we have worldwide support so even five percent is is five percent is not nothing the u.k. government has admitted that they've spent five million dollars in the past ten months on surveilling these embassy in relation to me completely utterly disproportionate that's an offense to you kate taxpayer people can see the geopolitics but things are starting to change politically you know stray the which of these political party now according to the government's own polling outfit has between twenty five and twenty eight percent of the vote in the elections in september. well reports say u.s.

officials are already in the process of filing charges against the twenty nine year old less than a week after the whistleblower revealed american citizens spying to britain's guardian newspaper at the moment no no no one knows where snowden these he was last seen checking at this hotel in hong kong that's where he remained for a while after revealing his identity to the global media it's thought he may still be in hong kong the chinese territory has an extradition treaty with the united states but the process could stretch out for months and could potentially be dropped by beijing free speech and free market n.t. says washington has issued the position of being a global policing institution. america's turned into the world cop they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia many people have been talking for ten or fifteen years about the degree of technical capability that the united states government has in terms of surveillance we've seen the programs with t.i.a.

the total information awareness these things just keep coming back in different names it goes in the congress in the senate and then it gets danced around a bit and then it comes back and rears its head under another name. in the average person realizes what sort of power the internet represents for them and you just multiply that by a factor of ten thousand or ten million for what the government can do i mean facebook puts out their graph where everybody can access information about their own friends circle and that's probably just one percent of the capabilities that the surveillance state has a new american surveillance program reportedly has much larger goals than just spying on its own citizens is our early and correspondent peter all of has been finding out. among the information that was revealed by whistleblower edward snowden is a map that shows where around the world the united states was listening in to people's telephone conversations now this mops generated so that countries with minimum wire taps taking place in the color green and those where the most why it's

happening was taking place are in red now this has thrown up a few surprises one of those is that right here in germany a lot of pearson a lou reed orange on the map suggesting that it was the subject of quite significant why it's happening this shows that the u.s. has kept some quite serious tabs on just what was going on in the phone conversations of people here in europe's economic powerhouse it's been suggested that although these claims are made that they're trying to stop terrorism that these could be used for economic purposes to try and find out just what's going on inside of europe's only real economic success story at the moment well of course this caused some outrage here in europe and it's certainly going to raise some serious questions when president barack obama arrives here in berlin next week for talks with angle of merkel this is sure to be a major issue that dominates that summit was just what was being listened to and exactly why these conversations were being listened to and it's also likely to

raise questions on friday when the the european commission vice president vivian reading talks with senior u.s. officials in dublin now the man here in germany who's in charge of protecting german citizens identity and personal data is called the u.s. actions unacceptable saying that the level of protection that was in place to look after u.s. citizens well was really far greater than those to look after you citizens and well aren't we all allies after all the social democratic party here in germany who are the main opposition party have said that they want to hear from the german secret service to find out exactly just how much and when they knew that german citizens. we're being listened to during their phone conversations now all of this is caused outrage here in europe however at home in the united states well a poll by the washington post suggests that fifty six percent of americans currently think that this type of trawling for four wire taps is acceptable if it

was to deter terrorist acts while forty six percent saying that it was unacceptable so a majority saying that this type of action should be allowed by the united states government despite the well despite the the unnerving that it does towards their european allies fallout from edward snowden's expose a is developing rapidly and we are across it for you get the latest updates and global reaction here and that dot com. we report online how his whereabouts may be unknown but he could well end up in russia that's after a spokesman for president putin said the country would consider granting political asylum to the whistleblower if he asked for it. and british foreign secretary william hague is fighting accusations that the u.k. surveillance agency was allowed to dip into american citizens spine it you can get more on that at r.t. dot com. well government surveillance was among the key she's touched

upon by president putin within the past few as during a q. and a session here at the center and i. looked around that was there because then you might have to come to them it is no secret that surveillance is widely used by modern intelligence services such methods are vital to counter terrorism but in russia for example you cannot simply wiretap a phone conversation without a court order so this is how it should be done in a civilized society where technical equipment used to help fight terrorism so that surveillance needs to be conducted within the legal framework of which regulates the activity of the security services so it isn't an option for you but it can present and also touched upon the syrian crisis when talking to journalists he says the situation in syria is being aggravated by foreign influence. do you think your the entire region has descended into conflict and uncertainty and now syria on top

of all that. it's happening because some people from the sidelines think that if you just come to this region in the way you like and which they call democracy then there will be peace and order there but that's not how it is at all without considering the history traditions and religious particularities of that region you must not do anything to it especially from the sidelines. look at the intervened in libya whether this regime was good or bad the country had the highest living standards in the region know what we see there is an incessant intertribal battle over resources with this will turn into no one knows and we're very concerned that if we do this to syria it could have the same scenario. of president putin's comments came during a visit to our teams headquarters here in moscow and that's where our journalists did manage to speak at length with the russian leader with questions ranging from the economy foreign policy and we we will bring you the highlights of our interview

with vladimir putin a to hear on our take and also on our website at r.t. dot com. to suicide blasts rocked the syrian capital damascus this tuesday killing at least fourteen people and wounding thirty one more explosions targeted a police station very heart of the capital with reports that one man blew himself up inside the building the attacks come after the syrian army the strategic town of qusayr from the rebel was last week in what some see as a turning point in the war yet is in washington over the recent gains by sad troops who are now backed by hezbollah fighters the u.s. could approve sending weapons to the rebels as early as this week with a no fly zone also among the options former british intelligence officer frank ledwidge. told us earlier that ignoring the diplomatic push can lead to dreadful results. looking at military solutions first is it and the

destructive and counterproductive way of examining this conflict the next thing we will hear of course no fly zones i'm already hearing rumbles about now after that safe so and after that maybe boots on the ground now this can only lead to a worsening situation for every one not that there's any talk in the year and in the security council of producing a solution to this the way to conduct negotiations is to go without preconditions but understanding on all sides that there is a lot of pressure particularly from the big powers from the government's case from russia from the opposition's case from the u.s. particularly along with that fellow travelers the france and the u.k. to a lesser extent the e.u. pressure on both sides you know want you've got to negotiate this because this cannot go on. more world news to come here on r.t.

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hello welcome back and i will pray for protests in turkey that pronouncement coming from prime minister to hundreds of riot police taxing square running to gas and rubber bullets down on protesters tanks him has seen a day of fluctuating police action you're looking at what's happening in the square right now and as you can see it's being played once again. it's

a spoke earlier to occupy gazey protester who was there during mornings crackdown. through tweet to the governor of a stumble send a message that they're not going to be in the gezi park but the only texan square so they want to remove the barricades and they said they're not going to intervene in the peace of protesters but what the scene in the following out was that they came in the square and they started to intervene in gezi park and now the texan square the central center of istanbul is it's all over tear gas and even myself have been tear gas while i was coming here while i was on the way to the studio but the scene today is actually going worse for example in the in the biggest courthouse of istanbul today there were around fifty lawyers who were possessed protesting as the police widens and they were all arrested a few hours ago rubber ballots have been used by the police today and one people

might have been dead although i should state that this is not an. official information and denise i just how far the protests as a willing to go now that you've mentioned that unofficial reports that there might be a death involved from today's protests and that police trying to get everybody out seems that way. are you ok can you please repeat i can't hear you how far are you willing a k. how far are you willing to go. well the. as you might heard more of the prime minister is is is is to meet with the a representation group of the protests and yes he parks there were some certainty months that that gezi park the terraces or put that they put on to table the prime minister the government will will absolutely discuss with them but they

possible to be met these demands or what kind of. concessions can be made through the negotiation process so we'll see what's going to happen tomorrow tomorrow's meeting is i think it will be very pretty much will be a turning point but i crave marty's arabic network was among those caught up in the heavy policing market that you were in the start of the crackdown on protesters or attacks seems where early in the morning or used tear gas and broke the tents tear gas canister hit the camera and broke our cameramen fell to the ground i also suffer badly from the tear gas violent clashes are happening right now in the streets of istanbul it's like a war zone. and our correspondent has just returned from the stamboul after reporting on the anti-government rallies earlier she shared her experience. taksim is the unique place absolutely because it was nothing like any of the protests that

are ever seen before it was going to be feeling like of can bradbury a lot of people were there but there were so many people and they were there night after night that i couldn't help but ask the question that at some point it obviously had to somehow end and obviously the protesters weren't given any of their any of their demands or any of their aspirations at the same time you had the prime minister who first left for four days just when the protests started just when people were really agitated and angry then he came back and said we're not going to budge we're not going to make any concessions everything's going to be just like it was and then just a couple of days later that said fine if you don't want the park to be demolished we'll think about it but we will not make a shopping mall that's as far as the government has gone and even now i mean yes there have been some semi apologies from the mayor or from the ministry of interior when it came to the excessive use of force and this is something that the government was criticized for in turkey but they haven't really they haven't really

promised any was to geisha into that. promise to. the protesters more of the speech to parliament he also blamed the media and social networks to steering the rest june in this new cloak he's been following the events into that he says he doesn't feel threatened by the protests because of his international backing. and often feels emboldened really trapped in a very harsh where gets the protesters uneasy bolton will proceed a member of nato and u.s. allies and i think he was very interesting to see just how moved mutinied criticism of murder has been over the last week in the west john kerry made some mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been cited the phrase you cited and i think it's in bold to go to have to clamp down hard to protest but in but in the world to convince that the plastic bullets etc i think go home field really there's no real pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet with the protesters why should he is thinking because he's got the backing of nato and the u.s. the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power and i think that's what that

that's a very important factor the other thing is of course. years the opposition is divided so he thinks he did a very strong position. you with r.t. a quick look now at other world news a massive explosion in the supremes compound in afghanistan's capital leaving seventeen people dead and another forty wounded the taliban admits carrying out the attack saying it targeted judges who were bay western powers the blast which is the deadliest in the city since the end of twenty eleven took place just two hundred meters from the u.s. embassy. elsewhere china has launched a manned space flight on a fifteen day mission to live with a space lab the capsule carrying the three astronauts lifted off from the gobi desert in the countries far west the crew two men and one woman taking part in

china's longest space mission yet as part of work to complete the country's own space station by the end of the decade. i. and venezuela says its roiled a plot to kill president maturer police seized nine members of colombian paramilitary along with weapons ammunition and fake venezuelan army uniforms it is believed another group may still be in the capital caracas venezuela is late president chavez fell out with columbia seven years ago accusing it of being in washington's pocket by allowing u.s. access to military bases. british police have stormed a central london building arresting dozens of people and hoping to head off a protest at next week's g eight summit demonstrations then took place in some of the capitals busy shopping streets and turned violent one of the protesters he was there told us what happened. the police increasing over the last three or four

years seem to think they can come in and do pretty arrests for pretty crimes before anybody's done anything. i hear from the legal observers about thirty two people arrested when you play stormed into one of the converted people have a right to protest in this country and discuss what their governments are getting up to you know increasingly feel like it's a corporate takeover of our democracy was told this morning of the police hitting someone the face with an angle growing one man was beaten with by the police with a crowbar to he was unconscious to continue eating him he's been arrested and taken off to hospital you know this is you know a plane attack on our rights to protest and you know the police tactics were totally over the top but pushing old people young people as an old woman pushed over most a boy can was injured you know which is extremely over the top tactics is not needed. 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 blast roadside

bombs and gun battles rocked the country on monday continuing weeks of bloodshed which has claimed nearly two thousand lives since april much of the violence is blamed on sunni insurgents after months of protests against the shiite led government artie's caffein of investigates the sectarian tension. 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 field 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 boil on 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 a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be under 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 suffa 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 of 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 in the street to flu jab and. 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 motion was also the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is missing. migrations 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 a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this residential prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia from armed groups. have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families to safety. some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they got in the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis. like they made the

proportions for the seventies for this heat then and for the dish this isn't all. those divisions have taken a toll on iraq each generation separated by the threat of violence. really effects this causes a lot of programs between me and my friends especially if they from a different six we come to work together will hang out. 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 you see catherine of r.t.e. baghdad. is going to see her past eleven here in moscow max and stacey and i on the way with a look at whether they'll be any public payback for the internet giants who we trusted with our private doctor.

six india ago residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and four years ago do america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the u.s. 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

airplane. 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 show just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you saw. i'm tom is a big. welcome to the kaiser report i'm. adam smith warned the people of the same tray seldom made

together even for merriment and diversion but for the conversation ending in a conspiracy against the public are in some contrivance to raise prices that's fricken adam smith who said that stacy mac's proof of this we are going to look at an image of many 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 levin 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 is the google c.e.o. eric schmidt larry ellison and the president of stanford university the last supper . and undertakers convention it's the moment when barack obama complicite lee got in the bed with these guys you run prism essentially that's the moment i mean look at that dinner look at that.