very similar situation myself. trying to actively support if you are. the man who blew the whistle on the u.s. internet snooping program you talked about one of the biggest political leaks in history. and government unrest rages in turkey with police showing force in a brutal crackdown on. the prime minister. also between protesters and hundreds of riot police and.

it's good to have you with us this morning here on ars he. just after ten am here. in washington d.c. . and while the u.s. estimates the potential damage to national security from the leaks about surveillance efforts the man behind edward snowden now faces a life on the run and one of the world's most prominent whistleblowers julian assange has said that he feel sympathetic toward snowden's plight and the wiki leaks founder still holed up in ecuador's embassy in london and we had a chance to speak to my colleague and say that despite a washington crackdown on leakers there is a huge public demand for those who do reveal the true. empathize having being

through a very similar situation myself. trying to actively support through this interview or in other ways. 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 his family has been raided in holland looted by police already started and yes he will be subject to prosecution by united states for use i'm certain of that many sources are quite scared i mean we're seen. colleagues of mine have even stated publicly that they have 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 a death penalty phase. and outrageous president any. communications

and 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 security journalism united states if the president is that bush is still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy given the clampdown that might come down now what whistleblowers off to what we've seen over the last couple of days what do you think your personal chances are now walking free any time soon what keeps you going. well what keeps us going is the worldwide support that we have which is really quite extraordinary yes which he has a banking blockade that's cut out about ninety five percent of its finances but we have provide support so even five percent. five percent is not nothing the u.k. government has admitted to have spent five million dollars in the past ten months on surveilling this embassy in relation to me completely awfully disproportionate

that's an offense to you kate tax plan people conceited geopolitics but things are starting to change political you know stray. political party now according to the government's own polling outfit has between twenty five and twenty eight percent of the fight in the elections in september. and antiwar activist kevin zeese he says no amount of government pressure can stop insiders from exposing the wrongdoing to the members of the public well is no question that the u.s. security state will continue with the same strategy and strategies which pursued really for many years and certainly president obama has escalated that strategy of prosecution you know it's amazing that they don't learn the lesson they tried to intimidate was a blower right across in bradley manly by a mistreating imprisoned wholly in solitary more than a year and here we have some of the biggest leaks in history coming after that occurred they may intimidate some. only one person who has the courage and the

patriotism to step forward and tell the truth i think you'll see there always happen whether it's big business abuse or big government abuse you'll see more and more people stepping forward and saying that's not acceptable that's illegal it's unethical and the american people here know about it the world needs to know about it and so people who come for not going to stop this is these leaks from coming who would like. you know while the f.b.i. is building the case against snowden off the leak of america's secret surveillance program the more significant revelations yet to be published i mean martin will be breaking the set at eight am g.m.t. looking at how millions in america while being consistent we'd like to take a trip down memory lane the last exactly one year ago that's about the time that senators ron wyden and mark udall two members of the intelligence oversight committee asked the n.s.a. a simple question just how many people in the u.s. are being spied on pretty straightforward question marion a straightforward answer right oh not to the n.s.a.

which replied by saying that revealing that information would quote violate the privacy of u.s. persons yup apparently it be a violation of your privacy to know that you're being spied on is that not the most orwellian thing you've ever heard well when the news came out i remember joking that the n.s.a. probably didn't want to release that information because the real answer would have been everybody fast forward to today but you know what the joke's on me because the n.s.a. is in fact spying on every person by phone and internet court in a whistleblower edward snowden. revelations about the n.s.a.'s mass surveillance program continue to cause ripples . american tech giants facebook google to watch the government. requests. click away on the website.

who's next to enter the ranks of. the country's still storing twenty two nuclear weapons from the us somewhere deep underground details on what else is hidden below the surface. police clashed with protesters overnight. in the biggest crackdown since the protests began almost two weeks ago security forces used tear gas water cannons and rubber bullets in a show of force the more tension for fatality already. on the turkish prime minister warned he will not show any more tolerance. reports from istanbul. hundreds of policemen clashed with protesters on the square where the security process. as a result how it was a fractured by the tear gas applied by the police here on the taxi where the

epicenter of protests against the prime minister. came from thousands of people the demonstrators responded they were firing stones and bottles earlier our cameraman cameraman was hit by smoke grenades as police used what it can be an advanced across the square according to the authorities the main goal of this police actions was to clear barricades and opposition banners from the square and from the building that was sound turned and became the main. opposition moments before the police advance policemen were confronted by the demonstrators who were calling them to leave this square protests began two weeks ago. in the square which needs turn asked collated international wide anti-government protests type air to ground in its turn. where the demonstrators urged the protesters to leave the square saying that he will meet those legitimate

demands on wednesday. when we've been following the events in the very beginning of the protests. international crew was tear gassed along with other demonstrators when they were caught up in the. latest developments turkey unrest online right now . and protesters in tokyo crying out against the brutal tactics of the police and the rest when security forces showed a little skewed towards those who wound up going onto the streets in this video posted on the internet. can be seen targeted with the water. of the. protestors on twitter i mean. well the prime minister's been pointing the finger over the course of the protests over the one simply blaming social media and that of an international conspiracy against cable or professor sayed back from the

middle east technical university to ankara if things more unrest will only split the country. it is the. uprising against the in wall money or intervention of turkish prime ministers in the life of citizens from the right of speech to drink of alcohol or any other things i think the turkey is experiencing now new trouble and five of college in portugal terms and the government is responsible to get out from this conflict but not to organize. big demonstrations like which is set up for the recount on saturday and sunday i think it is the wrong move of the government to bring one side of the society against the other side of the society it can only lead in the long ground to feasible.

good to have you with us this morning here on r t over a thousand police were deployed in london to crack down on anti g eight protesters that's ahead of next week's global summit taking place in northern ireland to choose days so called carnival against capitalism and didn't scuffles and at least fifty seven arrests after a three hour stand off police force their way into the building where the protesters wish watching one of the activists arrested on the roof was injured hundreds of anti capitalist protesters took to the streets to march on their target sites businesses in central london which they called the world's most brutal and polluting companies and tuesday was the first day in a week of anti g eight protests planned by the activists here at r.t. we took the chance to speak to one of the organizers. people's message is that you

know we want some of our real democracy back there seems to be a corporate takeover of democracy there's another name for the fascism we're very unhappy about the removal of our right to protest about rights to a fair trial a lot of different things of you know the new scoring or the bringing in you know there is there's a lot of things in this country people are very unhappy about that these you know major groups are are trying to you know subvert democracy basically and we need to have a more transparent government we need you know to look at the whole situation the whole austerity law that's been pumped out on us it's not actually recession this is a robbery you have you know central bank to me and economies into boom and bust and people knowing about this behind the scenes you know they are actually role being a lot of our public services and putting them into their private hands at the moment we're not being listened to in this country is that the people here. this is

are your life from moscow the main t.v. and radio channels in greece have all been taken off the air the staff of the government decided to suspend all state run broadcaster we're talking about a twenty five hundred employees losing their jobs or the authority slammed the company as a quote haven of waste a large crowds joined in a protest against the decision which is the latest in a cost cutting drive as athens struggles to appease international lenders. social and political expert from the university of the g.n. he says it's not just about the economy anymore. carry into the lunch we are witnessing is a very hard to read. from the part of the greek government the decision. the whole network of the greek public broadcasting system is an example. from the fact that the greek government comply to the the months the european union

i mean it's and is simply troika it's not just a question of a stare at the it's not just a question of recession it is also a question of democracy. setting down in the name of a stare at the well hold public broadcasting network. is it is a heavy blow to democracy. and while the eurozone is struggling to eke out some growth in developing economies we've been showing some rather impressive performances of a so-called emerging markets accounting now for over a half of the world's g.d.p. and outgrowing the developed countries you've got a more analysis on that just ahead for you here on the program and the hidden dangers all the justice system reform in the u.k. going to plans to recruit private companies to supervise offenders released back into the community more details on that and the other top headlines of today in just a moment. well

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mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for joining us here on our. just a moment on the world update from the u.k. government's under fire for its probation reform. taking risks with the issue of public safety critics. to abandon plans to dismantle private trusts which supervised people released from jail instead handed over the jumps to private companies their explanation correspondent sara. the rehabilitation revolution that's what the coalition governments promised and in a bid to cut re-offending wait the government's now planning to turn to private

companies like us with plans to outsource a large chunk of the service by twenty fifteen that might come as a surprise to some given the less than gold standard performance of g four s. last summer's olympics when they failed to deliver on promises to curacy and the plans have been met with fierce opposition from across the public sector with many warnings that far from a revolution disaster waiting to happen and we're extremely concerned about. proposals to private two thirds of the workforce two thirds of the work load put in the hands of untrained private sector providers the proposals will leave the public probation service with around fifty thousand of the offenders he pays the greatest risk with private and voluntary services looking after the rest consort here will bid for contracts on a payment by results basis the fear is that placing this vital parts of the

criminal justice system into the hands of private companies could be causing community risk. there is a risk because although we have a number of prisoners who will never be released the vast majority of prisoners will be walking out of those gates behind i'm coming to. you many of the low to medium risk offenders go on to commit much more serious crimes the same called revolving door every offending angie's just finished his second stint. just three months after his release from prison the first time he found himself right back inside his. mind because he said he'd been on probation before an event she then called back inside the prison when wrong and what happens there were trying to put in the right now trying to get the training scheme. confronting from the government you like and so forth now that took time to laws in

a between charged and then to analyze and to do and all up to three months why didn't i was i was i wasn't moving anywhere at a time. like opinion. it's really offending cycle the government's trying to break and they say that payment by results well innovates the system the question is the way he carries the risk if things don't work out at the end of the day those product companies are going to be accountable to shareholders not to the public and their losses will be split in fact it will be to the full interview. if not. to. the plans of all so you can tease many in the public probation sector which won the t. thousand and eleven pushes quality foundation gold medal the excellent. public bought private good. at the end of the day i still appalled the idea that anybody

makes any profits out of the suffering of other people in the criminal justice system. government planned even just. days on the front a warning to cut costs. that's a very high price. and afghanistan opens up the world update where at least seventeen were killed around forty wounded after a suicide bomber attacked the supreme court stuff in the capital of afghanistan and women and children were said to be among the victims and taliban who was quick to claim responsibility saying it was judges who were a western powers which was the deadliest in kabul since the end of two thousand and eleven went off several steps away from the us embassy. at least for fast growing wildfires have broken out in a heavily wooded area in the north east of colorado springs in america dozens of

homes damaged thousands evacuated amid strong winds and record breaking temperatures firefighters are working at the scene trying to bring the flames under control with helicopters there's been no immediate reports of any injuries. as iranians are preparing to choose their new president on friday world powers are waiting for signs of a thaw in iran's disputed nuclear program and while the u.s. and e.u. suspected same building atomic weapons iran has always insisted it's all about being purely peaceful and the russian president vladimir putin he told r.t. he has no doubt that iran is a hearing to international commitments. the issue itself is complicated but now for russia russia has delivered on all of its international. commitments you know that russia has constructed the. nuclear power plant we have delivered

on all of our terms and conditions and we are willing to go on cooperating they insist on enriching themselves within the international mandate we don't see anything wrong with that as long as the keep in line with international law they should be entitled to. their program and that was just a sneak peek of president putin's exclusive interview to r.t. you can watch it in full here on the program in about seven minutes. well while the financial doldrums have been rocking the global economy it seems it's not all doom and gloom for everybody for the first time since the industrial revolution of the eighteen hundreds the developing countries have surpassed the developed ones signaling rather big changes in the global economic landscape business presenter katie pilbeam details are developing countries now account for

overhaul of the world's economy and with this growth comes power so we should nations are we talking about that well if we look at this map we can see that the developing world is overtaking the developed world and if we wind the clock back we can see that back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two the developed world account of the sixty nine percent of the world economy while the developing world took up just. false forward more than thirty years the a mugging economies will make up nearly three quarters of the world economy by twenty seven taking so is this economic shift changing the balance of power i asked legendary investor to rogers exactly that. we're already seeing it it's not just the files of the world economy creditor nations her new nations as well as star italy people like great britain america finance developing nations so that they

could grow but now if the developing nations which have the money to develop the i don't know if you've been to asia you've been to hong kong or singapore or careers some of the places the standard of living in many of these places much better than america right now lot of j.f.k. in new york and you realize you're in a third world airport but it's in your poor or in your our universe were or it's already happening. so from the sounds of it these so-called developing countries don't need to develop anymore maybe it's the countries which have held the post strings to so long who could now do with a little maintenance on he's got a problem right now often quite often tension in the middle east israel frequently finds itself under fire both critically and literally and it's not a physical threat that is now being claimed people are not prepared for these poor silly reports. because rio is the most fertile and country in the world we're

talking about fifty to thanks to thousands of rockets. into israel and this is the reason why we have to be prepared but if the bombs start falling the only thing menachem penske can do is pray because like other orthodox jews this father of two is bristling with anger he's had to choose potentially save his life with a government supplied gas mask or keep it off and rely on prayer as things stand he can't do both i cannot cut off my beard to fit the gas mask the beard is part of being a jew growing a beard falls under respect of human life and i should not be forced to remove it in times of war just because the gas mask the government gives me doesn't fit over but even if you are clean shaven israeli only slightly more than half the population has a gas mask and if that's not indication enough recent drills organized by the home front were ignored by most people i was under the sample of television residents

and most people here will tell you that in times of war they know they miss grammont the gas mask they have one and one interesting case but what happens after that no one seems to have a clue no one is olbermann is typical she lives on the second floor of an apartment block with no shelter or any idea of where to find one i think i was supposed to go to the stairs or something i. don't really know i have my. guess mess. and i'm supposed to have it somewhere but they don't really take it it's not as if the powers that be are unaware of the threats a record number of exhibitors converged on television recently hosting the largest offensive expose the country seen in years a wake up call that citizens need to be protected or i'm. sorry. this. is because of this it's never enough.

a lot of your brother would do but that's still no excuse complained residents of the street village not far from these radio lebanese border forty percent of israel's arab population are without shelters and when dozens of his bill missiles rained down here during the last lebanon war it was only one public shelter to protect five thousand people. without a doubt the state is the only response to the guilty party in the past people were in the line of fire like slaves as targets would be into the car this is a situation for out of since the man who live in israel your human shields in the face of any intensive rocket fire on the country which just goes to show that behind the glass of israel's well polished military facade lies a population dangerously exposed. tell of live. fire any already may know about this but russia's president vladimir person he visited our brand new moscow headquarters here at r.t. that was on tuesday for a tour of the network

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