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empathize very similar situation myself. trying to actively support through his interview or otherwise. as a hero the man who blew the whistle on the internet snooping program if you talk about one of the political leaks in history. government unrest rages on in turkey with the police showing. the prime minister over the one. and a standoff between anticapitalist protesters and hundreds of riot police in central london a week until the g eight summit predictably resulting in. the
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world's top headlines live from moscow with me it's good if you to join the program today while the u.s. estimates the potential damage to national security from the leaks about its surveillance efforts the man behind them edward snowden now faces a life on the run one of the world's most prominent whistleblowers and julian assange has said that he feel sympathetic toward snowden's plight and the wiki leaks founder those still holed up in ecuador's embassy in london though we did have a moment to tell my colleague that despite how washington cracked down on lekas there's a big public demand for those who do alternately reveal the truth. empathize having being through a very similar situation myself. trying to actively support through this interview
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or in other ways the 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 he's family has been raided in holland looted by police already yes he will be subject to prosecution by united states for years and i'm certain of that many sources are quite scared i mean we're saying callie 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 a death penalty or face. an outrageous president any. communications information to the media can be prosecuted for aiding the enemy and as
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a result. sentenced to death. and that's that really it's the end of bestial 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 whistleblowers after what we've seen over the last couple of days what do you think your personal chances are not walking free any time soon what keeps you going. what keeps us going is the worldwide support the pre have which is really quite extraordinary yes we see he has a banking blockade that's cut out about ninety five percent of its finances but we have provide support so we can five percent is. 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 u.k. tax plan people can see to the geopolitics that things are starting to change
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politically you know stray. political party now according to the government's own polling outfit has between twenty five and twenty eight percent of the fire to the elections in september. and he will activist kevin zeese he says no amount of government pressure can stop insiders from exposing the wrongdoing to the public well there's 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 and they tried to intimidate was a blower right across in bradley manly by mistreating him in prison hold the insulter it more than a year and you know we have some of the biggest leaks in history coming after that occurred they may intimidate some. well you need one person who has the courage and the patriotism to step forward and tell the truth i think you'll see there always
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happening whether it's big business abuse or big government abuse you'll see more and more people step forward 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 will come for not going to stop this is these leaks from coming who would like. and while the f.b.i. is building the case against snowden off to the leak of america's secret surveillance program yet more significant revelations are yet to be published the modern will be breaking the twelve thirty g.m.t. having a very good look at just how the intelligence agencies have been trying to get away with this snooping all the way since day one. let's take a trip down memory lane to most 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 well not to the n.s.a. which replied by saying that revealing that information would quote violate the
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privacy of u.s. persons yep apparently it be a violation of your privacy to know that you're being spied on is that not the most are well the in thing you've ever heard 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 now american tech giants facebook and google want the right to reveal just exactly what the government has been demanding that's all a click away for you right now they say dot com. also online for you right now who is next to enter the ranks of nuclear weapon states how about the netherlands
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leaked reports say the country is still storing twenty two nuclear weapons from america somewhere deep underground you can also find out what else is hidden but at the surface at our daughter cold. but i'll go to istanbul where police in turkey have clashed with protesters overnight office storming taksim square this in the biggest crackdown since the protests began almost two weeks ago as security forces used tear gas water cannons and rubber bullets and a massive show of force that just stood up more tension and a fourth fatality has been confirmed or the turkish prime minister has warned he will not bow down or show any more tolerance he said xander on the right to reports from istanbul. hundreds of policemen clashed with protesters on the square where the security process try to gas as a result our tea was attacked by the tear gas applied by the police here on the tax where the epicenter of protests against the prime minister. came from thousands of
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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 tragic ballot meant of gezi park in that it seems square wish and it's turned ask collated international white antigovernment protests type carried a gun in its turn that for him it's not clear what were the demands of these demonstrators and he urged the protesters to leave the square saying that he will
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meet those legitimate demands on wednesday. and we have been following the events in turkey since the very beginning of the protests there and international crew was tear gassed along with other demonstrators when they got caught up in the violent crackdown you can find out the latest developments of the turkey unrest online right now with. protesters in turkey crying out against the brutal tactics of the police and handling the beyond rest witnesses claim security forces showed little mercy towards those who end up taking to the streets in this video posted on the internet a man right there in the wheelchair here we go it can be seen getting targeted there it is with the water the footage already sparking massive outrage among. protestors on twitter i mean while the prime minister's been pointing the finger over the cause of the protests over the one blaming social media and an international conspiracy against turkey professor hussein back from the middle east
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technical university in ankara he thinks more unrest would only split the country. it is the. uprising against the enrollment or intervention of the prime minister in the life of citizens from the right of drink of alcohol or any other thing for i think the turkey is experiencing now new trouble and five of quality in portugal terms and the government is responsible to get out from this conflict but not to organize. big demonstrations like you just said 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 feasible.
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are just after ten minutes past the hour here in moscow and over a thousand police were deployed in london to crackdown on and t g eight protesters and this ahead of next week's global summit taking place in northern ireland a choose days so-called carnival against capitalism while predictably ended in scuffles and at least fifty seven people arrested after a three hour standoff though the police managed to force their way into a building where protesters wish watching one of the activists arrested on the rooftop did end up getting injured and hundreds of anticapitalist protesters took to the streets to march on their target sites that being the businesses in central london which they call the world's most brutal and polluting companies tuesday was the first day you know week of anti g eight protests planned by the activists and here at r.t. we got the chance to speak to one of the organizers. people's message is that you
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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 they're 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 trying to subvert democracy basically and we need to have a more transparent government we need 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 certain people knowing about this behind the scenes you know they are actually robbing 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. we are
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turning our attention to greece where the main t.v. and radio channels have been taken off the air and that's after the government decided to suspend all state farm broadcasts we're talking about a two thousand five hundred employees now without a job while the authority slammed the company as a haven of waste the journalists have continued broadcasting online throughout the night though defying the government's order and large crowds joined in a protest against the decision which is the latest in a cost cutting triumph as athens struggles to appease international lenders a petty officer terrorists a social and political expert from the university of the aegean he says it's just not about the economy anymore. you're into a lunch we are witnessing is a very authoritarian from the part of the greek government the decision to shut down the whole network the greek public broadcasting system is an example
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of the attempts from the part of the greek government to comply to the demands of the european union i am met and is simply troika it's not just a question of a stare at me it's not just a question recession it is also a question of democracy setting down in the name of the sterett the well hold public broadcasting network. is it is a heavy blow to democracy. and while the eurozone is struggling to eke out some sort of growth the developing economies have been showing some rather impressive performances in the so-called emerging markets accounting for over a hall of the world's g.d.p. and outgrowing the developed countries so we've got some pretty thorough analysis on that just ahead for you here on the program. also the hidden dangers of justice system reform in the u.k. with plans to recruit private companies to supervise offenders released back into
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here on. reporting from the will talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. visit. with me and will research the u.k. government for. probation reform many worried it's taking risks with public safety critics. to abandon plans to dismantle private trusts which supervised people released from jail and instead hand over the jobs to private companies let's get an explanation on the story now with. the rehabilitation revolution that's what the coalition governments promised and in a bid to cut re-offending rates the government's now planning to turn to private
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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. there's a lympics when they fail to deliver on promises to cure it. and the plans have been met with fierce opposition from across the public sector with many warnings that far from the 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 but the offenders he pays the greatest risk with private and voluntary services looking after the rest can see the contracts on a payment by results basis the fear is that placing this vital parts of the
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criminal justice system into the hands of private companies could be putting 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 to say called revolving door of every offending and he'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 you've been on probation before an event she then gone back inside the prison what went wrong and what happens today we're trying to put in the right now trying to get a training scheme. there waiting funding from the government you like and so forth now time to law isn't it between to trust and then to analyze and to do and to
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three months why didn't i was i was i wasn't moving anywhere at the time was all over the place. is this really offending cycle the government's trying to break and they say that payment by results well innovate 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 this will be splits in fact it will be for the full interview . if not. today. the plans of all so you can tease many in the public probation sector which won the t. thousand and eleven push quality foundation gold medal the excellent. public bought private good. at the end of the day i still appalled the idea that anybody
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makes any profits out of the suffering of other people in the criminal justice system but i. the government insists the plan even just. days on the front line a warning that this bit to cut costs. it's a very high price. on the. world up big time here on r t straight to afghanistan now latest numbers seventeen killed forty wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a supreme court set of staff in the capital kabul women and children said to be among the victims taliban saying they did it also saying they were targeting judges who bowed down to west and. at the blast the deadliest in kabul since two thousand and eleven just steps away from the u.s. embassy. at least for fostering wildfires have broken out in a heavily wooded area in the northeast of colorado in america dozens of homes
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damaged thousands evacuated amid strong winds and record breaking temperatures firefighters are still at the scene using helicopters to dump water onto the flames at this point no reports of injuries. now as iranians are preparing to choose their new president on friday world powers are waiting for signs of a thaw in talks over to iran's nuclear program while the u.s. and e.u. suspected same building atomic weapons iran has always insisted it's purely peaceful now the russian president vladimir putin when he came to our team in the past twenty four hours he said he has no doubt that iran's adhering to that of international standards. it is. the issue itself is complicated but not for russia russia has delivered on all of its international commitments you know that russia has constructed the russian nuclear plant in iran we've delivered on all of our terms and conditions and we're willing to go on
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cooperating they insist on enriching uranium themselves within their international mandates we don't see anything wrong with that as long as they keep in line with international law they should be entitled to pursue their program. that was just a sneak peek of president putin's exclusive interview to us here at r.t. you can catch it in full vegas today that will be at ten thirty g.m.t. . for now though while the financial doldrums continue to rock the global economy it seems it's not all doom and gloom for everybody for the first time now since the industrial revolution of the eighteen hundreds the developing countries have surpassed the developed ones signaling some big changes in the global economic landscape artie's kitty pilgrim offers us some inside. developing countries now account for overhaul of the world's economy and with this growth comes power so which 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 call back
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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 in 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. world economy it's creditor nation or the new nations as well historically people like great britain america finance developing nations so that they could grow but now it's the developing nations which have the money to develop i don't know if you've been 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
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right now a lot of j.f.k. in new york and you realize you're not third world airport but is that your poor or in your eyes universe were or is already happening. so from the sounds of it these so-called developing countries don't need to develop any mole maybe it's the countries which have held the post strings to so long who could now a day with a little maintenance. business presented their catapult him now often caught up in tension in the middle east israel frequently finds itself under fire both critically and literally and is the physical threat that is now being claimed the people there are totally unprepared for this report to want to support us now. israel 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
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pinski 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 a cannot cut off my bid to fit the gas mask the beard is part of being a jew growing a beard falls on the 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 it 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 around the residence and most people here will tell you that in times of war they know that mr grant the gas mask if 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
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block with no shelter or any idea of where to find one i think i was supposed to go to the stairs or something. don't really know i have my get 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 aren't aware 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 an air of. this. priority because of this it's never enough. if the idea for a lot of your brother would be but that's still no excuse to complain residents of the streets 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
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rained down here during the last may been on war there was only one public shelter to protect five thousand people. nor was i today the state is the only responsible and guilty party in the past people were caught in the line of fire like slaves as targets without those of you today this is the situation for out of citizens who live in israel's north we're human shields in the face of any intensive rocket fired on the country which just goes to show that behind the glass of israel's well polished military facade as a population dangerously exposed. tel aviv. it's been a pleasure having you with us here on our to today i rory sushi and homeless in the land of milk and honey a special documentary coming your way in just a second. mission
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