improvised i think we were very similar situation myself. trying to actively support through this interview or in other ways to sort snowden's. the editor of wiki leaks julian assange speaks with r.t. about the challenges that the word snowden faces after blowing the whistle on a massive u.s. secrets of maylands program. activists say the brutality of authorities in turkey is intensifying as the prime minister gets sent to meet protesters who've endured almost two weeks of heavy policing. debt ridden greece shuts down its main t.v. and radio broadcaster as part of a cost cutting drive but thousands were sacked labelled it a blow to democracy. london riot police on alert after and capitalist rallies the lead to intense scuffles and fifty seven arrests less than

a week before the start of the next g eight summit. four pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story washington is in damage control after an ex cia worker exposed the government secret surveillance program lawmakers are compiling a list of charges against edward snowden who is thought to be on the run my colleague ebben owens spoke to the world's leading whistleblower julian assange about what could be in store for snowden. empathize having been through a very similar situation myself where trying to actively support through this interview or in other ways use 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 his family has been raided in holland looted by police already cited 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 coldly 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 you face. an 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 national 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 which of its 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 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 can see the 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. antiwar activist kevin zeese says there was a war movement won't lose momentum despite the crackdown well there's no question that the u.s. security state will continue with the same strategy and strategies which. 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 the they tried to intimidate was a blower right across bradley manley barred mistreating imprisoned hold the insulter of more than a year and yet we have some of the biggest leaks in history coming after that occurred they may intimidate some people to be certain all you need is one person who has the courage and the patriotism to step forward and tell the truth i think you'll see there always 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 who come for not going to stop this is these

leaks from coming who would like a little later this hour a case abby martin looks at how the intelligence agencies have been covering up their surveillance operation. both 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 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 or well the in 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. police in turkey clashed with protesters overnight after storming taksim square in a stand will it was part of the biggest crackdown since the protests started almost two weeks ago and it's been confirmed a fourth person has died as accusations over the brutal tactics of police in handling the arrest continue in this video posted on the internet a man in a wheelchair is seen targeted by the by a water cannon footage was sparked outrage on twitter prime minister aired on is pledging he will show no more tolerance but he's set to meet with protest leaders later today professor who's the chief of the middle east technical university and author of thinks the government's reaction is only dividing the country further. the. uprising against the wall or intervention of two. citizens from the right. to drink. and

other things i think the turkey is experiencing new trouble in five of gluten. political terms and the government is responsible to get out from new form for big 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 to monkey around the feet of all. we have been following events in turkey since the start of the protests our city our teams international crew was tear gassed along with other demonstrators while they were caught up in the violent crackdown finally as developments online at r.t. dot com.

with an approaching presidential election in iran friday world leaders hope they'll be some signs of a fall over tehran's disputed nuclear program washington and the e.u. suspect it's aimed at covertly making bombs while iran insists they need it for generation power generation and medical research russian president vladimir putin tells our team he's got no doubt though that the state isn't hearing to international commitments. and. 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 nuclear plants in iran we've delivered on all of our terms and conditions and we're willing to go incorporating the insists on enriching uranium themselves within the 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. you can catch president

putin's full exclusive interview with r t later today at fourteen thirty g.m.t. well still to come the students are passing the teacher the so-called emerging markets now accounting for more than half the world's g.d.p. outgrowing some developed countries will bring you analysis on that still to come plus the dangers of justice system reform in the u.k. a look at plans to recruit private businesses to supervise offenders were released back into the community that and much more still to come stay with us. technology innovations. developments from around russia. the future covered. 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 everything you thought you don't know i'm tom parker is a big. download the official publication so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. thanks for staying with us here on r.t.e. eleven minutes past the hour now greece's main t.v. and radio channels have been pulled off the air after the government decided to

suspend all state run broadcast a cut budget costs all twenty five hundred employees headed pink slips while authorities slam the company as a haven of waste but the so-called brought but the broadcaster is largely state funded with every greek household paying a fee were darla's who are they on t.v. or not large crowds joined in a protest against the decision calling the move a blow to democracy. here is a social and political expert from the university of the aegean thinks greece goes too far in trying to please its international creditors. care into the lunch we are witnessing is very hard to read. on the part of the greek government the decision to shut down the whole network the greek public broadcasting system is an example of the attempts from the part of the greek government to comply with the demands of the. european union i may be. not just a question it was there is a it's not just a question recession it is also

a question of democracy. setting down in the name of the stare it's over the whole public broadcasting network. is it is a heavy blow to democracy. fifty seven people arrested by british police in connection with anti g eight protests in london tuesday the so-called carnival against capitalism and intense scuffles but organizers warn it's just the beginning after a standoff that lasted more than three hours police raided disused buildings that were being used by protesters as a makeshift headquarters one of the activists threatened to jump off the roof but it was brought to safety hundreds of anticapitalist protesters took to the street targeting banks hedge funds mining and oil firms in central london they condemned the g eight for making the rich richer and doing nothing they say to end the local conflicts are caught up with one of the organizers get his take. people's messages that we want some of our real democracy back it seems to be

a corporate takeover of democracy there's another one for the fascism we're very unhappy about the removal of ah protests about rights to a fair trial lot of different things of you know the new school in northern 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 you know democracy basically and we need to have 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 banks me and economies into boom and bust and people knowing about this on the scene you know. a lot of our public services and putting them into the private hands at the moment we're not being listened to in this country is that the people here. when the world's leading financial states deeply some merged in debt developing economies could be taking center stage

signalling changes in the world of finance business presenter katie pilbeam looks at how emerging markets are supposing many develop missions 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 wells 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 roger's exactly that. we're already seeing it it's not just

the fires of the world economy creditor nations heard the nation 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 to asia you've been to home calmer think of for a career some of the places the standard of living in many of these places much better than america right now a lot of j.f.k. in new york and you realize you're not third world airport but it's in your poor or in your eyes universe where the airport 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 do with a little maintenance. dot com as the hunger strike continues at guantanamo bay is the u.s. government scaling back its persecution of the camp's captives saying there is not

enough evidence to bring them into court a full time line of the story and more online plus. the world's oldest man according to the guinness book of dies in japan at one hundred sixteen years young find out more about the life which your boy droit one commuter on our website r t v dot com. thousands of opposition activists hit the streets of central moscow in what they call a march against executioners the rally aimed at supporting those on trial over a mass disorder and violence against the police they were arrested following protests that ended in clashes last may on the eve of president putin swearing in police say six thousand took part in the protest march while the opposition insists there were up to twenty thousand taking part nine people arrested before the march started after they refused police demands to banners of the left front organization which has recently been declared illegal in russia. offenders on probation in the u.k. could soon be placed under the supervision of private companies as. ports it's led

some to accuse the government of putting cost cutting ahead of public safety. 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 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 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 trust the secretary's proposals to privatise 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 consort here will get the 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 put in community risk. there is a risk because although we have a number of prisoners who will never be the vast majority of prisoners will be walking out of those gates behind and coming to. many of the low to medium risk offenders go on to commit much more serious crimes the so-called revolving door of every offending and he's just finished his second stint here. just three months after his release from prison the first time he found himself right back inside. because he said you've been on probation before and you virtually then gone back inside the prison what what went wrong and what happens.

they were trying to. i was trying to. do awaken funding from the government like. the took time to between to trust and then two. to three months. i wasn't even anywhere at the time. fending 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 the end of the those product companies are going to be accountable to shareholders not to the public. will be split in fact it will be. the most if not. today. the plans of many in the

public. which won the t. thousand and eleven push quality foundation gold medal excellent. public private good. day i still uphold the idea that anybody makes any profits out of the suffering of other people in the criminal justice system but. the government insists the planned evolution of the justice system that these on the front line a warning that this bit to cut costs can't come as a very high price so. the london taking a look at some other global headlines now rebels have reportedly attacked a village in eastern syria killing more than sixty people the violence seen as retaliation for an earlier attack by villagers this after government troops re took control of the northern town of qusayr last week we saw an army games have alerted the west of france and the u.s. now seriously mulling over the idea of sending lethal aid to the opposition the

arms embargo on syria left at the last month to push the. both sides to peace talks continue to stall. a motorbike bomb in a restive part of southern afghanistan has killed two and injured fifteen when it exploded in a marketplace this less than twenty four hours after another suicide explosion took the lives of seventeen people at the supreme court in the capital kabul in recent weeks there's been a wave of attacks by taliban forces and other militants against afghan security forces pushing the violence to a twelve year high. frank air traffic controllers in their second day of strike action causing more than eight hundred flight cancellations workers oppose evil plans to centralize european airspace rather than leave each nation to control its own skies the protest the first since that is for the first since two thousand and twenty one airport staff protested against changes in french pension rules. all four thousand evacuated as wildfires spread through the u.s.

state of colorado a fire covering an estimated four hundred acres is likely to grow quickly because of low humidity and high temperatures and fast winds there are reports of any fatalities though several homes have been burned it's not known what caused the fire to stop. finally in this news block with tensions high in the region israelis are used to living under constant threat of conflict but how prepared are the people of israel should they actually come under attack party's policy or takes a look. israel is the most fertile and country in the world where they're going 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 pinsky 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 the 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 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 television residence 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 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 heir to. the. priorities and their priorities because of this it's never enough. the idea of a lot of your brother that they 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 responsible and guilty party in the past people were caught in the line of fire like slaves as targets for that is today this is

a 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 the population dangerously exposed. tel aviv. this is here in the lead in u.s. history our next hour takes a look at the man behind it and breaking the set stay with us. the news sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care

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of investigations that were tampered with one involved allegations that a state department official engaged in sexual assaults on guards at the u.s. embassy in beirut another detailed a possible underground underground drug ring taking place in iraq thought to have been supplying drugs in the state department security contractors but perhaps the most disturbing revelation from the memo was the fact that even a u.s. and pastor who remains anonymous routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both hosp prostitutes and minor children while prostitutes and children you know if anyone else did that they'd be behind bars but apparently working for the government affords them the protection of other and munity clean them above the law so if they're above the law it's pretty clear where you and i stand. a little bit more of the future for she made me feel like i'm drunk.