thank god. cia whistleblower edward snowden has to fight extradition from hong kong in his first interview since being forced into hiding for lifting the lid on a massive secret u.s. surveillance program. to this day the brutality of the authorities in turkey is intensifying as the prime minister gets set to meet protesters who've enjoyed almost two weeks of policing. and debt ridden greece shuts down its main t.v. and radio broadcasters part of a cost cutting drive the thousands who was sacked have labelled it a blow to democracy.

welcome you watching r.t. with me andrey farmer now in his first interview since disappearing in hong kong edward snowden has vowed to fight any extradition attempt the former cia worker who told the world about a huge secret u.s. surveillance program was speaking to a local newspaper from an unknown location u.s. lawmakers meanwhile compiling a list of charges against him snowden's method that he gave up his family and a six figure salary to expose what the national security agency was doing stephen m. cohen executive director of the national whistleblower center told my colleague trays of that people will continue to expose secrets regardless of the crackdown against the. well i think the government is going to charge him probably under the espionage act and they're going to try to make an example so others who have information about wrongdoing and crimes in our national security system are

intimidated and don't blow the whistle he said or julian assad also weighed in on this a he said stone is likely to be persecuted by the u.s. for many years adding to what you say your fears are let's take a listen to his comments before you respond to an amazing time. just three years after the united bradley manning revelations with bradley manning in trial and the snowden revelations come out. and i mean you know it was had called for the exact result for relations to expose the surveillance state so i think we're winning i think that's part of a new international politic that is developing. do you think there is any kind of like i said any kind of victory to be made from any of this or do you think that it's more of a hinderance that this war to a chilling effect on whistleblowers i think short term there may be a chilling effect but at some point the american people need to stand up and say

that whistleblowers need protection at the american people have a right to know if their government is committing crimes if their governments are violating the constitution if their leaders have perjured themselves to congress all of these are implicated in this case the american people have a right to know and our civil servants paid by our tax dollars have a right to blow the whistle and that's a right that we have to fight for and protect to mobilize support for the change we need here in the united states. now among snowden's revelations are the details of the program called prism which allows u.s. security officials to see the private data anyone and leaked documents suggest washington's been keeping a close and secret eye on you were to you especially on germany well let's see what

kind of reaction that's received many german officials were outraged by the spy program some even compared it to even a tourist ministry to state security in common in communist era east germany the head of the italian data protection authority accused washington of snooping on innocent europeans without any evidence a crime has been committed and a french socialist. highlighted the americans had begun spying on europeans before getting permission well a little later this hour artie's martin looks at how the intelligence agencies have been covering up their secret surveillance operation. both 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.

but 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 of 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. the turkish prime minister is to meet a group of protesters in a bid to stop the unrest in the country this follows the biggest crackdown on demonstrations since they began almost two weeks ago as police stormed taksim square in the stamboul overnight leading to clashes and he has the latest where the

protesters used to be where there were banners and barricades now there are tons and scores of police officers really there all over the place on every single corner there's really heavy police presence here police trucks are actually were kind of blocking some of the square as well this of course all of this comes just twenty four hours after the square has seen an immense police presence here first the protesters who are camped out here for just a little over a week they were swept away by water cannons and tear gas in the early hours of the morning our crew went out to film it one of our. one of our cameraman actually sustained serious damage to his camera because it was broken by a. tear gas canister which flew right into it to get thing that didn't obviously hit his head but it was really close i gather the police spared no one people in wheelchairs elderly women children and there's a lot of those people that i've seen with my own eyes that were here and the first people came back people wanted people were outraged by the fact that there was such

an immense police presence and guns against a much more violence so they came back out in texas square to be dispersed by police yet again later in the evening on tuesday again and we do know at this point that there has been one confirmed death as a result of the clashes between the police and the protesters and if you think it's over well it isn't yet because some of the protesters that i've spoken to say they're going to continue to come here there's still the protesters that's over in gezi park and that's where it all began they were promised the police wouldn't touch them that gezi park would be left to the protest movement but that doesn't seem to be true because they are saying that police did come there yesterday and again when i. so they were done clearing people from jackson square they went against park and try to victor just was from there we know that some tents have been knocked down and if the people who are in this movement they're saying we're going to come back again considering the fact that there are like i said there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of police on every single corner

a new car this is where we can expect some really interesting action maybe later today maybe some are but the staff look not over. for professor who should bank chief from the middle east technical university in ankara thinks the government's reaction only divides the country. but is the. uprising against the enroll month or intervention of turkish prime ministers in the life of citizens from the right of speech to drink of alcohol or another for things i think the turkey is experiencing now a new trouble and five of quality in portugal terms the government is responsible to get out from this conflict but not to organize. big demonstrations like which is set for the recount on saturday on sunday i think it is a wrong move of the government to bring one side of the society against the other

side of the four side to it can only live in the long grass to feed all. we have been following events into since the beginning of the protests and as you heard artie's international crew was take gas along with other demonstrators when they were caught up in a violent crime time find out the latest developments online at art's a dot com. greece's main t.v. and radio channels have been pulled off air after the government decided to suspend all state run broadcast to cut budget costs or two and a half thousand employees have lost their jobs while the authorities slam the company as a haven of waste the broadcaster is largely state funded with every greek has held paying a favor goddess of whether they are t.v.

or not large crowds joined in a protest against the decision calling the move a blow to democracy to new york to saute this a social and political expert from the university of agent believes greece goes too far in trying to please international lenders. but we are witnessing is a very authoritarian servant for the part of the greek government the decision to shut down the whole network or the greek public broadcasting system which includes the public television public radio and locked up stations and satellite television . network of. other broadcasting facilities is an example of the attempt on the part of the greek government to comply with the months the european union i am s. and is to be troika it's not just a question of was there a thing it's not just

a christian recession. something down in the name of the whole public broadcasting network. is it is a heavy blow to democracy also ahead for you the salah unprepared despite living three decades of conflicts israeli citizens often don't have anything more than a gas mask for security a report coming up. on the hidden dangers of justice system reform in the u.k. we look at plans to recruit private companies to supervise offenders released back into the community. will. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future of 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 that everything you thought you knew. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. download the official r.t. application. 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 r t any time anywhere. hello welcome back fifty seven people have been arrested by british police in

connection with protests in london on cheese day the so-called carnival against capitalism ended in intense scuffles but organizers warn that's just the start after a standoff lasting over three hours police raided unoccupied buildings being used by the protesters as a makeshift headquarters one of the activists threatening to jump off the roof but was brought to safety hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters took to the streets banks age funds mining and oil firms in central london they keys the g eight of making the rich richer and doing nothing to end global conflicts are caught up with 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 the right to a fair trial a lot of different things are you know. the new scoring or they've been 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 subvert 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 and you have you know central banks make like an economy into boom and bust 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 now with many of the world's leading financial states deeply submerged in debt developing economies are taking center stage signaling big changes in the world of finance artie's business presenting katie pilbeam looks at how emerging markets are supporting developed nations. 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 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 all in thirty years the a mugging economies will make up nearly three quarters of the world economy by twenty seven tane so is this economic shift changing the balance of power i asked legendary investigative raja's exactly that. we are already saying it is not just the faster the world economy it creditor nation or the new nation as well historically people like great britain america finance developing nations does it

take to grow but now it's the developing nations which have the money to develop the i don't know if you've been you've been to hong kong or singapore or careers some of the places that the standard of living in many places much better than america right now why the j.f.k. in new york when you realize you're not third world airport but it's in your poor born you're right universe were were 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. we have plenty more stories at r.t. dot com including as the u.k.'s financial woes continue a new report says the past five years have brought unprecedented pay cuts to british workers warn the daily life of brits under financial pressure is available online also there with the guantanamo hunger strike still on the u.s.

government is scaling back its prosecution of the camp's captives saying there's not enough evidence to bring the men to call the full time line of the story online and much much more. offenders on probation in the u.k. could soon be placed under the supervision of private companies and as r.c. sarah firth explains that's led to 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. last summer's olympics when they failed 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 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 get the contract 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 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 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. a mine because he said he'd been on probation for an event she then called back inside the prison when wrong and the system what happens there were trying to put in the right i was trying to get a training scheme. in funding from the government like prince charles and so forth now time to laws in a between to trust and then to analyze and to do and two three months why didn't i was i was i wasn't moving anywhere at a time when. opinion. is this really offending cycle the government's trying to break and they say that payment by

results will 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 their losses will be split in fact it will be difficult it will be. if not. to. the plans of those so you can't just flick probation. which won the t. thousand and eleven pushes quality foundation gold medal to excellence was one sentence public but 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. sort of where we have to go by the government insists the planned evolution of the justice system the days on the front line a warning that this bit to cut costs could come as a very high price. are in london. now elsewhere activists in syria

say rebels have attacked a village in the east of the country killing more than sixty people the violence is seen as retaliation for an earlier attack by villages it comes after government troops returned control of the northern town of qusayr last week with their sights now set recapturing aleppo recent army gains have alerted the west with france and america now seriously mulling over the idea of sending lethal weapons to the opposition the arms embargo on syria was lifted last month while efforts to push both sides for peace talks continue to stall political analyst thinks the rebels have no interest in negotiation. can in the rebels on the ground may actually be a positive thing in any political dialogue or a new political negotiations because those people have the power to stifle or kill any political process to the order of invisibility should be reduced

or it could be good for the political representatives of the opposition to have any meaningful say in a negotiation table and actually being able to keep their words afterwards but as long as there are promises of weaponry and support towards those rebels on the grounds of that they won't go to the table of the more told in fact with the ideology behind what they have been doing since the very beginning especially. affiliated groups they are not interested in negotiating with the regime anymore or the syrian government at all they see it as an infidel regime that must be toppled no matter what. some international news in brief a motorbike bomb in a restive part of southern afghanistan and killed two people and injured fifteen when it exploded in a marketplace it comes 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 has been a wave of attacks by taliban forces and other militants against afghan security forces pushing ballance to a twelve year high. french air traffic controllers are in their second day of strike action causing over one thousand eight hundred flight cancellations workers oppose e.u. plans to centralize european airspace rather than leave each nation to control its own skies also railway workers are expected to walk out on thursday leaving much of the country's trump or state transportation routes paralyzed. and the egyptian president says all options are open when dealing with any threat to his country's water supply ethiopia is currently building a four point three billion dollar hydroelectric station which threatens to cause egypt to lose up to twenty percent of its not over the next five years ethiopia has slammed the presence accusations as irresponsible and says it plans to continue

with the project. and with tensions high in the region israelis are you are used to living under the constant threat of conflict but how prepared are the people of israel should they come under attack artie's poor slayer investigates. israel is the most fertile and country in the world with longer about fifty to thanks to this thousands of rockets that my being sent into israel this is the reason why we have to be prepared but if the bombs start falling the only thing menachem pinsky can do is play 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 cannot cut off my beard to fill the gas much 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 either of the 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 wonder how the television residents and most people here will tell you that in times of war they know they miss grant 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'm supposed to go to the stairs or something i. 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 heir to. the. priorities. and their priorities because of this it's never enough. a lot of your brother would be but that's still no excuse complain residents of the streets village not far from these raided lebanese border forty percent of israel's arab population are without shelters and when dozens of has been a missiles rained down here during the last may been on war it was only one public shelter to protect five thousand people. nor was it a day the state is the only response to the guilty party and the people were caught in the line of fire like slaps targets would be in today are this is a situation for out of sorts that's who live in israel and only. in the face of any intense of the rocket fired other people in the country which just goes to show

that behind the chaos of israel's well punished military facade the population dangerously exposed skin on our team tel aviv. now i'm back with more news for you in about half an hour's time but we have got more not top story next when the cia surveillance scandal comes under the spotlight of writing this in. the news sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a news most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world events this is why you should care only on the dog.

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