breaking news an explosion reportedly rocks the syrian syrian capital in a neighborhood with numerous embassies and a military airport as washington is considering sending lethal arms to rebels and imposing a no fly zone over the country. smoked out with tear gas flushed away by water cannons turkish police resort to harsh methods to keep defiant anti-government protesters out of his temples taksim square. other stories that shaped the week after exposing the u.s. secret surveillance program cia whistleblower edward snowden remains holed up in hong kong expecting washington's retaliation. and iran's new president hassan rouhani promises a new moderate course as the west hopes for

a major shift in the country's nuclear ambitions and stance on the syrian conflict . midnight in moscow i'm matras it good to have you with us here on r t we start off with breaking news according to syrian state television a powerful blast has struck a neighborhood in the capital damascus the video allegedly showing a fire in the area that houses numerous embassies and a military airport there are early reports of injuries at the scene but they have not been confirmed yet will be monitoring the situation for you and keep you updated as soon as possible meanwhile syria's civil conflict could soon enter a new phase with washington deciding to arm rebels this week and possibly put in a no fly zone the white house said the assad regime has crossed a red line the lead. italy using chemical weapons but damascus calls the evidence

fabricated and moscow expressed skepticism earlier i discussed the developments with artie's alexei or ships. this week washington confirmed it has ample proof of assad's troops using chemical weapons against the opposition but the timing seems to be rather strange for that the incident in question allegedly happened in december last year but it's been brought up only now when the government troops are winning the battle after battle according to the russian foreign minister this makes no sense at all from the military point of view and the follow up statement by president obama that he wanted to see the balance of power is restored in the country and possibly even the syrian rebels is creating even more grounds for concerns in russia and europe as well so we have russia being skeptical about it the only voice or other others were skeptical about the u.s. evidence not everyone is buying it the e.u. the main allies of the united states they are asking additional checks from the u.n. investigators russia says that the proof gathering process itself was done with

violations of international regulations. for there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine or clothes and soon can be classed as evidence only of these samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the board turris u.s. colleagues will do surance that these procedures were here to. so why do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the u.s. says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the u.s. state secretary colin powell was shaking a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this when so the u.s. clearly don't want to step on the same break again the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the u.s. that they are considering implementing

a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for military and and has certainly a striking resemblance to iraq a scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest in a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in the syria are there allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian government that the opposition used chemical weapons against them have never been investigated there have been scenes and footage is of the opposition testing chemical weapons on rabbits more recently twelve people from al nusra front the syrian militarized opposition brigade were detained in turkey by the turkish police allegedly carrying vials of zareen gas on them so definitely there are no saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason syria also dominated talks between russia's president britain's prime minister in london where they made ahead of the g eight summit both leaders said

they shared common ground on the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis but as our teams probably boyko reports from the british capital differences still remain. well the leaders very said that they are committed to having a diplomatic resolution to the syrian crisis they are committed to organizing this so-called geneva two conference which will see both sides come to the negotiating table in order to discuss a peaceful way out of the quite says but at the same time they both admitted that they have very different approaches and analyses of the situation in syria at the moment while david cameron says that bash our last sad is to blame for everything that's taking place and that he must go suddenly peter says it's less clear and he thinks that both sides are to blame now you know that david cameron has supported the idea of lifting the e.u. arms embargo of sending military aid to the syrian rebels the british

britain hasn't committed itself to that yet however they have definitely been discussing it with a big us taking that step now jim a person isn't sure about what will happen if on this are sent to syria and if they fall into the wrong hands. when it comes to selling weapons to our says government who's responsible for the blood including of children i don't think you'll deny that both sides are responsible there's always the question of who's to blame i don't deny that we shouldn't support people opening up other people's bodies and each in their entrails on camera do you want to support these people do you want to. live near putin in response to a journalist's question about why russia provides arms to syria he was quite frank he said russia provides defensive weapons to the syrian the legitimate syrian government it's not breaking any rules while it does so and he calls on every other

government to act within the framework of international law so while we've got birth leaders talking about. seeking out a diplomatic solution on the face of it on the other side we've got some very different actions from the british government so at the moment it's unclear how successful even planning this peace conference is going to be at the g eight summit over the next two days mark almond to preserve international relations says harsh anti assad rhetoric is unlikely to bring peace talks any closer. if you want to have preconditions which essentially say that one party to the conference is going to leave early and is basically going to be excluded and you've decided who the legitimate government to syria is going to be in its place then it makes it very difficult to hold a conference however david cameron and the americans face a great problem that they're not to talk clear who from the opposition side is going to come and so those are the serious doubt that in

a sense the west is trying to stage a conference on its own terms for without really being in control of the rebels who it wishes to see come out from that conference as effectively the approved. even the most optimistic analysis of the rebels would have to admit there are a variety of people not only fighting a sad but also fighting each other the whole idea that we can be confident that the weapons we supply even if we give them to people we train will stay those hands and those hands when turn of them stars is seems to be to be tonight in practice i'm afraid the risk is that the sort of people who were actually big use these weapons may initially be primary against assad but we've seen from afghanistan over the last thirty years to the present day and the chaos in libya were american diplomats and have been killed british attacked it's a very young what lies to think that we really do control these people on the ground turkish police in istanbul are resorted to a tried and tested method to prevent protests restarting using tear gas and water cannons to keep crowds and gathering in the center taksim square the symbol of

anti-government an arrest sealed off after special forces drove out demonstrators and destroyed temporary camps but the crackdown is having the opposite effect with angry protests flaring up across the country in response artie's arena the loucheux reports. this point there are more of confrontations between the police and protesters taking place in other parts of istanbul they have been going on really throughout the night and the entire morning they're lesser numbers but it doesn't mean they're less intense than the were last night when clashes erupted after police decided started clearing out taksim square and gezi park an hour after prime minister erdogan has made another announcement that his patience has run out and he said the protesters have until sunday to leave but like i said just an hour later the police began their operation with tear gas water cannons even rubber bullets all of this was used in taksim square and it gets a park literally bulldozers they brought in to get rid of the tents in the gezi park at this point it's completely clear as well as taksim square gezi park is not open to any public whatsoever no media no medical staff no one is allowed there the

protesters have congregated in the streets really close to talks and square last night adjacent to the square they were also dispersed by police pushed back into the city for the same time while the hearing about this thousands of people marched on to talk to the asian side of this but they were stopped by police on the bosphorus bridge again clashes erupted there again tear gas and water cannons this is written in turkey remains quite tense at the moment because a lot of people are saying that there is an increasing chozen between the protesters and those people who support the prime minister erdogan and a lot of people believe that he is a matter of fact is the one who is creating that chaz and as we show in our report . clashes turmoil blood to smoke and even death this has been to his reality for the past two weeks as protests show no sign of subsiding prime minister erdogan shows clear indication he won't budge neither on the prospects of gives you

the demolition nor on the requests coming from taksim square. made the issue between the two parties. more serious than it was before and. he provoked his supporters telling you spreading some design formation about people drinking in mosques or people attacking her square for women and their like the people or killing police men most of those formations were incorrect looters alcoholics extremists foreign agents all bound to wreak havoc in turkey and this is the reality of protests according to our don and though some may believe him or others i mean critical of the prime minister. i'm against the protests but i think that these protests come from foreign forces from other countries which are not happy with the success and development of turkey i'm really angry with the government i think the one acts like a dictator who does what ever he wants he doesn't care what other people think. i'm

against the protests are seen gezi park because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it like a big event and this made the protest even bigger but the government wants to make peace with people. so far however these efforts appear to have resulted in get more clashes in istanbul than in karate throughout the week with numerous reports of police brutality we spoke directly to officers to try to find out their side of the story. from day one we were for three days without sleep or food when you know you can eat and afterwards we can think about is sleeping we slept on the pavement on the grass or on our shields maximum one hour a day i didn't get face to face with the protesters but i had no access to any information my phone battery died so i had no idea why the protests got so big the

only things i heard were orders from our commanding officers. the pressure on police has been so great that according to their union six officers have committed suicide while nearly a thousand resigned because of the protests as the protest can. kenya with all participants of the conflicts girly increasingly tired and desperate and the government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister dawn who prides himself on the building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society and the country in istanbul that in a column. for the second day in a row turkey's prime minister gathered an army of his supporters for a counter rally this one held in istanbul as well or government or overnight anti-government demonstrators were forcibly dispersed era to want to again label protesters traitors and accuse the foreign media of painting an accurate picture of what's going on there world affairs journalist neil clark thinks prime minister area once taken a combative stance against the protesters feeling he'll get away with

a crackdown thanks to strong western support. one hundred feels emboldened really trapped in a very harsh way against the protesters at least in boulder because he did member of nato and the us and i think he was very interesting to see just how muted the criticism of the don has been over the last week in the west john kerry made some mutterings about not using too much force but when he may for example has been cited the french have been silent and i think the shin bone is to come down hard on protesters putting the police putting water cannons that the plastic bullets etc i think out of time field really that visionary room pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet these protests why should he is thinking because he's got the backing of nato and the u.s. the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power the other thing is of course and actions are doing to keep the two more years the opposition is divided so he thinks he did a very strong position. before

getting out of talks in london vladimir putin david cameron held a ceremony with veterans for war two they awarded medals to u.k. sailors who brace the icy waters of the arctic to maintain vital supply lines to the soviet union three thousand brits died during the campaign russia's attempts to recognize the harrison last year were blocked by the u.k. which said it was against the rules the foreign office said awards could only begin for given for services to one specific country which happened within the previous five years john sears one of the remaining veterans of the convoy says the award is long overdue a comb will contest the as an australian new zealand canada. now i have men served alongside me and every save that medal unnerves denied it by the foreign office or for what reason. or they said they were because we haven't done nothing when the last five years old very very upset not just for me for all

the past and present shit mites now i serve with a main and also their families. more news coming up on r.t. after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

download the official 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 on t.v. anytime anywhere. seventeen minutes past the hour and word snowden the man who exposed the extent of u.s. secret global surveillance programs remains in an or manes at an unknown hong kong location awaiting washington's next expected move against him he willingly revealed his identity after leaking documents showing the u.s. national security agency has been keeping tabs on both americans and foreigners hundreds marched outside the u.s. consulate in hong kong to show their support for the whistleblower activists said

they were outraged by the level of spying the obama administration is conducting mounting to tens of thousands of hacking operations worldwide artie's marina port knight takes over. last weekend the u.s. president and. his chinese counterpart met for a private bilateral summit focused on cyber attacks and virtual espionage washington blaming beijing for being an online outlaw today the tables have turned courtesy of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden as the n.s.a. leaker told the south china morning post of the u.s. has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the u.s. national security agency's targets included the chinese university of hong kong public officials and students allegations that give weight to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s. hacking efforts america has turned into the world cop they think that they can

basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outrage has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and allows for real time online surveillance of citizens both foreign and domestic prism gives u.s. intelligence agencies direct access to files stored on the servers of nine major internet companies including google and facebook to identify and target potential terrorist suspects officials in italy britain and germany the most spied upon country said the program was both alarming and encroached on privacy politically to some extent i think it's the united states government but rather because despite all the claims from the white house from the congress the reality of vastly

excessive surveillance has been documented by the material of the authentic material from the n.s.a. there were snowden has released revelations about prism has prompted the american civil liberties union to file for lawsuits against. the obama administration more than one hundred and fifty thousand american citizens have signed an online petition calling for an end to washington's massive spying apparatus a clandestine program which the president who promised an unprecedented amount of transparency ironically defends you can't have one hundred percent security. and also then have one hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience. you know that we're going to have to make some choices as a society the obama administration finds itself losing not only the war on leaks

but enormous credibility at home and abroad with the oversell a school of watching everyone in the name of national security one may wonder if the u.s. government has become its own worst enemy reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. snowden's fellow whistleblower wiki leaks editor julian assange tells r t the witch hunt against those revealing government wrongdoing scares many into silence many sources are quite scared i mean we've seen. colleagues of mine have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because it's a crackdown against bradley manning and that's what that whole trial is trying to achieve it's trying to set the precedent the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with your enemy and it's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president to crack down on whistleblowers has been very public and i think i too scared people will be that i mean there's ways to do it without ending up like props the way bradley manning is going to go

or snowden i mean most sources reveal information perfectly fine. we're closely watching developments on the story log on to our t. dot com for the full timeline of events expert analysis and the latest updates. iranians vote to replace the outgoing a hard line president ahmadinejad with a pro-reform moderate assad rouhani took more than fifty percent of the vote after promising among other things to open dialogue with the west as artie's marie of an ocean explains some of the most sensitive issues will be out of his reach. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the hot and that is. that hot victory has provoked mixed feelings that man iran's leader comes into his known as

a reformist and so carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top section spoke of years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare a civil rights job priests all the economy and relations with the west he could decide that he's as many times making remarks that cost the country its privileges but at the same time. there is there on realize that the iranian system works with major power held by an elected supreme leader the president can do little to change things dramatically. the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terrence disputed brought her syria for example set of those say that the next president can at least takes the time out of iran's dealings with the

outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator prime is now for his consulting approach a big good. party comes the new iraq but he'll have plenty to deal with left over from his predecessor here's my report on what that means us legacy leaves islamic republic like there has been in the real estate business for years in iran when we ask him to summarize the legacy of president. he talks about if you compare is a bright spot increased by a hundred percent since last year we have no hope for the future of the economy's bad and it's getting worse. one of the president's promises after taking office in two thousand and five was to make iran's vast oil revenues felt at the dining table of every single family was he leaves behind is a country hit by the worst financial crisis in the years but there are some who say it's not what it is just who's to blame for the downturn under sanctions were tough

recently and it's hard to keep afloat but the president you know the people i'm sure that iran is able to resist international pressure the iranian economy has been hit hard by strain of ever tougher sanctions imposed successively by the e.u. the u.n. and the u.s. over because ations the countries trying to develop nuclear weapon something which was never approved as autonomic energy that has been able to stand up to the whole world over iran's nuclear program and the country's better off for it and have a battle the departure in libya will be remembered for is his rhetoric about israel and iran six resident relations reached the point when even war seemed very possible and while ahmadinejad has not exactly been friendly towards israel the way facts have been gentle devout him has done more damage to his reputation than his own words and years ago a statement was mistakenly streamlet it to him which was inequity translated as

israel must be wiped off the face of the map actual words were that israel must vanish from the arena of time and didn't even belong to one in charge any way other than objective is to make up when the knee jerk in a village he stands for universal rights where every country would have an equal say but some powers want nothing but dominance and they focused on blocking the name of our president or one of this year's presidential candidates doesn't agree say korea joining the two thousand nine hundred eighty sized as advisors and they were off to race to some of the best and most honest way to get to power. the deadly protests that raged across the country after their. actions are also thought to have undermined a smooth image the result many people were frightened all other let me not talk about i mean gentle. even those who don't still to this a pool to when you say the reason little he can actually do here according to our constitution the supreme leader as much will power as in this country almost every

step the president takes should be supervised and blessed by the ayatollah so despite all the controversies surrounding president ahmadinejad it looks like iran will continue to be a force in the region and therefore will remain the fool on the side of the us and its allies mahmoud ahmadinejad's eightieth presidency provokes mixed feelings a very controversial leader he was equally paid to worship in iran has been amazed that he didn't send them both to spend the running all the people today if iraq is open but his legacy will cost a shadow over the next president some time. race nationality teheran iran and still to come bombings and shootings rock shia neighborhoods across iraq killing at least fifty one people later this hour a look at how recent spike in sectarian violence is undermining hopes for peace in a region at war. bus the first woman in space valentino terrorist golda

celebrates fifty years as her flight with which blazed the women as a route to the stars this war after a short break. you know what's worse than a crop bureaucrat a corporate crash who sucks at being corrupt a scumbag bureaucrat in veronese russia just couldn't help himself and puts a very hefty charges for services car tracks for road repair and construction in just. years he was able to take enough of a percentage off of these contracts the investigators raided his house he had the equivalent of over three million dollars in russian money all over his home news not mail dot ru claims he had entire laundry hampers and twenty five kilogram sugar sex filled to the brim with blocks first off when someone is this flagrant that

means that he felt rather comfortable and not getting caught so there are plenty more of these guys out there but second this is an absolute slap in the face to russia taxpayers who are hungry for new roads i think for instance it's a flagrant in your face obvious crush corruption russia might need to reconsider that moratorium on the death penalty but that's just. twenty nine minutes past the hour now a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the u.k. city of birmingham after four people were stabbed at

a local mosque thirty two year old reportedly attacked the worshiper there with a machete one policeman was also injured trying to arrest the man all the victims said to be in stable condition in the hospital journalist assad baig tells r t that the roots of the attacks like this he thinks lie within britain's policies we can and the people that carry out the attacks but also there's a climate of hatred created over years by politicians in this country and even the media. for you to take root the physical act the violent act is only the last step before that there's a kind of i did logical attacks that take place there's a new language of hatred that's become mainstream. and i think that the first the government has to acknowledge is that they wars in iraq and afghanistan have radicalized people i think that's the first issue that they have to accept that foreign policy directive closes i think the other issues about equal opportunities exceptions as to the question of identity so there's so many things that the

government can do but unfortunately politicians are unwilling to accept even the first thing which is that foreign policy is a right to close in fact to many young people and until they accept that there won't be any change at least fifty one people have been killed and dozens wounded in a spate of bombings and gun attacks targeting shia muslim neighborhoods across iraq this follows a week of sectarian violence between sunni's and shias artie's lucy catherine of takes an in-depth look at what's behind the conflict that's left more than two thousand dead since april. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really sealed tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand

the divisions we have to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the end bar province following the u.s. led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become the focal point of the anti-government protests. for several months now every friday this scene prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be any closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of

arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target of one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family in the street to flu jab. the demonstrators complain of discrimination arbitrary arrests detention even torture under the rule of prime minister nouri al maliki charges that the government denies the ocean was also the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is missy. migrations is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this residence prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be

a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families to safety. some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they build the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis like they made the proportions for the seventies for this. and for the dish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on a rocky youth a generation separated by the threat of violence. really affects this thing causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they form a different six we can't work together we'll hang out publicly in some neighborhoods i could get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace as the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future. r.t.e. baghdad. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour activists stressed as giant caricature of the world leaders gathered in belfast

ahead of the g eight meeting that starts in northern ireland monday they were trying to raise the issue of poverty by showing figures preparing a dish using tax in the land as tools of economic repression at the protests in london this week anticapitalist said catch a tax dodging by major companies is placing the burden of debt on ordinary people. discontented financial policy also being expressed in spain hundreds of demonstrators marched through madrid demanding the government do more about staggering unemployment rates of twenty seven percent many hues authorities of pushing the nation toward the poverty line. fifty years have passed since valentino tarrasque over became the first woman in space her groundbreaking flight last will most three days and serve as inspiration for women ever since our tease tom barton has more one small step for a woman. two years after yuri gagarin valentino tarrasque over chased his rocket

vapors up to wall base in one nine hundred sixty three to become the first woman in space. the training was the same for men and women space doesn't make allowances for gender. even today valentino is a folk hero only slightly less famous thing the guarin in russia and in space valentino ten saying q thank you so much for being an interest in spiration to me and many other women and girls around the world to reach our dreams congratulations but back then she started off as one of many selected from among hundreds of applicants one of five other finalists could've gone in a place. of course i wanted to go into space all of us did now we're celebrating to scores on a verse three but of the time we were naturally very upset that it didn't choose us . it was a time of cold war the soviet leader nikita khrushchev desperate to keep the

momentum going after the garden was first across one of the great hurdles of the space race as such the project was kept top secret valentino didn't even tell her own mother what she was doing there but i told her i was in a parachute jumping team and she believed me of course when her friends congratulated her she didn't believe them either saying she's not mean let's face it she's a parachutist it would be two decades ago before the next female cosmonaut went into space and after fifty years only three russian female cosmonauts have ever been in orbit i sense that on them there are lots of women austerlitz another country and it's hard to explain why the situation in russia is different this is largely due to russian attitudes to women in space i would call this uncivilized perhaps they don't trust women enough valentino became a perfect publicist for the soviet union she was banned from flying ever again after the guardian's death due just too valuable a pub. face to lose along this hall of fame

a statues of men central to soviet space exploration but valentino tedesco over as the only woman you'll find here a cool sign was see go on for the u.s. as saw unfold the women who dreamt of doing the same this see go through higher than any other tom watson aussie moscow. plenty more news online including gold for our team we snatch the award for best twenty four hour news program at the monte carlo television festival online we show you what coverage attracted the attention of the jury plus. the. reality for some young israelis trying to avoid serving in the i.d.f. that prison is a better option than picking up a gun because already dot com for more. news just in leaked reports reveal u.s. spies based in the u.k. intercepted talk top secret communications of dmitri medvedev who was then russia's president during a visit to britain for the g. twenty summit more on this still to come up back with more news in about twenty

minutes still to come though i lights of lattimer putin is a recent meeting with some of our correspondents stay with us. wealthy british style some time to visit. with the. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our t.v. i think the first impulse off and on was pretty much the same as the first impulse of assad that is to set a trap to tell mr assad that was it was a big day to act like a dictator just out of the one who has been elected and he's acting in the wrong way but good but don't come with this comparison with with syria it doesn't fly.

dangerous experiments on prisoners they want to make money and they have these healthy guinea pigs in the regular society and now they will be used prisoners i mean more they wish they could. drug tests on human guinea pigs. to deadly pale sent to the subway he was killed. you can buy it and let him get. his pharmacy really about helping people.

don't. touch. it was. one issue that at least our views are generally excited about today is the snowden case a man who is now being dubbed a second a sound has exposed total surveillance practices employed by the american government there are two sides to the story on the one hand that was classified information which makes this man a traitor but on the other hand the information he has leaked is of crucial

importance primarily for the american public and for the world in general what do you think of that. i think everybody has long been aware that signals intelligence is about surveillance of individuals and organizations is becoming a global phenomenon in the context of combating international terrorism and such methods are generally practicable but the question is how well those security agencies are controlled by the public i can tell you that at least in russia you can't just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court that's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism with modern day technology. but it's a mandela's deputy editor in chief with. some law you have the mind is going to. look i mean to ask you about drones but on as you know american police drones to deliver air strikes almost and i believe basis this happens especially often in

pakistan and if you other countries in one hand drawings are efficient in combat but on the other hand will all aware of the collateral damage the public in many countries and i found this shocking and there has already been a motion for imposing an international ban on news and rumors about what i would like to ask you about russia's attitude on the issue of modern means of warfare keep evolving and they always will i doubt if it's possible to simply ban its all but you certainly can and should introduce certain rules and exercise control i know they're currently debating this issue in the united states and a notion is being advocated increasingly often within the u.n. framework that you need to put drones and to control you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties it's extremely important i don't know whether a western counterparts will choose this option but i would suggest it would be in their best interest however there are other threats to for example they are

presently debating the option of using non nuclear ballistic missiles in the united states can you imagine how potentially dangerous that is what if such a missile were to launch from somewhere. in the middle of an ocean and get spotted by nuclear powers early warning system how should that nuclear power react to a missile coming its way how are they supposed to know whether this missile comes with a nuclear warhead or not what if the missile impacts right next to its border or inside its territory do you realize how perilous that can be. or take the notion of a low yields nuclear weapons do you realize how badly that can blur the very brown trees of using nuclear bombs or how low the threshold might sink for authorizing such destroying it can you imagine the possible implications of something like where the limits for lowering that threshold and who setting them there are many threats in the world of today and there is only one way trip dress them efficiently that is working together within the boundaries of international law. and now would

like to give the floor to peace in the valley which has been present on one of our most popular shows cross talk it seems like we live in the age of opposition. and we have the arab spring and heard about europe and the crisis there. and the occupy movement united states which our team did an excellent job in covering but what about the opposition in russia public opinion polls show it's very small not much support what kind of opposition would you like to challenge you at a certain point we saw the police cracking down on the occupy wall street activists i won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate my point is that every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within law if they don't like the law they should use democratic means to change those laws which they should persuade voters to join them and they should get elected into legislature is so that they can have a chance to change the law if they're.