not. exactly a year of refuge in ecuador's london embassy vowing he'll stay there for many more fear of being shipped off to the u.s. over espionage. president obama gets a lukewarm reception in berlin he's met with protests against washington's exposed global surveillance programs of which germany was among the worst affected. the u.s. gives the go ahead to pace talks with the taliban as insurgents rockets claim more victims among american troops in war torn afghanistan.

and i welcome you watching our team this morning with me and very far. editor judy in the sun says he'll remain in the ecuadorian embassy in london even if the sex crime allegations against him are dropped he faces being snatched in extradited to the united states especially since washington where new this assault on whistle blowers wherever they are sara furthur ports on the struggle and his year long confinement. well it's been one year since julian the son's first walks up. doing embassy here in knightsbridge in lungs another wiki leaks founder had sought asylum after the u.k. supreme court refused to really pin his appeal against extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over allegations by two women a sexual offenses allegations which he denies between one year and any mirror

in sight and to live in the sun still being worth it we very rarely get a glimpse of what goes on behind those we've been able to speak to today in a son's himself to find out how he's feeling one year old. boy every day that we rebel principles we truly. consider this when i was in solitary confinement. prison here. for about an hour and my. horse that is worth one mustn't of course. throw away your ability to act very important to keep your ability to act in various ways and i have kept my ability to act in the organization preserves its ability to act. after these struggles but i'm very comfortable and happy with what we've accomplished and i'm sure history. and used to many very very well and. all the other day until in the sunshine window

by the balcony behind me with foreign minister he's been visiting him ahead of his meeting with his u.k. counterpart william hague's nazi with us to the press conference held by acquittals foreign minister immediately afterwards the ecuadorian government will continue to ensure that julian assange keeps receiving the protection we're giving him under asylum in our country protecting his personal integrity and particularly his freedom of expression. his confinement continues but the wiki leaks founder hasn't stopped he's made numerous appearances throughout the world's media and of course continue to make sure that his messages support for whistle blows continue to be heard and perhaps even providing inspiration for some of the most high profile whistle blows in fact speaking recently about the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden julian assange. indeed many of you to describe.

you can get up to speed on judy in a songes battle for asylum what led to it r.t. dot com has got the background for you as well as updates and expert analysis of. law created by britain i am here today because i cannot be. a year of a silent while you wait his fate at the ecuadorian embassy to other prominent whistle blows face the full force of the u.s. government. and reports on washington's far reaching attempts to keep its affairs private while watching everyone else america split on edward snowden traitor hero mix in between but regardless of what anyone thinks about snowden his revelations have shed unprecedented light on the u.s. government's massive spying program even if you're not doing anything wrong you're

being watched and recorded for me to say employee william binney was prosecuted as a traitor when he blew the whistle on the government's sweeping collection of data and communications it's setting up a tele tarion state. when the government has that much information they can do those things they can use the i.r.s. to intimidate people or anything else they can send the f.b.i. people what they did to me and some others bradley manning too is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's so here's your logs that the public learned about the. collateral murder was committed in iraq the obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all previous administrations combined but it was a lower say it's not government persecution that they fear the greatest fear that i have regarding the outcome. for america of these disclosures is that nothing will change the administration is not trying to convince the american people that government secrets programs are a trade off they have to make in the name of national security they always have the

same stories about all of you know manning is known you know psychological stories what is wrong with these people cause them to do this i mean the real question is what is wrong with everyone else from who doesn't see what they can see but it was a blowers are not the only targets magnitude there is an obligation both moral but also legal i believe against a reporter that was the chairman of the house committee on cutting teligent and terrorism peter king calling to punish the journalist who exposed the government surveillance programs in its hunt for meeks the obama administration has already targeted journalists it's trying to set the precedent for the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with the enemy and that's a death penalty offense the administration doesn't have to go after each other or he certainly it's enough to create an environment of fear but will that fear stop information from coming out here is that word snowden's answer to that question.

kone in response is simply build better whistleblower he said in washington i'm going to check out. thomas drake who is a full my n.s.a. senior executive told r.t. what he had to enjoy off exposing corruption and mismanagement of the agency. we're all whistleblowers we're all for freedom of information we fundamentally object to secrets that are not necessary we funnel of objects to those who would want to rule over us or control us in secret i became a target of the surveillance system in two thousand and six i was placed on a criminal investigation for having blown the whistle on the secret surveillance programs billions and billions of dollars in fraud and waste and abuse at n.s.a. all of that combined put me on the target on a target list as a primary target afterward that blockbuster article was published in the new york

times in december two thousand and five revealing for the first time the existence of the so-called warrantless wiretapping program which caused quite a stir i knew then that it was inevitable because of the very small number of people and if they even knew about the secret surveillance programs i knew as a matter of when not if. and on our website you can read about the possible to escape routes for edward snowden who remains holed up in hong kong awaiting washington's moves against him. and the head of controversial n.s.a. claims the disputed global surveillance program has prevented dozens of terror attacks but didn't give any silly pretty. president obama's reception in the german capital where he's on a twenty four stopover could have been woman demonstrators in berlin showed what they felt about the revelations of washington's widespread surveillance program of which jim money was among the top targets peter all of a went to take

a look. five years ago when barack obama came here to berlin he was welcomed with a regal reception treated as the great new hope for a better future well five years old and five years of drone wars whistle blowing and comforting uing economic strife but well seeing the bomber receive a very different reception from seeing demonstrations outside against the eavesdropping that's being going on particularly the prison here in germany germany was one of the country's worst affected by this snooping into a phone calls and e-mails the country appeared is already on the mouth of they should instead of being investigated this is prompted a lot of people to come out under the slogan of yes we scanned at a parody of barack obama's election promise of yes we can when he came to power those years ago and i was told to be

a little bit more about just why the reaction is being very different time a. part of the free bradley manning network thank you very much for talking to me why is it a different reception to president obama's receiving this time by them to say in the second term we expected a greater transparency and the fact that he had said that he would go against the wiretapping and surveillance of americans isn't exactly the opposite and i think it's a scandal because it's a taboo in the german society surveillance generally after their experience with totalitarianism and yet i think it's really important i'm glad that this is now become a global scale and just not the american citizens that see them stop the target it's actually all of us to make a. sample yeah it's not just day to protectionism issue for demonstrates is what else is the. are you wanting to bring to the u.s. president show that you know happy with what he's doing i just think that these attacks of on free on free speech on the fourth amendment on the press and the attacks that we have on the classic james rising and these people and these

preposterous. aiding the enemy when protections of sources and so forth and that no long we have no longer whistleblower protection for the us i think this is an aberration i think these are the things that we should be bringing to light and say no it's just not acceptable. to one of the members of the broadly money network talking to me about why people are demonstrating in wanting to show the u.s. president that their own copy they're calling it yes we they want him to stop reading their e-mails listening to their phone calls. while barack obama's europe trip started at the g eight summit in northern ireland with leaders seemingly of the deadly serious on going civil war we've got the details on that coming up plus a major blaze. in central russia causes the evacuation of people from nearby villages just ahead.

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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. again as expected the g eight talks in northern ireland were dominated by a clash over syria's ongoing civil war despite a show of unity at the end. was at the summit venue. the final outcome hailed a success in the deadlock over syria yet for some of the summits participants it was a better experience than for the elders it had been billed as a game of seven against one of the final joint statement made by all the leaders at the summit about syria perhaps an indication that russia's stance isn't that easy

to ignore the focal point of the outcome a peace conference to bring together both sides of the syrian conflict and get them around the negotiating table as soon as possible but what that joint statement didn't include was a call for bashar al assad to step down something that david cameron and barack obama have been very vocal about neither was there mention of the so-called red line that barack obama has talked of last week when he claimed that the u.s. had evidence about the syrian government's use of chemical weapons and that they had made the decision to arm the syrian opposition however what did become clear that russia isn't the only country that isn't convinced by the usas claims that the syrian government have used chemical weapons putin said that all the g eight leaders want to see more proof as well the russian leader also reiterated that

russia's arms shipments to syria that have caused so much concern in the west are entirely legal we provide supplies in line with a fictional contract to deliberately make government of president assad know when the possible weapons supplies to syrian rebels by european countries the british people recently witnessed an outrageous tragedy when a soldier was butchered in broad daylight in the streets of london many in the syrian opposition not all of them of course criminals like the ones that conducted the violent killing do europeans want to supply arms to do these people what will happen to these weapons. we have all these arms and you could end up back in europe that's why we call in our partners to think twice before they took this extremely dangerous step at the same time on another edge of the result david cameron had a few quick questions to answer about why the leaders final statement didn't contain any of his usual anti assad rhetoric what we don't want to happen in syria

is for the regime to go in for chaos to follow that is what happened in iraq and no one wants to repeat that one thing that everyone agrees on is that the only way to solve the syrian crisis is through diplomacy and peace talks but that's exactly what this has been talks about more talks and with no date for geneva two pencilled into the calendar leaders leaving a lot heard might well be wondering what exactly they've achieved probably boy care see northern ireland. a town in central russia is in a state of emergency right now after a series of large explosions and major blazes and ammunition it happened in chopper yes some injuries are reported and the area has been evacuated earlier. gave us the latest more than fifteen hundred people rescuers and firemen have been trying to

fight the blaze overnight but they haven't succeeded so far good news though is that there are no more explosions and it may look like the worst is behind but the thing with this particular incident is that you cannot no one can guarantee that it will not happen again because as you know it happened at the site where weapons have been stored and no one can say for sure how many to replace is have been stored there have been at the site when the incident happened and we've been hearing different reports from six thousand pieces to thirteen million these are of course two completely different pictures and as we understand it there have been some injuries but we're not quite sure of the details of those yet but the whole area has been evacuated that is correct at the moment is it it is and the major concern remains whether there were people at the scene at the moment when explosion happened there are reports that they could be from three to eight people trapped at this side and given especially the day to all of these kind of incidents it's not for the first time that we see signs like that happened in russia. over the last

three years dozens of incidents like this happened in different parts of russia claiming lives of both military personnel and civilians well given the date of course it is a major concern of of emergency ministry but of course it's just impossible right now to get in the area because of the fire and because of the potential danger that there could be still unexploded shells left there that could explode at any moment well it's like i mean you can do little in this situation. now in turkey police have detained dozens of people across the country to try and end the ongoing anti-government protests that public unrest against prime minister erdogan this government has gone on for over three weeks now tom barton is in ankara. the goalie of the day it is just here the turkish capital and throttle the streets having to come sit on the nightly study on the team league police atlanta testers

police and fire to stop the fight at least this was finally space until their struggles if any cash is going to treat it just the tone i let me. sleep at night i was also. thinking that she was not likely to want a seat at least for a week that removes all those lectures i want to see such as my face it was nice to see how to fix it was a decade ago they could do well if he is planning to make it seem to such like she is the shortest it could go badly it shows that he has a good way to go to catch up to suddenly the only guys these protests to get a trip to has become the service was ok but he needs to let it sit in the politics of this region soon so i plan to keep his little point i was on

a student that was trying was made up she was a part of that. the turkish police crackdown has been widely condemned for its violent intensity even riot control methods are not quite what they saying there was an english reports nothing like some cold water in the heat of the moments to ease tension or so you'd think in turkey however when what is being used to quell street riots it can prove to be a health risk is water cannons have made an appearance at almost every single protest in the last two weeks and try to keep the order is supposed to have a somewhat cooling effect on the crowds but lately the protesters have noticed something different about the stream it's not just its bright orange color but the after effects that the water leaks on people who come in contact with it. i felt water on my back on my right arm at first i didn't get any feeling i just got wet and then it started burning and i asked my friends what should i do they said take off your clothes and i did it and i saw that my skin had turned red and it was

itching and it started to burn red and it was itching and it started to burn ditches from the internet allegedly shows something called janick sabine put into the water tanks of the cannon the manufacturer is based in istanbul but when we got to their office we found a vast array of area fresheners and no one who would talk to us about the substance on camera the manufactures website claims it's not harmful to people or the environment but turkey's association of medics disagrees of course that is not acceptable and even the government of the stumble at mit that something was added to the water cannons and he described it well yes a drug is being added but is that a chemical and nobody knows what that means but a chemical is being added effects from the chemicals may last for several hours to a couple of days doctors however remain worried the combination of pepper spray and tear gas as a means to control the crowd may have long term effects on people's health. to god

it is difficult to take the first effect of what i experienced in the park is a psychological effect i'm not able to sleep or to drink also i have many injuries from police violence i still feel down sometimes i have a headache and i feel like i'm not a healthy person anymore on top of that medics question the legal aspect of chemicals used by the government during civil unrest some how many countries including pretty are still considering tear gas. it is not constant you guys as a chemical weapon but in one nine hundred sixty nine these two gases and similar gases are we guarded as chemical weapons and now we have to start a new campaign to prevent the use of gases in turkey but until such a complaint comes into effect people in turkey are left wondering just which chemicals will they be showered with every time they hit the streets in protest in

istanbul in an r t. four american troops have been killed in what's being reported as a mortar attack on the u.s. military's base in afghanistan it struck on the day that nato officially handed over security responsibility to afghan authorities the latest move ahead of a full troops withdraw at the end of next year but as insurgents take more soldiers' lives washington is setting out to do peace talks with the taliban will take place on thursday in the group's first overseas office which has been opened in cata prison prisoner exchanges are up for discussion but the first few weeks are expected to be a case of both sides sounding each other out and pushing forward their agenda well for more on this we're joined now by artie's paul got paul this is a change of tune isn't it by washington certainly is president barack obama has described the prospect of talks with the taliban as an important first step towards reconciliation which is in contrast to this statement in two thousand and nine when

the president declared it's impossible for us or for pakistan to have impunity with folks who kill women and children now over sixteen thousand civilians estimated to have lost their lives in a five year period from two thousand and seven to two thousand and twelve but this didn't stop obama changing his mind saying last year we are pursuing a negotiated peace in coordination with the afghan government and with the taliban we made it clear they can be a part of this future but it's not just president obama who has had a change of heart over dealings with the taliban four years ago then secretary of state hillary clinton said the taliban poses a mortal threat to the security of our country and of the world however before leaving office she also decided talking to the taliban was the way forward saying we're committed to afghan reconciliation our only goal is to open the door for the afghans to sit down with other afghans so that they can work out their future for

their country the taliban have their own choice to make but the united states is prepared to worry. with all afghans so despite the war being waged to rid afghanistan of the taliban a peaceful withdrawal now seems the main objective of the us government but what kind of country is nato leaving behind well at the moment it's an extremely poor country over forty percent of the population thought to be living below the poverty line now with such a high rate of poverty the illicit production and sale of opium has become a major problem afghanistan sells more of the stuff than any other country in the world it pumps out three hundred and seventy five tons of heroin every year that's ninety percent of the world's entire supply the booming black market leads to accusations of vast corruption estimates suggest afghans paid two point five billion dollars in bribes last year that's the equivalent of almost one quarter of the country's entire economy so the question now for america is whether the six hundred thirty five billion dollars that it has spent on the afghan war so far as

will be worth it ok thank you very much paul. now i'm back in about half an hour with more news for you next though it's prime interest. speak the language. the programs you documentaries in arabic it's all here. reporting from the world talks about six of your p.c. interview intriguing stories for you. troy arabic to find out more visit or a big t.v. call. you.

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a fed speak with fed watcher and david chase in in just a bit and the european central bank head mario draghi was enjoy a recently to say farewell to with m i mentor a stanley fischer as he. leaves the bank of israel next month. hokum the opportunity to basically say don't count out of that you see when it comes to dramatic new monetary measures we call it q.e. envy finally it looks like the u.k. is finally getting tough on market rigging except the target is a thirty three year old former u.b.s. and city being trader and no executives have been named and according to the financial times it might not even matter so the u.s. department of justice has already brought charges against the trader making extradition a largely moot point later we talk about big bangs and their regulatory sway with columnists alexis goldstein and here's what's in your interest.

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