it's 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 s.b. in our. president obama gets a lukewarm reception in he's met with protests against washington's exposed global surveillance programs of which germany was among the worst affected. the us gives the go ahead to peace talks with the taliban as insurgents rockets claim more victims among american troops in water on afghanistan.

and i welcome you watching r.t. with me and very far. now wiki leaks editor says he will remain in the ecuadorian embassy in london even if the sex crime allegations against him are dropped he fears being snatched in extradited to the united states especially since washington we needed to sold on whistleblowers whatever they are sara furthur ports in the sun just struggle and his year long confinement. well it's been one year since julian the son's first walks out. of the ecuadorian embassy here in knightsbridge in london now the 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 sexual offenses allegations which he denies but it's been one year and any nearer in sight and does do you live in the sun still is all being worth it when you very rarely get

a glimpse actually what goes on behind those we've been able to speak to two minutes on himself to find out how you're feeling when you're out. every day that we principles we truly. consider this when i was in solitary confinement. prison here in london for about half an hour and my. course it is worth one month and of course. throw away your ability to act it's very important to keep your ability to act in various ways and i have kept my ability to work 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 asuncion window by the balcony behind me with those foreign minister he's been visiting him ahead of

this meeting with his view take counterpart william hague's not see that's the press conference held by acquittals foreign minister immediately afterwards the ecuadorian government will continue to ensure the truly innocent keeps receiving the protection we're giving him under asylum in our country protecting his life 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 message to support for whistle blows continues to be heard and perhaps even providing inspiration for some of the most recent high profile whistle blows in fact speaking recently about the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden julian assange is cool. indeed many of us to describe . and you can get up to speed on judy just battle for asylum

and what led to it r.t. dot com has got the background as well as. expert analysis. blockaded by britain i am here today because i cannot be there. are your bush silent. it's his fate at the ecuadorian embassy to other prominent whistle blows face the full force of the u.s. government reports on washington's far reaching attempts to keep its affairs private while watching everyone else america is 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 a former n.s.a.

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. . what they did to me and some others bradley manning to is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's so his war 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 you know science 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 whistleblowers 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's surveillance programs in its hunt for meeks the obama administration has already targeted its 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 her or he certainly it's enough to create an environment of fear but will that fear stop information from coming out here is that what snowden's answer that like. kone and

response is simply build better whistleblower. in washington i'm going to take on. well let's bring in professor david lewis from the international whistleblowing real. chemist alist thanks for coming onto our team this morning you said before that whistle blowing could be success what would you call what's happening to june in the sun john bradley manning and edward snowden a success. what's happening to them that will but it's been successful in the sense that people around the world have been a little. biologic that that message is inconvenient as normal in these situations but isn't one of the of the big. project things that the messenger. and the wife the message we've seen in all these places about phones is activity. we see it about orientation in mining we see. that it's the. friends back at the end of the site have

sent the message that despite the reaction outside the u.s. demonstrates a lot of the people should not traces. i think it's very altering the culture was. this language in the interim. in the sense that you feel that she responded to that message you say in the interest of everyone but is it actually in the interest of the whistleblower because the sun has actually told us here and say that the police the witch hunt of the going on at the moment many potential whistleblowers into silence what about just. about serious wrongdoing is in the interests of society it's just that it was generally the chief marketer is the people who are not i mean it all was not always about suffering. the loss of evidence about the boss but it's not like. this

is a belief that doing the right things that. he says i'm doing the right. i think if we spent. i know i saw it go on the line maybe. most of the wire was affected the lives changed that's because by. their own loss the logic of the right is. another muso at the moment and getting the sun showed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for a year in that that issue alone is testing the relationship between britain and that could do you think these countries will go to get their way. while i was with substitute massage is very full and in the sense that. these days we hear about these problems with. the beginnings of.

the internet it's just people living on that was affected it was lost in the appreciating interest iceland not setting records on freedom of speech. and stuff and in the sense that that's about what. we are finding that the dea is well. this is. not some of these elections it's a recognition by some government some would like to do. it's very well we need to know what countries are doing. what we did and whether some should not be much use to the agencies that someone. with a sense senator. obama's administration has prosecuted more people under the espionage act than all the other presidents combined why do you think that is. i have no idea it's very sad. and recently had very little before this kind of.

lots of pressure. you can see i'm from the big business in the shorts and the exposure wrong getting all of. this is no longer the truth will come out by the. story in the same way as the national security agency maybe it was the money since. the internet allows the information to come out so you can stifle dude in a song to teach the person. that's talking about having me tell it you. want it down we have to see that we got the message so you need to be patient and not have it the hard way with the easy way not to make the. late make

a mess of it right. we have run out of time there but thank you very much for your thoughts mr lewis that said david lewis from the international whistleblowing research network thank you. i want our web site read about the possible 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 solid prigs. president obama's reception in the german capital where he is on a world when visit could have been warmer demonstrators in berlin showed what they felt about the revelations of washington's widespread surveillance program of which germany was among the top targets artie's peter all of a went to take a look. 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 whistleblower has come to new a economic throwing but well think barack obama received a very different reception we've seen demonstrations outside against the eavesdropping that's been 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 mark of that being investigated this is prompted a lot of people to come out and do the slogan yes we scan and a parody of barack obama's election promise of yes we can when he came to power those years ago when i was talk to me a little bit more about just why the reaction has been very different time i told by any. 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 i think this is 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 on exactly the opposite and i think it's a scandal because it's a taboo in the german society the surveillance family after their experience with totalitarianism and yeah i think it's really important i'm glad that this is now become a global scale and just not the american system is that you know it's not the target it's actually all of us in the middle. term sample you know it's not just day to protectionism issue forward demonstrates is what else is the. are you wanting to bring to the u.s. president to show that you know happy with what he's doing i just think that these attacks of on freedom and free speech on the fourth amendment on the press and the attacks that he's had on the press exchange rising and these people and these preposterous aiding the enemy. of sources and so forth and that no long we have no

longer whistleblower protection to the us i think this is an operation yes 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 free bradley manning network talking to me about why people are demonstrating in wanting to show the u.s. president that their own happy they're calling it yes we they want him to stop reading their e-mails listening to their phone calls. while barack obama's trip started at the g eight summit in northern ireland is seemingly and says that syria's civil war the details on that just ahead. series is just not a dreadful civil war it is now a regional conflict with red lines multiplying in a very dangerous race obama's decision are members of the anti assad coalition is

a cold step that would lead to a greater disaster how can more arms and greater outside intervention bring about peace in this war torn country. more news today violence flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. you know sometimes you see a story. you think you understand it and then you. see some other part of it and. welcome to the big picture.

again welcome back now as expected the g eight talks in northern ireland. syria's ongoing civil war despite a show of unity at the end. was that the summit thang. 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 had used chemical weapons ladysmith 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 the legitimate government of president assad 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 the trip to sixteen leave dangerous stuff at the same time on another edge of the resort david cameron had a few awkward questions to answer about why the leaders final statement didn't contain any of his usual anti aside rhetoric what we don't want to happen is for the regime to go in for chaos to follow that is what happened in iraq and no one wants to repeat 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 is being 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 r c northern ireland a town in central russia is in a state of emergency right now after a series of large explosions and a major blaze at an ammunition depo it happened in shop of yes some injuries are reported in the area has been evacuated early in the reef and 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 their 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 repeat 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 since the side of these kind of incidents it's not for the first time that we see sounds 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. four american troops have been killed in what's being reported as a mortar attack on the u.s.

military's program 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 that is insurgents take more soldiers' lives washington is setting acted in peace talks with the taliban they will take place on thursday in the group's first overseas office which has been opened in cats 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 putting forward their agenda well for more on this we're now joined by r.t.c. paul scott paul this is a change of tune isn't it from washington. president barack obama and he 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 all over sixteen thousand civilians are estimated

to have lost their lives in a five year period from two thousand and seven to two thousand and twelve despite this figure on the thousands of nato troops who have also been killed it appears the objective of the invasion to rid the country of the taliban has not been met and that raises the question whether the lives lost have been in vain this quote from obama last year highlights a shift in thinking we're 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 is 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 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 the other afghans so that they can work out the future for their country the taliban have their own choice to make but the united states is prepared to work with all afghans so what sort of country will nato be leaving behind while at this 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 the booming black market leads to accusations of vast corruption estimates suggest afghans paid two point five billion dollars in bribes last year that is the equivalent of almost one quarter of the country's entire economy the question now for america is whether the six hundred thirty five billion dollars that it spent on the afghan war so far and the thousands of lives lost has been worth it ok thank you for that scott. 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 ones government has gone on for over three weeks tom barton is in ankara for r.t. . the goalie of the day is going to be a gesture the turkish capital and profitable the streets having to come sit on the nightly stud on his team like police handler testers over the weekend to stop the fight at least this was finally supposed to be a struggle of the many crashes going green is it just love that let me. sleep tonight was that it was basically electricity not little wind it she was horribly removes all those electricity want to see the sky i think is the it's 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 a species that this issue just because sadly it shows that he has

a good way to look to catch up to suddenly the only guy that's one of these protests to show that it has become the service was a case study it is about. the free to do just so and to keep his little point logos on the stone thing that was striking was made up she was a part of. the turkish police crackdown has been widely condemned for its violent intensity even right control methods are not quite what they say is that he reports nothing like some cold water in the heat of the moments to ease tension or so you'd think in turkey however when water is being used to quell street riots it can prove to be a health risk his water cannons have made an appearance at almost every single protest of the last two weeks in turkey and the water 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 pride or its color but the after effects that the water leaves 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 pictures from the internet allegedly shows something called janick 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 go no if you stumble admitted that something was added to those 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 attacked some 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 he gets as a chemical weapon but in one nine hundred sixty nine these tear gases and similar

gases are god as chemical weapons and now we have to start anew comping to prevent that you feel for tear gases in turkey but until such you complain 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 english go . we're going to take a quick break now that it's crossed. it's technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.