marks exactly a year of refuge in ecuador's london embassy vowing he'll stay there for many more for fear of being shipped off to the u.s. over espionage. 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. and the u.s. gives the go ahead to peace talks with the taliban is insurgents rockets claim more victims among american troops in war torn afghanistan.

it's good to have you company watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. now we can leaks editor julian assange says he'll remain in the ecuadorian embassy in london even if the sex crime allegations against him dropped he fears being snatched and extradited to the united states especially since washington renewed its assault on whistleblowers wherever they are sara firth reports on the signs of 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 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 is the end any near in sight and

does julian the son still it's all been worth it when you very rarely get a glimpse actually what goes on behind and we've been able to speak to two minutes on himself to find out how he's feeling one year old. 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 mustn't 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 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 charge and used to manage very very well with. the other day until in asuncion window by the

balcony behind me with those 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 a group those foreign minister and me to do with 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. it's confinement to news 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 continue to be heard and perhaps even providing inspiration for some of them already high profile whistle blowers in fact speaking recently about the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden julian assange is called him

a hero indeed many to describe. and you can get up to speed on julian assange just battle for asylum and what led to it are to dot com has the background as well as updates and expert analysis. blocked by britain i am here today because i cannot be there. are your bush silent well while she waits his fate at the ecuadorian embassy other prominent whistleblowers 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 mixed 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 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 perry 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 too is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's still his war logs that the public learned about the words which 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 secret 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 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 it'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's edward snowden to answer that question. conan

response is simply build better whistleblower he said in washington i'm going to take on. thomas drake who is a former n.s.a. senior executive told r.t. what he had to means you'll after exposing corruption and mismanagement of the agency. we're all whistleblowers we're all for freedom of information we fundamentally object to to secrets that are not necessary we funnel jack 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 after 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 of when not if. on our website you can read about the possible escape routes for edward snowden who remains holed up in hong kong no lights in washington against him. and the head of the come to the show n.s.a. claims the disputed global surveillance program has prevented dozens of terrorist acts but didn't give any sony for. president obama's reception in the german capital where he's on a world when visit could have been warm up demonstrators in berlin showed what they found it's about the revelations of washington's widespread surveillance program

jim and he was among the top targets peter all of that 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 the great new hope for a better future well five years old and five years of drone wars whistleblowers and continuing economic strife as well seen barack obama receive a very different reception we've seen demonstrations outside. 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 of phone calls and e-mails the country appeared is already on the map of nations that are being investigated now this is prompting a lot of people to come out under 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 go now to talk to me 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 i think 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 on exactly the opposite and i think it's a scandal because it's a taboo in the german society the surveillance generally after their experience for 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 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 for demonstrators what else is the they 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 and free speech on the fourth amendment on the press and the

attacks that we've had on the press exchange rising and these people and these posterous. aiding the enemy when the protections of sources and so forth and that no long we have no longer whistleblower protection for us i think this is an aberration yeah i think these are the things that we should be bringing to light and say no it's just not acceptable. i was 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 they are unhappy they're calling it yes we stand they want him to stop reading their e-mails listening to their phone calls. well barack obama's euro trip started at the g eight summit in northern ireland with world leaders seemingly out of the deadlock over syria's ongoing civil war we've got the details off for a quick break plus a major plays out and i mean issues in central russia causes the evacuation of fisons of people from nearby villages that's just ahead.

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else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know. welcome to the big. thanks. to 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 artie's party boy 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 others 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 is not 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 lattimer 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 political work and 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 that violent killing do europeans want to supply arms to these people who will happen to these weapons. and you could end up back in europe that's why we are. well enough partners to think twice before they took this extremely dangerous stunt just same time on another edge of the resort 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 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 partly boy kerry i see 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 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 find the place

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 this this sad day to all of these kind of incidences 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. well the blast in chopper yes is the latest in a series of explosions at military sites in russia in recent years several blast occurred at the don't ski ranges in the orenburg region last year all of them during unloading missiles as they were being prepared for recycling while less than a month ago an explosion at the ammunition recycling plant in the glove screeching left two workers injured all have been blamed on a failure to comply with safety regulations and all of this of course a major concern to russia's emergency committee which has stressed the issue of ensuring a safety at military sites. four american troops have been killed in what's being reported as a mortar attack on the u.s. military's big air 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 withdrawal at the end of next year that is insurgents take more soldiers' lives washington is setting out to do peace talks with the taliban they will take place on thursday in the group's first overseas office which has been opened in cats are 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 more on that now with artie's posco. president barack obama has described the prospect of talks with the taliban as an important first step towards reconciliation now that is in a contrast to this statement in two thousand and nine when the president declared it's impossible for us all for pakistan to have impunity with folks who kill women and children 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 now despite

this figure and 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 now 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 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 i'm of the world however before leaving office she also decided that talking to the taliban was the way forward we 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 walk 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 the moment it's an extremely poor one over forty percent of the population thought to be living below the poverty line and 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 now that is ninety percent of the world's entire supply the booming black market needs 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 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 of all been worth it well antiwar activist richard becker says washington's afghan efforts have gone down the drain what is just fighting and

dying over the last several years because that's really what it is going on and when it's very clear that quote unquote victory wasn't hospitable for the u.s. for occupation force there are hundreds of billions of dollars. hundreds of thousands of people show up and want to do. afghanistan ranks exactly last christmas according to the cia's the biggest in the war of the infant mortality and so we have a situation where the united states just as in iraq could not win the war but the losers of the war are the people of afghanistan. in turkey police have detained dozens of people across the country to try to and the only going antigovernment protests the public unrest against prime minister government has not go on has not gone on for over three weeks from bad news in ankara. the goalie of the day is going to a gesture the turkish capital and caracal the streets having to come sit on the

nightly stand on his team lead police manager testers murphy came here to spotlight find at least slightly suppose to their struggles that many crashes going green just the sun i let me. sleep i was like oh please please let trees grow not little one bit she was horribly removes all those elections i want to see the try to see the snow see how to fix it because it was decades ago they could do well if he is planning to make it seem to such as you like to see this issue just because sadly it certainly looks as a good way to look at the turkish topic suddenly the only guys these protests to show that a true cost become the service was ok but if you need to let it sit in the politics

of this region i do just so i found it tricky to say don't know why i was on a student that was what struck me was me she. was. the turkish police crackdown has been widely condemned for its violent intensity and even right control methods are not quite what they seem is that any collusion 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 is water cannons have made an appearance at almost every 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 bright orange color but the aftereffects that the water leaks on people who come in contact with it. i felt water on my back and my right arm at first i don't get any feeling i just got wet and then it started to 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 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 air 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 of acceptable and even go into 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 the chemical is being got its effects from the chemicals may last for several hours to 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. forgot that it was the culprit the first effect of what i experienced in the park is a psychological fact that 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. is not constant can you guess as a chemical weapon but in one nine hundred sixty nine these two gases and similar gas is our god as chemical weapons and now we have to start anew compering to prevent the use of 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

r t. is coming up to see how fast welfare moscow up next president obama's promises on the reality of america's presence in afghanistan are under scrutiny in breaking so. they all told him a language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm likely to push i know i will leave them to stick to comment on your latter point. to carry out a call it's all good talking no god. no more weasel words. when you made a direct question he prepared for a change when you run you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and little doubt the freedom to question.

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what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys i'm not being one walking a break in the set some americans are probably rejoicing today over afghanistan president hamid karzai announced a transfer of security control from nato to afghan domestic forces and the media is hailing it as a major milestone hundred thousand forces taking a backseat to afghans as they hand over control of ninety five districts within the country so sure afghans will be in charge of their operations but it still nato play a huge role in just six air support and combat scenarios when necessary but what about u.s. involvement long other than the fact that the u.s. funds the majority of nato operations obama made this pledge just a year ago. we'll a month to build permanent bases in this country nor will.