thank. you lena saundra marks exactly a year of refuge in ecuador's london the embassy volleying you'll stay there for many more will be have been shipped off to the u.s. over espionage. president obama gets a new one reception in berlin and he's met with protests against washington's explains global surveillance programs of which germany was among the world's affected. and kabul conference calls with the u.s. on a new security deal up to washington turns to the taliban to try and negotiate stability in the struggling afghanistan.

live from moscow this is our team with me to bum would say we can be excited to julian assange says he will remain in the ecuadorian embassy in london even if the sex crime allegations against him are dropped if he is a being smashed in extradited to the united states especially since washington renewed his assault on whistle blowers were the army so far as reports on a son just struggles and there's not a year long confinement. well it's been one year. period knightsbridge in london now the wiki leaks founder. of the u.k. supreme court these two really put 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 insight

to live in this bill is that we very rarely get a glimpse of what goes on behind those we've been able to speak to innocence himself to find out how he's feeling one year old. boy every day that we leave our principles we truly. consider this when i was in solitary confinement one reason. for. my. full force of his words one must and 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 well you know what i say. preserves its ability to act. the struggles but i'm very comfortable and happy with what we have accomplished and i'm sure history . and just imagine a very very. well the other day until the sun seems to. me that

behind me with foreign minister he's been visiting the heads of his meeting with his u.k. counterpart william hague you know it's a well that's the press conference held by a foreign minister immediately afterwards the ecuadorian government will continue to ensure the truly 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. 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 called him a hero indeed many of us to describe today in

a. get up to speed on julian assange his battle for asylum and what led to it aren't you don't call has the background as well as updates an expert on this. law created by britain i am here today because i cannot be there. are your but silent. on julian assange to waive his fate at the ecuadorian embassy other prominent whistleblower was a face of the full force of the u.s. government and she can report on washington's far reaching attempts to keep his affairs pry big while watching everyone in 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 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 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 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

these same stories about 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 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's edward snowden's answer that by. kone in

response is simply build better whistleblower. in washington i'm going to take on. thomas drake who's a former n.s.a. samia executive told r.t. what he had to endure all to explain corruption and mismanagement although 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 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 that if they even knew about the secret surveillance programs i knew it was a matter of when not if. but on a website i read about the possible escape routes for edward snowden remains holed up in hong kong awaiting washington's me against him also while you know they have . the head of the controversial n.s.a. claims in the disputed label surveillance program has prevented dozens of terror attacks but it didn't give any solid proof. president obama's reception in the german capital weighs on a will when to visit could have been a warm up demonstrators in berlin show you what they felt about the revelations of washington's alliance but surveillance program which germany was among the top

targets all of them 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 whistleblower is continuing economic strife as well seeing the bomber receive a very different reception we've seen 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 of phone calls and e-mails the country appeared is already on the map of nations that have been investigated this is prompting a lot of people to come out on this 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 told to be

a little bit more about just why the reaction is being very different i told by many. parts 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 isn't 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 with totalitarianism and yeah i think it's really important i'm glad that this is now become a global scale and not just not the american citizens that you know it's not the target it's actually all of us in the major. time 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 show that you know 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 he's

had on the classic james rising and these people and these preposterous. aiding the enemy when they're 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 yeah i think these are the things that we should be bringing to light and say no it's just not acceptable. barack obama. started at the g eight summit in northern ireland with world leaders seemingly almost out of the deadlock over syria's ongoing civil war but details on that just ahead. one person is reported to have died of following a series of large explosions and a major blaze add an ammunition depo in a town in central russia it happened in a state of emergency has been declared and the area has been evacuated with me into syria right now where if you national he's going to tell us the latest maria what is going on in right now we have one latest and actually development here

as we know the rescues have just discovered a body of a person at that scene it's still too early to say who exactly this person was and what he was doing at the site is still yet to be investigated but the rescue operation continues and i have to say that now around two thousand people are involved in this operation they've been trying to fight the blaze for many many hours now but it still continues how the corpses and they've been defense ministries tanks fire fighter tanks imagine it exists have been used in this operation but all the rescues have managed to do is to stop the fire from spreading . the good news is that there are no more explosions at the science but of course it's too early to say whether the warst is behind or not because no one can guarantee that there are no more exploded chiles at the site that could explode at any moment because as you know it happened at the science of evolution where

weapons have been stored and we've been hearing that up to thirteen million to. pieces have been sold and have been at the site when the explosion happened so it's just impossible to say where whether if it will happen again i mean with the state of emergency being declared now do we know anything that led to this explosion that we're seeing right now that's absolutely clear that something went wrong on tuesday evening the intestine site involved. i guess it's yet to be investigated exactly wat but an explosion happened there where many many weapons have been stored and. it occurred that. one explosion has triggered another one and the second one has triggered the third one and so on and so on and so it was like a terrible domino effect and people. from the area the nearest real issues just fifteen kilometers away they've been reporting about you can see it here heavy smoke. loud sounds of heavy explosions and multiply what

you can see here now by tiny and of big pieces of exploded chiles flying all over is like a horror movie but yet to be investigated exactly what happened and why the first explosion measuring going on was this how it's amazing that those kids which is literally just a few kilometers away from that explosion they must have told what is going on here we'll have more details with you in a couple of in the next couple of hours with that story developing now of course we're going to go back to some of the store we've been following for quite a while now turkey the anti government protesters in turkey has intensified now and it's almost in its third week and this is really god despite the fact that the police thing has actually intensified as well we have those details just after the break.

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a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately dorna found anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. thanks for staying with us here on our team afghan president hamid karzai has suspended discussions with washington on a new security deal that would have set the conditions for the u.s. military presence in afghanistan beyond the twenty four thousand pullout deadline if in reaction to washington's announcement of talks with the taliban which edgy on thursday is an exchange is up for discussion with a slam is about the first few weeks i expected to see both sides sound each other out and putting forward the agenda and geishas in doha for a fresh wave of violence in afghanistan which killed locals and several foreign troops more on that now with our teaser paul stoddart. 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 the 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 on the files into 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 the 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 or 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 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 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 the question 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. as expected the g eight talks in northern ireland where dominated by clash over syria's ongoing civil war despite a show of unity at the end i just want to be like i 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 of 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 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 these people what will happen to these weapons. we have all these arms and could end up back in europe that's why we call in our partners to think twice before they take this extremely dangerous step at the 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 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 are see northern ireland. in turkey police have detained dozens of people across the country to try and end the ongoing anti-government protests a public andress against prime minister and a once government has gone on for over three weeks now dumbarton as an anchor out for r.t. but gold another day is going to be a test here the tickets capital ankara police street having to cut the city join the. police standoff between police and protesters became clear to start the fight at least this finally spoke to their struggles that many crashes going it

seems it just. made it up a little so well basically elections it would not lead to one it seems at least for at least it removes those elections that want to see such high places that it's nice to see how sixty six decades ago they could do well if he is fighting to make it seem to speak to students it seems like the subtleties because sadly i think that he has a few things to go to the tickets for suddenly the only guy excited this protest that it has become the search was a case study for anybody to go down to the politics of the region to do justice and so i had to teach these little white logos on the state that it was that struck me was made up she was a part of the riots and into a queue the turkish police crackdown has been widely condemned for its violent

intensity even a riot control methods are no quite what they seem as arena going to school 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 apparent that almost everything that a lot of three weeks and try to keep 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 priority 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 pictures from the internet allegedly shows something called janet 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 not acceptable and even the go no if you stumble admitted that something was added to those water cannons and. 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 got its 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 a long term effect some people's health. forgot that it was the culprit in 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. is not construing can you guess as a chemical weapon but in one nine hundred sixty nine these tear gases and similar gases are regarded as chemical weapons and now we have to start anew comping 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 movie be showered with every time they hit the streets in protest in istanbul. r.t. . coming up next the world's a key financial issues and that prime interest. will

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a stanley fischer as he leaves the bank of israel next month. hokum the opportunity to basically say don't count out the e.c.v. 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 calmness alexis goldstein and here's what's in your prime interest.