join us anja marks exactly a year of refuge in ecuador's london embassy volume will stay there for many more people feel being shipped off to the usa the espionage. president obama gets a lukewarm reception and believe he's met with protests against washington's explains global surveillance programs of which germany was among the worst affected . and kabul caught off talks with the u.s. on a new security deal after washington turns to the taliban to try and negotiate stability in struggling afghanistan.

live from moscow where were you i'd get to have you with us i'm to be on with say let's take a look at the news this hour we could leaks added to julian a son says he will remain in the second dorian embassy in london if the sex crime allegations against him are dropped if he is being snatched in extradited to the united states especially since washington renewed its assault on whistle blowers wherever they are so far as reports on a son just struggle and it is a no year long confinement. well it's been one year. period knightsbridge in london now the wiki leaks founder. of the u.k. supreme court he's 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 between one year and any insight and.

bill. that we very rarely get a glimpse of what goes on behind we've been able to speak to his sons himself to find out how he's feeling one year old. boy every day that we've been our principles we truly. considered this when i was in solitary confinement. with prison here. for about half. my. full force that is worth 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 at the organization preserve its ability to act. after these struggles but i'm very comfortable and happy with what we have accomplished and i'm sure history. and used to many very very well with. all the other day and stood.

behind me with foreign minister he's been visiting him ahead of this meeting with his u.k. counterpart william hague to not see that the press conference held by a 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 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 messages support for whistle blows continue 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 today in a song called him

a hero indeed many of us to describe today in a sound. get up to speed on julian assange his battle for asylum and what led to it com has a background as well as updates and expert and us. law created by britain i am here today because i cannot be there. our son our year was silent while julian a sunday awaits his fate at the ecuadorian embassy to other prominent whistleblower was a face the full force of the u.s. government can report on washington's out far reaching attempts to keep its affairs private or watching everyone else. america is split on edward snowden traitor or 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 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 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 to is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's still his war logs that the public learned about the. collateral murder it 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 stop 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's 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 leaks the obama administration has already targeted its it's trying to set the precedent for 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 isn't up to create an environment of fear but will that fear stop information from coming out here is that we're snowden to answer that like you.

were conan response is simply build a better whistleblower. in washington i'm going to take on. demonstrate who's a former n.s.a. senior executive told r g what he had to endure after experiencing 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 front 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 that combined put me on the target 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 as they even knew about the secret surveillance programs i knew as a matter of of when not if i write on a website or read about the possible escape routes for edward snowden who remains holed up in hong kong awaiting washington's in the sand. and the heyday of the controversial n.s.a. cleans of the disputed global surveillance program has not prevented dozens of terror attacks but didn't give any solid proof. president obama's reception in the german capital way he's on a lil wind visit to could have been a warm up demonstrators in berlin showed what they felt about the revelations of washington's white spent surveillance program of which he germany was among the top

targets of ellen 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 blow is 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 the country's worst affected by this snooping into phone calls and e-mails the country appeared is already on the mouth of a should instead of being investigated this is prompting a lot of people to come out and do the slogan yes we scam 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. parts of the free bradley manning network thank you very much for talking to me why is it a different reception to president obama since leaving 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 isn't 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 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 to show that you know 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 he's had on the classic james rising and these people and these preposterous.

aiding the enemy when the 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. but. you're a trip started at the g eight summit to ignore the real ireland with the world leaders assumingly out of the deadlock over syria's ongoing civil war the details on that just ahead. one person is reported to have died following a series of large explosions and a major blaze there. in a town in central russia it happened in a state of emergency has now been declared and the area has been evacuated marie ivanovna is here now in the studio with me alive and maria what you did tell us what is the latest coming from to pius right now well tony now sixteen hundred people involved in the operation we're hearing that helicopters and firefighter

tanks are being used but the blaze still continues and although the rescuers have managed to stop the fire from spreading and we're now hearing that there have been for the explosions and that is actually the worst scenario of all those the officials have actually expected as you know the student has happened to. test inside where up to eighteen million or two or three shells have been stored at the moment when the explosion happened and of course it's very hard to say how dangerous this situation is but we've been hearing reports earlier that it may last for two or even three days while we now know that the area has been evacuated by of officials there but what we know about this explosion i mean do we know what started it what actually happened. to be investigate exactly what happened but definitely something went wrong on tuesday at the ammunition depot in russia's volga region one explosion happened there where millions of weapons have

been. and the first explosion has to get the second one and the second one has to get the third one and so on and so on it was like a terrible domino effect with a series of heavy blasts following that and we can see that we've been receiving video from the ground since the beginning of this incident and everywhere we can see heavy heavy smoke black smoke coming to the skies and we can even hear people in the background i mean frightened although they're living in the area next to these sites but i have to say that this is not for the first time unfortunately with the scene something like this happening in russia with last three years at least dozens of incidents like these happened in different parts of russia just recent ones you can see here in russia or in poor creature and it happened in both of the cases the incident happened while missiles or were

loaded the people being prepared for recycling and this recent just less than a month ago happened in russia last region again the recycling plant or so it's like it's not a common thing unfortunately we have to say that it's not the right thing either for when you have something like that within the area community area like that you have to be really we very careful it's very a phenomena in the studio with us just giving us an update on that story now moving on to the anti government protests in turkey stretching into a third do we despite warnings that the policing will intensify we'll bring you the latest after the break. series is just not a dreadful civil war it is now a regional conflict with red lines multiplying at

a very dangerous rate obama's decision to directly bar members of the kente assad coalition is a bold step that could lead to a greater disaster ok more arms and greater outside intervention bring about peace in this war torn country. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of v.i.p.'s interview intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit our big teeth don't call. mission free cretaceous free storage free. range month free. free. to tide free. download free books videos for your media projects free media john darche dot com.

welcome back here with us here at our team afghan president hamid karzai has suspended discussions with washington on a new security deal it would have said the conditions for the u.s. military presence in afghanistan beyond of the twenty four thousand polo deadline it's in reaction to washington's announcement of talks with the taliban which a jew and third state prison exchange is up for discussion with a slum is what the first few weeks like specter to see both sides a song to each other out and putting forward the agenda negotiations in doha for a fresh wave well by an insane. denniston which killed locals and several foreign troops along that now without its all scarred president barack obama has described the prospect of talks with the taliban as an important first step towards

reconciliation now that is in contrast to this statement in two thousand and nine when the president declared it's impossible for us over 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 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 are 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 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. and it will activists richard beck has says washington's ad can efforts have gone down the drain what it is fighting and dying over the last several years because that's really what it is by going on and when it's been clear that our quote unquote victory was impossible for the u.s. for occupation force there are hundreds of billions of dollars being spent hundreds of thousands of people show up and want to do. afghanistan ranks exactly last quarter is according to the cia's them figures in the world and for mortality i saw we have a situation where the united states just as in iraq could not win the war by the losers of the war are the people of afghanistan. brazil's deploying national

security forces in five of the country's major cities ongoing unrest as seen police clash with hundreds of thousands of protesters angry that the government is splashing out and hosting football's world cup well hospitals and transport remain underfunded rallies are into this second week with more expected in the coming days a number of cities in brazil responded to the country's largest street protests in years but campaign by capping bus pay rises rather ok let's take a look at what you think is the root cause behind the rest in brazil at our most to blame general government inefficiency and corruption now at twenty nine percent of third of you say it's the result of a foreign plot to destabilize latin america some of you at fifty percent think it's all about the global economic slowdown and nearly the same number put it down to the cause being a blamed on the hike in public transport fees and of the world cup cause head to r.t. dot com and tell us your fault. as expected the g eight told sonoran

ireland were dominated by a clash over syria's ongoing civil war despite a show of unity at the end arches when a boy who was at the summit venue. final outcome hailed a success in the deadlock of the 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 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 the legitimate government of president assad when the possible work in 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. these arms and you 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 awkward 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 her might well be wondering what exactly they've achieved probably boy care are see northern ireland right to one of the stories we've been following turkey police have detained dozens of people across the country trying to end the ongoing anti-government protests the public andras against prime minister abdul one's government has gone on for over three weeks now tom barton is an encore of forty. the culture of the day is going to be a test here the ticket shuttle and the streets having to come sit on the nightly stuff doesn't seem like police and protesters we can do to stop the fight at least post finally somebody can see their struggles if any cash is going we need it just . because i was the cause was the actions of enough lead to whine it's worse for at least it removes all those elections i want to see

such as i think is the next nasty house of texas politics decades ago they could go well if he is punished to make it seem to students he's going to say this is still just because sadly i think that he has a good thing going to say it's for cyclists the only guys these protests to show that it has become serious about the case that he needs to get to the politics of this region soon so that to teach his point was on the stand that it was a strike was made up she was a part of. the turkish police crackdown has been widely condemned full in supply linda intensity even riot control methods are not quite what they seem as a reasonable a school reports. nothing like some cold water in the heat of the moment 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 these water cannons have made apparent that almost everything the protests over the last 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 aftereffects that the water leaks on people who come in contact with it until 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 being 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 at mit's it 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 the 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. it is not constant you guys 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 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 . let's say with us here on our t.v. coming up next it's crosstalk just after the break.

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