tonight an ati indefinite term wiki leaks founder julian assange marks one year of the ecuadorian embassy in london saying he's ready to remain there longer even if the sex crime allegations against him were dropped still fearing extradition to the u.s. . no warm welcome president obama's visit to berlin is overshadowed by recent revelations about america's massive internet snooping on germany and other european targets. and a series of blasts. rocks a small town in central russia has killed one person and injured over forty more.

this is art international it's kevin owen here in moscow tonight just after eight pm here now on first wiki leaks founder julian assange just left there would or an embassy in london now in a year and he says he's prepared to stay longer even if the sex crime allegations against him he's facing in sweden a dropped a son she is extradition to the united states where he's angered officials by publishing washington secret documents the details of the whistle blows year long confinement his r.t. sara. well it's been one year since julian a son's first walks up 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 relieve his appeal against extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over allegations by two women a sexual offenses allegations which he denies between one year but if the end any near in sight and does he live in

a cell and still is all being worth it we very rarely get a glimpse actually what goes on behind these doors we've been able to speak to julian assange himself to find out how he's feeling one year old. every day that we've done our principles we truly. consider this when i was in solitary confinement. prison. for. my. full force it is worth the most and of course. for a while your ability to work very important to keep your ability to act in various ways and i have kept my ability to hear what i say. preserves its ability to act. i'm very comfortable and happy with what we've accomplished and i'm sure history. and just imagine a very very well and. well the other day.

behind me with foreign minister visiting him ahead of his meeting with his u.k. counterpart william hague 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 personal integrity and particularly his freedom of expression his confinement continue the wiki leaks founder. 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 the most high profile. speaking recently about the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden julian assange. indeed many of you to describe.

what we can xander believes there's already a sealed indictment for him in the u.s. state of virginia. refuge in his mansion after he was released on bail in late twenty's he thinks that washington's looking to make an example out of the most prominent. mr lynch you know hasn't be as unseen a ray of sunshine in a year i mean most prisoners will see sunshine most days so he might as well be in a prison and he's also been there for a year and the you know unfortunately he sent this week. for some reason and proof if you. allege to have done something but you know if that materializes allegations materialize he would be very likely receive a years imprisonment and believes in effect. if you think there's no risk of actually action then there's very difficult to see why mr science can't go to sweden i believe there is

a real risk of extradition i think america wants to make an example of people like a songe as it is doing of other whistle blows that we know like bradley manning who's clearly being tortured and being treated extremely poorly and isn't allowed in his court case to bring in aspects that would be very good for him i mean you were in your expected as a soldier to report. you know war crimes and a lot of what he reports constitute war crimes well meantime there's been a breakthrough in talks about the fate of the problem whistleblower tell me what that means for and then our web site r t v dot com also we recently sat down with assad is to get his thoughts on this fellow whistleblowers and how the governments like to respond from now on i spoke to him personally in a case you missed the full interview you can still watch of our loading on to our website. but. blockaded by britain i am here today because i cannot be. a year of asylum

in the united states the focus has shifted to two other whistleblowers now bradley manning is on trial and edward snowden's just revealed the scale of the n.s.a. spy program artie's got if you can look at how washington is fighting to keep a veil of secrecy while justifying its operations to the american people. 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 for me to say employee william binney was prosecuted as a traitor when he blew the whistle on the government's sweeping collection of data and communications it's setting up a tele tarion state when the government has that much information they can do those things they can use the i.r.s. to intimidate people or anything else they can send the f.b.i. . 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. 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'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 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 leaks the obama administration has already targeted its it's trying to set the precedent. communicating with the media is the same as communicating with the enemy and it's a death penalty offense recession doesn't have to go after each for each 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 even stations kone and responses simply build better whistleblower he said in washington i'm going to check out. a lot more still to come in a few minutes time including a run of the peace in afghanistan president karzai stopped security talks with the u.s. after washington looks to the taliban for reconciliation because for analysis on that situation coming up in a couple of minutes time to. the next pericope arms in berlin for the

first time as u.s. president preparing not enjoying as well welcome as he did when he was candidate back in two thousand and eight he was met by protests against the u.s. eavesdropping following revelations of the n.s.a. sweeping global surveillance with germany among those most affected another group of activists were rallying in support of the hunger strike is a growing taliban you've been refusing food for over four months now is wearing orange jumpsuits call for detainees to either be formally charged or released in his keynote speech in berlin a bomber called for the closure of the prison again as well as touching on a whole range of international issues such as peter all of the reports next. one of the major points though that was made by the u.s. president this keynote speech in front of the historic brandenburg gate was that he wants to see a further one third with duction in u.s. nuclear weapons now he said he would be contacting the leaders leaders in russia to try and coordinate some for the plan there he did praise the the work that's being

done with the new start treaty saying that that would limit the amount of nuclear weapons in the world to two nine hundred fifty s. levels however he said he wanted to make that go further i wanted to try and push it on a little bit more by the. and you be speaking to the russian leadership about that now fred thank you very much for talking to us just what type of reaction has. received from people here in berlin i think people were disappointed as you already mentioned five years ago there were two hundred thousand people listening to obama this time there were like four thousand handpicked people most likely mainly american that's just like two percent of what he could gather as a senator people are disappointed with obama as being a president a lot of people from the left because obama will clean up the mess the true presidencies of george bush jr. bring in more transparency into government i'm

actually the opposite happened were consumed with the n.s.a. prison scandal. probably one of the biggest intrusions of people's privacy not only in the u.s. but also in europe between demonstrators here on the streets of berlin claiming at the n.s.a. are two point zero i mean feelings pretty strong isn't it oh it's very strong especially in berlin it's the come it's the fifty's anniversary of j.f.k. speech back then divided balloon and it's just now a company by this scandal actually freaking out that the enters eight is much more effective than spying on the stock stars or could ever have dreamed of frederick road from european students to liberty thanks very much for talking to me that's all we've got time for. it all over there will be getting some reaction from russia to obama's proposal to further cut nuclear arsenals the deputy foreign minister says that the current start treaty should be fully implemented first feels that the russian in the us have to find a solution to existing problems over america's missile defense shield in europe while the head of the state duma international affairs committee committee alexei

pushkov thinks obama is ideas need more work a nuclear arms reduction is a matter for the distant future as they put it. still to come barack obama's e.u. trip started with the g eight summit in northern ireland where world leaders backed peace talks in syria with a final statement of no call for president assad to leave got the details ahead. well months died at least forty one of the injured in a series of blasts in a fire at an arms depo in central russia witnesses are now reporting fresh explosions to. over six thousand people evacuated from the small town of pio square the first blast went off on tuesday night the town still in a state of emergency. is following the situation there. around two thousand people are now involved in the operation at the scene rescuer is fine man in the next prayers helicopters and tanks have been used as well but despite all the efforts

unfortunately it looks like that blaze still continues the rescues have only managed to stop the fire from spreading it's not contained but again it's a huge area on fire almost impossible to get in for rescuers right now because of. possibility for the explosions but yes a little bit with the war snoozes that explosions are continuing we've been here and have a blast happened just recently and this is actually the war scenario the officials have extract is because as you know the incident happened at the site where up to eighteen. to every piece is have been stored at the time when explosion happened and well it's very hard to actually predict right now how dangerous the situation make turn but it's clear that no one can say when or if the next blast may occur and to the really a chance that it may have in any moment and people could be heard of course the

situation in the entire mission right now is very dangerous for rescuers lives we've been receiving we do from witnesses on the ground with the blacks and again heavy heavy explosions and people who are actually in this area got all kinds of incidents there live in a near side. by this situation you have to multiply all those you can see on these videos by tiny pieces of exploded chalcis flying all over horror movie actually it's very dangerous while these blasts the latest in a series of explosions. the most recent ones several. quotes particular as you can see that all of a load of missiles as the big proponent. recycling while less than a month ago then to an explosion at a decommissioning plants in these photos last region left two workers injured all of them blamed on

a failure to comply with the relevant safety regulations all of this is of course a major concern to russia's emergency committee which has stressed the issue of ensuring safety at military sites i'll be back with more news for you shortly after this break. i told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm like. no i will leave them to stay current a comment on your latter point. to carry out a car is on the docket no god. no more weasel work. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. critical speech and slid down the freedom to.

wealthy british style. expert on the. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. hello again the shaky peace process in afghanistan is under threat with president karzai suspending talks with the u.s. on a new security deal the move comes in response to washington's u.-turn decision to open direct negotiations with the taliban the first formal meeting will take place in the militant organizations new office in qatar on thursday only hours after it's

ready for talks with the u.s. the taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly assault on an american air base the latest in a string of terrorist attacks we will afghan forces have taken the lead of the country's security now paving the way for the u.s. is complete pull out in twenty forty and there's phyllis bennis from stupid policy studies explains the taliban never said they'd stop fighting despite this agreed to negotiate. taliban position is very much a reflection of what was the semiofficial position of the united states during the negotiations with vietnam after nine hundred seventy three in the henry kissinger read peace process so-called where the us talked about how we will negotiate as if there were no war and we will fight as if there were no negotiations this is what the taliban are doing neither side has agreed to start fighting the taliban is not the u.s. and russia so i think the one who gets left out in the cold here is the karzai government and of course there is a serious problem for karzai because and he has come back against the united states

and said we're canceling talks not only a round these doha processes but we're canceling talks with the united states over the stationing of troops after twenty four fifteen so far that turnover to the afghans is far more rhetorical than it is real there are still sixty six thousand u.s. troops forty thousand nato troops more than one hundred thousand u.s. accountable contractors or mercenaries occupying afghanistan so the notion that somehow this means an end to the u.s. involvement in the war. it is simply not true. brazil's deploying national security forces in five of the country's major cities the ongoing unrest as seen police clash with hundreds of thousands of protesters angry at the government splashing out on hosting the football world cup while hospitals and transport remain underfunded the rallies are into the second week now with more expected in the coming days a number of cities in brazil responded to the country's largest street protests in years by capping bus fare rises. let's take you to

a what you think is the root cause behind the rest of brazil things taken part in today's a web topic if you have it r.t. dot com us what you say most of you blaming the general government efficiency and corruption forty three percent of you there but a furred of you say it's the result of a foreign plot to destabilize latin america twenty eight percent as some of you also think it's about the global economic slowdown and near the same number put it down to the hike in public transport fees and indeed those world cup costs as you can see fourteen percent there had to r.t. dot com you can still make your voice heard on the big story now let me take through some other world making headlines tonight fourteen people have been killed fifteen injured in a gun battle at the u.n. office in the somali capital mogadishu the victims include insurgents u.n. employees and civilian women reports a suicide bomber detonated himself while driving past the compound then gunman stormed that facility al qaeda linked militant group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the assault. floods have killed at least

a hundred thirteen displaced thousands from their homes in northern india the army's leading rescue operations and is also helping thousands of stranded pilgrims travels being canceled across the region over fears of further rains and landslides to read pause are usual for the region but this time they fit the north of the country in a much heavier scale than usual. turkish police have detained dozens of people across the country to try and end the ongoing anti-government protests there security forces use water cannon overnight to disperse the dead. strait has many now staging a silent standing man protest with the new former resistance spreading throughout tom buffer reports now from ankara because the other day is going to be a test here the turkish capital ankara the streets having become the city's on a nightly standoff seemingly police testers. tests find at least dispersed finally supposed to start that many caches going we need it

just. because it. look like she's holding up a little line it seems at least for at least removes all those elections i want to see this guy to. see how to fix for six decades they could go well if he is planning to make it seem to seriously say this is all just take it badly it seriously look he has taken a lot of sick. beyond. these protests to show that a true has become. the party needed. in the politics of this region loses. and to keep his point i was on a student that was what struck me was me it seems the power of the. tongue

the jay talks in northern ireland were as expected dominated by the syria conflict in the final press conference world leaders agreed to work towards peace talks to end the civil war but surprisingly stop short of demanding president assad leave his pile of boy corrupt sub that summit. i know 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 has used chemical weapons to meet 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 do these people what will happen to these weapons. google 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 result david cameron had a few quick questions to answer about why the leaders final statement didn't contain any of his usual anti assad rhetoric what we don't want to happen in syria is for the regime to go in for chaos to follow that is what happened in iraq and no one wants to repeat 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

penciled into the calendar leaders leaving a lot heard might well be wondering what exactly they've achieved probably boy kerry r.c. northern ireland. well western powers are talking about arming the syrian rebels a video merged on the web allegedly showing young people training to be part of the syrian opposition force the footage which is are to verify that apparently shows teenagers receiving weapons ammunition being trained to fire guns it's thought the camp could be run by al-qaeda or at least shows a union between them in the syrian rebels the youngsters can also be heard singing what they turned the rather that they turned the world trade center to rubble and that they would be honored to be called terrorists to a lot more influence to democracy and cooperation in paris says arming the rebels have made the conflict more. we've seen things like this before and i don't think there's any doubt certainly there's no doubt in the mainstream western media that the islamist element in the syrian opposition is predominant so it confirms what we

know about the syrian opposition which that which is that it is principally islamist and much of it terrorists here in union and the americans who start to arm then the rebels will be encouraged by the shipments if you will arms there will be obviously the courage that comes from political so well and the fighting will increase and i'm frankly are absolutely astonished that the g. eight countries of western countries should continue to take the position in northern ireland at the g eight summit also this decision which is no a month old but which has as i see it to be put into operation to arm the rebels this decision is the equivalent of throwing paschal all know onto a fire it will only make things worse. next president obama's promises of the relative america's presence in afghanistan are under scrutiny and break in he said after the break.

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president hamid karzai announced a transfer of security control from nato to afghan domestic forces and the media's handling 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's still nato would play a huge role of just six air support and combat scenarios when necessary but what about u.s. involvement other than the fact that the u.s. funds the majority of nato operations obama made this pledge just a year ago. we might build permanent bases in this country nor will we be patrolling in cities and that will be the job of the afghan people we have a clear path to fulfill our mission in afghanistan while delivering justice to all . right no bases justice al qaeda and so on and so on interesting however that in that same trip obama also signed an agreement with carl.