live from moscow at eleven indefinite wiki leaks founder julian assange marks one year now or an embassy in london saying he's ready to remain there longer even if the sex crime allegations against him are dropped still fearing extradition to the united states. president obama calls for a nuclear arms reduction as he embraces world issues during a keynote speech in berlin while the euphoria over his politics appears to have faded with many in germany plus. a series of blasts of this rock a small town in central russia has killed one and injured over forty more.

well over a good evening which is joined this is kevin owen here watching r t international and first wiki leaks founder julian assange left the ecuadorian embassy in london for a year now and says he's prepared to stay longer even if sex crime allegations he's facing in sweden have dropped. his extradition to the united states where he's angered officials by publishing washington secret documents details on the whistle blows anniversary in confinement is r.t. sara for. 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 really pin his appeal against extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over allegations by two women a sexual offenses allegations which he denies but it's been one year but is the end any near in sight and does the sun still is all being worth it when you very rarely

get a glimpse that 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 moved our principles we truly. consider this when i was in solitary confinement. prison. for. my. horse it is worth it and of course. for a while your ability to act 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 will become place and i'm sure history. and used to manage very very. well the other day and. behind me with foreign

minister heaping visiting him ahead of his meeting with his u.k. counterpart william hague that's the press conference held by a foreign minister and. 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 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. continues to be heard and perhaps even providing inspiration for some of the most high profile. in fact speaking recently about the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden julian assange. indeed many to describe.

the weeklies found a believes that there's already a sealed indictment of the united states gave the songs refuge at his mansion after he was released on bail in late two thousand and ten he thinks that washington's been looking to make an example out of the most prominent. mistress 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 years imprisonment and bodies in effect. if you think there's no risk of actual action then there's very difficult to see why mr assad 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 stange 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 are and you're expected as a soldier to report. you know war crimes and a lot of what he is reports constitute war crimes may well there's a breakthrough in talks about the fate of the around wiki leaks i will tell you what that means for an on a website called also i recently sat down with a science to get his thoughts on his fellow whistleblowers and how the government is likely to respond from the i want to miss that interview you can still watch above looking 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 was so

blows bradley manning's own trial and edward snowden has just revealed the scale of the n.s.a. spying program and he's going to count looks next of how washington is fighting to keep a veil of secrecy while justifying its operations to the american people at the same time 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 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 at the tele perry and state. when the government has that much information they can do those things they can use the i.r.s. to intimidate people or anything else they can send the f.b.i. . what they did to me and some others bradley manning to is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's so 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 the same stories about you know science manning's known you know psychological stories was 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 it was a lowers 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 surveillance programs in its hunt for leaks the obama administration has already targeted its it's trying to set the precedent. the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with you know me and that's a death penalty if it. doesn't have to go after. each certainly it's enough to create an environment of fear but fear inflammation from coming out here's edward snowden's answer to that but. conan response is simply build better whistleblower. in washington i'm going to take. over all this the snow talk to david he was an attorney at the federal aviation administration before becoming a whistleblower himself within the organization thanks for joining us i guess there's a lot of empathy here between you and julian assad's talking of that gentleman as we're saying it's no big here anniversary to take off on the calendar what are his

options now do you think. or can you repeat the last or what are julian assange his options now as he looks at the calendar ticks off that three hundred sixty fifth day. well i think i think you can expect to have more of the same more threats more fear of prosecution by the government it will be interesting what happens with a good door and whether he gets the ability to to get asylum and land and ecuador but if he doesn't and if he manages to be extradited to the united states i think he can expect a trial and prosecution and possibly in prison you're going to want some sort of guarantees that he's not to be extradited to the u.s. if he leaves the ecuadorian embassy you think he's going to get those assurances though any time soon i guess not. i don't think so. he says ecuador says the son should be allowed to fly to the country the u.k.

is disagreeing from a legal standpoint you know you're not a lawyer particularly but from a legal standpoint specializing in this which side has got the better case you know . i wouldn't be able to go now that's my specialty i represent whistleblowers in administrative level and civil levels in the united states and not simply outside of my x. produce i wanted or. there's been debate about manning and snowden exposing government information you can give us a comment and i guess what are your personal salutes do you think the heroes or are they traitors in your. well i think they're conscientious objectors i don't know if that fits either definition i think we're seeing. a better more sophisticated form of whistleblowing these days because of what the government has done and because of the mass apathy. in the united states there

was an article just a few days ago in the in usa today and interview with three former n.s.a. whistleblowers who who said that snowden is succeeding where they they have failed and it's very interesting the path that snowden in particular took with glenn greenwald to generate this debate i think a lot of people are watching and are taking notes. part of he was indeed as you as well let's talk a bit more unfortunately we're out of time but thanks to be on the program tonight . thank you. coming up of a piece in afghanistan president karzai stops security talks with the united states after washington looks to the taliban for reconciliation directly more analysis on the situation than just ahead.

but before the park a pretty in berlin for the first time as u.s. president partly has not enjoyed his warmer welcome which he did back in two thousand and eight he was met by protests against the u.s. eavesdropping following those revelations of the n.s.a. sweeping global surveillance with germany among the worst affected and another group of activists were rallying in support of those hunger strikers a grand time of day you've been refusing food for months now protesters wearing orange jumpsuits called for detainees to be to be formally charged or released but in his keynote speech in berlin a bomb a call for the closure of that prison again as well as touching on a whole range of other international issues as artie's peter all over reports now. president obama received a far cooler reception on his latest visit to lend than he had received five years ago back in two thousand and eighty two a huge crowd of over two hundred thousand people to come and hear him speak this time around four thousand and those were hand-picked mostly american students diplomats and other personnel that were penned

in around the brandenburg gate what main issue the bracket bomber picked out to deliver it is speech was that of an increase in getting rid of nuclear weapons he said that the current start treaty between the united states and russia was already doing very good work but he said he wanted to do a lot more he wanted to see the amounts of weapons reduced by a third one third and said that he'd be speaking to the leadership in russia or one of the major issues that overshadowed in some ways the. the historic nature of. his visit has been the n.s.a. spying scandal germany was one of the countries targeted the most by prism that snooping device of looking into e-mails and phone calls and a lot prompted a lot of demonstrations ahead of barack obama's visit and also during the while he

was giving his address not brandenburg gate the amount of security that's being on the show here i'm in is well pretty much mind blowing it's been in place pretty much since friday a huge police cordon separating the area around the brandenburg gate from the rest of central. was a wreck that resource life was on rooftops and people pretty much not allowed to get anywhere near to there was also fences a huge glass protective shield put up to make sure that nobody who hadn't received one of those four thousand invitations would be present at the speech that was being given at brandenburg gate and with so many demonstrators coming out to the the u.s. president as opposed to those who came out to cheer him five years ago well that's why the organizers deemed that type of security necessary in order to keep them away from where the president was delivering his speech. and they say days

a long time in politics well russia's reacted to obama's proposal to further cut nuclear arsenals the deputy foreign minister says the current start treaty should be fully implemented first field in europe while the head of the state duma international affairs committee election prisco thinks that the bomb his ideas need more work as he put it and nuclear arms reduction is a matter for the distant future. still to come barack obama's e.u. trip started with the g eight summit in northern ireland with world leaders but peace talks in syria with a final state but having no call for president assad to leave we examine that just ahead. in russia woman's died at least forty one people have been injured in a series of blasts in a fire an arms death toll in central russia witnesses and they're reporting fresh explosions to tonight. i was six thousand people been evacuated from small

town of square the first blast went off tuesday night but still in a state of emergency artie's with emotions following the situation there. around two thousand people are now involved in the operation at the scene rescuers find man munition expiries 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 rescues right now because of. possibility for the explosions but yes a little to do 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 but it's clear that no one can say when or if the next blast may occur and to the release a chance that they haven't had 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 black smoke and again have you have the explosions and people who are actually in this area all kind of incidents there live in a near side. by the situation you have to multiply all those you can see on these videos by tiny pieces of exploded child's flying all over horror movie actually it's very dangerous. or really more news just

a moment we'll look at one of the afghan president of the u.s. turkish protesters developing a new form of resistance coming. 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 are members of the 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.

cretaceous free. free. free. free. free. free. video for your media. free media to our t.v. dot com. the peace process in afghanistan's under threat with president karzai suspending talks with the u.s. on a new security deal the move comes in response to washington due to a decision to open direct negotiations with the taliban the first formal meeting will take place in the militant organizations new office in qatar and they don't thursday only hours off they're claiming to be ready for talks with the u.s. the taliban then said they carried out

a deadly assault on an american air base the latest in a string of terrorist attacks meanwhile afghan forces have taken the lead of the country's security now paving the way for the u.s. is complete. in twenty fourteen and as phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies explains the taliban never said they would stop fighting despite agreeing 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 gone back against the united states

and said we're canceling talks not only a round these doha. but we're canceling talks with the united states over the stationing of troops after twenty four fifteen so far that channel over 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 is simply not true. turkish police have detained dozens of people across the country to try and end the ongoing and to government protests security forces used water cannon overnight to disperse the demonstrators many you know staging a silent standing protest governed blow my understanding there for a few hours is a. view of this place was move on new for resistance spreading throw turkey tone bomb reports from ankara. but government of the day is going to attest

to the ticket scandal and profitable the streets having become synonymous nightly scandal is the lead police to test a similar leak and he's here to spotlight at least part of this finally supposed to be a struggle that if you have any cash is going to find it just you know not like me . because i was little subtle over little mention is coming up little one piece was horribly very nervous that all those elections want to see was a sign i think this was just nasty how statistics for six decades they could do well if he has money to make it seem to seriously just seems like he's a missile just take it badly it so you look he has like you think a lot of six topics suddenly he only excited these protests today but a trip has become i want to take

a buddy i needed to do the politics of this region soon so i need to keep his point all of us on the scrutiny that struck me was me it seems a positive. well tilsa caught up with the turkish no makers have been accused of mishandling. spoke to shuteye kitchen then paid for the ruling party has defended police actions as the protests turned violent. we have to distinguish here between protesters and troublemakers and members of illegal organizations who are trying to create havoc within their within the city or for of a stumble in some other cities in turkey. that the police has a lawful rights to use. given means to them to disperse over these troublemakers and vandals and now. if you're looking for a balanced i would say the police has who has sacked within. it's ours that is

a balance for the police however decisions we're trying to use their democratic rights to protest have to do this peacefully if you're resorting to violence and using malt of course tails and other kinds of weaponries against officials were. given to duty by the state to protect public order then of course these law these law enforcement officers have the right to use the force that is given to them by law within the law. the g eight talks in northern ireland where as expected dominated by the syria conflict in the final press conference world leaders agreed to work toward peace talks to end the civil war but surprisingly stop short of demanding president assad leave. reps of that summit. 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 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 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 that violent killing do europeans want to supply arms to these people what will happen to these weapons will these arms and you could end up back in europe that's right. we call in our partners to think twice before they turn to sixteen leave dangerous step at the same time on another edge of the resort david cameron had

a few quick questions to answer about why the need as 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 has been talks about more talks and within a day for geneva two pencilled into the calendar leaders leaving a lot on might well be wondering what exactly they've achieved polyploid care northern ireland. more trouble conversation coming right up to the table crosstalk that sort of right after this break.

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are you. trying. to find out more visit. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle a red line crossed and side to take in syria is just not a dreadful civil war it is now a regional conflict with red lines multiplying in a very dangerous rate obama's decision to directly are members of the coalition is a bold step that could lead to a greater disaster how can more arms and greater outside intervention bring about peace in this war torn country.