the u.s. charges whistleblower edward snowden with espionage he revealed to wall that america has been spying on millions of people around the world. but it turns out the british intelligence agency has trumped even washington in the snooping as it's revealed a case of violence operation reports even. say they're not convinced the syrian government used chemical weapons putting a damper on washington's. the rebel forces.

a very good morning to you from all of us here at. just off to eight on saturday morning. with the worldwide headlines welcome to the program. the u.s. has filed criminal charges against edward snowden the man who exposed to the world the extent of the secret global surveillance network run by the n.s.a. reports say washington will now attempt to extradite the twenty nine year old from hong kong where the ex cia employee has been sheltering ever since exposing the american spy machine latest details on this now to watch he correspondent guy in a. edward snowden has been charged with espionage theft and conversion of government property now the u.s. justice department has also reportedly asked hong kong to address that word snowden the united states has an extradition treaty with hong kong and snowden could fight extradition if he's arrested there but the treaty has an exception for political offenses so snowden's defense team in hong kong may potentially invoke that part of

the extradition treaty edward snowden's revelations. president light on the u.s. government's massive spying program he revealed that even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded and the obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all previous administrations combined but edward snowden. says it's not government persecution that he fears he said the greatest fear that i have regarding these revelations is that nothing will change. and political commentator and journalist x. believes that edward snowden has the upper hand in this scandal ultimately because he managed to win over public support before having to face the government for his actions this is what snowden was expecting i mean he went to hong kong he's been very vocal that is he's fully expecting the government to come down hard on him

like they've come down on all whistleblowers over the last few years but snowden has a leg up on a lot of these whistleblowers and that's the fact that he released these documents he made himself public he went out he made his case for why he released these documents so this is going to be played out in the public eye on like say what happened to bradley manning who was picked up never had a chance to defend himself in the public eye and has just been sitting in prison that's going to probably complicate the government's case against snowden is that we know why he did this and there's a lot of support behind him doing this this is the eighth time that a whistleblower has been charge by the obama administration under the espionage act the government so far has been unable whether it's thomas drake john kiriakou or right now with the bradley manning trial show how any of these leaks have resulted in espionage or have hurt americans the national security of the united states. well snowden has to have some if skate routes lined up in front of him one includes

being whisked away from hong kong on a private jet those full details that are called to remember we have the latest update the timeline of the events and expert analysis on the story waiting for you right now just a click away at. how all of us is coming off the edward snowden revealed to british intelligence has its own spying operation fourthly even more advanced than the american one testor australia filed this report from london. certainly a new twist senate reveals a vast and compassing program operation in place by b g c h q here in the u.k. it shows that they have been a collecting and storing vast quantities of information ranging from facebook posts to phone calls as well as internet even internet histories basically they have had access to fiber optic cables that carry the world's phone calls if you remember you can the n.s.a. said that they did not record phone calls but according to these latest revelations

by edward snowden that up to six hundred million quote unquote telephone events last year were recorded a day by you can imagine the vast amount of data that they are now able to tap into to store and to analyze and share with the u.s. as a national security agency or the n.s.a. if you look at the document that snowden had provided the titles of some of the main components were mastering the internet or global telecom exploitation clearly there's no doubt as to what the objectives of these programs were having put them in the place and also the fact that the technology exists right now and that there have been in place for the last eighteen months is really a terrifying thought for private citizens because this kind of vast and compassing kind of technology does not distinguish between innocent private citizens am targeted suspects and that has brought up the concern of course of security versus infringement of privacy and also there's another point to be made here that the

guardian believes that reported that about the people what access to the. database were about eight hundred fifty thousand and they say employees and private contractors with the top security clearance that's a lot of people with access to private information of u.k. citizens and beyond and also according to edward snowden. have been even worse than the u.s. in their spying efforts here. and in the meantime dr katherine albrecht spokesperson for the alternative. engine called start page she says that the government's obsessions with surveillance mind bring about and to privacy as a whole. i think if we start going down this road of saying that it anyplace people are where there is privacy they need to be watched by the government then we get to the point where we will not have private hotel rooms we will not even have private bedrooms or private showers in our own homes and eventually you know we're going to have nostril cams looking up our noses so i think it's some point we've got to say

just like the founding fathers of the united states said in the in the bill of rights no you can't go rifling through a law abiding citizens privacy just because on the off chance someone might commit a crime down the road truly what if if law enforcement wants to find people who are doing bad things it's not looking for the people who are going online looking things up it's really the people who are doing bad actions and i think that mindset that everyone needs to be watched is how we've gotten into the trouble that we're in right now with the n.s.a. creating back doors so that they can watch three hundred million americans and literally hundreds of millions or billions of people around the world to see what they're searching for when they go onto the search engines. but even an impeccable record can be of no use when someone needs to know exactly what you're up to that's what china's famous dissident and human rights advocate chang we learned this after some of his apple items were found to be bugged with tracking devices while he was visiting the u.s. . and as protests continue to rage nationwide brazil's government hastily ushers in

new reforms in an attempt to calm the ongoing tension those details just ahead for you here on out. for the meantime though washington's come paying to provide lethal aid to the syrian rebels has suffered a significant blow outs after the u.n. said that it was not convinced it was assad's government which had used chemical weapons in the past. the allegations that we have we we don't. we are not sure that we can. present any conclusions we can't we can't say what to let the weapons were that we cannot say what the agents were talk about weapons we cannot say who used them and we cannot say how they were even delivered we cannot say anything concrete so you are casting serious doubt into what the west has supplied the un. the us the british the french they supplied

what they say is verifiable proof they have they haven't supplied to us. meanwhile russia's president vladimir putin once again warned the west against arming rebel forces in syria and during his keynote speech this at the annual economic international forum in st petersburg alexia chef he was there to listen eh. the main sentiment coming from the russian president this time is that they're not the syrian people fighting the regime of bashar al assad but the rebels and the opposition and obviously he's been very critical and very vocal about the recent developments in surrounding the syrian conflict namely the calls across the atlantic to arm the syrian rebels to provide them with military training something discussed by washington over the past several months or so but i did put it said that it's not only plainly wrong to talk about a possible peace conference in geneva which would have the members of the opposition and the government at the same time you both happening at the same time of the talks to arm the syrian rebels it's not only wrong but dangerous and they

have very grave consequences for europe as well as the russian president was quick to remind us of one of the latest incidents which happened in the u.k. it has no direct relation to syria but he believes it may have serious and grave consequences for the european security in general who are you going to supply weapons to you all remember the terrible tragedy in the u.k. the soldier was killed in london that's just terrible it's mostly people like those who murdered him in france in a son that's what concerns us. another fresh concern we've heard from the russian president is that the arms which hypothetically may be supplied to the syrian opposition might eventually be found in europe and even in russia it is an established fact according to the russian president that around six hundred mercenaries from russia and europe are fighting on the side of the syrian opposition and as long as there is no composition to the to the opposition movement in syria it's unclear where the weapons will eventually end up at the same time to

put a spoke about the recent g. eight summit and said that there is no single position among the g eight countries on arming the syrian rebels not all countries agree that this measure should be implemented at the same time all countries of the g eight agree that a peace conference in geneva to have both the members of the syrian opposition and the. syrian government talking about a possible peace solution is something that needed urgently despite that we haven't moved anywhere closer to a real date of this isn't even conference but it wasn't only about geopolitics warfare and economics here at st petersburg forum there are also some things to laugh about journalist decided to bring up a scandal of around eight years ago when u.s. billionaire robert kraft accused the russian president of stealing his super bowl ring he back then said that he wanted to show these this ring to the russian president vladimir putin allegedly put it in his pocket and walked away which is that he knew nothing about that incident and in fact his reply caused a full roar of laughter at the press hole. but you know i don't remember mr

kraft or the ring. i do remember some souvenirs were given if it's of such great value to mr scrafton his team i would ask the factories to make a very good and expensive one for him out of the first missile and with a good thanks and here i'll tell you we'll be bringing you more from the forum with our correspondents who were across the latest developments there and meanwhile the so-called friends of syria group they're set to meet in the qatari capital to discuss their joint military support to the rebel forces and as the west mulls over providing weapons to the syrian opposition political analyst and not a walk in fields they should think twice before making that kind of decision. i think the worst is not really learning about the consequences of arming people this is by no means. the struggle in syria in fact it's going to do quite this

has been all along you know since the early eighty's. because the object is arming those people have got nothing to do with the real objective is to get rid of a government that doesn't obey what the west or the united states says. or not all the answers yet to be decided by western powers training that the rebels is said to be in a state of. us media reports say cia experts have been coaching syrian opposition militants a secret base in jordan for the website details on that for you right now. and a medieval relic of the old town which is the current official residence of the latvian president. in flames video and more information at r.t. dot com right now. speak your language.

programs and documentaries in arabic it's we'll hear. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing story for you. in trying. to find out more visit. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today brazil's president dilma rousseff bringing new reforms to calm public anger which has now been raging on across the country for days and more than a million people on the streets at least two activists died in clashes in what is the largest public unrest the country has seen in two decades. reports from brazil . reports of a second day in massive protests all over brasil are adding more anger and violence to their ongoing rallies the first victim an eighteen years old demonstrator died

in the state of south power after a car crashed through a barricade and the driver fled at least sixty people have been injured brazil is witnessing historic rallies taking place across the country and some estimates say from one to two million people flooded the streets of more than one hundred cities what started as a rally over transport first house turned into a violent mass demonstration and police crackdown police used tear gas paper spray and rubber bullets some of the protesters threw stones to torch cars and pulled down love those in real crowds marched against corruption police brutality poor public services and excessive spending on the world cup their banners called for change saying like stop corruption and government failure to understand education will lead to revolution crowds could gathered in the capital brasilia try to torch

the building of the foreign ministry where also met with a harsh police response brazilian authorities agreed to make a step forward and drop they are moved over but first increase but protesters claim it's too little too late with protests fevers breathing fast across the nation demonstrators promised in the next days there will be more protests. and in the meantime journalist on the block a motorist. see he says that the inability of the government to deal with the enormous social inequality is at the end of the day the one main thing fueling the protests i would compare for much of the situation in chile a few years ago in trains were protesting against high prices for education that has a massive middle class which brazil has just gotten after fifty years of successful achievement of big. that's what was it like driving forty million people out of poverty and other things i would say that this is the first revolt of the middle class of a classic middle class in

a certain way for decades and people are wondering if they could get better services and they could get better education better and better health it is not exactly above the economy because brazil's pretty much living through full employment and it's not terribly compared to european countries i would say the protests in brazil they cook for a very long but then when they happen. and this is the biggest one in all of time in a long long time so most of the issues brought about now are basically discontent with how government works. and all of these you tube channel who scored in focus some of the images of the brazilian protests you can head there right now if you like you can see the pictures from the cities in the grip of on. the news today violence is once again. these are the images the world has been

seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. just a moment away from here on the program. china's most famous civil rights activist. may have been spied on in the united states so after some personal items belonging to the blind dissident were found to be bugged with tracking devices. important as the full story just a few weeks following revelations about america's prism spying program on other surveillance story is on this one surrounding chinese activist chen guangcheng now the. move to the u.s. last may with his. family after reportedly escaping a dramatic house arrest in china treated as a hero and symbol of democracy chen received a fellowship at n.y.u.

new york university he also received an apartment in greenwich village and many tech gadgets that were donated by his supporters right now corning to reuters a smartphone an i pod that chen received upon arriving to new york was loaded with it in spine software allegedly used to spy on the self-taught lawyer and why you technicians inspected the electronics reportedly finding software that allowed a third party to secretly connect to a g.p.s. that was able to track him according to reports also there's been published reports indicating that there was a huge in password protected software that backed up all the contents on his i pad and or i phone and that allowed the contents to be remotely access to buy a server according to reports at least three other electronic devices given to china also included suspicious software but it is not clear who is responsible for

the alleged spy software however what chen supporters say is clear is that a man who gained international recognition for standing up for human rights in china comes to america where he allegedly finds himself living under a veil of surveillance reporting from new york. r.t. . the world of daytime here in the program but the bill has seen yet another government protests with police again using water cannons and tear gas against the crowds or the popular unrest has been ongoing now for more than three weeks since you've already claimed five lives and more injured people are angry at what they call the old thor tarion policies are probably the one who was the protesters as thugs. saying he will not be manipulated. and candid is oil capital of calgary where troops have been deployed to cope with the worst flooding the city

has seen in decades at least three of them killed while as many as one hundred thousand have been evacuated after a year's worth of rain that just fell in thirty six hours rivers flooded the city's roads became overwhelmed bridges were causing traffic gridlock in the areas all oil feeds though in the pipelines have not been affected so far. and to cairo where supporters of president mohamed morsi have taken to the streets on mass to mock the opposition who are calling for his removal becomes a head of planned rallies against the leader which will mark the first anniversary of his inauguration. debut year in office has been blighted by political instability and economic problems is government's policies have often provoked mass protests some of which have certainly turned violent and deadly. terror attacks constant drone strikes and vicious sectarian strife pakistan's newly

elected government faces an awful lot of challenges but amid the outbreaks of violence many other issues such as an immense lack of energy left on the sidelines however even when the government starts looking for answers to the shortfalls it stumbles upon a whole host of other. business is far from booming at this textile mill in pakistan several times each day the machines come to a halt there's simply not enough power to keep them running forcing them to sit idle for up to fourteen hours a day the mill has resorted to burning wood to keep up production but for a factory employing four thousand people it's an unsustainable solution this is to be affecting the number of people you can employ you must provide jobs and job creation can you have than if you have energy and energy is personally what pakistan lacks the country of almost one hundred eighty million people has been plagued by power cuts that have grown longer and more frequent in recent years about two thirds of pakistan's energy comes from oil and gas but there's not enough

fuel to go around most cars here are run on natural gas but widespread shortages often leave drivers queuing up at the pump for hours the power crisis has also played a major role in helping industrial take hoon na washer we've defeat the ruling party in the recent election. it's a tragedy that a country with atomic weapons is deprived of electricity and has no electricity for even twenty hours a day how can a country develop in such a situation so called load shedding means people and businesses can't function those who can afford it turn to a battery run electricity by using a device called. it's enough to keep a few lights and ceiling fans on but just barely across pakistan countless people are struggling to get by because of the energy crisis businesses large and small are desperate for an increase in energy supply in hard hit areas like this one the geopolitics of where pakistan turns to in order to get those supplies is hardly a top concern q iran the islamic republic has plenty of natural gas reserves which

pakistan is eager to consume and after nearly twenty years the two countries inaugurated a gas pipeline that would let pakistan do just that the project aims to bring a million cubic feet of gas to pakistan each day from iran's offshore southpark field in the persian gulf. this is the single best thing which has happened to box on the last sixty five years of his existence it will be a major step towards providing cost effective solution and a solution which will allow pakistan to be actually connected to the global energy guest recess but there are serious doubts about how pakistan could finance the one point five billion dollars needed to build its portion of the pipeline and there's another hurdle washington has threatened to slap islam abroad with sanctions over the project if this deal is finalized for a proposed iran pakistan pipeline it would raise serious concerns under our around sanctions act we've made that absolutely clear to our pakistani counterparts the

americans are pushing for a rival plan for u.s. backed pipeline from turkmenistan instead but u.s. opposition isn't the only hurdle realistically i don't think that's ever going to happen because if you look at the geopolitical look at the forces that are posed to it it's not just the united states that's opposed to it it's also saudi arabia it's also the it's also got that also that new prime minister is you know quite a poor soul saudi at least historically has been i don't see the it on pakistan by going through it remains to be seen whether the pipeline will be sidelined by geopolitics but for the people here there's little choice but to put up with the inconvenience and wait in line to see caffein of r t pakistan. or twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow or the global business elite have gathered in some papers but for the city as i knew all international economic

forum at the meeting has already seen some groundbreaking announcements including how president putin has just signed off on an oil deal with china that's worth hundreds of billions of dollars he's critical beamers of russia's northern capital but this report. the two hundred seventy billion dollars deal has been a struggle really supposed all expectations here in st petersburg between at rustan's and china and that equates to three hundred thousand barrels a day that's on top of the three hundred thousand that is already delivered to china about three hundred sixteen tons that's a huge deal and it's a huge deal for a number of reasons we know that the eurozone at the moment is dealing with a sovereign debt crisis the demand has gone down from there and europe has made no secret of the fact that they want to diversify. their demand as to where they get that oil from so this has to play into this as well but as far as china is concerned this is a popular move i've been turning to the business elite here and they say it's all

about russia moving from now on you've only got to look at a map to see that it makes sense for these two countries to be dealing with each other to be striking out these multi billion dollar deals also for rough stuff then as a company it looks great on the balance sheet we know that they acquired to be paid as a costly. and they are still paying the bills for that but i've got to tell you it's not all about china ross nafta been drumming up her plenty of deals head today they've been speaking to any exxon and also that's all as well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about shale gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia slept through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy world is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce the natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well

to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so as far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas. aussies could if open reporting there for some protest but are just my butt here i know it's a prime interest this morning that's coming your way in just a couple of seconds. the interview.

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