the cia whistleblower edward snowden is charged with espionage in the u.s. washington is now seeking to help to get him from hong kong where he's been hiding . the leaks from snowden with the latest revelation showing the u.k. has been tapping phone calls and internet traffic around the world to secretly collect and store huge amounts of data. u.n. skepticism about washington's claims that syria's government used chemical weapons doesn't stop the u.s. secretary of state pushing for coordinated military help for the rebels fighting assad out top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from our studios here in moscow this is o.t. with you twenty four hours a day. the u.s. government filed criminal charges against edward snowden the man who told the world about the scope of america's global surveillance network washington now wants help from hong kong officials because snowden has been hiding in the chinese territory since the revelations about the national security agency. has the details. snowden has been charged with espionage there after conversion of government property now the u.s. justice department has also reportedly asked hong kong to arrest that word snowden 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 known as defense team in hong kong may potentially invoke that part of the extradition treaty edward snowden's revelations as we all know have shared

unprecedented light on the u.s. government's massive spying program he revealed that even if you're not. anything wrong you're being watched and recorded the obama administration has prosecuted more with the blowers under the espionage act than our 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. in the songes meanwhile published a speech in which he severely criticizes president obama for his handling of whistleblowers that we could explain to police that a bomber ultimately betrayed his promises of hope and change also criticizes the u.s. president for going after whistleblowers and lacking transparency or playing judge jury and executioner by doing whatever he wants across the world china has meanwhile stayed silent on the issue of extraditing edward snowden to the us geo

political analyst and founder of stop imperialism dot com eric draitser i spoke to a little earlier and he thinks that now may may have mean that more leaks are up his sleeve which he will strategically reveal. it will matic problems could arise but we also know that glenn greenwald along with snowden have not released all of the information it's entirely possible that they're holding something back to use as leverage particularly in that situation and i would also just like to add that those people who are demonizing snowden who are finding conspiracy theories within this they are the ones who are in fact tacitly supporting the police state the n.s.a. and the government essentially the argument goes that because we want to prevent the destruction of our open society and our democratic way of life we should therefore allow for the destruction of our democratic society an open way of life it is a circular argument and it makes no sense rather what we should be asking is why is such rampant criminality taking place in the united states all the way up the chain

of command literally into the white house why is it that such a cohesive system has been created and the dialogue that comes out of that the discourse after the revelations of snowden is not about the legality it's not about the privacy issues it's about snowden it's about glenn greenwald it's about leakers and whistleblower this is misdirection and a distortion of the reality of the situation the reality is that the united states and the u.k. and its various partners have evolved into surveillance states. and with the f.b.i. busy hunting whistleblower on the run edward snowden it's now got a spying plot to investigate as well chinese dissident chen guangcheng received a whole pile of high tech gifts when he arrived in the u.s. last year the little baby know his new gadgets were loaded with bugs a report on these allegations is coming up a little later. well revelations about global surveillance programs has the u.k.

spy agency in the spotlight now it's been collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive personal data from online and telephone traffic and sharing it with its american partners silly looks at the latest leak from an essay whistleblower edward snowden. certainly a new twist and it reveals a vast and compassing program operation in place by the view 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 like carry the world's phone calls if you remember even 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 documents at snowden have 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 and targeted suspects and that has brought up a 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 to people what access to the. database were about eight hundred fifty thousand and a say employees and private contractors with a 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. the expose any of the british spy agency's data collection has been cause for heated debate make sure that you join the conversation on our facebook page and some of those already there accuse the u.s. and the u.k. of conducting what they call illegal and just wars of the sea these global spying revelations is another step towards all society certain users consider this surveillance organized crime on a global scale but many more are told surprised by any of it so take part in this debate and share your thoughts dresses facebook dot com ford slash r t news also we're hearing what you have to say about this issue on our website at r.t. dot com on our own home page there we have an online poll and there you can read your thoughts and this is what you're thinking so far this hour the majority

believe that this sort of surveillance and this sort of data collection is totally unacceptable meanwhile just on the twenty percent have no opinion they believe that we're being snooped on anyway and even by registering on this website they're being tracked and we can see that seven percent think that this really is necessary particularly if it is in the interests of national and personal security and two percent think this is the right thing to do why are you bothered if you've got nothing to hide let the surveillance continue your thoughts r.t. dot com. the friends of syria group of nations meeting have defended the efforts to rebels

and the u.s. secular state said america will increase political and military support to the syrian opposition john kerry is said the president sat has escalated the conflict by seeking help from iran and lebanese forces he didn't address the fact that qatar has been supporting syria's rebels and pledged to continue doing so the free syrian army military command on friday claimed opposition fighters have received weapons that can change the balance of power meanwhile the un has rejected washington's claims the syrian government used chemical weapons saying it wasn't at all convinced these accusations were followed by a u.s. decision to provide weapons to the rebels. reports. united nations experts say that they do not confirm the cames put forward by the united states britain and france that the damascus regime used chemical weapons against the syrian rebels they said that despite the fact that these three countries collected evidence on the ground such as blood tissue and soil samples it is inconclusive and that they would have

to send their own investigators to conduct a personal investigation inside syria this is what the u.n. had to say we cannot say what the what the weapons were that we cannot say what the agents were you know about weapons we can see who used them and we cannot say how they were even delivered we cannot. be you are casting serious doubt into work the west has supplied the un. the us the british the french they have supplied what they say is verifiable proof they have they haven't but it's important to note that based on these unsubstantiated claims by the united states britain and france that aside used chemical weapons last week the american president barack obama ordered the cia to stop supplying weapons to the syrian rebels he said to quote him that the damascus regime had crossed a red line sit by washington now the russian president vladimir putin has reiterated that any supply of weapons to the syrian rebels is in violation of

international law and he has warned that it will only further destabilize the situation on the ground. i could barely understand why one would supply arms to the rebel groups in syria when we don't even know who those groups consists. of washington acknowledges one of the key bodies' of the opposition forces refer and as a terrorist organization officially and admits it's linked to al qaida but how can they then debate that same opposition where would those weapons and up was the point that the russian president makes that we do not know who composes the opposition and. we have these weapons well and that is a point that is raising concern in the international community for twenty seven months this conflict has been going on and at this stage it seems to be showing no signs of letting up paula see r.t. on the israeli syrian border. meanwhile the u.s. has left around seven hundred troops in jordan after

a training exercise barack obama said it was done at the request of the jordanian government a political analyst our work of says that they should think twice if they go to fighters in syria to i think the worst is not really learning about the consequences of arming people this is by no means an attempt to end a bloody struggle in syria in fact it's going to do quite the opposite this has been going all along you know since the early eighty's in afghanistan because the objectives of arming those people have got nothing to do with the real trick is that you need to get rid of a government that doesn't obey what the west or the united states says. now that's. pictures from. government protesters here of. police brutality and. you see the. pictures of the people angry.

the protesters and said he would not be. thirty one people being arrested. two fifty most of them. public property. the voice of the streets in brazil. and. all the details coming up.

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continues here in r.t. brazil's president dilma rousseff as announced a slew of reforms in a televised address to the nation the number of people protesting about economic policy in the high cost of staging the world cup swelled to over one million a speech which broke a week of opposed to reform public transport and use all royal or i should say oil royalties for education however this wasn't enough to compensate for the recalls on social media for more rallies in twenty major cities. reports from brazil. reports of a second day in massive protests all over brasil 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 prayed 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 torched cars and who's down course 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 gather 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 creating fast across the nation

demonstrators promised in the next days there will be more protests. brazil's economy is growing considerably in the last decade rising to six in the list of the largest economies in the world however journalist and blogger marie seventy she says that the protest is not about money but the inability of the government to deal with failed policies. i would compare very much to the situation in chile a few years ago in chile as we're protesting against the high prices for education that chile has a massive middle class which brazil has just gotten after fifty years of successful achievement of big achievements for brazil a druggie forty million people out of poverty and other things well 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 is pretty much living through full

employment and it's not doing terribly compared to european countries i would say the protests in brazil they cook for a very long but then when they happen lots of issues 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 yellow and green flags flames tear gas and police brutality you can watch the full portrait of brazil's unrest on you tube channel right now and you can watch all the videos we've lined up in the world renowned chinese dissident ching ching has allegedly been spied on electronic equipment he received as a gift on a rival in the u.s. was bugged with tracking devices he got it from activist group china aid which denies responsibility and is also the f.b.i. to investigate. has been. just a few weeks following revelations about america's prism spying program on another

surveillance story is on folding this one surrounding chinese activist chen guangcheng the blind dissident moved 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 and why you new york university also received an apartment in the greenwich village and many tech gadgets that were donated by his supporters but now corning to a smartphone an i pod that chen received upon arriving in new york was loaded with even the 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 hit in passport 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 allegedly spying 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. . just for money if you missed something you can always catch up ball headlines and much more here is a quick so we've prepared that for you just imagine. out of the blue a car smashes into a restaurant table he's taking pictures with t.v.

in australia. for a mother look everyone survived any severe injuries. which currently houses the latvian president is engulfed in flames for more pictures and the stories go right now to. the. new government faces a lot of ugly challenges terror attacks drone strikes and sectarian strife issues like a huge shortfall in energy are usually left on the sidelines. explains how authorities are struggling to deal even with that. 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 been 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 a 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 tycoon not wash a reef 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 u.p.s. 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 same. best thing which has happened to box on the last sixty five years supports 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 reserves 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 it 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 a geopolitical look at the forces that are opposed to it it's not just the united states it's opposed to it it's also saudi arabia it's also the it's also got a. new prime minister is you know quite a poor soul saudi at least historically has been i don't see the pakistan biplane

going through it remains to be seen whether the pipeline will be sidelined by geo politics 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.e. pakistan. now a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world in our world update the state of the day tens of thousands of workers from across italy went on strike in rome against austerity measures and high unemployment wielding flags and placards they urged reforms benefiting the young and changes to safeguard workers forced into retirement without a pension the e.u. country is suffering its longest recession since records began and has seen many similar protests of late. three civilians and one policeman were killed in northern iraq after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a police patrol the blast left six other people wounded another militant groups of increase their strength in the region where similar attacks have been on the rise in recent months. and funny in a well that these are pictures from the city poznan in poland where around fourteen

thousand chinese lanterns were released into the night sky it was an attempt to break the current world record. a record is held in the philippines where the fifteen thousand lanterns when that go it looks like that has been one truly know well they pushed off eyes expressed some concern at the risk of forest spectacular things they're. about in the news team in just over half an hour from now on the media and the fed stock market manipulations in a coma but bankers meeting in switzerland events in prime interest after the break . i know they tracked approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did

know they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice i gallup poll that says that george w. bush as would slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent among independents and even his in theory rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things belonging for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome then please tell me how he differs from obama true obama could pronounce ninety nine percent of the words on a teleprompter in front of him but both presidents have let expensive wars with questionable objectives bush gave us the patriot act and obama continued it with the n.d.a. both of them seem to like their drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's was flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion.

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