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just in time for the weekly welcome to the program the war in syria may be a painful stumbling block splitting the international community but as the latest g eight summit in northern ireland showed. focused on peace efforts for the embattled state never mentioning any issue of enforced regime change but this unity. reports. press and on. police watching

that this northern irish g eight went smoothly but inside the fortified resort where the talks are being held a split over syria i don't think we should we should this will ourselves we this is g seven plus one in the run up to the conference the u.s. had claimed that the syrian government had used chemical weapons and pledged to provide the opposition with arms i think it's right the americans have said what they have said and i wanted to back that up with the information in the involvement that we've had in the system and assessment of russian side said didn't find convincing. on the eve of the g eight tragedy putin said that peace talks could be the only way to solve the crisis and cautioned leaders considering arming the rebels as much you as regards who has the blood of the children and peaceful citizens of syria i believe you will not deny that the blood is on the hands of both parties i believe you will agree one hardly should support those who kill

their enemies and it's their organs for the public and media to see during the talks and all quite meeting between the leaders of pressure in the us that produced no breakthroughs but we do have different perspectives on the problem but we share an interest in reducing the violence securing chemical weapons during the night or used or. other subjects of collaboration. that we want to try to resolve the issue. through political means a possible and so we will construct directive to continue to work on the potential of. geneva followup. to the first maybe. the leaders couldn't even agree on how to waive a nash family photo it looked like seven plus one was ringing true but then a ten around after an informal dinner between all the participants that sources

said when better than expected a joint statement on syria was issued it called for an independent investigation of chemical weapons use in syria something the russian side had been insisting on and it turned out that not all the leaders a convinced by u.s. claims that the syrian government use nerve gas. i'm sure my colleagues will confirm this it was a discussion somebody would agree some day would argue about certain issues but it was never a case that russia was alone defending its position on syria. the focal point of the statement. a peaceful resolution to the syrian crisis but it didn't mention what chemical weapons cache our side stepping down or military support to the opposition the journalist used to david cameron's rhetoric was stumped why was it so vital in your view to keep president putin of russia bought and why were you prepared to pay the price of abandoning

a declaration that syria's president has said should go one thing that everyone agrees on is that the only way to solve the syrian crisis is through diplomacy and peace talks and that's exactly what this has been talks about more talks more than a date for geneva two penciled into the calendar leaders might well be leaving a lot hern wondering what it is exactly they've achieved twenty boyko r t northern ireland. and in the meantime foreign ministers from a syrian opposition umbrella group that includes the us as well of its european and arab allies are they were signaled that arms shipments to rebels will increase the gulf states are thought to be funneling weapons straight to the opposition with fighters now saying they've received a fresh batch of ammunition a leader of the far right british national party and nick griffin you see is a clear case of that of double standards. wayne cameron in the american psyche that

we should on the rebels what is saying is that a lot of people are being killed in a war so the solution is to send more guns like it's madness unfortunately the americans the british the french and especially the saudis playing this with a strike by their interest isn't in sorting out the syrian problem it's overthrowing the assad regime which is rid of the last secular tolerant regime in the whole of the middle east and replacing it with extremism the vast majority of the rebels are liberal democrats that respect america and western values they jihadists are the first invasion of syria by foreign forces is the fact that at least forty thousand of the so-called syrian rebels are in fact jihadist terrorists from north africa central asia and even western europe there's an estimated six hundred western european born jihadi is fighting against the syrian government right now now the g eight in the u.k. was overshadowed by revelations of british and american intelligence spied on world leaders under fish bowls at a broad

a meeting in london that was four years ago some g twenty heads of state including vivendi president dmitri medvedev apparently had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted the evidence which came from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden suggests fake internet cafe's were also set up to gather the data richard norton taylor writes on defense and security for the guardian and the u.k. newspaper which published the leaked documents he says london and washington were aiming to get a competent competitive edge over their foreign partners. there are two kinds of information there the british and america that we need setting a goal and the latest leaks which are the first is under the guise of anti terrorism if you like and getting information about individual communications that's one thing. separate per thing or the same machine the same computers the same agencies you know the n.s.a. in america and the g.c.'s go in britain are doing are intercepting and targeting

a different kind of information intelligence which ready have very little to do with terrorism but it's quite clear from these leaked documents that a lot of the information is to try and get information on one competitors in international before international meetings for example turkey a nato ally and as i was by that russia would be a south africa is also a target come will come of country for example for reasons of. finding out what their negotiating positions are on economic or diplomatic international talks and that of course has nothing to do terrorism. the united states is now threatening serious repercussions of hong kong doesn't arrest and extradite n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and the man that exposed washington's colossal spy network is believed to be holed up in that city because the hunt for him gets under way in earnest some question what it is that he's actually done wrong he's guy nature can file this report america is split on edward snowden traitor hero mix

in between but we guard lissa what anyone thinks about snowden his revelations have shed unprecedented light on the u.s. government's massive spying program even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded a former n.s.a. employee william binney was prosecuted as a traitor when he blew the whistle on the government's sweeping collection of data and communications it's setting up a tele 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. people 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 with which 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 secret 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 surveillance programs in its hunt fully eeks 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 the enemy and it's a death penalty offense the administration doesn't have to go after each other or

he certainly it's enough to create an environment of fear but will that fear stop information from coming out here is that we're snowden's answer to that part of the kone in response is simply build better whistleblower he said in washington i'm going to stick around. and the hong kong authorities are reacting rather cool lead to us warnings saying they won't hand snowden over if they deem his prosecution to be politically motivated meanwhile the thirty year old americans revealed not only u.s. telecom giants were targeted by washington but chinese ones as well the department of justice whistleblower just when the rabbit believes it should be a citizen's right to expose data wrongdoings in the u.s. so far the path for whistle blowing has been pretty dim because president obama has led a war on whistleblowers prosecuting them under an antiquated world war one called the espionage act and i'm hoping maybe with mr students' revelations we are at

a tipping point and it might change how people feel about it we have a huge problem in the u.s. with overclassification people who are public servants who work for the government have a right to blow the whistle on the government when it's gauged in illegal activity or for odd ways to abuse and dangerous to public health and safety we need whistleblowers to blow the whistle and people who are not on the inside otherwise have no idea what's happening within a government agency in the u.s. . this week also marked a grim anniversary for america's other was a blown nemesis wiki leaks guru julian a sancia having now spent an entire year confined in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been given asylum there over concerns that sexual assault allegations against him

a trumped up in the front for an american which and how answering questions and giving interviews and songe appeared upbeat with the reset he didn't expect to leave the embassy anytime soon smith gave assad's refuge at his mansion after he was released on bail in late two thousand and ten he thinks washington's actively looking to make an example out of prominent whistleblowers. and mistrust you know hasn't be as an seen 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 it word he sent to sweden. for some reason and proof of fealty ok oh he's only alleged to have done something but you know if that materializes allegations materialize he would be very little likely receive the imprisonment and believes 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 songe as it is doing of other whistle blows that we know like bradley manning who's clearly being tortured. the highlights of julian assange and his latest interviews available for you right now at r.t. thought com and you can also read more on the progress of washington's war on whistleblowers. and for now our t's very own crew in turkey felt the full force of the police this week after it became the target of a water cannon antigovernment unrest has been plaguing the country's biggest cities as police unleash their non-lethal arsenal to quell the public anger artie's tom barton reports from the tear gas streets of the capital ankara the smell of gas is thick in the and you can see the water cannon busily working surrounded by you pelting them with stones trying to clear barricades on the central ankara streets.

this confrontation really exploded just shortly ago and the police charged in trying to clear this barricade the protesters ranged against the police who they say a brutal brutal the police and the government for their part saying these are no longer the protesters that were there in the park in istanbul these are hooligans however along the street no shop windows have been broken a lot of the local people throwing out mattresses and helping the people to build barricades. to then set fire to try and stop the police the positions on both sides in french and the result is unfortunately a lot of violence across turkey as we can see in march more resistance that's the word demonstrators are using in turkey as protests continue three weeks after they started resistance to a government and police force widely accused of war for a tarion ism and brutality person is still recovering from the early days of those

protests we went with him to the very spot in central ankara where as the crowds fell back into what he describes as a reign of gas canisters he found himself trapped with only a flimsy wooden board to protect him. it was not twenty or thirty meters distance you know. they fired the tear gas capsule on a barricade and explore on my face. doctors had to operate to remove splinters from his eye and fix his broken nose he spent days waiting for the swelling to recede but sin was lucky compared to etem side a civil killed in a protest in the same square a preliminary autopsy found a metal fragment likely a police bullet lodged in his head at a memorial gathering we spoke to a thames grieving brother we are sure that we can find no meaning in all of this this feeling of burning inside but what hurts the most is that nineteen days after

his death the authorities still have not even tried to arrest my brother's murderers there has been international condemnation the police crackdown on the protests that initially started as an attempt to save istanbul's gezi park here in the capital ankara parliament is only a short distance from the more raw politics of the street project tired urge of one's governing a.k. party is keen to defend its actions if you attack police forces but with stones. and out of multiple cocktails course you will get a response they have been incidents of excess by some protesters the government condemn as vandals adik streamers dozens of buses burnt shops smashed and police officers injured but i as a reporter wasn't doing any of that and the turkish police decided to turn on my camera and me to come the police to break up another night of protest here in ankara and here's the water cannon just coming in as well it's not known whether

these protests it's not know whether these protests are what the government also says the situation is now calm not what we witnessed as we tried once more to record our report water cannon and gas vehicles have just charged into this square if we look down at my legs now not even the media safe i just got nearly knocked off my feet by the water cannon but just moved on there it's not known how long this kind of to and fro between protesters and the police is going to go on in ankara and in turkey in general all. whether it will change the political situation here but it's one thing's for certain it's souring the mood around his party it's an artsy ankara turkey. and crowds of protesters a key venting their fury towards these in brazil in major cities it's a bit later this hour here on a report on how a rally against corruption forced a million people to the streets of the protest demonstrations ultimately turning

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talks about six of his v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing stories for you. in trying. to find out more visit our big. thank you for joining us here on r t today the u.k. government is doing all they can to get people in scotland in the lead up to its historic record. on independence william hague has given a speech in edinburgh warning even the famous whisky industry that could take a bit of a hit and splits britain. reports the foreign secretary has added fuel to the explosive debate over the issue of scotland's future. sounding the battle cry. of

a new era politicians and campaign is a lot like a cranking up the volume on the debate this is your mission to do particularly on thursday and it was the turn of british foreign secretary william hague foreign secretary william hague in edinburgh today to give his speech outlining why in foreign policy terms the u.k. is. nothing to take it off. the top was given to an audience of around one hundred fifty people it's the foreign secretary said that he was not in scotland to diet predictions and warnings and he laid out the clear reasons why he felt scotland should to remain in the union they were saved by the audience high unemployment and tough economic times the many in scotland are becoming more receptive to the message from independence campaign is that being that westminster is maintaining

a stranglehold on scottish resources and the scots would benefit from taking back control before against its independence. she knows her mom. i mean. you would say yeah. this thing. you know i think. for a long time. when they're scared they're going to be green they're actually worried. despite the fact that those calling to independence the polling significantly lower right now the s.n.p. and yes campaign is a far as we can see in people here to be better off on that independence. so wealthy country. as long as that will even weigh more evenly just know the

working class people who are the majority in scotland just as the art and i am one of the determination of the present dependance campaign is and the great uncertainty about exactly what an independent scotland would mean when it comes to valuable resources like north sea oil have lost some in westminster perhaps feeling a little uneasy that the country that's been part of the united kingdom for more than three hundred years could seem to be down to a very different. just one of the issues that have got many in scotland riled up campaigning for independence jonathan shafi you feel social services are being run into the ground by government but has no mandate. it helps as a measurably every time that the tories intervene a into the debate i mean there's a reason that there's only one elected tory m.p. we have just knows we have waste men start

a cabinet of millionaires who are unleashing the most brutal package of a state to the next country's ever seen so our public services are being decimated our services are being privatized and there's a democratic question as well i mean no one has given the mandate to basements to to do this and to school when no one's given the tories the mandate to count is the sort of measures the accounting of and to scotland and we want to put forward a progressive agenda which actually puts people at the center of the to be rather than the millionaires and the tories and the people have been running our society into the gun for too long. we are shifting gears and turning our attention to that of brazil where police refused to gas and rubber bullets on crowds of anticorruption protesters and to presume cities are hosting an event to mark next year's fifo world cup the clashes come against the backdrop of nationwide demonstrations against the expense of the football showcase and that of the country's economic policies in general the government's pledge to carry have

reforms has done little to win people over parties if nothing has more and how a simple transport free protest in sao paulo snowballed into a nationwide movement. the week of protest in brasil saw its biggest rallies in a decade ending up in two dead swans started dust protests over transport first has seen more than a million take out to the streets across the country the government later reverse its decision to increase public transport first by the u.-turn seem to have come too late to appease demonstrators protests have faster and into cow think straight bottles those since were injured two people died in the unrest one of the big teen son eighteen year old man has died in the state of south paolo after a car crashed through a barricade people vent their anger at the government for high spending and hosting next year's football world cup why health care and education remain civilly and they're funded. by we are fighting for

a country that is more dignified more honest less corrupt a country with better hospitals and decent public schools for security and safety scholars would. follow whatever he has been inspired by the new york market part of wall street was not moved by wall street real sucky marches against corruption and excessive spending on the world cup police used tear gas and rubber bullets to quell the unrest some of the demonstrators torched cars and threw rocks at police use harsh response also in brasilia when demonstrators tried to torch at the building a full. in ministry president dilma rousseff broke a week of me or silence on friday and billing as serious of reforms in an attempt to end and to government protests she promised to drive to blunt to benefit public transport and that all the royalties will be used in education however protesters say it's not enough promising more rallies to show how angry is brasil. it's good

to have you with us here on r.t. today just a moment on what's been dubbed as the most successful muslim democracy in the world into saving a bit of a check up with x. on a boy because well it's a part. i know they track approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice like gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his in three 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 and please tell me how he differs from obama true obama can 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. any welcome to. here you can feel it.

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