find out me visit. fresh revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the united states has been bugging tapping and cyber monitoring institutions in brussels and washington and new york. riots rage in egypt at least three people are killed and supporters and opponents of president morsi clashed with fears of growing up but more violence still to come . south african riot police crackdown on protesting crowds furious with u.s. policies as president obama tours the continent to boost ties.

great to have you this evening i'm lucy catherine of you watching our team broadcasting live twenty four seven from the russian capital well even more scathing reports of u.s. surveillance are emerging from germany and guard a sea of edward snowden spiegel magazine is reporting that they've seen a top secret u.s. documents that supposedly outlines how the country's intelligence had to bug the e.u. offices and spied on the blocks internal computer networks parties peter all over is in berlin for us peter thanks for joining us break this down for us what info do we have about this latest bombshell from the n.s.a. whistleblower. well in one relatively short article is some very damning evidence being put forward in the now what's the the documents that says that they received through edward snowden were able to see parts of says is that the national security agency were well spying on the e.u.

just about everywhere they could that they were tapping phones they were hacking computer networks at the un in washington d.c. also that they were booking premises in brussels and carrying out the same type of . phone tapping and computer hacking there as well now germany was came out as one of the the countries that was most excuse me that was most spied on as part of this prism operation by the n.s.a. something that raised a few eyebrows and certainly posed a few questions when chancellor angela merkel met with president barack obama a little while ago now what we're also seeing is that it's the same type of thing as this came out regarding the the bugging of then president dmitri medvedev

so it seems that no matter who you were wherever you were you were subject to why it taps and computer hacking and having your premises bugged by the n.s.a. and it is all come out as part of these revelations from from edward snowden he remains on the run this document as i say came out as is one of those that was taken with him when he went into hiding it was just in the last twenty four hours or so it was starting to read on blogs that opinion might be changing towards snowden had he had he played his cards too hard to tell he played his hand of a pardon too hard too fast and did he have anything else to reveal well clearly it says in this article that he does indeed have more to reveal and. coming out about just what was going on and just how far the the the why it's happening and the the phone hacking went from the u.s. government when they essentially spying on their allies as well as anybody who they would seem to be any threat now one interesting part of this article says that it

quotes saying that the e.u. were a target a definite target for this type of surveillance and also says that five years ago the e.u. itself had looked into phone calls that being made to them had traced phone calls apparently back to a n.s.a. office that was based inside the nato compound in brussels so they certainly had suspected that they were under surveillance but it's a very different thing suspecting that somebody is watching you to then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they're watching you indeed and certainly raises questions about how much more we might be able to see from these revelations of more documents are linked in the future artie's peter all of our keeping us up to date live from berlin now we have another guest on the line for you a load of the news teams the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament he is on the live line live from brussels for us thank you sir for joining us i want to

again thank you but i want to go by asking what the u.s. has to gain from these of these spying attempts that have been revealed in the dark spiegel magazine well you know the recent revelations by. the u.s. government always said to do what we do is you know national security do a war against terrorism that's not really an argument you can use against the european union in duty in union this is totally speaking your strongest ally of the united states my guess. my educated guess is. going to do with economic spying. on the e.u. you know that the e.u. is for the moment negotiating a new free trade agreement the us well you have all the interest to know what you open and it's already discussing internally off strategy that is one of the possibilities but this has been going on apparently for more than five years and as

i read in their spiel it traces back to buying from nato headquarters well this even goes to years decades further into the so-called national program from the seventy's well it's certainly disturbing revelations indeed but for example that's the question of how much more widespread the says beyond just the united states for example the guardian had published revelations recently that the united kingdom had in fact planned on spying on delegates to commonwealth the commonwealth delegates basically at a meeting back in two thousand and nine so that sort of indicates that perhaps it's not just the united states that's doing this that allied nations could be spying against one another what reaction do you have to that proposition actually you should always assume that the polish dues by as a matter of current practice the thing is here is not something that you suspect now you have drools which is something much harder to deny all schools i mean the

spying even even ishtar speaking some e.u. member states spied on each other in the past but if you look back at why they did it it was mostly economic in spite to know what the other countries are up to what deals they were going to get and so on and i think if you see the e.u.'s for example stronger than ever militarily even technology plea i mean the internet is no american intervention or invention sorry but on the economic level it is losing ground everywhere you when you see what the brics countries there are doing the e.u. is adding stronger ties with russia with the african without an american and the u.s. doesn't seem to get its. priorities imposed and used to so what i see hear and hear research is a big risk economic line is and so i'm curious do you think that the so revelational actually damage ties between the united states and the european union

nations their students at stake for really damaging but behind closed doors i think some very tone was will be spoken yes and i'm curious also the e.u. had discussed introducing new legislation to try to prevent n.s.a. from eavesdropping on its con conversations is that something that's a realistic possibility in your view but of course you can have legislation that's a good thing because damn if you find that the realized or your opponents still spine you you have a legal you have a legal ground to tell them what their army's doing but as far as i can tell from history i mean new laws do not prevent other super follows from spying on each other no that's up to revelations like this one i mean we should know about what what is happening in the home is the biggest revelation the biggest obligation of secrets since the pentagon papers and in this and the at the end of the sixty's

beginning in the seventy's a lot of course was understood when i was the cold war or world war two but we're in a different era and it seems that transparency is really the biggest thing that's in order unfortunately we're out of time sorry that was a load of unused international consultant and songs out and also a former deputy speaker for the belgian parliament the sir thank you so much for your time it was a pleasure. well there are increasingly more questions than answers when it comes to the man behind all these disclosures we've got the latest on the edward snowden and a look at the allegations that his future is causing a rift among authorities in the door. and we're about to show you live images from turkey's taksim square as you can see it right there in istanbul thousands of anti-government protesters have demanded justice for a protester shot down by the police during the rallies that have swept across turkey people are also angry over a court decision that released an officer from custody pending his trial for the

killing of an activist in the capital of carra now many adopted the standing standing man protest a form of defiance that had become popular after weeks of violent crackdown heavy police presence could be seen how the british perimeter of turkey is square as you can see right there in our live images turkey of course have witnessed almost a month of on the rest following a police break up of a sit in against a government plan to redevelop that park. well deadly riots between supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi are heating up in egypt clashes have already killed at least three people including a united states national in the city of alexandria are true has the latest for us from colorado. the worst clashes were in egypt city of alexandria where we saw two people dead including one u.s. citizen the u.s. embassy for their part have removed all non-essential staff in the that this could

be a targeted attack in addition president of pharma came out calling for dialogue between opposition forces and the president saying they must have a united stance the marines the u.s. marines are supposedly have come up with a contingency plan should the violence continue against u.s. citizens certainly are in store in protest people ripping posters of u.s. bus tickets acquirer and present saying listen brotherhood president tales from is definitely following a u.s. agenda civilian grassroots campaign called a model which means rebel collected at least eighteen million signatures calling for the president to step down saying saying that he's incapable of running the country they see no change in the last year the islamists for their part they support the president saying that all these opposition protests are in a just a mess as the president was democratically elected as he said when this is

a worsening security crisis many citizens are reaching out to private security firms to hear their homes and businesses i spoke to here in abouta maurice protests who say they expect violence and this is something that they really fear in the shadow of the brick. building. is preparing for the expected violence between supporters and opponents of the egyptian president on sunday some a says he has already fortified his small shop just of cairo's tahrir square with sheets of. willie still got them in my kiosk has been robbed and destroyed a few times in previous clown shoes i'm going to vacate my shop as i'm afraid of what is going to happen in the violence i don't want to lose everything again with the police taking a back seat those who can afford. a reaching out to private security firms like this one general manager a former high ranking police officer but though we add to what it says his company is preparing for the worst as protesters demand the resignation of missing

brotherhood president mohamed morsi. that went on june thirtieth there may be violence between the opposition forces and the islamists so we're sending more people to the places were guarding we're giving our staff and clients special training and information how they can secure their premises and how they deal with clashes. companies like our plug in the gaps amid a deepening security crisis across the country lynchings are on the rice the latest brutal mob killing happened just a few days ago near the capital civilians are increasingly armed and protests are becoming more violent as citizens bring guns to clashes leaving many to fear for the deaths on a list say the breakdown of security is because citizens no longer fear the police who have been accused of being reluctant to provide security they also blame the government which has failed to confront the interior ministry they are responsible for the bigger their full of law and order if they don't take the necessary steps to fix it they may want to they may wish to but if they're not actually solving it

the buck stops at their door it will find a very difficult to get the ministry of interior to reform from the police services to reform. precisely because inside the police force inside the ministry of interior there are so many people that are really quite opposed to the muslim brotherhood instead of promising change president morsi played with fire in his wednesday's speech to the nation praising the police and thanking them for their work with the violence on the horizon many will be forced to attend egypt's needy thriving private security industry to protect their own homes and businesses true. well there's no open arms from south africans for president obama on his. crucial tour to the continent where protesters staging rallies to vent their anger at the u.s. leader south african riot police have fired stun grenades to disperse angry crowds near johannesburg ahead of him ahead of his visit to the city hundreds were

gathering for demonstrations against u.s. foreign policy in pretoria and cape town as well some africans had high hopes when president obama was elected to office but some also feel that those have since been dashed american aid to africa has been severely cut while washington has stepped up military operations in the region u.s. officials say obama's two are supposed to promote u.s. investment and to strengthen africa's democratic institutions but some in the country have a different take care salima napping polya pardon me from the south african communist party. we feel that they express our programs. for instance there's the basement of the offical month in duboce. it's an indication of where u.s. interest on the kind of good clinton we were and that. the military bases are all over the way that the u.s. has court in order that you can have. its kind of diplomatic relations as well as

trade missions we're not the sort of those opposed to a system where the government through the usa on trade relations what we're saying they must be cautious about this because this is this huge imbalance between which as in the us a. noting that the us has more than ten times the g.d.p. of the entire african continent. rights to a democratic dispensation on the continent and development that many african governments may seek to choose for themselves. more stories are coming away including reports of wiki leaks negotiating travel documents for the n.s.a. whistleblower who's on the run stay with us that report is coming up in just a few minutes.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy kaplan of well leaked diplomatic correspondence from the ecuadorian government to suggest of julian a son may have actually been pulling strings at the country's london embassy this in order to help edward snowden they claim that the wiki leaks founder had asked the consul there to issue something that's called a safe travel pass document for snowden which wasn't actually authorized by the country's government or. has been following the story for us. the wall street journal has recently published information containing diplomatic correspondence with the door and government and particularly there was information concerning one ecuadorian diplomat who works at the country's embassy in london now it was the diplomat who issued the controversial travel documents for mr snowden and that's

a later sparked a lot of debate now corden according to the car despondence the diplomat who works closely with the weekend leaks juliana silence and that information really provoked a lot of thoughts that mr sunshine could be perceived as running the show in akwa door and he could actually be in the middle of handling the situation now in response to that mr assange said that all that are just another times to really take away the function from the c. rist exposures there were made to boy mr snowden and really the same commons came from aqua door and the president are afraid quite rare died so mr snowden's exposures are serious and very important and that they once again shed some light on the massive u.s. spying out for its own at parliament building. and now we're going to have to explain our actions but we're not the one spying on they said we have provided

snowden with the documents for travel now it is a problem for them to imagine what snowden actually revealed about cyber spying cases do you realise the travel they want to fall into what is really serious is snowden's whistle blowing. there were also reports that door and president carter a out has held talks with the us vice president joe biden however it was revealed says that rare has not yet made up his mind on snowden's asylum application meanwhile according to the only this media reports for r.c.i. . contracture average snowden as not able to leave russia until he meets with a south american diplomats however the tricky thing is is that the missing is not scheduled yet and of the legal status mr snowden's as yet to be identified now current he it is impossible for mr edward snowden to actually leave the

sheremetyevo or international airport which is based here in moscow and the u.s. government has revoked his passport which means that he and neither can get a russian visa to actually leave the airport nor can he is theoretically any tickets to have vanno or aqua door so however as the story develops now of in a civilian president nicolas maduro will arrive in moscow on monday and that there are some speculations that his upcoming visit may actually resolve the situation in a way. incoming u.s. national security adviser susan rice has spoken out on the issue she says that snowden's revelations happened weakens the presidency nor damaged the country's foreign policy meanwhile of course the father of the fugitive whistleblower believes that the man could return to the united states this is if certain

conditions are met and the father has outlined those terms in a letter that he has sent to the u.s. attorney general eric holder let's take a look at what those demands are by lonnie snowden and he says that his son should not be detained or imprisoned before trial he says of his sudden shouldn't be subjected to a gag order which is basically something that would ban him from speaking out publicly about this and he also says a condition is that snowden should be allowed to choose the location where the trial proceedings should take place now the elder snowden admits that he hasn't spoken to edward since april and insists that while the ex cia employee committed a crime he isn't a traitor the thirty year old n.s.a. whistleblower hasn't been seen since he's touched down in russia and while snowden's future has been the subject of intense debate by the world's media investigative journalist duncan campbell believes that it is taking the focus away from what the man actually revealed. a lot depends on on russia but i think the

russian game will bespeak to stand back and as an international territory we can do nothing and wait for other players to act but i do think that the focus is wrong because all of this distraction about snowden and where the years and what he might do next has completely undermined the tremendous gravity of the successive documents and revelations that he's made about lee the scope of american and allied spying on the civil and commercial affairs of the world i think that many americans the record nies through values for which their forefathers fought from the war of independence on words would see in snowden a real hero but that is never going to be reflected in the demographics when the price is so tainted and disgracefully so silent in simply reporting what he's got to say if there was a dissident in russia or china or the middle east speaking out in the way that

snowden is doing it would have massive coverage that's not happening not even in the washington post which covered this first story. let's get a brief check on the news making headlines around the globe right now british prime minister david cameron has made an unannounced trip to afghanistan to visit the ukase troops there he's traveled to the u.k.'s largest military base in the country where he pledged a permanent memorial to the hundreds of prisoners service personnel who have lost their lives in that conflict camp bastion was recently revealed to be holding almost one hundred afghan soldiers often without charge his trip comes amid faltering efforts to negotiate with the taliban and just days after the militant group attacked buildings near the presidential palace in kabul mr cameron is now an islamic pardon me pakistan of course is the next stop on his trip. in thailand eight soldiers have been killed at

a roadside blast in the jala province no groups have yet claimed responsibility for the bombing at least five thousand people have been killed in the muslim insurgency that has plagued thailand south since two thousand and four. several hundred trade unionist in athens have staged a peaceful demonstration against severe austerity measures and planned job cuts they're angry over a government plan to close some state agencies and to sack employees greece has received financial bailouts from the e.u. which have failed to help the country come out of this crisis. well plenty of other stories for you on our website of course let's take a peek at what we have there for you. a childish sounding crime where the very grownup punishment a man who scribbled anti banking slogans and chalk on the streets of america now faces a decade in jail at r.t. dot com you can find out why u.s. authorities are keeping him gagged. and just another click away say

cheese the f.b.i. may have your picture on its facial recognition database the u.s. government agency is now being sued for collecting the photographs and fingerprints as well as iris scans for millions of americans those details for you at r.t. dot com. well just ahead we'll be breaking the set with abby martin so stay with us for that. sigrid lumbered surely to mccurry was to build the needs most sophisticated robot which fortunately goes into your new found anything tunes mission to teach music creation and why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only

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to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky i got so many i mean. i know that i'm. really messed up. and we're all really so personally. the. worst we're going to go lie down to the. radio guy for a minute. what. we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. what's up guys i'm having martin this is breaking in the set so lesson of the day apparently writing messages and chalk and send you to jail first thirteen years yep

you heard me right prison for chuck starts to make more sense when you realize what the message was because you see it was a highly visible critique of the too big to fail banks and if there's one thing we've learned by now is that the banks always win and anyone who tries to fight him will always alludes that's exactly what's happening right now to a forty year old man named jeff olson who drew a number of anti mega banks slogans on sidewalks and part of thirteen different bank of america's in san diego and just for illustrating his opinion olson was charged with thirteen counts of vandalism that's right vandalism for drawing in the washer bowl truck you know the stuff kids use so olson will now stand trial facing up to thirteen years in jail and thirteen thousand dollars in fines yet one year of jail and one thousand dollars for every slogan they're going to easily been washed away with a little bit of water that sounds fair right well guys.