the american public throws its support behind edward snowden with a poll showing most citizens approve of his whistleblowing activities and we meet an entrepreneur who's helping internet users avoid the government snooping that snowden and. washington are set to deliver for fighter jets to the egyptian military as president obama refuses to call the overthrow of the muslim brotherhood it could prompt to criticize u.s. involvement in the country's affairs. pretty short make his woman toppling the assad regime in syria could have disastrous consequences in a report highlighting the threat of radical militants getting a hold of chemical weapons. the high profile corruption case draws to a close here in moscow a court handed down a guilty verdict against late russian lawyers have gave it used of helping

a company to evade seventeen billion dollars in tax. thursday night is kevin irwin here at r.t. thanks for your company top story the government efforts to convince the public that intelligence leaker edward snowden is a spy and a criminal of fear appear to be failing a recent poll found that most americans approve of the whistleblowers actions while only about a third viewed negatively snowed in transit limbo in moscow airport faces espionage charges in the united states for exposing the extent of his government's secret surveillance network those revelations implicated not only officials but also the country's biggest telecom and internet companies too but one small internet providers earned a reputation for resisting pressure from the national security agency and shielding

its users data the founder of x. mission spoke to me a bit earlier on indeed. we have had situations where people inside the attorney general's office of slandered my business and said that we're supporting criminals we absolutely do not support criminals we just ask for a proper warrant and that seems to be too much to ask most of the time fortunately the other issue is that we saw with the n.s.a. . exposure that google and microsoft and apple and others who are supposedly cooperating. they're probably charging for that privilege so they're making a financial decision to open their networks for inspection by the n.s.a. and it's not worth it to me to do that i don't want to live in a surveillance society and i'd rather stick by what our constitution says that we're protected by we surely i guess said the beginning and that johnson got less to lose that big business is the gutless to fate of night yeah absolutely and but it's funny because i've got more to lose i mean i couldn't fight

a protracted court battle but i'm willing to do it i'm willing to go to jail to protect my customers from being wholesale the monitor i find it surprising that a company with the resources of google. isn't more circumspect about the information they're giving away and what they're selling it begs the question how long this has been going all that doesn't it of course a lot of may be familiar with that i think it's just come out now with snowden and his revelations is that what you think of him i think he's a hero and i think he's doing the right thing i think it's shameful that he's being treated like a criminal for standing up and reporting what i believe are illegal acts by our government people shouldn't be treated under the espionage act as is the obama administration has done so many times to people standing up and believing that what is going on is wrong otherwise we have no recourse to turn our government around. meanwhile the so-called behavioral surveillance initiative launched by president

obama is coming under scrutiny the company introduced in the wake of the bradley manning league's requires federal employees to spy on each other in order to spot potential whistleblowers and washington girls want to go into it you can investigate we learn that not only does the u.s. government spy on everybody said with twenty communications but it also urges government employees to snitch on each other in fact there is a program in place it's called the inside just like program which is designed to reveal potential whistleblowers before they blow the whistle under this insider threat program millions of federal workers and contractors are instructed to recognize quote indicators of things side of behavior among their colleagues and to report their suspicions to authorities now get this those indicators include an employee's financial problems working hours unexplained travel stress wars for instance and an f.b.i. insider detection guide warns private security personnel and managers to watch for quote a desire to help the underdog or

a particular cause james bond want to be divided on the way you allegiance to another person or company or to a country besides the united states under such guidelines anybody can potentially be targeted more of a behavioral experts even those working for the government doubt that the program will work and they say there is no proven scientific basis to these behavioral profiling but what these are just fine program is for to do is to lead to lots of baseless and discriminatory investigations one wonders if this really has any purpose but to create an atmosphere of fear no wonder investigative journalists and their sources have dried up and government officials are afraid to pick up the phone especially now in light of edward snowden's revelations which make it clear everyone is under surveillance this kind of a witch hunt is definitely not something people expected from candidate obama pickle is that this is from six years ago i will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and. take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom that means no more illegal

wiretapping of american citizens these words perhaps promised a different future but it seems the us is going back to the mccarthy days with the government urging people to spy on each other to scare an insider from revealing what they see as the government's wrongdoings in this regard one also has to ask the question is there any other way one could learn about the government's wrongdoings dunning's other then from an insider to us journalists the answer is obvious no. our correspondent in washington had a spy scandal over in europe has cost a top official his job the man you can see here luxembourg. who is the longest serving elected official of the e.u. has had to resign in the wake of a scandal involving his country's intelligence agency to luxembourg secret service apparently bugged top politicians and squandered taxpayers' money on luxury cars and in neighboring germany chancellor merkel softening her stance on the n.s.a. debacle meantime defending the government's cooperation with the agency ahead of

key talks on the issue with washington earlier she demanded that the u.s. explain the mass wiretapping of european officials revealed in edward snowden's leaks. and just remind you of the extent to which germany was targeted the n.s.a. is reported to have made up to five hundred million data interceptions their per month monitoring phone calls text messages and emails to find out how the rest of the world reacted to edward snowden's avalanche of leaks you can log onto our website see dot com we've got a timeline for you the document in the events as well as the impact of these revelations as well. the focus is now on egypt surely the u.s. has decided to go ahead with the delivery of four fighter jets to egypt despite president obama's order to review military aid to cairo this comes at a time of deep divisions in the country were emotions are running high after the overthrow of president mohamed morsi last week let's take a closer look shall we america. in the country in twenty eleven when hosni mubarak

was still in office egypt received one point three billion dollars worth of military aid plus a much smaller two hundred fifty million dollar economic support package but it was then ousted and in twenty twelve mohamed morsi became the new president is muslim brotherhood movement the approval of the u.s. government which continued to provide the same amount of aid and that aid situation remains largely unchanged despite the political turmoil gripping egypt and the lack of a legitimate government now if america's plans remain unchanged the support will continue next year too but none of that cash has improved the lives of ordinary citizens in egypt as artie's bill true found out. the supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy remain steadfast they're continuing their city in another city in the capital they held a symbolic funeral for the dozens killed in violent clashes on monday morning between security forces and members of the sit in they marched from their mosque where this ongoing protest is happening to the presidential palace where they had a kind of standoff with republican guards this comes at

a time when there's been an arrest warrant issued for the supreme leader of the muslim brotherhood mohamed. for inciting violence on monday if he is that this arrest will scupper any plans for the missing brotherhood's participation in this time here in egypt on monday the interim president for his part issued a roadmap to egypt in the form of a constitutional declaration it said that there would be a new constitution and fundamentally in presidential elections within the six months this was rejected by the most brotherhood and its political party the freedom and justice party we agree with them all the way through went for the election when it was deliberate that list or whatever and then the minister would come back in one year to say you just repeat everything again start another which you should start this what we are trying to say all the time is not about more since it was about the values meanwhile the u.s. have responded in

a manner which it doesn't necessarily reflect what commentators are saying here which was this is a military coup if this is labeled as a coup this would affect u.s. assistance to egypt the latest reports are that the u.s. are sending four x. sixteen fighter jets to egypt in the next few days this is part of a larger package of twenty fighter planes which eight of which were already delivered in january the spokesperson for the white house for his part said that they would say it was not in the interests of america to reconsider its package of assistance to egypt although president obama has. promised to look into the eight and the plan for american support of egypt in the future to reporting for us will disagree on who should lead the most seem to share the same view on the u.s. role in the country as a new survey shows in may american research has found that only eighty percent of egyptians do not approve of the u.s. role in their country with only sixteen percent hold the opposite view now when

asked about obama's foreign policy almost two thirds gave negative answers egyptian perceptions of a bar of steadily worse and since he took office in two thousand and nine the majority of respondents also disapprove of america's military and financial aid to egypt as well view it is an addiction that harms the country and with egypt still feeling the aftershocks of the twenty eleven revolution washington's image isn't like to improve either policy or covers that side of the story for you. their message is clear they want the army out and morsi. but there's another message in between the patriotic china's anger against the waste for its sinuses and implicit support for a military coup just not so much was i don't want them there i forget how major the egyptian street is littered with anti bomb the posters and each day more new ones appear we set out to find out who's making them and found the this is one of the oldest print shops in cairo in the last two years it's printing prices have grind

to a halt we found the same in the shop and this one instead of making a killing there on the verge of bankruptcy things have not been going so well since the revolution things were better before we've been so slow for the past three years in that time i only had ten clients asking for posters so who is responsible for the anti america post as i'll search which to date in but by is a pain to follow and hatred against america is growing each year washington gives cairo one point three billion dollars in military aid if america causes a coup it will be forced to stop but many fear the decision to say nothing except that it is reviewing the situation will ultimately backfire and fuel hatred towards the us and us i think that the make that is indeed dealing with things in double standard so i would say i think that they have to have a woman from mars is. equal to one thousand men standing supporting morsi

and for different reasons there's no joy in washington even from the people who want to live in the states aha madonna holds both mary-kate and egypt and citizenship two months ago he sold up ready to trade cairo for texas he feels washington is too deeply embroiled in internal egyptian politics and pulls the strings from a fall i have no problem with american people have problems with american politics which. try to interfere in the way we want to live and that's not right with washington and its allies were fusing to show strong reaction to the recent take it into been to egypt some feel it's another hate affair between the two countries we all influenced by their culture we all have friends all the personal relations we or we have in the fight this being said you don't expect that somebody you love sort of betrays you or. disappoints you

or does not understand you all deliberately. is if you the truth as the un raced on egypt since streets grow maybe why the brotherhood now having tried democracy and seen it fail will result to arms it spells disaster for everyone from the protesters on the streets to the people who just want a quiet life like mohammed in his printing shop all that president obama technically committed himself to saying is that he is deeply concerned by what is happening here in egypt meanwhile the it's no wonder then that posters like this will continue to be popular no matter who put it same policy r.t. cairo a middle east north africa. now paul is posting regular updates on the developments in egypt over on twitter one of the latest tweet she says the interim government praising washington for effectively backing the rising against morsi you can follow her at paula slee underscore the muslim brotherhood urge mahmoud morsi supporters

to do was to take the streets tomorrow for a series of massive rallies against the military many fear the demonstrations will lead to more clashes and bloodshed but present to me me a writer an islamic movements believes the ousted government had a real opportunity to run the government and the country with the military blocking their every move. the major fault with the situation in egypt is as we had an elected president who had no loyalty or sympathy from any of the make it institutions of the see this is the home he was against the police was against them the media was against them and they usually was against him and finally although he fought so that the army with my hands the poor fellow he was the seven to that by the. people of the army. who actually was i was his defense and so this is very much like arguing that it is somebody come and see the house. then you have to

accept the new reality and share product of your house with him even if he on to give you the doghouse outside in the ground that this is not an argument that eventually it's remains to be seen how this will play out that is really venezuela . cannot you with the people rise and bring their legitimate democratically elected president back. if that doesn't work and the reason i think is not given a chance to be used. only god knows what sort of the doctrine of egypt is sliding into and. just a few minutes from now to see the high profile trial of a late russian lawyer.

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the fall of the assad regime in syria could have catastrophic consequences because of the threat of chemical weapons stockpiles ending up in the hands of radical militants that's the conclusion of senior british lawmakers in an intelligence and security committee report which appears to be in stark contrast with the government's pro-rebel stats the warning comes shortly after russia said it had solid evidence that rebel groups in syria used chemical weapons in a deadly attack on the city of aleppo back in march washington which claims the government's to blame is played down the findings and even accused russia of blocking un efforts to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons use in syria russia's envoy to the united nations has called such allegations quote completely misleading stressing that moscow has been calling for an inquiry into the aleppo attack for months now but can also rebuff claims that despite the homemade appearance of the chemical weapons the government may have produced them. indicated that we do have information who actually produced this kind of

a project when they started that production in february of this year but of course i mean you can have all sorts of fantastic scenarios but for the government it makes no sense at all to produce a poor quality project tell a poor quality chemical and and in all right try to use it does not make sense at all. and it will come and richard becker told us that moscow's findings should be enough for washington to reconsider its pledge of lethal support to the syrian rebels. it's totally should be an eye opener for everyone who has any doubts about what's going on the latest report from russia we gather the use of chemical weapons by the opposition the intervention policy well it's going forward with the training of the forces of the opposition the syrian opposition. fighters that the policy is really just a wreck because there is a great deal about position inside the united states and there is. inside the

congress there is a great concern about where this will lead to and whether that it will lead to a regional war or something even wider if the united states goes forward its plans to achieve its objective which is over it's really the government's your. president obama's foreign policies including his stance on the syrian conflict event of harsh criticism from one irish politician who's a guest in today's episode of our interview show world. person calling for the hypocrites of the century award because we have to call tings by their right names and the reality is that by any serious examination this man is a war criminal the war in syria bad sparking a very passionate speech is also being waged on to the flow guns of democracy and it is being aided by the countries who consider themselves to be democratic but how is that democracy bad that the authoritarian system that president assad has with

regard to many of the views that are being put out about the conflicts in syria i don't agree with the assad regime but i do not agree with many of the rebels either and i believe the future of syria should be dictated by the syrian people themselves which. interference from external forces all of history shows us that's where foreign intervention comes in in the so-called name of democracy it's ordinary people civilians who end up being homeless who ends up being tads and who ends up in a very unstable situation and where unfortunately the middle east is being led to at the moment. we'll be bringing you the a full version of that interview next hour i'll tell you as well. in moscow that

a lawyer so game admits he has been found guilty in a high profile tax evasion case the court also handed down a guilty verdict against his former boss william broder the head of the hermitage capital fund which was represented by a magnitsky. report. court has ruled that. the nine is guilty of tax evasion similar has been brought against former boss william browder u.k. citizen who refused to attend court session. nine years in prison. now court documents and to witness testimony both. in the lab or at scheme. by essentially employing so-called people who were either disabled and couldn't work or people who were who were dead by simply putting them on the list of people who supposedly were working for broader thereby embezzling more than seventeen

million dollars now the case has gotten a lot of attention because prior to his arrest. corruption scheme which involved some high ranking russian officials and human rights activists in russia and abroad claimed that this was partly the reason for my demise in the prisons the case has. breach of russia's borders even bringing to a diplomatic route between moscow and washington because u.s. officials. which prohibited the russian officials from entry to the united states and using their banking system most. american citizens. because of their alleged crimes against russian citizens or violation of human rights. triggered landslides in the worst flooding in half a century has destroyed dozens of villages. according to the latest reports over

a million people affected by the tragedy dozens more have died since the weekend. over seventy reported. in afghanistan twenty. five killed three civilians that left two police officers dead as they rushed to the scene no group claimed responsibility but similar attacks have been launched by taliban fighters spiraling into war torn nation just two weeks after the need to security. the scandal surrounding the guantanamo bay hunger strike now into its six month is scaling problem and sin the u.s. congress for two leading democratic senators are urging obama to close the prison facility as soon as possible the lack of action though from the white house has inspired some people to join in the prisoner's protest against inhumane treatment i think definite attention veteran human rights lawyer clive stafford smith is one of those points i was in grant town in the last week and these guys a step from very badly and i think it's incumbent on us on the outside it shows

some solidarity with them i hope to just get more attention what i'm saying is it is minimal compared to what those prisoners are going through there i mean look i've been on a hunger strike now for twenty four hours they've been doing it for five months the course it's not the same i think the point is to get people's attention i mean when we talk about risking people's lives there are people who are dying in montana and i just want this to stop i think it's really important that it stops some of the people who are my clients that really do lose that. all the way the kaiser poll the probe in the murky world of companies that run prisons for profit it's on next program. secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot

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