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edward snowden's legal limbo could be drawing to an end with the n.s.a. leaker to get the papers he needs to. anyone who's willing to vote. on. whether. we challenge a free syrian army representative groups. hold around two hundred kurdish civilians in syria. and the u.s. will finally decide the fate of dozens of detainees at the pentagon announcing review hearings for seventy one inmates most of.
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good morning from moscow now it's just after eight am here in the russian capital. live on the worldwide headlines n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden could finally set foot on russian territory today he's waiting for paperwork which would allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and according to his lawyer the man who leaked secret u.s. documents is here to stay. outside the airport let's get the latest from here right now good morning to you lindsey so edward snowden poised to make russia his official perhaps. this is the possibility now according to edward snowden's lawyer the danger of leaving russia for another country that is offering him asylum. is just too great he could very
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easily be caught by the u.s. government this is especially true up to be july third incident whereby the president of bolivia is plane was forced to land on suspicion that snowden was on board now today snowden is hoping to receive here at sheremetyevo airport a formalized notice that his bid for temporary asylum is indeed being processed thereby freeing him from his one month stay here at the airport and allowing him to move freely about the russian federation for up to three months and that's the time it will take for a final decision on his temporary asylum bed to be reached now whether this bit is favorable or not i his russian lawyer has said that there is a plan in place. if the russian federal migration service denies mr snowden's request we still have the option of appealing against this decision in court i explained all the legal aspects to edward and he intends to use this right
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of appeal should there be your fusil mr snowden's planning to settle down here find a job and just adapt to the circumstances. that the lawyer who is offering his expertise to snowden at this time says that the temporary asylum granted i would last one year and need to be renewed a yearly indefinitely so we're here at sheremetyevo airport to see if this fateful document will reach the hands of edward snowden and allow him to be released after his one month stay here at the airport into the russian federation for a lot of this morning thank you. now if snowden has become a wanted man after showing the world just how much us security services people watch all over the world the n.s.a.'s stranglehold on digital data communications makes purposes seem perhaps like a thing of the past so wattis marina porter tried to see if she could avoid big
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brother while going about her daily business in new york. in a post prison usa anonymity has become a rare commodity some accept it others are outraged but at the end of the day there's no easy way of escaping the prying eye of the n.s.a. five years ago i would have a cell phone little snatch in your pocket dump it don't bring your cell phone with you all the time now it doesn't matter now you have automatic license plate readers to track where you are now you have metro passes and easy passes and the city bike system and facial recognition like it or not every american armed with technology has been cast in their own twenty four hour reality show the national security agency is the uninvited paparazzi you never see or hear it makes me want more careful about what i speak about on the phone and the way i conduct my business and i think it creates
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a certain consciousness that that weighs on us i feel like at this point i'm just a number in all of their data everything these days is so it's so critical the use in that technology is just part of our lives now and it's kind of unavoidable if you want to keep up with what's going on this is what he and i do not have a cell phone out of a car not live in a city. the only solution for living n.s.a. free is to divorce from all things digital experts say using encrypted search engines or changing security settings on social networks isn't enough the truth is you have to maintain all to do some compartmentalize that you have to behave like an intelligence agent you have to constantly be thinking what tracks do i leave clearly retaining privacy under america's web of surveillance requires some sacrifice and here is where we're going to figure out how much so first things first i use as a way to get to work now if i use my credit card to buy my metro card then i can be
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tracked. so instead. you see. i usually check emails and voice mails during my five block walk to work but living in a state wires living without a cell phone fingers crossed i'm not missing any breaking news right now. so now i am at my office i need to swipe a key card to get inside the security company knows where i am. at my desk i'm still and i say free i log into my corporate email but i can't use skype i can't use twitter i don't have a facebook account so there's no sacrifice there but here's the problem i can't use the web to research or read the news because all my activity can be tracked. newspaper yesterday's news but better than nothing this is about the time that i check my producer.
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invalid number my phone calls wouldn't go through and my only other. worry and it is snail mail slower but surveillance for an alternative. or so i thought maureen up forty nine artsy in new york. and in the meantime obama administration officials insist the wholesale vacuuming up of data is in the public interest and doesn't breach the constitutional rights of american citizens but chris could see the founder of before it's news dot com he says the collected information is used for much more than just trying to ensure security. what's happened now is it's become a sheen because they now have people's emails that are sitting in a row positon already in utah now and if they decide for whatever reason they want to go and find something out about you into school do through all your old emails
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if you want to g. mail you use the terms of service you sign on g. mail and yahoo hotmail all these public services you basically gave them the right to do whatever they want to do with your with your information they're taking your e-mails there are indexing you forever ties and purposes they're using it and they're handing it over to the government so the reality is if your person of interest there's really not much you're going to be able to do about that except maybe go live in a queue somewhere where there's a much more about the whole n.s.a. whistleblower and his spying revelations all to be found on our website right now you can go that a check out al and i say leak timeline that chronicles all the key developments in the edward snowden saga. all right so we're coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us today to northeast syria we go al-qaeda linked extremists are holding around two hundred kurdish civilians hostage that's according to the russian foreign ministry the kurds in the area have long been trying to protect their homes amid heavy fighting between jihadist forces and syrian government
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troops the details now to ati's pointlessly. more than two hundred civilians and let me stress that we're talking here about innocent men women and children all being held hostage by extremists in northeastern syria now we understand that the hostages are being used as human shields the russian foreign ministry saying that they're mostly from kurdish families whose members are fighting extremists in the region now fighting broke out a few days ago between syrian kurds and al qaeda linked militants in the towns of. and rice along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where al nusra and other al qaeda affiliated groups have been operating it looks as if these extremist groups are now literally control they are attempts by the kurds to form some kind of interim government while the al qaeda affiliates one to form an islamic state what the fighting shows is that attempts by al qaida to secure kurdish support has
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failed although there are some kurdish jihadists of course there are still tensions between the kurdish groups themselves but it seems that at least for now they have found common ground against the extremists turkey of course is looking on with concern it's worried that if the kurds fight al qaida they will get support from the waist but on the other hand the kurds in cells are not keen on the syrian national council either and they have refused to join in the turkish backed syrian opposition that has not given them any assurances of promises as to a division of syria off to president bashar assad. policy reporting that while the opposition syrian national coalition has undergone a series of shifts in its leadership it still lacks units we are comprised of several different groups it's torn by divisions and infighting to support scott looks at who exactly makes up the opposition fighting president assad. while the
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opposition are united in their desire to overthrow president bashar al assad that seems to be where their similarity ends the syrian national coalition is the umbrella group recognized internationally as the legitimate representative of the syrian people but they don't represent all factions opposed to a sad one group operating out of their control for example is the al qaeda linked al nusra front the coalition say they've hijacked the revolution or they've been classed by many in the west as a terrorist organization elsewhere a separate syrian group affiliated to al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq over the weekend freeing high ranking al qaida operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters and this was agenda seems separate from out of the coalition and it's even led to infighting one f.s.a. commander was killed by a rival group and the f.s.a. feel they could soon be fighting on two fronts but when we use the phrase opposition exactly who are we talking about well the coalition alone is made up of
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at least eleven different groups including the muslim brotherhood who have recently called on the u.s. and the e.u. to send arms in the battle with assad while only offering loose guarantees they won't fall into extremist hands there's also the coalition of secular and democratic syrians the syrian democratic people's party supreme council of the syrian revolution and so it goes on the disparate nature of the syrian opposition combined with the presence of islamic extremists means any nation looking to support the rebels are walking a continual tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually encourage the one thing that trying to fight elsewhere. these post called right there are some western states including the u.k. have started to voice concerns about the threat of extremists in syria but the free syrian army has admitted it will accept help from anyone that includes al qaeda and my colleague bill dog spoke to a rebel army spokesperson zaki mullah. the situation in syria with your position
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is pretty much are complicated you hear on the other there's a lot of the visions within the free syrian army. there are divided on that let's say you say it's complicated there are divisions basically you've been hijacked by radical extremists by the likes of al qaida. no. you can't so we've been hijacked by the logs so well call it out. to the advantage yes and they will look brothers are being killed by these torrent and the world is doing nothing about it and just sitting back on the back saws and doing nothing while we get a stiff bead and the free tsunami a lot anyone is willing to hold us in advance to take on this torrent we are willing to accept him whether he looks like bin ladin what he looks like good luck the u.k. prime minister he says there's too much extremism on the ground there in syria so if extremist groups fighting the government felt supply do you actually fear losing support all the all foreign allies because you know the prime minister of song
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western country says this is extremism within the opposition i mean it's still not just the fall or is not the goal the moderates. are still to come on the program here with the detainees in guantanamo want to receive hearings after years behind bars where the u.s. is set to decide whether they still pose a threat or more on that and the rest of the world cup of headlines in just a second. nobody chooses to be homeless nobody chooses to me and now sorrow. is that royal for the show to. get in the six pm get out six be the six. day war. three school day. to be the class people in the.
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a. freedom of speech and slip down the freedom to watch. thanks for joining us here on our show off the years of indefinite detention almost half of the guantanamo bay prisoners will finally see their cases reviewed by the news comes as the hunger strike of a notorious jail now nears its sixth month let's have a look at legal reviews were actually ordered by president obama more than two years ago but it's only now the actual preparations have begun here are the numbers so out of the one hundred sixty six prisoners currently held that get seventy one
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inmates will get a poor old style hearings but most of them haven't been charged with any crime and there isn't enough evidence to hold a trial but they were still considered too dangerous to be released while the rest . six of which are awaiting death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes while eighty six others are also in editable for reviews because they have already been cleared for release while all this is a welcome step towards shutting one ton of oh it's not enough to make intimate stop hunger striking and that's according to john eisenberg one of the prisoners lawyers in the case of these detainees the statement they're trying to make is stop aren't definite the attention of the human the brutal half of us have been cleared of cleared for release let us go the only way they can express is by hunger striking and it is very much get in the world's attention that's the purpose of it i believe
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international pressure i believe pressure from members of the senate in the tap and through letters written by senator feinstein senator durban and next i hope pressure from the senate committee i hope all of this together will continue to put pressure on the president to do something positive about the problem that guantanamo bay has become. but you can stay up to date with all the stories. as well here's a peek of what's waiting for you on the website. of the. loft in siberia the remote russian region of the forefront of science is the world's biggest facility to detect mysterious gamma rays right at the end of the. another click away at the. new york immigration offices decided these are. just. the full story of the stuff on the website right now.
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and i think. this is egypt's new interim leaders are still finding peace. security headquarters in a city north of cairo injured at least seventeen people and at least two protesters were killed in ongoing rallies overnight but. the editor of the newspaper he believes it's the muslim brotherhood supporters who could be instigating the
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violence. the violence that the brotherhood is committing daily now is undermining their credibility and a little bit actually what they are doing is while they are already in a hole the the refuse to stop digging every day we have a violent clashes in cairo most of it are not actually between the brotherhood and police or the army actually most of it between the brotherhood and the people in the street are getting frustrated and angry at what the present. are doing so that's why i think we are going the wrong the wrong direction now. i would dare to say that what we are seeing now is the end of not only of the brotherhood but the end of political islam in egypt and eventually in the whole region. or at
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a time or straight to the ball gary and capital we go with protesters have started to build barricades around the parliament demanding the government's resignation five people injured when clashes broke out with police trying to disperse the rally around one hundred officials and journalists reportedly remain locked inside the building people in the country have been taken to the streets daily for weeks by what they claim is in action over corruption and crime. and asylum seeker boat bound for australia has sunk off west java in indonesia with three people confirmed dead though it's feared dozens more may have perished it was carrying up to about one hundred seventy mostly refugees from sri lanka and iran the incident comes amid the latest shift towards a hardline immigration policy in australia which remains one of the hottest issues ahead of looming elections a recent decision to send the illegal new comers to refugee processing was met with rioting and she would write. a desperate search for survivors is
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still under way in devastated hillsides off the twin earthquake struck in northwest china as many as ninety seven are confirmed as well that could still rise thousands of soldiers and police were drafted in to help the rescue effort the deadly quakes caused massive mudslides which dozens of villages and left almost forty thousand people homeless. now with the u.k. slashing spending to balance the budget or thord he's in london taking a bite out of the fire rescue services a proposed station closures and job cuts have sparked outrage among workers and led to concern over people's safety tester australia reports on how the firefighters of fighting the cost cutting drive. when there's a fire you may have to wait a little longer for help to arrive that's the fear of those campaigning against london mayor boris johnson proposed cuts to the london fire rescue services that
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could lead to the closure of their neighborhood station is a tragedy for for the borough of the. schools businesses houses and if we don't viable have to wait for a fire engine from other regions is just craziness as a stanley continues to bite someone and firefighters question why such a move despite david cameron's pre-election pledge of not cutting frontline services london could see a total of twelve fire stations closed eighteen engines axed and five hundred twenty jobs cut all to save forty five million pounds by twenty fifteen we think that was cuts would be dangerous we think wrong we think that reckless and if someone is trapped in a fog the difference between three minutes and. could be the difference probably will in many cases be the difference between life and death according to recently released figures the clocking of all fire station right here is one of the busiest
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in london the night that fact according to reports but it may not be around much longer as it's one of those earmarked for closure. for hundred four years old so it's been here for world was king's cross for seven seven zero instance that we've attended grant edwards head of the save clark in well campaign has made it his mission to get the word out on the future of this station. as possible. before. the fire fighter and now government advisor has computers streamlining fire and. rescue services across england to save two hundred million pounds getting rid of so-called inefficiencies the reality is that we're in a very difficult period of austerity austerity france are down far deaths are down
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far calls are down so is roy to look again at the services he doesn't need to be the same for service where we had high numbers of deaths high number of calls and should it be reengineered transformed in a different way so you confident that should your report all your recommendations be taken into consideration that it will not impact public safety very comforted about that there are small victories though as the battle continues for firefighters hoping to change the fate of stations london fire chief just you turn on plans to close to stations initially you are clark and well however is still on that list we will continue following this tonight sort of what we do we don't give up we carry on the. tests are sylvia r.t. london. well here we're not see our politicians really working in your best interests or perhaps rather the interests of their corporate finance it's not clear enough is that the modern.
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live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food. you know how. i mean. i know he seems really messed up. for esau. the. worst for the little thing the life out of a. guy. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys i'm out in march and this is breaking the sat so in today's chapter of corrupt cops tell you what the case of pamela held
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a long island resident was pulled over because her card in the have an inspection sticker however when new york police found prescription drugs in the car she was taken to the station while there the n.y.p.d. began to interrogate her about where she had been that night sort of prove that choose this it in a friend held gave one of the officers a security code to herself and the cops left with their phone in hand and it wasn't until it held was released three hours later that she got the phone back but that's when she realized that twenty personal risque photos and five videos saved on her phone had been forwarded to the personal cell phone of one of the cops would interrogated her you heard me right this disgusting police officer take advantage of held attempt at providing her innocence prove your innocence sorry by forwarding her nude photos and videos to his own devices for his own pleasure and i guess when you're working about the law you can do whatever you want right apparently that's the case because according to the new york daily news this officer is still on the job even though internal affairs.
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