video for your media project free video down to our teeth dot com. tonight a new n.s.a. leak emerges revealing a top secret u.s. government program that gives intelligence analysts full access to almost everything millions of users do online we investigate. the u.s. will supply bradley manning's conviction on charges ranging from espionage to computer fraud invoke a wave of international criticism with lawmakers in europe urging the obama administration to release the army private. and the u.s. secretary of state arrives in islamabad hoping to ease tensions with the new government there over america's controversial drone strikes on pakistani soil.

good evening kevin owen here just after ten pm now in moscow and the big news tonight a new surveillance leak courtesy of edward snowden has uncovered a vast u.s. monitoring program named x. keyscore that apparently allows countless analysts access to quote nearly everything people do online is going to teach accounts got the details. it's called x. keyscore according to these documents it allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through that asked databases containing e-mails online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals remember snowden's video interview where he said sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone from you your account and to a federal judge or even the president if i had a personal e-mail while x. keyscore is apparently how it is done snowden has leaked the n.s.a. so training materials where the agency boasts that the program is the widest

reaching system for developing intelligence from the internet to the material also shows that the program operates from more than seven hundred servers and one hundred and fifty sites around the world so if prison was not enough now we learned about the existence of of this seemingly even more far reaching program these latest revelations contradict the n.s.a.'s claims that no analysts can look at the data without a warrant the n.s.a. says allegations of widespread on check them least access to innocent collection of data or simply not true these revelations come senior intelligence officials testified to the senate judiciary committee on wednesday releasing classified documents in response to snowden's earlier revelations on bulk collection of phone records and five surveillance court oversight. and the n.s.a. of course defense programs saying that these programs are authorized to collect in bulk certain dialing routing addressing and signaling information about telephone

calls an electronic communications such as telephone numbers or e-mail addresses but the fact that the government has to respond to the to these concerns is already a win for edward snowden. well the latest league former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden is still of course stuck at a moscow airport in a transit zone there where he's still waiting for his request for political asylum in russia to be processed his father says the f.b.i. has tried to persuade him to fly here to moscow to make his son go back to the united states but talking to russian television earlier long snowden says that if he was in his son shoes he would not return back home your family as well and we love you we hope you are healthy we hope you're well i hope to see you soon but most of all i want you to be safe i would also like to thank president vladimir putin the russian government for the what i believe the courage and the

strength and conviction to keep my son safe although i know that assurances have been provided that he would not be executed or tortured if he were brought back the fact is no assurances have been provided that he would be given the fair trial. meanwhile another american whistleblower army private bradley manning has been found not guilty of one of most grievous crimes under american law aiding the enemy but is still staring of course at the prospect of life behind bars the sentencing of the twenty five year old responsible for the largest leak of classified documents in the country's history is underway and those hearings could drag on for several weeks the trials already provoked a strong reaction from around the world and prompted a group of the you lawmakers to word the u.s. government to free manning and weepies now from france sweden spain portugal croatia ireland and germany have a side a letter to president obama and the u.s. defense secretary they say that manning is not a traitor and that he had the best interests of his country at heart the lawmakers

also expressed their concern over the u.s. war whistleblowers saying it undermines democracy on both sides of the atlantic they go on to say that manning's in this letter suffered too much already spending three years behind bars including ten months in solitary confinement overall the message they're sending is that manning should be freed as soon as possible well earlier we spoke to helmut schultz is a member of the european parliament and one of the signatories of this letter that was sent to president obama he explained to us what was behind it but it's not all new political gesture that there's also aiming at trying to communicate to the american public as well as to the administration and to the authorities we need to check our borders of the picture on what is the content of this trial and we hope that our gesture is increasing awareness whistleblowing should be in the interest of the united states of democracy as the democracy in other states are part of the world we have to request to we are asked to to rethink the democratic behavior of

the united states in the international community. all right listen i talked to andy worthington so he's a freelance investigative journalist and author of the guantanamo files about the men being held without trial at the u.s. military prison he joins us now from london must talk about here let's talk about manning and his effect on guantanamo or not as you see it how would you assess his impact well you know i think that what bradley manning made available to the public around the world was extremely useful information in a variety of different ways he revealed war crimes through the iraqi and afghan war logs that he revealed and you know i've had conscientious objectors explain to me that they think that he's the most significant person in the history of whistleblowing on providing detail information about the horrors of war that governments would rather hide so i think that's hugely important you know i think what he did for that with the diplomatic cables was expose information that was

necessary that was important in many cases and we're going tandem what he did was how to pierce the veil of secrecy that surrounds the prison and particularly the files that were released provided the names to back up the information that we directed been given about false allegations that have been made about the prisoners by their fellow prisoners as a closure of guantanamo any closer that you think at all or any shape or form no it hasn't but that's you know that's i think a much bigger political issue than no one individual appears unfortunately appears able to deal with. the bigger picture away from guantanamo reporters without borders calling manning conviction a verdict quote a blow to investigative journalism do you agree with that well i actually do agree with that you know i think that what we have here is a situation where you know when when wiki leaks got hold of this information and made it available to the media you know we had we had a long amount of time when the mainstream media in the united states and in the

u.k. and elsewhere a major part of their reporting for a period of many months was based around the people and they clearly there was considered opinion that this was in the public interest so you know stepping back from that and trying to claim that there's some original exit somewhere that involves espionage and attempts to to sabotage the united states is clearly ridiculous this is material that was in the public interest we have a slightly different mechanism than we've had historically of how this came from the whistleblower through an intermediary organization to the to the recognizable mainstream media but i think this is a fairly traditional story of somebody with insider knowledge having important information to convey to the world and doing that doing that through the media i depend so i guess it depends how you look at this verdict i guess one spin could be it's a positive message to future whistleblowers. that you can get away with it i he wasn't branded

a traitor he got off the main charge. well that's not really going to help if this man is can sign to a cell for the rest of his life you know i think what's interesting is that bradley manning voluntarily admitted to ten of the charges in february and the intention i think at that point was that if those are accepted this would lead to a maximum of twenty years now we've got this possibility that in the sentencing phase you know it could add up to this ridiculous total of one hundred thirty six and i had less of the argument that he was helping terrorists let me put it that way that you know well absolutely i mean i think it's you know it's hugely important that when somebody leaks information which they believe is useful to the public good they're not going to get convicted of you know deliberately aiding the enemy that's a horrible charge for the united states government to have even considered bringing in the first place and i'm very glad to hear that that hasn't come through but all i mean is it's not really going to help bradley manning very much as a whistle if he loses the rest of his life in a prison cell on the basis of what he intended to be important information

that was useful for the public to know about and that clearly as we're hearing many many governments and organizations around the world also believe is the case do you think very briefly and he will go free or that any heed will be paid to this letter written today to obama flees any pays to be honest i've no idea i mean you know in some ways this is the military dealing dealing with its own issues according to a court martial process so you know i don't know whether they'll be swayed by any outside issues and i also believe the united states in general has a problem with you know extremely punitive sentencing i would be i would be happy to see an acceptance of the of the crimes that bradley manning admitting to in a sentence based on that it doesn't look that's what we're going to get but you know i'm hoping that whatever we get if it appears to be punitive that people will carry on campaigning for them for these people this person not to end up being

victimized and sacrificed by the united states government i do worry that and thanks for being on the line tonight investigative journalist author live from london as you are thank you you thank. well took the streets of new york to gauge opinion there let's take a listen the union square has been something of a stomping ground for bradley manning supporters in new york city you see over the years many rallies have been held here in honor of the army private first class intelligence analyst now manning has been found guilty of downloading and releasing confidential u.s. documents that subsequently disclosed illegal activity and crimes on the part of washington manning faces up to one hundred thirty six years in prison instead of telling you how the public is reacting to this news we're handing our microphone directly over to the citizens bradley manning didn't commit any crimes would be like is if you shot me and the camera man said hey i've got this footage of this

crime and he. you know put it out there for justice and instead of trying you they try him and it doesn't make any sense it whether it's a. i think they're doing a good thing because the american people are basically enslaved and they're you know they're told what to do by the media and they follow orders it would appear to me that the manning verdict would be sending a message to edward snowden i'm sure he's listening. but our hands in russia don't matter you see there. abide by whatever we do i want to just salute bradley manning we want supporter you if you look at the apache helicopter video which probably the most famous one saying it's important for the american public at least know what is actually going on in the wall i think something needs to be done is far from a legal standpoint needs to be changed because like the american public needs to

know about things like that now although manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy charges he may be punished for the rest of his life for presenting the american public with the truth reporting from new york for an up or nine our take while we will of course bring you know the latest from bradley manning sentencing that's ongoing of fort meade maryland as the situation develops in the coming hours and days but you can stay with us for the coverage. close to home and just to come to a bit later in the program of the break more talks but no wood green men deep rooted feuds between the israelis and the palestinians looks set to remain unresolved at least until next april when the sides hope to come up with a final status deal or put it so about that very soon. we are facing a little problem. because no one thought to doing. school.

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thirty to fifty. state john kerry has arrived in pakistan hoping to strengthen dialogue with the country's new government topping the agenda of the cia's deadly drone strikes on pakistani soil the issues become all the more controversial since classified documents were leaked showing one in five victims of the attacks was a civilian us foreign policy analyst fred bronfman told me kerry fully recognizes how damaging the issue is for relations with islam about. he himself just two years ago when he was the head of the senate foreign relations committee correctly said that afghanistan is a sideshow into the main event which is pakistan so he understands the importance of having good relations with pakistan and the first step to doing that is to end the drone strikes mediately because they've turned eighty percent of the population

against the united states the pakistani taliban were far weaker in two thousand and three than they are today as a result of our drone strikes of we've put tens of thousands of people into the pakistani taliban and strengthen them and the pakistani government has not shown itself particularly capable of controlling them several dozen u.s. national security experts have said and very clear terms that these drone strikes are not harming the pakistani taliban but actually helping them recruit members this is a strategic catastrophe without parallel in american history a. couple of the money doesn't go online tonight i'll call my al qaida has pledged to spend no effort in freeing prisoners from plan time obeyed them with details on how to go calmly said many diverse take a look at this. we'd like you to be commanded beside the plane had a custom made jet pack through not making those pictures up for a brave man try that of

a video like that and more stories too. are for a three year hiatus peace talks between israel and palestine and starting to get back on track so far the only result has been an agreement to hold further talks in two weeks time well over the coming nine months negotiators aid why and how they key disputes washington which is hosting the negotiations says the aim is to reach a final status agreement but there's no compromise on the horizon so far the goal is a two state solution which would see israel co-exist peacefully alongside a new palestinian state but the two sides will first need to tackle a number of divisive issues namely israeli settlement expansion the status of jerusalem and the fate of refugees the palestinians are also want israel to return land seized in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven two of course artie's fall asleep as the story of one arabic speaking minority fighting for equal rights in israel here is the story. each weekend his radius flock to the strews village on

the top of mount carmel the shops are busy the restaurants full and the laughs flow as freely as the wine there is very good restaurants here in the area it's very welcoming to like to be a lot of the drinks. they make you feel really comfortable the twelve thousand inhabitants of a sphere village have opened their doors to tourists it's a way of bringing in cash while preserving the traditional dru's lifestyle. kamel above owns a popular cafe that would not be out of place in tel aviv or any other israeli jewish city. the people who come here usually look for something with center something they can only find within the druze community what they don't look for and don't see is something just as authentic a community floundering on to a lack of basic necessities the druze are an arabic speaking people who follow an offshoot of islam they hold a distinct place in israeli society as the only major non jewish community whose

majority of members are drafted into the israeli army. has lived here for twenty years his home still has no electricity and only three years ago did he get running water i served in the army my kids will serve as well will live in israel but we don't receive what the israelis are getting i don't know why we don't ask for special privileges just electricity crews and arab villages have always received less funding than jewish areas resulting in poor quality of education in arab schools and weak infrastructure and social services. our relationship with the jewish communities around us is perfectly fine no problem but our relationship with the israel establishment is different for the degrees people are not with the druze people we have difficulties on many levels first of all getting budgets approved for planning and then the planning itself. most of these radios who visit here are bolivia's to the problems and even those who know prefer to look the other way i

haven't heard on this i myself don't know about it i read that there was some problems regarding some of the just but i don't know if israeli government really tried to do that yeah i've heard about it now though the problem . a lot of problems. through words and electricity. trouble building because limited space in building but it's not only about turning the other cheek and choosing not to see there are israelis i've spoken to here feel nothing about adding racist slurs about arabs and then eating in a restaurants but getting them to admit it on camera is almost impossible. the problem is not on my side i know the language but they don't understand mine i served in the military i understand them but they sometimes come with certain prejudices about the druze and we surprise them by how alike we are. but not enough

and like it seems to stop them living in very different worlds policy r.t. is fear village in northern israel. for more of tonight's top stories in brief in a rock new deadly blast of ripped through two mosques in baghdad has killed at least nine people it comes after al-qaeda linked group confirmed that it carried out a series of bombings which left sixty dead across iraq on monday the government says the country is now facing a full on war against terror in extremists who kill five hundred people in july alone. egypt's military backed government ordered police to break up wall street rallies by supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi the cabinet says further rioting would pose a threat to national security meanwhile three senior members of morsi is muslim brotherhood movement of the stand trial on charges of inciting violence also was overthrown or this month the protest by its supporters have been continuing unabated spite the security crackdown. italy's highest court hearing silvio

berlusconi's challenge against a tax fraud conviction a lower court earlier sentence the billionaire former problem is that of four years behind bars but lawyers say he's unlikely to serve actual jail term but a skelly insists the case against him as well as a separate charge of hired an underage prostitute are politically motivated if the latest appeals overturned you'll face a long term banned from public office potentially plunging the governing coalition into crisis. greek coast guard detained a boat loaded with heavy weaponry heading apparently for turkey and they've detained all six people on board one of the men a member of turkey's revolutionary people's liberation party front is wanted on several terrorist charges by several countries and other groups attacked several police stations since late last year and is suspected of the recent assault on the headquarters of to his ruling a k party with most of the e.u. still the group a recession it's the smallest banks that are taking the biggest hit multi-speed all

of a trouble to one small village to find out how one bank of it is managing to stay afloat . it's not all big city banks with bailouts bonuses and big shots in rural germany this small town has all its financial needs taken care of by just one man constantly and wants a new war here we only concentrate on people from gams failed if you live ten kilometers away sorry you can't be a customer in fact the furthest away one of our customers lives is about seven hundred meters. with only nine hundred customers peter believes he can offer something that big banks can't. here's to personally people get a personal service here i know everyone who comes in of course i do they're my neighbors this means there is a big trust the aren't just a number or part of a money making machine when our t. stopped by at this one month bank we found that the man in charge wasn't alone the regulators were going through the books like they do in every other european bank

people have to a once a year someone counts for four weeks i think it's a bit too long but hey that's the way it is even as we live more and more of our daily lives online in small towns like this one still a place for the face to face because of bunk sometimes i need to go to the city banks are all run by machines don't even get me started on the internet becomes that we have here we're all members not customers. it's hardly the most modern of operations opened at the end of the nineteenth century some of the equipment looks like it isn't much younger now wouldn't mind forking out my predecessor had a quite specific grip you can see here over forty years he wore the pain away all the modern stuff doesn't look right here if it works why buy new. so i know a lot. even the youngest in town

a case of four having their own individual money boxes to make sure they aren't sheepish about saving they even gets a lesson every now and again to make sure that they know that not everybody should be trusted not see it ok who wants to count your teacher's money. meet. is that right now it's twenty sure. you got me. make everyone gets a lollipop. due to the cost of running them small rural banks of all but disappeared for most of germany but the people of the town of this failed want to hang on to this for many more years to come these are all of the southwest germany . that's a news update so far this year thirty five minutes next off the break we travel to the all rich niger delta we're. continuing to bottle

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for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. the jury is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no there schools no good roads no good hospitals there. three year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of precious natural gas pollution the ecosystem. well companies and corrupt politicians reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these

circumstances there was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited which militants pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. had to leave my. eyes. troubled economy. the truth is i always tend to root for the underdog and i felt an attraction to these men who were taking on the world's largest oil corporations and the corrupt government of africa's most populous nation so i took my camera to nigeria to try to meet them. bob as bad. will. ever usually go i voted for you through.