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world's top headlines live from moscow this is with me welcome to the program today . u.s. whistleblower edward snowden is free to live and work in russia for up to twelve months without fearing extradition of the former n.s.a. contractor has been granted temporary asylum here in the country. the moscow airport where he's been trapped in transit limbo since june. has been following the developments and the ongoing snowden. now that snowden has managed to leave the transit zone of order to this is a whole new chapter in this story but if only we knew at least approximately where he was now his location is even more secret you would have to start with you to the fact that he's the most wanted person on planet earth to do he'll be concerned about the issue of security that includes questions of sci fi and the police where
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he is going to loop that's all up to him i has used lawyer will consult and advise him but on other issues it's up to him as for meeting the press yes he's ready to meet the russian media but you need to understand you still need some time to adapt to russian realities a lawyer on the personally accompanied snowden and so we could weeks representatives harrison outs of the airport and put them in a taxi initially it was expected that snowden was supposed to leave the airport last week would take time for all the necessary legal procedures that in a statement published on thursday snowden outlined how everything was done in full compliance with russian and international legislation the former n.s.a. contractor did agreed to the conditions voiced by president putin under which he could stay in russia and that is to stop farming washington's image and that while concerning his latest revelations he did pass all these documents to journalists
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before he arrived to show he meets with board from another we know that snowden's looking possibly at finding a job here in russia nothing concrete at the moment but russia's largest social network has already made an offer to him as an eighty's specialist in charge of the privacy and security of users. while russia's granting of temporary asylum to edward snowden has infuriated washington that white house hinted that september's summit between president obama and vladimir putin could now be canceled all of that as some republican senators are now are calling for a major rethink of relations between the two countries gauging the u.s. reaction in washington nature to can't. together with edward snowden russia has now become the object of washington's wrath fiery remarks are coming from congress senator lindsey graham says americans in washington should consider this
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a game changer in our relationship with russia senator john mccain goes it is a slap in the face of all americans we cannot allow today's action by putin to stand without serious repr cautions the white house touched upon some of those are precautions saying moscow's decision on snowden undermines the growing cooperation between russian and u.s. security services the white house spokesperson said washington is quoted extremely disappointed with moscow also this mr snowden is not a whistleblower he is accused of leaking classified information and has been charged with three fairly villany counts and he should be returned to the united states polls show the majority of americans actually disagree with the white house on whether or not mr snowden is a whistle blower they think it is but it seems the white house and some lawmakers are only happy to focus on russia because it takes the thunder away from the conversation about the surveillance state but the conversation is happening as much as the government would want to be can't put
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a lid on it new laws are being proposed to rein in n.s.a. surveillance last week congress killed one such bill by only twelve votes lawmakers of indicated there will be more such proposals in response to snowden's revelations senior intelligence officials have testified in congress releasing classified documents but they wouldn't be having that conversation if it weren't for snowden from snowden we first learned about the prism program a system the n.s.a. uses to gain access to the private communications of users of nine popular internet services the government said the n.s.a. does that only with a warrant from the feisal court those are secret court orders snowden said the fisa court merely rubber sems such warrants and he revealed one such secret court order for a telecommunications company to hand over its client's data in bulk the government has acknowledged all collection of communication. but said no one can look at the content of those communications without a warrant it's known and said yes they can this week the guardian relying on the
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documents that snowden had earlier provided has released details of a program that makes it possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs having sekret for his test career and his comfortable lifestyle it's not and said he wanted to expose the government's lies in washington i'm going to shut down and a rusher on its part saying there's absolutely no reason why the decision over snowden's asylum should damage relations with america a view also shared by a london based legal expert alexander mchugh us the ball in a sense is in the american court that the russian authorities have been extremely careful to do this by the book they've insisted on mr snowden making a problem. he's done it through a lawyer there is a well founded case here for asylum the u.s. has no legal grounds to object to this no that he is in russia proper i think he
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the intention will be to apply for full refugee status if the u.s. number less wants to jeopardize its very important relationship with russia because russia has done something which it is legally fully entitle to do that is a decision for the u.s. but many people like the feel that if the u.s. does that then the u.s. frankly is behaving in a very strange and self destructive way. and of snowden's leaks continue to span the atlantic in fact are the latest revelations published by the guardian newspaper show that ultimately not only was the british governments or communication headquarters spying very much on his u.k. citizens but in fact he was also doing so while receiving huge funds from washington d.c. let's take a look now and see how those intelligence gathering programs were working the u.k.'s g c h q pumping large amounts of money into efforts to try and gather
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personal data from mobile phones and applications saying it wants to exploit any phone anywhere any time and in the past five years alone the amount of data gathered from the internet and mobile traffic by the intelligence agency is up by over seventy times now r.t. as party boy takes a very close look now at exactly apart from being the finance what is washington's role in this. the u.s. government has paid at least one hundred million pounds to the u.k. spy agency over the past three years now in return for this money they've got access to and influence over britain's intelligence gathering programs now these were allegedly top secret payments the americans expect a return on their investments in g c h q so d.t.h. who has got to work very hard to meet the n.s.a.'s demands which almost makes it sound as though that the u.k. intelligence agency is working for the n.s.a.
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i mean for such a prestigious agency these revelations are likely to be extremely damaging one g c h q strategy briefing that the guardian has seen says to quote that g c h q must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight which gives you an impression of the sort of the work ethic in g c h q and the how hard they're trying to please the americans really the guardian seen other documents that reveal that g c h q is actively pouring money into spying on personal mobile phones and applications and according to the guardian some staff that work for g c h q have expressed concern about the more reality and about the ethics behind what it is they do they are given the level of deception in their work as well apparently a number of employees have been concerned about that now the leaked cables also show that the u.k.'s biggest fear is that the us becomes dissatisfied with the work
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that d.c. h.q. is doing and as a result will invest less money into the u.k. spy agency which brings us to watch a number of observers are concerned most about in this story which is just how close the relationship between g c h q and the n.s.a. really is certainly considering the amount of money that's been poured in and just to remind you that it's over one hundred million pounds over the past three years it would seem as though the british side is almost dependent on their american counterparts. r.t. is part of what you're reporting now snowden's leaks also dominated the world's main computer security conferences taking place in las vegas and the n.s.a. chief defending the sweeping surveillance program during his speech at the first gathering black hat however his attempts to mend the agency's reputation did not go exactly as planned we stand for freedom.
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not there. but i think what you're saying. is there in these cases what's the decision where's the discussion and what tools should we have to stop those. well the n.s.a. director was certainly heckled at an event that usually gathers not only hackers and security professionals but also representatives of government agencies and corporations tensions between the authorities and the community of computer specialists became even more obvious when organizers of the next conference defcon asked federal agents who are usually welcome to come to stay out. where producer andrew blake was there. def-con is united states premier happy security convention and actually comes just days after another one right up the street there are
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a ray of topics being covered here at def con of course everything from personal security to home security internet security computer security it's not just that civil liberties are very hot discussion especially given the recent n.s.a. disclosures people want to know how they can communicate privately and securely on the web and really there's no better place to do it than here one doesn't necessarily have to say that tensions are high given those recent n.s.a. disclosures but it's certainly clear that people aren't exactly happy with the way the government has been reading computer hackers given those disclosures made by edward snowden and its impact on intelligence community the computer world privacy security so many different topics he's obviously being discussed all over the place there is a party leader this weekend called snowed in and there's another one that's taking place at the transit lounge and i actually saw a couple different edward snowden cutouts being being carted around the facilities here from what i've seen rather supportive of what he did exposing something that
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the government has tried to hold secret for so long but of course obviously didn't do that bit of a job it's no secret that the n.s.a. has been clucking intelligence for years but given those respects closures people are ticked off. and it would seem that a knock with technology has apparently been that a russian national in a u.s. prison a moscow says it is outraged by the latest in a vicious trend of extraditions after a russian program gets snatched from the dominican republic straight to america with no warning a report on back and the rest of the world's top headlines after the short break. the conviction of bradley manning the continued hunt for snow there could be no doubt we saw what was needed to be dated and it was pretty. at the same. public. is.
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nearly. over the last british inmate at the guantanamo bay prison has now claimed that god's sexually assault him. this all comes amid president obama's new push to try and shut down the however the white house is rather awkward steps. into the story. chucker armor the alaska british detainee at the guantanamo bay prison who's been on hunger strike since january against his own lawful detention the claims that he's being assaulted sometimes sexually during prison searches however was arrested in afghanistan in two thousand and one he's been at the prison for eleven years without having been charged with any offense and he says he that he still faces a daily quote unquote of course a cell extractions they flip me over for the search mostly that's just an assault
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sometimes a sexual assault we call it they get my message they carry me like a second potatoes which is really painful for me this information was revealed in a declassified conversation between elmer and his lawyer in the united states and we spoke to him on r.t. and he told us about his a last conversation with the british detainees a sexual assault is something that's happening to all the prisoners who come through there's it's. going to be talking to a couple more people beginning of next week and these guys unfortunately will be subjected to the same intimidation the sad truth is that means that some of the truisms especially we can do as they are by hunger strikes come to nato has its own legal tangles because they're just not willing to undergo this sort of humiliation that's just wrong and under this news conference in weeks after u.k.
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prime minister david cameron had said that he had raised the case of armor with the us president barack obama apple g eight summit over concerns that the u.s. was trying to render armor to saudi arabia we contacted the british foreign office and this is what they said. we take any allegations of mr mistreatment seriously mr ramos case remains a high priority for the u.k. government and we continue to make clear to the u.s. that we want him released and returned to the u.k. as a matter of urgency tours of inmates at guantanamo have been caught. a lot especially with attention on the hunger strike that's been going on inside most of this information revealed through lawyers of the detainees one other example for instance is more than four knots who had described the prison as a quote unquote place without laws he said that he had suffered repeated abuse said terry geisha techniques including sexual humiliation of water torture as well as sleep deprivation in response to artie's queries if the deputy joint task force
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public affairs officer at guantanamo sent to us this reply. with. me through the. regardless of how ridiculous and that they would be we also contacted the u.s. state department for their comments on the shocker imus case but we have yet to hear a reply reporting from london i'm tess are cilia. with the legal mess over guantanamo is far from being washington's only concern these days and that's often numerous u.s. embassies have been put on high alert and will remain closed on sunday due to a terror threat more than on the web site right now. plus the f.b.i. says it would never have been able to prevent that sort of brothers from carrying out the boston bombings apparently citing legal obstacles more of that as well but right there at the web site. right to see. first street. and i would think that you're.
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on a reporter's. instrument. in the. ordinary times across talk for an hour on the program moscow says it is outraged to get another extradition of a russian national to the u.s. from a third country made though without russia's consent or even knowledge a program that upon then was snatched from the dominican republic in june it is fate was only disclosed one month later. now with more on the case sun more on moscow's reaction. a spokesperson from the russian foreign ministry says they're trying to stay informed about alexander palin's case on july the twenty six they visited him in prison in the us state of georgia wade been extradited from the
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dominican republic however they say that in their view this is yet another example of a russian national being extradited from a third country to the u.s. and india and their view that is unacceptable was about someone through your which unless we are very concerned that we are once again faced with the rest of russian citizen on the us who aren't in a third country we consider this practice which has become a vicious tendency completely unacceptable we have repeatedly pointed out to the u.s. that if they have grievances with the russian citizens they have to send requests to russian law enforcement agencies in agreement with a bilateral treaty on mutual legal aid in criminal cases signed in one thousand nine hundred nine but this is still not being done. twenty four year old planning was on interpol's highest priority read list for arrest he's wanted for embezzlement through internet banking scams totaling five million dollars in suspected to be part of the network the british soft banks via the internet however
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his mother says she's confused about what's happened to him. so he's interested in computers but mostly he's a person of science i can believe that he wrote a computer program that's what he does he likes to tinker with hardware he develops software but i can't believe what he's accused off i talked to his friend who invited him to the dominican republic i asked him whether my son was ok for money he said recently he's been pouring money for me there are other cases like this on july the twenty second dimitrios to north it was actually dated to the us from lithuania for smuggling that night vision goggles in two thousand and eleven constantine you have a shango was sentenced to twenty years in prison in the us for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine there he was extradited there from liberia in may two thousand and ten and in april two thousand and twelve which the booth was sentenced to twenty five years in prison in the u.s. for conspiracy to kill americans among other things he was extradited there from
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thailand in november two thousand and ten after a sting operation well let's go straight to it to cairo now to open up the r.t. world update where thousands of supporters of the ousted egyptian president mohamed morsy have marched to the country's headquarters of military intelligence ultimately defying a government. and police being ordered to break up any and all rallies or all the further rioting post out of a threat to national security forces back in early july that morsy was overthrown and demonstrations by his supporters have been continuing unabated despite the continued heavy security crackdown. a former goldman sachs trader has been found guilty of six fraud charges and a high profile credit crunch case fabrice touré misled investors about the risks of mortgage securities back in two thousand and seven it earned goldman sachs a fortune and torrie a personal bonus of almost two million dollars at the trader faces fines and
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a ban from the industry when his punishment is announced later. here there was a punchy debate in the taiwanese parliament between the opposition and members of the ruling party there we go a local law makers brawled and threw water at each other ahead of a vote that would green light a referendum whether to finish building a fourth nuclear power plant in the country if the referendum passed the plant could become operational by two thousand and sixteen nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in taiwan but became even more serious or following the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan of twenty below. zero. for now france's secular laws have put a dent into the country's relations with its lawmaker community a recent riots and clashes with police over the ban on face covering burkas have sparked a heated debate on whether uncontrolled mass immigration is the true cause of
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failing multiculturalism this story to our. recent born in france from french parents has been teaching philosophy in running a gallery in paris where he has spanned he's. now he's getting ready to emigrate he says he no longer feels at home. of the glass there arizona's around paris and around other big cities where even the police don't dare to enter we call these places could gorge cutthroats they're ruled by a parallel economy of drugs and remain hermetic to ordinary french people these areas are dominated by immigrants from france's former african colonies and are often the scene of violent confrontations. just last month five were injured during protests over the enforcement of france's ban on full face religious veils we go to one such place. twenty kilometers from paris and indeed it has
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a flavor of the countries its residents came from but what native to reasons complain about most echoes what locals here denounce welcome they get the feel like we live in ghettos our kids are born here they are french citizens but they're treated like aliens the authorities have to do something if they want europe to resemble what they claim it to be french politicians frequently send mixed messages in these two thousand and eight speech french president at the time nicolas sarkozy exulted nixon ethnicities warning that racial purity could lead to the end of civilization the care for the cities assure the so shitty that's just a year after he promised to wipe the suburban streets clean and two years before a controversial law that prohibited islamic veils. they come here to get our votes they come they lie and they leave they simply use us the next french leader was a bit more consistent when running for president as well and promised more respect
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for these distressed areas and after becoming president he votes to improve education and create jobs there but locals complained they were just empty promises and the figures seem to back that up unemployment here averages twenty two percent which is much twice the national average. if you look for an apartment or a job they see. that you are not of french origin and put your c.v. to one side would you like to live in the times of slavery this feeling many fast as south in behavior like this or open violence this teenage boy of african origin is accused of raping fifteen women. on the field in africa i saw the little kids who were raped and abused by white people when i came here i was full of anger quote little why did you respond to this by doing bad things to others. i just imitated what i saw in a vicious circle violence causes more violence a month ago pregnant muslim woman lost her baby after she was attacked for wearing
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the he job experts say politicians could help overcome mutual hatred and intolerance but they seem uninterested in even trying. there is racism in how they treat people when a white man is abused the president denounced it but in the case of that pregnant woman we only heard from the local prefect and they even say maybe she lied the mere fact that we are from here allow them to doubt our words without a right idea is gaining more and more popularity now here as well as in the rest of europe such concerns are becoming more and more serious the french or the only euro outskirts comes from two words leo an old unit of the sons and long feudal law applied in certain areas outside large cities people who live here a few dozen corners from the heart of paris say they still feel like they're living under pujol rule under an entirely different system to the city dwellers the feeling is mutual on the other side and this difference in the mindset makes the
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gap between these two worlds to extreme. revolution on our team from france. thanks so much for joining us here on our to today i'm. stepping aside for pretty his guests cross talk interest of my league. remember we talked about clothing for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible to drones well freedom fashions as i like to call them are continuing to expand although the fact that our drones infrared eyes are very scary the more common street cameras are way more likely to want to average day violate your privacy and thus they invented the justice cap this hat blocks your face with the
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lights from face recognition software all the camera will see is an anonymous glowing ghost i personally haven't tested this thing out nor have i seen it with my own eyes and wearing three aaa batteries on your head at all times does seem like a bit of a bother but hey if you really want to be left alone and you're willing to throw down a few dollars this looks like a pretty good fashion statement to me the sad thing is that this sort of invention shouldn't need to exist people shouldn't have to live with the constant fear of unlawful consent less observation but sadly they do so inventors keep the freedom fashions coming but that's just my opinion.
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