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edward snowden leaves the transit zone of a moscow airport after russia grants him a year's asylum decision this caused fury in washington and prompted fresh threats including the possible cancellation of a top level bilateral summit. snowden's latest published leaks reveal the u.s. secretly poured millions into the biggest british spy agency highlighting london's dependence on washington. and by prison guards a claim to be a part of the routine by the last british made at the guantanamo bay prison carries out a special investigation. a
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very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm rory sushi live on the program a let's get straight to your top headlines u.s. whistleblower edward snowden is free to live and work in russia now for up to twelve months without fearing extradition and the former n.s.a. contractor has been granted temporary asylum here in the country meaning he finally left the moscow airport where he's been trapped in transit limbo since june you got pissed off has been following the developments in the ongoing snowden saga. now that snowden has managed to leave the transit zone of settlement or to this is a whole new chapter in this story but if really were we knew at least approximately where he was now his location is even more secret. due 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 safety and the police where he's going to loop
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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 are going to be on the personally accompanied snowden and we can weeks representatives harrison alex of the airport and put them in a taxi initially it was expected that snowden was supposed to leave the airport last week but it did 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 by president putin under which he could stay in russia and that is to stop farming washington's image and so 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 ford from a not only that 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. not if you go to prison or reporting there now russia's granting of temporary asylum to edward snowden has infuriated washington the white house hinted that september summit between obama and vladimir putin may now be canceled and that some republican senators of called for a major rethink over relations between the two countries here in washington gauging the u.s. responses artie's guy in a chicken. 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 percussions 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 was 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 whistleblower 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 a lid on it new laws are being proposed to rein in n.s.a.
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surveillance last week congress killed one such bill by only twelve votes lawmakers have 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 feis a 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 clients dead or 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 snowden said yes they can this week the guardian relying on the documents that snowden had earlier provided has released details of
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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 separate fires to score ear and his comfortable lifestyle it's not and said he wanted to expose the government lies in washington i'm going to shut down or russia on its part says there's absolutely no reason why the decision over snowden's asylum should damage relations with america but also a view shared by a london based legal expert alexander mecurio. 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 the intention will be to apply for full refugee status if the u.s.
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number less wants to jeopardize its very important relationship with russia because russia has done something which it is legally fully intitled to do that is a decision for the u.s. but many people will i think feel that if the u.s. does that then the u.s. frankly is behaving in a very strange and self destructive way. and in the meantime a snowden's leaks continue to span the atlantic for example in the latest revelations now published by the guardian newspaper it turns out that british intelligence services have been not only spying extensively on their own people but also being allowing a lot of it to be funded by washington d.c. let's bring up the stats here and show you how all of this intelligence gathering actually works at the u.k. z g c h q pumping large amounts of cash into efforts to gather data from mobile phones and applications saying it wanted to be able to exploit any phone anywhere
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any time in just the past five years alone the amount of data gathered from the internet and mobile traffic from the intelligence agencies has now increased by more than seventy times so aussies has a very close look now at exactly what is washington's role in this program. 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 g.h.q. 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 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 d.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 paypal's 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. 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. and i still ahead. see the syrian war affecting families in europe with the number of young men leaving. the syrian rebels. join the jihadists about just how we ended up in the war torn country. and while politicians try to paint a picture of national unity. racial divisions and.
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down in the final. days. and the rest. will be. thanks for joining us here on r t the last british inmate of the guantanamo bay detention camp has claimed that god sexually assault him during prison such as the revelation comes amid president obama's new push to try and shut down the camp however the white house's rather awkward steps keep stumbling upon a no go for congress he has been carrying out an investigation into the story the test of our city. chucker armor the alas a british detainee at the guantanamo bay prison who's been on hunger strike since
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january against his unlawful detention the claims that he's being assaulted sometimes sexually during prison search as i am or 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 a forced cell extractions they flip me over for the surge mostly that's just an assault sometimes a sexual assault we call it the get my message they carry me like a second potatoes which is really painful for me. this information was revealed in a due process for a conversation between elmer and his lawyer in the united states this news comes just weeks after u.k. prime minister david cameron had said that he had raised the case of amr with the u.s. president barack obama at the g eight summit over concerns that the u.s. was trying to render armor to saudi arabia stories of inmates at guantanamo have
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been coming to light especially with attention on the hunger strike that's been going on inside most of this information revealed through lawyers of the detainees a one other example for instance is more or not have described the prison as a quote unquote place without walls 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 public affairs officer at guantanamo sent us this reply we don't comment on i need to you need shoes made for the defense attorneys regardless of how ridiculous and absurd to the allegations might be we also contacted the u.s. state department for their comments on the shocker on most case but we have yet to hear a reply reporting from london i'm tess are sylvia. and i clive smith is a lawyer representing shock in the united states he says his client is not the only
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one being subjected to degrading procedures. we have now raised it with the american courts that they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't effectively be sexually assaulting the prisoners and it was the government i believe who first started using the term scruton search if you'll believe it the they actually admitted doing this sort of thing and it's been done to try to intimidate prisoners out of talking to their lawyers so that unfortunately the truth would not come out of kuantan a babe in arms out of most of them are resisting jack has been going through this for months and months and months now and i've got a proud woman and weighed it and his response to that is when they leave him in his cell he starts singing you know both molly's songs never get up stand up for the year rhythmix and the guards to show that he's not going to be cowed persons i think that shaq is standing up for his rights and the rights of other prisons prisoners has motivated guards under orders from the more senior officers to trees
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very bad but actually it's not how the effects the desired effect on the arts and it's made shock is stronger mentally because he recognizes that he is now at least in some parts in control of his life so i have actually been impressed by the psychological improvements and even though physically isn't very tough straits. however the legal mess over guantanamo is far from being washington's only concern these days and that's numerous u.s. embassies have now been put on high alert and will remain closed on sunday due to a terror threat those details much more of them on the website. plus the f.b.i. says it would never been able to prevent the brothers from carrying out the boston bombings apparently citing legal obstacles those details also on the web site right now. to see. first street. and i think that you.
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are before we get to a busy world out there let's get into the story now with syria and with the e.u. . now officially expired fears are growing that european countries might get more involved in the conflict if indeed they start supplying the rebels with weapons but some in europe are already affected by the never ending war up to six hundred europeans and that's the official figure of left their families to fight against the syrian government and my colleague bill daughter spoke to dimitri bunting from belgium you son join the jihad ists in syria. to want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when it became eighty and there's nothing wrong with that to go holiday discover the walls you know and after. that they may send those much as
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though there's entire euro that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that they pay money to study to continue the study of this muslim religion and sufism you know but i didn't trust it i had the feeling that something was going wrong you had went just cereal i know i'm going to make it fast as i had a few went to syria i started this cover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my all son in the video with other belgian guys so i moved to see that i was in the way i've seen so many cruel things even one in the fighting group on me that put the cuffs on me i was almost debts and at least i came back to the belgian with empty hands because these radical people these leaders this. don't give me the opportunity to see my old son if you experience the horrors of war do you think he would want to come back but they may not let him in effect has he been kidnapped. because they. were standing above all these
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children from the west not only from the west but many of the young guys from all over the walls they are using this young children and all months that they see they see their family are they go back to europe is a very traumatic time for him what do you say to other parents who could well experience the same thing what you say offer in terms of advice that this could happen to their children it's arjun time five to twelve that the international community needs to stand up and react i am very realistic and not only me but this is a much it's all the parents and that's why the international community in the direct they're doing nothing doing nothing the west is doing nothing to bring our children back they get a chance even sabbat this radical fighters. our into the world of that we go starting with cairo now thousands of supporters of the ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi have marched to the headquarters of the country's military
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intelligence defying government calls to abandon their demonstration as our cairo police were ordered to break up any rallies after the cabinet ruled further rioting posed a threat to national security a moment morsi threw overthrown in early july demonstrations by supporters have been continuing unabated demanding his reinstatement and calling for the current government to step down. a former goldman sachs trader has been found guilty of six fraud charges in a very high profile credit crunch case. touré misled investors about the risks of mortgage securities back in two thousand and seven and goldman sachs millions torrie a personal bonus of almost two million bucks and the trader faces fines and a ban from the industry when his punishments later. taiwanese lawmakers dusting it up brawling and throwing water at each other ahead of a vote that would ultimately give the green light on
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a referendum on whether to finish building a fourth nuclear power plant in the country and members of the ruling nationalist party who favor the use of atomic energy clashed with the opposition which is strongly against the idea if indeed the referendum is passed the plant could become operational by twenty sixteen. now france's secular laws have put a dent into the country's relations with islamic community a recent riots and clashes with police over the ban on face covering burkas have sparked a heated debate on whether uncontrolled the mass immigration is the true cause of a failed state of multiculturalism rif an ocean of picks up the story. vincent born in france from french parents has been teaching philosophy and running again in paris where he has spent his whole life now he's getting ready to emigrate he says he no longer feels at home here. there are zones around
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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 a flavor of the country's 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're french citizens but they're treated like aliens the authorities have to do something if they want europe to resemble what they claim to be french politicians frequently send mixed messages in
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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 for the city's assure the such a thing that's just a year after he promised to wipe the suburban streets clean and two years before a controversial law that prohibited islamic vails when. they come here to get our votes they come they lie and they leave they simply users the next french leader was a bit more consistent when running for president as well and promised more respect 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 so. if you look for an apartment or a job they see that you are not of french origin and put your c.v.
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to one side if you like live in the times of slavery this feeling many faceted south in behavior like this are open violence this teenage boy of african origin is accused of raping fifteen women. on the street in africa i saw that little kids were raped and abused by white people when i came here i was full of anger. or 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 the hijab 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 brief and they even say maybe she lived the mere
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fact that we are from here them too down to our words and was questioning outer right ideas 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 bali you know while the current 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 quantities from the heart of paris say they still feel like they are living under feudal 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 gap between these two worlds to extreme. revolution on our team from france. and i'll be back with the news team in about half an hour's time but if you can stay with us a fascinating documentary it's called blood and it's just up to the.
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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 on average day violate your privacy and thus they invented the justice cap this hat blocks your face with the 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
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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. cleaning his gun after being on duty is a matter of priority it's almost a ritual for him and he's helped by his seven year old son. i want my son to be a soldier everybody in our family has been a military man. my father and even my grandfather and his time it's always been
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that way you could say our family loves weapons. already disassemble the pistol by himself and knows where each individual part goes . he says it's not too heavy for him it's just his hands are too small. this is being prepared for adult life in chechnya several generations of the family have followed the chechen code every shooting is answered with another. they have taken revenge for each one of their murdered clan members. yes very much so he says are you going to carry a gun i will he says we have always had respect for weapons and i suppose it's been that way for centuries it's hard.
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ismail's grandfather of. the chechen world for father. to also trained his children and nephews to handle weapons when they were still very young. being able to handle a gun is one of the most important skills for a chechen man. during the chechen war. group of separatists fighting against russia in a bid to achieve independence. but when the government. killing people for money. to the federal forces they guaranteed.
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