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i would snowden leave the transit zone of a moscow airport after russia grants him again as asylum a decision that caused your een washington and prompted french france including the possible cancellation of a top level by electrodes that. all data snowden's latest published leaks to reveal the us security for the millions into the biggest british spy agency highlighting london's dependence on washington. and sexual assaults by prison guards that claim to be a part of the south search retained by the last british resident at the gun tunnel bay detention center she carries out a special investigation for you. to
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use for russia and around the world this is a party with me. and welcome to the program us who so blow edward snowden is free to live and work in russia for up to twelve months without fearing extradition former n.s.a. contractor has been granted temporary asylum in the country meaning he finally let the most airport where he's been trapped in transit limbo since training. has been following the developments. now that seldon's managed to leave the transit zone of ord 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. to some of 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 safety and the police where he is going to live
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that's all up to him as hughes 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 and i personally accompanied snowden and we could weeks representatives harrison out of the airport and put them in a taxi initially it was expected that snowden was supposed to leave the airport last week but had to 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 arming washington's image and while concerning his latest revelations he did pass all these documents to journals
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before he arrived to show he meets with airport 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 specialist in charge of the privacy and security of users. russia's granting of temporary asylum to edward snowden has infuriated washington the white house hinted september summit between president obama and president vladimir putin may now be canceled and that says some republican senators called for a major rethink of relations between the two countries and she's going to church or can gauge is the u.s. response now. 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 a game changer in our relationship with russia senator john mccain goes it is
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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 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 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 were lying on the documents that snowden had earlier provided his release details of a program that makes it possible we learned about x.
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keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs having sekret forrest his career and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's line in washington i'm going to shut down . to get some more international reaction let's not talk to the news to former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament and political commentator and he's joining us now live from brussels mr venues welcome to r.t. it's always great to have you with us of course a europe so reaction to snowden is snowden's revelations was quite vocal but no asylum was granted so how is europe viewing and reacting to the latest developments and how the whole situation russia's decision is being viewed in the e.u. now well i would like to distinguish between the e.u. officials the turkish reaction and the e.u. people. on the level of the e.u.
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governments of course i mean although at first it was quite vocal as you said the divisions but in practice what happened was only a few days later they downed the plane of the president of the southern country president morales of bolivia so in truth there is just in this. on the level of the e.u. people and that's another matter i mean if you judge it by the opinion polls people are changing what you know and it just like there live by example in the u.s. fifty four percent going to reason binion pull back emotionally and the russia seems to have been acting in full accordance to to with international law does washington have real grounds to be so angry. if i understand did you correctly you said seems to be a well i would correct it and say it is in accordance with international on all levels you know i'm just. a command team the thing is if you do us who wants to be
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credible in any way on the issue of extradition request they might start by applying to requests for people or residing in the us for the moment i'm top of talking of people who is pathetic or innocent or under bush people who are known terrorists wanted in venezuela and in cuba people who are wanted for extradition to ecuador bankia or bengal fraudsters and alice. cooper. people who are now living. in the in the united states willing to start by accident nice people to their countries they might have maybe on the moral level a bit of more for that ability as well had to many opinions here but do you really have thing that the latest iteration can rini damage russia u.s. relations. no i don't think. there will be some symbolic gestures like obama perhaps not going to st peter bergen and that's an important there's a. yes on the on the level of symbols are important to you that is quite
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important on the short and indeed within the long in the long term i mean over the next coming years i mean the real issue is about economic relations and will there be damage no i don't. snowden's legal representative the whistleblower is now the most wanted person on earth do you think the u.s. will stop his pursuit. and especially now when he's got official asylum and legitimate status here in russia well if you look at their practices all the people . who are now staying in one column or i would leave very cautious yes but i'm pretty sure that the recent origin are aware of it and are keeping a close watch on. load the news to former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament political commentator live from brussels mr news thank you very much indeed thank you thank you. snowden's leaks continue to
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spawn that line take the latest revelations published by the guardian to show not only was britain's government communications had quarters spying extensively on u.k. citizens but it was receiving funds from washington to do this and let's now take a look at how bo's intelligence gathering programs worked so the u.k. is in g c h q large amounts of money into habits to gather personal data from mobile phones and applications saying it wanted to be able to exploit any phone anywhere any time and in the past five years alone the amount of data gathered from the internet and the mobile traffic by the intelligence agency has increased by more than seventy times point of ica takes a closer look at the us role in it. us 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
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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. 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 d.c. h.q. is actively pouring money into spying on personal mobile phones and applications
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and according to the guardian some staff that work for d.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 papers also show that the u.k.'s biggest fear is that the u.s. becomes dissatisfied with the work 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. so i'm ahead for you this hour here and i'll see this through and was
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affecting families in europe and the number of young men leaving the easy to find a little sign they say were in rebel soldiers we'll talk to a belgian man whose son joined the jihad it's about just how he ended up in the war torn country to stay with. the a. if you refuse economic down in the final. days the longer the deal shanghai and the rest because i was doing the case you will be every week along. with.
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more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporation to rule the day. this is us he welcome back they lost the british resident of the gone tunnel bay detention camp has claimed god sanctioned assault came during a prison search as they were going to action comes in may president obama's new push to shut down because however the white house is what steps keep stumbling upon
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a no go from congress has been carrying out an investigation into the story tessanne seem to have small. shocker armor the alaska british detainee at the guantanamo bay prison who's been on hunger strike since january against his on 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 forced cell extractions they flip me over for the search 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 declassified conversation between elmer and his lawyer in the united states this
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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 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 stories of inmates at guantanamo have been coming to light especially with attention on that the hunger strike that's been going on inside most of this information revealed through more years of the detainees a one other example for instance is more or not as who had described the prison as a quote unquote place without walls he said that he had suffered repeated abuse of interrogation techniques including sexual humiliation of water torture as well as sleep deprivation in response to artie's queries idiot deputy joint task force
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public affairs officer at guantanamo so this reply we don't comment on any detail you need a sions made through 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 almost case but we have yet to hear a reply reporting from london i'm tess are cilia. and clive smith a lawyer representing a shocker in the us says his client is not the only one subjected to degrading procedures we have raised with the american courts that they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't effectively be sexually assaulting the prisons and it was the government i believe who first started using that scruton if you believe that they actually admitted. it's sort of and it's been done to try to intimidate prisoners out of talking to their lords so that unfortunately the truth would not come out
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around town a babe in arms most of them are resisting has been going through this for months and months and months now and i'm kind of proud of them in a way that you know his response to that is when the sentiment is so well he starts singing you know both molly songs get up stand up who are your rhythmix guards to show that he's not going to be cowed. i think that shaq is standing up for his rights and the rights of other prisoners prisoners has motivated the guards under orders from the more senior officers to treat very bad but actually it's not how the effects the desired effect on us and it's made shatters stronger mentally because he recognizes that he is now at least in some parts in control of his lot so i've actually been impressed by the psychological improvements and even most physically is in very tough straits. i have got plenty more news online for you including an olympic about politics to say that while still standing in force went
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on to gay propaganda law during some twenty fourteen winter games kept more details and halted. and a french court rules and fable the controversial g.m.o. producer monsanto paving the way pulled kinetically modified crops to begin by the country's finance pedal line and then what's behind the decision and i think the commanders could fall ac. right on the scene. first rick. and i would think that you're. on our reporters. and instagram. thanks to. the the in. would be use arms embargo on syrian our official expired fears are growing that
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european countries might get more involved in the conflict if they start supplying rebels with weapons but some in europe are already affected by the never ending more opt out six hundred europeans and that's only the official figure have let their families to fight against the syrian government my colleague bill dodd spoke to dimitri bolting from belgium whose son joined the drug addicts in syria. to want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when they became eighteen and there's nothing wrong with that to go holiday discover the walls you know and after. that they may send those much as though there's in cairo 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 some of his you know but i didn't trust it to have the feeling that something was going wrong you have that wind just cereal i'm going to make it fast as. he went to sirius i started this cover every day thousand pictures and videos
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of syria and one day i recognize my all son in a video with other belgian guys so i moved the cd i was in the way i've seen so many cruel things even the one in the fighting group and got the word that you got me that put the gun on me i was almost that's and at least i came back to the bottom but then the house because these radical people these leaders this show you know they don't give me the opportunity to see my 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 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 they don't want that they see they see their family are they go back to europe it's 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 time five to twelve that the international community
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little stand up and react i am very realistic and not only me but this is a much it's all the violence and that's why the international community in the directs they're doing nothing doing nothing the west is doing nothing to bring our children back they. even sabbat this radical fighters. to some other world news and grief now thousands of supporters of ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi have marched to the headquarters of the country's military intelligence defying government calls to abandon their demonstrations in cairo police were ordered to break up any rallies after the cabinet ruled father writing posed a threat to national security morsi was overthrown in early july and the us creations by his supporters have been continuing unabated demanding his reinstatement and calling the current government illegitimate. a former goldman sachs trade there have been found guilty of six fraud charges in
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a high profile credit crunch case of restore misled investors about the risks of mortgage securities back in two thousand and seven it and goldman sachs millions and tore up a personal bonus of about two million dollars the trader faces fines and the ban from the industry when his punishments and later. on taiwanese lawmakers abroad and threw water at each other ahead of a vote that would a green light a referendum on whether to finish building a source nuclear power plant of the country members of the ruling nationalist party who favored the use of atomic energy clashed with the opposition which is strongly against the idea of the referendums passed the plan could become operational by twenty sixteen. and coming up is very king they said to host abby martin here on out.
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remember we talked about calling for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible to draw lines while freedom factions as i like to call them are continuing to expand although the fact that a. 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 hack 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 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
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fashions coming but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like i don't. i mean. that i've seen really messed up. and we're all very so mostly. it's. worse cheaper to live. without superman. radio guy minutes from a click. away. to good use never seen anything like this until.
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the fat guys and undermining the spriggan sat so just yesterday glenn greenwald disclose more damning information about the fishbowl we all live in this time it involves an n.s.a. program called x. keyscore which allows for the agency to collect a vast amount of data about everything a person does in the digital world and guess who's on board but on facebook is the x. keys. scorn abel's the n.s.a. to collect every single thing done on the social media site including chats and private messages if you think this kind of search only applies to people under suspicion you're dead wrong because we've already learned that the n.s.a. is tracking everybody you know it's sad despite facebook's complicity in the latest layer of surveillance not enough people seem to care to take a look at this that's right facebook stock is only rising in light of the recent revelations in fact its profits jumped by thirty percent to blowing away all of wall street's expectations however it's not just facebook that's benefiting off of scandal look at how the burton which inexplicably saw its shares rise after
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admitting to the destruction of evidence of the b.p. oil spill in other words how a burden admitting to criminal negligence and its. because of it see their stock also went up in the aftermath of the bad press you know it's fascinating that in the wake of the n.s.a. leaks faith and government fell to one of the lowest points in history so why are these feelings reflected on wall street americans need to wake up at these corporations are in the wrong but it's our job to stop investing in them and force them into irrelevancy if you agree to join me in the break to set. or you might be hearing talk about the economy is looking up you need only to look around to see if that's not exactly the case times are bleak corner v.a.p. eighty percent of americans are facing near poverty that's four out of five adults
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struggling to make ends meet and just look at detroit which recently filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history sitting at close to twenty billion dollars and yet all we hear is that there is nothing the government can do to help restore american cities if it means public employees losing their pensions or an indefinite and the basic public service. says i look don't get me wrong i'm not suggesting that american taxpayers should be bailing out every city that files for chapter nine what i am saying though is that the government's priorities are completely out of whack remember when we were told that bailing out the largest corporations and financial institutions that caused the great recession was necessary to save the economy while we were hoodwinked because not only was that completely untrue but the seven hundred billion dollars so-called rescue was actually more like twelve point eight trillion according to bloomberg so where all the money really go here is rep alan grayson asking for much fed chairman ben bernanke to account for just half
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a trillion of that money. to the financial institutions and europe and other countries which ones. i don't know. half a trillion dollars and you don't know who got the money the loan went to the loans go to the central banks and they then put them out there so their institutions to try to bring down short term interest rates and other markets around the world well let's start with which central banks got the money there fourteen of them which are listed in our i'm sure they're listed in here somewhere yes i'm sure someone somewhere knows something about where that money where they disappeared to so are you really better off with too big to fail banks being even bigger now and i think we all know the answer is no it's clear that this government is more concerned with maintaining a well oiled corporatocracy than it is with the financial well being of its citizenry but it's not just the corporate sponsors of the government favors over its people it's form.

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