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live pictures from cairo where police fired tear gas to disperse pro morsy rallies supporters of the former president promising thousands of protestors spite threats of a clampdown from security forces. russia's granting a temporary asylum to edward snowden infuriates washington with the u.s. government threatening to cancel a joint summit says american lawmakers vitriol. while the whistleblower is gauging potential job offers further revelations go public exposing britain's financial dependence on the u.s. when it comes to spying. and the last british resident in guantanamo bay says he's being sexually assaulted by guards as new figures show the facility has cost u.s. taxpayers almost five billion dollars since it opened our top stories this.
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international news and comment this is our t.v. twenty four hours a day live from moscow where it's now just turned eleven pm police have fired tear gas to disperse pro morsy activists who continue to stage mass demonstrations in support of the former leader security forces earlier promise to besiege any such activities as a step towards breaking them our bill true brings us the latest now from egypt. of course we've had this sort of forty hour deadline for an interior ministry you said off the two days they will erect a sense of barricade around these two sit ins for that ousted leader mohamed morsy in the capital they've said this will mean that people can leave the city and then i enter it's a kind of besieging now in the run up to this we have had to mass protests in
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support of the deposed leader across the country thirty four marches in total one of them which ended up in the media production city which is in six or pretty big district of the capital resulted in clashes with security forces featuring take ask the protesters they have been attempting to set up a new fifteen hundred apparently barricades manager erecting temps there which is why the security forces cracked down on mount speaking to protesters today in one of the maintenance here in the capital they tell me that they will think about possibly setting up a new sit ins like this one the media city if these big sit ins here nasr city and easier on me by security forces in the next few days it's very tense here with the heavy deployment of troops in the military and expected clashes on the horizon when the interior ministry takes the plunge and actually does try and evacuate these
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people because there are a lot of people in the streets in support of the ounce of me that they really are tens of thousands of but you know women and children who are in these sit ins and you think go into all guns blazing it will be a bloodbath so we have to see how the situation develops overnight and in the coming days. there's no legal restriction stopping the e.u. from deeper involvement in the syrian conflict as norms in bargo in the country expire we report on how schools of european families a big damage by the coldly bridging fell's of miles away that's coming up this year naughty. but first a new chapter is. beginning for one of america's most wanted men who's finally left a moscow airport transit zone of the more than a month in limbo whistleblower edward snowden is temporarily free to live and work in russia and job offers already coming in as well as you go to his can of reports . well now that snowden has managed to leave the transit zone of airport this is
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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. snowden realizes that he's under an enormous threat as he's wanted by a world superpower and we understand what methods could be used to get hold of him but i know that he is in a safe place now and those people he was keeping in touch with via e-mail while in transit they can be trusted they know russia very well they know the russian language and culture and they are willing to help him get. a lawyer and only go to the on the personally accompanied snowden and we can weeks representatives harrison out of the airport and put them in a taxi initially it was expected that snowden was supposed to be there for the last week but it did take time for all the necessary legal procedures in a statement published on thursday snowden outlined how everything was done in full
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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 journalists 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 decision is made the blood of american politicians boil while the white house signaled it may cancel september's summit between russian and u.s. leaders some congressmen are hurling threats of consequences of moscow including
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possible sanctions or he's going to reports. 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 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
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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. 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
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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 his release 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 finest his career and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's lines in washington i'm going to shut down u.s. blogger and journalist david lindorff i spoke to him a little earlier he believes america's priority is to silence potential whistleblowers. it what the what we're seeing in the us is a charade i mean it is the anger is i think. not so much that russia granted him the asylum as they really want to make an example of snowden to the maximum extent because they're afraid of more whistleblowers coming
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out because of the religious spying that's going on so the whole idea here with with him with aaron swartz and with me and with bradley manning has been to come down like a ton of bricks on these guys and make their lives as miserable as possible so that nobody else will do the same thing. the guardian newspaper has published a report suggesting that britain's government communications headquarters is not any spying on its citizens but has been funded by the us let's check out how the tit for tat spying chain what the u.k.'s g c h q pumped large amounts of money into efforts to gather personal data from mobile phones and applications saying it wants to be able to exploit any phone anywhere at any time while in the past five years
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alone the amount of data gathered from the internet and mobile traffic by the intelligence agency has increased pop to seventy times well. takes a closer look at the role washington is playing in all of 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. i mean for such a prestigious agency these revelations are likely to be extremely damaging one g c
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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 and according to the guardian some staff that work for d.c. h.q. have expressed concern about the morales sea 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 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
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a number of observers are concerned most about in this story which is just how close the relationship between d.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's are. 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. more on this reform and my five agent annie machon and look what's all the fuss about surely close allies should be working closely together. well absolutely and they have for decades one thing that people tend to forget is there is an old program of mutual assistance which was called echelon which was exposed in the one nine hundred eighty s. and then fed into the european parliament in the one nine hundred ninety s. which led to a report that said that europe should develop its own standalone internet infrastructure and not depend on the u.s. infrastructure of course this came out just before nine eleven and was locked in
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the sort of security panic that happened afterwards so this is resistance being going on for decades let's have no doubt about that and it's also been a very good way for the n.s.a. and g.h.q. to circumvent domestic laws and domestic warrant tree requirement so they could spy on each other and then feed each other the same information in the back without having to go through the courts so it's always been quite a krups relationship however i think these revelations that came out in the guardian today take it to a whole new level we are now looking at g.h.q. effectively prostituting itself to the n.s.a. they are saying we can get around some of your laws we can help you we will go to the nth degree to help you give us your money but why because you said earlier that both are mutually benefiting each other because they're not perhaps could tell by domestic or legalities and yet at the same time there is some talk of the u.k. doing the u.s. is dirty work for it but surely both are helping each other here. well the
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education he was always benefited more from the relationship because of course the n.s.a. coverage was far wider and they are desperate to keep that toehold of influence with the americans and that's why i think we're seeing these quotes coming out saying that they will they need to be seen to be doing everything they can to help the americans so that is a problem and it certainly so shows the asymmetric relationship between the two agencies we have become effectively in the u.k. a field office in intelligence for the u.s. intelligence infrastructure and it's sort of ironic. at the moment i'm in the netherlands at a hacker festival called o.h.m.'s twenty thirteen and i'm here doing a lot of talks about whistle blowing and surveillance and big brother states with a number of other key whistleblowers from the us well and this is a common theme that comes up and we've just agreed to was edward snowden something called the sam adams award for integrity intelligence so i think the fact that he
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has gone public with stuff the fact that he is sharing the the growing and in demick corruption between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence agencies need to recognition and we have to give that same have you achieved anything apart from winning that particular award you. had a really achieved learning early because quite frankly it's all going to carry on even u.s. congress has said surveillance will continue so nothing's going to change just briefly well unfortunately it's unlikely but i think he is the most significant modern whistleblower even grace and daniel ellsberg because he has shown that we are all globally under surveillance we are moving rapidly and with just opaque big brother surveillance society and it's not just americans all of us a subject that he's done the world population a huge service and i hope the world's population will do him a huge service by supporting him and fighting for him former m i five agent annie machon live on after you thank so much resource for to stay with us for more international news after the break this is r.t. live here in moscow coming up to sixteen minutes past the hour now.
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the conviction of bradley manning and the continued country snow it could be no doubt whistleblowers will be intimidated and imprisoned by the powers that be at the same time american and western publics are not told to be enemy is the top secret costing lives in precious treasure don't we have a right to know who we're fighting. choose your language. because we can with know if you. choose to use the consensus to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact your life choose me access to. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something
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else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. continues here and on t.v. most british resident to be guantanamo bay detention camp claims sexually assault him during prison such as the revelations come as new figures show the facility cost nearly three million dollars prison each year to keep open. reports. chucker armor the alaska british detainee at the guantanamo bay prison who's been on hunger strike since january against his unlawful detention the claims that he's being assaulted sometimes sexually during prison search as i was arrested in
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afghanistan in two thousand and one he's been at the prison a 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 declassified 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 us 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.
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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 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 as who had described the prison as a quote unquote place without walls he said that he had suffered repeated abuse seven terry geisha techniques including sexual humiliation of water torture as well as sleep deprivation in response to artie's queries idiot deputy joint task force public affairs officer at guantanamo sent us this reply we don't comment on the need to cheney and the gay 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 a shocker imus case but we have yet to hear
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a reply reporting from london i'm tess are cilia. from the london guantanamo campaign says these strong tactics used to settle detainees. all of that was going on with the with the search is making noise during the nighttime these sexual abuses it's all part of it seems to be part of a pattern of intimidation of the person of the detainees and part of a ploy to try and break the hunger strike the detainees are carrying on with their hunger strike most of them in spite of all the abuses it's clearly a sign of weakness on the part of u.s. administration and the military guantanamo that they're having to resort to these measures to china and break the hunger strike so clearly they're feeling the heat and you know the detainees they you know they have to decide what to do with their bodies if they want to carry on with this or not but obviously this is an act of desperation on their part to be on hunger strike for six months in some cases and
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say that they've got nothing to lose they've been there for eleven and a half years most of them without charge or trial and this is a desperate act on their part and there has been incarcerated and living nearby without charge and his lawyer clive stafford smith says the invasive searches are being done to intimidate prisoners. we have now raised it with the american courts that they shouldn't be doing this they shouldn't affectively be sexually assaulting the prisoners and it was the government i believe who first started using the term scruton search if you're the leader in 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 around tonneau bay and i don't doubt that most of them are resisting jack has been going through this for months and months and months no no i'm not proud of them in the way that you know his response to that is when they leave him in his cell he starts singing you know
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both molly's songs new get up stand up for your rhythmix and the guards to show that he's not to be coward. i think the shock of standing up for his rights and the rights of other prisons prisoners has motivated their guards under orders from the more senior officers through to treat very bad but actually it's not at the effects the desired effect on the arts and it's made shockers stronger mentally because he recognizes that he is now at least in some parts in control of his life so i've actually been impressed by the psychological improvements and even though physically isn't very dark streets. with an e.u. arms embargo on syria having officially expired there are concerns the block could become further embroiled in the conflict that deadline passes figures reveal up to six hundred europeans of already left their homes to fight alongside anti government troops and we treat wanting the father of one of those who joined jihadist forces in syria claims his son is being forced to fight against his will.
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but i still want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when they become 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 though there's in cairo that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that 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 i started this cover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my also in the video with other belgian guys so i moved to syria i was in the way of seeing so many cruel things even the one in the fighting group and got the what they keep that me that put the gun on me i was almost that's and at least i came back to the belgian with empty hands because these radical people these leaders this show you know they don't give me the opportunity to see this emmis we're standing above all these children from the west not only from the
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west but many of the young guys from all over the walls they are using this young children multiculturalism is under the spotlight in france with an increasing number of people saying a lack of integration is causing a growing divide in french society it comes with the government looking to introduce more secular laws which have been greeted by riots and protests explains vincent born in france from french parents has been teaching philosophy and running a gallery in paris where he has spent his highlife now he's getting ready to emigrate he says he no longer feels at home here. of the graph there are zillions 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
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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 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're 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 looking for the city's assure the so shitty that's just a year after he promised to wipe the suburban streets clean and two years before
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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 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 this. that you are not of french origin and put your c.v. to one side if you like live in the times of slavery this feeling many fast as south and behavior like this are open violence this teenage boy of african origin is accused of raping fifteen women who was on their feet in africa i saw the little
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kids who were raped and abused by white people when i came here i was full of anger . 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 prefect and they even say maybe she lied the mere fact that we are from here allow them to doubt our words would alter 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 war valley euro outskirts comes from two words leo and old unit of the sons and bone feudal law
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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're living under feudal rule under 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. about with news where the team in just over half a. discuss the secrets the awards. the break. 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
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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 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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