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describes. as we start our own investigation into the claims of. the weekly with me wrong. so. this week the u.s. was on the run as the transit of a moscow airport of course where he's been stuck for more than a month been granted temporary asylum here in russia and has already received. including one from russia's biggest social network though. still remaining on. the media's chase for the former contract. on sunday june twenty third when reports

surface that the u.s. is newest whistleblower edward snowden was in russian airspace on a flight from his hong kong hideout every journalist knew the weekend was over and they all scurried here to section a shared metro airport snowden and his wiki leaks advisor sara harrison are a no show but just down the hall a diplomatic arrivals the official car for the ecuadorian embassy is parked right outside a hand that seems to support a rumor began earlier in the day when the ambassador left his residence just before snowden's flight landed twitter backed it up that evening on the feet of ecuador's foreign minister and asylum bid had been received reporters found out that snowden and his advisor were due to be on a flight to cuba the next day so what did they do search around for the nearest hotel to get a good night's sleep before getting on that flight at the airport hotel. surely the have an airport would produce the connecting flight to south america

june twenty fourth dawns the doors to the flight close seat seventeen a is empty a plane load of confound reporters takes off for the island galleys and restrooms are searched the cargo hold is suspected a drinks trolley is found in business class hangovers are reported june twenty fifth president putin confirms that snowden is still in the transit area of the airport foreign minister sergei lavrov dismisses a u.s. request for extradition this stakeout continues because you just never know when he'll come out from hiding everyone with the press badge gets to know airport food courts and the coin operated massage chairs very well july second wiki leaks says snowden is seeking asylum in nineteen more countries including china cuba nicaragua venezuela and india. the next day at another airport this time in austria drama unfolds the president of bolivia is plane is forced to land on suspicion that

snowden is on board the heat in the debate turns up on the heels of this bolivia nicaragua and venezuela make their offers of asylum well known denouncing the pressure exerted by america but one little problem remains getting to any of these destinations without falling into the hands of american law enforcement. july twelfth the bomb is dropped with an official announcement at sheremetyevo it was here on the second floor terminal where snowden held a conference with human rights activists and with his advisors made the announcement that he was scared to fly not for heights and that he was thinking of asking russia for asylum came as a surprise to everyone who heard it and a little did we know we'd be in for an even longer wait. video and photos make it out of that meeting and are quickly uploaded for our stories finally we have something to bring back to our newsrooms now the wait for the paperwork in this

case a response to snowden scribbles on a blank sheet hey whatever works staff only this unassuming door here on the first floor of the terminal at the airport was headquarters july twenty fourth when everyone thought anatoly snowden's russian advisor would be bringing that very important piece of paper from immigration services allowing him to at the airport instead all he brought were a bag of books some new clothes and a healthy dose of consolation for snowden and the journalists. he gives us what we want to punch you video and sound but no definite timeline on when his advise the will crack that door until august first one day now himself shows the press that fateful document making edward snowden free to travel through the russian federation until july thirty first two thousand and fourteen he says edward is gone and his lips are sealed. due to the fact that he's the most wanted person on planet

earth today he would be concerned about the issue of security that includes questions of safety in the place where he is going to live that's all up to him as he was neuer will consult and advise him but on other issues it's up to him according to our sources when a plane from paris was emptying out he took his chats and jumped in to bill and. edward snowden had flown and. then walked out nearly unnoticed much to our chagrin in moscow lindsey france r.t. . now one of the conditions that moscow had earlier set for taking snowden in was that he stops harming washington with his leaks now in an interview to a russian t.v. channel the whistleblower his father said his son has already done enough public good to abide by that request and with a clear conscience i understand his tremendous political interest and at this point our government i suspect is somewhat angry about the way this has has turned out i

am again thankful to the russian people president vladimir putin and anatoly sure enough for the courage the strain the humanity that they have demonstrated in what i believe is this noble action of protecting my son and keeping him safe as a father he needs to respect the president who requests i believe my son's work is done with this in terms of he has made a tremendous sacrifice to let the american people what has been done to them and in their name and i am again so thankful to the people of russia and we took a moment to speak to political analysts to meet you babbage he said that russia really had no other choice but to grant snowden temporary asylum and washington would do the same if indeed the roles were reversed. i think that snowden is a very special case because he didn't serve any foreign government what he did here you don't his own and he revealed this information to the press nor the foreign

agents i'm pretty sure that the united states would shield such a person if he had been of russian origin and if he had been found in the united states or russia i think was a lot of very willing to have him here i think it's clear from mr bush's statements that he was not particularly. by the question is so what good fortune do if he had delivered mr snowden out of the united states mr snowden would probably face life imprisonment in the united states so no civil list country can do it or this country will be respected. and russia's decision to take snowden was certainly met with fury in washington and the white house hinted that september's summit between president obama and vladimir putin may now be sold about some more make this call for a major rethink of relations between both countries but all the hype over snowden's asylum is diverting public attention from what he's actually wanted for back home he's done revelations washington correspondent gun nature concomitants the moment

edward snowden walked out of that moscow airport russia became the object of washington's wrath we heard calls for president obama to boycott the g. twenty summit in russia the president's press secretary said washington is quote unquote extremely disappointed with moscow's decision on snowden and that it undermines the growing cooperation between russian and u.s. security services certain members of congress used even harsher term senator chuck schumer said russia has stabbed us in the back and each day that mr snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist of the knife senator lindsey graham says americans in washington should consider this a game changer in our relationship with the precious and john mccain goes it is a slap in the face of all americans we cannot allow today's action by put into a stand without serious repercussions. it's of course for many politicians here attacking snowden and russia is much easier than defending the surveillance state the white house keeps repeating this mantra mr snowden is not

a whistleblower he is accused of leaking classified information and has been charged with three fairly felony 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 so what else they disagree with a gallup poll shows fifty three percent of americans now disapprove of the government surveillance programs as opposed to thirty seven percent who approve another poll by the queen a parent university conducted just in the wake of snowden's revelations shows forty five percent of americans say the government's anti-terrorism efforts have gone too far we're striking civil liberties three years ago twenty five percent of americans thought so it's a massive shift in attitudes a shift that the lawmakers and the government can't ignore as much as they like to attack snowden his revelations have put the white house on the defensive you can complain about big brother and this is. a potential.

program run amuck. but when you actually look at the details then i think we've struck the right balance well let's look at some of those details 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 net services the government said the n.s.a. does that only with a warrant from the fight the court snowden said the court merely rubber stamp such warrants and he revealed one such revealed one such secret court order for a telecommunications company to hand over its clients dead or in bulk the government has acknowledged the bulk collection of communications but said no one can look at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said that's a lie this week the guardian relying on the documents that snowden had earlier provided has revealed details of a program that makes such warrantless snooping possible we learned about x.

keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs snowden has leaked the n.s.a.'s training materials where the agency boasts that the program is the widest reaching system for developing intelligence from the net having separate fires to screw ear and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's lies and hypocrisy among other things he revealed that while washington is complaining about china's spying the n.s.a. spies on china all the time on chinese research centers on the chinese university of so on he is also exposed the intelligence services of other countries which are quote unquote in bed with the n.s.a. and are essentially doing the same thing like the you case g c h q snowden revelations have steered outrage among advocates of civil liberties not just on this side of the atlantic in washington i'm going to check them. snowden's revelations are causing havoc across the atlantic the latest published leaks expose

major telecom companies like the rising vodafone and bt secretly collaborating with the british intelligence agency this blow to g c h q came shortly after it was disclosed the n.s.a. poured millions into the british agency for securing its access to surveillance data a former m i five officer i mean marshawn she says despite the fact that close cooperation between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence is nothing new the latest revelations do shed it in a whole new light 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 and then fed into the european parliament in the one nine hundred ninety eight 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. in sort of security panic that happened afterwards so this is

a resistance have been 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 you to third can bend domestic laws and domestic warranty requirements so they can spy on each other and then feed each other the same information in your back without having to go through the courts so it's been quite a corrupt relationship however i think these revelations that came out in the guardian take it to a whole new level we are now looking at g t h q it's actually prostituting itself to the n.s.a. they are saying we can get around some of your lord we can help you we will go to the nth degree to help you give us your money. well while it looks like edward snowden can feel safe for now from the u.s. government's prosecution of leakers this week did not turn out so well for the man who's become something of an icon of whistleblower. this. surgery is.

private bradley manning was this week found guilty of america's biggest leak of restricted information with almost all charges in his court martial standing and though he was cleared of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy he still faces more than one hundred thirty years in prison let's have a look now at how it all folded bradley manning first joined the u.s. army in two thousand and seven just two years later then he was deployed to iraq he soon exposed the collateral murder video showing iraqi civilians being killed by u.s. troops but after a series of online chats with a hacker manning was turned into the government and arrested more revelations followed in exposing iraq and afghanistan war logs along with diplomatic cables all published by wiki leaks in march twentieth manning accused of aiding the enemy the charger that could have kept him behind bars for life and while waiting for his

court martial the u.n. described manning's prison treatment as inhumane but the judge did not allow the global body's torture inspector to try and testify finally the high profile trial in fort meade maryland and now the verdict well out of nineteen of the twenty two charges we could expose person christine believing that manning's case will lead to even more possibilities to continue unveiling the secret data. he is obviously facing a long time in prison especially when you think about how this trial has been carried out by judge lindh one is not filled with any optimism only last week. to allow the prosecution to change some of the charges on the last day of the trial. the trial has been partly closed off to journalists who journalists have been intimidated we have seen that despite the way that bradley manning was treated.

being tortured in prison in isolation in solitary confinement for almost a year it has not stopped whistleblowers and there are still brave people out there who act on their conscience and to with the public interest in mind we have seen though a new era beginning and an expansion of the limits of journalism and some supporters of bradley manning have drawn up a petition claiming they would serve there was a sentence in parts more than seventeen hundred people signed their request and plan on submitting it to the man in charge of reviewing their private sentence. i went out to the streets of new york to listen to what people ultimately had to say on the verdict. union square has been something of a stomping ground for bradley manning supporters in new york city you see over the years many rallies have been held here in honor of the army private first class intelligence analyst now manning has been found guilty of downloading and releasing

confidential u.s. documents that subsequently disclosed illegal activity and crimes on the part of washington manning faces up to one hundred thirty six years in prison instead of telling you how the public is reacting to this news we're handing our microphone directly over to the citizens bradley manning didn't commit any crimes would be like is if you shot me and the camera man said hey i've got this footage of this crime and he. you know put it out there for justice and instead of trying you they try him and it doesn't make any sense just like all the other people that are protesting the corruption of our government. whether it's mr manning or snowden. i think they're doing a good thing because the american people are basically enslaved and they're you know they're told what to do by the media and they follow orders it would appear to

me that the manning verdict would be sending a message to edward snowden i'm sure he's listening. you know because it's a really similar situation i mean from what i understand basically parallel on different topics. but a hands on russia doesn't matter who you are. abide by whatever we do i want to just salute bradley manning we were a supporter you if you look at the apache helicopter video which probably the most famous one. it's important for the american public at least know what is actually going on in the war they're fighting a war fighting at that point. and i think that also they found out. a lot more civilian casualties were that there were a lot more civilian casualties and they originally expected i think that was really important i think something needs to be done as part of like that from a legal standpoint needs to be changed because like the american public needs to

know about things like that. like our military is handling situations like that i just saw maybe somebody like obama. maybe doing is the last leg we use a lame duck president decides to pardon many now although manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy charges he may be punished for the rest of his life for presenting the american public with the truth reporting from new york for an up or nine our take. now the founder of wiki leaks the website which released the data handed over by bradley manning a claim that whistleblower had never received a fair trial. also lambasted the u.s. government for its a radical national security fears. this is the first. conviction against was the united states it is a dangerous precedent and example of national security extremism is a shortsighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and it must be. you can never be

conveying true mation to the public is as you know. all right so what do you think the sentence should actually be you can say part right now in our on going poll that r.t. dot com to express your opinion on our certainly the biggest story to hit global news in weeks let's see how the votes dot com right now ultimately the majority of our viewers believing that manning shouldn't have been found guilty in the first place instead should be honored as a hero a very distant second position of fifteen percent saying he should be sentenced to a suspended jail at the most down to a joint third or fourth position here joint a four percent ultimately something he should spend twenty years in jail perhaps and then four percent also saying death sentence or life in prison getting pretty harsh but that is the minority. would love it when you get involved with stories i don't hesitate to do so right now it's just

a couple of clicks away. right. first really. and i think you're. going to. be in the. thanks for joining us here on. this week the deadline passed for the e.u. to take a decision on the syrian rebels now the official embargo did run out in june however european leaders said they wouldn't take any action into all this to ultimately though to allow discussion or the hesitation perhaps seems to stem from a growth of extremism within the opposition there are also fears of a terror backflow with ever more european residents now joining the fight in the

conflict stricken country a french official says though this is unprecedented during the nine years of the afghan conflict only fee. sure hardest to aidid is going into the country though in one year alone over one hundred at least left france for syria to fight against assad experts say most of the westerners are self radicalized and do join the terrorist ranks of al-qaeda and the al nusra front but the total number of europeans fighting in syria is estimated at up to six hundred though the actual number could be much much higher france's interior minister recently called the threat quote a ticking time bomb so are these tests are syria now are falling this reporter why the e.u. could be wary of arming the rebels. while the u.k. on the syrian rebels would not that's a question that's been answered a number of different ways it's a complicated data mostly in varying degrees of light but ultimately always sending signals of support for the opposition it will be new political progress in less the

opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad so he that is there is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition. to a man. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national coalition no one else to want a half years on syria continues to pay the delicate complex picture a battleground constantly shifting as it is with western leaders rhetoric in american twelve hour meeting in may you need or is agreeing to disagree on syria with the u.k. and france successfully getting their way even though they were at odds with the twenty five other member states the european union has agreed to bring to an end their arms embargo on the syrian opposition this is the outcome of the united kingdom i wanted rhetoric in the middest sense of the lead up to the libyan

intervention also led by the same players it's remarkable they could simply try and override the experience of libya because as a recent report said the. supermarket for the entirety of the of the middle east and if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of attorney on august first e.u. countries can reassess their positions on syria and those who wish to arm the rebels may do so but as that day drew closer hesitation grew louder with david cameron acknowledging that there are quote unquote a lot of bad guys amongst the rebels recent reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to establish an islamic caliphate and dissolution rebels defecting back to the government side before the the war in afghanistan and before the attack on iraq there was no al qaida in iraq there was no al qaida in yemen there was no al-qaeda in somalia there was no al qaida in syria but there is not an

idea that's not lost on the british prime minister there's too much extremism among some of the rebels but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of the opposition that want a free purchased a democratic syria and so we're not being the rebels this are cilia r.t. london. and we did have the chance to speak to the father of a belgian man who went off to syria to fight alongside the islamist radicals he told us of the ordeal he had to go through to try and get his son to return home. to want to hold on to its friends with muslim brothers when he 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 entire euro that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that pay money to start the to continue to study this muslim religion and sufism you know but i didn't trust it i had the feeling that something was

going wrong i start to discover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my own son in a video with other belgian guys so i moved to see that i was in the way or 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 dead and at least i came back to the question but then the hands because these radical people these leaders this show you know they don't give me the opportunity to see my will so this we're 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. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today still ahead for you in the program. president. ready for today's swearing in ceremony later in the program and we have. our help iran out of its current international isolation. of the continuing pressure from the west. also we take

a closer look at a war torn mali is it gears up for a fresh round of presidential elections with many hoping it would secure the country's peace and stability. in the me from here on our inmates. have accused guards of carrying out invasive procedures including the so-called good. and one such routine was outlined by the last british resident to his lawyer according to the inmate extraction team walked into the recreation area where he was on a silent protest and forced him to the floor he claims he was shackled taken to a cell is one of the officers held in a choke hold said he believes it's a tactic to intimidate inmates and prevent them from talking to the lawyers but his attorney clive smith said the measures at the camp of a reverse effect. 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 such if you're the leader 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 crown 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 now and i've got a proud moment away and his response to that is when they leave him in his cell he starts singing you know both molly's songs new get up stand up for the year rhythmix and the guards to show that he's not to be cowed by us i think that shock is standing up for his rights and the rights of other prisons prisoners has motivated their guards under orders from the more senior offices to to treat very bad but actually it's not had the effect the desired effect on the arts and it's may shock a stronger mental.