i. run over. the weeks made headlines and a private bradley manning faces more than one hundred thirty years in prison after being found guilty of the biggest leak in u.s. history. while fellow whistleblower edward snowden breaks his cover spending his first days in russian territory after receiving long awaited paperwork allowing him

to leave the moscow airport and live and work in the country. meanwhile the surveillance scandal snowboards in the u.k. snowden's latest revelation show how releasing telecom companies and their clients data to british intelligence which is funded by america's controversial spy agency . and a prisoner held without charge at guantanamo bay cuba is guards of carrying out procedures that amount to sexual abuse critics say be invasive searches are used to break the result of in nights. international news and comment you're watching coming to you live from moscow. an american judge is fine private bradley manning guilty of almost all charges against him the former intelligence and. this now faces more than one hundred thirty years

behind bars for leaking a massive amounts of classified data the soldier was however cleared of the most serious and controversial charge of aiding the enemy so let's take a look at the timeline of events surrounding manning it all started when he was deployed to iraq in two thousand and nine several months later he exposed the world of video showing u.s. troops killing civilians in iraq his arrest didn't stop the revelations as we can publish a new trial of classified data including diplomatic cables he faced twenty two charges including aiding the enemy the united nations called manning's confinement conditions is torturous and inhumane as he awaited the court martial which started this chain but the judge didn't allow the u.n. inspector to testify and finally he was found guilty of the biggest leak in u.s. history guilty of nineteen of the charges against him author and activist clark so at least thinks the wrong person was in the dock in all actuality we should have

the law criminal on trial in the collateral murder video that we saw in the closing arguments and the beginning of the defenses case. you hear i name called kyle in the collateral murder video for your request would simply show that there was one in the battalion july twelfth two thousand and seven and there's three other men that were in helicopters apache helicopters that day and my question is why aren't they on trial because they clearly broke the rules of engagement and committed war crimes we've known all along that bradley is a truth teller and he didn't throw in the lives of them. well supporters of bradley manning are ready to put their lives on the line is they offer to serve a major chunk of his sentence artie's marina porton i went to new york's union square to hear what u.s. citizens think of 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 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 and 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 if you look at the apache helicopter video which probably the most famous one. it's important for the american public at least you know what is actually going on in the war they're fighting a war fighting at that point i just hope maybe somebody like obama. may be doing is the last leg we use a lame duck president this is ours to board money 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 on this week i saw a benchmark moment in the plight of another u.s. whistleblower as he attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution edward snowden left his name by. in

a moscow airport as he was granted temporary asylum by the russian authorities the command we have around freely in the country for twelve months russia's top social networking website has already offered him a job but the story has a fresh twist with his current location unknown for straightening journalists overflowing with unknown said questions also he's lindsay friends takes in the time snowden's saga unfolded on sunday june twenty third when reports surfaced 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 i said to metro airport snowden and his wiki leaks advisor sarah harrison are a no show reporters found out that snowden and his advisors 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. june twenty fourth dawns the

doors to the flight close seat seventeen a is empty galleys and restrooms are searched the cargo hold is suspected of 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 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 the 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 could head in a 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. until august first when they 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'll 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 is where we'll consult and advise him but on other. shoes it's up to him according to our sources when a plane from paris was emptying out he took a chance and jumped in to blend in. edward snowden had flown and then walked out

nearly unnoticed much to our chagrin in moscow lindsey france r t well one of the conditions moscow had earlier said the taking snowden in was that he stops harming washington with his leaks in an interview to a russian t.v. channel the whistleblowers father said he's someone have no difficulty dealing to the criteria i understand his tremendous political interest and at this point our government i suspect is somewhat angry about the way this is has turned out i am again thankful to the russian people president vladimir putin's and anatoly couture enough for the courage the string 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 again so thankful to the people of russia snowden's asylum caused a great deal of anger in the u.s. with american politicians rushing to ng bob rhetoric more sky on that now from artie's gani. 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 bushes 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 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 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 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 restricting 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 amok but when you actually look at the details. 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 internet 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 sekret fights to screen or and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government lies in washington i'm going to check. on snowden's revelations continue to send reverberations around the globe his latest published leak show that telecom giants like bet is on vodafone and british telecom allowed a british intelligence agency to look through their clients' private data g.c. h.q.

had unlimited access to millions of phone calls e-mails and facebook conversations and this come shortly after it was disclosed the n.s.a. poured millions of dollars into the british agency securing its access to surveillance data british intelligence analysts glenmore three now harvey says that close ties between the u.s. and u.k. intelligence services are nothing new. t.c.h. you like the n.s.a. n.s.a. very busy place in their operations in fact there are three main locations in the united kingdom menwith hill you know harrigan. the big dome. the stone office they call it it shows them and when so formal these have all been funded in the main by the national security agency and at the moment mention menwith hill there are seven hundred fifty national security agency american

employees working now so they meld together they might as well be known as the n.s.a. g.h.q. there are so close. coming up shortly be the possibility of shipments to the syrian rebels but the blokes leaders are rushing to send weapons to the country made alarming numbers of europeans leaving their homes to fight against president bringing the story of one father and son joining the rebels bus iran's new moderate president hassan rouhani is sworn in before parliament and dozens of u.s. senators call for yet more punitive sanctions on the country and russia's new piracy nor a neighboring authorities to shut down websites carrying copyright infringement content draws frustration from web activists with the first lawsuit against an illegal upload. all this after a quick break. from

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says. welcome back now an inmate at guantanamo bay has accused guards of carrying out procedures amounting to. the invasive routines were described by the last british resident of the facility shakha in a private talk to his lawyer says that during searches and extraction team walks in and forces a detainee to the floor pinning down their arms and their legs to prevent movement the procedure takes place any time a prisoner wants to leave his cell to see a lawyer or a relative and it might happen again when he returns prisoners believe this is a tactic to intimidate them break the ongoing hunger strike and prevent them from

taking legal steps to defend themselves but attorney clive stafford smith representing shakha says the measure is at the camp of the opposite effect we have not raised it with the american courts that there shouldn't be doing this this should not strictly be sexually assaulting the prisoners it is the governments i believe who first started using the term crucial search if you're the leader they are she admitted sort of and it's being done to try to intimidate prisoners out of talking to their lawyers so that unfortunately the truth would not come out of guantanamo bay but most of them are resisting china has been going through this for months and months and months now and i've got a proud woman and weighed it in his response to that as one of the lead gentleman has said or he starts singing you know. get up stand your rhythmix the guards just show that he's not going to. a new law against

internet piracy has come into effect in russia and it will enable authorities to shut down websites which carry copyright breaching video content the law has to control the sea in the internet community with activists fearing it will lead to censorship several popular websites announce the blackout in protest and actually takes a closer look at the legislation. despite that statistics on the internet piracy in russia have improved greatly over the last decade dropping from ninety three percent in two thousand and one to little more than a sixty percent last year still it poses a huge problem for the country it is rated in top five world countries in terms of piracy let me demonstrate what you can do in russia for instance you want to watch a fresh movie which has been just released but you do want to pay for it you go to one of the social network websites in russia find the movie you like and voila you have it created to the administration of the website they are trying to fight this problem they're blocking the users who are uploading illegal content but still with

more than fifty million users registered for this network alone it is an uphill task something the new legislation is destined to mend from now on if any website is suspected of having illegal content it will be reported to a special watchdog body called the us and then in three days the website owner must remove this illegal content if he refuses to do so then his website would be suspended until trial then in court he may prove his innocence and have his website relaunched or the website will be shut down for good if it's proven that he's content was illegal now even before this law became reality even before it passed the russian parliament it caused a fury online and even offline with some minor street protests the internet users have been saying and have been believing that this would suppress internet freedoms that this would cause a massive crackdown and censorship on line and the law if affectively went into force some of the big russian websites including one of the biggest music download

websites in russia have gone on strike putting some black screens instead of their starting pages so people have been essentially believing that this may suppress freedoms which is not quite the case if you read into this law but now let's compare how other countries worldwide are fighting the very same problem in two thousand and nine france adopted this so-called a law which stipulates that anyone violating content distribution rules is given two warnings. for the internet service provider is forced to cut off the use of internet access if the culprit persists he risks a fine of up to three hundred thousand euros and up to three years in prison the most liberal anti-piracy law is believed to be in the netherlands torrent websites are technically outlawed but still downloading content for noncommercial use is not illegal uploading it means breaking the law and possible prosecution japan adopted its anti-piracy law last year and was immediately branded as draconian quite understandably some may say because violating it would land you a fine of one million a year and that's roughly ten thousand dollars and

a two year prison term and often the violators are punished with both it's worth mentioning that none of the above mentioned countries have registered an increase in purchases of legal canton since adopting these laws how the new legislation works in russia which stands in between not only geographically but in terms of the law strictness but has a far more serious piracy issue will become very clear and a new arms embargo on syria fishley expired this week which means there's nothing now stopping the block from sending weapons to the country but it appears some european countries are already deeply involved in the civil war each citizen flocking to syria to join and he is sad fighters and the scale of his leave asked the french officials said that in nine years of conflict in afghanistan only fifty jihadists left the country to fight meanwhile in syria's case more than one hundred people have gone there from france in one year alone according to some experts in most cases they join al qaeda and other terror groups the total number of europeans

who have left to fight in the syrian war is now over six hundred dimitri wanting to cern join jihadist forces in syria told us his story. but i still want to hold on to it friends with muslim brothers when they become eighty and there's nothing wrong with that the goal of the governor was you know. after the last contact with them as much as though there's entire euro that they give you money that they give you to study to continue this study of this muslim religion and. you know. i have the feeling that something was going wrong i started this cover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria when they are recognized but also in a video with other belgian guys this immunise we're standing above all these children from the west not only from the west but many of the old young guys from all over the walls they are using this young children

a son rouhani has been sworn in before parliament in iran a day after being indorsed the next president by the country supremely leader rouhani was elected with the support of the reformists see when the country's international isolation as part of his election platform but the u.s. is welcome the new president with new economic sanctions more than seventy american senators have already signed a letter calling on president obama to further clamp down on iran's economy international relations expert dr mohammed san hanny says the u.s. must make the first steps to improving relations with iran. now the ball is in the american court i mean royally has shown the flexibility i mean he came through the pain reliever slogan of moderation and prudence says that he is far from being extremists of foreign policy makers so in that sense it's now american term to

to try to really engage reappear on gays moment i mean a true engagement it doesn't work if they want a game to talk about. under stick talking about all options on the table now it's time for negotiation iran is now in the best position to do so unless they're all harney has demanded to solve the problem not only do nuclear problem but all of the longest standing problem with the united states. now some other international news police in istanbul have used tear gas against an anti government rally in tax seems where the protest was part of the two and a half million strong move across eighty two cities to demand the resignation of the prime minister the wave of unrest in to be kicked off in late may with a similar police break up at a rally against the demolition of east temples present. and twenty two u.s.

embassies across the middle east and north africa are closed this sunday and may remain shut for the next few days due to an unspecified al qaeda terror threat in washington's also with huge worldwide travel alert for u.s. citizens which water remains in effect the u.s. embassy in yemen was attacked last year while a deadly assault was also carried out from the ambassador in libya. coming up. we look at the way it did any changing vendetta traditions in russia this is reaching. remember we talked about calling for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible to drones while freedom fashions as i like to call them are continuing to expand although the fact that our drones infrared eyes are very scary

the more common street cameras are way more likely to want to average day violate your privacy and thus they invented the justice cap this hat blocks your face with the 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.

for police officer. 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 seventy year old son. yeah. i want my son to be a soldier everybody in our family has been a military man me my father and even my grandfather and his time it's always been that way you could say our family loves weapons. and already disassembled a 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.