this is why you should care only. a saudi prince defect saying no to the bone of practices of injustice abuse and killings against those willing to expose the wrongdoings of the ruling elite he told him exclusively. jailed but staying at this seems a political prisoners the saudi arabia is eagerly promoting tolerance of rolled amid news international condemnation towards its context and. also the south america's staunchest allies and nuclear rivals told the n.s.a.'s global supply list and it's not terrorism but foreign policy and economic espionage dominating that trend. to boy cold or not gay rights activists are simply telling whether the winter olympics should be the target of projects against russia's new door panel so shall probably sexuality

propaganda to minors. from russia and iran the while this has all she with me you thanks for joining us. mind will she say otherwise you could end up languishing in jail at best that's apparently the message the saudi authorities are sending to the nation also the country's prisons are packed with anti regime whose number by some estimates is more than thirty thousand already the crackdown has exposed a chasm within the ruling family as well the arabic spoke exclusively to the saudi prince. four hundred al samoud who became a dissident himself taking a stand against the monarch his methods. the government is obviously scared of the

arab revolutions and they responded as they usually do by resorting to oppression violence arbitrary law and arrest the easiest thing they can do is deprive you of your salary or fire you altogether so the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary as both police and the prosecutor's office are countable to the interior ministry the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes related to freedom of speech so they fabricate evidence don't allow people to have attorneys things like that happen all over the place they even put people under arrest for an indefinite amount of time even if a court rules to release such a criminal the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is a court order to release him there have even been killings killings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces by means people abroad there is no

safety inside or outside the country could you describe these people who oppose the royal family and what are their goals opposition used to demand wider peoples representation in governing bodies more rights and freedoms but the authorities reacted with violence and persecution instead of a dialogue now the opposition wants this regime gone but we both know that despite the numerous human rights violations in saudi arabia your country seldom faces criticism from the west and from the united states in particular when senior u.s. officials meet with their saudi counterparts basically economy any critical comments from washington. what the white house certainly does maintain a longstanding alliance with the leaders of saudi arabia cemented by common interests in the middle east to that end there are classified contacts between areas. the u.s. administration in recent time they've been employed to step up the government

administered reforms but those reforms are not driven by the elites desire to empower the people of the kingdom instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might fall unless it reforms itself oppression is widespread in saudi arabia there is no free speech no freedom of expression corruption is rampant in all areas from the level bureaucrats to hiring officials every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. is saudi arabia's fund drive to tighten the noose around the necks of political activists at home so freely preaching liberal ideas and tolerance to others i'll save lives in france let's not why exactly this political line is being widely labeled as hypocritical. saudi arabia violently squash is the voice of any opposition and we see it sitting front and center in discussions of the democratic transition of power within other countries such as syria on the one hand it reportedly ships arms to the opposition in syria on the

other hand peaceful opposition in saudi arabia is answered with prison sentences torture even death for people whose voice their own opinion in fact in october two thousand and twelve amnesty international calls on the saudi authorities to stop using excessive force against pro-democracy protesters here are just a few examples from this year alone on june seventeenth meet cliff mari was convicted of sowing discord and other offenses through writings and exposure of human rights abuses he got five years in prison june twenty fourth seven men were convicted of inciting protest illegal gatherings and breaking allegiance with the king mostly by joining facebook pages and posting messages they each got between five and ten years in prison then we've got editor rafe badawi convicted of insulting islam and authorities through his website and during television interviews he was sentenced to seven years in prison and six hundred lashes and these conditions anyone with something substantial to say about the government society or religion would be blamed for keeping a low profile and this is where the man being called the saudi of songe comes in no

one knows who he is what he looks like or where he lives his prolific tweets denouncing the ruling family as corrupt and enriching themselves from government coffers have earned him over a million followers he is known only as much to heat i spoke with him over google chat to find out why he stays in hiding because it's not for safety i asked him why you remains anonymous he said ironically anonymity boost his credibility and courage of people to follow him and talk about his stories without worrying i asked if this meant that people could pay less attention to his biography and more attention to his message he pointed out the regime can destroy your credibility easily. and deter people from dealing with you if your identity is public well to heat is forced underground a new monarchie backed religious diversity center has launched its own charm offensive in vienna according to its mission statement it encourages dialogue among followers of different religions and cultures king abdullah has also announced

a donation of one hundred million to set up a united nations center for fighting terrorism one of its four pillars is to prevent conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism and ensuring respect for human rights so while the king's clerics preach a hardline form of islam that often becomes a breeding ground for extremism saudi arabia is assuming a moral high ground in advising other nations in transitional democracy. meanwhile germany's facing an avalanche of criticism of its have tea arms deals with saudi arabia and other gulf nations who can't exactly boast of having better human rights records than riyadh as weapons exports to the gulf monarchies have almost tripled in just so you get is from five hundred and seventy million euros in twenty eleven to almost a billion and a half in twenty eight twelve and i'm going to merkel's government has approved weapons exports of more than eight hundred million euros in the first half of this year suggesting the level will continue to grow the six countries in the region

a billion cells weapons to saudi arabia bahrain qatar kuwait oman and the united arab emirates several of which have seen government crackdowns on anti regime protesters since the arab spring saudi arabia is the biggest buyer security hardware worth one point twenty four billion euros were sold there last year actually it's also claimed german made a small firearms munition and military vehicles were commonly used by middle eastern and north african regimes to suppress peaceful demonstrations and google from human rights watch is a joining us now live with more on mr google welcome to r.t. great to see you here so on sales is a multibillion dollar business of course and it's very optimistic to think that germany would curb its arms shipments to the region isn't it. first of all thank you for having me it was your question that it's realistic for

germany to curb its arms sales yes indeed. you know i i don't know if it's realistic for germany to curb its arms sales i think that western countries in general should look at the widespread crackdown that's going on against human rights political and pro reform activists going on in the country when they make these deals they should these governments that have good relationships with the saudis should make it clear that what they're doing. is really goes against the pro reform agenda that king abdullah has been trumpeting since he came to power in two thousand and five what we've seen in the last least i could say in two thousand and thirteen is an increasing crackdown we've seen many high profile convictions over the last few months i think you just mentioned a few on the show earlier you mentioned we who were sentenced for basically establishing a liberal website he received seven years in prison and six hundred lashes an

unbelievably harsh sentence before that you had. who was famous for trying to foster better relations between sunnis and shias he got five years before that women's rights activists are uni and was he on the way there got ten months in prison for merely trying to assist a woman who was in distress who claimed that she was she was not being provided enough food to live and they they went to her house to try to help her and the police arrested her so we're seeing a widespread campaign against anyone who speaks out against the policies of the current government and any activist who calls for human rights reforms and political reforms and i think that these western countries that have military relationships or other relationships with saudi arabia should make clear that this is unacceptable behavior but talking about sales why do they need. such a scale from your point to me. you know i as an

organization we merely comment on the documentation we believe document and comment on ongoing human rights abuses i can't really speak to the military element and the needs of the saudi military as far as that goes. all right away with arab spring has rolled over the region dealing a severe blow really to some countries such as egypt and syria may be an iron hand is what they need. just to keep the authorities in power do you think. well you know i think that the. the creation and spread of social media networks in saudi arabia has really led to not not an arab spring as in protests but there's certainly been an unprecedented level of dissent and criticism that saudis are now able to communicate with one another and that was never the case before several years ago so i think what you're seeing now is an increasing awareness among saudi

citizens of the rights deficit you have the emergence of extremely brave human rights. activists to come out in advocate for for changes in a peaceful manner and you know so far they have they have faced a lot of repression harassment intimidation arrest and now we're seeing more and more imprisonments. right from human rights watch mr kugel thank you very much indeed for sharing your views with us. thank you. more league documents obtained from edward snowden earlier this year are shedding further light on america's global surveillance network the latest papers offer a tiered list of washington's top targets for spying but also especially surprising is that the e.u. in america's highest ranks just behind the lines of china russia and iran on of reports now on the ranks of espana. of the latest information to come out about the

n.s.a. spying scandal is being published in news magazine here in germany now the. documents that were leaked by edward snowden and dated from april of this year now those documents outlining just the extent of how the united states was spying on e.u. countries now the twenty eight member states it says were looked at in terms of foreign policy international trade and economic stability apparently security related but those were the the areas in which the n.s.a. pursued the hardest now there was also spying taking place and information being gathered with regards to technology and energy as well now also revealed in these documents that have been put forward in news magazine show a breakdown of the countries which the n.s.a. targeted the most now they split into a couple of key is of importance now in the in the top to have countries like china

russia iran pakistan and north korea but just underneath that you have countries like germany france and japan all nations that consider themselves allies in close allies of that of the united states these revelations as they continue to come out from those huge bundles and bundles and bundles of information that edward snowden brought with them when he when he fled from the national security agency from the contractors that he was working with continued to turn up a treasure trove of information about just what was going on and these most recent documents seem to back up previous leaked documents that showed that the n.s.a. was spying on the e.u. e.u. offices both in brussels as well as around the world now when those when that information was released and should be legal magazine a few months ago well that caused outrage across europe and we're seeing more of that now as these latest revelations come out that the e.u. was seen as a key target for spying by the united states. august continues

a tragic pattern of bloodshed in iraq and the death toll by the day world wide concern over the country's future is growing while washington places a ten million dollars bounty on the al qaeda cheap in iraq we'll bring you an expert opinion later. thus doing away with the international monetary fund hungry pays back its huge debts ahead overshadowed hoping to be riddled by his meddling and it's sober enough as that and much more after the break . most of these boys has been told a lot for violence or theft. of the window climbed in and tried started. we pushed it a little way and here we were drunk. and soon who you're an alcoholic nearly all of

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welcome back rushers under pressure from the global gay community which ones a boycott of the upcoming winter olympics in sochi they're angry about a new law which byron so called gay propaganda calling the measure brutal and fascist russian authorities say they are only trying to protect minors and political commentator adrian helton believes while protests are acceptable boycotting the olympics would achieve nothing. constant leitmotif of keeping sports out of politics i have no objection at all to stephen fry's exhortation to sports people all over the world to gesture like this but we also rather flippantly suggested that they object and protest like that that there's a certain levity in the whole protest that i find a little distasteful by all means protest if you want to wear rainbow colored tops

or pink tops do so i just don't think this ban that he said is essential is essential at all there's much more to be achieved by engaging and participating than by banning and boycotting. and always much more stories for you on our website including the man at the wheel they know we can find minister a cabbie uniform to secretly find out whether people think he's a good leader but only proving himself and media driver as a result. and danger is naval behavior of the country's launches its vast domestically designed and build aircraft carrier joining the world's military elite trysts two days after presenting its debut nuclear submarine story and more at r.t. dot com. al-qaeda has claimed responsibility for

saturday's a massive string of bombings that battered iraq killing more than ninety people since the beginning of the month more than three hundred people in the country have died in the violence a figure that's fast approaching the total for the entire august last year and also this july was the deadliest since two thousand and eight with monthly losses on a level not seen in years and mark boateng get investigated the consequences of the u.s. led military campaign in iraq and now joins us now live mr mark boateng hello and welcome to our see so could you tell us what you found out during your research. while the worst two issues we mainly looked first of all we looked at. such a military intervention which generally justified the democracy purposes or purposes of humanitarian reasons actually accomplished was that we see that they

generally killed more people make more victims than claiming to say secondly we were looking at the use of certain forbidden weapons. by the aggressor which obviously had massive held impact on the population being for example can. which is much more frequent now than it was before. and the lack of healthcare services those patients could attend because obviously. the destruction brought about by war has. totally destroyed any form of health care i mean at a decent level at least the right i would know that the us offered a ten million dollar bounty for information which which could help kill or capture the head of al qaeda is brunch in iraq. just such a huge figure as such a huge figure suggest that situation is getting desperate that. well you mention it i mean july's been the deadliest month in in five years so something then again

it's kind of ironic that the us now have to chase al qaeda in iraq while before the war al-qaeda was almost totally absent from the country so i do think it says something about the details of the military interventions brought about it says something about the fact that when you destroy a country obviously all kinds of terrorist groups on groups will be free to act in any way they like so i do think it's something about it but let's be honest i mean there's no way just a bounty will solve the problem of terrorism in iraq. if you're wrong the security forces are so we can be facing growing terroristic c.v.t. in the country how can the international community help them back. when i think it's pretty clear that ten years of state building of democracy building in iraq have no. deal with great results i do think there's a few there's a few. possibilities there's some hope first of all it would be

a good idea i believe to give genuine sovereignty back to the country so to give iraqis again a way of expressing themselves not just reelections but through popular participation that's one issue a second issue would be obviously limiting the role all foreign advisors counselors . iraqi ministers which are having for the moment goes for an advisor by having a massive political impact and not always but the good of the iraqis and really i believe an important and important issue which is made an important issue doubly would be to guarantee basic services to the iraqis i mean there isn't is not fall just by repression it's followed by giving basic services by giving health care to the iraqis by giving a decent education system those things should be guaranteed. right tang get policy coordination said world house aide mr batangas thank you very much indeed. titled the international monetary fund's imagining the home garion government has

paid off its twenty billion euro debt ahead of sched jewel filmmakers are now calling on the i.m.f. to pack up and leave but a pez been at odds with the global financial body for years over what the government termed. interference alexy here check your force now on how hungry cut to self loose. this can garion family can now enjoy picking a pram for their soon to be born child when the global recession reached the country they struggled to repay their mortgage but thanks to a government support program their flat now belongs to them and they've saved at least ten thousand euro in that time factor that in the. situation room. is now quite strong so. there are lots of steps but look at hungary's economy of late and you'll be hard pressed to find much to be optimistic about the economy is now fading better than during the recession

but still most of the important developing figures are in negative territory while inflation is even higher than in the crisis years the country's opposition firmly believes hungary would stagnate without a high good reason to be c.p.i. of funds and this is very important ninety seven percent of the new developments today finance from e.u. money however seeing what's happening in greece and spain budapest is not keen on grabbing the hands of the international lenders and in this case it goes beyond merely the bravado rhetoric often voiced by the country's prime minister. thirty steps between the building of the national bank of hungary and the head office of the international monetary fund in budapest but that is this close as they get a letter from one building to another at the end of july said that hungary no longer required the services of the i.m.f. and that its employees must leave the country as soon as possible the country's deputy economics minister is tight lipped on any kind of open to still

a t towards brussels or the knowledge is that what the e.u. bureaucrats are offering is not the past his message is we can handle it on our own but at greece that level is according to g.d.p. after dish two bailouts and restructuring and admitting its hundred sixty percent in hungary to present the european. averages nel about eighty five percent we have been able to finance the public that on the market will have to introduce the reference which make a contract more competitive and that is what we have done in the last couple of yes and i think they are the gold basis to to have an independent economic policy next year hungary will host parliamentary elections and some say the hardline stance with the e.u. may be part of a political campaign by the right wing leadership but analysts are not ruling out that should viktor orban its government be reelected the prime minister may take his standoff with brussels to a completely new level by initiating

a referendum on leaving the european union altogether next year a ship ski auntie reporting from budapest in hungary. and let's now have a look at some of the international headlines in brief supporters of the ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi are bracing themselves for a major police operation after security forces warms they will despise their protest camps in cairo and response demonstrators call for more rallies gearing up to resist the police if they move in morse's supporters have been holding their citizens into locations in the capital for more than a months now despite the authorities repeated threats to break out of the camps. thirteen more kurds have reportedly been abducted by a city where rebels who've been hunted them over to islamic jihad groups are believed to be holding as many as two hundred fifty people and were allegedly behind a massacre of hundreds of kurdish women and children last week the ethnic minority

groups refused to sign with either president assad or the opposition ending the bloody retribution from extremist rebel groups. coming up next what happens when a single man takes on the challenge of looking after being tired orphanage find out after a short break you announce. the u.s. government project marty has been in place for twenty years this project was designed to break the media monopoly of cuban television by putting u.s. government propaganda up to t.v. screens this injection of american t.v. works with the blimp at a c one thirty military plane working in tandem you know this would actually be a major achievement in the history of technology if it actually worked this program

which over the years has built up a billion taxpayer dollars simply does not work but continues to exist despite the cuban government completely blocked. in the transmission the official logic of continuing the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance in action but the big question is who gives the us government the right to propagandize cuba is just because they have a different lifestyle doesn't mean it is wrong and the us government does has the right to destroy it and even if cubans on mass actually do hate their system then it is their job to change cuba not the military industrial complex and its cronies in washington but that's just my opinion.

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