a saudi prince defied a knowledge of the monarchy its practices of injustice abuse and killings against those willing to expose the wrongdoings of the ruling elite he talks to them exclusively. jails dad but king at the scenes with political prisoners in saudi arabia is eagerly promoting tolerance a brutal made muted international condemnation towards its tactics at. america's staunchest allies and their nuclear rivals told the n.s.a.'s global supply list and it's not terrorism but foreign policy and economic and spanish domination that tried. to boycott on not gay rights activists are split on whether the winter olympics should be target of protest

against russia's new law on homosexuality propaganda to mind that. this is all she come into your life. and welcome to the program mind what you say otherwise you could end up languishing in jail at the past that's apparently the passage the saudi authorities ascending to their nationals the country's prisons are packed with anti regime activists whose number by some estimates is more than thirty thousand already the crime down has exposed a chasm within the ruling family as well as our break spoke exclusively to sound of prince ben bohane al samoud who became a dissident himself taking a stand against the monarchy has mass. 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 but 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 that has 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 at the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is a court order to release him and there have even been killings killings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces find these 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 freedom but the authorities reacted with violence and persecution instead of a dialogue and now the opposition wants this regime gone but we both know that despite the numerous human rights violations and saudi arabia your country seldom faces straight decision 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 visibly riyadh 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 that the instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might fall unless it reforms itself and 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 in every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. despise saudi arabia's firm drive to tighten the noose around the necks of political activists at home and still prelate preaching liberal ideas and tolerance to others he has lin's in france looks now at why exactly this political line is being widely labeled as hypocritical. as saudi arabia violently squashes the voice of any opposition 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 sewing 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 protests 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 in 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 and on anybody 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. 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 is facing an avalanche of criticism of its have to arms deals with saudi arabia and other gulf nations who come to exactly boast of having better human rights records than butlins weapons exports to the gulf monarchies have almost tripled in just two years from five hundred and seventy million years and twenty eleven to almost a billion and a half in twenty twelve and i'm glad merkel's government has approved weapons exports of more than eight hundred million years in the first half of these year

suggesting the level will continue to grow this extent trees in the region but in the cells weapons saudi arabia bahrain qatar kuwait non 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 buyers security hardware worth one point twenty four billion euros was sold there last year and it's also claimed german made small firearms a munition and military vehicles were commonly used by middle eastern and north african regimes to suppress peaceful demonstrations and kugel from human rights watch believes foreign players should drop their business interests and think twice before supplying gulf monarchies with weapons. 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 at 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 women's rights activists are uni and was 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 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 specially surprising is that the e.u. and america's allies ranks just behind the likes of china russia and iran piece on of reports now on the tears of the s. and knowledge. of the latest information to come out about the n.s.a. spying scandal is being published in news magazine here in germany 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 none of those 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. 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 about of the united states now 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 in 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 that information was released and should be able 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. continues the tragic part of blanchard a no wrong and as the death toll drums by the day wide consent over the country's future is growing while washington places at ten million don't have balance here on the al qaeda troop in iraq or bring your expert opinion in a set. and also this hour doing away with the international monetary fund to hungary pays back its huge debt ahead of shed hoping to be a retail bank is meddling and it's sober enough as that and much more often to

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a warden he's there the father you could say that slobber raises he makes normal people out of ugly duckling. this is he coming to live from moscow welcome back al qaida has claimed responsibility for saturday's 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 say this in nineteen. eight so with monthly losses on the level not seen in the years so mark a tag or investigated the consequences of the u.s. led military campaign in iraq and things the war made the country photo ground for

terrorists. it's kind of ironic that the u.s. now is 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 the military intervention has 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 let's be honest i mean there's no way just a bounty will solve the problem of terrorism in iraq terrorism is not fall just by repression it's false by giving basic services by giving health care to the iraqis by giving a decent education system those things should be guaranteed the destruction brought about by war has. totally destroyed. i mean at a decent level at least. and there's always more stories on our website for you including the man and then we'll you know where to find things that don't seem to be uniformed secret you find out whether people think he's

a good leader but only proving himself and mediocre try and that. is naval behavior of the country no injuries it's passed domestically designed and built and craft carrier joining the world's ministry to meet just two days after presenting its debbie nuclear submarine that story and much more that's on t.v. . right from the scene. of the first street. and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. the the in. died of the international monetary fund's meddling behind gehring government has

paid off its twenty billion euro debt ahead of shed your lawmakers and are calling on the i.m.f. to pack up and leave but it has been after all it's a big global financial body forget is over what the government termed undue interference at x. here shows the reports now on how hungary got itself loose. this 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 to their. critical situation. is now quite strong. there are lots of stats 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 development 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 e.u. aid hungary's and mad to receive peer. 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 there are literally 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 as 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 has still a t towards brussels but acknowledges that what the e.u.

bureaucrats are offering this is not suited to the past his message is we can handle it on our own but a greece that level is according to g.d.p. after two hundred structuring and averaging is hundred sixty percent in hungary to present the european. averages know about eighty five percent we are able to find a public that on the market will have to introduce the reference which make a country more competitive and that is what we have done in the last couple of years and i think they are the good basis 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 government be reelected the prime minister may take his standoff with brussels to a completely new level by initiating

a referendum on leaving the rypien union altogether. welty reporting from budapest in hungary. a message worth millions of dollars lost among the airwaves the us has been trying to transmit its what of democracy to cuba for decades was next to no success even a special broadcast playing didn't help washington break through the signal jamming and even though no one said this and america keeps the program alive well he's going to chicken out explain. di hart having spent decades unsuccessfully attempting to undermine the cuban government the us keeps trying washington finds a t.v. channel and a radio station that specifically target a cuban audience with programming that features prominent cuban dissidents what you were doing to an opportunity. and projects like toward democracy which the channels website advertises as a how to guide for transitioning from dictatorship to democracy all done in the

hopes that one day the communist leadership in cuba will fall how soon do you think that's going. well i hope so i'm probably three years we need to work really hard maybe the martine media are working very hard but the cuban public remains largely unaware of their efforts which i do have heard of radio most. know i know nothing about it. the marquee itself acknowledges the limited reach of bits radio and t.v. programmes we will have for any way to reach with the information in the general queue of people became a government jams the martys radio and t.v. signals to circumvent that the us has employed a variety of methods one of them arrow marty a plane that had been flying over cuba to transmit us broadcasts the us broadcasting board of governors that oversees iraq marty has asked congress to discontinue the program two years in a row admitting it has been

a failure it's hard to believe we're still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jam t.v. signal fewer than one percent of cubans can see from an airplane to the oil and at a time when u.s. lawmakers cut funding on social programs for a low workers at a time when we hear calls to defund u.s. public radio and television washington still spends millions of dollars every year on a media operation to overthrow the key. government in washington i'm going to check on. russia is under pressure from the global gay community which was a boycott of the upcoming winter olympics in sochi that angry about a new norwich bond so-called gay propaganda con and the measure brutal and fractious russian authorities say they're only trying to protect minors and let's not get nor lie with poles caught paul nice to see you so what's the official reaction that while the debate just rumbles on doesn't it ever since russia

announced they were adopting this new law banning the propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors there were calls from prominent human rights activists to boycott all things russian from vodka to the sochi winter olympics which are coming up in february next year now one of the most notable calls came from a project to stephen fry who wrote a letter to the british prime minister david cameron and the president of the i.o.c. calling not only for a boycott of the were winter olympics to be held in russia but he also drew parallels to the summer olympic games which are held in nazi germany in one thousand nine hundred eighty six and he drew comparisons between. the treatment of homosexuals and out of hitler's treatment of the gays now that's drawn a stinging response today from russia's human rights commissioner saying that it is a gross ignorance to compare the two to compare the holocaust to this new law he's also said that he has been surprised by the calls to boycott the olympics and said

that he fears that there could be political undertones behind the calls rather than just human rights interest here's what he had to say. courage because to me. during the ten years of my working as the human rights commissioner they have been very few complaints about the civil rights of these people being violated for the sole reason of them being homosexual nevertheless whenever such complaints were made we thoroughly investigated and of course being the commissioner in the run up to the games joining the games and very importantly after the. games i will always be reacting to such complaints based on the simple constitutional principle they have the same civil rights as anyone else is just a good writer and he's paul's call reporting there live paul many thanks indeed thank you. and political commentator adrian helton believes while protests are acceptable boycotting the olympics would achieve nothing. there's

a 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 a 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. that's our look at some other international headlines in brief supporters of the al for the egyptian president mohamed morsi are bracing themselves for a major police operation after security forces warned they will despise their protests conason cairo and response demonstrators called for more run is gearing up

to resist the police if they move in more so supporters have been holding their citizens in two locations in the capital for more than a month now despite the authorities repeated threats to break up the camps. thirteen more cars have reportedly been abducted by sea where rebels who then handed them over to islamist jihadi groups are believed to be holding as many as two hundred fifty people and was allegedly behind the massacre of hundreds of kurdish women and children last week the ethnic minority groups refused to sign with either president assad or the opposition bloody retributive from extremist of rebel groups. and coming up next tough questions and contrasting opinions in our interview show sophie and.

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 a blimp and 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 blocking the transmission the official logic of continued the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuba. government if they stopped brilliance in action but the big question is who gives the us government the right to propagandize cubans 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. i don't want them to sophie and co i'm so not sit and today i'm having a very special guest that needs no introduction larry king larry spent twenty five years with c.n.n. talking to people then retired and has come back with his show larry king now which is also available on our t.v. hi larry you know this is one of my first shows because my show premiered this week and you're one with very for us first.