by saudi princes defects a knowledge of the monarchy is proxies of injustice abuse and killings against those willing to expose the wrong doings of the ruling elite he talks to him exclusively. trails that bursting at the seams with political prisoners saudi arabia is eagerly promoting tolerance a broader made muted international condemnation of tools of toxics problem. plus america's staunchest allies and nuclear rivals two of the n.s.a.'s global spy list and it's not terrorism but foreign policy and economic espionage dominating the agenda. to both called on north to gay rights activists are split on whether the winter olympics should be the target of protests against

russia's new law or promus or trauma to propaganda to mind its. hello and welcome to twenty four hour news life from moscow my name is our top story. mind what you say otherwise you could end up languishing in jail at best that's a barricade the message to saudi authorities are sending to their nationals the countries prisons are packed with the regime activists whose number by some estimates is more than thirty thousand already the crackdown has exposed kassam within the ruling family as well all the arabic spoke exclusively to sound of prince can lead to bin for one. who became a dissident himself taking a stand against him on occasion acids. 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 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 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 buying 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 freedoms 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 numerous human rights violations in 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 react to 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 area the. 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 of 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 for most level bureaucrats to high ranking officials every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. this find saudi arabia's fund drive to tighten the noose around the necks of political activists at home with so freely preaching liberal ideas and tolerance to others on seasons in france looks not 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 me 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 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 website editor raif 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. and would be blamed for keeping

a low profile and this is where the man being called the saudi 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 there were 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's facing an avalanche of criticism over its have two arms deals with saudi arabia and the gulf nations who come to exactly boast of. riyadh berlin's weapons exports to the gulf monarchies have almost tripled in just you get is from five hundred and seventy million euros in two thousand to eleven to almost a billion and a half in twenty eight twelve and a muggles government has approved weapons exports of more than eight hundred million two million viewers in the first half of this year suggesting the level

will continue to grow the six countries in the region berlin sells 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 or sold their last year actually it's also claimed german made small firearms ammunition and military vehicles were commonly used by middle eastern and north african regimes to suppress peaceful demonstrations and google 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 twenty 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 or 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 in 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. there will be no discrimination of gay people attending the sochi winter olympics that's the official response of the russian interior ministry to the ongoing pressure by rights activists in the west angered by a new law against homosexuality propaganda to mine is. court has more now on moscow's reaction. 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 love vodka to the such a 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 writes a letter to the british prime minister david cameron and his young daughter the president of the i.o.c. calling not only for a boycott of the were winter olympics to be held in russia but it's also true parallels to the summer olympic games which are held in nazi germany and poland in

one thousand thirty six and he drew comparisons between. treatment of homosexuals and adult hitler 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 coached in this 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 over them being homosexuals nevertheless whenever such complaints were made we thirty investigated them and of course being the commissioner in the run up to the games during the games and very importantly after the games i will always be reacting to such complaints based on the simple constitutional principle that they have the same civil rights as anyone who is as you suggest in the concern and

political commentator adrian helton believes that while protests are acceptable by causing the olympics would achieve not a. 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 robert flippantly suggested. objects in 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 we'll be back with more news here right after this

short break. most of these voices being toppled a lot for violence or thirst. but we serve the window climbed in and tried to start it but we pushed it a little way here we were drunk. and soon you will be an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless orphans with no money. by you really going to live without me. for a moment but there it felt like i was back with those street hooligans who could have beaten me up at any moment. as i turned my back i couldn't help wondering about my safety. isn't a warden is there a doubt the father you could say that slava raises he makes normal people out of ugly duckling.

you're watching r.t. live from moscow it's good to have you with us let's move on now more leaked documents obtained from edward snowden earlier this year and shouting 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. in america ranks just behind the likes of china russia and iran ati's piece on it are reports now on the tears of espionage of the latest information to come out

about the n.s.a. spying scandal is being published in beagle news magazine here in germany now the quote 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 you 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 it information being gathered with regards to technology and energy as well now also revealed in these documents that have been put forward in spiegel newsmagazine show a breakdown of the countries which the n.s.a. targeted the most now they split into. 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 and close allies of that of the united states now these revelations as they continue to come out from those huge bottles 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 the previous leaked documents that showed that the n.s.a. was spying on the e.u. the e.u. offices both in brussels as well as around the world now when those that were not information was released inch beagle 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 al qaeda 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 since to thousand and eight with monthly losses on a level not seen in the guineas and amount but tengah investigated the consequences of the u.s. led military campaign in iraq and things the war made the country fertile ground for terrorists. 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 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 followed by giving basic services like 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 any form of health care i mean at a decent level at least. as always most stories on our website for you in creating demand of the we'll be no way through prime minister i don't think you should be uniform to secretly find out what the people think he's a good leader but only prove yourself a mediocre driver as a result. and india is unable behemoths the country don't use its funds domestically designed and built at traffic area joining the world's military elite interesting days after presenting instead he needs a submarine pass car and much noise box you know. right from

the street. first street. and i would think that you're. on the recorders with the. instrument. the the in. titled international monetary fund's meddling beyond bearing government has paid off its twenty billion euro debt ahead of shared jewel lawmakers that are calling on the i.m.f. to pack up and leave would have been at odds with the global financial body full years of what the government termed undue interference and reports now on how hungry. 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 the fact is that in the air in america because situation. is now quite strong. there are not soft 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 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 of the e.u. 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 does not suit budapest 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 eighty percent the european. aboriginal about eighty five percent we have been able to finance the public that on the market will have to introduce the

reference which make the 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 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. auntie reporting from budapest in hungary. and time now to have a look at some other international headlines in breve the egyptian army has extended the detention of answer reza hamad morsi for yet another fifteen days says his supporters are bracing themselves for a major police operation after security forces won't they will disperse their

protest camps in cairo and response demonstrators called for more randall's gearing up to iss the police said they move in morsy supporters have been holding their citizens in two locations in the capital for more than a month now despite bill sorceries repeated threats to break out the count. thirteen more kurds have reportedly been abducted by seaward rebels who then handed them over to islamists giardia groups are believed to be holding as many as two hundred fifty people and were allegedly behind a mass ago hundreds of kurdish women and children last week the ethnic minority groups refused to side with either president assad or the opposition erling the bloody retribution from extremist rebel groups. a message worth millions of dollars lost among the airwaves the u.s. has been trying to transmit its word of democracy to cuba for decades with next to no success even a special broadcast plane didn't help washington break through the signal jamming

and no one's listening america keeps the program alive. can explain. old habits die hard having spent decades unsuccessfully attempting to undermine the cuban government the u.s. 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 are doing and of who are to. and projects like toward democracy which the channel's 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 to. 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 have you ever heard of radio marti no nimbus or no i know nothing about it. the marquee itself acknowledges the limited we each of it's radio and t.v. programs we don't have any way to reach with the information in the general queue of people became government jams the martys radio and t.v. signals to circumvent that the us has employed a variety of methods one of them arrow martini a plane that had been flying over cuba to transmit us broadcast 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 that fewer than one percent of cubans can see from an airplane to the oil and i did time when u.s. lawmakers cut funding on social programs for a low workers at a time when we hear calls to defund us public radio and television washington still

spends millions of dollars every year on a media operation to overthrow the cuban government in washington i'm going to check out. and coming out but what happens when a single man takes on the challenge of looking after an entire fine downtown for a short break here and not see. 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 continuing the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance and 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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really what i've been slaving for for all these ears. will be nobody here by ten o'clock in the evening. when i give everything up of that's what you want to do. i should scream at you now and everyone has to say thank you uncle sabathia wisdom or truth would respond for a moment back there it felt like i was back with those street hooligans who could have beat me up at any moment as i turned my back i couldn't help wondering you know am i safe.