free. and free blog video for your media project a free media oh god r.t. dot com. whenever you see the president talk about exceptionalism. what he's trying to say is the rules of civil behavior. doesn't apply to. wiki leaks founder julian assange talks exclusively to u.s. exceptionalism and his vision for the future of the freedom of information. one hundred twenty million europeans live in or on the brink of poverty the red cross raises the alarm suggesting a stir to policies of pushing the e.u. into de decline. in the u.k. activist seek to name all the victims of u.s. drone strikes in pakistan. to bring return that the people still manage to return

to flight but that people won't move the statistics were told to x. rays from the bureau investigative journalism for looking beyond just the casualty figures caused by will be cause for signal strikes. international news and comment line from moscow this is a party with me franks for joining us. american exceptionalism is merely an excuse washington uses to break the law at home and abroad that's what julian assange has told auntie's eva golinger exclusive interview there with the leaks founder also sketched out his vision on the huge show freedom of information and praise of russia for giving a silent to n.s.a.

whistleblower edward snowden. here at the embassy of ecuador in london he affirmed that the exceptionalism that barack obama president of united states is defending is merely an excuse to be involved in law something used by nations such as united states with power to subordinate others assigned also alerted to the necessity of developing sovereign technology and sovereignty in general in order to defend nations against the mass surveillance and espionage programs of the united states that violate human rights and certain rights under international law that whenever you see the president talk about exceptionalism what he's trying to say is there are rules of civil behavior. doesn't apply to him. whether that's in invading another country or whether that's abuse of lords.

in relation to. misuse of the espionage act against alleged journalistic sources. and journalists. that's something you. see it's very important that people understand that this is not just a piece more so it's a radical trade. mark of a much. more people under the espionage of more journalistic sources on the espionage act than all previous presidents going back to nine hundred seventy in fact he's prosecuted them but this is a deliberate conscious decision by the white house to create a chilling effect using the espionage act as opposed to some other mechanism he also thanks to the russian government for giving asylum to edward snowden the whistleblower and former n.s.a. contractor anything the countries of ecuador venezuela bolivia for offering asylum to snowden and also giving support and asylum to

a saw him self saying that there are the few nations amongst the few nations that had the courage to stand up to u.s. power and aggression in terms of those nations that stepped forward it was left america and russia. not all of that. but that's probably why you're. trying to keep interest. that full interview will be available for you online so i had to r.t. that comment and love and set it to hear more i want to learn our sound has to say . meanwhile the whistleblower who is heavily in the spotlight right now edward snowden has been on edge for his revelations about global u.s. surveillance he received the sam adams prize for integrity in intelligence it's given out annually by government officials for whistleblowers and activists who handed snowden their ward stopped by our studio and told r.t.

is kevin owen how the n.s.a. leaker is doing is convinced it was rate he has no regrets and he's willing to face whatever the future holds for him it's a dangerous time for whistleblowers in the united states but the fact the snowden effect has been the opposite we have more and more whistleblowers coming to the government accountability project than we have had before so i think if the u.s. is trying to clamp down and send the message by making an example of courage is contagious. so what it's like to go against major government organizations to expose exactly they're up to. this group whistleblowers told us all about their experiences and that whole conversation is available for you on r.t. dot com. should edward snowden because it is a hero for revealing how u.s. surveillance programs operate one of the most prominent figures in the technology

world saying so he's worlds apart sat down with apple co-founder steve wozniak who explained his views on the n.s.a. leaker and his revelations. i believe he's a hero of my belief he's coming directly from his heart that he feels some goodness that he wants to be truthful to the american people that he believes in and loves his country america so strong with and that's all true and that he took a very drastic step and made a sacrifice and i wish that i look around and certainly feel in my life that i could do a quibble to his make the sacrifice i would do it i don't have knowledge information to expose you know on our. government bad activities that they do secretly because nobody would really think it's the right thing so i'm i'm very. i'm very glad that he exists among us seeing as a hero and and i wish that somebody five in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing.

one hundred twenty million europeans are now living in or on the brink of poverty twenty six million have no job or red cross study concludes the problem is triggered by the e.u. stocking of the debt crisis with decades of the poor getting poorer while soaring unemployment is fuelling extremism chris klug from the nottingham business school in the u.k. says governments don't realise the scale of the looming disaster that. i think. at the moment what you're seeing is european financial leaders the commission to the governments all telling us how they've solved the problems when they haven't actually done anything at all in the last couple of years to sort out any of their problems and you know i do agree with the red cross that they are facing a catastrophe in europe and i think back to ask if it will happen soon so what you're seeing is an economic crisis brought about by that ludicrous policy of

trying to tie everything together me europe was functioning quite well until the single currency came along. so you know when you get masses of young people unemployed and when you get people in various countries feeling like they are continuously paying out to support other people in other countries. you know the problem the problem here is quite clearly. going to cause xenophobia. the mas debt stricken european countries like portugal are pressing on with authority in a struggle to please international lenders they say the prospects of recovery are improving but that doesn't make people's everyday lives any easier as artists have found out. since portugal signed a seventy eight billion euro bailout deal back in two thousand and eleven some have referred to it as the poster child of us thirty but with high unemployment and a surge in emigration we've come to take

a look at the state of portugal's economy two years on like most mothers raquel wants the best possible future for her nine month old son but born in the midst of a deep recession this family hasn't had the easiest start when we decided we wanted to have a child who had no idea things would get this unstable then everything just broke down and we had to just make a decision it was going to become one of those record the new children of europe when she takes him to join her husband george he's currently working as a nurse in the u.k. despite unemployment falling slightly to just under seventeen percent is still the fifth highest in the eurozone meaning work held george and what's not the only long distance family dance in portugal hard to come by emigration has soared and if estimated that more than one hundred thousand people here and leaving the country.

it's not all bad news the portugal showing some glimmers of recovery beeston exports has been complemented by strong tourism but the cost of the astaire it he has been high many workers have seen tax rises equivalent to a month's wages and the age of retirement has gone up economist for rare is still calling for portugal to leave the eurozone and he has a word of warning. to difficult to do so he says. and there's another big question on everybody's lips portugal got another. time we got the rescore for. this difficult situation because we have three years ago but. after

this program. before. this program where we. are going to markets probably something has to be nobody can say exactly what. all eyes will be on portugal when its current program with the troika comes to an end in june next year but after two years of unprecedented austerity many portuguese still see little hope of a price. surface aussie portugal. and of course small stories ahead for you including a say no to jam out i'm sure she'll run against the notorious food giant on some toe is expected to gather crowds in over fifty countries across the globe. putting a human face on the drone war in pakistan we'll take a look at how one british and geo as a don't shoot

a project to list the names of all those killed by an unmanned u.s. airstrikes the story just ahead. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can they're very strong against g.m.o. and we think that. genetically modified products are priest. there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe that that destroyed room for and that free. enterprise is profit not. just these golden

rice barkeep. one is global business risk global vested interests versus millions of voices it begins and profits versus global protest. march against mom song to october the twelfth on archie and archie dot com. welcome bob this is c thanks for being. with at this hour militants in syria were reportedly trying to use chemical weapons in afghanistan russia's foreign minister has revealed let's not get more details from this could all be trying to live from moscow how do you tell us more about what sergei lavrov had to say all according to the foreign minister not only afghanistan but iraq as well may be used as

a training site for the use of chemical weapons just a lot of said they have information that terrorists are taught how to do it. tories not controlled by the government while girl runs one of the most all radical or syrian rebel groups is whining according to him to deliver chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for a possible future attacks or basically their training in afghanistan well could start practicing in iraq. the foreign minister also said this is organized by third countries although he didn't specify which state exactly just to remind you the syrian government earlier signed up for the international convention on chemical weapons which bans their use in order to establish international control over their arms arsenal. is going to live there you go thank you very much indeed for that. and a new report a human rights watch has claimed rebels in syria killed at least one hundred ninety

civilians in early august it says over two hundred hostages were seized in a military offensive on pro assad alawite villages the study says the operation may have been financed by private golf based donors and the reports reveal the coordinated nature of their tongue suggests that it was premeditated and organized based on the scale of the offense so the authors say the crimes were systematic and part of a criminal policy human rights watch is calling on all states to ensure that it calls crimes against humanity punished and those responsible are held accountable. processes across the globe up a pairing to run against genetically modified food giant monsanto hundreds of cities and over fifty countries are expected to take part in saturday's march a previous international protest last may gather around two million people to gather the marshes are calling for an end boycott of china came not to find foods and harmful chemicals santa is also blamed for polluting the environment and trying

to improve its reputation by falsifying safety were pulled by the company insists faith playing a key role in feeding the world's rapidly growing population but jeffrey smith the has written extensively about the dangers of g.m. foods thanks to that and. when you look at the edible feeding studies of genetically engineered foods the american academy of environmental medicine they said there's gastrointestinal problems immune system problems excel aerated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are going wrong with the animals that are being geos and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population since g. of those were produced the current generation of jimbo's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world or about acute and poverty so this is just been a public relations fear and respect two hundred fifty billion dollars over five

years trying to convince americans that they needed to accept because it would feed the world i ask farmers all the time what do you think about santa even those farmers that use monsanto seeds often hate monsanto or fear might said do. so that's why monsanto has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. and all that closely following the crowd taking to the streets to protest against monsanto and such they bring you opinion and analysis on and on line. it was global business risk global. interests versus millions of voices and profits versus global culture. sauntered over the world from r g r g dot com and let's not take a look at our website on t.

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the u.s. is reluctant to admit how many civilians have died in this cia led drone war in pakistan but one u.k. nonprofit group is digging for the truth the bureau of investigative journalism is seeking to name all the victims all the u.s. trying to in the region and i hope it could put a human face on what's happening that point to this report. i want to make sure that people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties that for the most part they have been very precise precision strikes against al qaeda and their affiliates for the most part being the operative phrase one organization is taking american statements like these with a pinch of salt and looking at just how precise these so-called precision strikes

are according to estimates u.s. drone strikes have killed over two and a half thousand people in pakistan's remote tribal region since two thousand and four but london's bureau of investigative journalism is going beyond those casualty figures and trying to name every single person killed by the cia's use of drones in waziristan we've been recording the strikes and recording the number of people killed and now we want to move on to a new phase of the project to start recording been millions of the bad this is to help bring transparency to the public debate about the use of drones in pakistan but also more generally to bring return the people soon managed to return the fight with the people what made the statistics already the project has the names of two hundred ninety five innocent victims among them ninety five children there's a fundamental problem with the whole strategy of of using drugs almost

inevitably this kind of remote controlled killing is going to increase the number of civilian casualties it has a tendency to towards indiscriminate assassinations there's a kind of there's a kind of a gulf between you and your potential targets which i think inevitably leads towards a kind of trigger happy approach to killing in pakistan drones are deeply unpopular the countries un envoy recently even you'd calls for the strikes to end the continuing to violate pakistan's sovereignty international law and hume. writes you read about the accounts of what the experience of drona times were actually life for local people and was or was that in afghanistan or elsewhere you have these. and the coups just in the air over communities for twelve eighteen hours which creates a feeling of being an imminent strike the price you know most of our attention and fear families have to leave the area the cia which runs the drone program has been

accused of shielding it from being accountable to the american people as a civilian organization carrying a war across the border into our country as entry into a country as far as we're aware the united states government is the only country to use drones outside of a declared war and we believe that we should bring transparency to those actions so that the public can the faith the merits or demerits of the humanizing the innocent dead could be the first step towards opening up that debate remembering that civilian victims on names not numbers. artsy. and now some other global news making headlines this sounds. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh that was his lead fine democrat senator nancy pelosi hit the streets of washington to show their anger over the ongoing government shutdown they demanded the senate result the crisis by allowing a vote on

a resolution to reopen the government the shutdown is now in its eleventh day with less than a week left until a possible default with congress i'm able to agree about. eight patients and two hospital workers died in a hospital fire in a southern province of japan the blaze world count on the ground floor before spreading patients were exposed to smoke inhalation because fire doors at work have stemmed the flow had been left open the exact cause is still being investigated. the brandenburg gate in berlin migrants from different african countries are staging a hunger strike the refugees have been camping there for almost a year after traveling from the government facility near munich to protest over the rules on claiming asylum under current regulations immigrants must live in areas designated by the federal government and are forbidden from work. israelis serving in the army are facing some of their biggest battles on home soil ultra-orthodox

jews and listed in the army are coming under attack from their own hassidic communities where most believe it's a sin to support us here ports. it's the basic mission of a soldier to fight for his or her country but for the few hundred ultra-orthodox israeli soldiers the fight is on two fronts they're also coming under fire from within the owed her city communities for serving in the israeli defense forces in the hardcore religious neighborhoods the graffiti one's religious soldiers that if you made it here you are in the wrong place it was even a flyer distributed saying that to kill an ultra-orthodox soldier is a blessing the soldier once his face blue because he feels reprisals myself explodes and. those committees were. of twenty you can see them were surrounding reno shelter. preparing greece for you and your friends in the toilets

or. the harassment is gaining momentum is now even a phone hotline that's been set up so people can snitch on those they know are serving or they've seen in uniform it's gotten so bad that ultra-orthodox soldiers say they now ship the uniforms before coming home in these religious neighborhoods there's room for only one type of uniform the traditional black and white god worn by hard line observers those of from the wife who was writing this call in uniform in jerusalem and they stopped us called to give speeches. and then run away the problem is that most ultra-orthodox jews believe the army is an unholy place many also refuse to recognize israel as they say they cannot be a jewish state until the messiah comes and so fighting for the one via the other over states the boundaries of what's acceptable so basically of her any community is a conflict between how to relate. to the country and to the secular

people in the country and they see those soldiers who are going into the army and that later integrating into the society something that's important and pulsing into their way of living for sixty five years the ultra-orthodox who make up about eight percent of israel's eight million citizens have largely been now to skip compulsory military service to pursue their religious studies but the government's now decided enough is enough and the cabinet has approved a plan to gradually end automatic draft exemptions the two images leaders are warning if the law passes it will be a dick a ration of war because. the issue is very simple the state is trying to turn the ultra-orthodox into becoming more secular they say it openly they want to. incorporated into israeli society and remove us from what they call our ghettos we see that as a war on our way of life on our religion we feel persecuted for the small number

who do serve in the army they've been branded as collaborators and sellouts but the assaults don't bother david he's encouraging other ultimately just soldiers to follow in his footsteps after the way the serving a year and a half in combat he's about to be enlisted to become a commander i feel every every job. in this because it's a mitzvah from the. but with every army will keep its walls pieced together or tear them apart that is a battle that has yet to be fought for the c r t should we see them. and up next with a chariot behind frankenstein jam things they don't plan train golden rice and a few.

you know it's getting old trying to beat the war drums to invade iran i think the let's invade iran talk has been going on since i was in college to keep the saber rattling rolling israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declared in front of the un that iran is building nuclear weapons that could hit new york in three to four years no he said new york obviously he was trying to spook a certain country with nuclear destruction the delegates from namibia were probably unmoved sadly this time netanyahu failed to bring a funny cartoon bomb picture with him like in his two thousand and twelve un speech in which he also warned the world about the threat of a nuclear iran you know i might be more optimistic about israel accusing other countries of being nuclear threats if they had a better track record themselves although israel is a bit candid with their arsenal according to a b.b.c. article. the federation of american scientists believes that israel's arsenal has grown to about two hundred nukes based on their surveillance of ever expanding facilities inside the country also let's not forget that israel has plenty of ways

to deliver those two hundred nuclear bombs if the need be so my question is why should we automatically trust israel with a lot of nuclear weapons but not iran is it because they're bureaucrats where european suits and shave i don't know it just seems to me that disarmed countries are better advocates for nuclear disarmament but that's just my opinion. this genetically modified plant is at the center of a controversy a controversy about how we deal with one of the most powerful technologies mankind has ever created. a technology that is polarizing society. the protagonists include a now retired professor at e.t.h. who believes his golden rice will see children throughout the entire world. a swiss agriculture.