whenever you see the president talk about exceptionalism. what he's trying to say is the rules of civil behavior. doesn't apply to him. we can expound a judo song just tells it as a tease as he talks about the future of the freedom of information in an exclusive interview on t.v. . there were of course lashes out at us territory as a reporter on one hundred twenty million europeans who live in all on the brink of poverty likely to create social unrest and extremism also. to return to it was for managing to return the fact that people do not need statistics . or talk to british activists seeking to name the many civilian victims or what

the u.s. calls for cision strikes in pakistan. hello and welcome to our twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you our top story now american exceptionalism is merely an excuse washington uses to break the law at home and abroad that's what driven assad has told us he's even gone into an exclusive interview that we can expand also sketched out his vision on the future of freedom of information and praise russia for giving us sign him 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 the 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 abusive lords. in relation to. his use of the espionage act against alleged journalistic sources. journal. that's something you. see it's very important that people understand that this is not just about be more right it's

a radical shiite. cleric or bomber. more people on the espionage or 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 thanked the russian government for giving asylum to edward snowden the whistleblower and former n.s.a. contractor anything the countries of africa or venezuela bolivia for offering asylum to snowden and also giving support and asylum to assign chen cell saying that there are 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 not the america and russia and not all of latin america either but that's where they

believe you and they could or trying a keen interest. before version of aunty's exclusive interview with kiran and i sounds will be available for you online at home late today. meanwhile the whistleblower who is heavily in the spotlight right now at a smart and has been for his revelations about global u.s. surveillance he received these some items prize for integrity in intelligence is given out annually by government officials for whistleblowers and acts of those who heard that snowden they award stopped by our studio i'm told he's karen o. and how the n.s.a. leaker is doing. convinced the people he did was rate 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 in 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 so you go against major government organizations to expose exactly why they're up to we'll tell the group of well this group what whistleblowers told us all about their experiences and that full conversation is available for you on our set up. a red cross study has concluded that europe spiraling down to mass unemployment and inequality that's wild in a free beer due to illegal immigrants and political and social unrest are ripening in the zone where one hundred twenty million people are now living in or very close to poverty the report also claims the tightening of the debt crisis will be felt

for decades all these functions are combining to create a europe whose future is more shaky and anytime after world war two chris clark from the business school in the u.k. says governments don't realise this scale of the looming disaster. i think. at the moment what you're seeing is european financial leaders the commission 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 you 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. and one of the e.u. states does that aggressively are pressing on with us territories portugal and that's not be making people's everyday lives any easier as out in south and 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 once not the only long distance family tells them portugal are hard to come by emigration has soared and it's 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 a beast in 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 euro zone and he has a word of warning is too close to. too difficult to do so he sees those coffers and there's another big question on everybody's lips as portugal got another. risk for me time to go i don't seem to rescore for. all. of. this difficult situation because we have three years ago but. after this program. before the beginning of this program we are. going to markets probably something has to be that 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 bright. surface r.t. portugal. as the cairo design element of syria continues so does the international blame game over her orchestrated the deadly nerve gas attack near damascus russia has been pointing the finger of blame at the rascal rebels and foreign minister sergei lavrov says media reports indicate some of the militants are being trained abroad he orcas cannot. well according to the form not only afghanistan but iraq as well may be used as a training site for the use of chemical weapons mr lavrov said they have information that terrorists are taught how to do it again a stunning territories not controlled by the government while the girl runs one of the most radical or syrian rebel groups is supplying according to him to deliver

chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for a possible future attack so basically their training in afghanistan well could start practicing in iraq. before a 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. meanwhile human rights watch has revealed see when rebels were responsible for a civilian massacre in august. carried out its own fact finding mission in the wall so according to the watch dog an opposition offensive killed nearly two hundred villagers living in pro assad communities the report calls the atrocities a coordinated attack suggesting it was pre midday made its hated based on the scale of their friends so the findings conclude the massacre was systematic and part of

a trend or policy the report strongly suggests that crimes against humanity were committed and calls on the international community to punish the perpetrators human rights watch also stressed that islamist militants are sponsored by u.s. allies in the gulf monarchies. and staying with the where this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to the organization hard at work to dismantle the country's chemical stockpiles actors from the intergovernmental body and to syria following international agreements which moscow helped mediate russia analyst martin mccauley things the prize should have gone directly to those who made the deal possible i think that they committed chickened out because they should've awarded to president putin because he originated the discussions with president assad and he didn't give it to him why not give it to. john kerry to negotiate the deal they were high profile politicians but they seem to have taken the decision that there was too

political get involved in the politics of syria to get involved in liberating chemical weapons or the easy decision really to kill for the organization so the president putin's nomination given too late he'd be considered for today fourteen but by the fourteenth hopefully most of the chemical weapons would have been eliminated. this is a whole see and still to come this hour over thirty countries across the globe are set to stage an international rally against the notorious food trying to monsanto we'll take a closer look at what their interest a couple of men. to stand up consuming the american power elite reflects a country and political culture are deeply divided on the surface about budgets deficits and borrowing comps go a little deeper and the issues like legitimacy and competence and institutions can be clearly seen is america suffering from

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to life for most go welcome back with the u.s. reluctance to admit how many civilians have been killed in its ongoing trial and war in pakistan a u.k. nonprofit group has been searching for the truth looking beyond simple numbers as aussies point a boy reports. i want to make sure that people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties that for the most part of their 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 see manatees 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 country's u.n. envoy recently renewed calls for the strikes to end the continuing to violate pakistan's sovereignty international law and he. right you read about the accounts of what the experience of drone attacks are actually like for local people in brazil is that in afghanistan or elsewhere you have these. vehicles just in the yeah bring over communities for twelve eighteen hour. which creates a feeling of being an imminent strike 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

a country essentially it's all countries our allies as far as we're aware the united states government is the only country whose use drones outside of a declared we believe that we should bring transparency to those actions so that the public face of america so the merits of humanizing the innocent dead could be the first step towards opening up that debate remembering that civilian victims are names not numbers. artsy. and on our website are right now for you some stray planets are usually known for all getting around stars but astronomers say they accidentally discovered one drifting out all alone find out all about it online. and also bad news for the opponents of the keystone oil pipeline project between canada and the u.s. their efforts to prove it's a threat to the environment to go down the drain after a new court decision more details on that and asking dot com.

right to see. its first rate. and i would think that you're. on a reformist. instrument. to be an. activists across the globe preparing to run against genetically modified food giant monsanto hundreds of cities and more than fifty countries are expected to take part in some today's march calling for a permanent boycott or they call franken foods and harmful chemicals at previous international protests and may brought around two million people together they blames the jam giant for polluting the environment and falsifying safety reports but the company insists he is playing

a key role in feeding the world's rapidly growing population however jeffrey smith has written extensively about the dangers of chance for its thanks to. 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 think celebrated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are all going wrong with the animals that are being fed g m o's and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population seems to have always reduced the current generation of jim rose 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 will be closely following the crowds taking to the streets to protest against such as a both on line. global business risk. doesn't interest versus millions of voices but in some products versus global culture. something over the colts an r t r t v dot com and time now for some of the international news headlines in brief.

the world is led by a diehard senator nancy pelosi had this trip to washington to show that anger with it ongoing governmental shutdown they demanded the senate resolve the crisis by allowing a vote on a resolution to reopen the government the shutdown is now in its eleventh day while there's less than a week left until a possible default with congress and able to agree a budget. a retired israeli army officer has been killed and his wife badly injured in the occupied west bank and what is row claims to have been a terrorist act time police say there assailants appeared to be arab speakers welding axes and clubs and is the third one and death of an israeli in the occupied terrorists in recent weeks some ministers have premier benyamin netanyahu to react by pulling out of peace talks with the palestinian registration they resumed intra lying after three years of deadlock. many israelis have to deal with battles on

the home front ultra-orthodox jews and listed in the military are coming under attack from the oed her city communities her see all this this as a sin policy explains. 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 their own hasidic community it's for serving in the israeli defense forces in the hard core villages neighborhoods the graffiti warns would be just soldiers that if you made it here 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 blew because he fears reprisals myself experience in. those communities where. twenty you can see them were surrounding rina sheltering. or preparing grease 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 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 us from the wife who was writing this call in uniform in jerusalem and they stop this call to be tomorrow. and then run away the problem is that most ultra-orthodox jews believe the army is an unholy place maybe 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 oversteps the boundaries of what's acceptable. for any community is a conflict between how to relate to that to the country and to secular

people in the country and they see those soldiers who are going into the army and later integrating into the thirty something that pool and. well seeing into the 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 out 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 that could be just me there's a warning if the law passes it will be a typical 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 us to be 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 ultra religious soldiers to follow in his footsteps after already 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 role you know because it's from the. but with the army will keep its walls piece together tear them apart it is a battle that has yet to be fought for you see our team of jerusalem. is that light at the end of the tunnel what is comes to the us government shutdown that's the main question asked by peace a lot alan kral stock up next. you

know it's getting old trying to beat the war drums to invade iran i think the let's agree to run and talk has been going on since i was in college to keep. 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 is 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 are 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. real damage and complexity of this oil spill is not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have it reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p.

and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker see it's a step forward for the eligibility carex it is toxic as it looks like spray. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this bill's. i'm talking obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he's a hero al they believe he's a criminal why do you stand i believe is a hero and i believe 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 strongly and i wish that somebody five in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing.