care about human to. this is why you should care only. edward snowden has reunited with his father after months of being on the run for washington's prosecution for exposing the extent of america's global surveillance program also. 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 them we can make said said jud an astonished tells it as it is as he talks about the future of the freedom of information an exclusive interview to empty. the red cross lashes out at us territory as it reports on the one hundred and twenty minutes to europeans who live then or on the brink of all it's likely to create social unrest and it's tremendous and. bring

a return that the people see managed to return the fact that the people most need statistics which talk to british rock today is thinking to name the many civilian victims there will be you assholes precision strikes in pakistan. international news live from moscow this is aussie with me. thanks for joining us. edward snowden has had a good few days having been reunited with his father in russia and all noted for blowing the lid off n.s.a. surveillance operations the interest around the intelligence leaker has launched a new debate about whistle blowing and the role it plays. to have. edward snowden met with his father at an undisclosed location presumably here in

moscow he said there is little hope that he son will ever go back to the u.s. because in the u.s. edward snowden is most certainly facing jail time and judging by the significance and the scope of his revelations it could be a lengthy one and also judging by the way the u.s. government treated other whistleblowers together with law and snowden in moscow the group of whistleblowers who supported word they delivered his sam adams award it's awarded to an intelligence professional who has in the view of the award julie taken a stand for integrity and ethics this thursday we were they were in our studio here in moscow discussing their meeting with edward snowden as well as what it's like to be a whistleblower in the u.s. now take a listen here's a snippet of the panel we had here on what he has done is stirring the conversation to discussion not just the united states but around the world in terms of the direct threat to the sovereignty of individual citizens people need to realize that there's a greater issue of human rights that is brought up by asylum and the fact that

a number of people involved in his case like sarah harrison glenn greenwald laura portress people are having trouble even moving around and getting where they're going i can speak personally and say we weren't worried about coming into your country we are worried about getting back into our own country and and that should not. be our united states as a bit of the rule of law that's one change it's all for it's for your own constitution the mechanism by which we govern ourselves so when you when you as in as a rule all use a secret law or interpretations of law we're the whole new ballgame it's pandora's box. we also spoke with julian a solider the man who was at war with secrecy he is now holed up at the embassy of door in london he can't he can't travel to ecuador even though there was he received the asylum there he is afraid that he will be extradited to the u.s. in an exclusive and extensive interview with my colleague mr science talked about

what in his opinion to abuse of power when you see the president talk about exceptionalism what he's trying to say is the rules of civil behavior. doesn't apply to him. whether that's in. the country or whether that abuse of laws. mr went on to talk about what happens when whistleblowers are treated as spies and actually accused of espionage and the obama administration has charged more whistleblowers was espionage than all previous administrations combined. the full version of his exclusive interview with julian assange will be available for you online at our c dot com later today a red cross study has concluded that europe spiraling down to mass unemployment and inequality that's wiles' 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 on all very close to poverty the report also claims the e.u. is tackling the debt crisis will be felt for decades it says all these boxes are combining to create a europe whose future is more shaky than at any time after world war two one of the e.u. states there's been aggressively pressing on with us territories portugal but that's not been making people's everyday lives any easier as aussies south of us 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 held 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 usa meaning record held george and what's not the only long distance family jumps in portugal are hard to come by emigration has soared and if estimated that more than one hundred thousand people each year by leaving the country. it's not bad news portugal showing some glimmers of recovery a beast in exports has been complemented by strong tourism but the cost of the

astaire if he has been high many workers has 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. to difficult to. call for and there's another big question on everybody's lips as portugal got another. risk for a time big i don't think there is a risk of. a difficult situation as we have three years ago but. after this program. before. this program we got. 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 chemical dissolve mint of syria continues so does the international blame game who orchestrated the deadly nerve gas attack near damascus russia has been pointing the finger at the radical rebels and foreign minister sergei lavrov says media reports indicate some of the militants are being trained abroad he has a details for us. paul 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 girl runs one of the

most radical or syrian rebel groups is supplying the calling to him to deliver chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for a possible future terror attack so 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. meanwhile human rights watch has revealed syrian rebels were responsible for a civilian massacre in august to the you asked based and carried out its own fact finding mission in the war zone and according to the watched all an opposition offensive killed nearly two hundred villagers living in pro assad communities the report calls the atrocity a coordinated attack suggesting it was premeditated based on the scale of the

offensive the findings conclude the massacre was systematic and part of a training 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 it is the most militants are sponsored by u.s. allies in the gulf monarchies. starting with see where this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to the organization hard it was dismantling the country's chemical stockpiles experts from the intergovernmental body and syria following international agreements which moscow how to mediate russia analyst martin might call it says the organization for prohibiting of chemical weapons faces a tough and complex mission. but there was some of the chemical weapons maybe you'd rebel held territory how do you access loose rebels who say they don't have it but obviously there's ation will have to verify that that will be very tricky because

they have to be good with rebels and how many rebel groups are all of the dozens of them this is a very very difficult decision for them because previously globalization always operated if you like. peaceful this is the first time we really got involved in the middle of a civil war and issued a challenge for them they may in fact put one hundred people in the. hopes that they are secure and that they actually get on with the business of eliminating the weapons but it will be very very difficult the first task is to eliminate the wherewithal which makes weapons. get the chemicals take them out of syria and destroy them and this is going to be a long process no one really expects one hundred percent of the weapons to be eliminated by the middle of next year or even the end of next year. this is all see a base sour over fifty countries across the globe i said to stage a functional rally against the notorious food giant sun to take

a closer look at what that angry about in just a couple of them that. i was getting in all my interaction with iran that. iran was not. going to make nuclear weapons but it was important for them. and identity. and showing a sense of big. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images both world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are the day.

one is global business risk global. interests versus millions of voices begins in profits versus global protest. march against mom song to october the twelfth on our g r g dot com. again this is the welcome back when the u.s. relax and said how many civilians have been killed and drone war in pakistan a u.k. nonprofit group has been searching for the truth and then looking beyond simple numbers as a point to boycott 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 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 the names 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 the return that people see manatees to return the fight with their people not me the statistics already the project has the names of

two hundred ninety five innocent victims among them ninety five children this is a fundamental problem with the whole strategy of of using drugs almost inevitably this kind of remote control 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 hume. writes you read about the accounts of what the experience of drowning times were actually life for local people and was or was there in afghanistan and elsewhere you have these. and

vehicles just in the air bring over communities for twelve eighteen hours 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 are allowed as far as we're aware the united states government is the only country to see these drones outside of a declared war and we believe that we should bring transparency to those actions so that the public debate the merits or demerits old humanizing the innocent dead could be the first step towards opening up that debate remembering that civilian victims on names not numbers polly boy artsy. and on our website right now for you alone sounds trite line it's like usually known as a missing around stars but astronomers say they accidentally discovered one

drifting album all alone find out more about it online. and also bad news for the opponents of the keystone oil pipeline project between canada and the who are their efforts to prove it's a threat to the environment go down the drain after new coal decision bodies how long the balance has punted on. right from the sea to. first street. and i would think that you're. on a reformist twitter. and instagram. i. am a little. actually us across the globe are preparing to run against genetically modified food giant on some to hundreds of cities and more than fifty countries are expected to take part

in saturday's march calling for a permanent body called what they call franken foods and harmful chemicals at previous international crowd tests and may brought around two million people together they blames the g.m. giant for polluting the environment and falsifying safes here appalls but the company insists it's playing a key role in easing the world's a rapidly growing population however jeffress man has written extensively about the dangers of the jan feeds thanks to. when you look at the animal 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 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 since g m o's were introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world or about a kid in poverty so this is just been a public relations fear and respect two hundred fifty million dollars over five years trying to convince americans that they needed to accept g m o's 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 my exam or book 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 monsanto in santa fe both on ai and online at www dot. it's global business risk global doesn't interest versus millions of voices it isn't profits versus global

culture. something. on r t r g dot com many israelis have to. excuse excuses some techno problems now time out for some of the international news in brave the galleries of rome's iconic coliseum has been turned into a protest stage crowds have gathered inside and outside the ancient london to say no to the government's economic policies irani was organized by trade unions who are preparing for a mass trial strike against austerity measures planned for next week rose been tightening the branches screws to control these soaring public debt which has grown to one hundred thirty eight percent of the country's annual economic output. also workers led by democrat senator nancy pelosi hit the streets of washington to show their anger over the ongoing government shutdown they demanded this senate

result the crisis by allowing a vote on a resolution to reopen the government the shutdown is now in its eleventh day there's less than a week left until it was supposed to fold with congress and able to agree about it . retired israeli army all has been killed and his wife badly injured in the occupied west bind and what israel claims to have been a terrorist attack police say they're sailors appeared to be our speakers a welding axes and clubs is the third violent death of an israeli in the occupied territories in recent weeks some ministers have benyamin netanyahu to react by pulling out of peace talks with the palestinians ministration their resumed in july after three years of deadlock. many israelis have to deal with battles on the home front ultra-orthodox jews intitled in the military coming under attack from their own has civic communities

or see army service as a center of artes 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 communities for serving in the israeli defense forces in the hardcore religious neighborhoods the graffiti warns will 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 blued because he feels reprisals myself experienced and. those committees were. of twenty you can see them were surrounding reno shelter not seeing that scene or were preparing grace 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 ultraorthodox 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 hardline observers those of from the wife who was writing this column uniform in jerusalem and they stopped us cards at their pizza. 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 oversteps the boundaries of what's acceptable so basically of her in a community in the inner conflict between how to relate. to the country and to secular people in the country and they see those soldiers who are going through i

mean that later integrating into the society a 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 that will be just leaders are warning if the law passes it will be a dick aeration 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 just 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 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 just. in this because it's the from the. but will keep israel's peace together or take them a possible is a battle that has yet to be forced. to sit and. talks the way they ain't is foreign minister about how much weight the country has when it comes to dealing with the most pressing global issues.

you know it's getting old trying to be 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 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'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. i'm talking obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he's a hero i'll just believe he was a criminal why do you stand i believe you say hero 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 strong with and i wish that somebody five in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing. face. legal rights.

to the. pain of the young girls can hold for the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the pass' that is they lard you know i mean this teaches them a lot of the exposed ability and since the gun debate through the eyes of children if we can do it for our children alone for our future what is the country will save more. wealthy british style sign some time to.

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