i. edward snowden is reunited with his after months of being on the run from washington's prosecution 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 the rules of civil behavior. doesn't apply to him. tells it as it is as he talks about the future of the freedom of information in an exclusive interview with. the red cross lashes out of the storage which is likely to create social unrest and extremism one hundred twenty million europeans now live in. the brink of poverty we talked directly to the red cross and that is coming your way in just a few minutes from now. the massacre of pro-government civilians in syria human

rights watch reveals details of a rebel atrocity our top stories this hour. live from our studio center here in moscow which is ten ten pm this is. edward snowden has had a good few days having reunited with his father here in russia and for blowing the lid off n.s.a. surveillance operations interest around the intelligence leaker has renewed debate about whistle blowing and the role it plays out he's got. the details. 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

in the scope of his revelations that 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 were they delivered to 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 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 starting the conversation the 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 that we are united states is a bit of the rule of law that's one change itself from its very 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 in a whole new ball game it's pandora's box. we also spoke with julian a solider the man who is at war with secrecy he is now holed up at the embassy of door in london 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 west 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 very another country or whether that abuse of laws. that mr our science went on to talk about what happens when the government treats were simple words as spies when it accuses them of espionage and the obama administration has charged more whistleblowers with espionage than all previous administrations combined you can find the full version of the interview with julian assange on our website r.t. dot com a red cross study has concluded europe's spiraling towards mass unemployment and inequality that's more than a phobia due to illegal immigrants and political and social unrest a ripening in the zone where one hundred twenty people now live in or very close to poverty now the report also claims that is tackling all of the debt crisis will be felt for decades it also says these factors are combining to create

a europe is future is more shaky than any time off to world war two period kraemer he's a spokesman for the international federation of red cross says a brief economic improvement won't help heal people's vulnerabilities and exclusion . we made a mapping of forty tool countries for cross red crescent national societies and the picture which is coming from this my being is indeed quite scary in terms of increased vulnerability in terms of number of people getting poorer of worlds and that's a new pause across europe so i will impression you that even if there is an economy down there is a reason for all these people to suffer for decades because it takes time to recover it takes time to get your livelihood back on our concern is that these economic crises is becoming a protracted social and human you don't crises the risk of having cuts on air of budgets is absolutely pregnant and of course the situation of migrants is among the

most vulnerable to be but of course the situation can trigger some risk of discrimination an increase of iran's and we have some concern about that well one of the e.u. states has been aggressively pressing on with the sturdy is portugal but that's not been making people's everyday lives any easier. of firth and elf. since portugal signed a seventy eight billion euro bailout bill 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 i 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 was not the only long distance family with a chance in portugal are 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. portugal's showing some glimmers of recovery a beast in exports has been complemented by strong tourism but the cost of the a stereotype 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 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. rescore for. the. welfare of the. difficult situation because we have three years ago but. after this program. if. this program 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 jean next year but after two years of unprecedented austerity many portuguese still see little hope of a bright. surface i see portugal. and stay with r.t. to see how the e.u.'s inability to solve its problems is giving rise to the far right nationalist party is now winning local elections across the block. to syria now where rebel forces were responsible for a civilian massacre in august now that's according to a report by human rights watch the us based ngo carried out his own fact finding mission in the war zone and according to the watchdog an opposition offensive killed nearly two hundred villages living in pro sound communities the report calls the atrocity a coordinated attack suggesting it was premeditated based on the scale of the offensive the findings conclude that the massacre was systematic and part of

a concrete policy that strongly suggest the crimes against humanity were committed and calls on the international community to bring the perpetrators to account well earlier i spoke with joe stork he is the acting middle east erector human rights watch and he says the foreign backers of the rebels could be considered equally responsible for the killing of innocents. all of them the ones that we identified not being combatants not being. fighters on the government side women children elderly people people who you know there was actually no military excuse military reason why they should have been killed the way that individuals who are citizens of kuwait and and primarily kuwait in the gulf states are known to be funders and supporters of some of these groups one of the recommendations we make is that those governments kuwait for example put restrictions on that track the funding and we put out we made very clear that if

this kind of funding continues to these groups that have been identified as responsible for these atrocities at best funding continues going forward the funders themselves could be considered complicit in war crimes prosecutor. and we'll bring you more in syria later in the program including details of the chemical to solomon process which is now being graced with the nobel peace prize and also coming up in just a few minutes. the people. in the fight but the people what made the statistics we talked to british activists seeking to name the many civilian victims the u.s. calls precision strikes in pakistan that and other stories still to come. i think the united states is in discussion with of just on for a bilateral security agreement which would. mandate and allow for

a significant number of u.s. troops to review damed in six to seven bases that are being prepared for them to to use you in two thousand and fourteen they would obviously have a very restricted operation mandate but they would still be there for purposes of training and perhaps to some kind of got into and just to the security forces on this town itself. to see. first. and i would think that your. recorders would. still. be in the.

these continues here on t.v. if you just joined it's very warm welcome this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to the organization hard at work dismantling the chemical stockpiles in syria experts from the group recently entered the country following international agreements which russia helped mediate in some rebel factions are refusing to all of that deal meaning it's up to their foreign patrons to weigh in that's according to political analyst women down the assad government in syria is cooperating with the removal process so but these rebel groups and we're talking about the al qaida linked all nusra and others the same groups who were involved in the massacre of women and children back in august so they're i'm sure they're going to try to

hinder it in whatever ways they can the question is whether the foreign backers of the bandar. prince bandar from saudi arabia saudi intelligence chief and the saudi money in general has been backing al qaeda in syria up until very recently if they're going to send a very strong signal to pull back and let there with the weapons be removed peacefully so that we we just don't know yet as the chemical disarmament of syria continues so does the international blame game ever 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 even to has the details. according to the. only afghanistan iraq as well may be used as a training site for the use of chemical weapons they have information that terrorists are taught how to do it. not controlled by the government. runs one of

the most radical syrian rebel groups is pointing to him to deliver chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for a possible future attacks are basically training in afghanistan and start practicing in iraq. before 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. another boat carrying african migrants is sunk in the mediterranean that's according to the italian navy the incident happened off the coast of sicily have been seen floating in the same more than two hundred people reportedly found themselves in open waters italian navy ships and helicopters are at the scene this last week more than three hundred migrants mostly from eritrea and somalia the producer in

a similar incident. with the u.s. reluctant to admit how many civilians have been killed in his ongoing drone war in pakistan a u.k. nonprofit group has been searching for the truth and they're looking beyond simple numbers. 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 the 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 the people not merely 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 abusing 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 humor. writes you read about the accounts of what they experience in trying to times are actually live for local people and with serious than in afghanistan and elsewhere you have these and the calls just in the air 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 into a country as far as we're aware the united states government is the only country that is used outside of that. and we believe that we should bring transparency to those actions so that the public debate the merits or demerits of humanizing the innocent dead could be the first step towards opening up that debate remembering that civilian victims on names not numbers. are. on our website right now for you alone seems strange planets are usually known for orbiting around stars but astronomers say they've accidently discovered one drifting out there all along and out more about it's online 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 go down the drain after a new court decision more details on that right now for you and r.t. dot com. activists across the world are preparing to rally against genetically modified food giant monsanto hundreds of cities and more than fifty countries are

expected to take part in saturday's march demanding a permanent boycott of what they call franken foods and. this international protest m a brought around two million people together they blame the g.m. john for polluting the environment and falsifying safety reports the company insists it's playing a key role in feeding the world's rapidly growing population with jeffrey smith who's written extensively about the dangers of g.m. foods begs to differ. 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 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 geos 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 pin and they spent two hundred fifty million 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 oh. so that's why monsanto has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. nationalist and euro skeptics seem to be giving the french president a serious headache for so on hand has warned that europe could face regression and paralysis if far right an anti euro parties win in next year's eve you parliamentary vote want to see what's driving these fears let's have a look here the national front party is literally breathing down his back recently grabbing

a stunning forty percent at elections in southern france the austrian freedom party came third in legislative elections last month and the u.k. independence party finished runner up in three out of four local council by elections last week and then there's no way it is forming a right wing minority government with the progress party that snatch third place in september's elections well good of animals he's the leader of one of belgium's nationalist party says he leaders are getting it all wrong the traditional party switch which are mainly parties in power don't listen to the people the way they handle the economic and financial crisis is in a way that they don't listen to what people have to pay for it the poor people get poorer and the way they handle this crisis is more integration more european union more generalized european policy for the whole territory of the

european union and euro zone this is not the way it should be done we cannot have a an economic policy which is the same in portugal and germany and yet they want to do so because they are stubborn and want to do don't want to go back on this european policy which is not the solution for the crisis we are against the unified state that european leaders are making now this is against the will of the people and we will try to combat that. military service is generally considered to be an honor but in israel ultra-orthodox jews and listed in the army are coming under attack from their own city communities who see this as a sin or his policy or 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 for serving in the israeli defense forces in the

hardcore religious neighborhoods the graffiti warns 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 blurred because he fears reprisals of myself experienced in. those communities where. of twenty you can see them were surrounding me in a shelter. preparing greece for you and your friends and i saw. the harassment is gaining momentum there's 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 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 to basically of her in a community in a conflict between how to relate. to the country and to the secular people in the country and they see those soldiers. going through i mean that later integrating into the society as something that people in 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 allowed to skip compulsory military service to pursue the 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 really just leaders are warning if the law passes it will be a declaration 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 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 just. in his role you know because it's from the store. but will keep israel's peace together or take him a possible is

a battle that has yet to be fought. so that to bring you up to date for the moment the news continues with me in the team in about an hour from now the meantime we talk with india's foreign minister about how much weight the country has when it comes to dealing with the most pressing global issues on a special interview. 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 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 wear 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.

hello and welcome to so thin curl on sophie shevardnadze said in turbulent times in a turbulent region india has remained an oasis of stability but not without its own internal and potholes like corruption what's the right way to react to syrian strife founded on sukkot program who will contain the taliban once international forces withdraw from afghanistan to learn india's outlook on these and other matters i caught up with indian foreign minister someone pushing on his visit to moscow. the billion strong state. below and of huge riches and over to the overall easing economic joy in.