free bug. free media. edward snowden is reunited with his father after months of being on the run from 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 him. as it is the future of the freedom of information in an exclusive interview with. the red cross lashes out of which is likely to create social unrest and extremism one hundred twenty million europeans now live. on the brink of poverty directly to the red cross and that's coming our way in just a few minutes. the massacre of pro-government civilians in syria human rights watch

reveals details of a rebel atrocity a top stories. here in moscow which. has had a good few days having been reunited with his father here in russia and on the. n.s.a. surveillance operations the interest around the intelligence leaker has launched a new debate about whistle blowing and the role it plays. as the details. i do or 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 the law and snowden in moscow the group of whistleblowers who supported were they delivered to his sam adams the war gates awarded to an intelligence professional who has in the view of the award jury 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 that we are united states is a bit of the rule of law it's on change itself or it's for real and 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 and it's pandora's box. we also spoke with julian a solider of 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 we're going to 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's abusive laws. that mr or science went on to talk about what happens when the government treats whistleblowers 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 is spiraling towards mass unemployment and inequality that's one of phobia due to illegal immigrants and political and social unrest arrived in the zone where one hundred twenty million people and now living in or very close to poverty now the report also claims that he used tackling of the debt crisis will be felt for decades is all these factors

are combining to create a europe whose future is more shaky any time after world war two. 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 two 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 poor us 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 and our concern is that these economic crises is becoming a protracted social and human you don't crises the risk of having cuts on the air of budgets is absolutely pregnant and of course the situation of migrants is

among the most vulnerable but of course the situation can trigger some risk of discrimination an increase of a chance and we have some concern about that one of the e.u. states has been aggressively pressing on with is portugal and that's not been making people's everyday lives any easier as. has been finding 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 and. that everything just broke and

we had to just make a decision against 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 record 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 a stereotype has been high many workers to seeing 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. too difficult to. call for and there's another big question on everybody's lips. another. there is a risk of. a difficult situation because we have three years ago but. after this program. before. this program we. go into 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 price. so. portugal. to stay with our sortie to see how the ability 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 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 communities report calls the atrocity eight coordinated attack suggesting it was premeditated based on the scale of the offensive the findings conclude the massacre was systematic and part of

a concrete policy strongly suggest the crimes against humanity were committed here and calls on the international community to bring the perpetrators to account well earlier i spoke with jerry storch he is acting middle east director at 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 whom 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 and one 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 if that funding continues going forward the funders themselves could be considered complicit in war crimes propped against. we'll bring you more on syria later in the program including details of the chemical disarmament process which is no been graced with the nobel peace prize also coming up just a few minutes. to return the people what made the statistics we talked to british activists seeking to name the many civilian victims of what the u.s. calls precision strikes in pakistan. the standoff consuming the american power elite reflects a country and political culture is deeply divided on the surface about budget

skepticism borrowing comps go a little deeper and the issues like legitimacy and competence in institutions can be clearly seen as america suffering from a crisis of vision. more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are old today.

this continues here in r.t. 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 russia analyst martin mccauley says the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons faces a tough and complex mission in a war zone some of the chemical weapons may be in rebel held territory. how do you access those rebels who say they don't have it. and we'll have to verify that that would be very tricky because a little with rebels and how many rebel groups are there are dozens of them and this is a very very difficult decision for them because previously globalisation always

operated if you like. peaceful this is the first time the really got involved the middle of a civil war and it's really a challenge for them they may in fact put one hundred people in there i would hope that they are secure and that they actually get on with the business of living new weapons but it will be very very difficult the first task is to eliminate the wherewithal which makes weapons then get the chemicals take them out of syria and destroy them or and this is going to be a long post 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. as the chemical disarmament of syria continues so does the international blame game over 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. as the details. according

to the form. 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 with. tory's not controlled by the government while the girl runs one of the most radical or syrian rebel groups is supplying the cording to him to deliver chemical weapons to iraq along with specialist for a possible future attack so basically their training in afghanistan 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. carrying african migrants has sunk in the mediterranean at least fifty of reportedly drowned but a good number of passengers have been rescued that's according to the italian coast

guard more than two hundred people reportedly found themselves an open waters off the coast of sicily italian navy ships and helicopters at the scene where just last week more than three hundred migrants mostly from. drowning. could do so in a similar incident. and we're just getting some other news here on r.t. american forces have captured the senior pakistani taliban commander. whether a state department spokesman has failed to comment on when he was called and his current whereabouts he reportedly linked to the two thousand and ten bombing of times square in new york as well as many attacks inside pakistan we'll bring you more on this story as the details emerge. with the u.s. reluctant to admit how many civilians have been killed in its ongoing drone war in pakistan a u.k. nonprofit group has been searching for the truth and they're looking beyond simple

numbers as artie's put it barker 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 return the people see manatees to return the fight with their 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 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 humor. writes you read about the

accounts of what the experience of drowning times are actually like for local people and with serious them in afghanistan and elsewhere you have these and the calls 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 the country essentially into a country as far as we're aware the united states government is the only country to use drones outside of it. 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 are names not numbers. are.

on a website right now for you a stray planets are usually known for orbiting around stars but astronomers say it accidentally discovered one drifting out there all alone. online. the 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 story right now on r.t. top kill. nationalist and euro skeptics seem to be giving the french president a serious headache at the moment from small and has warned that europe could face regression and paralysis if far right parties win in next year's a u. parliamentary vote or 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 of elections at elections in southern. rance 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 there is no way it's forming a right wing minority government with the progress party snatch the place in september's elections will get a phantom and he's the leader of one of belgium's nationalist party says e.u. leaders are getting it all wrong the traditional parties which 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 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. activists across the world are preparing to run against genetically modified food john hundreds of cities and more than fifty countries are expected to take part in saturday's march the morning a permanent boycott of what they call franken foods and harmful chemicals a previous international protest i'm a broad around two million people together they blame the g.m. for polluting the environment and falsifying safety reports the company insists it's playing a key role in feeding the world rapidly growing population jeffrey smith who's

written extensively about the dangers of g.m. foods thanks to differ. when you look at the animal feeding studies are genetically engineered just 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 geos and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population since g. of those were introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world or about it in poverty so this is just been a public relations fan 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 send workbook

so that's why monsanto has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. well we'll be closely following the crowds taking to the streets to protest against monsanto on saturday both on air and online at l.t. dot com. in israel radical believers often take it out on military recruits for defending the nation which they deem to be a sin or reports in the struggle of those coming under attack from within 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 religious soldiers that if you made it here you were in the wrong place it was even

a flyer distributed saying that to kill an ultra-orthodox soldier is a blessing the soldier wants his face blurred because he fears reprisals myself experience in. those communities where. of twenty you can see them were surrounding really in a shelter. preparing greece for you and your friends and or. 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 hardline observers there was a friend of mine 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 overstepped the boundaries of what's acceptable so basically of her in a community in a conflict between how to relate. to the country and to secular people in the country and they see those soldiers. going through i mean that later integrating into the thirty something that paul and paul saying 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 religious 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 a 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. every every joists. it is only because it's them it's the phone. but the key is will's pieced together tape in the pocket book is a battle that has yet to be told what you see on t.v. to sort of. well that brings up today for the most about the news team with

morphine just have a hole for now from the mean time is then light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the u.s. government shutdown question asked by peter lavelle. after the break. 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 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. the busy mother subs.