mother was killed my children were injured we have no idea why our village in my house was targeted survivors of a u.s. drone strike testified before members of congress for the first time their home in pakistan was hit last year our correspondent was at that briefing within the last hour and we'll be reporting live from washington d.c. next. also britain's prime minister threatens legal action to stop newspapers from publishing abroad snowden's leaks exposing the extent of spying by u.s. and u.k. intelligence agencies. one man outraged by washington snooping ecuador's president rafael correa gives an exclusive interview to us at r.t. jerry's visit to moscow plus. one hundred day countdown to the sox lympics begins we bring you the latest from the preparations in the host city and

follow the record breaking cold streak. over a good evening i could have you company if you just joined us live from the r.t. new center here in moscow at nine pm it's kevin owen with you and first survivors of u.s. drone strike testified to members of congress today the families grandmother was killed when a missile hit their guard in pakistan a year ago say they have no idea why they were targeted and she's going to check out was at that meeting just a bit earlier she joins us now live with the latest hi there it's the first time saying that this has happened what did you hear what was said. but having you're right this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes where ink. congress and there were maybe only about. only

four members of congress present at the at the in the briefing room for the congressman of course apart from the congressman who initiated the meeting it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of drone strikes so it's very difficult to expect the sudden change of heart even the heart was what these drone victims were appealing to on a cobra twenty fourth of last year and was told strike left this one pakistani family devastated nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly scaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables in her car and as of this nine year old not below she saw everything and i was able to catch them very briefly a day before this meeting in congress if you is what she said. why do you think you queer mother was killed. that money or that it didn't go any i don't know but one

of the reason why we came here i have no idea why my grandmother was killed that. did you do we need blew up do you run the boat what were you doing in the mind when a drone hit i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run yet i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running and. my deepest condolences for your mother's good for your loss isn't there to help i am still here and my shitty. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america we have no idea why our village in my house was targeted. this is going to be the first time when the u.s. congress that generally approves of drone strikes will hear from innocent victims of those strikes the rayman family from pakistan are going to tell their story.

they hope to hear answers where this is all going why do they have to live in fear every day and why was their grandmother killed. why what they did to this family kevin you realize that this family has never been brought out of their home in north waziristan and the father said you looked at the life around here in d.c. and he wished his children too would be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed at a moment. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have been clear every day and here's what their thirteen year old son said. no longer. i prefer gray skies drones don't fly when the skies are gray then the sky brightens and few returns. and this young man is one of many pakistani children who don't see the sky that way

independent reports say u.s. drones killed one hundred seventy four children those are startling numbers if you put human faces to them and the purpose of this hearing was to put a human face to throw strikes and there is a sure chance that in congress the tragedy of this family. will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice. ok. i guess the family were hoping to be more members of congress that took an interest to be there to listen to what they're saying there come a long way disappointing for them i guess going to shoot you can in washington d.c. thank you very much for the update. the british government has warned it could result to legal action to silence newspapers seeking to publish edward snowden's n.s.a. revelations is the latest in a string of attempts to block the release of embarrassing documents referred to as more from london. well it's reported that he said on monday that if newspapers don't demonstrate some social responsibility then it will be difficult for the

government to stand back and not act now he also made reference to injunctions and dina atheists these are measures that the government has to prevent the disclosure of certain types of information by the media particularly if it would impact u.k. military or intelligence operations now he did go on to say that his preference was not for heavy handed tactics but it will be worth reminding viewers that back in july we saw u.k. government officials enter the guardian newspaper offices that's the newspaper that's being at the forefront of publishing the edward snowden leaks and destroy hard drives containing some of that sensitive information the u.k. government has also detained journalist and partner of playing greenwald david miranda under terrorist legislation many people would say those are extremely heavy handed tactics indeed responding to the reports of the prime minister's statement saying greenwald the journalists being primarily reporting these leaks said that

this was shocking that this happens in a country that tells itself it has press freedom so of course not just the guardian of course has been working to make data from i would snowden's leaks available to the world the secrecy website crypto has put together a map showing the extraordinary reach of u.s. surveillance so you look at it according to the website every country the worlds of phone calls intercepted some point you having so it turns out the map is from tens of thousands of the terms of billions of the middle east appear to have been the chief targets but by no means the only ones in europe america's closest allies from themselves and surveillance with three hundred sixty one million conversations intercepted just to germany. in total the united states monitored one hundred twenty four billion calls globally in the space of just one month earlier this year glenn greenwald the former guardian journalist who first published leaks told us on our video agency ruptly that america's snooping will not be scaled back any time

soon. in brazil in germany in france in india and speed of course in the united states is going to repeat itself continuously for the next several weeks or months in almost every country around the world the very clear objective of you say is to not just go bust but to keep it for as long as the chance of the big at the time trying to protect your citizen the spirit he was asking for everything they've been doing in terms of living can you get it right. take about top top story a minute now the family have testified before congress but what they went through with the drone strikes the grandmother was killed the family's lawyer who was supposed to speak to our lawmakers at that meeting was denied a u.s. visa again as i was saying earlier on so few people turned up in congress to listen this must have been disappointing for the family as well the lawyers were led into america let's talk to him though i shares that is joining us now live service

a grateful that you're on the line there why do you think you were denied entry to the united states. thank you for having me i think the reason is very obvious the reason is my criticism of u.s. drone program in pakistan and the legal action abroad since two thousand turned against cia officials acting in pakistan and against pakistani government and the congressional briefing was one occasion where the clients i'm representing would have a voice to speak to american lawmakers who would also challenge president obama's contention that drone strikes are very precise and they only hit militants which is not true. and his family is one living example of the poor before congressman today and the hundreds of people who are being represented by the organization and i would have speakers spoken on their behalf but unfortunately u.s.

government denied me visa once again so what was the point of this briefing it begs that huge question doesn't it the big elephant in the room here and you're very much entitle to your opinion surely but you weren't allowed to have that opinion to say what you thought so what was the point of the whole thing. well the point of this whole hearing was that the american public actually need to nor the alternate facts which are from ground that when president obama speaks to them about drone strikes that they're only targeting militants that's not true because the drone strikes in pakistan have been hitting a huge number of civilian population there are drone strikes which are problematic like the signature strikes or the rescue strikes and then those strikes which are targeting women and children like the family which is visiting us i think these facts were important and this was a good forum for the people of missouri to stand to put forth their case so that larger american public can understand what their government is doing on then name

did exploit. tax money they are getting and the important point here is that if you look there's a new survey which has come out today which talks about that american public a large number of american public are now against drone strikes if they are targeting civilians and that is the important point which needs to be told to americans because it is very clear that the u.s. does not care about international law and the argument being put forward on international law issue is not going to be heard but when we bring in the civilian damage and huge number of civilians. who are being killed that will actually bring the point home and hopefully this whole madness will stop it but it's not only got you on the line in one of the previous interviews you talked about north waziristan next to the afghan border you called a concentration camp why do you use those terms. well it's a concentration camp in the sense that the area has been completely cordoned off no

one can go in and come out of there is done easily the people of the restaurant are just left to be to be living under drugs and there's nothing. which can get them out and they're living under. drones which are hoovering or they had all the time and then there's a huge presence of focus on the military so four hundred fifty thousand population of north waziristan is actually living in a concentration camp where they're being picked on the basis of what kind of clothes to wear if someone has a long beard or someone's driving. s.u.v.s and this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the area just to a final four while you're on the line there we had very few members of congress turned up only a couple today are you disappointed by that and anyway what do you think about today's briefing you think it's going to have any impact on u.s. drone policy when it's given publicity we're covering it i'm sure other new news

lots of covering it as well but is it going to have any. reality check is any good is going to do anything. sorry i did not hear your question they had briefing today not many congress representatives turned up is it going to have any impact on u.s. drone policy briefly. there's a hope that it would to it but might actually have an impact on u.s. drone policy because the lawmakers are being informed about obviously we cannot see anything for certainty that president obama is going to listen to some say in their words is what i think we are very hopeful that it would have some impact all right thanks ever so much for your time shares of ag there are joining us on the line. this is all to international thank you the bay where this can tell you after the break we're on the case of the brics nations they've come up with a plan though to try to protect their internet from the n.s.a. an interesting story coming up we've got live coming up right after this break.

some of the sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing and. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on the territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. choose your language. with oh if you're going to.

choose good use good consensus to. choose to go to the great. choose the stories that impact. be access to. i. well again welcome back in response to the n.s.a. scandal brazil's been calling for a new secure cyber space to be created but ideas received the backing of the brics nations to russia india china and south africa's considering laying a vast network of data cables immune to n.s.a. snooping technology let's talk about the scheme we joined live by jeremy zimmerman is on the line now another journey from the internet liberties and digital rights advocacy group thanks of being with us so it's a costly scheme a complicated scheme no well it sounds costly but it's probably worth

it do the more cables there would be the more routes there would be for information to go through the internet the better communications would be overall so if more people invest in more cables it means more internet how they're going to do this than they're going to have their own fiber optic cables etc etc i mean and how can they be sure that the n.s.a. can hack into the many way they're pretty clever these guys. are well you can never be sure but one thing for sure is that when the cable and in the u.s. then n.s.a. as full access if the cable ends up somewhere else then it's yours to try to secure that access and then of course there are the questions i mean the hardware that will be used on both ends of those cables is one point four interception and of course if those cables are used to make information transit to websites or set such as google or facebook all the web sites in which n.s.a. has full access it won't solve per se the question of privacy invasion on a massive scale by the n.s.a.

it come to some for the look into the future if we've got some sort of future we've got internet lawyers dedicated to various people's political outlooks it's kind of scary with all part of the internet is that it it's freedom for everyone it's a scary thought isn't if it goes down this past surely not. it's not that scary because internet relies on decentralization so the more cables the more routes the more options there would be for data to transit through the internet the better it will be of course this decentralization could be used for nationalisation could be used for closing down borders around some kind of national internet and we see that in many countries today such as china iran even in russia so the question is how much will we tolerate decentralization and we grant is that it will respect from them and the rights per se laying down new fiber optics doesn't look like a risk for fundamental freedoms could governments use it for their own games though

in some shape or form well governments don't need new transcontinental cables to to play their own game all they need is to have access to the company's locally run access to the internet or internet service so we see countries such as china iran or russia or others to pressure operators locally to operate censorship so they do not need transcontinental links to do so but laying these cables is going to be hugely costly is there no simpler way to protect people's data from the prying fingers of the n.s.a. . well taking back control of a communication infrastructure is not something silly it really makes sense we can think of a kind of digital sovereignty that countries should be free to apply you know there to control from the cable to other key infrastructure but of course it is not

enough i hope those governments along with laying down those new cables will for instance invest in new industrial policy is where they would foster the development of free software and decentralized services and then to an encryption to put back in the hands of their citizens ways of gaining back control of a technology with all the new cables in the world if people keep believing that they can trust google facebook apple and microsoft then they will send all their lives into to the n.s.a. so of course it has to be a broader set of technological solutions and political solutions and also social solutions to make citizens around the world understand that we must take back control of the infrastructure we must take back control of the communications of a personal data if we do not control the machines then the machines will control us

and knows a lot of people are there agree with you very much the germy sentiment thank you very much from the internet liberties and digital rights advocacy group shaded now our website what do you think about all this. presumably different talk to pilots about a narrow escape on the outskirts of moscow we talk about that often but our web about the later the rest of it is pilots they manage to just in time as their experimental military helicopter came crashing down in a forest a lucky escape. hatch more pictures there is an artichoke and we got footage of the incident on with details. and also there for you one of the world's largest sources of fresh water in the thread as officials plan a nuclear waste facility near lake her and on the u. . canadian border so if you got some views about that let us know there's a comment section by all our stories and to do take part as well in the web vote of the day about the n.s.a. . the countdown to the sochi winter olympics opening ceremonies the one hundred days. in the host city of the games forest land to

farmers following the olympic torch relay which is reach russia's west of most region kaliningrad let's go live to those guys now hi there nice to see first of all let's go to paul just a hundred days to go ready. for the big event. the message from the organizers. will be ready. to mark one hundred days as the feeling in the city is that the hard work needs to take the president. in his box like the one hundred days in the build up to the games start to get. busy it will. be home and school of some of the venue over the last. week the main media center has been to the athletes' village and he's been to the fixed a live stadium which is going to host the opening and closing ceremony and tomorrow the i.o.c. are hosting a conference on sport on the environment here in the radisson hotel behind me

inside the olympic park now but says that he thinks the venues are impressive and that he's confident that the athletes are going to be delighted with them over the course of the next three months they're going to be one hundred seventeen different tests on those venues there are going to be conferences rehearsals and sporting contest to make sure that all venues are up to operational standards but the feeling in sorting is right now as the clock begins its countdown of the hard work needs to continue to ensure that come february the seventh this city is ready to welcome the sporting world. let's go very very north very very well. most western mo. region of course russia farmers to some pretty large beyond you there's a lot of people out of people celebrating the hundred day count there where you are the. yeah well there is plenty big song because the torch has been touring this pocket a rusher on the baltic sea and it has just arrived here in the center of

kaliningrad i'm actually stood on the edge of victory square where if you might be able to hear the celebrations have started to mark the one hundred day count down and it really is the phenolic to what has been a very memorable day a moment to be plenty of excitement as i found. one hundred days to go the tools making its way across the living gradually to the first leg of that was just started here with time is about to go school which is just forty kilometers away from kaliningrad ensuring that i will make it so i will enter the city where it's due to arrive later this evening if you can see there's a lot of commotion here but this is actually the most westley point of the relay that's because this russian exit life is sandwiched between part of the looking around about a million people live hand as you can say hundreds have turned out today to try and cheer on the top through also dozens of jewels bearers of gold and one of those those include russia's gold trampy like the swimming which is not so you can all

know it's hard to imagine that this store turn iraq and russia twenty three days ago from grace joining that time is called up thousands of kilometers has been up to the north pole is being carried by father frost i mean just over a week stand face to to go up to the international space station first by school. so that gives you taste of what's been happening today the last torchbearer incidentally which the governor clearly gracia he'll be a very proud man tonight and in a moment we are due to get a lot of follow it and also the foods from the employee brain still who do their best to give the flame a good send off as will the thousands of people that are gathered here. today before that plane was put back inside that tiny lance and i'm flying off to the arctic circle to. this i can see russia going to give us a competition for the camera no doubts we'll let you all get on with it thanks guys nice to see you both my thanks for the update. now than earlier discuss the

upcoming winter olympics and what to expect from the host city with the russian sports scientist carol good male ski city time sports correspondent john good body is what they had to say to me. as far as. you know everything seems to be going well i think the one thing that concerns me about the games is if you look back to the world athletics championships which took place in or goes to moscow the the lack of spectators for many of the events was rather disappointing thinking back now that the initial flurry for tickets was more the flare it was a stampede for tickets in london very very expensive at the time but towards the end of the games you did see quite a few empty stands i mean you obviously saw itself carol are they going to address that kind of problem to stop it happening in sochi and i don't know if there's a single answer to your question of whether we're going to see full stadiums everywhere or not but you know the hockey finals are sold out and all the big

events are already sold out and i think there will be people there what are your thoughts but the readiness of the event again from what you've seen so far we had yesterday in sochi saying that everything was well on track i mean obviously he's taken this on these belt from the very start all the indications seem to be that everything is going very smoothly you have to realize that the the main problem may be the lack of snow all through all sorts she. is the city which is hosting the olympics. the winter olympics and it's the city which has got the highest temperature of any city which has ever staged the winter olympics but it was the start of whether we're going to get snow yeah of story to tell here or you're missing here you're missing one thing here is that just like every olympics we've seen in the past there's not going to be just the

city as you know there are several skiing resorts that have been built and myself or is it a couple of them were in the past winters and they. we do get natural snow and what how much money you put into something obviously could have a plan for the weather here is seven hundred thousand cubic meters of snow all the way rain what you can play and how many how many olympics have you covered john. must have been a few and have you ever seen one that hasn't gone without a glitch. no no absolutely and there you are almost all of them do for one reason or another no i'm not particularly worried about sochi i think that this is the decade for russian sport another stage of world athletics championships successfully got the world cup in two thousand and eighteen and obviously it's a very prestigious event and russia has got huge resources to put behind it. one hundred.

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