was. another whistleblower bites the dust after breaking into a vast spying database run by u.s. government contract. probably sent him a paycheck instead of sending him to prison for the next ten years. we report on the story jeremy hammond allegedly used by the f.b.i. as part of a private army of hackers i'm punished for going astray. alarming figures in japan's radiation hot spots. this is close to the average level of the goldstone . only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living. so you also traveled to the exclusion zone in fukushima which the government has promised to make it. but with radiation soaring even outside the area some officials are now admitting that this may not be

possible. activists marjayoun side the white house saying the civilian cost of america's drone warfare is too high. an insider threat security chiefs warn more and more of europe citizens are joining the rebel campaign in syria and returning home radicalized. it's nice to have you company you're watching. cyber activists behind a massive expose say on a u.s. private intelligence for spied for the government has been sentenced to ten years

behind bars the case though was anything but clear cut and is being described as a warning shot to whistleblowers artes and this is the reports from the court. after two hour hearing in a packed courtroom in the federal courthouse in lower manhattan twenty eight year old activist and hacker jeremy hammond was sentenced to one hundred twenty months behind bars he's going to spend the next decade in jail in march twenty twelve hammond was arrested for breaking into two hundred gigabytes of five million e-mails of information of private security firms stratfor and leaking this information to transparency organization we q leaks in these e-mails it was revealed that the private security firm was spying on human rights activists upon the request of corporation and the u.s. government earlier hamad had pled guilty to one count of the computer abuse and fraud act this was a classic case of whistle blowing where malfeasance and criminal activity by a private corporation on behalf of both corporations and the government was exposed

the government and the judge felt that the idea of causing mayhem or causing destruction was incompatible with that jeremy's stated political goals and. we disagree with that some of hammon supporters have dubbed him the robin hood of our times the defense team inside the courtroom argued that he fought for the better good trying to bring about real change to the system and showed more light on what the u.s. government was doing the prosecution however said that he stole the numbers of sixty thousand credit cards causing a damage of one to two point five million dollars to businesses and individuals if people who have influence and people whom kia do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not. a bell or dr king i was a civil rights activist germy is every much as a progressive human this as the spirit of those leaders as we said in the difference is motivated by his political beliefs his desire for transparency and

his desire to highlight what's wrong with the private security industry and with government surveillance a total of two hundred six. five letters from journalist activists human and constitutional rights groups were sent to the judge asking for jeremy hammond to be released also thirty six prominent freedom of information activists sent their requests to the courthouse however the huge public support for jeremy hammond did not affect the judge's decision if we don't have jeremy hammond since we don't have edward snowden's if we don't have chelsea manning barrett brown's we don't have a free press this sometimes comes on the heels of the n.s.a. scandal continuing the debate on what should and should not be kept secret in the u.s. and for how long the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as well as the war on freedom of information and r.t. new york. intriguingly he was ensnared by the f.b.i. which persuaded one of commons colleagues to become an informant when independent

journalist david seaman tells us the haka seems to have been pushed every step of the way he was approached by an f.b.i. informant this f.b.i. informant is apparently the one who quote unquote cheer lead jeremy into hacking into this organization this f.b.i. informant also allegedly gave them a list of other targets that jeremy should go after and which he did not go after and when c. once he received the information he apparently downloaded it to an f.b.i. controlled server at the request of this f.b.i. informant so if this was basically an f.b.i. operation they should have probably sent him a paycheck and sort of sending him to prison for the next ten years what he leet revealed a degree of wrongdoing that's in the public interest to know about so i was totally shocked that they went with the full ten years the maximum possible that's an outrage this judge represents everything wrong with the american justice system today we shouldn't be silencing guys like jeremy hamad we should be giving them jobs i mean he's an innovator and granted he hacked into something but at the

behest of the government. meanwhile america's spying activities are sowing doubts among european partners in a few minutes we hear from a former austrian chancellor about how transatlantic relations have been damaged by revelations of america's snooping on its friends. plus the syrian government received a road map for the limitation of its chemical arsenal but finding the destruction the site is proving an ominous task. now in japan a group of government officials has decided to come clean and admit the residents of fukushima may never return to their homes they say that radiation levels there cannot be brought back to normal anytime soon and urging the leadership to abandon its promise to make the area fit for living in but only a handful of those residents actually want to go back more than two years after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the dark nuclear power plant and here is one of the

reasons for that will ideally the radiation levels should be just one million per year since this is unreachable on a reachable target for japan the government reportedly hopes to ensure people aren't exposed to doses of more than twenty times that however in some of the worst affected areas geiger counters show measurements of around fifty times the recommended level and that's half way to cancer causing levels artie's alexy brings us this report from the exclusion zone. it's hard to say what gives you a creepier feeling the trail of destruction left by the twenty eleven tsunami all the houses untouched by natural disaster but abandoned after the nuclear accident walking through the deserted streets of the fukushima exclusion zone we can see plenty of both technically we're now well within the goes on we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these houses ravaged by the tsunami

twenty eleven still stand here nowhere near to being with stuart you'd be surprised to learn that radiation levels here are in fact lower than in some of the european cities and this prompted the decision by the japanese government to allow the people to return to their homes. but scientists say that suicidal because radiation migrates and because it exists in hot spots scattered all across the area. in the hot spots there is a huge amount of the radioactive material it's concentrated stored it is almost impossible to find out all the hot spots. from their houses we actually stumbled upon this process radiated material from personal belongings to contaminated soil is put in plastic bags and buried the radiation meter when berzerk even from a considerable distance imagine our surprise when we found similar levels in an area which had never been included in the no go zone. i've traveled through the

church noble exclusion zone more than a dozen times and this was probably the scariest episode when we put a radiation meter on the ground on a layer of moss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrong hands per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here thinks to kilometers and took a shit when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the goes down. and all those zones only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living. mrs morey's ono is one of them she bought a radiation meter and now patrols the area looking for hot spots as we had after school classes for children at our house but had to close it because of high radiation. in her short life this girl has already got used to seeing a lot of radiation meters just like mrs moore her mother joined an ngo group of

ordinary women united by fear for the future of their children and distrust of the government's actions. we're sending our data to government and tepco officials every day and we get no reply i don't see an action from them as if they're trying to play down the scale of things meanwhile our children are all. red is suffering from fire road issues. the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco a spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from reactor four at fukushima dai ichi. we have it under control it's a challenging process but we have the equipment to perform it anti-nuclear protesters in tokyo say no one should be allowed back into the fukushima area until it's completely safe which in truth may not happen for centuries their pick it has just served eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. reporting from japan. a scene of brutality that libya hadn't seen in months coming up

a militia group goes on a deadly shooting spree lashing out at protesters despite the government's desperate attempts to make rival groups lay down arms. plus the trial of devastation left by america's armed drones in yemen and pakistan prompts germany to reconsider plans to develop its own program. of a global chemical weapons watchdog has outlined an ambitious timetable for the destruction of syria's chemical weapons the end of june twenty fourth scene has been set as the deadline for damascus to get rid of its entire stockpile but the main components will cease to exist by the end of this year but while the organization remains positive about the results achieved so far there are plenty of obstacles ahead heavy fighting in syria is putting the international team of chemical weapons experts there in severe danger and it's still not clear where the stockpiles will be destroyed with albania vehemently rejecting request to be the

host site and no way saying it will help but only with transport ation political analyst chris bambery says finding a willing partner will not be easy. i want to find incredible words that it's a norwegian merchant ship accompanied by a norwegian naval vessel which is going to syria to pick up these weapons which is mustard gas and siren and bring them to albania the norwegians say they don't have the expertise the ability to dismantle the chemical weapons i would ask you if the richest one of the richest countries in europe don't have the expertise and knowledge to do this how do you expect the poorest country in europe to do this kind of smacks of a communal mentality that somehow we're going to dump of these things in albania we're not going to bring them to britain why don't you choose a country such as the expertise for instance in britain there is the aldermaston chemical weapons facility i would trust that to dismantle those weapons but there was high levels of expertise. and also albania must be one of the least people

countries in europe this is not to attack a little billion people but there are billions the as holder of mormon history know it's not very stable there's a problem of organized crime there and i think it's a very strange decision to say we're going to these deadly weapons and put them in a country which were security must be an issue and this chemical weapons in syria are being sought out and destroyed by chiefs in europe have warned of a rapid rise in citizens going out there to fight counterterrorism analysts say one in ten of all foreign fighters come from the continent and there's the top intelligence official has warned they pose a serious threat to their home countries if they make it back from the fighting. i am french to french parents my parents are atheist and do not subscribe to any religion. who guided me. knuckles themselves.

having found islam on the internet in two thousand and nine in this video he's urging muslims to join the fight in syria his younger brother john daniel was persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo. it will save your soul from hell fire. and this is just one of many such videos online of young europeans calling their peers to arms french and western intelligence services have intensified their warnings of europeans heading to syria to fight nowadays they've noticed not all the extra rise in the number of individuals heading over there but also in the kind of people who are joining the fight they say that more and more they are more committed to the struggle and upon their return to europe there's still no clear cut way to do radicalize these individuals for the french the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mom i'm robert killed seven people is still fresh fears of

a repeat one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people native french people travel to again a stand in pakistan and other. places of warfare judie welfare and he was not coat there was a huge debate here as. to. not do arrest him. on grounds that he had been fighting in. training. in the summer germany's interior minister suggested a temporary ban on fighters returning home to belgium on the other hand had been working with turkish authorities to bring their nationals back to overestimate europe have already been made. but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the details. or could there be the difficulty remains. determining who's a potential threat and who is this or is still there r t paris. has been

roundly embarrassed for drink driving drug taking and rude comments and now are drawn to those embattled mayor has been stripped of some of his powers by the city council to get the details on the latest twist in his roller coaster ride of r t v dot com also their open sesame the u.n. signals it's going to give russia exclusive rights to vast swathes of the disputed sea find out more about the resource rich area that has been labeled and aladdin's cave by one politician. make shift drones and tombstones a way of saying no to america's unmanned killing machines protesters have converged outside the white house claiming that the collateral damage from this anti terror tactic is too high the procession later headed towards the offices of general atomics the manufacturer of the unmanned aircraft used in the strikes and it's estimated that roughly one in ten people killed by u.s.

and pakistan. a group of yemeni who lost family members in such an attack. seeking args. these drone strikes victims plan on meeting with lawmakers over the coming days their message to them is clear to put an end to the drone can. they are asking also asking for the memos that justify the drone program to be released for those documents to be made public and for the breakdown to get. we've heard from a. brother in law and now if you work killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the wedding last knowledge getting. to pieces by these missiles he says there is a brother in law was a very outspoken critic of al-qaeda and thought if you were to be killed that it would actually be terrorists. al qaeda but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house is all. the more germany has postponed

the purchase of military drones over legal and ethical concerns lawmakers have condemned drone strikes as illegal killings recently chancellor merkel was criticized by human rights groups for apparently backing u.s. drone attacks in pakistan but a german am paid believes the country's government actually has no intention of giving up on drone warfare i think it's working in that way that they are want to be committed more war more military interventions and this is a really big scandal because it's going to be more killings more people will die with this combat drones and in fact there are. they want to fight siding the u.s. with this military operations as we saw it in the last years for example the social democrats they want to actually that germany will be involved in two of the now two

one being against libya but conservatives they were against it now it's a different situation they want to be committed in more wars and more military operations that's what i can see from this agreement. the volatile security situation in libya has boiled over with a militia group shooting dead at least thirty two people protesting in front of their headquarters it is the worst violence the country seen in months. i think. footage of the chaos that erupted on the streets after the bloodshed rival militias have been fighting a turf war since they helped. to market daffy with the prime minister struggling to make them lay down their weapons defense consultant thinks armed groups are too strong for the government right now. the only person who could serve our nation

united was the revolutionary mama gaddafi so yes the western force is a major all nations member states saw this coming at them knew there would be chaos in the country because there are so many different factions and they're constantly succesful they're the result of murdering each other remember. the proceeds from all the natural resources all in particular then there's golf there's also uranium in the salt and there's the water probably the largest reserve to our underground freshwater in the world is in libya so there are all sorts of militias coming from different towns and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes and murder of civilians in tripoli the condition. absolutely right for nato to intervene with boots on the ground it's just gone twenty past nine here in moscow a quick look now at some other news. pilings

in the north bahraini villages reportedly left at least ten people injured anti-government protesters trying to march to the central square but were met with a wall of police resistance demonstrators three molotov cocktails and riot forces responded to. to gas the gulf states has been shaken by unrest since february twenty levon with frequent rallies calling for political reform. elsewhere at least ten people being killed and eighty injured in sectarian clashes in the pakistani city of rawalpindi according to witnesses the fighting started after students of a seanie seminary shouted insults at a passing shia religious procession several of the students were then dragged out into the street and beaten to death by this escalated from there and several buildings were set on fire the army had to intervene to quell the armrests. thousands of leftist and and kissed it but protesters have marched through poland's

capital discipline say they wanted to show their ability to gather peacefully following a violent demonstration earlier this week nationalist protesters sparked violence on country's independence day wreaking havoc on the streets and attacking the russian embassy several were wounded in clashes with police. meanwhile italian students have clashed with police during an anti hysterically march in the city of cheering around two hundred protesters why flanks and burn flares before attacking riot police the march was a part of nationwide demonstrations against fourteen billion euros worth of spending cuts the measures are taking effect in twenty fourteen and are aimed at complying with a new e.u. wide budget deficit roofs. and over in the italian capital the pope comes out against people in finance who have woodwind ordinary people in the kaiser report. remember over there goldman sachs you have the head of the c.e.o. saying he does god's work lloyd blankfein well probably the pope is the god's

bishop on earth begs to differ there needs a basically saying that lloyd blankfein should be thrown in to the river with a stone tied to his neck if these politicians and his government aren't going to enforce justice then they want some vigilante old style just all the bottles please instances of this type of vigilantism in the greater interest of the greater good by the greater being and that's why people like blankfein and jamie diamond according to the pull. money that's already in the book that's according to the king kaiser. he just sent it to iraq to the next of the over the river. because report coming up a bit later on now a long running british investigation into the lead up to the iraq war is being blocked by washington it has emerged the white house is furiously resisting the publication of secret communications between the then prime minister tony blair and

president george w. bush in fact an anonymous us sources even said it's not a british prerogative to publish anything relating to an american leader that all puts investigators in a tight spot between a new leading bureaucrat and a public hungry for the truth and he will activist in the gym and says governments have no right to sweep history under the law. this law to be no. anytime soon and that really seems to me a coverup both on the part of the people who support tony blair and of george bush it makes you wonder exactly what is in these conversations between bush and blair the must be quite a lot to hard for them being to be so worried about about them being released people want to know what did tony blair and george bush agree how early to the war what were the can. of it because frankly if this was agreed as many people believe in the spring of two thousand and two it means all the effort to produce

a dossier all the things all the pressure for a second resolution at the u.n. this was a sure rod because tony blair already knew that he was going to go to war nearly two hundred british soldiers died during the iraq war we've been hundreds of thousands of iraqis who have died there were millions of people demonstrated all of these people have the right to know and there is absolutely shameful that our government and the united states government are trying to prevent them from knowing well the u.k. isn't the only european nation having to do some soul searching on its partnership with the us to find out what exactly is clouding transatlantic alliance is artie's peter oliver spoke to a prominent austrian politician. public relationship between the european union and the united states seems to have hit something of a rocky patch of late and that's why i've come here to vienna to meet with a former european leader and gauge his opinion on the current situation. and

sure so was the chancellor of austria between two thousand and two thousand and seven he remains very involved in both international and european affairs dr hughes thank you very much for talking to us just how damaging has the n.s.a. spying scandal been for you u.s. relations it affected the public perception more than in the perception is among politicians everybody who's a professional politician knows that all countries are looking around for information the formation is different that the currency in the political area arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception specially in germany is america is our friend and you should never spy on your friend like what good america does skeet guy to me this

cannot happen and should not happen is it possible or even healthy for an idea of american exceptionalism to exist in the modern age i don't think that. someone is exceptional of course some think they are exceptional but they are not everybody is exceptional or we are equals we are brothers and sisters and you can be larger or we can be more powerful economic alou militarily but. we are no longer. on the notion we are on the same ship and we have to steer the same ship we have to find common rules we have to fly and be clear cause for the future this is the important thing and exceptionalism is a rather dangerous thing. but away to concept of the nineteenth century and the twenty first century i think we are equals. she's the thank you very much absolute pleasure to speak to that was me peter all of us speaking to form austrian

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