another whistleblower bites the dust after breaking into a spying database run by u.s. government contract. should have probably sent him a paycheck instead of sending him to prison for the next ten years we report on the story of jeremy hammond allegedly used by the f.b.i. as part of a private army if i'm punished for going astray. also alarming figures in japan's radiation hot spot this is close to the average level. in the chernobyl zone only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living. also travels to the exclusion zone in fukushima which the government is trying to make the habitation a promise that some see as hopelessly unrealistic plus.

activists protest outside the white house against the devastating civilian cost of america's drone warfare. and insider threat security chiefs warn more and more europeans are joining the rebel campaign in syria and returning home radicalized. that welcome you watching r.t. with me andrey fam. now cyber activists behind a massive expose a on a u.s. private intelligence firm that spied for the government has been sentenced to ten years behind bars the case there was anything but clear cut and is being described

as a warning shot to whistleblowers artes and is each you're going to reports from the courthouse. 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. fees 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 and 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 shed 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 you know mendell or dr king i was a civil rights activist germy is every much as a progressive humanist as the spirit of those leaders as we said in the defense 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. we don't have a free press 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. new york while hammond who was a member of the to this network anonymous was instead by the f.b.i. which persuaded one of his colleagues to become an informant independent ginnis

david seaman tells us that the hacker seems to have been led every step of the way he was approached by an f.b.i. informant 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. control 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 instead 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 slowing down 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 receives a road map for the elimination of its chemical arsenal but finding a destruction site is proving an ominous stars. in japan a group of government officials has decided to come clean and admit that 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 daiichi nuclear power plants and here's one of

the main reasons for that ideally the radiation level should be just one millisieverts per year since this is an impossible target for japan the government reportedly hopes to ensure people aren't exposed to doses of more than twenty times that wherever 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 alexia 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 in twenty eleven still stand here nowhere near to being restored 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 hotspots. 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 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 in the layer of loss and it produced more than eight hundred micro wrong hands per hour that is forty times more than the normal human radiation level here sixty kilometers only took a shit when you clear parkland the readings are certainly less than that this is close to the average level of the ghost town of prepacked in the chernobyl zone 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 morey's on or 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. already 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 peak 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. now the mayor of toronto has been roundly embarrassed by drink driving drug taking and rude comments and now he's been stripped of some of his powers by the

city council you can get the details on the latest twist of his roller coaster ride at r.t. dot com. and open sesame the u.n. signals it's going to give russia exclusive rights to vast swathes of the disputed season and find out more about the resource rich area that has been labeled an aladdin's cave by one politician. the 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 is the deadline for damascus to get rid of its entire stockpile although most of it will be destroyed by the end of the shear 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 a request to be the host citing norway saying it will help but only with transportation political analyst chris bambery says finding a willing partner will not be. worth finding credible 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 mobility 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 colonial mentality that somehow we're going to dump 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. nicol 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 stable countries

in europe this is not to attack the al billion people but there are billions the as hard 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 at there to fight counter terrorism analysts say one in ten of all foreign fighters come from the continent and as 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 praise be to allah who guided me. nicola now calls himself abu abdullah drum on 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. converted to islam 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 and 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 and the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mom a member of that killed seven people is still fresh fears of a repeat one radicalized young men returned to france most of those people native

french people traveled to again to stand in pakistan and poverty to their. places of warfare jaggi welfare and he was not coached there was a huge debate here. to. not do arrest him. said he had been fighting in afghanistan or training. some of germany's interior minister suggested a temporary ban on fighters returning home belgium on the other hand had been working with turkish authorities to bring their nationals back overestimate europe have already been named but there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the detail or could there be the difficulty for me. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't this are still there r t paris. a scene of

brutality that libya hadn't seen in months coming up a militia group goes on i say the shooting spree lashing out to protest this despite the government's desperate attempts to make rival groups like. the trial of devastation left by america's drones in yemen and pakistan problems germany to reconsider plans to develop its own program we've got these stories for quite for. me while in vietnam. the former general director bank financial faces the death penalty for embezzling five hundred thirty three billion. that's about twenty five billion dollars. and. also this week a former you can fast a complaining or committing some horrific deadly money printing since many more

dongs than five hundred thirty billion were embezzled from the american people according to andrew hoods our good minute to a gruesome bond buying spree that had financially butchered main street america there bloated carcasses fed to the gluttonous money changers and derivative devils on wall street i'm sorry said the repression of quantitative easing. that i welcome back now makeshift 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

attack take too high the procession later headed towards the offices of general atomics the manufacturer of the unmanned aircraft used in strikes that roughly one in ten people killed by u.s. drones in yemen and pakistan are civilian a group of yemenis who lost family members in such an attack came to washington seeking. 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 it wrong our station we've heard from a going beyond that says his 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 night it's getting cut 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 used by a terrorist a member of al qaeda but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house as. germany has disposed of the purchase of unmanned warp. over legal and ethical concerns lawmakers have condemned drone strikes as illegal killings and recently chancellor merkel was criticised by human rights groups for apparently backing u.s. operations in pakistan but a german m.p. told us that despite the decision the government is more kayne than ever to get involved in foreign conflicts 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 they are or they want to fight

siding the u.s. with this military operations as we saw it in the last three 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. a shootout has just been reported in russia's north caucasus republic of dagestan militants have opened fire on police who are currently surrounding the house where the armed group is holed up a woman and a child were freed from the building at the start of the standoff one of the attack is believed to be the husband of suicide bomber an idea of who blew up a bus in the science russian city of volgograd last month the twenty one year old man named dmitri short of is wanted for all going izing that terrorist assault

which claimed the lives of six people and injured more than thirty. the protest in libya has escalated into an armed confrontation with at least thirty people killed a militia group opened fire to disperse a crowd rallying outside its headquarters demonstrators then returned with guns and for back. i. this the footage of chaos that erupted on the streets the worst violence the country has seen in months rival militias have been fighting a turf war since they helped as former leader muammar gadhafi the prime minister has been trying to persuade them to lay down their weapons but 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 yes the

western forces a major nations member states saw this coming knew there would be chaos in the country called there from many different factions and they constantly succesful they resort to murdering each other remember. the proceeds from all the natural resources all in particular then there's gold 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 the there are all sorts of militias coming from different towns and trying to take control of tripoli but that obviously leads to clashes and murder of civilians in tripoli the condition. absolutely right for nato to intervene with boots on the ground. quick look at some other news now at least ten people have been killed in eighty insectarium clashes in the pakistani city of

rawalpindi according to witnesses the fighting started after students facing seminary shouted insults at a passing shia religious procession several of the students were then dragged out into the street and beaten to death escalated from there and several buildings were set on fire the army had to intervene to quell the unrest. and violence in the north bahraini villages reportedly left at least ten people injured anti-government protesters tried to march to the central square but were met with a wall of police resistance demonstrators threw molotov cocktails and riot forces responded with tear gas the gulf state has been shaken by unrest since february twentieth levon with frequent rallies calling for political reform. and italian students have clashed with police to during an anti is there at the march in the city of cheering around two hundred protesters wave flags and burned flares before attacking right place the march was

a part of nationwide demonstrations against fourteen billion euros worth of spending cuts the measures are taking effect in twenty forty and they're aimed at complying with the wide budget deficit groups. trade between the u.s. and the e.u. already worth almost two billion dollars a day may be set to expand the two sides have edged closer to a new deal after a week of talks in brussels however it's not all rosy between the partners to discuss what exactly is undermining the transatlantic friendship artie's peter all of us 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 why i've come here to vienna to meet with a former european leader and gauge his opinion on the current situation. and show seoul 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 effected the public perception more the been among politicians everybody who is a professional politician knows the world countries are looking around for information of the formation is the fact that we can see and be politically area arena but to 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 guided me that 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 that of course some think they are exceptions but they are not everybody is exceptional or we are equals we are brothers and sisters and you can be larger or you can be more powerful economical or militarily but at the end we are no longer individual builds on the notion we are on the same ship it we have to steer the same ship we have to find common rules we have to fly and be clear cause to the future this is the important thing and exceptionalism this is a rather dangerous i think is a little bit outdated but it waits a concept of the nineteenth century and the twenty first century i think we are equals it's better that she is thank you very much absolute pleasure to speak to you that was me peter all of us speaking to former austrian chancellor dr wolfe going to slip here in vienna on r.t. now that the pope be the perfect role model for bankers there find out next in the

kaiser reporting for our british viewers it's our documentary on controversial police tactics. you know i love these rare moments where action of something at least sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trance fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i would like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones in beef and jim o's being produced why does the span have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to hardcore marijuana smoker

they'll tell you but dude weed is better for you than beer and that's legal man and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position is it really a good idea well the country could go the libertarian route and let it be everything be legal let people make their own choices or do what i think would be much much better actually really ban all the things that are destructive to our health both of these paths have positive and negative effects but they are a lot better than our current plan of bans some harmful things for some reason and a lot other harmful things because while they lobby better but that's just my opinion. pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even over in each washington finds itself under the odd man out pleading alone for leading from behind in a muddled package is the u.s. simply out of touch or is history in the region merely being on.

welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know in a sermon this way pope francis suggested we tie cement shoes to the bank stairs and throw them into the river of course i paraphrase is exact words may have been slightly more nuanced but the gist was the same in my opinion meanwhile in vietnam cock out the former general director of agra bank financial faces the death penalty for embezzling five hundred thirty three billion dong that's about twenty five million dollars chop shop for food bangkok and how also this week a former u.s. fed official confessed to complaining or committing some horrific deadly money printing sins.