another whistleblower bites the dust after breaking into a vast spying database run by a us government contract. probably sent him a creature 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 of punished for going astray. also alarming figures in japan's radiation hot spots. this is close to the average level of the girls. in the chernobyl zone only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living. your side travels to the exclusion zone in fukushima which the government has to make. a promise that some see as

hopelessly unrealistic. activists protest. against the devastating civilian cost of america's drone warfare . and inside security chiefs warned more and more europeans are joining the rebel campaign in syria returning radicalized. hello there it's good to have you company you're watching. cyber activists behind a massive expose a on a u.s. private intelligence 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. to see 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 and some of hammon supporters have dubbed him the robin hood of our times the defense team inside the court room 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 here do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not you know i'm a dell 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 sixty. 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. new york well hammond who was a member of the hacktivist network anonymous was ensnared by the f.b.i. which persuaded one of his colleagues to become an informant independent journalist

david seaman told us the hackers seem 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. 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. remodel merican 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 receives a road map for the elimination of its chemical arsenal but finding a destruction site is proving an ominous task. 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 filling 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 plant and here's one of the main reasons for that ideally the radiation level should be just one military

yet 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 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 parties are actually 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 a 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 a little 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 of 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 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. it is suffering from fire or dishes. 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. the mayor of toronto has been roundly embarrassed for drink driving drug taking and rude comments and now he's been stripped of some of his by the city council you can

get the details on the latest twist in his roller coaster ride at r.t. dot com also their open sesame the u.n. signals it's going to give russia exclusive rights to the vast swathes of the disputed sea zone 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 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 a request to be the host site along the way saying it will help but only with

transport haitian political analyst chris bambery says finding a willing partner will not be easy i want to find incredible words that is a norwegian merchant ship accompanied by a norwegian naval vessel which is going to syria to pick up these weapons which includes 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 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 that 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 the our 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 as chemical weapons in syria are being sought out and destroyed by chiefs in europe have warned 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 as the u.s 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 you know subscribe to any religion. who guided me. all our knuckles himself. 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 joined the neo was

persuaded to join up too but he was later killed in aleppo. it will save your soul from hell fire. for. 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 notice 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 deal radicalize these individuals for the french and the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mama morale that killed the 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 afghanistan and pakistan and probably to their. places of warfare judie welfare and he was not coached there was a huge debate here. too we were not to arrest him. he had been fighting again against training. in the summer 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 to the rest of europe have already been named. there still isn't a one size fits all solution and detail she says or could there be the difficulty remains. determining who's a potential threat and who is it does or sylvia are to paris. a scene of brutality that libya howden seen in months coming up a militia group goes on

a deadly shooting spree lashing out the protesters despite the government's desperate attempts to make rival groups. over say the trial of devastation left by america's. yemen and pakistan problems germany to reconsider plans to develop its own program we've got the story in a couple of minutes. exactly what happened there i don't know but i killed. years later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people you can trust the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are

more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. pick your country iraq afghanistan libya saudi arabia israel egypt syria turkey and even iran and then each washington finds itself either the odd man out leaving alone or leading from behind in a muddled path is the u.s. simply out of touch or is history in the region nearly. 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

tactic is too high the procession later headed towards the offices of general atomics the manufacturer of the unmanned aircraft used in strikes it's estimated that roughly one in ten people killed by u.s. drones in yemen and pakistan are civilians a group of yemenis who lost family members in such an attack came to washington seeking answers to 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 break down words to get clark station we've heard from a young man 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 knowledge getting cut to pieces by these missiles he says there is a brother in law was

a very outspoken critic of al qaeda and dot 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 it was a long. while germany has postponed the purchase of unmanned warplanes over legal and ethical concerns lawmakers have condemned drone strikes is 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 wanted 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 now in other news a shootout has been reported in russia's north caucuses republic of dagestan militants have opened fire on police who are currently surrounding the house where the armed group is holed up and 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 naija who blew up a bus in the science russian city of volgograd last month the twenty one year old man named of is wanted for organizing that terrorist assault which claimed the

lives of six people and injured more than thirty. a protest in libya has escalated into an armed confrontation with at least thirty two people killed the militia group opened fire to disperse a crowd rallying outside its headquarters demonstrate is then returned with guns and fought back. i. this is the footage of the 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 lead among market daffy the prime minister has been trying to persuade them to lay down their weapons but defense consultant. beings armed groups are too strong for the government right now. the only person who could serve our nation united was the revolutionary mama gadhafi years the

worst in the forces a major all nations member states saw this coming knew there would be chaos in the country because there are so many different factions and they can't seem to succeed so they resort to murdering each other they disbanded the military under civil service there is in effect a. central military role to be played by anyone there is no security or sludge it's iraq two point zero there are all sorts of militias coming from different towns and trying to take control of tripoli but obviously leads to closures and murder of civilians in tripoli. some international news in brief now at least ten people have been killed and eighteen g.'s in sectarian clashes in the pakistani city of rawalpindi according to witnesses the fighting started after students of a sunni seminary shouted insults at the passing shia religious procession several of the students were then dragged out into the street and beaten to death violence

escalated from there and several buildings were set on fire the army had to be called in to quell the rest. of. the. violence in the north rainy 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 police responded with tear gas the gulf state has been shaken by unrest since february twenty levon with frequent rallies calling for political reform. and italian students have clashed with police during an anti hysterically march in the city of cheering around two hundred protestors wave flags 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 complying with the e.u. wide budget deficit approves. trade between the us 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 is not at all 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 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 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 susan thank you very much for talking to us just how damaging has the n.s.a. spying scandal been for e.u. u.s.

relations. it effected the public perception more than in the perceptions among politicians everybody who is a professional politician knows that all countries are looking around for information and information is the fact that the currency in the political urea arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception specially in germany is america is our friend you should never spy on your friend and the like what. does good guy than 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 that someone is exceptional that of course some think they are exceptional but they are not either 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 and 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 by the way to 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 wolfgang schuessler here in vienna on r.t. . exam the trusting good cop bad cop tactics of us police and cummings and for a british view is that it's our new show but me.

president obama despite being king liberal loves to flatter the troops he loves their courage selflessness and teamwork as he said in his state of the union address but he doesn't love are there expensive injuries which the troops are going to have to pay three times more for according to yahoo news the president's administration wants to force military retirees to get out of tri-care their current plan and added to obamacare the plan calls for them to raise premiums from up to ninety to three hundred forty five percent within five years one example provided by the free beacon estimates that a retired army colonel with a family currently paid four hundred sixty dollars a year for health care would have to pay around two thousand dollars make you pay even more for your war injuries apparently that's what obama is actually planning while he is reading those lovely speeches off of teleprompters people who are against the post nine eleven war against who knows what are often told that they don't support the troops well to the people who say bring the troops home never advocate tripling their health care premiums no they don't all of the chicken hawks

who send the troops off to die in questionable wars are the ones who want to make them pay even more for their injuries but that's just my opinion. meanwhile in vietnam who cock out the former general director i go bank financial faces the death penalty for embezzling five hundred thirty three billion dong. that's about twenty five million dollars chopped up for the bangkok and. also this week a former us benefits are going faster complaining or committing some horrific deadly money printing since many more do. was that a five hundred thirty billion were embezzled from the american people according to andrew hood our good man to a gruesome bond buying spree that had by natalie butchered main street america their bloated carcasses fed to the gluttonously at my chambers in the red and devils on wall street i'm sorry said the report of quantitative easing.

the crime is not a viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank stirling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and frank stirling is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and pressed sterling until he cracks the eleventh of july nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the murder his confession is recorded.