another whistleblower behind bars after breaking into a vast spying database run by a u.s. government contractor. they 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 ham in allegedly used by the f.b.i. as part of a private army of hackers and punished for going astray. alarming figures coming from japan's radiation hot spot. this is close to the average level of the goes down in the channel is known only with one exception the place where i'm at right now more than ten thousand people are currently living r.t. travel to be exclusion zone in fukushima where the government's about to make it fit for habitation soon a pledge that some see as hopelessly unrealistic plus. police

procedure militant hideout leading to an intense gun fight several terrorists killed reportedly including a man who orchestrated the last month of volgograd bus bombing. two pm in moscow i'm mad as a very good to have you with us our top story this hour a cyber activist behind the massive exposé on the u.s. private intelligence firm that spied for the government has been sentenced to ten years behind bars analysts say the case though was anything but clear cut and is being described as a warning shot to other whistleblowers or he's anastasio churkin are reports. 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. 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. 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 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 germany's every much as a progressive humanist 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. 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 details of the predicament unclear but here is his version of the events it was part of a hacktivist group that was behind a number of high profile stunts one of its members caught by the f.b.i. and turned informant allegedly threw him the agency federal also with pre-selected targets including web sites in turkey iran and brazil jeremy ignored those plans hacking into the intelligence firm strat for publishing a highly embarrassing and sensitive data the group's members arrested soon

afterwards. 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 see 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. u.s.

spying activities may be sowing doubts among european partners in a few minutes we hear from a former austrian chancellor about how transatlantic relations have been damaged by the u.s. surveillance revelations bus the syrian government gives a road map for the elimination of its chemical arsenal but finding a destruction site is proving an ominous task. but first to japan where a group of government officials decided to come clean and admit that residents of fukushima may never be able to return to their homes they say that radiation levels there can't be brought back to normal anytime soon and they're urging the leadership to abandon its promise to make the area fit for a living again but only a handful of those residents actually said they want to go back more than two years after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the daiichi nuclear power plant here is the main reason for that ideally the radiation level should be just one millisievert per a year since this is an impossible target for the country the government reportedly hopes to ensure people aren't exposed to doses of more than twenty times that but

some of the worst affected areas geiger counters show measurements of around fifty times the recommended amount and that's how far away to cancer causing levels artie's like sarah shahi brings us this report from the exclusion zone it's hard to say would gives you a creepier feeling the trail of destruction left by the twenty eleven tsunami all the houses untouched by natural disaster but the band after the nuclear accident will king through the deserted streets of the fukushima exclusion zone we can see plenty of both technically we're now well within the no go was on the we're just ten kilometers from the nuclear power station these houses ravaged by the tsunami twenty eleven still standing here and nowhere near to being with stored 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 spot there is a huge amount of the radioactive material is 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 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 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 sixty kilometers only took a shit when you clear parked along the readings are certainly less than that this

is close to the average level of the goes down in the channel 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 already suffering from . the voice of dissent is now intensifying despite assurances from tepco

a spent nuclear fuel. you'll roots are removed from we have to for at fukushima daiichi. we have it under control it's a challenging process but we have the equipment to perform it anti-nuclear protesters in talk to 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 eight hundred days and they will stay longer they say to force their government into rethinking its nuclear policies. reporting from japan. still to come on the program warnings that foreign problems could be coming home to roost the security chiefs sound the alarm saying more europeans are joining the rebel campaign in syria could be coming back radicalized plus. activists protesting outside the white house against the devastating civilian cost

of u.s. drone warfare. but first an hours long standoff between a group of militants and russian police in russia's restive north caucasus republic of dagestan seemingly over all five gunman believed to have been killed one of them known to have been involved in the deadly terror attack in the city of volgograd last month. joins us live now with all the latest details so some very dramatic events happening in the north caucasus area tell us more of the details please. absolutely mad very dramatic like you just said several minutes as we're surrounded by and terribly selfish. now these terror suspects i believe have been involved in a. ring that is involved in several. in several criminal cases involving terror now before the seizure when just before this entire.

you know when you were found in the house and you were released by the militants themselves. these. days this brings us back to the main. the mosque behind the. suicide

attack explosion by. now it is said. and his mother was told to. speak to him and ask him to surrender himself he then. said that he actually was the person behind putting together the bombs as well as the decision. that. we know that. explosion or that explosion was committed by. who was said to have recruited him at the age of twenty one and introduced him to radical islam is that six people died in that bus. when the people driving behind the bus said that an explosion went off and it was only when they started to see people coming out of the windows that they realize that this is much bigger than what it was thirty more people were from that blast and police said.

that this was a pod of a much a big. terror group in michigan. but it turns out that. they then followed. up until now with the investigation and he has now come out and said that he was indeed the mastermind behind very dramatic scenes happening today terror suspects and militants found killed. be interesting to see how this chapter to the people involved how if we can in some way give them some kind of closure to what happened . thanks very much for. well a scene of brutality that libya hadn't seen in months coming up a group goes on a deadly shooting spree lashing out at protesters despite the government's desperate attempts to make rival groups lay down their arms that's still to come

after this short break stay with us. exactly what happened there i don't know but i killed. piers leaders when i got arrested. for a crime or did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people to consent to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation because there's been this is like 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 want 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 know what happened in each washington finds itself under the odd man out leaving alone for leading from behind in a muddled path is the u.s. simply out of touch or is history in the region merely being on. thanks for staying with us sixteen minutes past the hour the global chemical weapons watchdogs outlined an ambitious timetable for the destruction of syria's chemical weapons the end of june two thousand and fourteen set as the deadline for damascus to get rid of its whole stockpile the most of all we destroyed by the end of the year while the organization. remains positive but results achieved so far there are still plenty of obstacles ahead heavy fighting in syria putting the international team of chemical weapons experts there in danger and it's not clear where the stockpiles will be destroyed with albania vehemently rejecting her quest

to be the host site and norway saying it will help but only with transportation political analyst chris bambery from the international socialist group says finding a willing partner may not be easy. i want to find incredible words that it 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 and 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 colonial mentality that somehow we're going to dump of these things in albania were not going to bring them to britain why don't you choose a country which has the expertise for instance in britain there is the old amassed the chemical weapons facility i would trust that to dismantle those weapons but they impose high levels of expertise and also albania must be one of the least

stable countries in europe this is not to attack the albanian people but the albanian state has hardly a long history no 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 take these deadly weapons and put them in a country which was security must be an issue as chemical weapons in syria being sought and destroyed spy chiefs in europe of war and a rapid rise in citizens going there to fight counter terrorism analysts say one in ten of all foreign fighters comes from the continent as one of the u.s top intelligence officials warn they pose a serious threat to their home countries if they make it back from the fight. 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 nuckols himself from 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 is 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 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 the memory of the terror attack by frenchman mama morale 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 travel to again stand in pakistan and poverty to their. places of warfare judie welfare and he was not cote there was a huge debate here as. we were not to arrest him. on the grounds that he had been fighting in the. trainings there 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 overestimate europe have already been made. there still isn't a one size fits all solution in the e.u. zandu to achieve so or could there be the difficulty. determining who's a potential threat and who isn't this is still there r t. the mayor of toronto

has been erotically embarrassed for drunk driving smoking crack cocaine and some rude comments caught on video and he's now been stripped of some of his powers by his city council there get the details on the latest twist in his roller coaster ride at r.t. dot com. and open sesame the u.n. signals is going to give russia exclusive rights to vast swathes of the disputed sea zone find out more about the resource rich area called and aladdin's cave by one politician. first makeshift drones and tombstones a way of saying no to u.s. use of unmanned aircraft to carry out of deadly attacks protestors converged on the white house claiming the collateral damage from these anti terror tactic is too high recession a later headed toward the offices of general atomics a manufacturer of drones used in the strikes and it's thought that roughly one in ten of the people killed by u.s. strikes in yemen and pakistan is a civilian a group of yemenis we lost family members in such an attack came to washington and

again. 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 justified the drone program to be released for those documents to be made public and for the breakdown to get the station we heard from a going to his brother in law and now if you were killed by u.s. drone strikes and we saw our loved ones who were enjoying the wedding little snots 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. terrorists a member of al qaeda but as we hear it turned out very differently here at the white house as the longer here are seen protest in libya escalated into an armed confrontation with at least thirty two dead

a militia group opened fire to disperse a crowd rallying outside its headquarters demonstrators returned with guns and shot back. this footage of a chaotic scene that erupted in the streets the worst violence the country's seen in months rival militias have been fighting a turf war since they help out was torn leader moammar gadhafi the prime minister trying to persuade everyone to lay down their arms but defense consultant marina roof thinks armed groups are too strong for the government right now. the only person who kept the nation united was the revolutionary moammar gadhafi so yes the list and that nature will nations members say sold this called me that would be chaos in the country will just so many different factions and that they can see that seize the day the result to murdering the children they disbanded the military and the civil service there is in the. central military role to be played

by anyone there is no security as such it's iraq's two point zero so the. militias coming from different tones and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes and most civilians in tripoli u.s. mass surveillance activities have been clouding relations with key allies since edward snowden started leaking n.s.a. documents earlier this year while reaction from europe has so far been limited to angry statements public discontent could be growing to discuss where transatlantic ties are heading artie's peter all of us spoke with austria's former chancellor a man still closely involved in the country's politics. 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 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 than in the. us everybody who's a professional politician knows that all countries are looking around for information of the formation is different than the currency in the political area arena but the public perception was completely different because of the public perception in germany is america is our friend and you should never. be your friend. it would get america you said the guy to 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 exceptional 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 economic alou militarily but. we are no longer individual builds on the notion we are on the same ship and we have to steer this 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 i think is a little bit outdated by the way to 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. overground we take a look at rusty good cop bad cop tactics in u.s. police interrogations or if you're in the u.k. you're going underground with afshin rattansi stay with us.

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 well 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. but with the economic downturns in the final months they feel sank night and the rest because i think me a little bit every week. the video might be shocking but it's simply a ploy use. by u.s. police offices. filming with their own cameras they inform this woman called dalia that her husband is just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they

suspect she may have hired a hitman to murder a spouse. can look at that. in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse duniya what they want is a confession and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination of dalia that led to the truth and then eased the way to her prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation where everything might fall into place which explains why in the united states this method of investigation has been pushed to its very limits more than anywhere else in the world how does the interrogate.