from roads to. drop their. own bodies to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood ambushed by success and online activists faces six years behind bars after a series of legal battles started by u.s. movie makers over their declining profits. they were all either tortured killed or used as human shields r.t. hears from the syrian city of andro where rebel forces have reportedly carried out one of the most barbaric massacres since the beginning of the conflict. crane's multi-billion dollar agreement was russia saves kiya from defaulting on its loans but fails to call the protesters in the capital with some opposition leaders branding the deal treason.

which i hear a national coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie. hollywood and pirates don't always go together what started as a legal battle against copyright infringement for the co-founder of the file sharing service the pirate bay has snowballed into a tirade of hacking accusations from around the world now god for its wild from could end up in jail for six more years it's been all over reports. abroad since he was arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a glock for its wattle and bug seen the inside of jail cells in cambodia sweden and now solitary confinement in denmark it's just terrible as his mother to see that he is being treated like in this way like as if he were a terrorist or hard criminal or violent criminal of some kind acquitted on computer

hacking charges by the appeals court in sweden he now has to wait and see what he'll be charged with in denmark due to the intricacies of danish law there's no way forgot for it to know how long he'll have to stay in solitary if it was you know a decision or warrant that was made by a judge i was i was able to tell him you know for two weeks and then we we can go and see the judge but now because it's a decision made by the prison service i'm not able to tell him if there is i can't give him an a deadline whatever case is brought against goat fred for now he spends twenty three hours a day locked in a cell by himself and the thing that upset him most didn't me as well was that it wasn't a now to have his books and they said even scandinavia is most notorious mass murderer anders breivik has access to reading material as he serves his sentence in no way for the slaying of seventy seven people support for gold for it is coming in from

all across the world the likes of julian assange the activist collective anonymous of throwing their weight behind the campaign to get better treatment for a man they claim is being. persecuted because of his online activism on twitter using the hash tag an account got for its online alias his supporters flooded the social media site some accusing the danish authorities not knowing what they're doing in the case just see somebody does something online online means birds they agree can't control it but they don't really seem to get what they are actually accusing him of for his family his mother is allowed an hour long visit once a week for which she has to make a thirteen hundred kilometer round trip it's immoral i would say and i don't think the danish people understand what's going on in their presence saw tom denies the

accusations of illegal online activity and the longer he waits for prosecutors to put together their case the more he becomes the face of online activism peter all over r.t. germany as a swedish fire party says this war alone has being set up as an example to scare others away we can observe that throughout this entire ordeal starting with the raid against the pirate bay on may thirty first twenty zero six a number of rights violations. have been committed and. it's very hard to escape the feeling that governments are seeking the government's. got for it's far too rogue known as on a card just to scare others that might challenge the status quo and be frankly please the united states which kind of disgusts me to be honest so

judy in the so called them a political prisoner i would certainly agree he is a victim but somebody has to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood. problems for the pirate bay began in two thousand and six as soon as the successful file sharing website started to hit the pocket of the us film industry the swiss government was asked to take measures and a police raid followed which blocked the site for days now shortly after the founders were tried for promoting copyright infringement and were sentenced to a year in prison after a final appeal was turned down rome who was in cambodia at the time was arrested and deported to serve his time in sweden while he has now been extradited once more on this i'm damn mark wants to try him in a separate investigation into the hacking of a police database children and adults kidnapped tortured and beheaded

horrifying reports of atrocities carried out by islamist rebels keep coming to our t.v. from the rebel occupied syrian town of our drum at least eighty people were massacred there but as the army advances on the rebel held positions the number of civilian casualties could rise the city remains cut off but our crew got to speak to a few survivors who managed to escape. terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town of drug they saw panic disoriented people running for their lives and they ran themselves they will never forget the despair in the eyes of those who were forced to stay behind we have no reliable way to communicate with the people trapped inside address but officials are saying the atrocities against the civilian population are continuing our people are being butchered and even burned alive and every bit of news coming out of the town is doing a new blow to those whose families are still being held by the militants and everyone

working for the local authorities was to be killed regardless of their religion organon an asian they were all taken to be killed they took everyone even those who supported neither the government nor the rebels they were all either tortured killed or used as human shields the things being done in the drawer unthinkable they're slaughtering children and throwing them out of windows and no one's doing anything about it because the syrian authorities as well as human rights organizations say they have evidence confirming that massacres have taken place and address the dad taqiyya and many other areas which remain under the control of the armed opposition that the situation in syria has now deteriorated to the point that international norms of combat are no longer being observed if. there is an industrial town with a lot of the its residents working both in the private sector and for government badge and sees the horrifying crime this have been committed in this town houses who are set on fire with people trapped inside and. the syrian army which is

a position just outside the town that continues to carry out surgical strikes as part of their effort to liberate address which is now the only hope of the families waiting for news of their loved ones inside the town. r.t. as soon as reports of the bloodshed in our dress started coming in or to contact or to the various leading human rights or. it is ations to find out what they do of events there are millions corresponding policy or describes your response r.t. are a number of human rights organizations about what is happening there and even they do not know what's going on the fact is that syria is so deep in crisis that the international community is essentially unable to do anything it cannot even verify various mixed and partial reports that are coming from the war zone and this is what we see happening currently with the reports that we are receiving from both and aleppo what we are being told is that thirteen people have been killed and this

is after the military launched an air strike on rebel held positions it's the third day of the army assault on the opposition's northern stronghold and according to local activists at least one hundred people have been killed including some twenty eight children now the chaos in the country has led to the rise of extremist militant groups among the rebels and it is now essentially the extremists who are leading the way now many both inside syria and the international community have been sounding the alarm bells from the beginning that this is what will happen but only now are those particularly in the international community starting to see what is going on in the ground even though where it is no longer insisting on assad stepping down we saw this at the recent friends of syria meeting understand that the thirteenth when western supporters of the opposition say that they would want assad to remain in power because of the rising influence of the extremists

including altai didn't militants among the rebel groups and this is essentially because if assad did have to leave this would lead to syria being turned into a terrorist haven but despite the concern over who has joined the rebel forces washington is still trying to forge ties with a newly formed radical group islamic front and its western support for the rebels and whether the militant group. one democracy well the top for debate and crosstalk later today here on r.t. . some a lot of these are fighting against assad and they might be religious but they're fighting against assad because they want freedom for their country and the thought is that dictator so he does not a democratic country and he's a dictator let's not pretend that around that you know are they interested in democracy have mentioned this before here they're not interested in democracy it also appears that he's very much you know everybody. keeps the country together that's that's that's what russia has been supporting the sovereign country they're

killing christians they're killing druze they're killing alawite it's they're killing. you know disagreeable sunni's who are they are killing is the question so i think the idea that they would form a stable government let alone a. secular one is insane. you. see. why ukraine's newly struck deals with moscow may have given some respite to the country's trouble economy but they've also further fuel protests in kiev as a spy the fact that the contentious issue of ukraine joining a customs union with russia the opposition feared to be agreed on was not even touched upon during the talks for more on what exactly that use mean for ukraine

i'm joined in the studio by artie's venture capital host thanks so much for joining us here well let's now talk about the situation and in fact what this deal means for ukraine's economy could you break it down for us of course yeah well at the end of the day it came down to a practical economic decision ukraine simply can't afford the e.u. did at the moment russia gave a ferry it's time to talk about that. and so you've got the bond purchases which are fifteen billion in total added to that is the gas discounts as well so in combination that would equal twenty billion dollars it's just that so is that a lucrative offer though for you very absolutely and certainly more lucrative than the one for sure and the jose only compare well but the problem at the moment is that their forms are dwindling and that's a real problem because at the moment borrowing costs are really escalating and that's where the risk of defaulting on your debt comes in and it was thought that

they accepted the e.u. deal and not be still that russia has now put on the table they may have defaulted in less than six months which is quite telling you asked about the e.u. deal so this unique approach we know he famously called it a humiliating and said it was a sum of six hundred ten million euros that was. but in order to receive that money they would also have to enforce harsh spending cuts also gas increases as well so at the end of the day it was an economic decision basically i mean people would be bearing the brunt of it all in case the e.u. . which could if you think about it lead to more protests in the future and that was a concern as well but there are still going on. people are not happy at all but i can tell you that investors are happy about what i can tell you as far as boring cos they have gone down by one percent or so loitering around eight percent seven percent is dangerous so that's how fragile the situation but the point is ukraine

need this money now they're going to get three billion of this in the next three days. carney was actually on the brink of collapse i mean is there a deal had been shrug of the economy you would go more than likely defaulted as far as economists are concerned so the rosewood one of the even more of course gas discounts as well marina we know that that is in the rise. extremely important we know that the cost of gas is going to be reduced by it so it's going to go down from four hundred us dollars to two hundred sixty eight so these are clear benefits for the economy as we can see what the e.u. can offer marina absolutely but the you at this point as you said was offering something else that doesn't seem to be lucrative for the economy as this one but no having discussed it having talked about the benefits for the ukraine economy. what russia is getting out of a lot of course because let's not forget the russian economy is suffering today

we've had. four winning growth this year will space be five percent we're now looking at around one point three percent now is one think the national welfare fund is going to be spent on this and also gas bomb who are going to be giving the gas to ukraine for this discounted price as a company they too are not doing so well at the moment they're having to lay off staff as well as expenditure to you so it's been a group compromise and i would imagine the conversations going on around that table . we've all seen you know just like everything there are short term gains and the long term yes and of course as you said sometimes you have to compromise too for the sake of the long term ones and the long term ones if you briefly could just give us some of the highlights. the fact is i would say the overriding fact is they're going to be getting three billion in three days now the point is the e.u. deal would have had long term benefits no one's arguing that but what we are saying

is the ukraine economy could have defaulted in getting that all right well katie thank you so much for breaking it down for us and discussing in assessing the benefits of the deal between ukraine and russia was keen building of our business venture host. well as we mentioned earlier ukraine's deals with russia have failed to placate anti-government protesters in kiev and one of the most vocal critics of the lifeline moscow provided is a leader of the nationalist party who told the country's president a traitor for signing the agreement. takes a closer look now at the rhetoric of one of the most controversial opposition leaders in ukraine. an offer of support for ukraine z. u.s. durations was not enough to persuade one of the country's opposition leaders and yet to book drop shoulders with the german foreign minister during his surprise appearance at the protests in kiev mr westerly is openly gay and elected new books

border has made its position on homosexuals quite clear at tackling gay parades the most we want to build the country based on harmony and social justice we're being dragged into homosexual values by the western states and we will not allow that but homosexuals and people of different races are clearly not the biggest foes. any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed oh. dear he looks forward cannot make up the core of the protest movement but there clearly it's loudest voices and it's actions as well as words and the salt of the city hall and scuffles around it ten days ago they took all the lenin statue in kiev and event described as the fall of the tyrant by the party and reckless vandalism by many others this is a crack in the pavement where the toppled lenin monument literally lost its head and if you walk around the pedestal of what used to be the monument to the former soviet leader we can see some graffiti over here first one he says which your next

and the one at the bottom says glory to the insurgent army of the 1940's in ukraine which some in this country believe to be freedom fighters who fought for independence while many others described as nazi collaborators on top of that and no militant field commanders believe were spotted at my done and men who fought as a mercenary in creation and south of setia in all cases against the russians until the end of my days i will kill muscovites jews and communists. british reporter brian flynn had a first hand glance at the militarized right wing forces in ukraine and of the you were twenty twelve football championships he went undercover into their training camp these are people very serious about what they do they train physically to back it up with violence and i watched while they followed live weapons and the presence of such people among the protesting crowd seems to cause no concern among european officials walking on the same square. which is rather extraordinary isn't it to see

somebody that the united states has banned from entering the country on the same platform as senator mccain to see somebody who's been by and by that i say francis mistake statements for denying the holocaust who supporters actually in the streets of kiev still do make anti-semitic as well as anti russian. gestures and slogans it does signify that the west and politicians are quite happy to use nationalist forces when it suits them that lack of reaction is particularly bewildering given many european statements about ukraine's right wing factions in the past and the batting over ukrainian football ground for not the slogans in the stance so if you create does make it into the e.u. someday it will be interesting to see how people with such different values sit at the same negotiating table. let's see reporting from key of ukraine which in r.t. international coming up later this hour high tax hypocrisy fosse's of the world's

biggest i.t. companies band together gans the n.s.a. spying but manny just don't believe their call is genuine. street interesting. strategic vision. cover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about zero united states trying. yeah. maybe a local media more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. the country blocks the way to information freedom. media stuff on our t.v. . oh

welcome back you're watching r t international the military mission in afghanistan is accomplished at least that's what the u.k. prime minister told soldiers they are in a free christmas visit his cheering words come as drug trafficking in the country reaches record levels and the afghan national army surrenders key checkpoints in southern afghanistan to taliban and return for an anti-tax we spoke to an iraq war

veteran who believes that cameron is trying to put a brave face on a story business. mission accomplished was used by cameron because you know politicians don't really say hey you know that wildly unpopular war that we sent you and your children to die and it's like for over a decade well we messed up and it was all of which they're not going to say mission accomplished by camera needs that we died for years in a colonial exercise that was a total blood soaked disaster due to the arrogance of the rich politician who thought they could dominate the land and resources of poor people in afghanistan using the blood of working class people from the united states and from the u.k. and it's almost you know for cameron to assert that there has been so called progress against the insurgency there is an absolute fantasy and the resistance in afghanistan has forced this multi-year withdrawal of u.s.

and nato forces so this withdrawal that we're hearing of this is a retreat but a retreat in slow motion because the forces in afghanistan who are fighting the occupation i have been successful marriage militarily cameron's victory speech doesn't seem to have changed the situation on the ground and they are basically sure i'm gonna stand was attacked by taliban gunmen and suicide bombers earlier today three insurgents and want to afghan policemen have reportedly been killed in a firefight it's the second such attack on the base that is a vital checkpoint on the border between afghanistan and pakistan. and at our t. dot com for you right now putting pressure on israel scholars and researchers in the west call for an academic boycott of israeli colleges colleges bushing them to rethink their middle east politics borne out online r.t. dot com plus. mind control we tell you about saudi and us work to develop superpowers for human beings that border on a true science fiction. tech

giants have paid a visit to the white house urging barack obama to overhaul the national security agency's surveillance program bosses of the world's biggest companies including google yahoo and apple press their case right after a federal judge ruled out the spying may be unconstitutional former cia officer ray mcgovern things the move is simply a p.r. stunt. i think the internet executives are crying crocodile tears they've made a lot of money at it so enciphered in their their establishment and then a permitting the united states government to get trapdoors behind it they're losing business that's the name of the game for them and so yes states like to have a sensible rules that make it easier for them to do business particularly overseas but it's long since time for them to speak out about violations of the fourth amendment. and we before meeting obama tech companies sent an open letter to the

president and congress saying down n.s.a. spying undermines freedom here's what abby martin has to say about it. after publicly opposing government surveillance last week internet search giant google has enjoyed a wave of good press before we all decide to instill our full faith and trust the benevolent an almighty google we might just want to use their search bar to google boston dynamics he said yesterday survey brindle company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties the military's defense advanced research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about terrifying and jaw dropping robots such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most lifelike pet man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world doing purchasing these spooky cyborgs yeah i don't know if i'm ready for google to have a private army of iron men. now

take a look at some of the stories from around the world and the united nations estimates the number of dead from two days of fighting in the capital of south sudan has now reached five hundred around eight hundred people have also been reported injured with thousand seeking shelter. anyone compound's violence erupted on monday after a failed coup led by a former deputy prime minister the country is now facing the largest crisis since its independence from savannah and twenty two ivan. demonstration of african migrants in jerusalem has ended in scuffles with police and they were rallying against a new law allowing us awardees to keep them in detention centers indefinitely around one hundred fifty african migrants abandon one such center and walk to drislane where they were joined by rights groups police sent protesters back to custody after just pursing the rally. and now it's breaking sets with host abby

martin here on our team international. margins consumer p.c.'s and i see it with me in the country is the federal government simply saves property of the united states government. is the united states but it was probably going to realize you can just buy. your own just throw it away this is a problem for instance belongs to the united states environmental protection agency i found this on a dump site here this is their computer it's not a way to look at a black producers of these and that's what i think should be able to collect these i believe that this should be responsible for the products from cradle to grave. fatal from mexico. into mental health property will sell to murdering the operator of it also belongs to the washington metro area transit authority to the properties

of a dentist aids patient and trademarks. i wonder if we can add democracy at least the expansion is in the sea of the kind us dollars by george w. bush to that least a few tolkien ideologies on par with communism on par with nazis long partly it's militant really gents you know the ideologies that can also mislead to i'm increase in violence i think the problem is the idea that by military force the properties of government create a state of anarchy and hope that democracy would spontaneously but also. the the.

top polo people of earth i might be martin this is breaking the set well after publicly opposing government surveillance last week internet search giant google has enjoyed a wave of good press but before we all decide to install our full faith and trust the benevolent and almighty google we might just want to use their search bar to google boston dynamics he said yesterday circuit brindle company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties the military's defense advanced research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about this terrifying and jaw dropping robot such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most lifelike man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world doing purchasing these spooky cyborgs all telling me google's keeping tight lipped about its intentions but keep in mind the corporation

has a newly created figurative robot division and is that it will honor the contracts of boston amec previously had with the u.s. military. great so i guess the real question here is why should we trust a corporation that holds so much of our personal information to develop absurd war machines for ethical purposes after all we really want private companies and in up with robots that can do this. i don't know if i'm ready for google to have a private army of iron man and let's break the sub. the. it's a. very hard.