the in the. from jail cells in cambodia in sweden to solitary confinement in denmark tonight a founder of the pirate bay website continues his battle against the authorities in a case with powerful corporate interests at play we report. also head to south to western powers signal a rethink in their support for syria's rebel movement apparently acknowledging now that the fall of assad could boost the extremists such as those implicated in a recent massacre outside damascus. and you are approaching a new start for thousands of russian prisoners who will be freed under a game changing amnesty law this just passed parliament it's good news then for the public protest band pussy riot as well as the greenpeace activists arrested in the arctic drilling protests. and ukraine's multi-billion dollar deals with russia

cries of treason from kiev its most radical opposition leader who accuses president on a code beach of porting national assets for a chance to fix the budget. this season international live from our h.q. here in moscow just past eight pm now our top story the neither a killer nor a terrorist but an online activist and alleged attack and yet he's being held in conditions worse than some of those mass murderers we're talking about one of the founders of pirate bay's untangled a complex legal battle accused by denmark of stealing millions of personal id numbers tease peter all of the reports. abroad since he was

arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a gold threads fartman vog seen the inside of jail cells in cambodia sweden and now solitary confinement in denmark is just terrible as this man there to see that he is being treated like in this way like as if he were a terrorist hard criminal or violent criminal or 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 got fred for now he spends

twenty three hours a day locked in a cell by himself and the thing that upset him most and me as well was a divorce until now to have his books in this cell even scandinavia is most notorious mass murderer anders breivik has access to reading material as he serves his sentence in norway for the slaying of seventy seven people those involved in online activism sometimes called hacktivism fear a witch hunt the treatment of graph. shows that the governments are scared on the neck to worst of the door which they've tried to get help to worse for everything they think which might be illegal even if they are revealing crimes support for godfrey 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 be. 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 prisons 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. vinge founder of the swedish pirate party thinks the danish authorities

are acting independently in this case we can observe that throughout this entire ordeal starting with the raid against the pirate bay on may thirty first twenty six a number of rights violations some more egregious than others have been committed and it's very hard to escape the feeling that governments are seeking to make an example out of god for it's far too rogue known as on a carter just to be scare others that might challenge the status quo and be frankly please the united states which kind of disgusts me to be honest i would certainly agree that he is a victim but somebody has to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood. well a survey check of the timeline here again the pressure first started to mount

against pirate bay back in two thousand and six when the file sharing website called the wrong side of hollywood at the time it was then taken down for several days when swedish police raided his headquarters as the government decided it was time to take some action spinning ahead then two years two years later the founders of pirate bay were charged eventually sentenced to a year in prison for encouraging copyright violations. lost his appeal and was arrested then in cambodia last year then extradited to sweden but finally ended up in denmark as a suspect in a separate case. the trade deals that ukraine struck during recent talks in moscow may bring some rest spike to the country's economy but not to the antigovernment protesters in kiev even though the issue that troubles their most a possible customs union with russia wasn't apparently even touched upon in the meeting earlier mccullagh discussed the deals and the likely impact with artie's venture capital host katie pilbeam. the end of the day it came down to a practical economic decision crane simply can't afford the e.u.

deal at the moment and russia gave a fairly good terms its talk about that then so we've got the bond purchases which are fifteen billion in total added to that is the gas discount as well so in combination that would equal twenty billion dollars it's just that the problem at the moment is that their form reserves 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 were also is 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 you do struggle which could marry me 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 the. course people are not happy at all but i can tell you that investors are happy about that so i can tell you the overriding fact is short 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 their. or despite the economic benefits the agreements with moscow been branded as treason by one of the most outspoken protesters in kiev the head of the nationalist parties for border says present in a code which is poor and the country's acids to win concessions from russia is like syria's jeff ski takes a closer look next that who's leading the opposition movement 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 the activity book drop shoulders with the german foreign minister during his surprise appearance at the protests in kiev mr westerly is openly gay and the left of your books border has made its position on homosexuals quite clear at tact and gay parades we want to build a 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 only books biggest foes. any treaty with russia is not worth the paper it was signed oh. dear he looks forward to not make up the core of the protest movement but there are clearly it's loudest voices and it's actions as well as words and assault of the city hall and scuffles around it ten days ago they toppled 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 here 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 describe and as nazi collaborators on top of that and no militant field commanders believe were spotted at my done a man who fought as a mercenary in creation and south of said sierra in all cases against the russians . until the end of my days i will kill russians jews and communists british reporter brian flynn had a first hand glance at the militarized right wing forces in ukraine and of the euro twenty twelve football championship 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 they followed live weapons in the presence of such people among the broadcasting 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 translocations 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 burning over ukrainian football ground for not slogans in the stance so if you create does make it into the e.u.

some day 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. coming out washington's appetite for surveillance has gone too far according to the bosses of america's tech giants but our google and apple really rooting for change are just desperate to be done with customers to try and gauge a bit more on that in a few minutes and the british prime minister hails the u.k.'s afghanistan mission as a success even as violent attacks continue in open farming boobs across the country well just ahead. i wonder if we can add democracy at least sponsoring democracy of the kind of styles by george w. bush to that at least a few utopian ideologies on par with communism on par with not says

a long par with militant rage and you know the ideologies that can ultimately lead to an increase in violence i think the problem is the idea that by military force you to decapitate the government create a state of anarchy and hope that democracy would spontaneously blossom. dramas that can be ignored. stories others who refuse to. face is changing the world right. to picture. from around the globe. look to.

others not to fourteen minutes past eight noses out international the syrian president is the lesser of two evils that seems to be the message from western powers to the rebels that the latest so-called friends of syria meeting was prompted by the rise of al qaida and other extremist groups there which may get the upper hand if bashar assad's government fails in the latest incident dozens of innocent people reportedly killed and tortured when radicals raided the town of damascus these are a big channel our sister channel has this latest report. terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town of vadra 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 but officials

are saying the atrocities against the civilian population are continuing 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 everyone working for the local authorities was to be killed regardless of their religion argue nomination 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 a drawer unthinkable they're slaughtering children and throwing them out of windows and no one's doing anything about it syrian authorities 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 it. is an industrial town with

a lot of the its residents working both in the private sector and for government i didn't see these horrifying crying must have been committed in this town houses were set on fire with people trapped inside. 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. . well as soon as reports of the massacres town of appear we got in touch with some problems human rights groups to get details of these policy is what they have told us. 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 address and aleppo what

we are being told is that the military launched an air strike on where the held position is 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 among the anti assad ranks 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 others particularly in the international community starting to see what is going on in the ground. india is see the warning of reprisals over the arrest of one of its top diplomats in the united states if you are made khobragade it was strip searched and kept in a cell with drug addict she was detained for apparently allegedly incorrectly filling in or out of people's immigration papers none depending on let's discuss

where this might lead and should we have joining us on the line now is brian mitchell and he's professor of strategic studies at the center for policy research either thing sort of being where this is going to show him some or even to this case is it is actually straightforward as it appears to be or is there more to it i political motivations here of some kind. this case has caused a lot of outrage in india because the diplomat was actually humiliated she was strip searched and handed and handcuffed. and and this was you know this is this this was a we and usually incident and there has been a pouring of anger in india and the indians have retaliated against the american diplomats in new delhi by the drawing some of the villages by removing the security batek its from around the u.s. embassy in new delhi and warning of further actions against u.s. diplomats based in india what this is what i don't girls like i was very well

first they have a drawer on e series of privileges that american diplomats enjoyed in india for example they had passes to enter airports without having to go through security they have also overdrawn the important licenses for the u.s. embassy and its consulates in india but what further steps the indian government intends to take it has been shared those possible steps of the public here but there is a lot of pressure on the government in india so it will be tough if in fact america has treated this diplomat in a way that she shouldn't have been treated because of a diplomatic immunity except her and her standing why did they do it i wonder. well this is the kind of hypocrisy that we see in the united states that the apply a one standard for their own diplomats who are posted overseas and apply a different standard of foreign diplomats who are based and then i'd say this so

this isn't an isolated incident if you get my drift i mean diplomats are routinely treated like this are they surely not. yes and this is in fact not the first years and walling an indian diplomat in new york there had been at least two other cases in recent years where in the americas have been humiliated so i'm going to has been building up in india this is not a this isolated incident but an incident that has to be seen in the larger light merican see that this diplomat was close to the consulate model not an embassy so she enjoyed only limited diplomatic immunity under the we're going mention on consular relations i mean if you would have thought that homosexuality is but outlawed yet to get it in there we're now hearing. our indian politician now saying that partners of any gay u.s. diplomat should be arrested in india they're going to go that far well that's a threat but the fact is that only recently one american diplomat most of the new

delhi managed to get an indian reserve for his partner a real partner and mr sanaa was actually referring to this particular case where an american diplomat. actually has a partner on an indian visa and the fact that they even supreme court has actually come down heavily on on gay sex gives the in government legal room but i don't think the government of all that far this is going to come down we're going to go briefly i think finally calm down but it actually highlights america's double standards if you recall just two years ago there was a ski's of the cia contractor raymond davis he was arrested in pakistan for physically shooting two men in lahore. and the americans claimed that he was a bonafide diplomat enjoying full immunity from prosecution obama even

referred to him as our diplomat when in fact he was a cia contractor when the u.s. ultimately secured his release by being blood money of about two point four million dollars the villagers of the too many killed so here's a case where they applied one standard under center two in the future only a man mr chalabi got to leave it there it's we're going to get into a break its service could have been a program of thanks for explaining his story thank you for your time thank you. for reaching out misty builder could pardon tens of thousands of people to be passed in russia's parliament not only would the measure give offenders a clean start but it could also put an end to some of the country's most controversial criminal cases to r.t.c. corpus can offer of course. it's the twentieth anniversary of russia's constitution and this is a good way to celebrate as this amnesty is plans to in fact up to twenty five thousand people including those have already been convicted of crimes those charged

and currently under investigation which means members of the band which currently are serving time in jail but there were say that they could be freed before the end of this year so they could get to greet the new years with their families since one of the crimes that they were found guilty of was hooliganism and that does fall under this amnesty also the so-called arctic thirty the group of greenpeace activists who were arrested in the russian north and are charged with hooliganism they were released from jail on bail but should see under this amnesty all charges dropped against them as well and also is expected to affect some of the protesters were arrested during a mass protest rally in moscow on the witness square which ended with it clashes with stories however we do know that this draft is not a fact indorse found guilty of serious crimes because of that of course is very unlikely to be released from jail sooner then his sentence will end now do more of

the lower house of parliament has passed that and the amnesty should come into force before the end of this week. well the scope of the amnesty is sweeping as eagle mentioned only nonviolent crime is a relatively short sentences can be pardoned but it is to provide relief for the move members of society pregnant women pensioners the disabled and others to the bill could become law indeed as early as tomorrow the point of it is to strengthen trust between the state and its people. mission accomplished and so the british prime minister described the work of his country's troops during a trip to afghanistan a year before the taken out of the country but his comments have been ridiculed by critics who point to rampant terrorist violence drug cultivation and human rights abuses iraq war veteran michael prisoner told us the phrase hides a decade of futile conflict. mission accomplished was used by cameron because you know politicians don't really say hey you know that wildly

unpopular war is that we sent you and your children to die and it was like for over a decade well we messed up and it was all that wins they're not going to say mission accomplished by cameron it means that we died for years in a colonial exercise that was a total bloodsoaked disaster due to the arrogance of rich politicians we 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. for chairman to assert that there has been so called progress against the insurgency there is an absolute fantasy and yet another indication that cameron's victory speech was premature a taliban attack on a nato base in eastern afghanistan as the three insurgents one afghan policeman it is the second such assault on the base to which is a vital checkpoint on the border with pakistan. the bosses the world's top

tech firms have descended on the white house surging president obama to rein in washington's global surveillance program google yahoo apple and many others have suffered severe reputational damage since that have merged they were all in one way or another complicit in the n.s.a. spying we spoke to former cia officer ray mcgovern he thinks this is all a p.r. stunt. i think the internet executives are crying crocodile tears they've made a lot of money out of encipher in their their establishment so 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 they'd 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 a violation of the fourth amendment. thankful news bulletin for me kevin only just over half an hour's time after the break though it's breaking the set with host abby martin you're not international.

what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living. stream interesting. strategic. and undercover team

of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about how the united states is trying to. be a local media more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. country blocks the way to information through the. media stuck on are to. follow people of earth and not 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 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 is that yesterday sergey brin the little 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 shah 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 that 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 secretive robot division and it's that it will honor the contracts that boston and 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. well let's break this up. the pieces look it was terrible a little very hard to take on the second long plug that he ever had sex with the target their lives let's listen. listen listen listen.