i want to die young young. it's eleven pm right now here in moscow tonight on our team from jail cells in cambodia in sweden to solitary confinement. the founder of the pirate bay website continues his battle against the authorities in a case with powerful corporate interests. western powers signal a rethink in this support for syria's rebel movement apparently acknowledging that the fall of assad could boost extremists such as those implicated did not recent massacre outside damascus. and you approach it in a new start for thousands of russian prisoners will be freed under a game changing amnesty law this just passed parliament it's good news them for the punk protests planned pussy riot as well as the greenpeace activists arrested in that arctic drilling protest. are reporting tonight ukraine's multi-billion dollar

deals with russia draw cries of treason from kiev is most radical opposition leader who accuses president pawning national assets for a chance to fix the budget. under some cover no in this is our top story neither a killer nor a terrorist but an online activist on alleged attack and yet he's being held in conditions worse than those of some mass murderers one of the founders of pirate bays and tangled in a complex legal battle these days accused by denmark of stealing millions of personal id numbers peter all of the reports. banged up abroad since he was arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a ghost for its walk home 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 were said he

wasn't and 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 an act or worse from their 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 the. perfectly routed 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 will revolt and is the founder of the swedish pirate party he thinks denish 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 a 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 is to make an example out of him because he embarrassed hollywood. a quick refresher the timeline here the pressure first started to mount against pirate bay back in two thousand and six when the file sharing web site as it was saying they got the wrong side of hollywood it was taken down for several days when swedish police raided the headquarters of the governed decided it was

time to take action then fast forward two years later sue thousand and eight the founders of pirate bay were charged eventually sentenced to a year in prison for encouraging copyright violations sort of lost his appeal and was arrested 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 here in moscow may bring some respond to the country's economy but not to the government protesters in kiev that's even though the issue that troubles them the most a possible customs union with russia wasn't even apparently touched on at the meeting yesterday my colleague josh we discussed the deals and the likely impact with artie's venture capital has katie pilbeam the end of the day it came down to a practical economic decision ukraine simply can't afford the e.u. deal at the moment and russia gave a ferry good terms let's talk about that then so we've got the bond purchases which

are fifteen billion in total added to that is a gas discount as well so in combination that would equal twenty billion dollars it's just there the problem at the moment is that their form is are dwindling 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 had they accepted the e.u. deal. this deal that russia has now put on the table they may have to fold it 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 but in order to receive that money they would also have to enforce harsh spending cars also gas increases as well so at the end of the day it was an economic decision basically i mean people would be of bearing the brunt of it all in case that you do you struck with which

could mean 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. and people are not happy at all but i can tell you that investors are happy about that so what 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 there or despite the economic benefits the agreement of moscow big brother is treason by one of the most outspoken protesters in kiev where the nationalist parties for border says present a code which is pulling the country's acids to win concessions from russia here on his legs or as your skin takes a closer look at who is leading the opposition movement in ukraine. an offer of support for ukraine z u s gracious was not enough to persuade one of the country's opposition leaders and the activity book dropped shoulders with the german foreign

minister during his surprise appearance at the protests in kiev mr westerly is openly gay and elected new book sponsors for border has made its position on homosexuals quite clear attacking gay parades but most of all 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. did he looks forward did 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 the sort 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 yellow card which you're 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 him as nazi collaborators on top of that and no militant field commanders believe were spotted at my down a man who fought as a mercenary in creation and south a sense yeah in all cases against the russians. until the end of my days i will kill russians jews that got me and british reporter brian flynn had a first hand glance at the militarized right wing forces in ukraine out 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 followed live weapons and 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 has 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 from 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 burning over ukrainian football ground for now it's the 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.

well let's get more of the situation in ukraine notionally from political commentator alexander the crossover as well i'm from london tonight mr crossover evening to you and i must talk about what this is done for president ghana covert politically i mean this deal the series of deals that was signed in russia look at likely to save ukraine from default it would have happened within six months we think of it signed up with the e.u. surely it's done in political good isn't it as well. well i think they're going to have a human side in the rush hour where you can not cite froebel and i think that the government protesters would have said the people that i think there is no particular form does nothing that they know program that those protesters have and to be honest with you i think the only reason why they're still there is because they feel the mind of the european union behind them and those foreign politicians like some of the mccain of us coming all more and basically basically inflaming

tensions i think insects are quite the mazing that we see european countries sending their political is that because because it's this provoking violence in the sense well we've heard from the e.u. chief diplomat catherine ashton she said even despite these deals that have made it russia the door is still open for some sort of partnership agreement with the you it is still going to happen do you think any time soon. well i think that the european union seems to be pretty desperate to get ukraine on the path of joining the union itself and it's quite remarkable isn't it because if you look at the situation in the european union it's not that he did that great ok the throwing all those wonderful statistics but if you ask people on the ground you will see that the situation is not good that printing money in billions and trillions and think that they can prop up the economy and it's not working read it so it's actually

quite fascinating if you think that. the european union which is experiencing all those economy problems once ukraine which has a serious crisis to join it in some way or another as quickly as possible is putting so much pressure on that this is quite remarkable i think that what we can conclude from that it's the mineral resources on the bust label market that off and they want to get to a human spore symbol and of course has been reporting that big question marks as well about some of those protest is. politicians openly object to the far right parties some of them in europe and yet the happy to rub shoulders with some of the people that so about a guy for instance we've been reporting on protesting in the crowds how does that work it kind of sounds like double standard chili no. well it is all different about the now the kind of think about america and someone took on the nato countries using either the jihad just and syria and basically supplying them with

weapons the same crap and then leave the same as happened happened for a while the needs of the other and yemen by the way so in the sense of smoke new what is new is that the european union is actually prepared to to rise to clinton to raise the stakes to something so cry in a european country on the fringes and basically risking a sort of a civil war in that sense and without even thinking of the consequences and you don't form for senator mccain of all people to come over to ukraine and fret and sanctions who is senator mccain to fret and sanctions and it comes to ukraine what those on what authority is he doing that and you know what there's also amazing what i find it remarkable is for example britain where seventy or more percent of people don't even want to be in the e.u. and the british government is actually siding with the opposition until government

protests those who want to be in the e.u. i find it quite remarkable and another thing you know we have a ukip party here to unite and give them independence party which was always banging on how it's against the e.u. not a war a from you keep about the e.u. . interfering into ukraine in the famous interesting as you say you have little commentator legs out across all flags fifth thoughts nice to say tonight. now washington's appetite for the violence has gone too far we're talking about that's one of the bosses of america's tech giants but i'll google and apple really rooting for a change or just desperate to appease angry customers and we want in a few minutes of a program also to the british prime minister hails the u.k.'s afghanistan mission as a success even as violent attacks continue in opium farming booms across the country . but next the

syrian president is the lesser of two evils it seems to be the message from western powers to the rebels at a later so-called friends of syria meeting the apparent you'd say it was prompted by the rise of al qaida or other extremist groups there which may gain the upper hand if bashar al assad's government falls in the latest incident innocent people reportedly killed and tortured with radicals raided the town of address just outside damascus our sister channel r.t. arabic as this report. terror still fills the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town about drugs they saw panicked 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 people are being butchered and even burned alive and every bit of news coming out of the town is

dealing 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 or going on in a sion 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 the syrian authorities say they have evidence confirming that massacres have taken place and address the dad will attack here and many other areas which remain under the control of the armed opposition by that 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 us residents working both in the private sector and for government that ensues 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 massacre started to appear we go to touch with some problems human rights groups to get small details of his policy has got more but what they 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 in aleppo the military launched an air strike on rebel held positions 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 aside 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 as opposed to british m.p. khaled must move who said syria's become a magnet for ruth or an extremist. right from the very start there was the infiltration of the extremists coming into syria because that was the next to remove play once iraq it quietened down and they understand it's quite so they started to drive from the start and i've been saying this certainly to our government in the u.k. that there were people starting to drift from the u.k.

to syria to fight six weeks ago i've had two young men from my constituency who went to join al nusra i have a very distraught family mother particularly who wants a son to come back twenty year old son who was recruited in birmingham to go out there and fight and so far lost contact with him and they don't know what exactly is happening out there with. just ahead arrested strip searched and thrown in a cell with drug addicts india says it's a pulled of the treatment of one of its senior diplomats coming up but we discuss a war of words going on right now between new delhi and washington and why an envoy that needed to be seemingly trampled on. the street was still. strategic reason to try. and under cover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about how the united

states is trying. to meet more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. country blocks the way to information freedom.

hello again the white house has said it will release a report recommending changes to n.s.a. surveillance at a shed it comes off the world's leading tech firms urge president obama to rein in my spying which they say has gone too far for former cia officer ed mcgovern thinks this is all just a p.r. stunt. i think the internet executives are crying crocodile tears they've made a lot of money at of encipher 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 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. in the early days big news a far reaching on

a steep bill that could pardon tens of thousands of people is being passed here in russia's parliament not only would the measure give offenders a clean stuff but it also put an end to some of the country's most controversial criminal cases to what he called his can offer ports. it's the twentieth anniversary of russia's constitution and this is a good way to celebrate this amnesty as plans to in fact up to twenty five thousand people including balls have already been convicted of crimes goals charged and currently under investigation which means members of the pussy riot punk band which currently are serving time in jail but their awards say that they could be freed before the end of this year so they could get to greet the new year's 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 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 the state do more of the lower house of parliament has passed that and the amnesty should come into force before the end of this week. but the scope of the amnesty is sweeping is a good man should lead only only nonviolent crimes with relatives. but it does aid to provide relief for the more vulnerable members of society pregnant women pension is the disabled amongst others the bill could become law as early as tomorrow the point of it is to strengthen trust between the state and its people. mission

accomplished uk so the british prime minister described the work of his country's troops during a trip to afghanistan a year before they're 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 that we sent you and your children to. slake for over a decade well we messed up and it was all of which 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 politician 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 the camerons victory speech was premature a taliban attack on a nato base in eastern afghanistan so three insurgents one afghan policeman dead it's the second such assault on the base which is a vital checkpoint on the border with pakistan. india receiving and warning of reprisals tonight over the arrest of one of his top diplomats in the united states devyani khobragade there was strip searched and kept in a cell with drug addicts no she was detained for allegedly correctly filling in her housekeepers immigration papers and underpaying it to a professor of strategic studies brian mitchell learned told me there's an underlying hypocrisy the rest. the diplomat was actually humiliated she was strip searched and hunted and handcuffed and this was you know this was this this was a way and usually incident and there has been

a pouring of anger in the air and the means have retaliated against the american diplomats in new delhi by the drawing some of the religious right are moving the security barricades from around the u.s. embassy in new delhi and warning go further actions against u.s. diplomats based in india this is the kind of hypocrisy that we see in the united states that they apply a one standard for their own diplomats who are posted overseas and then apply a different standard of foreign diplomats who are based in the united states the outrage in india has been such that a lot of members of parliament i do mining action this a broken action by india and in other words they are asking quota presence. when he was in full of me kevin i just i was talking off the break no cross-talk snags digging tonight into why washington so he gets a negotiated with even the most radical syrian rebels.

i wonder if we can add democracy at least expansionist democracy of the kind us dollars by george w. bush to the aptly stuff utopian ideologies on par with communism on par with nazis long par with militant really gents 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 decapitated government create a state of anarchy and hope that democracy would spontaneously but also. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can but a strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. the genetically modified products are pretty cool

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