it's midnight here in moscow on r t this morning from jail cells in cambodia and sweden to solitary confinement in denmark the founder of the pirate bay website continues his battle against the authorities in a case with powerful corporate interests at play. western powers signal rethinking their support for syria's rebel movement apparently acknowledging that the fall of assad could boost extremists such as those implicated in the recent massacre outside damascus. in just hours the white earth says to release a long awaited report on how the n.s.a. could potentially change this pressure mounts from all directions for surveillance to be reined in. and ukraine's multi-billion dollar deals with russia draw cries of treason from kiev's most radical opposition leader who accuses

president in a covert show of pouring national assets for a chance to fix the budget. if you just joined us for a good morning for me kevin i mean this is r t international our top story that neither a killer nor a terrorist but an online activists know alleged attacker and yet he's being held in conditions worse than those of some mass murderers one of the founders of pirate bay is in tangled in a complex legal battle accused by demarcus stealing millions of personal i.d. numbers peter all of the reports. banged up abroad since he was arrested in august twenty twelve pirate bay found a gold threads wattle him bug this in 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 sound 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 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 worse at the worse until now to have his books in his cell even scandinavia is most notorious mass murder 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 for the treatment of graph. shows that the governments are scared of one 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 a son john b. activist collective anonymous have thrown 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. and means birds they 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 pistols. 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. well let's get the latest on this case no or no we're joined live from denmark by louise hall she's a lawyer of got free. to speak to her now hi there thanks for being with us as well the closest people to fart on vog right now at least legally what are the latest developments in this legal battle and bring us up to speed yet today i went to court and he has to remand custody until all remain in custody until january eighth

so that's the latest news and what is the investigation seem to be so lengthy here it's been going on for a long time yes indeed well actually i don't think much is going on and to be honest for the next two three weeks my guess is that nothing will happen because now where it's christmas in them are so i guess my experience is that nothing happens during christmas and least when it comes to investing in criminal cases let's talk for a minute about the conditions seized bring kept in are they really as bad as we have reporting here. if it's got a little bit better since we talked over the last time he's been moved to a different facility. to be honest the first the silicium the first prisoner couldn't really get anywhere else and so now he's and different facility and he's been allowed to. be with another in mexico to another inmate two hours a week. it is still not. i mean surely the scientists called him

a political prisoner do you think that's an accurate description is the pirate bay co-founder accused of breaking several laws but is he a political prisoner. i. i wouldn't say that here is just earth only no hacking. i mean computer. he's certainly not good at giving given the conditions that other in the same case would be given. well i can't answer that and to be honest i am guessing that leaves are very cautious about caylee i don't really want anything to go wrong because it's a very sensitive sensitive cases you know mark. how has the trial and the vertigo affect the pirate bay website do you think how is it going to pan out. i have no idea why ok well thank you for your thoughts actually with the series holds the lawyer for the pirate bay co-founder got for its photo of our joining us live

thanks or just listen to some of the timeline shall we the pressure first started a month against pirate bay back in two thousand and six when the file sharing website got the wrong side of hollywood it was then taken down for several days when swedish police raided its headquarters as the government decided that it was time to take action fast forward then two years to two thousand and eight the founders of pirate bay were charged eventually sentenced to a year in prison for encouraging copyright violations felt involved lost his appeal he was arrested in cambodia then last year then extradited to sweden finally let me denmark as a suspect in a separate case we're following this story for you. the syrian president is the lesser of two evils that seems to be the message from western powers to the rebels at the latest so-called friends of syria meeting apparent u. turn was prompted by the rise of al qaeda and other extremist groups there which may gain the upper hand if bashar al assad's government falls course in the latest incident innocent people reportedly killed and tortured when radicals raided the

town of address outside damascus our sister channel r.t. arabic as this report. still feels the hearts of those who witnessed the militants entering the town about drugs 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 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 because the 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 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 badge and sees the horrifying crying must have been committed in this town houses who are 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 got in touch with some prominent human rights groups trying get some more details of his paula slater has more of 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 the military launched an air strike on the 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 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

those particularly in the international community starting to see what is going on in the ground. coming up rested strip searched from sorrow in the drug out exude india says it's appalled at the treatment of one of its senior diplomats coming out then we discuss a war of words going on right now between new delhi and washington and the white envoys ability to see really trampled on busts a new year approaching and a new start for thousands of russian prisoners a game changing the city answers into force and extends to many controversial cases such as the jailed punk band pussy riot and also the greenpeace activists accusing who can is a cover up to do just a few minutes from. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. for

a factual standard of living. e.g. . a longer covert team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents . it's growing. more pro-american they encounter peer. pressure. country blocks the way to information freedom.

again the white house has said it will release a report recommending changes to n.s.a. surveillance. comes after the world's leading tech firms urge president obama to rein in mass spying which they say is going to infer that ports are expected to propose a ban on the n.s.a. from demanding the private companies adjust their software to facilitate spying but former cia officer read mcgovern things these tech companies are worried about. i think the internet executives are crying crocodile tears they've made a lot of money at it and say for you there are stablish moments 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 stone simple 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. to make all individual privacy a thing of the past at least that's what the journalist who first released edward snowden's data leagues thinks when we get more about that r.t. dot com you can we've got the full details of his address to an e.u. inquiry on the bathroom which he says politicians refusing to budge until they themselves are affected also a lot is deadly to oklahoma environmental activists facing up to a decade behind bars for a protest after the police mistook the glitter on them for a chemical weapon and accuse them of a terrorist thugs stories there and show me international space station supplied trips are put on hold until the astronauts go out and fix the recently fried coolant system and you would know how they're getting on it's about home. the trade deals that ukraine structuring recent talks here in moscow may bring some

respite to the country's economy but not to the anti government protesters in kiev that see even though the issue that troubled the most the possible customs union with russia wasn't apparently even touched upon of the meeting earlier mccullagh joshie discussed the deals and the likely impact had with artie's venture capital host 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 gave a ferry it's time to talk about that then so we've got the bond touch says which are fifteen billion in tayto added to the. is that gas discounts as well so in combination that would equal twenty billion dollars it's just that 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 or not this deal 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. 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 bearing the brunt of it all in case the e.u. . struck would agree 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. 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 their capability with us but earlier on a little commentator alexander to cross over spoke to me he believes that no matter how good the deal with russia is for their country the opposition will be satisfied due to the western politicians backing of the protests. i think that whatever human side in the rush hour you will not cite froebel it i think that the government protesters will come. up with a i think there is no practically platform there is nothing that they know program that those protesters and to be honest with you i think the only reason why they're still there is because they feel the might of the european union behind them and those foreign politicians like the son of the mccain and all those coming all war and basic you basically inflaming tensions i think it's actually quite amazing that we see european countries sending their politicians that because because it's provoking violence in

a sense. despite the economic benefits the agreements with moscow have been proud of this treason by one of the most outspoken protesters in kiev the head of the nationalist parties for border says president in a covert has pulled the country's assets to win concessions from russia he said next here is yes he takes a closer look at who's leading the opposition movement in ukraine. an offer of support for ukraine's e.u.'s gratian is 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 they have to book sponsors for border has made its position on homosexuals quite clear attacking gay parades to move us to but we want to build the country based on harmony and social justice issues we're being dragged into homosexual values by the western states and we will not allow advance 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 on. to the books forwards the book make up the core of the protest movement but they're clearly it's just voices and it's actions as well as words and the salt of the city hall and scuffles around it ten days ago they talked about the lengths that you have an event described as the full of the tyrant by the guards and reckless vandalism by you know that 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 described 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 of setia in all cases against the russians.

until the end of my days i will kill russians jews that got me and it's a british reporter brian flynn had a first hand glance at the militarized right wing forces in ukraine ahead 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 eight 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 for 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 now it's the slogans in the stance so if you create does make it into the view some day it will be interesting to see how people with such different values sit at the same negotiating table. let's hear a shot ski r.t. reporting from key of ukraine. india see the news tonight a warning of reprisals over the arrest of one of its top diplomats in the united states devyani khobragade they was strip searched and kept in a cell with drug addicts she was detained for allegedly incorrectly filling in their housekeepers immigration papers and also under paying her or professor for strategic studies told me earlier there's an underlying a proc or see here to this arrest. the diplomat was actually humiliated she was

strip searched in hand and handcuffed and this was you know this is this this was a we and usually incident and there has been pouring of anger in india and the marines have retaliated against the american diplomats in new delhi but i would drawing some of the religious right are moving the security barricades from around the u.s. embassy in new delhi and warning of further actions against u.s. diplomats based in india this is the kind of hypocrisy that we see in the united states that the trial one standard for their own diplomats work was to go overseas and apply a different standard for foreign diplomats who are based in the united states the outrage in india has been such that a lot of members of parliament i did mining action reciprocal action by in other words the asking for a presence. a far reaching out misty bill that will pardon tens of thousands of

people sent into force here in russia not only will he give some offenders a clean start it could also put an end to some of the country's most disputed criminal cases too and he got a prison off report. 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 goals already been convicted of crimes charged and under investigation which means members of the pussy riot punk bank which currently all 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 list also the so-called arctic thirty the group of reviews activists who were arrested in the russian war and are charged with hooliganism. 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 called the rally in moscow on both the square which ended with clashes with stories however we do know that this draft is not factoring those found guilty of serious crimes because of that of course is very likely to be released from jail sooner then his sentence will end. in the scope of the amnesty sweeping he goes mentioning the only nonviolent crimes there with relatively short sentences can be pardoned here in aims to provide relief for the more vulnerable members of society pregnant women pensioners the disabled amongst others you see the list on the news well the bill became law when the state's purpose is to apparently strengthen trust between the state and its citizens. thanks for being with us coming up in our international globally report on gun is economic resurgence after the break and why not everyone is cheering it on that if you watch us in the u.k. even a program going underground was russian are times he's on it for you. the

parliament of yemen has put forward a motion to ban drone attacks in the country the motion is now waiting approval by the president and it's probably impossible to enforce unless they could build a really big net or something is a bit strange that now after years of drone strikes in their country the parliament just wakes up to the fact their systems are getting blown up from the sky to be fair yemen doesn't have a ton of cash and i could see how having the well equipped and funded us military to take care of the al qaeda problem for them for free could be really entice and i mean it must be scary to be a politician with lots of power hungry terrorists about this would be the first time in history that a stronger foreign power fought a weaker states battles for them but the problem is that according to the huffington post a former u.s. state department official in yemen says that every year drone attacks create eight from forty to sixty new terrorists why they create terrorists because according to

the human rights watch seventy percent of the people killed by drones in yemen are civilians you know if the yemeni government is really free from washington's grasp and really wants to deal with their al qaeda problem they'll have better luck doing it themselves or the good old rifles and bayonets pointed at the right targets but that's just my opinion. any force because the car business easterly demand for his cars by offering his workers increased wages in cash but now in america the idea is that increased demand by offering workers access to more debt. more credit which is a slippery slope into hell because that debt of course comes with interest payments and the interest on america's debt is not greater than or approaching america's g.d.p. as it is in japan so the global interest of the global debt is approaching the global g.d.p. and your answer to this slippery vortex of credit to collateralize hell where no

amount of revenue our taxes will ever pay the debt which is exactly what the plantation owners want we all be living on the field now. please.

in the beginning of two thousand and thirteen the capital of ghana was named africa's fastest growing city. proof of this where the dozens of cranes dotting the horizon satisfying the demand for a new modern offices for both local companies and banks and multinationals. expensive cars roaming the streets. shiny moles for filling the consumer dreams of the capital's affluent people. again as economy is thriving.

the country is among the world's fastest growing economies and is africa's number one in growth rates. for the i.m.f. ghana is a success story. successful. the role of the i.m.f. is really to advise a micro party she's so we we do not we do not construct bridges and develop infrastructure but in term of my quest ability clearly over the last. few years have done quite well in terms of generating an environment of macroeconomic stability which is necessary to have investment and growth and job creation. current economic success could not have been accomplished without the

newly received loans the last loan agreement between ghana and the i.m.f. was in two thousand and nine for the sum of six hundred two million dollars at that time the country experienced some fiscal slippage is and depletion of its international reserves which was a combination of increased public spending but also. the side effect of the global financial crisis so we had the reduction of reserve of the central bank the increase of the deficit there was a need to. provide some financing. to crises and had to authorities. to make balances. dept exploded to a new record high reaching fourteen point six billion dollars we talk about credit facilities as if it doesn't have to be paid.