coming up on r t in iraq government forces and isis clash in a crisis that's tearing apart the nation and today president obama laid out his plan for dealing with the growing conflict the latest just ahead. and wiki leaks founder julian assange remains in ecuador's london embassy it's been two years since he was granted asylum in a long saga of legal troubles more on that and we can leaks coming up. and international travelers are ecstatic and brazil's twenty fourteen world cup sports fans are still in high spirits even though the games are marred by street protests and local social concerns more on this year's world cup later in the show.

it's thursday june nineteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm manila chan you're watching r.t. america today marks the two year anniversary since weiqi leaks founder julian assange has been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london the forty two year old australian sought refuge at the embassy to avoid extradition to sweden for a four year old sexual assault claim against him a claim that a songe vehemently refutes artie's pauline boyko is in london with more. step out of one of the world's most famous department stores and there's always a policeman nearby they're not worried about shoplifters but the perpetual presence of one man inside that building is to his since june in the sun so refuge in

london's ecuadorian embassy inside a bottom floor flat in this red brick mansion in that time the wiki leaks editor in chief has still managed to run for the australian senate and become the subject of a hollywood film he's also had to share the title of the world's most famous whistleblower off the n.s.a. contractor edward snowden revealed details of mass government surveillance programs last year two years inside the building for a son also means two years camped outside it for the london's metropolitan police the bill for guarding that door in case a son should ever emerge is something like eleven thousand pounds a day the ecuadorian ambassador admits his nonpaying tenant is suffering but sweden won't give assurances the whistleblower won't be extradited to the u.s. if he travels to stop home for questioning over allegations of sexual assault which means the ambassador isn't ruling out the possibility his on likely houseguest

could be rattling around inside that building for the rest of his life reporting from london. and joining us today to talk about the past present and future of wiki leaks and julian a son is wiki leaks spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson thank you for joining us mr hoffman isn't now with everything that has happened to wiki leaks since its inception from mr saunders to chelsea manning where does like a week stand today. well i mean despite all the difficulties that julian has to endure and the difficult situation is me under and and the rest of the stuff . let's not forget that there is still an ongoing string in. attempt to find a case against which leaves here in the united states we have been able to continue our work and actually strengthening our core base with building the. document

base into a shirt and. driven database with more than eight million documents and secrets so we have we have been building up our base and then look are looking towards the future we have not given up now as you say that you're building up your base we've actually noted that over the past few years we've seen the rise of other whistleblower support organizations and edward snowden took his n.s.a. leaks directly to journalists has your organization had to rethink its approach as far as getting whistleblowers to come to you instead of directly to the press themselves. well i mean we have. of course of course we always are rethinking their injuries and adapting to new realities but we are still welcoming whistleblowers to approach us and and the information that we can publish. to

the general public. we are ready to do that we have an ongoing cooperation agreement with probably under twenty or thirty media organizations that we can. basically put into work whenever things that come our way just as we did today with the release of an important document now what is the benefit for them to go to wiki leaks versus going directly to media sources. well the benefit is that we are totally committed. and we have a very good record with the know we have never done anything that has revealed our source and that is the security that we can offer whistleblowers something that is of course very important and of course the the network of. media outlets that we are cooperating with something of an asset and we have. a platform

for that where we can get the information out in a. tactical manner platform and and tactics that others might not have and you feel that your audience base is still there then. oh absolutely i mean we do have huge support and people understand what we are doing we have course have been moving on to other fields very importantly we are committed to the cause of protecting whistleblowers and encouraging whistleblowers only last week we had of course and in the creation of the courage foundation. which is based in berlin foundation that is helping edward snowden and supporting him but now will be expanded and will be ready to assist the future whistleblowers when they step forward and needs immediate action mr snowden did

a little over a year ago now speaking of support let's talk about julian assange will self do you know that the world will ever see a mistress on the ecuadorian embassy a free man. of course i mean because it's becoming extremely so shameful for all the parties and world this is tarnish the image of sweden and the way the swedish government has behaved in this towards mr songs there has been an absolute willingness on all parties to find a solution to the this push it should but the swedish government has not given an inch and it has become obvious that there is some spurious motives behind the way that they are behaving it is obviously not a concern for the human rights of julius runs his rights are violated is evident by the testimony. of the fifty nine organizations that now have submitted to the united nation their view that

he is. his human rights are violated by the situation he's in. and start today wiki leaks published in one thousand page secret draft of the trade and services agreement which includes almost fifty countries and most of the world's trade services tell us about this latest release well this is a very important document about very secretive negotiations that is going on right now it is going out it it is. it is a document that is a draft from the financial chapter of this trade and services agreement that. it is it outlines the year the attempt by laertes corporations with seem to be directing the negotiation to deregulate the entire market for trade and

services and this attempt of the really good deregulation in the financial sector is quite astonishing given the fact that. the past deregulation is in almost everybody's opinion to blame for the financial crisis of two thousand and eight no there isn't an agreement they're being negotiated in full secrecy outside the scope of the transparency of bodies such as the world trade organization and this is totally undemocratic this is totally not in the interest of the public this is in the interest of the laws corporation pretty much as we saw with the t.p. the trans pacific partnership agreement whose documents were leaked to us and we leaked published a few months ago i am certainly looking forward to taking a look at that after the show today that was mr kristinn hrafnsson spokesperson for wiki leaks thanks for your time sir. and it really isis crisis continues as

insurgents battle the government for control of iraq's largest oil refinery near to crete the grounds near the refinery became a battlefield as troops loyal to the shiite led government held off the isis militants who stormed the perimeter threatening national energy supplies despite iraqi government calls for the u.s. to help ward off the insurgents with air strikes president obama announced his plans for the u.s. response this afternoon after meeting with his national security advisers air strikes are not in the cards for now the president says he will be sending three hundred military advisors to assist iraq forces in security and intelligence capacity is only he's also working to secure the embassy in baghdad relocating personnel and sending in reinforcements to protect u.s. facilities the president also said the u.s. will increase its intelligence and reconnaissance efforts to better understand what

isis is up to the u.s. has already sent more naval ships to the region to have an immediate response if necessary secretary of state john kerry will also be heading to the middle east to encourage a diplomatic plan that includes pushing a rock to form a more inclusive government and obama tried to qualify years of americans that another u.s. conflict in iraq is not on the horizon to help american forces will not be returning to combat in iraq but we will help iraqis as they take the fight to terrorists who threaten the iraqi people the region and american interests as well . to help us break down how the u.s. should help battle the insurgents in iraq i'm joined by retired marine brigadier general david reste general reese thanks so much for joining me here today let's jump right in the country is war weary the u.s. has just withdrawn troops from iraq not that long ago we just heard from the

president on this matter do you think he took a strong enough approach while still putting the nation at ease. ok i think we're having a little bit of technical. ok we're having a little bit of technical difficulties but we did hear president obama talking about how the u.s. was not going to go go into battle although we are sending more troops into the region so brigadier general are you there yes i am awaiting the hello thank you for joining us sir now the country is war weary the u.s. has already withdrawn troops from iraq not that long ago we heard from the president just a short while ago his thoughts on the matter now do you think that he took a strong enough approach. as far as representing the u.s. interests but still keeping the nation at ease i think what the president needs to

do and tried to do was to determine what the what iraq needs to look like say ten years from now and hopefully this team is thinking long term in the us. as senator mccain has indicated there aren't any good options at this point in time and as you pointed out her country is a little war weary but we need to create some order out of the disorder because there are some critical elements in iraq that have global interest or oil and the president mentioned this from the energy side so we need to i think we need to calm down at this point in time we need to count down the your rhetoric the dialogue and get things inside the box and now the u.s. is sending three hundred troops into the region as military advisers as they say these are not considered troops on the ground per se but what would happen if say they were they were shot at what would put these forces would that put them into combat officially. well that combat per se term this is

a slippery slope and it's probably a paramount concern to the administration president and those troops that are there and and the iraqis also if shot at any u.s. soldier marine airman sailor is going to under the rules of engagement he or she is going to be afforded the opportunity to protect themselves hopefully that situation won't come about but these are the dangers that need to be looked at and the long term impacts when u.s. forces are put in a position that things like this could happen and knows things need to be thought through and you can what if this forever this is a tough tough position that secretary kerry said recently that the u.s. would consider using drones in iraq what are the implications of that. well the drones as we've seen in afghanistan. it's that in between phase of doing

nothing and doing something heavy it gives us that standoff but the perception of the u.s. fighting with drones obviously the rest of the world looks at this especially the folks on the on the ground and the potential collateral damage can have impacts so when you target someone with a drone you hope and you want to make sure that you're getting the bad guys that doesn't always happen those collateral of facts can impact how we employ against targets systems and we've got to be very careful on that and speaking of collateral damage doesn't that make our image in the eyes of the rest of the world that much worse if we had so much collateral damage. it could and that's why when i started off saying how do we want iraq to look in ten years and that we it's not the united states that's iraq also and that's the rest of the world this is something

hopefully where the u.s. is taking the lead to shape the environment here and u.s. you bruce can't get in the way here we can't get too far in front of that and we've got to lead control that's a that's a razor's edge to to work on both the u.s. has deployed navy vessels into the region already and could this be perceived in the eyes of the world as posturing do you think that. it could be it's also deterrence at its best that's why we have these forces those capabilities and that's the ideal use for use to be out there it's kind of like a bouncer at the door of our if there's no trouble the bouncer doesn't engage if there is trouble the bouncer engages and that's a nice signal to be able to send and that's why we have ok so it's been over a decade now since we toppled saddam hussein's regime and we're hearing his name floating around again back in the media and many people both in iraq and those in

the global community are saying that iraq was better off before the the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three what are your thoughts. you can't put the genie back in the bottle unfortunately bonilla. you've got to you've got to play with what you've got right now. anybody who was worse than that's no use going through that's a discussion that can't be won or lost it's just a discussion i'd stay away from that and just let's deal with what we have right now let's look at the strategy for what and stay we want to create as a nation with iraq with its neighbors and let's strive for about that was a very balanced answer sara thank you so much that was retired brigadier general david reste he's also the vice president of strategy and planning at the potomac institute now while president obama and congress becker over what to do in iraq the american people are fed up with washington new poll numbers make it clear the

president and the lawmakers are not very popular take a look at the latest gallup poll which surveys how people currently feel about this congress just sixteen percent of americans think this congress is doing a good job sixteen percent is actually the lowest that gallup has ever measured since it began its polling back in one nine hundred seventy four so how will this translate on election day this november political experts predict most incumbents will be reelected no matter how bad the country feels about capitol hill and president obama can tout that his approval rating is higher than congress is forty four percent of americans are happy with the job he's doing and that's at the same point of his first term in two thousand eight he's holding steady gallup says the reason for president's low poll numbers americans are just simply

dissatisfied with the economy and we should note some other recent polls have showed even lower ratings for both congress and the president. and ukrainian president petro poroshenko announced a plan to end the violence in eastern ukraine he promised a unilateral cease fire after discussions with russian and german leaders the kremlin says that russian president vladimir putin discussed the possible cease fire in a phone conversation with poor shank a late tuesday he also discussed his peace plan with german chancellor angela merkel if they can come to an agreement this could be a major development in bringing peace to that region as artie's roman coast road has more on the fighting that continues while peace talks are being discussed at the fire resumed this morning and one man actually died as a result of that fire he was near a christian orthodox church which was partially destroyed now in terms of us live

ask itself well the city is slowly but surely turning into somewhat all fagged ghost town and continued to shelling for the last few weeks have left to the citizens without water supply without access to supply or even food in some instances self proclaimed donetsk republika officials are claiming that they are heading for humanitarian catastrophe you can see empty shelves in stores you can see people lining up for water nearly all the hospitals are closed most of them please are simply not they're finding refuge somewhere else plus ambulances have no fuel. and that was artie's roman kosar of and in denver documents and dramatic video relating to a police brutality case have been unsealed revealing accusations of a pattern of police corruption abuse and witness intimidation the allegations are being brought by jamal hunter seen here in video from the denver jail as he was

choked and beaten by officers and shocked twice with a taser the newly unsealed internal affairs report details hunter's case and includes allegations that denver deputy again mail room or brought pornography and marijuana into the jail and was aware of the production of alcohol by inmates as in he used inmates as his physical enforcers within the jail another inmate amos page backs up hunter story in his affidavit he says deputy rumer arranged for him and several other inmates to beat hunter and that mr rumor even turned the lights off so that they can do it quote when of the lights are on there is a clear view into the room from the camera's room or said to make it sure it happens before his shift was over the way we were running the pod rumor knew the

consequences of hunter were going to be severe hunter complained about his treatment and adequate medical care and claims this is how he was punished for that hunter was thrown into a cell by another deputy edward keller followed by four other officers one of whom shocked hunter twice with a tazer district judge john cain who ordered the documents and video released expressed outrage at the fact that the denver attorney general's office had not been prosecuted or prosecuted anyone in connection to this incident calling the investigation a sham. deputy keller was suspended for thirty days over the videotaped incident and deputy rumor for forty days and date at the world cup in brazil underway now a must win matchup for both teams inland and europe way bringing us more on the latest on the world cup is our tease nicholas o'donovan. copacabana rio de janeiro brazil the world cup it just doesn't get any better than this the football fans actually

this is ground zero for football fans around the world thousands and thousands of them here in brazil even if they don't have it take it to see it and they're here to live the experience the live the party surrounding the outcome so walking up and down copacabana one can see flags and polish practically every country in the well many of these fanatics belong to countries that haven't even qualified for the world cup others like the argentinians are here by the tens of thousands and despite some clashes with local and chilean fans the truth is that the vast majority of here only for the fun i don't i'll. buy. then there's a mexican army that has invaded brazil actually and they came against the house and there were nearly as many mexicans in the stands as they were brazilians others that are here in massive numbers are obviously the brits and americans are starting

to get the hang of it as well some call it football others call it soccer but the truth is that they're all love in the brazilian experience celebrating pie and may never come around the world having a great time oh and a bunch of animals and so it's a circus as you can see as mayor simi forces for it all this massive concentration of people requires an enormous display of security and the truth is that the police presence is constant so fans fail pretty safe down here there has been some protests in rio de janeiro and just on wednesday thousands rallied in sao paolo the tourists were very aware of the situation here but they say that once they arrived in brazil they were happily surprised fantastic forget all of the negative press i had before right and everybody from the welsh. it's cool that you get. to have a great time to join so the world cup goes old and at the end of the day here in

code like obama victory is celebrated with joy i just eat well defeat is just a bit sweeter when you have. said to. rio de janeiro. now doesn't the bible say love thy neighbor well not so much in this case a nuns convent in suburban chicago has filed a lawsuit against their strip club neighbor for blasting music too loud the sisters of st charles in stone park illinois are suing club allure chicago because of their rhythmic beats pulsating music and strobe lights are interrupting prayer time the nuns are also suing on the grounds that the strip club has violated zoning laws which require a buffer zone of a thousand feet between adult entertainment and places of worship and if this

doesn't already sound like a scene out of sister act the nuns included in their lawsuit that they've been witness to public violence drunkenness and other quote issues and the club's owner says he's spent a lot of money trying to accommodate the nuns ever since the club's opening back in september but thinks they're out to get him based on religious beliefs so the club owner also has another problem some nearby neighbors are joining in on the lawsuit and maybe the club owner could solve this issue if he volunteered to play church music for his dancers baby anyway boom bust is coming up next here on r t aaron age joins us for a quick preview hired piven no thank you now coming up on boom bust politics and policy expert about mall from is helping give us some perspective on how the u.s. economy use clueing us and basically tricking. with politics policy and geopolitics and all of those things impact the financial markets then in today's big deal r.t.

arabic correspondent remodel home da is sitting down with me to fill us in on the latest economic happenings in and around the middle east it's all coming up steve bruce of trickery yanks there and thank you all right that does it for us for now for more on the stories we just covered go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our web site r t v dot com forward slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at manila chan stay tuned boom bust up next.

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