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henri's. the spanish find out more visit by two of the. revelations keep coming global privacy champion edward snowden marks a year since he fled to russia seeking a haven from american intelligence vengeance. ukrainian deputies admits to forty children killed in the government's military offensives while the new president's troops goes of nor advice to forces and opponents alike. poland's foreign minister allegedly gets caught out by a leaked foul mouth conversation suggesting his nation panders to america. and artie's office in the west bank salvage is what's left after an israeli military raid but still not adequately explained why we were searched nor why it confiscated materials have not yet been returned.
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because for being a mosque it watching our to international when we were in a josh now his revelation shook some of the fundamental bonds between citizens and the state but instead of a nobel prize his efforts earned him a top place on america's most wanted list it's a year to the day since forman the same player we had snowden landed in russia is asylum man's next month and it's still not clear what's next for him while his whereabouts remain secret we're piskun off looks at how snowden managed to slip through washington's fingers even though the world was watching. c.n.n. now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is
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reported to be on a flight to moscow in the arrivals hall of moscow's airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board. these doors were surrounded by a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones some broadcasting live pictures of everything that was going on here but when the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. the american whistleblower edward snowden is thought to be in moscow airport it looks like snowden is spending the night in the transit area of moscow's sheremetyevo airport but all indications are that is about one hundred meters away from where i'm standing in this whole place was swarming with journalists photographers t.v. radio press agencies you name it and everyone was looking for snowden everywhere in
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every corner in every bathroom in v.a.p. rooms even under seats but no one could find him but soon information quickly spread that it was inside the capsule hotel right here in the transit zone that the former n.s.a. contractor was in. this capsule hotel is really only called capsule because in reality these or almost like regular rooms just soon a regular hotel there is a decent bathroom here and the beds and even a t.v. set just no window that's pretty much the only difference the plans that no one guest in the end it became known that snowden and his advisor had been checked in for a flight to cuba so naturally dozens of rush to get on that flight some even coughed up the cash for business class full exclusive interview once again the former. contractor. let's cross now to our to who is aboard the flight so you know gore you're joining us by phone tell us what you can see on the plane is snowed in there
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or is there no sign of a. remarkable just a watch that the doors of the plane were actually now actually onto the air strip where we're about to take off very shortly and i can tell you with one hundred. one hundred fifty percent. not on this plane the plane actually journalists took off with the two seats allegedly built for snowden and his advisors are still empty so what we thought might be the end of the russian chapter for snowden was actually just the beginning after spending weeks in that transit zone the whistleblower finally received temporary asylum in russia where he used to be but even a year on security and safety concerns mean edward snowden's exact whereabouts are still shrouded in secrecy and what it's going to moscow. so remember they had lines america's national security agency collecting thousands of e-mails annually britain's g c h q got its eyes through the privacy walls of facebook google and
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twitter accounts and german intelligence used in it and a say spy program and so it kept coming piling embarrassment onto the united states and britain and their spy programs and it was a wake up call for the rest of us so what new have we learned about our daily routine well if you are an american your phone and video calls as well as your e-mails can be routinely intercepted by special services and here's another thing have you trusted your private data with google yahoo or facebook well this means the government has been able to access the two if i'm being a president want to help they will ground your plane if they suspect that whistleblowers i'm bored that's what happens to believe in leader of a morale is press freedom get swept aside when governments reputations aren't. state a major u.k. newspaper became the target off police rates for publishing the revelations in france do spy on france the n.s.a.
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have been tapping into germany's angela merkel's phone but and barry singh lee for berlin the latest snowden leak shows germany has actually been a launch pad for america's ask in europe you know oliver has more on that story over the last twelve months edward snowden's revelations of showing that not only is germany at the very heart of the n.s.a. surveillance program but that the germans themselves are among the most spied on and listened to in the world with millions of data connections being tracked putting them alongside the likes of afghanistan on the rock and it's not just those suspected of having committed a crime that is being snooped on here at the german chancellor rhee there was a breach of security when it was revealed that angle america's private cell phone is being listened to by the americans prompting a few angry phone calls and general all round embarrassment it now seems unlikely there will be a full investigation into what went on leaked n.s.a.
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documents talk about an intimate relationship between the german and us government something which is upset people here because they fear they'll never find out the true scope of the snooping that went on and how involved germany was in spying on its own people. how we spoke to hans christian german politician who has met edward snowden he believes the german government isn't taking the issue of n.s.a. spying seriously and has no intention of investigating it. type of clock we have complained all this time the german government does not take it seriously and does not want to participate in an investigation and draw consequences from it we're continuing to criticize them for it is an awkward situation for them and stop an interchange list phone is just a small part of it what is more important according to snowden's peepers there are a large segments of the german population that have been spied on five million ten million forty million we don't know these are very serious violations of basic rights and they're much worse than just tapping into chancellor's phone. now he
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wanted to know more about snowden's escape the events that followed or they were a lation stat he made head to our dot com. ukrainian government fires are accusing the government of violating its own ceasefire with fresh offensives cavan turn blames the rebels for the failure of the truce as their own cost of reports it's not only the man with guns have been paying the price artsy received video shot from the russian territory near the crane and border that showed at least thirty minutes should. about one kilometer away from the a russian border and apparently it was done from the positions of ukrainian national guards and of course in this conflict said people continue and people with guns are not the only casualties according to ukraine's head of the cranium parliament's health committee at least forty children perished as the
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result of the unity of action in eastern ukraine and children die mostly because ofa shelling and direct gunfire moreover a russian a freight train of was heading into ukraine he was already in the equating territory when a blast occurred and as a result fourteen train cars a word till railed and another twin blast damaged a nearby track as well and investigators are now working on the scene to determine who the sailors were and of course their restoring their railway as well not here in donetsk people are already experiencing drinking water shortages but a situation is a lot more a dire in the city all follow gone sky which is which haven't seen drinking water for quiet's a long time for a couple of weeks at least and we can see a long queues at least five kilometers long people line up for water and it's a regular occurrence either and this is all leading to an epidemic according to the
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local officials and of course there is a shortages of food and electricity supply as well you can see empty shelves in stores and meanwhile the city of slovyansk itself is slowly but surely turning into a ghost town as people are fleeing the shelling and there are it's already gunfire . it a national affairs x. but alexander mercurius says that what sets the new government in kiev apart is its love of confrontation the consistent practices of the mind and through which this new government in kiev has emerged is to consume confrontation whenever it meets any resistance of tools whenever that resistance grows. more confrontation and that has been the pattern in the eastern ukraine still think it would frankly require enormous external pressure on here for that to change
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and at the moment there is little sign that. hundreds of refugee camps have sprung up on russia's border packed with tens of thousands of people fleeing a crane's east confusingly. off washington's rater which says it just can't find any proof. in terms of the refugee numbers we've looked into russian reports of large numbers of refugees fleeing russia and i've seen no evidence to. prove. who are we to russia sorry to russia and so have seen no evidence to substantiate. a u.n. representative visited one of the temporary camps in southern russia and here is what he said this if you see that despite what anyone says the fact that this person is forced to leave his home his native country is a huge problem they didn't come here as tourists when tens of thousands of
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ukrainian refugees flee across the border it's a problem and to deny it is wrong. even in k. if there is anything but unity ukrainian nationalists have again risen and a spate of new attacks vandalizing buildings and attacking a church read up on their latest street violence on r.t. dot com. polish foreign minister has been secretly taped comparing his country's relationship with the us to a sexual act and it's washington that's come out on top a polish news magazine claims it's obtained a leaked recording of a diplomat calling the alliance with the u.s. worthless and a transcript of the leak details i'm saying warsaw was giving oral sex to america in return for an illusion of safety and that it's costing poland its relationship with europe and russia was discuss this further with the political scientist mateschitz course thanks for joining us here on r t international so this scandal
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is obviously dominating news and poland yet the government has refused to comment rather why's that. well the government cannot comment at the moment because. we have information that there aren't eight hundred hours of. algeri cording of different meetings of different politicians members of the cabinet members of the government so i think that and well in that main task of the government now is to find out who has leaked these recordings who has staying behind all these operationally it seems quite serious and of course now we have a lot to do with the theories like that and gauge ment of the friend security and intelligence agencies in preparing this operation but i personally think that it's . much more simple i think that probably there are some lobbies and some
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sweeps have already decided that the time has come to change the element and you know i have the time has come to. elections yeah you see the war reading all the revelations could actually be very damaging in scandals in fact what sort of damage can we bring in your opinion. well when it comes to all that work. side by the state she calls. first and foremost it's not a damn whether or not it's. quite positive for the police public opinion because most of the police public opinion has thought about police u.s. u.s. relations. like like. he has these describe them of course he did that in a private that talking a private way that well you know sikorsky says the alliance with the u.s.
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could jeopardize relations with russia and germany how important do you think poland are these relations with russia and germany that. well i would like also to add to that because he knows what he's talking about because for a long time he has been poor percy of here in poland us and american agent of influence and he used to work in united states and he used to work for american enterprise institute one of the impulsivity think tanks there so hearing such words from our team just is just to prove that all these russian and polish german and polish friends because he has also mentioned friends relations are really harmed by this so-called strut educate partnership with that us and which means that at the moment of being even if the most primary kind of politician in poland voices such an opinion even if it's in
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a private talk and then i hold out the partners. france and germany i will at least know all the polish politicians understand the real natural relations between us and poland and that the polish politicians will be more ready for a kind of dialogue and cooperation with these three countries which might be perceived as most important from the point of view also a continental geopolitics contrary to the so yeah i'm sorry to have to interrupt you because we're running out of time here but thanks for sharing your thoughts with us there from the europeans interrupt your political and else q. . now isis militants are tightening their grip on iraq taking more cities across the country's northwest later in the program we'll look at why the u.s. secretary of state has deemed it necessary to pay an unannounced visit to baghdad amid the i'm going violence.
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choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your office or. welcome back you're watching r.t. international artie's office in the west bank is trying to salvage its work after suffering a devastating raid by israeli troops the assault was apparently part of a crackdown on local media centers in a broader campaign against the palestinian authorities who are being blamed for the kidnap of three israeli teenagers soldiers forced their way into a building used by transmission company media where artie's office is also based it damaged furniture technical equipment and completely destroyed computer hardware troops also confiscated some archive materials r.t. asked the israeli defense forces for an explanation since the channel is not linked
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to the work of palestinian media the i.d.f. answers well somewhat short. first israel authorities said that the goal of the raid was the channel which is surprising since the channel studio is based in other building so the i.d.f. tried again saying that no they were actually trying to search all codes to be eventually the i.d.f. admitted its operational target was the entire media complex and that's why the staff and library materials were confiscated and they promised to return equipment but only after examining it for terrorists content the deputy had of r.t. arabic told me that israeli forces raids aren't going too far. it happened after midnight while everybody was a tome the only guard who opened the door of the building when they broke all the doors broke our t's office what is not acceptable accepted told is how they enter
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our offices break our computers our internet connection take whatever they want now . taking prisons small children even the israeli human rights groups accuse them of doing so there is a lot of question marks on the way they are trying to find these conduct people we are in our part as journalists where we will support every mean to find the truth we will call great i will say again if that is in the mean if they come and ask us to show them our. we have nothing to hide we show our viewers everything we are ready to show them but it's it's not the way you should ask for that. the u.s. secretary of state is urging iraqi leaders to waste no time in forming a more inclusive government john kerry is on a surprise visit to baghdad america has already sent military advisers to help the country's army to quell the sunni insurgency the latest wave of violence there at least seventy prisoners were killed by a jihad as they attacked a police convoy near the capital a report from human rights watch suggest the islamists are using children to carry
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out suicide missions and document also says some children are being used as snipers i mean ition carriers and even human shields there's a couple of reports now on this of terry divisions tearing the country apart at. the march on baghdad for now on hold instead of just hottest fighters tekken still grip on western iraq this weekend's gains three border crossings into syria and jordan and for nearby towns territory now for only in the hands of insurgents from the islamic state in iraq and syria. despite the chaos spreading across the country and eerie calm in the kurdish capital the city is just sixty kilometers from the isis front line but it downtown erbil it was business as usual kurdistan has often felt like a separate country altogether even at the height of iraq's most violence and bloodiest moments now with the current crisis treading the country to pieces it's
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closer than ever to becoming one kurdish soldiers are now in control of territory that used to be disputed but no one here seems to think that just harvest would dare march on them. but we have full faith in the forces we won let's anything happen. for some the prospect of a divided iraq was a welcome one do you think that iraq we're made of one country as we know it's after this crisis maybe we should maybe that iraq will have to be divided will have area and the sunnis and shias will have the. is no one in kurdistan is worried we have oil we have a strong army. they may help or oil but fuel is running scarce for days now iraqi forces battled with isis for control of the country's largest oil refinery this is one of the first things you notice here in our build these massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many
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people in fact camped out overnight to try to get online so they can get gas frustrated residents line up to get their share authorities have limited each individual to thirty leaders that's less than what it takes to fill two tanks. were seen entering their newly purchased supply into containers in order to go back for more it's a very unusual situation where it's kurdish police officers guarding the gas stations here just to prevent fights and conflict from breaking out the people we've spoken to said there haven't been lines like this for fuel since big outbreak of the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three and although there are shortages here in erbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas even on the black market and so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what will bring the fear is that it'll get a lot worse before it gets better. that's a sentiment we heard from many here this man fled this sunni dominated and our province it's not ice is that he was afraid of starving and making it less polluted
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because we're scared of shelling from the iraqi army. is and it's not just so nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to foxtel gonzi job or came here six days ago from baghdad i mean baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse as and people are arming themselves in the ready to fight one another notch them all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something doesn't change iraq will be a country of orphans and not all of the caffein of erbil iraq. now says the start of its rampage through iraq isis has been eyeing vital oil fields including the country's biggest refinery joining me now in the studio to discuss this is jorge want to pick global director of market reporting for plants and energy market intelligence providers thank you so much for being with us here in the studio or hey well let's now take a look at this graphics right here which it clearly shows that the brand crude over
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the past few weeks went up and the prices skyrocketing here let's take a look at trans i mean is it a panic a buys sort of here or is it an alarming trend i think. based on the events are taking place in iraq should you do nothing so or buy. i think obviously what you should do is buy some just in case production is lost certainly the situation there is highly volatile but on the part of the investor i mean how reasonable is such an action reaction rather well i think precaution one should buy at this stage is what people have done so far from here on words i think people have done the precautionary buying on if they see some production shot in them prices could go up even further but the situation is changing so quickly in iraq are absolutely well you mention the situation there it's high volatility tillotson let's now take a look at the map of the country let's see what happens there we can see that i
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mean this map shows iraq's geopolitical secretary and divide with the sunni dominated areas that are in red right here as well as the areas dominated by isis which are oil rich places of course now the question here is what impact could the conflict have on the situation in the region and of course you know the prices there well i think by that is their next star on base and where the production is where the pipelines are even though the oil gets the liver through the sols that could be some impact in the production we already saw are not attacking against the oil refinery so the question is fluid on the most likely thing is that some production will be lost we saw the situation in libya swell so i think it's reasonable for as you call them be investors to have reacted in the way they did because of production is lost then prices would go. well as everything is
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interconnected globally and locally i mean how is this situation going to be reflected on the iraqi government and economics in the country it's really happening so quickly but any government requires some form of income and the main income in iraq is money from oil so if the production is interrupted there will be issues there and i think we're already seeing some of them happening likewise if the sun is vance very quickly a baby called let's say a political force or not establish bases there will also need money to run so whether it is one side of the other they both will be under pressure to export so this is maybe short term in a way but they will be i think some production loss so we continue to keep an eye on how the situation develops there in the region for now who are here thank you so much for joining us here as you know national in with us here in the studio was for
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