and we welcome you to the show mr benjamin pop off for now teaches at the institute of international studies in moscow welcome things. i would like to start with the issue of syria russia supports its musharraf law sides. drain all the fireman's and it seems it has paid off because right now the western leaders who called for his departure again and again. seem to want to negotiate you know it's a russia that the russians position was the principal and we live in preston will we have for the international this is our principal. in the second point we want to get the ceasefire. as soon as possible the priests. all the distraction of these beautiful country. we where criticizing us that puts on his mistakes. but do we wear in contact with the opposition. i can kill you is that we received the most cool about two am pdt gauge was off seeing a position of different kinds so we we're working weeks go by it's own. the call. we think that there is unknown nina taste you can go such costs. raising the two concurrent a procedure there is no limit distribution for this snake national religious

mr benjamin says government forces spotted former vice president greek men talking for the man accused of attempting a coup against the covenant managed to escape. i poked. for the capital to my state is set to beat this thing up some of the diarist clashes between government troops and rebels. benjamin said more troops have been deployed when it was an influence that has over in the day had been in the northern route and without incident. in between cds then go home when that was done yesterday the duke it out. grow from seed to the game we did ok but now the government is the need to know that the mt annan said seventy one cheeky wobble troops soldiers captured but we can go up spread across the country. the cult like cats brings tears to collapse into an all out civil war. so then sell the currency is he's still willing to talk with my chart to bring an end the conflict following his meeting to go with mediators from other african states but give me an eventful night. and any team residents of the evening. we donation was the one to die though. and instead but he said. good imo. wit

mr. benjamin jealous and was bragging. he asked do you know who i am? and ben said, yeah, you're the warden of the prison. and he said, no, do you really know who i am? and he asked, who are you, and he said with a smirk on his face that he was actually a police officer on the streets of savannah in 1989 when the officer had gotten killed. before troy had gotten his last execution date, the warden actually came to troy two weeks before he had gotten his execution date and told him that he had had another execution date scheduled. troy called us in a frantic panic. my sister called his attorneys. the attorneyings said that they didn't have an execution date scheduled, the warden was just trying to get a rise out of you. we were grateful that the supreme court actually gave us an evidentiary hearing. the evidentiary hearing was actually brought back to the 11th circuit which was the same courts that actually convicted troy. we could not have a fair trial in the 11th circuit. many, it was many of you that were there during the hearing with the 11th circuit

out the terrorists in the region but they do not comment on individual strikes and you work to mr medea benjamin says incidents like yours only play into the militants hands. every time there's a drone strike that's the best recruiting tool for al qaeda and killing people in a wedding party i am sure that this will lead to not tens but probably a hundred people joining al qaeda and this guarantees the cycle of violence will go on in perpetual war the drone strikes actually are a support to al qaeda it doesn't get rid of al qaeda. every month more innocent lives are being lost in what the american administration insists a precision attacks a manned aircraft in pakistan yemen and somalia for to have killed more than one thousand civilians in just over a decade but that figure doesn't include afghanistan and iraq where drone attacks happen on a regular basis but no casualties to six are available despite america's operations all qaeda remains active in the arabian peninsula but drone activists live bolger believes the drawing strikes will go on anyway. this is just another example in a long list of

no one has been greeted with something as common criticism mr assad told to benjamin some time to be cut fond of the city limits his group and apple peach and seeing that i missed a song title welcome to auntie it's very nice to talk to you right now. as the guy has actually defended the move beyond that date said that to shake out the sites will be provided at a pub with nothing to lie about your date will remain within the frames of the galaxy yes that's him that's what the staid and the ticker on the twenty euro the crew room which has a majority in both the effective cost saving trust does. if some way holloway to legalize what is written down. and that's was what frightens us most because it really looks like did they acknowledge what's known and lived and social events miles above the massive radio was all for the french statesman of the states on their own population lanka mutations it's pretty frightening a bad day and all is aimed at improving the protection of france's national interest at the so what have you gotten gains that. we have something against dots. usually i'm t

public criticism and for more on this let's now talk to benjamin sometimes the co-founder of civil liberties group allowed portraiture do nets mr sontag welcome to r.c. it's very nice to talk to you right now so the government has actually defended the move they've said that actually the site will be provided probably there's nothing to worry about surely it will all remain within the frames of legality. yes that's what. the currently. the group which has emerged routinely in both sides of course say it was just. some way somehow a way to legalize what is already gone and that was what frightened us most because it really looks like. what snowden the show shows us about was about the must of the french states and other states on their own population communications that's really frightening bill law is aimed at improving the protection of france's national interests so what have you got against that. it's not that we have something against that usually. when you have los to defend something or helps it is. defending the. scientific or economy. of country it's protected by the low but it's limited by justice system like with a ju

mr. 47, one of the great vin teenages. he was operating what was in effect a counterfeit laboratory. >> came on the rare wine scene. no one really knew his background. >> reporter: benjamin> he was blending cheaper vintages to sell other vintages for more money, taking bottles that had originally contained more excess eive wines and pooring lesser expensive wines into them. >> reporter: when he first came on the scene in 2002, kurniawan plenlted himself as a rare collector of wines. he began sellinging wine ata, clearing a record $24.7 million from one sale in 2006. >> i had two clients who each spent over a million dollars buying wine from rudy, and they were the murderer's row of wines in the world, the oldest, rarest, most valuable, hardest to find. >> reporter: but over time that began to look too good to be truchlt jeff smith who manages the wine cellars of wealthy cliernlts began to realize ku n kurniawan was a fake. >> when they began to sell the wine at sotheby's and zachys, they realized wine became an issue with the corks and labels. >> reporter: when they raided his home they found a sophisticated operation for corking bottles and producing fake labels. >> rep