plane was brought down in europe trying to get a hold of edward snowden evo morales is gone your reaction to the coup d'etat or is british or the british government says the proper judicial removal of president evo morales of bolivia where you can get much more of a coup than what happened in libya you know middle class uprising turning violent a police mutiny and then the army the military's entry saying mr president resign that's pretty much a textbook coup and i think it was prepared i think they was you know they were what alice had a lot of enemies you just mentioned some of the intimidation he was a victim of many opportunity came the oas ran i think a. a mission of electoral observers that had a mission and that was to discredit the. but it in elections the think tank the center of economic policy. the economic the center for economic and policy research that i work for has just published a paper that i've coauthored actually showing that they were no evidence was provided by the oas to suggest that there were fraud in elections well as i said that narrative completely at odds with

what it does edward snowden put it it's retaliation. because. greenwald was exposing corruption in highest levels in brazilian government. and just trying to punish him telling the truth if this is a vendetta against greenwald for his anti corruption reporting as he said edward snowden is claiming who do you think is pulling the strings as in the president of brazil as well. as is just determined to get revenge and to discourage any other journalists from following up the same story so it's a combination of intimidation and other journalists intervention. other other powerful interests in brazil that would stand to gain from the. no i think it's the president i mean you need prevention learned to silva from running again. released by the supreme court from jail to here if he. contests his cases and he's still a political force or has impulse in r. is probably still words and at some point is unity so who can make a comeback will somebody else from his party prosecutors claim mr greenwald broke the law by colluding with hawkers to obtain material

of the last decade edward snowden gives an interview to a former president. saying is the truth he would do it all over again. and i would. i have to say unexpected. thanks for joining us. welcome to the program. a russian cryptocurrency entrepreneur suspected of bitcoin fraud has been stricken secretly extradited to france that's according to his lawyer and exhaustive in nick was arrested in greece 2 years ago washington's request is lawyer told r.t. he was unlawfully taken removed from the hospital where he was being treated after a month long hunger strike. alexander disappear today he was taken by police forces who ordered the doctors to release him even though he was exhausted and on the 35 day hunger strike as his lawyer i assure you that they had no right to take him because today's decision by the supreme court was not executable i have been in contact with all competent greek authorities today and until 930 nobody knew where alexander was it was confirmed to me by my french call that alexander vinick is already in france in a hospital they will try t

surveillance programs around the globe edward snowden has given an interview to the former president of ecuador awful career the u.s. is seeking to charge the road with espionage and theft of government property while former government contractor has said he would leak the information again and that he'd be willing to stand trial if you could tell the truth and he needs in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of assigning yourself nowadays we can see that the mainstream media has changes to talk and they should be defending access to information the freedom of the press not just for americans and of everyone else why are they now against you both while the government in the united states currently has not tried to put journalists in prison on a massive scale they have in a few exceptional circumstances. they have thought well. how can we get the media to support our narrative how can we get them to support our perspectives and i think this is what people miss against the distinction between them or reality and the legality of the thing sometimes the only moral decision th

of how vital the movie feels now like whether with the kind of revelations from someone like edward snowden or like the way the film they're f.b.i. agents in the film is a kind of media outlets to punish somehow doing this is still this kind of thing still goes on today as much they did then or show i mean i think what we see in the movies in like a kind of d.n.a. form of the culture we live in now else you have an analog surveillance culture where we now live in a kind of mass mass surveillance culture where where in the movie jack needs to kind of break into a house in order to open up a fun in order to put a bug inside we all carry the bugs around complicit in our own surveillance with with smartphones and so on. captive found listening communities and clicks online i think the government the movie shows how. the state uses that surveillance uses that invasion of private space in order to kind of mine private information that can be used as a weapon and to create lies that can be used. used as weapons and i think when now we live in the kind of. crossfire of that constant constant barrac

so if this is a vendetta against greenwald for his anti-corruption reporting as many suggest edwards snowden is claiming this as well who do you think is pulling the strings here is a both a narrow himself or other powerful interests in brazil. well i'm sure it's definitely both scenarios vomit is no question about it because he wants to get rid of this guy he still wants him out of brazil wants him in jail or he wants him preferably out of the country no longer practicing journalism there because he craves he caused an enormous problem here correct calling into question the entire election of also narrow if lou had not been thrown in jail because of this corrupt corrupt and relationship between the judge and the prosecutors he would have most likely won that election awful scenario so muscle he doesn't lie but he's been exposed as having got into office corruptly so he can't have green while hanging around uncovering other things so they're going to cook up this charge against him that he somehow displayed in the act that got these materials that led to the exposé of destruction but in fact

and if there was a blower edward snowden is. down for an interview with the former president of ecuador rafael correa snowden claimed asylum in russia back in 2013 and is still wanted to buy the u.s. on espionage charges he told that he would return to the u.s. if he believed he would get a fair trial and he needs in the beginning many media outlets were supportive of astonishing yourself nowadays we can say that the mainstream media has changed its tune they should be defending access to information the freedom of the press not just for americans and of everyone else why they know it gets you both while the government in the united states currently has not tried to put journalists in prison on a massive scale they have in a few exceptional circumstances. they have thought well. how can we get the media to support our narrative how can we get them to support our perspectives and i think this is what people miss against the distinction between the more reality and the legality of the thing sometimes the only moral decision that i

bizarre ideas of surveillance of the irish police force the garda did it not occur to you that edward snowden had already said everyone is bugged anyway by g.c. h.q. in britain anyway the whole story was a pointless read the beginning of the sunday times newspaper murdoch paper produced a sensational story that the police have their supervisory body under surveillance and there was no if spots or maybe about the story it was asserted it was taken up by opposition politicians it was taken up by media. i was the minister for justice at the time i knew nothing of the alleged surveillance within 24 hours i'd stablished that the story was false when i try to publicly set out the detail of what occurred i was accused of cover up and of lying as minister for justice my credibility was very viciously attacked and without going into the detail of the story by the time the truth was a savage had been forced to resign from government but it really is i suppose a story of universal relevance about the importance when allegations are made against any individual be they a politician or someone. otherwise i

what we do know is that ever since 2014 when edward snowden revealed to the world that there was this nsa sponsored program trying to break encryption on anything if they could, we all learned that was happening. apple said we're going to harden our stance and they got into a harder and harder place, putting in fingerprint i.d., facial recognition i.d., two-factor authentication. the phones you and i carry around, the current models, are way harder to crack than the ones that were around when san bernadino was happening. i want to read you apple's statement in response to this particular case. they say we have always maintained, there is no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys. backdoors can also be exploit bid those who threaten our national security and the data security of our customers. today, law enforcement has access to more data than ever before in history so americans do not have to choose between weakening encryption investigations. for a law enforcement official to know that i, if i'm a subject of an investigation, am carrying something around that tells them whe

i mean if you remember back to the edward snowden case. the the us were as dependent on the u.k. as. same terms of intelligence sharing and the u.s. the u.s. actually like to rely on account of the n.s.a. counterpart in the u.k. to do some of the intelligence gathering for them because they want to constrain by by constitutional constraints you now in the u.s. climate runs that is so so i think the u.s. might actually be hobbling itself it chooses not to share intelligence u.k. so i think that might end up being rather empty threats all right simon lacy thank you very much indeed for talking to us live via skype from adelaide in australia thank you. we got a lot more to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including caught in the crossfire unicef warns of the devastating effects of conflict on children in africa held region and remembering kobe bryant the tributes continue for one of the biggest stars in the sporting world. for israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been formally indicted after withdrawing his request for immunity from prosecution israel's attorney gener

eric snowden, the biggest -- edward snowden, the biggest whistle-blower of all time but many people want to put him in jail and kill them even though a whistle-blower. he revealed something we were doing unconstitutional and our government changed, we changed laws because we were so worried about what he revealed and a lot of people have mixed feelings about him. same thing with this whistle-blower. if this was a concocted plots to bring on the president, that's not what the whistle-blower statute is about, but the whistle-blower statute does not guarantee you are anonymous, guarantees you are not fired but i do not want to fire their whistle-blower, but i think the president deserves that this that this was a blow or come forward and i never identified anybody as a whistle-blower. that's quite unfair to exclude my question. i'm just identifying people who are friends and against the president and plotted against the president. the one i make out >> martha: i'mabout to talk to senator van hollan and i want to give you a response to what he said because i'm sure he's goino want to build o

supplies the equipment but if you want to think about people listening today to data, remember edward snowdeneople we re clearly listening in to what people were saying and what they were doing on the internet. in a word, sounds as if you were at that meeting, you would say go ahead. as if you were at that meeting, you would say go aheadlj as if you were at that meeting, you would say go ahead. i would say be cautious, but go ahead. but the conservative mp bob seely is one of a number of members of parliament who have expressed concern over huawei's involvement. he told the today programme that, while he appreciated the government was in a difficult situation, the risks of going ahead were too great. i think there are two issues, the personal issue, and i think people are going to be concerned when they fine china are collecting data. we can control his book on google because they are western companies that operate under western opera china isn't and i think there will be long—term concerns about the amount of leverage coming from china, they've achieved great things, we need good relationshi

|j wonder, there may be some memories, in germany particularly, thanks to edward snowden, we know americarience of the us side as well, i don't think some of them will want to ta ke don't think some of them will want to take lessons from the us administration. no, that is clearly administration. no, that is clearly a very different point of view on this one. the uk's departure from the european union was signed and sealed just a few hours ago, when the eu parliament ratified the withdrawal agreement. after one referendum, two national elections, three prime ministers, almost four years of political wrangling — the uk will finally leave the eu at 2300 gmt friday evening. christian and i will be on london bridge to mark the moment, which some will celebrate and some will lament. but today's vote was the last that british meps will ever take in strasbourg. as you would expect, it was a session full of fine speeches and some very familiar rhetoric, from the likes of guy verhofstadt of the greens, who argued more europe was the answer to brexit. and, of course, a valedictory speech from nigel