it absolutely clear that our position as european parliament and more especially is the european left group is that snowden should be given asylum even in europe or anywhere else in the world because we do not consider him a trade or we consider him a hero he's the man who has warned people that their fundamental personal rights the rights to privacy are being violated by the united states and others and we think that if we have to fight criminality and terrorism we should do this within the legal framework by respecting human rights and not become a criminal it's ourselves therefore the whole affair research shocking affair for us would perhaps have a different understanding of those united states as to what a human rights are we consider can i go right ahead i'm sorry i was i'm i'm sorry sort of interrupt you but when you talk about the issue of human rights or let's just bring on one more angle here when it when all of this was first coming out about edward snowden there were many european leaders who hailed him as a hero but then after perhaps having a behind closed door telephone

of what has been done by mr snowden and so why are we so tough on this now debating in the european parliament it's quite clear from my point of view there is a complete different concept of privacy and predicting citizen freedom also in the european union compared to the united states well certainly issues with protecting citizens privacy within the european union in terms of legislation that's been passed in european countries as well as the u.k. but i'm curious what leverage do you think european partners have in terms of trying to get either more information or trying to push washington to stand down from this kind of spying i mean there have been some economic back but realistically is europe in a position to actually make good on those. so first of all the european union and its member states should doubt that this whole spying activity is only because the fight against terror i think it's also dedicated to bringing the better position to the united states in every kind of negotiations with the european union so always the first place for number one the united states of america this is n

the new parliament terrines are joining -- parliamentarians are joining a club. >> on st. mark's square in zagreb, croatia seems to be at home in the europeanunion. that goes for the musicians in front of the parliament building , for croatian cuisine, and the architecture of the capital. but for 12 croatians, the eu is really moving into focus. a member of the social democratic party will represent croatia and the european parliament for a year. >> i fulfilled my political dream, to see my country member of european union. in the meantime, i became political realist and know that within the european union, nations and individuals and families must fight. >> the croatian parliament is marking statehood day. it is also celebrating eu accession. no other country had to negotiate as long and as hard. as the guests of honor know, the criteria for admission are growing ever stricter. >> you have to have some pressure to be better. >> his next appointment is in downtown zagreb, just below the parliament, at his party's headquarters. he has been an observer at the eu for a year now and is constantly commuting back and forth. >> and then we want yo

the new parliament terrines are joining -- parliamentarians are joining a club. >> on st. mark's square in zagreb, croatia seems to be at home in the europeanunion. that goes for the musicians in front of the parliament building , for croatian cuisine, and the architecture of the capital. but for 12 croatians, the eu is really moving into focus. a member of the social democratic party will represent croatia and the european parliament for a year. >> i fulfilled my political dream, to see my country member of european union. in the meantime, i became political realist and know that within the european union, nations and individuals and families must fight. >> the croatian parliament is marking statehood day. it is also celebrating eu accession. no other country had to negotiate as long and as hard. as the guests of honor know, the criteria for admission are growing ever stricter. >> you have to have some pressure to be better. >> his next appointment is in downtown zagreb, just below the parliament, at his party's headquarters. he has been an observer at the eu for a year now and is constantly commuting back and forth. >> and then we want yo

political courage to stay with the public interests of european citizens. >> the scandal leads as european parliamentntinues its discussions on personal data. the biggest issue lies in making companies adhere to stricter legislation. online privacy is indeed a matter of urgency. "we could make it mandatory for european businesses that collect, process, and sell data to also obtain explicit consent from users for each type of data processing, that they are very clear about what happens to personal data. if data is leaked or stolen, then they are obligated to warn users, but users are able to access their own personal data at any moment. it needs a standard good practice framework that companies should adhere to if they want to gain the trust of users." for france's data protection authority, europe's response could the an industrial one, considering building a new internet space independent of the united states. "there needs to be a political response. europe has some strong assets compared to the u.s. but will only be credible if it is industrially viable and has systems and companies, particularly a

in the ariel settlement west bank i'll discuss this further we're joined by a member of the european parliament paul murphy and the jerusalem post chief political correspondent hofmann gentlemen thank you for taking the time to speak with us up paul i want to begin with you the european union never officially approved of the israeli settlements but has also never taken action real genuine action before why now do you think. i think primarily it's a reflection of pressure from below in europe where by many many people are fed up with what is in reality the on go and complicity of the european union with the oppression of the public opinions where on the one hand you have crocodile tears about the palestinians well then fundamentally you have supporters including more me politically forty israeli astonishment and so the pressure simply has become too much for the european commission and so that introduced these guidelines it will be both to significant pressure continue to be built and applied to see that the guidelines are actually implemented in such a way that has an effect and if they are mea

and the european union now hanging by a thread a german politician and member of the european parliament rebecca homs she believes a lack of trust between the two powers and could ultimately kill the deal. this is a huge spying attack from the united states help especially by the united kingdom against against their friends in the european union we have certain instruments as least i remember of the european parliament see those instruments we have two agreements. in between us and also europe d'etat so this is the swift agreement and also the agreement of. data in the international flights p n r we could stop almost agreements and. i really i am convinced that we should not opens the negotiations on teeth to this internet this united states trade agreement because this is also very very sensitive when it comes to data takes there is a complete different concept of privacy and predicting citizen freedom also in the european union compared to the united states and the sheer scope of u.s. surveillance is leaving others no choice but to prepare themselves to fight it according to bolivia's

i'm going to be dealt with it and the european parliament committee almost unanimously voted to lift your immediate chief because of alleged racist statements you made three years ago why now and why is to parliament so united in this question. home from go on you that's the truth is that censorship reigns in france and we are hunted down in all circumstances because we express an opinion that is different from the one way track of thinkings developed by the european union and also by the socialist party and the right wing parties in france i've been hunted down first saying i think it's not normal that prayers should be allowed to take place right. the middle of the street blocking traffic it was a territorial occupation that is unacceptable it's the law and get i'm being hunted down for having said this it's not a big deal it's a source of pride for me to be hunted down by the system. more than. do you feel less secure because of that nor some reason but most no i don't feel any less safe but still it shows that although france bends a lot of time preaching freedom to the entire wo

i'm going to be dealt with that and the european parliament committee almost unanimously voted to lift your immunity because of alleged racist statements you made three years ago why now and why is to parliament so united in this question. this is new home for you and you that's the truth is the censorship reigns in france and we are hunted down in all circumstances because we express an opinion that is different from the one way track of thinking developed by the european union and also by the socialist party and the right wing parties in france i've been hunted down for saying i think it's not normal that prayers should be allowed to take place right in the middle of the street blocking traffic it was a territorial occupation that is unacceptable it's the law and yet i'm being hunted down for having said this it's not a big deal it's a source of pride for me to be hunted down by the system. more than. do you feel less secure because of that nor some reason but most no i don't feel any less safe but still it shows that although france bends a lot of time preaching freedom to the entir

their friends in the european union we have certain instruments as least i remember of the european parliament see those instruments we have to agreements. in between us and also europe and d'etat so this is the swift agreement and also the agreement of. data in the international flights p n r we could stop those agreements and. i really am convinced that we should you not open the negotiations on t.v. to this internet this united states trade agreement because this is also very very sensitive when it comes to debt up takes there is a complete different concept of privacy and predicting citizen freedom also in the european union compared to the united states russia's prime minister has demanded a list of those responsible for space rocket crash and curse of sound on tuesday morning and manned space rocket fell to earth just seconds after launch it was carrying three satellites meant for russia's glow nasa global navigation system is meant in a cultural has been following the story for. it was indeed to rather shocking morning for those at the baikonur cosmodrome this this morning and as you ca

all right christians from a member of the european parliament for the part prior party of sweden thank you so much for joining us here and doing apologize for the quality of sound as it was taken sometimes right is story in and of filmmaker tariq ali believes the verdict against bradley manning was designed to intimidate and discourage whistleblowers around the world. the fact that he didn't get the maximum penalty is cited frank a psychological ploy it's obvious that they want to keep bradley manning in prison for a long long time and the aim is very clear to deter that was so close i mean there could be no other possible to him except to restrict the flow of information in more is hope ultimately a free society but it is closing down very rapidly so i think lead to terror and it will not work because many young people come to these things fresh they don't claim should we do it because x. was from ish they think should we do it because what we are witnessing is utterly obscene and should be made known to american citizens and the world at large a man examines hearing is set to begin a

rebecca harmes is a german a politician a member of the european parliament a joint. snow from brussels to discuss this to discuss this further let's catch up with hi rebecca thanks for taking the time to be with us and given snowden's recent revelations you think german officials were being entirely year on this than about what they knew or what they didn't know. so there are several accusation. in public are so we have the problems of the spy program of the secret service of the united states we have accusations against the british secrets secret service against the french and also the german wouldn't us nothing shall be involved in spying citizens across europe so we have a big a big job to do to clarify what is the problem could it be the fact that actually merkel just didn't know about what the security services were doing maybe behind her back could that be a scenario. i would not exclude nothing and both scenarios so she has known and she has known nothing both scenarios are not nice well critics know the research the spy agencies in washington in berlin exchan

parliament from the u.k.'s conservative party and he believes that the european union has to embrace g.m. technology if it doesn't want to farmers to be beaten by the competition no one's been muddied by these g.m. products will be consuming if you compare that to peanuts for example to pull that shit for a reaction to it would make more sense to buy the will roll the g.m. program. at the same time for example the american academy of environmental medicine has urged doctors to prescribe non g.m.o. diets for all of its patients citing animal studies and fact that show organ damage gastrointestinal and immune system disorders and they say that this is more than a casual association with g.m. foods and adverse health effects in fact that there is the strength of association and consistency between g.m. foods and disease is confirmed in several animal studies this is according to the american academy of environmental medicine how do you respond. i mean i really don't think there's any evidence for that whatsoever frankly and these probably. america south america and certainly in parts of asia

of the embassy of the european parliament for example so this is something which we've completely unacceptable there have been some economic threats but realistically is europe in a position to actually make good on those we have certain instruments least i as a green member of the european parliament so those instruments we have to agreements. in between us and europe. we could stop those agreements and i'm convinced that we should not open the negotiations on. trade agreement because this is also very very sensitive when it comes to putting you right will certainly it seems like there are options the question is what actual policy the lawmakers will decide to take thank you so much for that member of parliament they can say what yes thank you so much weighing in there now before we finish up our conversation guys i want to bring up another point here i mean the broader issue from my perspective that all this raises is transparency regardless of which country is doing this it seems that in this day and age there needs to be more transparency in terms of what different governments are doing in

and i am reminded that when i was in the european parliament we gave d of ten years him the rather back handed compment of providing him with a letter bound of all his past speeches in the european parliament. y vision for you is to do such composed memorandum for you to take away to some foreign beach and read through them in those odd moments when you have nothing else to enter you. but we hope you and all your colleagues who have come this morning do have a good summer. there are opportunities where this committee will agree with you and we'll strengthen your arm as we did with the banking union. so i thank you. i thank you colleagues and i think my members and asking them to remain seated as we have a further session after that and we conclude this meeting. thank you very much. >> thank you and your colleagues and reciprocate your good wishes. >> if i take the collected memorandum reach any baggage limit that a airline operates but i will read before i go. thank you very much and have a good summer. >> the british house of commons is in recess for the summer. prime minister question

. >> if americans do not deliver, the european parliament will launch an investigation, subpoena witnesses, and force a public bait to signal americans that this is not just about a few diplomats or politicians who might be affected -- it's about fundamental issues. >> the eu wants to start trade negotiations as planned, but many think that is a bad idea. the greens want to put the talks on hold. >> a significant part of the discussion addresses internet usage where europeans have completely different standards. >> i think that is a stupid idea, to block now the negotiations on the free trade agreement because the free trade agreement is merely in the interests of the europeans. >> he would like to take a united stand on the scandal, but in the parliament, lawmakers are divided on the issue. >> for more on this, let's go back to our chief the lyrical correspondent. the eu says it will resume trade pact negotiations with the u.s. in spite of the spying scandal. do you think this means the end of the data protection in europe? >> i think it means business as usual in europe. this is a contin

. >> if americans do not deliver, the european parliament will launch an investigation, subpoena witnesses, and force a public bait to signal americans that this is not just about a few diplomats or politicians who might be affected -- it's about fundamental issues. >> the eu wants to start trade negotiations as planned, but many think that is a bad idea. the greens want to put the talks on hold. >> a significant part of the discussion addresses internet usage where europeans have completely different standards. >> i think that is a stupid idea, to block now the negotiations on the free trade agreement because the free trade agreement is merely in the interests of the europeans. >> he would like to take a united stand on the scandal, but in the parliament, lawmakers are divided on the issue. >> for more on this, let's go back to our chief the lyrical correspondent. the eu says it will resume trade pact negotiations with the u.s. in spite of the spying scandal. do you think this means the end of the data protection in europe? >> i think it means business as usual in europe. this is a contin

the president of the european parliament, smartin schultz, said if this is correct it will have a severe impact on relations between the eu and the u.s. schultz also demanded full clarification and further information from the u.s. government as soon adds possible. is now snowden is wanted in the u.s. for espionage. he has asked for asylum in ecuador and is hold up in an airport. joe biden asked the request be turned down. corea told biden his country couldn't consider the request until snowden arrives in ecuador or shows up at a diplomatic mission. he told biden it would be in accordance with ecuadorian law. >>> thousands of residents are still waiting to go home. vast tracks of land are still waiting to be restored. and more than half of the fishing ports must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster. but step by step, they are moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> the operator on the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant defected a higher level of radio activity including at a new

gave us soil unprotected and brought those people to four different european countries i made that joke in parliament but it isn't really that funny that's a normal and we cost torts to english footballers so they could apply and play for the irish football team in the european championships because to be told it was important enough surely edward snowden's lawyer is a bit more important than the course the rules they hold with spend them when they want to and they could do was here and i think they saw recent example of france and italy spain portugal colluding. while diverted the plane of the believe in president and also search it without any warrant is another example of how international law and all sorts of procedures could be. or ignore it because they believe in the president himself said that that was a cross violation of international law now as far as i understand at this point there are no international warrants nor into full war and a raft ad was snowden and neither could there be one because interpol doesn't issue warrants for political crimes or suspected political crimes an astronaut

the european parliament has launched an in depth inquiry into u.s. surveillance programs including the alleged bugging of eu premises. lawmakers decided their civil liberties committee will conduct the inquiry and present conclusions by the end of the year. committee members will assess the impact of the surveillance on data protection among other issues and they'll put forth proposals to prevent cases in the future. edward snowden revealed last month the national security agency collects a vast amount of communication data at home and abroad. the german magazine "der spiegel" reported the nsa bugged eu offices in washington and new york and ilfinfiltrated e-mail phone networks. >>> north and south korea have agreed to hold talks on saturday to discuss restarting oons at the jointly run kaesong industrial complex. the talks will take place saturday morning in the true village of panmunjom in the borderland demilitarized zone. seoul proposed the talks earlier this week in response to pyongyang's announcement that it would leet south korean businessmen

criticism, when it comes to the eurozone, they have mostly given merkel the necessary back in the european parliament, or the bundestag. the social democrats put their top financial expert, peer steinbrueck, in the race against merkel, seemingly a smart move. >> he is seen as knowledgeable since he is a former finance minister, but he has not been able to provide an alternative message to the people. >> both contenders back the euro and its rescue. so far however, that seems to have only helped merkel. >> when -- if the euro crisis sharply worsened right before the election, that could certainly damage merkel's image as a levelheaded crisis manager. >> and that could strengthen the position of the small afd party. it wants germany to pull out of the euro. should the race become tight, the afd could siphon off crucial votes from merkel's parties. >> in a moment, the investigation into the deadly plane crash in san francisco continues as officials reveal that one of the victims may have survived the crash and then was run over by -- run over and killed by an emergency vehicle. >> first, some of the oth

criticism, when it comes to the eurozone, they have mostly given merkel the necessary back in the european parliament, or the bundestag. the social democrats put their top financial expert, peer steinbrueck, in the race against merkel, seemingly a smart move. >> he is seen as knowledgeable since he is a former finance minister, but he has not been able to provide an alternative message to the people. >> both contenders back the euro and its rescue. so far however, that seems to have only helped merkel. >> when -- if the euro crisis sharply worsened right before the election, that could certainly damage merkel's image as a levelheaded crisis manager. >> and that could strengthen the position of the small afd party. it wants germany to pull out of the euro. should the race become tight, the afd could siphon off crucial votes from merkel's parties. >> in a moment, the investigation into the deadly plane crash in san francisco continues as officials reveal that one of the victims may have survived the crash and then was run over by -- run over and killed by an emergency vehicle. >> first, some of the oth

one person at the european parliament said this makes george orwell look like nothing, talk about orwelliannadvertently being orwellian herself. no question that there is a sense that this is big brother america monitoring all communications all the time. >> do we really need to spy on our allies? >> yes. >> why? >> let's knock down the idea this is just all crazy spy versus spy activity. in 2000, we went through this when -- the u.s. program called echelon came to the surface. they -- the idea was the united states was stealing european technology. there are basically would reasons why we do this spying. the first one is to see whether european countries are bribing foreign officials for contracts and in countries like saudi arabia. and as they have. the second and perhaps more for is to look at technology transfers from europe to countries like iran, formally iraq. that could be used to build nuclear defense plans or other kinds of weapons of mass destruction. because there has been a lot of evidence over the last 15 years that that has happened. and so if you are imposing sanctions on a

and a member of the european parliament. laded says becoming a criminal is no way to fight crime. the thing is the heroic thing about is that you fight illegality by being legal within the legal framework if i am to become a criminal myself in order to find criminality i'm not achieving anything i'm only increasing crime in the world in my view so the thing is to respect the human rights and find such a framework that you can fight terrorism without becoming a criminal yourself and what the united states are now doing by. stealing all these data personal data violating privacy this is criminal stay with us for more international news headlines after the break. egypt on the brink mohamed morsi and his democratically elected muslim brotherhood face massive protests in social upheaval as one revolution ended in another started opposition figures have asked the military to step in to restore order if the military again becomes the key power broker in egypt what does this mean for democracy in the arab muslim world. do we speak your language as anybody will inevitably and. will use pro

citizens don't apply to you that's the loophole basically a citizen of europe a member of the european parliament can be treated in exactly the same way as a north korean spy rageous. adversary. rageous and their legal definition of adversary i think this is what jim is getting at. who's the adversary where something can be outrageous and not necessarily be illegal so that's why i do have i do what's right how does most of the people with a great deal of the holding snowed in calling snowden a whistleblower what he years as somebody who was working for the government took a vow of secrecy then saw a policy he didn't like and decided to reveal it to the world that. we do know is what he did was illegal and i don't think whether you work for the government in brussels or great britain or anywhere else you want every single individual who works for the government making their own public policy on what they like and don't like going to be don't like it they will reveal it to the world that simply is not a sustainable thing for any again no teacher you're right but you've got a problem here that both

flags to show their opposition to joining the euro undermanned referendum earlier this week the european parliament gave lot of their the green light to adopt the single currency in training or next chair where protesters worry that the entry to the euro zone will harm large fears strongly economy and increased unemployment and inequality. and next after this short break on to social are now the discusses tyranny and the global quest for power with a member of saudi world. as a person who lives in russia i get asked very often why automatic console fat well are americans actually fat or is this just a myth from some hater countries the centers for disease control have declared obesity to be a disease as it twenty point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving the home sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eight foods that are allowed in americ

be free to soon as possible well earlier we talked to helmet shoulder sees a member of the european parliament and one of the signatories to that letter sent to president obama he explained to us what was behind this letter. it's not all you political gesture that there's also aiming at trying to communicate to the american public as well as to the administration and to the authorities we need to check up what is the the picture on what is the content of this trial and we hope that our just increasing awareness whistleblower we should be in the interest of the united states of democracy as a source of democracy in other states a part of the world we have to request to we are asked to to rethink the democratic behavior of the united states in the international community. still to begin to john who is an icelandic lawmaker from the pirate party is joining us live on the line oh hi there thanks be with us one time your party nominated private bradley manning for the nobel peace prize now of course on paper at least he's a convicted criminal and you feel about that. you're quite upset and actually

asylum that's for example why we as a pirate party movement of been putting pressure on the european parliament to stand up for these rights that's why the pirate party m.p.'s put forward a bill in the icelandic parliament. that would give snowden citizenship there that would give him the protection that means but that will only happen if we get more pair of politicians like us who are willing to stand up and say no the plight of. manning surely doesn't that not put off whistle blows though and people like yourselves you're saying this should be much greater freedom of information and what they've done if they really achieved anything though at the expense of their own lives is in effect i mean their lives will never be the same whatever that. yes well we've seen that this is very broad horrible chilling effect and but i'm glad there are people like manning and there are people like snowden who are willing to stand up and these will not be the last whistle blowers if this if the united states government thinks that this story is going away they're very much mistaken and there are far too many q

and the european parliament committee almost unanimously.

citizens have don't apply to you that's the loophole basically a citizen of europe a member of the european parliament can be treated in exactly the same way as a north korean body rageous t.j. i add in their definition of bad behavior a just and illegal ok definition of adversary i think this is what jim is getting at. who's the adversary or something can be outrageous and not necessarily be illegal so that's why i do have i do what's right it's not illegal for the canadian to be holding snowed in calling snowden a whistleblower what he years or somebody who was working for the government took a vow of secrecy then saw a policy he didn't like and decided to reveal it to the world that. we do know is what he did was illegal and i don't think whether you work for the government in brussels or great britain or anywhere else you want every single individual who works for the government making their own public policy on what they like and don't like going to they don't like it they will reveal it to the world that simply is not a sustainable thing for. gym teacher you're right but you've got a problem her

should be free to soon as possible we earlier talk to him which showed sees a member of the european parliament one of the signatories to this letter here that was sent to president obama he explained to us what was behind sending this letter . political gesture that is also aiming at trying to communicate to the american public as well as to the administration and to the authorities we need to check up what is wrong what is the contents of this trial and we hope that our just increasing awareness whistleblowing should be interest of the united states of democracy and democracy in other states a part of the world we have to request to to rethink the democratic behaviors united states in the international community jeremy zimmerman is a spokesman for the paris by a citizen advocacy group he told my colleague josh the implications of this trial go far beyond the bradley manning case what is happening to bradley manning is totally unrealistic he has been telling the truth he is being courageous to expose crimes and lies and he is the one going in prison right now so the only realistic option is th

issue in germany the popularity of obama is dropping by the day you'll see the savior of the european parliament which has as an institution always been in the mire of of obama are so nothing is is fine in fact obama is heading for some trouble with europe the closest ally you could think of yeah but he's only speaking the truth so isn't a hero my european country is really not involved in spying at all. well they are maybe. also involved in some sort of spying but not in this size if you look at the number of communications intercept in germany five hundred million that's really excessive and that's against all data protection in germany is not just spying targeted a person's was just a general's point of of big parts of the german population and germany is germs are very angry about that it goes against all data protection legislation that we have privacy is and is intruded this way by the americans and we do not know what the scope is and what they do with the information and of course there's been a lot of talk and she gets out saying that europeans are angry the german are angry isn't going

friends in the european union we have certain instruments as least i as a green member of the european parliament see those instruments we have two agreements. in between us and also europe on data so this is this with agreement and also the agreement of. data in the international flights p n r we could stop those agreements and as green i really i am convinced that we should not open the negotiations on t.v. to this internet this united states trade agreement because this is also a very very sensitive when it comes to debt up there is a complete different concept of privacy and predicting citizen freedom also in the european union compared to the united states. and the sheer scope of u.s. surveillance is leaving others no choice but to prepare themselves to fight it that's according to bolivia's president evo morales he visited r.t. spanish studios on monday as he was in the russian capital for this gas exporting countries for. i know that the empires have an espionage network and are constantly conspiring against the so-called developing countries and in particular against those which are rich

union which is a deeply undemocratic system that is failed and i think the majority in the european parliament can change next year and it's true that it will be a change in direction which i think will be a good thing if you look so your own popularity continues to grow i mean i grew up in paris and i remember when i was a child the national front was really a marginal party that didn't have much support and now it really has become they think france is third biggest party why do you think you've become so popular now. the third maybe even the second maybe even when the european elections come around the number one party. i think we're really moving towards taking power that's what i want you know i'm not here is a bystander i'm here to come into power and apply the ideas that are mine and that i can see are already being applied in other countries around the world i think it's just a matter of it all coming together since a lot of french people are starting to realize that everything's a national front predicted came true on the subject of the risks with immigration on the economic model tha

should be freed as soon as possible well earlier we spoke to helmut schultz is a member of the european parliament and one of the signatories of this letter that was sent to president obama he explained to us what was behind it but it's not all new political gesture that there's also aiming at trying to communicate to the american public as well as to the administration and to the authorities we need to check our borders of the picture on what is the content of this trial and we hope that our gesture is increasing awareness whistleblowing should be in the interest of the united states of democracy as the democracy in other states are part of the world we have to request to we are asked to to rethink the democratic behavior of the united states in the international community. all right listen i talked to andy worthington so he's a freelance investigative journalist and author of the guantanamo files about the men being held without trial at the u.s. military prison he joins us now from london must talk about here let's talk about manning and his effect on guantanamo or not as you see it how would y

unacceptable how do those things gel well rebecca holmes is a german politician and member of the european parliament she told me she's concerned that a number of european states could be violating privacy laws. i'm very concerned about the way how united states of america but especially also europeans european governments european secret services are dealing with citizens' rights with the freedom of citizens in europe so for example. the is sure and your communication to a telecommunications is protected is based on laws in germany for all citizens and obviously so this law has been broken by maybe all the secret services in europe and in the united states over all i would three comment two governments in europe and in the united states to rethink the balance of freedom of the invidious individual and the need for surveillance to achieve security for me it's clear that we have to fight against terrorists but for me it's also clear there at the fundamental rights freedom has to be protected. there's a saying just now there's been a constant stream of new developments from revelations of the n.s.a. sp

president obama is not giving up on this there's no letup in this and there are people in the european parliament that take a different view and presumably will look to see some european politicians so in the european union politicians applaud the russian government for coming to the aid of a whistleblower there because there is a previous on this because there are whistleblowers european commission that have been treated that well either but certainly they want to see edward snowden and keith alexander the head of the national security agency to give testimony in brussels or strasburg as to what the spiny jackley was against european politicians and officials well you know while we are still waiting for edward snowden to step out of the airport i just want to ask you one more question how public do you think he can go after he adds and that's the war given that he did promise that he will not going to make any revelations that will harm the russian u.s. relationship. well i think he will probably abide by that i certainly think and hope the obama administration abides by national sovereignty law