all of this was written by the editor of the guardian alan rusbridger it seemed to have happened over a period of a couple of months rusbridger was contacted by what he wrote as officials who claim to represent the views of the prime minister to demand that the information be surrendered or destroyed now he said that over that period they had been meeting consistently with officials as well as the g.c. issue the intelligence agency here in the u.k. and in trying to explain the guardian's position apparently these officials had told him well quote you've had your fun and now we want the stuff back and you had your debate there's no need to write anymore and quote we know that the debate this whole story has stirred centers around the thin line between security and privacy as well as freedom of the press many critics are looking at this as an intimidation or bullying coming from the government now the guardian editor also wrote that he had explained that if the british government continues to block with the guardian is trying to do here in writing about those the information uncovered b

ordered to the editor of the guardian newspaper alan rusbridger who had written. it would happen over a period of two months that he was approached by officials that claimed to represent the views of the prime minister and had demanded the surrender or the destruction of all the information that they had on the documents and data that edward snowden had given to the guardian so in those subsequent meetings that he had with those so-called security experts or officials rusbridger had said that he was exploiting the job of the guardian that they needed that information to continue doing their jobs and to which these officials apparently had told him quote do you have your fun and now we want the stuff back and you've had your debate there's don't need to write anymore and that is how those two security experts had ended up in the basement of the guardian offices right behind me overseeing the destruction of some of the computers and hard drives in the office now this so was written by the editor just a day after david miranda the partner of glenn greenwald of the gu

oversaw the destruction of hard drives and computers in the basement of the guardian to making sure that there were not any pieces that could be handed on to chinese agents so this alan rusbridger the editor of the guardian described as a very surreal or bizarre encounter and despite all these events what some are calling as intimidation from the government or is it is disproportionate at the guardian insists that says that it will continue to report on the documents and the data that edward snowden had handed over to them and it's just incredible all of this comes just a day after the partner david miranda of a guardian journalist the guardian journalist working on snowden's materials detained by authorities for nine hours. yeah that's right he was held at that heathrow airport where he was questioned but he says six different agents are david miranda explained that he was held for a very long time and he have talked about his experiences during that detention. determined would be. from one about to attack the u.k. it was exhausting and frustrating i knew i wasn't doing anything wrong n

well the editor of the guardian alan rusbridger have written about the process the time it took to get to that point actually and he had been contacted he said about two months ago by by government officials demanding the surrender or destruction of all materials in their possession relating to surveillance of the surveillance operations and covered by edward snowden and then he said that a month later he was again contacted from what he calls quote unquote at the center of government in which he was told quote you have your fun now we want the stuff back and he had written that there were subsequent meetings with certain officials certain government officials and in those meetings when he tried to explain that the guardian would not be able to continue doing their jobs without this trove of data they told him quote you have your debate there's no need to write any more and quote we know the debate that this has brought up really is security versus privacy and the extent to which governments should be allowed to was spied on their own citizens or others now of this is he said also rusb

journalist the guardian journalist working on snowden's materials is detained by authorities for nine hours. yeah that's right he was held at the heathrow airport where he was questioned but he says six different agents of david miranda explained that he was held for a very long time and he have to. about his experience and during that detention they were threatening me all the time in saying i would be prudent jail if i didn't cooperate they treated me like i was a criminal or someone about to attack the u.k. it was exhausting and frustrating i knew i wasn't doing anything wrong now why this is this has caused quite a doubt that if we look at the data from the home office they said that more than ninety seven percent of examinations under this specific law last of less than an hour a lot of questions being raised as to why he was held for that amount of time and already politicians and including david anderson who is the independent review or of this terrorism legislation have been asking for an explanation on why police have treated miranda this way why was it necessary to keep him

today and they said they are aware of the story in the guardian but have no comment to make. well let's further discuss what implications this could have for reporters with freelance journalist tony ghosla and he joins me now live from bristol tony thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. well we often hear about the juror was being intimidated for the work they're doing in other countries but britain has so far maintain a reputation of having a press freedom so is this about to change. well it's already sliding isn't it i think we've seen over the last few months particularly since this snowden revelation that there are divided loyalties i mean particularly the problem particularly being that we've had. this revelation that actually the pentagon were involved in this decision to make this arrest of david miranda i mean horrendous situation to being where he's got no access to a lawyer sort of extrajudicial area in the transit lounge at heathrow airport and so it seems to me that the police who do the arresting heathrow should be thinking about who pays their wages is it

i am another food guardian. i wanted to speak to the fact that doing this work for about two years now and entering into the corner stores in bay view our findings have been interesting based on when we first went in as community workers. store owners understanding what they're selling. appreciation for having higher quality foods. just seeing a shift in retail culture overall has been phenomenal. now when we intro into the stores the stores understand. they look to us as food guardians in the community -- i wouldn't say as authorities, but definitely folks with knowledge that are able to enhance their business through healthy retail. there has been lot of interest in minding more about how they can change their stores so they can be more healthier. we have done an assessment that was talked about twice now and upon entering people recognize not only us as community leaders but the investment in having healthier produce in bay view hunter's point so we have a lot of store owners interested in reaching out to how

to guardian h.q. know lindsey german is there from stop the war coalition hi there lindsay nice to see you tonight to go do you know to trim chief says that the paper transferred its reporting of the n.s.a. to new york shortly after they were forced to get rid of this information by g c h q are you surprised by that and b. why do you think it's taken so long for alan rusbridger to come forward now and tell us about this information. well i think most of us all surprised at the actions of the british government over this kind of thing oh i think it's very shocking i think it's very shocking because attention onto the terror laws for nine hours and those i think alan rusbridger should have made public this information whether happened and i personally don't think he should have destroyed the files i think he should've said to the previous government if you're going to put pressure on me then take me to cool and we'll have a public hearing about this so i think it's regrettable but i think it shows you e

the guardian newspaper revealed details about a secret program called xkeyscore. it allows analyst to search with no prior authorization through vast databases. slideing to a presentation provided by snowden, it gives nsa analyst real-time access to "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet." -- while the program is supposed to target oversees internet users, the guardian reports xkeyscore provides the technological evenility to target the u.s. persons for extensive electronic surveillance without a warrant. the nsa deputy conceded that the bulk collection of phone records and minds of americans under section 215 of the patriot act has been key in stopping only one terror plot. more after the headlines. in breaking news, the russian broadcaster rt is reporting edward snowden has been issued travel papers and has already left the moscow airport where he has been stranded for over a month. snowden had remained there despite reports last week russia had granted him temporary asylum. snowden's father has revealed the fbi tried to enlist him in traveling t

his travel was paid for by the guardian. is he involved in his work which we know has been linked to mr. snowden. how the u.s. and the uk and europe have come together on certain issues of terrorism, we are going back to the same issue. a national security issue. was nine hours too much? maybe we should bring it down to six hours. confiscating material and not charging. we are going to the fine line between democracy and national security. >> i think we must be upfront about this. we are speaking of the uk terrorism act of 2000. i think that the person the present as far as they are concerned from the uk government or any other government. clearly some tactics of harassment. and this law, this act is vacant. at this point, at the very beginning, it is a bad law and it has been badly used for petty revenge. so let me be very clear about what is happening now. i think it is not a good thing for the uk's reputation. they say freedom of expression, human rights is very important. i don't think it will help their reputation and c

today and they said they are aware of the story in the guardian but have no comment to make. to the reporting for us will the editor of the go. explain why he gave in to pressure from government agents and destroyed those drives carry information. we were faced effectively with an ultimatum from the british government that if we didn't hand back the material or destroy it they would move to a law that would mean prior restraint a concept that is anathema in america and other parts of the world in which the state can effectively prevent news publisher from publishing. and i didn't want to get into that position and i also explained to the u.k. officials we were dealing with that there were other cup is. already in america and brazil so they wouldn't be achieving anything but once it was obvious that they would be going to law. i would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting but i don't think that we had snowden's consent to hand the material back and i didn't want to help the u.k. authorities know what he had given us so to

today and they said they are aware of the story in the guardian but have no comment to make. things very much indeed for bringing us the very latest on that was our correspondent talking to. the center for investigative journalism. now washington admitting it was notified of britain's plans to. tain david miranda but insists the u.k. acted alone lawyer and says that while that may be strictly true u.s. policy certainly inspired the move this is clearly violating the concepts of freedom of the press are we i mean we're talking about a journalist a media outlet for journalists who are now being threatened intimidated and it's the united states just meeting now it's not the u.k. and it's not of the european nations what i believe is the question is do we put out there to all of its allies look anyone related to everett snowden must be detained if they come into your territory and the u.k. and bind it like that and did their duty so without a question washington is the sort of intellectual off there behind the detention of david and whether or not they were directly involved they

newspaper is upping the ante in its standoff with the british government first the guardian. blish articles about the u.k. government as part of the edward snowden revelations over the weekend glenn greenwald's partner david miranda was detained in the heathrow airport for nine hours and used and questioned using britain's terror law now editor of the guardian alan rusbridger says that the british government intimidated him in several meetings over the edward snowden saga and then gave him an ultimatum either destroy all of the material on the matter or shut down his publishing operations here's rusbridger explaining why they decided to destroy the computer hard drives containing some of these secret files but also explained to the u.k. officials we were dealing with that there were other cup is. already in america and brazil so they wouldn't be achieving anything but it was obvious that they would be going to law. i would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting so what should we make of this i was trying to earlier by jos

governed fresh on britain's guardian newspaper over the publishing of n.s.a. leaks calls the european council to ask london exactly why it's resorting to intimidation tactics. also this hour for give the whistleblower bradley manning will request a presidential pardon after being sentenced to thirty five years for leaking america's secrets dancer's the as he reveals he'd like to spend the rest of his life as a woman called chelsea. the life out of prison egypt's deposed leader hosni mubarak has left jail for house arrest despite facing a retrial and chargers ordered the killing of protesters. this is our see going to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the partner of a guardian newspaper journalist who was detained and questioned under the terrorism act in britain is threatening the government with legal action david miranda is lures are demanding the return of his laptop and other equipment within a week and want to stop any inspection of them the british government has been under fire ever since detaining miranda and forcing the guardian newspa

. >> i read the guardian paid for david's flights. glen, was he carrying classified material with him? >> well, i'm not going to talk about what he was carrying because that's our work product as journalist, remember both laura and i are working with "the guardian." every single newsroom has

you can imagine is is getting a lot of attention in "the guardian." it explains just what happened. he was on his way from berlin where he lives with his partner, glenn greenwald, who helped edward snowden link -- leak this information. he says all this was intimidation, and what we see here on the front page of "the guardian" is another revelation, that the u.s. confirmed it was given a heads up. this is putting a lot of pressure. >> why they are using an anti- terror law to detain the family member of -- >> at is what everyone wants to know. givesan, david maranda, an interview to "the guardian" that explains what happened and why there was a total abuse of power. they forced him to give his passport, saying they threatened me, saying they would put me in jail if i did not cooperate. he says the uk at pandered to the u.s. to try to intimidate him. if we look at another reaction this time, we see this idea where you see here, the national security agency, united kingdom franchise -- you see the eagle with obama and a little puppet, which is a british cop am a banging around the ter

government pressure on britain's guardian newspaper over the publishing of n.s.a. leaks causes the european council to ask london exactly why it's resorting to intimidation tactics. and life out of prison egypt's deposed leader hosni mubarak has left jail for house arrest despite facing retrial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters our top stories this. international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow which now just turned eight pm this is the whistleblower bradley manning his defense will follow requests to the u.s. president to have the former army private pardoned manning has been sentenced to thirty five years behind bars for disclosing the largest amount of classified data in american history meanwhile bradley manning has revealed that he would now like to be known as chelsea manning and live the rest of his life as a woman what he's going to run as the details. he now wants to be referred to as chelsea manning he requested hormone therapy to which the army said no he's going to live in a male prison there's obviously a lot o

joining me allen rusbridger, editor in chief of "the guardian" newspaper. you write in the piece in the "the guardian" about being contacted by a representative of the uk government who claimed to speak to the prime minister over two months ago. i wonder was this before "the guardian" had published any of the edward snowden documents? >> no, we had published some of the documents so this was, i guess, some weeks into our handling of this material. >> had you had any conversations with the uk government prior to publishing? i know in some similar situations in the u.s., in regards to the nsa and wikileaks and "the new york times" had extended negotiations with the bush administration. had you had any interface with the uk government before you published the first snowden document? >> we have been putting matters to both the u.s. and the uk governments and allowing them time to respond and make representations before most of the stories that we published. >> were you surprised by what you refer to as the steely tone and increasing escalation of what can only

"the guardian" is what -- "the guardian" is what made me what i am today really.hey were indeed very important. >> host: where do you write your column now? gets so i write a regular opinion column for the daily mail which is arguably britain's most influential newspaper. newspaper. weiss of britain's most influential newspaper critics because it's almost uncanny. it has an intuitive sense of that center ground. it plugs into that. it's the force of what we call middle britain and that represents very robustly a few of the world which is grounded in reality and grounded in the real aspirations and hopes and concerns of real people and as a result it's kind of in a way sort of thinking and yang of "the guardian." "the guardian" and the male are the polar opposites in the british media. they are both these great warrior papers on either side of a division of how we view the world. one consider to be on the left and one considered to be on the right. there's there is a tremendous capacity for reflecting the values of their core constituency so "the guardian" reflects

"the guardian" newspaper has destroyed hard drives with nsa documents but says there are safe copies elsewhere. >> the lead him of the muslim brotherhood in egypt has been the white house criticizes the move and considers cutting aid to cairo. >> get them while they are hot -- he gets to the soccer world cup go on sale in brazil -- tickets to the soccer world cup go on sale in brazil. >> the british government is stepping up its pressure on journalists looking into the nsa's global spying operations. police in london have overseen the destruction of hard drives at "the guardian" newspaper. >> but the efforts were to no avail because editors say there are copies in other locations, some of which are believed to be here in berlin. >> this latest effort comes after the partner of the journalists breaking the story was detained. >> two british security officials recently arrived at "the guardian" newspaper in london. their mission was to oversee the destruction of hard drives containing documents leaked by edward snowden. in the weeks before that, the british government had told the pape

at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said yes they can this week the guardian relying on the documents that snowden had earlier provided his release details of a program that makes it possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs having sekret finest his career and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's lines in washington i'm going to shut down u.s. blogger and journalist david lindorff i spoke to him a little earlier he believes america's priority is to silence potential whistleblowers. it what the what we're seeing in the us is a charade i mean it is the anger is i think. not so much that russia granted him the asylum as they really want to make an example of snowden to the maximum extent because they're afraid of more whistleblowers coming out because of the religious spying that's going on so the whole idea here with with him with aaron swartz and with me and with bradley manning has been to come down like a ton of bricks on these guys and make thei

the guardian's editor revealing that the british government forced the news publisher to destroy day-to-day from edward snowden. more on the government intimidation of the press coming up. in egypt, the crackdown of pro- morsi growing. a key leader of the muslim brotherhood was also arrested last night. more on the developments later in today's show. tuesday, august 20, 5:20 p.m. >> bradley manning is less than 20 hours from finding out how much time you'll spend behind bars after they found him guilty of stealing and sharing government secrets. the judge will make her final sentencing decision on wednesday. manning could face up to 90 years in prison. we have the latest from fort meade. >> the judge is now deliberating bradley manning's sentence. the judge announced that she would be beginning to deliberate. the sentences tomorrow morning and the importance to the judge in this case, facing a maximum of 90 years after he was found guilty of most of the charges against him including espionage. the closing argument of the sentencing hearing yesterday, the prosecution requested manning spen

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we thought a deal is a deal. >> smith: the guardian shared a copy of the cables with the times. so, on the evening of november 28, 2010, the new york times, the guardian, and der spiegel published. ( news reports overlapping ) >> smith: it touched every country. it was the biggest story on the planet. of all the files manning is alleged to have leaked, this was the mother lode. >> whoever leaked that information is guilty of treason, and i think anything less than execution is too kind. >> question-- do you believe that actually capturing mr. assange and prosecuting him will send the right kind of signal? >> mr. assange has disclosed this material without regard to the risk that it does generate to real people... >> smith: is there anything good to come out of this in your view? >> no. >> smith: nothing? >> the unauthorized release of 251,000 cables that covers every relationship the united states has with countries around the world has done damage to the national interest of the united states. >> this is a nightmare for us diplomats. >> smith: it was a window never before opene

s guardian newspaper reveals how he was pressured to destroy received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. this is news review and the very latest. the mask has given us inspectors permission to access the site of an alleged massacre chemical attack this as the u.s. says it's almost certain the assad government carried out the assault and pledged a serious response together with its i the u.k. parties middle east correspondent assesses the growing tensions. well damascus has agreed to allow u.n. investigators access to the scene of the alleged chemical attack but the point needs to be made that while the damascus says it will do its maximum to ensure safe passage for the investigators the actual territory is rebel held and then so ultimately it will be the rebel forces who determine whether or not the u.n. investigators have the access that they require we're just hearing however from the united states who says that this now comes too late we are however hearing from the u.n. that they will regardless begin their investigation come monday now this comes as the

and personal mobile phones and applications and according to the guardian some stuff that works for d.c. h.q. have expressed concern about the morales c. and about the ethics behind what it is they do they are given the level of deception in their work as well apparently a number of employees have been concerned about that now the leaked papers also show that the u.k.'s biggest fear is that the us becomes dissatisfied with the work that d.c. h.q. is doing and as a result will invest less money into the u.k. spy agency which brings us to watch a number of observers are concerned most about in this story which is just how close the relationship between g c h q and the n.s.a. really is certainly considering the amount of money that's been poured in and just to remind you that it's over one hundred million pounds over the past three years it would seem as though the british side is almost dependent on that american counterparts course one a political right now still ahead for you this hour here on r.t. a syrian war affecting families in europe but the number of young men leaving the e.u. to

known as special source operations according to the guardian newspaper n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has described special source operations as the crown jewel of the agency that handles all surveillance programs that rely on corporate partnerships with telecoms and internet providers to access communication data now this revelation is being considered evidence that a financial relationship between tech companies and the n.s.a. has existed and as the guardian newspaper put it the disclosure that taxpayers' money was used to cover the company's compliance costs raises new questions surrounding the relationship between silicon valley and the n.s.a. now the guardian reached out to the alleged prism participants for a response about receiving financial reimbursements from the u.s. government now yahoo spokesperson admits that the company has requested reimbursement quote consistent with the law facebook responded by saying it has never received any compensation in connection with responding to government data requests google did not answer any of the specific

the guardian newspaper reveals how he was pressured to describe files he received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. and the week's top stories this is their weekly he was an e.u. national our welcome to the program. syrian t.v. damascus has given you an inspector's permission to access the site of an alleged must chemical attack the u.s. insists there's very little doubt that bashar assad's government carried out their sold that assessment is based on the reported number of victims witness accounts and symptoms of those killed or injured the u.s. military says it's ready to strike see where you've ordered to do so president obama and the u.k. prime minister david cameron have discussed what to do following allegations of the chemical weapons attack and both about a serious response from the international community but reports suggesting if the rebels who resorted to chemicals are getting a little attention always point to clear as well for. so in state television is reporting that syrian soldiers entered a number of tunnels that had been used by rebel fighters in damas

snowden's leaks continue to respond atlantic the latest revelations published by the guardian showed not only was britain's government communications have quarters spying extensively on u.k. citizens but it was receiving funds from washington to do so and let's now take a look at how those intelligence gathering programs works the ukase see. large amounts of money into efforts to gather personal data from mobile phones and obligations saying it wanted to be able to exploit any anywhere any time in the past five years alone the amount of data gathered from the internet and mobile traffic by the intelligence agency has increased by more than seventy times she's pointed boyko takes a closer look at the us role in it. the u.s. government has paid at least one hundred million pounds to the u.k. spy agency over the past three years now in return for this money they've got access to and influence over britain's intelligence gathering programs now these were allegedly top secret payments the americans expect a return on their investments in g c h q so d.t.h. who has got to work very hard to

at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said yes they can this week the guardian were lying on the documents that snowden had earlier provided his release details of a program that makes it possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs having sekret finest his career and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's lines in washington i'm going to shut down we spoke to political analyst babbitt she thinks that if the roles were reversed the us would do exactly the same as russia and i think that snowden is a very special case because he didn't serve any foreign government what he did you don't his own and he revealed this information to press north to foreign agents i'm pretty sure that the united states would shield such a proceeding if he had been over russian origin and if he had been found in the united states russia i think was not very willing to have him here i think it's clear from mr bush's statements that he was not particularly a bit but the question i

s guardian newspaper reveals how he was pressured to destroy files he received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. watching the weekly news review me carried. out a mask has given you an inspector's permission to access the site of an alleged mass chemical attack the u.s. says it's almost certain that government carried out the assault and pledged a serious response to gether with the u.k. auntie's middle east correspondent there assesses the growing tensions. well damascus has agreed to allow u.n. investigators access to the scene of the alleged chemical attack but the point needs to be made that while the damascus says it will do its maximum to ensure safe passage for the investigators the actual territory is rebel held and and so ultimately it will be the rebel forces who determine whether or not the u.n. investigators have the access that they require we're just hearing however from the united states who says that this now comes too late we are however hearing from the u.n. that they will regardless begin their investigation come monday now this comes as the unite

at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said yes they can this week the guardian relying on the documents that snowden had earlier provided his release details of a program that makes it possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs having sekret finest his career and his comfortable lifestyle snowden said he wanted to expose the government's line and hypocrisy when one of the things he revealed that while washington is complaining about china and china all the time on chinese research centers on the chinese university and so on he has also exposed all the country's intelligence services which are quote unquote in bed with the n.s.a. and are essentially doing the same thing like the u.k.'s g.c. . so it's not just civil liberties advocates on this side of the atlantic who are grateful to snowden in washington i'm going to check them well russia on its part says there's no reason why the decision over snowden's asylum should damage relations with the u.s. that's also the view shared by a london