mr snowden. changed access to documents through other people's accounts i can't believe that anyone saying gratz a serious accusation you're talking about revealing the fact that these agencies are stealing the entire world's address books out of the american companies files you know who might be sold but that by being the european union the brazilian president the mexican fighters of the german chancellor that they've committed illegal crimes in belgium against the european telecommunications company they have the nerve to complain that if mr snowden took somebody else's passwords just ridiculous right duncan campbell thank you so much for sharing your views with us here on r.t. . well still ahead in the program defusing terror. dr and here is in fukushima are braced for the removal of fuel rods from the complex the most dangerous step yet and we examine the risks shortly after this break. so there's a leader so we leave the people. by the sea oceans to cure the plague your party there's a good.

not been in fact the program had been going on for about seven years before that disclosure by mr snowden and so it's really quite remarkable where we're at right now we've gone seven years where a program has been reauthorized in reauthorized in a secret court on secret applications by the government without anyone making any arguments on the other side and we've seen with that's right it's really the secrecy has really poisoned our system of checks and balances and tomorrow is a really momentous day for all americans to force the government to actually answer some of the hard questions that it's bulk collection program raises in particular as you mentioned. representative sensenbrenner who wrote the original picture actually wrote section two hundred fifteen his quotable phrase was you don't need the ocean to catch a fish and that's exactly what the government is doing is taking a provision that was written for a targeted and narrow use to collect business records and it is engaged in the largest surveillance program in the history of any democracy so that's what we are going to the cou

mr. snowden wants to explain how, as he sees it, the u.s. intelligence agencies broke the law. and mr. snowden is looking at how he might move from russia to germany. you can imagine traveling to germany, provided there is a guarantee he could stay here for another country -- or another country and be safe there. that means legally speaking, safe passage followed by asylum. visa to stay in russia expires next june. if it is not extended, the fugitive has a problem. if he leaves russia, the visa becomes invalid and he cannot return. in berlin, the american ambassador to germany has been saying that his embassy is not a nest of espionage, as some german media have labeled it. >> what we have on our rooftop bar some electronic equipment. we like you, like the rooftop of this building i am in, or in the communication business. we communicate with other embassies around the world. we communicate back in washington. we have satellite dishes. we receive telecommunications and other kinds of key medications. and so i would not get too excited about these articles that there is all sorts of elec

mr. snowden seems to be laughing. it does seem to a pretty relaxed event. and what you were alluding to earlier, a promise, according to him that mr. snowden would come to germany to take part in an investigation into spying activities. if the conditions are right. clearly, he wouldn't come here if that meant he was going to be extradited to the u.s. if those conditions were met, there is a possibility of some kind of video link or written evidence. >> steven evans there, in berlin. and also in germany, it is becoming the first country to allow in europe to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female. from today, parents will be allowed to leave the gender blank on birth certificates. the move is aimed at removing pressure on parents to make quick decisions on sex assignment surgery for newborn babies. it's thought to one in every 2,000 people have characteristics of both sexes. they are known as intersex. that's because they have a mixture of male and female chromosomes or genitalia which has characterization

mr. snowden wants to explain how, as he sees it, the u.s. intelligence agencies broke the law. and mr. snowden is looking at how he might move from russia to germany. you can imagine traveling to germany, provided there is a guarantee he could stay here for another country -- or another country and be safe there. that means legally speaking, safe passage followed by asylum. visa to stay in russia expires next june. if it is not extended, the fugitive has a problem. if he leaves russia, the visa becomes invalid and he cannot return. in berlin, the american ambassador to germany has been saying that his embassy is not a nest of espionage, as some german media have labeled it. >> what we have on our rooftop bar some electronic equipment. we like you, like the rooftop of this building i am in, or in the communication business. we communicate with other embassies around the world. we communicate back in washington. we have satellite dishes. we receive telecommunications and other kinds of key medications. and so i would not get too excited about these articles that there is all sorts of elec

mr. snowden, they would prefer to have remained ignorant about all the things they have learned that theirwn government is doing to their privacy and their communications completely in the dark and with no accountability. even if you're somebody who believes you want a state that collects everybody's communications which is a daunting thing. but if you believe that, shouldn't we in a democracy know these things, know our government is doing that? the only reason we know is because mr. snowden informed us all and risked his liberty. >> are we going to learn more liberties that are being violated on an ongoing basis? >> definitely. i've been asked this question for months. i say the same thing. it's proven to be true over and over. still, in my view, the majority of very significant and even remarkable stories are yet to be reported. the document base is so vast that it takes a long time to go through. but there are already several stories that i'm working on that i think are going to be quite shocking to the public when they learn about what the nsa is doing to their privacy and we're worki

basically he will because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. and a lawyer who's been helping edward snowden in his attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution explained why his client will have big difficulties aiding the german officials that despite his overall willingness to help. of course edward snowden can't leave russia because he's got refugee status here and if he travels to a different country he loses it so if germa

basically you will because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. and a lawyer who's been helping edward snowden in his attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution explained why his client will have difficulties aiding german officials or despite his willingness to help. you're going to publish books of course edward snowden can't leave russia because he's got refugee status here and if he travels to a different country he loses it s

is the story that is being told by the opposition member of the german parliament has met with mr snowden in moscow on thursday and the former n.s.a. contractor has actually issued an entire letter address it to the german. chancellor angela merkel in which she said that she would be more than willing to come and testify because she knows a lot about the n.s.a. exigencies not just in europe but in the entire world she would be happy just to talk about that but he can only do that have berlin guarantees him a safe passage meaning that text will not be extradited to the united states on top of that edward snowden of course doubted that she would be more than a willing to testify not a villain but in washington unfortunately that is impossible. the moment of course at this point to stay in germany find himself in sort of hot water considering the fact that it has been revealed that industry has been listening to the private phone conversations all of a german chancellor angela merkel regarding edward snowden's life in russia where he has been since june well according to his own russian lawy

brought that to public attention now my government should be punished for breaking the law not mr snowden he's the one that should do that showed the people that the government was violating their fourth amendment rights that the government was spying and the government was lying to them when they were saying that they were doing it. how much more clear can you be on that whistle blowers who blow the whistle on government law breaking and the government needs to uphold their own laws and they need to live under the laws that they make us live under after all they are us here's the problem we've lost sight of the fact that we're the boss the government works for us they've they've somehow through us motion reversed stab and made the people feel that somehow vay lord over us and we work for them and people like snowden and manning should not be in jail they should be pardoned immediately for standing up for the people's rights against oppression of government and government wrongdoing jesse i really hope you make up your mind and run for the presidency of the united states thank you very mu

people here object very strongly to that you were the support for mr snowden and his activities except about a small number of people on the left of british politics well since we're talking about snowden i'd like to talk about britain's role in n.s.a. spying everyone knows britain is america's number one partner it's always been like that but the question is how necessary and how moral is it so assisting united states inspired europe including its allies. well i have to suppress a smile of being else that you want to do with russian television or russia generally or given the russian record of spying or deception of communications and so on we all know that in the modern world there is a great deal of monitoring of international communications a lot of it is directed to stopping and intercepting terrorist activities and i think that is legitimate and people people support that to my mind to the trouble is this that the technology has a run the political control exercised over it if the technology permits you to do something then on the whole people will do it unless they are specifica

about a very different issue this is for the majority of the british media thirty opposed to what mr snowden was dumb enough is of course to the release of what was supposed to be secret material which he had stood and that is you could rush or you believe in using standard of goods whether in the media or you were ill served i think to say that to equate that with control of the media is simply quite wrong the guardian have been warned to be very careful of what use they make of this material and i think they have been quite responsible but know this it is clearly damage the interests of our national security of that of many other countries and people here object very strongly to that you were the support for mr snowden and his activities except about a small number of people on the left of british politics well since we're talking about snowden i'd like to talk about britain's role in n.s.a. spying everyone knows britain is america's number one partner it's always been like that but the question is how necessary and how moral is it so assisting united states inspire and europe including it

mr. snowden has no right of asylum in germany because he is not a victim of political persecution. >> snowden, who had been granted temporary asylum in russia, leaked data on the spying activities of the u.s. national security agency, including information that the agency hacked into the chancellor's mobile phone over a period of years. lawmakers in berlin are now considering ways to question snowden about his revelations in russia. >> a team of swiss forensic experts this week said they found evidence that the former palestinian leader yasser arafat was poisoned. the body of the leader of the palestine liberation organization was exhumed for testing. >> the group reports finding liffles of radioactive material in his body. arafat's widow is demanding an official investigation. spent my late husband three years under siege and the head of the investigation committee i am sure is willing find out further to who committed this shameful crime, this assassination of an elected leader. >> arafat died in 2004. he had been suffering severe abdominal pains for weeks. radical palestinians have long ac

mr. snowden in moscow. >> a member of the opposition party met with snowden last week. he said snowden wants to cooperate with german investigators and offered to testify in germany, but said the german officials want to interview snowden in russia. >>> swiss forensic experts have add to claims that late palestinian leader yasser arafat was assassinated. they detected a high level of radioactive ploen polo nium in his remains. arafat got sick in 2004, then died. many palestinians have believed for years that he was poisoned. last year palestinian authorities asked for a forensic investigation. the al jazeera news expert says experts found levels of polonium in his body that were 18 times higher than normal. they concluded that their results moderately support the idea that he was poisoned. >> i feel like i'm mourning him again. i was in shock. i felt anger, you know, shock and anger. and with sadness. >> she says she wants to know the truth about her husband's death. palestinian authorities have yet to comment b on the report. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry is e

mr. snowden wants to provide us with information and tell us something, then we will gladly accept that. because any clarification, information, and fax we can obtain is a good thing -- and facts we can obtain is a good thing. >> the announcement came after a politician returned from russia with a letter from snowden, offering to give sworn testimony on u.s. spying activities directed at german citizens and leaders. he held a surprise three-hour meeting with snowden in russia on thursday night. snowden reportedly offered to give testimony in germany, but his lawyer said a meeting could only take race and russia -- take place in russia for legal reasons. snowden would have a lot to say to the german people. >> also on friday, germany became the first european country to allow a third gender option for newborn babies. under the new law, babies born with characteristics of both sexes will no longer have to be registered as male or female. many intersex people have welcomed the move, saying it means parents will no longer be pressured into a quick decision on surgery to assign a gender to th

mr. snowden, three charges... >> for the government it's as much about prevention as it is about punishment. making sure any potential leakers think twice before coming forward. for edward snowden, it's a fate he was willing to risk. >> you live a privileged life. you're living in hawaii, in paradise, and making a ton of money. what would it take to make you leave everything behind? the greatest fear that i have regarding the outcome for america, of these disclosures, is that nothing will change. >> i think what the nsa in our nation is trying to do is protect our people and other people. you know, i would say, do you speak arabic? >> do i? no. maafi mushkila kil shi tamam, alhamdulillah. and so from my perspective, we want to have a world where there are no problems, where everything is ok, and we can say thanks. so from our perspective, we have to work together as nations to do that, and it takes intelligence and the least intrusive way we could think of was metadata. if, if anyone has any ideas how they can do it better, let us know. >> but what price are people willing to pay for securi

mr. snowden for starting a debate about civil liberties in this country. >> for all the stuff he leaked - just started a debe. we're talking about it in a conservative way, how much information government should be looking. compiling. >> also, how aggressively the federal government should try to weed out the edward snowdens who have access to your information. >> they're weeding out the bad guys, but they are getting -- >> he got away with it. >> the guys really -- >> adam, what do you think? >> so i'm not going to say i'm thrilled by this. >> i think you are i most definitely think you are. >> i am not. [ laughter ] but there is a difference between the government collecting information and what the government does with the information. what we -- >> they have it. the game is over. they can do whatever they want with it. >> it's not. in theory, but what we, you know, the question is, like charles and i could debate this. do we trust them once they go got it? his answer is no. >> no. >> my answer is we want to be sure they have the ability, the ability to -- >> charles just said it. why

mr. snowden. nth reports that one of your potential rivals, ted cruz, said could be disqualified for a run. this was in "new york times" yesterday -- how do you respond to that? >> you know what i would say, it's actually an advantage for me to talk about the right to privacy because, you know, you look at the president's numbers dropping, with the young people, they dropped 20 points in the last two months. i think the reason is, because he's not protecting their privacy. young people don't care so much about taxes and regulation. but they all have a cell phone and they're on the internet and they care about their privacy. so do i. i would correct these policies if i were ever the one to make the decisions. i think that would attract new people to the party, not less. >> what do you think of senator cruz? he seems to be catching on. more republicans see him as the leader than you in the party. particularly catching on in iowa, do you think he's your chief rival? if you choose to run. >> i think w

mr. snowden. he was dealing with highly classified issues beyond secret. some compartmentalized information. he was prosed, not by any of our security agencies but by a private firm. apparently this the most casual fashion without even personal interview he was certified as qualified to have top secret. i think there were some doubts about his personality and his personal history. that was not noted. when he began to show some intense interest in some highly specialized intelligence activities, no one paid attention to that. why is he trying to get in there? and then he an seconds with four computers -- then he absconds with four computers, goes first to china and then to russia, hardly the places to which a mission for democracy may have headed. why go to russia and china with this stuff? he has been living on the moon for 20, 30 years? >> has he done serious damage to the u.s? >> possibly yes. especially the stuff ha that has not been fully discussed which is what he was trying to get access to. how much access did he get? and i'm just amazed honestly am

live now to berlin and our correspondent there peter oliver peter were there any surprises in what mr snowden had to say. well i would snowden was right on with his his party line which is that he wants to see an end to the spider masters running the political game in this article in beagle it's the major one of the least one of the major news weeklies here in germany he published what he called his manifesto for truth and which he outlines exactly that saying that the spies shouldn't be in charge of who runs politics also. talking about the the actions of those that are being found out by his leaks who he says have tried to smear journalists have tried to help him also of course have tried to smear him saying washington of course saying still that they will continue to to try and make sure he faces trial there now it's all part of a large article a large series of articles into spiegel this week about edward snowden and his situation in the growing support for him here in germany now it features articles by over fifty public figures that want to see it want to see edward snowden allowed to c

intriguing what do you know at this point we know that a german parliament member has met with mr snowden in moscow on thursday and according to the german. snowden is willing to testify against and they say in a german court but of course he says that he's willing to do that on certain conditions now it's safe to assume that he's really talking about safety since germany was one of those many countries who have refused to students plea for asylum just earlier this year russia however hasn't and edward snowden has been here since the end of june and according to his russian lawyer and. this former n.s.a. contractor has actually gotten a job in russia at a major. computer company as a. specialist at tech technical support specialist whether or not that indeed is true and what is that company we do not know as of yet but these are the recent developments in edwards' snowden's case as you said the most recent development edward snowden who could possibly. testify against the n.s.a. with their so-called spying against the german chancellor angela merkel you have to see if you can get a flight

sean basically you move because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure you can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information and i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. and a lawyer who's been helping edward snowden and his attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution explain why his client will have certain difficulties aiding german officials despite its willingness to help. one of those over in europe of course edward snowden can't leave russia because he's got refugee status here and if he travels to a different country he los

evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights and all that that mr snowden did was revealed the basic facts that the public is entitled to know there's several legislative initiatives right now all stemming from edward snowden's revelations to make sure that the just later don't forget that edward snowden supporters plan on launching new bosses around january when congress is back in session in washington i'm going to check on r t. o's how take a look at what our team has lined up for you on our website and you report sad as as many as eighteen million americans may be suffering from gluten related maladies caused by genetically modified food so i had to r.t. dot com for the full food investigation. plus the truth is stranger than fiction and our website you'll find a story of the hollywood spy film director of found himself involved in a real life clandestine operation. more news today violence is once again flared up the funny thing these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. shine corporations are on the day. a deal has been

basically because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure you can tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretive state john kerry pointed the finger at the intelligence services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. technology is there. oh. so you carrie referring there to spying by automatic pilot while the head of the n.s.a. said the country it is

evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights and all that that mr snowden did was revealed the basic facts that the public is entitled to know there's several legislative initiatives right now all stemming from edward snowden's revelations to make sure that the just later don't forget that edward snowden supporters plan on launching new bosses around january when congress is back in session in washington i'm going to check on r t. well why only a limbic torch continues its odyssey across russia routed file this nation into sochi the countdown to the winter paralympics is also on there's just one hundred days left before the games begin an artist i would say is there for us with the latest update. hello there tommy well i see it's raining where you are but do tell us what's happening preparation wise for the winter olympics. well hello to you yes indeed it is raining but that's not going to stop what's happening here today where adam. media center this is where the media will be house during the olympics and it's in a beautiful mountainous class even though

evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights and all that that mr snowden did was revealed the basic facts that the public is entitled to know there's several legislative initiatives right now all stemming from edward snowden's revelations to make sure that legislators don't forget that edward snowden supporters plan on launching new boxes around january when congress is back in session in washington i'm going to r.t. . or games against imaginary enemies are vital to training any army and cyber warfare units are no exception on r.t. dot com we look at. defense exercise against mass coordinated hacking attacks just a few kilometers from the russian border. also online red faces at the world health organization after it had minutes to an embarrassing blunder in a report on. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations rule the day. from victory parades to mass executions over the centuries moscow's red square has seen plenty of history changing events but a suitcase the

evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights and all that that mr snowden did was revealed the basic facts that the public is entitled to know there's several legislative initiatives right now all stemming from edward snowden's revelations to make sure that the just later don't forget that edward snowden supporters plan on launching new buses around january when congress is back in session in washington i'm going to check on our team. while the olympic torch continues its odyssey across russia to its final destination in sochi the countdown to the winter paralympics is also on there's just one hundred days left before the games begin would say is that a black sea resort. come rain or no sunshine at the olympics and the paralympics will go at. the paralympics they will begin here in sochi between the seventh and of the sixteenth of march twenty fourth that's ten extra days all the olympics as well as sportsmanship almost seven hundred athletes from forty five countries will take place in terms of the facilities everything has been prepared to cater for those

evidence of its own criminal misconduct its its violations of the bill of rights and all that that mr snowden did was revealed the basic facts that the public is entitled to know there's several legislative initiatives right now all stemming from edward snowden's revelations to make sure that they're just leaders don't forget that edward snowden supporters plan on launching new bosses around january when congress is back in session in washington i'm going to check on our team. and snowden's portrait has also appeared at an art exhibition in berlin the project is called one of which and is focusing on personalities demonized by authorities meanwhile u.s. and u.k. intelligence fear snowden a storing a cache of highly classified data which will be released in case of his capture or death stephen called from the national whistleblowing center says snowden's mission was to expose violations and there should be a safe way to do it. in a sense snowden is a pioneer he exposed not just that there are violations of the constitution but that people who work in the intelligence agencies lack fundamental

i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like moreclarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. american security officials and policymakers have been placing the blame on each other over who is responsible for organized global surveillance here is u.s. secretary of state john kerry explaining why the white house didn't know what exactly the n.s.a. is doing. so they have a. lot of the other. technology is there it is there over the course of a lawyer. now that statement does not ma

i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leak documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always been true for they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretary of state john kerry pointed a finger at the intelligence services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. you know what it is. that they're over there. so kerry referring there to spying but automatic pilot the head of the n.s.a. said the country it is policy mak