now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is reported to be on a flight to moscow in the arrivals hall of moscow's sheremetyevo airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board arrived. these doors were surrounded by a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones broadcasting the life pictures of everything that was going on in the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. the american whistleblower edward snowden is thought to be in moscow airport it looks like snowden is spending the night in the transit area of moscow's sheremetyevo airport all the indications are that he's about one hundred meters away from where i'm standing it journalists photographers t.v. radio press agencies you name it and everyone was looking for snowden everywhere

. >> as revelations by edward snowden about u.s. surveillance continued to shake germany, we speak to his european lawyer, wolfgang kaleck. as the german government cancels a key contract with verizon, some lawmakers are now calling for the german chancellor to grant snowden asylum. then we speak to the director of news at al-jazeera english about the sentencing of the networks through reporters jump to 10 years and in egyptian prison. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from bonn, germany. president obama is asking congress for fast-track authority and additional funding to speed the deportation of migrant children fleeing violence and poverty in central america. the white house says obama will submit an emergency request to waive anti-trafficking rules that prevent children from being immediately deported. if approved, the government could avoid regulations mandating the children's transfer to the care of the department of health a

one ye after edward snowden exposed spying, can the internet be reset. >>> egypt and one of the bestnown bloggers is a convicted criminal looking at 15 years in jail. there. it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. keeping up with the beautiful game. a nice little video to help kick off the world cup in brazil. on june 6th, the world's second biggest mobile phone company, vodaphone produced a detailed report on governments in 29 countries spying on its customers' phones. >> happened the day after the one-year anniversary of the first edward snowden nasa story. he -- nsa story. he blew the whistle on the appetite for spying on phones and e-mails. his revelations outrage many americans, including members of congress who drew up a law designed on rather than in intelligence agencies. america has 18 of them. but pushback from the security establishment meant the bill that eventually passed was watered down to such an extents the privacy advocates dismissed it as a sham. google and football are among the heavy hitters now in on this debate. there is a campaign called "reset th

it took edward snowden almost a few year to be interviewed by a major american news outlet.bc news went to him in moscow because snowden is tracked in exile. >> it's important for people to for people to see not just the documents but the person who made the decision to leak them. >> if we want to be free we can't give away privacy. >> he doesn't come off as stride event or self aggrandizing. he is humble. you get the feeling he faced a moral dilemma? >> there are some things worth fighting for. the country is one. >> he has helped the media understand the role that leaks and whistle blowers can have in our political process. >> before edward snowden dropped his bombshell last year, if mobile phone companies were uneasy about the nsa and other intelligence agencies sweeping up their data, they kept those concerns to themselves that's over. vodafone wrote at 4028 word report, publishing it online and exposing 29 governments that are wired to ease drop on anyone using vodafon's report. >> it refers to the snowden leak. there is no doubt they have timed the release of it to mee

snowden's leaks uncovered another bombshell does the n.s.a. collect any type of. a millions or hundreds of millions of americans. but as the world would learn america's dragnet surveillance was intentional complex and treated friends like enemies snowden's leaks revealed that the n.s.a. targeted the personal communication of one hundred twenty two foreign leaders spied on the united nations as well. as thirty eight international embassies and missions and then there's the organized mutual spying partnership known as five eyes america australia britain canada and new zealand sharing information on one another citizens we have talked about fifty four different terrorist related activities former n.s.a. director keith alexander would also be caught fibbing claiming his bulk metadata gathering program thwarted it dozens of terror plots these are facts turns out only one case was reportedly stopped by the n.s.a.'s phone spy program one of the most important things we learned from the snowden revelations is that the u.s. government systematically advice about its intell

of course edward snowden. i do have an adversarial question for you. >> at the moment favorite kind. i'd be a mac -- and how does that blur the lines between not in traditional journalism or more importantly what does that mean to your protection as a journalist? >> well, there's this interesting dilemma because what ends up happening is if you are in possession of top-secret document, the justice department believes that any kind of publication is a crime, is a felony, even if you are a journalist. that is their position. and the protection you have is that there is a superseded love called the constitution -- for example, when i worked with ulcerative media outlet around the world in order to do the reporting in the places where the people were or were most affected by the disclosure i wanted to nsa spying on spain with spanish journalists in nsa spying on sweden and sweden with spanish journalists. i had to enter into context about the organizations before i could give them documents saying they were hiring

now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is reported to be on a flight to moscow in the arrivals hall of moscow's airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board. these doors were surrounded by a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones some were broadcasting the life pictures of everything that was going on here but when the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. this whole place was swarming with journalists photographers t.v. radio press agencies you name it and everyone was looking for snowden everywhere in every corner in every bathroom in v.a.p. rooms even under seats but no one could find him but soon information quickly spread that it was inside the capsule hotel right here in the transit zone that the former n.s.a. contracto

looks at what we've learnt from snowden's revelations. what first looked like a domestic problem for americans a secret order requiring verizon to turn over records on its one hundred million customers to the national security agency turned out to be a global pen up to con targeting everyone breaking news overnight about just how much of our personal lives the government has been secretly surveilling the government has been perhaps unlawfully breaching the public's privacy in the name of national security edward snowden blew the whistle one year ago on america's spy agency even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded with direct access to servers of the largest u.s. tech companies and i say officials would be able to collect anyone's email conduct search history file transfers and even live cab america's spy agency called this program prism but internet users around the world have called it death to privacy. snowden's leaks uncovered another bombshell does the n.s.a. collect any type of data. on millions or hu

i think snowden should get his day in court. it is inappropriate for individuals to aggregate for themselves to speak for the whole government. in the case of the entities that were discussed and maligned in the summer of 2013, you had an executive branch under the rule and fully participating judiciary determined that is the right answer for this nation. across two administrations and multiple parties. on the house committee on intelligence, that rides herd on nsa and other entities, they had staunch supporters of nsa that were dyed in the wool republicans and democrats. this is not an ideological issue. this is a whole of government issued. mr. stone -- mr. snowden has to answer for why he took the wheel to drive the ship aground. he may have a good answer. our system of justice allows people to make that case and defend themselves. a minute lefty before we go into question and answers. what is the main lesson you take away from the last year with snowden? >> there are three things. i would remind myself nsa does not have equi

one year later, the global impact of edward snowden. onces shackled by his own family, this man returns home. the stigma of meant a illness in somalia. that it's why we're your retirement company. additional support it is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch studios from lincoln center in new york. >> thanks for joining us. new reports today that army sergeant bowe bergdahl was tortured by the taliban in afghanistan. bergdahl released raft weekend after almost five years in captivity has told officials he was put in a metal cage in total darkness for weeks after he tried to escape. bergdahl is recovering at an army hospital in germany. officials say he's physically able to travel but is not emotionally strong enough to be reunited with his family who has he declined to speak with so far. meanwhile, congressional backlash for the deal of swapping five taliban inmates f for bergdahl tinz. >> we have made a serious, serious m

. >> former nsa contractor edward snowden making headlines once again with another document leak shedding new light on the u.s. government surveillance capabilities. according to top secret documents obtained from snowden and published by the new york times, the nsa is collecting millions of images a day from tech and social media for use in the facial recognition programs. it is becoming extremely important to intelligence agencies to try to track suspected terrorists and other targets. in an interview with brazil's globo news, snowden revealed he has applied tore asylum in several countries including brazil. the asylum in russia was granted on in a temporary basis expiring at the end of july. a boatload!

if you did not watch the whole snowden interview, you should not be opining about snowden on televisionbut she did, anyway, and she went on to say it disturbed her that snowden was given a chance to tell his side of the story. now, that is an extreme example. but all across the cable dial this week, i heard a lot of skepticism about snowden. i'm sure you did, too. a congressional aide here, a former government official there. i did not hear enough from his supporters. so let's hear from one right now. i'm sure you know his name, daniels ellsburg. he was the pentagon's whistle blower four years ago and he said snowden did the right thing. it's remarkable he waited a whole year to give an interview, and they said that was on purpose because he wanted the interview to be about mass surveillance, not about the man himself. do you think he accomplished his goal? >> yes, i do. i think that he needed to be out of the country in order to do what he has done, which is to guide several reporters that he's dealt with, bart gellman, lauren greenwald, very carefully through chat logs through the maz

it depends on your perspective. >> whether you love snowden or hate snowden this was a rare opportunity for an american journalist to pin him down. while brian williams whered about why was he in russia, under what circumstance would he come back, the follow-up thing is key. it just seemed like he let snowden go on and on, didn't interrupt him and would move on to the next question. >> brian williams, let's not confuse him with mike wallace. this wasn't a grilling, the kind you'd see on "60 minutes." he is more of an infotainer first. >> that sounds harsh. yes, he's great on "saturday night live" and "the daily show." he's a top rated network anchor. >> he's giving more of the human element of the story rather than grilling and asking the hard questions. the bottom line is, nbc needed a win. this was a very good get for mr. williams, however, from a ratings perspective, this finished second to "csi: fargo." >> what about the angle of nbc working with, having a relationship with glenn greenwald who helped put this interview together, was on camera for part of it. greenwald as you know, h

so snowden is facing harsher music because he did a harsher thing. and if he doesn't want to cop to that, that's, that's his problem. >> i'm not sure, steve that the documents that snowden released didn't show concrete abuses by the nsa. one of them was an inspector general report that showed that the nsa had abused its own authority 3,000 times in one year and the senate intelligence community hadn't seen that report before it was published. >> there's a part of this interview that jumped out at me. on the surface it seemed scary and brian williams took out the cell phone. and edward snowden described hey, here's all the ways they can monitor you and profile you just with this. if you search for a new york rangers hockey score in this cell phone, they can build a whole profile about you. that sounds scary and big brother. has that been happening to ordinary citizens? is the government using this for sort of, you know, for malign purposes against ordinary american citizens? is there any evidence of that? >> well, look, we're learning more about that.

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what's next for snowden?at's clear from the interview, he wants a deal. >> whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possible, is not for me to say. that's a debate for the public and the government to decide but if i could go anywhere in the world, that place is home. >> that's what critics and government officials say he should do. >> as far as i'm concerned, he needs to come to the united states. he needs to face justice. >> famed whist le-blower and leaker of the pentagon papers daniel ellsberg disagrees. >> he knows he could not get a fair trial. he could only inform the public and reporters about the significance of the information he's given to them when he's outside the country. >> interesting, chuck, that views did not change. america seems pretty entrenched on this debate about traitor/patriot, good thing/bad thing that he did. >> on snowden it really has been in threes. there's a third that really do -- are hypertraitor, hyperpatriot. and a third of the country shrug their shoulders. they're disap

this is on the heels of the interview that snowden gave that aired last week.e had a number of things to say including the fact that he thought that snowden was intelligent, articulate, but he did question of course fundamentally what snowden was trying to achieve. intelligent individual, articulate. he seems fairly arrogant to me. he believes in what he is doing. i don't question it, i don't agree with it. i fundamentally disagree with what he did. i believe it was wrong and illegal. >> it wasn't just edward snowden admiral talk about with rodgers. what did he talk about in terms of the nsa posco as he? we know more about facial recognition. >> we got reports over the weekend that the nsa had the -- toy to use think of use facial recognition technology. i pressed him on this and he said, i cannot talk about it. they use it to target foreigners. listen to this. once we use facial recognition is a tool to help us understand these foreign intelligence , counterterrorism was another big area. this probably has had more big impact for us in the counterterrorism are

the world of monetary policy domination of who and in honor of the one year anniversary of edward snowden the n.s.a. revelations we have lived our lives and on the show today i sat down with those our earlier today to discuss how the government bullied him into installing surveillance equipment on his servers which also met with force of the shutdown is company not cool you won't want to miss a moment and it all starts right now. we've been anticipating this all week and it's now finally happened the european central bank has introduced a number of different measures aimed at stimulating the eurozone economy measures like negative interest rates and cheap long term loans to banks now these secrets deposit rate for banks from zero to negative zero point one percent all in an effort to encourage banks to lend to households and businesses european policymakers are trying to counter the chance of deflation in the eurozone the negative deposit rate makes the e.c.b. the first major central bank to use a negative rate so it's pretty dramatic stuff now policymakers also lowered the benchmark rate