the u.s. military doesn't want you to know, the one they wrote themselves. dispatches have been sifting through nearly 400,000 secret army documents to uncover the full and unreported horror of the conflict. it's the biggest leak of official documents in history. tonight, we reveal reports that u.s. troops were killing more civilians than insurgents at checkpoints, that they killed people who were trying to surrender, that even after the scandal of abu ghraib, u.s. soldiers continue to abuse prisoners. and also, how the americans stand accused of turning a blind eye to the torture and murder of detainees by the iraqi security services. this is the cemetery of najaf, in southern iraq. it has existed for a thousand years and is the biggest in the world. since the invasion by coalition forces to topple the dictator saddam hussein in 2003, it has expanded by 40%. it now covers over 3 square miles. >> [speaking arabic] >> the united states and its coalition partners respect the people of iraq. we a

gathered to cheer them on from both u.s. u.s. and mexico sides. an update on social media said they had been taken to a detention facility in florence, arizona. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin with detroit, which last week became the largest ever u.s. municipality to file for bankruptcy. facing an estimated $18 billion in debt, mission can -- michigan governor rick snyder said they have no choice. this was a difficult and painful decision, but i believe there were no other viable actions. why did i do this? what is the impact for both the city and the state of michigan? let me start with the fact this is a situation that has been six years in the making and turns of the decline of detroit. from a financial point of view, i will be blunt. >> one of the things i want to say to our citizens is that as tough as this is, i really didn't want to go in this direction, but now that we are here, we have to make the best of it. dave bing andor before that mich

of eleven u.s. presidents from kennedy to obama asking the difficult questions that you els there to. hear you know how the confusion and fear. the prime time will be. more carrots and miscalculate and. how to you know any money that could have gone you know i have no knowledge of your decision to invade iraq to get the thousands still to their actions in iraq you know i didn't want. then women is going to get out of afghanistan and they are continuing to kill and die there what is to really give us this bush is to if we don't go there they'll all come here yeah but helen thomas was not only known for a candid line of interrogations at white house press briefings she also routinely tore down the country to stress the importance and true role before the state and a piece commemorating her legacy ralph nader writes quote you spoke about the responsibility of journalists to hold politicians responsible with tough probing questions that are asked repeatedly until they either answer to the politicians un

u.s. attorney's manual -- i don't think they have the manuals in my day. >> you might have been -- that's part of the issue. mr. leiter, as a former prosecutor and i know you worked very closely in your prior capacity with the rules and to some extent the constraints. we have center -- senator lieberman pay-fors has been a great deal of time looking at these issues as well. in aftermath one of the things he was concerned about where attorneys generals guidelines which may in and of themselves allow even the agents themselves to ask questions to a certain point, and then political correctness, you only ask so long them which could never happen in murder investigation. those were the days when we used to look traditionally at crimes that were committed. we asked questions until we have a resolution but now the dynamic has changed. we are being asked to investigate matters before a crime commits. and so there's some tension about how deeply you go. do we need to revisit guidelines? do we need

the u.s. whistleblower bradley manning will soon hear his sentence he could face life in prison if found guilty of aiding the enemy and america's mainstream press has apparently already delivered its verdict. paltalk as israeli palestinian negotiations resume after years of failed peace upwards we take a look at the roots of the deadlock. and the slowdown in the world workshop us china post's modest world figures we find out whether those predicting a dire major financial are justified. thanks for tuning in this hour i'm lucy coffee and you're watching our t.v. while a military judge is set to deliver the verdict on that u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning later on tuesday he could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of aiding the enemy and his defense argues that manning leaked classified documents because he wanted to expose war crimes when it comes to press coverage of the case in the us innocent until proven guilty may not apply artie's going to japan explains. guilty bef

u.s. whistleblower bradley manning will soon hear his sentence he could face life in prison if found guilty of aiding the enemy. all talk as israeli palestinian negotiations resume after years of failed peace efforts we take a look at the roots of the dead long. and a slowdown in the world workshop as china post modest growth figures will find out whether those predicting a major financial dip are justified. it is two pm in moscow you are watching r t on marina joshie welcome to the program a military judge is set to deliver the verdict on u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning later on tuesday he could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of aiding the enemy is the fans' argues that manning leaked classified documents because you wanted to expose war crimes when it comes to press coverage of the case in the us innocent until proven guilty may not apply are just going to she can explain. guilty before trial much of the u.s. media together with the government have all but conv

out of that phase the u.s. africa command also has paramilitary and joint commanders that use it as a staging ground to run operations into somalia and elsewhere. they trained forces from ethiopia and uganda in the u.s. is contemplating building another drone-based where they will be targeting a group called al qaeda and you also have a base in ethiopia and the relatively new base on the arabian finance law in saudi arabia. i think we are going to see an intensification of covert u.s. actions certainly in africa. we havarti seen it happen here in yemen. we are living in a the moment where we have a popular democratic president who is a constitutional lawyer by trade in training and who won the nobel peace prize and campaigned to reduce the excesses of the bush era and he would close on time of day, what and torture, which shut down this around the world. but what happened is that many of the most egregious aspects of the apparatus that was built up by bush and their cohorts had been intensified or continued in

well many experts think the u.s. military has already made iraq a failed state terrible things and bring the number killed in the country this month alone to a shocking seven hundred fifty nine people as interposed international. breaks up five hundred of its own from iraqi prisons. in a couple of minutes. last set of questions about the president of this country lied to me and putin and i know that you personally called him a dictator why do you find so disagreeable about him we're going to follow you him till the moment one whit when he will give up his place we're going to follow him we're going to be his his knights knights knights is a nightmare. mission . critical free. free. free free. free. free. free. for your media project free media gogarty dot com. come up to twenty minutes past the hour this is r.t. live here in moscow continues now activists in new zealand say launches a big organize against government attempts to allow the country's intelligence service the g c s p to legally spy on citizens and this i

u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are civilians as the pentagon. and the country's. dramatically. britain welfare reforms described. her as a top stories this hour. this is. a day hackers have the ability to hijack one in every eight mobile phones worldwide with a single hidden text message that alerts has come from a leading german cyber security expert he claims the trick gives criminals instant control over mobile devices and can even provide them with access to personal banking data and explain. turns out that as many as seven hundred fifty million cell phones around the world could be carrying flawed sim cards that could potentially leave their owners vulnerable to financial fraud and surveillance now sim cards hold key user data and have up until now been generally known to be one of the most secure parts of a mobile phone however the recently discovered bugs could allow hackers to access personal information and carry out illegal transactions and this was researched and announced by th

fees u.s. claims turned out to be true that would mark the fourth israeli air strike in syria in the past six months coleman's written extensively about the syrian conflict and says that israel is trying to help the syrian rebels who are losing the war against the government. i think that the reason is because the rebels are losing i mean foreign terrorists. they're losing the battle into israel i think giving them a helping hand. the last attack member in may was against a military training center in damascus i was very very wrong because the syrians have had to retrain soldiers since the start of this war in order to be able to deal with the non conventional warfare techniques used against them so again that really trying to change and this is for israeli strategy so i think they're what they're essentially trying to do the rebels because at this stage they lost the war and this is. you know keeping the keeping the war going and also provoking the. need. with the syrian conflict continuing on

u.s. and chinese officials will keep talking to address accusations both sides have made about cyber attacks. >> we are pursuing issues such as cyber enabled threat of through the newly created cyber working group formed under the strategic security dialogue. >> officials from the united nations should mediate. they should help set up the rules for cyber security to prevent any unnecessary disturbances. a u.s. support said china has the most active and diverse missile program. the chinese military is expanding the military of nuclear warheads that can reach the u.s. experts at the national air and space intelligence center compiled the assessment. they said china has been deploying the 31 a intercontinental ballistic missile. this has a range of 11,000 kilometers putting the u.s. mainland within reach. they are starting to deploy anti-ship missiles. they want to prevent u.s. aircraft carriers from getting near chinese waters. china is suspected to soon deploy a new submarine launched missi

u.s. prosecution. confirm that russia's federal migration committee has yet to receive a formal application for asylum from edward snowden and this is despite meeting with human rights activists and noise in which he requested assistance in getting to his final destination which is still believed to be latin america of course bolivia venezuela i'm nicaragua have all suggested they would take him in but he's proving very very difficult for him to get that not only because of america's aggressive pursuit told him which led to the grounding of the bolivian president. plane over european airspace this week but also he doesn't have the valid travel documents to go to remember he's had his passport revoked that's why he's been stuck in transit that's why he's turned to russia for temporary refuge and the suggestion is that lawyers would be king to help him with that application and the suggestion also is that his application when it arrives will be looked upon favorably snowden no says that cond

the big u.s. banks get set to kick off earnings today with jpmorgan and wells fargo being the first ones out of the starting gates. >>> warm welcome to you. final "worldwide exchange" of the week. and we start off with a look at where we are with equities. 6 to 3 advancers outpacing decliners. and buoyed by the fresh record close on u.s. indices. the dow closing up. ftse up 38 points. today, .6% today. we're up another 21 points. ibex is lower. still concerns about the -- look at peripheral. looking at the individual stories that we're looking at here. first of all, invensis up. they say it is likely to recommend a firm offer of around 505 pence a share. and still more share weakness for serco. off 8% yesterday. another 2% weaker today. an audit found the private contractors had overcharged the uk government for running schemes to attack criminals. tens of millions of pounds were charged to tag criminals that were dead, in prison or never tagged in the first place. bull markets, yields in the stat

the u.s. administration to stay out of egyptian business. of course, the white house trying to be very careful here, treading thin water because as you know, there is massive hunting coming from america to the egyptian military -- $1.3 billion on average over the past years. it is also going to be the case next year, and the u.s. administration finds itself in a tight spot because under american law, the american government cannot fund a country which has just gone through a military coup, which is precisely what egypt has just gone through with the commanders basically taking the president, locking him up, putting him under house arrest, now detaining him, and basically allowing for another government to take place. the u.s. administration definitely in a very uncomfortable spot here, and there is a lot of defiance, but in both camps in egypt vis-À-vis this u.s. administration. >> the state news agency in egypt is quoting a presidential spokesman as saying there are still many options on the

well many experts think that u.s. militarism has already made iraq a failed state tera bombings and bring the number killed in the country this month alone to a shocking seven hundred fifty nine people as interpol's international. breaks five hundred of its own from iraqi prisons. this is still to come threats on wheels the u.k. government launches a mobile ad campaign telling illegal immigrants to get him to get arrested in his latest drive to encourage them to leave the country on terror. and story still to come but first violent protests have broken out across tunisia following the killing of a prominent opposition politician had been reports of tear gas being fired at protesters who are blaming the government for the assassination the outrage was sparked by the killing of a prominent opposition politician the leader of the secular people's movement party brahmi was shot dead by two gunmen on motorcycles next to his. striking similarities to febreze assassination of another secular leader chokri belaid protests fol

calls for the u.s. to stop force feeding guantanamo hunger strikers the practice is against international law and is seen by many as a form of torture and here is one first the guards strap a detainee down to a chair like this one then they put a mask over his face so that the detainee can't move by or spit in the nurse snakes the feeding tube into nasal cavity the fitting tube which is roughly the size of a pens in court for each word this or this is not an actual feeding tube but it gives you an idea here and this area is very rich in things and patients report extreme pain during the procedure and the nurse pushes the tube further down the throat creating a tightness that makes breathing difficult at that point patients typically feel pressure on their chest along some say it feels like they were drowning then the staff tapes the troop to the detainees know so that they can bite or swallow it and then two cans of nutritional substances are being funneled through the tube now we wrote to guantanamo an

u.s. aid upon the saying that he is deeply concerned about what is happening here and at the same time a swift which turned to a democratically elected civilian government obama has always said though that he prefers a foreign policy of consultation and not intervention but he is oskin for a measured approach in terms of how to deal with the situation here america has ordered the evacuation of its embassy it has also issued a travel advisory and it is urged the army not to carry out any kind of property attacks at the same time amnesty international has pulled off the prices and the revenge attacks and as you hear behind me the mood remains one of jubilance all of this however against a backdrop of a deeply divided and dangerous egypt. our correspondent paula slayer and to risk where we spoke to former u.s. diplomat john graham he believes that egypt's future is up in the air and deep divisions within society could just see this second revolution caused the nation to crumble but we did tha

the catalyst for the move, u.s. stockpiles of oil fell more than twice the amount that analysts expected. >>> and joining us now to talk more about the next move from the fed and the economy glen hubbord, advisor to george w. bush and author of "balance the economics of great powers from an excellent rome to modern america." welcome. >> thank you. >> you saw the open of the program, my question for you is if you were sitting on the fed's governing borard the open marke committee how would you approach the quantitative easing. >> i agree with chief man bernanke the economy's recovery is not vigorous, that's not no doubt. the question is continuing it, whether that will help that much. i'm rather doubtful and leaves great risk. on top of that, the fed's communication leaves something to be desired. >> glen, nice to have you on the program on a night like tonight. tell us, you say there are risks offi continuing kwaunlt daytive easing. >> having low interest rates and the expanded balance sheet for such a long period o

egyptian ambassador to the u.s. . in amman opponents of the muslim brotherhood have released a document on social media they say came from the group it apparently shows the organization calling for more bloodshed and disbanding the egyptian army the middle east jones says the islamists still need to be involved in the political transition process. and the big question is what. will they really have. these civilians i mean it's really the it's really the military are running egypt they run the country since one thousand nine hundred thirty two and to say that they're not oh somehow going to let the muslim brotherhood back in to the political game i think that's that's the big question morsi being much more. than he was to the opposition not trying to get a monopoly on power as he did i mean morsi played a very stupid game and in effect shot himself down and. shot his own party down at the same time he's he's as much response was only one crew creating the mess that egypt is in right now if that the muslim brotherhood n

current u.s. law basically guaranties them 12 years to be able to recapture their investment in u.s. biologic medicines and pharmaceuticals. on several occasions the administration in its budget and we've heard in some of the discussions has opened the door if you will on the potential to roll back 12 years protection to perhaps a seven-year protection as was put in the president's budget. obviously that concerns that industry. certainly concerns me as their representative. if we're going to change current u.s. law which protects them up to 12 years to seven years, which would be, you know, about more than a 50% reduction in how many years they can recapture their earnings, or their investment, can we get some answer from you, whether or not that is still a position the administration holds or is the administration's position going forward that they're going to negotiate trade agreements like they did in korea, in t purchase p that upholds current u.s. law, i.e., the 12 years? >> well, thank you.

concerning the u.s. government has spied on its own citizens why do you why do you think they care about him and not necessarily what the n.s.a. is doing it's a distraction because most of the media in this country unfortunately is run by a few large corporate conglomerates that's why it's so important to have independent journalists and. public accountability in journalism and again it's in the hands of a very few powerful companies that's a problem heidi really appreciate you weighing in and we have to leave it there that was heidelberg ocean executive director of the national lawyers guild. bolivian president evo morales said that he's weighing the possibility of closing the u.s. embassy in bolivia after his plane was grounded earlier this week upon suspicions n.s.a. leaker edward snowden was on board take a listen we will clearly examine and if it's necessary we will close the u.s. embassy in bolivia we do not need the american embassy we don't need their cooperation or diplomatic relations with them

the u.s. which hailed egypt's revolution two years ago doesn't seem to be rushing to take sides this time around it's also reluctant to describe people there is a coup doing so would require washington to cut its military aid to egypt political analyst dr ahmad gunny and explain to us why he believes the u.s. is waiting to sweat out the united states is now taking a fine the stand yet and they want to stand in the fence know they are friends with everyone they are friends with the army and they are friends of the people they say it what everyone wants to hear they go to the area and say yeah we support you're going to the better team and they go to the people and say we're not sure if it's a military coup or not it's course is a military coup if people came back and change reinstate democracy they would support the people they waiting to see what's going to happen on the ground. the chinese are the world's highest spending tourists they shelled out over one hundred billion dollars traveling ab

kerry says the u.s. interests are with remaining international interests. >> as a nation, we take our pacific relationships and responsibilities and we will continue to build an active adherence in every respect. >> he met with counterparts from japan and south korea to go over their united approach on north korea. they say they'll work together to push authorities in pyongyang to stop developing nuclear weapons. kerry sat down in brunei with fumio kishida and south korean foreign minister yun byung-se. >> translator: this is the right time for representatives of the three countries to exchange opinions over north korean issues. >> yun called the meeting significant. the first of its kind since japan and south korea elected new governments and president obama entered his second term. kerry said the three nations have been coordinating responses to the north's provocations. north korean leaders have indicated they're willing to restart talks on their nuclear program, but the ministers agreed the country m

but with u.s. central bankers hinting at tapering monetary easing, investors are rethinking where their money goes. ai uchida joins us from the business desk with more on that. good morning, ai. >> good morning. that's because when the u.s. fed tapers its current monetary easing measures, interest rates in the states are expected to rise. that is why people in emerging economies are worried outside investors are pulling out their money on speculation that the fed will scale back its monetary easing. government officials in india are trying to keep inflows of overseas cash by easing rules on foreign direct investment. the officials say they'll allow firms from abroad to have a 100% stake in telecom operators. the current limit is 74%. and the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector will be raced from 26 to 49%. foreign firms will also be able to bypass government approval to make investments in more business areas. india's currency has fallen nearly 10% against the dollar over the past two mo

u.s. aid upon the saying that he is deeply concerned about what is happening here and at the same time coaching a swift return to a democratically elected civilian government obama has always said though that he prefers a foreign policy of consultation and not intervention but he is offering for a measured approach in terms of how to deal with the situation here america has ordered the evacuation of its embassy it has also issued a travel advisory and it is urged the army not to carry out any kind of arbitrary attacks at the same time amnesty international has pulled off the prices and the revenge attacks now we are being told that the army. is making its way home for safety administration on site timing of this if it is trying to isolate the sea demonstrators who will also be holding a sit in and it has been seeming forward its tanks it is not some isolated game with lines of soldiers around the perimeter in the toughest way protesters are starting to thin out that is here behind me the m

u.s. government overstepping its bounds when it comes to spying so let's keep the pressure up the conversation going let's break the set. up where you ever seen anything like that. it's been less than a month since egypt's military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsy the overthrow came on the heels of demonstrations consisting of a third of the country's population demanding morsi to step down and since then clashes between muslim brotherhood supporters and security forces of the dozens dead and countless more injured but the tension is only mountain of mounted excuse me in recent days today the brotherhood defiantly called for a stand against the toppling of the government and urged supporters to rally this weekend but they call it legitimate coup. in response the military chief has called for a rival rally to crack down on what he says is terrorism and violence from morsi supporters egyptian police are planning large scale reinforcements and fear that i

for you know saudi arabia so is the u.s. still relevant in these negotiations and how is the u.s. going to reassert its power if it wants to control this region many people were arguing as the demonstrations were taking place in egypt that the u.s. influence in egypt is really do creasing and maybe the pledge of the arab countries do poor in money to egypt is just a proof to this theory however the u.s. is saying that no we still have and a lot of actually experts are saying that no we're still in touch with the egyptians and we do have leverage in egypt we do have influence there this is maybe a debatable issue only time will tell we've seen demonstrations in egypt against obama and against the u.s. ambassador and only time will tell how much influence the u.s. still does have an internal let's get to something maybe we could do about the relevance of aid in general my position is i'm against. it's a principled stance i think it only causes trouble i'm against the u.s. imperialism why should we give aid to anybody but it's not just egypt that's getting a lot of other countries ar

assistance from the u.s. government then turn around and shed jobs in the united states and create jobs in. cheap labor countries such as china and in asia and create no jobs in the united states i mean for instance apple has benefited greatly from u.s. government assistance and subsidies to under turns around and creates manufacturing jobs in china and you go only jobs that it creates in the united states are very low level low paying telemarketing jobs so this is a way that this what we have technological innovation but the those benefits go to the one percent the one percent shareholders one of those companies then your share of says here in the united states and create jobs elsewhere so offshoring and outsourcing. go together for the night let me rising income going to the one percent ok reply charles please reply to it let me ask let me ask you george. and i agree with you almost wholly in what you're saying then if we accept that what you said is the reality of the situation and where the end globally i

so the u.s. oil boom to erode opec market share, is essentially what they're talking about this morning. the north american share open will leave one of the biggest rises in nonopec supply growth seen in the last two decades, which will help meet global demand and raise the share of opec. the outlook should give bulls some cause for alarm, because nonopec supply growth looks on track to hit a 20-year record. as you can see, wti up to 107.15. we hit 106 yesterday. big drawdown, much bigger drawdown in the u.s. department of energy inventory. 9.9 million barrels of inventory, expected to fall 2.9 million. the interesting thing is where wl th whether that supply will erode price or not. crude prices up $3 a barrel on wednesday. because of that big decline in crude stockpiles, you can head to cnbc.com to find out why the price is pushing higher and what that will do for domestic prices. also a piece online giving two big reasons why gas prices might spike in the near future as well. >>> we'll keep ou

now the u.s. claims it has found a way to make sure the arms and sands to the rebels in syria won't fall into the wrong hands this comes after leaked reports from the cia that it's about to start funneling heavy weapons to rebel fighters but as going to cheat you can reports there is concern within the us political establishment that extremist groups could be the ones to benefit. as war torn syria braces for an influx of u.s. arms some u.s. politicians ask whether president obama has carried out background checks on syrian rebels before giving them weapons this is a tweet from senator ted cruz and it's a snarky comment given president obama's push for more stringent rules for gun here in the united states as for flooding syria with weapons the administration's standards may be quite different from those applied at home the obama administration claims it's familiar with the backgrounds of those the u.s. is arming in syria there are greater guarantees now that the weapons are being transferred to mo

next week u.s. lawmakers are set to hold a vote which could put the one point three billion dollars military aid package that washington sends to karo at risk if events in egypt are officially labeled a coup the support would have to stop the republican representative is trying to use wordplay to make it more flexible times correspondent pepe escobar says that egypt will be severely concerned about losing any financial help. basic the absolute egypt cannot feed itself they have annual deficit of over twenty billion dollars before that we had the emir of qatar writing the checks now we're going to have saudi arabia and the emirates right checked if they need any of course they do from the i.m.f. is going to be about the three or four billion max which they had negotiated for almost thirty years but it's not a not so interesting it's going to explode all over again in three four five six months the muslim brotherhood was they will be able to come out this new go when it's going to be a liberal as well

i always thought the u.s. dollar was a share of the u.s. economy and goes up or down based on what we think about the strength and now converts the strong e u.s. dollar into what we have in this chart. tell us what the chart shows. >> it's looking at the purchasing power parity. some big look at starbucks coffee. in oslo, norway it costs almost $10 to get a cup of coffee. in u.k., it cost almost $5. dennis: $10 to get a cup of coffee where? >> norway. dennis: incredible. >> switzerland, about $7, $8 a cup of coffee. just shows on a purchasing basis, those currencies are overvalu overvalued. the dollar should be stronger. in the end the price should be fairly similar. dennis: the higher price for the richer cup of coffee shows how rich their currency is when you convert it into dollars. tell us about the current account deficit as a percentage of g.d.p. how much more stuff we buy from the rest of the world every year than we sell to the rest of the world and that has been going down and then up and back down. how does that help us? >> as the

cheryl: global though or u.s. for you? >> u.s. drives, japan's large, europe still continues to be strong, early stages in china, middle east, and south america, still, outside the new countries. cheryl: what we had a panel manufacturers three years ago was the fact they made them cheaper. now it's a different story. concernedded about that at all? we have cybersecurity to be worried about with china. >> no question we can compete. we're winning. how do we expand that? we have a presence in a 130 countries, and we have a huge advantage and we compete now on energy and energy solutions so i think we're separating ourselves from the competition, frankly. cheryl: tom warner, again, nice to have you back, the nasdaq this morning with the pilots, interesting idea. we'll see where it goes, if we're alive for that. >> we'll be here. cheryl: tom warner, thank you very much. general mills investors say at the new york stock exchange, coming up, i'll talk with the ceo of the company about his plans to deliver now on the guidance that he gav

people but surely there is in arguably against the fourth amendment of u.s. constitution. and now as promised we have a chance to talk to one of the people who was at the maze saying waves edward snowden on a totally could share in a low and bundle of russian civic china but this ticket sure enough thank you very much indeed for joining us here at the time trashing did edward snowden gave you at the meeting did he seem desperate or hopeful. or you have to. he looks the other way and i think. and there he is full of hope sort of the saying that the situation will be resolved and full of energy. he said the decision on asylum can be expected within two or three weeks one decision do you think it will be negative positive. to go to the more you post the fifty years speaking of my own i believe that definitely mr snowden those schools which will deserves to be given asylum in russia. and. it was important for me at this meeting to understand mrs snowden was mooted in becoming a whistleblower. when he decided to go public. with this story about american intelligence and their a

economy and so you see that the u.s. has become a big investor in china people think of course of boeing and wal-mart and other companies that have been there for a long time but i think that the question is obviously whether those this kind of a balance can those lead to the linkages of economies and lead therefore to political alliances as people defend their their economic interests or will they lead to the divergence of those countries because of competing economic interests which have also to do with the fact that these become imperial powers it seems to me that that's the kind of the question before us and and i can really see this i find it odd that people don't see the possibility of a us chinese alliance giving them out say done and and richard nixon embraced and created an alliance that lasted for a quarter of a century or so that that's a pretty good evidence that you can have cross cultural alliances based on shared in that case more shared political interests in a world of imperialism there were great powers

from the u.s. and the u.k. they say they highly doubt that in fact these results will prove that it wasn't behind the attack and it goes as far to show that the u.s. in fact the white house spokesperson when asked if he had read the report he replied no but they're already saying that they believe it's highly unlikely that this will really prove anything what you have is you have people in washington who are behind some kind of military involvement in syria and then you have people who are out right against it you have congress blocking this delivery of arms which was made possible it was proposed after this attack and this these alleged reports that assad was behind this so-called chemical attack this was the reason they began laying out this arms shipment shipments it's being blocked by members of congress but then. you have certain committees in congress so called war hawks one of them being led by carl levin who writes open letters calling for friends of syria to begin as soon as possible precision air stri

inmates in jails on the u.s. mainland are also angry at their conditions thirty thousand prisoners have started using meals across california this in protest of being subjected to long periods of isolation as we report on our website also at r.t. dot com digging deep more than ten million barrels of oil will pump from the ground in russia in june more than and during any other month for twenty five years. today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. joint operations room today. it's one of the basics of being a consumer that you get what you pay for about people in britain are finding that their electricity bills are a few pounds higher for power they don't even receive now it's to cover the massive amount of energy which is being stolen from the grid and according to regulators it's actually being used to grow illegal drugs here's archies tests are still on the effects of cannabis growers who are hungry for electricity. when you get consumers look at their electricity bill in

as an assistant u.s. lead prosecutor in a number of cases involving criminal drug conspiracies, money-laundering, financial fraud and violent crimes in the 1990s. in the private sector he became a partner at two very well respected minnesota law firms. to highlight some of his accomplishments during his tenure as u.s. attorney in minnesota that office with b. todd jones at the helm prosecuted operation rhino which involved criminal prosecution of omar mohammad who recruited young somali americans to fight for terrorist groups in somalia. muhammed was indicted in november of 2009 and pled guilty in july of 2011 to conspiracy to murder, kidnapping and name abroad. to date investigation resulted in charges filed against 22 other individuals. operation highlight which was a major drug trafficking investigation involving more than 100 local, state and federal law enforcement officers and resulted in 26 indictments, 25 guilty pleas and sentences of 200 months in prison. operation brother's keeper was a successf

u.s. however washington meantime. providing a so-called propaganda platform for the whistleblower. lawyers for the guantanamo bay detainees say there's no indication the mass hunger strike is ending despite u.s. officials claiming most of the protesting prisoners have had one meal the first though since february. and violence in belfast clashes broke out at the annual orange order parade despite a very heavy police presence. within a syrian rebel spokesman tells us the west should be very careful about supplying the. which he claims has been hijacked by al-qaeda linked militants. worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me wrong and welcome to the program today. lawyers have pledged support for edward snowden's application for refuge in russia following his meeting with russian and international human rights activists at moscow's sheremetyevo airport of course that's where he's been holed up now for about three weeks let's get the details live from joining us here on the program he

there is u.s. legislation that targets those that believed to be responsible for his death and others involved in human rights abuses in russia. hashe premier of quÉbec branded un-american railway company deplorable for its response to a train explosion in the canadian town. police say that 30 people are still missing from the train crash are most probably dead. 20 bodies have been recovered after the train derailed and exploded. the trains operator has blamed the driver saying that he probably failed to set the hand brakes. survivors of a plane crash in san francisco earlier this week say they had to wait up to half an hour for help. audio recordings show that many critically injured people were left on the runway while and villages were scrambling. two people died and many more were injured in the incident. the immediate aftermath of the crash landing, passenger struggled to escape the wreckage. ambulances were on their way. of newly released recordings calls made to the u.s. 911 service suggest

u.s. congress puts the brakes on military aid to the opposition fearing that the weapons may fall into the wrong hands. egypt's political forces fail to agree on a transition plan while prices convulsions and what used to be a popular tourist destination are turning visitors away feeling a heavy blow to its volatile economy. edward snowden reportedly leans towards venezuela for asylum while r t speaks to ecuador's foreign minister on the reasons behind the latin america's backing for whistleblowers on the run. great to have you with us this afternoon eleven am here actually in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine of and of course you're watching our t.v. well it may have been the syrian rebels and not president bashar al assad's forces behind a chemical attack in aleppo that has left two dozen dead earlier this year and now this is according to a russian team that had conducted an investigation and it believes the chemical trail leads straight to the rebels washington though maintains th

as the u.s. economy continues to tread the waters of the great recession some industries are doing better than others and if war is your profession then business is booming take for instance northrop grumman one of america's largest defense companies the corporation was just awarded a government contract worth up to two hundred ninety four million dollars for navy weaponry as it seems that military spending isn't slowing down the america's wars are allegedly drawing down and when the military spending taxpayer money well you can rest assured it's being wasted case in point northrop's two hundred and twenty three million dollar global hawk drone aircraft vertical problems yet despite the lack of demand for the drone production of it continues comes as no surprise considering the enormous lobbying power nor for congress get this the company has reportedly given nine hundred forty one thousand dollars in donations to keep lawmakers voting on the global hawk program according to policy mike it's appa

u.s. spying. a former suez act dictator is detained -- u.s.-backed dictator is detained. contras, was putting hissene habre into power, even though he had a reputation for brutality. >> known as africa's pinochet, hissene habre has been detained in senegal. we will speak with attorney reed brody who is worked with victims of hissene habre's regime since 1999. and we will talk about jean- claude duvalier of haiti and efrain rios montt of guatemala. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. egypt's military has issued a 48-hour deadline for president mohamed morsi i to yield to the demands of the egyptian people amidst mass protest aimed at forcing from office. the head of egypt's armed forces issued the ultimatum on monday. >> the armed forces warns everyone the demands of the people are not met with the ultimatum given you will find it mandatory upon itself in accordance to its historic national responsibilities and

over one hundred u.s. companies in ecuador and clearly in believers well that they've got more to lose with the u.s. rather than the e.u. haven't they or is the e.u. still an important aspect for them politically and economically. well you know right now this is a perfect situation doing hanes. associations that they have the international institutions they have to here you latin america you know by claiming they are against us now because of what how can you know we can see such an american the sub block blocked and we can see how. relations why me i actually also when you haines you know we can do believe rocks well the very end alliance for the americas you know or the union of south american nations that the you know sir which is why the way they called america an emergency meeting as well in order to discuss was what just happened so you know we we have to be a very we have to take a look very easily what's going to happen in that within the next days because you know relationships between alledging a

he met with officials in washington but learned little about u.s. snooping in germany. >> the intelligence agencies may share information, but they don't vote the methods -- don't divulge the methods they used to obtain it. they reveal the results, but not their sources. >> opposition parliament -- politicians criticized the trip as unproductive. >> the interior minister was in washington shed light on this case. in my opinion, what he had to say about it today was not very informative. he came back empty-handed. >> he faced more questions late -- he will face more questions later in the week. >> russaia blocked an attempt to create the worlds largest protected ocean ocean reserve off of antarctica -- the world's largest protected ocean reserve off of antarctica. russia question the international bodies' legal mandate to create a restricted area in the southern ocean. environmentalists said the move was a stalling tactic designed to keep fishing grounds open. the two proposed protected areas covering 3 million square kilometers, part of the unique e

also new data from the u.s. our correspondent sent us the summary from the frankfurt trading floor. >> reports that american health authorities want to cut spending for the treatment of kidney disease pensions cost the stock price of medical care to plunge deeply. the company is based here in germany near frankfurt, but it is providing kidney disease treatment to thousands of americans. overall, the mood here at the exchange was not overwhelming this tuesday. not even positive data from the united states changed this. the economy in europe continues to be weak. >> despite good economic news from the u.s., shares dropped in europe. in frankfurt, the dax was down. over in the u.s., shares are also slightly down. the euro is currently trading at $1.297 seven. >> before we go, berlin's spring summer fashion week kicked off, and whatever they lack in big labels more than makes up in showcasing some hot talent and fashion design. >> hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to flock to the show. fashion parties o