the leaders of russia and china toast one of the largest energy deal ever agreed the contract is worth more than a big european country. also these are the latest pictures of a british journalist reporting for all she has been detained by pro-government forces in eastern ukraine his fate has been known for over twenty hours not. two russian journalists detained in a similar way remain in custody human rights watch has joined calls for their immediate release which have been ignored by so far. that you want to fish an investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers or furtive shows the moment israeli soldiers allegedly opened fire on a rally with live ammunition. this

is unseen to national live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. signed sealed delivered russia will be sending billions of dollars a gallon so over the border to china for the next thirty years after a decade of niggas say seeing the presidents of the two nations have finally put pen to paper and agreed one of the largest energy deals in a century he's k. to people being now reports. yes the multi-billion dollar deal has finally been struck in shanghai there are smiles all round there was a little bit of attention because no one quite knew if it was going to come to the compromise that both russia and china wanted we know that china wanted a bargain and russia was standing firm on the price that they were asking for so

this deal would change the face of the global gas industry as we know it and i'm sure europe is looking on the role of cautiously at the moment because they too have been trying to diversify their trade in this will perhaps give you a little less leverage in terms of pricing with russia from now on so that's one to watch you know there's been tensions with the sanctions going on as well so this politics at play involved with this deal that's why everyone has been involved and it's great timing for china because we know they've got a one point three billion people population and they are gas guzzlers the biggest consumer and russia has the biggest reserves of natural gas and china wants to get involved with the my there is a huge economic expansion that china has experienced over the last three decades has come at a cost and that cost is pollution you can really feel it in the air is somewhat the small good it's gray and misty and they want to move towards the cleaner which is the natural gas it's

a win win situation at the moment and russia is looking eastwards we must remember russia is part of europe as well as asia. so here we have a mega deal worth four hundred billion dollars but just how big is that so four hundred a billion is roughly been treated the e.u. third largest country sweden or twice the value of everything qatar produces in again with that money you can send sixteen thousand space tourists to the stars or you can buy seventeen million brand new volkswagen golds if you're huge fan of them at least and that some put in a line a one hundred dollar bills would reach to the moon and buy and then back to the moon again and for more on the deal i'm now joined live by dr richard wellings deputy editorial director at the institute for konami affairs mr welling's welcome to our see in terms of international trade how big a deal how big a shift is this well i think it has them huge symbolic significance it

reflects a major shift in global trade patterns with your asian countries increasingly trade humans themselves rather than with the worst of course there's enormous potential for much more deals like this with potential for russia to explore hydroelectricity other commodities oil and goods in return for a mass manufactured goods from china so this could be just the beginning. is there a danger of moscow becoming overreliant on china here. i don't think so i mean in terms of the russian gas exports to europe this is still going to be much smaller than the exports to europe and of course europe isn't going to suddenly stop importing russian gas to some kind of terrible crisis because of course it would take several years to build the infrastructure to import say shale gas from the united states so this isn't going to happen overnight russia is still going to explore lots of gus to europe of course the infrastructure costs are much cheaper to send west and east where obviously there are big challenges

teach the terrain talking about western sanctions against russia do a good thing about this deal actually means that western sanctions that were supposed to pressure russia actually have failed and may even turn against the west oh well you've got to remember that clearly the negotiations have been going on for very many years before this deal. predates the current crisis in ukraine but nonetheless this will diversify russia's options that means it can send a lot more of its gas and oil and the potential with new pipelines coming on stream so you can increase the supply in order it might be too so obviously in the medium term this is going to weaken europe's hand in terms of sanctions. all right now there are some figures for you russia sells gas to europe average prize three hundred eighty dollars per thousand cubic meters but in this deal with china the

gas is reportedly going to get cheaper price of three hundred and fifty dollars how does this add up for moscow. well i think the deals more complex than that there's also an element in which china is a great syrian fastin russian energy infrastructure as well so there is a quid pro quo and obviously once you've got this pipeline structure in place then russia will be able to export gas to other countries in asia and there of course the gas prices are much much higher roughly double the price is sold to europe so clearly both sides are looking into the long term here in the massive opportunities . does that mean russia will be significantly turning away from the west as a result here think well i think that's going to happen anyway because western economies they're in a lot of economic trouble heavily taxed highly regulated a lot of european countries are still in economic depression so it would make sense

for any country to try and we direct the straits was the fast growing countries in the yeast and we'll see more and more of this over time and of course it's a huge potential for this year asian bloc of countries to trade between one another and the economic gains could be enormous you know there are massive economies of scale both with western europe russia and china all trading together and there's really an enormous that side potential here hasn't really been fully exploited by a long shot dr richard wellings deputy editorial director at being stupid economic affairs mr wang thank you very much indeed for your time. and i will be keeping covering the president's visit to shanghai right here keep in touch with the latest updates and of course for expert opinion and knowledge says and much more here at. to fuel over a billion people russia china ready join our team in shanghai for the deal of the century. until ukraine now where they've fate of china is captured by pro-government forces causing growing concern we're still trying to get water on

the whereabouts of ground phillips a british journalist who has contributed to the reports from the east of the country the only thing we've heard from the authorities so far is that he was most likely arrested by the army and may have been taken to the british continent in kiev but the calls here at itself say they haven't been told phillips is being sent to them undergo a video taken in the moments before he was detained aussies are we now going to reports. we do have this video which essentially portrays the moments of hughes arrest and we also have information from him which he managed to relate to was via a phone call before his phone went dead silent. for . only. a small idea why. my. walking away

engine on the gram has been receiving threats on social media networks for several months now ever since he began covering the situation in southeastern ukraine there was a ten thousand dollars bounty on his head by some of the supporters of the current of regime many accused him of working with the people they called separatists and terrorists but she was more interested in the social response the reaction of people to the events right here. and has been working hard to find out what's happening to ground philips and get aid in facilitating his release the ukrainian security forces who are believed to be behind his questioning have repeatedly refused to talk to us and we also address the u.k. foreign office given that phillips is a british citizen and we're told that they are aware of the situation but do not work with policies in an incidence like this one obviously referring to all see and

. also signed an open letter to the u.k. media mostly ignored their arrest and you can see an extract on your screens right now and this letter outlines an impression that the russian media is more concerned about the fate of a u.k. citizen than the british media or politicians are suggesting that it's a troubling sign for journalism in the u.k. and also stresses that phillips being a reporter matters more than where his home countries. the detention of our british colleagues is just the latest in a range of incidents which have seen journalists harassed and prevented from doing their job in ukraine the riskiest area for them to work is the east of the country where the government's military crimes around understand a stake in plates and phillips was snatched near the city of mariupol which is here on his way to don't yet see this trial hold on to a government an exhibit and that's just a few hundred kilometers away from come up towards and this is the city was some of

the heaviest fighting has been taking place and where two russian journalists filming the action were captured by government forces three days ago and the latest that we've heard on their situation is that they are sources in kiev do not allowed service from the organization of security and cooperation in europe to visit them up until now this has been the only video documentation of what happened to them you can see them kneeling on the ground at gunpoint while their belongings are searched and now this video addressed by one of the journalists made by his captors has been released. but it is it you go and it's a reporter when crossing the border it gives their true purpose is more lucid and said we have come to terms the concerts that were left all peoples identifying us as journalists in moscow in order to cross the border from kiev was going to do on your screen there was a mission from the representatives of the venue it's because republic to report on the referendum and other issues of its great after that we arrived in the city of

kramatorsk to cover the maybe lumines referendum and its results in the following days we were increment towards keep watching on the events in and around it. with numerous accounts of other journalists from russia suggests that concealing the true purpose of their visit is often the only way to actually get into ukraine curry's from russia even with all the relevant papers are being denied entrance to the country and are always daily bases with our colleagues from the aussies arabic channel being the latest example the journal is accorded station to cover the upcoming presidential election but were turned around at the airport as soon as the border guards learned who they were. we had the accreditation from the central election commission from ukraine for us to cover the elections it's not the reason for them to answer ukraine if you are russian journalist if you're a russian journalist if you hold in this current station or some papers that show the prove that you are a journalist it's a medically call there's a lot of questions and they do ask and eventually they've made this like red mark

in my passports this access denied. and it's a response to journalists rides being violated in ukraine the u.s. failed to condemn what has been happening not only that but the state department went as far as voicing doubts that the live news crew for example ward journalists at all but you rule out the possibility that it's the reporting that they do and the outlet to be there affiliated with with that's what got them detained well i think the information i just outlined including their the fact that they were apparently carrying portable aircraft missiles in their trunk i think is relevant information to consider in the united states asking for clarification on whether they are actually bonafide journalists and. if they all you would call them for their sure but our focus is more on call used until you know press on the

release of the international and ukrainian journalists who have been detained by russian separatists many for weeks. unlike the u.s. state department they detained journalists is causing serious concerns that human rights watch will mean a station calling for their immediate release and with washington expressing doubt about who these journalists are we've taken a look at the record to help the state department out so murat has over fifteen years experience as a video and photo reporter some of his most prominent professional achievements are photos of russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky the france to be taken after he was jailed so i can go also took pictures during the gyptian revolution in the heart of cairo and here are some of his photos from civil war torn libya and. left feel experience field experience has also covered some major stories her volunteers to cover the volgograd bombing at the end of two thousand to thirteen and he was

also one of the journalists working in kiev's independence square during this time in february this year producer and independent filmmaker danny schechter told us washington officials only accept journalists who support their point of view. us officials are trained in the art of perception management they don't deal with facts they deal with impressions and perceptions of someone could be considered a terrorist that immediately would discredit anything they've done and their legitimacy as as a professional in this case with kiev and washington basically purporting to be there is and this series of freedoms somehow it's particularly discouraging that they're not allowing access to crews from other countries where with or journalists with points of view they don't my quote don't want to see a get access to the facts of what's going on there for years we in america were

taught that you know all information coming from the other side was propaganda now what we're seeing is that a lot of what's coming from our side is propaganda. russian troops that continuing to leave areas they think rainfalls and letting the person says he hopes the it was true all will help kiev told an upcoming presidential election hey also added a western thought it should be able to see the russian forces on the move from high up on find out the latest on what's he done. to be in the. the once tightly knit twaddle whistleblowers unravels we can make some new pictures a twitter campaign against its former ally glenn greenwald coming out find out why two of the big players are looking over how much information they should repeal.

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feel more at home. so you ought to feel right at home today with more and oldies all those up or so. this is all seen international welcome bank the yuan's top official has called for a problem to the killing of two unarmed palestinian teenagers video footage appeared online showing the moment they were shot this video was taken during a protest which israeli security forces described as mine and local human rights groups report that eyewitnesses so. troops using live ammunition but israel denies that saying the video was doctored israeli journalist and political activist and hug i moussa rice for their website which published of a here and he says there's still more evidence to prove that military personnel are guilty the army has denied using live rounds but the autopsies of the bodies of

these young teenagers shows that the worst of the diagrams and witnesses on the scene say the same the clip is indeed edited but journalists and human rights activists that have seen the entire video of hours and hours of several c.c.t.v. cameras in that area say that there was nothing in that area around where the teams were worthy was shot to justify any kind of violence that was used by the army as seen in the video is much more violence than used by the demonstrators and as seen in this video even when the soldiers are not threatened told this is part of the israeli complain to a press any sort of resistance to the occupation in the occupied territories. and here's a look at just some of what we've got for you lined up on r.t. dot com abiding by our part it's got the story of how almost everyone got pledger and figured she was twenty eleven melt down leaving the side almost unmanned and out of control of that online. and the walking sound

a new study suggests an alarming number of french people are resorting to answer depressants and other mood stabilizers to get through life read more it ask your doctor. your friends post a photo for the creation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same joke of course you want. your ex-girlfriend stupid's tear jerking poetry keep. the rich. we post only what we. are to your facebook you st a huge dispute is brewing between two titans of the whistleblower community we kill leaks and glenn greenwald the journalist who gained access to documents leaked by edward snowden and they are a lot ahead right now over what over. a recent revelations the n.s.a.

has extensively spied on five foreign countries and in two of those nations it appears every single phone call made was recorded so the greatest amount of communication was gathered from the bahamas the former guardian journalist and greenwald revealed information and says he has not given out the name of the second country over concerns for people safety we can leaks meanwhile has labeled the decision censorship and promises to reveal the name of the state that was targeted within seventy two hours. has been investigating. glenn greenwald and some of his colleagues published this story alleging that the us were intercepting recording and archiving pretty much every move all phone call on the island nation of the bahamas they went on in the articles to say that there were similar things taking place in four of the countries and they named three of the mexico is the

philippines and kenya they withheld the name of that final country because they said there was serious concerns that it could put lives at risk and now wiki leaks took to their twitter account to slam this decision asking when did true published information ever harm innocence now this twitter spot remember that wiki leaks is widely believed to be run by julian a songe himself glenn greenwald has said that the n.s.a. had aggressively urged them to suppress the names of the countries which they've refused but in this case of this one country there was a genuine belief that harm could be caused wiki leaks would not responding well to that and then we saw this bombshell dropped which was that they said that they would reveal the name of the country that was being amassed recorded in seventy two hours there is very serious questions raised here not least the claims the greenwald and snowden have made that the snowden documents are in safe hands

doesn't songe have these documents will that name be revealed it was about thirty six hours ago that we had that deadline for that another thirty six hours of about roughly to go will be revealed you're going to have to stay tuned to find out. understand or between glenn greenwald and we can leaks is up for debate in today's breaking the says and you can watch the full episode next hour but here's a quick preview. in a top secret documents obtained by journalist glenn greenwald and more portress the n.s.a. is recording every single phone call on the island nation of the bahamas you heard me right this is recording and storing the audio virtually every phone call made in the country of about three hundred seventy thousand people without the knowledge or consent of the government the program is called so mall get and allows the n.s.a. to store phone conversations for up to thirty days which agents can then go back and listen to at their leisure now along with the bahamas so more get is being

employed in one other country that we know of however according to greenwald may mean that country is a security risk and could be the fatalities. for news around the world in brief right now and seventeen people have reportedly been killed in a nigerian village at times carried out by the local islamist group boko haram the village of agana is situated in the country's northeast and is not far from the region where extremists kidnapped some of two hundred schoolgirls a month ago also comes a day after a double blast in the central city which one hundred eighteen people were killed the bombings also blamed on local haraam targeted a local market and hospital for the second explosion time to kill rescue workers who rushed to the scene. egypt's former president hosni mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for embezzle and the court found him guilty of stealing

more than seventeen million dollars from the state funds while he was in power for barak's two sons were also found guilty receiving four years behind bars the eighty six year old ruled egypt for three decades until twenty eleven when he was ousted and a milestone uprising. so that unfolds now have both asked for international help following the worst floods ever recorded in the balkans at me. forty people have been killed and some one point six million across the region have been affected in bosnia officials predict damage from the floods will cost more than the entire bosnian war record rainfall had the balkans last week triggering massive landslides and causing rivers to their banks latest reports suggest water levels are still rising. in taiwan a university student a tiger passengers with a knife aboard a subway train in the capital taipei killing four people and injuring dozens during the evening rush hour i witnessed this say passengers managed to restrain batonga

before the train a ride at the nearest station police arrived within minutes to arrest him the man has reportedly confessed to a plot saying that since childhood. five men have been found guilty of involvement in the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya among them were former policeman who helped trying to the victim four were found guilty of blinding became men and one for firing the shot and killed her and there will be a sentence later investigative journalist anna politkovskaya who wrote about human rights violations was killed in two thousand and six in the lobby of her moscow apartment building her family is now also seeking one hundred fifty thousand dollars compensation. that's coming up next on our c international peace who are well asks whether for their eyes asian is key to resolving the bloody deadlock in ukraine but for you in the u.k. a look behind the scenes of see.

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when you vain a direct question simply prepared for a change when you run should be ready for a battle freedom of speech and little down the freedom to cost. oh and welcome across town for all things considered i'm. going going and probably already gone this is the state of ukraine's sovereignty as the western backed and unelected regime in kiev continues its military operations against eastern protesters all ukrainians are being asked to participate in a presidential election there is scant evidence it will be legitimate.

to cross talk to crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest sarah lyon in london she's a research fellow from the royal united services institute in new york we have mopin he is a journalist and political analyst and in washington we cross to robert perry he's an investigative reporter who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert if i go to you first in washington there's going to be a presidential election of sorts in ukraine this sunday on the twenty fifth of this month here it looks like there's going to be a choice between coke and pepsi because the flavor that is recognized in preferred in the east isn't going to get much of a hearing if even these people are going to vote in this election well that's right there's there's been efforts in the in these two to declare independence to separate from ukraine and in those provinces have indicated they do not want the

elections to go forward however it does appear that the with the oligarchy. has the most likely chance of winning and i'm told that there is that that's not entirely a negative as far as both russia and some in the united states view. would they see him as a possible compromise candidate someone who could work with both sides even though he's spoken very strongly about joining the european union and being part of that he also has shown some willingness to work with the russians and i'm told that that president putin sees him as a possible person that could bring the country together ok robert if i can just stay with you then why don't you just make him an intermediary why do you why does he have to be a western anointed president of ukraine i mean i agree with you if someone can talk to all signs that's great but why should there be an election where at least fourteen percent of the population says at this point that they're not going to participate well there's no question there's always a problem when you have this kind of conflict and you have problems with people

having their votes counted or even voting but the west has wanted to have. it is going to really legitimacy on a government that has been installed by the i.m.f. against the will of the ukrainian people this government was put in was put in undemocratically with fascist mobs forcing out the elected government this government has no legitimacy internationally it simply doesn't under international law this is not a real government that we have in kiev right now and it's unleashed a campaign of horrific fascist terror buildings being burned in odessa people being beaten down journalist being being harassed and beaten and tortured in kidnap all kinds of horrific things are being done backed up by the united states this election will only serve to legitimize that government that's been imposed on the ukrainian people ok people in donetsk and a lot has voted overwhelmingly not to be part of this new regime so why why should we have an election just to legitimize it so that's a very interesting point here and this is one of the things i've noticed in western

media this this wolf of optimism if we can just have this election here because it gets away from exactly what we heard from new york kalib saying you know that the legal regime in can't because it is the unelected legal regime and the west really definitely wants to have something that they can say is legitimate unfortunately it will. election isn't going to cut the mustard it may actually have the opposite effect well i think putin himself has said that you know the elections are a second in the right direction and the fact is that there is a power vacuum us the in a cave it's fled a government has to take to form an interim government it recognizes itself it's not that it just in the government which is why it's holding elections and i would say that just because the east and. the country need to. want to participate doesn't mean that these are western backed that actions and in crimea we saw with the population because they did not want to become part of russia so i think it

wakes spaceways in a sense ok so you can have an election in backed by the west because it's still backed by the west we have to remember after the coup we know from newlands conversation she appointed the government almost to every position it's really quite remarkable or she must be clairvoyant i don't know but you know you have referenda in the east it's not recognized but there's going to be a kid oriented election it's called legitimate but it's kind of hypocrisy well all over the world the united states brags about being the champion of democracy but whenever people may vote against the interests of the united states and against the interests of wall street in the bankers all the sudden they're not interested in democracy anymore they discounted the elections in crimea they've ignored the referendums and now it's going to and this is just pure example of hypocrisy just like they're trying to prevent syria from having elections coming up now whenever elections go on in the us doesn't like the results they simply ignore them it's very very hypocritical you know the fact that when these referendums took place and asked people how to defend the ballots with arms to prevent the prevent fascists

from the right sector from preventing people from voting the government in kiev mobilized the ultra right to try and prevent people from voting for venting elections from taking place but that's actually really similar to what happened in detroit in detroit a city in the united states. the democratically elected government has been removed and an emergency manager has been put in everywhere across the world we're seeing austerity austerity is being imposed and because people may vote against it or want to oppose it we're seeing democracy being stripped away fascism is being supported in order to champion austerity and to give the banks what they need so the banks can continue to rule over the rest of us the working people of this world robert e. lee it seems to me that the word legitimacy is with most important here and you know it is right there i mean they are having an election but you have harassment of all the other non parties they do not support this regime we have the communist party is being hounded out of the round i mean how can this be democratic in any sense you're just getting

a choice where it no matter what the outcome it's what the west wants to live with because they're the ones that brought this crisis to to ukraine not the my don itself there was ample evidence that this was orchestrated and they want and now they're going to make sure that they have a very limited choice again i can understand why this election could be considered legitimate if people in the east cannot have a strong candidate and there isn't one i mean there's so much intimidation well it's true some of the east candidates for instance felt harassed threatened with arrest and that's happened with with some others so you do have a very limited election and but in a sense all actions are have some have some limitations the election in crimea which i think did reflect the will of the people to separate from ukraine and join russia was not a perfect election it was done hastily but it did reflect i think the broad will of the people of that region similarly in the east despite the problems with those

elections they did reflect the will of the people to to have greater independence from kiev these elections will will certainly be problematic as well and they will not reflect the full view of the ukrainian people by. to the degree that they they put in place a leader that the different sides can work with that could end up being helpful in terms of reaching some kind of resolution to this crisis and i understand that there is there's now been connection there's been contacts between. moscow and washington. that way where there is a looks looks like there will be movement forward to have a more rational approach to ukraine there some of the hardliners in washington have backed away a bit president putin seems to have reached out more to president obama who has who has been more responsive to having a pulling back a toning down of this this crisis and it's maybe leading to

a summit on d.-day of the seventieth anniversary of d.-day on june sixth so you're seeing some some movement toward a not a resolution fully but at least a dialogue involving these various parties and to some degree this very flawed election that's coming up may help advance that ok sara i've got robert but robert the i had a job in the cia or on the ground aiding this kiev government this illegitimate government aiding it and its attacks and aiding the violence that are going on academy formerly known as blackwater is also on the ground working with this kiev regime but i don't think this is this is moving toward peace in any any conceivable way as people are being murdered and killed on the streets in order to uphold this government and put down to people in the east that would revolt against that i don't i don't i don't see it on its own or working towards peace as he continues to back up this regime let me go to say here i mean one of the problems here in it well and i guess we all agree for one reason or another this is going to be a flawed election here but you have these right wing militias being directed by the

authorities in kiev to assault to these are military operations against populations in the east i mean how in the world can we actually think this is going to be a legitimate election if there is a military action against the very people that are going to could possibly be voting or should be voting but i think the time right. wing has certainly been around and is used to various that. i think the ukrainian government responded to trying to settle things in the east and if we're going to talk about violence then i would draw attention to the fact that elements in the east the seventies in violence again there's reports of two deaths they've been journalists that have been taken hostage or kidnapped and put in handcuffs i think i think that is. going to take everything behind the wing this is what this is what a civil war is all about you just described it ok but where are the leave of militias moving on from the east are there any well where are the militias moving

along the east i think that ok we're going you know me as sort of so i put some of those of people. so they were in the midst of a government that has been imposed on them by wall street they have the absolute right to stand up for themselves and to fight back against this campaign of terror being unleashed on them right wing forces are moving from the west and then is want to go and attack and burn buildings and murder people and they are defending themselves they are defending themselves in their own regions they are defending themselves from an attack of a horrific campaign of fascist violence which has been created and funded by our tax dollars people living in the united states five billion dollars of our tax dollars are going to fund the ultra right wing government in the ukraine when when schools are being closed here in the united states hospitals are closing they just cut food stamps by five billion dollars a magic where that money could go but instead our tax money is going to fund fascist violence against the people on the crane we need to stand against this this attack on the people in the ukraine it's an attack on all working people in the

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back to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle reminder we're discussing the crisis in ukraine.

like to go back to washington and robert de you were talking about the communication between washington and moscow and presume believe in brussels about deescalation you didn't use the word deescalation but i have to wonder if the if they the train has already left the station i mean in many ways the country is very fractured here if there are people that are very adamant that they don't want to participate in this political process and actually have their own political process then it's just a day late and a buck short well it is a summary that's true the and it is true that the united states and the west generally provoked this crisis there's been this false narrative that's been used in washington about this was all some grand scheme that president putin dreamed up and it's obviously not the case he was he was not the instigator of the. demonstrations he was not the instigator of these of these really neo nazi militias that did exist they still do exist that attack to the that began attacking the

police in the may day and that led to the crisis that led to the ouster of vienna kovi a true was essentially an ally putin so the idea this is some kind of grand scheme of putin's is ridiculous but that was pushed their way there was a seizure of of the initiative in washington by the neo conservative side. by the by the hardliners many of them ensconced in the state department they pushed this very aggressively particularly assistant secretary of state victoria nuland and it led to the shattering of ukraine's fragile constitutional system it is the ouster of an a code which by violence and through extra legal means he was not impeached as the constitution required once that happened that did set in motion what happens in a country like this where you have strong ethnic differences where you have a historical narratives that conflict between the west in the east and once the

constitutional system is shattered you get violence and you get people you get the kind of problems we've seen and it is true that the. many of these right wing militias have been going out of the national guard right now and anything that they don't they don't compute as one is saying that hitler was a great liberator and saying things in praise of hitler and the other is anti falcon's aren't going away to narrate when one is praising waiter and other retirement for a way to blame the world fighting please let me jump in here i think that's robert just said that just not those exact words there are very different narratives here this is one of the biggest problems let me go to sarah in london here ever since the advent of the crisis the real crisis on the my down when the e.u. walked away from its own deal on february on the night of february twenty first there's been the idea of some kind of federalization decentralization why are we talking more about that now why can't that be part of the process because care than it's backwards keep saying no to that but that is ultimately what the solution will

be if you want to keep ukraine together as a sovereign state if you don't go down that path then it can't be fixed it's broken well america has said that it would be a federalization and. to be honest i think that potentially is setting decentralization as potentially. help this situation and. they came out the other day saying that he was for decentralization at least i know he won't be necessarily the leader in the future but i don't think there's this absolute anti and he sentiment towards federalization i think the situation needs to be contained and i think dialogue with including russia the e.u. and whatever government is voted in next week and including dialogue with people in the east is the only way to resolve the issue. i mean i don't want to be contrarian here but they already did that we had an agreement on february twenty

first that is what you just said what they did in there was a russian observer why did we have to go through all of that why did the new one have to push so hard when there would have been a presidential election in march of next year why did this happen when it's all done on purpose if it's done nothing except for break the country there was to be green went on february twenty first and you want to go back to would you think that's possible well. yeah there were there were lots of elements obviously that was to diffuse a different somewhat different situation though and it was complicated by the fact that the president fled the country and also russia was reluctant to sign it was a witness but it was reluctant to sign the agreement so it obviously turned to to. something that everyone should be observing in our poll. only of the of the european union and ok you could leave russia art of it ok what about the culpability of the european union not to keep its word to back it up because it was a red line here that's what was perceived as here the e.u.

lies well i don't think it's perceived that way necessarily i think the he was involved in trying to diffuse the situation and then things changed i think yes it may have been and it was an error not to try and incorporate that into the new government but. didn't ukrainian government have signed the political side of the. the agreement and i think the situation changed and different things needed to be addressed with things like crimea coming up in eastern ukraine becoming a problem ok you know for a lot of people it's very interesting is that you have this regime that is not elected in case but it did sign the political side of the european association going which was quite interesting because it's not representative of any values held in the east obviously it does have security concerns that the country closer to nato but you know that same government is the legal government can't even eat won't sign the economic side of it because it knows what it's all about it's all

about the gross austerity that you just mentioned well the economic results of this horrendous coup in ukraine have have come down on the people of the whole country you know the price of heating oil has doubled the prices of food are going growing very rapidly there's talk of mass privatizations the people of ukraine are really suffering now that this this not only did it put fascists into office in the ukraine but it also put the control of the western banks and the corporations into power essentially the right of the people of ukraine to govern themselves and are going to make their own economic decisions has been taken away and it's not just an attack on ukraine it's an attack on russia on china on iran on syria on all countries that are seeking independent economic development they're being surrounded and threatened because the us bankers want to control the world economy they don't want independence they can't tolerate any any independent economic development around the world by anyone and we've seen that this is this is the same battle every country that we talk about that's in the news whether it's syria you know syria and anyone anywhere it's the same fight it's wall street trying to

control the world in the people of the world desperately trying to throw wall street off their backs and stablish independence coming up on monday they're going to be massive demonstrations here in the united states by working people who are opposed to what's happening in the ukraine are also saying that they want to get rid of wall street working people in the united states who are having their homes foreclosed we're seeing a rising police state there be. threatened by the same wall street bankers the u.s. government is run by wall street in the bankers and the people of the world are fighting against them just like people here in the united states are fighting against them it's a global struggle against the power of the wall street monopoly imperialist robert you know one of the interesting things i think like to say i have a very great cape they go ahead. we do we do there's a point to the fact that russian oligarchs control a lot of the city of london so i think if you say about a bank controlling a well i think as a playful economy. he says it's going to take more concern is out of the. united states of the running of death and destruction on the people of the world want free

i want everyone to have a fair time and i want to say to sarah to share ok robert in washington if i can go to you. you know what is the what if this this process as it worked because we have hundreds of biden you know it and you know it didn't make a big splash in western mainstream maybe on your media outlet it did but you know there is a kernel at least of what we've just heard there i mean you know the body is still bleeding and corporate america is already there and it's looking for energy resources in ukraine as what could seem to be we maybe we don't we don't know the definition of a bit maybe a country that's already in civil war i mean it's really quite vapid well that's certainly true the if you remember when when victoria nuland give or famous address where she mentioned that five billion dollars had been spent on the so-called european aspirations of ukraine back in december she said she did it at a forum sponsored by chevron and there's been

a clear clear interest on the part of the various energy companies and other companies to move in and scoop up what they can from ukraine and course that's been going on really for a couple of decades now since the collapse of the soviet union and you've seen the privatization of ukraine and you've seen the the gross inequality of the country where you have a handful of. oligarchy to control a great deal of the wealth and the political power and you have the wide widespread suffering and poverty among the average people and clearly what's happened in this during this crisis will make things worse for them. and if the i.m.f. plan which the new government or the interim government push through takes effect it will make things even worse for the average person in ukraine so so yes you have you have this rather unseemly scramble for the resources of ukraine as this crisis plays out but you know the narrative that i've that i've been sort of following based on my reporting has been that to some degree this was pushed by the neo

conservatives and other hardliners who still hold a great deal of power in washington and in specially in the state department this was something that they wanted to do they've been pushing for this for a long time there was a an article back in september by carl gershman the head of the national endowment for democracy in which he described the efforts to get ukraine as the biggest private biggest and he made clear that behind that was an effort to go after which to go and i would i would disagree with you rightly that i would say that imperialism is not a policy this is something that the bankers and the wall street imperialists have to do to maintain their head gemini it's not about one faction or the other the neo conservatives versus this other section it's about what this system has to do to maintain that i'm going to i'm going down here capitals in the eastern united states cannot allow that kind of competition or hang on here sarah i want to give you the last word i think one of the sad things when you look at ukraine is that they may have elections but all those all accounts they still say stay in place i

think that's a great tragedy of ukraine but i think that that was a tragedy and they had a case when everyone was supporting him and he was very friendly with russia i think that is definitely a problem in ukraine that you get. controlling industry that they controlling media they're controlling a lot of the put at the they are. business and i think the very sad thing is that once again despite revolutions the orange revolution yannick a visual i wish we had more time i have just got here it's a really great out of time people many thanks and i guess some of the new york and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here in our d.c. you next time and remember. the leaves me feeling.

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think. the leaders of russia and china toast one of the largest energy deals ever agreed the contract is worth more than the g.d.p. of some european countries. these are the latest pictures of a british journalist reporting has been detained by pro-government forces in eastern ukraine his fate has been unknown for over twenty hours now. and two russian journalists detained in a similar way remain in custody human rights watch has joined calls for their immediate release which have been ignored by kiev so far. as of this hour u.n. official urges an investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers after video footage shows the moment israeli soldiers allegedly opened fire on a rally with live ammunition.

from a studio center here in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day signed sealed delivered russia will be sending billions of dollars of gas over the border to china for the next thirty years after a decade of haggling and negotiating the presidents of the two nations of finally put pen to paper and agreed one of the largest energy deals in a century. reports. yes the multi-billion dollar deal has finally been struck here in shanghai there are smiles all round there was a little bit of attention because no one quite knew if it was going to come to the compromise that both russia and china wanted we know that china wanted a bargain and russia was standing firm on the price that they were asking for so

this deal would change the face of the global gas industry as we know it and i'm sure europe is looking on rather cautiously at the moment because they too have been trying to diversify their trade in this will perhaps give europe a little less leverage in terms of pricing with russia from now on so that's one to watch you know there's been tensions with the sanctions going on as well so there's politics at play involved with this deal and that's why everyone has been involved and it's great timing for china because we know they've got a one point three billion people population and they are gas guzzlers the biggest consumer and russia has the biggest reserves of natural gas and what china wants to get involved with at the moment is a huge economic expansion that china has experienced over the last three decades has come at a cost and that cost is pollution you can really feel it in the air it's somewhat the small good it's gray and misty and they want to move towards a cleaner air which is a natural gas it's a win win situation at the moment and russia is looking eastwards we must remember

russia is part of europe as well as asia. so here we have a mega deal worth four hundred billion dollars just how big is that let's put it in context four hundred billion is roughly the g.d.p. of the e.u.'s third largest country sweden or twice the value of everything qatar produces in a year without money you can send sixteen thousand space tourists to the stars or you could buy seventeen million brand new volkswagen golds and and that's put in the line of one hundred dollar bills would reach to the moon and back and then back to the moon again dr richard weddings from the institute of economic affairs says that russia now has access to vast asian markets i think it has huge symbolic significance it reflects a major shift in global trade patterns with your asian countries increasingly trading them and themselves rather than with the west and of course there's enormous potential for much more deals like this with potential for russia to

export hydroelectricity other commodities oil and high tech goods in maternal mass manufactured goods from china so this could be just the beginning this will diversify russia's options it means it can send a lot more of it so gas and oil in the east and the potential with new pipelines coming on stream to i mean crease despite an order of my which is so obviously in the medium term this is going to weaken europe's hand in terms of sanctions. we'll continue to cover the russian president's visit to shanghai right here on r.t. international keep in touch for the latest updates and of course for expert opinion and i have and much more this is international live in moscow. to fuel over a billion people russia china ready join our team in shanghai for the deal of the century. ukraine with the fate of journalists captured by pro-government forces is causing growing concern was to try to get word on the whereabouts of graham

phillips a british journalist who has contributed to recent reports from the east of the country all we've heard from the authorities so far is that he was probably arrested by the army and may have been taken to the british consulate in kiev but the consulate says it has no knowledge of him being sent to them we have video of him taken moments before he was determined. to reports. we do have this video which essentially portrays the moments of his arrest and we also have information from him which he managed to relate to was via phone call before his own went dead silent. on the. spot. on the gram has been receiving threats on social media networks for several months

now ever since he began covering the situation in southeastern ukraine there was a ten thousand dollars bounty on his head of by some of the supporters of the current c. of regime many cues gem of a working with the people they called separatists and terrorists was more interested in the social response the reaction of people to the events right here. well artie has been working hard to find out what is happening to graham phillips and get help in releasing him ukraine security forces who are believed to be behind his detention have refused to talk to us we also contacted the u.k. foreign office and he is a british citizen and we're told that they are aware of the situation who do not work with third parties in incidents like this obviously referring to r.t. and we also sent an open letter to the u.k. media which is mostly ignored this arrest and here's an extract it suggests that the russian media is more concerned about the fate of a u.k. citizen than the british a troubling sign for journalism in the u.k.

it also stresses that phillips being a reporter matters more than where he comes from well this detention is just the latest of incidents which seem journalists harassed and prevented from doing their job in ukraine the risk it's area is in the east of the country where the government's military crackdown is taking place now phillips was snatched near many opel which is down there and he was on his way to donetsk up to the north of the stronghold of antigovernment activists and that's just a few hundred kilometers away from kramatorsk further north where some of the heaviest fighting has been taking place and where two russian journalists filming the action were captured by government forces three days ago well the latest on their situation is that the authorities in kiev are banning observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe to visit them until now this have been the only video documentation of what happened to them you can see them kneeling on the ground at gunpoint while their belongings are searched and now this

message by one of the journalists filmed by his captors has just been refused. but it isn't you know. when crossing the border it gives airports the true purpose of our visits and said we had come to attend the concerts were left old peoples identifying us as journalists in moscow in order to cross the border from kiev we're going to don't you ask there we got permission from the representatives of the then yes people's republic to report on the referendum and other issues after that we arrived in the city of criminal risk to cover the maybe eleventh referendum and its results in the following days were incriminatory crew porting on the events in and around it. but numerous accounts of other journalists from russia suggested concealing the true purpose of the visit is often the only way to actually get into ukraine crews from russia even with all the relevant papers been denied entrance to the country on an almost daily basis with our colleagues from parties are

a big channel the latest example journalists that accreditation to cover the upcoming presidential election but were turned around at the airport as soon as the border guards learnt who they were we have the accreditation from the central election commission from ukraine for us to cover the elections it's not the reason for them to enter ukraine if you're i russian journalist if you're a russian journalist if you hold in this trade station or some papers that so prove that you are a journalist. because there's a lot of questions and they do ask and eventually made this like red mark in my passports this access denied. in his response to journalists rights being violated in ukraine the u.s. failed to condemn what has been happening there not only that but the state department went as far as voicing doubts that the life news crew for example would journalists at all. the possibility that it's the reporting that they do and the outlet that they are affiliated with with that's what got them detained well i

think the information i just outlined including their the fact that they were apparently carrying men portable aircraft missiles in their trunk i think is relevant information to consider in the united states asking for clarification on whether they are actually bonafide journalists. if they all you would call them for their sure are focuses more on connor's dented in a press on the release of the international and ukrainian journalists who have been detained by russian separatists many for weeks. with washington expressing doubt about who these journalists are we've taken a look at their work record to help the state department on this and that has over fifteen years experience as a video and photo reporter some of his most prominent professional achievements are photos of russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky the first to be taken after he was

jailed such inc also took pictures during the egyptian revolution in the heart of car and here are some of his photos from civil war torn libya oleg sidyakin although he has less field experience he's also covered some major stories he volunteered to cover the volgograd bombing at the end of twenty thirteen he was also one of the journalists working in kiev's independence square during the sniper attacks in february of this year. when human rights watch is one of the few international organizations to respond and call for the journalists release joining me now to discuss this is rachel from human rights watch live from moscow rachel human rights watch has called for the detained journalist graham phillips the british journalist in the two russians to be released has there been any response from. we have not heard any response from most of the day to day today trying to call the s.b.u. to get confirmation about their status their whereabouts and their and the legal i

was not able to get through to the you. are you worried about. yes i think that any time that. journalists. are detained are in custody and there's no information. about their whereabouts. no access to them. or in the case of. the case of the british consulate in the case of. the russian consulate there's always cause there's always cause for concern we're worried about. we're worried about their status we believe they should be immediately released if there are so if there are specific concrete legal accusations against them let's let those charges be known but meanwhile they should be released pending any investigation if there indeed needs to be an investigation talking about legality concerning the two russian

journalists the organization for security and cooperation in europe has not been allowed to see those russian journalists in that i can still move to have a legal right to see them if they are stupid. i would say i think more i think the bigger emphasis should be on their right to see their lawyers because they absolutely have a right to access to a to a lawyer of their choice and they absolutely have the right to have access to their consulate to the consul and you feel has been sufficient international reaction to the growing pressure we're seeing on journalists there in that part of ukraine. well there's been growing pressure on journalists from both from both sides as you probably are aware that there has been a lot of pressure on journalists in areas controlled by. armed forces the so-called people's republic and lugansk as well there's been a lot of there have been kidnappings abductions threats of violence on their side

and there's been. other been a lot of there's been considerable pressure by mike here on journalists who they consider to be you know who they consider to be i guess for the communities you know are teach on a one such. just briefly and finally given the situation with journalists working in ukraine now do you believe that the coverage of the upcoming presidential election can be fair and balanced after all journalists are important. journalists there there needs to be freedom of expression for their freedom of expression is one of the main one of the key. i think. i think it's important to look at the broader media picture in ukraine in order to make that assessment you need to look at whether there are all different kinds of views reflected. in the ukrainian media in ukrainian television in order to make that assessment. thank you very much but the more important points one is. just very

briefly. i think the most important point is that these people these three journalists should be immediate really immediately released and their fate in their whereabouts have to be made known and if there are any charges against them they should be made clear. thank you. russian troops are continuing to leave areas near the ukrainian border and hopes the withdrawal will help hold an upcoming presidential presidential election something we've just been talking about there he added that western partners should be able to see the russian forces on the move from high above the latest. on. the once tightly knit world of whistle blowers rebels wiki leaks on leashes a twitter campaign against his former ally greenwald coming up find out why two of

the big players a locking horns over how much information they should reveal we get live expert opinion very shortly here on our team's national. show the line between the truth and reality. join forces to fight. the shame and respect the cool kid in the class. we've got you.

stories others in the. whole picture. from a. block to. the un's top officials call for an investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers video footage appeared online showing the moment they were shot this video was taken during a protest which israeli security forces described as violent local human rights groups report that eyewitnesses saw troops using live ammunition but israel denies this saying the video was doctored israeli journalist and political activists who writes for the website which published the video he says there's still more

evidence to prove that military personnel are guilty. the army has denied using live rounds but the autopsies of the bodies of these young teenagers show that they were shocked at the diagrams and witnesses on the scene say the same the clip is indeed edited but journalists and human rights activists that have seen the entire video of hours and hours of several c.c.t.v. cameras in that area say that there was nothing in that area around where the teens were worthy was shot to justify any kind of violence that was used by the army as seen in the video is much more violence than used by the demonstrators and as seen in this video even when the soldiers are not threatened told this is part of the israeli campaign to oppress any sort of resistance to the occupation in the occupied territories. here's a look at just some of what we've got lined up for you on r.t. dot com abandoning their posts we have the story of how almost every worker fled

during fukushima two thousand and eleven meltdown leaving the site almost unmanned and out of control more on that on line. and the walking sad a new study suggests an alarming number of french people are resorting to antidepressants and other mood stabilizers to get through life. dot com. a huge dispute is brewing between two titans of the whistleblower community we can leaks and that glenn greenwald of the journalist to gain access to documents leaked by edward snowden well they are at loggerheads over recent revelations the n.s.a. has extensively spied on five foreign countries and in two of those nations it appears phone call made was recorded the greatest amount of communication was gathered from the bahamas the former guardian journalist glenn greenwald revealed that the information and he says that he's not given up the name of the second

country over concerns for people's safety we could leaks is labeled a decision censorship and promises to reveal the name of the state it was targeted within seventy two hours. has been investigating. glenn greenwald and some of his colleagues published this story and alleging that the u.s. were intercepting recording and archiving pretty much every move all phone call on the island nation of the bahamas and they went on in the article to say that there were similar things taking place in four of the countries and they named three of them mexico the philippines and kenya they withheld the name of that final country because they said there were serious concerns that it could put lives at risk now wiki leaks took to their twitter account to slam that this decision asking when did true published information ever harm innocent now this twitter spat ensued

remember that wiki leaks is widely believed to be run by julian a songe himself glenn greenwald has said that the n.s.a. had aggressively urged them to suppress the names of the countries which they've refused but in this case of this one country there was a genuine belief that harm could be caused wiki leaks would not responding well to that and then we saw this bombshell dropped which was that they said that they would reveal the name of the country that was being a mass recorded in seventy two hours there is very serious questions raised here not least the claims the greenwald and snowden have made that the snowden documents are in safe hands does a sign chad these documents will that name be revealed it was about thirty six hours ago that we had that deadline for that another thirty six hours of about roughly to go will be revealed you're going to have to stay ching's to find out. for more joined by former m r five agent and the marshal and the bahamas has been

named the second country and removed very very reticent and concerned not to release its name. what could be then the consequences if we didn't. well i think the whole situation here is very unfortunate i would like to say up front that i'm a huge supporter of the model of wiki leaks a high tech publishing conduit for whistleblowers at risk of persecution and prosecution and also you know huge fan of what glenn greenwald has been doing over the years as a campaigning journalist most notably of course in his support for wiki leaks and also his subsequent work with edward snowden but i'm looking at this from the whistleblower point of view and i can see some issues here i think where the whistle blow takes a risk they take certain information which they feel is very much in the public interest which they assess is probably not going to harm anyone or put any lives at risk and they want it published so as soon as you get any sort of mainstream media

or media outlet deciding to take it upon themselves to decide what is being published then we have a sort of de facto censorship again it was stowed his risk his life to get this information out there he thought it was important enough to do that and i think it would only be fair for that information to come out right so. one of the countries which is this other country and why by revealing its name would be causing such a disastrous impact according to greenwald. well this is a very good question i mean is here security experts i don't think so he's a fabulous campaigning journalist but it was snowden took that document prove a certain point about endemic surveillance of a vulnerable country and i think we the people the global population deserve to hear that so you know you think that will never be which country the money are we talking about using. i don't know i don't know but i think that what's being

revealed from this this latest disclosure is that they tend to be countries who might be targeted by the u.s. because of their involvement or transit countries or whatever in the war on drugs they're part of the drug cartel target list or the drug trade target list and i think this highlights very clearly that the u.s. uses not just the war on terror to invade our civil liberties and to intercede and invade other countries around the world but for five decades it has been waging the war on drugs and using that for exactly the same purpose and just to take away our civil liberties and just briefly i mean this is disastrous for the whistleblower community you're part of that community as you said earlier. the leaks you. greenwald as well but this is a massive spot and this could be very harmful to the whole whistle blowing initiative. i don't to be harmful to the actual whistleblowers more will come out despite the attempts by the u.s. particularly in the u.k. and other countries to wage this war on whistleblowers there will be future people

of conscience coming forward and saying this is wrong this is a war crime this needs to be addressed unfortunately the spat has created a bit of a sideline away from the actual meat of the disclosures and future disclosures and we're seeing this sort of this is acting as a blockage for getting information out there which we the people need to know and so i hope it can be resolved but every which way whistleblowers will continue to come out as long as there is corruption and no other alternative for them and emotion live from berlin vision for you very much indeed your fault. we'll be back with more news from just over half an hour from now in the meantime next door to international is the latest edition of breaking the sets. you know sigmund freud once said analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home. so they ought to feel right at home today with more and

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low everyone i'm abby martin and this is a break in the set so as the ukraine unrest continues the country is becoming a more dangerous place for journalists just today graham phillips a freelance journalist for our team who was detained by the ukrainian national guard in the southeastern city of mary told earlier phillips a british citizen was able to speak to r.t. by phone ins that had been questioned by authorities about his views on the ukrainian crisis he also said his laptop and bullet proof vest had been confiscated but they had not been injured also on air r t arabic news crew was barred from entering the country today this news comes on the heels of two russian journalists working for the organization life news also being detained by ukrainian forces over the weekend. and get this when asked about their capture at a state department briefing today the state department's response was that they're not actually journalists or capture has led to a twitter campaign using the hash tag save our guys were just since gone viral in russia and yesterday the organization for security and cooperation in europe sent

a letter of the ukrainian interior ministry demanding that these journalists be released indeed over the course of the conflict numerous journalists been detained and harassed by various forces on the ground including vice journalist simon trust skied back in april and was later released so if you think that detaining and intimidating any journalist in a place where we need them the most is a severe violation of international law and join me and let's break the set. please. please. please very hard to take a. look. at her how to act without her being there please. please.

please please. please please. please. please please please please. please. please. for the last half century an organization comprised of the global elite called to build a bird group has been meeting around the world with almost zero official press coverage it's an annual policy summit where the top one hundred twenty of the world's power brokers and banking tech media defense and politics get together to discuss global policy and that's pretty much the extent of what we now because there's almost zero transparency about what actually goes on on the inside and despite the virtual media blackout grassroots and citizen journalists are filling the void and earlier i spoke to one such journalist paul dose of watson was on his way to copenhagen denmark for this year's meeting ever asked him why bill burns different than the

c.f.r. trilateral commission or any other if areas d.c. think tank pretty well laughs and often cites that claim but believe it has no way lucy is know what the power what broke it will be when i say should but we have several concrete examples where they do influence. for example when we flashed the poll the nato secretary general had an interview with a building radio station back in two thousand and ten when he said the bill that would members all required to implement. the policy that they discuss out build a big meeting in their relative sweet sphere of influence so the fact that the media comes out with this claim that it's a media talking shop and that they have no power no influence over global affairs is disproven not only by building members themselves too late that i admit that they are tasked with formulating a policy that later influences world affairs book also we have several concrete examples of build a book setting the policy for an agenda and it later coming true the primary

example is the euro which was discourse as far back as nine hundred fifty five we have leap bilbo documents obtained by the b.b.c. where they schemes to introduce the trade every year for the european union which would later become the euro single currency and of course in the one nine hundred ninety s. that came to be and that's been the on the chairman of the build a bird group bragged in the e.u. or server that the euro single currency was the brainchild of the bill bird group does the fact that it meets just once a year in extremis secrecy and that's what i wanted to talk to you about is this secrecy from within and also the virtual media blackout on the meeting why is the world's media not interested in a three day policy summit for billionaires and politicians it's mainly because some of the people who own the media are of themselves build of members i mean you can look at katherine graham of the washington post the washington post the decades

ignored all downplay the influence of the bill but a group yet katharine graham the owner of the washington post was the buildup of member and they're only in forcing their own chatham house rules which is not to discuss anything that goes on at build bird so that's why they do it they're in on the scam paul you've been covering the summit for years how are journalists and activists treated who want to go there and cover the meetings. well it's interesting i would be because last year when bill bird was held in watford wee hours in four wars reporters booked weeks in advance to state the grove hotel and watford in england which was the site of the twenty thirteen bill but conference days before bill the bird members were set to arrive so we were going to check out at least two days before they even arrived but they found up about three days before hand cancelled our hotel bookings and said that we were quote a security threat and that's the reason why they had to cancel our bookings so we

know that the host government of each country which builder meets every year is involved in the security preparations so the very fact that we that we merely wanted to stay there for a day before and basically just film to video you know it wasn't as if we were planting surveillance books to spy on bill but members proves how paranoid they are about any scrutiny whatsoever from independent media because as we just discussed they can rely on the fact that mainstream media is not going to investigate it so the fact that they're so paranoid about any type of the inquiry from alternative media proves that this shadowy group is sinister it is plotting global affairs sometimes one sometimes two years in advance and again i mean the will hutton the editor of the observer who was a builder who ten need said in one nine hundred ninety server that the consensus established is the backdrop against which will policy is made so that what they

don't want leaked to the public you know as i understand the collusion between foreign diplomats politicians and corporate c.e.o.'s stands in violation of something called the logan act paul i know that you've talked about there's a talk about what building burned meetings are doing to undermine democracy and why people should even care about what's going on there. i think the main reason people should care is an example i would cite out of the. two thousand and six bill big meeting in ottawa canada which of course two years before the economic collapse in two thousand and eight they were there plotting not only the collapse of the economy but popping the housing bubble we actually are leaked information out bill burke sources in two thousand and six that they were plotting preparing themselves financially to benefit from the economic collapse in two thousand and eight which of course later transpired so that's why people should care this is this is about

centralizing power this is about benefiting from future global events that they are not only aware of but they're involved in the planning of so the the fact that they were there two years before the economic collapse and you can check this on you to articles we wrote about it back in two thousand and six with dance knowledge of the economic collapse while people later on we're losing their jobs losing their homes because of the global financial crisis bill the word was set in a balance to profit from it and they're going to do so again with this t i p p agreement lastly i mean do you think that the extreme secrecy surrounding the meetings causes people to maybe over speculate maybe give too much credit to what takes place behind closed doors just because it's utterly lacking in transparency it's the tyranny of consensus obviously build a big numbers will claim that they don't take votes they don't sign treaties they don't set policy but what is firmly established is that they set the consensus for

the members to attend remember this is this is the google c.e.o. eric schmidt this is jeff bezos from amazon massive global power brokers with extreme influence in what happens in the world so they know what's going to happen they set it and people are unaware of it the protests that get bigger and bigger as you said much to the chagrin of bill berg they corral us into this free speech and every year by thing. their influence is only way as more and more people listen approach this book you know they say it's private it's just a private meeting we shouldn't worry about it why we complaining about it it's not private it's public it's paid for by taxpayers last year and what's the it's the equivalent of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars was paid by taxpayers to build a big security so for them to claim it's just a private meeting it's nobody's business is complete. absolutely insane thank you so much paul being there on the ground covering what's going on paul joseph watson

really appreciate it thank you. since initial stories on edward snowden's n.s.a. leak all we've heard from the national security agency is the same tired defense of mass dragnet surveillance we're just collecting metadata metadata of course refers to the record of an individual's online and cell activities such as call records and browsing history but not the actual content of said activity of course as much as the n.s.a. would love to portray the collecting of metadata as unobtrusive and knock us it's far from the case besides being able to paint a very clear picture of a person by uncovering all their associations and interests just consider what former n.s.a. director michael hayden recently said we kill people based on their. sounds like a real innocent surveillance tactic to me but here's the thing thanks to

a stunning new report by the intercept that we now know that at least some of the n.s.a.'s mass spying programs go way beyond the so-called metadata when it comes to international surveillance and a top secret documents obtained by journalist glenn greenwald and more poydras the n.s.a. is recording every single phone call on the island nation of the bahamas you heard me right this is recording and storing the audio virtually every phone call made in the country of about three hundred seventy thousand people without the knowledge or consent of the government the program is called so malo get and allows the n.s.a. to store phone conversations for up to thirty days which agents can then go back and listen to at their leisure now along with the bahamas so mom get has been employed in one other country that we know of however according to greenwald may mean that country is a security risk and could be the fate holidays as she's decided to withhold its name yet wiki leaks has criticized greenwald decision as threaten to release the

name of the other country although it's unclear whether wiki leaks actually have the documents to do so but for now here's what we do know so mall get is just one part of a larger surveillance program known as mystic mystic monitors telecommunication data in five different countries along with the two countries in which it collects all phone audio the program also vacuums up metadata and mexico kenya and the philippines but all these revelations raise the question as to why the u.s. would target the bahamas a place that the state department itself has described as a country where quote there is a little to no threat facing americans from domestic terrorism war or civil unrest or according to the intercept the n.s.a. uses illegal wiretapping requests by the da to install backdoor entries into harm in telecommunications systems in fact in one of the published slides the n.s.a. brags about how so mild. that was used to track an individual who was selling marijuana to the u.s.

to mexico of course stopping tropical pot dealers goes just a tad to be on the n.s.a.'s national security mandate to say the least furthermore there is no way that the technology this powerful and expensive would merely be used to prevent drug trafficking in a court of the intercept one of the leaked documents describes the bahamas as a testing ground for some all gets capabilities given the country's small population and close proximity to the u.s. it would indeed serve as an ideal petri dish for the n.s.a. as twisted social experiments look we should all be completely outraged at the news that the n.s.a. is usurping the privacy rights of global citizens and now they have definitive proof that the surveillance state is retro actively listening to an entire country's phone calls a debate on the importance of metadata is suddenly the least of our concerns. coming up i'll talk to the air of the baskin robbins fortune about why he's taking on the dairy industry stay tune.

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if you grew up in a family in which you were expected to be heir to a multibillion dollar company you probably wouldn't question the product being sold let alone turn against it especially if that product was delicious ice cream because come on it's ice cream that's exactly what john robbins did see robbins as the son of herb robbins co-founder of the baskin robbins ice cream dynasty and as a young man robin discovered the effects dairy has on the human body and decided to opt for a plant based diet instead ever since then he's promoted to sustainable living philosophy and has taken on corporate food giants from the dairy industry to coca-cola he's also the author of several books on nutrition and the sustainable food movement including no happy cows dispatches from the frontlines of the food revolution the earlier i spoke to robbins and i began by asking him why. he chose

to reject his father's ice cream and hire. when my dad died five years ago for many years before that when i was in my early twenties. i decided i didn't want to do that with my life and my uncle baskin my dad's partner and brother in the off died of a heart attack in his early fifties it was a very big man he ate a lot of ice cream and i asked my dad went out how do you think there could be a connection. and my father said no no his father is ticker just got tired and stopped working. and i saw my dad couldn't consider the possibility there could be a connection between ice cream and heart disease because by that time he had sold more ice cream and made more ice cream than any human being would ever lived on the planet you know i think about it that way but i did and i didn't want to sell a product it was harming anybody you're undermining anybody's stuff so i walked away from baskin robbins and the money it represented to live a life dedicated really and submitted to helping people live healthier lives john

you've repeatedly taken on the national dairy council here in america we grow up thinking that cow milk does a human body good kid a bunk some of the supposed benefits of milk consumption. yes happily so because you have a great they do propagate that believe in that we all need the calcium from tiles notes have strong bones and you know milk is species specific the the nutrient profile the fatty acid profile the protein levels and types of proteins that are found in each type of milk cows milk or rat milk are going to go to very different cows milk is designed to take a ninety pound cat and grow it to about four hundred fifty pounds in one year and if you look at the mirror and you see an herb of war with the tail and or hoofs and and you want to gain about four hundred pounds a year cow's milk is maybe the way you want to go but really you know not even adult cows drink cow's milk. how did we start consuming

cow's milk as adults it's anathema to me and it doesn't fit with our metabolism and our body we don't need to calcium from it all the studies show despite the propaganda from the industry that the people who drink the most know can eat the most cheese and ice cream and yogurt and so forth have the highest rates of us to oprah assist the highest rates of their hip fractures. we don't do well with the calcium that's again you know because there's other things and delve deeply the calcium stores in the body. we can absorb calcium from foods like broccoli and kale and cabbage far greater a much higher percentage of that is actually absorbed in the body and it doesn't come with other substances that counteract that calcium so you want to have strong bones actually oddly and counter-intuitively don't you know and don't eat cheese to eat greens and what about digestion what about how many people are intolerant to

lactose i mean you talk about just how the human body can really digest the milk. well different people different descents different ethnic guard. have different degrees of lactose intolerance it's very very high people of african descent people of asian descent it's over ninety percent of our lactose intolerant people of the talian descent very very high levels of lactose intolerant really the only people in the world that have a low levels of lactose intolerance are cock asian descent. and we've been told that we all should drink lots of milk when ironically most of us can't even actually. digest the protein in it that's what actually is the problem fascinating and very very fascinating why john i mean you're asking how do we began doing this i don't know but but why is it continued to be propagated so so much in

our society where milk is literally taught as an essential dietary supplement not even to mention the whole got milk ad campaign here and is the industry really that strong it's that profitable and they have had the backing of the u.s. government you us department of agriculture for decades and decades so the u.s.d.a. is actually mandated to promote the sale of u.s. dairy products it's another one of its mandates counterattacked tech contradictorily to it is to. oversee the nutritional education in the country so the u.s.d.a. is responsible for what gets taught in schools and it's also just trying to promote the sale of dairy products it's it's a it's a conflict of interests built into the mandates of the u.s. yet it's insane really and it's led to people thinking. people being taught in schools and certainly barraged by ads that reinforce that is the no does

a body good that we all need to milk is nature's most perfect food which it is for baby caps i'm up for a human being. on a few years ago you joined a law suit suing the california milk or and over there happy cows come from california adds what was particularly misleading to you about that ad campaign everything that they had pictures a cows grazing in beautiful pasture land and those and said milk a happy cows produce great cheese and bike of california cheese those as were taken in auckland new zealand the photographs were good because the whole california milk production system is based in the central valley and it's dry there it's all dry feed lots those cows never see a blade of grass in their entire lives and the ads had catchy little lines like so much grass so little time you know so much b.s.

really in your eyes is there any way to produce dairy products or manly. yes but only small scale it would have to be organic and it's still not something that the human body needs or should have reacted to it for optimum nutrition and certainly it can be done in a far more humane way than the industry in the united states as it has developed it can be done without genetically engineered growth hormones it can be done without biotechs although currently eighty percent of the dairy products produced in the united states contain antibiotic residues. so there are ways it can be improved but for the consumer i think the less dairy products in your diet the healthier you're going to be you're also endorsing a campaign on your website to boycott coca-cola i want to give our viewers some examples of products they might be surprise or produced by the company and why people should join the boycott. yes we are calling for

a boycott of coca-cola as natural brands coca-cola owns honest tea they own other quality of zico coconut water they own all of a variety of purity oranges another one vitamin waters and other these are brands that people in the natural foods people shop at whole foods markets and want their food to pieces of lead produced well tended by they don't buy a lot of coca-cola per se but they buy these other products that are owned by usually not knowing they're owned by time and then the profits from our purchase of honesty in these other products go to coca-cola and coke has been using their income streams. to fight g.m.o. labeling we're going to meet with coca-cola executives hopefully the president soon and say look stop funding these efforts stop carrying monsanto's water i'm right there with you and john roberts amazing to talk to you author social activism to

get on again and talk about a lot more and thanks so much thank you. breaking news guys another american institution is teetering on the edge of collapse see last week the u.s.p.s. reported a nearly two billion dollar loss for the quarter and while people point to the rise of digital communication as the main factor behind the scenes is a far more insidious reason the us has a standing on its last legs or break it all down our to political commentator sand sacks alone on man so what did congress do back in two thousand and six to put the usenets postal service in such dire straits well they passed this law called the postal accountability and hence minox and what the bill basically did is it forced the post office to set up this new retire the health benefits program which seems all well and good set up this program to fund health benefits for future retirees unfortunately they require the post office to fund it seventy five years into the

future essentially paying for benefits for people who haven't even been born yet or people who are babies and have no thought about working for the post office yet and that means that the post office only has to pay five in the law require the post office to prefund this huge benefit that goes seventy five years in the future in a matter of just ten to fifteen years so the post office had to do is spend five billion dollars every year contributing to this fund a requirement that no other government agency or business has ever had to comply with and what you see is in two thousand and six the post office is making money and they have been profitable for the last four years as well two thousand and six was the peak mail volume year for the post office but this law is passed requiring them to contribute five billion dollars every year and when you see after that is they lose five billion dollars and they continue losing year in and year out from there and you start hearing these calls suddenly from conservatives saying we need to privatized the post office this is a disaster. just it's actually really devastating sam as someone who mails

a lot of artwork out is fed act. like painting these congressmen to pass these outrageous bill that is that is there like a lobby i mean and of course privatization is always this is the argument that it's good for you know it's put in a free market however for this subject it's not better right and i think privatization is a lot of these people are saying the word privatization but that's not really the right word because the post office is not a government agency itself funded it relies on stamps to to finance all of its costs so when they say privatization they're making everyone think that at some agency that's funded by taxpayers funded by the government not true at all what they really want is corporatization what they really want as you see the post office it's got a half million united workers they all collect pretty decent wages and the you see these these vulture capitalists want to get their hands on this billion dollar multibillion dollar year industry of mail so fed ex and u.p.s. that have high overhead costs to pay c.e.o.'s and that are in the process yes u.p.s. and fed ex i have unions but these are private sector companies and we see the way

the private sector unions are growing so once you can move over in that direction you can start crushing those unions as well so i see it more as corporatization what's going on here how can people make more money off mailing letters or cross right that wages are clearly lower exciter i want to play a clip from representative peter de fazio talking about this really interesting. i guess we've become the first developed nation on earth without a postal service just like we're the only developed industrial nation on earth without universal health care where the best. love that what can we do to save us national treasure sam easy you change this law that was passed in two thousand and six you ease the burden of five billion dollars a year the post office has to pay every year plus there's been a report showing that they've paid anywhere between twenty five and seventy five billion dollars overpayment to a retirement system at the treasury department has them fix these accounting things in the post office will be profitable instead you see lawmakers looking to end

sixty delivered by big delivery closing lots of post offices less. massive workers all the wrong idea it's really unfortunate we need to we need to step up sam sachs really appreciate you coming on and that's our show you guys join me again tomorrow want to read the set again. the interview. a little to.

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the leaders of russia and china toast one of the largest energy deals ever agreed with a massive four hundred billion dollars. these are the latest pictures of a british journalist reporting for r.t. has been detained by pro-government forces in eastern ukraine his fate has been unknown for over twenty hours now. and the russian journalist detained in a similar way remain in custody human rights watch has joined calls for the immediate release which has been ignored by so far. also the u.n. official urges an investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers after video footage shows the moment israeli soldiers allegedly opened fire on a rally with live ammunition.

from our studio center here in moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day signed sealed delivered russia will be spending or so it should say sending billions of dollars of gas over the border to china for the next thirty years after a decade of haggling and negotiating the presidents of the two nations have finally put pen to paper and agreed one of the largest energy deals in the sentry. reports . yes the multi-billion dollar deal has finally been struck here in shanghai there are smiles all round there was a little bit of attention because no one quite knew if it was going to come to the compromise that both russia and china wanted we know that china wanted a bargain and russia was standing firm on the price that they were asking for so this deal would change the face of the global gas industry as we know it and i'm

sure europe is looking on rather cautiously at the moment because they too have been trying to diversify their trade in this will perhaps give europe a little less leverage in terms of pricing with russia from now on so that's one to watch you know there's been tensions with the sanctions going on as well so there's politics at play involved with this deal and that's why everyone has been involved and it's great timing for china because we know they've got a one point three billion people population and they are gas guzzlers the biggest consumer and russia has the biggest reserves of natural gas that's what china wants to get involved with at the moment is a huge economic expansion that china has experienced over the last three decades has come at a cost and that cost is pollution you can really feel it in the air is a somewhat cool to small get it's gray and misty and they want to move towards a cleaner air which is a natural gas it's a win win situation at the moment and russia is looking eastwards we must remember

russia is part of europe as well as asia. so here we have a mega deal worth four hundred billion dollars just how big is that let's put it in context four hundred billion is roughly the g.d.p. of the e.u.'s third largest country sweden or twice the value of everything cattle or produces in a year with that money you can send sixteen thousand space tourists to the stars or you could buy seventeen million brand new volkswagen golds and that's put in the line of one hundred dollar bills would reach to the moon and back and then back to the moon again dr richard weddings from the institute of economic affairs says russia now has access to vast asian markets i think it has huge symbolic significance it reflects a major shift in global trade patterns with eurasian countries increasingly trading amongst themselves rather than with the west and of course there's enormous potential for much more deals like this with potential for russia to export

hydroelectricity other commodities oil and high tech goods in maternal mass manufactured goods from china so this could be just the beginning this will diversify russia's options it means it can send a lot more of its gas and oil east and there's potential with new pipelines coming on stream to increase the supply in order of my beaches so obviously in the medium term this is going to weaken europe's hand in terms of sanctions. well we'll continue to cover the russian president's visit to shanghai right here keep in touch for the latest updates and of course for expert opinion analysis and much more you're watching r.t. international. to view all over a billion people russia china ready join r.t. in shanghai for the deal of the century. to ukraine now where the fate of journalists captured by pro-government forces is causing growing concern we're still trying to get word on the whereabouts of graham phillips

a british journalist who has contributed to recent r.t. reports from the east of the country we have video of him taken moments before he was detained by the government forces and one of the checkpoints in the east of the country. where here you can see men stopping graham and asking for his i.d. the man who filmed this is concerned for his safety and asked us to delete even his voice from the footage phillips detention and disappearance came shortly after an online campaign by pro-government activists to have been found and deported but we haven't heard from our colleague for twenty four hours now but r.t. has been working hard to find out where he is what our phone calls to ukraine are being redirected over and over again ukraine's interior ministry told us that phillips was detained by the defense ministry forces when we reached them they said it was the national guard which then told us it wasn't involved at all ukraine

security services who according to our sources question the journalists hung up as soon as they heard russian speech now we're told is on his way to the u.k. consulate in kiev but the consulate itself says it doesn't know whether he's on his way or not. what we also contacted the u.k. foreign office because he is a british citizen they are aware of the situation but in a reference to r.t. said they do not work with third parties in incidents like this we also sent an open letter to the u.k. media which has mostly ignored the arrest and here's an extract of the text it suggests that the russian media is more concerned about the fate of the u.k. citizen than the british media or politicians perhaps a troubling sign for journalism in the u.k. it also stresses that phillips being a reporter matters more than where he comes from. well this detention is just the latest incident where journalists have been harassed and stopped from doing their job in ukraine to russian journalists from life news t.v.

channel were also captured by government forces three days ago the latest on their situation is that the authorities in kiev are banning observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe to visit them and until now this has been the only video documentation of what happened to them you see them really want to ground at gunpoint while their belongings searched and now this message by one of the journalists filmed by his captors has just been released. but it is that you know. when crossing the border it gives the true purpose of our visits and said we had come to attend the concerts were left old peoples identifying us as journalists in moscow in order to cross the border from kiev we went to then yes there we got permission from the representatives of the then yes people's republic to report on the referendum and other issues after that we arrived in the city of criminal risk to cover the may the eleventh referendum and its results in the following days were incriminatory crew porting on the events in and around it. but numerous accounts of other journalists from russia suggest that

concealing the true purpose of their visit is often the only way to actually get into ukraine crews from russia even with all the relevant papers being denied entrance to the country in an almost daily basis with our colleagues from hotties arabic channel being the latest example the journalists had accreditation to cover the upcoming presidential election but were turned around at the airport as soon as the border guards learnt who they were we have the accreditation from the central election commission from ukraine for us to cover the elections it's not the reason for them to enter ukraine if you're i russian journalist if you're a russian journalist if you hold then this. paper is that so prove that you are journalist. because there's a lot of questions and they do ask and eventually made this like red mark in my passports this access denied in its response to journalists rights being violated

in ukraine the u.s. failed to condemn what has been happening not only that but the state department went as far as voicing doubts that the life news crew for example were journalists at all. do you rule out the possibility that it's the reporting that they do and the outlet the feel the eight with with that's what got them detained well i think the information i just outlined including their the fact that they were apparently carrying men portable aircraft missiles in their trunk i think it's relevant information to consider the united states asking for clarification on whether they are actually bona fide journalists. if they all you would call them are there sure are focuses more on call used instead of in a press on the release of the international and ukrainian journalists who have been detained by russian separatists many for weeks with washington expressing doubt about who these journalists are we've taken

a look at their work record to help the state department out i'm not such a code has over fifteen years' experience as a video and photo reporter some of his most prominent professional the judgments of photos of russian tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky the first to be taken after he was jailed so i think it also took pictures during the egyptian revolution in the heart of car over here some of his photos from civil war torn libya oleg said yeah i can although he's less field experience as also covered some major stories he volunteered to cover or grab bombing at the end of twenty thirteen was also one of the journalists working in kiev's independence square during the sniper attacks in february this year. where human rights watch is one of the few international organizations to call for the journalists release and i spoke to rachel demba who's with the group in moscow and she said they've got no response from kenya. think that any time that the journalists are detained or are in custody and there is no information no specific official information about their whereabouts. no access to

them for their lawyers or in the case of graham phillips to consular services and also in the case of the british consulate in the case of. and this is to the russian consulate there's always cause concern there's always cause for concern though the most important point is that these people these three journalists should be immediate relief immediately released and their fate and their whereabouts have to be made known and and if there are any charges against them they should be made clear. russian troops are continuing to leave areas near the ukrainian border of let me putin says he hopes they would draw will help kids hold an upcoming presidential election he added western partners should be able to see the russian forces on the move from high above one of the latest on r.t. dot com. the ones tightly knit while the whistle blows on rivals wiki leaks unleashes

a twitter campaign against its former glenn greenwald coming up you can find out why two of the big players a locking horns about how much information they should reveal. a fraud once analogy it is true. but they can make one feel more now. so they ought to feel right at home today with more and elegies all those up us so . join me. in park and. contribute. only on.

the un's top official has called for an investigation into the killing of two. teenagers video footage appeared online showing the moment they were shot and this video was taken during a protest which is really security forces described as a violent local human rights groups report that eyewitnesses were troops using live ammunition but israel denies it saying the video was doctored is ready journalist and political activist who writes for the website which published this video and he

says there's still more evidence to prove that military personnel all guilty. the army has denied using live rounds but the autopsies of the bodies of these young teenagers show that they were shocked at the diagrams and witnesses on the scene say the same the clip is indeed edited but journalists and human rights activists that have seen the entire video hours and hours of several c.c.t.v. cameras in that area say that there was nothing in that area around where the teens were worthy was shot to justify any kind of violence that was used by the army as seen in the video is much more violence than used by the demonstrators and as seen in this video even when the soldiers are not threatened told this is part of the israeli campaign to oppress any sort of resistance to the occupation in the occupied territories is a look at just some of what we've got lined up at the moment for you on r.t. dot com a website abandoning their posts for

a story of how almost every worker fled during focus sheen those two thousand and eleven meltdown in japan leaving aside almost all manned and out of control one that. the new study suggests an alarming number of french people are resorting to antidepressants and other mood stabilizers to get through life more dot com. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still pens tear jerking poetry keep. nora. we post only what matters. to your facebook news feed. a huge dispute is brewing between two titans of the whistleblower community we could leaks and glenn

greenwald the journalist to gain access to documents leaked by edward snowden now the two are at loggerheads over recent revelations the n.s.a. has extensively spied on five foreign countries and in two of those nations it appears every single phone call was recorded the greatest amount of communication with gathered from the bahamas former guardian journalist glenn greenwald said that the same is true of another country but he will not name that one saying it could put lives in danger we could leak has condemned that decision as censorship and promises to reveal the name of the second nation targeted within seventy two hours . has been investigating. glenn greenwald and some of his colleagues published this story and alleging that the us were intercepting recording and archiving pretty much every move all phone call on the island nation of the bahamas and they went on in the articles to say that there were similar things taking place in four of the

countries and they named three of them mexico is the philippines and kenya they withheld the name of that final country because they said there were serious concerns that it could put lives at risk and now wiki leaks took to their twitter account to slam that this decision asking when did true published information ever harm innocence now this twitter spat ensued remember that wiki leaks is widely believed to be run by julian a songe himself glenn greenwald has said that the n.s.a. had aggressively urged them to suppress the names of the countries which they've refused but in this case of this one country there was a genuine belief that harm could be caused wiki leaks would not responding well to that and then we saw this bombshell dropped which was that they said that they would reveal the name of the country that was being a mass recorded in seventy two hours there is very serious questions raised here not least the claims the greenwald and snowden have made that the snowden documents

are in safe hands there's a sign chaffed these documents will that name be revealed it was about thirty six hours ago that we had that deadline set another thirty six hours of about roughly to go will be revealed you're going to have to stay ching's to find out form and modify vision and emotions so that we hold even parts of leaked information is unacceptable. the whistleblower takes a risk they take certain information which they feel is very much in the public interest which they assess is probably not going to harm anyone or put any lives at risk and they want it published so as soon as you get any sort of mainstream media or media outlet deciding to take it upon themselves to decide what is being published then we have a sort of de facto censorship again it was snowden has risked his life to get this information out there he thought it was important enough to do that and i think it would only be fair for that information to come out unfortunately the spat has

created a bit of a sideline away from the actual meat of the disclosures and future disclosures and we're seeing this sort of this is acting as a blockage for getting information out there which we the people need to know and so i hope we can be resolved but every which way whistleblowers will continue to come out as long as there is corruption and no other alternative for them. more news from around the world in brief an hour seventeen people have reportedly been killed in a nigerian village attack carried out by the local it's a risk group book around the village of alexander was situated in the country's northeast and is not far from the region where extremists kidnapped some two hundred schoolgirls a month ago attack also comes a day after a double blast of the central city of just killed at least in the city two bombings also blamed a book on targeted a local market and hospital a second explosion time to kill rescue workers who rushed to the scene. egypt's former president hosni mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for

embezzlement quote found guilty of stealing more than seventy million dollars from state farm's while he was in power of barak's two sons were also found guilty receiving four years behind bars eighty six year old rule egypt for three decades in two thousand and eleven when he was ousted in a mass uprising. that of. serbia and bosnia will both appeal for international financial help following the worst floods ever recorded in the balkans at least forty people have been killed and some one point six million across the region have been affected and bosnia officials predict damage from the floods will cost more than the entire bosnian war record rainfall last week triggered massive landslides and caused resistant version of banks' water levels are now seen you know. also in a world update. in taiwan a university student attacked passengers with a knife aboard a subway train in the capital to pay killing four people and injuring dozens to an evening rush hour i wouldn't say passengers managed to restrain the attacker before

the train arrived to make station police arrive within minutes to arrest him and the man is reportedly confessed to plotting the attack since childhood. the u.s. inmate has had a narrow escape from death by lethal injection after a series of last minute court flip flops earlier he was just minutes away from being executed despite a criminal attorneys claims the death would be excruciating due to a rare birth defect what is reported has been following the case. it's been criticized as torture is inhumane and more apparent another u.s. execution by lethal injection was postponed however at the very last minute missouri inmate russell who was scheduled to be put to death when state put his attorneys as well as civil rights groups were appealing to have the procedure delayed lawyers representing the forty six year old inmate say he suffers from a rare medical condition that causes a weekend and malformed blood vessels as well as tumors in his nose and throat the concern is that book who will end up experiencing prolonging suffering during the

killing suffering similar to last month's botched execution of oklahoma inmate clayton lockett a typical execution should take no more than ten minutes but after lockett was injected he endured pain for forty three minutes before suffering a massive heart attack witnesses say lockett was withering around even telling doctors something's wrong the a.c.l.u. has filed a petition requesting that book lose upcoming execution be delayed until an independent investigation surrounding the drugs being used can be completed contact pharmacies are not regulated the same way that it is traditional manufacturers are and it is better than an emanation problem with some of the drug that come out of this country crimes because admits there is chris and this is a cover that oklahoma others because of their secrets we don't know where the drugs are coming from you know how they're being made or the judge said you know for all we know this could be a high school chemistry class taking the drugs that are there are being used in the

execution and that compounded the risk emanation. could see that kind of education abuse in the past in january and ohio in may reportedly took twenty five minutes to die by injection gasping repeatedly as he laid on the stretcher that c. month in oklahoma a prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being legally in joplin missouri officials say they planned. he was compound did control barber to lose at secure said it is the same drug that has proved problematic during previous telling us about the wanted his execution to be videotaped in the event something goes wrong that request was denied by a us federal judge forty from new york. are. five men to being found guilty of involvement in the murder of the russian journalist anna politkovskaya among them were former policeman who helped track the victim four were found guilty of planning the killing and one far in the shot that killed it will be sentenced

later mr jennings and of protocol scott who wrote about human rights violations was killed in two thousand and six in the lobby of a moscow apartment building family is now also seeking one hundred fifty thousand dollars compensation. so that brings up today for the moment but with more news in just over half an hour from now next it is boom bust on international. this month show the line between the truth and reality becomes even more blurred

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industries. will pay ninety five dollars for each share of directv twenty eight dollars fifty six cash sixty six dollars and fifty cents stock split that's ten percent more than directv is closing price on may sixteenth the last trading day before the deal was and out i don't like this deal do i think this deal will get through absolutely because of the issue of. bank consolidation where regulators are most sensitive a.t.m. t. and direct t.v. are free and clear since directv doesn't have any broadband presence but if u.s. regulators approve this deal it puts paid to the idea that consolidation for consolidation sake is a reasonable business strategy the message real capitalism in which companies spend money on world class customer service innovation increasing broadband speeds where the u.s. lags and growing the business organically is out instead crony capitalism where

merging to get as big as possible to extract rents from customers and suppliers and then lobbying to have regulators look the other way and play hands off is the way to go as for a c n t how does this deal even make sense except to extract fees from content providers there are no operational efficiencies like there are in the proposed comcast time warner cable merger that prompted this deal the only rationale i've seen is that the deal gives a t.n.t. a national t.v. offering to mess with its integrated mobile fixed on an internet bundle but even here you have to remember that eighteen t. already has a cable t.v. service called the universe and this deal makes that service obsolete eliminating yet one more competitor now when eighteen he was pressing hard for its planned merger with t. mobile it made all sorts of claims about how that deal would be good for competition but the deal was blocked and subsequently t. mobile went to be a major source of consumer seeding with its carrier strategy t.-mo lowered

prices and unbundled the handset subsidy for forcing the other us mobile carriers to respond in kind it was clear from the start that more people the more people move to the lower the no contract on subsidized handset model the more price sensitive customers would be the result lower contract fees and lower mobile handset prices it's hard to imagine. that forty eight point five billion dollars merger with directv will in it will result in increased competition that benefits consumers but of course just as with the t. mobile deal you can but eighteen two will do its best to prove this deal works because customers as well as it does for eighty and t. and direc t.v. i don't buy it and neither should you.

lose them is a product of collusion between the government and big economic players i talked about in the headlines story just to get a deeper understanding of how special interest and economic elite influence policies and government we spoke to american economists paul craig roberts has consistently criticized cronyism in american politics and economics dr roberts is a co-founder of reaganomics served as the assistant secretary of the treasury under reagan and it's been an editor and columnist for the wall street journal businessweek and scripps howard news service among many other publications and started the conversation discussing the imbalance between the influence of the powerful and the influence of the broader electorate take a look. you know we're guarding democracy in a paper titled testing theories of american politics interest groups and average citizens this was published published last month then martin gill and princeton

professor and benjamin page a professor at northwestern they looked at the u.s. political system and their conclusion was that economic elites and organized groups represent business interests representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on u.s. government policy while mass based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence now does that conclusion surprise you at all. no there would have. thirty years ago forty years ago but not now and is absolutely true i'm in eyewitnesses and written about it so many times and i'm very glad to have all of not columns for the last ten to twenty years confirmed not least to scholars. it's not at all surprising the polypill groups well the ones with the money and the ability to align themselves with us foreign policy for example wall street was a great looting mechanism. the military security complex the

agribusiness monsanto all of those people the oil timber and mining extractive industries and of course the israel lobby itself these are the powerful interest groups that essentially determine the domestic and foreign economic policy and the two scholars that you named they made the point in very strongly that. community interest groups and citizens have zero him put into the formation of policy. this is been confirmed by in other ways aaron recently the task was made to lead and sent out to congressional offices and one asked for a meeting with representatives with one with a collection of donors and the other asked for a meeting with a collection of community representatives well the first lot i got the responses

they were all willing to meet with donas they were very interested to me where the you know community interest groups from their constituents. well i mean maybe the trick is to say that you're going to be a downer get him in the rum and you know give him a couple sons you know you're going to based on a husky speaking of special interest former u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner is that with a new book called stress test everyone's talking about it this week and it's about his time in office dealing with the u.s. banking systems in near collapse now he is quoted saying i would say that there's lots of messiness and unpleasantness an awkward mess and a lot of unjust collateral beneficiaries of our rescue however geithner believes his actions during the crisis have been vindicated by the passage of time what do you make of this. itself apologetics that there was no reason not to let these four banks fail except that the treasury and the federal reserve the

regulatory agencies were being run by the former exec too so the banks. that's the only reason they were allowed to fail and they obviously should have sailed there would have been far cheaper. on a taxpayer it would not have disrupted the international monitors system nearly as much as four or five or however many years it's been of quantitative easing you know creating as many as a true billion dollars a year. in the rigged. market the rigged. stock market rigged to go market none of these things would have been necessary if they just let the banks fail and it would've been a very big. decline in affecting ordinary people who with all of those derivatives bets that the banks had was one another that would have been the casualty would hurt

a few people's reputations and wiped out wills some of the shareholders in those big banks but that would have been the extent of the damage so it should have failed and i think guy who knows that team. part of the inside crowd and you can't really turn on your own if you really think it's that simple that these people don't want their former colleagues and buddies to go out of business. well they were themselves the former executives right ran the by so. you know how many people stand up and damn themselves change very soon by the. jason not not very often don't see it often enough i want to ask you when it comes to special interest there's the voting public as well and take the auto bailouts for example now the bailouts of chrysler and g.m. causing us taxpayers a lot of money but what about all the manufacturing jobs the bailout saved what about those well we don't know that it did it did save them but

let's assume it did. what interests me is all the jobs lost to offshoring and do we we now have this ploy. to drum the after college. or career insight. we just had this report in what took twenty years that eighty three percent of college students right now as of april don't have a job lined up for the many graduation. eighty three percent. of the current graduates in american colleges and universities as of april they have no jobs or there may graduation no when i was current to college this was impossible for me everybody had two or three jobs but now what about in two thousand francs though what were the job offers then i think about that might be a you know a fair comparison to see what it was before the crisis opposed to now how many i

don't know i don't have that information here. now that was still part of the boom for the new mary goes the. the decline didn't begin i think until december of two thousand and seven and it showed up very strongly in two thousand and eight so probably more but the offshoring has been really strong in the twenty first century so it was already eroding the ability of people to found work and not just the offshoring because what the corporations do they then claim that there's a shortage of qualified people and so they need h one b. . visas to bring in and foreign workers because they can hire them a lot cheaper. and the workers are essentially like indentured

servants and they can't really offer any john oh wow. resistant to work conditions but so between the foreign workers who were brought in to work in the all sure job situation for merck and university graduate she's been climbing very rapidly your current year. cost that was economist and former assistant treasury secretary dr paul craig roberts. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we would turn chris martenson of peak prosperity dot com will be on the show to talk about how investors should approach risk in the wake of the financial crisis and rising energy costs and today's big deal i'm going to sit down with political commentator stan sachs to talk about the latest house hearing on net neutrality as we go to break here the closing numbers at the bell.

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comments now i. want to get to the top of my. list. there are many indicators that help forecasters tried the direction of the world economy but chris martenson of peak prosperity dot com believes that in the end the future doesn't quite look as bright as it did before the crash with high energy costs and weak growth markets and believe the system is highly vulnerable and the risks are actually larger than before the crisis for potentially bad things to happen there and spoke to him our concern about what he recommends that people do she first asked him what his best ideas are now in terms of asset allocation and

other types of things of that nature take a look. when we look at one of the things we like to do it peak prosperity is is figure out how to get people to change their definition of investing and we've been marketed to for a long time that investing simply means you take your money and you send it to wall street it goes into a four a one k. and somebody manages it and that's that's what happens very passive instead we think the time has come to pull that money back take it out of that anonymity of wall street and put it into more face to face direct things that you can understand there are double and triple digit investments people can make in their own home if they happen to own one relating to energy efficiency also energy production and things like that where they are defined returns that people can get i consider those extraordinarily good investments we also advise that anybody who's got some sort of a high interest yielding debt on their on their books that they should get rid of that if you have credit card debt if you have student loans if you have car loans

even a mortgage at these generationally low rates if you're getting three and a half percent you're paying on your mortgage if you can't earn that in the marketplace in a safe way you might as well pay that off so getting out of debt we feel is really really important because one of the themes here is that when you have rising resource costs food and fuel shelter would be that rent or or your overall mortgage payment is those start to rise up but your income stays flat you're just getting squeezed and debt is a stone cold killer when you've got that kind of a situation rising up it's basically stagflation for everybody but the point one percent at this stage what we don't like when we're looking across this landscape is we see everything that we would characterize as a risk or a pressure on the international financial system is now larger than it was in two thousand and eight and those pressures are things like derivatives are one hundred trillion higher the too big to fail banks are even larger sovereign debts are higher not lower we have all time highs now in consumer debt back on the on the books and what we don't have to support all of those things is that resumption of

world growth which our hypothesis is we are not going to see that with oil over hundred one. dollars a barrel which we think is a permanent condition so that's the pressures we see building up resources aren't there in the cheap ways and amounts we need to have the growth that can sustain all of this additional debt and leverage that we're piling back into the system and that's a scenario i can't control that you can't nobody listening to this can what you can control is how exposed you are in case that scenario doesn't work out and that's where getting out of debt helps that's where investing in your homestead growing some of your own food if possible those sorts of things if you can do those those are really good at adding resilience into your personal landscape and i got to ask you piers these are some pretty gloomy expectations that the hell out of the room for optimism there so point blank what is this all going to happen when is he going to come crashing down i wish i knew that the whole economy is a is a complex system in the one thing scientists know about complex systems one of the big things that you can't predict when they're going to let go or how big the event

is going to be it's like earthquakes you know we've been studying earthquakes forever but it's still defies us when any fault is going to let go or how big the earthquakes going to be but we can tell you that if it hasn't let go in a defined period when it should have released the chance of a bigger earthquake coming sooner is higher and lower and so that's what we're looking at we look into this into this world landscape we think that the chance of a financial earthquake is now higher not lower for the reasons i just described and now that is the gloomy part if you are dependent on that system maintaining itself perfectly as it is we believe that there's actually an extraordinary amount of opportunity wrapped into the story as well but the first thing you have to understand is the direction the story is really going what are the biggest geo political and economic risks that investors will face over the next six to twelve months short term. well if it's aaron that we're going to have some sort of an accident you know you got japan pushing their their excel rate or to the floor just hoping beyond hope that they can wreck the end or least the base of the further

they might succeed beyond their wildest dreams we still don't know how this whole thing is going to play out in europe around the ukraine situation because of the russia aligning with china china's now off in the south china sea you know putting a drill rig in a place that vietnam is not happy with so there are a lot of geo political tensions any one of those could become the spark or in this case when you say the pin because we believe that we're in a in a in a large central bank inspired bubble set of bubbles we've got bubbles and real estate again to clean the high end market we've got bubbles and equities everybody seems to be talking about that now and we have by those most importantly in our bond markets when you look at whether it's sovereign debt trading at all time low yields even for for spain are you kidding me and we have jumped at trading with five percent range in a five handle so when we look at all of those things we think that those bubbles like any bubbles are just in search of the pin will it be the japanese yen letting go will it be the geopolitical situation ukraine or something entirely different we don't know we just think it's

a risk and so people need to be aware of those risks and position themselves accordingly and for us that means taking some of the money away from or taking some of your capital investment stored well out of that system and trying to get it into some other part of the system that didn't politics that monetary policy as conducted right now are being driven in any substantial way by peak resource dynamics. now in the western world that i've detected at this point china absolutely as it has gotten into the story a number of other countries are behaving as if they understood peak resources right so you got china out there with their magic checkbook buying everything they can seemingly fairly priced and sensitive they're updating everybody for land in africa you know copper resources you name it now now that china i think obviously understands it much better than my own country i think my country is is expecting that the markets will always sort of be there and to provide whatever we need when we need it we just have to pay for it that's possibly true but when we just look at the geo political situation right now and round one resource energy the big piece

of news that most people missed was a year ago russia and china signed a very major deal which was going to be putting basically twenty percent to start twenty percent of all the current russian gas exports were going to be redirected towards china now russia doesn't have the capability just turn a knob and get twenty percent more gas out of their field so the question that that got thrown under the table last year was where does that twenty percent come from more accurately who doesn't get that twenty percent and that twenty percent could go up to thirty three percent in the next few years after they start shipping to china so this is a really really big story this is why we're seeing a little bit of a disconnect between germany and the german people and particularly the german industrialists and corporations they're starting to really disconnect from the larger political story that angle of merkel and obama seem to want to carry which is that they want to teach putin a lesson of some sort it's a very dangerous game that's being played and here's the punch line of the story

the united states can only defend what we consider to be our interests in that region of the world by getting there by boat china and russia can both walk to the places involved. that was chris martenson founder of peak prosperity dot com and now time for today's big deal. in today's big deal i'm joined by our political commentator. to discuss the latest testimony as you see chairman tom wheeler at the house energy and commerce subcommittee. now the f.c.c. has made many headlines recently because of its new proposal on the trial rules this proposal has received a lot of public criticism because it would allow broadband providers to strike deals that would prioritize some internet traffic over others the deal is not yet

finalized right now though it is in the comment phase but today f.c.c. chairman testified on the issue of net neutrality so tell me about the testimony what did we say and what was the tenor of the conversation that already is opening statements chairman realer said right now there are new rules in place there's no walls in congress nothing keeping in place a free and open internet you know for net neutrality back in january the court struck down what rules the f.c.c. had created he talks is though he is a supporter of net neutrality and he claims he is he says that he supports a free and open internet he supports one internet that when a consumer goes to the internet service provider and pays for internet they're getting one new pathway in which they have access to the entire. world wide web so when he's going through this rulemaking process and last week they passed this

proposal through to which starts the public comment phase and we're not going to get any votes on final rules of the f.c.c. probably until september he's keeping that in mind how to preserve this idea of one internet that's continues to be free and open although the testimony in the back and forth with members of congress today in the house energy and commerce subcommittee assured the. makers are pretty skeptical of the pro cheese taking well that's my question you know in terms of the democrats and republicans my understanding is that they both had some pushback and some questions for about that but for different reasons can you tell us a little bit about that really want to break down two main issues here one of them is this idea of paid prioritization that's the sort of deals we've seen in the last few months with netflix reaching out to comcast and horizon and basically paying these internet service providers extra money to get a more direct route to customers. chairman wheeler's proposal seems to allow

this sort of paid prioritization he says will look at it on a case to case basis as long as it doesn't result in other content being blocked and is long as it's commercially reasonable which seems to be this very term that nobody quite knows how that's divined and democrats had a problem with this idea of even allowing any sort of pay prioritization they're saying that that's going to fundamentally undermine net neutrality rules on the other side you've got republicans who are objecting to the proposal because it floats the idea of reclassifying the internet right now the internet's classified as the sort of information system which gives the f.c.c. not much leeway to regulate resit were to be reclassified as a public utility like a phone company the f.c.c. would have a lot more ability to regulate that but this is clearly something that republicans who are against most forms of regulation are very skeptical about him a voice that cern's at what hearing you know it seems to me that when you think

about the fact that this was struck down arguably you could say that will is working within the rules that were established by the court so you know proponents of net neutrality why don't they actually go to the court rather than go to legislation rather than focusing on the f.c.c. because it's congress you know this congress isn't causing anything especially on an issue as contentious as net neutrality you can really see party breakdowns on on whether or not you support the f.c.c. taking more action in preserving this free open internet and preventing companies from discriminating and charging. content providers more than one set of content providers more than the other set of content providers so congress is going to do anything ultimately it's going to be up to the f.c.c. here over the next four months in this public comment period in the hearings we're going to have in congress about this are going to be important on which way chairman wheeler. and the other member commissioners on the commission will eventually vote. you know i had one more question but i think that we're running

out of time. let me ask you really quickly though do you think that this whole proposal is actually going to be enough or will you have to see regulation down the fifteen so why don't the pay per decision i think the concerns the democratic lawmakers put forward that this is going to fundamentally undermine the right one shoe allow this that's where the blood dollars are going to go to which means these regular lanes of traffic are going to degrade and eventually this content providers are going to deal with slower traffic if they can't afford the fast lanes thank you sam that was very informative i appreciate it and that's all for now for all of us had boom bust thanks for watching and we'll see you next.

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