now we're talking about edward snowden to the only person that is. i don't have access to him at the moment and that's his lawyer on the. spicier budgeting thank you very much for being with us on the program today don't know we've been waiting a long time to get at least some information about snowden and his life i know he doesn't give interviews and he doesn't talk to the media why is that. well at this point it is his choice pretty much you have to understand that he found himself in a very tough situation. his position may change over time but right now he's adapting to his new circumstances studying russian reading russian classics in english because naturally he hasn't been able to master the language yet. so this point that's the choice he has made all right so it's his personal choice it's not like somebody told him not to talk to the media and yours of course not trust me but it was his own choice just like it was his choice to open the eyes of the world and reveal the truth about the us intelligence spying on americans and other people aro

edward snowden is a real hero he's exposed to what the n.s.a. and the u.s. surveillance so it has been doing and what they have been doing its entirely inappropriate they've been spying on ordinary private individuals and ordinary companies here in the u.s. in russia and everywhere that's not appropriate edward snowden exposed and he's a hero you know some good i would just like to thank you i also consider edward a hero on that he's really a hero because he didn't do to make money he did what you thought was right when you so that we would understand was going on and know the real story not just was being told to us about human rights so thank you very much for doing this for snowden. it's going to shift thank you. so i just spoke to kristin armstrong a member of the european parliament one of those who nominated snowden for the prize for freedom of thought but let's go back to russia are you his only friend who does it talk to anyone else here in russia or are you the only person he talks to at this point. north of well as for his communication with the ou

plus, is he still offering asylum to edward snowden. joins us on talk to al jazeera. >> president morales, it is great to meet you, and have this opportunity to speak to you. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much for this opportunity to speak with you about different aspects that have to do with the life from the country, the region, and the continent. >> our pleasure. in your recent comments, to the united nations general assembly. you suggested that the u.n. should be moved from your city. why do you feel that way? because first, air pie rassey, black male, visas. even some ministers with a president, they don't get visas. i get a visa for four, five, seven days. they consider the cuban president as the promoter of terrorism? what's more, here sometimes you have a shootings, and like there have been in the last few years, and on the other hand, the resolutions that are passed here are not respected by the host country of the united nations. they have done an economic blockade on cuba. not to have the blackmail, and farce th

edward snowden flies to hong kong. then your columnist glenn greenwald, the filmmaker, another reporter went to hong kong to meet with edward snowden. >> there were two weeks when they were all in the same hotel. time forrather unreal anyone that has watched it. agents on the run. it was important for me that there was a guardian reporter in the room along with glenn and laura. reporter thatish had been with the guardian for years. very experienced, not easily impressed. between them, they started to go through this stash of material that snowden had with him. we had to establish that he was who he said he was, the material was what he said it was. at the end of two weeks, we started to publish based on that. to publish what first, what has continued to come out, how was that decided on? >> we needed some help from snowden on what he thought we should be you reported. these are not documents in which stories show themselves. this is a complex world. a lot is written in acronym, if had to beso we initially guided to som

whistleblower edward snowden are making some institutions very nervous joe's hopkins university in the us made a resident resident cryptographer take down the block post about america's spying program warning he might need a lawyer if he didn't do as he was told and in an interview to see matthew green explained the boat has found out about this advance program. what we learned is that the n.s.a. has a hard time breaking cripps and so what they've done is they've actually tried to take the products that are that perform and corruption and make them worse make the weaker so that it's easier for them to break that encryption the n.s.a. is is willing to make us if you're a little bit weaker because remember it's not just you know don u.s. citizens are using these products it's americans too and they're willing to you know in a sense put our credibility on the line our tire industry on the line in order to access that communications of whoever it is they want to listen to we have a big debate ahead of us how much spying i mean there is there's a range anywhere from zero percent spying to o

snowden was on in route to russia until two hours before that plane landed and how did edward snowden get to russia this is what he had to say about that topic. because he spits. and then snowden was on route to latin america via russia and what happened next there was a leak i hope i don't offend u.s. security agencies and diplomats because they could have handled this issue in a move professional way instead of allowing him to enter a country where would be easy for them to get him they intimidated everybody latin america european countries everybody and as a result naturally he stayed. and became stranded in russia. if it should be pointed out the putin did it granted asylum to edward snowden on the condition that he not release any more documents that would harm us russian relations or do any damage to russia's position so optimism from the president about us russian relations and some warnings again about the syria situation in our eyes our she's a sham thomas live from central moscow chance thank you very much indeed for that extended report thank you. meanwhile the man who made

hello again you're watching a weekly hey a not a now edward snowden has been put forward as a nominee for the prestigious sakit all for human rights prize by european law make is the recipient of the award is to be decided in a tell you it whistle blow was nominated by a group of european parliament members who say he risked his freedom to protect the rights of others paul murphy in our east m.e.p. from machree believes snowden's chances of getting a prize is slim but it's not all about winning. this nomination doesn't call unfortunately from the leadership of the european union no i think would certainly prefer to avoid the embarrassment of him winning the prize but it comes from the left in the european union which has consistently supported edward snowden he deserves to win the prize because he's a hero and he's a hero for putting his freedom on the line and it's still on the line in reality i think he's only likely to win and i think the greens are the green group inside the parliament also supports edward snowden and but i fear that certainly the big groups will not wants the so-

i'd actually have to sit down and have a long talk with edward snowden. i believe there has not been enough evidence of damage in either manning's case or in snowden's case, and i think that the nsa and the united states government can make up their own stories about damage as much as they want to. i think it's up to the american people to decide that. i happen to support snowden. i really support manning, and i don't know what their damages estimate is. i don't think any of us do at this point. >> reporter: i read the book, and you write in the forward, you call yourself a do-- lookin for windmills. was that the motivation for selling the secrets to russia about the surveillance program in australia. that you were to mix metaphors once again, a david looking for a goliath, and you decided it would be the u.s. government? >> i must confess that you have -- you probably hit the nail squarely on the head there. i was probably looking for any excuse to tilt windmills, and that's a personal flaw i have. i have certainly burned my fingers doing it, but i was c

whistleblower edward snowden instead of complying with an allegedly u.s. secret surveillance order that owner ladder levinson told r.t. that he decided to shut down his company because he was no longer able to assure that his clock to use that as his client's e-mails would be secure so instead of complying with what the u.s. government wanted he decided to take a stand and shut down the company he suffered a big financial loss because he became very popular after edward snowden blew the whistle on the n.s.a.'s spying programs but you know the of the ability he says for the government to punish people that don't agree with them and don't comply with them is profound he says he believes the u.s. government has the ability to take your business your money and your freedom if you are jack their requests but all of this is an indication of the n.s.a.'s power and that power actually recently came to light this week when a cute computer science professor at john hopkins university a prominent university in the united states was actually forced to dig take down on

edward snowden because of the impact that that would happen in relations with the us the reason you know very practical reason that we're proposing him is to try to pressure on countries to granting permanent asylum we don't think he should be a man without a visa is a visa for the goats of asylum for a year now but after that he has. no definite future so it's designed to add pressure on to embarrass the us the french government has called on consumers to be more patriotic by buying from domestic producers but what's intended is a lifeline for french industries is proving to be and i'm welcome back on people's wallets his tessa a city when france is industry minister. struck a pose looking as french as one could be consumer affairs minister bid one more thought it was a joke. this is a real food of on new moon. i don't believe it. in fact what it was message was serious choose french paddocks over four and made once to help more of their countrymen to keep jobs and appeal to french patriotism in the face of a thirteen year high unemployment rate with the number of jobless hitting t

whistleblower edward snowden cause more anger every time they have people across the world are being shown just how much their private lives and private data being monitored by intelligence services well you. discuss this issue with kevin mitnick he's one of the world's most renowned computer hackers. according to edit snowden's revelations e-mails phone calls messages a role being tracked so how can the government cause i think they have access to everything at least in the united states and probably britain great britain and now it's there's been some revelations that they've been pretty resourceful at breaking crypto so now i think they have access to a ton of stuff scott mcnealy said i think about fifteen years ago you have no privacy get over it and talk about edward snowden is he a traitor or hero from your point i think is a whistleblower you know i don't look at him as a true i'm actually glad that he revealed what the national security agency was doing at least against americans by violating our constitutional rights to privacy but i do think you know i have some mixed feeli

edward snowden because of the impact that that would have in relations with the us the reason you know a very practical reason that we're proposing to him is to try to pressure on countries to grant him permanent asylum we don't think he should be a man without a visa is a visa for the courts of them for a year now but after that he has. no definite future so it's designed to add pressure on to embarrass the us. the french government has called on consumers to be more patriotic buying from domestic produces what's intended as a lifeline for french industries he's proven to be an unwelcome but none people's wallets it's all syria looks into the initiative when france's industry minister struck a pose looking as french as one could meet consumer affairs minister bid one more thought it was a joke. this is a real photo of on new moon. i don't believe it was only when the value. in fact of what it was message was serious choose french products over four and made ones to help more of their countrymen and keep jobs and appeal to french patriotism in the face of a thirteen year high unemploym

the lawyer assisting whistleblower edward snowden next week here on our team. germany will be electing a new parliament of this weekend and it's promising to be a close race with no party heading for an hour drive majority coalition talks unlikely and the outside affections may have a decisive influence on what the destruction looks like us come next week r.t. the people of attended a rally of one of the parties that is now an expected to make a crucial difference. that germany's political new kids on the block but it does seem that alternative for germany will have a key role to play and shaping what the country does politically over the next few years no the most recent polls ahead of the elections next sunday suggest that alternative germany will be taking a good four percent it's expected they'll take far more from not when germans actually get in to the voting at the polling stations now five percent is what you need to take a seat in the bundestag and it seems alternatively germany will do just that a euro skeptic party they are anti euro and their party

also one of the big stories in recent months that of the format whistleblower edward snowden after russia ultimately granted him a short span of short term asylum here in russia washington then decided to cancel a personal meeting between barack obama and vladimir putin so when it comes to syria when it comes to snowden when it comes to the n.s.a. and spying that's handed over now to watch these guys nature can she has this report. after president obama canceled bilateral talks with president clinton over russia's decision to grant edward snowden asylum many thought it couldn't get any worse the two won't even talk to each other but the one house now says there will be. an opportunity for the two leaders to meet on the margins of the g. twenty summit so it looks like as much as washington wants to snub moscow president obama and putin will have to talk if the u.s. is about to bypass the u.n. security council break international long and attack syria i think we believe very strongly with high confidence that in fact chemical weapons were used and. mr assad was the source russia says americ

. >> venezuela has offered edward snowden political asylum. ecuador -- is ecuador weighing this like you have julian assange? >> well, let's see. we are a very sovereign country with very from positions. protected bye is asylum that ecuador has provided him with. when the case of edward snowden arose, ecuador was the first country that offered to analyze his request. while many countries immediately rejected the request. that it wouldered be best not to be alone in this ght because it is a very to beult, sticky matter given the political landscape of , and we can't ignore that fact. that is why we spoke with the outlook countries and we addressed the issue of snowden we thought them that it was important that other countries also offer a possible .sylum to him because of that, venezuela, nicaragua, and bolivia offered asylum to him directly. and we thought that was good ecuador can't terry the weight -- can't carry the weight of these issues as if we were very powerful country. that is not the case. that is why we are pleased these other count

time the president asked what this was all about edward snowden revealed himself as a human rights crusader president vladimir putin said that snowden is welcome to come to russia but if he does so he would have to stop any actions and all actions that could harm u.s. interests and russian u.s. relations at that point snowden walked out but on the subject of how snowden eventually ended up in russia. this is what the president had to say about that. and then snowden was on route to latin america via russia and what happened next there was a leak i hope i don't offend u.s. security agencies and diplomats so they could have handled this issue in a new professional way instead of allowing him to enter a country where it would be easy for them to get him they intimidated everybody latin america european countries everybody and as a result naturally he stayed at our airport and became stranded in russia. and so optimism from the president about relations between the united states and russia continuing to grow although there have been tensions he is sure that the g. twenty is a good chance for th

gets excuse of insight into the life of a fugitive whistleblower edward snowden in russia months after his revelations on american global surveillance that shook the world. it's just gone midday here in the russian capital you live with us on our t.v. with me to mom would say let's take a look at the top story. russia has stress at the u.n. probe concluding nerve gas was used in syria last month it does not rule out rebel involvement in the atrocity but the u.s. britain and france have been quick to claim the report is enough to implicate the assad government the white house insists the rockets used in the attack could only have belonged to the loyalists for forces however the u.n. finding state that the serin tipped warheads may have been improvised and the report did not pinpoint the size from where they were launched at a residential areas of damascus arena but my eye has the details. therefore released by u.n. inspectors says that there is clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used in the rebel held damascus suburb of on august twenty first but the report does no

surveillance with supranational legislation after the latest edward snowden leak suggests there's no longer any data privacy online. it's just gone past one thirty pm here in part of me want to cloak you in the russian capital you're watching r t live you with me to say getting mixed up there let's take a look at our top story right the global chorus of voices against a yearly level u.s. strike on syria has grown louder after the g. twenty summit in st petersburg even france which earlier backed unconditional u.s. action now says it will wait for the results of the un's probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria the leaders of ten countries did agree with washington that some sort of action needs to be taken the british prime minister also on the list despite being rebuffed by his own parliament russia's call against intervention was strongly backed by six nations including economic heavyweights china and india but when it comes to the voice of the people the u.s. finds itself vastly outnumbered world leaders opposing the war room. presents nations of more than three bil

surveillance supra national legislation after the latest edward snowden leaks suggests it's no longer privacy online. good afternoon welcome watching r.t. with me andrey farm. now the u.s. secretary of state on a fresh bid to woo european ministers and a large last ditch effort to drum up support for a unilateral strike on syria this after the international course of voices against the move grew louder at the g twenty summit in st petersburg even france which earlier backed unconditional u.s. action now says it will wait for the results of the un's probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria the leaders of ten countries did agree with washington that some sort of action needs to be taken the british prime minister also on the list despite being rebuffed by his own parliament over military intervention russia's call against a strike was strongly backed by six nations including economic heavyweights china and india when it comes to the voice of the people the u.s. finds itself fastly. world leaders opposing the war represent nations of more than three billion people while th

s online snooping according to the latest round of leaks from whistleblower edward snowden the u.s. has spent billions of dollars over the past decade to decode encrypted private data from e-mails to banking transactions working closely with british intelligence the situation spreading alarm through europe with the e.u. justice commissioner now calling for tough previously laws to protect citizens artie's peter all of our reports. the e.u. justice commissioner is spoken about the leaks from edward snowden as a wakeup call to europe and says that new legislation must be put in place to protect the privacy of e.u. citizens other stands up at the moment each of the twenty eight member states interprets the current framework in a different manner some of which contradict each other she wants to see a one continent one system put in place but when it comes to debating what will be in that law she suggested that the united kingdom might not be a part of that saying that london's loyalties appear to lie elsewhere. i don't pay attention to britain anymore there are a lost cause they're acti

and the united states he talked about the fact that edward snowden made contact with russian officials in hong kong and he made himself known saying that he was a crusader for human rights and when president vladimir putin pushed on that subject a little bit more he said that he wanted to fight human rights and that russia should join in the fighting and because it did not want to. harm relations with the united states opted out of that decision now snowden then did make a flight to russia did not know that he was on that flight until two hours before he landed he did end up giving asylum to snowden not wanting to get involved in the fight but he also said that the united states didn't really handle the situation very well. but he attempts to capture him listen to what he had to say. john thomas thank you very much. because experience. and then snowden was on route to latin america via russia and what happened next there was a leak i hope i don't offend u.s. security agencies and diplomats because they could have handled this issue in a more professional way instead of allowing him to

a journalist who helped was a blower edward snowden leaks his secret has been offered a police protection by the brazilian government glenn greenwald wrote about how the n.s.a. spied on the authorities in mexico and brazil and in britain where his newspaper the guardian is based a key press freedom group has confronted the u.k. government over its strong arm attempts to siphon information actually sarah firth has more on the fight to report the news in britain an act of intimidation that could have a chilling effect on press freedom in the u.k. and beyond not quite what you'd normally expect from a letter to the prime minister about press freedom in the way but those strong words coming from the world association of newspapers you organization felt compelled to right after the guardian newspaper was forced by british security services to destroy information received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and then the partner of one of its journalists suspected of carrying information the government deemed sensitive to national security was placed in detention upon arrival at heathrow ai

also edward snowden walks the streets of a russian city unnoticed or to get the exclusive inside into the secretive life of the n.s.a. whistleblower well months after the groundbreaking revelations on american surveillance forced him to feed his family. a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our team we're live from moscow you with me to bomb would say let's take a look at our top story this hour. russia has stress at the u.n. probe concluding nerve gas was used in syria last month does not rule out rebel involvement in the atrocity but the u.s. britain and france are have been quick to claim the report is enough to implicate the assad government the white house and says the rockets used in the attack could only have belonged to loyalist forces however the u.n. finding state that the seven to the warheads may have been improvised and the report did not pinpoint this life from where they were launched at residential areas of damascus more than a broadway or has the details. therefore released by u.n. inspectors says that there is clear and convincing evidence that

edward snowden has been put forward as a nominee for the prestigious a car although human rights prize by european law makers the recipients of the award is to be decided in october there was a billows nominated by a group of european parliament members who say he risked his freedom to protect the rights of others paul murphy an irish i mean from that group believes snowden chances of getting the prize are slim but it's not all about winning. well this nomination doesn't call unfortunately from the leadership of the european union who are think would certainly prefer to avoid the embarrassment of him winning the prize but it comes from the left in the european union which has consistently supported edward snowden he deserves to win the prize because he's a hero and he's a hero for putting his freedom on the line and still on the line in reality i think he's only likely to win and i think the greens are the green group inside the parliament also supports edward snowden and what i fear that certainly the big groups will not wants the so-called embarrassment of choosing edward snowden bec

edward snowden because of the impact that that would have on relations with the us the reason you know a very practical reason that we're proposing.

whistleblower edward snowden just a bit earlier in the program here on c i spoke to chris a democratic strategist at the end of the day he says regardless of syria regardless of n.s.a. in his surveillance program and regardless of edward snowden the g twenty in effect right now will truly help to heal relations between america and russia. he saw the president and mr putin shake hands today. they're both professional politicians they both understand that there are issues bigger than snowden and there are issues that the united states and russia agree on which are much bigger than snowden and quite frankly bigger than syria and that relationship continues so there's always gamesmanship the between politicians are world leaders and that initial meeting was just one of those little games that are played leaders and again i don't think that's lost on the people in america who pay attention to international affairs that russia is part of that international coalition and a very important part i think people in both countries understand that we work together the best we can to fight terrorism

and does the drip drip of edward snowden's leaks continue to unveil the scale of n.s.a. surveillance which is kind of describe program in the studio with kevin mitnick one of the world's funniest and most wanted hikers from the one thousand united. russia under on the wall this is our she was me thanks for trying it the syrian army's bottling small groups of rebels who remain in the ancient christian village of maloof opposition fighters links to al qaida has been in control of the area for almost a week reportedly losing religious sites and forcing residents to convert to islam at gunpoint more if a notion of made it to the village following reports that government troops have recaptured it but found pockets of resistance remain. the at. the tail of. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out. but some of them were killed some of them escaped the locals joined the army to defend the native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms of the so-called national defense but the terrain here is very difficult with mountains and

since edward snowden's leaks began in june, the intelligence committee has conducted several isa and on the oversight regime in place to review these programs. i have also initiated a review of all intelligence programs but have the potential for capturing information about american citizens and other people inside the united states.

snowden. nick spicer is in berlin. he explains why al jazeera may

edward snowden they wouldn't close their airspace and then what would happen no they had to arrange by. what to do. and we were in a tradition agreement they expected us to extradite snowden you know latterly no he has not committed any crimes in our territory but i think this is. going to be in international law. neutral and we have repeatedly suggest that that we should sign an extradition agreement and we do you we have we wanted us to extradite russian. and it's not like they created some of. the. koran by revealing some information and know there are full blown criminals but they refused to sign such an agreement so we did not discuss the subject today. what about. their positions. closer initially but well we have our own position of course we have consultations with. different nations. or rather. unexpectedly there was the statement by the prime minister orleans here and said he was categorical each time against military intervention and then the leader of indonesia this is the biggest country in the world the president of brazil also you are very categorical position on this ma

damages information from leaker edward snowden. the nsa has cracked the code that billions of internet users rely on to protect their confidential information. tokyo, madrid, istanbul, turkey, the winner to host the 2020 olympics will be announced saturday. >> president obama posed for a group photo with other world leaders. last night, they shared a meal. syria was the main topic of their dinner conversation. john kerry is in europe, expecting to meet with foreign ministers from the european union and lithuania before heading to france and britain. we hear that a consensus has been reached with the e.u. fortune ministers that asued did indeed order the use of chemical weapons for the attack, the august 21 attack. tell us more about that. >> that's right. i think there's growing consensus, no official statement has come out yet. those talks are just getting started. the consensus does seem to be growing that it was the regime behind those attacks in the damascus suburb on august 21 that sparked this crisis. that, however, is not th

edward snowden has been leaking the details of the n-s-a's information gathering for months. now, we're getting our first glimpse into what the agency may be doing with the information it gathers. as... pamela brown explains../ . it's raising... concerns... among privacy advocates. the n-s-a isn't only tracking metadata from your phone calls and e-mail logs, it's using that information to create a sophisticated web of social connections of some u-s citizens, according to documents leaked to the new york times. "we assume, as americans, that if somebody... if the government is looking at your information, it's because they have a reason, because you're suspected of a crime." this slide from an n-s-a powerpoint presentation shows how analysts use software to create diagrams to chart a person's social ties, locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to the documents leaked by former government contractor edward snowden. the policy shift intended to help the agency "discover and track" when there's a link between an intelligen

snowden. we don't know what documents the

snowden and obviously it will be interesting to see whether they will have any communication here it is expected that obama will be trying to bring his proof of using chemical weapons in syria while the russian president is clearly willing to reconfirm russia's stance on the issue which is he already outlined in an interview several several days ago prior to the summit that unless some viable and substantial proof is received no strike can take place as well as no strike can take place without a joint resolution by the u.n. security council now my colleague from washington did an overview of how things went between putin and obama recently. after president obama canceled bilateral talks with president putin up of russia's decision to grant edward snowden asylum many thought it couldn't get any worse the two won't even talk to each other but one house now says there will be an opportunity for the two leaders to meet on the margins of the g. twenty summit so it looks like as much as washington wants to snub moscow president obama and putin will have to talk. u.s. is about to bypass the

that from the journalist who first brock the story of edward snowden. he said the feds intercepted e-mails and telephone calls of the people you see here. the presidents of mexico and brazil. some of the mexican president's e-mails from before his election were accessed. the head of of the brazilian senate telling reports, quote, seems like there are no limits when the phone of the president of the run is monitored. it's hard to imagine what else smooth be happening.

and our team speaks exclusively to the lawyer of whistleblower edward snowden is repaste together the details of the fugitives every day life months after his revelations lifted the veil on the n.s.a. sweeping snooping activities. are welcome and watching me and tree farm. now russia's deputy foreign minister is meeting syria's foreign minister in damascus as reports say the syrian government gave its allies crucial information about the use of chemical weapons in the country. has more from damascus. there's an occasion between russia's foreign ministry and syrian minister for foreign affairs here in damascus was behind closed doors and no statements were made after that but it is expected of course that the deal russia and america agreed on over the weekend in geneva according to reach syria has to destroy or remove its chemical weapons by mid two thousand and fourteen and before hand over a full list of its stockpiles within a week talked and we expect that the diplomats of the two countries have been discussing exactly how technically this process could be completed and how exactly