A patriot i believe the statements like that that this was to free his press was to help people to crimes that hes accused of committing are serious unfortunately it turns out that not all the statements that were made were what you would find children what should they do if they want to ensure the internet will never be used against them to learn magic. Also coming up the drone attacks that crippled saudi arabias Oil Production who the rebels in yemen say they did it the u. S. Is blaming iran accusations aplenty whats missing is the for. At the moment with still assessing what happened and who is responsible for the attacks once this is being stepped least we will discuss with our patents how to proceed in a responsible manner we hope to be United International response to these from the tank. And see what our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with whistleblower Edward Snowden his new book and his not so new wish to go home in 2013 snowden became a household name around the world when he smuggled top secret computer files from the Us Government and leaked them to reporters how and why he did that is not what youre really learned in his new book permanent record goes on sale tomorrow and it is more about Edward Snowden the boy the gamer the young man and less about snowden the whistleblower the traitor some say the patriot the others snowden does not give a lot of insight into his life in russia either where he has lived in exile for 6 years in a moment ill speak with his lawyer about snowdens wish to go home but 1st how a u. S. Whistleblower ended up one of russias most famous residents if we do now perhaps forever but because we want to remember who we are no longer allow. Her get help and create that system. Secrets regret these are the words Edward Snowden chose to promote his memoir us permanent record. In 2013 snowden was working as a contractor for the n. S. A. The National Security agency in interviews he said he became disillusioned with the work and had ethical concerns with the massive government surveillance programs he was working on. Later that year snowden stole a trove of classified documents from the n. S. A. And leaked them to International Journalists this was later dramatized in the film snowden. By the time the 1st articles based on the files were published snowden had fled to hong kong. The leaked information revealed how governments were using the online lives and devices of ordinary citizens to track listen to and take a video of them they could also read emails and Text Messages and it wasnt just used to catch the bad guys. Theyre using these here will these intentional to store the public of vital embarrassing schools by this i mean theyre using the tools of mass surveillance not to find terrorists but to find the sources of journalists journalists who have written stories that were embarrassing to the government but his adversaries claim that he recklessly dumped classified files which had consequences like disclosing military secrets to americas enemies my case since the revelations this reason odin has been living in exile in russia the u. S. Wants him extradited on espionage charges. As we believe that under any circumstances mr snowden should return to United States and face the serious crimes that with which he has been charged we believe that he should. Return to United States and face them rather than seeking refuge in the arms of an adversary of the United States that has their own strategic interest in disseminating harmful. Or disseminating information in a harmful way snowden denies having collaborated with the russian government he now has a russian residency permit until 2020 and lives at an undisclosed address in moscow. Well a man who has been connected to snowden from the beginning of this story joins me tonight robert to voe is snowdens lawyer and he is one of the people that snowden credits with saving his wife mr devoe joins me tonight from the city of halifax in nova scotia canada mr tabor welcome to the day i want to ask you for a belt something that snowden said earlier today on the u. S. Network c. B. S. He said that the publication of his new book is leading germany and france to ask should we give snowden asylum is this new book is it part of your clients plan to ask for asylum here in germany well just to clarify in in 2013 when mr snowden departed from on call and in transit through moscow he stopped at. A sport he had applied for asylum in about 21 countries around the world of a Mountain State in terms on of them. And then france was one of them and also asylum requests were rejected. At this time mr snowdens made one particular person about 2 fronts. And in terms of germany. Mr snowden. Has made it very clear oh. No i think if hes given the opportunity he would he would like to even germany to live in germany now understanding. Mr snowden house to land on german soil. And how to do so directly. So as it stands then tonight mr snowden has asked for asylum in france and there is no asylum request that has gone out to germany as of yet correct. As far as im aware thats ok. Then the suggestion that snowden could leave russia and live here in europe i mean its not news 4 years ago i asked snowden about reports that germany could suffer geo politically if it crossed the us by granting him asylum here is what he told me that germany is for all intents and purposes the leader of the your. Pants democracy theyre strong athletic theyre Strong Economy and they have a quite well established tradition of defending individual collective rights but do you not think that were that they would be germany the leaders of germany do you not think that they fear that there would be real and serious consequences for for the government and for the security of germany if they did if they were to grant you a song i dont think so now im sure theyve been thats been communicated through both official channels and unofficial channels but i mean these are separate politicians were talking about and merkel shes not some some new person whos never seen this kind of International Say to him image of the german chancellor Angela Merkel i mean she is due to step down in 2021 so there would be time if he wanted to contact someone in her government is it just the the asylum wall that is getting in the way or is it because of the Political Sentiment in the country. Well its a combination of both. Angela merkel. In terms of. Our government. Is quite clear logically. Her governments not comfortable. Landing on german. Soil. We. Another german. Another. Clearly mr snowdens take the situation the German Government like any other government. And even what how ours. Invited to germany the i and the whats been expressed asked im sure. That if he does. Yes to. The ganges that he would not be arrested that he would not face extradition proceedings the United States extradition. And that he be able to remain in germany as president. So there are ways to come into germany. And simply point oh ok this merkel in our stage doesnt. Want to go we dont do that it was what youre saying he would also require germany to violate the extradition agreement that it has with the United States. We know that snowden wants to go home to the United States but if that is not possible europe does seem to be his best alternative i want you to take a listen to what members of the European Parliament have been say. Recent scandals such as decent gate blocks leaks the bundle of papers or cambridge i know it would not have come to light without the coverage of missile blowers. We now have a manual for lawful whistle blowing i think it was time for us to develop it. Now and. She done if mr snowden had to be in european he would not be exiled in a little dutch in moscow. A little dutch in moscow i mean mr de do you agree with those members of parliament here in europe that snowden would have been treated differently had he been a european whistleblower instead of an american one. There are many case rests on its own facts and. Mr snowdens use nationally only theres the geopolitical. I guess conflict. Between germany are is mr snow on. Your tree clearly. If you differently are treated differently because he did i want he would have rights to enter into the European Union and enter into our nationality not in a way that he. Were significant rights and as an american. For example in moscow an extradition issue but as an american you are right europe again. Legally. In very difficult situations its one to apply for requests extradition and political again with the Current Administration on them that theyre not. There so it appears yes you would be treated. This year. This year the European Union lawmakers here they agreed on the whistleblower directive which protects whistleblowers may say was inspired by. Your client this law reads if the whistleblower could not find suitable internal reporting channels he or she can contact the relevant authorities or even go public did mr snowden did he tried to find suitable contacts inside the in this way before he leaked classified material. Yes he did and theres theres 2 sets of facts your audience mr snow didnt reach oh he didnt say go charlie the Us Government. Then the n. S. A. You know trusting the situation. And at the same time those internal mechanisms. Socalled. Are not mechanisms that. Im part scribe of the United Nations in a special tomorrow on counterterrorism and rights are. Described in a newspaper that you mentioned also and youve also made some of the United States. A thing letter. That would provide protection to mr assange and insurance route it was a war zone that states some restrictions on those who try and case after case you somehow. And the best examples i dont you know i mean thats stretching theres never been more whistleblowers charged across. Instructions than in all u. S. History well mr to. Know if if i could let me just ask you did the new yorker reported today that mr snowden has claimed that he alerted more than 10 officials at the n. S. A. About what he discovered and yet he has not provided any support for this claim why is that lets dinner and supper snowdens discretion hes written of all i not but what but why not say why not provide the proof and say i did to try to solve this internally before i leaked or he did do. And what youre asking is why hasnt snow disclosed right. Full disclosure on this i cant. You know that said the discretion of mr snowdens under legal advice particular fault. And so again snowdens made significant disclosures about you know his history. And the circumstances he was in the cia on and his reasons for hating the soviets. At this point this is as far as you know snowdens comfortable disclosing on our show its true if they decide to you for. This if you let me ask you we all know that every snowden lives right now in russia in his book he writes that when he arrived in russia he was met by the hissing Russian Secret Service agents who told him that a man in his situation could use some friends how can the world be sure that russia has not used your client or access to classified information via him how can we know oh 1st of all mr snowden didnt bring any classified information with him when he left off and thats thats a public record. And i was there. I was with mr snow money. Therefore. It was not entering it and any any date or information any date information has already been asked to journalists. Again which is. And any other you know was actually did you know destroyed discarded and destroyed. And in terms of. Now is a row russia. Oh of course the government now channel security. Approach. Is. But. There. Was also a. Discussion not. To rush. Rush or any time. Mr unfortunately were out of time robert the attorney for us was a blower Edward Snowden mr turner we appreciate your time and your insights and answers tonight thank you very much youre welcome. Oil prices soared today the 1st reaction on markets following 2 drone attacks on Saudi ArabianOil Facilities over the weekend the strikes cripple saudi arabias productions which means overnight a glow a drop in global crude output by 5 percent today u. S. President trump hinted at a military retaliation the u. S. And saudi arabia they have blamed iran for the strikes but have not provided proof who the rebels in yemen say they were responsible. Yes. And the attacks in saudi arabia were the result of this 5 year war against defenseless people which is the root of the regions insecurity. Is the. Investigation is continuing and all evidence and indications of other weapons used in the terrorist attacks came from iran. All right are these drone attacks enough to ignite a military conflict to talk about that im joined here at the big table by a middle east analyst mark Hughes Marcus good to see you again saudi arabia now saying that the weapons in those attacks came from iran how credible do you think that claim is the claim isnt credible until the point that saudi arabia puts proof on the table that they actually didnt come from yemen as the who things claim but that they came from iran or another country in the region which is not yemen but until that point its pure speculation to say it did not come from yemen so what were looking for is hard for on the table for the world to see thats what we need the saudis will have a visit from the United States from the secretary of state pump alle the saudis have asked for u. N. Investigations which is a rare thing remember a year ago john. Was killed in the stumble in the saudi called somebody up there and the saudis didnt want any cooperation of any kind with International Organizations so maybe they have proof but we dont know yet you know its interesting how the response is dramatically different from the death of mr. Shogi id like to talk about the fall well from these drone attacks in just a moment but 1st weve got a report on how drones were used to cripple soldi arabian Oil Production take a look. These oil tanks are exhibit a as the world tries to assess who was responsible for attacks on saudi facilities they show almost identical impact points which u. S. Officials say indicate a high degree of sophistication in the attack Houthi Rebels in saudi arabias neighbor yemen anisha lee seem to take responsibility theyve been fighting the saudis and their proxy forces for years in yemen civil war. But some analysts doubt whether the rebels could have launched drones or missiles that could hit the saudi tanks yemen is also to the south of the saudi refineries the impact site suggest an attack from the north or northwest the direction of iraq and the who these strong backers iran secretary of state mike pompei of said the u. S. Would make sure quote iran is held accountable for its aggression and his boss President Donald Trump took to twitter to threaten those responsible he tweeted there is reason to believe that we know the culprit we are locked and loaded depending on verification but are waiting to hear from the kingdom. But iran deflected blame in going to we reject these types of statements and projections. The Islamic Republic of iran has clearly declared that it supports the people of yemen and their rights but to accuse the Islamic Republic of iran with these attacks and defensive measures is in line with the United States maximum falshood policy theyve adopted after their own failures. Oil prices spiked as traders start to take account of saudi arabias seeming inability to defend its crucial Oil Infrastructure and governments including germanys have condemned the attack but its unclear what the long term picture looks like everything depends on what the us and other players do next to calm or aggravate the situation in one of the worlds most volatile regions. Yeah i mean its a region that is even more volatile deny it when you consider youve got sabur rattling in the strait of hormuz youve got the failed state that we call libya and the problems there. Youve got these latest drone attacks all of these things coming together are probably go are not going away and now were looking at Higher Oil Prices so were talking about the Global Economy now cannot escape the middle east do you agree with that statement well its back to a middle east crisis which we know from the seventys from the ninetys where the oil price plays a big role and youve mentioned iran and the United States which are into many proxy wars in the region and now the spillover of the yemen war into saudi territory in this dimension definitely has a lot of potential for the escalation and things of change that quickly you know last week we were talking about a possible break through and. Into forbes in time for asian relations between iran and the United States there was talk about rouhani and trump maybe meeting at the u. N. General Assembly Later this month there was talk the u. S. President even easing sanctions on iran john bolton was fired as his National Security adviser all that had last week and now we have these attacks and hes changed everything what do you make of that. Lets see whats going to happen next week in new york you never know but from you see the iranians in a weak position which could use the fact that the World Markets need more oil and which they could use to jump in which is not likely with trump but i think there is still the possibility of not complete escalation but to get both sides close on the table because dont forget the Iranian Foreign minister was at the g 8 summit in france yes france is a player which is not to be forgotten and maybe france could use its contacts in iran to find a settlement which is not a complete military you see usually that is happening before there is a full fledged military conflict happening President Trump tonight said that he has time that they have a lot of time and i think to bring in the u. N. To look for thorough investigations into this case is the time which the u. S. Has if at the end of this investigations they find out that there is clear evidence that this was an iranian attack all things on the table as drum set its middle east analyst a man who still is always markers we appreciate your insights thank you very much thank you. Well the day is almost done the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter either in the w news or you can follow me at for gulf convenient dont forget to include the hash tag of the day when he writes you me remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then a. Song. Called favorites. Its no wonder the spectacular goals cut plenty of emotion. The best of a quick on next. I do see business with. Much of the rubbish used to make incomes comes time. To stop nation wages in the scream. 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