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hello broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international and certainly glad to have you with us. prosecutors in brazil have charged a pulitzer prize winning journalist glenn greenwald with cyber crimes authorities say that he coordinated the hacking of top officials phones to get information on a high profile corruption case a last year intercept news site in brazil co-founded by greenwald was behind the release of damaging conversations between top figures in the probe he's done quarter picks up the story. brazil's president has never been a big fan of journalists. look at. the bottom line. but. you know. everybody. both of us of all thank you. but asked if i wasn't going on this so it's no surprise freedom of the press is once again under attack in the country american journalist glenn greenwald is facing cybercrime charges for leaking text messages of government officials glenn greenwald in a free conscious involuntary way directly assisted encourage and guided to criminal group of hackers during a criminal practice acting as a guarantor of said group and also narrow is more than a little defensive he should not be here he says still in brazil where is he he was denounced by the justice system don't you believe in the system at the same time the president's son who is also an m.p. cannot contain his glee. glenn greenwald always said he loved brazil and wanted to get to know the country in depth maybe he will even get to know the inside of a jail the charges come after greenwald's news outlet exposed a possible conspiracy within the judicial system based on the leaked private text messages they purported to show that then federal judge colluding with the prosecution in a high profile corruption case the same one that landed both scenarios main rival lula da silva in jail preventing him from running for another presidential term the federal judge denied everything and even went on to head the justice ministry as for the journalist to shed light on the scandal he found himself under investigation even though the federal police and the supreme court told the administration to drop the case in our government president bush in our own multiple members of his government simply don't believe in a free press we don't believe in prosper they don't even believe in democracy they've repeatedly and explicitly praised the military dictatorship that ruled the country until they needed 5 years is a pure form of government and this is all about ushering in that level of repression whistleblowers and watchdog organizations are calling the situation a blatant attack on journalistic freedom absolute resolute this is unbelievably could retaliation for revealing extreme corruption at the highest levels of both scenarios administration and the next threat to investigative journalism in brazil in an outrageous violation of press freedom the brazilian government has ignored a supreme court order in charge journalist glenn greenwald with cyber crimes for the intercepts investigative series on widespread corruption in brazil. well the government must immediately condemned this outrageous assault on the freedom of the press and recognize that its attacks on press freedoms at home have consequences for american journalists doing their jobs abroad leg lingering world the prosecution of glenn greenwald is once again putting the spotlight on the current administration's a legit corrupt dealings it's no wonder balsa naro has no love for journalists. more on this let's cross live now to joe lawyer who's an independent journalist thanks for being with us here on our team international thank you so does this case really have anything to do with cyber crimes or is it geared towards preventing greenwald from doing his job your thoughts. over what a cyber crime the questions where they were when the rent glenn greenwald was involved in it and it's clear that he wasn't he was practicing journalism and this is exactly what they're charged julian assange a sanjeev help chelsea manning to get access not i'm sorry chelsea manning had legal access to materials all that purely indian was to help her hide her identity by trying to log in under an administrative may not her own name and here we see langley unwalled worked with people who got these messages from what's happened what's out like. system and make revealed unbelievable corruption a collusion between the judge and the prosecutors in a case against the lula da silva of course was then thrown in jail paving the way for most an hour to become president and mr moore about rewards becoming justice minister in the new well sonar in ministration we are seeing the ramifications of the a songe arrest and indictment by the united states rolling out more of them more and more police are ratings journalist offices as far away as australia and also narrow has gone after mortal enemy of his which as a man exercising his right to do journalism and that cannot be tolerated when said in that clip was not interested in democracy obviously and not interested in actually press there is some hope because the federal police in brazil are ready investigated what they prosecutors not alleging that glenn greenwald did and they just they determined that he had committed no crime whatsoever that's the saying they're a police under the ministry of justice that. surgery more on the corrupt judge who now runs that ministry concluded so let's hope that the judge has to decide on this . on this charge which drops them so he's not been formally charged yet just the minister has put forward these charges but they have to be symptom by a judge and the slew of chance than john who will listen to what the federal police said rather than this corrupt minister of justice so if this is a vendetta against greenwald for his anti-corruption reporting as many suggest edwards snowden is claiming this as well who do you think is pulling the strings here is a both a narrow himself or other powerful interests in brazil. well i'm sure it's definitely both scenarios vomit is no question about it because he wants to get rid of this guy he still wants him out of brazil wants him in jail or he wants him preferably out of the country no longer practicing journalism there because he craves he caused an enormous problem here correct calling into question the entire election of also narrow if lou had not been thrown in jail because of this corrupt corrupt and relationship between the judge and the prosecutors he would have most likely won that election awful scenario so muscle he doesn't lie but he's been exposed as having got into office corruptly so he can't have green while hanging around uncovering other things so they're going to cook up this charge against him that he somehow displayed in the act that got these materials that led to the exposé of destruction but in fact he did not lend greenwell tracts journalism he worked with people who got materials he encouraged them to give information to him now we have robert perry who's the founder of sort of news that i'm the editor in chief of wrote a piece back in 2010 in which he explained that when he was the best a good reporter and he broke big stories on iran contra that he encouraged his sources even to commit a crime if stealing a document would allow the exposure a much bigger crime like a war crime were in this case a political corruption crime so this is typical journalistic behavior and i what's happened to glenn is part of a worldwide really crackdown on free press that isn't in a controlled corporate media we have just yesterday sent libel notices to the canadian n.s.a. their signals intelligence agency and a major t.v. network as they were trying to smear us as being directed from moscow in a cyber attack on canadian politicians we saw not approve of tulsa gabbert also just sued. hillary clinton for her some listeners about russia so it's against journalism and against politicians and the like jill stein as well who was smeared us and having a russian agent this is got to stop that this is an important case and i hope that glenn gets free and stays in brazil continues to do the job. he's been doing all right very interesting to hear thoughts going to be even more interesting to watch it all play out and to see what happens here we hope that as it does you'll come back with us with more commentary joe lauria independent journalist was here march international. human rights experts have called for an immediate probe into allegations that the saudi crown prince hacked to the phone of billionaire jeff bezos the amazon founder also owns the washington post newspaper where dissident journalist jamal khashoggi worked before being assassinated by a saudi hit squad in 2018. the alleged hacking of mr basis is food i'm those of others demands immediate investigation by the u.s. and of the relevant authorities including investigation of the continuous munty a direct and personal involvement of the crown prince in efforts to target perceived opponents well it appears according to the information that has been presented that the phone of jeff bezos was hacked via the messenger application known as whatsapp now saudi arabia denies that that's the case now it's important to note that not only is jeff bezos very wealthy a billionaire in the united states but he's also the owner of the washington post and the washington post was the employer of jamal khashoggi folks will recall jamal khashoggi was brutal killing so at this point that raises some interesting concerns this is what has been presented about the possible hacking the information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the crown prince in surveillance of mr bezos in an effort to influence if not sign it's the washington post reporting on saudi arabia these allegations around of and as well to own going evaluation of claims about the chrome prince's involvement in the 2900 muddle of saudi and washington post joining this. now in october of 28 teen jamal khashoggi visited the saudi embassy in istanbul and he never came out of the of the embassy he was dismantled within it cut into pieces and at that point there was a lot of international outrage about the incident now a sense then they came of saudi arabia has declared this was simply a rogue operation 5 individuals have actually been sentenced to death for their involvement in it however 3 top officials were cleared of any wrong doing and many observers noted that it took a long time for the trumpet ministration to criticize the actions of saudi arabia or to even give any response to the answer let's review what the response from the trump administration what if i. only came was this is how they responded to the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi employed by the washington post i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending 110000000000 dollars on military equipment and on things that create. others for this country we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other saudi ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr coo show us death now the possible hacking of the phone of jeff bezos the billionaire and owner of the washington post adds a new chapter to this case however many observers have noted that the ties between the united states and the king of saudi arabia are not small and the trump an administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trumps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia former u.s. a diplomat jim johnson says it will take more than a killing and a phone hacker to spoil u.s. saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about killing because after all he was part of the building he was. walking close he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't make any difference for 2016 ran against the kind of foreign policy we've had for the last 3 decades but has done nothing but. see the man in office said that means not putting america's interests 1st but putting israel's in saudi's saudi arabia and interests 1st middle east and so we have the same power and states and i think it's just business as usual. sort of reminds me of when. obama was caught hacking angela merkel's cell phone here. a psychologist dubbed the architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques is an apologetic about his role in any torture program that admission came during the trial of 5 guantanamo bay detainees on their alleged roles in the 911 terrorist attacks. what of a personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outweighed temporary discomforts of terrorists i get sick today and do it again. james mitchell was contracted by the cia in the wake of 911 to create an interrogation program for al qaeda suspects he personally used waterboarding a torture technique that simulates drowning on several prisoners later he and another psychologist set up a company that provided support for the interrogations the cia's program included now illegal coercive measures. in the immediate aftermath of 911 we tortured some folks. lawyers for the 5 detainees are now asking for any statements made under interrogation to be disqualified from the trial on grounds of torture and thai war activists believe the guantanamo bay court proceedings are deeply flawed. well none of this could possibly be a fair trial i mean how can you have a fair trial with people who've been held in total secrecy whose testimony is based on torture. the media isn't allowed in except for conditions so strict that they can't even have a picture of the court room all the testimony is restricted. that none of this none of this layers and layers of secrecy is about providing any kind of justice or accountability or even of information it is going through a theater in order to once again exert their power their power over people's lives and we should just note that there were juveniles who were youth who were held for years at guantanamo there were people who had nothing to do who were simply sold for bounty who were kuantan m o $780.00 prisoners and then the thousands who were held in secret rendition or around the world no accounting for them so this was a huge program and its ramifications were still feeling today the 1st a detainee mr mitchell water boarded was a palestinian man known as abu zubaida and he has never been charged with a crime but remains indefinitely in guantanamo he was the 1st known cia prisoner to undergo enhanced interrogation and even lost an eye while being tortured during his time there is a bit has attempted to illustrate his experiences and a bit of warning you may find some of the images distress. as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to take a curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made me scream unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . the. long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guard. there is absolutely no justification that can ever be given or accepted for the horrendous and systematic torture that was used and it was used and authorized from the highest levels from the presidency f.b.i. the cia the top levels of the military the studies were known the conditions were no. and this isn't just one or 2 people michel and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating forms of torture of pain of waterboarding of slamming of of packing into tight boxes of stress positions and on and on so how could you justify any of this and none of this torture provided any real information of course not that that that would even be an excuse it was done to hundreds of prisoners there were also hundreds of secret prisons secret rendition and a geisha and centers all of this really has to be exposed and then an accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture camps greek islanders are protesting against the influx of migrants the story much more after a short break this is our international. we've also discovered that there are genes in our bodies that protect us from a gene we call these longevity genes and there's a set of genes that we work on in my love of harvard called the sort to and and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 80. operations understand that a cost of doing business is buying and building support in washington d.c. and that includes staffing up with former members of congress put them on your payroll you want to hire a chief of staff from a powerful senator or a committee. member get their chief of staff put them on your payroll as a lobbyist this is what washington does on a bipartisan basis in fact i think it's the only point of true bipartisanship in d.c. is corporate influence over government. this is art international a greek islanders went on strike on wednesday in protest against the influx of migrants and thousands of locals who took to the streets as well businesses were shut down for 24 hours on the greek islands of lesbos some most and kiosks which are all popular tourist resorts and local authorities will later be heading to athens to present their demands to the government some refugee camps on the islands have more than 10 times the number of people that they were originally before. we try to give a message around to the whole world that this can go on it can't go on anymore lesbos has had the load on their shoulders for 5 years these days when we have nothing against the refugees and migrants have shown this solidarity all this time but we are asking for a change to government policy that should lead to the equal distribution of refugees and migrants to this the migrants should go we're not racist simply the situation on the island is out of control 100 percent you can see for yourselves what's happening coming and they're not leaving open the borders so they can go to salute both gary and germany. for the past 5 years the greek islands have become key entry points to the e.u. for migrants and refugees many fleeing war or poverty in sub-saharan africa and the middle east the greek government has promised to toughen asylum laws and deport all illegal migrants who are not entitled to protection. from an. begun but german chancellor angela merkel is calling on western powers to include china in the pursuit of common goals and not return to cold war era exclude. of course we also have to build up their innes of course we have to practice multilateralism so the rules apply to everyone but i believe for us not to fall into any bipolarity but rather that would try was a result an experience we have to include a country like china multilateralism and treated at least equally. it comes as the u.s. and china managed to reach a truce in their trade war german manufacturers suffered collateral damage from tensions between washington and beijing that mostly hit its car industry another flashpoint was chinese tech giant wall way the u.s. is continuing to pressure the european union to ban wall way 5 g. equipment over fears it could spy for beijing and steal intellectual properties the company denies all out accusations now in germany the question of 5 g. has long been debated by lawmakers with beijing promising a backlash if wall way is banned in order to appease washington. if germany were to make a decision that led to war weighs exclusion from the german market there will be consequences the chinese government will not stand by. our guests give us their views on the long running dispute over what way. for germany and for e.u. to maintain its independence to maintain its own judgment a major issues in the world rather than purely passively just to follow the leadership of another major country makes a lot of sense china after all is a permanent member of the security council of the united nations and it is the 2nd largest economy in the world and to marginalize china will not succeed to a large hand and also will bring a lot of economic it is advantage to whichever country which tries to push china down on the ground the e.u. in general is one of the polls in a global order and china doubtless needs another one so were there would be more collaboration and been a continuous adjourned or and also because of the ship is the means dong very soon there will be a new so maybe it is a plan to install a new policy to create is a new consensus among the concert and for china because right now it is for its own critical. and well the period of the sign u.s. trade war and she was governments always want to engage countries as a remote to comic-con abandons. automotive and electrical energy giant tesla has divided the residents of a town near the german capital over plans to create its 1st major european factory there dozens of demonstrators have been denouncing possible environmental damage with plans to cut down 300 hectares of forest for the factory but they were met by counter protesters as well who appeared to be enthusiastic for the promise of thousands of jobs. it killed a good many people are absolutely not aware of those decisions great fall out our water management agency and has already admitted that there is no guarantee the locals will be supplied with enough water after the launch of the factory they have to think about it because they've got not sure whether it's good or not i'm worried about the environment being advanced there will be new jobs and new transpired it's hard to imagine anything better that's got this nickel it's a good opportunity for our region but electric cause once over everything and they manufacture causes environmental damage as examinee are but i'm in favor of job creation and special as a company but wasn't there any other place for this factory. that would do it again the young graduates haven't been able to find work that fits their skill was hearing growing high though so a lot of them have to move to other cities and i hope this project will provide a boost for the whole region because of bank of course we're concerned about it on the one hand we're glad that investors are interested in brandenburg on the other hand we're talking about serious interviewer ince natural processes we should be carefully considered we should do everything to me to get damage based on the deforestation area the implications will be very grave we're talking about total deforestation and the extinction of all the animal and plant species which once inhabited this route. we'll be back in about 31 minutes with another full look at your news this is art international stay with us. you know one of the best charts greatest charts i've really been studying for years i don't know exactly we're going to get into this but i just want to mention right here at the top it's the money velocity chart. the money velocity chart and we're going to be getting. ratings and salutations what makes the world go round hawk watchers well if you guessed gravity you'd be right but if you're living in the global capitalistic economic mess we are today than well it's money yes money clearly makes the world go round and round and round and round and right off it's excess this week just in time for the annual meeting of our financial masters of the universe at the world economic forum in davos switzerland oxfam international released its latest report on the truly staggering wealth inequality that's gripping our world today crunching the numbers the report found that in 2019 the world's billionaires only 2153 people had more wealth than 4600000000 people this great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system essentially my friends that means that the very means that our lives depend on are currently concentrated in the hands of just over 2000 people 2000 people who clearly took gordon gekko's greed is good line from the film wall street way too seriously and apparently must have missed the into.

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