[01:06.63]He said the organization’s 2,500 employees would be sacked.
[01:10.47]They’ll be able to apply for work when the corporation re-launches as a smaller independent public broadcaster.
[01:16.32]Odin Linardatou is one of the employees affected.
[01:20.12]“It’s without logic you know, I mean the people would happily see any active that is new, is a restructure maybe but not close down.
[01:30.66]Of course we had huge cuts in our salaries and we would have accepted it also if some of us were fired but that they can not accept in a democracy,
[01:40.94]in Greece is that Greece we not have a public broadcaster.”
[01:46.06]The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner has condemned a government contractor Edward Snowden
[01:52.51]who leaked information about a controversial surveillance programme.
[01:55.63]“He is a traitor.
[01:57.00]The disclosure of this information puts Americans at risk.
[02:01.56]It shows our adversaries what our capabilities are and it’s a giant violation of the law.”
[02:09.62]Congress is asking intelligence officials for more information about the mass monitoring of phone calls and internet use revealed by Mr. Snowden who is now in Hong Kong.
[02:18.79]Google has asked the US Department of Justice to be allowed to publish the total number of security information request they receive from the government