breaking news on artsy edwards campaign could happen she says a draft i definitely a russian lawmaker says the nsa whistleblower will be offered extended the sign on bonus story just ahead. he and former virginia governor bob is not now and his wife appeared in court today they stand accused of receiving gifts from a wealthy ceo for political favors. our team is at the hearing and brings you a special report coming out switzerland is eerie and

he's not spread and before they even start. today representatives of the government and opposition failed to meet face to face wondering you all the details straight from geneva later in the shadow of a fan. i need to reach twenty fourth. i've wanted to be seeing and hearing a bit when you're watching. rt america the kids in ca with breaking news that russia plans to extend its offer of asylum to form a government contractor adverts note and be on august which is where when his one year temporary asylum was sacked and this is all according to remarks by russian lawmaker alexi could scott spoke today at the world economic forum during a panel discussion alexi hinted that the extension of temporary refugee status for seven could be a definite same. he will not be sent out a brush that it will be up to snow next to us as cars and with

the espionage act a charge that carries harsh penalties just yesterday attorney general eric holder said granting the whistleblower clemency when the going too far. but holder did say that he's open to pursuing a deal with snout and if the plane guilty to criminal charges it's unclear however what that deal with and tail sundin is also addressing the possibility of returning to the us yesterday in an on line fuel in a stunning was asked what it would take for him to come back to the united states. in response and said that he knows his return as the bastards resolution unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistleblower protection laws for more on all of the different questions he answered yesterday and turned our t's minimal pets the former national security agency contractor responsible for leaking over one point seven million classifying documents to the world and turn america's intelligence apparatus on its head. took some time to answer questions from the this week. this is

the second time had once known and taken to the internet to argue his cats. here's what we learned during the great question answer session is done and once again took aim at section two fifteen of the patriot act which allows mobile collection of telephone and data. it's not and pointed to this mass surveillance as the essay is the biggest defense against the american people. there is no possible justification for its anti democratic society crazy and insane violated the constitution one hundred and twenty a million times but failed to uncover even a single terror plots. so i don't want to let the dangers of fall collection are twofold first the knowledge that these programs exist causes self censorship consequently making all of us less free. this second collection in store creates a permanent record where something is our son ian and out of curiosity years ago can be used against you today the thirty year old chris signs the fine support has a rubber stamp for which approves the ninety nine point nine seven percent of

all government has said he was only eleven requests for cameras and ninety out of the thirty three thousand nine hundred records thirty three year existence. this scene feelings known in the knowledge and intelligence agencies do not fall in protecting national security interests the men and women who work for the c i a and the nsa are trying to do the right thing and are worried about the same things as he adds the sun and took some time to talk on his own situation saying he is well aware that there had been threats on his life but asserted that he will not be intimidated into submission he also said that he wants to return to the us but not human nature after a whistleblower protection lies its own post. one of the things that has not been one of the reported by journalist says that was the protection laws in the us do not protect contractors a national security of me there are so many holes in lies the protections therefore or so weeks and

the processes for reporting it provided are so ineffective that they appear to be integrated to discharge reporting of even the nearest wrongdoing. if i never feel when i knew about these unconstitutional but classified programs to congrats. they could've towards me with a felony finally he made a plea for international bodies to come up with global security standards to force privacy rights but also protect countries against attacks. no clouds no way should be hacking critical flight infrastructure like hospitals and power stations and it's fair to say and asked me back in nineteen international law snowden says lines won't prevent dangerous attacking from taking place only science and technology can do that. so for now looks as if he's not coming back to us anytime soon. he stands by the decisions that he made an attempt to bring us back to what he sees as its core principles in washington a mega mouth as artsy. and last on university students have launched a campaign to get

adverts down and elected as rector. he's one of four official candidates for the three year post oz and is highly unlikely did take back the palace in person class the selectors are e represent students cheering the university's role in court. glasgow university student loan danielle at cox lys on students are voting for snowmen. the reason we chose edwards nolan is because we know that he is a hero is a brave man who with a lot of things to lead us the people known peaks end of his media surveillance and intuition into our private lives and we just want to show him that we appreciate what he's done it this am. a clear message sent out to those for monitoring us that we will not stand with this and that we do not despair we cannot accept this kind of criminality that would be more symbolic than anything because he will be able to actually physically come to class go and watch as the representative by and for

him in those situations where he can up this weekend. but tom and his teachings will be to hold the title of bed rest of the universe when times were free from the overwhelmingly positive of course will do everything we can to make sure that this actually happened. that was glasgow university student but no lack. harman has now let's use the government's largest private security background check contractor of defrauding the country of millions of dollars the company coming under fire is us investigations and services. and in the absence of filing six hundred and sixty thousand flyers background investigations which is forty percent of the cases the company pushed through to the government in a four year period is all laid out at twenty five teams civil complaint filed by the justice department which will now join a whistle blowers law suit against you as i guess that's underway in alabama district court the complaint charges that the company used its close ties with the federal government to conceal its

practice of flushing or dumping it back from tax that means the company would often push through governing cases they didn't have proper review. federal officials see you as high as conducted on faulty two thousand eleven background investigation of both the advert snow day. he and arundel acts as a defense contractor who killed twelve people in a shooting spree at the washington navy yard last year. it defends the company says the allegations related to a small group of individuals and added that since first learning of these allegations nearly two years ago. we've acted decisively to reinforce our process easy and management to ensure the quality of our work joining me now is cut that shattered the executive director of corp watch things so much for joining me thanks for having the mirror so new as high as handles about forty five percent of federal background checks which are used by the defense department department of homeland security and more than a hundred other federal agencies. how is it that none

of these agencies were able to determine what was happening in and fly it much earlier on. this is a bit of background checks. she goes back to india hundred and twenty five years and what we now know is is us investigations that this is in fact a federal agency that was privatized by the clinton administration nineteen ninety six. so bizarre it is because the standards credit checks and i'm cheating on a palm sunday two point three million of people crews began to get a background check your speed when you don't often read. gs is so so is the enormous amount of work and for some reason and demonstration said it would save money. privatizing it actually so did the high level group of five point five million dollars in diamonds ninety six and last of the geniuses so this is b's data packets. now when this is done by some people call it of course since

the cuban profits based on the number of investigations to do more investigation is due to the pasta to direct them on top of it. and so would you have in fact even the us that says is a small group of people. edmonton's pines in a different direction than the seven lawsuits. da capo and that of individuals who work for us scientists who complained that the company was forcing them to us. boston boston boston says to the u s taxes suspended people in pennsylvania in fact if you can direct and open up boston does this mean to people is going up because i'm a woman into custody nabokov and i must have been sick she was even allowed time off from foe to embrace it. oh well day and she said the company and in fact there was the sentiment of nine hundred

thousand dollars seating in general you must jia you go tomlinson said the company seeing that he was being stupid t investigations in the week so that you know all this while that is enough that is incredible and you know if that has to do with that the specific whistleblower case that's now taking place in the desert or in alabama is that connected at all woe is me don't actually know the details of a stack of cases where justice department is saying is that as many as six hundred and sixty thousand of these cases well known quote flush which means it is said to inhabit is the end of the month in order to meet their quotas to get that prompted the company would basically sign up the budget message saying dun dun dun check check check and his look is about. we don't know he said. the wind picks up when it started off at that's the case in alabama one hundred stickers to the details of its kind in a beautiful island of leaving

all of this good news come often. it snowed and fled the country and breakfast on common in moscow. i would say actually got two really bad reason. up for them to do this investigate all i wanted to ask you specifically about that he never does a storm is going after this company aftermath of that address town and of course that the media are superior intellects as i have not been for these two incidents threatening security do you think the justice department would be pursuing it. i believe it is destiny and now that's a really good question i think the us government the obama administration is using this in some ways never called to see the faces you know the reason why we haven't been snowed in is from the whistle is because of a problem outside the control now in actual fact it could be you. an instance of background is no reason actually to have suspected that it is the opposite was

not about who's in charge of investigations and it snowed and i think it's actually very lucky the human cost would be on the other hand it out in the lexus them and counted twelve people and then was shot dead last in september should have been and he was attacked the uss should mean caucuses them and do you know has got into fights and being in texas in seattle. you know as being cited for disorderly conduct in georgia. and he's the cost us science is grey. matt was that saturday in the executive director of corp watch. after virginia where former governor bob mcdonnell and his wife lorraine were in court today if you were indicted on fourteen pounds tuesday after a late the federal investigation of their relationship. but the former ceo of a dietary supplement maker. a former republican governor and his wife officially entered not guilty pleas at a court hearing this morning art easel in small attended the hearing in

richmond and raises more. it was the first court appearance for the former governor of virginia robert mcdonnell and his wife marina federal courthouse here in richmond virginia happier rain and both of them pleaded not guilty to the charges against themselves range from conspiracy fraud and falsifying documents and other charges them from a relationship that the mcdonald's had with a wealthy businessman on an hour and a nutritional supplement company the prosecution alleges that the mcdonald's used the office of the governor to gain personal financial benefits financial gets its all mapped out in the indictment the gifts include everything from oscar dela rented dress is a rolex watch. money for their daughter's wedding and thousands of dollars in loans all of that adds up to about a hundred and sixty five thousand dollars and in return the prosecution allege is the use of the their

position of power to grant to promote this company and to grant special access to government leaders now before your brain and the judge made it very clear that this case will not be tried in the media but will be tried inside that courtroom cited a local rule out local rule fifty seven prohibiting any anonymous leaks to the media the judge made it clear that he will anybody that does lead to the media will face a severe severe penalty is. as for eating mcdonalds today they walk into that chamber hand in hand smiling on this day that could be the beginning of a very long saga. their trial date is set for a july twenty eight if they are convicted and they will each face a maximum penalty of thirty years behind bars. here in richmond virginia lt small artsy syrian peace talks in geneva

fell flat today after the western backed opposition refused to take part in face to face negotiations with the syrian government delegation. the two sides are seemingly finding no common ground on the notion of president bashar al assad should stay in power. rtc corpus going on is in geneva with more. it began. frankly to seem like their negotiations were turning into a complete disaster until your special envoy on sale at the break he came out in a date and said that he did manage to get people to sit in the forties and the opposition presence here in geneva to get in the same room and talk of asking the head of as can happen on saturday and it didn't really provide lots of details about the walk so that didn't talk about he said that such even the ways that he managed to talk them into it on his diplomatic secrets which is not ready to share with the journalist but he did say that right now the most important thing is for both sides of this conflict to understand what they're here

for in geneva and what the stalks are all about because the negotiations were suppose to start at eleven am this friday and doubt while the gospel sit down at the same people informally greet each other with mr breaking at present there as well but since the opposition said they were not ready to sit down and seeing people with the upper forties formally the talks never started so throughout the entire day un special envoy was meeting separately both with the authorities and with the opposition of the representatives of him coming out to journalists and accusing each other basically all sabotaging the negotiations and it became clear to us that wolf see the only way out of this crisis is to enable the nation's piece of meat in a speech at the geneva one of the opposition says that the woman talk about forming it into the transitional government in syria without president us out there while the authorities are saying there are rated to sulk about to cease fires the rated talk about joint anti terror efforts and when it comes to the present thousand future political future that has to

be decided by a nationwide election cleaned out with anyone willing. taking part in the people of syria decided that the talks now are going to was thoughtfully the top on saturday. we don't really know what exactly they're going to be talking about but really getting in and put them in the same room is already quite a diplomatic success. as rtc work is enough. and a senior european union official met with ukraine's president today during a political stalemate after days of clashes between police and protesters opposition leaders are still demanding the resignation of the government and are calling for early elections are t's peter oliver is in ukraine with more. but be hearing from president think the article after the latest rounds of talks between the government and the authorization of these announced what's been achieved so far he said that at the january sixteen schools that were brought to him to come down on demonstrations had that they would be changes to the most

about the opposition and government have agreed to do with his thomas the local people who are being detained by police during rights to which the hearing key at the slowest across the rest of the country know what we're gonna see next week is a emergency session of parliament here in ukraine during the debate in succession that we're expecting to see a reshuffle all agree on a covert his government because it takes if you haven't been that the personnel of rounds no end to end the violence has been going on which the article did say that i had put the finger towards a career goal for this to be responsible for the majority of the worst violence and mayhem coming in and poking his head in the situation hit the president said that he will do everything to try to bring about peace saying that all legal means at his disposal would be used. he tries to bring some kind of cold cocked to the back to

kiev. i'm good with the current looking to bounce a dozen cities in the west of the country where at police in riot is a tough clash pits government buildings official buildings that they meet the targets police had these new rights in the west of the country the worst affected states he's looking at data cds of their bottle than fine gold. i went right to time try to take government buildings on thursday nights we know seat after they had shoes on and off with a house has succeeded in breaking their way into government buildings and fifty unique and elsewhere in the chat not see that. lol we've seen there is at around one file with the dry it says that facing off against iran war the hundreds of riot police in one of the main government buildings there it's been some quite an epic scenes coming from for months on and off the place that calls out so they tend to want that in that situation on the mobile which was one of the at the city's outside of kiev to sleep on then they occupied

government buildings and listened as the two groups and sixty have been recruited to wait and see yet this well to the ukrainian prime minister that as adults as they say that it will be negotiations the people can keep the eu and switzerland sadly the plane to head to ease tensions here in ukraine see if they can help had to become a broker some kind of the peace between opposition write this i'm sad i'm to kill them and smith co the news looking coming out from ukraine has been making headlines around the world leave comments. roland you update us. he did some of the province's been claimed that only really succeeding in inflaming tensions they are in and played in the violence. as our chief peter oliver the juvenile court judge set a trial date in the case said sixteen year old jake daring manning a teenager who has been charged with misdemeanors after us

stop and frisk earlier incident this month. but this straight a student says that he is the breakdown. manning says that a philadelphia police officers sexually assaulted him and turn it down but she says lets him with a ruptured . she hated me down again and showed her reach she grabbed my . and then she granted to squeeze the day and pull it down that's when i heard something pop icon fill the pot. at a press conference today police released surveillance video of the confrontation. a surveillance camera circles and ten second intervals so on the part of the incident as documented. we edited down so you can see here the struggle between manning and officer manning claims he was on his way to a basketball game when officers stop and frisk and squeezing his animals so hard that he had to have emergency surgery confrontation and see it in a sixteen year old was charged on three counts including resisting of brass the police report says officers approached manning after they saw him running

down the street in what they say appeared to be ski masks the boys as it was cold in his face was wrapped a scarf at a press conference today police commissioner charles ramsey said the department has launched an internal investigation into the incident a man his attorney will allow investigators to speak with a boy or his mother. manning's attorney. one alone. you know it is a young man with no history. longstanding use well i don't know what. i'm not in a position to say at this point. on that manning's attorney is calling for federal investigation into the matter the police tell us the teenager's family has yet to file a formal complaint hannah for years now it's been difficult to avoid hearing the unjust and beaver song on the radio but now the pop star has taken over cable news as well. ever since the nineteen year old canadian was arrested for drunken driving and resisting

arrest after miami beach police cars and street racing a lamborghini thursday police say he were admitting he had been drinking smoking marijuana and taking prescription drugs are cheaper disarray two currencies is here to talk about how the beaver fever is making everyone a little bit sake. they tell him what is going and how far did the grips of beaver fever go here will win this game so we see the screens all of the tunnel of the other cable news networks into that yesterday was very clear that they were totally enraptured not just the neighbors are a totally non stop all interesting was as much as ever but there was one moment on msnbc that i thought was particularly emblematic of the ball was going on here in just a set this up internet so in the afternoon when is it was surprisingly having a moment where they were talking then just a neighbor they were talking about the nsa she's asking the former chair of the house intelligence committee which she thought about reports that vanessa's data collection was illegal and this is what happened next. i

think at this point we should seriously consider not not see i'm not into the routine and non su. let me interrupt you just summer we've got some breaking news out of miami stand by israel. right now in miami just end with either has been arrested on a number of charges that judges in teaching reading the charges including resisting arrest and driving under the influence he's appearing now before the judge was pondering watch yet still has a little people the wind is so painful to watch a bit sick so i can finish an attacking the ending it's the part that means you're infected but this is the best arrest of all time and gadgets that's kind of emblematic of something that we stop all throughout the day this total obsession of something that really doesn't have an impact on any one's daily life is this is the seed of kibble new sound it certainly seems that when they think it has to do it the fact of what people are actually interested in watching brandon people like to think

that they wanna watch really informative tv things that tell them about what's going on in their world. when there was actually a huge vigil outside of the miami beach police department yesterday in support of justin keep reading this and angel was much larger than a lot of the actual police brutality protests that we've covered here thirty one from the important key in solidarity with justin b. i mean young girls who can think either of course can be really believe that all of these young girls to sense the morning he's a rat or even just in we are so sorry that this happened to this email this horrible thing where when you were drag racing and run and hide the plastic on dealing with sick or died but there was a bit so very exacting so easy it's very interesting to see that you know this is what people are interested in the profit driven organizations are going to go with a quick suddenly where they think the ice caps are and we can't forget that he is canadian and they now you see these theories doing the same but he's not actually from this country so either implications and in

case need the support any face deportation and has a lot of questions that people are asking in ways he treated fairly for instance their people and being deported who don't have the same kind of fame has just improved and deported for for much less they do or say something that on the part he has created ten in remembrance of this day of infamy and opinion on this island. hop on hop off just from drinking with landon. he knew that he doesn't even look sensational justin diva is now before the judge. move move move been a while yet. getting into such people are in and make fun of other people covering destiny rather than actually covering and to keep

the self he or she must find of the day a large reserve rate of currency as i was a pleasure thinking of thinking and according to a top army commander the us army is working on becoming a quote it's the blackmore and he pulled the label and national forests. but how would this be done well it involves robots of course at the recent army aviation symposium general robert cone head of the services training and doctrine command said noni was exploring ways to shrink the size of the brigade combat team from about four thousand soldiers to three thousand over the coming years. replace the lost soldiers with robots in time and half points as remarks and said i'm not clear guidance to think about what if you could robotic they performed some of the tasks in terms of maneuverability and turns of the future of the fours. in terms of what these robots within kl con talked about how the army can use un manned ground vehicles that would follow me and platforms while in the field that he

said would lead to a decreased necessity for soldiers to carry armor and protection. meaning they would be able to reduce the weight of the brigade brigade combat team. now there's no indication that this transition would happen in the next couple of years by twenty thirty the commander said the nature of the force can look very very different. matt does it for now for more and stories we covered the need to back on such rt america to our website our t dot com site usa. he can also follow me on twitter and your achievement if the tv. next week. it's saddening. when you're in and around the next year. lately i've been out of court. not all on the right word. yours

are. but most importantly seven. what a witch. cz you will will will will the black nhk world is lined on russia problem with the news from tokyo. an international mediator says he's taken a step closer to brokering a peace in syria he spent the past couple of days meeting government and opposition delegation separately. now he says those troops will call this weekend face to face we have agreed that will remain in the same room. the orange foundation of this process is to say the city but he said the two sides and other governments must work