our breaking news story for you this hour right here on. a whistleblower edward snowden reportedly on board a commercial flight over russia it's unclear whether moscow is his final destination a live report on that in just a moment. and no other news of today on the week's top stories on our despite a rather chilly start to lead to a rare show of solidarity officials hailing a road map for syria but there's skepticism that all of them will be able to stick to. them with these protests. and there it is aussies very own crew that's being hit with a water cannon in turkey as the anti-government protests rage on we report in just a moment from the cradle. and the unity of britain's foreign minister.

calling on scots to reject independence for the sake of their economy the visitors just poured fuel on an already fiery debate on the future of still. worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me rory sushi let's get straight to our top story for this hour right now and i say whistleblower edward snowden may already be over russian air space after reportedly boarding a moscow bound flight from hong kong let's. go and get the latest on the sudden developments arena good to see you were getting allegations from all sorts of different stories can you clear it out for us what do you know. of course this point we know that according to one of the main chinese news posts and that is the

south china morning post. edward snowden has left hong. congress morning on route to moscow via an air of flawed flight he is slated to run to arrive here around five pm today so will be expecting him at the airport and we don't know of course of this point whether moscow will be his final destination according to the same china morning post he is going to be a stopover point for snowden and he will be on route to another country could be ecuador it could be eyes and it could be something altogether on the expected that we don't know about now the chinese officials have already said that they do know that edward snowden has left the country and is going to a third country did not specify again where his final destination lies according to the spokesman for the russian president putin the russian government is not aware of where edward snowden is at the moment like you said he could be flying over the russian territory it is

a ten hour flight so he's probably well into russia's air space now all of this comes just a day after. after the united states has filed an official petition for arrest and extradition of edward snowden from china to the united states that petition was left unanswered by the chinese authorities who said that it did not comply to legal requirements basically saying that the paperwork that the u.s. has filed was filed incorrectly but there it stands the man who was in question who was wanted by the united states is actually not even in chinese custody at this point and he has been releasing information the leaking information essentially about the actions and doings of national security. agency or the n.s.a. or cia in portions and one of the latest forces one of the latest leaks that he has released confirmed a longstanding suspicions that the u.s. authorities were snooping not just on their own citizens but also breaching asfar as china as

a matter of fact reading some of that getting access to the information to which would allow them to read some of the text messages that are being. sent by. by chinese citizens of course this is just one of the one of the few reports that have come out from snowden he is at this point known as the largest. the largest whistleblower in the history of this a and r. called the guy that you come from washington has filed this report on the man and the way he's used in the united states. we've done edward snowden traitor hero mix in between but regardless of what anyone thinks about snowden his revelations have shed unprecedented light on the u.s. government's massive spying program even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded a former n.s.a. employee william binney was prosecuted as a traitor when he blew the whistle on the government's sweeping collection of data and communications it's setting up

a tele perry state. when the government has that much information they can do those things they can use the i.r.s. to intimidate people or anything else they can send the f.b.i. . what they did to me and some others bradley manning too is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's so his war logs that the public learned about the. collateral murder was committed in iraq the obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all previous administrations combined but it was a lower say it's not government persecution that they fear the greatest fear that i have regarding the outcome. for america of these disclosures is that nothing will change the administration is not trying to convince the american people that government secrets programs are a trade off they have to make in the name of national security they always have the same stories about you know science manning is known you know psychological stories what is wrong with these people cause them to do this i mean the real question is

what is wrong with everyone else from who doesn't see what they can see but whistleblowers are not the only targets there is an obligation both moral but also legal i believe against a reporter that was the chairman of the house committee on cutting teligent and terrorism peter king calling to punish the journalist who exposed the government surveillance programs in its hunt for meek so the obama administration has already targeted its it's trying to set the precedent for the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with the enemy and it's a death penalty offense the administration doesn't have to go after each other or he certainly it's enough to create an environment of fear but will that fear stop information from coming out here is that we're snowden's answer to that by. kone in response is simply build better whistleblower. in washington i'm going to take on. or let's delve deeper into this breaking news here on r.t. and go straight to hong kong where we're now joined live by. asia times

correspondent and international affairs analyst pepe escobar a big hello to you from moscow thanks so much for jumping on so quickly with this breaking news story. ultimately washington threatens hong kong with severe repercussions cooperate with us and let us get our hands almost as snowden the former cia employee current will supply somehow hong kong lets this high profile figure slip under the radar and get out of town how does that happen. no this is it's much better than the orange trilogy because it's live and it's happening. you remember into a few hours ago it is really out let us corporate media is was washington even seen mates in hong kong to extradite snowden very quickly you know one was had me hearing on phone he was in contact with hong kong authorities he was struck back to bite them he was in what they called a safe house it was not was a safe place where he was talking to local officials and be organized and he skate

route which snowden himself had already it was already part of the spill and a according to another one of our sources here hong kong would be a stopover he would go to a third country we still don't know if this is going to be ecuador or ice and by the way in three hours in moscow it's going to be another stop or we're just not going to see russia so what he did he came to hong kong he released though lots of things sort of mission to the garden first and then to the south china morning also the language stating year specially decent few of the the last few documents released are devastating because it proves that single wide university one of the top universes you know in shining beijing was being hacked by u.s. debt home kong was being hacked sort of ended with that we've been covering the story in depth pepe about america's basically that its empire of spying around the world particularly in china but when it comes to our hong kong so as we understand

edward snowden according to you he's in hong kong he's in touch with he's in touch with the local media he's in touch with officials who allegedly give him a possible escape route it is it is it a part of defiance on the part of hong kong towards washington or more of a case of hong kong not wanting to get involved definitely not rorik each sector i wish i could really for you but i mean we raised a little bit the whole congo when they released. this statement about two hours ago after loading was already m s u two one three going from us they say that they didn't have enough elements to grants what the west what it provisional warrant of arrest and faxed so they decided to you know they didn't even release him because he was not in jail said he last hong kong in a normal legal manner and that's exactly what happened he took a taxi he went to the airport and he blurted out an error for his say so and so he

must be must be ruffling some feathers on capitol hill to say it so to say the least all to me you know allegations allegations of former cia employee turned will still blow edward snowden allegations he's somewhere over russian as space expected to touch down in moscow you say moscow won't be his final destination where do you think he'll go away do you think he's welcome to go. no crystal ball rory but another one of my sources told me that this was a plan b. from the start a stopover in hong kong which lasted roughly three weeks prior. that he more or less let's assume we still don't know that he were going to ice his final destination could be iceland could be ecuador so russia is going to be another stop all dissent is this is between two serial ports and brics countries china and russia china got itself out of the picture in terms of being close to smolder at

least interfering in its future russia won't be part of it but slowed and. we've being away if we have body is useful the us russia and china dream of that our guys are happy if i may i'm sorry so to jump in here we're running so low on time but washington has made it very clear that it wants to get its hands on snowden to what extent how far do you thing washington will go. i was there i was discussing there's a fight because of or where are you going to do what they're going to launch i'll fire a missile against a matter of floods fly into russian airspace. it's got its guy sick it's game set match if slaughter arrives in last wintry hours and he up and he could access stays in transit for two two hours and he departs what if their country this is over and he's not i mean do you think that would you know songe i mean the world's most recognized the whistleblower julian assange in the ecuadorian embassy in london the hold up for the past year now we have edward snowden trying to find

a place of safe refuge do you think people like these two men inspire others to become whistleblowers or perhaps perhaps it's all scaring other people to unveil the hidden truth around the world oh no no that's that we're going to have i would say we're going to have a collection of a son just manning and snowden's from now on specially from a lot of us take geeks there are extremely and costs before with or away and when not surveillance state not only of us but we saw the revelations with britain as well it's a mental american saying of course everybody is involved in cyber war as well but the forefront is u.s. pepe escobar international affairs analyst joining us live from hong kong thank you very much for your time today cuellar out. well among the revelations presented by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden it has apparently turned out that british and american intelligence spied on world leaders at a g.

twenty summit in london and that was now four years ago that some heads of state including the then president dmitri medvedev apparently had their computers monitored and phone calls intercepted by the evidence also suggests that fake internet cafes were set up in order to gather the high profile data and this however has not surprised glynn for a political analyst and former m.e.p. the end of the one nine hundred ninety s. he raised the issue of a secret u.s. project targeting u.s. citizens called echelon and he believes the u.k. has long been america's tool for harvesting information. in the past we we've learned that. military friendship can more easily are we do have to be irish and some of these spots you have big with france or by britain's position of the european union absolutely to be expected there and there are going to be military with the g. twenty in ga given its kind of such operation why understanding is that

g c h q sometimes doesn't even get to see what it downloads for the americans some of the some of the material downloaded from satellites i actually just fed directly to fort meade in the united states and we get sort of bits of it back so we're working as a cow the circuit director who's teaming up with us and of course it will give the green light to the worst of the world to do the same thing why one should try you know or or anybody else be inserted next time neighbor has complained that maybe some was being packing and we're the information for him or it's all the bullshit industrials you know where the chinese are actually it's cruft is the best there ever. are of course more of the world's top headlines in just a moment here are not.

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thank you for joining us here on. live in moscow let's discuss the latest i g eight summit that was a hosted by the united kingdom though the issue of syria taking basically the center stage of the whole meeting of a civil war that may be a painful stumbling block splitting the international community but is the latest gathering showed there's always enough room for consensus despite some visible hurdles. to reports from lockup. eight world leaders about press and an army of police watching that this northern irish g eight went smoothly but inside the fortified resort where the talks are being held a split over syria i don't think we should we should this will ourselves we this is g seven plus one in the run up to the conference the u.s. had claimed that the syrian government had used chemical weapons and pledged to

provide the opposition with arms i think it's right that the americans have said what they have said and i wanted to back that up with the information in the involvement that we've heard in that the system and assessment the russian side said didn't find convincing on the eve of the g eight putin said that peace talks could be the only way to solve the crisis and cautioned leaders considering arming the rebels. as regards who has the blood of the children and peaceful citizens of syria i believe you will not deny that the blood is on the hands of both parties i believe you will agree one hardly should support those who kill their enemies and its their organs for the public and media to see during the talks and or quite meeting between the leaders of russia and the us that produced no breakthroughs but we do have different perspectives on the problem but we share an interest in reducing the violence. the leaders couldn't even agree on how to wave

a nephew amalie photo it looked like seven plus one was ringing true but then a turnaround after an informal dinner between all the participants that sources said went better than expected a joint statement on syria was issued it called for an independent investigation of chemical weapons use in syria something the russian side had been insisting on and it turned out that not all the leaders are convinced by u.s. claims that the syrian government use nerve gas. but you know i'm sure my colleagues will confirm this it was a discussion somebody would agree some who would argue about certain issues but it was never a case that russia was alone defending its position on syria. the focal point of the statement a peaceful resolution to the syrian crisis but it didn't mention what chemical weapons cache our side stepping down or military support to the opposition the journalist used to david cameron's and sad rhetoric was stumped why was it so vital

in your view to keep president putin of russia on board and why were you prepared to pay the price of abandoning a declaration that syria's president has said should go i don't believe any price has been paid quite the opposite i think we have a very strong statement about what needs to happen in syria one thing that everyone in. reason is that the only way to solve the syrian crisis is through diplomacy and peace talks and that's exactly what this has been talks about more talks with no date for geneva two pencilled into the calendar leaders might well be leaving the law and wondering what it is exactly they've achieved. he northern ireland. and we're coming to you live from moscow as artie's own crew in turkey felt the full force of protests police this week after became the target of a water cannon and government on reston's been plaguing the streets of the

country's biggest cities as police unleash their non-lethal austin all to quell the violence. manage to fall this report from the capital ankara. resistance that's the word demonstrators a using in turkey as protests continue three weeks after they started resistance to a government and police force widely accused of war for a tarion ism and brutality ersin is still recovering from the early days of those protests we went with him to the very spot in central ankara where as the crowds fell back into what he describes as a reign of gas canisters he found himself trapped with only a flimsy wooden board to protect him from poison. it was not twenty or thirty meters distance you know. they fired the tear gas capsule on a barricade and i've explored all my head face. doctors had to operate to remove splinters from his eye and fix his broken nose he spent days waiting for the

swelling to recede but sin was lucky compared to etan said a civil killed in a protest in the same square a preliminary autopsy found a metal fragment likely a police bullet lodged in his head at a memorial gathering we spoke to a thames grieving brother we are sure that we can find no meaning in all of this this feeling of burning inside but what hurts the most is that nineteen days after his death the authorities still have not even tried to wrestle my mother's murderers that has been into her from the nation the police crackdown on the protests that initially started as an attempt to save istanbul's gezi park here in the capital ankara parliament is only a short distance from the more raw politics of the street that gyp tired urged one's governing a.k. party is keen to defend its actions if you attack police forces but with stones patents and out of multiple cocktails of course you will get

a response they have been incidents of excess by some protesters the government condemn as vandals addicts trimix dozens of buses burnt shops smashed and police offices in. but i was a reporter wasn't doing any of that the turkish police decided to turn on my camera and me to come the police to break up another night of protest here in ankara and here's the water cannon just coming in as well it's not known whether these protests don't know whether these protests the government also says the situation is know. what we witnessed as we tried once more to record our report water cannon and gas vehicles have just charged into this square if we look down at my legs now not even the media safe i just got nearly knocked off my feet by the water cannon but just moved on there it's not known how long this kind of to and fro between protesters and the police is going to go on in ankara turkey in general or whether it will change the political situation here but one thing's for certain souring the

mood around his party in r.t. ankara turkey are just a moment on our trip to europe for now though the u.k. government's doing all it can to get people in scotland on side in the lead up to its historic referendum on independence william hague has given a speech and then warning even the famous whisky industry could take a hit if it splits from britain as r.t. sarah furthur port's the foreign secretary has only added fuel to the explosive debate over that of scottish independence. sounding the battle cry of. scottish independence date seven nira politicians and campaign as they like cranking up the volume on the debate you would miss it if you put them on thursday and it was the turn of british foreign secretary william hague foreign secretary william hague in edinburgh today to give

his speech outlining why in foreign policy turns the u.k. is. nothing to take. i think. the talk was given to an audience of around one hundred fifty people it's the foreign secretary third but he was not in scotland to issue diet predictions and dark warnings and he laid out the clear reasons why he felt scotland should vote to remain in the union they were saved by the audience high unemployment and tough economic times have meant the many in scotland are becoming more receptive to the message from independence campaigners that being that westminster is maintaining a stranglehold on scottish resources and the scots would benefit from taking back control before against its independence. she knows her mom preparing your marriage great music. you would say where.

this thing. you can go there unionist parties and i think the trainer ignored scotland for a long range and it's on the way now when they're scared they're going to break up the dream in there actually worried me very much despite the fact that those calling for independence the polling significantly lower right now the s.n.p. and yes campaign is say far as we're concerned what can people here to be better off on that independence in scotland not just go oriel in what. we hear so wealthy country so as far as we are concerned as long as that will even wait and more even we just know and working class people who are the majority in scotland just as we are and i am one of the determination of the pro independence campaigners and the great uncertainty about exactly what an independent scotland would mean when it comes to valuable resources like north sea oil have left some in westminster

perhaps feeling a little uneasy that the country that's been part of the united kingdom for more than three. yeah it could seem be down to a very different scene. just a moment here and we visited russians remote region. one of the coldest places in the world whose people nevertheless remain warm and welcoming life from moscow it sounds. i know they tracked approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice on gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his

in three rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things along for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome and please tell me how he differs from obama true obama can pronounce ninety nine percent of the words on a teleprompter in front of him but both presidents have that expensive wars with questionable objectives bush gave us the patriot act and obama continued it with the n.d.a. both of them seem to like their drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's was flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion.

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