breaking news this hour r.t. sources say n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden already in moscow though is thought that the russian capital not his final destination. weiqi leaks claims one of its legal advisors accompanying snowden after the whistleblower organization secured papers a safe exit and asylum quote in an unnamed democratic state. look at the week's top stories despite a chilly start talks at the g. eight lead to a rare show of solidarity officials handling a road map for peace in syria but their skepticism that all of them will be able to stick to the summit play. with these protests. artie's crude hit with water cannons in turkey is the anti-government protests rage on a report from the cradle of the unrest.

three pm in moscow why mattress or bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news to our top story edward snowden may already be on russian soil according to our sources he's reportedly he reportedly boarded a moscow bound flight from hong kong organized and four and a sister by leaks the whistleblowing group let's cross now to our t's paul scott who is standing by at our moscow sheremetyevo airport with all the latest so paul we've got this conflicting reports a torrent of information coming in try and we know it down for us please. i'll try my best for you the latest thing that i can tell you need mention it but within the last hour a source close to the has suggested that edward snowden is already in moscow. is being possibly using mosco was

a stealth of point transit to another destination which was a moment please. the case it would seem that he and his team are one step ahead of the game because as you mentioned wiki leaks do have a legal representative apparently accompanying edward snowden on his journey and has been with snowden since his departure from hong kong wiki leaks a label denies the paperwork you mentioned but they are helping him seek asylum in an undue named and what they're calling a democratic state now where exactly that final destination is we are not yet sure but the suggestion is it could be venezuela and he could be using a moscow was a stop of course before flying to cuba and then down to caracas where he will seek asylum in venezuela the russian foreign ministry have also confirmed or suggested as well that snowden will be traveling to moscow moscow will not be the final destination now because this is all comes of course after he was charged with the espionage act in america when he blew the whistle on the n.s.a.

surveillance operation and home reaction has been quite interesting they initially said they were prepared to work with the americans the white house apparently contacted the hong kong authorities only yesterday on saturday to open up to go into talks about the extradition process hong kong want to guarantee that the charges brought against snowden were not politically motivated maybe those guarantees were not met and that is why they've let him leave the country or so it seems but the suggestion is sources close to saying that edward snowden is already here in moscow on route to an unnamed final destination where he will be seeking asylum right artie's live for us in terms of our thanks very much. well to talk more on this i'm joined live by jim killick executive director of the open rights group a u.k. based organization that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms thank you for joining us here on our t.v. so hong kong authorities had seemed to be very supportive of snowden as were the

people on the streets there why did he choose to leave the island is he trying to escape do you think. well clearly he's under legal threats in hong kong and the united states government are putting a lot of pressure on him to be arrested our case he thinks he's got better options elsewhere and you know. we have to say you know you have say this is a very brave man he's done a lot to expose things that we all suspected were happening but now we know precisely what is happening and of course he wants to have some freedom roll them being put in jail i guess and facing very very long extradition proceedings so i. you know i think that's precisely why he's going to just thinks he's got a better option somewhere else now moscow not to be as final destination is expected to make a stopover in the capital and then move on to our third state an asylum state why do you think he's chosen such a long route for his journey rather than say a direct flight well i i don't know precisely but i guess he's

again doesn't suspect that the russians are going to respond to an extradition request straight off things he's been able to go through russia obviously if you try and travelling from one part of the world to another you've got a big problem with anywhere that you stop off you. if you add to that country you could be arrested so you need to go through countries alone not going to cooperate with the with any extradition request so i guess that is why he's taken this route is there any guarantee at this point that he won't be seen somewhere on or. i'm not working for wiki leaks so i couldn't tell you what they know but i would imagine that he would have chosen to take something which is fairly risk free at least i hope so because i think he's done a tremendous amount of work here he's told the public what we need to know about

the extent of surveillance and what the british and united states government have been prepared to do over the last few years we all owe him an immense debt of gratitude for explaining to the public what they already should have known about so you know for me i'm really like to see him given a full chance to explain precisely what he knows in his own time without fear of further unrest in speaking or for stand his own time do you think it is just a matter of time before you eventually does end up back in the u.s. or do you think that's something that could be put off indefinitely well sometimes people do get granted asylum and i think if the united states government is trying to prosecute him for things which essentially we all should have known about then i think he deserves his freedom of course we need to know the accuracy of what he said we need to see what else he's got to say but for me personally i just hope

that he does keep his freedom. and finally do you think hong kong should have helped washington intercept him bring him back to the u.s. for whatever consequences may await him there. well governments have legal duties and hong kong has extradition arrangements. in the sense you know there is there is due process and perhaps america may have reason to prosecute him but i think we have to remember here that even though the legal position may be that he has broken the law in the united states the united states government and the british government have not been prepared to tell us the public what we should have known about it interception of surveillance the extent of information that they're recording on millions of innocent people and because they weren't prepared to tell us this is taken they would snowden to reveal that for everybody so he's

done the government's job if they claim that's breaking the law i don't think that's just jim colored executive director the opener it's going to thanks very much for that. former m i five agent any mission says of him you were as a whistle blower who gives it the image of being the aggressor you know there's been so much in the western media for the last few years about the chinese hacking all our systems and everything they must be very pleased to have evidence in fact us do thing to them for they can push back so i think it's a good place for him to go and i think the irony now is that it's the u.s. that we have to fear it's the u.s. that we have to fear from because of course at the moment the bomber administration is waging a war with a blow with not just ed snowden but also people like bradley manning in his awful trial in conditions and also a whole range of other whistle blows from the cia and in the n.s.a. . q the cia who exposed the us to the program is the one currently languishing in prison for those months not the torture it's so i think the irony that people have

to fear the us when we're trying to do is expose the crimes that the us must be better and i think edward snowden's choice of refuge demonstrates very much that the u.s. is currently to have the world in the light of one hundred first snowden and the current trial of another whistleblower bradley manning artie's guy looks at how washington is fighting to keep a veil of secrecy while justifying operations to the u.s. people america is split on 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 tarion 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.

people what they did to me and some others bradley manning too is being prosecuted as a traitor although it's so here's your 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 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 it was a lowers 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 meeks the obama administration has already targeted its it's trying to set the precedent 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's edward snowden's answer to that like you. kone in response is simply build better whistleblower. in washington i'm going to take on. the revelations presented by snowden that british and u.s. intelligence eligible. world leaders at a g. twenty summit in london four years ago some heads of state including then russian president dmitry medvedev apparently had computers monitored phone calls tapped the

evidence also suggested fake internet cafes were set up to gather high profile data this though as a surprise to glenn afford a political analyst and former m.e.p. at the end of the ninety's he raised the issue of a secret u.s. project targeting e.u. citizens called echelon and he thinks the u.k. is long been a tool for harvesting information. in the past week we've learnt the. new military friendship can more easily arash would serve the irish peace process and some of these spots throughout big with france or by britain's position of the european union absolutely could be expected there and there were going to be military with the g. twenty in g. eight events that kind of such operation my 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 killer downloaded from satellites i actually just fed directly to fort meade in the united states and we get so little bits of it back so we're or at kayser got the

subcontractors 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 won't you join or anybody else the next time member has complained that maybe some was going on where the information him or it could be only he could be industrious you know where the chinese are actually it is crawford is the best there i am. coming your way after a short break more news stay with us.

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and low current focused on peace efforts for the embattled state never mentioning any issue of in force regime change but this unity looked highly unlikely from the outset as artie's polly boyko reports. 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. we this is true 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 said and i wanted to back that up with the information in the involvement that we've heard in that the system and assessment of 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 it's 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 produce 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 in their family photo it looked like seven plus one was ringing true but then a ten around 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 day would argue about certain issues but it was never the 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 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 quite the opposite i think we have

a very strong statement about what needs to happen in syria one thing that everyone agrees on 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 more than a date for geneva two penciled into the town and the leaders might well be leaving a lot hern wondering what it is exactly they've achieved. northern ireland parties own kerwin turkey fell before force of police this week after it became the target of water cannons and the government under us has been playing the hundred biggest cities as police unleash their non-lethal arsenal to quell public anger artie's tom barton reports from the tear gas stream so our current the smell of gas is thick in the you can see the water kind of busily working surrounded by you poltroon them with stones trying to clear barricades on the central ankara streets but you paul. this convert danger really exploded just shortly ago when the

police charged in trying to clear this barricade the protesters ranged against the police who they say a brutal brutal the police and the government for their part say these are no longer the protesters that were there and gave the park in istanbul these are hooligans however alone the street no shop windows have been broken a lot of the local people throwing out mattresses and helping the people to build barricades to then set fire to try and stop the police the positions on both sides in french and the result is unfortunately a lot of violence across turkey as you can see in my report resistance that's the word demonstrators are using in turkey as protests continue three weeks after they started resistance to a government and police force widely accused of war for a tear in 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. it was not twenty or thirty meters distance you know. they fired the tear gas capsule on a barricade and explored. pays 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 similar 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 at thames greeting brother we are sure we can find no meaning in all of this this feeling of burning inside but what hurts the most is that nineteen days at. to his death the authorities still have not even tried to

arrest my brother's murderers there has been international condemnation of the police crackdown on the protests that initially started as an attempt to save istanbul's kids the park here in the capital ankara parliament is only a short distance from the more raw politics of the street project tayyip erdogan is governing a.k. party is keen to defend its actions if you attack police forces but with stones. and out of multiple cocktails of course you will get a response test by some protesters the government condemns vandals adik stream ists dozens of buses burnt shops smashed and police officers injured but i as 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 it's not known whether these protests the government also says the

situation is now calm not what we witnessed as we tried once more to record our report more to come in 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 in turkey in general or whether it will change the political situation here but it's one thing's for certain it's souring the mood around his party tom watson r.t. ankara turkey u.k. government doing all it can to get people in scotland on their side in the lead up to a historic referendum on independence william hague gave a speech in edinburgh warning even the famous whisky industry there could take a hit if it splits from the britain. furthur a porch the foreign secretary is only added fuel to a debate over scottish independence.

sounding the battle cry of the twenty fourteen scottish independence date of a new era politicians and campaign is a like a cranking up the volume on the debate this is your mission to do good canada 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 terms the u.k. is but it's nothing to take good afternoon for i think. the talk was given to an audience of around one hundred fifty people it's the foreign secretary said that he was not in scotland to issue di a predictions and warnings and he laid out the clear reasons why he felt scotland should vote to remain in the union and travelling from afghanistan to brazil and i'm from canada to australia.

but anyone would try to break up a union that has been so resilient so successful i'm so out in the world as ours they were saved by the audience high unemployment and tough economic times of the many in scotland are becoming more receptive to the message from independence campaign is that being that westminster is maintaining a stranglehold on scottish resources and the scots would benefit from taking back control but you forget that's independent. chinos or my party you may meet me see you. i mean. you would say yeah i don't like this thing. you pay me go there unionist parties and i think they're praying every north scotland for a long time. and it's on the way now when there's. they're going to be green in there actually where the debates go despite the fact that these cooling to

independence the polling significantly lower right now the s.n.p. and yes campaign is a spot as we have people here to be a bit off on that independence in scotland not just go all oil and. so wealthy country. as long as that will ship the evenly a more evenly just and working class people who are the majority in scotland just as the out and i am. the determination if the president dependence campaign is and equate. about exactly what an independent scotland would mean when it comes to valuable resources like oil. perhaps feeling a little uneasy that the country that's been part of the united kingdom for more than three hundred years could seem to be down to a very different. and

recapping this hour's breaking news r.t. sources saying edward snowden may already be on russian soil he reportedly flew from hong kong after the u.s. charged with espionage and requestion his extradition the city authorities though weren't forthcoming they said the u.s. had violated procedures and they weren't sure the prosecution wasn't politically motivated snowden's exit apparently planned and carried out by wiki leaks which says it has secured asylum for him in an unspecified quote democratic nation a representative of the group said to be accompanying snowden who according to other reports is still on route to moscow russian officials have said since he doesn't have a visa he may have to wait for his next flight inside the airport his final destination still unknown is thought he may be headed for some more in south america. well up next with the dead numbering in tens of thousands are to travel to one the most dangerous cities on earth to report on mexico's war against this drug cartels do you want to stay with us.

you know what's worse than a crap bureaucrat a crook bureaucrat who sucks at being corrupt a scumbag bureaucrat in veronese russia just couldn't help himself and puts a very hefty charges for services contract for road repair and construction in just three years use able to take enough of a percentage off of these contracts though investigators raided his house he had the equivalent of over three million dollars in russian money all over his home news not mail dot ru claims he had entire laundry hampers and twenty five kilogram sugar sex filled to the brim with box first off when someone is this flagrant that means that he thought rather comfortable and not getting caught so there are plenty more of these guys out there but second this is an absolute slap in the face to russia taxpayers who are hungry for new roads i think for instance it's

a flagrant in your face obvious crush corruption russia might need to reconsider that moratorium on the death penalty but that's just. me and any welcome to. here you can feel it.

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