ecuador is considering us whistleblower edward snowden. is currently in transit for the night at a moscow airport to fly. to washington demanded his extradition and revoked his. state department but his trip should not be allowed to continue. and as the hunt for snowden continues across continents a bush puts the spotlight on barack obama saying he was watched while running for the senate. from a studio in moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day. and it's

a whistleblower edward snowden who is wanted by the u.s. has formally applied for political asylum in ecuador that's according to a tweet by the country's foreign minister snowden is currently in a moscow airport waiting to board his next flight on monday afternoon when it's crossed now to scott who is at the airport. all day bring us up to date what has been happening there since snowden landed from hong kong today. only seems right doesn't it one of america's most wanted men has kept the world's media guessing on a day of intrigue here at moscow's sheremetyevo airport the day began with reports that edward snowden had fled hong kong. to moscow those rumors turned out to be true he landed here at about five fifteen. five fifteen local time greeted by the ecuadorian. now we are hearing that since human. in that he's had his passport

revoked by the americans that he's having problems getting a russian visa and that he is stuck in transit in the airport terminal building behind me he was greeted by the ecuadorian ambassador and around three hours after he landed the confirmation came that was indeed the country that he was seeking asylum in the country's minister the foreign affairs tweeting that he had applied for political asylum with the country now the suggestion is he's going to fly on to cuba from moscow shut a matter of airports. two on monday afternoon that would also be a transit eventually and his journey his final destination his target destination of course being ecuador where he is seeking political asylum now we are led to believe he is not traveling alone there is a legal representative from wiki leaks we're led to believe traveling with edward snowden on his journey wiki leaks say that they've helped edward snowden throughout the process they helped him have a safe passage and

a safe exit from hong kong they've organized his papers and they are indeed the ones who are negotiating the deal for political asylum in ecuador he's kept everyone guessing the world's press where there were hundreds of photographers and cameramen and john this all hoping to grab a glimpse of the world's most famous whistle blow out the moment but he hasn't reports in transit and also rather interestingly the ecuadorian ambassador. to we were expecting we were hoping that he would make some kind of official statement on this because the if only official confirmation that we do have is that tweets from the foreign minister but neither edward snowden nor the ecuadorian ambassador they certainly. edward snowden is still here he is set to spend the night. before as i say really suggest he's involved he will not fly to cuba on monday afternoon thank you very much indeed for that. life. paul was saying that he is definitely there somewhere. the airport but snowden's exact whereabouts are

really currently unknown though he's thought to be still there as paul says and there is speculation he could be staying at a so-called capsule hotel that should have it airport while reportedly waiting for a flight to cuba now these pictures you're seeing right now from artie's news agency ruptly and we'll try to bring you more on his whereabouts while he is on russian soil at the moment. well as paul was confirming there the ecuadorians have received a request for asylum to quito by snowden and we're still waiting for official confirmation that ecuador will indeed grant that asylum and says she's been outside the ecuadorian embassy all day today. why do you think he chose ecuador eventually there was a lot of speculation about venezuela. that's right bill there was a lot of speculation and a lot of speculation and and confirmed reports are running around to the minute

that snowden actually left to hong kong on his way to moscow now just to reiterate what paul said of course earlier on four o'clock runaround four o'clock in moscow time the ecuadorian ambassador and a motorcade left the embassy on route to the airport now of course we haven't heard anything as yet official from the ecuadorian embassy here in moscow as to where the ambassador is or how things are progressing with them but what we do know is that official statement from there could during the embassy during our foreign minister rather saying that it is indeed confirmed that snowden has launched that application for asylum or with the government now taken back to what you've just said the question you just asked me the reason why the media as well was hounding the embassy here earlier on today is because of the one particular case that we've all been following around of julian asuncion now of course we know that julian assange is been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london he's the asylum last

year after having had his his court cases to be actually got it to sweden not winning that he of course was saying that he has concerns of being actually gotten to sweden that the swedish government will be actually dieting him to the united states where he could possibly be facing charges of of those they leaked documents of military as well as diplomatic which was leading to the media now julian assange of course has been in the background of this extradition. with a snowden right now you know it doesn't it doesn't surprise or many experts and many of the people who were out here that we spoke to saying that could be considering having snowden in the teacher we know that they've done that for julian assange. it was only i guess everybody thought the logical step would be snowden himself to ask for an embassy to grant him asylum right now he's still at the a

poorly we don't know how long his people work is going to go and if indeed he will be able to even try. to keep would only have to wait and see if they're going government themselves do give a formal statement if indeed yes they have granted him that asylum so it's still a waiting game for all of us especially here at the boreen embassy in moscow and i'm sure for the rest of the world and everybody who's been following this story the whole day. be an embassy. the only baritone information activists of the free bradley manning support network. in american countries will provide protection for snowden despite u.s. pressure to have very large. numbers of asylum by fifty some odd thousand not necessary political refugees but i think also that has also helped make safe

haven for those are persecuted politically and i think it's a wonderful watershed moment were there was a concert at africa and beyond of these countries russia hong kong china. and ecuador to protect edward snowden i think it's a very good initiative i think that all these countries know that the americans are not lightly and are going to exert a great amount of political pressure to have him extradited but i do hope in this new age of south american consciousness and new freedoms and so forth that they will step up to the plate and provide protection for edward snowden. well washington has revoked edward snowden's passport and said that he should be prevented from traveling further afield than he all ready has done that says officials demand that he be returned to the jurisdiction of the united states where let's cross live now to our t's going to check on for more gun at so revoking that passport it was supposed to stop him from traveling wasn't it but it doesn't seem

to work. that's right bill u.s. officials confirm that they have in fact revoked edward snowden's passport to stop him from traveling it didn't stop him from flying out of hong kong not clear whether it was because hong kong officials did not receive the notification on in time or because they made a decision to overlook it we know that the u.s. has put a lot of pressure on hong kong to arrest noton and not to let him leave the country but in a statement the government of hong kong says u.s. documentation did not to fully comply with the legal requirements under hong kong law but also in the same statement the government of hong kong that they want more information about the hacking of computer systems in hong kong by u.s. government agencies something that was part of snowden's revelations so in this official statement we see hong kong how hong kong shifts the focus from the messenger edward snowden back to the message to the revelations that he has made demanding an explanation remember these revelations showed that the u.s.

light and that the u.s. has been accusing china of doing exactly what the u.s. itself has been doing so policymakers here in the u.s. are doing everything to shift the attention away from snowden's revelations by focusing on snowden himself or even by attacking other countries like russia senator chuck schumer was on one of the news shows this morning saying president putin. he said putin always seems almost eager to put a finger in the eye of the united states and then i was listening to the former director of the cia say russia and china are going to use this meaning snowden to embarrass the u.s. one would argue it's his revelations that embarrass the west not russia and china the u.s. government is clearly afraid of more revelations coming from edward snowden there's a debate in the us media has shifted to this cat and mouse game and it's now all about how we're going to catch it so right now the media is unsympathetic to edward

snowden although just a week ago. some of the same journalists who are almost humiliating for his capture at this point were grateful for edward snowden's revelations which were indeed open and as far as the prospects of being caught here's what edward snowden who sell for that deals i don't have special skills because i could be you know rendered by the cia i could have a people come after me or any of their third party partner you know they would they work closely with a number of other nations and that's that's a fear i'll live under for the rest of my life however long that happens to be you can come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries the no one can meaningfully oppose them. if they want to get you they'll get you in time well edward snowden also said it's not government persecution that he fears he said the greatest fear that i have about the outcome of these disclosures is that nothing

will change while more on that my report america is split on edward snowden traitor hero mix in between but we guard less so what anyone thinks about snowden his revelations have shed unprecedented light on the u.s. government's massive spying program even if you know doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded for me to say employ you william binney was prosecuted as a traitor when he blew the whistle on the government sweeping collection of data and communications it's setting up it to tell it to reinstate. 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 to 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 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 meek 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 each certainly it's enough to create an environment of fear but will that fear stop information from coming out here is that what snowden's answer to that like. conan response is simply build better whistleblower he said in washington i'm going to take on. it's only an historian gerald horne i spoke to him earlier and he says that despite america demanding snowden's immediate extradition the u.s. it's so frequently welcomes dissidents from other countries. well if you listen to the congress persons appearing on sunday chat shows today united states they're breathing fire threatening measures just short of nuclear war if mr snowden is not speedily dispatched back to new york or washington united states for example

routinely excepts on its territories citizens flaying cuba without passports i would also say the united states routinely receives on its soil those it deems to be political dissidents who do not have passports so i don't feel that moscow is hands are tied with regard to mr snowden not having a passport will have more updates on the edward snowden story of the break stay with us this is r.t. live in moscow. wealthy british style holds sometimes. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports.

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whistleblower edward snowden has formally applied for political asylum in ecuador and that's according to a tweet by the country's foreign minister snowden is currently in a moscow airport reportedly waiting to board his next flight within the next twenty four hours he is the seventh person the obama administration has sought to punish for leaking classified data let's look at some of his major revelations now he disclosed the documents showing the n.s.a. has access to huge streams of internet data including emails chat rooms and videos from large companies such as facebook and google he showed also how the u.s. government has used the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court to gather extensive data from phone service provider verizon and he told china hundreds of targets there were being hacked and according to his latest leak the u.k. is collecting and storing huge amounts of personal sensitive data from online and telephone traffic and sharing it with america well u.k.

investigative journalist tony gosling believes the revelations a bigger than many think. the real impact of what he's done here is only now starting to be realized it's not only is he exposing criminality the signals intelligence part of the british intelligence services also the national security agency but he's also showing that much of that intelligence contains information which may bring criminal prosecutions for example of war crimes criminal criminal prosecutions against for example bankers but this is what people don't necessary understand is there will be information that edward snowden has that can actually bring some of these people to trial eventually and that's why the west is so afraid if britain was really serious about any kind of real justice we would be able to invite him to london and say yes you can tell all your secrets or your stories to people here in britain you'll be safe here he's actually exposing criminals and the criminals are going for him now in another twist whistleblower russell tice who

released his secrets during the george w. bush era says former cia head general petraeus and even barack obama wants targets for snooping you also confirm that data is indeed being stored james corden based independent journalist believes tice's revelations didn't get the attention they deserve. while the snowden drama unfolds something that's being swept under the rug are these new revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower russell tice who is in fact one of the people who was one of the sources for the original two thousand and five new york times story on the n.s.a. wiretapping scandal at that time but now russell tice to step forward with more information into explosive interviews from the last few days he talked about how the the n.s.a. is in fact storing not just the metadata which has been a talking point in the newsroom so far but the content of all electronic communications that are going across the u.s. servers from e-mails to faxes to phone calls all of it being stored now at the new data center and in utah he also went on record to name names of some of the

specific targets of n.s.a. spying with the implication that this information was being used for blackmail and purposes on including senator then senator barack obama including general david petraeus and others who he mentioned by name including supreme court justices and top ranking military and republican congressional officials so this is being specifically avoided right now and the implication is that the news outlets are as we've seen with the snowden story and other stories collaborating with the intelligence agencies behind the scenes to repress this information but this is this is absolutely explosive and again coming from a key n.s.a. whistleblower who is right now being ignored with these allegations. and as whistleblowers such as snowden revealed governments have to type for personal data we're interested in how you feel about your private information being collected by security agencies and this is how you've been voting so far on our website harty dot com the overwhelming majority think that collecting private data without

warning is absolutely unacceptable you can see there are significantly less sixteen percent this hour of saying they can't provide their answers online because they could be easily tracked by security agencies in other words think they're being sneaky right now snooped on right now and seven percent are thinking that this is justified only in cases of spying on terrorist suspects without the mass tracking of everyone and finally a minority says that well if you've done nothing wrong what have you got to hide there is no problem about this surveillance that's what you're thinking at the moment r.t. dot com to get involved in cost your vote on our website it's on our home page. that peter tatchell who's a u.k. human rights activist says that u.s. surveillance tactics are outrageous and beyond all legal bounds but she will deny the states will be doubling its efforts to try and intercept him and to get an extradition from whatever country they can i think the context of this is that the

united states spies on its own citizens it also spiers on the systems of millions of other countries i mean millions of people in other countries and this is done without the permission of those countries it is technically illegal and what is extraordinary is that what snowden was employed by the united states as a spy yet now they are seeking to arrest him for spying it seems completely not ocracy when the united states is spying on its own citizens and citizens around the world on a massive scale without our governmental interest oversight you know with the united states or other countries around the world. weaving support of many u.s. companies for the government surveillance program including the one snowden woodfull is leading to some difficult questions coming over. for the big firms we know now that thousands of companies have been sharing sensitive information

with the u.s. government in exchange for various benefits now this raises concerns about the extent of the private sector collaboration with the u.s. government not to mention questions about what exactly those benefits were now the details may be murky at this point but let's go over exactly what information we have now companies who did hand over data to the government got a big thank you that's according to michael hayden who used to head the cia as well as the national security agency which runs of course the prism program and mr hayden told bloomberg this if i were the director and had a relationship with a company who was doing things that were not just directed by law but were also valuable to the defense of the republic i would go out of my way to thank them and give them a sense as to why this is necessary and useful all right well what kind of thank you exactly are we talking about here well again not a lot of details but anonymous sources did tell bloomberg that leaders of the companies who handed over data to the government were showered with attention and

information by government agencies in fact in some instances that meant quick warnings about the threats that could affect their bottom line for example serious internet attacks and who's behind them of course this exchange of information is supposed to be voluntary and well at this point we don't exactly have evidence that this is not the case but well most of the companies seem to have participated simply because the government asking for help one former c.e.o. paints a slightly different picture in two thousand and one when some telecom giants allegedly were asked to participate in an n.s.a. information sharing program one company qwest initially refused to play ball and according to court documents filed by its then c.e.o. joseph nacho as a result of that decision the company was denied lucrative n.s.a. contracts he believed to be worth fifty to one hundred million dollars retaliation he says for refusing to partake in the government's spy program. so to sum it up

companies that share data earned government goodwill information about threats possible classified information and of course there's concern that those who did not play along could could have been left out of lucrative government contracts course we don't have more information on this but that's purse eisley the point the lack of transparency about this data swap is a major concern now it's done in the name of security but at what cost and to home this account for reporting for our team in moscow where we'll have more updates on the edward snowden story about thirty minutes from now with the news team the news continues now after the break we visit russia's remote region it's one of the coldest places in the world whose people nevertheless remain warm and welcoming itself to the break.

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