very little. edward snowden goes underground under the radar after sending moscow's international press corps to the sunny caribbean show. that washington is breathing fire in china and russia for the refusal of both countries to serve the whistleblowers head. and taliban fighters launch a heavy assault on afghanistan's presidential palace a week off of the country's security forces took full control in the us and plans for peace talks with the taliban terror group.

news live from moscow this is our team with me. thank you for joining us today the world's leading intelligence agencies have found themselves once again chasing their own tails off to edward snowden again slipped through the global surveillance web that he worked to expose the n.s.a. whistleblower is now reported to be in hiding after setting off a plane packed with journalists all the way to cuba at this very same flight he was supposed to be on. reports from moscow's airport where snowden is last thought to have been seen. the only thing that we know for certain is that edward snowden's exact location. the white house suggested that they still believe that edward snowden is. in the airport terminal building behind

me at the ecuadorian embassy of the country that he is seeking political asylum or at another location we simply do not know. now all reports point to the fact that he did in fact arrive here at airports on sunday at around five o'clock in the afternoon on the aeroflot flight. from hong kong was where he was in hiding for a fortnight after blowing the whistle on the n.s.a. surveillance operation but he hasn't been spotted since now russia's security service the f.s.b. say they do not know where he is and the lack of. blogging websites and social networks to question whether he even set foot in russia in the first place another thing that we do know is that ecuador is the country where he's seeking political asylum it was widely that that was going to be his target destination his final intended destination but with wiki leaks pulling the strings and organizing

the whole thing. whether it has all been. as you say the world's press a fly on an empty plane to cuba or a plane not containing edward snowden. to say that snowden is ahead of the game he's keeping not just the world's press but also the american authorities guessing as to his exact whereabouts but you get the feeling with the world watching that snowden's next move in this game of cat and mouse could be crucial. going off he was also on the fly that it would snowden was supposed to take he told us of the confusion on board when the press realized that the whistle blower had given them the slip. i just got off the plane we just landed in hawaii on a coming from moscow to thirteen hour long awaited and well what can i see back and shooting me to up to the very last point everyone was still expecting edward

snowden to show up to board that even when we were sitting there the whole plane was packed even when we all walk to the doors and it was taxiing away to take off still everyone was waiting for him. at least to find him on the plane and when we were allowed to get up from our seats went to the seats. where they were supposed to be sitting and saw that they were empty some journalists were actually looking for them inside the airplane checking bathrooms checking places where mr snowden could have been hiding since the very beginning it seemed almost one hundred percent that he was going to take this flight increased security in the airport crowds of journalists were additional factors boosting these expectations. going off in havana now although the dozens of journalists after the scoop of the year were left disappointed others actually made the most of it and one of those is seat seventeen a that was booked for snowden and that made the very most of his fifteen

minutes of fame on twitter in the first tweet the seat without a person just seemed rather upset writing i feel empty he was also rather annoyed that he couldn't make conversation with a seat next to it because well a b.b.c. reporter was sitting on it seventeen i was also a little apprehensive of all the angry journalists and frankly irritated by no sign of the drinks trolley well we did speak to daniel ellsberg a bit earlier in the program here on ars he's another prominent american whistleblower he exposed pentagon papers back in one nine hundred seventy one detailing washington's controversial policy making issues during the vietnam war he believes very few pull very few people i should say at the end of the day will ever measure up to snowden sacrifice. i think he would be in much the same cell as bradley manning if not in the same cell or comical any could be under the national defense authorization act he could be in military detention but even if not he

would be in a jail cell somewhere as incommunicado as bradley manning is for the last three years so i think he was very wise to make it was voters outside of this country and i think that we should be listening to what he has to say because what so far i've heard him say is very eloquently put in shows much better judgment than those of his colleagues who went along with this clearly unconstitutional but they were all purchased in i would say the charm carries calling him a traitor is just trusting and he's no more a traitor than i am and i am not all that words used by a president and a vice president both of whom by the way to lost their office for criminality nixon and i knew i think he is in the tradition of me can hail the first american to be convicted of tried in fact for giving secrets to americans he said i regret that i have but one life to give for my country because his country was

america and he was hanged by the british misfired for george washington i think that edward snowden has shown a willingness to give his life for this country and there is no american i believe more deserves to be honored at this moment. and russia considers washington's threats toward moscow noton to be totally unacceptable that's according to foreign minister sergei lavrov it was just now responding to a question posed by azzi regarding russia's relationship with snowden. or in our washington has showered threats towards the countries which will supply was snowden has used as a sort of setting stuns to get to his state of freedom it's one china of the consequences of allowing the thirty year old to flee to russia while hinting that both moscow and beijing a far from being bastions of free speech he's got a chance you can reports. the white house says hong kong officials had received washington's with quest to arrest no then and still made quote

a deliberate choice to let him go so washington clearly takes it as a snub from china here's the president's press secretary we are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a hong kong immigration official this was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the u.s. china relationship we were never there in response to the u.s. request to arrest noted in the government of hong kong issued a statement saying that the documents the u.s. provided did not fully comply with the legal requirements on the hong kong law but also in that same statement the government of hong kong said they wanted more information from the u.s. government about the hacking of computer systems in hong kong by u.s. government agencies and that was one of edward snowden's revelations snowden gave china a great political counterargument to u.s. constant accusations against china now the u.s. can't accuse china of cyber attacks without being accused of hypocrisy so there is an interesting dynamic behind all this the u.s.

one and china where the semi-autonomous government of hong kong to give them the man who had leaked u.s. secrets but one of those secrets is about activities of the u.s. government against china so it's possible that china's dilemma was to either think edward snowden or to arrest that hong kong says they've done everything in accordance with their own laws now as far as russia edward snowden has been in transit in russia and russian authorities say they have no legal authority to arrest him but u.s. politicians and pundits on television use what seems like a cold war rhetoric to present washington as the enemies that snowden is helping and the imagination of some german is running. wild as they joke about how edward snowden is being briefed by the russian president in one form of social also on one of the news channels said russia and china are going to use this to embarrass the u.s. one should argue it's known as revelation. that embarrass the u.s. not russia or china but that's exactly what's happening now u.s. policymakers are doing everything possible to divert attention away from snowden's

revelations and certainly one of the one way of doing this is to present it as a cold war style cat and mouse chase that way you have us media now almost cheering for edward snowden's capture although just a little while ago some of the same journalists were grateful for a grade zero for a greater public awareness of the fact that the u.s. government is spying on millions of people who have done nothing wrong and of course has no illusions as to what lengths the u.s. government will go to catch him edward snowden also said it's not government persecution that he fears most he said the greatest fear that i have about the outcome of these disclosures is that nothing will change from how it's developing it doesn't look like things will change for americans anytime soon but for the world be occasions of his revelations could be significant for example the fact that the u.s. now can't accuse china of cyber attacks without being accused of hypocrisy. and

reportedly given snowden refugee papers what it does consider his asylum request but its foreign minister has declined to reveal where the whistleblower is snowden's trick to ecuador is being organized by wiki leaks according to his chief julian a songe more on this now to london and all it seems pretty boy. julian the signs are saying that they are in contact with edward snowden and the wiki leaks legal representative traveling with him they said that they are both healthy and in good spirits and in a secret location that they can't disclose now they've spoken a lot about the very bullying and what they called the threatening behavior of the u.s. administration in relation to a number of nations through which edward snowden has been reported to be traveling the fact that they've been demanding for his extradition now wiki leaks have said that edward snowden is not a trace as the u.s. secretary of state was calling him and yet he's a hero as we know we have been assisting edward snowden both with his asylum

request to ecuador as well as with legal representation so we're going to be following this story as it develops for you from london. well when it comes to the issue of what exactly is going on with would snowden let's let's see how we're taking your pulse here about so you know we always love it when you get involved with our stories here on the program the web site all to dot com is where we're taking your pulse on the issue with mr edward snowden where is he now and where would he be better off perhaps now apparently with numbers a very very close for this hour thirty percent top choice here snowden is better off staying in russia than down to a very close second position twenty six percent here saying well perhaps he should stay in russia only if he doesn't get near u.s. space as you say when he gets to ecuador hopefully he doesn't violate u.s. space but twenty four percent saying well you know what the u.s. will get him even if he does think he finds his safe haven down in central south america twenty percent saying well what should he do you he should just be on the

hideaway he should find his safe place that we still are taking your policies here at all is he what to do with snowden and where is he now and where is the best place for him to be just head over to tea dot com for more details on that. well i do stay with us here more news to come from marty live from moscow in just.

speak your language or not at the. program some documentary some spanish matters to you. a little turn to angle stories. here. the spanish find out more visit i to alan. thanks for joining us here on our take at the presidential palace in kabul has come under attack from militants all reporters were there waiting for a press conference with the afghan president and the assault reportedly pitched heavily on taliban fighters against presidential bodyguards and american troops and left plumes of smoke visible across many parts of the capital

a journalist courtney body has the latest from the city. the scene lasted just over an hour and well no civilian casualties have been reported and the afghan forces did manage to get the attack under control relatively quickly the fact that it did happen at the presidential palace they used id cards and vehicle id cards that are what the nato and i saw forces use reportedly and the fact that they were even able to breach that gate what i saw from the outside of the gate it's more of a blast wall around the green zone area as they were dry and holes in the concrete walls and in the entire gate was destroyed apparently one vehicle was able to get inside and then one was stopped at the gate and then that's when the attack began the damage actually remarkably was minimal obviously it could have been a lot worse there actually schools and offices just outside of the gate into the

presidential palace area and where the cia is. and the fact that there were no civilian deaths are any injuries reported is remarkable it would seem as especially considering this attack happened right when the peace talks are being negotiated in doha with the taliban and the attack happened on the presidential palace it would not seem possible that the afghan side could continue forward with the peace talks when they're being attacked not even just on their own soil but right in there in their presidential palace and. spoke to a bit earlier political analyst and former afghan m.p. he agrees the assaulting a presidential palace is highly symbolic. this was probably one of the most strategic penetration to send a signal to the afghan government that while they're opening an office in qatar they are also continuing their military assault on very important targets it's

a very very confusing for this government too while the government is interested in talking to a colleague on the taliban are answering back with their with guns and explosives and this is the result of of war fatigue by their foreign forces they have already made a decision that they will continue on peace talks because they're tired of this war and they have already in fact send a signal to the taliban that we will not be fighting this war with you and we want to talk talk to you in fact mr obama a while ago mentioned that we are not our enemy but this morning's assault in kabul was not the only violence that shook the country today another attack this time a roadside bomb killed a family of eleven in a southern province stephen sooners a professor of international studies at the university of san francisco believes that no matter how strong the local army may be it will never win as in general the

entire afghan population is deeply opposed to the government. problem is that even if they're very well trained even if they have the very best equipment. strength of the afghan government relative to the taliban and other forms of resistance it doesn't have credibility. and while the vast majority is not subscribed. extremist ideology many are very frustrated with corruption and. arbitrariness of the government including ongoing acts of repression full of the foreign presence a problem this government and this kind of environment leads to the rise of the stream so it's not just security question. and online for you right now it ought to dot com and when the past catches up with you decades later germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. come on he's been living in america for more than sixty years for a portly sneaking into the country by claiming he never forgot in the second world

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a sign of hope there's been no water through them for five long months. the municipality does not give us water as these should water it comes through our pipes twice a year early minimum get an hour's drive north and all did start another day in the office the mayor of the fact settlement has lots on his mind but not a lack of water we have one big water tank with supplies water also to both the arab villages which are on the other side of the security fence where basically they get their water supply from the water tank off the front more than three hundred thousand palestinians across the west bank are not connected to water network according to palestinian human rights groups israeli officials say the number is less than half that since the one nine hundred sixty seven occupation or water resources are exclusively in his radio hands better joint group established back in one nine hundred eighty three to ensure supplies has left the palestinians

short changed israel has repeatedly made as a condition for its approval of palestinian projects that the palestinian authority approve new wells and pipelines for israeli settlements the palestinian authority merely because it's desperate for water for its population has approved virtually every one of the israeli settlement projects the palestinians weren't left behind. the european community wanted to invest their money that the palestinian authority will have such systems like we have in a fraud or like we have in the whole of israel unfortunately what happened their money was taken all misused and basically found itself in private bank accounts by the leaders of the palestinian authority despite repeated requests these radio water authority declined to talk to r.t. its website says israel has not only fulfilled its obligations to provide water to

palestinians but exceeded them it accuses palestinians of breaching the agreement by drilling and authorized wells failing to create a sewerage and of not developing any new water resources. the fact of the matter is that a shortage of water is not a problem for israelis whereas it's a daily struggle for tens of thousands of palestinians something that's a little difficult to swallow. especially for the hundred thousand people living here in the west bank's biggest palestinian city who rely on this man it's his job to direct what little water there is to a different neighborhood each day we may be two thousand cubic meter of beer a day. it means that we we need seven thousand to give people to reach seventy to eighty a little bit of everything and twenty people might come in and his wife have the water pipes to the home opened the rest of the time they use

a well bringing up what little they can do and i'm clean to wash drink and survive policy r.t. in the west bank. and to buy that we go to open up the r.t. world update where at least forty two people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts ripping through outdoor market places so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks the deadliest explosion was a double car bombing on a busy road in the west of the city that killed at least eight though more than two thousand people have died in the last three months alone due to a sunni muslim anger at the ruling shia government. the lebanese army has seized a complex in the southern part of the country controlled by hardline sunni militants around sixteen soldiers have been killed in two days of clashes with the followers of a maverick cleric who also supports anti assad rebels in syria the fighting is being seen as a test of the weak government's ability to contain the anger unleashed by the civil

war in the neighboring country. why let's give us one of our top stories of the top story here on our moscow has said that it considers washington's threats towards it over edward snowden the whistleblower as unacceptable and the foreign minister sergey lavrov has addressed a question posed by r.t. regarding russia's relationship with the spy leaker let's cross live to. now joining me live here on the program to give us the latest on this so today eleven often is a poll scott the russian foreign minister addressing the issue of snowden where is he what's to be done and what he did tell us. that well that is the eternal question being asked by a journalist still here it's not a matter of but as you say in the last hour or so russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been speaking out a press conference with his counterpart from algeria and he was asked a question as you say by an r t correspondent about edward snowden and his whereabouts and that's when he said basically the russian authorities the russian

government have had no official contact with edward snowden and that he hasn't stepped in to russian territory now that gives us a couple of options it either means that he didn't land. on sunday as we all thought he did or he did but has remained in transit now that's no guarantee that he's still in transit in the terminal building behind me as he could have since flown out but those are the words from saying that it hasn't crossed in to russian territory for the threats from america well of course you say that. any threats on acceptable this is obviously today with the possible extradition proceedings against edward snowden of course that really only comes into effect if he does step on to russian soil soil which he hasn't done at the moment but. any threats from america on acceptable what's not his whereabouts we still don't pull i'm sort of jumping in sort of the russian foreign minister let's actually have

a listen to exactly what he had to say to stand by for just a moment. i'd like to say meet it laid that we have no relation to the to mr snow and to nor to his relations with the just his nor to his travels around the world he did not cross the border and we believe ungrounded and unacceptable all of those attempts we have been observing the attempts of blaming russia violating the united states legislation and almost an conspiracy kompany by strengths toward our country. well there we have it paul of the russian foreign minister so to get off and off with his algerian counterpart they're trying to address may news stories but they can't help but being bombarded by questions about where is edward snowden the former cia agent current whistleblower pull scott. thank you very much. often i'll hear a naughty it's been a pleasure having you let's get you into our next program that of the kaiser report

in just a moment. if you lived in the us knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire life savings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial failings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand iris employees have abused the charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these people are very high in the letter including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple blois with security clearances much of the abuses related to a place writing checks for big purchases which later balanced due to accounts being

empty yeah the people who could ruin your life for one little financial folly seem to have no problem over drawing while they are living it up on taxpayer funded travel to keep things in perspective the iris is a huge organization so one thousand abusers is a minority but in the spirit of fairness i think these card abusers should be punished just as harshly as normal people who run afoul of the i.r.s. but that's just my opinion.