where in the world is edward snowden the world's media and u.s. intelligence agency has searched high and low for the whistleblower after he sends a jet full of journalists chasing a false trail to havana. us lashes out at russia and china with intimidation and criticism for not handing snowden over accusing both governments of deliberately hiding him. in the russian federation has nothing to do with mr snowden pull his travels around the world moscow says snowden never officially crossed russia's border and calls washington's threatening demands unacceptable. levels presidential palace rocked by a blast and gun fights as taliban fighters attack just a week after the u.s. hand over security to afghanistan's government and announced peace talks.

four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has vanished no public information about where he is after he pulled such a well planned disappearing act in a moscow airport that half the city's international press corps ended up on a twelve hour flight to cuba picking up was on a plane that was packed with journalist short one whistleblower. i just got off the plane we just landed in hawaii on a coming from moscow to thirteen hour long flight and 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 plane even when we were sitting there the whole plane was packed even when we a walk to the doors and it was taxiing away to takeoff 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 we went to these seats seventeen and see 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 expectations. are he's been a stakeout day and night outside moscow's sheremetyevo airport just in case no din is still hiding out there and for much of that long haul paul scott has been standing by measuring all of it with us and he gives us his latest update right now from the airport paul. b.s. good afternoon to you matt it seems in this global game of cat and mouse that

edward snowden is one step ahead of everybody else it all began on sunday when he arrived we are led to believe will not fly inbound from hong kong but nobody has seen him since we were led to believe he was staying at the capsule hotel in the terminal building behind me but again absolutely no sizing was aware of all of it which snowden leading some to question whether he has even landed in russia told now we are still led to believe that he's final destination he's. ecuador wiki leaks are pulling the strings organizing the whole thing by all accounts organizing his safe passage from hong kong to a final destination which as i say we are led. ecuador but even those helping him and entirely sure of his exact location right now. i don't know exactly where he is right now. ration. square about. circumstances. where there seems to be

a diplomatic trade off between russia and america as well the united states clearly wants extradition proceedings against edward snowden to begin they want him extradited back to the united states but that can only be done of course if he and his russian territory something that russia's foreign minister says hasn't happened . i'd like to say the russian federation has nothing to do with mr snowden all his travels around the world he hasn't crossed the russian border and we believe any u.s. threats and accusations around except a bill which. says. comments that snowden hasn't entered the russian territory or crossed the russian border just with one of two options either he never arrived in the country at all or he was in transit and therefore hasn't entered russia for the case the question now is whether he indeed remains that all right thanks very much paula scott airport with that update for us. well snowden's

vanishing act and the very fact that he managed to send a jet full of journalism off to cuba without him has some shaking their heads while there's coming up with their own full blown conspiracy theories as to what all the new york times were and publishing an article that it was all a show put on by russia's f.s.b. security services that's the successor to the k.g.b. the k.g.b. style operation was intended to cover snowden's tracks plus there's the comedy value of sending dozens of foreign journalists to the caribbean on a drive flight and then of course there was the washington post all twitter though joining on line speculation just some of the tweets what if snowden never existed at all that would certainly explain why he's nowhere to be found or he may be indeed off to cuba but not exactly aboard the aeroflot flight headed to certain notorious bay on the caribbean island in the said some of the theories more sinister though suggesting he's already met his end and no one will ever find him also hearing from best selling author and activist nummi wolf who is why she thinks snowden might actually be a u.s.

government double agent that is leaks an escape plan were far too neat she says and is disappearing acts to spectacular besides she thinks snowden's girlfriend is just too sexy not to be an attention grabbing hold all of this she thinks illustrates how u.s. intelligence is behind every move and was intended instead to actually get out the word about the prism program just so everybody would be afraid of it well chris hedges a pulitzer prize winning journalist thinks the u.s. government should be concentrating on the embarrassing revelations rather than hunting down whistleblowers. nobody within the political establishment within our the democratic or the republican party are calling for any kind of serious investigation this seizure of information this is sold on civil liberties has bipartisan support that's not something new we saw the same thing happen to julian assange bradley manning it's a very similar and depressing kind of scenario where the state propaganda machine

has quite effectively diverted attention away from where it should be which is the fact that there is no privacy left anymore in the united states and. focused attention on the character and activities of snow. washington's reaction to snowden's departure from hong kong cause resentment in china the foreign ministry said ickes ations and criticism were baseless but as artie's guided chickie on reports the u.s. isn't happy with the explanation. the white house says hong kong officials had received washington's request 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 autonomy is a 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 him 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. 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 that russia and china are going to use this to embarrass the u.s. one should argue it's known as revelations 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. from snowden's revelations and certainly one of the one way of doing this is to present it as a cold war style 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 for a greater public awareness of the fact that the us government is spying on millions

of people who have done nothing wrong and of course has no illusions as 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 wall 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 we spoke with daniel ellsberg another prominent u.s. whistleblower who exposed the so-called pentagon papers the nine hundred seventy one but washington's controversial decision making during the vietnam war he thinks that very few people have marched snowden sacrifice. i think he would be in much the same cell as presently manning if not in the same cell or comical and he 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 his disposers 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 it is clearly unconstitutional but they were all participating and i would say the charm carries calling him a traitor is just. he's no more a traitor than i am and i am not all that words used above me by the president and the 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 meat inhale the first american to be convicted of the trial 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 it was a spy 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. as you can imagine this is one of the main stories on our web site r t v dot com and of course the subject of our online poll on our web site the question is do you think edward snowden will make it to his suppose it final destination in quito ecuador well so far here's how the vote stacks up right now the majority saying he had better actually stay in russia they feel that it would be better for him not to get into u.s. custody by staying in russia than actually getting on a plane and trying to go somewhere else then we have a. twenty five percent twenty five percent twenty five thinking that he'll only get there if he doesn't get near u.s. airspace where he could be intercepted by u.s. planes or a plane could be told to land and he could be taken into u.s.

custody another quarter respond in the saying yes he will get to ecuador but it will be futile since the u.s. may actually extradite him from there and finally the minority twenty percent saying he probably will get to ecuador but he should as he apparently has been hired a long the way just in case he doesn't get he doesn't make it or could get caught what do you think log on to our website r.t. dot com and cast your vote we'll be back after this short break with more. secret laboratory. was able to build the world's most sophisticated. doesn't sound anything. to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the.

forty minutes past the hour now taliban fighters have attacked security forces near the presidential palace in kabul afghanistan hours before president karzai was to hold a news conference there is comes as the u.s.

helps afghanistan pursue peace talks with the insurgent taliban group which is refusing to renounce violence journalist courtney body has more from the capital 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 i.d. cards and vehicle i.d. 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 and 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 it would seem as especially considering this attack happened right when the peace

talks are being negotiated in doha with the taliban and then 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. it's been a week since the u.s. handed control of security to afghanistan's government let's see how kabul has been handling the situation so far well more than a dozen nato and afghan troops have been killed in taliban attacks across afghanistan since they had over this is disrupted peace talks with the taliban which set up an office in qatar his capital doha president karzai expressed anger that they're using emblems of similar to that of the islamic fundamentalist government that ruled until the nato invaded in two thousand and one stevens who is from the university of san francisco thinks the unpopularity of afghanistan's current government could come in handy though for the extremists problem is that

even if they're very well trained even if they have the very best equipment. a strength of the afghan government relative to the taliban and other forms of resistance doesn't have credibility with the afghan people and while the vast majority do not subscribe a child and extremist ideology many are very frustrated with corruption and not an arbitrariness of the government including i'm going acts of repression full of foreign presence a problem this government and this this kind of environment the rise of extremists so it's not just security question. daoud sultanzoy a political analyst and former afghan m.p. thinks the exhaustion of u.s. led forces gives the taliban a chance to gain more power. well actually it's very brazen and breach which is very important and terms of symbolism because this was probably one of the most strategic and intrigue. 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 i think this is the result of. water fatigue by the foreign forces if you look at this you can see parallels to the vietnam peace process when when the united states was getting ready to leave vietnam there were parallel tracks on one hand they were fighting on the other hand in paris they were talking so eventually as that would draw all day it gets closer and as the fatigue in western societies become deeper you will see more aggressive behavior from the other side which in this case is the taleban so this is this is going to escalate not decline in my opinion. remember we always have more news online for you a click away on our t. dot com including a big bank scam uncovered the report and ireland by initial institutions pushed

politicians at the heading out billions of euros to avoid a bank meltdown in two thousand and eight and there's no hint of being paid back or on that including leave tapes of private conversations between bank managers on. plus. one the past catches up in germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who had been living in the us for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country by claiming he never fought in the second world war. water becoming a rare commodity for palestinians taps in the homes of arab villages in the west bank run dry much of the time and it's not only is and not only is israel not listening but blaming the palestinians themselves are these posts here as more.

the taps in hamad mohammed's home are there more as a sign of hope there's been no water through them for five long months but the the municipality does not give us water as these should water comes through our pipes twice a year. an hour's drive north and or 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 but 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 thousand nine hundred 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 mainly because it's desperate for water for its population has approved virtually every one of the israeli settlement projects palestinians were left behind. 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 link to 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 third 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 raise the baby two thousand cubic meters of beer a day. we mere seven thousand to give be able to reach seventy to eighty a little better. and twice

a year people like hamad and his wife have the water pipes to their home opened the rest of the time they use a well bringing up what little water they can. and i'm clean to wash drink and survive policy r.t. in the west bank. getting out of some other stories making global headlines this hour brazil's president proposed a referendum over widespread political reform and pledged to spend twenty three billion dollars on public transport she's trying to placate those involved in massive protests across the country despite her efforts the free transit activist group has launched more demonstrations promising to continue until all their demands are met. french police have detained six people suspected of plotting that sassa nations across the country believed to be part of a radical islamist terrorist cell according to authorities of a group consisting of four french nationals and men from linden and comoros may have also been involved in armed bank robbery france on high alert for potential

terror attacks this is operation in mali against al qaeda linked militants. the lebanese army has seized a complex in the southern part of the country that's controlled by hardline sunni militants arrived sixteen soldiers killed in two days of clashes with the followers of a maverick cleric who also supports anti-government rebels in syria the fighting's been seen as a weak it is a test of the weak government's ability to contain anger on a leash by a civil war in neighboring syria. a jailed kurdish militant leader launching new peace efforts to end three decades of conflict with turkey peace negotiations coming to i made it massive protests against the country's prime minister the kurdish leadership wants to give more whites to the kurdish minority which makes up twenty percent of the country's population the kurdistan workers party guerrillas are currently withdrawing from turkish territory with some reports saying that almost half of them have let. up next our latest edition of our money

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welcome to the as a report imax kaiser riots broke china after students were prevented from cheating on university entrance exams parents storms the school shouting we want fairness there is no fairness if you do not let us cheat yes this is the taxation without representation of our day there is no fairness if you do not let us cheat let us rob grannies of their savings let us defraud municipalities across the world let us rig global interest rates let us masel interest rate swaps of small businesses and miscible organizations back securities and pension funds there is no fairness if you do not what they see as mike this is part of the global

insurrection against banks or occupation but while most of the west around the world are demanding that we punish the banks stores for their crimes here they're saying let us commit crimes as well riot after chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating what should have been a hushed scene of eight hundred chinese students diligently setting their university entrance exams or up to the siege warfare after invigilators trying to stop them from cheating now investigators of course is a british word and it means like just an exam are they watched so nobody cheats but this isn't a small city of who by province and basically these are entrance exams into the elite universities and if you don't get into an elite university then you don't become one of the elite so apparently this town they were all cheating they sent in people outsiders to make sure these kids did not cheat and they took away their phone is all that could.