i mean. where in the world is edward snowden the world's media and u.s. intelligence agencies search high and low for the whistleblower after he sends a jet full of journalists chasing a false trail to have that. the russian federation has nothing to do with mr snowden will his travels around the world. back to washington's threats to x. and demands to extradite snowden the saying he hasn't even crossed the country's border. how bills presidential palace rocked by blasts and gunfire he says taliban fighters attacked just a week after the u.s. hands over security to afghanistan's government and announces peace talks.

in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has vanished there's no public information about where he is after he pulled such a well planned disappearing act in the moscow airport that half the city's international press corps ended up on a twelve hour flight to cuba are he's eager piskun of was among them on the plane packed with journalists but short one whistleblower. i just got off the swing we just learned in hawaii on a coming from moscow thirteen hour long flight and what can i see back and shooting me through 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 the a walk to the doors and it was taxing the way to takeoff still everyone was waiting for him. to find him on the plane and when we were allowed to get up from our seats

were into these seats 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 very beginning it seemed almost one hundred percent that he was going to take this flight the increased security in the airport crowds of journalists were additional factors boosting these expectations are it has been stakeout day and night outside moscow sheremetyevo airport just in case no to me is hiding out there let's get the latest from artie's to bang might say who is live for us to share much of a with the latest. medical be easier for me to tell you way you are rather than trying to get away he might be all way he is now we know that on monday he was supposed to be on board that flight how bad now which he didn't make good and we know that he had checked himself in upon arrival to moscow on sunday he's supposed to be added to the airport but we haven't seen any sign of the game

inside everybody is still quite as confused as we are as he weighs whereabouts and of course the capsule hotel no sign of him there to transit third nothing now all with the world leaders taking him out and so much security here at the airport both inside and outside the one question still remains where is edward snowden even the people who are trying to find safe haven adequate deal as well as as. good. they have nowhere no idea where he is. i don't know exactly where he is right now. where the ground. right despite all of this is the u.s. is still adamant that a russia is hiding a snowden there's been accusations there's been demands a lot of bickering between diplomats are saying bring him back to the u.s.

do not let him travel anywhere else how russia has us stated that they don't know where snowden is they had no contact with him in fact they don't know they don't they know that he hasn't even crossed over the russian border which can only mean that he's somewhere in a bad transit zone in the airport oh is he. sling mud 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 to bill which is. right bottom line is that no one no he's always snowden is and you know he's had all the world's media chasing up to him all the way to cuba with no result empty seats here at the airport no way for him to be seen now i think that the only person who does know where snowden is is snowden himself matt all right or to stop you might say live for us outside trimeter or port thanks very much for that update. well snowden's

vanishing act the very fact that he's managed to send a jet full of journalists off to have on a cuba without him being on a e's got him shaking their heads while others are coming up with their own full blown conspiracy theories tongue planted firmly in cheek the new york times for was saying that in a publisher article alleging it was all a show put on by rush's fly f.s.b. security services the k.g.b. style operation intended to cover students' tracks plus the sheer comedy of sending a dozen dozens of foreign journalists to the caribbean on a flight that doesn't serve booze twitter also joining in the speculation here is just some of the tweets that we're seeing what if snowden never existed at all that would certainly explain why you know where to be found or he may be indeed off to cuba but not exactly aboard an aeroflot flight headed to a certain notorious bay in the caribbean island and said some of the theories more sinister suggesting he's already met his fate where no one will ever find him also

a bestselling author and activist no mean wolf laying out why she thinks snowden might actually be a u.s. government double agent saying his leaks an escape plan far too neat far too well crafted and is a disappearing act to spectacular she also thinks his girlfriend is just too good looking not to be an attention grabbing a hoax all this she thinks illustrates how u.s. intelligence was behind every move of it well we spoke with daniel ellsberg another prominent u.s. whistleblower who exposed the so-called pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one detail the washing his controversial decision making during the vietnam war he thinks very few people have matched the sacrifice that snowden made. 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 been 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 it is clearly unconstitutional but they were all participating and 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 above me by a president and a vice president both of whom by the way to lost their office for criminality nixon and new 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 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's no american i believe more deserves to be honored at this moment. washington's reaction is no the departure from long kong cause resentment in china the foreign ministry saying ickes ations and criticism or baseless as artie's guided schiano reports from washington the u.s. is unhappy with the explanations. 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-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 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 hershel 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 revelation. that embarrass the u.s. not russia or china but that's exactly what's happening now u.s. policy makers 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 mouse chase that way you have us media now almost cheering for edward snowden is 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 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 the 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. international says the u.s. shouldn't hunt down edward snowden and other whistleblowers who disclose human rights violations director of law and policy michael behind told told us that the treatment snowden may get in the u.s. alone is grounds enough for refusing to extradite him. we know from from other cases that that for example in the case of bradley manning that individuals have been subjected to what not just we but also u.n. officials have called cruel inhuman and degrading treatment and that's that's yet another potential violation of human rights law to which somebody shouldn't be

subjected it's a reason not to extradite with regard to the crimes we've noted that because he's being charged among other things under the espionage act under nineteen seventeen law in the united states there's no possibility of appears to say look the reason that i did this is because the information is in the public interest my disclosure may have been unauthorized but the public interest outweighs that that the state's interest in keeping that information secret. are whistleblowers heroes criminals or both should their motives be questioned artie's abby martin t.v. legend larry king exchange the questions in breaking the set later today take a look. let's question mr snowden was his motive. but that's taken away from what was you know more thoughtful to you but he had a motive didn't eat enough his motive was out to wish to be flee. because he doesn't want to face the same fate as bradley manning he doesn't want to face fate

therefore he wouldn't stand up for what he stood for no right yes see the other words we did want to say you know what i tried to do in asking questions was i do the best i can over my career and it's the best questions i could pose in the best answers and hopefully big audience make up their own mind how do you see this kind of attack on journalism ever before or do you see that this is the worst it's been terms of crackdown of whistleblowers of the obama administration etc i mean whistle blows are fired and they were never heard of a correct almost right now. you know it's well he's already charged the third is the eighth person in charge of the espionage act the world war one piece of what if the nature of the law but isn't the government breaking the law i don't know so do you think that that are they now do you think obama's bringing along absolutely they want to teach absolutely so then you're not you're a journalist with an opinion. of course.

if you've ever seen anything like that. stay with us after a break we shift gears a little bit for analysis of the taliban's brazen raid in afghanistan's presidential palace and the effect it could have on the hopes for peace.

do we speak your language of the will or not of the. programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you. a little turn to angle stories. here. the spanish find out more visit. fifteen minutes past the hour now taliban fighters attacked security forces near the presidential palace in kabul hours before president cars i was told a news conference there this is the u.s. helps afghanistan pursue peace talks with the insurgent group which is refusing to denounce violence journalist courtney body has more from kabul. 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. 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 giant holes in the concrete walls and and 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 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. had a control of security to afghanistan's government let's see how been handling the situation so far more than a dozen nato and afghan troops have been killed in taliban attacks across afghanistan since the handover this is disrupted peace efforts with the taliban which has set up an office in cotter's capital doha president karzai expressed anger that they're using and will move similar to that of the islamic fundamentalist government that ruled until nato invaded in two thousand and one stevens in his from university of san francisco thinks the unpopularity though of afghanistan's current government could come in handy for the extremists. problem is that even if they're very well trained even if they have the very best equipment the strength of the afghan government relative to the taliban and other forms of

resistance doesn't have credibility with the afghan people and while vast majority of the afghans not subscribe to a child and extremist ideology many are very frustrated with the corruption and not an arbitrary list of the government including i'm going x. repression troll of the foreign presence a problem government and it's this kind of environment that leads to the rise of the extremists so it's not just security question among. sultanzoy a political analyst and former afghan m.p. thinks the exhaustion of u.s. led forces gives the taliban a chance to gain even more influence 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 it traced. to send a signal to the afghan government that while they're opening an office and cut out they are also continuing their military assault on very important targets i think

this is the result of. water fatigue by 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 and paris they were talking so eventually as that of a draw all day it gets closer and as the fatigue in western societies become deeper you'll see more aggressive behavior from the the side which in this case is the taleban so this is this is going to escalate not decline in my opinion. always more news for you a click away at r.t. dot com including a big bank scam on covered the report on how ireland's institutions of push politicians into handing out billions of euros to avoid bank meltdown in two

thousand and eight and there's no hint of it being repaid more on that including leave tapes of private conversations between bank leaders on our team plus when the past catches up germany opening an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who been living in the us secretly for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country claiming he never fought in the second world war. water becoming a rare commodity for palestinians taps in the homes of arab villagers in the west bank run dry much of the time not only is israel not listening but it's apparently blaming the palestinians themselves or he's paul asli are exploiting. 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. the

municipality does not give us water as these should water it 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 of the front more than three hundred thousand palestinians across the west bank are not connected to a 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 all 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 it's 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 the palestinians were left behind. their opinion 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 or 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 unauthorized wells failing to treat 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 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 meter of beer a day. it means that we we near seven thousand to give be able to reach seventy to eighty a little better. and twice a year people like hunted 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 do and i'm clean to wash drink and

survive policy r.t. in the west bank. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe brazil's president proposed a referendum over widespread political reform and pledged to spend twenty three billion dollars on public transport is trying to placate those involved in massive protests across the country despite her efforts to free transit activists group is launched more demonstrations promising to continue until all their demands are met . french police have detained six people suspected of planning assassinations across the country they are believed to be part of a radical islamist terrorist cell according to authorities the group consisted of four french nationals and men from beneath him and comer rose who may have also been involved in an armed bank robbery france on high alert for potential terror attacks since his operation in mali against al qaeda linked militants. the lebanese army seized a complex in the southern part of the country controlled by hardline sunni

militants around 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 is being seen as a test of the weak government's ability to contain anger unleashed by the civil war in neighboring syria. a jailed kurdish militant leader launching a new peace efforts to end three decades of conflict with turkey to go she should come and made massive protests against the country's pm the kurdish leadership wants to give more rights to the kurdish minority that makes up twenty percent of the country's people the kurdistan workers party guerrillas currently withdrawing from turkish territory with some reports saying almost half of them have already lost. after the break a look at latest financial news headlines with prime interest stay with us here at r.t. . anyone

who lives 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 on the letter including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple bullies with security clearances much of the abuses related to employees writing checks for big purchases which later bounced 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. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry and washington d c and here's the prime headlines that we're tracking today. family picture how the left the bank of israel he might be heading to the federal reserve but guess who will be

taking his place at the b.o.i. a j. p. morgan exactly did. take up frankel's second term at the helm of the shekel after spending three with the too big to fail over involving door the trilateral commission member and holder of the rockefeller rockefeller and outage here at the university of chicago some big shoes to fill but don't worry it has advised chairman of a i.g. he was able to secure one hundred eighty three billion dollars from the federal reserve and treasury and now he can simply just that money themselves. and we're sad to see another big coin flop but melbourne has had to hold conversion a bit coins its dollars because of the ongoing investigation by the department of homeland security it seems that there's a major player hayden on the cryptocurrency front however there has yet to been an allegation of fraud and speaking of fraud we'll be talking to convicted both kooker

and sam am tara of crazy eddie fame and just a bit. too finely details of a secret the federal reserve meeting have been released seems your favor bank we're not naming names met on may twenty second to avoid district or a capital requirements and speaking of the fed despite the latest hilson link markets are tapering themselves down down down like a ring of fire and here is what's in your interest. live live. live .