freeboard videos for your media project free media. where in the world is edward snowden the world's media and u.s. intelligence agency search high and low for the n.s.a. whistleblower after he sends a jet full of journalists chasing us all so frail to havana. that the russian federation has nothing to do with mr snowden if you will his travels around the world it's. moscow hits back at washington's threats and demands to extradite snowden saying he has even crossed the country's border. cavil's presidential palace rocked by blasts and gunfire as taliban fighters attacked just a week after the u.s. hands over security to afghanistan's government announces peace talks.

six pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has vanished there's no public information anywhere 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 havana. was aboard the plane packed with journalists but short one whistleblower. i just got off the swing we just landed in hawaii on a coming from moscow a thirteen hour long flight in what 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 the a walk to the doors and it was taxing the way to the takeoff still everyone was waiting for him. to find him on the plane and when we were allowed to get up from

our seats 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 the increased security in the airport crowds of journalists were additional factors boosting these expectations. are giana stake out day and night outside moscow sheremetyevo airport in case no one is still hiding out there let's get the latest from our own tabby mazzei who's standing by live outside the airport. while met at this point it's easy to tell you where he's not rather than trying to get away he's at all might be at this point what we don't know is that edward snowden was supposed to be on board that plane how bad the which he checked in himself upon arrival in moscow on sunday but

of course we know that his seat was empty on that plane he did not make it on the plane here at the airport it's still the same confusion the way it is easy in the transit so you know when it seems him day the capsule hotel no word from there while the journalists are staking out al t.l. we're looking out to the so much security that's been pumped up obviously everybody looking for edward snowden now if we don't know where he is the people who are trying to find him safe havens they don't know where he is let's take a listen. i don't know exactly where he is right now. whereabouts. schools that was adequate was the foreign minister as well as we can be said julian assange they say they don't know where he is now but you know despite all of this is the u.s. is still insisting that moscow is hiding snow dead but there's been allegations there's been a demand saying if indeed snowden is in

a moscow russia needs to send him back to the united states. taking out a statement saying that they don't know with snowden is they haven't had any contact with him and in fact they say they're pretty sure that he's not on russian soil so if he's not on russian soil he's probably in a transit in at this airport the question is is he in the. thanks very much this is well snowden's vanishing act in the very fact that he managed to set a jet full of journalists off to cuba without him has some people shaking their heads others coming up with their own full blown conspiracy theories let's take a look at some of those conspiracy theories right now because some coming from the new york times tongue planted firmly in cheek saying that one article is alleging that it was also put on a show by the russian security services the k.g.b. style operation intended to cover snowden's tracks plus there's the sheer comedy

value of sending dozens of foreign journalists to the caribbean on a flight that doesn't serve any alcohol also twitter joining in on the speculation . you know some of the tweets we're going to take a look at one of snowden never existed at all that would certainly explain why he's nowhere to be found or he may indeed be off to cuba but not on their board full of the aeroflot flight instead headed to a certain notorious bay on the caribbean island and some of the theories more sinister suggesting maybe he's already met an end where no one will ever find him also bestselling author and activist nummi walls laying out why she thinks snowden may actually be a u.s. government double agent that is leaks an escape plan we're far too neat and she says disappearing act to spectacular besides she thinks is a girlfriend is in probably beautiful not to be an attention grabbing hoax all this is she believes illustrates how the u.s. intelligence is behind the whole thing so we also spoke with daniel ellsberg another prominent u.s. whistleblower who exposed a so-called pentagon papers in one hundred seventy one detailing washing his

controversial decision making during the vietnam war and he thinks very few people have matched 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 its 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's clearly unconstitutional but but they were all purchased in i would say the charm carries calling him a traitor it's just. he's no more a traitor than i am and i am not all that words used to me by a president and a vice president both of whom by the way to lost their office for criminality nixon

and i had no 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 he 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 to snowden's departure from hong kong has caused resentment in china the foreign ministry says accusations and criticism or baseless because artie's guided she on reports the u.s. isn't happy 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. 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 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. as wild as they joke about how edward snowden is being briefed by. on form of social also 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 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 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 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. mr national says the u.s. shouldn't hunt down snowden and other whistleblowers who disclose human rights

violations director of law and policy you michael behind it tells us that the treatment snowden may get in the u.s. alone is grounds enough for fusing to extradite him. from from other cases that that for example in the case of bradley manning that the 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 laws to which somebody shouldn't be subject that 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 nine hundred 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

or criminals or both should their motives be question artie's abby martin sat down with t.v. legend larry king to exchange tricky questions in breaking the set next hour here's a look. that's question mr snowden. but that's taken away from the outcome. for you but he had a motive did me know if 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 in other words we could go on like to say that there's a what i drive to do in asking questions is i do the best i can over my career and ask you the best questions i could that was in the best answer and hopefully be 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 worse it's been terms of crackdown of whistleblowers of the obama administration etc i think we're so bowser fired i never i never heard of

a product almost right now. what we call the normal sort of like he's already charged 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 going along absolutely he want to have beach absolutely so then you're not you're a journalist with an opinion. of course. that. if you've ever seen anything like that. stay with us after a short break we switch gears for a little bit and take a look at the taliban's brazen a raid in afghanistan's presidential palace. see

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thanks for staying with us fifteen minutes past the hour taliban fighters have attacked security forces near the presidential palace in kabul hours before president carter's i was told a news conference there this is the u.s. is helping afghanistan pursue peace talks with the insurgent group which is refusing so far towards violence journalist courtney body has more from the afghan capital. the scene lasted just over an hour and while no civilian casualties have been reported in 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 and 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 and 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. u.s. efforts to bring the taliban to the negotiating table have led to more more violence let's you know the peace process has been going on so far the u.s. first announced that it was ready to talk to the taliban on june eighteenth the

very same day it handed over security in afghanistan. to talk more about this i'm joined by our t's lindsey france sorry for a little bit of technical difficulties that we're having here apple ok tell us more about the efforts to help bring the taliban to the table all right but the u.s. force announced it was ready to talk to the taliban on june eighteenth just as you said the very same day it handed over security in afghanistan to make that happen washington even dropped preconditions such as the demand for the taliban to reject the use of violence the militant group itself was setting up headquarters in qatar at the same time giving it a base to carry out its political ambitions that could be significant as afghans will pick a new president next year and homemade karzai is not running the government in kabul suspended talks after complaining it felt like it was being sidelined by

america and the taliban the taliban response was a series of attacks across different areas of afghanistan that today reached the presidential palace in kabul stephens rooms from the university of san francisco believes the unpopularity of afghanistan's current government is actually helping extremists problem is that even if they're very well trained even if they have the very best equipment. strings of the afghan government relative to the taliban another forms of resistance doesn't have credibility with the afghan people and while this regard is not subscribe child and extremist ideology many are very frustrated with corruption and an arbitrariness of the government including ongoing attacks repression of all of the foreign presence a problem this government and this this kind of environment the rise of the

extremists so it's not just security question. daoud sultanzoy a former afghan m.p. and political analyst things the exhaustion of u.s. led forces gives the taliban a chance to gain even more power in the country 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 an intrusion to send a signal to the afghan government that while they're opening an office and cut out of 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. always got more a click away including this big bank scan being uncovered. europe or in ireland stopped by national institutions of push politicians into a hole into handing out billions of euros to avoid a bank meltdown in two thousand and eight no hint of being paid back more on that including leave tapes of private conversations between bank tycoons. the us when the past catches up germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who's been living in the us 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 some 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 palestinians themselves as artie's polis the reports. 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 at the moment 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 it start another day in the office the mayor of the a front 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 of 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 but a 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 mainly 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.

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 are 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 receive 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 given them 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 dirty and unclean to wash drink and survive policy r.t. in the west bank. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe brazil's president proposed a referendum of a widespread political reform and pledged to spend twenty three billion dollars on public transport he was trying to placate those involved in massive protests across

the country despite her efforts to 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 planning assassinations across the country believed to be part of a radical islamist terrorist cell according to authorities the group consisting of four french nationals and men from a name has been involved in an armed bank robbery france on high alert for potential terror attacks since operation in mali against al-qaeda linked militants . the lebanese army seized a complex in the southern part of the country which is 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 has been seen as a test of the weak governments ability to contain anger at least by the civil war in neighboring syria. a jailed pretty diligent leader launching new peace efforts to end three decades of conflict with turkey peace negotiations and amid massive

protests against the country's prime minister the kurdish leadership wants to give more rights to the kurdish minority to make that twenty percent of the country's population the kurdistan workers party guerrillas personally was drawing from turkish territory with some reports saying almost half of them have already left. coming up our report on the consequences of the military conflict in chechnya stay with us here on r.t. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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