mr snowden has indeed landed in moscow he came as a transit passenger and remains in the transit zone of the airport. russia's president puts the world out of suspense revealing the n.s.a. whistleblower is still in moscow and that his arrival surprised the authorities as much as anyone. that's after washington accuse moscow of hiding snowden and demanded his extradition despite the fact he hasn't even officially crossed the country's border. presidential palaces rocked by blasts and gun fights as taliban fighters attack just a week after the u.s. handed over security to afghanistan's government and announced peace talks our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day president putin has revealed n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is still in transit at a moscow airport that means he's never officially crossed russia's borders since arriving on sunday it follows a wild goose chase by the media which ended up in a plane load of journalists flying all the way to cuba all of flight snowden never even boarded well let's now get the latest from the bang. bang is outside the airport there in moscow what have you had to buy what's the latest. indeed a bill that statement coming from a president putin while meeting with a counterpart stating that indeed edward snowden did arrive in moscow. and is in

transit in the transit zone never stepped foot out on russian so soil hence he did not need a visa to actually be on russian soil that is why he's saying that the fact that the u.s. is saying that they are hiding snowden is absolutely absurd according to the president he also went to make a humorous analysis a riccati the catch me if you can situation regarding the media snowden as well as the intelligent services let's take a listen to what he had to say. snowden's case is similar to that of julian a song which both called themselves defenders of human rights and fought for the freedom of information you have to ask yourself do such people need to be hunted down and put in prison i personally would like to avoid cases like this it's like sharing a pig lots of shrieking but little fur. right you heard the president speaking about. how the situation is unfolding in his eyes

in fact he did touch a little bit on the saying that those two people who are wanted for actually dish into the united states should be seen as human rights activists who are willing to share and open up a freedom of speech to the rest of the world now this whole situation comes of the background of the fact that the u.s. is saying that russia is hiding snowden of course most was always a reiterated including the foreign minister sergey lavrov saying that moscow did not know anything about snowden being on moscow's in the fact that they did not have any conversations with snowden all they know is that he was in that transit in this airport did not leave until russian soil now of course we've been all here asking questions inside there's been a high alert security has been up to the airport we're all trying to find a snowden the only person really at this point who doesn't know where snowden is is snowden himself bills thank you very much indeed live outside. port well the fact

that snowden managed to trick a whole load of journalists and getting all the board a flight to cuba without him has got a lot of people wondering exactly how has he done this and how is he managed to escape capture so far what we know of course know exactly where he is but that hasn't stopped people coming up with their own theories the new york times for example that's published an article alleging that it was all a show put on by russian security services the k.g.b. style operation as they say was intended to cover snowden's tracks plus there's the sheer comedy value of sending those dozens of foreign journalists to the caribbean on a flight doesn't serve alcohol twitter is also joining in the speculation here just some of the tweets so far we caught up with what if snowden never existed a tool would certainly explain why he's nowhere to be found so says one tweet or he may indeed be off the. not exactly on board that aeroflot flight heading to perhaps a certain to tory especially on the caribbean island and some of the fear is

a little more sinister suggesting he has already met his end and no one will ever therefore find him and also the best selling american author and activist no rewards lays out what she thinks or what she thinks that snowden might actually be a u.s. government double agent his leaks and escape plan have been far too neat she says his disappearing acts far too spectacular besides he thinks that snowden's girlfriend is it's a little too sexy for it not being an attention grabbing hoax although she believes illustrates how u.s. intelligence is behind is every move. well out washington's angry reaction to snowden's departure from hong kong is cause resentment in china the foreign ministry said accusations and criticism were baseless result is going to go on reports america 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 of cyber attacks without being accused of hypocrisy so there is an interesting dynamic behind all this the u.s. wanted 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 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 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. 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 great 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 at which 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. we spoke to daniel ellsberg another prominent american whistleblower who exposed these so-called pentagon papers

a nine hundred seventy one which details washington's controversial decision making during the vietnam war and he believes very few people have matched snowden's. 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 but they were all purchased 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 no i think he is in the tradition of meat inhale 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. and the international has said the u.s. shouldn't hunt down edward snowden and other whistleblowers who disclose human rights violations or to ignore him policy michael told us that the treatment snowden may receive in america 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 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 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 nine hundred seventeen law in the united states there is no possibility it appears to say look the reason that i did this is because the information is in the public interest my disclosure may have been authorized by the public interest outweighs the state's interest in keeping that information secret. so well whistleblowers heroes criminals or both should their motives be questioned. in a t.v. legend larry king exchanged tricky questions in breaking the set the full program

is available right now dot com but here's a preview. that's a question mr snowden. but that's taken away from what was you know more thoughtful but he had a motive didn't he now 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 right yes see in other words we did want to say so what i try to do in asking questions is i do the best i can over my career and it's the best questions i could but 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 supposed to. i never i 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 is breaking the law absolutely they want to teach absolutely so then you're not you're a journalist with an opinion. of course. if ever seen anything like that. you can see that in full and altie dot com stay with us after the break for analysis of the recent taliban's brazen raid on afghanistan's presidential palace. sigrid laboratory was able to build a clueless most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't do anything.

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go back to breaking news this is a whistleblower edward snowden he remains in a moscow airport transit zone and that is according to russia's president well filmmaker and activists joins us now live from london to talk about the snowden. so to fall we know that snowden is in mosco so much speculation about what his next step could be what do you think is going to happen to him next where is he going to go. well as far as i know that he's supposed to go to ecuador but i think it's kind of strange because he did this bravery this very brave act of you know talking about talking telling the truth to the american people so i think he deserves much better than political asylum in a country like ecuador which is not exactly a champion of free speech and human rights i would say to germany gives this hero

of our time political asylum i would really suggest to angela merkel to offer that to edward snowden why what why should germany offer him political asylum when i think that ever so it's really a hero he did a really good thing he do i think the founding fathers of the united states would have been very proud of him because the whole constitution is about limiting the power of government which is good because power stay injuries so you have to limit it and the actual that the current u.s. government it's violating its own constitutional and what edward snowden did was just something that every good citizen should do is to correct a government that was on the wrong path so i think i mean we germans i mean we are friends with the americans so they helped us to get our liberty back so we can all help them to make sure that they can they keep the liberties they have they should have well as the saying snowden's expose human rights violations washington would disagree with you saying these compromised state security but it is then human

rights violations and human rights matters more important than personal and state security after all that was the reason for all the surveillance to try and prevent any terrorist act. you know well i mean benjamin franklin one of the founders of us us he said if you give up essential liberty to taint some temper to security you don't deserve either you will lose both that's very correct i don't think it's a good idea to spy on your citizens because it means absolutely against the fourth amendment and there's a reason that's there and the u.s. government cannot just do that and edward snowden is absolutely right in telling everybody what what they do and i think we should act against this this is a crime and you but i think edward snowden yeah. yeah you believe people will act in response to what snowden's done you think that what he's done will achieve something because he himself a drink quite negative we said that he's worried that is revelations will actually

achieve nothing change nothing well i'm more optimist i think in the long run the truth will win and i think if you all. don't let the government control our lives i mean it's really kind of the liberty of the people against the big brother state it's not about us against russia i think now they want to put it like that as if he was spying for russia he didn't do that he was against a spy an arch again the old american people see is fighting for liberty we should all fight for liberty and that's where that's why we live. in certain ways and are alive i've been speaking to so many people who are in support of what he's done in some ways you can see him as a sacrificial lamb everybody sitting there in their own safety saying great applauding him what there's a future hold for him his own personal fate just briefly sorry

there was a little read back of noise in my earphones just briefly what is the future for snowden himself in effect his sacrifice himself as me for people who are polled his cause people like you. well well i think he really deserves much better than being perceived as if he was a criminal he's not he's a good citizen so i think he should get political asylum in a good country and i'm a come to you know germany or whatever european country and he should get a medal of honor or something like that and i think the u.s. government that they should really think sorry that's that's one way i think erica it really good to talk to thank you very much sorry about the the difficulty with the. with the communications but thank you very much in the. live there from berlin. or taliban fighters of attack security forces near the presidential palace in kabul hours before president cause i was to hold a news conference there it comes as the u.s.

helps afghanistan pursue peace talks with the insurgent group which is refusing to renounce violence journalist courtney booty is in kabul for us. 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. 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 there 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 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 negotiation table led to yet more violence and all to use the fronts now looks at who currently has the upper hand in afghanistan . the taliban appears to be seizing on these seismic changes happening in afghanistan seeking out power vacuums where ever they appear it's now crossing the divide between legitimate political force and violent insurgent group the taliban now has an office in qatar giving it a base for its political ambitions that may include a run for the presidency next year when hammad karzai steps down it's also been given a boost by america's readiness to open peace talks with an enemy it's been fighting

for more than a decade and with the withdrawal of u.s. troops and the handover of security to afghan forces it has also opened up a window of opportunity taliban fighters have launched a wave of attacks across the country aiming to destabilize and undermine the weak authorities nineteen people have been killed since the handover of security their latest target today was at the very heart of the government it was at the presidential palace in kabul daoud sultanzoy political analyst and former afghan m.p. told us it's the exhaustion of u.s. led forces that allows the taliban to launch assaults like this 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 a very important targets i think. this is the result of. war for.

foreign forces as that would draw gets closer you will see more aggressive behavior from the audubon so this is this is going to escalate not to decline in my opinion so many are left wondering what the point was for america to fight for over a decade then negotiate with an enemy that seems as willing and able as ever to use violence and as likely as anyone to regain the presidency. well now we've always got more news on life at the moment including a big bank. report on how financial institutions have pushed politicians into handing out billions of euros to avoid a bank meltdown in two thousand and eight and there's no hint of it being paid back more on that including leaked tapes of private conversations between bank tycoons on t.v. dot com. plus one of the past catches germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who's been living in the u.s.

for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country by claiming and never forced in the second world war. now some other stories making headlines around the world this hour brazil's president has proposed a referendum on widespread political reform and pledge to spend twenty three billion dollars on public transport to try to create those involved the 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 . the french police have detained six people suspected of planning assassinations across the country are believed to be part of a radical islamist terrorist cell according to authorities the group consisting of

four french nationals and men from bendin and they have also been involved in bank robbery fronts is on high alert for potential terror attacks since its operation in mali against al qaeda linked militants. the lebanese army has seized a complex in the southern part of the country which is controlled by hardline sunni militants around sixteen soldiers have been killed in two days of clashes the followers of a maverick cleric who also supports anti-government rebels in syria the fight. is being seen as a test of the weak government's ability to contain anger unleashed bloody civil war in neighboring syria. and also the vis a jailed kurdish militant leader is launching new peace efforts to end three decades of conflict with the peace negotiations come amid massive protests against the country's prime minister kodesh leadership wants to give more rights to the kurdish minority which makes up twenty percent of the country's population to stem look his party guerrillas are currently withdrawing from turkish territory with

some reports saying almost hall for them all ready and that. to bring up to take a moment i'll be back with a news team with morphine half an hour from now in the meantime the latest edition of our money program the coase the report after the break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. interview.

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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 stormed 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 to small businesses and miscible organizations back securities and pension funds there is no fairness if you do not let us cheat stacey yes mike this is part of the

global insurrection against banks or occupation but while most in the west around the world are demanding that we punish the banks to us 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 didn't to siege warfare after invigilators try to stop them from cheating now invigilators 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 shanghai and 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.