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 and he's a rival surprise the authorities as much as anyone. but to washington accused of hiding snowden and demanded his extradition despite the fact he hasn't even officially crossed the country's border. presidential palaces rocked by. taliban fighters attack just a week after the u.s. handed over security to afghanistan's government and announced some top stories this hour.

international news and comment from our studio center here in moscow this is 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 on a flight that snowden never even boarded well let's get the latest now from to say he was at the airport where snowden should have boarded that flight to havana airport in moscow what more do you know from where you are. well at the moment do we know what the president has said did it arrive at

a moscow airport and. he has not left the airport until. you saw it hands up the authorities can do nothing at this point no president also said that the reason behind the u.s. hostile rhetoric saying give him obviously is because of that you know he's saying that let's use caution here he hasn't stepped onto our soil we cannot do anything at this point in fact all we know is that he is in that airport we have not had any contact with him he is described this entire situation that has caches if you can situation this cats and dogs situation to slow down the media and the is the you know everybody else in this way. just but you know so i'm sure 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 for. right now there's been a strong rhetoric coming from washington saying that a russia should hand him a vast snowden if he is indeed in moscow of course most has said that snowden is not on russian soil hence the day they hands are tied they are not in contact with them early on also the u.s. state department released a statement saying that that russia should cooperate with them and they hope that they will cooperate stating snowden it needs to be brought to them as there are grounds for his extradition now the u.s. has gone as far as accusing russia russia has said no this is not true we're still here at the airport with so much speculation around of this case so we're talking to those who are in the inside trying to see find out if anyone has indeed just seen snowden in that transit zone lots of just lot of speculations running around

but we're still here looking to find out where he indeed is snowden and away is his next move one thing that i have gathered during my time out here is that the next flight out of our moscow to cuba is on a thursday so will he be bound on that plane well we don't know we'll have to wait and see bill to ban frank you very much indeed for that to buy more live from outside moscow's sheremetyevo court for more on the war for you says now snowden as he is confirmed to be in transit at a moscow airport let's talk to kind of more pennies from the international action center antiwar group why do you think snowden is still in transit in moscow and he hasn't gone to where he wants to go or it's it's turning out to be quite a long time isn't it. i think he's being very careful he wants to make sure that he gets safely to his destination and nothing happens on the way and with his other

flights with so many people knowing where he was going he's in a real danger you know there's a whole history of airplanes being shot down people being assassinated when they get in the way of what the bankers and the wall street corporations want and so he's being very careful you know he's got his life in his hands right now but the u.s. authorities allowed me to shoot down a commercial jet all day with all the passengers on board while the cuban airlines with with children on them have been shot down on numerous occasions and he doesn't tend to go to cuba you know you know they're and they're not above doing things like that you know you know things have been bombed all around the country kill children are killed with drones all the time and with all the vital information that edward snowden has it is not beyond them to kill innocent people. and at the moment of course the longer he's there at mosco shouted to the airport it's going to be turning out to be more of a political problem for moscow isn't it going to be a tricky situation well you know right now they are the government and russia has aligned itself with iran and china as part of kind of a global anti imperialist alliance but they will certainly be under pressure from

the united states. and they will be under threat and snowden needs to move on he needs to get to some place where he will be safer and you know it's certainly will be an issue and russia will certainly have pressure put on it because the u.s. really doesn't want people to hear what mr snowden has to say and they're really threatened by by the truth which is revealing the reality which is that all over the world in the billions of people they're striving for peace for jobs for democracy for equality but there's a very small group of people with billions of dollars that are holding on to their wealth and power and are pushing society towards war and fascism and he has vital information exposing their lies in their plans and they would really like to silence him and keep that information themselves will snowden be an inspiration for other whistle blows now or perhaps one of those be put off by the fact that he faces a very difficult and uncertain future. well the fact that you know what's happened to bradley manning right now bradley manning and you know as is facing all this persecution yet yet millions of people around the world think bradley manning is

a hero they look up to him and admire him the fact that you know you know what's happened with julian assigned she was also a hero to millions of people ends of people oppose what's going on they oppose the direction society is going in there and they are in motion and they look at these people as heroes and the only going to be more of this information is free we're in a new age and just as the the feudal kings and queens of old of the times past were brought down by the invention of the printing press the computers and the internet and the freedom of information that resulted from that is very much going to bring down the capitalist ruling class with the bankers and their wealth because now information is available and everyone can see that the emperor has no clothes and the struggle is exploding and people are in the streets and it's only a matter of time their business will seem to be all about the u.s. and bradley manning now snowden all targeting the u.s. for allegedly what they see is wrong doings other countries have things to hide don't they why is it just the u.s. will they do but everyone everyone knows that it's the u.s. that is the center of the world capitalist economy it's wall street it's the

bankers they are the ones who run the world into the u.s. and i've gone into the u.s. military machine it that dominates nato and other forces i mean the center of power in the world is in our economic and political power is in the united states and they have the most to hide they've engaged in the most brutal crimes compared to any other any other ruling class and so that's that's why they've been the focus of these of these you have these revelations yet many see what sudden done is a brutal crime itself he's a traitor he's betrayed his country and perhaps laying it open to terrorist attacks . i don't think he's a traitor i think he's a boil he's loyal to the people of the world he sees what's going on with children being killed with drones with innocent people being slaughtered with starvation and all these crimes that continue and he's daring to stand up and expose them and that's a heroic thing and i don't i don't think we should we should let patriotism and just wave the flag and all of that you know if people innocent people are being killed every moral human being has or has a duty to speak out against it and he knows that he's doing the right thing and i think i think he should be honored by anyone in the world for what he's doing

thanks very much indeed for your thoughts there from the international action center and he will group thanks for the very fact that snowden managed to send a jet full of journalists off to cuba without him has got some wondering just how did he do it of course now we know exactly when three years but that's unlikely to stop people coming up with their own theories what lies ahead for him and indeed how he's managed to escape the clutches of the u.s. authorities so far well the new york times for one has published an article alleging that was all a show put on by russia's security services the k.g.b. start operation was 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 alcohol twitter of course is really active on this subject and of course joining in the speculation here are just some of the tweets we've seen so far what is known 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 exactly on

board an aeroflot flight but heading to a certain notorious bay on that caribbean island and some of the theories are slightly more sinister suggesting that he's already that he's and where nobody will ever find him and also the best selling american author and activist naomi wolf lays out why she thinks snowden might actually be a u.s. government double agent is leaks an escape plan now being far too neat he says and he's disappearing acts far too spectacular besides he thinks that's snowden's. girlfriend is just a little bit too sexy for it not to be an attention grabbing hoax all this she believes illustrates how u.s. intelligence is behind this every move so plenty of speculation plenty of theories on social media at the moment but we spoke to daniel ellsberg another prominent american whistleblower who exposed the so-called pentagon papers and nine hundred seventy one which detailed washington's controversial decision making during the vietnam war and he believes very few people have matched snowden's 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 as 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 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. whistleblowers heroes criminals both should then motives be questioned multis up the mountain and t.v. legend larry king exchanged some tricky questions in breaking the set the full program is available right now on all ttyl com but here's a quick preview for you. that's question mr snowden was emotive. but that's taken away from what was you know for him 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 yes she had other words we could go on like this ok so what i try to do in asking questions is i do the best i can over my career and ask you the best questions i could pose in the best answer and hopefully the 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 mean whistle blows are fired i never i never heard of a corrupt almost right now. you know as well he's already charged the third is the eighth person in charge of the espionage act the world war one piece of legislation or even 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 have ph absolutely so that you're not you're

a journalist with an opinion. of course. if you've ever seen anything like that. until you can see that exchange in full and come in the moment warhol and edward snowden story that's in just a few minutes stay with us we'll be back with the team off to a short break. thank . you good luck. to build the world's most sophisticated which doesn't do anything. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only.

to use this. edward snowden just to confirm that president putin has

said that it was snowden is at the moment in transit in. port and that will bring you plenty of reaction and live analysis is on this and in particular what is the reaction in the states. this the latest developments we could not go to washington . the white house says hong kong officials had received washington's request to arrest noting 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 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 washington as the enemies that snowden is helping and the imagination of some journalist 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 great for 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 wall be locations 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. well for more on snowden's search for safety let's talk to peter tatchell who is u.k. human rights activist in london peter the fact that he's being given refugee papers from a human rights point of view does he know have the right to travel to ecuador or wherever he wants to go without being apprehended. well you should have that right but of course the united states is. to apprehend him and to charge him and put him on trial. states wants to lock this man away for many many years to charge him

with espionage which is what the charges consist of which is quite extraordinary given that he was employed worth half of what has been our system run by the united states and now they're trying to accuse him of espionage which was what his job was it is really quite extraordinary that someone who simply upheld the founding ideals of the united states namely a government of the people for the people and by the people should now be pursued by the obama administration this isn't going to be by bush but he was in breach of his employment contract many see what he did was betraying the country and indeed he is a traitor i spoke to or we heard from human rights amnesty international earlier and they said that he should be left alone but he has disclosed state secrets now that is a crime and he should be brought to account surely. well in reality he's actually

disclose few if any state secrets what he's disclosed is the existence of a mass surveillance system he's exposed the system not the actual secrets themselves for the most part there have been one or two things he's revealed like about the united states nuking on china that's true but for the most by he has exposed the system a system that has been put in place without the approval of congress without the consent of the american people and which stands in clear violation of the united states constitution under the bill of rights under amendment four it states very clearly that the citizen is protected from unwarranted snooping by the state unless there is a justified reason and even then it should only be on the basis of a warrant so some constitutional experts will argue that he has acted top hole the u.s. constitution because this mass surveillance which the united states government has

engaged in is in fact a violation of the u.s. constitution and what about is so she can with we keep leaks now could that be seen as provocative from the u.s. point of view and maybe not so much about beneficial association for him but maybe a negative one well of course the united states government will try and spin it whatever way it can to discredit edward snowden and to put its own policies in the best possible light but the fact is instead of going for the messenger public focus and government focus should be on the messages given which is that millions of people worldwide who are entirely innocent have been subjected to mass surveillance by the u.s. administration. proof of congress congress never voted to put this system in place nor have the governments of any other country this is rogue spying by a rogue state i mean if it was it would snow had been and

a rainy and whistle blower who exposed global snooping by the terran regime i think he would have been hailed by the united states as a horowitz whistleblower he would have been lauded and pray i think the united states has incredible double standards it is pursuing a man who is motivated not by hatred of his country not by any financial gain that he's not out to aid any enemy country he is motivated by idealism and a belief in the human rights that we all have a right to privacy unless there are specific targeted reasons for the government to spy on us surveillance is ok to stop terrorism if terrorists are targeted but the blanket surveillance of the population which is what the prism system is about that is unjustified and unconstitutional do you think any government the u.s. government will listen to what you have to say we've seen the plight of bradley

manning and indeed you're in the sarge what if he was apprehended human rights groups what will they try and do you think they'll actually ever be listened to. but i think snowden has justifiable reasons to be concerned about what would happen to him if he was detained we know that for nine months bradley manning was held in a u.s. military prison under conditions that contravened the united nations convention against torture there amounted to cruel inhuman and degrading treatment. i would suspect that a similar abuse would face edward snowden if he was apprehended so that's why he is absolutely justified in seeking to avoid apprehension by the united states government he would not get fair treatment or it's very unlikely he would get fair treatment his human rights would be violated and as they did to bradley manning they tried to break bradley manning by these cruel degrading conditions they would

do the same day with snowden i hope that he gets to a place of safety because the world needs to know his voice needs to hear his voice and needs to know more about the un nor for criminal activities of the united states government and its agencies which are taken place without public consent or without government approval peter tatchell live there in london thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts here on. well now your to platts he's a founding member of the berlin based cryptocurrency consulting group and he's joining me live from berlin to give us an idea of perhaps the financial implications of the snowden saga ga i remember talking to you about bitcoins can you just in like those who want to shore what a crypto economist is and why it should be of interest to you what sort of impact the snowden saga could have on the crypto economic world.

hello to moscow first script oh economists we are working on establishing the future financial and economic system which east going to be a crypto economic system which again has a lot to do with privacy anonymously and personal freedoms so of course we're looking into all the things that are going on there very closely so would the crypto financial world in effect be immune from the surveillance and the monitoring that we are now seeing from the n.s.a. . it will not be immune but there will be there are ways to apply crypto currency or use crypto economic makan isms without being traceable and without being able to so this is what snowden revealed is all of interest and impact to. economists.

of course it is. actually of much more interest to the united government united states government itself. see it this way. is a weapon. deployed by a government against their biggest enemy which the people now the weapon surveillance just like many other weapons unfolds its most power by murder letting people know that one has that weapon by. i mean what is the nice of what use is the nice a surveillance state to a government if the people don't know it so therefore i think the biggest benefit out of this leak is going to the united government united states government but we understand that when we talk about the big point in the us we're very concerned that it was done on an anonymous basis that people could do transactions for

example in the criminal underworld what it's drugs or weapons or whatever so clearly the big call in another economic methods are certainly being targeted and looked at it will be of course you also have to see that in the financial world. everybody knows that there is total surveillance already what we just found out about our google mail and facebook postings or whatever is something that in the financial world is completely clear for many years now everybody knows that every transaction will be money toward written down reported documented and if at all suspicious being reported to the government so this is no news to the financial world so that it is a step further maybe. just briefly in response to that and we're going to see a huge boom in encryption services. development systems being developed

to prevent just that sort of thing. i don't think we're going to see crypto services because crypto technology has been there for two or three decades already just most people are using it if you would use a service you would already again deal with a third party that you would have to trust which is not necessary. great to talk to you thanks very much indeed founding member the cryptocurrency consulting group thanks for your thoughts well on our website at the moment we're asking for your thoughts on whether edward snowden will make it to ecuador if indeed that is where he is heading and the votes are pretty evenly distributed at the moment coming in first by a slim margin we can see home on screen at the moment thirty percent is that he's best off staying in russia now that's closely followed by just a quarter who feel that he will make it to a good or if he stays well away from american space in the same number of people almost the same number of people believe it's not worth worrying about because the

u.s. will get its hands on in any way even if he does make it to quito and just to bring up the river twenty percent the minority think that he will get there but he's going to be very very careful and do a very good job in hiding on the way we're not here you'll be go to r.t. dot com to vote or indeed leave your comments in our comments section. this is all to live here in moscow stay with us after the break for live analysis of the taliban's raid on afghanistan's presidential palace.

he told language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. see. the arabic to find out more visit our big. news continues here in l a t taliban fighters have attacked security forces near the presidential palace in kabul hours before president cause i was to hold

a news conference that it comes as the u.s. helps afghanistan pursue peace talks with the insurgent group which is refusing to renounce violence jenin this quote anybody is in kabul for us. the scene lasted just over an hour and well no civilian casualties have been reported and the afghan forces did manage to get the attack under control relatively quickly the fact that it did happen at the presidential palace they used id cards and vehicle id cards that are what the nato and i saw forces use reportedly and the fact that they were even able to breach that gate what i saw from the outside of the gate it's more of a blast wall around the green zone area as they were drying up 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 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 negotiating table have led to yet more violence lindsay 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 have here 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 one thousand 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 very important targets i think. this is the result of. war fatigue by foreign forces as the draw

all day it gets closer you will see more aggressive behavior from the other one so this is this is going to escalate not declined 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. for more in the taliban's chances in afghanistan i'm joined live by defense consultant moeen both. the u.s. state department is hesitating to define the taliban's current status be a terrorist group political force or indeed both why is it so reticent. i don't think that dealing with the actual tally but because obama has not endorsed the setting up of your door so that the americas are on the show who gets treated

and we see a season with the family planning for vitaly party but almost isn't very far for first and he has to sign off on the founder feet and secretary kerry think all the time we have something with the people in syria and hope for them says this the future in a biography still in indoor i saw i'm not sure that they really are talking to the taliban direct or what about the current government in afghanistan at the moment just how strong is it. all president karzai hasn't got a chance in hell to remain in front of one of us or would be remember let's go back to president. he was forcibly removed but the un not the united nations and he was massacred in the streets and hung up on the telegraph. i think.

so as to why he would leave with the us all but given that the us forces are going to planning to remain maybe the way through many or was it would take over them want to cause i didn't leave well as the taliban are going to move in there they have a fundamental issue with this they are going to move in and protect that which is being. the policy all along they are going to be and they're going to take back and protect the consensus they are very fundamentalist about this viewpoint so the idea of having peace talks whatever happens further down the road it'll open the doors quite simply for the taliban to take control of afghanistan so the whole last ten years decade of death and destruction has been a waste of time you know completely well remember that nine eleven was done by saudi arabia and then once in a second now we thought why did they don't go and attack the fucking arabia the biggest threat to keep your. little small safe we can see through.

all of that and destroy the whole nation was a policy by the pentagon and and the us administration yet the thirty one. mullah omar has not. because they did not operate just do not want. to look at the. taliban's open a political office in qatar now which is being recognized so if you're saying it does eventually take over afghanistan will the world before. as to recognize it as a legitimate government they have no choice. but. represents. the. money we. just want to. do really the people of afghanistan want the taliban government just briefly well it's not everyone's. all right thank you very much indeed defense consultant moonroof

really interesting to talk to you thank you very much indeed well we've always got more news online for you including a big bank scam covered we report on how top financial institutions have pushed politicians into handing out billions of euros to avoid bank meltdown in two thousand and eight and there's no hint of it being paid back more than that including leaked tapes of private conversations between bank tycoons on r.t. dot com right now. plus one the past catches up germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. commando he's been living in the us for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country by claiming he'd never fought in the second world war. a new credit rating agencies launched today in hong kong threatening the dominance

of the so-called big three western firms standard and poor's moody's and fitch were accused of contributing to the global financial crisis but katie pilbeam is here to tell us how their role may have been even more sinister than previously thought. the big three have had their own way for over one hundred years but were ridiculed for not just failing to see the financial crash coming but making the situation worse by dishing out optimistic ratings for toxic mortgage backed investments and giving investors the confidence to pile it until now accusations they knew exactly what they were doing which is that accusations but now it appears there might be some proof that the agencies were deliberately fooling investors rolling stone magazine has published details from a san diego base law appeared to show the moody's and s. and p. have been exchanging high ratings for cash according to the article e-mails have

been found from s. and p. this with with comments like this has to be the stupidest plays i've watched out as you know i had difficulties explaining how we got to those numbers since there is no science behind it these allegations are quite frightening considering the rating agencies put their rubber stamp on multi billion dollar deals are still seen by many in the financial world as the backbone of the credit body alternative to these agencies is not before time to secure universal credit rating group which says it intends to reform the current regime the company based in hong kong will be made up of china's doggone u.s. agency jones and russia's reason writing on the head of research says it's all about balance rating agencies that is based in hong kong it is so that we can provide to the investment world. views that can be used to

balance their investment views for the united states so the dominating days of the big three could be over and it may now be there to get downgraded. not of them other stories making headlines around the world in turkey hundreds of protesters in istanbul central square which is surrounded and blocked off by police cordons irani started after a court freed a security officer who's accused of killing an activist during recent government protests at least four people including one policeman were killed during the nationwide demonstrations which started last month. brazil's president has proposed a referendum on widespread political reform and pledged to spend twenty three billion dollars on public transport to try to placate those involved a massive protests across the country despite her efforts the free transit activist group has launch more demonstrations promising to continue until all the demands are met. the french police detained six people suspected of planning assassinations

across the country they're believed to be a part of a radical islamist terrorist cell according to authorities the group consisting of four french nationals and men from ben in and promoters may have also been involved in an armed bank robbery france 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 militant run sixteen soldiers have been killed in two days of clashes with the followers of a maverick cleric who also support anti-government rebels in syria the fighting has been seen as a test of the weak governments ability to contain anger unleashed by the civil war in neighboring syria. water is becoming a rare commodity for palestinians taps in the homes of arab villages in the west bank run dry much of the time and not only is israel not listening it's blaming the palestinians themselves. reports. the

taps in hum of 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 minimum built in 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 where basically they get their water supply from the water tank off the front more than three hundred thousand palestinians across the west bank are not connected to 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 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 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 all misused and basically found itself in private bank accounts by the leaders of the palestinian authority despite repeated requests these rady 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 operate a sewerage and of not developing any looking into 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. it means that we we mere seven thousand to give be able to reach seventy a little better given them and twice a year people might come in and his wife have the water pipes to the home opened

the rest of the time they use a well bringing up what little water they can dirty and unclean to wash drink and survive policy r.t. in the west bank. of that with more news including updates on the whistleblower edward snowden in just a couple of minutes from now stay with us this is r.t. live in moscow. wealthy british style. time to plan for. market. six come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report.

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this is not the life for most bring you up to date on our breaking news story this hour and that is president putin has revealed that and this a whistleblower edward snowden is still in transit at a moscow airport now that means he never officially crossed russia's borders since

arriving on sunday it follows a wild goose chase by the media which ended up with a plane load of journalists flying all the way to cuba on a flight that snowden never even boarded is the latest now from japan what say at the moment do we know what the president has officially said that snowden did in fact arrive at a moscow airport and he's in the transit zone here at the moscow airport he has not left the airport until the russians saw it hands up the authorities can do nothing at this point the president also went on to compare the whole of the situation all the trust me if you can between snowden the media intelligence agencies and the humorous way in fact this is what he had to say listen to this. snowden's case is similar to that of julian assange 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 sheering a pig lots of shrieking but little for. now there's been a strong rhetoric coming from washington saying that a russia should hand him over snowden if he is indeed in moscow for smokers that snowden is not on russian soil hence the day they hands are tied they are not in contact with him early on also the u.s. state department released a statement saying that that russia should cooperate with them and they hope that they will cooperate snowden needs to be brought to them as there are grounds for his extradition now the u.s. has gone as far as accusing russia russia has said no this is not true we're still here at the airport with so much speculation around to this case we're talking to those who are in the inside trying to see find out if anyone has indeed just seen snowden in that transit zone lots of just not the speculations are running around

but we're still yet looking to find out where indeed is snowden anyway is his next move one thing that i have gathered during my time out here is that the next flight out of moscow to cuba is on a thursday so will he be bound on that plane well we don't know we'll have to wait and see. who is reportedly given snowden refugee papers want to consider is his asylum request its foreign minister has declined to reveal where the whistleblower is snowden's trick to recruit or is being organized by wiki leaks according to his chief. has more for us. julian assange and her saying that they are in contact with that would senator and the recent weeks the correct sense of traveling. they are both healthy and in good spirits and in a secret location that they can't disclose now they've spoken a lot about the very bullying and what they called the threatening behavior of the us administration in relation to

a number of nations three which average snowden has been reported to be traveling the fact that they've been demanding for his extradition now wiki leaks have said that edward snowden is not a trace as the u.s. secretary of state was calling him out yet but he is a hero as we know that wiki leaks have been assisting edward snowden both with his asylum request to ecuador as well as with legal representation so we're going to be following this story as it develops for you from london and award winning journalist and intelligence expert nicholas dog apollo vi spoke to me a little earlier he says nowhere is safe for snowden but believes that whistleblower is fully able to outwit any pursuer. i would dare say it will never be safe you know what it's naive to say about that'll be safe in the quarter or anywhere anywhere else in any city in any you know world in many in any country of the world he wouldn't be that seif but he is the one who would be on his

own good. that'll be out in next to impossible to pin him up to the wall he is the worm who somebody to the world and he is the one. who helped to do it and he proved it already. or more news is heading your way here not in just a few minutes from now stay with us i'll be back on the show with the news team stay with us. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports to let you know what is the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say it is mr k.l.a. car is on a job. well done. of a job no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you have to punch be ready for a. freedom of speech and down the freedoms of caution. in the clay is the perfect material it's a lie you make just a small change and you get a totally different result. what a pretty top knot you have. this is a little complicated. it's like geometry we start by marking out the incision lines as a guide. it's very intricate work where my life has changed one hundred percent. from

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feel. this but. 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 here as much as anyone. to washington accused of hiding snowden and demanded his extradition despite the fact he hasn't even officially crossed the country's border. presidential palaces rocked by blog. taliban fighters attacked just a week after the u.s. handed over security to afghanistan's government i denounced peace talks.