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whistleblower edward snowden sitting tight in transit at a moscow airport confirms about amir putin dismissing the conspiracy theories of u.s. officials as nonsense. meanwhile the u.s. trying to throw the world off prison sentence saying it spying project is only targeting terrorists on the social networks and i follow. the doubts emerge that extremists use them in the first place. bare bones economics the u.k. chancellor is more bad news in store for the british public he said to lay out plans to slash another eleven point five billion pounds from government budgets.

three pm in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia is all but ruled out any chance of extraditing america's most wanted man who is holed up in transit at a moscow airport russian president vladimir putin says edward snowden and never crossed into russian territory rendering him immune to and outside the government's reach let's get more now from artie's alexei airship ski at sheremetyevo airport. ever since edward snowden touched down in moscow on sunday it's been the biggest mystery for the last seventy two hours or so what his next move would be he was supposed to fly to have on the from moscow on monday he even checked in supposedly for that flight but never made it there ever since it's been speculated that he may have left the country on a different flight he may have left it elsewhere even some have been alleging that he may have been detained by the russian authorities to later to be extradited to the united states both of these claims were in fact quashed by the russian president who compared mr snowden to the case of another very famous whistleblower

. snowden's case is similar to that of julian assange both called themselves defenders of human rights and fight for the freedom of information you have to ask yourself do such people need to be hunted down and put in prison but i personally would like to avoid cases like these is like sharing a pig not so shrieking but little fun while the russians would rather clear in their explanation as to why snowden would not be extradited to the united states the explanation coming from the chinese authorities as to why they didn't deny the extradition do not his face was deemed hilarious and amusing by many online i'll believe it or not the hong kong authorities said they would not extradite snowden because in the paperwork that the united states provided to the chinese for the extradition of the former n.s.a. man they did not specify what the j. in the edward j. snowden stood for joan or james so that's why they denied the extradition so of

course there's been lots of uproar about that coming from across the atlantic with some of the politicians in washington pointing the fingers at moscow and beijing for not cooperating with washington on the whistleblower on edward snowden some have even been alleging that snowden has been working together with the russian and the chinese special services this claim was yet again by both the russian foreign minister and the russian president. any accusations against russia and nothing but rubbish simply ravings a special services never interacted with snowden and the not doing so you today edward snowden is not only the most wanted man across the atlantic he is also the most wanted man by the media now this blind he was supposed to board on monday carried more than a hall full of moskos international press corps basically they want to a three day holiday to the caribbean and now it's also speculated what's his next move would be sound are saying that he may wait for the dust to settle down and then move elsewhere some are saying that he may wait for his asylum plea to be

satisfied by either ecuador or vanessa well in any case we here at moscow's sheremetyevo airport waiting for the next move of the world's most high profile whistleblower russia may face consequences for its in action over snowden warned senior u.s. officials foremost among them secretary of state john kerry this despite moscow's refusal to take sides and putin's comment that the sooner the whistleblower leaves the better for everyone or he's got an agent has more from washington. u.s. secretary of state john kerry hinted at possible consequences that russia may face for its response on snowden saying at times russians have criminals in the u.s. they're looking for and he said the u.s. has cooperated on handing over seven of them and that past two years although if it were a russian whistleblower who stood up for civil liberties in russia it's kind of hard to imagine the u.s. handing them over very quickly especially the us were not legally obliged to do so and in the case of snowden we heard the russian president say russia had no legal authority to stop him from traveling formally he hasn't crossed the russian border

is a transit passenger didn't need a russian and he hasn't committed any crimes in russia moscow says russia doesn't want to have anything to do with mr stone but it's amazing how this story which had absolutely nothing to do with russia is all about russia now much of the media here has turned the whole snowden story into a story about putin they invite lawmakers and experts who focus on russia and putin here's for example senator mccain weighing in on the story. we got to start dealing with bladder mir putin in a realistic fashion for what he is he's an old k.g.b. colonel apparatchik that dreams of the days of the russian empire and he continues to stick your stamina for a broad variety of ways this kind of narrative in the media that's focused on russia certainly helps build up negative public opinion on snowden and eventually discredit his revelations the focus is not just on russia but also on china and here u.s. officials the last hong kong for letting small one fly about one of these revelations

the fact that the u.s. spied on chinese research centers and universities here's the explanation that we've heard from secretary kerry our surveillance activities on them it's our surveillance activities anonymously on thousands of chinese and the chinese university anonymously in order to be able to track terrorism if there is an act of terrorism or some linkage. that is appropriate some indian kind of whatever it is could be anywhere in the world whatever it is then you have to go to court and you have to have court approval in order to do anything that is actually name specific person specific so secretary kerry said the u.s. was spying on chinese research centers and universities to find terrorists a lot of people would find that response quite confusing china would probably not buy it so you see u.s. officials being quite of a sieve on what they're actually. to focus on the messenger instead on edward

snowden and here's my colleague on associate york in a on how the media here goes along with that narrative some journalists believe the shocking us government spying scandal is the biggest story of our lifetime i sit in my desk certainly had the authorities to to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if i had a personal e-mail but big brother shamelessly watching millions of people in secret seems to be turning into little more than a cat and mouse chase by the american mainstream media snowden snoad snowden to my mind the only thing that's very really important. is it's really how the government is cracking down on. your mole over the boys but that's far from most of the media's focus instead snowden as the source not the substance of the n.s.a. scandal is all the rage there's an old technique called change the subject when you don't like what the subject this is about how you change you personalize it or you

try to see what the problems are with the people who are delivering the message and ovoid actually explaining the message itself in this case a massive spy scandal has been turned into a possible case of treason as an alice in wonderland first comes the verdict then the trial with pundits eager to shoot the messenger from questioning whether the reporter who broke the scandal with snowden as his source should be punished along with the whistleblower why shouldn't you mr green will be charged with a crime to news reports focused on snowden's girlfriend what's curious she also packed everything up and left for the mainland to pointing fingers at any other government but their own whether china or russia has been able to sort of suck out that knowledge from those computers while he's been in their countries of voiding the issue at hand seems to be a priority it doesn't surprise me that there should be this focus on the. snowden.

it is useful boys is it private affairs or his whereabouts and travels instead on the credibly important revelations that he has given us the answer to the question why is simple because they failed to do their job to actually expose all this so now they're blaming somebody who has exposed it and it makes them look bad ditto for the government the media coverage of the n.s.a. scandal a litmus test for journalism that most are failing instead of cleaning up their act and dwindling ratings networks are busy looking for bad guys elsewhere instead of looking the real villain in the face when you consider the fact that as recently as the one nine hundred seventy s. richard nixon was forced to resign in large part because he thought well. this is a huge change in our perception while a media war breaks out over supporting or hating edward snowden as little airtime as possible is actually dedicated to the spying on unsuspecting citizens itself the

biggest privacy leak in recent u.s. history has shown the media to have little ability to deal with complex issues instead indulging themselves in a manhunt yet again but then again this shouldn't be too shocking when the finger pointing every now and then is paused it's stories like this that fill airtime all of the super bowl or the sound of your holiday your holiday wait oh i'm going to new york eric draitser a new york based geo political analyst thinks the government and media are collaborating waging a concentrated smear campaign against snowden. in the united states we see a concerted propaganda campaign designed to demonize and to destroy the image if not the total character of snowden and we see this happening from the right wing and also from the left wing those who are attacking glenn greenwald for his revelations and snowden themselves this is now becoming

a real story in the united states the way in which the controlled media is attacking snowden and serving the interests of the surveillance state and the partisanship behind president obama the united states certainly will not give up we've seen cases of extraordinary rendition from all over the globe carried out by the united states and it wasn't just in the context of so-called terrorists if i were snowden i would be working under the assumption that there really is no place anywhere on earth that will be one hundred percent safe but i think that the strategy that he has taken incorporating china incorporating russia using the infrastructure built up by wiki leaks is absolutely critical to ensuring his safety . while washington maintains a large scale surveillance project exposed by snowden targets only terrorism and apparently also turns out that sniping googling in chasing likes on facebook aren't something potential terrorists normally do parties are running the loucheux told us what part of cyberspace they often occupy. there is suppose

a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prison only gathers data from the internet big players such as google sky facebook and so on but most of those who look forward to harvest or terrorist related information can find it only on the appropriate forums which are hidden deep within the so-called under web none of these resources in that realm are actually indexed by the major search engines in fact google how don't want point admitted that it indexes a tiny fraction of just one percent of all data that's available on the web if you imagine it as an iceberg that you can understand that prism only covers the very top the very tip of the iceberg the rest of the information is actually not covered by prism according to dutch intelligence service but sensual terrorists go to these core forums which are highly encrypted and hidden deep within the web so one really needs to know what they're looking for and where to find it a case in point could be the brothers they have turned to one of the war no radical

sources sometimes referred to as the vanity fair of al qaida though the websites existence is no secret for some reason u.s. security services failed to track down the brothers activity even after a tip off from russia and thereby they failed to prevent the boston bombings so although the cia and the n.s.a. say their surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's emails. human rights activist peter tatchell thinks the u.s. is trying to twist the snowden case and what it calls as its shameful revelations disguise the fact that it's been caught red handed. 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 message he's given which is that millions of people worldwide who are entirely

innocent have been subjected to mass surveillance by the u.s. administration without the approval 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 edward snowden had been an iranian whistleblower who exposed global snooping by the terran regime he would have been hailed by the united states as a horrific whistleblower he would have been lauded and pray. russia's naval fleet are rubbing its hands as it eagerly awaited so new member of the family there says local shipbuilders unveil what they've done as part of a russian a french project including the construction of two high tech missile class helicopter carriers that's still to come after a short break stay with us. the saga of edward snowden

a whistle blowing hero to millions around the world washington calls him a very dangerous security liability and a threat whatever his state one thing appears to be clear still justifies his actions in the name of transparency and the need to have a public debate on the surveillance state in that regard as he succeeded he. he

. more austerity haddon britain's way with chancellor george osborne set to unveil a slew of cuts in his upcoming spending review he's already said almost twelve billion pounds need to be shared from government budgeting is going to tell the british people just who is going to suffer the most because artists are for ports cutting crucial services back to the bare bones could have a devastating effect on the most vulnerable once a place of sanctuary now a peyton symbol of a stereotype person a small garden was west stephanie will often sought refuge from her financial ways it was a she'd raised a family but when her son moved out she was caught by the new government scheme that's the bedroom tax days in social housing with spare rooms let's face it cuts

to the housing benefits only to somewhere smaller less than a month ago and the fifty three year old grandmother of one killed herself by stepping in front of a meeting lori she left this suicide note behind for her devastated family about garden was her world she loved. her home and the thought of maybe. all that she'd know. the government insists that the cuts are necessary and that the current changes to the benefit system will eventually improve the lives of some of the poorest families but part of the wealth taking place right now angela murray had essential say she slashed from twenty hours a day to just three earlier this week she delivered a petition signed by forty five thousand people calling on the chancellor to invest

in social care if you think you know i haven't committed any crime. and you've been restricted to. prison. but how would you. face the fifty years of. many people. having to pay. just. to have cut back. but this problem was caused by the banks this problem of. small tight knit communities like this one. might be a long way from westminster because many of the people who live in communities like that have been among some of the hardest hit by the government. i'm sure i wouldn't

. i'd rather be that than one of them with the money. because what we all go. in to watch somebody of your community do what they don't want to be. experts have said that situations like stephanie's are avoidable and point to iceland as an example the country saw a collapse of its banking system a few years back but protected social spending choosing stimulus save austerity jaring their banking crisis so right and into a three percent growth in two thousand and twelve compared to just not point two percent in the k.

but with the government seemingly committed to their will sterrett t. drive the worry is that these cuts will for many more people across the like stephanie but shows friends and family have affects the irreversible so r.t. . the first piece of the jigsaw of russia's new look navy has taken to the seas today the stern of a mistral class helicopter carrier built in the st petersburg shipyard is now operational and awaiting its trip to france where the whole ship will be assembled artie's marie if you know she was following the event that kicks off that kicks off the strategically vital project between the two countries this strongly has been a strong and usually cold wind in the grounds but it might also be the wind of change when it comes to places. that. you. wrote about. by ground according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st

petersburg will play a vital role fabrication of vessels this section built here will soon had to france for completion before making the return journey to enter the service in russia's navy although there's no champagne available to celebrate here today because a bottle of it was just smashed on the new shape or rather on this section of a new ship it's still a big day for a big ship as high as a fifteen story building and around two hundred meters long and the mistral class warships have enough capacity to carry sixteen helicopters up to forty tanks or armored vehicles and around six hundred troops and a range of around forty thousand kilometers the equivalent of a single trip around the entire globe and what's even maybe more important if it is a multipurpose vessel if. this ship is like a swiss knife it can be used both for military and civilian purposes it's

a hospital it's a command point it's an assault ship and it's a headquarters we would be great for each of our full fleets to have that ship however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critiques some of russia's own ship builders complain that frons got a huge order instead of the mass. shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just recently emerged that the two mistrial class war ships will not be able to operate in russia's bison winters without special lubricants that means more expense for the navy and dependence on foreign supply chain but others argue it's a win win situation for both countries france gets an order worth over a billion euro which will keep many of its shipbuilders in business more important now than ever because of the ongoing euro zone crisis while russia gets a warship that'll considerably boost its military capacity and also gains access to the very latest naval technology. has brought us closer together with

from. our interests in some areas and incidentally is being heavily inclusive it also demonstrates that russia is not a political but a part of the european family. initially mosco had planned to buy for the mistrial closs warships but it has shelves those plans to buy the last two vessels at least for now the first ship is expected to join russia's navy by the end of next year with another want to follow and as to whether this one deal will lead to closer ties with paris mosco will simply have to wait to see which way the wind blows. st petersburg the dominance of the so-called big three credit ratings agencies could be waning a new hong kong based international agencies entered the arena after s.n.p. moody's and fitch were accused of being financial and political enforcement arms of the us or. more. 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 up until now i kiss asians i 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 based law appeared to show the mood is an s. and p. have been exchanging high ratings for cash according to the article e-mails have been found from s. and p. alice with with comments like this has to be the stupidest plays i've watched it out as you know i had difficulties explaining how we got 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 and are still

seen by many in the financial world as the backbone of the credit body alternative to these agencies is not before time so kid universal credit rating group says it intends to reform the current regime the company based in hong kong will be made up of china's dugong u.s. agency jones and russia's research writing on the head of research says it's all about balance a rating agency that is based in hong kong it is so that we can provide to the investment world. views that can be used to balance the investment views from the united states so the dominating days of the big three could be over and it may now be their turn to get downgraded. coming up the possible fate of whistleblower edward snowden in crosstalk stay with us.

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