edward snowden remains in moscow for now sitting tight in an airport transit zone after president vladimir putin rejected all u.s. threats of demands for the whistleblower to be extradited. washington accused of trying to shoot the messenger by presenting snowden as a dangerous while ignoring fallout from the revelation of its five program. britain embraces five more years of austerity as the chancellor announces a new government budget cuts war the eleven and a half billion pounds leaving the most vulnerable at risk.

for pm in moscow a matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia won't hand over america's most wanted man n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who remains holed up in transit in a moscow airport for a fourth day president putin said that means snowden never actually crossed into russia and so is beyond the government's reach let's go now to our he's alexei our ships he has at sheremetyevo airport with more. 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 a from moscow on monday he even checked in supposedly for that flight but never made it there this blind carried more than a hall full of moskos international press corps basically they want to a three day holiday to the caribbean 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 but 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 i personally would like to avoid cases like these it's like sharing a pig lots of shrieking 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 the hong kong authorities said they would not extradite snowden because in the paperwork that the united states provided to the chinese they did not specify what the j in the edward j. snowden stood for of course there's been lots of uproar about that coming from

across the atlantic with some of the politicians in washington pointing the finger at moscow and beijing for not cooperating with washington 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. raving's special services never interacted with snowden and you not doing so you today know it's also speculated what's his next move would be summed up 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 have more school shame it's a way of bored waiting for the next move all of the world's most high profile whistleblower russia and china remain are caught in russia and china are caught between the u.s. and whistleblower on the run snowden in washington angry that neither is helping

catch him but as are his guidance explains something the u.s. is using scapegoats to attract attention from the real issue its global surveillance program. 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 in the 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 us handing them over very quickly especially if 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 snowden 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 that amir 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 you hear u.s. officials blast hong kong for letting slogan fly but what about one of these revelations the fact that the u.s. spied on chinese research centers and universities here's the explanation that we heard from secretary kerry our surveillance activities on them it's our surveillance activities anonymously thousands of chinese and the chinese university

mostly in order to be able to track terrorism if there is an act of terrorism or some linkage. that is appropriate some indicator on 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 a vase if on what they're actually doing preferring to focus on the messenger instead on edward snowden and here's my colleague an associate you're going to 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 in 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 place but that's far from most of the media's focus instead snowden is 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 the subject this is about how you change personalize it or you try to see what the problems are with the people who are delivering the message and avoids 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. 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 private. boys for his private affairs or his whereabouts and travel instead on the credibly important revelations that he has given us the answer to the question why is simple because they've 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 oh 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 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 stuff 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 air time. or

the sound of your holiday your holiday wait. i'm going to new york. u.s. says its large scale spy program is there to target only terrorists but experts suggest those planning terror don't exactly spend their time googling scraping or updating their facebook page or he's a really good explains exactly what part of cyberspace they do occupy and there's the pose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prism only gathers data from the internet big players such as google 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 and in fact google how that one 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 although the web site 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 there's surveillance programs they're directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading in some people's e-mails eric draitser a new york based political analyst thinks the government and me are collaborating to wage 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

what was known as motive for leaking data and what should he do now some questions being as little later in cross talk here's a quick look. all these people who are saying well snowden released information that was harmful to the united states because he revealed for example that the united states was spying on russia or spoiling on trying to or hacking into universities and places like that well you know they already knew that everybody knows that let me ask you this question mark if if edward snowden is really standing on principle and i don't know his motivations i don't think any of us really know his motivations but nevertheless if he's really standing on principle and what he cares about is really exposing the truth why should he come back to the united states go on trial and really stand up for what he's done if public opinion is so behind him why would that be a good thing for him to do you're arguing you know you should do you don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time well great but that's not the time he's

going to do he's not going to be tried we already know that he's being charged under the espionage act which carries a potential life imprisonment ok he didn't do anything like that so yeah he has every reason in the world not to want to spend the rest of his life in jail for something he didn't do he'd be stupid to come back here. with these. rushes naval fleet eagerly awaiting a new member of the family local ship builders unveil what they produced as part of a russian french project which includes the construction of two high tech missile class helicopter carriers that's still to come after a short break stay with us. you

know 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 that everything. the global economy. into. a building.

mission to teach. sixteen minutes past the hour britain's chancellor george osborne's announcing billions more in government spending cuts. biting for many across the. reports the effect could be devastating for some of the most vulnerable. once a place of sanctuary now a peyton symbol of austerity burson a small garden with west will often sought refuge from her financial worries it was a she'd raised a family but when her son moved out she was caught by the new government scheme the bedroom tax days in social housing with spare rooms must face a cuts to the housing benefits all moved to somewhere smaller less than

a month ago and the fifty three year old grandmother of one killed herself by stepping in front of the meeting lori she left this suicide note behind for her devastated family. about god. she loved god. and. all that she'd know. is quite a big impact small tight knit communities like this one lived in 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's austerity measures many people. are having to pay. from a budget a household budget which already is just stressed beyond belief to have cut back. but this problem was caused by the banks this problem was caused by not proper

regulation of the financial services. 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 family but as part of the wealth of a whole 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. if you think you know you haven't committed any crime you are in a situation that's not your own doing and you've suddenly been restricted to something like a prison. but how would you. could you face another fifty years but. i'm sure that. there are.

some of us and. some of. us and unfortunately. i'd rather be that. expensive said situations like stephanie. are avoidable and point to iceland as an example the country saw a collapse of its banking system a few years back but protected spending choosing stimulus save austerity during their banking crisis 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 he drives the worry is that these cuts will for many more people across the like stephanie poacher's friends and family have effect this is irreversible so r.t. . by writer john white so as warren claim

that the british economy is quote out of intensive care do you think that's the case. well refined what all of the tory party does being the case because you see one point one percent growth in the last few years not the last level of the country's economy over the last one hundred us. considered a success who do you think is going to be most affected by these cuts well clearly as your package just explained to you are going to be hard to hope you're seeing as a continuation of the mass experiment in human dispy which this coalition government i think cheap and the moment. it is ideologically driven is the economics of the matter and it is done with the objective of effecting the transference of wealth from the promoter to the rich under the pretext of an economic currency it's not reason it's a pretext this was the economic crisis which took this country into the seventy's it was the economic you know woman now official figures show the deficit has been

growing steers despite the previous cuts so then what's the point if it doesn't seem to be doing much good well as i just said that this is ideologically driven if you if you are considering these polls he's on the basis of economics i think clearly and completely irrational the us economist paul krugman rightly described it as a medieval cult of. dreaming of blood and when that doesn't what dating move from the ancient this is this is entirely appropriate to describe this moment policy this instead of the state of the state of the historically it doesn't work in painting the station attendant station. more to be introduced to mind which is a contract you can see profits crumble and you must or won't say the fact that the office for national statistics the government's own set up to monitor these things . in the people which. in the final quarter last year you keep businesses. three hundred eighteen billion pounds of surplus and that money is

there's money we need in the economy they're not investing despite all the inducements from the government by way of tax look at these tax cuts for the rich and and all the various other moments of the government given to the edge over the last two years so i think the best way that the government can battle the deficit will host to start investing in the real economy to start directing banks to lend right rather than pleading with banks especially banks which we own a majority shia such as r.p.'s. b.s. or her relations and start lending not in interest of or the free market not in the interest of the real economy of the economy needs you know the housing crisis in this country in the western world. and we need to start investing what we know fordable homes rather than punishing the poor up for being poor. really they've been sitting money from the rich to the who are as befitting

a civilized society. osborne announced cuts to the police budget also do you think that would have an effect on the crime rate. well not not really because based on what we don't know what the criminals are such lee in the police. in the boardrooms and in the house of lords if we have an effect on a. console or the police and it's taken on the regional homophone the police so i think it could be seen but as i see it cuts in the piece budgets are minimal compared to the costs are going on for the poor in terms of benefit houses for toroid john white thanks very much for your insights. well from on the air to online news polluting paper factory in russia's stunning by color region will soon make way for a new disney style theme park but tourist sites and a national park with nature reserves only part of a major project of the full details of the multi-million dollar plan on our web site. plus. still thinking these are pictures from

a rally turned violent actually this time hundreds of youngsters were battling police. other with flower more pics online. the first part of a long awaited addition to russia's sea fleet power has been unveiled in st petersburg the stern of a heavyweight mistral ship will now be sent to france to be fully assembled. explains what the naval deal means for moscow and paris. is. the. rub of the fine ground according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st petersburg will play a vital row fabrication of vessels this section built here will soon had to 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 in the new shape or rather on section of an u. shape it's still a big day for a big ship as high as

a fifteen story building in and around two hundred meters long and then this trial cost war shapes 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 and it's a headquarters. it 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 mastic shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just a recently emerged that the two miss trunk lost warships will not be able to

operate in russia's bison winters without special lubricants that means more expense for the navy and dependence on a foreign supply chain 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 your business and business more important now than ever because of the ongoing euro zone crisis while russia gets a warship that will considerably boost its military capacity and also gains access to the very latest naval technology 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 perry's mosco will simply have to wait to see which way the wind blows. st petersburg turning now to some other stories making global headlines this

hour at least eight people killed by police during a shootout in a rio de janeiro slum security forces were hunting for the killer of a police officer when they clashed with locals meanwhile any government protests continue to sweep the country with people calling for better social services this despite a recent proposal by the brazilian president for a referendum on widespread political reforms. after eight people killed by a roadside bomb attached to a motorbike that detonated in pakistan's southern city of karachi a senior judge thought to be the target of the attack he was seriously wounded after the bomber rammed into. his vehicle no one has claimed responsibility for the blast though the judge had reportedly been getting death threats. a discussion on the u.s. bottled water market on tap next and breaking the set with abby martin stay with us .

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