edward snowden remains in moscow for now was sitting tight in an airport transit zone after russian president vladimir putin rejected u.s. threats and demands for the whistleblower to be extradited. meanwhile washington he's are trying to shoot the messenger by presenting snowden as a dangerous by while ignoring fallout from the revelation of its spy program. making sure we are. as the british chancellor announces a new cuts are to you looks at the bottom of society who are the ones being crushed under the burden of austerity.

five pm in moscow i match reza 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 remains holed up in a transit zone in moscow's sheremetyevo airport for a fourth day president vladimir putin said this means snowden's never actually crossed into russia and so is beyond the government's reach let's get now for more alexei or chef ski. 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 was 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 has 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 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 to united states 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 they're not doing so today now 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 in any case we hear at moscow's sheremetyevo airport waiting for the next move over the world's most high profile whistleblower. russia and china remain caught between the u.s.

and the whistleblower on the run snowden in washington is angry that there that neither is helping catch him but as our he's got into explain something to us is just using scapegoats to distract attention from the real issue that's a global surveillance network. 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 us there were looking for and he said the u.s. had 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 u.s. 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 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 to 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 sullivan fly but what about one of his 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 indicate 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 the 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 on associate europe 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 snowed snowden it's 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 what the subject 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. his source should be punished along with the whistleblower why shouldn't you mr meanwhile 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. snowden's private. or 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 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 olet must 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 one thousand seven richard nixon was forced to resign in large part because he thought well. this is a huge change in our perception while the 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. is large scale spy program is there to target only terrorists but experts suggest those planning terror plots don't exactly spend their time googling scraping or updating a facebook page or visa really gluco takes a look at exactly what part of cyberspace they 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 then she'll 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 sites 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 e-mails eric draitser

a new york based political analyst thinks the government and media 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 we 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 lois must snowden's motive for leaking the data and what should he do now those some of the questions being asked in cross talk a little later here's a preview. 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 china 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 shouldn't 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 in prison 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. he. is. still to come russia's naval fleet awaiting a new member of the family local shipbuilders unveiled what they produced as part of a rush so french project that includes the construction of two high tech missile last helicopter carriers that still to come after a short break. they

were ready to do anything for their country to try to love their country more than yourself if you joined the military any other reason. you're probably not going to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but however good people do get hurt. and i've heard good people empty silent. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because. i saw some people who. is cheaper than therapy. on

our. friends chance or george osborne analysing billions more in government spending cuts austerity measures already biting for many across the u.k. as r.t. sarraf earth reports the effect could be devastating for some of the most vulnerable. once a place of sanctuary now a patent symbol of austerity burson a small garden with west definitely bottrell often sought refuge from her financial worries it was here she'd raised a family but when her son moved out she was caught by the new government scheme the bedroom tax those in social housing with spare rooms must face

a cuts to their 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. should know. that tight knit communities like this one live in might be a long way from westminster but as many of the people who live in communities like that have been among some of the hardest hit by the government. many people. are having to pay. from a budget household budget which already is just stretched 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 some of the poorest families but as part of the wealth taking place right now angela murray had essentially 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 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. pay for another fifty years but. i'm sure that. there are.

some of us are not gifted with. some of. the. expensive 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 cheesing stimulus save. the banking crisis and enjoy 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. the worry is that these cuts will for many more people across the way like stephanie but shows friends and family have effect this is irreversible so. the. writer john white believes the fresh cuts won't do anything to write the sinking

ship that he calls the british economy the country's one point one percent growth in the last few years. and this country's economy for the last one hundred years. as a continuation of mass experiment can disappear it is ideologically driven it's an economic sort them out and it is done with the objective of affecting the transference of wealth from the poor to the rich under the pretext of an economic crisis not reason it's a pretext this was the economic crisis which of this country into the. economic you know if you're considering these polls he's on a piece of economics clearly is completely irrational the us economist paul krugman greatly disparaged. dr. dreaming of words and when the person was doing move from the future this is entirely appropriate to discourage this moment for. posterity historically it doesn't work in painting or session

a painter decision. more to be introduced which is a contract you can. from on air and online polluting a polluting paper factory in russia stunning lake by call will soon make way for a new disney style theme park there but tourist sites and a national park with nature is serves only part of the major project at the full details of the multi-million dollar plan on our web site r.t. dot com plus. so think user pictures from a rally turned violent well we've been covering a lot of this r t but actually this time hundreds of youngsters in kiev or in battling police but instead bombarding each other with flower more pics and details on our website. the first part of a long awaited addition to russia's sea fleet has been unveiled in st petersburg the stern of the heavyweight mistral ship will now be sent to france to be fully assembled artie's very often ocean it takes a look at what this naval deal means for moscow and paris. this. morning

usually we might also. according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st petersburg will play a vital role in the fabrication of vessels the 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 ship or rather on base 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 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 it is a multipurpose vessel. with the 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 it would be great for each of our four fleets to have the ship however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critics some of russia's own ship builders complain the fronts get a huge order to sort of the mastic shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just recently emerged that the two miss truck 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 og. 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 buildings and business more important now than ever because of the ongoing eurozone debt crisis while russia gets a wall shaped that'll considerably boost its military capacity and also gains access to a very latest naval technology 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 close the ties with paris. will simply have to wait to see which way the wind blows. st petersburg taking a look now at some other stories making global headlines this hour at least eight people killed by police during a shoot out in rio de janeiro slum security forces hunting for the killer of a police officer when they clash with locals and while anti-government protests continue sweeping brazil with people demanding better social services this despite

a recent proposal by the country's president for a referendum on widespread political reforms. to seven people killed by a roadside bomb attached to a motorbike 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 of the judge had reportedly been getting death threats. president barack obama and afghan leader hamid karzai reaffirmed their commitment with two taliban peace talks both said they support negotiations at the taliban's new headquarters in doha as long as is used for is nothing more than a place for talks this despite an attack on the presidential palace in kabul by the insurgent group tuesday morning three security guards died and almost in the almost two hour gunfight before all of the militants were killed. war veterans expect to be welcomed home with open arms but often find themselves in a battle for for their survival beer is cheaper than therapy

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