edward snowden remains in moscow for now sitting tight in airport transit zone after president vladimir putin rejects u.s. threats and demands for the whistleblower to be extradited. washington accused of trying to shoot the messenger by presenting snowden as a dangerous fire while ignoring follow from the revelations of its spy program. making sure we are. but r t looks at those at the bottom of british society who say they're really bearing the burden of the austerity as the chancellor announces billions more in budget cuts.

six pm in moscow i met très 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 at a moscow airport for a fourth day president vladimir putin said that means students never actually crossed into russia and so is beyond the government's reach artie's alexei or shows he has more from 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 was checked in supposedly for that flight but never made it this blind carried more than a hall full of moscow's 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 . 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 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 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 not doing so you today now it's 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 cop between the u.s. and the whistleblower on the run washington is angry that neither is helping catch

him but as our he's got to explain something to us is just using scapegoats to distract attention from the real issue that's 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 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 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 passengers 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 not 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 here u.s. officials blast hong kong for letting small one 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 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 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 and trying to 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 doing preferring to focus on the messenger instead on edward snowden and here's my colleague going to see a trick 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 have the authorities to to wiretap anyone from as 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'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 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. as 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. correspondence with 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 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 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 weight. i'm sure going to new york. the u.s. says this large scale spying program is there to target only terrorists but experts suggest those plotting terror attacks don't exactly spend their time googling scraping or updating a facebook page or go take a look at exactly what part of cyberspace they do occupy and there is suppose 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 hottest 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 tensional 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 more known 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 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 could be working

together 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 . what was snowden's motive for leaking the data and what should be done to him now those are some of the questions being hashed over and crosstalk in the next hour here's a preview. of 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 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. he. rushes naval fleet in waiting a new member of the family local shipbuilders and bell what they've produced as part of a russian french project that includes the construction of two high tech missile class helicopter carriers that's coming your way after a short break. ready

to do anything for their country to try is to love the country more than yourself if you join the military for any other reason that 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 paying. on

our. thanks for staying with us sixteen minutes past the hour britain's chancellor george osborne announcing billions more in government spending cuts austerity measures already biting for many across the u.k. a sour fourth 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 stephanie bottrell 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 was her world she loved about god. and so maybe. she'd know. small tight knit communities like this one lived in might be a long way from westminster but as many of the people who live here and in communities like that have been among some of the hardest hit by the government. many people. are having to pay. just. to have cut back. but this problem was caused by the banks

this problem was caused by regulation of. 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 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 in a situation. and you've suddenly been restricted to. prison so. how would you. face another fifty years but.

some of. the. experts have said 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 that protected spending cheesing stimulus a. the banking crisis rights and enjoy three percent growth in two thousand and twelve compared to just a little point two percent in the k. but with the government seemingly committed there will stare at the worry is that these cuts will for many more people across the way like stephanie put shows friends and family have effects this is irreversible so. writer john why do you think the fresh cuts want to anything to write what he calls

the sinking ship of the british economy the country scene one point one percent growth in the last few years not the wost we have a growth in this country's economy over the last one hundred years. as a continuation of the mass experiment in human disappear it is ideologically driven is the economics of the month 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 currency it's not reason it's a pretext this was the economic crisis which took this country into the servant was the economic now you know if you're considering these polls he's going to be sick of economics thing clearly is completely irrational the us economist paul krugman greatly disparaged it as a medieval doctor. dreaming a patient of blood and when that doesn't work during move from the patient this is this is entirely appropriate to describe this moment foresee the sustained state of

the state of the historically has been destroyed if you could doesn't want to complain to the session attended a station. more to be introduced to my which is a contract you can see. the us big three will credit rating companies are among those accused of fueling the two thousand and eight crisis that triggered a domino effect across the world but now their dominance could be threatened by a rocky ready to shake up the industry and the new international agency based in hong kong chosen a good time to make its challenges artie's katie pilbeam explains. 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 ickes ations 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 mood is an s. and p. have been exchanging high ratings for cash now according to the article e-mails have been found from s. and p. alice with with comments like this has to be the stupidest place i've walked 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 are still seen by many in the financial world as the backbone of the credit body i'll turn it into 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 dugong u.s. agency jones and russia's reason writing on the head of research says it's all

about balance the new 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 for the united states so the dominating days of the big three could be over and it may now be there to get downgraded. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour at least eight people killed by police during the show in rio de janeiro slum security forces were hunting for the killer of a police officer when they clashed with locals and you while anti government protests continue to sweep across the country with people demanding a better social services this despite a recent proposal by the brazilian president for a referendum on widespread political reforms. up to seven killed by a roadside bomb attached to a motorbike that detonated in pakistan the southern city of karachi a senior judge thought to be the target of the attack and he was seriously wounded

after the suicide bomber rammed into his vehicle no one's claim responsibility for the for the blast the judge had reportedly been receiving death threats. first part of a long awaited addition to russia's sea fleet power has been unveiled in st petersburg the stern of the mistral ship will now be sent to france to be fully assembled artie's murray if an ocean has more. mistry always been a strong and usually cold wind in your eyes but it might also be a wind of change when it comes to places. with. her. love. to find the ground 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 in 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 the mistral cost warships have enough capacity to carry sixteen helicopters up to full two 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 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 it would be great for each of our four fleets to have that ship however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critics some of russia's

own ship builders complain the fronts put 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 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 share builders 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 a very latest naval technology the first ship is expected to join russia's navy by the end of next year with another want and as to whether this one deal will lead to close the toys with perry's mosco will simply have to wait to see which way the

wind blows. in st petersburg. coming up we continue our report on u.s. war veterans stay with us here on our way. 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 you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. is no time to write.

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and working and working. for like seventy two hours just so exhausted. and i can take. a show out or. something i very much. like the fridge you gave me i could have made a lot more money out of it i wanted to i just it depends on what we're doing but. they kept saying on the news that there were rebuilding iraq you're working to rebuild iraq. i was sick of hearing c.n.n. and fox news like bark each other about one say oh it's good to know the horrible things ya rock and i kind of way to see it for myself you know. i joined the military when i was a teenager nineteen in basic training.