american whistleblower edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport and russian human rights activists urge president putin to help the fugitive. and despite the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. financial chief announces a funding boost for the country's spying agencies fast slashing welfare spending. and deadly scenes of on red. yet again is the opposition to mark the first anniversary of the president's inauguration with nationwide protests. across america's lackluster support for africa military operations in the region overshadowed barack obama's visit to his father's native continent.

i welcome you watching r.t. live from moscow. now america's most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to have been there since sunday the national security agency leaker has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the requests well let's cross live now to our paul scott he's outside the airport for us paul what is the latest is there any end in sight to this saga. still no sign of any ending inside as we understand as you mention is that edward snowden is still here at moscow sheremetyevo airport in transit in the terminal building behind me now ever since he was rumored to have landed on sunday from the flight

from hong kong almost immediately there were rumors and suggestions that he was having problems with his paperwork in particular with his russian visa which was not allowing him to cross the border and then to russian territory and of course he's had his passport revoked by the americans as well now we know that there is a way around that as we saw with his exit from hong kong but it seems that it's difficult for him to enter russia at the moment it seems difficult for him to leave as well so he is in a state of limbo now we were expecting him to fly to cuba on monday of course there was a plane load of journalists but no word would snowden that end it going to have an hour in the end there was a suggestion however that he could be out on today's flight at around two o'clock moscow time going to have. correspondent is also going to be on board that flight and joins me now is there any suggestion that to edward snowden could be soon about to depart once more if it gets to work at this point of course we do we do have we do we do know that there are journalists basically all over the place and all three

terminals and we do know at this point that there are several journalists there is actually quite a large team of them staking out the capsule hotels i believe that he's still there but then again it's just guessing work at this point i've looked at the flights which is to depart in just a couple of hours and it looks like all the seats are taken so he could be on that flight. again he could not be yourself really it's out of it's really up to i guess snowden maybe weekly at this point we don't know for sure but then again where else could think go obviously has to go to someplace that doesn't require passports and probably isn't really friendly relations with the united states someone seems to be the most obvious choice at this point so i'm going to head out and do the check in and continue the hunt for mr snowden inside inside the terminal as well good luck it's a whole new world comes in and. going through march so of course he will be are keeping you up to date and if there is any sign of edward snowden if he does leave transit then a reno will be right across it to bring it to the first and what's the u.s.

doing at the moment all to try and get their man. well they're desperate to get their hands on edward snowden on the americans he's been charged with. charges under the espionage act which carry a hefty jail term if he his return to the united states if he is tried and if he is found guilty so he knows exactly what he is up against defense secretary chuck hagel quoted as saying that his actions in exposing the n.s.a. surveillance operation has jeopardized u.s. security. and in terms of response globally the u.s. is starting to sort of make threats they mention to ecuador of course where he is seeking political asylum a trade agreement and a trade deal between the two countries could be affected if ecuador do grant edward snowden asylum there's a preferential trade deal in place at the moment to the american side that could be in jeopardy if ecuador do grant him asylum washington could barely hide their anger at the chinese authorities of course after he was allowed to slip through the net

and exit hong kong and that also putting the pressure on russia suggesting that moscow should hand snowden over if indeed he is here ok thank you paula scott life outside sharon mess of an airport in moscow thank you. well russian human rights activists have lashed out against washington's aggressive pursuit of the thirty year old whistleblower they've called on president putin to step in and help snowden with some insisting the former cia employee should remain in russia artie's elex yet as this report. well the world decides where the edward snowden is hero or villain russia's human rights activists have clearly made their minds up it's not too often they see eye to eye with russia's president but they welcome to put his decision not to extradite the former anas a employee still outraged by washington streatham and of the whistleblower the ask more school to take more than just a neutral stand. such as he says supported us in the current situation russia has

to do everything in its power to aid snowden he cites for those exact principles that the u.s. doubts that in fact transgressions yet the more i hear and i think russia should now act according to the law to not let the man be led like a lamb to slaughter. the head of russia's anti-corruption committee went even further to ban of says he's ready to write a letter to putin urging him to keep snowden in russia. sprint the fact that he has no passport let him go to those countries that are willing to accept him we cannot act like a weak country that understands exactly what's going on but at the same time says no stay away from this. edward snowden has never asked for political asylum in russia but with heavy support coming from the human rights camp you couldn't rule out a positive response from the kremlin if you did his active asylum pleas are still pending a decision from ecuador and venezuela snowden himself was still presumably sitting

tight inside most schools airport which leaves a lot of space for more twists and turns to this saga former officers of security services describe the man as snowden as a gift to the intelligence they usually use for an exchange between countries but with such strong reaction coming from russia's human rights activists many agree that extraditing snowden now would be like shooting oneself in the foot alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from moscow. so u.s. officials are seeking to prosecute snowden for what they call a serious breach of national security but gerrard the publisher of the trends journal thinks that snowden's revelations only confirm what many had suspected for years. he has the proof for a lot of people speculated and what the whistleblowers talked about so now they can't hide from the truth anymore so what they do is as a as leading into this they tried to change the narrative what did this guy tell us

snowden that we already know that they're building a two billion dollar facility in bluffdale you or the giant city sized national security agency facility in fort meade maryland it's a business the business of america used to be business but now it's cyber war and war while berlin officials have warned of drastic ramifications if it is confirmed that the british intelligence agency g c h key has been snooping on germany among other countries this comes after edward snowden expose the u.k. surveillance activities along with those of the u.s. meanwhile peace activists. from the code pink movement in berlin says the intrusive data gathering by governments threatens more than just privacy i think the larger concern is keeping. some political control over germany because the united states

has very important military assets in germany the bases here are the most important in all of europe for the u.s. efforts in formerly in iraq or presently to some degree in afghanistan africa africa calm it is in stuttgart and. i think that's the reason that germany is more heavily monitored than any other european country that's what the report say and of course that goes back to the fact that during the entire occupation really up till the early ninety's in any case u.s. military intelligence felt that they had a right to spy on in any german especially in berlin. meanwhile the u.k.'s spy agencies are set to get a major financial boost that is according to britain's latest budget review which also unveiled over eleven billion pounds worth of spending cuts artie's tesser has

got the details but what's been widely reported as the biggest winner in this in this review of the budget is the intelligence service that comprises this process of the m i five am i six and you can see if you wish of course we know have been in the spotlight particularly. after edward snowden to be american who had made revelations on the extent of the kind of spying that we see each crew have been doing for the iraqi citizens and ya know what they're going to see is a real term increase of more if there's three percent of the rationale behind it according to all but one is that there is still a continuing threat of terror. on this from a intelligence analyst glenmore trainer harvey thank you very much for joining us now first of all in light of edward snowden's revelations it just happened a few days ago and we see an increase in the budget of the in particular what does that mean i have to say that i don't think his revelations did have an effect with

it just so happens at this time because constraints and especially budgetary increases take a long time to work out the thing is of course is that the spotlight is on british intelligence as a result of edward snowden so revelations the whole world is concentrating on walked without doing so it does seem a little odd to the general public it would not have been surprising if they had just kept the budget as it were that would remain understandable but three percent increase and so first we have the rationale of security this issue of terrorism on the other hand you have the backlash from the revelations of snowden and you have austerity cuts in other sectors which really affected the british people so how how do we view this how was this justified. i am biased in my arms rather having an

association with the services yes i think it is i'm surprised that the extent when you're talking about the g.d.p. of britain increasing by one percent a year to have a three percent this is quite extraordinary but it will be seen media comments to say that in the light of snowden's revelations that this is a british government saying we're not concerned about that we are going to go ahead we're not embarrassed audie contributor afshin rattansi says the latest funding base may be a result of pressure from across the atlantic. that's presumably why the british government is spinning it and saying look if we don't do all of this you'll see more british soldiers a british barracks up and down the country are being beheaded and for that matter for after the student allegations do we think that the united states is telling britain to beef up their way to make six g c h q budgets because as snowden has revealed britain is basically a spying outpost for the united states and yet the poorest of society have paid for

this well mr obama may be telling osborne and david cameron to do just this beef up the security services. also ahead this hour with strings attached we investigate whether u.s. . multi-million dollar to gaza supposedly for rebuilding efforts have been or teary and that is coming right up along with. a set to convene in brussels assessing the sites on the youth unemployment problem with. the hoff of young people working greece and spain we'll bring you more on that. wealthy british.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. interview .

hello again welcome back now at least two people have been killed and hundreds in. in fierce clashes between supporters and opponents of egypt's president mohammed morsi writing broke out in the northern city of mansoor or as the leader was preparing for a national address marking his first year in power amid a wave of fresh cause for him to step down artie's bill true brings us the latest. fun story is a nile delta city this a few hours drive from the capital could have been bloody street battles between those in support of the president and those the against the president said the addiction police are desperately trying to contain the violence using tear gas we have been reports all birdshot but it is related weapons and fire bombs in this clash it started when the supporters of the missing brotherhood group which the president hails from decided to have a protest off the afternoon prize i witnessed things so i could fix reports said

that i did look cool residents attacked said the most of a good group all thugs who were against the islamist group president mohamed morsi and his speech did little to assuage fears he did admit that the year has been very tough for the presidency and that he himself had made mistakes already failed to go into the details of these mistakes he also controversy once again praised the police in his speech at the police of the touristy brutal here in egypt we've seen an increasing amount of violence from the security forces over the course of the last year resulting in many deaths people here in the presidency praising the security forces is not something they're very pleased with or people are really worried is that if the by if you got through this is going to mean that it will only get worse in the in the lead up to the anniversary protests and continue with for the deaths on the horizon. social media has been a key driving force to the recent public dissent across to me but could that online activity backfire on the protestors facebook has played down that threat claiming

it hasn't passed any user data to the to dorothy's despite government requests to one of to his ministers said ankara had been working closely with the social networking site you can read more about this story colm also there the times of west in texas which suffered a deadly fertilizer plant explosion in april is suing the facilities get the details on the looming legal battle to. website. following me chinese investment boom in africa america is having to play catch up barack obama has begun a tour of three african countries in a bid to strengthen ties but many locals are frustrated over the slashing of u.s. aid along with washington's controversial military operations. reports right now africa is in the center of america's so-called war on terror we hear about new

drone bases popping up on the african continent in countries whose governments we see aid from the u.s. in one form or another we hear about the u.s. army and training security forces in a number of states in africa then we learn how some of those forces commit most horrible atrocities and get the u.s. doesn't stop to take a second look at who they empower just a few most recent examples say you when we poor found us train troops in congo guilty of mass rape another trustees human rights watch released a report documenting the abuse rape and torture of at least one thousand somali refugees by u.s. backed kenyan police forces this follows a report by the open society justice initiative that connected u.s. counterterrorism and influence to systematic human rights abuses in kenya and uganda then you have secretary of state john kerry himself expressing quote deep concern around human rights abuses committed by the nigerian military a major u.s. counterterror partner his statement says gross human rights violations committed by

nigerian security forces only escalate the violence and fuel extremism in washington sees what's going on but does it really change their calculations i spoke with the editor of pan african newswire a by your me as they may say that they are there too with the african states national security capacity but we know the mystery of the united states that they do nothing. else. on policy if there's no real strategic interest for the united states. or maintaining a relationship with all these different african states at the same time to edge out the people's republic of china which is pretty considerable amount of influence are in africa just over the last few years that china has become the number one trading partner of the african union in africa it is an extremely rich continent the

chase for terrorists may not be the only reason the u.s. wants to have as much presence as possible there take a listen to what mr azikiwe said about that many of the countries in west africa a large oil producers for example nigeria which is the largest u.s. importer. of oil into the united states from africa in east africa they have been a huge finding of all of natural gas all along the eastern coast of africa from somalia all the way down to tanzania so this in my opinion explains why we have this escalation of u.s. military intervention on the afterthoughts not so backlash in the form of extremism on the one end of the scale and tangible benefits on the other that could be the dilemma that the u.s. is weighing in africa now but as we've seen reports about gross human rights violations haven't stopped us from partnering up with use of government in

washington i'm going to take up. a huge lead is set to meet in brussels in an effort to tackle the ever growing problem if youth unemployment almost a quarter of young people right across the twenty seven nation bloc with the numbers hitting unprecedented highs in the most indebted countries of greece and spain details now from artie's will be the last generation and that is how everyone is referring to the fall. i point six million unemployed young people in europe an overall use jobless rate of twenty three percent in greece and spain the situation is even worse where that youth unemployment over fifty percent of all these numbers sound pretty bad the consequences are even worse young people who have studied hard to achieve the best grades yet don't get to reap the benefits of such dedication left feeling resentful towards their cultures which could ultimately result in social unrest especially as these energetic young people are not so afraid of tear

gas and stun grenades that they will not voice their discontent on the stories also the employment gap on a resume is also seen as a negative by employers added to this the fact that these citizens are not able to conjure brute to the growth of their monomers that's pressure on the whole financial system so what is being done to avoid total mayhem on the streets and the shuttering of young people. well the e.u. leaders are planning to splash out six billion euros to tackle the escalating problem writes we can all relax e.u. is on to it but while the european financial crisis is still in full swing the question is where exactly is this cash coming from will you leaders agree back in february that they would set aside the money from the twenty fourteen twenty twenty budget for the youth guarantee projects but this is yet to be approved by the european parliament so good intentions but no policy in place yet to do with the situation and even if this money is finally found it may not be enough since it has

recently turned out that south european states are not alone in their misery while overall unemployment may be lower in scandinavia young people make up the bulk of the unemployment rate so the more time mrs tate to come up with the cash to solve the problem more problems will be caused by the shattered dreams of the restless young. meanwhile life may be tough for palestinians in gaza but they are starting to get a helping hand katter is pouring millions of dollars into rebuilding the territory while encouraging the ruling hamas group to emerge from international isolation artie's paula slayer investigates what it says what exactly such warm ties based on . israel destroys and qatar rebuilds that's the message in gaza where streets damaged by israeli tanks are now being repaved with khatami many.

contrast out to twenty one projects of the same time so there are a lot of new jobs it's simple mathematics give people food homes and cash and they'll support you no matter what. israel is worried by the growing relationship between cantarell and hamas israel is concerned because it is strengthening hamas and hamas is getting more military and political power projects like this are part of the four hundred million dollars pledged by the emir of qatar last october it was the biggest injection of reconstruction aid for gaza after parts of it were devastated during the last wars with israel for years the tiny arabian gulf nation has supported the palestinians but observers took note when she hunted been highly felt tiny chose to visit gaza and not the palestinian leadership in the west bank he was also the first head of state to visit the strip since hamas branded terrorists by israel took over six years ago the manning mostly to support the

population in order to gain back their well you know it took quantifying serving news those from their backyards into israel lawyers in this is radio civil rights organization devote their time to going off to states they came to sponsor terrorism qatar is right up there five years ago after the last israel lebanon war they bought a civil lawsuit against the qatari funded al jazeera channel what doctors there was doing is they're broadcasting live from the places where the missiles were falling and that they were aiming the hizbollah so more accurately point out their missile for them x. they called the marketeers freedom fighters so there was no doubt. no question at that as there was that then to hide because of hezbollah for such a small country qatar yield significant financial and political global count it was qatar wheels that financed and promoted the islamist opposition forces that

overthrew moment of death in libya that the muslim brotherhood in egypt and is now banqueting the free syrian army in syria. we see that cats are trying to control the region we saw this in libya and egypt and of course in syria cats are his goals qatar is part of a plan that wants to change the arab world but not towards democracy in the arab profits because cats are itself is not a democracy and people there have no freedom. and from the sidelines the u.s. commie watch is keeping mum because of its basted interests in khatam the outdated military base oil and defense cooperation it's not that the israelis are unaware of what is happening across the border they know full well khatami's financing anti israel activities white under the noses but with the us keeping quiet prime minister netanyahu doesn't really have anyone to complain to point to see on t.v.

tel aviv's. we're going to take a quick break now and then we will be hearing from the man with the sharpest tongue in financial journalism stay changeful kaiser. i love life but there is a lot of sick stuff going on on this planet for example according to bloomberg a hospital in chicago has been accused by the f.b.i. of cutting the throats of patients for big bags of cash a tracheotomy is a procedure to get air directly into the windpipe of someone who can't breathe by cutting a hole into it an f.b.i. affidavit based on tape recording says that the hospital knowingly and purposely sedated patients to the point that they couldn't breathe properly and would need

tracheotomy and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick out of his own days cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars a pop this alleged conspiracy between doctors and management is not the first of its kind at this hospital an administrator and five doctors have already been charged for medicare fraud for giving and receiving kickbacks not only is having a hole punched in your neck for money discussed thing but it may also be lethal because patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients. other hospitals from tracheotomy struck the state now how did the f.b.i. find out about this with three employees ratted out the hospital and worked with the f.b.i. to make a lot of incriminating voice recordings these people risk their jobs and possibly much more to do what was right and i salute them reading out evil is no wrong deed because just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report on max kaiser l o l. r o f l m a o ha ha ha ha yes the banks are officially in it for the locals and how you. there have got the laws banks are is rolling around on the floor laughing their behinds off yes the same from which they are plucking the bailout figures you tax paying schmucks and give and give and give them and when the laws banks are said they needed seven billion and then you gave it to them and no questions asked they then try outro child shows you for seventy billion more seven hundred billion seven trillion seventy trillion l l o. yes

the banks as we've been saying of course for years i've been trolling us they're having a big laugh and the proof is now in the audio putting inside anglo the secret recordings these are the hash tag anglo tapes max and these are tapes that reveal the lives and deception that led to the bank bailout of anglo irish bank in ireland this is an exclusive from the irish independent they were given the tapes back from during the time when anglo-irish was bailed out and the tapes that you're about to hear is between john a senior executive at anglo irish who had just returned from a meeting with the central bank of ireland and another senior manager peter fitzgerald and peter fitzgerald asks john breaux where did you get the seven billion euro figure that you presented to the central bank that we need immediately and here's his answer.