edward r. says it can grant asylum to be on the run whistleblower edward snowden while he's not on its soil the n.s.a. leaker remains holed up at a moscow airport. on the heels of snowden's revelations over britain's huge phone in the online tapping it turns out the u.k. police are secretly monitoring social networks on a daily basis. egypt's military braces itself for mass rallies with the opposition readying to take to the streets to vent its anger at president morsi who is about to mark his first year in the top job.

ten pm in moscow i met tries a good to have you with us here on r t our top story says there are obstacles in granting asylum to whistleblower edward snowden the development was revealed at a press conference by the country's government in the ecuadorian capital stoughton himself remains somewhere in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and of has the latest. he got to russia because originally he was supposed to fly to havana cuba presumably on the way to ecuador that's how he was able to get to russia on a transfer flight he doesn't actually have a visit visa in order to russia and he ran into a few problems number one is that the united states has cancelled his passport so because he missed that original flight to cuba he has to book another one how do you do that without a passport good question the second problem force is there's now issues with ecuador in order to apply for asylum here portly needs to be an ecuadorian soil and actually we did hear from the secretary of political affairs abedi told about this

issue at a press conference earlier thursday and here's what she had to say the kodori and government has not authorized and is sort of safe passage document allowing mr snowden to come to a country we also have not considered snowden's asylum request because he is not an ecuadorian territory as the law requires us. so what does that mean he can't get to ecuador because right now he doesn't have documents to fly there and he also can't get to for example the ecuadorian embassy in moscow this is what julian assange did with a with a after an embassy in london because he doesn't have a visa to be in russia and the russian officials haven't indicated that they're willing to help them to do so so he's essentially stuck in limbo for the forseeable future now we did speak to air a flow that's the airline that's operating those flights to have an a q but they said that he is not on any of the passenger lists for the coming few days conan reportedly did check into a capsule hotel at the transfer area here at the sheremetyevo airport this is one of those you know temporary little hotels we can get a room with

a bathroom to stay he reportedly remained there for about four hours and then left with a group of men unclear where he left to but to the best of our knowledge at this point he remains inside that transit zone in that airport so far the u.s. has been using traditional diplomatic channels to try to get him back and the americans can't actually ask russia to extradite him because there is no extradition treaty between the two countries they can ask the russians to for example expel snowden but president vladimir putin here and russia said that he is not willing to do that at this moment but we did also hear president obama speak at a press conference in senegal he said that he has not personally spoken to for example the chinese president or president putin about the snowden case sort of trying to downplay now taking a softer stance on this issue he said quote i'm not going to have the case of a suspect who we've been trying to extradite suddenly be elevated to the point where i've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues but so far the administration seems to be still

determined to try to get snowden but not to the point of ruffling too many diplomatic feathers with the countries that it deals with at this point. and then at some point this document was revealed it appears to be a document granting safe passage and asylum to edward snowden but the ecuadorian government explained there was some confusion as to whether or not it was a real document and no one seems to know exactly where it came from except for an unnamed government official who apparently wrote it but it has no legal power and so it turns out that since we know now that asylum can't be granted to edward snowden until he is on the soil of the country of ecuador it really is a moot point the whole thing but it was an interesting document nonetheless while michael ratner is a lawyer for julian assange and wiki leaks is an organization which has been to help guide snowden through the process of leaving hong kong to perhaps of eventual asylum at some point thanks for joining us here on our t.v. so snowden is reportedly still in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport

what is required of him or at this point what's left for him to do to make it to an asylum country like ecuador. you know wiki leaks has as they have said in tweets and barrios press conferences as actually help snowden try and get to aqua door i myself represent wiki leaks julian assange and i actually don't know his situation i'm not in communication with them and we represent him in the united states but one interesting thing that just came up and i just saw a news clip that ecuador has broken its u.s. trade pack. with the u.s. for special preferences on its various goods that imports into the united states and they said they will not be subjected to the blackmail of the united states over the trade preferences and then they said we offer the united states twenty three million dollars for human rights training because they need it so the question here which are goes to this is he may or may not have

a document you get when i have no idea but it does seem ecuador is willing to actually break those trade preferences which is an important part of their economy or at least an important part but they may very well be willing to give him of these up or some way of getting from that airport at the south where he still has to ecuador you have to hand it to ecuador the small country of nine million people breaking it straight preferences saying this is not the old latin america they used to have racist beat us up with a big stick we don't care about your trade preferences so it gives me more hope that ed snowden may be able to make it to ecuador the u.s. says it's still expects moscow to help facilitate getting him extradited to be given to the u.s. to think that's likely to happen. you know president putin was very clear that they don't plan to expel him to the united states or render him early because there's no legal process for really doing it it's not an extradition was no treaty that

there's an asylum application and that would seem to trump any and he rendition or in the extradition of ed snowden and president putin was very clear we consider this person to be revealing important information about human rights and while we don't necessarily and so in russia want him right now or someone else's problem we are not willing to turn them over to the united states who seem to be some support in that statement for and snow. and we've heard that germany has been expressing discontent after it learned it was one of the most heavily surveilled countries under this prism program about why have the other european countries which have also apparently been targets of prism not so far spoken out you know i don't know the answer to that i know that it's time for every country to speak up if this is not just about american citizens and all our email being looked at in all our phone calls but the u.s. combined with the u.k. which is getting into all the pics and that's really

a particularly what i think germany was concerned by going after all of the and germany to its credit has spoken up of course germany had the stasi operating in east germany and i think it's very very concerned that ten percent of their population was under heavy surveillance from the stasi knowledge one hundred percent and perhaps that is one of the reasons that has made germany so sensitive on this issue or not so sensitive having the sensitivity countries want to have wiki leaks attorney michael ratner thanks for your time thank you. while russian human rights activists want the government to let snowden stay in russia they have echoed the thought so therefore and colleagues at amnesty international saying the thirty year old hasn't committed any crime by exposing the global surveillance by the u.s. or he's alexei or chef he has more. 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 n.s.a.

employee still outraged by washington streatham and of the whistleblower the ask more school to take more than just a neutral stand. 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 transgressive. and i think russia should now act according to the law but to not let the man be led like a lamb to slaughter. the head of russia's anti-corruption committee went even further can you come on of says he's ready to write a letter to putin urging him to keep snowden in russia is it a. 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 is 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 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 extra dating snowden now would be like shooting oneself in the foot let's see russia reporting from moscow it appears the u.k. sweeping surveillance is going beyond the g c h q phone and dropping a special. police units reportedly been scanning what british citizens post online and social networks despite the fact all facebook and twitter users are actually choosing to make much of their data public the news has sparked major concerns among privacy advocates or has more from london. we know when we when we post

something on facebook there is it's well known of the possibility of course that that's going to be seen you're putting out there in the public sphere but i think these revelations really causing concern because of the state of the intelligence gathering this is twenty four hours a day seven days a week your facebook twitter you tube and it's a little known unit in the metropolitan police known as succulent it's social media intelligence and they've been working as a lead to the team of around seventeen offices combing through this information recently we've been looking at the rise for example of the number of arrests the police have been making on the back of what people have put on their twitter accounts but of course now you've got this in the context of the revelations over prism and that's really blowing the debate wide open about intelligence gathering

in the u.k. and the u.s. in about exactly what privacy means in the digital age we'll talk more to us about this i'm joined by big brother what is deputy director and the. other thank you very much for joining us i thought every time that we speak this sort of black mirror esque reality i mean it really does seeing the stuff of fiction is becoming part of daily life and that what we're putting out there is being constantly monitored i think also they could very importantly prison of course you've got information being gathered that should be hidden from the world the team is private but of course the sort commitment this is stuff we're putting in a public forum so why is this a problem surely this is exactly what the police should be doing when not saying that because shouldn't take place what we're saying is that is it necessary is a proportion it isn't actually in the public interest and if so then there needs to be a framework there to see consistency throughout all of the police forces you know the

huge storm at the moment the u.s. and u.k. . intelligence gathering after the revelations about. being described as prisons a little is it that bad well i think for a lot of people it will be about i mean when you come down to the small nuances of a it's you know it's all private information and what we perceive to be private and you know we all know the digital world is an encryption and that we know it isn't actually as private as we'd like it to be in so we do feel like i'm in a state basis there should be some safeguards in place for people to go around in and complete freedom unless we do something wrong in the same should be put forward in terms of social media to go back to get about the information about. the certainly going to be a cause the further discussion of this still rages of course on the back of the revelations of prism meanwhile it appears the revelations over the u.k.'s massive snooping activities failed to embarrass the british government the latest public spending review promising to the intelligence services another hundred million

pounds annually from two thousand and fifteen m i six so my five minutes listening facility g c h q will get a three point four percent rise this more than any other department including the health services and education computer return see the attempt to justify the move by referring to the terror threat is it convincing. all this extra money for m i five six and g c h q when previously the government said they were causing it they're trying to spin this as something to do with the willage attack you're in south london with a british soldier was beheaded seemingly but not in a terrorist incident but as we know and as we've covered on this channel that itself was an m i five operation in the sense that the s.a.'s recording with m i five because this man had been in kenya in the somalian border why are they doing this right now and how all of that while they're cutting what the science research budget pollution controls flood controls closing down libraries hurting the

dispossessed of people with fragile lives they want to put all this money into the intelligence agencies and also i should add they're also increasing the aid foreign aid budget which so many. farias and strange operations also occur in the name of foreign aid to help other countries. despite the cost cutting drive in full swing the e.u. is trying to mobilize billions to tackle youth unemployment is now at the top of the agenda for europe's leaders is about diverting a catastrophe and saving a generation more of that still to come.

seventeen minutes past the hour egypt's main opposition rejected president morsi the offer of dialogue on reconciliation and insist on her way holding early elections the country seen clashes between supporters and opponents of the islamic leader with a major protest expected sunday two people killed and hundreds injured in the street fighting as morsi was reading for a national address working his first year in power are reports. bomb story is a nile delta city this a few hours drive from the capital could have been put on the street battles between those in support of the president and those the against the president's any addiction police are desperately trying to contain the violence using tear gas they have been reports all. but it is related weapons and fire bombs and they splash it started i know it's a point since all the missing brotherhood group which the president pales from decided to have a protest off the ultimate prize i went missing so i could fix reports said that i did look cool residents attacked said the most of

a good group all folks who are against the islamist group the president mohamed morsi in his speech did little to assuage fees he did admit that the u.s. has been very tough for the presidency and that he himself had made mistakes will be found to go into the details of these mistakes he also controversy once again praised the police in his speech at the police to tory speak to 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 know something they're very pleased with what people have really worried is that if the by if you don't think this is going to be that it will only get was in the in the lead up to the anniversary protests and continue with the deaths on the horizon for more on the situation is situation in egypt under about how adel sharma he's the editor of the. newspaper thanks for joining us here on our t.v. so why is there so much anger and vitriol being hurled at mohamed morsi by the opposition right now. i think the reason is that speech last night.

to majority or. rather presidential. speech. particularly when talking about the conciliation and mending the confusion was not . seriously. including. morphy he's a man who lost. credibility and struggling now to keep. his. office. and activists say they're hoping even for a second revolution and all this but is this the united opposition we're talking about here or is it a kind of a fragmented one. it's definitely different. i

don't think we are really behind what's happening in egypt now. and the real grievances. behind. the president did not even mention the crisis people are suffering particularly from. rice is that he did not mention any of those he was only interested in attacking his political opponents using them with no evidence. everything so i think this is what's behind what's happening the people are angry if you. will from them and. now often i understand egypt's politics the army is a wildcard factor so to speak is there a possibility that it could step in and take a role in removing morsy from power as many in the opposition hope.

i didn't really. believe. that the people who. believed. in which hundreds of people were injured. and one person. who. knew. enough about food the. food. and security and. all right how it all shiny editor of the newspaper thanks very much for that.

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million unemployed young people in europe and overall use jobless rate of twenty three percent in greece and spain the situation is even worse with youth unemployment over fifty percent while 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 countries which can 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 streets 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 contribution to the growth of their economies puts 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 us but while the european financial crisis is still in full swing the question is where exactly is this cash coming from what leaders agree back in february that they would set aside the money from the twenty fourteen twenty twenty budget for the youth guarantee project 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 on 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. the six billion euros they use playing to spend on training the youth not

enough to fix the worrying trend is dr barbara coleman president of the high you could student vienna explains who says that europe's rigid labor laws need a major overhaul do you have to do something with these young kids that are on the street for example in greece they understand that things have been have gone wrong in this country they know that they that the system needs to change definitely that structural reforms need to be made and that they need to take their fate in their own hands the labor laws that we have seen in europe are just not flexible at all and they really do not support employment as a matter of fact they are against employment if no measures are taken no right measures are taken that really worked out it could get through. what's really going on with edward snowden and what's the bigger picture of his revelations stay with us for an in-depth discussion about the whistleblower shortly.

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that the spanish find out more visit i. come back here on r t twenty seven minutes past the hour now let's take a look at the big picture that we've been talking on well let's face it for most of the week now the saga of edward snowden how did it all start what point are we at and what did it all go let's take a look at the big picture so to speak well it started out when he went to hong kong to make his revelations to the guardian newspaper and there was charged by the united states with government by the government with espionage his passport was or was revoked by the u.s.

government and then he made a trip that was. mosley organized by wiki leaks to moscow and then from there supposedly on to cuba. the final destination is said to be ecuador but when he was supposed to board that flight to cuba with journalists who were assembled to see him off from a chairman to airport were greeted by an empty seat is this something that we've been talking about all week as i've said and this is something that is our subject of a little bit of a panel discussion that we've set up here now the thought right now is that it worked snowden is still holed up in the transit zone of sheremetyevo airport which is where gosh it's been about half of our broadcast staff has probably been for the last couple of days especially you paul scott so i mean you've been polling basically the long shift there tell us how it's all going and how any details you can fill us in on in many ways it's been an intriguing fascinating few days doesn't it obviously all started on sunday when we got the tip off that he was leaving hong

kong he was on an aeroflot flight and we were led to believe that he was due to land a moscow shuttle much of a port at five o'clock in the afternoon i got down there at one o'clock i was one of the first journalists on the scene and perhaps naively i thought i was on to something you know i thought i was on to a big scoop and as the course of the afternoon went on it became apparent just how much interest there was in the story. literally hundreds and hundreds of journalists the world's press with a photographer his camera man live satellite trucks it became quite apparent that this was this was a major major story that was happening in moscow. they would conflicting reports of where his final destination was meant to be quite apparent quite early i mean there was has been suggestions since that he hasn't been in moscow and some people saying that it's all been a big ruse but i think looking at the evidence it's quite clear that the that he certainly was here and probably still lays his exact destination was unknown there were rumors that it was venezuela but julian assange of course the co-founder of

wiki leaks who are pulling the. behind the scenes for this whole journey by all accounts said that the diplomats of a country who will be granting considering his appeal for asylum will be there to greet him and quickly became clear that that was that was ecuador the ecuadorian ambassador turned up met with edward snowden we were all hoping for the you know the money shot the pair of them coming out some kind of statement but it became quite apparent as the day went on that that wasn't going to happen in the press began to melt away only a few quality souls remained. and the rumor was that he was staying in transit having problems with his russian visa so he couldn't step over the border and overseas his passport revoked so he couldn't fly out and we were led to believe you staying in the capsule hotel and then would be flying to cuba on the monday and we all know what happened that half the world's press booked their flights i mean wasn't on it and we're led to believe still remains in transit now from where i am looking at this.