freedom of speech. and the freedom to. ecuador ditches a key trade agreement with the united states and a hardline response to washington's warning against granting asylum to whistleblower edward snowden who remain stranded in a moscow airport. and on the heels of snowden's revelations about britain's massive snooping operations it turns out that u.k. police a secretly monitoring social networks on a daily basis. more violence and destruction is faded in egypt as the country braces itself for mass by both pro and anti-government protesters amid deepening divisions between the opposition and the ruling in the.

it's good to have you company you're watching r.t. this morning coming to you live from moscow. now ecuador has abandoned a key u.s. trade agreement to thwart what it calls blackmail by washington over america's most wanted man edward snowden after the whistleblower remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport will artie's paul scott is outside the airport right now and joins us live with the details so we now have a spat between the u.s. and ecuador over this one of those governments saying. yes it seems that all masons involved in the continuing snowden saugor are walking a political and diplomatic tightrope at the moment particularly as you mention ecuador and the united states relations between those two countries and particularly strained at the moment now earlier this week one u.s. official claimed that preferential trade agreement between the two countries could

be in jeopardy if ecuador to grant political asylum to edward snowden or if they were to help edward snowden saying quote a country should not be rewarded for bad behavior however ecuador's response to this has been quite defiant they preempted any move by the united states. from the trade agreement saying that ecuador does not accept any pressure or threats from anyone nor does it trade with principles also admit them to most entire interest however important those may be a clearly defined response from ecuador basically refusing to be blackmailed now also rather interestingly and i think rather tongue in cheek as well they offer the united states twenty three million dollars in order to improve their human rights record now all of this of course comes between strained relations between america and china and washington could barely hide their anger after hong kong allowed edward snowden to leave the country the chinese authorities say the extradition

request wasn't within the legal framework and of course washington is trying to put the pressure on russia was well saying that moscow should hand edward snowden over despite the fact that there is no extradition agreement or extradition deal between the two countries for their part russia simply saying that he doesn't come under their jurisdiction because he hasn't yet stepped foot across the border let's just talk about mr snowden at the moment it's been almost a week now he's been in the transit zone there is no obvious solution in sight i mean this could've been part of his original plan could it. where you have to ask if he really did intend spending this long in transit in a moscow airport now the u.s. began talks with hong kong over extradition proceedings on saturday six days ago now it seems that he fled hong kong it could have been in a hurry did he leave in a panic without much of a plan or did he have a plan and it simply gone wrong along the way now we are led to believe of course

that he is still in transit here that showed a match of what he doesn't have a valid visa to enter russia and his passport has been invalidated and revived meaning it's very difficult for him to leave the country as well now to claim he had this refugee document granted by the ecuadorian government but ecuador and now saying that that is invalid so it does seem as. he's stuck in limbo at the moment which surely cannot be have been part of his master plan now we have of course been spotted since apparently arriving on sunday on that flight from hong kong which is leaving some to suggest that he hasn't been here a tour and it could all be a great ruse but not only would he have sent the world's press off on the wrong direction but also the american authorities as well so the question is is it a master plan a massive stroke by a good snowden to send everyone in the wrong direction or has something along the way gone wrong all eyes are now on his next move even if snowden himself isn't entirely sure what that will be ok thank you paul that's our tease paul scott live

from sheremetyevo airport in moscow thank you. all the thirty year old former cia employee has a handful of options when it comes to seeking refuge he left hong kong from moscow on sunday sparking a wave of media speculation over his next movements without valid documents but it's believed snowden was planning to pass through moscow on his way to heaven or cuba the last stop ahead of his final destination ecuador however the lack of necessary paperwork has grounded him in sheremetyevo airport in the meantime venezuela has said it would have been likely to grant the n.s.a. leaker asylum if it receives such a request and icelandic officials have held unofficial talks on sheltering snowden so we could conceivably see him ending up in any of these countries michael ratner an attorney for jews in the sand and wiki leaks says washington shouldn't expect other states to a comply with its the mans when it comes to the whistleblower. the handicapped

we're going the small country of nine million people breaking it straight preferences saying this is not the old latin america they used to have radios beat us up with the big stick we don't care about your trade preference it's so it gives me more hope that ed snowden may be able to make a cake with your 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 us combined with the u.k. which is getting into all the fiber optics and that's really a particularly what i think germany was concerned by going after all of them and germany to its credit has spoken up of course germany at 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 now it's one hundred percent on perhaps that is one of the reasons that it's made germany so sensitive on this issue or not so sensitive having the sensitivity that all countries ought to have

no and i remember you can always find the latest updates on the videos and expert analysis on this story at a website at outtake they'll call. well the u.k. standing with us to fight in scandal of its own at the moment as it has emerged that a special police seen it has been spying on british citizen and social network pages on a daily basis for poles on high write scripts are reacting to the latest invasion of online privacy. we know when we tweet 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 scope 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 stockmen to 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 right 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 in that what we're putting out there is being constantly monitored i think also they can very importantly prism of course you've got information being gathered the should be hidden from the world the scene 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 the shouldn't take place what we're saying is that is it necessary proportionate is 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 huge storm at the moment the u.s. and u.k. . intelligence gathering after the revelations about prison. being described as prisons and little brother is that back well i think for a lot of people it will be that bad i mean when we come down to the very small

nuances of it it's you know it's our private information and what we perceive to be private and you know we all know the digital world is in encryption and the things that we know it isn't actually as private as we'd like it to be in so we do feel like on a daily basis there should be some safeguards in place for people to go around in in complete freedom unless we do something wrong in the same should be put forward in terms of social media the met police haven't actually got back to us yet about the information about. that certainly going to be a cause the further discussion of the stall rate is of course on the back of the revelations over prism. t.v. deputy director of the freedom association told r.t. about the risks that such sweeping surveillance poses in the u.k. . with the parliamentary oversight of how that information is gleaned and how that information is stored the second concern is with the sheer scope off that of this office surveillance the sheer amount of data that is being gathered on the sheer

number of people and if you talk about risks of the government protecting us from these risks then let's talk about the risks that the government puts us in by gleave me gleaning this much information about us so there are two specific risks that i can think off first a full is false positives so when you gather so much information the modern era is also considerable and if you were if you were to take a more narrow and targeted approach you could diminish that risk the second risk and it's a very important risk is the loss of data at the risk of inadvertent loss or theft of data and we've seen a fair few examples of this over the last few weeks he has to make it a very serious concern indeed who's protecting us from very. you're watching our take this morning and still to come germany's renewable troubles the country's green revolution is taking a heavy toll on taxpayers who are stuck with an escalating bill to subsidize an electricity source that may never generate enough power plus i was britain's war on

terror the safety of citizens at home we'll be exploring that in just a few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for a week 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 is a big. whistle blowers in principle we were told every society needs them to expose the air. excesses of those in power the reality is very different though if you're someone like bradley manning or edward snowden you literally take your life in your own hands the message is clear obey and be silent or face dire consequences. what

happened to the arab spring dream does egypt's first freely elected president bring any change to fear poverty economic failure and violence remain to egypt attempts to escape chaos leaders wallowing even deeper. egypt a year in chaos. welcome back street arrest has returned to cities after several deaths in clashes between private government protesters and the president's opponents this week both sides have to bring at huge crowds in the coming days egyptian politics is in deadlock with the opposition brushing aside leader mohamed morsi his latest proposals for a compromise. is following the developments in cairo. egypt is stealing itself ahead of the first of two rival protest groups marking the first anniversary of

president mohamed morsi in power the country is worried as i will be further violence on to several days of clashes in the government's between rival groups demonstrating either in support of the president or against him or against protests is called for by the islamic alliance which is a coalition of islamist parties in support of the president including the mizzen brotherhood's freedom and justice party this is preempting a nationwide protests expected on sunday organized by coalition forces and grassroots campaign who collected at least eighteen million signatures calling for the president to step down they say enough is enough nothing has changed in the last year since he took office and he's not fit to govern the country so just comes and leaves and really security crisis across the country we've already seen several people die and hundreds injured in clashes across the government in the days leading up to the protest and we're seeing an increase of civilians armed and

bringing those weapons to protest which is led many to call for the army to step in and secure the nation the military for their part to said they do not want to get involved in politics but they will step in if there is increasing violence on the streets there's been many problems in egypt over the course of the last year the president mohamed morsi himself admitted in this speech on wednesday kind of me is in freefall there are it was doing bread and water shortages again and also bread prices and rising rights groups for their part saying that they have witnessed i mean creasing abuses in addition to torture being demick in the police force as well as a crackdown on basic rights and freedoms this people are saying is a make or break moment for the president. but author and journalist how to carry believes egypt is divided between those who seek an evolution towards democracy in those who still in the mindset of the old regime. i think it goes without

saying and more seem so far for you make it the key is disappointing to be as far as those people who failed to bring don't know them so a sizeable section of them has changed absolutely nothing since she's come to these protests so to show that the democratic figleaves is not enough so what will happen on sunday i think will be quite decisive it's not the case to use the restroom support it's just the concrete is very very sharply divided between those who want some meaningful change and the government which is maintaining continue to do with the previous regime and in some instances getting worse now imagine a chinese war machines invading an island just a few miles off the sandy beaches of california well this almost became a reality for dozens of american and japanese troops who held joint c.

drills near san diego to find out why washington and resorted to such unprecedented war games going to take dot com also their possible steps to smooth relations with belgrade drive ethnic albanian to the limits we'll tell you exactly what happened on. tuesday. you. just over a month ago the brutal murder of a soldier in london which the killers blamed on the u.k.'s foreign military campaigns prompted some in britain to question whether foreign wars do make the

country a safer place that the bank's been rigged ninety by the recent u.k. budget review which brought sweeping cuts to welfare but left the army unaffected. went to investigate. they're accused of hacking a soldier to death on the streets of london and now preparing to stand trial in total agreement that's right so we can see the problems and you just got to say the chilling message an indication of what drove the attack but the politicians say it's nonsense it's because people believe this to be legions of these police say equally to tell you to eat meat between this meal that you. would use for you to see all the actions you would be sure for the students who are risking their lives in a good for the sake of freedom but there are those who took part in those military campaigns fast hand who disagree jerry says he was disillusioned by the reality of

what fighting for freedom in the name of britain safety and fall ved compared to some of the excesses in afghanistan and iraq. which is a very serious called kind of charge the lie but it's absolutely true and we're very lucky to have already been so few attacks while they said one of the banners we went to afghanistan on there was peace peacekeeping and in our peacekeeping operation we ran out of explosive artillery ammunition that gulf between how the war is presented and the bleak reality is all too evident for many in britain as fast muslim community we are in contact with our friends friends and family or back home and what we know what exactly is going on over there while we see. some of the media reports from the u.k. or do people additions there are speeches in parliament is not reflecting the realities of going to stand a war and yet there's been almost no public or political discussion about the western wars that drove the attack in which is because they obviously want to

prosecute the wars the wars in afghanistan iraq and the project and have a look there's a project in the middle east it's very longstanding it provides not a lever to me there are public policy documents which side that told me because they want to keep. doing these things there are plans for syria iran is on the horizon as well they need to keep growing up this kind of audiological barrier and continue to attempt dealing with the killing the real world our mission in afghanistan does remain vital to our national security was to prevent that country from being a safe haven to al qaeda from where they might plan attacks only u.k. so i think you have to be particularly stupid as a prime minister not to see if you invade other people's countries and you're like do you care about the list of terror plots for oil by m i five on you case soil makes the frightening reading sense the willage attack a number of people who believe that a clash of the civilizations between white britons and muslims is inevitable has

gone out to almost two thirds of the population far right movements such as the english defense league have been using the incident to fan the flames and islamophobia in the u.k. creating tensions that make it harder for ordinary british muslims to speak out about u.k. foreign policy many muslims are afraid. to extremists or terrorists. if you speak to most of them they're sympathetic to the message of the attacker but not. his actions because they are against any kind of terrorism any kind of terrorist. or in any other country including afghanistan iraq or anywhere else the war on terror has always been sold as keeping britain safe but to those who object to the ukase involvement overseas the savage attack and well it merely serves as an example that it may be doing the exact opposite.

london. the u.s. president is on his first trip to africa since two thousand and nine and the drive to revitalize relations and trade but the continent as it comes amid booming chinese investment in the resort rich region bombers received a warm welcome from officials but millions of africans feel let down by washington's policies usa to the continent has been slashed since obama took office one america's military activities and support for controversial african governments has also stoked discontent what a bomber has promised to do more to help the african people some observers say washington is driven only by geopolitical self interest the american economy is not working for growth and they need cash they believe actually strong materials africa house an important supplier of that but they're also concerned about the influence the long term effects the last few years they have been through in the last ten years it's been very much a part of chinese who have taken. total control of the consonance very good in the

nations of india and china and the chinese and russians alike and how we make life easier for the american side and the americans are also feeling the strain strain because africa has. series of investors are being changed lives and investors all at the same time the expression. i'm afraid of obama's trip is very much of a signal a concern by the americans that they're losing the losing influence on the argument that it's supposed to mean that implicitly or you're not. so more international news in brief this hour in syria at least four people have been killed in a suicide bombing in an old christian quarter of the capital damascus the blast struck near a greek orthodox church several shops were also damaged in the explosion there was claimed responsibility for the attack so far. and a series of bomb blasts have claimed at least twenty two lives in several cities

across iraq two of the explosions struck the capital baghdad killing eight they tore through cafes where fans had gathered to watch a football match the country has seen a sharp spike in terrorist attacks this year with last month becoming the deadliest since two thousand and seven germany's plans to pioneer a green energy seem to be suffering a setback the government's push to expand renewable power sources is being buying by the taxpayer and is artie's peter all reports many are questioning whether that money is being wisely spent. a wind of change is sweeping through german energy production the cost of that change is ruffling more than a few feathers. it's an acceptable to give energy producers stuck spare handouts the government has decided that renewables will get this money all driven by climate change hysteria. the german government has set the and bishes target of producing eighty percent of the country's power from renewable sources over the

next forty years heavily subsidizing wind and solar environment minister peter says that's going to cost germany around one trillion euro despite the vast amounts of cash being spent in subsidies to keep things like this spending consumers say the benefits all big passed on to their i mean to a single mother living in berlin struggling to make ends meet she's been left shocked after huge rises in energy prices bill after bill after bill happened on my . page one day i saw it almost doubled it wasn't possible for me to be we don't watch much t.v. and use washing machine once in a while so i can understand why this bill can be so expensive for two people he said. she's clear who she blames for the price rises and the effect it's had on her life so in some biosphere five side activity response ability for these lies with

the government and the power companies they are why it is so expensive i would love to take a trip with my son not flying off anywhere just somewhere nearby to the countryside but i just can't afford it. in germany received huge praise from environmentalists when uncle and merkel announced the country would stop using nuclear power by twenty twenty two however that decision has seen new coal fired power plants having to be built to take up the slack be honest answers gravely are really if you will just cannot support the majority. need for reliable rigi in the world it's through experience or most of it is intermittent that is we don't know what to do with the silence in china wind is blowing there's also a case that economic interests outweigh the environmental right now jim the soul of slow growth in the school two of twenty thirty according to the cologne institute for economic research its energy costs for industry

a forty percent higher than those in neighbors france the netherlands is from the a to b. the nation our industry is suffering aluminum production the car industry are losing competitiveness the big companies may decide that is just too expensive and look to relocate. with elections in the old some rising power prices could become an issue as chancellor merkel refuses to let the sun go down on her renewable revolution whatever the cost these are all of the germany. it's approaching help us nine here in moscow and coming up next it's a new entity shall we say i think shevardnadze and.

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 true. yah timmy's and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick yet to be zoned is 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 disgusting but it may also be lethal because

patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients of other hospitals from tracheotomies throughout the state now how did the f.b.i. find out about this well 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 but that's just my opinion. to get.

them to sophia in color i'm so me shevardnadze and today i'm having an very special guest that needs no introduction larry king larry spent twenty five years with c.n.n. talking to people then retired and has come back with his show larry king now which is also available on our t.v. hi larry you know this is one of my first shows because my show premiered this week and you're one of the very for us first guests. i'm honored to be one to you first get well and so excited but it's kind of like you know god given your first communion plus there's like whole satellite thing where i can is also like god but anyway it's really great that you're with us. so this snowden story right it's all that everyone is talking about it it's sort of turned into a fiction series to leaks to chase to secrecy.