they could all ditches a key trade agreement with the united states in 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 are secretly monitoring social networks on a daily basis. more violence and destruction is. just the country braces itself for mass rallies by both pro and anti-government protesters amid deepening divisions between the opposition and the ruling elite.

there it's good to have you company you're watching our team coming to you live from moscow. now ecuador has abandoned a key u.s. trade agreement what it calls blackmail by washington over america's most wanted man edward snowden that is the whistleblower remain stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport paul scott has the latest. all masons involved in the continuing snowden saugor are walking a political and diplomatic tightrope at the moment particularly as you mention that could go on the united states relations between those two countries and particularly strained at the moment now earlier this week one u.s. official claimed that a preferential trade agreement between the two countries could be in jeopardy if ecuador to grant political asylum to edward snowden or again they want 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bad behavior however ecuador's response to this has been quite defiant preempted any move by the united states and have withdrawn themselves from the trade agreement saying that ecuador does not accept any pressure or threats from anyone nor does it trade with principles also admit them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 interesting 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 and 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 saying that 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 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. it could have been in a hurry did he leave in a panic without much of a plot or did he have a plan and it simply gone wrong along the way now we are led to believe of course that this is still in transit here that shot a matter of thought he doesn't have a valid visa to enter russia and his passport has been invalidated and revoked 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 if he stuck in limbo at the moment

which surely cannot have been part of his master plan while the thirty year old former cia employee has a handful of options when it comes to seeking refuge he left hong kong remember from moscow on sunday sparking a wave of media speculation over his next movements without valid documents it's believed snowden was planning to pass through moscow on his way to heaven or in cuba the last stop ahead of his final destination ecuador however the lack of necessary paperwork has grounded him in sheremetyevo and in the meantime venezuela has said it would be 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 well for more on this on edward snowden's revelations we're joined live by peter chan a teaching fellow at the city university of hong kong mr chairman thank you very

much for coming on to r.t. this afternoon. we've lost the misses live t.v. we will try and get him back but another person we've been speaking to is michael ratner an attorney for doing a sanjaya and wiki leaks he says that washington shouldn't expect other countries to have beaten the comply with its demands when it comes to the whistleblower. to hand it to ecuador the small country of nine million people breaking its trade preferences saying this is not the old latin america they used to have we just beat us up with the big stick we don't care about your trade preferences so it gives me more hope that it's no and i 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 e-mail 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 it particularly what i think germany was concerned by going after all of their 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 now it's one hundred percent on perhaps that is one of the reasons that has made germany so sensitive on this issue are not so sensitive having the sensitivity that all countries ought to have but i'm pleased to say we are now i joined live by peta chan i teach in fellow the city university of hong kong to talk more about the snowden case mr chen firstly thanks very much for coming on to say what can mr snowden do he's with out of a possible that he was that he's been that valley documents that i mean to russia also he doesn't have refugee papers to allow him to go elsewhere what can he do what needs to happen to allow him to leave moscow. obviously i'm not in a position to comment on mr stoller. position or his choices but what i can i

do want to say is you know he left hong kong on his own accord and common from washington you know hong kong was. deliberately dragging its feet. unjustified you know based on the laws and procedures of hong kong i think the hong kong government has followed perfectly the law and procedures in store for these kind of matters so in summary what is hong kong's position on this what are they saying in their defense when you talking about the laws which laws of the keys they're breaking and what is the defense to that. well essentially i think the comment from washington is that hong kong was delaying the whole procedure but they did not provide any sort legal basis on you know how they base that comment essentially what hong kong did was we received the department of justice received a provisional warrant for qwest to restless road in on the fifteenth of june but

the request unfortunately did not include vital documents important documents that would assist the department of justice to actually go to court and get a warrant and therefore what the department of justice did was to go back and to seek clarification within six days. and when mr stolen left on the twenty third we the part of the part of justice had not heard back from. the. american authorities in relation to. you know this request for clarification so essentially you know i'm kind of baffled by the whole thing because hong kong has followed it procedures and has acted in good spirit of the rule of law. i know really you said you couldn't talk specifically about the snowden case just in general terms when somebody is in a transit area of an airport how difficult is it then to get new documents.

i would sue me it's very difficult especially in these circumstances when his own country is actually. going after him obviously he would need to speak to his lawyer i don't know what the specific laws are pertaining to these issues but. you know stuck in a terminal which you get legal advice again it's a difficult question and mr obama president obama said the rule there will be no wheeling and dealing in relation to this case after what you've just said there do you think mr snowden is in for an indefinite stay moscow airport. i think something would be worked out somehow i don't know you know obviously. i don't know what this kind of dynamics is going to you know international dynamics

who will play out as it goes along but i don't think it's a desirable state obviously you know stuck in a terminal. one way or the other you know he will proceed to somewhere else and i have no idea where that will be ok all right well thank you very much mr chan chan a teaching fellow at the city university thank you hong kong thank you. remember you can always find all the latest update some videos and expert analysis on this story all you have to do is go to our website at r.t. dot com and here are some other stories with your click on line the pentagon has blocked its personnel from logging on to the guardian's web site describing the measure as network. and leaks from the top ranks we've got a report online saying a u.s. four star general who was in charge of an alleged american cyber strike on

a rainy nuclear site is now in trouble he's being probed the spilling the beans on the operation. of the u.k. is dealing with a surveillance scandal of its own as its emerged that a special police unit has been spying on british citizens network pages on a daily basis r.t. sarah firth reports on high rights groups are reacting to the latest invasion of online privacy. 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 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 soccer meant its 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 that 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 prison and that's really blowing the debate wide open about intelligence gathering in the u.k. and the u.s. and 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 he director and the. other thank you very much for joining us i thought every time that we speak of 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 can very importantly prison of course you've got information being gathered the should be hidden from the world the scene is private but of course the 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 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 you know the 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 day to day 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 haven't actually got back to us yet about the information about. the certainly going to be a cause the further discussion as there's still rage is of course on the back of the revelations over prison and. we're going to take a quick break now i'll be back in a couple minutes. you know how 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.

whistleblowers in principle we are told every society needs them to expose the 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 the fear poverty economic failure and violence remain to egypt's attempts to escape chaos leaving wallowing even deeper. egypt year in chaos.

watching r.t. welcome back lash treat unrest has returned egypt city south to several deaths in clashes between private government protesters and the presence opponents this week but sides have to bring out here in the coming days and gyptian politics is in deadlock with the opposition brushing aside leader mohamed morsi slightest proposals for a compromise. 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 after several days of clashes in the governorates between rival groups demonstrating either in support of the president or against him friday's protest is called for by the islamic alliance which is a kurdish an all of islam is 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 needs a growing 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 we're seeing an increase of civilians armed and bring 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 in front of me is in freefall there are it was tinged 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 in 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. 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 debate has been reignited 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 and told agree not to run so we don't even see the problems that you describe this is the chilling message an indication of what drives the attack but the politicians

say it's nonsense it's people we speak to each of these police say he would. tell you to eat meat between these moves that you. would use for you to see all the actions he would be sure he sees who are risking their lives in a good for the sake of freedom but there are those who took part in these 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 quote of charge the lie but it's absolutely true and we're very lucky that they've already been so few attacks why they said one of the banners we went to afghanistan under was face 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's

fast muslim community we are in contact with our friends friends and family oh back home in reno what exactly is going on over there while we see. some of the media reports from the u.k. or do you keep on additions there are speeches in parliament is not reflecting the realities for afghanistan the 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 war the wars in afghanistan iraq and the project and have a look at the projects in the middle east is very longstanding it predicts not elaborate in the their public policy documents which side that. 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 from 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 qaida from where they might plan attacks on the u.k. so i think you have to be particularly stupid as a prime minister i'm not if you invade other people's countries and you're like do you care about but the list of terror plots for oiled by m i five on you case soil makes for frightening reading since 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 for on the. floor calling them to extremists or terrorists but to what 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. here 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 savage attack in which merely serves as an example but it may be doing the exact opposite. london. the us president is on his first trip to africa since two thousand and nine in a drive to revitalize relations and trade with the continent visit comes amid booming chinese. investment in the resource rich region obama has received a warm welcome from officials but millions of africans feel let down by washington's policies u.s. aid to the continent has been slashed since obama took office while america's military activities and support for some controversial african governments has also

stoked discontent and while a bomb 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 growth and they need cash to believe that it's real materials in africa how's an important supplier of that but they're also concerned about the influence the long term influence 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 the chinese and russians are like how we make life easy for me the americans are the americans are also feeling the strain strain because africa has been able to choose series of investors are big change suppliers and investors all at the same time the express. i'm afraid obama's trip is very much a signal of concern by the americans that they're losing the losing influence on

the argument that it's supposed to mean that implicitly or you know. germany's plans to pioneer green energy seem to be suffering a setback the government's push to expand renewable power sources is being bankrolled by the taxpayer and as artie's peta all of the now reports many are questioning whether that money is being wisely spent. a wind of change is sweeping through german energy production the cost of change is ruffling more than a few feathers. it's an acceptable to give energy producers don't expect 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 had not my. pay 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 as well into my fear of heights 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. 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 rarely are really if you will just cannot support the majority. need for reliable energy in the world it's true expensive and most of it is intermittent that is we don't know what to do with the sun it's the chinese wind is blowing there's also a case that economic interests outweigh the environmental right now jim he saw slow growth in the quarter of twenty thirty according to the cologne institute for economic research its energy costs for industry forty percent higher than those in neighbors friends the netherlands is from the at the visa nation our industry is

suffering a minimum production the car industry are losing competitiveness the big companies may decide that it's 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 peter all of a jeremy. shortly will be entering the world of gadgets and gizmos in technology up that often bring. you news secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about any thing tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about

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