to. ecuador 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. plus more violence and destruction is faded in egypt is the country braces itself for mass rallies by both pro and anti-government protesters and the deepening divisions between the opposition and the ruling elite.

are you watching r.t. with me. has abandoned a key u.s. trade agreement to forge what it calls blackmail by washington over america's most wanted man edward snowden as the whistleblower remain stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport. as 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 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this has been quite defiant preempted any move by the united states and have withdrawn themselves from the trade agreement saying that ecuador does not accept any pressure or threat. 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 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 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 shot a matter 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 isn't valid so it does seem as if he's stuck in limbo at the moment which surely cannot have been part of his master plan. well

a thirty year old former cia employee has a handful of options when it comes to seeking refuge he left hong kong if you remember from moscow on sunday sparking a wave of media speculation over his next movements with and by the documents and it is believed that snowden was planning to pass through moscow on his way to havana in cuba the last stop before his final destination of ecuador however the lack of necessary paperwork has seen him granted in shadow met of a sense 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 an official told on sheltering snowden so we could conceivably see him ending up in any one of those countries michael ratner an attorney for doing this on john wiki leaks says washington shouldn't expect other countries to a but even the comply with its demands when it comes to the whistleblower after a hand recount would really small country of nine million people breaking its trade

preferences saying this is not the old latin america they used to have where you just beat us up with the big stick we don't care about your trade purposes so it gives me more hope that it's you know i may be able to make a good one 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 particularly want in germany was concerned by going after all of this 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 under is one of the reasons that it's made germany so sensitive on this issue or not so sensitive having the sensitivity where all countries ought to have no. and while snowden remains in transit limbo russia

insists it is playing by the rules and that there are no grounds for forcing him to return to his home country hong kong's also defending its corner in the face of criticism from washington for letting the whistleblower leave peta chan a teaching fellow at the city university of hong kong says the chinese territory had to act in accordance with local law. but he left hong kong on its own accord and comments from washington you know hong kong was. deliberately dragging its feet. unjustified you know based on the laws and procedures of haha making the hong kong government has followed perfectly the law and procedures in store for these kind of matters essentially i think the comment from washington is that hong kong was delaying the whole procedure but they did not provide a means of legal basis on you know how they base that that comment essentially what

hong kong did was we received the department of justice received a provisional warrant request to arrest mr snowden on the fifteenth of june but the request unfortunately did not include vital documents important documents that could assist the department of justice to actually go to the court and get a warrant. and you can find all the latest updates and videos and expert analysis on this story at our website at r.t. dot com and also there we've got news of another stir being caused by the n.s.a. leaks which have prompted the pentagon to turn to what it describes as network hygiene measures the army has blocked personnel from logging on to the guardian's website prevent access to press coverage of the scandal. also more intelligence leaks this time from the top ranks we've got a report online saying a us poor star general who was in charge of an alleged american cyber strike on an iranian nuclear site is in trouble he's being probed the submitting the beams on

the operation. the u.k. is dealing with a surveillance scandal of its own as it's emerged that a special police unit has been spying on british citizens social network pages on a daily basis r.t. sarah furthur ports on her right streets 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 it 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 of 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 because 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 it that bad 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 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 it 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. 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. of r.t. the 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 of all 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 loss or theft of data and we've seen a fair few examples of this over the last few weeks or years to make it a very serious concern indeed who's protecting us from very. plenty more to come including germany's renewable troubles the country's green revolution is taking a heavy toll on taxes it's who you are stuck with an escalating bill to subsidize an electricity source that may never generate enough power. or so coming up how has britain's involvement in military campaigns abroad affected the safety of citizens at home we'll be exploring that issue in a couple of minutes. download

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favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. street unrest has returned to egypt cities after several deaths in clashes between pro-government protesters and the presence of opponents this week both sides have to bring out huge crowds in the coming days from politics is in deadlock with the opposition brushing aside leader mohamed morsi as 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 that 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 coalition of islamist parties in support of the president including the misson 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 meets 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 arms and bring those weapons to protests which is led many to call for the army to step in and secure the nation

the military for their part to say 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 the speech on wednesday part 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 and i mean creasing abuses in addition to and 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 and author and journalist have alie believes egypt is divided between those who seek an evolution towards democracy and those who are still in the mindset of the old regime. i see it goes without saying and morsi himself is partially admitted it that he's disappointed people as far as those people who helped to bring mubarak don't know him son or

a sizable section of them he's changed absolutely nothing since he's come to bar and these protests are to show that the democratic fig leaf is not enough so what will happen on sunday i think will be quite decisive it's not the case that he is bereft of support it's just that the concrete is very very sharply divided between those who want some meaningful change and the government which is maintaining continue to be with the previous regime and in some instances getting worse 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 doing make the country a safer place that debate is being reaganites 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 so we can see the problems and he describes the chilling message an indication of what drove the attack but the politicians say it's nonsense it's because you told me to read the speech to be generated so i could easily say equally. twenty to eighty leaks between this media and the british for you to see all the actions you would be sure for the cities 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 that they've already been so few attacks why 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 where 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 it's not reflecting the. flow of going to start 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 or iraq in the project to be able to there's a project in the middle east is very longstanding a production it's not eleven in the there are public policy documents which side

that plea because they want to keep. doing these things there are plans for syria iran is on the horizon as well they need to keep throwing up this kind of audiological barrier and continue to attempt dealing with the killing killings like this 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 qaeda from where they might plan attacks only u.k. so i think you have to be particularly stupid as a prime minister. if you invade other people's countries and you're like do you care about 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. extremist terrorist. if you speak to most of them they're sympathetic to the message of the attacker but not. to 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 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 in a drive to revitalize relations and trade with the continent his 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 been so slow this content. has promised to do more to help the african people some observers say washington is driven only by geopolitical self interests. the american economy is not working for growth and they need cash to believe that it's real materials to get housing wanted suppliers that but they're also concerned about the influence the long term influence the last few years be having through in the last ten years it's been very much a part of chinese who have taken. to control of the are very good in the nation. 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 very changeable liars and investors all at the same time the expression. i'm afraid of 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 it was that important 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 is artie's peter oliver now reports many are questioning whether that money is being swajeski 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 taxpayer handouts the government has decided that renewables will get this money all driven by climate

change hysteria. the german government has set the and bases 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 aren't big passed on to them i mean to a single mother living in lynn 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 see we don't forge more stevia and use washing machine once in a while so i can understand why this deal 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 into my fifty five side active interest possibility 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 a mercury 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 rarely are really if you will just cannot support the majority. me her really live in a g. in the world it's through experience most of it is intermittent that is we don't know what to do with listeners in china wind is blowing there's also a case that economic interests outweigh the environmental right now jim he sold

slow growth in the schoolteacher of twenty thirteen according to the cologne institute for economic research its energy costs for industry are 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. going to take a little break now but when we come back said she had not the talks to larry king he gives his take on the snowden saga.

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 disgusting but it may also be lethal because patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients at 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.