the week's top stories here on our side of the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden while america's the shoot of the cia man tests its diplomatic relations with all countries involved in his global movements. to snowden as latest revelations point to a massive u.s. snooping operation targeting even institutions in brussels and washington and the united nations in new york. egypt's president faces a tough challenge to his leadership with angry crowds said to flood the streets on the first anniversary of his inauguration after a week of deadly writing by rival political factions. and the first part of a much anticipated addition to russia's navy set sail for france in a joint project expected to revitalize ties between the two nations.

and i welcome you watching the weekly here in our take with me. now the diplomatic spat continues over america's most wanted man edward snowden he's still believed to be stranded in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport for a week now with no valid passport and no confirmed offer of asylum from any country artist abang not saying has this report. but hands and snowden i'm twenty nine years old as soon as edward snowden revealed himself as the whistle of a woman he set off a catch me if you can hunt by the u.s. government want to get him caught and away is he now guessing game for the media so

where is it after a tip off that snowden was on board a flight from hong kong to moscow the media started speculating as to his next move edward snowden slew from hong kong to moscow say that he will be on the have on a flight. the situation descended into a fall when a crowd of journalists boarded a flight from moscow to havana only to find that the whistleblower was not on board a presumed to be stuck in an airport transit say tonight it's not clear where it would snowden is there's a couple assertions the accused n.s.a. leaker was expected on a flight from moscow to cuba but he never boarded the plane but with no word from the whistleblower and no sighting it was all just a guessing game thought it was still possible snowden would board the plane somewhere on the tarmac he didn't and we took off without him so we committed to a twelve hour plus flight that was essentially a waste of time the global public city had turned one of america's most wanted men into a hero for some of the others i think is

a traitor i think he has. committed crimes in fact by violating agreements given the position he had several countries have been tangled up in this case a with a veiled threats from washington and bag and forth rhetoric we've registered our strong jepson objections to the authorities in hong kong as well as to the chinese government through diplomatic channels and we know that such behavior is depth detrimental to u.s. hong kong and us china bilateral relations you know it would be deeply troubling obviously if they have adequate notice notwithstanding that oversights of us more than they would be true as for the possibility of extradition we can only handover thought. state nationals today states that we have a relevant violates international agreement on the extradition of criminals we do not have any such treaty signed with the united states but for ecuador a potential asylum destination snowden things have moved beyond mere rhetoric that countries move to scrap

a trade agreement with the us risking economic losses for standing its ground in the face of america's pressure added his government is also said to be divided the safe passage document dated twenty second of june obtained by weeklies will snowden from the ecuadorian embassy in london was not authorized with fractions of the ecuadorian government i know is that as sandra was now running the show for the delay his asylum request meanwhile of the mystery continues as to snowden is the next move he's now waiting at present korea to make a decision on the asylum application without a pressure from the u.s. are asking him not to grant it the dorian president also said that the media attention surrounding snowden has actually diverted from the real story that of the n.s.a. surveillance documents but by snowden's own admission this was never going to be a story with a fairytale ending you can't come forward against the world's most powerful

intelligence agencies and completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow. wiki leaks attorney michael ratner point side little regard to the desires of the united states some latin american countries have. at the handicapped we're going to the small country of nine million people breaking its trade preferences saying this is not the old latin america they used to have re just beat us up with the big stick we don't care about your trade preferences so it gives me more hope that had snowden area i may be able to make it to ecuador 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 a particularly what i think germany was concerned by going after all of they had 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 or not so sensitive having the sensitivity that all countries ought to have what i did snowden's latest revelations about u.s. surveillance point to a far reaching spying operation targeting the european union with institutions bugs and competes and that works hacked peter all of that is called the details. what's the the the documents that says that they received through edward snowden we're able to see part of says is that the national security agency were well spying on the e.u. just about everywhere they could that they were tapping phones they were hacking their computer networks at the un in washington d.c. also that they were booking premises in brussels and carrying out the same type of

. phone tapping and computer hacking there as well germany came out as one of the countries that was most buy it on as part of this prism operation by the n.s.a. one interesting part of this article says that you were a target a definite target for this type of surveillance and also says that five years ago the e.u. itself had looked into phone calls that had been made to them had traced phone calls apparently back to a n.s.a. office that was based inside the nato compound in brussels so they certainly had suspected that they were under surveillance but it's a very different thing suspecting that somebody is watching you to then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they were watching you indeed. the news the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament explains why he thinks the us changed the e.u. its close ally as

a target. my educated guess is that this has or having to do with economic spying on the e.u. the e.u.'s for example is stronger than ever militarily even technologically i mean the internet is an american invention but on the economic level it is losing ground everywhere hugely see what the brics countries there are doing there the e.u. is adding strong which i would rush to africa with latin america and the u.s. doesn't seem to get its economic. priorities imposed as it used to so our days here in here is a big risk for economic spying is the u.s. government maintains that its controversial prison surveillance program is essential for national security but as our season it now reports the electronic snooping operation is not as powerful as it might same. and there is suppose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prism only gathers

data from the internet big players such as google facebook and so on but most of those who look forward to harvest or terrorist related information can find it only on the appropriate forums which are hidden deep within the so-called underwear none of these resources in that realm are actually indexed by the major search engines in fact google how that one point admitted that it indexes a tiny fraction of just one percent of all data that's available on the web if you imagine it as an iceberg that you can understand that prism only covers the very top the very tip of the iceberg the rest of the information is actually not covered by prism according to dutch intelligence service but sensual terrorists go to these core forums which are highly encrypted and hidden deep within the web so one really needs to know what they're looking for and where to find it a case in point could be the brothers they have turned to one of the war no radical sources sometimes referred to as the vanity fair of al qaida though the web sites

existence is no secret for some reason u.s. security services failed to track down the brothers activity even after a tip off from russia and thereby they failed to prevent the boston bombings so although the cia and the n.s.a. say their surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's emails. in the u.k. has its hands full with a surveillance scandal of its own as it appears that a special police unit has been spying on british citizens network pages on a daily basis. brings us that the tiles. but we know when we tweet when we post something on facebook there is it's well known now 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. commensurate social media intelligence and they've been working as a lead to the team of around seventeen officers 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 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 see the 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 those being constantly monitored

i think also they can very importantly prism of course you've got information being at the should be hidden from the worlds the 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 the shouldn't take place what we're saying is that is it necessary to use a proportionate 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 prism. minutes being described as prisons a little brother is it that back well i think for a lot of people it will be that bad i mean when you 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 so 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. place for people to go around in and complete freedom unless we do something wrong and the same should be put forward in terms of social media the met police haven't got to go back to a stat about the information about pat's we said it's certainly going to be a cause the further discussion still rages of course on the back of those revelations the prison we're going to take a quick break now but the still plenty more to come this hour including an unwelcome return face and u.s. protest great america bomb on his second visit to africa as washington's policies on the continent grow increasingly unpopular.

they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more than yourself if you join the military for any other reason that you're probably not going to have a good day they were in the state now they live remembering that which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but however good people didn't get hurt. but i've heard good people. silent. a lot. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because. i saw some people who. is cheaper than paying.

anarky. it has been exactly one year since egypt's president mohamed morsi took office and the country is now bracing for its biggest antigovernment protests in months the unrest has been building up over the past week and has brought deadly chaos to egypt's biggest cities artie's bell true that the people at the grassroots of the dissent. every day. this mom paints a new government nero just cairo's tahrir square his latest to mock nationwide protest sunday is in support of tomorrow to meaning rebel a grassroots campaign collecting signatures calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi. as a citizen i just want food health services and education we don't have these

instead morsi gave is just three pieces of bread a day you can see by his belly he eats ten in one meal. for. like many threw his support behind tamara to which is gathered over eighteen million signatures they hope to install a transitional government and the presidential elections tomorrow a person's ideas can be found in across the capital not everyone believes that president morsi step down however the campaign has highlighted the problems in egypt's economy is in freefall as a questioning fuel and water shortages and a bread crisis on the horizon rights groups say that abuses and torture are rampant meanwhile the government continues to restrict basic freedoms. sentenced to prison for working for pro-democracy and egypt says the explosion of post revolution groups involved in civic engagement like tomorrow has been matched by government crackdowns you have activists being arrested campaign and and other areas you've

had bad buildings they ransacked all and it's sort of continuing on with this conspiracy that's pushed by the by the government and by state activists against the people to imply that the civil side to threaten our national security muslim brotherhood officials for their part have said that many of those coming out on june thirtieth of talks and the problem is egypt predate that president it's accumulation of thirty years of dictatorship of course. still we are suffering so we need to go to. these four years. the people can judge really if he can really deal with these struggles alone however millions agree that morsi should be blamed over they still have to strike in the cold as to what exactly they want to replace him with tomorrow maybe people or idea around that today as those are called the thirtieth of june front they decided that they want to go with this that political map that involves and includes the military for instance for internal

security and this is something that others like me and other movements as well totally disagree with so you will have these two different views coming up and in the future what ever the president's reaction to the mass protest movement it's clear that it's not going to date with june thirtieth set to become one of the biggest challenges yet to egypt's beleaguered leader true for our team kyra. meanwhile a group of secular leaning deputies have resigned from egypt's parliament in support of the ongoing opposition rallies sites today from the american university in cairo believes another uprising could be imminent as these lomis president hasn't delivered on his promises the president won this is not the only thing the objectives of the evolution who he was to salute they think is only good at the expense of the national interests of the country and they think that. if it's the book if he remained silent on them it is still in school years egypt would

become like somalia in sudan they were looking at egypt would be there's absolutely sure that is going to be very shocked like what happened to the during the. islamists who wanted the society to sleep and stay put and do not intervene and lives in what they want to hang on the string is about pulling into account the government now before you have to account the president because of the one you he failed to deliver. what people expect. this week saw a new milestone in relations between moscow and paris is the stern of russia's first class helicopter carrier was launched in sim pages the first part of the long awaited editions of the country's navy will now travel to france to be completed artie's marie fanaa was at the launch. because you think.

this is. a very fine run according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st petersburg will play a vital role in the fabrication of vessels the section built here will soon had to france for completion before making the return journey to enter the service in russia's navy although there's no champagne available to celebrate here today because a bottle of it was just smashed on the new ship or rather on this section of a new ship it's still a big day for a big ship meters long with a mistrial class war ships have enough capacity to carry sixteen helicopters up to forty tanks or armored vehicles and around six hundred troops and a range of around forty thousand kilometers they will end over a single trip around the entire globe and what's even maybe more important it is a multipurpose vessel if. this ship is like a swiss knife it can be used both for military and civilian purposes it's

a hospital it's a command point it's an assault ship and it's a headquarters it would be great for each of our four fleets to have the ship however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critics some of russia's own ship builders complain that frons put a huge order to sort of the mastic shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just a recently emerged that the two mistrial quasi warships will not be able to operate in russia's bison winters without special lubricants that means more expense for the navy and dependence on a foreign supply chain others argue it's a win win situation for both countries france gets an order worth over a billion euro which will keep many of its shipbuilders in business more important now than ever because of the ongoing eurozone debt crisis while russia gets a warship that will consider. it's military capacity and also gains access to the very latest naval technology the first ship is expected to join russia's navy by

the end of next year with another want to follow and as to whether this one deal will lead to closer ties with perry's mosco will simply have to wait to see which way the wind blows or if our team st petersburg. barack obama's ongoing visit to africa his first since two thousand and nine has seen the u.s. president renew his promises to help because. it's been met with protesters angry at unfulfilled pledges he made last time around washington the slashed aid to africa while stepping up popular military activity in the region obama's visit is also being seen as an attempt to retake the initiative from africa's top trading partner china. reports right now africa is in the center of america's so-called war on terror we hear about new drone bases popping up on the african

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

nigerian security forces only escalate the violence and fuel extremism in washington sees what's going on but does it really change their calculations i spoke with the editor of pan african newswire by you know me as he bade me say that they are there to advance the african states national security capacity. the mystery of the united states that they do not. regard. there's no real strategic interest. for the united states. or maintaining a relationship with all these different african states at the same time to edge out the people's republic of china which is pretty considerable amount of influence in africa just over the last few years that china has become the number one trading partner of the african union africa is an extremely rich continent the case for terrorists may not be the only reason the u.s.

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

governments in washington i'm going to check out. well south african politicians only my pilot says america's pursuit of its economic interests comes at a heavy price for the people of africa. but we fear that they express that in our programs on the african continent for these things they stumbled up a couple of months into poti and it's an indication of for us their image an interest on the front of good clinton and we want him to stop that and also. to minutes out of bases all over the way that the u.s. has court in order as i do you can have it. well it's kind of degree much of the masons as well as courageous nations were not this sort of this cult holes through a system where the government getting a gauge through the usa on trade relations but as i say they must be cautious about this because this shared this huge imbalance between which has in the u.s. a penpal just money and noting that springs as more than ten times the g.d.p.

or they traffic and contents so there's no interest or. rights to a democratic dispensation on the continent and development that many africans are made me sick to choose for themselves. coming up next we take a look at the challenges faced by u.s. war veterans own to buy life on the frontlines. i love life but there is a lot of sick stuff going on on this planet for example according to bloomberg a hospital in chicago has been accused by the f.b.i. of cutting the throats of patients for big bags of cash a tracheotomy is a procedure to get air directly into the windpipe of someone who can't breathe by

cutting a hole into it an f.b.i. affidavit based on tape recording says that the hospital knowingly and purposely sedated patients to the point that they couldn't breathe properly and would need tracheotomy and as you know in the u.s. health care system nothing comes cheap trick out of his own days cost about one hundred sixty thousand dollars a pop this alleged conspiracy between doctors and management is not the first of its kind at this hospital an administrator and five doctors have already been charged for medicare fraud for giving and receiving kickbacks not only is having a hole punched in your neck for money discussed thing but it may also be lethal because patients at that hospital in chicago are three times more likely to die than patients 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. this is for headaches this is for sleep this is a tranquilizer too if i have any episodes xanax would cause blackouts and it's not just. because of him which has been nightmare because. i can't get off of it. and vilified it is kind of. tranquilizers for me because sometimes i have episodes where i won't be able to own. i think something will trigger me and which i'll just keep on working and working and working. like seventy two hours just so exhausted. and i can take and build. a show out or.