the week's top stories here on r.t. ecuador's president says the fated fugitive whistleblower edward snowden rests with russia while america's pursuit of former cia man to test its diplomatic relations with all countries involved in this global movement. loadings latest revelations point to a massive us new ping operation targeting e.u. 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 set to the streets in the first down of the three of his inauguration week of deadly writing by rival political factions. part of a much anticipated editions of russia's navy set sail for france in

a joint project expected to revitalize ties between the two nations. are you watching the weekly here on our take with me andrey pharma. now ecuador's president says that the fate of edward snowden and where he ends up next depends on moscow rafael correia stressed that snowden needs to be allowed to reach ecuadorian territory in order for the latin american country to grant his request for political asylum that statement came after ecuador's leader spoke to the u.s. vice president on the topic with joe biden urging korea to reject the whistle blows asylum request snowden is believed to have been stranded in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport for a week now with no valid passport and no confirmed offer of refuge from any country

artist abang not say more. bunnings 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 flew from hong kong to moscow say that he will be on the have on a flight. the situation descended into a fog 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 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 has turned one of america's most wanted men into heroes for something to others i think he's a traitor i think he has. committed crimes and in fact by violating agreements given the position he had several countries have been tangled up in this case so with the 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 us hong kong and us china bilateral relations you know it would be deeply troubling obviously if they have adequate notice and notwithstanding that oversights of us more than they would bitch as for the

possibility of extradition we can only handover thought. state nationals today states that we have a relevant valid 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 called 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 a son who was now running the show for the delays his asylum request meanwhile 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 they could go in 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 fairy tale ending come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow. norman solomon author of war made easy says whistle blowing is a vital tool in the fight against human rights violations. he's really a hero to so many americans but rather than the labels the key point is that he has brought truth to the necessity of the democratic process and of course people in the white house and many in congress are not happy about the illumination of they

have been engaged in survey hours which is direct violation of civil liberties of the citizens of the united states as well as a violation of the privacy of people around the we're all so naturally the obama administration and the bipartisan security state fans on capitol hill want to grab edward snowden so it is a fundamental conflict between those who are dominating the us government now who want to suppress the bill of rights and resistance not about resistance from many of us who say no way we do not accept the suppression of our rights what edward snowden's latest revelations about u.s. surveillance point to a far reaching spying operation targeting the european union institutions bugs and competing networks hacked the story broken by the needs magazine dispy goal is based on a classified n.s.a. document from twenty ten peter all of a as the details. what's the the the documents that says that they

received through edward snowden were 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 later 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're watching you indeed. the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament explains why he thinks the us chose the close ally as a target. my educated guess is that this has nothing 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 see what the brics countries there are doing there the e.u. is adding strong which i would rush with the 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 and here is a big risk for economic spying is the u.s. government maintains that its controversial prism surveillance program is essential for national security but as are things that a nigga louche to report the electronic snooping operation is not as powerful as it might say. there is suppose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prison 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 had it 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 tensional 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 site 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 there's surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's e-mails the classified documents leaked by snowden pointed to a british surveillance operation even more intrusive than the american one one of the more shocking revelations was the world leaders attending the g.

twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine. and computers monitored despite the unwelcome attention being paid to britain's spy agencies they have just been granted a funding boost. as the details. but what's been widely reported as the biggest winner in this in this review of the budget is really its resolution intelligence service that comprises this process and the m i five yes my six and we can see if you wish of course we know have been in the spotlight particularly. after edward snowden to be american who had made revelations on the extent of the year kind of spying that c.h. crews have been doing on the iraqi citizens and ya know what they're going to see is a real term increase of more of a three percent and the rationale behind it according to osborne is that there are some of continuing threat of terrorism let's get more on this from the intelligence analysts glenmore treanor harvey thank you very much for joining us now first of

all in light of edward snowden's revelations it just happened a few days ago and we see an increase in the budget of you in particular what does that mean i have to say that i don't think his revelations did have an effect it just happened at this time because pre-commit strains and especially increases take a long time to work out the thing is of course is that the spotlight is on british as a result of edward snowden so revelations the whole world is concentrating on what we are doing so it does seem a little on to the general public. it would not have been surprising if they had just kept the budget as it were that would remain constant but with a three percent increase and so first we have the rationale of security this issue is terrorism on the other hand you have the backlash from the revelations of

snowden and you have austerity cuts in other sectors which really affected the british people so how how do we view this how was this justified. i am biased in my rather having an association with the services yes i think it is i'm surprised that the extent when you're talking about the g.d.p. of britain increasing by one percent a year to have a three percent increase this is quite extraordinary but it will be seen media comments to say that in the light of snowden's revelations that this is a british government saying we're not concerned about that we are going to go ahead we're not embarrassed. we're going to take a quick break now but the still plenty more to come this hour including an unwelcome return face and to us process great barack obama on his second visit to africa as washington's policies on the continent increasingly unpopular.

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again in egypt tensions boiled over again this week in the run up to today's one year anniversary of mohamed morsi as rise to the presidency the unrest flared up after a controversial speech given by the leader. clashed with morsi. support is resulting in several deaths however the largest demonstration is yet to come to spain and i'm still later today the opposition is unwilling to make compromises and is determined to ice the president artie's bell true met the people at the grassroots of the

descent. every day local graffiti artist mom paints a new anti government hero just as cairo's tahrir square is latest to mock nationwide protests sunday is in support of tomorrow to meaning rebel a grassroots campaign collecting signatures calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi how could the model but as a citizen i just want food health services and education we don't have these instead morsi gave us just three pieces of bread a day you can see by his belly he eats ten in one meal. frustrated like many threw his support behind tomorrow which has gathered over eighteen million signatures they hope to install a transitional government and early presidential elections tomorrow a person's right to use can be found in the prospect not everyone believes that president morsi step down however the campaign has highlighted the problems in egypt's economy is in freefall and the worsening fuel and water shortages and the

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 are folks and the problem is egypt predate that president. thirty years of dictatorship of course. still we are suffering so.

that people can judge really if he could really deal with these struggles however millions agree that morsi should be blamed although 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 called the thirtieth of june front they decided that they want to go with this political map that involves an 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 view. 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 boucherie from r.t. cairo. well a group of secular leaning deputies has resigned from egypt's parliament in support of the ongoing opposition rallies sigh sunday from the american university in cairo

believes another uprising could be imminent says the islam is president hasn't delivered on his promises the president one is not all knowing the objectives of the revolution two he was to salute the thing his own good at the expense of the national interests of the country and also defend that. if if they don't if they remain silent until it is still in four years egypt could become like somalia or sudan they were looking for egypt would be there gyptian evolution is going to be hijacked like what happened in the during the revolution by those islamists who wanted the society to sleep and stay put and do not intervene and lives in what the want the who on the upswing is about pulling into account the government and now before you have to call the account the president because of the one you failed to

deliver what people expect. what happened to the arab spring dream does egypt's first freely elected president bring any change fear poverty economic failure and violence remain to egypt's attempts to escape chaos leaving wallowing even deeper. egypt year in chaos. this week saw a new milestone in relations between moscow and paris. russia's first class helicopter carrier was launched in st petersburg the first part of the long awaited addition to the country's navy will travel to france to be completed. was that the launch. was. oh it. was a go. round 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 law on the mistral course warships 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 the equivalent of a single trip around the entire globe and what's even maybe more important if 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 we would be great for each of our four fleets to have that ship

however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critics some of russia's own ship builders complain that frons got a huge order to sort of the massive shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just 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 your builders in business more important now than ever because of the ongoing euro zone debt crisis while russia gets a warship that will considerably boost its 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 paris mosco will simply have to wait to see

which way the wind blows or if not our team st petersburg. america's list of most wanted terrorists has just got a little shorter as we report on our website find out how a somali group with links to al qaeda lost its top commanders one of them with a five million dollar u.s. on his head without american forces having to lift a finger. at our web site also their. video game magic comes to be a do real life rescue as it's being used to create cyber cockroaches we explain how they could be vital help design the size all that that article. 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 the continent's people but he's been met with

protesters angry i don't fulfill pledges he made last time around washington that slashed aid to africa while stepping up unpopular military activity in the region some grenades and warning shots were fired by riot police to disperse protesters in johannesburg hundreds have also joined demonstrations and protests oriya and cape town obama's visit is being seen as an attempt to retake the initiative from africa's top trade. in a china south african politicians salim are pilot says america's pursuit of its economic interests comes at a heavy price. and we feel that the expansion of our programs on the african continent for instance this published middle of the africa command. it's an indication of where u.s. interest on that front of the continent we want him to stop that. military bases all over there where the u.s. has court in order that you can have. all its current diplomatic relations as well

as trade relations were not this sort of little pulls through a system where the government through the u.s. on trade relations where they're saying you must be cautious about this because this is this huge imbalance between which as in the u.s. just really noting that the u.s. has more than ten times the g.d.p. of the african continent. as. it relates to a democratic dispensation on the continent development that many african governments seek to choose for themselves meanwhile britain has signaled a change in its attitude to the taliban in afghanistan and is now urging the militant group to enter the political process prime minister david cameron made a surprise visit to the country on saturday afghan president hamid karzai says he still willing to talk to the taliban despite an attack on the presidential palace early this week the incident on cheese day once again put peace negotiations in

danger washington is hardly preparing for a troop withdrawal at the end of next year having failed to bring stability to the nation after almost twelve years of war jerry vandyke for my t.v. correspondent and taliban believes the militants are unlikely to seek a compromise. originally we went into afghanistan solely to distill to dismantle to destroy if you will the taliban government and to destroy the al qaeda this war has morphed into has evolved into a war against the taliban the taliban as the military will tell you are on the ascendancy they are not losing they're willing to they're willing to continue to go forward and then announced proclaiming to the world that they are a sovereign nation by calling themselves islamic emirate of afghanistan that they will not negotiate as long as any troops are left any foreign troops are left in afghanistan so how do you say you're going to win if you're going to leave and you haven't won the war so you have two governments you know the government of

afghanistan and in the eyes of the world this is a separate government of the taliban the president of afghanistan and the people do not want this all right. it's approaching hasa level here in moscow next it's technology update. 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 and 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 with 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.

hello and welcome to technology update regardless of who you are and whether you live in moscow or anywhere else in the world we are like there one holiday wish economy we're all hoping for good health to keep us in tip top shape the tech a team and i have struck out to find the latest improvements in russian medical science. showing off some of the newest gadgets and research was the russian health care week exhibition the gathering in moscow promoted everything from good health habits to advance lifesaving treatments push really the biggest medical breakthrough as of late took place away from the bright lights of the capital's expo center.