the week's top stories here on r.t. ecuador's president says the fate of fugitive whistleblower edward snowden rests with russia while america's first suit of the former cia man to test its diplomatic relations with all countries involved in his global movements. that a snowden's latest revelations point to a massive u.s. snooping operation targeting european officials and brussels and washington at the united nations in new york. it's president faces a tough challenge to his leadership with crowds determined to oust him flooding the streets of cairo on the first anniversary of his inauguration capping a week of deadly political riots. the first part of a much anticipated addition to russia's navy set sail for france and

a joint project expected to revitalize ties between the two nations. this is our day coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshing welcome to the program. now ecuador's president says that the fate of add a word snowden and the word he ends up next the perils of moscow are just medina caution of a has the details aqua door and president that are fired carry out in an interview to the media said that the final destination off mr snowden now lowest in the hands of russia as few is still in the transit zone at the sherry mansour international airport based here in moscow now this announcement comes in the wake of for recent telephone conversation between the aqua door and president but if

a got out and u.s. weiss president joe biden where appledore was asked to reject snowden's asylum application now ecuadorian president said that they would listen to the u.s. authorities but still the final decision rests with the app with the travel document issued for him mr snowden is now invalid and moreover the diplomat that issued the travel document adds the ecuadorian embassy in london worked closely with that we keep leaks julian assange now ecuador and president of upright battery acid that it was julian asuncion forced recommended mr snowden to seek the asylum in appledore so it really seems like aqua door is now trying to distance itself away from the situation and certainly makes things look quite controversial now when it comes to russia russian president vladimir putin south that mr snowden is a free man and that he hasn't crossed the russian border and that he is still in

a transit zone at the airport and that the u.s. government has revoked his passport and that's why he is now on a bull to get a russian visa and leave the airport but still the u.s. the story has to have cost russia two x. two dice mr snowden but there is no abstract dition treaty between the two countries now many russian human rights activist and now stepping up in support of adverse no we don't. and urging you not to actually dice of the four more on this a contract or meanwhile the hide of state duma foreign affairs committee pushed both wrote in his twitter back to the x. tradition of political refugee is morally unacceptable now as the story develops of the even as well in president nicolas maduro will arrive in moscow on monday and venezuela is considered as a nother possible asylum just a nation for mr snowden so you really sense that there might be

a new twist in the story. are disavowing would say reports on the whistleblowers complicated movements and the diplomatic route that has triggered. winning's 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 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 able to 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 so we took off without it 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 a hero for some of the 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 struggle objections to the authorities in hong kong as well as to the chinese government through diplomatic channels and we know that such behavior is the detrimental to us hong kong and us china bilateral relations more than it would be true as for the possibility of extradition we do not have any such treaty signed with the united states but for ecuador a potential asylum destination because snowden things have moved beyond mere rhetoric that countries move to scrap a trade agreement with the us risking economic losses 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 week snowden from the ecuadorian embassy in london was not authorized 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 the dorrian 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 be completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow our human rights activist peter tatchell says america is showing deep hypocrisy in its hounding of snowden this is spying by

a rogue state i mean if it was edward snowden i'd be in a rainy and whistle blower who exposed global snooping by the terror on regime i think he would have been hailed by the united states as a horowitz whistle blower he would have been lauded and pray i think the united states has incredible double standards it is pursuing a man who is motivated not by hatred of his country not by any financial gain he's not out to aid any enemy country he is motivated by idealism util and a belief in the human rights that we all have a right to privacy. our snowden's latest revelations about u.s. surveillance point to a far reaching spying operation targeting the european union with institutions bogged down computer networks have the story broken by the news magazine der spiegel is based on a classified annecy document from twenty tam are just pure all over has 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 targeting phones they were hacking 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're watching you indeed now a lot of i know this former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament explains why he thinks the united states chose the e.u. its 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 the e.u. is adding strong which i would rush with the africa with that in america and the

u.s. doesn't seem to get its economic. priorities imposed as it used to so i would a syrian 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 our teaser in english to reports the electronic snooping operation is not as powerful as a might seem. 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 hottest or terrorist related information can find it only on the appropriate forums which are hidden deep within the so-called under web 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 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 their surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's e-mails. now there are still plenty more to come this hour here in our tinkling and unwelcome return. fierce anti-u.s. protests gree barack obama on his second visit to africa as washington's policies

on the continent grow increasingly unpopular. you have these use of all stories to share prime i would even say authoritarian methods like spying and persecution and restrictions indefinite detention for being on the rise how do you explain these paradox one thing we do know about them pios. they will collapse with the exception this street is brutally. mission. critique a should treat. for charges free. range month three. three

stooges free. mode free broadcast live video for your media project a free media r t v dot com. welcome back here with r.t. now 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 islamist leader anti-government protesters clashed with morsy supporters resulting in several deaths however the largest demonstration

is yet to calm it's been announced for today and people are already flocking to the streets of cairo the opposition is so far on unwilling to make any compromises and says it's determined to oust the president r.t.l. troops that the people at the grassroots of dissent. every day local graffiti artists mahmoudiya coote paints a new anti-government nero just as cairo's tahrir square his latest to mock nationwide protest sunday is in support of tomorrow it's meaning rebel a grassroots campaign collecting signatures calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi how to get the model 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. for. like many threw his support behind tamara to which is gathered over eighteen million signatures they hope to install

a transitional government and cool early presidential elections tomorrow purses like these can be found in the prospect capital not everyone believes the 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 have sentenced to prison for working for pro-democracy n.g.o.s 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 tomorrow campaign and and other areas we've had bad buildings here they ransacked or 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 where they should 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 a commission of thirty years of dictatorship of course corrupt to steal we are suffering so we need to go to most of the special needs time of these four years that people can judge really if he could really deal with these struggles along however millions agree that most he 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 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 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 update with june thirtieth set to become one of the biggest challenges yet to egypt's beleaguered

leader tree for our team kyra. and a group of secular leaning deputies have resigned from edge of parliament in support of the ongoing opposition rallies sites of data from the american university in cairo believes and the other uprising could be imminent as the islamist president hasn't delivered on his promises the first one is not the only thing the objectives of the evolution theory was to salute the thing use him good at the expense of the nation into his old their country and to ensure they think that. if the book if he remained silent on them is still in school years egypt would become like somalia in sudan they were looking for that easy. there's absolutely sure that there's going to be a higher sect like what happened in the reagan revolution by groups islamists who wanted the society to sleep and stay put and to look into real lives and what do

you want the who an upswing is about. wouldn't account. enough before you have to hold account the president because of the one you he 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 filings remain to egypt's attempts to escape chaos leave us wallowing even deeper. egypt a year in chaos. well this week saw a new milestone in relations between moscow and paris as a stern of russia's first class helicopter carrier was launched in st petersburg the first part of a long awaited addition to the country's navy will now travel to france to be completed artist was at the launch. because you.

made it her. love to go find the ground according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st petersburg will play a vital role in the fabrication of vessels this section built here will soon had two fronts 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 a new shape or other on base section of a new shape it's still a big day for a big ship as long as the mistral class 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 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 we would be great for each of our full 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 mastic shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just a recently emerged that the two miss truck lost warships will not be able to operate in russia's bison winters without special lubricants that means more expense for. 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 business and business more important now than ever because of the ongoing euro zone crisis while russia gets a warship that'll considerably boost its military capacity and also gains access to

a 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. st petersburg. america's list of most wanted terrorist just got a little shorter as we report on our website to find out how a somali group with links still caught a last of stop commanders one of them with a five million dollar u.s. bounty on his head without american forces having to lift a finger. videogame magic comes to the aid of real life rescuers that's been used to create signboard cockroaches explain how they could be vital help first disaster site on r t dot com. the u.s.

president who's on his first visit to africa since two thousand and nine has pledged seven billion dollars to help strengthen the shaky electric power grids of subsaharan countries the move has been seen as an effort by washington to step in and rival china as a key investor on the continent but barack obama's been met by protesters angry at unfulfilled pledges he made last time around washington has slashed aid to africa in recent years while stepping up military activity in the region as anti-american protests spiraled out of control in. stun grenades and were. shots were fired by a riot police hundreds also been demonstrating in pretoria and cape town over on what they call oppressive u.s. foreign policy i just got it as more. right now africa is in the center of america's so-called war on terror we hear about new drone basis popping up on the african continent in countries whose governments receive aid from the u.s.

in one form or another we hear about the u.s. army in 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 a you when report 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 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. they may say that they are there to advance the african states national security capacity but we know history of the united states that they do nothing i regard their foreign policy there's no real strategic interest for the united states. or maintaining a relationship. at the same time to edge out. the people's republic of china which is. sort of them out. in africa just over the last. two years that china has become the number one trading partner of the african union and africa is an extremely rich continent the chase 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 it was said about that many of the countries in west africa a large all produces 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 signing. 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 african continent so backlash in the form of extremism on the one end of the scale and can dribble 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 leave you said

governments in washington i'm going to check up. and coming right up our new show world of hard looks at internet privacy you know wake the n.s.a. scandal. and you lose the u.s. knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire. lifesavings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial failings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand iris employees have abused the charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these

people are very high on the letter including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple blois with security clearances much of the abuses related to employees writing checks for big purchases which later bounced due to accounts being empty yeah the people who could ruin your life for what little financial folly seem to have no problem over drawing while they are living it up on taxpayer funded travel to keep things in perspective the i.r.s. is a huge organization so one thousand abusers is a minority but in the spirit of fairness i think these card abusers should be punished just as harshly as normal people who run afoul of the i.r.s. but that's just my opinion.

hello welcome to the party you know that continuously islamic law like the land of the free because what we should be. so we made an answer to this epidemic story by week we can be found here on the swedish party take it lightly i'm sorry now first of all i would like to ask a question about shame i know that one of the reasons you a named your party the pirate party was because some of your critics really tried to put you to shame and i guess to undermine what you were doing at the time and i think in the coverage of the snow the net. fair shaming and ad hominem attacks are very very prominent we've already heard all sorts of supposedly compromising details about his personal lives that he hasn't finished high school that his former girlfriend was a stripper and so on rather than focusing on this substance of his revelations why is that anything. that is very typical when

a scandal like this surfaces rather than trying to answer the questions that are very much raised by snowden's revelations about what the united states is actually up to the surveillance hawks in the united states and the security apparatus is doing everything it can to divert the attention from what's really important here and instead talk about the persian details of edward snowden what is it issue is that the united states has been betraying the trust of pretty much the entire world now what do you think what do you think he saw significant about his revelations because in the words of one commentator we haven't really learned anything that we didn't suspect before right with your son no you could assume that the united states was eavesdropping at some level.