now rage in the e.u. as the latest revelations by adding snowden points to rampant u.s. spying on european his attentions were berlin is someone in the us ambassador for explanations. protesters an agent ransack to happy waters of the ruling muslim brotherhood in cairo after millions turned out to demand for resident more syrian ounce of power by tuesday. it's time for him to go if he doesn't go out because he will walk without. fear of seven allowed bloody conflict are bad by the muslim brotherhood vows to react after they say the opposition crossed a red line of violence. and genetically modified diet for you or a britain urges the e.u. to ease restrictions on g.m. products to swipe concerns that the government is treating people as guinea pigs.

it is five pm in moscow you're watching our. welcome to the program now in the fallout from the latest leaks by outward snowden germany has summoned the u.s. ambassador for explanations on the leaks published and the german media the revelations suggesting the n.s.a. spied on that use internal computer networks has sparked a wave of outrage in berlin newsroom chiva video agency ruptly liz a felon reports from the german capital. there has so far been no comment from the us in response to this latest round of revelations that have been published over the weekend by the spiegel which revealed that. half a billion communications including phone calls text messages and e-mails monitored

under the n.s.a. program each month and that's in germany alone now the german justice minister has been absolutely livid she has described the tactics of the n.s.a. is similar to the tactics used in the cold war the german chancellor angela merkel has said that she feels alienated which you know is obviously very curious as to why germany has been targeted by the n.s.a. program the n.s.a. have stated that there's very few countries which have been excluded from their program including the united kingdom new zealand australia and canada so questions are being asked the why germany has been specified as a target and some official in germany commented that of course the us is known for costing a wide net you know target whoever they want under the war on terror so our german citizens now also being treated as terrorists under this and i say programs of

course it's not just germany that is reeling from these latest revelations there's been an outrage across europe including from the belgian pm who described this as these latest revelations is absolutely unacceptable there's been outrage from france who has demanded answers immediately so it's not just the u.s. and german relations but indeed the entire trends that relationship between europe and the united states that is under threat all the sheer scope of america's surveillance against europe has prompted animals to look for motives with one intelligence expert saying it's all down to industrial espionage. this is. for economical reasons mainly it is because the legal espionage is the money to steal national secrets from companies to destroy jobs and to import jobs to their own countries so what the americans would like to do is to destroy jobs

interprets like job of you concrete slug from there to the reality of what we do with the public is just to say well it is the chinese to spy for economical reasons it's a russian. radio or whatever it realty. is that use the united states is the united kingdom so its allies spying. meanwhile france has joined the condemnation of washington demanding an immediate stop to spying and threatening to block trade negotiations with the us where the future of america your relations now in jeopardy you were asking what you think about the fallout from washington's alleged spying on its european allies online r t v dot com and let's now take a look at the latest numbers so far well as you can see almost half of you believe brussels will never stand up to washington just under a third are saying the situation's unlikely to change since n.s.a.'s got some juicy

blackmail material well thirteen percent at this point believe this will be the beginning of a cold war between america and the e.u. and just about the same believe that this scandal will ruin us trade relations well r.t. dot com is where you can cast your vote and let us know what you think on this issue meanwhile edward snowden could finally get out of his asylum limbo with men as well as new president nicolas maduro a tanning a gas summit a moscow the leader of the world's most oil rich nation has hinted that if snowden requests said he could be given asylum by caracas details now from r.t.c. corpus going off. venezuelan president nicolas maduro is set to spend in the russian capital he's attending this massive gas suppliers summit but apart from that he's also widely expected to get engaged in edward snowden's case since

earlier the venezuelan president himself said that there's a great chance that snowden could get political asylum in his country if he officially asked for it in the meantime the former n.s.a. contractor has already asked for political asylum ecuador they're now discussing this request but there is speculation that the question is still very far from have been salt and it's causing lots of debate since ecuador has already granted. political asylum was wanted by the u.s. and it seems this whole story around edward snowden is creating even more problems for ecuador relations with washington according to week you leaks the n.s.a. may have even started intercepting ecuador's government telecommunications so perhaps the country is currently under a lot of pressure from washington right now so actually the chances of snowden getting political asylum in venice a well are much higher than getting it in ecuador and now the former n.s.a.

contractor arrived to the transit zone of airport in moscow around a week ago from hong kong and so far it's believed that where he's been this entire time he does have an invalid american passport and washington has been asking for his extradition. on the will be joining the leaders of some of the world's top gas producing nations in moscow on monday looking at ways to keep global energy supply stable supply and demand is key at the summit at a time when the controversial practice of fracking is upsetting markets and the environment artie's katie pilgrim will have warned that just a little later here in r t. how the cairo headquarters of egypt's muslim brotherhood lie is in tatters after an onslaught by an angry mob at least sixteen people died in clashes as millions of outrage citizens flooded into the streets

across the nation demanding president morsi down by tuesday or face a mass rebellion joins me live now from cairo with the details so bell how significant is this attack on the muslim brotherhood headquarters. what we're seeing now in egypt is a deadly political deadlock between various you support the president and those who are against them off the clashes erupted last night following a day of nationwide mass rallies against the police the muslim brotherhood for their paws said today the opposition forces had crossed the red line of violence off their headquarters the main headquarters in cairo were attacked by about five hundred groups that the headquarters were not guarded by the police late last night . to try and step in firing tear gas the one able to stop the deadly stupid street battles between those who support the brotherhood and those who are against the brotherhood that left several dead the muslim brotherhood for their part saying

this is completely unacceptable the opposition mainly led by thugs and that the president was democratically elected and therefore the only way for him to leave office is. the ballot box meanwhile protesters are already gathering on tahrir square for a second day of mass rallies respect for the people to be at the presidential palace as well this. comes off the nationwide protests were called by a grassroots campaign called tomorrow which means rebel they say they've collected twenty two million signatures cooling for the ouster of the president they issued an ultimatum late last night saying the president must leave office by five pm tuesday otherwise they will launch a series of nationwide civil disobedience and which could pull the country we're really seeing here now is a divided egypt nine the science is stepping down with expected violence in the future between the civilian and civilian rival protest groups that have been cool

to step in to stop this deepening violence they have however said they don't want to get involved in politics they will only intervene should the situation become so dire that they have to. or i will tell us a bit more about the buildup to the unrest how do the situation develop. what's happening here in egypt i mean speaking to protesters yesterday in these huge rallies they told me they've seen no change in the last year president mohamed morsi has ruled that the economy is in freefall that there is a major fuel and water shortages and a bread crisis on the horizon rights groups are saying that human rights abuses are still rampant torture is in that making the police force and really we've seen things nothing changed since that hosni mubarak was in power in fact the situation is actually worse meanwhile on the other side that you support the president is saying that he was legitimate just elected to power and they are the moment staging their own sits in just a few kilometers from where i'm standing they say they won't leave until the

opposition backed down however the muslim brotherhood's government led government is seeing a significant amount of sense from within the government itself we've just had reports that four ministers have resigned supposedly in reaction to the last few days of demonstrations against the president and also violence the number of episodes of violence across the different governorates with several people. down in particular the southern egypt areas and benes we where protests have been attacked by armed gangs reportedly in support of the president what we're seeing at the moment really is divided egypt's with neither side backing down increasing levels of violence and fatalities on the horizon and the president is seeing a lot of dissent from within his own ranks in the administration leading many to fear that this is not going to end anytime soon. all right thanks very much indeed for this update and in fact as we speak we can show live pictures

from the iconic to her square where we can see thousands of people gathering and of course we'll be bringing you more on dates as we get it for now though belcher thanks very much for this once again these are live pictures from egypt from square . now neil clark a journalist focusing on the middle east things egypt is in danger of plunging into civil war if the president continues to turn a blind eye to overwhelming public discontent. because they aren't clear that the people had more than he's been a total disaster the power he's broken every single promise that he made when he was elected and it's time for him to go if he doesn't go i think civil war could happen because people are extremely angry and they're angry about what happened in twenty eleven because they wanted radical change in twenty seven they didn't just want to be replaced by another us western puppet i mean what's happened there hasn't been any real changes to the economy people are getting poorer unemployment

is going up and up and up and people want real trying not to be content with just another us in cairo now the outrage at egypt as long as government being bad by washington comes in the wake of president obama's tour of africa in cross stock coming up at four pm g.m.t. peter lavelle's guess debate is a focus of the obama administration matches the true needs of the trouble continent . what kind of future does this man bring to the world we don't want his money and we want a world where the models will use that are going to be able to we be able to have a a world which is peaceful we are going to be able to have a world where we can hear what we're children being safe now to morrow obama can come with his checkbook but if he doesn't like one of my friends what he can do is send it don't kill him and kill everybody around him it's been a strategy that hasn't focused on addressing the really serious and tough issues

across the region but looking at our leaders. what he calls the young african leadership. is focused has been misplaced. now as london looks to ease regulation on g.m. products will work out whether generically modified food is the key and in world hunger or a just hidden house risk that's after the break stay with us. download

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to embrace genetically modified food and ease the tide regulations on it britain's environments are during claims that g.m. farming is actually safe for the many of the alternatives and beneficial for consumers as well as farmers but health organizations and activists are voicing strong objections jam products and golf a wide range of foods from corn and rice to chocolate milk and santo an american multinational corporation owns around nine percent of all modified seeds causing global conversely over its domination of the market its accused of crushing small businesses and farming enterprises even driving some farmers to survive. activists warned a modified food may be deadly allergies liver and immune system problems these are just a few of the reported side effects are these bully boys will delve deeper into the issue. it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public

should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell their campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government to shore it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must have produces of the stuff the british government says the u.k. shouldn't be getting left behind let's talk more about this i'm joined by dr robert he's the founder of the alliance for natural health which campaigns against g.m. foods. there are a billion hungry miles in the wild and red being told that this technology is safe shouldn't we embrace it in that case well if you look at all the real developments in raising the yields it hasn't actually occurred through g.m. it's because for conventional breeding practices some of the greatest success stories even in the last five years have been related to traditional propagation

techniques we've got to remember that the safety issues divided between both health effects and environmental effects and we know that the european authorities have probably one of the most comprehensive evaluation systems compared with other parts of the world but only two crops have actually got through the net for cultivation over fifty have been approved for consumption but of course the majority of it is given to animals and not to humans what are the risks in this case how is it dangerous to human health people use the fact that there's been a lot of g.m. produced of course a large amount of it going to animals but the u.s. population has been eating a lot of g.m. corner a lot of g.m. soy and they say well we can't see the effect we believe looking at humans as guinea pigs is not a great way of doing it because given the fact that we're only looking at really one or two generations of exposure why is the government so keen to develop this technology in that case and who would be bent. fitting from it if they did but of course there are about a half

a dozen companies that are the key players in this area's of which monsanto is the biggest and they've been putting huge pressure on governments and of course if you look at the concerns that for example the four hundred scientists involved in the big un study i started was recent two thousand and eight that said g.m. has no role to play in feeding the poverty in the developing world they're also saying that the biggest problem is concentrating the agricultural resource and particularly seed supply in the hands of a few companies and these companies have a lot of sway with the major governments in the world including the u.k. government many thanks for your comments was one environmental group said the british government's attempt to get g.m. food back on the menu is like flogging a dead horse and despite any of the scientific arguments for it one thing that you can tell you with is that g.m. food just doesn't have a good reputation a survey last month showed that only twenty one percent of the u.k.

population supports the technology. artsy london. where you talk more about this we're now joined from cambridge and u.k. by martin livermore who's from the marmet environmental group the scientific alliance warden thank you so much for joining us here in our time to talk about this well of course the supporters of g.m. foods are largely praise it as a solution to world hunger but what do we know about the side effects what's your take. well i think one of the problems is that activists are criticizing gere as being in some way totally different from other breeding technologies and that it's a it's a relatively small step beyond what we've been doing for many decades. and it's not going to be the answer to it but equally it could be part of the solution and it just seems very very silly to to object to it and try to stop it now that the free products made with technology has been on the market since the mid ninety's

hundreds of millions of people agree on the sued millions and millions of animals a week and there's absolutely no reason to suppose that the food they're eating at the animal feed they're eating is this really any different to food which has been bred in any other way well you mentioned that g.m. foods have been around but twenty years surely may not be enough really to see the long term effect of the product and in fact there are those who are voicing concerns so maybe it is still too risky to adopt these foods or do you think. not i think that's really overstating the case or what we have to remember is that if for any g.m. crops can be put on the market it goes for a very intensive screening rigi. yet people will say that some of the side to be out in the sea is provided by the companies that breed these crops indeed you know it's expected that they pay for that data but it's analyzed and it's requested by

independent scientists in europe working on behalf of the europeans and standards authority and by the time they've made a recommendation which by and large is is positive by the time it gets to that stage by the time they made that recommendation we know much more about that particular food crop than we do about most of the other things that we eat and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that there's any concern whatsoever we talk about things like food. well it is for example food allergies overwhelmingly are caused by coincidence particularly knott's berry and sawyer and no reason at all suppose that g.m. is is introduced to be our sorry for interrupting us or a but at this point we don't really have any evidence because like i said i mean twenty years still not enough i mean there is short time to actually analyze something and come to certain definite conclusions and also you know speaking of the balance and bio balance in particular critics say the generically modified

seems pose a threat to biodiversity ousting non modified species so wouldn't that be enough for concern and one that lead to the devastation on the environment i mean in the long term well these things are always possible cause and so we shouldn't just ignore them but what we have to remember is that farming itself is natural you know ten thousand years ago there was no farming and people began to realize that they could cultivate crops that could grow the same things year after year and that what appears to us to be very simple discovery is actually on the basis for our sophisticated and settled societies now anything that you grow on phone and endeavors that the displace is something else so all the farm that we see around us was originally some kind of natural habitat and the fact that we are growing a g.m. crop or the role that something which has been produced by some other means

actually makes no difference whatsoever all right my martin thanks very much for your views that is mine livermore director of the scientific alliance. and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world in hong kong thousands have taken to the streets to denounce the city's chief executive people who've voiced their discontent over his unpopular konami measures that have led to widening income gap and soaring property prices demonstrators also called for democratic reform so they can choose their own top representative instead of one picked by a mostly pro to me the ariel rally comes on the sixteenth anniversary of the handover from britain. to the u.s. president obama has praised the nineteen firefighters killed while battling a wildfire that's been raging in the state of arizona the blaze raced through dry brush and grass damaging buildings and forcing hundreds of residents in two towns

to flee is believed to have been started by a lightning strike in a forest spreading quickly in high winds. while the world's biggest gas producers are gathering in moscow to sift through the challenges facing the industry on the table financial troubles new technology and fracking details are now live from katie pilbeam thank you so much for joining us katie so what will be the top of the agenda for this gathering well it's all about maintaining the dome of the of the oil and gas industry as well as really competing with competition namely show gas it has had its boom in recent years and really technology focusing on other ways to compete as well as not looking after the environment and economics of course in these final times of uncertainty in particular where europe is concerned we've got to mont at the moment pretty stagnates a plenty on the agenda. so what countries will be attending this gathering well

we've got thirteen members in total look at the likes of. my dear venice whaler egypt russia is in good company and we've got the. heads of of iran and venezuela here in moscow today as you can see the members here in the blue and in the orange we've got the likes of doorway kazakstan too and altogether these countries accumulate sixty two percent of the world's gas reserves and it's all about maintaining that dominance well as we can see are the countries that produce a period in the gathering are rich in natural resources but what can we expect to come out of the summit given its busy and serious agenda well right now i'm thinking it's about shale gas and we know that the u.s. has got a surplus of supply at the moment and that means that gas prices a fairly low in the us at the moment and that's why they're on the verge of becoming a big exporter of gas particularly to the likes of europe where you're going to

going to pay five times more for your gas gas what is it all about let's have a look at the process just here so this is how you get it you dig deep underground and you find your shale rock and then what happens is as you can see it's going sideways in this instance just here and then inject water. chemicals at huge pressure plummeting in just here and you get these fissures come out and in these fishes all the bubbles of gas which make their way up to the surface and that's how it can be extracted but the reason why events environmentalist are concerned right now is because you just saw the process and you can see that water can get contaminated in the process of producing show gas. are ok thanks very much indeed for talking us through all of this and breaking it

all down for us kate it will be in there and next on our team we continue with the sports of eight was a partridge. wealthy british scientists are. not on the telephone.

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