european union members are in disarray about the n.s.a. scandal the latest snow and leaks revealed that the agency intercepted information from the embassies of european allies and beyond more on this up ahead. as word snowden remains in russia and that say could be longer than originally planned but there was a lower still faces a roadblock in getting asylum in ecuador we'll tell you more as this story develops . millions of protesters fill up the streets of egypt demanding the resignation of president mohamed morsi and new elections more on the unrest in egypt in today show.

it's monday july first find him in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching r t well let's begin this afternoon with the latest u.s. admissions when it comes to the white house surveillance scandal over the weekend the german newspaper der spiegel a on the guardian reported that the n.s.a. has been eased dropping on officials in the european union by bugging their offices that's according to documents released by former n.s.a. defense contractor edward snowden and this has sparked outrage in the international community with leaders from german chancellor on the mark all to european parliament president martin schultz demanding an explanation secretary of state john kerry attempted to pacify some of the international criticism by promising today to look at the claims that the n.s.a. bugged the mission in new york and us embassy in washington but then he went on to say this every country in the world that is engaged in international affairs of national security undertakes lots of activities to protect its national security

and all kinds of information contributes to that all i. no is that it's not unusual for a lots of nations but beyond that i'm not going to comment any further until i have all the facts and find out precisely what the situation is so is that justification enough for the alleged us spying political commentator sam sachs reports. the spy game has changed used to be a world of moles shady briefcase exchanges and honey traps now it's a world of blanket surveillance across pretty much the entire planet through little more than a tap on the world's internet and phone communication lines some help from willing internet service providers and massive storage facilities that could be capable of

holding a billion phone calls a day we're reminded of this thanks to more revelations from edward snowden has released documents showing that the united states is engaging in rampant spying on key allies around the world particularly the european union as the guardian reports one document lists thirty eight embassies and missions describing them as targets it details an extraordinary range of spying methods used against each target from bugs implanted in electronic communications gear to taps and cables so the collection of transmissions with specialized antenna along with traditional ideological adversaries in sensitive middle eastern countries the list of targets includes the e.u. missions in the french italian and greek embassies as well as a number of other american allies including japan mexico south korea india and turkey and it's alleged that the n.s.a. bugged e.u. offices in washington d.c.

at the u.n. and in brussels you see with new technology spying has become a lot easier. think of everything that went into setting up a spies say at the german embassy during world war two the planning the training the buy offs the human lives put at risk if the mission gets exposed the fear of being crossed by a double agent a world of constant paranoia this is now the stuff of hollywood the real spy game today is just a tech geek at the n.s.a. listening to everything you don't even need to install a secret hidden camera anymore you just tap into the computer cameras that the embassy staff have bought for themselves you want to know what makes a certain ambassador tick to eventually gain leverage over him and his government well you know longer need an inside man to track his movements figure out his likes and dislikes you no longer need to send in some sort of female or male seductress to get him to spill his secrets and bed nope nowadays the n.s.a.

can just look at his web history find out what sites he logs onto frequently oh he likes going on cherry let well i'm sure that could be exploited for something thanks to technology there are no limits to the spy game anymore it's as vast as the intercepting and storage capabilities allow it to be but just because the technology allows the united states the wealthiest and mighty a superpower on the planet to spy on everyone else on the planet from allies to enemies should we do it. can this still be considered legitimate spying in our nation's best interests or is this something else altogether something that's only been addressed in dystopia ixion stiction novels and not international statutes yes the old school spy game with all its limitations is gone the new spy game created by the n.s.a. is here and so far the only limits on it are whether or not it can be kept

a secret in washington sam sachs r.t. for more on the international reaction from the revelations that the n.s.a. was bugging european union offices was the feeling the head of the roughly newsroom in berlin has this report. there has so far been no comment from 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 the n.s.a. program each month and as 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 is a very few countries which have been excluded from their program including the united kingdom new zealand australia and canada so questions are banned off 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 to you know target whoever they want under the war on terror so are german citizens now also being treated as terrorists and that 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 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 now is lizzy feel and she's the head of the roughly newsroom in berlin. meanwhile in moscow an anonymous russian official told the l a times that n.s.a.

leaker edward snowden has now filed for asylum in no fewer than fifteen countries snowden has been in limbo in the moscow airport since june twenty third had previously filed for asylum in iceland and ecuador iceland did not reply ecuador said that he had to be on. on ecuadorian soil such as an embassy and in order to apply snowden cannot leave the airport since he has no visa to enter russia and no passport to buy a ticket out so it would seem as if he isn't a catch twenty two however today russian presence of president vladimir putin might have offered the leaker a window of opportunity here's what he said at a press conference this afternoon concerning edward snowden i must repeat myself he is not a russian agent and he is not working for us and we're not working with him he's a free man if you want to fly somewhere you can do so if you want to stay here there's only one condition he has to stop his work but he's undermining our american colleagues i'm strange as that may sound coming from me so what's next in

the edward snowden saga r.t. correspondent might be in a coach in nova joined me earlier from moscow and i began by asking her what we know about asylum snow to us know to asylum applications well the information that we have been receiving throughout this day is indeed rather controversial and of course raises a lot of questions well first of all according to non confirmed reports adverse no event has applied for asylum in fifteen different countries however at the end names of the countries where he might have applied for asylum are not named yet and whether russia is on the list of those countries as not yet confirmed as well well mr snowden might have handed the flick ations at the share made to the international airport which is based here in moscow where he has basically been stuck in a transit zone since twenty june now he might have handed he's awfully

cations to a russian official and there are also some speculations that he might have applied to. some of the countries which are here and their representatives out here for the gus exporting countries forum which is a very big event as there are a lot of global players on the commodity markets here. plus the president as well as to believe us president are both here in moscow for their official visit so there are some speculations that he might have applied for asylum in those countries as well very interesting can you talk a little bit more in-depth about president putin's comments today. while rice as you've mentioned before president putin has has. adverse noton main brush only on one condition if he stops any activities against the united states he also underlined that russia is not going to actually dies at snowden now he said. adverse no it is not

a russian agent and russian russian intelligence service has never worked with before we're and i say contract for now he said after snowden could actually choose his final destination and go there but he said that he has no information when this is going to happen now he said that russia never actually buys anyone and never is going to and there is no x. revision treaty between the two countries so maybe you know how is the russian public responding both to ad words. as well as how american officials are dealing with this n.s.a. surveillance matter. rice well it is really. really a very big news here in russia and it's been making the headlines throughout the week since as i said before the twenty third of june. into the shooter major international airport and of course it has provoked

a lot of different discussions and raise a lot of questions among the russian population. here average day from different news outlets just know john is being stuck in a transit zone and that the u.s. government has revoked his passport so basically he can get a russian visa and leave the airport nor boy. to a new destination so that has a problem a lot of discussions and a lot of questions as well as russian human rights activists are stepping now in support. and saying that he should not be extradited to the united states and some of the russian officials saying the extradition offer you political refugee is morally unacceptable so we have been receiving a lot of different responses but most of them or in the interim in supporting have been very interesting. thank you so much for joining us r.t.

correspondent in moscow let's turn now to another government whistleblower who is facing a much different fate than the one edward snowden is currently dealing with the trial for private first class bradley manning resumed today in fort meade maryland it is now in its fifth week prosecutors at the court martial are focusing on the two hundred fifty thousand state department diplomatic cables that manning handed over to wiki leaks prosecutors could wrap up their case as soon as this afternoon and then it will be the defense's turn to represent bradley manning for more from fort meade maryland r t correspondent was wall. well today marks the fifth week of bradley manning's court martial here in fort meade maryland today the prosecution called their last witness to the stand before that we heard written testimony from commander yousef a bull on name he is an expert on islamic militants and considered an expert on al qaeda now he testified that al qaeda uses the internet to research potential targets and to gather intelligence he also said that al qaeda uses websites that

were quote sympathetic to its goals we also heard what's called stipulations of fact we've heard these types of simulations throughout the trial now these are established facts agreed upon by both the prosecution and the defense the first that relation was in regards to adam gadahn he was in america and that eventually converted to islam and became an operative for al qaeda as a translator and cultural interpreter for osama bin ladin according to the backside it's a day that don was involved in a video that served as a propaganda and recruitment tool for al qaeda parts of the video he used the word obtain on the anti-secrecy website wiki leaks specifically of an apache helicopter airstrike infamously dubbed collateral murder also brought up as stipulation of fact today found in osama bin laden's compound in pakistan after the u.s. raid afghanistan war logs that were released by wiki leaks now all of this relates to that aiding the enemy charge the most serious charge that manning faces the

prosecution has been trying to prove that manning and wiki leaks co-founder julian assange on work together to get u.s. secrets on the internet secrets that were then obtained and used by the enemy to harm the united states according to the prosecution manning says he leaked secrets in order to reveal the truth about u.s. wars abroad and in no way intended to intended to aid the enemy the prosecution is expected to call their last witness to the stand today that last witness is daniel lewis he is a defense counter terrorism expert during cross-examination the defense try. to discredit this witness some of his testimony today was done in a closed session now as this trial progresses the big question is has the prosecution presented enough evidence to prove the most serious charges of espionage and aiding the enemy these are charges that if convicted carry a life sentence without parole and i've spoken to many of many supporters here that

see him as a hero for shedding a light on the government's dark secrets important to note that since the trial is focused on classified information some of the trial is done in a closed session where the media and the public are not authorized to hear what is going on here in fort meade maryland liz wall r.t. well we all know how nerve wracking the first day of a new job can be and the u.s. special envoy to guantanamo bay clifford sloan is the new one has his work cut out for him so is a partner at a procedure scott an arts firm in washington d.c. and has served in both democratic and republican administrations in the past secretary of state john kerry recommended sloan to the post which he started today in the midst of a lot of controversy the hunger strike up the detention facility is now entering its fifth month this week latest estimates show that one hundred four out of one hundred sixty six detainees being held at the facility are currently participating

in voluntary starvation more than forty of them are now being force fed and that's not the only issue sloan faces new information is coming out this week about a yemeni detainees who was found dead in his prison cell last year the seventy nine page military report made public this week by truthout investigative reporter jason leopold's freedom of information act request reveals that odd none farhan abdulla latif hoarded medication he had been purse cried for mental illness and then use those pills to commit suicide huge destitute doesn't. of a draw known drug known as the question now is how he collected and his those pills for so long the report also reveals that don farhan abdul-latif showed numerous signs of desire to commit suicide the report said he wrote dark poems with suicidal themes asked for suicide pills from physicians and more numerous recommendations

were noted for the guantanamo bay officials to prevent this type of event from occurring again it will be up to cliff sloan to figure out where a one ton of obey goes from here including persuading countries to take in the inmates that have already been approved for relates the special envoy position has not been filled since january when daniel fried was reassigned to a different position. protests in egypt have swelled so much so that the signs of the demonstrations are now bigger than when the public was protesting longtime ruler hosni mubarak back in two thousand and eleven sunday's protests are being called the biggest in the country's history the egyptian army estimates that millions of protesters took to the streets day after day protesters continue to pile into higher square in a festival like atmosphere and the night after night dozens of those protesters turned violent smashing windows throwing molotov cocktails into buildings and squaring off with police. at

least sixteen people were killed and more than seven hundred eighty were wounded sunday and monday during the demonstrations egypt's army has now given president mohamed morsi and his government forty eight hours to respond to the demands of the protesters or they say they will step in and restore order themselves for the very latest coming out of cairo we turn now to bill true. through ordinary scenes at least three hundred to come back streets for a second day of protests but mostly. as you can probably see behind me there's a huge gathering here the president to promise me sounding chances i've had which means leave they say enough's enough the president must go this comes just after a statement by the ministry he said that and that the president comes up with a solution that will be able to monitor the people in forty eight hours they will. create him very much for the future of egypt many people here aren't having this as

a ministry in contention and this is a nation one of our people a policeman a minute you can impose it up and anything fine and see the number of people die in fashion leading up to this so i think demonstrations somehow despite the sanction ministry when they were in power had a one year off that was the barak step down hadn't according human rights record and we saw on the democratic change i said we're still seeing a divided egypt very tense scene say must see must a demonstration and the president speaking to protest is that in the protests at the day they told me they seen no change in the last year since the president to power but they talked about a failing economy assuming no job opportunities for nick you have a water shortage is a red crisis is when a human rights abuses and the promise of the state and damage to ensuring the police force the promises the president morsi made when he came to power you has nothing to do and therefore he's incapable of running the country you also complain

about the islamist organizations a part of them is a brotherhood saying they have taken the monotony of power and this is not democratic is amiss with their part to ohsu staging a sit in just a few kilometers away from where i'm standing now say the president was democratically elected and they will stand by him and then he should finish these four years in power and it's undemocratic to expect him to step down how would this make this statement from the ministry the basically putting morsi to walking off base why did he refuse demands the people which is that you resigned or the ministry intervened i think we're going to be seeing a possibly presidential elections very very soon. that was artie's bell true. it was the deadline president obama had been warning american families about for over a year today congress missed its deadline to decide on how to act on student is tryst rates those rates have now doubled putting even more financial strain on american college students here's a look at what happens today interest rates on subsidized stafford student loans

used to be three point four percent but as of today they have now doubled to six point eight percent so what does that mean financially well it means that the average student taking out loans will pay about two thousand six hundred dollars extra for interest accrued this rate hike will have effect on some seven million students across the nation but it will not impact people who already have their loans meanwhile canada has seen its share of backlash in the past year from attempting to raise student tuition rates thousands filled the streets last year and come back and the government finally back down on its attempt to increase tuition by eighty two percent now that might sound like a lot but that much would actually still be only a drop of the hat when compared to american universities so could congress or even ordinary students learn from our neighbors to the north for more i was joined earlier by professor ben levin he's a canada research chair in education leadership and policy at the university of

toronto and i began by asking him for the canadian perspective on what we are seeing with these interest rates. interest rates here are done differently because there's through the canada student loan program so they are linked to prime interest rate in a different way than the thing is in the us however i would say that the prime issue is not so much the affordability of loans as the place of loans in an overall financing system for post-secondary now we've seen student protest in montreal canada that filled the streets when there was talks of to wish and hikes why do you think the student movement is so strong in canada. well it's very strong in combat in particular which interestingly enough has the lowest tuitions fees in canada. i don't think you would necessarily get the same response in other parts of canada tobacco has historically have rates that are significantly lower than the other

provinces tuitions rates that are significantly lower but in canada as a whole i like the us to ition is regulated and it is reasonably consistent from one institution to another so we do not have institutions that are relatively inexpensive and then institutions which are very expensive such as you have in the united states we certainly do have a hierarchy when it comes to prestige for university degrees but how does canada keep university twitchin so much lower comparatively to the united states so i think the answer to that is quite simple there's much more public money coming into our universities from taxation than there is for many of your universities canada doesn't really have a system of private universities diapers so basically all universities are significantly subsidized by public funds and student loan programs are subsidized by public funds there are also other programs to support students such as tuitions tax credits but basically we put more public money in now what we're seeing right

now in the u.s. is i had alluded to is this a doubling in interest rates when it comes to stafford loans now as you have mentioned one of the problems possibly of the u.s. one of the possible cons out we're seeing right now is that many universities in the u.s. are run as a business like kind of model so do you think that that is the sole reason why we are seeing so much competition so much talk over these interest rates gobbling right now as a barrier to access to education it's probably not the sole reason i don't know enough about the american situation to say but what i would say about two ition and accessibility is. internationally is that the issue is not so much borling or the cost of borrowing but how boring fits into the whole pattern of financing post-secondary education for students and if excess ability for some students borrowing a large amount of money for post-secondary education is going to turn out to be the

best investment of their old lives even at a relatively high rate for other students it's not going to turn out to be a good investment so i would want to shift the focus away from the borderland cost per se and to the question of who is borrowing and how does that relate to the returns people are getting from their programs the kind of programs they're in and the overall state of accessibility to post-secondary education in the country now and then can you talk a little bit more about the effect that student debt has on individuals but also on society as a whole. again i think it depends a lot on who is incurring the debt and provide purposes so if students are incurring significant amounts of debt as they do in canada say to complete medical degrees this isn't really a worry for anybody they can repay that money it's still going to be turned out to be a good career investment for them but where you have students incurring large amounts of dads who don't finish their programs or who end up in programs that aren't well

linked to labor market outcomes then you have a big problem that can have lifetime negative effects on individuals their families and on the community so that's why ghana say it isn't just the level of interest rate or the amount of borrowing it's who is borrowing for what purposes and how is that link to their general accessibility and success in post-secondary education now and obviously you have a different philosophy than a lot of american professors an edge a high rise to cater thought here so let me ask you is it the responsibility of the government to make sure that students can attend university or to help them find past or is it the students responsibility to find the path that they need to take in order to be successful in their careers it's a shared responsibility but i think we have quite a bit of international evidence to show that if the total cost just left to students you will get an under investment in post-secondary education from the

standpoint of desirable national policy that is if countries want highly educated labor force and population which i think all countries do now you won't get that without some public intervention to support students and in particular the students who come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds tend to be the most boring averse so they are the least likely to borrow to attempt a secondary education and that's why in my view there must be an overall public policy approach that supports high levels of partnership dissipating and post-secondary education but there is nothing wrong. at all which is significant part of their guard related to their ability to earn the better they're going to do . very interesting discussion thank you so much for joining me ben levin professor at the university of toronto. thank you now an update to a story we brought you last week it's the case of a san diego california artist who was prosecuted for vandalism after writing into a bank messages on public sidewalks using chalk today

a san diego jury acquitted forty year old jeff olson the man that you see in this surveillance video on thirteen counts of vandalism also was also facing thirteen thousand dollars in fines it took the jury less than five hours to arrive at their decision olsen's bank messages included one that read no thanks big banks and another that read shame on bank of america over the weekend in a protest chalky apply dozens of supporters through their own colorful messages and chalk including the phrase this is not vandalism at the end of this ordeal olson has said that to be very relieved that it's all over well. now before we go we have some breaking news to bring you we are getting word right now that edward snowden the former n.s.a. contractor who leaked the massive u.s. surveillance program known as prism is going to give a statement from moscow this information is coming from the wiki wiki leaks web

site that is the web site co-founded by julian songe again edward snowden will make his first statement from moscow he is seeking asylum in ecuador and reportedly in fifteen other countries when he makes his statement we will of course bring it to you as it happens. right back here at eight pm. plays. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. and mission free credit taishan free transport charges free. range month free. free studio time free. download free blank.