breaking news here on a russian rocket with three satellites crashes at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan just seconds after the blast of. toxic contamination could lead to an evacuation of the entire area. we can take files twenty one asylum requests on behalf of edward snowden a surveillance whistleblower whose month long odyssey of leaks has left many nations either fearful over luck to get involved. and president obama deals with european outrage over america's. politicians and citizens obama saying well the topic is nothing new and everybody's doing. the president mohamed morsi takes fire on all sides as the army takes the side of antigovernment

protesters and several ministers resign in solidarity with the opposition. very good morning to you from all of us here in moscow where it's now i just after eight am. today and straight to our breaking news for you this hour here on r.t. unmanned russian space a rocket has crashed just a minute launch it was carrying three satellites meant for russia's global navigation system. now brings us the details here live on the program good morning . what happened well you know larry i think it was quite a shocking morning for those ads by canoe cosmodrome as you can see here that. otoh

proton which was carrying three navigation settlers are to orbit just decided that today was not going to be the day it spiraled out of control disintegrated as you can see right now of the camera there and then did it literally disintegrated going splitting into all kinds of places and then dropping off within that inhabited space at the cosmodrome now of course so we've heard sources saying that you know this is not this is not the best thing that could happen to this right now this is a radio active set allied to these people who live around there. is no years and also it is just a couple of seconds into a launch exploding just a few seconds into a lot you imagine it's made up saluting phil to the brim with rocket fuel absolutely i mean this is what's getting authorities quite worried out there is that this disintegrating dropping in the middle of an inhabited area could bring a lot of the trouble they're thinking of now evacuating that area now i've been

there to buy to myself you've been there to buy a you know how it's such a small town but with with such a small group of people within one area and so much fuel radioactive no one knows what could come out of this so it's very important besides getting people out as well i mean as a result. we talk about it all being a small town the good thing is the launch pad it's a lot is a little bit is a little bit however they have got they have got very very good emergency systems in place at the baikonur cosmodrome but the sad news is typing this isn't exactly the first has not happened you know wonder every time we anybody hears of anything in terms of space and exploration or anything going out to over do we get excited but what we don't really understand is that there's so much that goes into these kind of machines i mean we're talking not only feel we're talking engineering and this sort of accident happened back in two thousand and ten and once more he said to navigating satellite is going up to orbit and then disintegrating into the pacific ocean now they're saying that sources tell us it could be because of

engineering problem they need to look a little bit more in terms of how really absolutely so right now i think they merge and seabed right now is to make sure that the inhabitants in that area are safe particularly because of what those. that machine actually can go to the recycling for those who are sitting here typing the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan here just a couple of seconds into liftoff our breaking news here the russian rocket here exploding just in the first few seconds of launch what about what about accountability who's going to be held to account for this you know why do the russian space agency has been changing over the last couple of months we've seen resignations we've seen people being fired because there seems to be a new restructuring of the agency so many projects are coming and so many people rely on the russian space agency in terms of going out into orbit or to the i assess so it's really important that they get this in in control it's really important that they are sure everyone who uses the baikonur cosmodrome at the moment to say things happened we didn't this is not what we wanted but this is the

morning that we had we need to get to the bottom of this if it's an engine near a problem we need to get better engineers coming in we need to look at how we're going to get some of this equipment out into orbit but so i'd there's going to be lots of questions being asked. there's going to be absolute see somebody something needs to be someone or something needs to be accountable of what just happened was that all of the talk of the investigation live radio have begun this is not breaking news this morning a bad news for by can all this rocket out to space with three glowing of satellites exploding a couple of seconds into launch to buy more on this breaking news this morning thanks for coming and thank you for having me. well edward snowden's quest for asylum appears to be hitting a wave of antipathy with nations apparently reluctant to get involved ecuador support has been lukewarm at best and russia says he can stay but only if he stops leaking information some of those leaks have alienated even washington's closest allies that's of course live not to walk and he said no way of more details on this

right now and he said good morning to you so snowden has made some additional asylum requests so what are you hearing. that's right it's now clear that snowden along with the help of wiki leaks has applied for asylum in some twenty one countries the problem is no one wants anything to do with him president putin has said that he is welcome to stay in russia if he quote stops harming our u.s. partners the russian president adding that russia will not be giving anyone up that they've never given anyone up in that the u.s. has never given anyone up to them pointing out that snowden needs to choose his destination his final destination he said and go there at the problem is like i said he really has no where to go and this is becoming the main issue we finally have heard a statement from snowden after alongside them in which he points out that he believes the u.s. is pressuring countries other countries that are legally to not help him he believes it's a violation of international law but like i said it seems everyone here and

a lot of countries some that even seem that they were more apt to possibly help him you said lukewarm reaction from ecuador that tone is changing rory or at least as you say there are countries around the world that are rather reluctant to get involved with mr snowden so it's a what always challenges of asylum anywhere for that matter. well now it seems very little the consensus worldwide seems to be to avoid snowden that all crossed arts he conducted an exclusive interview with the ecuadorian president rafael correa in which he said that it was initially a mistake that his country made it possible for snowden to travel from hong kong to russia that he is now russia's problem this is a very different tone than we heard from korea just last week where he was very boldly stating that ecuador would not bend to any u.s. blackmail to even pressure that they would do what they believed was right but when artie asked him even if he would like to meet with snowden aside from asylum just to speak to muslim whistleblower as someone who is has revealed this these leaks to

the world he said not particularly that snowden is a very complicated man that he was a spy for. a long time what's interesting is that we do know that korea did speak to us vice president joe biden last thursday and it's very clear that his sentiments about snowden have sifted that his his fate is not going to play out like it did for julian assigned in terms of asylum now in the midst of all this noise all of this scandal about where will snowden go looking for him essentially trying to find him it's very easy to lose understanding of the scale of his leaks and how they've already sent repercussions worldwide they've really shifted geo politics and and as i understand it this is just the tip of the iceberg because these leaks were released to the media we've just seen the beginning of them so they are going to keep coming as this saga continues to play out now with the king like everyone across the globe wants to wash their hands of edward snowden or not

even if the now in downtown moscow thanks. now in the meantime in norman solomon the co-founder of the hands off snowden campaign he believes the n.s.a. whistleblowers accusations towards washington fully justified the conduct of the u.s. government including statements made publicly by president obama and vice president biden i think from the very beginning several weeks ago intended to deprive edward snowden of basic rights you know this until proven guilty first amendment and the freedom of speech that he had is entitle to as are all american citizens so i think the statement put out today by edward snowden is quite reasonable quite accurate and the united states from a tactical standpoint as the government has attempted to use the calling of stones passport as a weapon and that's just wrong. and in the meantime president barack obama and

damage control mode off the latest bunch of damning revelations from edward snowden suggesting washington has spied on its allies obama said this is how things are usually done when it comes to big politics and european states do exactly the same or even the u.n. chief is trying to distance himself from the international body as marina portnoy reports united nations secretary-general ban ki moon is urging nations to protect the integrity of diplomatic missions on their soil the u.n. chief's comments calm amid allegations that the u.s. has been spying on the european union and other allies over port by german weekly der spiegel says that the national security agency blogs at the e.u.'s mission in washington d.c. and also popped into its computer system to be able to access e-mails and other internal documents the e.u.

delegation at the united nations was reportedly subject to similar surveillance citing classified documents leaked by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the weekly says that france italy and greece are among the thirty eight u.s. surveillance targets now while the news has blindsided and shocked many european leaders u.s. president barack obama has downplayed the surveillance story saying that it's basically political protocol between friends they're going to be trying to understand the world better and what's going on in world capitals around the world . from sources that aren't available through the new york times or n.b.c. news. that there that they are seeking additional insight beyond what's available through open sources there. and. if that weren't the

case then there'd be no use for an intelligence service. and i guarantee you that in european capitals there are people who are interested in if not what i had for breakfast at least what my talking points might be should i end up meeting with their leaders but not everyone is seeing the circumstance so casually greece's foreign ministry says it will be investigating reports that its embassy in washington and the u.n. mission in new york were being spied on by the n.s.a. according to the guardian newspaper the eavesdropping on the greek u.n. mission was known as how long and the operation against its embassy was known as wanda and snowden well that's just the name of the american that leaked the surveillance information that the world is now talking about reporting from new york marina more nine are to. aspire lee has left a massive trade agreement between the u.s. and the european union now hanging by a thread of german politician

a member of the european parliament rebecca homs believes that i lack of trust between the powers could potentially kill the deal. this is a huge spying attack from the united states help especially by the united kingdom against against their friends in the european union we have certain instruments as least i agree member of the european parliament see those instruments we have to agreements. in between us and also europe on data so this is this with agreement and also the agreement of. data in the international flights p n r we could stop those agreements and. i really i am convinced that we should not open the negotiations on teeth to this internet this united states trade agreement because this is also very very

sensitive when it comes to data action there is a complete different concept of privacy and protecting citizens freedom also in the european union compared to the united states now the sheer scope of u.s. surveillance is leaving others no choice but to prepare themselves to fight it that's according to bolivia's president evo morales he visited r.t. spanish studios on monday just ahead of the second gas exporting countries for. i know that the empires have an espionage network and are constantly conspiring against the so-called developing countries and in particular against those which are rich in natural resources of bolivia as well as venezuela and ecuador who are exposed to constant surveillance from the us empire in the us you know and when we hear the espionage claims we have to get well prepared to resist any sort of

political military or cultural aggression so it. suppliers need to stand up for themselves and hit back against customers the takeaway message from moscow's gas summit where the world's leading export has gathered to address the challenges facing the industry a report that's coming your way just a bit later this hour here on r.t. . the meantime though here on the program is the most back to egypt and president mohamed morsi is drastically losing the support of his cabinet along with the sympathies of the public at least five ministers resigned amid anti-government protests which were joined by millions with the military promising to deploy into a rear square to guard the demonstrators are reports from cairo. in the early hours of tuesday morning the tipton president finally responded to an ultimatum by the minute tree giving him food t. a our ways to fill the demands of the people otherwise they would intervene the president said that they admitted that he didn't know about the military ultimatum

before it was released and slammed the language of the statement as confusing and they he emphasized that he was working towards not sure national reconciliation and that the greatest thing to come out of the journey to defy revolution was a democratic civilian states however he is losing support within his own administration in the early hours of tuesday morning we had that there was the final resignation all the foreign minister this following school other resignations of his cabinet old saying they're in supports all the protests against the president meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people returned to the streets of egypt for a second day cooling for the ouster of morsy like those behind me at the presidential promise this happens across across the nation people off fearing there will be more violence there are rumors abound saying that the military will intervene in the background of the continuing violence the military for their part obviously released this ultimatum to have said that they will not get involved in politics

meanwhile is mr putin's all the president's are saying he was legitimately elected and therefore he can only be mery from office through the ballot box they are saying that maybe rejecting calls actions the missing mother had spokesperson for his part said that they will not have any elections and that the president must fulfill his four years in office is comes against the backdrop of a lot of violence towards the muslim brotherhood group number of the headquarters have been run sacked and fire bombs and leading to several fatalities they have instead said they will have that they will have their own counter protests across the country in the coming days and they've been calls for them to come to the streets so what we're seeing now is a divided egypt to be supporting the president maintaining that he is the just meant they will come to the streets and back came even though the military has really. controversy also makes him meanwhile the opposition figures are saying they won't stop until so most he is ousted crossways campaign this week with these protests tomorrow the rebels they've said they will have must stage its own city

disobedience if he stays in office so really we're seeing i continued good luck with the military getting involved as well. true reporting right there and i miss them all calm and historian and a middle east expert he says the army's decision to step into a conflict may well do more harm than good it seems very much that the army is essentially trying to determine the future and that could well be a return to the past because what is very striking is solutions an obvious alternative to morsi there isn't a clear figurehead for the opposition so even if it will suit was to resign it was nobody automatic to take his place not least because the constitutional court invalidated the elections to the parliament so that we have in the very very difficult situation as only one post with any kind of democratic legitimacy that the president and his own legitimacy is now under attack from huge clubs in the

streets and from the army and the police who refuse to defend himself and his party but whoever comes to power or if most of stays in power it's difficult to see that the basic problems of great poverty. or sources come into the country terrible problems of boat paying for the import of vital resources including food those can easily be resolved whoever is in power. thank you for joining us here on r t today bouquets of flowers have been left near a wildlife tragedy in the u.s. state of arizona this off the nine members of an elite u.s. squad died in the blazing inferno they were trying to control of the details in the pictures of a deadly wildfire online right now at the web site. and the eurozone. as unemployment reaches its highest level ever leaving at least more than twelve percent of the entire population without jobs those details as well on the website right now.

are we get to the shortly but for now in the program for guantanamo bay inmates are suing the u.s. government to put an end to force feeding a procedure they say is inhumane and torturous and this comes in the wake of a hunger strike which has now lasted for months and seen more than forty of the one hundred six inmates taking part and being forced to eat a robert naiman from the just foreign policy think tank he believes the detainees shouldn't be in guantanamo in the first place. the u.s. courts have been inconsistent brant is it any some of the detainees have gotten. relief from u.s. court room court said that he needs detainees do have a b.s. corpus right. to stew on their dentition some of the detainees have been released

as a rule. or battle the war who are sued are all you can use that have been cleared for transfer by the u.s. government so the u.s. government case for holding them. holding them at all is. certainly the u.s. government case or for treating them even weaker no one can say what's going to happen before but it certainly a lot of war movies why group of people they don't have a lot of options. all right a straight a couple now to open up the data it's where at least ten people have died in an assault on a company in the afghan capital that supplies nato forces a car bomb blast ripped through the entrance to the compound before five attackers started shooting all of them were killed along with four company employees and of civilians three hundred national police died last month alone.

has a broken out again in brazil as protests against transport costs continue across the country rioting erupted in the northern city of the mouse vehicles were smashed and set on fire and there were certainly several clashes with riot police and truck drivers in sao paulo brazil is the largest city they blocked highways angry at highway tolls prices on the cost of diesel. now the world's biggest gas producers have got to stop letting clients dictate policy and prices that's according to vladimir putin at a moscow energy summit attended attended as you say by some of the world's largest gas producers they looked at the various challenges facing the industry. has details on this. russian president vladimir putin has just addressed the forum and he spoke about the need for thera formula to price gas so he was saying that it should be linked to oil because oil prices are standardised whereas gas prices are

different for different countries now he also accuse other countries are presumably outside of the form of excluding russia from the market and that it is the consumer that suffers at the end of the day he also spoke about the third energy package now to just explain this simply the producer of gas cannot be the seller as well so can't sell directly to the consumer so one company can't control the whole journey if you like now this is an e.u. pants but putin says is unfair on the consumer ultimately so. he spoke about the need to continue as well with protecting the environment as well supply empty to talk about and talking to them while the members this thirteen in total russia is joined by the likes of cats are wrong on the idea of venezuela and egypt where we've also got the leaders of iran and venezuela here in moscow right now in

the orange here on the map you can see these are the observers and combined the blue in the orange sixty two percent of the world's gas reserves that's what all of those countries a quote now this form is very timely because right now the u.s. is on the brink of becoming a major exporter of l.n.g. and that's thanks to the fracking led boom which has been the u.s. gas prices have collapsed at a time when prices in the rest of the world especially europe have jumped gas prices are actually five times higher in europe than in the u.s. so this talk about fracking the process of it right here so this is what it involves you have to dig deep down into the ground to get your shale rock and then what happens here you can see it going sideways just here you plummet a very high pressure. water sand and chemicals you can see it here what this results in these fishes these fish is that you can see and up through these through the fragments of the hole in the rock comes the bubbles of gas they

make their way up to the surface and that's how you can extract your natural gas now environmentalist are concerned because there is a risk that the water the groundwater can get contaminated from the process. or let's get back to our breaking news story for this hour here on our t.v. an unmanned russian space rocket has a crashed to earth at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan just seconds after launch it's feared that around five hundred tons of toxic fuel could have spilled uncontaminated the area where the rocket came down cuz i call thora these are considering the possibility of an evacuation around the crash site witnesses say the rocket which was carrying three satellites meant for russia's glow and ask global navigation system was out of control as soon as it took off now back in two thousand and ten the same type of proton and rocket also failed to put glow nasa satellites into orbit falling instead into the pacific ocean id incidents have led

to a major overhaul in the russian space agency. but tough and mean all the breaking news on r.t. let's get to one of our top programs here that is well next it's time to crunch the numbers here on r.t. prime interest coming your way after just a moment live from moscow this is obscene.

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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm bob english here in washington d.c. here are the stories we're watching today well times are changing switzerland and once the safe haven bank country apparently do sure there's no officially a dwindling asset itself and it's not the longer you go to private plan and said haven it according to bloomberg the amount of swiss assets under management shrank by twenty five percent over a five year period apparently the problem is if you're trying to help us clients of a taxes and then you send your client list to uncle sam wealthy americans will not want to do business with you big surprise and let's not even get into that pesky euro peg but don't count out the u.s. dollar just yet because argentina has a brand new bond program financed by well the greenback itself central bank reserves are dwindling so the argentine central bank is offering pieces of paper for u.s. paper sounds like the ultimate bait and switch but don't cry for them argentina.