a russian rocket with three satellites on board crashes at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan seconds after blast off now fears of toxic contamination could lead to a total evacuation of the area. wiki leaks 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 or reluctant to get involved. and president obama deals with european outrage over america's spying on the e.u. politicians on citizens by saying well you know the tactic is nothing new and hey everybody is doing. and he just president mohamed morsi takes fire from all directions as the army takes the side of government protesters and several

ministers resign in solidarity with the opposition. live from the russian capital base is r t m rule research with a worldwide headlines it's good to have you with us today and unmanned russian space rocket has crashed to earth just seconds after launch it was carrying three satellites meant for russia's global navigation system within a quarter of an hour joins us live in the studio to bring us the latest on this good to see you but under bad circumstances indeed and what happened to her it was quite a shocking morning for those at the baikonur cosmodrome now if we just have a look at this horrific video grainy there is the russian pronto a rocket that was carrying three glonass satellite now. it went out of control

moments after launching now the main part of the rocket just erupted into a massive fireball and then smaller pieces of the rocket lands it's right on to this in have been said area and of course we are talking about quite a massive accident and surely there will be some environmental impact where you talk about an environment environmental impact and why do you know you know what iraq is which is this is lowered from the launch pad it's absolutely filled to the brim with rocket fuel and of course of many people refer to that as toxic rocket fuel for the concerns might be environmental impact just for the environment for anyone who might be nearby at the time right exactly and experts are saying that the satellites were actually carrying some toxic fuel and them now experts as saying that in total the side of the rocket was carrying out stew six hundred tons off if you will but while reaching the earth the while reaching the earth if you will mostly vaporize but still this accident created

a cloud of dangerous pollutants now that information isn't getting the earth or it is all warriors and there are fears of a possible evacuation and we've been receiving reports that some of the workers at the baikonur cosmodrome have already been evacuated so it is a really a very troubling situation right now as far as well as the medina right now the weather conditions at the baikonur cosmodrome the heavy or high winds there so this point any cloud of a toxic pollutants being dispersed in a great distance right now it's not happening we're keeping a close tab on it here but when it comes to mind you know the russian space program typically is used to use of successes but this however this this kind of accident has happened before yes exactly and the sad news is that this failure well this is not really the first failure this type of rocket now the program has suffered a number of sailors in the past two and a half years now in particular back in two thousand and three other. navigation

satellites were lost because of in other frailer of the rockets and they decide not to disintegrate excuse me disintegrated into the pacific ocean then there was another event another failure back in two thousand and eleven here i'm talking about the failure off the progress rockets now of course we need to mention the financial losses that come to gether well this type of failure is an x. perceived of the a launch of a rocket cost up to one hundred million dollars and the failure of this type of a line ship may actually hit up to two hundred million dollars and a lot so that's a huge failure of one hundred million dollar law and then you talk about the three global soft lights on board as well as price tags you're going to go higher and higher of course we do know with an accident such as this at the baikonur cosmodrome down on the cousin. for the blame game to begin we understand here at r t the investigate is already looking into what exactly went wrong with this proton rocket launcher any ideas what might happen in the possible shakeup in management

toward well you are looking right at the point well basically of the russian space agency has been changing and the last couple of years quite massively and we've seen a lot of resignations we're seeing people being fired and really in particular back in two thousand and twelve the highs of the russian space system and he was actually leading the glonass project resigned following quite a massive corruption scandal and then of the of the construction center also resigned following another failure with the rocket launch so it says there is a massive restructuring process within the agency but of course of the most important thing now is get to the bottom of this accident that hit quite badly the baikonur cosmodrome this morning that's right so a russian or proton rocket basically exploding or two seconds into was launched from the baikonur cosmodrome three satellites on board and. rocket for that matter he's meeting the question of i think you. well of more details about the latest

crash and previous accidents our web site r t dot com is where you need to go well as we come to you live from the heart of the russian capital here on r t i'm rory sushi edward snowden's quest for asylum appears to be hitting a wave of antipathy and with nations apparently reluctant to get involved ecuador support has been lukewarm at best and russia says now that he can stay but only if he stops leaking information or some of those leaks of alienated even washington's closest allies and he said now it has the story. well it's now clear that snowden along with the help of wiki leaks has applied for asylum in some twenty one countries but it's becoming even more clear that more and more governments are very reluctant to reach out and help snowden president putin has said that snowden is welcome in russia if you quote stops harming our u.s. partners he added that russia will not be giving anyone off that they've never

given anyone up and that the u.s. has never given anyone up to them pointing out that snowden needs to choose his final destination and go there the problem is that his options are certainly narrowing down he has made a statement after a long silence in which he says that he believes the u.s. is illegally pressuring other countries not to help them and it looks like if that's the case it's working the consensus seems to be worldwide mostly is that to avoid snowden really at all costs rafael correia which initially was sort of a ray of hope possibly for snowden has now said that it was a mistake that his country made it possible for snowden to travel from hong kong to moscow and that now he's russia's problem in fact he said he wouldn't even want to meet snowden that he's a complicated guy and he's been a spy for a long time this is certainly a shift in tone that we heard just last week where he was speaking about how ecuador would bend to u.s. pressure or blackmailing that they would do what they believe is right we don't

know why but we do know that last thursday there was a phone call from the u.s. vice president joe biden to korea and since then his sentiment has certainly changed but let's remember that it's easy to forget in the midst of all of this scandal noise searching for snowden the question of where snowden will go to lose understanding of the scale of what he's done the scale of these leaks we've already had three for questions worldwide shaken up geo politics and that mixed with possible pressure from the united states is not making it look good for him in terms of options of where he will. i don't know been sort of on the cofounder of the hands off snowden campaign he believes the n.s.a. whistleblower is accusations towards washington a fully justified. the conduct of the u.s. government including statements made publicly by president obama and vice president biden from the very beginning several weeks ago intended to deprive

edward snowden of basic rights innocent until proven guilty first amendment are and the freedom of speech that he had isn't titled you 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 past were i as a weapon and that's just wrong. and now the american president barack obama is in a state of damage control after the latest bunch of damning revelations from edward snowden suggesting that washington has been spying on its e.u. allies says well this is how things are usually done when it comes to big politics and european states are doing exactly the same snooping and even the u.n. chief is trying to distance himself and the international body as artie's 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 come 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 bogged it 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 they're that they're seeking additional insight beyond what's available through open sources. 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 un mission in new york were being spied on by the n.s.a. according to the guardian newspaper the eavesdropping. mission was known as our war 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 marine up or not our take. on the spy leak has left a massive trade agreement between the u.s. and european union members. i mean by a thread. politician a member of the european parliament rebecca homs as she believes a lack of trust between the powers could end up killing 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 as a green member of the european parliament see those instruments we have two agreements. in between us and also europe d'etat 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 you not open the negotiations on t.v. to this internet this united states trade agreement because this is also very very sensitive when it comes to debt up there is a complete different concept of privacy and predicting citizen freedom also in the european union compared to the united states. while the sheer

scope of u.s. surveillance is leaving others no choice but to prepare themselves for a fight that's according to bolivia's president evo morales he visited artie's spanish studios on monday using the russian capital for the gas exporting countries for. you know 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 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 was . watching on t.v. and i russia considers a real life get out of jail free card but with a catch. and i want one of my bathing suit with the government for force feeding them saying it's inhumane and violates human rights i'm on that and the other top

headlines from around the world after this break.

if you're away from. the fact president mohamed morsi drastically support. along with the sympathies of the public at least five ministers resigned amid government protests which were joined by millions and the military promising to deploy square but this time the demonstrators the latest report from cairo and true. in the early

hours of tuesday morning the tipton president finally responded to an ultimatum by the minute three giving him forty eight hours 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 fake he emphasized that he was working towards not sure national reconciliation and the greatest thing to come out of the journey to the five evolution 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 that he was in addition to the next states and therefore he can only be mery from office through the ballot box they are saying that they 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 this comes against the backdrop of a lot of violence towards the muslim brotherhood group number of their headquarters have been run something firebombs leading to several fatalities they have instead said they will have 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 very soon supporting the president maintaining that he is the just meant they will come to the streets and back in even though the military has really. this controversy also makes him meanwhile the opposition figures are saying

they won't stop until so most see is ousted crossways campaign the sequel to these protests tomorrow the rebels they say they will have must stage it's all a sitting disobedience if he stays in office so really we're seeing i continued deadlock with the military getting involved as well. through there in cairo and i'm all calm and historian and middle east expert he says the army's decision to step into the conflict may well at the end of the day 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 see there isn't an obvious alternative to morsi there isn't a clear figurehead for the opposition so even if we'll see just resign it was nobody automatic to take his place not least because the constitutional court would invalidated the elections to the palm and so that we have it is

a very very difficult situation is only one post with any kind of democratic legitimacy that's the president and his own legitimacy is now under attack from huge crowds in the streets from the army and the police who refused to defend himself and his party but whoever comes to power or if most stays in power it's difficult to see that the basic problems of poverty would lend her sources coming into the country terrible problems about paying for the import of vital resources including food those can easily be resolved whoever is in power. now a bouquet of flowers have been left near a wildlife tragedy in the u.s. state of arizona and this off the nineteen members of an elite u.s. squad died in the blazing inferno they were trying to control the details in the pictures of a deadly wildfire online for you right now. and the euros are in shock as another record as unemployment reaches its highest level ever leaving more than twelve

percent of the entire population without jobs details on the website this hour. but for now here on the program for guantanamo bay inmates suing the u.s. government to put an end to force feeding pursuit that they say is inhumane and torturous this comes in the wake of a hunger strike which is now law said for months and seen dozens upon dozens of one hundred six inmates taking part being forced to eat or robert naiman from the just foreign policy think tank he believes the detainee's shouldn't even be in gets my when the first place the us. in. any number we need have. really. you know. you have. you on there. have been relieved. there. were. who are who are doing are all.

of us going to. be the u.s. government all the. old we know all of that. certainly the u.s. government or. even we're going to. work but it certainly a. group of people that don't have a lot of options. western nations are stirring up a hornet's nest in syria because peace is not playing into their hands that's one of the things iran's outgoing president mahmoud ahmadinejad a told our teacher in an exclusive interview right here in moscow to westerners don't want the syrian issue to come to an end.

or in the pursuing to object it's first the continuation of this crisis is in their favor it is in this area of the zionist regime has provided designers for to historical opportunity. if it's come to this for twenty years that they are. actually going to have peace for twenty years but before that they felt that if you're under pressure they see that in egypt in libya in syria there are conflicts in all the regional countries so nobody is paying attention to them so they can rest in peace. the second thing is that under the pretext of the syrian question do you want the crisis to is spread out to the neighboring countries to iraq to lebanon to turkey because they want to affect the whole region after a new middle east. you know check out artie's full interview with president mahmoud ahmadinejad at twenty thirty g.m.t.

in sophie co other program with sophie shevardnadze why that's a get some other global news for you in brief it's time for the r.t. world update now and straight to kabul where at least ten people have died in an assault on a company in the 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 a civilian. and violent clashes with police are broken out again in brazil as protests against transport costs continue across the country rioting erupted in the northern city of mine i was where vehicles were smashed and set on fire at a truck drivers in sao paulo brazil's largest city where they blocked highways fuming over highway toll prices and the soaring cost of diesel. from our first time financial mischief may soon fall under an amnesty if russia or approves a draft law intended to give offenders

a chance to pay back their ill gotten gains it would cover many types of economic crime it was already split the public and business communities are like let's get details on this now across live to our teaser katie pilbeam to get the details on the following print because i saw the people are concerned about where does the bill stand katie at this point ok rory let's give you the details on this one as you say russia is expected to pass a law for amnesty for those convicted of economic crimes which could lead to the release of up to ten thousand prisoners and suspects is one of this was first mentioned by the president of russia vladimir putin as some pieces economic forum last month that is the let's be more humanitarian approach to ward business because sometimes these crimes are not always intentional so the amnesty it does come with some conditions it's for a first time offender and it's also for somebody who. repays their debt to

the state so let's check out some of these crimes that would qualify for the amnesty then so we've got insurance business and bankruptcy fraud money laundering copyright breach and tax evasion that you've got all of mr monopoly in the middle crimes to do with violence in any shape way or form will not be included it. is worth a. no seeing that we've got the jail tycoon. mikhail khodorkovsky he will not qualify as well because he has been jailed for multiple crimes it's just the one crime the business community is understandably quite overjoyed by all of their we have got the. almost none for entrepreneurs right boris toss off he says it's good for morals ethics and prosperity but there's always mixed reviews isn't there specially when it comes to laws we've got the critics the head of the second largest and a v t v he has said today core stand that it could be offering impunity to

representatives of big business so that's how it stands at the moment we've got a little bit of animosity to this steve bill about what it's about at the moment or are about is can for the many things to do not to see you today. or sort of here are two of the games behind the price of gold being laid bare today in the cards a report that's coming your way after the break. south carolina is playing around with the idea of using shame plates which are license plates that can display special messages the department of motor vehicles would have complete access to all these plates and be able to display text on them like suspended uninsured amber alert or stolen you know i actually don't mind the

idea of using shame as a punishment i guess it could be a real deterrent to have a drunken loser written over the license plate of someone who drinks and drives in fact drugged driving plates have been in place in some states for a while but the problem is that more often than not shame penalties aren't the punishment for a crime but just a bonus one in my native ohio you can go to jail for three to thirty days and have your license suspended for one or three years for driving which is a brutal punishment in a country where everyone drives to work you see people are already punished for drunk driving and in america when you pay your debt to society i.e. you get out of jail you're supposed to have a clean slate but the bonus license plate suspension and possible punishment plates make this a triple sentence ignoring the fact that the government will be able to practically display words on your person like a brand on cattle is bad enough but multiple punishments for the same crime seems like a bit of a she thing to me but that's just my opinion. welcome

to the kaiser report imax guys are there but for the grace of bad english goes the japanese banking system so said the also in charge of japan's finance ministry he said that and i paraphrase japan's banks emerge from the global credit crime crisis largely on skase because managers would not speak english well enough to understand the complex bogus to rid of contracts that these scam.