i know very little. edward snowden rejects russia's asylum condition that he stops working against washington begin to run one by one. president obama says every country spies in a bid to america's plate and snooping on its european allies. into no way an unmanned russian rocket loaded with navigation satellites crashes a minute after takeoff. accident clouds of toxic gases and sparking fears of an environmental disaster. and night pictures now from. in egypt the situation is reaching boiling point as the deadline for the president to address the calls of millions of protesters moves closer with every minute trees

now proposing to scrap the constitution and hold new elections. international news and comment. twenty four hours a day this is. edward snowden has withdrawn his request for asylum in russia it follows a statement by the russian president that the fugitive whistle blow is welcome to stay only if he stops washington details now from. a lot of conflicting reports over whether or not snowden had asked russia for political asylum and it turns out that late on sunday he passed up with a written request to a representative of the russian foreign ministry through the legal expert from wiki leaks was accompanying him on this trip. but then took the request to ban. after hearing what russia's president vladimir putin had to say on

this and he voiced his condition saying that moscow is not planning to actual date him but he could stay but only if he stopped working against washington before leader heard from the president's press secretary to be scoffed added that russia considered snowden human rights activists and asking him over to the u.s. where he is still actively used is impossible the envelopes passed over to the russian diplomat also contained applications to twenty other countries for political asylum and ten of them have already officially rejected including brazil and india eight e.u. member states of also given red light so far including germany and spain they say that on the very rules all applicants for political asylum have to be on a very territory now venezuela and believe you are the countries which seem to be ready to provide political asylum to mr snowden and early r.t. spanish and all managed to speak exclusively to the presidents of both countries

yes why not of course the situation is far from ideal his case is constantly discussed on an international level. here bolivia is ready to give political asylum to the people who are exposed to these so to speak. this young man must be protected in terms of international and humanitarian law because he's being pursued by the u.s. plays a president vice president by the secretary of state why is he being pursued what kind of crime has he committee has he launched a missile or killed anyone no he hasn't seen on the country he's doing everything to prevent the rules to prevent any kind of illegal action against the whole world in ecuador was the first crunchy words snowden asked for political asylum that we've heard from the country's president who said that he has to be at least on a russian territory in order for them to start the process saying it but snowden is currently believed to be. he's still staying in this transit zone at city meets

airport where he arrived to around a week ago from hong kong would the invalid american passports be u.s. is still asking for his extradition while snowden is promising more revelations. well edward snowden has threatened the new leaks of a u.s. spying programs political commentator and examined and cross off believes that president putin's asylum condition for the fugitive whistleblower reflects the relationship between moscow and washington i personally think that there are two kinds of relations going on between the west and russia and america as well in russia they have business relations which are growing all the time and developing and we have political relations when we kind of put it this sounds posturing and saying things that don't really mean and i don't think that america and russia will fall out over snowden it's just that snowden is not that the big issue for the americans and russians they have so many other headaches they have to sort out

syria because of what to sort out so many other things but it does make a good sound bite you know when come in take to say ah yes the cold war is back which is complete rubbish actually and that's why we will see facts continue to put on the pressure and say all those things no no i don't see any serious problem with the relations between russia and the west. meanwhile the u.s. is attempting damage limitation off to the latest leaks spy snowden revealed washington has spied extensively on its european allies barack obama's claims this is usual practice in many countries and has not called the outrage in the e.u. and the u.n. . 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 bogged at the e.u.'s mission in washington d.c. and also hopped 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 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. reporting from new york marina more night r.t. . and. bowden m.e.p. from the european conservatives and reformists group believes that barack obama's

explanation simply won't be enough for europe europeans are very angry about what's happening they were always big admirers of barack obama they regarded him as the man next to jesus christ and now this man is spying on them particularly in germany is a very sensitive issue people are very angry because he feels being spied. that has targeted germany which basically is a very strong ally of the united states or is a huge disappointment the popularity of obama is dropping by the day and in fact obama is heading for some trouble with europe the closest ally you could think off if you look at the number of communications intercepted in germany five hundred million read excessive it goes against all data protection legislation that we have privacy isn't is intruded this way by the americans and we do not know what the scope is and what they do with the information. amid the circus surrounding

snowden's fate it's fair to say the revelations he initially made have been somewhat lost but to find them again would have to do is had to watch website for a full timeline of events around the whistleblower and of course the n.s.a. leaks that rocked the international community. russia's prime minister has demanded a list of those responsible for a space rocket crash in kazakstan on tuesday morning seconds after takeoff the unmanned rocket fell to the ground and exploded within the baikonur cosmodrome it was carrying three satellites meant for russia's lowness global navigation system while earlier but in a quote you never gave the full details to my colleague research. it was indeed to rather shocking morning for those at the baikonur cosmodrome this this morning and as you can see here there is the russian project on rocket which was carrying three glenn asset lights now it went out of control moments into a launch and then the main part of the rocket just directed into a massive fireball and then the smaller parts of the rocket just crashed onto and

then habitat's area so clearly it was a massive accident and surely it would be followed by some environmental impact is while you talk about environmental impact also i suppose the risk to human safety you you talk about the baikonur cosmodrome if you will where the spectators start it's about two or so kilometers away from the launch pad a good safe distance however with a rocket that shooting up into into the sky at a very very high speed exploding during the launch what kind of dangers does that pose well it post some dangerous of course and the experts say that in total it was carrying over six hundred tons of fuel not to mention of course the toxic fuel and the sad lies that it was carrying together whether it now but while reaching the earth the fuel mostly vaporized but still and created as a cloud of dangerous pollutants now that information of course was getting the

story it is quite worried and there were even fears of a possible evacuation as clearly it is a troubling in whatever sense well i mean we know the latest reports are from the baikonur cosmodrome down the cars except the weather is clear there are no high winds of the bombers there's no concern right now of some sort of a toxic pollutant cloud disposing over the area but when it comes to the russian space program typically it's used to a big line of successes however when it comes to this proton rocket this failure is not the first time it's happened andy said that isn't deed not as of. this type off a rocket now the program has suffered a number of failures and the past. two and a half years now in particular back in two thousand and another three navigation satellites were lost in the pacific ocean due to the rocket launch failure than in two thousand and eleven here i'm talking about the failure of the progress rocket so clearly some failures but they all come with huge financial losses now the

launch rockets cost somewhere around one hundred million dollars and x. where it say that the failure of it could head up to two hundred million dollars and last and these are huge figure that's only that is a price tag for dinner one hundred million dollar launch when you talk about the three global floods i mean i have no idea how much they're worth each piece being lost in the tip of this new proton rocket you see the one thing i do know is that the russian space agency has been restructuring certain levels of its employees expectations when this blame game begins and it's going to roll exactly well the russian space agency has been changing quite significantly and the past couple of years well we've seen resignations with seeing people being fired and in particular back at the end of two thousand and twelve the hands of russian space systems and he was actually leading the glow on projects and he resigned following really

a massive corruption scandal then also and the same two thousand and twelve at the height of the main constructing center also resigned following a failure a nother rocket launch so clearly what we are observing right now is some massive restructuring process within the agency but again the most important thing is really to get to the bottom of what happened this morning at the baikonur cosmodrome do this. it's a big loss this morning a three global board approach on a rocket launched today as the rocket lost its trajectory and exploded over the policies within a culture of i think you. dr patrick fuller founder of capital science connections feels that although the proton crash is regrettable the plug shouldn't be pulled on the russian space industry right now the proton program looks as though the failure rate of around about ten percent over the life of the program i remember

this is a launch vehicle that's been going since the very beginning of the soviet space program it actually began life in design as a launch of i.c.b.m.'s. it's it's not a great record but let's have a look and see what's going to happen over the next six to twelve months over the next series of launches are we going to see any more failures that's the crucial thing i think another one more really tip the balance the thing is that space programs are very complex things i mean we're focusing very much now on the technology but when you look at the photo years that have happened in space launches across the world you're looking at the complex relationship between the technology between the people and the systems that are involved in managing the technologies and the interesting thing is that at the heart of all these failures usually there is some kind of failure of the system some kind of failure in the

decision making process that's had to take place and the crucial thing right now and i know ross cosmos will be looking at this immediately the crucial thing right now is to look at the systems that are in place to look at the decisions that were made to identify where the failures were and to take some action and show that actually being taken to alleviate that problem just turned fifteen minutes past the hour now with more news including the latest on protests in egypt as hundreds of thousands demand president morsi to step down we go live to carlos tell his square .

download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. anytime anywhere. continues here and on the clock is ticking for egypt's president mohamed morsi as

the wednesday ultimatum for government action approaches immense crowds determined to oust the is mis leader still showed no intention of leaving carter's town his square and there's a live pictures from there at the moment here on now a draft by the army to solve the crisis has just surfaced or to find out what it contains we're joined live by our correspondent bill true the encourage bell tell us more about this drop what does it say what what are its a. lose extraordinary scenes nationwide as people come back to the streets but that day calling for the ouster of the president as you can see behind me tens of thousands of people descended on the presidential palace into been and to find scenes so much celebrates rehears people thinks night might be the night the president steps down the clock is ticking for most if he would say our wednesday the military gave him to fill the demands of the people is coming to

a close tomorrow i mean while the eat the egyptian armies the road map for the future of the country will still meet huge media outlets the day it said they would be new constitution new constitution a new parliament an interim council to take over however it didn't specify if there would be a new presidential elections to not sure if the army already pushing morsi to me now. maybe just the miss effectively thing a situation of the sort two years ago after january to buy relations with no constitutional parliaments no president for the people he was saying is they don't care and most see the president trying to egypt and strategize situation they saying they just want to stop oppression so how is morsi and the government dealing with the situation at the moment. well the president is seeing a lot of dissent from within his own administration a group of cabinet ministers i resigned today including the foreign minister also yet to be spokespersons for the presidency and the spokesperson for the shura

council which is a worrying sign to the presidency he sat down with the minister of interior and the defense minister the head of the army in crisis talks however we're not sure what the result of it's going to be we will have a statement released this evening from the president the president doesn't have a support base here in egypt just to keep him and his away from here there is a sit in an ongoing sit in in the force of morsi by the islamist parties including the mr motherhood's freedom and justice party they say the legitimacy is a red line the president was democratically elected so he cannot be ousted off base in this manner he must feel his four years in time and then have presidential elections so we're seeing a divide in egypt with the military a positioning itself in the form of intervening and really when operation was going to happen in the next few hours the siege story seems until his square behind this again very much indeed no doubt more for you a little later as the hours tick on thank you very much indeed true to life in cars talk express. when my colleague spoke to pro-government activist

abdel aziz who condemned the on rest saying it's driven by foreign support and remnants of the old regime. the president keeps talking of the national reconciliation but what kind of units can there be if the leader is slamming the opposition about by millions of people as thugs actually what we're seeing now is chaos it's the former regime members who are trying to stir it this instability is being supported from the outside of course by israel and the gulf states which have started to finance these people to topple a legally elected regime yes but we know that the tama road movement has collected twenty two million signatures under a petition for president morsi his resignation which is almost double the number of people that voted for him isn't that a solid enough reason to quit for president morsi. first of all these numbers are

totally inaccurate we have also collected twenty six signatures in support of the president if you combine these together and you see that they will come something absolutely illogical but we actually haven't seen the president himself reaction passon to the biggest display of dissent since there were a bolt of twenty eleven and the ultimatum said by the army why. little the ultimatum of the orland violates the constitution yes they have said the statement is not a military coup but let's keep in mind that millions have also taken to the streets in support of the president army does not protect the leader himself the president is a guarantor of the constitution and what's happening in the streets is nothing that can. alter the government's plan to address the ultimatum will they continue to reject it or finally lean towards a compromise. a compromise will take no one wise man and

refused to reach a compromise but throughout the past two years it hasn't been achieved it's talk of war between all the political parties if morsi leaves now chaos will come and the next president will also face millions and millions of protesters in the streets in the square and this is undemocratic democracy says we have to respect the will of the people and of their lawful rights and they have elected this president and our president should have a parliament to form a government that otherwise we will see millions in the streets ending up in clashes. where you can give your own forecast for where egypt is heading r.t. dot com there we have our latest poll waiting for you on our home page r.t. dot com let's look at the results so far will we can see her on screen that makes you think the government is bound to collapse leading to chaos and possibly a humanitarian crisis a little less a predicting that the president will ally with the army. to suppress dissent and

rule on tater we can see that just over a quarter at the moment saying that will be a military coup that could bring some degree of stability while only eight percent think that the mubarak era officials would take over more sees imminent resignation take over after he has resigned so those are the results so far to dot com the head of france's far right national front marie le pen has been stripped of her right to legal immunity as an m.e.p. exposing her to a possible trial over racism charges the decision follows a request by a court and three years after she was accused of inciting racial hatred for comparing muslim street prayers to the occupation of france by german nazis in a recent interview with us r.t. le pen said that she's been hunted for quite some time for expressing something no one would do in paris and brussels. even from the new truth is the censorship reigns in france and we are hunted down in all circumstances because we

express an opinion that is different from the one way track of thinking developed by the european union and also by the socialist party and the right wing parties in france have been hunted down first saying i think it's not normal that prayers be allowed to take place right in the middle of the street blocking traffic it was a territorial occupation that is unacceptable it's the last i'm being hunted down for having said this it's not a big deal it's a source of pride for me to be hunted down by the system. more than. do you feel less secure because of that knowledge of his own promise no i don't feel any less safe but still it shows that although france bans a lot of time preaching freedom to the entire world it should probably deal with its own issues first. of all the thoughts marie le pen gave to r.t. in that interview head right now to our website where you can find the full version of a no holds barred discussion with sophie seven out. the website of the moment when

most misbehaved russian media tycoon alexander lebedev was sentenced to one hundred fifty hours of community service for a book he started during a live t.v. show and find out the details of the drama on r.t. dot com. a russian transport helicopter has crashed into a hilltop in siberia reportedly killing twenty one people including children reports also say rescue troops have reached the supposed crash site but found no wreckage and continuing the search operation aircraft was said to be carrying twenty eight people including a local politician and representatives of an investment company the polar airlines helicopter reportedly came down in strong winds and low visibility and officials say they have opened an inquiry into the case. peace in syria is not what the west wants that's according to iran's outgoing president mahmoud ahmadinejad in an exclusive interview to r.t. he told us some powers want the conflict in syria to spread all across the mideast

region. in libya in egypt in syria there are conflicts in all the regional countries so nobody's paying attention to israel so they can rest easy the second thing is that under the pretext of the syrian question they want the crisis to spread out to neighboring countries to iran to lebanon and to turkey because they want to affect the whole region they want to new middle east. well you can watch the full interview with president mahmoud ahmadinejad at twenty thirty g.m.t. . but coming down to the financial facts you need a prime interest that self to the break and i'll be back with more news with the team in just over half an hour from.

south carolina's 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 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 a v. 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 think to me but that's just my opinion. 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 and switzerland is once the safe haven bank country apparently does your there's no officially a dwindling asset itself and it's not the longer you go to private financial asset

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 aid 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 paid but don't count out the us 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 argentine paper for u.s. paper sounds like the ultimate bait and switch but don't pray for them argentina because our whistleblower in chief is facing heat from our former get in prison or in cheap that would be george w. bush who said snowden is a traitor and that the u.s. has been hurt by the leaks well we're going to talk to mark foley being about these matters and more.