large america is limited to e.u. states refuse that as space and demand to subtly believe in presence chant over discredited rumors it might have been smuggling whistleblower edward snowden to safety. also this hour as human cairo with only hours left until the army's deadline expires for the president to resolve the deadly unrest but mohamad most says his ready to go down fighting if this means protecting his will. and a new best friend pakistan rapidly loses patients over the you are destroying rampage that continues to claim lives china moves into the frame as it tries to wind down hard over the.

years so russia and around the world this is with me here. thanks for joining us. last america's in the year of the denial of as space to fly to be one carrying the believe in president the jet was forced to land and even searched over rumors that edward snowden was on board furious leaders are vowing a response calling it humiliating and offensive but here again officials state a say a different story so they say they never denied rushing to the presidential plane that original flight to pass would have taken the jet through austria then easily frons portugal spain and on to the canary islands for refueling but there's a map of the path the plane actually and you can see it actually it flying all the

way very close to the italian border and then abruptly turning back to vienna and commentators say the only reasons it would change course this point would be because of a mechanical problem being denied airspace or need for a fueling so let's cross now to cannot for more on the today's events igor hello there nice to see you sir we have two different stories so can you make some sense out of it for us please well absolutely the stories are quite different and believe years says the did coordinate the flight plan with the european officials prior to taking off from moscow and then all of a sudden mid-flight several. of them from their territory and this is despite the fact that we needed to refuel along the way and it seems that at this point we began having technical problems with the plane and really with the fuel we were

able to find what seems to be courting of the conversation between the pilots and a traffic controller at the austrian airport let's listen in. do you need any assistance not at this moment we need to learn because we cannot get a correct indication of the few level we need to land now anonymously several european officials have denied that the air space of these countries was blocked for the presidential flight but as a result they were allowed to conduct an emergency landing in austria but only after the fuel began dangerously running out we were able to speak to the believe in defense minister who was on that flight while they were still at the airport in vienna here's what he said about the situation. a flight path was

initially approved but the spanish authorities contacted us saying we were no longer authorized to land on the territory of a spanish airport initially it was otherwise and we have permission to land at an airport on the canary islands for refueling. now frankly all of this is quite unusual but we'll see even more extraordinary is that after the plane landed in austria a local authorities actually searched it and looking for snowden on board although they themselves say that they were allowed to do so by authorities but even when they did didn't find the former n.s.a. contractor on that plane it still took quite a few hours for the bolivian president to continue his trip back home since the e.u. still wouldn't give them the airspace cord or the proper route to continue their flight now bolivia call this an act of aggression violating all international laws especially the fact that the president's plane was searched this is totally

unprecedented in the approach to how to deal with airplanes belonging to heads of state and the ability of also claims that the whole operation was planned and organized by washington there's been also a massive reaction in latin america with cuba and ecuador saying that it's a massive offense not only against believe here but all countries in the region who and argentina are calling for an emergency summit a continental style and for all the local countries to discuss this incident and think about reaction but what's quite significant is that so many european officials are not afraid of using snowden's revelations even gauge whether you were asked demanding explanations over the latest reports that the n.s.a. has been spying on europe when it comes to the man himself then they are ready to go to extreme measures in order to avoid any possible contact or contact with him even if it means blocking airspace or even searching presidential aircraft one of

the reasons why they may have thought that snowden was on board that plane is because of the bolivian president told earlier exclusively to our t. that his country was ready to provide political asylum to snowden. why not of course the situation is far from ideal his case is constantly discussed on an international level bolivia is ready to give political asylum to the people who expose buying them so to speak this. is another president who seems to be quite sympathetic to snowden and his revelations is the head of ben is a well on our team managed to catch up with him as well here's what he thinks about this case this young man has to be protected by the international community he dead with dignity to tell the world that there are mechanisms to spy on it even on your own allies if snowden stays alone he will be destroyed by protecting snowden we

will protect the peace. now when it's a well i n. believe you are so far say that they haven't received an official request for political asylum from mr snowden and while he himself retracted his request for political asylum in russia after hearing the conditions voiced by president putin who said that he could stay here but only if he stopped harming washington so basically for the former n.s.a. contractor this there's a transit a limbo continues as he's still stuck inside that friends on me to where airport the u.s. is still calling for his extradition or moscow does say they're not planning to buy some more since they do see him as a human rights activist while passing them over to the country where they still actively use the death sentence is a possibility for russia. group is going off or voicing their line from central moscow on the latest developments in the edward snowden story got many thanks indeed and aviation expert chris gates joins us now live from manchester to discuss

the situation and legal issues around the believe in president's plane mr gates thank you very much indeed for joining us here at r.t. so you've seen the ruby aircraft. taking a sharp turn by turn in border what does it tell you you know it's been quite a bizarre morning really with this plane traveling out from moscow. seeming to do that dog leg over austria going back to the. theory to refuel but also going to suggest to him that any further a space has been blocked of the aircraft can't continue until clearance is given to enter for example italian airspace french airspace. of course spanish airspace so strange turn of events you know we kind of wonder who's telling the truth here

and how often our flights denied airspace in europe and especially ones carrying presidents. well any flights can be banned from operating in europe for a whole variety of reasons. you know more often than not that comes down to safety issues with regard to a particular aircraft or a particular group of aircraft or particular airlines in this instance this being the diplomatic flights in theory it should have been given clearance to fly to wherever it wanted to go to to refuel on words to back to bolivia in this instance. you know we simply don't know who is being entirely honest with us here. the fact of the mattress of the bolivian authorities should have filed

a flight plan. with all of the european authorities so that that would give clearance to this aircraft maybe it's just possible that some of the european air traffic control authority is didn't get that bit of paper to say this plane is coming and needs to be given access to that airspace it's obviously a big diplomatic issue but to believe and the last american authorities are leaders they keep saying that the life of president moron it's was what's put at risk is that tree. you know it's quite possible that this airplane well have been having safety issues we heard traffic control recording. of this airplane making its diversion into airports. if there was a problem with the aircraft even so much that the pilots couldn't get an accurate

reading of how much fuel was left. there is the safety it sees that quite clearly because you need to know how much fuel you've got before you continue your journey all right that was chris yates aviation expert mr yates thank you very much indeed for sharing your views thank you france is at the forefront of the e.u.'s rhetorical offensive against washington's surveillance activities officials have even said a massive trade pact between hugo tape being negotiated by the atlantic allies could now be sunk by the spying revelations oxys more if an option our ports. no lice between elyse no privileges for the ones proven false fronts has been so furious of america's in couldn't spy that its almost straightforwardly rejected the e.u. us years long project the world's biggest free trade zone now we have this political

and diplomatic debate is it normal that one states united states with the help of the united kingdom takes the ability to spy on every communications all over the world there's a lot of people who tend to think that not normal that's not morally and politically justified according to recent leaks of the us national security agency has carried out covert surveillance on french and e.u. high ranking officials both of home and abroad monitoring millions of emails and calls blogger and internet freedom fighters and mark says paes have always existed but the way the game is played has been transformed what is interesting it's to figure that the n.s.a. doesn't spy on people only for terrorism to fight terrorism but also for political and also economical reasons because we know that they are using this spying system to help american companies steffanie used to work as

a journalist in the soviet union at the time of the cold war he says he has an impression that nothing has changed since then our role most nothing. at least it was clear at that time there were two sides to winds today is not certain who is friend and who is rival yes good question if there are friends at all true friends not sure. france america's nato partner has been supporting its most controversial initiatives over the last decade sharing risks and expenses cost in both money and human lives. we're asking for confirmation or if i'm asian of it so as not to prejudge it but there is already a sufficient amount of elements for us to ask for an explanation what will be the consequences firstly for it to end as soon as possible i would see mediately but some doubt that france will go beyond wars in the second is ations believing

that paris will continue to dance to america's tune. we think alone should stop all negotiations over the free trade zone but we sure he's not going to do this because his key logic is to keep good relations with the us. and this is a big problem for europe even humiliated and violated by america we still want to have special relations with this country. france has demanded a clarification from the us but has so far been denied an answer this is one of thousands of cameras that we can see around paris and it can see us one the government is using for security reasons france may not be a world leader on the list of big brothers but even these has sparked a tense discussion here over freedom and privacy violation and on ordinary citizens the reaction has been more vocal when politicians and diplomats found themselves in the spotlight and of a way big surveillance system it's too early to say whether paris and washington

will ever be able to swallow this bone of contention and move on or they'll always look bad. written off. from paris. with some go around snowdonia is taking need turns by the day not only with the believe in president's plane being forced along but now revelations that ecuador's embassy in london has been bugged and to talk more about the potential consequences when our joined live by john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris mr marquand welcome to the program very nice to see you as always let's just start with this very fiery rhetoric from the e.u. over america's surveillance just how earnest is it i don't take it seriously at all i think it's for show it's very revealing and symbolic role as this plane should have been forced to learned in a european union country after the withdrawal of overfly rights by other european

union countries because this of course shows how the. european hudl jumps to the american circus musters command the european governments are very obviously under the thumb of the americans they have shown this very flagrantly and the reason why i say it's symbolic is that it's the abuses which snowden has revealed the explosion of espionage activity against u.s. citizens and against people around the world by the u.s. government is only one side of the coin the other side of the coin is that there has been massive increase in cooperation in intelligence sharing between the united states and its european union allies in the last ten years and certainly since nine eleven so it's entirely appropriate if you like that the whistleblower should have been attempted to be caught by european union countries because the problem that he

has revealed is concerns intelligence sharing between the european union and america as well as the increased best finish by the american security forces yeah but look latin america has really come together like this expressing a little unilateral support for believe they're going to europe and america only drumming up opposition to the action definitely we'll have to see of course how the latin american leaders react now after this extraordinary violation of. aviation law and of diplomatic immunity i mean the idea that like some gangster or like a pirate that countries can simply order a presidential plane to land because they suspect they've heard a rumor that someone might be on that plane is absolutely shocking it should shock anybody who is interested in human rights and the rule of law edward snowden is not on the interpol wanted list there is no justification for this kind of gangster

activity if he is to be extradited to do night it states then that must of course happen and. according to legal procedures that is to say according to extradition treaties where they exist and if the americans and their european allies are going to say that these well established rules and principles no longer matter then they are showing themselves up to being what in fact they are which is to say completely hypocritical on human rights issues and of course yes that will bring about untold opposition from latin america from china and probably from russia yes and it looks like the euro is a willing to act on snowden's leaks but holder nothing to protect him or to think i think that's right i mean look this thing i've just made the point about how the americans and the europeans are hand in glove but this is the first time that we've known about this let's not forget when the cia rendition scandal broke several years ago that's to say the scandal of people being kidnapped by american officials

by american soldiers and then taken to secret centers for interrogation those secret centers as we know were in poland and romania they were in the e.u. and nato states so we know that the american and european intelligence agencies operate extremely closely together we know that the european treaties the lisbon treaty for example commits the european union to working hand in glove with nato so this in ascension not really come as a surprise to anybody. john locke lend a director thought is at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris mr locke and thank you very much thank you well the head of the mission from they believe an embassy in vienna has given r.t. his reaction to the forced landing on the president's plane and he says it's absolutely unacceptable to treat a head of state in this way. truly this goes against the practice of cooperation and quick existence between countries this goes against international

conventions and critiques which goes against international law and all the rules that have been established over a long period of time this shows disrespect for other countries independence it was a private plane it was not commercial and there was a high ranking official believe in precedent on board and yet the flight was delayed and suspended because of suspicions that unfounded and the plane was grounded for fourteen hours i think this is unprecedented situation. just back larry shortly after the break was more on the clashes in cairo on the fourth day of anti-government protests and made fears they could trigger yet another revolution and right now you can see right behind me this is a square in central cairo where people have got together to protest against president morsi will be back after the break.

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you're watching on t.v. life or mosca in pakistan at least twenty three people have been killed in the latest u.s. drone strike they were suspected of being islamist militants but it's not unusual for such a tux to under with sybrand and counseled his to the deaths of innocents have led to of rapid deterioration in the relations between the former allies islam about on washington but failing that void best days as china which is winning the hearts and minds of pakistanis. something friendship. god. mandarin chinese it may be one of the hardest languages to learn but it's the most popular course at this school in islamabad teachers here say in rome and in

chinese classes has more than tripled in the past three years some of the students are hoping for a job with a chinese company in pakistan others hope to go to china to further their education university courses there cost a few thousand dollars compared to the tens of thousands charged by american and british colleges forget harvard or can bridge for some of these young pakistanis china is replacing the west around eight thousand pakistani students are already studying in china and this group is planning to join them some years before boxing people. want to go to america and another country or to endorse a model or study as it were trying to do right now. because the border. in. infrastructure works. the water port in baluchistan province is one of beijing's

many large scale infrastructure projects it gives china access to the arabian sea commercially and if need be militarily china builds two nuclear power plants here and is contracted to build two more. beijing is pakistan's main arms supplier and the two countries are jointly developing this fighter jet but for most pakistanis china's influence is felt in more practical ways in their wallets and at the local markets and while pakistan's main trading partner is still the european union trade between china and pakistan surpassed twelve billion dollars for the first time last year and thanks to a free trade agreement signed in two thousand and six chinese consumer products have flooded pakistan and they're impossible to miss almost everything sold at this shopping center is made in china. the cheap imports have been blamed for hurting some local industries but many of the shopkeepers we met were happy with the way business was going forward to fifty percent or.

return or through force for a few very very big superpowered the moment for. your friend over. and when it comes to pakistan's other friend and superpower the united states. what is going through and that's a common view here according to a recent pew research survey nine in ten pakistanis describe china as a partner well seventy four percent said they see the u.s. as an enemy pakistanis are by and large to china by and large anti-american because the feel like. china has never been. the constant. feeling that you know the u.s. is just there's this favor coming smash things up without a god for the consequences but most of these students aren't motivated by politics rather still hope for better opportunities they may not know exactly what changes

the coming years will bring but the betting that china will play a key role in shaping their future this account you know hardly somebody august on . some balance of the egyptian all may have reportedly been put on high alert status hours before the military to make some for president morsi to result the bottom crisis expires fresh clashes between government supporters and to islamist protests has erupted cairo university at least eighteen people were said to have been killed overnight belcher is in cairo with details about tell us more about what's going on in the capital right now. tensions are rising as violence has erupted once again focused around cairo university in the capital as opposed to between residents. and supporters of the muslim brotherhood president against this backdrop of a deepening crisis in the country these clashes happened also yesterday night when reports of the rival rival protest marches accidentally met at the area and started

fighting has descended into a very bloody scenes eyewitnesses reported burchill but it's they will sing said they saw handmade shotguns rock throwing and want to talk this is a worrying trend here in egypt where by civilians are increasingly and breathings weapons too cautious and this is where this was relieving up to many many deaths and a lot of injuries that people are really worried about here. and also the on the deadline is looming will turn the conference president morsi has rejected the demands of the military. absolutely seems a very tense here is we're waiting to hear what the army are going to say this comes off the president said in his speech yesterday that he rejects all all that the concessions that the opposition forces one states put in place for example early elections or a constitution he also slammed to our own to make him and that the military set him telling him to put to the demands of the people otherwise they will intervene at

the moment the army's been having imagine he takes all often need to deal with this crisis the latest is that the opposition figure mohamed atta but a guy who represents the protesters and also the form of this proposition has been meeting with the army together with representatives of the church to come of the pope himself and others which is egypt's leading islamic directing all reports that members of the missing motherhood group the freedom and justice party may have been present at these meetings everyone is really holding their breath here waiting to hear what the results is of these of this key meeting particularly in the run up to the end of this forty eight hour deadline which is cool thirty pm cairo time the president for his bond has remained steadfast he says he wants to stay he is there just to do to make a democratically elected president he's not going anywhere meanwhile protesters saying. they haven't seen any change in egypt he's unfit to rule and they want him to meet soon reducing a mosque to be divided egypt is on the brink of a huge crisis. coming up on his belcher live from cairo thank you very much

indeed. coming up after the break elsie's exclusive interview with iran's outgoing president mahmoud ahmadinejad stay with us for that. wealthy british style. time to rise from. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . it is not a surprise to me that we've got problems and one time during a time of budget cuts we spend one hundred and fifteen.