latin american nations express outrage after states allegedly refused their space to search the libyan president's jet over discredited room as it may have been smuggling whistleblower edward snowden out of moscow. the situation has united south american nations more than ever with the leaders calling the forging of the flight offensive and humiliating. and a tense anticipation descends on egypt as the deadline passes for the president to resolve the unrest but mohamed morsi is still to hold on.

international news and comment online on screen twenty four hours a day this is. several latin american nations. after a number of european countries allegedly denied space to the bolivian president's plane the flight was forced to divert to vienna where it was then searched amid rumors that was snowden was on board furious leaders of value response calling the incident humiliating and offensive. as will. but libya says that they did coordinate the flight plan with the european officials prior to taking off from moscow and then all of a sudden mid-flight several e.u. states bans them from entering their territory and this is despite the fact that the needed to refuel along the way and it seems that at this point we began having technical problems with the plane and relayed it with the fuel we found

a transcript of what seems to be a recording of the conversation between the bolivian pilots and the air traffic controller at the airport in vienna in austria let's listen in do you need any assistance not at this moment we need to land because we cannot get a correct indication of the fuel level we need to land 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 they didn't find to be former n.s.a. contractor on that plane it still took quite a few hours for the believing in president to continue his trip back home since the e.u. still wouldn't give them the proper airspace cord or the proper route to continue their flight now believe the a 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 states and the ability also claims that all 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 peru 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 and 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 r.t. that his country was ready to provide. 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 exposed buying into it so to speak basically for the former n.s.a. contractor this there's a transit

a limbo continues as he still stuck inside that friends of the airport the u.s. is still calling for his extradition or moscow does say they're not planning to buy some more since we 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 or do you go to the global media and even social networks have been mulling over the latest developments around snowden's case to talk more about this i'm now joined in the studio by parties and he said now i also artie's across the first of all the nice but so many questions and speculation there are some of these e.u. countries denying the fact that they did in fact limit the access to their airspace and there is present iran saying that he thinks indeed they were complicit in getting his plane diverted on behalf of the u.s. so a lot of questions a lot of speculation where lies the truth behind all this do you think well bolivia

like we heard from you gord there is blatantly saying that they believe washington was behind this i personally don't i'm not surprised by the reaction from latin america is a whole nother issue the u.s. hasn't really even immediately responded to this so there's no even denying going on that's another thing that sort of is a trend that we see when there are these kind of outrageous claims made against the u.s. and that helps to kind of quiet town at least that's what i think the state department said they won't comment on it they did the closest thing they they did to do to commenting is that saying that. there's no reaction so far or any kind of understanding of how the obama administration would react if snowden left the moscow airport is a little bit embarrassing though isn't it if the us did. asked for that plane to be diverted because they suspected snowden was on board and he clearly wasn't going to be questions asked why because many people don't think they asked for it that they demand it let's not forget that just on monday there was this revelation that the

u.s. was spying on their number one ally europe but now we're not hearing anything about that it's almost to the right. and. the europeans perspective it's a bit ironic isn't it bearing about all the anger at the e.u. has over the u.s. over its allegations of spying if it was the case they were helping the u.s. out and closed their respects to that jet that they're helping in effect snowden to because of the u.s. it doesn't make sense as it well i think. it makes perfect sense from one point to you that makes perfect sense if you're willing to believe that. there's a group of people operating behind the scenes who are who are putting political pressure on people that's not in the public eye. and it's the kind of pressure that blowers tend to expose in fact and it's very much the kind of political tactics that snowden's exit. what sort of political pressure we're talking about with the u.s. because of course there's all this talk about the trade free trade agreement sure well i think as far as what kind of direct pressure has been put on anybody. we're

in the realm of speculation it's very hard to say however we can look closely at how the europeans have reacted and look at let's say some of the righteous indignation that's come out of the europeans and i think francois hollande has probably led the european indignation despite the clear claims that from the bolivian side that the french were complicit in at least complicit in refusing. right right to passage. holland is is in a sticky position because he's trying to play politics as the moment his cabinet has been weakened by some revelations and he's and he's on the back foot as far as the e.u. u.s. trade deal is concerned we might come back to that one as well. and i think indignation is putting it very strongly i mean yes spoke out about it so that was just my day it's wednesday and now everyone's kind of really quiet there's lots of confusion like you said bill no one's really denying anything happened today what

we do know is that a president of the country was held in an airport for more than fourteen hours and his plane was searched that's a violation of international law why is no one talking about this yes why are the politicians now let's bring in dr james boys he's from king's college london and he's an expert on u.s. politics. you've been listening to our conversation this week to go so far great good to see you live in london so what's your perspective on all of this particularly that you know that u.s. relations at the moment what do you see a lot of pressure brought upon the countries by the u.s. over this what's your view. you know it's it's fascinating actually and one of the problems of last of course is that sometimes a one can do is agree with what's been said previously but it is somewhat hypocritical for the european leaders in the e.u. central organization to be moaning that the united states and talking about holding up transatlantic negotiations at the very time they're clearly being complicit in

ensuring that the bolivian president craft hasn't had safe passage through european airspace so there is clearly a hypocrisy at stake here which i think a number of your guests have already picked up on and we need to discuss that in more detail i think. but what about the eventual political fallout all over this because it's all over one isn't it at the moment and then of course this in a way is the fact of the surveillance allegations but in the long term this is all going to blow over because the e.u. can't afford to fall out with the u.s. bearing in mind its economic crisis. yeah absolutely there's been a lot of focus upon the one individual at the heart of this ed snowden but what you're seeing i think as nation after nation denies him the right to a safe or bowed. national interest committee before whatever one thinks about his political attempts to expose espionage by the united states these countries that

he's applying to and being rejected from in terms of safe passage are recognizing that whilst they may sympathize with him there's a degree of naivety to his perspective and position and that none of them none of these nations can afford to fall out with the united states least of all europe who of course are very interested in pursuing a transatlantic free trade zone for example and that's something of course which is being held over the head of british prime minister david cameron who desperately wants the european trade negotiations but it comes at the exact moment of course where by here in london there's all the talk about getting out of the e.u. so there's no doubt that transatlantic trade is a very hot topic at this moment and he's being continued into the area of ed snowden and how how national leaders must wish this individual just disappear and allow transatlantic trade to get on the internet impeded going to say you know what i want to talk about the fact that i think at least for latin americans or more talk more about this i think in in more depth a little bit later i don't think they care about free trade or the european economy

international law has been violated and are we going to continue this trend people will be asking of it just being ok it's got just going to be swept under the carpet like every other violation that has happened what you think. i think we need to consider which south american countries we're talking about here and how much they value their trade relationship with the united states let's see whether any members of of nafta for example or any continuing states there come out i think it's important to recognize that national interest will try and trump individual issues with regards to personal integrity on over that wall i think ultimately there's an awful lot of hypocrisy at stake here and that's being recognized when you have blood in the putin for example calling upon snowden to stop releasing material for fear of damaging you worse relations than u.s. partners i think that speaks to the heart of the issue of the leader of russia is clearly not happy offering amnesty and and free passage of this individual

when the chinese authorities for example clearly don't want him to stay in hong kong and when ecuador is refusing to give him safe passage i think it speaks of the contradictions and the problems at the heart of all this and raises the specter of who is really polling ed snowden strings here or just briefly it will slow and end up in the u.s. hands because it all seems to be playing into the hands of the moment because nobody wants lowden in their country by the looks of things. you know absolutely i mean one wonders where he could end up i mean these list of options is growing very very short i understand that tehran is nice this time of year maybe north korea but short of those two rather unattractive options i think really he's running out of road he's clearly a man without a country he's passport been revoked he can't stay in the russian airport indefinitely i'm sure they're going to run out of duty free pretty soon so at some point he's got to leave and go somewhere and wherever he ends up will be almost certainly somewhere that the united states has a full extradition treaty with and which will see him return to some point i'm sure

the arms i'm sorry dr boyce people said the same exact thing about julian assange and he's still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy that's not too far away from you here and and it's and it's quite clear that the ecuadorian government is quite embarrassed by that and he can't stay there indefinitely at some point he will have to face the music you know whether it's today tomorrow or at some point in a future i'm sure you'll agree he cannot stay in the ecuadorian embassy indefinitely. or right jones will it leave it there for the moment with you in london thank you very much indeed dr james boies the expert on u.s. politics from king's college london really interesting get your thoughts now we can go to our correspondent in bolivia. to go via because we would now like to really talk about the implications of fallout between the u.s. and latin american countries and. you can hear me there in the powers a lot of people are saying this is really up in the game with anti u.s. sentiment the moment on behalf of many latin american countries but surely that's what it's been anti u.s.

sentiment anyway hasn't there among a select few. yeah exactly bill actually this is a very hard issue right now here in latin america because now latin america is that really acting like a bloc you know and that right now we can feel anger rage and deception there's just wrote there's been brought about one concept that is very interesting it's the concept of you know colony you know latin american countries this being. harmony's first hand and now they are saying that it's actually encounters which are actually like colonies colonies of the us what they hang orders from the us and this is actually why they are doing they are violating by omitting international law in order to keep hostage. graeme's time the president evo morales in the end of this is actually watch out when he sees how to believe in government saw it and yesterday after a number of emergency meeting albeit government west met all night long trying to

find a solution for president omar morale is now was it may not be shoot you know they were saying that european countries are behaving like colonies now and that's why we say it was some distraction but you need to eat a lot in america right now so that's interesting i've heard that there is not only anti u.s. sentiment but also anger against the e.u. countries which are deemed to be complicit in this yard of version of a play absolutely unsurprising bill i think the political movement of which a moron is a part probably started by chavez the bolivarian revolution as you call it as you might call it has has really a bold and a certain strain of latin american politics and i think there is definitely a very very high degree of sensitivity to any issue and it built around colonialism or neo colonialism but i think his point is really interesting about europe now behaving in behaving as if it's a puppet on a string of the united states as well but she hasn't really that these latin

american countries got more to lose by for example ecuador it's actually got a lot of trade going on between the u.s. over one hundred u.s. companies in ecuador and clearly in believers well that they've got more to lose with the u.s. rather than the e.u. haven't they or is the e.u. still an important aspect for them politically and economically. well you know right now this is a perfect situation doing hanes. associations that they have the international institutions they have to here you latin america you know by claiming they are against us now because of what how can you know we can see such an american the sub block blocked and we can see how. relations why me i actually also when you haines you know we can do believe rocks well the very end alliance for the americas you know or the union of south american nations that the you know sir which is why the way they called america an emergency meeting as well in order to

discuss was what just happened so you know we we have to be a very we have to take a look very easily what's going to happen in that within the next days because you know relationships between alledging american countries latin american and the u.s. and latin american and europe can actually change in the so many many ways i just want to quickly also. wouldn't be perfect then with all this anger that bolivia or indeed venezuela just speeds up there saw a process for snowden as a way of retaliation because i happen to think i just want to take us back to snowden in the moscow airport and ever morality being in moscow for this energy summit speaking to the press and official asylum requests wasn't sent to venezuela or bolivia snowden has applied to twenty one countries about ten of them have already rejected him and it looks like it's going to become more and more each day . so officially haven't applied like i said to venezuela or bolivia but believe me i'm president makes it clear that he's warm to snowden and then his plane is is

is this happened played excuse me. what i'm trying to say is that i don't think this is a coincidence and that i don't think anything's going to change my problems i was thinking i was trying to reply to to be c.e.o. but i don't think anything is going to change i disagree i think that he. yes and i'm sorry to keep beating the same point here i don't think anything can change because of this i think it's going to kind of put a question just very quickly yes well. can you hear me i just want to put a quick question to you which we're seeing some reports of protests and demonstrations outside at least outside the french embassy in la paz. firstly why so the french and how is the role of spain being discussed in the latin american media right there because i think they would be very sensitive towards. spain's role exactly and this is a very important role in that you bring up right now because the perspective of the us can be seen from europe over from the u.s.

you know it can be very different from the latin american perspective to actually hear what we steal what we sense is a feeling of anger against these so for cancers that you know i. presidential airplane to actually fly over their territories and out of france is definitely one of them and there were like protests there were protests in front of the french embassy here in the past you believe ok pretty sure thank you very much indeed that's pretty if you go via spanish correspondent live in the palace of a key takeaway from all of these things it's kind of i suppose a key takeaway for me is that while. moralez were at this gas meeting in moscow when there was a lot of speculation around whether whether snowden was going to be snuck onto an airplane or not the fact is that morale is left moscow without snowden nevertheless . somebody believed snowden was on that plane and why and who believed it why did

they believe us and does that suggest that nobody has a visual fix on edward snowden in moscow right now or at least the people who are trying to catch him and is he could he be on a plane to paris instead. good point well we shall see because the mystery continues brings us all back to the beginning where you know it was had great well no doubt we'll be talking about this for a few more days yet thank you very much indeed. and he said now you thank you very much for that discussion here well be back after a very short break with the latest from the egyptian capital where many including those close to the president believe they are witnessing a coup the latest from caro here on r.t. . technology innovation all the developments around russia we.

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continues here on r.t. some parts of the egyptian army have reportedly been put on high alert status as the military's ultimatum for president morsi to resolve the crisis has now passed fresh clashes between government supporters and and to miss protesters erupted earlier outside cari university after at least eighteen people were said to have been killed there overnight now these pictures at the moment live pictures from tahrir square in the center of caro and correspondent bill true. there and we hope to be talking to them very soon live here for an update on r.t. . what we spoke to egyptian novelist and political commentator ahdaf soueif and he believes it's a sad irony that the me has stood behind the popular unrest. the military for the year that they were actually in power they themselves waged a war against their protesters on the streets in an escalating massacre so it is

very sad that we are back in this position. but in fact it really is the intransigence of dr morsi that has led us that is because over the last year he has had repeated continuous trinity's to act as the president of egypt to bring people in to mend kind of broken ties and to actually put the country on the road of the revolution. where somebody of the armies roadmap for a peaceful solution looks more like a coup hand later the sour piece of el dissects the egyptian crisis with his guests on cross talk here's a quick preview for you there two questions i had on the one was do you think that this will actually be a coup or just a means of transition by other means and also what about the the motivation of the word has a. brian wright well when the military is coming in and taking

a level of authority away from a democratically elected regime that meets my standard of a coup we can call put lipstick on a pig and say it's a transitionary phase or but i think of those are the words that have been uttered in every coup that has ever taken place throughout human history also the words this is not a coup have been said in every oh i'll take the power and i'll give it back to you maybe in the future ok sounds like algeria to me but i think ninety two in two thousand and eleven i don't think that we have a reason not to trust that the military will do the general we did a remarkably good job in my opinion given the challenges that he faced when he was head of the army into those eleven and he steered through that transition. so cross talk a little later discussing the egyptian crisis and you can catch that here on well as i say we're hoping to hear from our correspondents paula slip and bill true who trying to get to their broadcast point at the moment to give us an update on the developments there in his square as you can see thousands upon thousands of people

of there and parts of the egyptian army have reportedly been put on high alert status as that military ultimatum for president morsi to resolve the crisis has now passed so this is now a crucial moment here in egypt true joins us live from his square. to now we can see we can see those thousands of crowds of just been describing a few minutes ago gathering there in the capital pushing for any possible solution to the crisis tell us how is the situation developing. gave it to my people. everyone and the president i mean. people have got to meet. again. in the middle seat morning edition now said he was the president that it seems if you didn't mind the senate race three weeks

feeling that they might see the president next hour at any moment seeing people coming to see please keep saying that if you can and we seeing that it's very best to miscreate to be seen and hearing slogans and will the people know me and the police the one hand the people here feel they have the security the next night they feel they have the governmental nice piece of the mass resignations to ministration over the course of the last few days they feel they have to move political position on this night and to see to meet you soon will of the people behind you excuse the president might resign any minute now he's comes on to say we did you teach him to do to protest is a physical cause the days they tell me to be teaching economy is free for me time saving and securing any thing any decency you want to sort of rights crisis human rights abuses or you can have told me that nothing has changed don't you think if i

really should lay blame or c.m.e. the name was a mystery to me somebody told me they want to thank you. thank you the same people coming to you asking for a new constitution the same constitution the scrutiny is going to still make its constituents and increased way to the right things to do i want to continue to see wanted me to commit. and. actions. so right in the present to keep a hearing on the state. of missouri and displaced people wait to see if i didn't have been you i think i mean most people will step down ok thanks very much indeed bill will fall asleep is also live in his square but before i talk to about just what quickly you're saying that there's a feeling of celebration and festivity there and yet we've been saying and reporting about vote and some people going so is there any child. what's happening behind you in tahrir square could turn ugly and volatile just briefly.

in the pacific because they were there was a moment it doesn't seem as if finance is on the cards but what we do understand is that in the coming hour the army is likely to issue a statement it's taken over egyptian state television and what the army is going to say it's going to stay true to its roadmap is that it is dissolving the parliament it is instituting an interim council people here talking about some kind of technocratic government and at the same time is going to call for fresh presidential and parliamentary elections within the year now and then via said t.v. egyptian president morsi has said that this amounts to a military coup and it needs to be pulled by the right word and certainly there are concerns here that a military coup is on the cards let me remind you that egypt is a deeply divided country you have pro and anti mostly supporters you have people from across the political spectrum there is talk of a possible civil war if indeed the army steps forward and conducts this military

coup the army is also backed by the united states in the last two years since most it took up the reins of presidency and mary can change funded and assisted to achieve of one point three billion dollars the egyptian army which is why questions here are being asked if indeed the americans are going to be propping at a puppet military army there is also some concerns that if the military takes over you have no more moderate examine who are going to become more ready for the next day i would be the situation people behind calling for the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi to step down but ultimately you could see a more islamised egypt emerge thank you very much to the caller and that's our correspondent for slate and also bill true live in karo we'll hear more from them as developments continue over the next few hours thanks very much to both of you this is r.t. live here in moscow and coming up on.