venezuela's president. taking on what he called a villainous. supporters and opponents of the ousted president. with. over two hundred wounded. and is the capital of russia's republican. university. hosting future high profile sporting.

it is just after. this is life with me straight to your top headlines right now stranded n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden finally has a place to go. has decided to offer him asylum. in the legal limbo which has left him stranded at a moscow airport since last month snowden is wanted in america or on espionage charges for details of its global spy program let's get details now from. good morning what exactly did you have to say about the whistleblower. well he definitely had a lot to say about the united states of america. basically. calling them terrorists.

even paralysed as a matter of fact of course that the statement came during the raid which was this is dedicated to the venezuelan days independence but it was provoked by an emergency meeting which was held by the heads of the south american countries believe and that in turn came after an incident with the plane all of the believe in president ever murali swish was which was essentially pushed out of european airspace after leaving moscow on july second now the plane was not allowed to go either over spain's italy portugal's or french airspace because apparently there has been there has been from nation from a u.s. u.s. diplomat who said with certainty that edward snowden was hiding on board i believe in the president's plane the plane was forced to land in all strait was finally searched of course believe me and president was outraged as well as were leaders of other south american nations who have said that essentially european states

european governments have now become colonies off the united states basically running at their beck and call and doing everything the united states wants them to do again as the plane was diverted because of a statement by apparently by the u.s. ambassador to australia who insisted that edward snowden was indeed on that plane so the meeting at the so the heads of state of south american nations have met and then the this statement the offer of asylum came not just from with the venezuelan president but also. as a head of state as well but it does look like it could be. could be the next point of. port of call for edward snowden who has applied for political asylum to twenty seven countries at this point and of course he has gotten a lot of rejections to plea at this moment absolutely arena so the snowden song. we understand is the venezuelan president mr. snowden would be welcome in venezuela something alternately are supposed to be of the day things are looking up for the

former n.s.a. whistleblower. well guess of course now the question is how he is going to why to them as well but that is something to be tinkered out a lot later like i said he has applied for asylum in several countries a lot of them have actually refused them so far. he has been on the run for the he has been on the run for the past several weeks after making. after appearing on the guardian. in which he was exposed to the surveillance network conducted the surveillance conducted by in the se and the cia which essentially was a lot broader than anybody could have ever suspected several several diplomatic scandals have already broken out because of that because it does look like the united states has actually been spying even on its european allies of this point really listening to everything people the world over have to say or to write in their e-mails and he has been it is believed that snowden has been in the transfer zone off the airport for the better part of the last two weeks we have tried to

look for him but all in vain if his his somewhere his really well. he may make an appearance before leaving to them as well or a war may be really it's up to snowden and the leaders of the two states primarily venezuela to figure out what will be their next step all right. thank you. for the founder of waterway news or charlie mcgrath you say it's puzzling how european countries avoid outrage at washington spying tactics but failed to aid the person who gave them the information. the laundry list of nations that snowden has applied to for asylum include scores these european nations that are just all giving the same excuses that he's got to either show up on their soil or in their embassy you know the information that's been released has shown that our allies in europe were the one the in a lot of cases the ones being spied on so for them just to play the well we don't

want to we don't want to upset the americans so we're going to give the standard answer no you know no comment or he's got to show up at the embassy it's it's very much a pressure rating for people like me that want to see the truth come out but we even when you expose the truth even when you give it this truth to the people who are being spied on they won't step up and support truth so yeah it is a bit frustrating to to see these european nations just kind of ignore this outright spying that's happening. while the latest allegations suggest that europe has also been carrying out its own fair share of spying a french newspaper exposes the scope of its country's intelligence program and its collection of online telephone data both domestically and abroad those details for you that coming your way shortly here on our today. but in the meantime on the program we turn our attention to egypt violence and death mokhtar what the ousted president supporters called

a friday of rage and he islamist celebrations after mohamed morsi morsy is overthrow they turned rather sour at least thirty killed over two hundred injured in the clashes and more from cairo and artie's polis there. egypt is threatening to disintegrate into chaos there have been violent street battles in the center of the capital city between both pro and anti mostly demonstrators the two sides literally picking up chunks of pavement early c'mon a tough cop tells at each other this violence going on for the better part of three hours before the army decided to get involved now there are lots of questions being asked about the army it's been accused of. and of taking sides when the army did get involved in these clashes on the october the sixth bridge they literally picked up some of these and most demonstrators on the back of a vehicle strolled him over the bridge to the other side where their opponents were standing and fighting them from the office has also tonight reports that it used

live ammunition early on friday when a group of promo see supporters marched towards the barracks where does believe that the former president is out at least three people were killed in those clashes here we'll concerns that this country is disintegrating violence there have been mass rallies by both pro and anti war demonstrators with the supreme guide of the muslim brotherhood addressing the one man and he said and i'm quoting abbey chests are stronger and then bullets god does not love a traitor in the muslim brotherhood threatening to continue the fight civi in the divisions are extremely sharp so much so that people are talking about a civil war the difference between what is happening now and what we've seen in the past is that morsi was a democratically elected president who was overthrown and this is the point that his supporters are making in fact be prone morsi can now wants to be known as the

pros democracy that we have a situation that's not only disintegrating within egypt it's also happening now on the borders earlier on friday and if hold in the sinai was attacked by islamists at the same time as numbers have taken over a number of government buildings in the sinai they've raised the outrider flag replacing the egyptian flag that was there egypt is also closed its border with gaza and what we witnessing not only an extremely volatile situation but a situation day does threaten to affect the islamist extremists that operated on these countries borders. the muslim brotherhood says that the national leaders who would oust a new government on wednesday do not represent their followers dr mohamad abdalla the leader of the sacramento islamic center in america he believes that undermining the power of the ballot box will only lead to catastrophe in egypt. what happened in egypt is obviously mubarak's military going back in order to take the country

back to the old mubarak men. as opposed to the revolution to the revolutionaries people who are cheering in the streets right now will be the first to cry tomorrow when we set the precedence that it's ok for people to go to the streets and for the military to oust an elected president what happens next so the country elects the other guy who happens to be a liberal or or a socialist or whatever and then the islamists the supporters of morsi millions of them will take to the street and then we oust the next guy and then we keep going this i mean that's not a democracy anymore that's that's the rule of the jungle. and a global trends focus to gerald celente he says in a poor country any leader can reach the top via mob rule but in a day that won't make a single bit of difference. well it was the foundation of why the revolution began in the first place it wasn't an arab spring it was a lot of poor people you had most of the people living on ten dollars

a day and that was the genesis behind the foundation behind the move barrack overthrow people want to live a higher standard of life the vast corruption all the money of the top of the pyramid and the rest of the people having nothing and then when morsi came in he made it worse it wasn't that he was in islam is so much it could have been mickey mouse so mohamed morsi would make no difference if the people had a standard of living that was going up rather than crashing as it was you know about the war on a gasoline wind tourism virtually and the country went into deeper poverty and that's really the genesis behind all of these many of these uprisings around not only egypt but around the world. and still to come this hour here on r t running on empty the u.k. government is accused of being in denial if the numbers of people using food buying crease dramatically all of it falling wages and sweeping well think cuts. plus

a chinese from proposed to build a canal bridging the pacific and the atlantic right in america's backyard that plenty more stories just ahead for you. for the meantime though the mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay now in its six month rule and perhaps its toughest period on monday that's when the holy muslim fast of ramadan begins now that's according to lawyers for the detainees who claim the u.s. military authorities running the facility preparing to operate a force feeding factory attorneys say the forty five inmates who are currently being fed against their will will struggle to survive in the coming weeks going without water during daylight hours as part of observing ramadan they'll also face nights in. dries cells for the painful force feeding procedures or through other practices worldwide is torture with us or it is maintain the measures necessary to

prevent death a u.s. military lawyer barry wouldn't god who advocates for one of the prisoners he says there's no excuse for keeping people locked up without charge or trial ninety eight percent of these men have no allegations against them to say we can't release them because they might do something in the future is completely ridiculous look we understand that guantanamo bay is there because we're fighting the emotion of terror internationally but that the fact that we're fighting something that can't be conquered in the fact that one time obey remains open is still unjust and should be rectified immediately we can't allow this in this humanitarian violation to continue i think there's a sense in washington d.c. that you know we don't care whether these men did anything or not they're going to stay in guantanamo bay forever because it's good for us politically in that it is completely the wrong answer you know if president obama wanted to he could at least attempt to stop the hunger strike i was the guantanamo bay last week and i saw no

indication of any action to even end the hunger strike let alone send these men back home or give them justice in some form and other side of the human cost guantanamo bay is also clocking in at a hefty one hundred fifty million dollars a year that's nearly a million being spent on every single detainee compared to the costs of regular inmates housed in america which is around twenty five thousand dollars while the average american earns nearly eighteen times less than the annual spending on a single guantanamo inmates have a look here or there an online at r t dot com we're bringing you the latest on the ongoing mass hunger strike at the notorious for city you can log on to our web site to follow every day of the protest at the guantanamo timeline dot com right now. live from moscow it's r t with me rory sushi france has reportedly been running

a surveillance network against its own people to match america's infamous prism program reports of that broke just days after president francois hollande lashed out indignantly at the u.s. for spying on european countries details now to want to use maria fanaa. these building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story bunker underneath that is the epicenter of the fresh spy scandal that has pulsars of the country's security services and it's from here that it's now coming france's big brother snoots many people money touring millions of phone calls text messages taxes and e-mails. legal. even if. what. i. tell you honestly break. the french public is actually now very much you they've

been receiving conflicting messages from their leadership. first here we have to reveal a shoe so for america's espionage president old long precedent to stop strategic retreat the country please tell. you that first it's a green light you round up dollars starts next month belong to also condemned america's a fine it's not something to stoop down it's been revealed france isn't sound doing exactly what it just very vocally denounced now reports suggest the french have not been collecting content from e-mails and text messages but only targeted so-called meto data that shows who the person has been in contact with but online activists jeremy zimmerman says even bat is an invasion of privacy. mr de that there is a lot about who you talk to when you talk to them when you're online when you're offline where you are physically and so on and so on so collecting meta data and

surveilling people meta data is not a small thing it is already something very very disturbing so nothing tells us that this is only used for the security for the state or fighting the terrorists it can also be used for political reasons or for economical reason we have no way of knowing what is being done with those data officials interrelated about it said it is not the legal it is a legal like it is in the law is on like if it justified anything so the fact that they might not be lows about the massive collection interception of meta data is in itself a democratic problem we should put all governments in front of their responsibility we should make them accountable and we should make transparency on those programs and they should be questioned by the legislative branches live from moscow to r.t.

and russia city of cazan has put on its best face twenty seven of the world university games are set to kick off in a splendid opening ceremony that will be presided over by vladimir putin as organizers apply the finishing touches are to his poll scott took a walk around the back. over the course of the next fortnight more than thirteen thousand athletes from one hundred seventy different countries to descend on the majority of them staying here this is the university village a purpose built brand new university complex in the city center now despite the fact that the authorities say the finishing touches are still being applied to some of the venues the message is clear. is ready. every time you. know it's their money. you're excited. that everything is going to go well that you don't have any trash. whether it's. we have to be here that's. why the president even if sometimes the values

were a little bit too late we go they will be ready on time. some of the things this is but i would say that. hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates these games cost up to find the u.s. goal is to see a complete overhaul of its infrastructure for the development of new hotels and the transport network installed and around half of the sixty four sporting venues that they built from scratch and this is the jewel in the crown the cows. forty five thousand all. come saturday night will be packed to the rafters hope to be a spectacular opening ceremony and don't worry about its legacy because as of next season russian premier league side. will be playing their home games here it's also said to be a venue twenty eight team football world cup but of course it's not just on dry

land where the medals are going to be decided here the aquatics palace swimming synchronized swimming and diving goals are all up for grabs in fact of the three hundred fifty one golds available in total fifty eight are going to be decided. despite the heavy cost involved in hosting these games organized is a key to point to the legacy it will provide in order to get the games. to begin procedures and to begin procedure is a big part is a big part of the points are to be just too good to see and i think this is very important to the public with your project that's everything that you are building would not be. a project. to the public afterwards although the opening ceremony isn't until saturday evening some competition has already started causing a stir at the athletes' village there's a great site it is simply happy it's different. it's nice to have

a better than. expected so very good fourteen of the sports are optional these include the likes of rowing and rugby sevens all five sports are making. including boxing in itself now and after the university there would be a great increase in boys and girls willing to learn books like in such a great atmosphere. conspiring the next generation of sporting greats is the objective of hosting events like this then russia will get. over the next few days the world athletics championships winter olympics swimming championships and the world cup all coming to the sure by two thousand and eighteen the organizers there for hoping that these games will show that russia is ready to welcome the sporting world. and. now are starting with iraq or nineteen washed up as are being killed thirty eight injured

in a suicide bombing on the doorstep of a shia mosque in northern baghdad. came several hours after a separate blasts claim seven lives in another predominantly sunni town in iraq now according to us that this takes small. and seven hundred people perished last month in the country which is being swept by a surge of sectarian violence. the deeply divided syrian opposition has failed to elect a new leader and the post for the presidency has effectively been empty since february the coalition aims to prove itself a viable force to secure more from the west to help fight the syrian army but the assad government is standing ground rooting out fighters from opposition held areas in the central city of homs. now is storing a number of britons are resorting to food banks to get enough to eat at their work and pensions minister claims just because more than half a million people need help to fill their bellies that doesn't mean government spending cuts are to blame. for the reports on those who are struggling.

might be a word it's this until not long ago was rarely used now they it's on everyone's lips in real terms as a storage he bites feed poverty's rising half a million people are now dependent on feed banks according to figures in a recent joint report compiled by charities church action poverty and which many see as a direct result of mounting social spending cuts and the burden of care is often falling to charitable organizations such as this one. so this is where all starts the distribution in the kitchen with through ingredients. and this is a six day week operation so it all gets kicked kicking thoughts nice and early and then once it's done it's. time to serve and by your. own

then just invite. some new people. and have you seen lots of new people. what types of people. young people live in squats. most of them are in. the people. and benefits from. the day the number and dependence on feed banks have been steadily increasing something governments are playing down the connection with policy. rice today. rights and then see how things are going to charity operate. six days a week yeah it's a big operation and a thousand people with the. government funding are used to unfortunately council that the funding for all the day centers so now we're on the wrong foot

luckily we got a couple supermarkets interested in diverting the food from. this would normally all the strawberries bananas examining would normally end up in. so so you're saving the environment and recycling back into the community and obviously helping people who are going hungry and there's a lot of people nowadays going home but we've seen a huge number of people using this service today and services like this to become even more pivotal in the future the government might just have announced another round of paying for the story but the truth is the u.k. can stay on this deficit reduction policy while many in government know it's looking forward to the future past the next election there could be much much worse to come sarah. lunde. before we get to our program prime interest as if the global economic rivalry between washington and beijing wasn't enough chinese investors are now preparing a massive deployment right on america's doorstep the construction of

a massive canal connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans through nicaragua is due to begin next year sponsored by a chinese. business host kitty pilgrim has more on the ramifications of this vicious and. the idea of a canal terry nichols has been kicking around for over one hundred fifty years now that a chinese businessman has dumped up forty billion dollars from global investors it could become a reality now the owner of hong kong based hates k n d group is funding to start building the canal in twenty forty which they claim will be ready for action by twenty twenty so let's have a look at the map then i will be able to see that the plan is to build one hundred seventy eight mile walks way connecting the caribbean and the pacific and it would be three times longer than the panama canal which took a decade to complete now the group faces wide criticism over its

plans and i spoke to asia expert david who dismissed event as a joke i'm hoping it's a joke i'm just hoping that it maybe some some things are. too much time because if you think about it. there wasn't already taken out. west and east you wouldn't really sort of think about putting one in the ground we were anyway it was a really good one it's an. animal which was because it was the shortest distance between the land. so why would anybody want to do a new you know that is actually going from you to the west coast it just doesn't make any sense. but the investors behind the project insist that world trade needs a new worries and that the panama canal is not enough to handle the trade already conducted between the east and west so those who are laughing at the project right

now might just have to change their tune if this game changing projects succeeds. thank you for joining us here on r t today i'm up next though we'll have a look at the latest unemployment figures in america fact all fiction prime interest in just a second. right on the scene. search for little and i think that you're.

on a reporter's. instrument. in the. good afternoon welcome to prime interest i'm bob english in washington d.c. here is a story we're telling today the monthly jobs numbers came out this morning in the media outlets must be channeling charles dickens because it was hugh the best records or the worst of reports according to the bureau of labor statistics we gained one hundred ninety five thousand jobs in june beating expectations but isidro hedge notes most of the gains were from low quality part time jobs so what about full time jobs us two hundred forty thousand of them or last vaporised and there's one more number in the report and this one is even more important because i .