supporters and opponents of the ousted president. at least. as the nation.

thank you for sharing some of your morning with us here on. the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has finally a place to go venezuela has decided to offer him asylum. legal limbo which is left him stranded here in moscow at an airport since last month snowden is wanted in the u.s. on charges for leaking details about america's global spy program details. now the offer came from the new zealand president nicolas maduro hot on the heels of an emergency meeting to buy in the store the union of south american nations which in turn happened after the incident with the plane off the believe in president which was essentially pushed out of the european airspace after flying out from moscow on july second now the reason for that was a statement by

a certain american diplomat who said with certainty that edward snowden was hiding on board of the bolivian president's plane the plane was not allowed into french italian portuguese or spanish airspace and was forced to land in austria where it was thoroughly search of course listing outrage from of the beleaguered president as well as from the leaders of other south american nations who have carried out a meeting in which they have stopped in which they have spared absolutely no feeling in calling the united states terrorist state and saying that at this point it looks like the european governments have essentially turned into colonies of the united states answering to their a beck and call and after he did to it did seem like snowden situation is going to be slightly better because it wasn't just the venezuelan president who has extended that offer of asylum but also the president as well all of this is looking rather good first no one who has applied to for asylum in some twenty seven countries a lot of them have already refused to grant him asylum of course the european

countries were first among those but the man has been in a suspended state for the for the last two weeks after flying from hong kong to moscow and coming. airport whereupon it was it was obvious that he was that possible it was an old by the u.s. authorities so he couldn't enter russian territory legally he has been reportedly in a transfer zone that the sort of it's worth airport. really just waiting for the for the next movement that he can make in a does look at this point like things are looking up for him so we have to wait and see exactly what's going to transpire whether snowden is going to choose nicaragua or been as well as his next stop it does seem like this saga of this is spent a former cia cia man edward snowden is finally coming to some definitive end. correspondent arena glasgow right that now the find the founder of the wide awake news charlie mcgrath he says it's rather puzzling how european countries voiced

outrage at washington spying tactics but they failed to aid the one 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 is can it's very much a pressure rating for people like me that want to see the truth come out but when 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. well 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 are coming your way shortly. or lesser shift gears and turn our attention now to egypt where violence and death marked what the ousted president supporters called a friday of rage and see islamist celebrations after mohamed morsy to overthrow turned sour at least thirty killed two hundred injured in clashes the latest from cairo and artie's paulus there egypt is pointing to disintegrate into chaos there have been violent street battles in east st of the capital city between both pro and anti morsi demonstrators the two sides literally picking up chunks of pavement early monotonic cocktails at each other in this violence going on for the basic count 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 doing pictures little 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 of the demonstrators on the back of the vehicles drove him over the bridge to the other side where they were opponents was standing and fighting them from the office has also denied reports that it used live ammunition early on friday when a group of promo she simply marched towards the barracks where does believe that the former president is out at least three people were killed in those clashes feel real concerns that this country is disintegrating violence there have been mass rallies by both pro and anti the demonstrators with the supreme guide of the muslim brotherhood addressing the one man and he said and i'm quoting abbey chase are stronger than bullets god does not love

a traitor in the muslim brother. hood threatening to continue this 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 the clone morsi camp now wants to be known as the pro democracy and 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 islamicist taken over a number of government buildings in the sinai and they've raised the outcry to 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 waited to fix the islamist extremists that operated on these

country's borders. now the muslim brotherhood insists the national leaders who announced a new government on wednesday do not represent their followers dr mohammed abdul aziz leader of the sacramento islamic center in america he believes that undermining the power of the ballot box would just lead it 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 of global trends for cost gerald celente he says that in a poor country and he lead a kind of reached the top via more but rule without the end of the day won't make a bit of difference well it would 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 barack 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 have made no difference if the people had a standard of living that was going up rather than crashing as it was you know about along

a gasoline lines tourism dog 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. or to ten minutes past the hour morse code time it's r t for you today of the mouse hunger strike. now in its six month it will end up perhaps its toughest period on monday when the holy muslim fast of ramadan begins now that's according to lawyers for the detainees they claim u.s. military authorities running the facility are 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 apart from going without water during daylight hours as part of ramadan they're also faced nights in cells with nothing to drink with the painful force feeding procedures or through the practice has been slow worldwide as torture but u.s. authorities maintain the measures necessary to prevent death by u.s.

military lawyer barwon 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 and that is completely the wrong answer you know if president obama wanted to he could at least attempt to stop the hunger strike i was then 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. well beside 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 compare that to the cost of regular inmates housed in america which is around twenty five thousand dollars and while the average american earns nearly eighteen times less than the annual spending on a single inmate well it spells trouble and on air and online as well we're bringing you the latest from the continuing mass hunger strike at the notorious facility at our website r.t. dot com you can follow the protest with our guantanamo timeline that's at r.t. dot com. still to come for you this hour. running on empty the u.k.

government accused of being in denial as the number of people using food banks increases dramatically fording wages and sweeping welfare cuts. plus a chinese prepares to build a canal bridging the pacific and the atlantic right back yard and the rest of our top stories in just a moment. the civilized world produces more food. people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every. where a meal is the most trying. to blame. without trained. to anything.

there was great. reason to help comes too late and with good intentions. diplomacy and business. good of you to join us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi in moscow and france has reportedly been running a surveillance network against its own people comparable to america's infamous prism program reports of that broke just days after president francois hollande

lashed out at america for spying on european countries the details now to. these building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story from cantonese that is the epicenter of the fresh spy scandal they had schools as the country's security services and it's from here that it's now france's big brother snoots people money touring millions of phone calls text messages and e-mails. live. legal. limit. but. i. tell you honestly. the french public is actually now very much you've been receiving conflicting messages from the leadership. first here we have to relations over america's espionage president

along the president did stop that teaching. and st louis thank. you very good to greenlight new round of dollar starts next month well known to also condemned america's a fine it's not what doctors do count it's been revealed france is itself doing exactly what it just very vocally denounced this is r.t. and russia's city of cazan has put its best face on as the twenty seventh 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 paul scott had a bit of a walk around the bench. 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 despite the fact

that the authorities say the finishing touches are still being applied to some of the venue the message is clear. is ready. every time. it's their money given it's really excited. that everything is going to go well that you don't have any trash. whether it's. we have. the confidence even if sometimes of venues where with a little bit too late we go they will be ready on time but. some of the things this is. hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates say these games cost up to five million dollars has seen a complete overhaul of its infrastructure with the development of new hotels and the transport network and still. around half of the sixty four sporting venues that

they built from scratch and this is the jewel in the crown the cause a purpose built forty five thousand all stadium come saturday night will be packed to the rafters what is hoped to be a spectacular opening ceremony about its legacy because as of next season russian premier league side. will be playing their home games here and it's also said to be a venue. 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 here. despite the hefty cost involved in hosting these games organizers a keen to point to the legacy it will provide in order to get the games. to begin procedures and to begin procedures a big part is a job because of the points are to be just too good to see and i think this is very

important to have the public project that 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 in the athletes' village there's a great site it is simply happy it's different it's exciting 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 their debut here and including boxing. after the universe that would be a great increase in boys and girls willing to learn book sing in such a great atmosphere. if inspiring the next generation of sporting greats is the objective of hosting events like this than russia will get.

over the next few years the world athletics championships winter olympics world swimming championships and the world cup all coming to the sure by two thousand and eighteen the organizers therefore hoping that these games will show that russia is ready to welcome the sporting world. and time now starting with iraq are nineteen worshippers of being killed thirty eight injured in a suicide bombing on the doorstep of a shia mosque in northern baghdad and the accident came several hours after separate blasts claimed seven lives in a predominantly sunni town in iraq now according to u.n. stats seven hundred. people perished last month in the country struggles to contain sectarian violence. the deeply divided syrian opposition has failed to elect a new leader the post for the presidency has effectively been empty since february the coalition aims to prove itself viable force to secure more weapons from the

west to help fight the syrian army but the assad government backed by hezbollah since may is standing its ground and most recently battling rebel strongholds in the central city of homs. now are soaring number of britons are resorting to food banks to get enough to eat but the work and pensions minister claims just because more than a half a million people need help to fill their bellies doesn't mean government spending cuts are to blame. for falls on those who are struggling. he might be a word it's until not long ago was rarely used now they it's on everyone's lips in real terms as a stereotype bites feed poverty is 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

fulling to charitable organizations such as this one. so this is where all starts with the distribution of wealth in the kitchen they were ingredients. and this is a six week operation so don't get kicks him kicking felt nice and early and then once it's done it's all sensible and turn to. your who. then just invite us in the case and some new people will form and have you seen lots of people. you know what types of people. on board people young people who live in squats and. most of. the people. and benefits before. they even number and dependence on feed banks have been steadily increasing something governments are

playing down the connection with policy. today. i didn't see how things are going to carry the operate. six days a week it's a big operation and a thousand people with the. government funding are used to foresee the council that the cut the funding for all the day centers so now we're on our own luckily we got a couple supermarkets interested in diverting the food from. this would normally all the strawberries bananas and 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 of 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 and there could be much much. sarah. as if the global economic rivalry between washington and beijing wasn't enough chinese investors and are preparing a massive deployment around in america's backyard the construction of a canal connecting the atlantic and pacific oceans through nicaragua are due to begin next year sponsored by a chinese firm. katie pilbeam has more on the ramifications of this rather ambitious and. the idea of a counter in nicaragua has been kicking around for over one hundred fifty years and now that a chinese businessman has dumbed up forty billion dollars from global investors it could become a reality now the owner of hong kong based n.d.

group is planning 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 market then it will be able to see that the plan is to build one hundred seventy eight mile waterway 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 q who dismissed event as a joke. i'm hoping it's a joke i'm just hoping that it maybe some some things are. just too much time because there's just think about it if there wasn't already. the west and east you wouldn't really sort of think about putting one in the ground you were anyway it was already a really good one it's an animal with chose it was because it is the shortest

distance between the atlantic and pacific so why would anybody want to dig a new you know that is actually going from the news to the west coast it just doesn't make any sense to me. but the investors behind the project insist that while trade needs a new raise 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 that if this game changing projects succeeds or not is critical but for now just after a very short break on our special report about the vicious circle of diplomacy and hunger in africa live from moscow it's not seen.

as a personal lives in russia i get asked very often why i meet a console for yet well are americans actually fat or is this just a myth from some hater countries the centers for disease control have declared obesity to be a disease that's a twenty point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving the home of sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food. believe it could be tied to eight foods that are allowed in america but our band and many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lower scale worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought native flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old

friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems rarely have simple solutions you could run around and exercise as much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironically slim but that's just my opinion. according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements

in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they are. so even today the suv must first be balt then loaded on a ship in american harbor and then travel for several months in order to reach africa. that would be approximately forty six months when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular room appeal and so when the food arrives. to g.a.o. where mr leto works issued a report which presented the problem to congress. president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the suit would be procured from local markets and arrive faster and cost less.