venezuela's president grant for humanitarian asylum edward snowden praising the n.s.a. whistleblower for taking on what he called a villainous u.s. . supporters and opponents of the ousted egyptian president on the streets at least killed two hundred wounded as the nation splits apart. in the capital of russia's republic of. the twenty seven university. high profile sporting events.

it's just after twelve pm on saturday here in moscow this is real research i live want to thank you for joining us today the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden finally has a place to go venezuela has decided to offer him asylum. in the legal limbo which has left him stranded here in moscow at an airport since last month snowden is wanted in the u.s. on espionage charges for leaking details of america's global spy program details now. now the offer came from the new zealand president nicolas maduro hot on the heels of an emergency meeting to buy in a 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 states 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 apply 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 passport was a knowledge by the u.s. authorities so he couldn't enter russian territory legally he has been reportedly

in a transfer zone at the storm it's worth airport just waiting for a for the next movement that he can make it to does look at this point like things are looking up for him. now if it is well it was not alone in offering a helping hand to the former cia employ the correct us they would also offer asylum if quote circumstances permit the founder of the wide awake news charlie mcgrath he says it's rather puzzling how the european countries who voiced alef rage at washington spying tactics fail to offer their aid to the one person who told them about the revelations the laundry list of nations that snowden has applied to for asylum include scores of 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 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. 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 and telephone data both domestically and abroad those details just ahead for you here on the program. in the meantime though here on r.t. egypt's new interim president is expected to name a prime minister and the cabinet later on saturday that's after violence and death

marked what the supporters of ousted president morsi called friday of rage thirty people left dead over two hundred injured in the clashes let's get the latest now from our correspondent in cairo troon are joining us a bell good to see you what's the mood like on the streets now after what we all know was a rather restless night. well the streets are now calm but sort of reeling from the violence of last night's there was only chaotic in downtown cairo in the capital there were fierce clashes between supporters and opponents of the former president mohamed morsi i was actually in the street battles myself i saw civilians with guns them on the tops of rocks people were breaking up bits of the pavement to throw at each other to stretch across three of the major bridges between on either side of the between these rival protest groups the security forces got involved for a while but they couldn't contain the violence and it was impossible to move around the center of the capital it was totally under siege by these really very violent

clashes this is off the supports is all of the former president mohamed morsi has decided to march from their encampment by car university to the state building and via the square which is of course the traditional place that anti-government protesters gather when these rival protest groups mats it was really very bloody leaving several dead with absolutely chaotic scenes across the country cross the capital with ambulances carrying into the dead backwards and forwards from the front lines of hospitals saying this was really you know not a scene that could be repeated because it's just impossible to live in the capital with these kinds of levels of violence. under study we all and it's early days yet but what's been done to ensure egypt does actually find some sort of political stability at this point. well we have heard that the interim president has moved the presidential palace and is expected to announce his cabinet anytime soon

and the prime minister announcement is meant to happen in very very very shortly this is hopefully going to put down some of the state institutions so that we can try and sort out the situation in the country which is becoming impossible in addition the have been rumors of talks between the muslim brotherhood group which is the islamist party that the deposed president hails from the military to. to calm down the situation and possibly reign in their supporters who still have several companies. in support of the former president across the capital other than not the security forces have maintained they will try and keep the situation under control but at the moment what we're seeing is a lot of violence and these reporters are really. baffled and fighting each other and they really are staying by their guns the anti-government protesters don't want morsi back meanwhile the supporters of deposed president saying they will stay put and keep fighting to the death if necessary to get their president reinstated so it's difficult to see how this very tentative transitional period will go and how

the you know interim president is just the head of the supreme council of course he was only in his job for a week before hans will be able to struggle with the situation as it develops you mentioned about the security forces struggling to secure the capital the egyptian capital but you know the second time in two years the military comes to the political forefront of any signs of the egyptian military could again use force. well people are looking to the miniature right now to control the situation as they are the only institution that really is organized enough or has this sort of power enough to be able to sort this out we saw quite little amounts of soldiers in the clashes last night people were actually criticizing the minute you could not saying where are the police where are the military the capital is on fire and they are stationed in several parts of the city in particular signs of one of the pro morsy camps by a mosque in central cairo we have seen a number of military helicopters circling the capital and bizarrely the air force

came out information yesterday vapor trails the color of the egyptian flag but other than that we haven't really seen that much from the military yet that probably playing quite a cafu game at the moment as tensions are very high many people here expect a curfew to be imposed as was imposed during we don't know if i really should i'm following i'm following the revolution we expect that to be imposed in addition we expect as i said the military to possibly be having to exceed the mission brotherhood green to try and rein in the supposed to come to some kind of political compromise to bring this country out of this chaos and political stalemates why don't you go through there live in cairo thank you. well the meantime of the muslim brotherhood insists that the national leaders who announced a new government on wednesday do not represent their followers dr mohammed a 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 psalmist's and 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 for costa gerald celente he says in a poor country any leader can reach the top via mobile rule but that won't make a difference at the end of the day 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 know 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 of 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 to launch 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. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today still to come for you in this hour running on empty the u.k. government's accused of being in denial as the number of people using food banks

saying creases drastically and fording wages and sweeping welfare cuts the rest of the world's top headlines in just a moment. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. well people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where remedial is the most treasured. is flood or droughts to blame. it was a bad year without a train. we couldn't plant anything. but there was great hunger. it was a good help comes too late and without good intentions. charity diplomacy and

business. live from moscow it's r t with me rory sushi france has reportedly been running a surveillance network against its own people a comparable to america's infamous prism program reports of that broke just days after president francois hollande lashed out at the u.s. for spying on european countries the details to watts's morea for national. he's

building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story bunker underneath it is the epicenter of the fresh spy scandal the headquarters of the country's security services and it's from here that it's now coming on says big brother snoots many people money touring millions of phone calls text messages and e-mails we. think and. what. i. tell you honestly break. the french public is actually now very much you they've been receiving conflicting messages from the leadership. first here we have to relation is over america's espionage president along president stop it to be a century later i think you know that varies a bit to greenlight you round dollops starts next month alone to also condemned

america say it's not something to do now it's been revealed france is itself doing exactly what it just very vocally denounced ok let's get some more on this right now we're joined here on r.t. by a p.r. guy from the paris west university non-tariff like their funds joining us live here on r.t. hello to you sir from moscow french officials are challenging claims its intelligence agencies are running vast spy operations on its citizens though the newspaper standing by its allegations are who you are believing here. well i would be tempted to believe them on this particular matter of course and i also believe that major state do the same thing there was a report about b. and d. in germany and of course the british we know by the british because they have a sister an equivalent of variation of prison in the united states so most probably me just states juice on this citizens' prism might be slightly because of course

the united states has global reach but in terms of principles it's very similar and governments when they're not caught like they will be and it's by stone and deny what it would be a jew secretly and this is the same rule in any government but he said let me say i'm sorry sir but paris of paris was particularly angry about america's surveillance of europe and its institutions so well how does france justify its own version of big brother. well actually this is the age of bliss city states states in general say something officially and do something different and officially. this same thing in germany merkel was very adamant there are units in germany and i don't think oman really lashed out of the united states. publicly he said a few things that were critical but immediately went front and overflight rights

for the bolivian president it showed immediately that cranch accepted what the united states wanted from it so you have a kind of sub given to public opinion but at the same time close call parisian with the united states so i don't think there's any real strong position on the part of the government it's it's a post. of opinion but he needed to work since it's not to the united states that front was cooperating with american authorities so it was actually not not just transport but several european nations were cooperating with the united states on this but if i may for a moment officials are defending massive our surveillance they say it helps to prevent terror attacks so perhaps the loss of some personal private data is possibly a small price to pay for that of security well actually it's not a small price to pay when we live in a surveillance state total surveillance state the key issue is not terrorism any longer if you want to be effective in the fight against terrorism first you should

not provoke it by actions abroad like drones in the case of the united states second you should have a kind of police operation and in the united states you know did not stop the boston marathon attack but then every citizen is checked in his or her personal life all the time turk what technology makes possible becomes a reality because there's no other way leaders used to acknowledge it to the pool and they claim it's to protect countries against terrorism but terrorism is. mostly an excuse of course the fight against islam is legitimate so everyone in order to fight terrorism it's not a necessity when you talk you don't you talk about surveilling everyone to battle terrorism certainly lamond the newspaper says that the program runs outside the law and beyond any proper supervision do tell us how how has the french public reacted to this well it's difficult to gauge the reaction of the public but if we go back

what happened in the us basically a lot of people don't care so they accept the logic that we have to be protected and therefore it's a small price to pay the public at large would would say it's arctic and they buy the idea except people that fight for civil liberties and they're always a minority in any state democratic or non-democratic the idea of expressing are you i'm sorry are you expecting paris to make any changes now as you said the public is fairly lethargic and while politicians don't have to make any changes if if the people as a are as many governments call them the sheeple. well you know there are moments when people are moved away so i don't think it's going to happen on this particular in this particular case and i would expect the secret service is to go on doing what they've been doing in france and the us our political science professor joining us live here in our great pleasure thank you your work on our for the

meantime here on r.t. as we come to you live from moscow russia's city of cazan has put its best face forward at the twenty seventh world university games are set to kick off and a splendid opening ceremony that will be presided over by vladimir putin as organizers apply the finishing touches we dispatched artie's pull scott to go and have a walk around the thing. over the course of the next fortnight more than thirteen thousand athletes from one hundred seventy different countries are 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 are excited. everything is going to go well and you don't have any clash. whether it's.

even if sometimes a venue is where with a little bit too late we go there will be will be ready on time. some of the things this is. quite confident hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates say these games have cost up to five billion u.s. dollars has seen a complete overhaul of its infrastructure with the development of new hotels and a new transport network installed. around half of the sixty four sporting venues at the built from scratch this is the jewel in the crown of the county. forty five thousand or. more about his legacy because as of next season russian premier league side. is also set 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 parts. of the points are attributed to the legacy and i think this is the only. public project that 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 where super excited is simply happy it's different

yeah it's exciting it's nice to. expect that so very good. these include the likes of rowing and rugby sevens all five sports. including boxing. after the university that would be a great. girls willing to learn books in such a great atmosphere. that. if inspiring the next generation of sporting greats is the objective of hosting events like this then russia will get. over the next few years the world athletics championships winter olympics world swimming championships and football 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 got. here on the program

a soaring number of britons are resorting to food banks to get enough to eat the work and pensions minister claims just because more than half a million people need help to fill their bellies doesn't mean the government spending cuts at the blame. reports. might be a word that's until not long ago was rarely used now though 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 falling to charitable organizations such as this one so this is where all starts the distribution in the kitchen with the warring gradients. and this is

a six day week operation so it all gets kicked kicking starts nice and early and then once it's done it's. turned the servant by your. home then just invite. some new people. and have you seen lots of new people. young people. on board people young people live in squats. most of them are in. the people. low income and benefits and jobs and they the number and dependence on feed banks have been steadily increasing something governments are playing down the connection with policy and those rights today. and then see how things are going to carry the operate. six days a week it's a big operation in

a thousand people. don't think you get government funding or used to unfortunately council that you cut the funding for all the day centers so now we're on the wrong foot luckily we got a couple of 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 hungry 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 stories he wishes 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 is that there could be much much worse to come sarah. lunde. to baghdad to open up the aussie world

update nineteen worshipers of being killed thirty eight injured in a suicide bombing one that was on the doorstep this time of a shia mosque in the northern part of the capital they actually came several hours after a separate blast claimed seven lives in a predominantly sunni town in iraq now according to latest u.n. starts more than seven hundred people perished last month from the country their struggles to contain sectarian violence. the deeply divided syrian opposition has failed to elect a new leader after meeting in the post for the presidency has affected libyan embassy since february but the coalition aims to prove itself a viable force to secure more weapons from the west for the assad government by hezbollah it's certainly standing its ground most recently they've been battling rebel strongholds in the strategic city of homs held by the opposition now for over one year. but up next to a nazi it's a special report on the vicious circle of the promo see and hunger in africa live

from moscow it's not. south carolina is playing around with the idea of using shame plates which are license plates that can display special messages the department of motor vehicles would have complete access to all these plates and be able to display text on them like suspended uninsured amber alert or stolen you know i actually don't mind the idea of using shame as a punishment i guess it could be a real deterrent to have a drunken loser written over the license plate of someone who drinks and drives in fact drugged driving plates have been in place in some states for a while but the problem is that more often than not shame penalties aren't the punishment for a crime but just a bonus one in my native ohio you can go to jail for three to thirty days and have your license suspended for one to three years for driving which is

a brutal punishment in a country where everyone drives to work you see people are already punished for drunk driving and in america when you pay your debt to society i.e. you get out of jail you're supposed to have a clean slate but the bonus license plate suspension and possible punishment plates make this a triple sentence ignoring the fact that the government will be able to practically display words on your person like a brand on cattle is bad enough but multiple punishments for the same crime seems like a bit of a she thing to me but that's just my opinion.