paganini energy. another asylum invitation for n.s.a. leaker edward snowden as the bolivian president says he is ready to welcome the whistleblower if requested as after the venezuelan leader offers him humanitarian asylum. deadly divide in egypt opponents from backers of als to president morsi push on with rival with their rival rallies as the pro-american opposition leader mohammed el baradei is set to take the prime minister's job we go live to cairo very shortly for an update. in the way of a previous c. the e.u. threatens to scrap of data sharing with the u.s. over the n.s.a.'s vast snooping program despite revelations france is embracing similar tactics.

international news and comment online on screen twenty four hours a day this is. bolivia has joined two other latin american countries and extending a helping hand to the man who exposed world wide surveillance by the u.s. government edward snowden has finally started receiving asylum offers after being stranded in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport for two weeks the latest now from. might it be the end for edward snowden's two weeks of isolation here at the transit zone at moscow's sheremetyevo airport nobody's actually seen him for those two weeks but there seems to be a glimmer of hope for the whistleblower with three countries now having offered him asylum the latest bolivia that followed spend as whale earlier president nicolas maduro said that they would offer the whistleblower asylum if you could get them

but. i have decided to offer humanitarian in the silence of the young american. edward snowden in the homeland of silent all of our and others and snowden who come and live here away from looking as a fusion of american imperialism we've also had heard from evo morales the president of bolivia who issued a similarly strong statement after his plane was forced to touch down in austria amid reported fears of e.u. states that saddam was on board and that they reportedly stopped his years and made his plane land because of that he gave a tongue lashing at the time and he has lashed out again now fears he job anything they can achieve mediate in some us by blackmailing us and dictate their own terms like they did before making a change our policies there would make our own decisions and they can't pressure us into doing what they want but there's also daniel ortega of nicaragua he

say's that if circumstances were appropriate to them they also could offer edward snowden asylum although it is a glimmer of hope for the now famous or infamous depending on how you look at it world wide mass surveillance whistleblower edward snowden's biggest problem or at least the most obvious one is that he hasn't got any documents to allow him to travel as u.s. passport has been. by the u.s. he traveled from hong kong to moscow on a document provided by ecuador which they later admitted was a mistake of theirs so at the moment it does seem some kind of paperwork would have to be issued by whichever state he tried to work to fly to then there's also the problem of the air space to fly to venezuela or even to bolivia which there are no direct flights from moscow he would have to go most probably fire cuba perhaps somewhere else but if he went via cuba it is possible he may have to pass through

u.s. airspace which could present a problem for obvious reasons and then there's also the. problem that morales himself place which is crossing e.u. their space that they may want to stop any plane if they thought that the snowden was trying to travel illegally on the plane all of this potentially complicating which ever country snowden tries to go so. well he applied for asylum all over the world but his requests have been rejected by a host of nations including europe in ones founder of wide awake news channels mcgrath says that he nations don't want to upset the u.s. despite snowden revealing just how much washington has been spying on them the laundry list of nations that snowden has applied to for asylum includes scores. 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 going to show up at the embassy it's 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 troops so yeah it is a bit frustrating to to see these european nations just kind of ignore this outright spying that's happening. and europe also appears no stranger to spying on its citizens that it's revealed france also has its own large scale eavesdropping program report suggests huge amounts of phone and internet data being monitored and stored in the giant bunker beneath paris stay with us here on r.t. for more details on that coming up a little later this hour. so live pictures behind me here

on the screen of tahrir square in the center of cairo in egypt as we see many still filling the square many many hours after president morsi was forced to step down and egypt's security forces are reinforced their positions apparently after the muslim brotherhood supporters valid further protest but at the moment it looks fairly calm in tahrir square and of course they want more protests off the deposed president mohamed morsy until he is back in power or meanwhile pro reform leader mohamed el baradei has been named interim prime minister let's get the latest now from artie's paula she is in cairo for us so deadly clashes between rival factions last night tell us what is the situation like in the country now. well the situation here is extremely tense you have massive numbers of supporters

who are still out on the streets calling for the wisdom brotherhood president mohamed morsi to be reinstated and they say they're not going anywhere until he returns to office they're calling for mass demonstrations to be held across the country on sunday now in equal number you have people who continue to celebrate his ouster the focal point remains taqiyya square and they too say they're not going anywhere until they see what they're calling the second revolution through so this scene is being saved for further violence and for the confrontation so thought the worst violence was the street battles that were on friday night some thirty six people were killed more than a thousand people were injured when the two sides pitted against each other on a local bridge here in cairo the protesters were literally picking up chunks of the pavement they were hurling monnet of cocktails and rocks and stones at each other for the better part of three hours before the army intervened and this has raised serious questions about the involvement and objectivity of the military which is

currently ruling this country on a political level the latest development is that the new interim prime minister has been named as mohamed el baradei now he is the former chief of the international atomic energy agency the u.n. nuclear watchdog he's also a nobel peace laureate he ran for the egyptian presidency two years ago he obviously did not get it that he is a candidate who is supported by the united states and this too has raised questions many people are asking what is washington's hand behind all of this washington so far has been reluctant to call this a military coup of course if they do so they would no longer be able to provide funding to egypt with many observers saying that this would mean that the united states could no longer meddle and have some kind of control in what is happening domestically here but certainly you have a situation where you've seen a revolution you've seen rocks and stones and people dying and then at the end of the day. so you have familiar faces were claiming to be egyptian political scene

you do have a sense when you hear. it's often sold me the scenario is being set for classes in the coming hours if not the coming days. in cars thanks very much indeed for that update. dr mohammad abdul aziz he's from the sacramento is nomic center in the u.s. he believes the undermining of the power of the ballot box will lead to chaos in egypt what happened in egypt is obviously mubarak's military going back in order to take the country back to the almost dark man. as opposed to the revolution to the revolutionaries people who are cheering in the streets right now 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 the rule of the jungle still to come this hour up next off the rails and into an inferno in canada. as a huge tank a train comes off the tracks and explodes with reports a nearby town has been blank told the map to have a lot of updates just after the break stay with us all to live in moscow. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking

on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. continues

here naughty a train carrying seventy tankers of petrochemicals the rail them burst into flames in canada's french speaking province of quebec during the early hours of saturday morning and the to footage shows massive explosions while reports say large amounts of toxic chemicals spilled into a nearby river when it's crossed to canada now where journalist michael foreign has more so michael what more do you know about exactly what happened today well the it's all occurred in lakme again make magic which is about two and a half hour drive east of montreal it's a small town it's only about six thousand people and like you said around one o'clock eastern standard time in the morning. there was a a large explosion caused by a derailment of a train that was going by the town and when that happened it was carrying crude oil very flammable material very final chemical and of course it exploded and caused a large amount of damage should be

a city center just quoting the mayor the mayor said the mayor of lack began except earlier today that most of the city center is destroyed has been demolished by this blast and again unconfirmed. but he's the provincial because i prevention police were saying earlier that it had sixty people have been reported missing but again they can't confirm any fatalities or any injuries among them but it's sort of like we're sort of like in the in the in the time phase of the of the news story of the incident where there is still a bit of confusion at their research trying to put together the pieces and any sign that the firefighters are getting any sort of control over this clearly what was in the cargo was highly flammable and highly toxic yes of course this is crude oil i mean this is the same thing that you would have go through a pipeline you know we're always thinking about the concerns of pipelines and what if there is a leak that goes into a river or contamination in terms of environmental concerns this was the same amount of the same material the same crude oil but it was going through through you

know train tracks on a train and you know that's a big concern now for i mean even on twitter people now people are talking about this in terms of you know should we really be having crude oil go along villages like this and into massive poppy population centers and even when it comes to environmental concerns there have been calls for an emergency protocols to go forward in terms of what happened there is a major river right next to lack we can tick and they're saying that yes q the police of tobacco are saying that there might have been talks that have already gone into the water supply of nearby villages there are major concerns here so obviously we're going to be finding out more within the next few hours but right now it's really trying to assess the damage and like you said trying to get a grasp of the fire which is still ongoing and just briefly there seem to be quite a few incidents recently involving infrastructure in north america having that. yes absolutely in terms of this in terms of you know it i think what it really comes

down down to is that you know we're talking about you know the transfer of oil of a hydrocarbon so when we're looking at this we're saying to ourselves is a really safe to be transporting these across major population centers and then a bigger to be comes forward why haven't we gone to renewable energies like electricity or hydro electricity or wind wind power i mean these are you know if efficient energies were you know they're virtually renewable they don't cause environmental damage like something like a hydrocarbon like crude oil does so i mean in terms of environmental disasters and when it comes to this i mean i think this is going to be one that's going to be set in the books of back in canada for a very long time will be said in the books of history thanks for bringing us up to date on the shocking and devastating disaster michael for and live there from kind of a thanks very much indeed thank you brussels is threatening to suspend its data sharing with washington fresh on the heels of revelations about the n.s.a.'s mass eavesdropping on europe the e.u. is demanding complete transparency and maximum information from the u.s.

that's despite recent reports revealing its own snooping activities from its is believed to be running a version of the n.s.a.'s infamous prison program where if an osha investigates. these building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story from cantonese that is the epicenter of a fresh spy scandal they had schools as the country's security services and it's from here that it's now kind of france's big brother snoots many people money touring the millions of phone calls text messages passes and e-mails. how do these obviously. the french public is actually you know very much you they've been receiving conflicting messages from the leadership. first here we often relation is over america's espionage well known to america say it's not what companies do now it's been revealed france is itself doing exactly what it just very vocally

denounced. french officials are downplaying the allegations over the country's surveillance program claiming the reports are inexact however the prime minister's office did admit several services conduct monitoring operations for security reasons well to talk more on the snooping scandal let's cross live now to robot harness he's a freelance journalist in strasburg robot well as the governor saying this is routine monitoring for the sake of the public safety so what's all the fuss about. well the fuss about is it legal or not the government has been wrong footed by two things this is intimately linked with the edward snowden affair which has revealed the extent of american snooping on private conversations without any sort of legal justification the french got their huffy about this and said right well we're going to suspend the negotiations. over

a joint free trade area between europe and america for fifteen days is terrifying. and the on wednesday the government spokesman came out with this stuff and politicians and journalists are asked and said well this trance have a do this sort of thing and she said are we only doing illegally effectively but of course this is nonsense there is a very substantial operation in france or. a total of twenty listening posts across the world and five of them are in the french form of the french overseas territories one time colonnades six one in djibouti. and they have another fourteen in france itself so they they do this all the time and the whole amount of the information collected is as you say assembled in the d.g.'s cvs huge computer which occupies three stories in their headquarters building and they do pretty much what the americans to be on a smaller scale a need for saying

a common sense indicates that this must be said because until very recently france was outside nato and said didn't have a an intelligence sharing arrangement with the americans like for example the british did a classic case of hypocrisy there from the french officials even the red faced no doubt what about the french people just how would they react to this or did they get the fact that surveillance is necessary for national security. i mean this thing operates on two levels of it i mean everybody says because we knew that but but it's having. proved conclusively that it's illegal and it's happening is it's so embarrassing because it fits so badly with the rhetoric of western politicians and the french are bad as the rest of going on about their values and having us be democratic and you must do everything legally and so on and thanks to a disastrous to chromatic week particularly because they lead the blocking of edward snowden. get going. he was on an airplane flying to south america

then of course he wasn't and that made them look pretty stupid because it snowden who revealed the information which enabled him to get all self-righteous and then no sooner had this happen then that little moment which is a big newspaper in france of course revealed that the french were doing themselves anyway i mean it it's been one of the weeks i've no doubt that the french president the french foreign office would like to forget. robert thank you very much and if your thoughts on this rather harness live in strasburg thanks thank you. well if you missed something on air you can get the full picture of what's going on on our website right now and much more besides including telecommunications giant eighteen c. is next in line of those selling customers data to the highest bidder joining the rise in facebook and other competitors the use of consumers' history for marketing advantage is the full story on the web site right now. and

a click away take to the skies over russia's capital look at these pictures here marty dot com we've lined up recent shots by a russian photographer who really got high of a. bird's eye images check out this online right now. a spectacular opening ceremony for the twenty seventh world university games has just kicked off in russia city of president vladimir putin took his place in the front row and the show heralds the start of ten days of multisport competitions attended by thousands of people from around the world paul scott took a walk around the venue during preparations for the games. 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 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. that everything is going to go well that you don't have any crash . whether. you are. quite confident even if sometimes the venues where with a little bit too late we go there with you will be ready on time but. sometimes some of the things. that i would say that. hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates say these games have cost up to five billion dollars design 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 and this is the jewel in the crown of the county. forty five

thousand. 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. 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 head 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 mean to begin procedure is a big part is a big part of the points are attributed to too good legacy and i think this is very important to have the public going with your 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 we are just simply happy it's different it's exciting it's nice to have a better than. expected so very good fourteen of the sports these include the likes of rowing and rugby sevens all five sports. including boxing. after the university that would be a great increase in boys and girls willing to learn books in such a great atmosphere. that. you can spy ring the next generation of sporting greats is the objective of hosting events like this than russia will get. over the next few days 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 we'll be going live to poll there in the next. a live update told those opening ceremonies that as those university games get underway this is ulty live in moscow abby martin hands the stage the alternative voices of u.s. politics in breaking the sentiments of this brain. 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 drunken loser written over the license plate of someone who drinks and drives in fact drug 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 v. 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 think to me but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month suppose i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck i got so . i didn't have my hand at such an early age that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so actually. it's. worse for the only life out of the. three. minutes from the. local are about to produce never seen anything like this until.

welcome to breaking the set i'm your host abby martin you know it seems that on every issue important to americans the problem reaction and solution is always framed by the two dominating political parties in this country the problem is that these two teams democrats and republicans more closely resemble a single party one that stands for and periods and corporate gain yet several political ideologies are gaining traction in the us but i virtually no representation in the political and media establishment so if you've tuned into the show hoping to hear the dueling perspective of democrats and republicans well you've come to the wrong place because today i'll be hosting a discussion with people who represent the voices of a growing alternative will be talking about libertarianism anarchism and socialism very philosophy is gaining momentum as more people are becoming disillusioned with the status quo to talk about everything from the role of government to an ideal society i'm joined now by

a brilliant panel and breaking the sets first ever alternative voices debate starting with scott crow author of black flags and windmills and founder of the anarchist common ground collective and peterson production director at freedom works and editor of libertarian republic dot com and eugene puryear former vice presidential candidate of the party for socialism and and liberation. so much all of you for coming on thanks so much for having us and if you or we start to this epic debate or conversation rather i want to briefly outline your political ideologies in about a minute's time scott when people think of anarchism they think total chaos can you break down that misconception it's a misconception energy is a living a dynamic framework based in. ideas of cooperation where we can all get along to make the world better for each other we call it mutually the ideas of direct action that we don't have to wait on others that we are more than voters we are more than consumers that we there are other paths that we should take that.