breaking news this hour the lie pictures live from san francisco as an asiana boeing triple seven crashes on landing at the airport there the plane slid off the runway and into flames it's believed more than three hundred passengers could have been on board so so far there has been no reports of any casualties we'll bring you up to date on this as soon as we get the developments following live here on r.t. . another asylum invitation for n.s.a. leaker edward snowden is the bolivian president says he's ready to welcome the whistleblower if requested that's after the venezuelan leader offers him humanitarian asylum. deadly divide in egypt opponents and backers of ousted president morsi push on with their rival rallies as the

pro-american opposition leader ahmed el baradei takes the prime minister's job and also this hour. off the rails and into an inferno in canada huge tank a train comes off the tracks and explodes with reports the center of a nearby town has been wiped out. international news and comment on line on screen twenty four hours a day this is. and straight to our breaking news this hour and as crash landed at san francisco international airport the asiana boeing triple seven came to rest off the runway and by all accounts caught fire while its tail section had broken off their company the line says that two hundred ninety one. people were on board and

the latest reports from emergency services say that all the passengers and crew are accounted for now where we're bringing live pictures from the scene there at san francisco airport we understand that some witnesses saw passengers escaping down the emergency slides the emergency inflatable exits and firefighters are now at the scene damping down the aircraft and of course we'll bring you the latest on this throughout the hour but just to say that so far the authorities say that all the passengers which could be up to three hundred on board have been accounted for but we're still waiting to get confirmation of that and san francisco airport is now closed following this incident which occurred in the last hour and as we can see the emergency crews are on scene and the fire service is damping down this triple seven boeing airline which has crash landed in san francisco and of course you can follow all the developments on our web site as well at the moment r.t. dot com where we're getting lots of twitter feeds and eyewitness accounts r.t.

dot com for more on that and of course follow the developments here on the screen here on r.t. . other news now 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 airport for two weeks the latest now from artie's time bomb 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 this seems to be a glimmer of hope for the whistleblower with three countries now having offered him asylum the latest bolivia that followed venezuela earlier president nicolas maduro said that they would offer the whistleblower asylum if you could get them. but if

you look you know i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar and chavez and snowden who come and live here away from lookers a fusion of american interiors and 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 a use states that snowden was on board and that they reportedly stopped his unit and made his plane land because of that he gave a tongue lashing at the time and he has lashed out again now he has a huge job but they think they can humiliate him some jew or spy blackmailing us and dictate their own terms like they did before making a change our policies there will make our own decisions and they can't pressure us into doing what they want but there's also daniel ortega of correctly work what he

say's that if the circumstances were appropriate to them they also could offer edward snowden asylum all of this 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. airspace that they may want to stop any plane if they thought that the surgeon was trying to travel illegally on a plane all of this potentially complicating which ever country snowden tries to go to. snowden applied for asylum all over the world but his requests have been rejected by a host of nations including european ones founder of wide awake news charlie mcgrath says that even nations don't want to upset the u.s. despite snowden revealing how much washington has spied on them. the laundry list of nations that snowden has applied to for asylum include scores of right 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 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. and europe also appears no stranger to spying on its citizens that soft 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 a giant bunker beneath paris stay with our team for more details coming up a little later this hour. egypt's security forces have reinforced their

positions after the muslim brotherhood supporters filed a further protest until the deposed president mohamed morsy is back in power meanwhile pro-reform laid out mohamed el baradei has been named interim prime minister well let's get the latest now from our who is in cairo paula yesterday we saw violent clashes between the supporters of morsi and those of course who are against him what is the situation now like in the country. well egypt still remains choppy divided between both pro and anti morsi supporters both groups are pulling for mass demonstrations on sunday so there are real concerns that you will have a peter up. violence come sunday here in town here which has been the focal point of me and he knows he can call the better part of the week the protesters were first demanding and then celebrating the overthrow of morsi they want to make sure that they demand still remains popular but be pro morsi supporters are vowing that

they will not leave the streets until their president is reinstated now the worst of violence was on friday night some thirty six people were killed more than a thousand injured when the two sides clashed on a local bridge the protesters filled molotov cocktails chunks of pavement rocks and stones at each other for the better part of three hours before the army intervened and that has raised serious questions that are now being asked within egypt and society as to the role and the objectivity of the military on saturday we saw many of the funerals for the victims of those who were killed in the day before i spent half of saturday filming at some of those funerals heart rendering scenes in front of the cairo university bridge men and women crying a lot of emotion but no doubt the calls for retribution and retaliation on the political front there have been crisis talks this has resulted in egypt being given a new interim prime minister mohammed el baradei now he is the former head of the

international atomic and international atomic energy agency the united nations nuclear watchdog at the same time he is also an international figure he was a nobel peace laureate he did stand for the egyptian presidency two years ago he is a figure that is supported by the united states and this issue has raised concerns here with people asking what is washington's involvement and how involved is the united states from behind the scenes you need to remember that america has not yet pulled this a military coup and this is largely because if it does so it needs to stop its funding to the egyptian state which receives some one point. five million dollars and many people here saying that the united states would not want to do this because they can no longer have a finger in one place on so a lot of places being asked the general on the ground is that history is repeating itself you've kind of evolution you've had people dying you've had a sick and my beliefs and and at the end of the day you just have the same familiar

faces governments thank you. for listening. mohamad abdalla disease from the second meant to islamic 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. 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 the supporters of morsi millions of them will take to the street and then we oust the next guy and then we keep going because i mean that's not democracy anymore that's the rule of the jungle. a

reminder of breaking news this live pictures from san francisco airport where in the last hour that airliner crash landed at the international airport the asiana boeing triple seven it's south korean and it came to rest by all accounts off the runway and then caught fire and witnesses claim that the tail broke off before it touched down the south korean company says that two hundred ninety one people were on the flight which was in bound from seoul now the latest reports from emergency services said. that all passengers and crew are accounted for at least two people have apparently been taken to hospital one in a serious condition the people were earlier seen escaping down emergency slides while firefighters at the scene and now damping down the flames you can see the point of impact there at the start of the runway now of course we'll bring you the

latest on this throughout the hour if you want to get more pictures and more eyewitness accounts log on to our web site r.t. dot com so just to confirm these are live pictures from san francisco where the weather conditions seem perfectly all right visibility was good but extraordinarily enough this airliner has now crash landed with miraculously so far reports of no fatalities r.t. dot com for more information on that and of course we'll bring you up to date. a train carrying seventy tankers petrochemicals derailed and burst into flames in canada's french speaking province of quebec earlier in the early hours of today and it's a footage shows massive explosions while reports say that large amounts of toxic chemicals spilled into a nearby river life spoke to local journalist michael foreign who updated us on the latest from there. around one o'clock eastern standard time in the morning there was a a large explosion caused by derailments of

a train that was going by the town and when that happened it was carrying crude oil and very flammable material very final chemical and of course it's 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 reports of fatalities the provincial of the provincial police were saying earlier that about sixty people have been reported missing but again they can't confirm any fatalities or any injuries among them but there is a major river right next to a black antic and they were saying that did the eschewed the police of of the back are saying that there might have been talks that have already gone into the water supply of nearby villages there are major concerns here is 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. coming our way shortly the sound of welcoming the world to concern we'll be bringing you the latest from the russian city where a spectacular opening ceremony kicked off ten days of a summer university games stay with us for that. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where remedial is the most about trade. dollar drops to blame. it was a bad year without a train. they couldn't anything with that. but there was great

hunger. it was a good help comes too late and with good intentions. diplomacy and business. news continues here in r.t. 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 france is believed to be running a version of the n.s.a.'s infamous prism program. investigates. please building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story bunker underneath that is the epicenter of a fresh spy scandal that had schools as the country's security services and it's from here that it's now coming from says big brother snoots which people's money touring the millions of phone calls text messages passes and e-mails live. on intelligence agencies the slew rate. the french public essentially know very much you they've been receiving conflicting messages from their leadership like the first few weeks after the revelation is over america's espionage olando condemned america saying it's fine it's not what but this do now it's been revealed france is itself doing exactly what it just very vocally denounced french officials are

downplaying allegations over the country's surveillance program claiming the reports are inexact revelations have added to an ever growing list of embarrassments for the country as freelance journalist robert honiss explained to me a little. there is a very substantial operation in france are. 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 colonies six one in djibouti. and they have another fourteen in france itself having it prove conclusively that it's illegal and it's happening is it's very 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 i thank you at the 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 it was he wasn't and that made it look pretty stupid because it snowden who revealed the information which enabled him to get all self-righteous and then measure you know had this happen moment which is a big newspaper in france because reveal that the french were doing themselves anyway so i mean it it's been one of the weeks i have no doubt that the french president the french foreign office would like to forget. so now for some other international news in brief this in brazil protesters and police clashed violently in front of the home of rio's governor burning rubbish piles hampered the advance of security forces who shared the protesters with tear gas the country has been hurt by wave after wave of rallies recently after protest over bus fare increases snowballed into wide at demonstrations against corruption in the highest ranks of the country. syrian troops to advance into rebel held parts of homes after nearly

a week of fighting in some of the heaviest bombing of the conflict shelling was set of continued throughout the night and remains ongoing meanwhile political turmoil may be over for the main opposition body backed by the west because the syrian national coalition. elected a former political prisoner as president after days of stalemate during a meeting in turkey. and thirty forces in istanbul have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters thousands gathered in the city's landmark texan square to try to access the park which should become the symbol of anti-government protests the park has been cordoned off for three weeks although it was set to reopen tomorrow it follows a court decision to throw out redevelopment plans for the site which sparked nationwide protests that were met with a brutal crackdown by police. a spectacular opening ceremony in a state of the art stadium is welcome the world to the capital of russia's republic of tatars star as the long awaited world university games got underway the

multi-sport competition in the summer university eight twenty thirteen is seen as a major step along the road to russia's hosting of future high profile sporting events president vladimir putin took his place in the front row and artie's paul scott managed to get a glimpse of the spectacular ceremony. have just come from the stadium you can see behind me the theme is russia russian history and russian culture is a rare opportunity for russia to show off russia to the rest of the world and what russia does indeed have to offer. is being beamed live into one hundred eighty different countries and viewers are being treated to a combination of dogs music fireworks and as i say a rather remarkable pyrotechnic display as well that this has been five years in the planning since it was awarded the games back in two thousand and eight and since then the city has gone undergone a scene and complete overhaul of its infrastructure in terms of the number of

competitors these games a second only to the summer olympics being in prison for a couple of days to see how preparations are coming along 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. it's their money given it's really you're excited it's stressed that everything is going to go well that you don't have any crash. whether it's this test it's more confidence you are. quite a confident even if sometimes a values where with a little bit teammates we go there with the will be ready on time but. sometimes of

igor 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 because iran has seen a complete overhaul of its infrastructure with. development of new hotels and a new transport network installed and around half of the sixty four sporting venues have been built from scratch on this is the jewel in the crown of the county a purpose built forty five thousand dollars stadium that come saturday night will be packed to the rafters to be a spectacular opening ceremony mori about his legacy because as of next season russian premier league side. will be playing the. 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 head despite the hefty cost involved in hosting these games organizers are keen to point to the legacy it will provide in order to get the games you have to begin procedures and to begin procedures a big parts east of the points are attributed to the 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 is simply happy it's different yeah it's exciting it's nice to have a better than that's much more than i 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 there will be a great increase in boys and 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 up at unity over the next few yeas the world athletics championships winter olympics world swimming championships and football world cup all coming to the. the organizers therefore hoping that these games will show that russia is ready to welcome the sporting world full scots r.t. because. a reminder our breaking news this these are live pictures from runway to wait at san francisco's international airport where a and airliner an asiana boeing triple seven has burst into flames on landing it is

a south korean airline and witnesses say the tail broke off before touchdown this happened in the last hour it was at first reported that no fatalities resulted from this impact from this plane crashing but now we're learning from firefighters at the scene that they have discovered two bodies so it seems that there are two deaths resulting so far from this boeing triple seven south korean airliner crashing at san francisco airport it does carry up to three hundred passengers including the crew and earlier reports were suggesting that everybody did indeed survive the impact you can see it just on the shores there of san francisco bay that debris strewn all over the runway and pictures there of the airline itself now we'll bring you the latest on this in the coming hours and of course you can check dot com our web site for eyewitness accounts on the twitter feeds and the latest pictures r.t. dot com well i'll be back with the latest in a little over thirty minutes from now before that swede take

a look at the vicious circle of diplomacy and hunger in africa that's our special report and more news in half an hour. south carolina's playing around with the idea of using sheen's plates which are license plates that could 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 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 shade thing than me but that's just my opinion. according to the law us state 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 us 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 there . so even today the food 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 any particular appeal and so when the food arrives. works issued a report.