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breaking news this hour an asiana boeing triple seven airliner crashes on landing at san francisco international airport reported be leaving at least two dead when this is claimed the tail broke off to touchdown before the plane burst into flames these are live pictures from the scene there at san francisco's international airport. another sign of invitation for n.s.a. leaker edward snowden as the bolivian president says he's ready to welcome the whistleblower if requested that soft of the venezuelan leader offers him humanitarian asylum. deadly divide in egypt opponents and backers of miles to president morsi push on with their rival rallies as the pro-american opposition
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leader mohamed el baradei takes the prime minister's job. international news and comment online on screen twenty four hours a day this is. and straight to our breaking news this hour live pictures the live scene there from san francisco's international airport where at least two people have been killed according to local news sources after an airliner crash landed at the airport while around forty eight people have now reportedly been hospitalized the asiana boeing triple seven came to rest off the runway before bursting into flames according to eyewitness accounts of the pilots apparently made no distress calls to landing while other. eyewitness accounts include claims that its tel
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section broke off just before touchdown and the plane caught wheeled along the runway now the south korean airline says that two hundred ninety one people were on board flight two one four from seoul more people were earlier seen escaping down the emergency slides while crews emergency crews amelle remaining at the scene now authorities have ruled out the involvement of terrorism and i'm just hearing now that more than sixty are reported to have been injured it's runway two eight there just on the shores of the bay of san francisco international airport at san francisco san francisco the latest new is news is that the boeing triple seven as crash landed with two so far confirmed dead and sixty now hospitalized they get more r.t.r. website dot com where you can read eyewitness accounts through their twitter feeds and also see pictures from the scene and of course we'll bring you the latest on
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this throughout the hour here on the screen on r.t. . 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 it would slow down as finally started receiving asylum offers after being stranded in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport for two weeks the latest now from ortiz tom bottom. 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 then as whaler 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 can
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come and live here away from the curse of 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 snowden was on board and that they reportedly stopped him 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 and subdue us by 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 nicaragua he say's that if the circumstances were appropriate to them they also could offer
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edward snowden asylum all of this a glimmer of hope for the now famous or infamous depending on how you look at it worldwide 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 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
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himself face which is crossing e.u. airspace that they may want to stop any plane if they thought that it was trying to travel illegally on a plane all of this potentially complicating which ever country snowden tries to go to. or snowden applied for asylum all over the world but his requests have been rejected by host of nations including european ones founder of wide awake news tony mcgrath says that e.u. nations don't want to upset the u.s. despite him revealing how much washington has actually spied on them. 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 we're the one the in a lot of cases are the ones being spied on so for them just to play the what we
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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 your reporter appears no stranger to spying on its citizens that's after it's revealed france cool so has its own large scale eavesdropping program report suggests huge amounts of phone and internet data being monitored and stored in a john bunker beneath paris stay with r.t. for more details and that's coming up a little later this hour. egypt's security forces have reinforced their positions after the muslim brotherhood supporters vowed further protests until the deposed president mohamed morsy is back in power meanwhile pro-reform lead up
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mohamed el baradei has been named interim prime minister. has the details now from cairo. egypt still remains choppy divided between both pro and anti morsi supporters both groups are calling for mass demonstrations on sunday so there are real concerns that you will have a repeat of violence come sunday here in town here which has been the focal point of the anti most you 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 the 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
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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 with a rejection 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 part 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 for tele ation on the political front there have been crisis talks this has resulted in egypt the name given a new interim prime minister mohammed el baradei now he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency the united nations nuclear watch body 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
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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 this. means 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 the egyptian state which receives some one point five billion dollars annually many people here saying that the united states would not want to do this because it can no longer have a finger in what goes on here so a lot of place gins being asked the general mood on the ground is that history is repeating itself you've had a revolution you've had people dying you've had a second revolution and at the end of the day you just have the same familiar faces the government. for more analysis i'm not joined live by lawrence freeman he's editor executive intelligence review magazine not such as pick up on something that paula slim mentioned in her report and that is that some are speculating that the appointment of el baradei is washington's choice so just how much influence does
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the u.s. have over this crisis now. well there is now one voice coming out of washington you think back to the beginning when morsi took power he was given his very strong support by president obama. rather and that wow opposition was building to president morsi over the recent period president obama still told you know look there it is stay out in that morsi was the choice of the united states now that's changed over the recent period and if you look at the intervention by general martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to the u.s. the sense i hear discussions of the rhythm of kerry and basically discuss the idea for a green some kind of stability without a heavy cream into the situation so i think there are forces behind the scenes who
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looking for some stability but there are also other forces backing the muslim brotherhood and we have to look at saudi arabia where to look at the car we are to look at libya in elements of us who are looking for for the crisis and conflict it's not enough money to repay looks like all this is a popular revolution is it not that has pushed out lossie it's what the people wanted. yes and i think that when you get up to six seven eight lead people demonstrating it clearly does represent. an attitude in aspirations of the people insist morsy government which had failed and their failed on all questions at the very economic development and the sale didn't work out he needs. to have a coalition government now it's not really a condition that surround the ija in the whole middle east and north africa where the muslim brotherhood and the al-qaeda linked networks are being supported by
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outside countries saudi arabia qatar states great britain so it's not only egypt existing in a very dangerous world and of course we have a very severe economic crisis which is media economic conditions in egypt very severe and i think what the jury is looking for and i think maybe the third pictogram grotty as acting prime minister is to provide some stability. in the face of what's happening to the leadership of the muslim brotherhood wants we'll leave it there thank you very much indeed lawrence freeman editor of executive intelligence review magazine good to hear your thoughts thank you. just a reminder now of our breaking news this hour and at least two people have been killed after a crash landed at san francisco international airport authorities confirm that sixty one people have now been hospitalized these are pictures from the scene there where the boeing triple seven came to rest off the runway before bursting into
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flames the part of the party made no distress calls prop two landing while i witness accounts speak of the plane's tail section breaking off before touchdown and the plane then caught wheeling along the runway now the south korean airline says that three hundred free passengers and crew were on board flight two one four from seoul and people were earlier seen escaping down the emergency slides while emergency crews now. remained the same and we can see the runway to eight and the itself off to the emergency and the far services have put out the flames authorities have now ruled out any involvement of terrorism so that's the latest so far and get more naughty don't call me where you can read eyewitness accounts through that twitter feeds and also see more pictures from the scene and we'll bring you the latest on this throughout the hour here on. well coming your way shortly. the world. will be bringing you the latest from the russian city
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where a spectacular opening ceremony ten days of the summer university games stay tuned for that spirit on l.t. that's after the break. thank.
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you. these 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 he used demanding complete transparency and maximum information from the u.s. and 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 prison program or to an ocean investigates. these building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story bank and
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he said is the percentage of fresh spices and the catskills is the country's security services and it's from here that it's now can you answer the suits any. money touring millions of phone calls text messages that's just an email. telling the. french public he's very much you see the conflicting messages from the leadership. first here we have to relation is over america's espionage alone talking down to america saying this is not what 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 of added to an ever growing list of embarrassments for the country's freelance journalist robert hollis now explains there is
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a very substantial operation in france are. twenty listening posts across the world and five of them are in the french form of the project overseas territory one time colonies of the six one in cuba. and they have another fourteen in prague still having it prove conclusively that it's illegal and it's happening is it's so embarrassing because it's so badly with the rhetoric of western politicians and the pressure of bad of the rest of going on about their values and having us be democratic and you must do everything legally and so i went to the asterisk chromatic week particularly because they made the blocking of edward snowden. get going but for what he was on an airplane flying to america about a girl he was and. that made them look pretty stupid because it snowden who revealed information which enabled. self-righteous and then mel sooner had this
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happen when the 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 have no doubt that the french president the french foreign office would like to forget. a spectacular opening ceremony in a state of the art stadium has welcomed the world to the capital of russia's republic of tatarstan as the long awaited world university games got underway the multi-sport competition the summer universiade twenty thirteen is seen as a major long the road to russia's hosting a future high profile sporting events president vladimir putin took his place in the front row and i. managed to get a glimpse of the spectacular ceremony but have just come from the stadium you can see behind me other thing is russia russian history and russian culture it's a rare opportunity for russia to show off russia to the rest of the world and what russia does indeed have to. live into
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a one hundred eighty different countries and viewers are being treated to a combination of music fireworks and as i say a rather remarkable pyrotechnic display as well that this has been five years in the planning since because it was awarded the games back in two thousand and eight and since then the city has gone undergone a scene a complete overhaul of its infrastructure in terms of the number of competitors these games a second only to the summer olympics being imprisoned 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 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.
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you are excited. that everything is going to go well that you don't crash. this test it's. even if sometimes of a little bit too late we go there with the will be ready on time but. sometimes some of the things this is. hosting an event like this doesn't come cheap official estimates say these games have cost up to five billion dollars because iran has seen a complete overhaul of its infrastructure with the development of new hotels and a new transport network installed and around half of the sixty four sporting venues at the built from scratch on this.
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spectacular. because. it's also said to be a. 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 you have to begin procedures and to begin procedures a big east a. tribute to the legacy and i think this is a very. public project. everything that building would not be. a project. to the public afterwards although the opening ceremony
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isn't until saturday evening some competition has already started causing a stir in the athletes' village there's a very excited we are just simply happy. yeah it's exciting it's nice that better than three years ago so that's much more than i expected so very good fourteen of the sports are optional these include the likes of rowing and rugby sevens five sports are making their debut here and including boxing it's an hour after the university there would be a great increase in boys and girls willing to learn boxing 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 years the world athletics championships winter olympics world swimming championships and football world cup all coming to the shores by two thousand and
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eighteen the organizers there for hoping that these games will show that russia is ready to welcome the sporting world police got r.t. because. a reminder of our breaking news these are the latest pictures from san francisco's international airport where at least two people have been killed after an airliner crash landed at the airport authorities confirm that sixty one have now been hospitalized the asiana boeing triple seven came to rest off the runway before bursting into flames the pilot apparently made no distress calls prior to the landing while i witness accounts speak of the plane's tail section breaking off before touchdown and then cart wheeling along the runway the south korean airlines says that three hundred three passengers and crew were on board the flight to one for from seoul people who earlier seen escaping down the emergency slides and now emergency crews are remaining at the scene authorities have ruled out the
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involvement of terrorism when in get more naughty dot com where you can read eyewitness accounts through their twitter feeds and see pictures from the scene there and of course we'll bring you the latest on screen in the coming hours. let's settle for me today that i would say she would be in the chair the next as the news continues before that i mean in the states to be alternative voices of us politics that's in breaking the says after this short break stay. as a personal lives in russia i get asked very often why automated console fat 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
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at work and then all evening after driving home 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 are banned in 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 can 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.
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to live on one hundred thirty three but some. and suppose i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck i got so. i mean happy and sad sometimes i feel that i'm still really miss. the old story so actually. it's. worse to put a little a little light on the. radio four 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
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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 and 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
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works and editor of libertarian republic dot com and eugene puryear former vice presidential candidate of the party for socialism and liberation thanks so much all of you for coming on thanks so much for having us. or we start to this epic debate or conversation rather i want to briefly outline your political ideologies in about a minute's time and 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 and we don't need to wait a minute to do it we start to do it ourselves and we do it in our communities the ideas. of there's a collective liberation that we're all tied in this together that that i do want better to do.

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