bolivia joins of the ranks of other soft american countries offering edward snowden asylum as fears mount the n.s.a. whistleblower might not be able to make it to a refuge in a friendly state. divided egypt its opponents and backers of also present a morsi vaal war rival rallies or that's as tension continues to rise in the country's political deadlock. and of the twenty thirty world university games kicked off in russia as to deal with a spectacular show as the city of the world comes upon thousands of students athletes to the games in dublin be a little pigs little brother. live

from moscow this is our tea with me tom would say let's take a look at the news this hour. the list of countries willing to give a sanctuary to the man who experience the n.s.a.'s surveillance program continues to grow bolivia has joined nicaragua and venezuela offering asylum to edward snowden who is wanted by the u.s. now slogan is a believed to be stranded in a transit very almost no airport after his passport was cancelled by the u.s. here's a previously sold a refugee twenty one countries now around the world as you see them alive are they from europe or to south america as well as asia washington's been pressuring the states reportedly including personal calls of from vice president joe biden urging them to turn snowden away most of the whistleblowers asylum requests have been rejected but as tom watson. reports now even getting the countries into who are

willing to take the eric axe n.s.a. contractor may prove difficult. 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 whale earlier president nicolas maduro said that they would offer the whistleblower asylum if you could get them but i say look you know i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar and others and snowden can come and live here away from the persecution 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 is huge and 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 their role will make our own decisions and they can't pressure us into doing what they want there's also daniel ortega of nicaragua 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 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 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 himself place which is crossing e.u. their space that they may want to stop any plane if they thought that snowden was trying to travel illegally on a plane all of this potentially complicating whichever country snowden tries to go

to. found other wide awake news and charlie mcgrath or says that nations which rejected snowden simply. did so out of fear that the u.s. 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 going 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 in 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 in. europe itself is. it also appears a no stranger to spying on its citizens that after it's revealed france is running its own largescale eavesdropping program now reports emerged claiming huge amounts of food and internet data be monitored and stored in a giant bunker under paris stay with our feet more details coming up a little later. egypt's security forces have reinforced their position after muslim brotherhood supporters of volatile further protests until they deposed president mohamed morsy is brought back to problems now earlier pro-reform leader mohamed el baradei was named as the interim prime minister while it now appears that the deal putting him in power has unraveled about id candidacy was apparently blocked by a more hardline muslim party with authorities saying that this several options are for the position artie's policia is in cairo for us. egypt still remains

a shop be 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 and she may see can kill the patient part of the week the protesters with this demanding and then celebrating the overthrow of mossi they want to make sure that they demand still remains popular but be pro morsy supporters are vowing that they will not leave the streets until the president is reinstated now he was divine and swan's 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 count of three hours before the army intervened and that has raised serious questions that are not being honest with the gyptian 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 tons 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 polls are filled with tradition and retaliation. dr mohammed abdul aziz a from the sacramento islamic center in the u.s. believes undermining the pull of the ballot box will lead to chaos in egypt happening in egypt is obviously barak'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 islamists 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. meanwhile analysts are predicting egypt's fragile financial position could be at even greater risk global transfer costs and general cilento says in a poor country any leader can reach the top via mob rule but if they don't deliver they won't last it with the foundation of why the revolution began in the first place it wasn't an arab spring it was a lot of poor people you had most of the people living on ten dollars a day and that was the genesis behind the foundation behind the move barack overthrow you know 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 his longest so much it could have been mickey mouse obama and 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 the long a gasoline lines tourism virtually and the country went into deeper poverty and that's really the genesis behind a little of what many of these uprisings around not only egypt but around the world for the latest updates on the ongoing turmoil in egypt as well as pictures capturing moments of both jubilation and despair head to our web site r.t. dot com now i'll be back with more news to the sulphate. the civilized world produces more foods and. well people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every. where in the bill is the

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n.s.a. as a message is stopping the new right they use demanding complete transparency and maximum information from the u.s. this despite recent reports revealing its own snooping activities france is believed to be running a version all the n.s.a. is in some as prism program artie's worry for national 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 the hatch pulsars of the country's security services and it's from here that it's now kind of france's big brother's news which he told money touring millions of phone calls text messages faxes and e-mails. and cogently like. the french public is actually you know very much you they've been receiving conflicting messages from their leadership. first here we are to revelations over america's espionage olando condemned america say it's fine it's not what focus 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 surveillance programs claiming that dream paul saw inexact the revelations have added to and ever growing list of embarrassments for the country as freelance journalists who read the harness explains. there is a very substantial operation in france are. total of twenty listening posts across the world and five of them are in the french form of the french overseas territory one time colonies of the six one in djibouti. and they have another fourteen in prague so having it proves conclusively between legal and it's happening is it's so embarrassing because it so badly with the rhetoric of western politicians and the french or rather the risk of going on about their values and having us be democratic and you must do everything legally and so on and the french have had a chromatic week particularly because they lead the blocking of edward snowden. get

going but it's true he was on an airplane flying without america and of course he was and. that made them look pretty stupid because it snowden who revealed the information which enabled him to get all self-righteous and then most soon i heard they had this happen limone which is a big newspaper in france because remember the french were doing themselves anyway so i mean it has been one of the weeks i've no doubt that the french president the french foreign office would like to forget if you've missed something on a you can get the full picture of what's going on on our website and then you'll find much more including telecommunications giant a t.v. is the latest company accused of selling customer's data to the highest bidder joining various on facebook among others we have a full story on our website plus. you can take it take to the skies over russia's capital on our website and we've lined up something unique that shocked the russian

photographer when he got high in moscow and the stunning parasite image is all that's waiting for you. thank you. thank you. as of the global economic rivalry between washington and beijing wasn't enough chinese investors are now preparing a mess of project why did america's backyard the construction of a candle connecting the atlantic to the pacific ocean through nicaragua is due to begin next year sponsored by chinese firm artie's katie pilgrim reports. the idea of a canal terry nichols has been kicking around over one hundred fifty years now that

a chinese businessman has dumped up forty billion dollars from global investors it could become a reality now the owner of hong kong based hate and d. group is funding to start building the canal in twenty forty which they claim will be ready for action by twenty twenty eight so let's have a look at the map then i will be able to see that the plan is to build one hundred seventy eight mile waterway connecting the caribbean and the pacific and it would be three times longer than the panama canal which took a decade to complete now the group faces wide criticism over its plans and i spoke to asia expert david q who dismissed the venture as a joke. i'm hoping it's a joke i'm just hoping that it's maybe some some. kind of a billionaire too much time around because if you think about it i mean if there wasn't already

a canal out the west and east you wouldn't really sort of think about putting one in the ground there were only one. good one reason why the number was chosen was because it was the shortest distance between the atlanta and slipping so why on the road anybody want to. you know that is actually going from it used to the workers who just doesn't make any sense to me. but the investors behind the project insist that world trade needs. and that the panama canal is not enough to handle the trade already conducted between the east and west so those who are laughing at the project right now might just have to change their tune if this game changing projects succeeds. now for some other international news a brief for the thesis sixty people remain unaccounted for after an airliner crash landed at san francisco international airport two people were killed and one hundred thirty injured when there isn't

a boeing triple seven burst into flames near the runway eyewitness speak of the plane's tail section breaking laugh just before touchdown while the pilot apparently made no distress calls prior to landing at a little investigation revealed that eyes. in the fuel tank could have blocked fuel cell which would be engines. at least one person has been killed after a train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames in canada's problems of feedback a number of people are missing as explosion leveled dozens of nearby buildings all around a thousand people were forced to flee their homes the amateur footage shows the intensity of the blast while reports say large amounts of toxic chemicals spilled into a river close to the sea. forty two people. have been killed in a raid by islamist militants on a boarding school in northeastern nigeria at least twenty nine of the dead were students at the school i want to say some of the victims were burned alive in the

attack the survivors are being treated for both gunshot wounds and birds school attacks in the country have claimed the lives of more than a thousand six hundred since twenty ten. security forces in istanbul have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the protesters thousands gathered in the city's a landmark taksim square to try to assess all axes gezi park which has become the symbol of anti government protests the park has been called of of for three weeks so although it was said to be open tomorrow it follows a court decision to throw our dream development plans for the site which sparked nationwide protests that were met with a brutal crackdown by police. but long awaited the world university games are got underway with a spectacular ceremony to welcome the world to the capital of russia's republic of tatarstan a multi-sport competition summer university twenty thirteen is seen as

a major step along the road to russia's hosting of future high profile sporting events and present a move putin took his place in the front row pos got ours at the ceremony for us. have just come from the stadium you can see behind me and the thing is russia russian history and russian culture is a rare opportunity for russia to show off russia to the rest of the world what russia does indeed have to offer. is being beamed live into a one hundred eighty different countries in view is being treated to a combination of dogs music fireworks rather remarkable pyrotechnic display as well but this has been five years in the planning since because i was awarded the games back in two thousand and eighty six 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 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 all still being applied to some of the venues the message is clear. is ready. every time. it's ever money given it's really you're excited that it's stress that everything is going to go well that you don't have any crash. whether it's this test that. you are. it's. quite a confident even if sometimes a venues where with a little bit too late we go there with the will be ready on time but we do have some types of ignore some of the things this is but i would say that quite

confident hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates say these games would cost up to five billion u.s. dollars because iran has seen a complete overhaul of its infrastructure with. development of new hotels a new transport network installed and around half of the sixty four sporting venues that they built from scratch on this is the jewel in the crown of the county. forty five thousand old stadium. will be packed to the rafters. 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 him despite the heavy 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 procedure is a big east a. tribute to to do good legacy and i think this is the only. public project that everything that 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 with the athletes' village there's a great site it is simply happy it's different. it's nice stuff. that's much more than i expected so very good. these include the likes of rowing and rugby sevens sports. including boxing complete

idiots and sent off to the university that would be great. in such a great atmosphere. that. if inspiring 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 coming to the sures by two thousand and eighteen the organizers therefore hoping that these games will show that russia is ready to welcome the sporting world. because. i'll be back with. thirteen people that we take a look at i reported that this cycle of diplomacy and then africa.

south carolina is playing around with the idea of using shane 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 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 participants for the same crime seems like a bit of a shade thing than me but that's just my opinion. according to the law usaid is allowed to procure up to seventy five percent american products and transport them only on american ships. and that means that the shippers have a lot of interest in food aid policy and have been an incredibly effective lobby to fight for the status quo of sourcing in and shipping from the united states the u.s. government is the only government in the world that hasn't made substantial movements

in the direction of enabling local procurement of food aid in developing countries in order to respond faster and more cheaply to food emergencies as they arise. 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 four to six months from when it has been termed that we want to participate in in a particular appeal and so when the food arrives. the g.a.o. where mr alito works issued a report which presented the problem to congress. president bush tried to change the system so that a portion of the food would be procured from local markets and arrive. and cost less. they failed and they failed because of the lobbying efforts the highly

successful and very sophisticated lobbying efforts of those who benefit from the status quo in u.s. food aid programs. from the american taxpayers money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa the remaining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies. and i mean yes they were already have a yes. was . i'm. very happy.