joys of the ranks of other solve american countries offering edward snowden asylum as are fears that the n.s.a. whistleblower might not be able to make it to the refuge in a friendly state. divided egypt opponents and backers of also president morsi via war while rallies that as tensions continue to rise amid the country's political deadlock. and the twenty thirty world university games gets offered to a fiery start in russia such as and with a truly spectacular show as a city welcome signs of athletes to the games dubbed the olympics a little brighter.

we're live from our headquarters in moscow are you watching r t with me tell them one thing. the list of countries that are willing to give sanctuary to the man who expose of the n.s.a. surveillance program continues to grow libya has joined nicaragua and venezuela in offering asylum to edward snowden who is wanted by the u.s. now snowden is believed to be stranded in the transit zone of a moscow airport after his passport was canceled by the u.s. he has previously told refuge in twenty one countries around the world from asia to europe or to south america now washington's been pressuring the states reportedly including personal calls from vice president joe biden urging them to turn snowden away most of the whistleblowers asylum requests have been rejected but as artist tom barton reports even getting to the various countries that have given him asylum or have given him the option of asylum is going to take

a lot. 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 of a libya that followed venezuela earlier president nicolas maduro said that they would offer the whistleblower asylum if you could get them but also your carol i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar and chavez 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 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 says that if the circumstances were appropriate then 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 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 himself place which is crossing e.u. their space 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 whichever country snowden tries to go to. found of wide awake news attorney mcgrath or says that nations which rejected

snowden's pleas that did so out of fear of 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 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 in even when you give it this true. by dawn they won't step up and support troops so yeah it is a bit frustrating to see these european nations just kind of ignore this outright

spying that's out of. europe itself over here is no stranger to spying on its citizens or that something is revealed of france is running its own large scale eavesdropping program reports emerge claiming huge amounts of phone and internet data monitored and stored in a giant bunker and paris so with r.t. for more details coming up a little later. each of the security forces have reinforced their positions up to muslim brotherhood supporters about further protests until the deposed president mohamed morsy is back in problem only a pro reform leader mohamed el baradei was named as interim prime minister while it now appears that that deal putting him in poa has unraveled days their candidacy was apparently blocked by a more hardline muslim party with authorities saying that this several options for the position of his policy is in cairo for us. egypt still remains shoppy 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 morsi can for the better part of the week the protesters with this demanding and then celebrating the overthrow of morsi they want to make sure that they demand still remains popular but being pro morsy 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 hurled molotov cocktails chunks of pavement blocks 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 with a 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 part of saturday filming at some of those funerals heart wrenching scenes in front of the cairo university bridge men and women crying a lot of emotion but no doubt calls for retribution and for telly ation. dr mohammad abdul as seeds from the sec remain to islamic center in the u.s. it believes undermining the paul 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 old mubarak men. as opposed to the revolution to the revolutionaries people who are cheering in the streets right now will be the first to cry tomorrow when we set the precedence that it's ok for people to go to the streets and for the military to oust an elected president what happens next so the country elects the other guy who happens to be a liberal or or a socialist or whatever and then the 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. i mean a adam is a predicting egypt's fragile financial position could be at even greater risk of global transfer corsa gerald's the land says in a poor country anybody that can reach the top viable but if they don't do that 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 nor she 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 winds tourism virtually and the country went into deeper poverty and that's really the genesis behind all of these many of these uprisings around not only egypt but around the world. well the latest updates on the ongoing turmoil in the egypt as well as pictures capturing moments of both jubilation and despair head to our website at our t.v. dot com for more on those news some day i'll be back with more news after the break . wealthy british. right let's go. around. the.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. kaiser reports. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. for more international news brussels is threatening to suspend its data sharing with washington fresh on the heels of revelations about the n.s.a. is messy stopping money usa they ease demanding completed transparency and maximum

information from the u.s. that's just mind recent reports revealing its own snooping activities france is believed to be running a version of the n.s.a. is in some ways prison program artie's maria phenomena investigates. please building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather at three story bunk underneath that is the epicenter of a fresh spy scandal the hatch quilter's of the country's security services and it's from here that it's no kind of france's big brother's news which people monitoring the millions of phone calls text messages passes and e-mails live. cogently like. the french public is actually not very much you they've been receiving conflicting messages from their leadership like the first here we are to revelations over america's espionage olando condemned america say it's fine it's not what focused do now it's been revealed france isn't south doing exactly what it

just very vocally denounced french officials are downplaying allegations over the country's surveillance program claiming that reports inexact the revelations have added to an ever growing list of embarrassments for the country as freedom journalist robert honiss explains. 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 so embarrassing because it's 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 the french had a disastrous to chromatic week particularly because they made the blocking of

edward snowden. getting the experience he was on an airplane flying two thousand american a cause he wasn't and that made them look pretty stupid because it snowden who revealed the information which enabled him to self righteous and then measure to know had this happen limone which is a big newspaper in france of course revealed that the french were doing themselves anyway i mean it's been one of the weeks i have no doubt that the french president the french foreign office would like to forget. it is listening on it and you can get the full picture of what's going on on our website and there you'll find much more including telecommunications giant a.t.m. t.v. is the latest company accused of setting customers dated to the highest bidder joining various on the facebook among others with the full story on our website plus. you can take to the skies over russia's capital on our website or

we've lined up some unique snapshots from a russian photographer who really got high level moscow and triggered a stunning various eye images all that's awaiting at r.t. dot com. i'm. putting. it as if the global economic rivalry between washington and beijing wasn't enough chinese investors are now preparing a massive project right in america's backyard the construction of a canal connecting the atlantic to the pacific ocean through nicolai is due to begin next year sponsored by chinese firm artie's kitty pilgrim reports. the idea of the 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 degree of his funding to start building the canal in twenty forty which they claim will be ready for action by twenty twenty so let's have a look at the that it will be able to see that the plan is to build one hundred seventy eight mile walks way connect in 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 who dismissed event as a joke i'm hoping it's a joke i'm just hoping that it maybe some some things are. too much time because if you think about it. there wasn't already taken out. west

and east you wouldn't really sort of think about putting one in the you were anyway it was a really good one. and about which was because it was the shortest distance between the land. so why would anybody want to do. you know that it's actually going from you to the west coast we just doesn't make any sense. but the investors behind the project insist that world trade needs a new worries 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 project succeeds. increasing number of britain siding to banks to satisfy their hunger for the we're going pension minnesota claims all three million u.k. people just want to have their bellies field for free and denies a link between the rise in food banks and cuts in benefits are to serve for it has

more austerity might be a word until not long ago was rarely used now though it's on everyone's lips in real terms as a stereotype bites feed poverty is rising half a million people are now dependent on food banks according to figures in a recent joint report compiled by charities church action poverty and which many see as a direct result of mounting social spending cuts and the burden of care is often pulling to charitable organizations such as this one so this is where all starts with the distribution of course in the kitchen with the warring gradients. and this is a six day week operation so it all gets kicked him kicking thoughts nice and early and then once it's done it's all centered and turned the cold bit accepted by your lower back so from then just invite. some new people. and have you seen lots of new

people. young people. on board people young people live in squats. most of them are in. the people not knowing and benefits and jobs and stuff but they the number and dependence on feed banks have been steadily increasing something governments are playing down the connection with policy and their rights today. replies. and this is so out how the carrot he operates. six days a week is a big operation and a thousand people work for you they. get government funding you are used to unfortunately counselor funding for all the day centers so now we're on the wrong foot luckily we got

a couple supermarkets interested in diverting the food from. this would normally or the strawberries bananas are exhibiting normally and up and running from so so you're saving the environment and recycling back into the community and obviously helping people who are going hungry and there's a lot of people nowadays going hungry but we've seen a huge number of people using this service today and services like this to become even more pivotal in the future the government might just of announced another round of paying for the start he wishes but the truth is for the u.k. to stay on this deficit reduction policy while many in government know it's looking forward to the future past the next election is that there could be much much worse to come sarah. lunde and now for some other in the last news in brief this hour at least two people have died when an airliner crash landed at san francisco international airport one hundred eighty one people have been injured and one person remains unaccounted for i wouldn't speak of the place tail section

breaking off just before touchdown while the pilot apparently made no distress calls prior to landing and initial investigation has revealed that ice pellets of holding the fuel tank which could have blood field from the engines. at least one person has been killed since the train carrying crude oil derailed and burst into flames encounters problems of tobacco a number of people are missing as the explosion leveled dozens of nearby buildings while 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. security forces in istanbul have used tear gas and water cannon to despairs protesters of thousands gathered in the city's len market taksim square to try to access gezi park which had become of the symbol of anti-government protests the park has been called owned for three

weeks although it was said to reopen tomorrow it falls in court decision to throw out redevelopment plans for the site which sparked nationwide protests that were met with the brutal police crackdown. by the long awaited the world university games got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony to welcome the world to the capital of russia's republic of tatarstan the multi-sport competition some are universal their twenty thirteen is seen as a major step along the road to russia's hosting off future high profile sporting events and reservoir to be uprooted took his place in the front row posco it was there for us. but i have just come from the stadium you can see behind me of 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 as i say a rather remarkable pyrotechnic display as well this has been five years in the planning since because it was awarded the games back in two thousand and eighty 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 all still being applied to some of the venues the message is clear. is ready. every time you.

know it's their money never makes you excited that it's stress that everything is going to go well that you don't have any crash. whether it's this test it's. so why the confidence even if sometimes the values were revealed 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 on the videos but i would say that quite confident hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates say these games cost up to five billion u.s. dollars because iran has seen a complete overhaul of its infrastructure for the. development of new hotels and a new transport network installed. around sixty four sporting venues at the built from scratch on this is the jewel in the crown of the county a purpose built 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 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 parts of. our tribute to two weeks. and i think this is very important to the public project. everything that building would not be on the. project. to the public afterwards although the opening ceremony

isn't until saturday evening some competition has already started causing a stir at the athletes' village where super excited is simply happy it's different yeah. that's nice but better than. expected so very good. these include the likes of rowing and rugby sevens sports. including boxing was complete in itself after the university that would be gracing increase. in such a great atmosphere. that. but 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 winning championships and the world cup coming to the sure by two thousand and eighteen the organizers

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