today's news and the week's top stories from our t.v. edward snowden's asylum options grow as three latin american countries now say they're willing to shield the stranded n.s.a. whistleblower for the american prosecutors. supporters and opponents of the ousted egyptian president of valor more protests as the country's army backed government tries to regain control of the streets after weeks of rallies and violence. and one tunnel guards allegedly step up aggressive efforts to break the mass hunger strike at the prison which has entered its sixth month.

thanks for joining in the sunday i'm lucy catherine of any watching or to use the weekly our wrap up of the week's top stories as well as today's news edward snowden has a few more options open as to which country he can turn to in order to escape prosecution in the united states after bolivia became the third latin american country to offer him asylum snowden has been looking for a safe haven since of blowing the lid off america's global spy program last month and he's there now he has a story of how one whistleblower has spurred a diplomatic spot between the americas. snowden's longer suffices though with a latin american twist a glimmer of hope after living in limbo for weeks then as well as nicaragua and bolivia after the n.s.a. leaker asylum after european countries rejected or his official request were for most of the week if snowden him sour didn't know where his future would be taking him then we certainly did and this really it was thought ecuador might be

a possibility but president caray is sentiment toward snowden shifted suddenly saying their help with initial transport documents was a mistake then as well as my dural made his country stand clear this weekend saying snowden can come and live in the land of chavez quote away from the persecution of american imperialism but only after bolivia's ever morale us was detained and denied airspace over europe for some fourteen hours while his presidential plane was searched for snowden in an exclusive interview with our team around as we did to what bolivia called a kidnapping. is huge and they think they can humiliate and subdue a spy blackmailing us and dictate their own terms like they did before making a change our policies there would make our own decisions and they can pressure us into doing what they want. latin america united with their condemnation social

media rock did with claims the u.s. was behind the move and europe a puppet washington remained silent they have made a serious mistake because this is just one more example of the way things are going to be not only throughout latin america but throughout the world already where you have powerful hegemonic totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries even their allies snowden's leaks help reveal how the u.s. was cold war style tapping their closest e.u. . partners 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 see these european nations just kind of ignore this outright spying that's happening for them well thirteen for snowden at all cost and he's the now r.t. moscow investigative reporter dave lindorff says that it is notable how countries

switch from our app the united states over america surveillance program to complying with washington it's quite astonishing to me to see how the leaders in europe germany and france and several other countries spoke out angrily at finding out that they were being spied on that their embassies were being spied on in washington that the e.u. off system cells in europe were being spied on and then all of a sudden they all flat out said first of all they would not grant asylum to snowden who led them to know all that and then they caved in on this flight that they thought was carrying snowden i think what was happening was the u.s. probably told them about a plane that had snowden on it didn't bother to tell them that it was a presidential flight it was an atrocious violation of diplomatic immunity to go after a presidential airplane and the truth is that president morales had every right to

carry snowden if he wanted to that would not have been grounds to have brought him down. latin america is finding itself squaring up to governments on both sides of the atlantic correspondent a breeze hours ago via from spanish channel reports from bolivia on their way down as anger at both europe and the u.s. profiling to respect the country's sovereignty. rela said this all for is a protest against the u.s. and some european nations speech has always been mostly anti american but now the u.s. is not unknown seems friends portugal italy and spain close their ers base to believe u.s. presidential plane europe has become the new entity also mentioned that now is the time for nineteen american countries to impose their own politics of course he was referring to the u.s. now we have clearly seen here on the streets in the past these new onto european feeling people are angry and their minds are going back to colonial times now if

you put together colonial memories and is that skyjack happy so it becomes a nation can be a bowl of meaning it relations between outlets in america and these four european countries might be meeting a new start i need my not be that bright brazilian investigative journalist pepe escobar says the way the united states and europe are handling the snowden case is bringing the entire latin american region closer together do all sorts get that what you what twenty four well four hours before what happened to him for what alex they were outraged and serious it were being spied of all in a base in frankfurt and out of a nato headquarters in moments outside of built twenty four hours later they did what they did against everyone around the leader of a small cell some american nations and now the united south america against the

u.s. and i guess this ridiculous but benteke role of the european cup it's. weeks of scandals surrounding the exposure of washington's global surveillance program has caused repercussions around the world but anger among americans was acute this week thousands have marked independence day with demonstrations against being spied on by their own government as well as the practice of illegal searches and seizures details on the story coming right up. egypt has slipped back into political crisis this week when the country's military overthrew its democratically elected president massa liberations after a home of more seized ousting turned quickly into violent clashes between his supporters and opponents a new interim government is slowly being formed but people there are deeply an easy as to what's to come artie's costlier has more. egypt's back in the headlines but for all the wrong reasons a week of street battles mass crowds

a divided country on the brink of civil war this is the street where the worst violence in cairo happened even thirty five people killed more than a thousand injured the mood is extremely tense friends family and supporters shouting crying a lot of emotion and the country's bracing itself for more u.s. issued military combat boots stand guard the newly installed all means not taking any chances if no clear government to change its way to the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster coming up for egypt to an arts and internet to real policy and real change is on the one side the millions who rallied for the ouster of the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi they got what they wanted went on wednesday the army took over across the bridge those who want to be reinstated both sides are talking will i want to say to the american states and to the wall and to

the whole wall and to the west to europe be careful if you join the army there gyptian out of me or the head of the egyptian army to destroy the islamist that means that you turn in this country to up ways that will produce a lot of islamists i there's a strong feeling of deja even after just a year in office the muslim brotherhood leaders have joined it peter sister in prison president hosni mubarak both now sit in the same jail for an hour nucular america's betting on a losing horse by selling out to the islamists where is the america that calls for freedom why have they allowed this to happen does freedom mean shutting down islamic t.v. channels does it mean shutting down used papers minima hair watches events unfold from his balcony this cup question lives in an apartment overlooking tahrir square he says it's now each option against egypt this. something that completes the first evolution. official position was incomplete but i have been. committed to retake in

control of the country for more than a year and then. using that democracy in a very bad way by giving. the country to the muslim brotherhood which was the worst people to control the country this is a moment to the and i would like you to join me in a journey through time travel back in time travel to unravel discoveries discover evolution that made egypt and the element that made egypt revolution able. because one of the few taking advantage of the constant turmoil he offers foreign tourists a v.i.p. revolutionary to it includes a quick look at a few well the mostly through the cars window and now i'm so as spoken thanks to that evolution i used to stammer and stutter and flounder now you see my speech flows like a mighty stream momos like british people but most tourists are staying away while the country plummets unemployment's up and the egyptian pound is false losing its

already weakened value as supporters on both sides brace for more confrontations many fear the situation will only go from bad to worse policy r.t. . and r t is cairo correspondent bill true caught up with a former arab league chief who's now one of the top opposition figures in egypt told her that democracy is not just down to the ballot box and that egypt's up he will should be properly called a popular uprising. the security forces the armed forces are trying to maintain law and order in the streets going forward in a solid way that would allow the country to be. to get back on track but moments after the ouster of mohamed morsy we had reports of hundreds of missing budget officials who were arrested the president himself was put under house arrest with no communication t.v. networks were shut down people are calling this a military coup how can you defend that everybody so millions of people who are

into the streets so it was not a coup it was a popular uprising if not the revolution that is not enough to be a ballot box approving you and then you just sit and enjoy your life and let the people go down the drain i don't know how some people in. order or from certain way of thinking believe that democracy is just the box of the ever got the majority over there has the right to do or not to do anything how can you include the muslim brotherhood and its political parties like the freedom and justice party in the political roadmap of egypt if their leaders of being arrested yes yes egypt is and in. an unprecedented exceptional circumstances some precautionary measures would be taken but i hope at the end it is fergus and the rule of law that would prevail. washington meanwhile has stopped

short of denouncing the military's actions as a koan study condemning the violence and urging for calm but political analyst dan glazebrook says that some countries are capitalizing on egypt's chaos. well the imperial powers in this crisis phase are between a rock and a hard place in everything that they're dealing with because on the one hand they're they're actually quite happy to see egypt descend into just total failed state chaos as the as they've deliberately planted libya and syria into that kind of chaos that we happen to see that need to be happy to see it fall apart from both of us hundred fifty years britain and then the u.s. have made it their main fall policy goal towards egypt to prevent emerging as a powerful independent viable state that can provide independent and regional leadership remember that what they're really scared of is that as a strong independent power that could break the ties of these israel break the collaboration with israel. provide you know and support for the western regime change foreign policy in syria and so on could actually start negotiating bad terms

of trade and so on and so forth so so on the one hand they want to quell the unrest by at the same time they're happy to see the country descend descend into chaos so it's open so that's a difficult game the plan. britain is trying to get the e.u. to ease up on genetically modified food and that is despite claims that been tons of calls us hope problems on that story in just about. could be here arguing their city countries that have come out in so rounds of islam that ultimately lead to that. i can see that there is a come to this because i don't think that the tsunamis among the people in the country.

download to keep up location so. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't sit well with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. and. welcome back lucy catherine over here u.s. military authorities at guantanamo bay are allegedly stepping up efforts to break

the detainees hunger strike which is now in its six month british inmates shofar claims that the guards are using bizarre tactics for example intentionally slamming doors hundreds of times during the night this just deprive the prisoners from sleep now of. have said that force feeding of dozens of protesters will continue during the holy muslim fast of ramadan which begins on monday lawyers for the detainees fear the military will operate a painful force feeding factory they called it at night time the procedure involves inmates being placed in dry cells with nothing to drink after they've been fed against their will but the highly controversial practice is still being defended by the u.s. as artie's get education and reports. the u.n. calls for the us to stop force feeding guantanamo hunger strikers the practice is against international law and is seen by many as a form of torture and here is one thing first the guards strap the detainee down to a chair like this one then they put a mask over his face so that the detainee can't move bite or spit and the nurse

snakes the feeding tube into nasal cavity the feeding tube which is roughly the size of a pens in cartridge or this or this is not an actual feeding tube but it gives you an idea and this area is very rich in nerve endings and patients report extreme pain during the procedure and the nurse pushes the tube further down the throat creating a tightness that makes breathing difficult at that point patients typically feel pressure on their chest along some say it feels like they were drowning then the staff tapes the troops to the detainees nose so that they can bite or swallow it and then two cans of nutritional substances are being funneled through the tube now we wrote to guantanamo and asked whether they use an anesthetic for this seemingly painful procedure here's the response typically not however it is available if the detainees request that most detainees prefer to use

standard all of oral to lubricate the two you are still for szell's are trying to make it sound like it's not as bad but here's how one of the detainees a yemeni man somewhere in r.g. all house on the bell describes what force feeding actually feels like i will never forget the first time they passed a feeding tube up my nose i can't describe how painful it is to be force fed this way as it was thrust it made me feel like throwing up i wanted to vomit but i couldn't there was good in my chest throat and stomach i had never experienced such pain before i would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone we also asked the kuantan official how many detainees resist the procedure and how many give their consent to it and he won't. saying the majority of the detainees report compliantly and do not resist detainees are given a choice to eat a hot meal drink the liquid new trend or be enthralled fed the detainees see the choice differently take a listen to. when they come to force me into the chair if i refuse to be tied up

they call the team so i have no choice either i can exercise my right to protest my detention and be beaten up or i can submit to painful force feeding for most people these detainees are out of sight out of mind as sudden as it is they say physical suffering is the only way to draw the world's attention to their plight we can't hear their voices but here's what they write i'm doing this because i want to know my destiny i cannot abide not knowing anymore i just hope that because of the pain we are suffering the eyes of the world will once again look to guantanamo before it is too indefinite detention is the worst form of torture respect us or kill us it's your choice the u.s. must take off its mask and kill us the obama administration doesn't want in mates to die but neither is it in a rush to give the detainees their lives back in washington i'm going to check on the military medical staff at guantanamo bay are not authorized to treat the

detainees properly as doctors are now that is the view of frank arnold who's been advocating for washington to allow independent doctors to get access to the hunger strikers the regime weeks the joint task force for gordon tunnel has written for the cleveland of these people requires truly abusive care and also is involves the use of medicines which are dangerous they are not allowed to behave like doctors and are compelled by the military hierarchy to behave like jailers. in particular several of them have commented to me through their lawyers that when they are asked to go to for example to stop the environmental manipulation which leaves them freezing. we know you for various disturbance the doctor says they have no power to do it as one of one of them

because what is the point of a doctor a large part officials are making no effort to end the mass hunger strike by appeasing the detainees most of whom were cleared for release years ago that's the point of view of military attorney barry when guard ninety eight percent of these men have no allegations against them to say we can't release them because they might do something in the future is completely ridiculous what we understand that guantanamo bay is there because we're fighting the emotion of terror internationally but that the fact that we're fighting something that can't be conquered and the fact that one time obey remains open is still unjust and should be rectified immediately we can't allow this in this humanitarian violation to continue i think there's a sense in washington d.c. that you know we don't care whether these men did anything or not they're going to stay in guantanamo bay forever because it's good for us politically and that is completely the wrong answer you know if president obama wanted to he could at least

attempt to stop the hunger strike i was the guantanamo bay last week and i saw no indication of any action to even end the hunger strike let alone send these men back home or give them justice in some form on air and online as well we'll bring you the latest on the ongoing mass hunger strike at guantanamo with our timeline here in our dot com so log on and check out how the process has unfolded for the past while. britain wants the e.u. to embrace modified food and ease the tight regulations surrounding it the country's environment secretary claims g.m. crops are actually safer than many of the alternatives although some health organizations beg to differ g.m. crops such as corn and rice spread through the food chain via cattle and often end up in our daily products and around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned

by the us monsanto which is accused of stifling small businesses and driving farmers to ruin meanwhile the alarms being raised over health implications of the biotech foods ranging from simple allergies to devastating immune system problems artie's bali polly boyko investigates. it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell though campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government are sure it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must have produces of the stuff and the british government says the u.k. shouldn't be getting left behind to talk more about this i'm joined by dr robert he's the founder of the alliance for natural health which campaigns against g.m. foods. there are

a billion hungry mouths in the world and we're being told that this technology is safe shouldn't we embrace it in that case well if you look at all the real developments in raising eels it hasn't actually occurred through g.m. it's occurred through conventional breeding practices and we know that the european authorities have probably one of the most comprehensive evaluation systems compared with other parts of the world but only two crops have actually got through the net for cultivation over fifty have been approved for consumption but of course the majority of it is given to animals and not to humans what are the risks in this case how is it dangerous to human health there's been a lot of g.m. produced of course a large amount of it going to animals to be u.s. population has been eating a lot of g.m. corner a lot of g.m. soy and they say well we can't see the effect we believe looking at humans as guinea pigs is not a great way of doing it particularly given the fact that we're only looking at really one or two generations of exposure why is the government so keen to develop

this technology in that case and who would be benefiting from it if they did there are about a half a dozen companies that are the key players in this areas of which monsanto is the biggest and they've been putting huge pressure on governments they're all doing that the biggest problem is concentrating the agricultural research. and particularly seed supply in the hands of a few companies and these companies have a lot of sway with the major governments the world including the u.k. government many thanks for your comments but as one environmental group said the british government's attempt to get g.m. food back on the menu is like flogging a dead horse and despite any of the scientific arguments for it one thing that you can't argue with is that g.m. food just doesn't have a good reputation a survey last month showed that only twenty one percent of the u.k. population supports the technology pretty boy artsy london. time for some international headlines for you now and we begin in the united states

a boeing seven seven seven crash landing at san francisco's international airport two people are confirmed dead scores injured some critically but incredibly more than three hundred people escaped after their as yana airlines flight from south korea's slammed into the runway and burst into flames now the pilots apparently made no distress calls witnesses say the plane's nose appeared to be raised as it struck a sea wall near the runway showing off the tail. a train carrying crude oil has derailed in quebec canada exploding into a fireball leaving at least one person dead dozens of nearby buildings were leveled and around a thousand people were forced to flee their homes some are still missing reports also say large amounts of toxic chemicals spilled into a river close to the scene. thousands have rallied across the united states and abroad this week against the mass of global surveillance program undertaking by america's n.s.a.

and other restore the fourth movement emerged on social networks but quickly gained support with its calls for respect of the fourth amendment of the bill of rights which protect american citizens against illegal searches and seizures new york rally organizer tom calendula says the government surveillance is undermining the country's legal values. it is necessary for surveillance to occur however the problem with the way that it's being done now is that it is wholly unconstitutional and i would say that many people feel that way but the fourth amendment says the government can search and seize any information without a warrant and although warrants can be issued through the eyes and it's act they're usually done after the fact after the search is done and they've had a almost one hundred percent approval rate of these wiretaps after the fact we hope to be able to make the programs constitutional by explicitly prohibiting

surveillance of americans without warrants backed by probable probable cause. up next in our new interview program worlds apart in washing our team and let us. south carolina is playing around with the idea of using shame plates which are license plates that can display special messages the department of motor vehicles would have complete access to all these plates and be able to display text on them like suspended uninsured amber alert or stolen you know i actually don't mind the idea of using shame as a punishment i guess it could be a real deterrent to have a 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 or 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.