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

eleven am here in moscow on lucy catherine over new watching the weekly here on our t.r. 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 this after bolivia became the third latin american country to offer him asylum snowden has been looking for a safe haven since blowing the lid off america's global spy program last month and he so now he has a story of how one whistleblower has spurred a diplomatic spat between the americas. thanks notice 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 european countries regent street official requests that were promoted of the week if snowden him sour we don'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 correia sentiment toward snowden shifted suddenly saying their help with initial transport documents was a mistake then as well as my doro 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 he reacted to what bolivia called kidnapping. 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. latin america united because hundred nation social media rocketed with claims the u.s. was behind the move and europe a puppet washington remains 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 hager mogs totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries even their allies snowden's leaks help reveal how the u.s. was called 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 while searching for snowden at all cost and he's now a r.t.

moscow. brussels based political analyst poller a phone i believe that the us is attempting to become a self styled global governing and. the rules of international law have been totally. shaken. i would say since one thousand nine hundred nine on. to a level that even among the western powers now there is a situation where someone is more equal than others and the possibility of a sovereign state to adopt a decision. or protection of a certain individual. completely. to favor the major interest of the center of the imperial system which is washington in this case. latin america is finding itself squaring up to governments on both sides of the atlantic correspondent bruce years ago via for marty's spanish channel reports from bolivia on the region's anger at both europe and the us for failing to respect

the country's sovereignty. braless said this all for is a protest against the u.s. and some european nations in the speech has always been mostly on the americans and now the u.s. is not unknown seems friends portico unity and spain close their ers they used to believe u.s. presidential plane europe has become the new entity you also mentioned that now is the time or not the country's dreams always your own politics of course he was referring to the us now we have clearly seen here on the streets in the pause 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 does that skyjack happy so it becomes a nation can be a bowl of meaning it relations between a latino america and these four european countries might be meeting a new star i need my not be that bright brazilian investigative journalist pepe escobar says the way the u.s. and europe are handling snowden's case is actually bringing the entire latin

american region closer together forget that what you what twenty four well four hours before what happened to a little border eyelets they were outraged in serious it were being spied up all in a base in frankfurt and out over the nato headquarters in most outside of belt 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 just this ridiculous but benteke role all the european puppets. meanwhile egypt has slipped back into political crisis this week when the country's military overthrew its democratically elected president mass celebrations after mohamed morsi is ousting quickly turned into a violent clashes between his supporters and opponents a new interim government is slowly being formed by the people there are deeply

uneasy as to what's to come party's policy or has more. egypt's back in the headlines but for all the wrong reasons a week of street battles mess 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 as well the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster in terms of an upper 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 wall and to the west to europe be careful if you join that out of me there gyptian out of me or the head of the egyptian army to destroy the islamist that means that you're turning his country up ways that would produce a lot of islamists there's a strong feeling of deja even after just a year in office the muslim brotherhood leaders have joined it peter sr in prison president hosni mubarak both now sitting in the same jail very very articulate 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 mean a hair watches events unfold from his balcony this cup question lives in an apartment overlooking tahrir square he says it's now egypt put it against egypt

this. something that completes the first evolution. official position was incomplete have been. limited to retake 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 be told the country this is after months of 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 a fluid city because one of the few taking advantage of the constant turmoil he offers foreign tourists a v.i.p. with illusionary to it includes a quick look at a few well the mostly through the cars window and now i'm so well 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 using 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 drew caught up with a former arab league team who is 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 upheaval 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 morsi 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 a 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. or from certain way of thinking believe that democracy is just the butt of books do about 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 for us and the rule of law that would prevail. the toppling of mohamed morsi has made the egypt's northern sinai peninsula even more precarious an increase in attacks by islamic militants there has led to the closure of the border crossing into gaza now the diplomatic correspondent for the jerusalem post says that egypt's unpredictability is a serious concern for israel. but again it's we just have to have a little patience now and wait and see how things play out if you go take some time i think in general you can say a couple things about how weasel looks at these types of events israel is adverse to chaos is the first to unpredictability and i think what this does is this sends the whole region into a certain degree of chaos in a certain degree of improved ability which is uncomfortable for israel israel like stability it likes predictability even if those it's dealing with are not necessarily favorable to it however like to know how they're going to out to take

syrian president bashar assad for instance very tough relationship with israel over the years but as you kind of knew what he would do knew how we would react now in syria there's complete chaos in egypt also now academy situation it's tough it's tough for israeli policymakers to look at this and define what to do. britain is trying to get the britain is trying to get the e.u. to ease up on genetically modified food now that is despite claims the lab enhanced crops could cause us health problems on that story coming up after a short break. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every. where immediately is the most of.

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for tuning in i'm lucy catherine of the u.s. military authorities at guantanamo bay are allegedly stepping up efforts to break the detainees hunger strike which is now in its sixth month british in may shock her claims that the guards are using bizarre toxic for example intentionally slamming doors hundreds of times in the evening. deprive the prisoners of sleep officials have also said that the force feeding of dozens of protesters will continue this during the holy month of ramadan which begins on monday it's a fasting month boyer's for the detainees believe that the military will operate a painful for speeding factory at night time the procedure involves inmates being placed in cells with nothing to drink after they've been fed against their will but the highly controversial practice is still being defended by the us are going to teach account has more. the un cost to 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 then the nurse snakes the feeding tube into nasal cavity the feeding tube which is roughly the size of a pens in cartridge or this well 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 troop 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 taped the troop 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 through to us to for szell's are trying to make it sound like it's not as bad but here is 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 want to do it but i couldn't there was getting in my chest throat and stomach i had never experienced such pain before and would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone we also asked the guantanamo officials how many detainees resist the procedure and how many give their consent to it and he won't be. 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 inmates to

die but neither is it in a rush to give the detainees their lives back in washington i'm going to check on military medical staff add one time obey aren't authorized to treat the detainees properly as doctors are not that is the view of frank arnold who has been advocating for washington to allow independent doctors to get access to the hunger strikers the regime weeks the joint task force for going timetable 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 lawyer is that when they are asked to doctors for example to stop the environmental

manipulation which leaves them freezing. we keep them at night for various disturbance the doctor says they have no power to do it and as one of the one of the hunger strikers what is the point of a doctor like fact amid mounting public and legal pressure president obama has appointed a new on boy in charge of closing guantanamo bay now clifford sloan has already told the prison but given no detail about how or when the administration intends to shut it down meanwhile obama is under fresh fire for not doing more to speed up the closure of the notorious detention facility more on that from. as president i have tried to close gitmo i transferred sixty seven detainees to other countries before congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other countries or imprisoning them here in the united states this statement coming from the person many referred to as the most powerful man in the world may sound sincerely frustrated but many believe it has little honesty to it

president obama has been blogging on this she's been claiming that he can't do anything and that's simply not true he's operating a droll assassination program claiming he has the power to do that is present the united states and yet somehow he's claiming that he doesn't have the power to close down a military prison and he's the commander in chief of the united states armed forces is not a bit strange. and most often cited reason for not releasing prisoners even the eighty six cleared of all charges they have no place to go especially the so-called indefinite detainees terror suspects considered too dangerous to read go but impossible to try in either civil or military court largely because the evidence supporting claims of their terror activity has allegedly been received through torture and interrogation which cannot be used as evidence in court the very existence of these men was shrouded in secrecy with the u.s. officially revealing their identities only several weeks back after they'd been

entertainment for years there are still those who believe being held in guantanamo is tantamount to staying at a luxury resort in tropical paradise i don't know that there's a terrorist treated better anywhere in the world than what's happened at one time and we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a facility that has more comforts than a lot of americans get but this white claims that guantanamo is just sort of a vacation kept perhaps of its exotic location it remains one of the world's most notorious prisons where people are held without trial for years and the conditions are such that inmates choose to go without food for five months rather than accept the conditions they're being held in in cuba r t. on air and on the on line as well we're bringing you the latest on the ongoing mass hunger strike at guantanamo bay with our timeline so log on to our t. dot com and check it out.

britain wants the e.u. to embrace chanticleer modified food and to 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 rice can spread through the food chain via cattle that are ending up in our daily products now around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the us giant monsanto which has been accused of stifling small businesses and driving farmers still grew and meanwhile the alarm is being raised over the health implications of biotech food with the impacts raging from simple allergies to for example devastating immune system problems artie's polya boyko investigates . it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food it's a hard sell though campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the

scientific community supports the technology and if it is as 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 this 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 for 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 but the 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. souls and particularly seed supply in the hands of a few companies and these companies have a lot of sway with the major governments in the world including the u.k. government to back it 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 couldn't tell us is that g.m. food just doesn't have a good reputation and savvy last month showed that only twenty one percent of the u.k. population supports the technology but a boy. london. after the break r.t. takes a look at a long battle against starvation in the impoverished horn of africa do stay with us . as a person who lives in russia i get asked very often why i get a console for yet 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 as 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 at work and then all evening after driving the home of 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 eat foods that are allowed in america but are banned and 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 me to flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course argh. old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems rarely have simple solutions you could 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. 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. to 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 thus arrive faster 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 and use food aid programs.