today's news and the week's top stories from our t.v. advert snowden's asylum options grow as a three legged american countries now say they're willing to shield the stranded n.s.a. whistleblower from american prosecutors. supporters and opponents of the alstad egyptian president valve war protest as the country's army bad government tries to regain control of the streets after a week of rallies and violence. down guantanamo guards allegedly step up aggressive efforts to break the mass hunger strike at the prison which has angered its six month.

is to be out of the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news and the add word snowden has a few more options open as to which country hand turn to in order to escape prosecution in the united states after believing it 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's now a has a story of how one whistleblower has spurred a diplomatic spat between the america. snowden's longers face is out 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 the european countries regent street or his official request for most of the week if snowden him now 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 dural made his country stands 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 has reacted to what bolivia. is huge and they think they can humiliate and some us spy blackmailing us and dictate their own terms like they did before making a change our policy 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 remain 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 called war style tapping their closest e.u. part. ners 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 out of them while searching for snowden at all costs and he's the now way r.t. moscow norman solomon the author of war made easy says washington's infringing

average snowden's basic human rights by pursuing his prosecution the conduct of the u.s. government including statements made publicly by president obama and vice president biden i think had a from the very beginning several weeks ago intended to deprive edward snowden of basic rights you know this until proven guilty first amendment and the freedom of speech that he had is entitle to as are all american citizens so i think the statement quote out it was snowden is quite reasonable quite accurate and the united states from a tactical standpoint as the government has attempted to use the calling of stones past court as a weapon and that's just wrong now lend america is finding itself squaring up to governments on both sides of the atlantic the region's leaders voiced their anger

at washington's policies during a summit in the believe this week europe why accuse washington off political terrorism while venezuela's leaders said the united states' actions show how an american elite is ruling europe argentina's president highlighted how believing this plane was diverted by european countries who usually talk about upholding human right ecuador's leaders said the u.s. is trying to colonize latin america races ago obvious from our team spanish now reports from a levy on the region's padded landing anger for failing to respect country 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 alone seems friends portugal italy and spain close their ers they used to believe u.s. presidential plane europe has become the new u.n. of the you 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 a industry to help us 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 these that skyjack happy so it's the combination can be a bomb meaning it relations between outlets in america and these four european countries might be meeting a new start and it may not be that bright now brazilian investigative journalist pepe escobar says the way the united states and europe are handling the snowden's case is bringing the entire eleven american region closer together do all sort get that what you what twenty four hours four hours before what happened to him for what i list there were outraged in serious it were being spied of all in a base in frankfurt and out over the nato headquarters in the moments outside of

built twenty four hours later they did what they did against every one of the leader of a small south american nations and now the united south america against the u.s. and just this ridiculous but benteke role all the european puppets. now weeks of scandal surrounding the exposure of washington's global surveillance program caused repercussions around the world but anger among americans was acute this week. thousands marked independence day with demonstrations against being spied on by their own government and the practice of illegal searches and seizures the details on that are coming up very shortly here in r t. slipped back into a political crisis this week when the country's military overthrew its democratically elected president mass celebrations after mohamed morsi ousting quickly turn into violent clashes between his supporters and opponents

a new interim government is slowly being formed but people there are deeply on easy as what's to come as policy reports. 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 streets 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 ways 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 will 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 turn in this country to upgrades that would 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 they played a sister in prison president hosni mubarak both now sitting in the same jail very articulately 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 by have been. the military taking 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 is the worst people to patrol 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 evolutions that made egypt and the element that made egypt an evolution of a fluid city because one of the few taking advantage of the constant turmoil he offers foreign tourists. 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 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 point to see on t.v. . while also in in cairo rather as our correspondent bill true who caught up with a former arab league chief who's now one of the top opposition figures and egypt amr most up tell her that democracy is not just down to the ballot box and that edge of so pale should be properly called the 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 by that officials who were arrested the president himself was put on the 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 evolution that is not enough to be 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 and. out or from certain way of thinking believe that democracy is just the butt of books or 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 have been 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 fairness and the rule of law that would prevail. now ousted president morsi was propelled to the top post in june last year after he won more than fifty one per se out of the popular vote but always political commentator and blogger karl rove thinks the army's actions can be undermining future political process. so you seem to that was that information when i have one is this here and i'm going to just comment even says nothing has happened during this year a lot of sectarianism and i think i just kind of negative language from the government then it's had president morsi but same time this guy there which is almost. upon us i almost won the popular demonstrations i don't own it that's not able to express its demands and if you want to combine with i'm able to propose

read political platform to move one forward for egypt so it's just simply trying to piece them into to get on the miniature sites to confront switch but ultimately the process if and when culminates in the army taking over and simply giving ultimatums to elected officials this is an incomplete aberration it's in store shelf democracy so i think that's not something to celebrate when i think there's a danger in this kind of becoming and all the controls very good and that ends up somehow being distorted then ends up undermining elected officials. britain's trying to get that e.u. to ease up on genetically modified food and that's despite claims a lab advance crops could cause us health problems more on that shortly here on r t .

could be argued there sitting countries that have come out in so brands of islam that ultimately only too bad i can say that there's a come to push too because i don't think that it's not as a monopoly over the country. needs to be told like which. programs are documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p.

interviews intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit arabic. welcome back this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow u.s. military authorities at one time obey are allegedly stepping up efforts to break the detainees hunger strike now at six months british inmates shocker on merit claims guards are using bizarre tactics for example intentionally slamming doors. hundreds of times during the night to deprive the prisoners of sleep officials have also said the forest 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 at night time the procedure involves inmates being

placed in cells with nothing to drink after they have been fed against their will but the highly controversial practice is still being the fan of by the us is going into account reports. from the u. one cost to the u.s. 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 incorporates 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 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 the two of us of 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. office 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 good in my chest throat and stomach i've 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. back 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 and troll fed the detainee see the choice differently take a listen. 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 see physical suffering as 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 are going to obey are not authorized to treat the detainees properly as doctors are in deaths of you a frank on who has been advocating for washington to allow and a pair of doctors to get access to the hunger strikers the regime weeks the joint task force for gore and turn him over has written for the cleveland of these people require is 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 still doctors for example to stop the environmental manipulation which leaves and freezing your each week you know you for various disturbed the doctor says they have no power to do anything and as one of them's one of the hunger strikers what is the point of a doctor like bart. now britain the ones that used to braze generically modified food and ease the tide regulations surrounding it the country's environment secretary claims g.m. crops are actually safer than many of the alternatives although health organizations back to differ while g.m.

crops such as corn and rice spread through the food chain via cattle are and again up in our daily products around eighty nine percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the us giant monsanto which is accused of stifling small businesses and driving farmers to ruin meanwhile the alarm is being raised over the health implications of biotech food ranging from simple allergies to devastating immune system problems are just bully boys who investigates. it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the 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 assure it is then 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 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's 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. take the 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 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 argue with 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 pretty boy. london. and some of today's world news stories now and asiana airlines boeing seven seven seven flying from south korea has crashed while landing at san francisco airport two female chinese teenagers are confirmed dead and scores are injured but incredibly more than three hundred people escaped when they were jet slammed into the wrong way and burst into flames airline's ruled out mechanical failure witnesses say the plane appeared to come in too low as it struck a sea wall near the runway shearing off the tail. of. a train carrying crude oil has derailed in callback in canada exploding into a fireball and 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 a large amounts of toxic chemicals spilled into a river close to the scene. britain has finally managed to deport radical islamist cleric abu qatada is now in his native country of jordan to face terrorism charges but costly legal battle to remove catawba from the u.k. took over ten years and he is known as a key figure and al qaida linked activities in the u.k. and has long been seen as a major threat to britain's national security. thousands rallied across the u.s. and abroad this week against a massive global surveillance program undertaken by america's ana say the protests were organized by a group called to restore the fourth that has been trying to draw attention to the domestic spying operations which mattie say are in gross violation of the fourth amendment of the bill of rights that's the one that protest american citizens against protects rather american citizens against illegal searches and seizures the

organizer of the new york rally it's oncle alice has 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 fully unconstitutional and i would say that many feel that way the fourth amendment says the government can search and seize any information without a warrant and all those warrants can be issued through the eyes and that's act they're usually done after the fact after the search has been done and they've had a almost one hundred percent for over three of these farms after the fact we hope to be able to make those programs constitutional by explicitly prohibiting surveillance of americans without warrants backed by probably probable cause. up next we'll look at whether the battle to tackle intolerance against muslims needs

to start from within islam itself a state that's. 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 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 she thing than me but that's just my opinion.