what's the blower on the run edward snowden could be heading to latin america with the leaders of three countries they're ready to grant him political asylum this after his latest leaks reveal that brazil and russia have been targeted by the u.s. snooping program. egyptian is rocked by deadly clashes between backers and opponents of the ousted leader mohamed morsi as russia's president putin who warns against an escalation into all out civil war. and also this week with no sign of a let up in the guantanamo bay hunger strike now in its six month prison guards are resorting to new harsh techniques to end the standoff.

what you are to coming to you live from the russian capital at six pm here on marina joshie and we begin with breaking news five carriages of a passenger train have doraine in southern russia the accident happened at around five pm local time no injuries have been reported so far it will be bringing you more as we get it to other stories now three a latin american countries have said they're ready to grant asylum to edward snowden the leaders of believe even as well and they can rago are offering a helping hand to the man who exposed the u.s. government's global surveillance web washington's aggressive pursuit of the whistleblower has prompted those leaders to rally around the former n.s.a. contractor r. g.'s an isa now he has more. i think snowden strongest vice is the latin american twist a glimmer of hope after living in limbo for weeks then as well as nicaragua and

bolivia for the n.s.a. leaker asylum after the european countries rejected or his official request were 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's stance 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 called. it's

a huge and they think they can. do a spy blackmailing us and dictate their own terms like they did before making a change of policy their. own decisions and they can't 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 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 haygood mogs totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries even their allies snowden's leaks help reveal how the u.s. was called more styled 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 the now r.t. moscow nicaraguan media have published what's said to be an official asylum request from snowden in a letter written last sunday the government hasn't confirmed whether this letter is a sandy but let's now take a look at what it says snowden apparently says that he fears u.s. prosecution after exposing his government's violations of the constitution and un treaties and whistleblower a dozen thing he'll get a fair trial and well face life in prison or the death penalty if he returns home snow and has published a statement accusing obama of using his citizenship as a weapon anti-war activist norman solomon agrees with a saying washington is trampling on snowden's basic human rights. the

conduct of the u.s. government including statements made publicly by president obama and vice president biden i think are 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 by edward snowden is quite reasonable quite accurate and the united states from a tactical standpoint as the government has attempted to use the calling of stars passport as a weapon and that's just wrong more spying revelations are coming out and this time brazil is in the spotlight snowden's leaked documents show that the country was a major target for u.s. intelligence russia china iran and pakistan are also highlighted as key data

gathering targets this after some latin american leaders lashed out a washington jury a summit and believe well europe why accuse washington awful little terrorism while venezuela's leader said the united states' actions show the extent of its control over european governments argentina's president said that the grounding of the believin presidential plane on wednesday was a human rights violations committed by e.u. countries which usually promote them meanwhile ecuador's leader rafael corral criticized washington for its colonial approach to let in america the leader of the host nation adam raw it's also a plenty to say as our team spanish correspondent bruce yossi guardian reports. rela said this all for is a protest against the u.s. and some european nations in the speech has always been mostly anti american but now the us is not alone since friends portugal italy and spain closed their ers

they used to believe u.s. presidential plane europe has become the new entity you also mentioned that now is the time for not an american countries to impose their own politics of course he was referring to the us now we have clearly seen here all districts in the past these new un to european feeling people are angry and their minds are going back to colonial times now if you put together colonial memories and is that the skyjacked happy so it's the combination can be a bowl movement meaning that relations between lets in america and these four european countries might be meeting a new story and it may not be that bright so the e.u. nations trying to help the u.s. and its hand for the very man who revealed that washington was able to listen to every word sad in a new offices brazilian investigative journalist pepe escobar says that these developments are bringing let the american countries closer together. do all sort get that what you what twenty four well where i was before what happened to little

boy i was there were outraged in serious it were being spied of all in the in strength so it isn't over the nato headquarters in the moments outside the belt twenty four hours later he did what they did against evil without the leader of a small cell some very good nations and now the united. against the us it just is ridiculous but that thick roll of the european focus. all of your looking for the latest updates on adverts now and or a missed key of element over the past few days we've got it all for you on our website check out our timeline and r.t. dot com complete with fresh updates opinions and more. well back to our developing have breaking news story now seventy people reported injured after five carriages of

a passenger train have derailed in southern russia the accident happened at around five pm local time on the span of the coupon region no fatalities have been reported so far and will be bringing you more as we get it. slid back into political deadlock this week macel abrasions after the country deposed its first democratically elected leader turn into deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of hama morsy a new interim government is slowly being formed but millions are fearful over what lies next for the country as well as we are now reports. 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 army's not taking any chances if no clear government to change its way to the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster in terms of an upper egypt to an arts internet a real. real changes 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 wanted reinstated both sides are talking war i want to say to the american states and to the wallet to the whole wall and to the west to europe be careful if you joy that out of me there gyptian out of me or the head of the egyptian army to destroy the islamists that means that you're turning this country to up ways that will produce a lot of islamists i there's a strong feeling of deja vu after just

a year in office the muslim brotherhood leaders have joined the. imprisoned president hosni mubarak both now sitting in the same jail. 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 news 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 each option against egypt this is so. think that completes the first evolution. if this edition was incomplete but i 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. is the worst people to patrol the country this is evidence of the and i would like you to join me when i journeys 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 revolutionary to and it includes a quick look at a few well that mostly through the cos 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 of us 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 confrontational many fear the situation will only go from bad to worse policy r.t. . russia's president has warned that the situation in egypt co to escalate into

much more severe a conflict syria because of questionable syria is already in a gulf in a civil war however said it seems and egypt is moving in the same direction we wish the egyptian people can avoid this fate. now we caught up with the former head of the arab league who is now one of the top opposition figures in egypt amr moussa told r.t. isabelle true that democracy is not just down to the ballot box. 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. 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 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 saw millions of people pouring 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. a 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 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 fergus and the rule of law that would prevail. and coming up for you

a genetically modified diet for europe britain urges the e.u. to ease its restrictions on g.m. products despite concerns that consumers are being treated like guinea pigs. could be argued that there are certain countries that have promoting certain brands of islam that ultimately lead to that but i can say that those who come to me because i don't think that to the tsunamis among the people when it comes to.

the news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today. welcome back you're watching r.t. and let's now bring you more on our developing story seventy six people are reported injured after five carriages of a passenger train derailed in southern russia the accident happened at around five pm local time in the region no fatalities have been reported so far emergency

braking is being named as a possible cause of the accident of course we'll bring you more on this as we get it and now it's turn to some other stories that we're following for you today the hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison is now and six months was no side of a resolution the guards at the u.s. military jail in cuba are resorting to new harsh tactics to force an end to the protests reportedly slamming cell doors up to three hundred times a night to keep prisoners awake that's according to british inmate shocker on their . sleep deprivation is allegedly linked to the upcoming ramadan fast when force feeding will be conducted at night the detainees lawyers warned dad in view of the inmates we condition keeping them awake at night could be highly dangerous out of the one hundred six prisoners that are now refusing food forty five are being subjected to force feeding the u.s.

government has to fan of the practice in the face of criticism from human rights groups or he's got to count investigates. the u.n. calls for 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 first the guards strap a detainee down to a chair like this one then they put a mask over his face so that the detainee can't move by or spit in the nurse snakes the feeding tube into nasal cavity the fitting tube which is roughly the size of a pens in court for each word this or this is not an actual feeding tube but it gives you an idea here and this area is very rich in things 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 troop to the detainees know 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 of 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. well the squire's 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 and it made me feel like throwing up i wanted to vomit but i couldn't there was getting 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 went 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 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 but 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. you watching our team back to our breaking news story now seventy six reported injured in a train derailment in southern russia let's get more on this now from our he's andrea farber and to tell us more. i don't really yes as we know it's at the moment local reports are saying you see said seventy six people have been injured after this train derailed. in southern russia it happened about an hour ago it was

traveling from novosibirsk down to add to that was its final destination when the accident happened we do not believe at this stage that the emergency services have reached the scene in quite a rural area so we are relying on these local reports but we have heard that it was an emergency braking operation by the trainee trying to come to an emergency stop which caused this d. rome and we understand that five carriages lying on this side and seventy six people have been injured there have been no fatalities reported so far but as we say we are relying on local information and when the emergency services do get on the scene we will be able to bring you more. all right andrew thank you so much for bringing us this update and as you said we'll be bringing our viewers more as we get more information on this accident. and the meantime britain is pushing for a lift of the tide regulations on genetically modified food or the country's environment secretary saying g.m. farming is actually safer than many of the alternatives but despite government

ministers apparent enthusiasm for by attack parliament cafeterias have banned g.m. products from their man use while g.m. products are usually associated with stable crops like corn and rice but can find their way into many items ranging from need to milk and chocolate around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the u.s. giant monsanto which is accused of stifling small businesses and driving some farmers to ruin and even suicide meanwhile the alarm is being raised over the health implications of genetically doctor food ranging from simple allergies to deadly immune system problems are just bully boy girl investigates. it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell their 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 assure 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 took 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 talked of attack 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 in the human 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 technically 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 seeds it was 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 was 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 want to 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 i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world to more people now been found dead after train explosion in canada bringing the death toll to three sixteen more are still unaccounted for after the blast which devastated the town and pull back a driverless train pulling seventy tankers of petrochemicals derailed and exploded completely leveling the town center an environmental disaster and is also feared us like crude oil is said to have spilled into a nearby river. jordan has charged radical muslim cleric abu qatada with terrorism after he was deported from the u.k.

tata pleaded not guilty after being immediately handed over to prosecutors upon landing in amman on sunday britain fought a costly legal battle to extradite him to his home country and he is known as a key figure in all coddling to activity is and was viewed by the u.k. as a national security threat. irish police say at least fifty thousand protesters have marched in double one against government plans to legalize abortions for women with life threatening pregnancies the bill was drafted after doctors refused to use the procedure on a woman having a miscarriage she died one week later was poor its ruling that the doctors decision led to her death the irish constitution lot of fortune and nine hundred eighty six with multiple governments refusing to review the article even for extreme medical emergencies. well back to our breaking news story now over eighty people are

reported injured after five carriages of passenger train derailed in southern russia six have been rushed to hospital the accident occurred at around five pm local time in the bond region no fatalities have been reported so far we'll be bringing you more on this as the information comes in. up next here in our team we'll look at the battle faced by muslim communities to defend their religions reputation. 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 a v. punishment for a crime but just a bonus one in my native ohio you can go to jail for three to thirty days and have your license suspended for one to three years for driving which is a brutal punishment in a country where everyone drives to work you see people are already punished for drunk driving and in america when you pay your debt to society i.e. you get out of jail you're supposed to have a clean slate but the bonus license plate suspension and possible punishment plates make this a triple sentence ignoring the fact that the government will be able to practically display words on your person like a brand on cattle is bad enough but multiple punishments for the same crime seems like a bit of a she think to me but that's just my opinion.