the top stories the last seven days whistleblower on the run edward snowden could be heading to latin america with the leaders of three countries there saying they're ready to granted political asylum this after his latest leaks reveal the brazil and russia have been targeted by the u.s. nuclear program. egypt rocked by deadly clashes between backers and opponents of the ousted leader mohammed morsi as russia's president putin wants against an escalation into all out civil war. also this week with no sign of a letter from the guantanamo bay hunger strike now in its six month prison guards are resorting to new harsh techniques to end the standoff.

is coming over here watching our weekly round of the top stories of the last seven days and first three latin american countries have said they're ready to grant asylum to edward snowden the leaders of bolivia venezuela or nicaragua are offering a helping hand to the man who exposed the u.s. government's global surveillance web washington's aggressive pursuit of the whistleblowers prompted those leaders to rally around the former n.s.a. contractor he's in this and now he's got more. i think snowden tsongas bice's though with a latin american twist a glimmer of hope after living in limbo for weeks then as well as nicaragua and bolivia and for the n.s.a. leaker asylum after the european countries rejected his official request for most of the week if snowden himself didn't know where his future would be taking him then we certainly didn't and this really it was thought ecuador might be a possibility but president gray 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 deny airspace over europe for some fourteen hours while his presidential plane was searched for snowden in an exclusive interview with our team around reacted to what bolivia called a kidnapping is huge and they think they can humiliate and subdue us by blackmailing us and dictate their own terms like they did before making us change our policies they're wrong we'll make our 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 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 cold war style tapping their closest e.u. partners even when you expose the truth in 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 law searching for snowden at all cost and he's now a r.t. moscow nicaraguan media is no published was said to be an official asylum requests from snowden a letter written last sunday the government has confirmed whether this letter since

then they cannot be let's take a look at what it says we'll pick it apart for you it's quite a long draft as you can see let's pick up the salient point snowden apparently says that he fears u.s. prosecution after exposing his government's violations of the constitution and the u.n. treaties the whistleblower doesn't think he's going to get a fair trial and he'll face life in prison or the death penalty if he returns over goes on to say snowden has published a statement accusing obama of using a citizenship as a weapon and the war activist norman solomon agrees with that saying washington's 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 from the very beginning several weeks ago intended to. dick writes innocent until proven guilty first amendment and the freedom of speech he had isn't titled you as are all american citizens so i think the statement by

were snowden is quite reasonable quite accurate and the united states from a tactical standpoint as the government has attempted to use the calling of our war as a weapon and that's just wrong. more spying revelations are coming out this time brazil's in the spotlight snowden's leaks documents show that the country was a major target for u.s. intelligence russia china iran and pakistan are also highlighted this key data gathering targets this after some latin american leaders lashed out at washington during a summit in bolivia your washington of political terrorism or venezuela's leaders said the united states' actions show the extent of its control over european governments argentina's president said that the grounding of the bolivian presidential plane on wednesday was a human rights violation committed by e.u. countries which usually promote them meanwhile ecuador's lead a rough field career and criticize washington for its colonial approach to latin america the leader of the host nation even more or less also had plenty to say as

r.t. spanish correspondent go via reports now. braless said this all for is a protest against the u.s. and some european nations moralist speech has always been mostly anti american but now the us is not alone since france portugal italy and spain close their ers base to believe us presidential plane europe has become the new enemy the also mentioned that now is the time for light in american countries to impose their own politics of course he was referring to the us 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's the combination can be a bomb meaning it relations between latin america and these four european countries might be meeting a new start and it may not be that bright so the show of unity by latin american

states some for the granting of a relative's plane in europe hit a nerve across the region dr francesco dominguez who's head of the latin american studies at middlesex university spokesman earlier on the top of the diplomatic fallout could have serious consequences for the u.s. . sounds like you know the united states seems to be a pretty badly. latin american nations to such a way it's a pity that the european nations do not have an independent point foreign policy of the united states who's going to lose much more out of these in the united states country after country latin america and distancing themselves of comically politically and even militarily from the united states in their geo political religious rearrangement that is taking place as we speak a lot in. very very strongly the stability was asia particularly china and in that sense the united states should be more careful that it's got into conflict literally every single time it doesn't look good and it doesn't do the united

states any favor in the silence from obama speaks volumes if you're looking for the latest updates on edward snowden or indeed mr key development over the past few days we invite you to a website dot com where you'll find the timeline of it all complete with fresh updates opinions and plenty more to. egypt's slipped back into political deadlock this last week my celebrations after the country deposed its first democratically elected leader turned into deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of mohamed morsi for over shoulder now you can see latest live pictures from tahrir square in cairo that's the scene there now where thousands of anti morsy protesters have gathered while a new interim government certainly being formed as well but millions of fearful about what lies for the country next as. 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 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 army's not taking any chances if no clear government changes where the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster comes in an upper egypt to an arts internet a real party 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 reinstate it both sides are talking war i want to say to the american statesman to the wallet to the whole wallet 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 islamists that means that you turn in this country to up ways that will produce a lot of islamists there's a strong feeling of deja vu after just a year in office the muslim brotherhood leaders have joined it produces are imprisoned president hosni mubarak. both now sit in the same jail for an article of 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 each option against egypt this is something that completes the first evolution. the first 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. the worst people to be told the country this is aftermath of the and i would like you to join me in our 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 of the i p revolutionary to a it includes a quick look at a few well that mostly through the cars window and now on i'm so was 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. . coming from russia's president he's warned that the situation in egypt could escalate into a much more severe conflict. in syria because of course and syria is already engulfed in a civil war however. sad it seems and egypt is moving in the same direction we wish the egyptian people can avoid this fate. and more comment about it we caught up with a former head of the arab league who is now one of the top opposition figures in egypt told r.t. is bell true that democracy isn't 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. 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 everybody so millions of people who are into the streets so it was not a coup it was a uprising if not the revolution that is not enough to be approving you and then you just sit and enjoy your life and let the people. i don't know how some people in. the way of thinking believe that democracy is just the books 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. unprecedented exceptional circumstances some precautionary measures would be taken but i hope it

is fairness and the rule of law that would prevail. come up shortly a genetically modified for you or a briton to be used to ease its restrictions on g.m. products despite those ongoing concerns the consumer is a big target it like guinea pigs. you could argue. there are several countries. so. ultimately lead to. say that there's a. come to school because i don't think that to islam is a monopoly over in a country.

he. says. not a passenger train veered off the tracks a bit earlier in southern russia it left at least seventy people injured fifteen of been rushed to hospital with five children among the farmers been following the story for us. this accident happened just south of

a town called rostov on don in southern russia we understand that eleven of the trains nineteen carriages would be royalty some of those overturned after the train driver decided to perform an emergency stop he has since told officials because he saw that the tracks in front of him were actually now we don't know the reason why that was but some people have speculated it might have been down to the heat wave that part of russia has been experiencing over the last week or temperatures in excess of thirty degrees other people are speculating that parts of the track may have been stolen but no doubt this will form part of any investigation although i can say that the russian interior ministry has ruled out a terrorist attack just six hundred people were on board this train luckily there were no fatalities it was coming from novosibirsk in siberia all the way down to a town called adler in southern russia before this accident happened about four hundred kilometers north of its final destination. what are online to have picked

up on today snail mail spying is one of the stories that covering if you thought you could hide from big brother above all the email in favor of additional letters for a disappointment new report shows the u.s. postal service has been working alongside teligent services for decades with mailed works and. with mail workers rather photographing letters that have been doing it in packages before the big living. room full story and in and out because like most stock scientists are getting excited over a new discovery finding thousands of life forms in the isolated body of water that's been cut off from the outside world for millions of years for more money. hunger strike a growing tide of a bay prison zone to six months of no sign of a resolution guards at the u.s. military jail in cuba resorting to new harsh tactics to force an end to the protest reportedly slamming cell doors and up to three hundred times

a night to keep the prisoners awake sleep deprivation is allegedly linked to the upcoming ramadan fast when force feeding will be conducted at night the detainees lawyers though war that in view of the inmates we condition keep him awake at night could now be highly dangerous over one hundred six prisoners the now refusing food forty five are being subjected to force feeding the u.s. government's defended the practice in the face of criticism from human rights groups or he's going to church you can rest gets the u. one cost 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 what 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. 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 and long 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 us of us are trying to make it sound like it's not as bad but here is how one of the detainees a yemeni man somewhere nadji 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 officials 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 by 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. yes there 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 what the op has been trying to press the a bomb or ministration to allow the hunger strikers to receive independent medical care from going along with over one hundred of his colleagues has signed an open letter demanding this but they've received no response the regime which the joint task force for guantanamo

has written for the cleveland of these people requires truly abusive care and also is it 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 doctors for example to stop the environmental manipulation which leaves them freezing. or we queue them no you for various disturbance and the doctor says they have no power to do it and as one of them's one of the hunger strikers what is the point of a doctor like that. britain's pushing for

a lift of the eaves tight regulations on genetically modified food or the country's environment secretary said g.m. farmers actually safer than many of the alternatives but spike government is a parent and for biotech it's interesting to learn the parliament cafeterias ironically have banned g.m. products from their menus and away g.m. products are usually associated with stable crops like corn and rice but they can find their way into many other items ranging from meat to milk to chocolate around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the u.s. giant monsanto which accused of stifling small business is driving some farmers to ruin even suicide meantime concerns remain over the potential health risks of genetically doctored food ranging from allergies to immune system damage. reports. 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 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 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 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. saul's 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 dr vereker 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. r.t. london three top will do stories in brief no canadian officials say five people have been killed by that freight train explosion in quebec dozens more are said to be missing after a blast which caused devastation in the town of like my county and yet when we train the load of the fuel the rail then blew up the cause of the disaster remains unclear still firefighters are still plays in the battling the blaze there are fears of a mother explosion will keep you posted. jordan's charge radical muslim cleric abu qatada with terrorism after he was deported from the u.k. to target pleaded not guilty after being immediately handed over to prosecutors upon landing in amman on sunday britain fought a costly ten year legal battle directed died in to his home country he's known as

a key figure in all qaeda linked activities and was viewed by the u.k. as a national security threat. irish police say at least fifty thousand protesters of marched in dublin 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 a week later the court's ruling the doctors decision led to her death the irish constitution outlawed abortion in one hundred eighty six with multiple governments refusing to review the article even for extreme medical emergencies. similar to twenty eight minutes past ten o'clock at night here in moscow thanks me with this break said head next after that we 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 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 play. it's 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. hello and welcome to worlds apart this is our town program and if you watched any of our previous shows you would know that this is not a conventional interview and the problems we are about to presenting today is a good opportunity to explain.