like. it was a blot on the run edward snowden could be heading to latin america with the leaders of three countries they're ready to granted political asylum this after as late as leaks reveal that brazil and russia have been targeted by the u.s. snooping program. egypt's walked by deadly clashes between backers and opponents of the ousted leader mohamed morsi as russia's president putin wants against an escalation into an all out civil war. with no sign of a let up in the ground telling of a hunger strike now into its six month prison guards resorting to new harsh techniques to end the standoff.

from moscow just after midnight now this is r.t. thanks for being with us it's kevin owen here wrapping up our top stories of the last seven days in our weekly the first three latin american countries are said they're now ready to grant asylum to edward snowden the leaders of bolivia venezuela and nicaragua are offering a helping hand to the man who's 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 parties in this and now he has more i think snowden stronger spice 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 afternoon european countries rejected his official request were 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 correia sentiment toward snowden shifted sudden. only

thing their help with initial transport documents was a mistake then as well as madeira 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 will 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 our 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 hegemonic totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries even their allies snowden's leaks help reveal how the u.s. was cold war style tapping their closest e.u. partners even when you expose the truth even when you give it this truth to the people who are being spied on they won't step in 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 thirteen for snowden at all cost and he's the now i r t moscow. media's publisher said to be an official asylum request from snowden a letter written last sunday the governor's confirm whether the letters authentic or not let's take a look at what it says will proceed down which is quite

a long text snowden probably says that he fears u.s. prosecution after exposing his government's violations of the constitution and u.n. treaties there was a blow says goes on to say he thinks it will get a fair trial and that he thinks he'll face life in prison or even the death penalty if you returns home he continues to say that he believes given the circumstances it's unlikely they'd receive a fair trial or proper treatment he accuses a bomber of using his citizenship as a weapon antiwar activists norman solomon agrees with this 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 deprive edward snowden of basic rights in essential 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 stones passport are as a weapon and that's just wrong. war spying revelations continue to emerge at 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 as key data gathering targets this after some latin american leaders lashed out of washington during a summit in bolivia europe quite the accused washington of political terrorism while 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 laid a rough field career criticized washington for its colonial approach to latin america the leader of the host nation over morales also had plenty to say as r.t.

spanish correspondent refused to go via reports braless said this all for is a protest against the u.s. and some european nations moralists speech has always been mostly anti american but now the u.s. is not alone since france portugal italy and spain close their ers base to believe u.s. presidential plane europe has become the. mention that now is the time for latin american countries to impose their own politics of course he was referring to the u.s. now we have clearly seen here on the streets in the past this new onto european feeling people are angry their minds are going back to colonial times now if you put together colonial memories and is that is skyjacked happy so it's the combination can be a bomb meaning it relations between latin america and these four european countries might be meeting and new start and it may not be that bright so show of unity them by latin american states after the granting of

a role as is plain in europe nerve across the continent different cisco domain gears who's head of latin american studies middlesex university spokesman earlier on he says the diplomatic fallout could have serious consequences for the us sounds like you know the united states so. seems to be a pretty actually. the latin american nations to such but 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 canonically politically and even militarily from the united states in geopolitical great rearrangement that has taken place as we speak a lot in. very very strongly and stability was asia particularly china and the united states should be more careful let's go into conflict literally every single time it doesn't look good and it doesn't do the united states any favorite

on the silence from obama speaks volumes well if you looking for the latest on i would snowden or indeed mr key development over the past few days of which the many will go to our website you can check out our time on r.t. dot com complete with fresh updates opinions and many more to. egypt slipped back into political deadlock this week must celebrations of the country deposed its first democratically elected leader turned into deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of mohamed morsi you know these are the latest live pictures from tahrir square in cairo you see thousands of anti morsy protesters there gathering again while a new interim government is also being slowly formed billions remain fearful over what's next for the country. 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 in 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. saw four more u.s. issued military combat boots stand guard the newly installed all means not taking any chances if no clear government action to change its way to the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster comes running out for egypt to enact into an act a 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 him reinstated both sides are talking while i want to say to the american states and to the wall and to the whole world 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 turn in this country to up plays 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 it predecessor imprisoned president hosni mubarak both now sit in the same jail for an annular 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 use papers mean i'm 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. official position was incomplete but i have been. committed to retake in control of the country for more than

a year and then. usually in a democracy in a very bad way by giving. the country to the muslim brotherhood which is the worst people to control the country this is as much of the and i would like. to join you in our journeys through time travel back in time travel to unravel discoveries discover evolution that made egypt and the element that made egypt's revolution. is one of the few taking advantage of the constant turmoil he offers for interests of the ip revolutionary to it includes a quick look at a few well that mostly through the cars window and now on so as spoken thinks there's an evolution i used to stammer and stutter and flounder now you see my speech flows like a mighty stream momus the british people but most tourists are staying away while the country plummets unemployment's up and the egyptian pound is fast 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. . come on the age of crisis from the bill or on down issues middle east journalist joining us on the line from london tonight liberal high the only come just a second before i do just to paint a picture of the game for our viewers with egypt engulfed in protests and a power deadlock there is a worry of monks a lot of people the country's going to slip further maybe toward civil war president putin sunday had some to say about that let's listen to that then we'll get your thoughts. syria was a question of syria is already engulfed 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. well that's what president putin had to say about it in the last twenty four hours more brutal civil war do you agree with his thoughts or not. well i think there's a real danger that indeed the country could sink into a civil war you have already seen extreme violence you know displayed on the

streets of on the streets of egypt not least of all because we are we're effectively witnessing the backlash against a military coup orchestrated against a democratically elected president so we have deeply entrenched camps already you know fighting these how out on the streets of egypt on the one hand you have the muslim brotherhood supporters who feel that they have been robbed of their democratic mandate and they are now persecuted by the military seeing there and see the supporters of the muslim brotherhood being rounded up of the president has been you know a deposed and jailed travel bans had been issued against the muslim brotherhood supporters and indeed the leadership the muslim brotherhood itself is threatened to be. an old or cancel as an organization military headquarters of the freedom and justice party has been shut down to the military have any choice millions were protesting against morsi ok that may not have done it right you could argue that

almost but do they have any choice of the day but to get them out. i don't believe that that's how you bring about democracy and in fact what the army is is showing at the moment is that it's reasserting its position as a political king maker indeed choosing compliant figures who could you know who they could put in power so as to preserve their own interests and that's why we're seeing how they are delivering now a ready made interim government essentially manufacturing democracy but of course democracy is about the will of the people and the people have spoken last year and that's precisely why the muslim brotherhood supporters are calling for the president to be reinstated in the village in the sea of the people to be reinstated but he has also to be highlighted that the major failure of the army here is to protect civilian lives that the number one duty instead of interfering in political affairs and indeed one has to hide. the fact that they have a major stake in the economy something that they are unlikely to give up any time

soon but isn't it also the case the guy was given a year there was a brotherhood given a year to prove that they could sort out the many problems in egypt there's so much criticism that many of those policies just didn't work now is it because those policies were out of touch wasn't what the public wanted or did morsi need more time to make good what was needed i think it it has to be said that egypt is a massive country it has between eighty and eighty five million people and it has profound structural problems. you know least including major economic problems one in four egyptians live below the poverty line egypt experiences chronic unemployment endemic corruption the cost of living is soaring criminality drupal than the president was is the presidency for example but crime has always been an issue in egypt and i think that perhaps you know we're talking about

fledgling democracy where you can sort out you know problems that have been deeply entrenched and you know a country that has effectively lurch from thirty two years of dictatorship and sixty years of military rule this these kinds of problems can be sorted overnight and it has to be you know highlighted that you know dissent and indeed failure part and parcel of the of politics so i think it's a be it was a bit. president morsi was always going to have a very challenging task on his hands and a pap's the egyptians showed a little bit of impatience and not enough pragmatism and the kind of kneejerk reaction we've seen with the military moving again is certainly not the answer to on the path towards democracy thank you very much for your time tonight much appreciated views continues here on t.v. right after this break.

the civilized world produces more food than it needs. well people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where remedial is the most. flood or droughts to blame. it was a bad year for the train. we couldn't find anything. but there was great tongue there. was it that help comes too late and with good intentions. charity diplomacy and business.

the hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison is now into its six months with no sign of a resolution gods that are now resorting to new harsh tactics to try and bring an end to the protest reportedly slamming cell doors now up to three hundred times a night to keep prisoners awake sleep deprivation is allegedly linked to the upcoming ramadan fast when force feeding will be conducted at night the detainees lawyers warned that in view of the inmates we condition the keeping them awake at night could be highly dangerous now out of the one hundred six prisoners that are refusing food forty five are being subjected to force feeding the u.s. government's defended that practice in the face of criticism from human rights groups. if he's going to do you can investigate the you 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 tapes 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 live or all to lubricate the two you asked of for szell's are trying to make it sound like it's not as bad but here's how one of the detainees a yemeni man somewhere in r.g. all house on the bell describes what force feeding actually feels like i will never forget the first time they passed a feeding tube up my nose i can't describe how painful it is to be force fed this way as it was thrust it made me feel like throwing up i wanted to vomit but i couldn't there was 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 officials how many detainees resisted. 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. 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 pay in full 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. tony camerino served in the u.s. air force for nearly two decades and conducted more the thousand and ten regulations he says the gun toting would detainees have become his main recruitment targets i still work in the middle east and i still hear time in time out from people there on the street that guantanamo bay represents the idea that america is at war against muslims it's not at war against criminals who commit terrorist acts and we cannot erase what's happening in the past regardless of how well you know hard we try. to obey as i learned in iraq when we debriefed foreign fighters was al qaeda is number one recruitment tool along with abu ghraib and it will continue to be so this is you know the indefinite detention of n.s.a.

and people is a great selling point for al qaeda to recruit new fighters that america is not the country that says it is. we take you through a couple of stories around once he was picked for you today snail mail spy if you thought you could big brother bob or the man in favor of those traditional methods remember them for disappointment new reports claim the u.s. postal service has been working alongside the intelligence services for decades that online and are funded by the local postman could also have been supply. scientists to get excited over a new discovery they say they found thousands of life forms in that isolated it's been cut off from the outside world for a million schools will be excited when you read up about a. story for you a few hours ago sunday a passenger train derailed in southern russia

a little earlier it's left at least seventy people injured as carriages overturned by the side of the trucks fifteen people have been rushed to hospital five of them were children ots andrew foma picks up the story. this accident happened just south of a town called rostov on don in southern russia we understand that eleven of the train's nineteen carriages we derailed and some of those overturned after the train driver decided to perform an emergency stop he has since told officials he did this because he saw that the tracks in front of him were actually called 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 that part of russia has been experiencing over the last week with 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 syrian ministry has ruled out a terrorist attack either 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 in southern russia before this accident happened about four hundred kilometers north of its final destination to fish will say that over seventy people have been injured. more news that what we're talking about trains another bad news story about them canadian officials confirm five people have been killed by a freight train explosion in quebec dozens more are said be missing after the blast which caused devastation the town of mcgann to the by the way trade was loaded with fuel at the time it did railed and then blew up although the cause of the disaster is still not clear tonight firefighters are still battling the blaze that if it is another explosion could happen as well as rising death toll as well still people unaccounted for. jordan is charged radical muslim cleric abu qatada with terrorism after he was deported from the united kingdom pleaded not guilty after being immediately handed over to prosecutors after landed in on sunday britain fought

a costly ten year legal battle to extradite him to his home country he's known as a key figure in al qaeda linked activities and was viewed by the u.k.'s national security threat. just stuck to twenty six minutes past midnight here in moscow thank you for being with us my name is kevin everybody with more news thirty five minutes time and just on the next we look at the efforts currently underway to tackle must starvation and one of africa's slate after this break. remember how all the sudden and often card protest group became world famous and were completely forgotten by next month yeah i'm talking about the feminist punk rock group pussy riot that performed a vulgar anti prayer and one of moscow's most famous orthodox cathedrals one

possible reason for their explosive popularity in the media's eyes was revealed recently by german actress on a book the actress claims a german t.v. channels e.d.f. patriot large undisclosed amount of money to come out on behalf of the activist band shell said on a t.v. discussion that she doesn't even remember what she said except for wishing them well with dealing with their incarceration it would be very odd for an actress to just make up a bribery scandal especially one she was complicit in but it makes you wonder just how many other people's e.d.f. may have been given a little extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of what her public revelation is that she said that you know what it's a bit dumb when actors talk about politics and i couldn't agree with her more but that's just my opinion. of the european banking system to do so but by the actions since people feel believes that this happened cyprus. forceable it to the right.

according to the law usaid is allowed to procure. 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. the g.a.o. where mr leto 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 arrive. 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 u.s. food aid programs from the american taxpayers money only forty percent goes for the purchase of food aid for the starving people in africa there are maining sixty percent goes to the shipping companies.

that i mean yes. yes the rabbit rabbit however. was. that i was. very happy that i was. like you i don't like depending on others with the work. a lot i'm not all that much and all of them other than i but our land doesn't produce any saying and to prizes a soda. did a month ago was so do some wheat but it was aired in the sun on the holland i mean

i missed and the problem. was i met al and we appreciate that other countries take care of us that are going to go the government of kenya. knows that drought causes problems but it ignores us. we could sustain ourselves and the government could build a water tank. and an air a geisha system to water us fields. but. it was one we have people who like to work. rather than receiving food for which we have not worked. because of the work but we don't like to be idle. they could help us by giving us work.

yeah. because for example we have no fields as a mother the mother when we proposed to our government to construct good water supply lines for our crops it's like talking to defeat is. we have appealed to the government many times. the government of kenya has utterly abandoned this district there are no roads water or electricity the state of kenya has built absolutely nothing. so it is true that part of the country. has been on continuous famine relief because that is a bitter bitter development. because all. we are glad we have something to to you know eighty nine percent of the people not going out to be that

night so it is a mentor chided for the country. we hoping that with a new constitution would up with will develop and those who come up short of my generation the people and the side of the country. it is obvious that the government of kenya prefers to ask for help from abroad in order to feed the starving turkana instead of doing infrastructure and development work in the area. millions of kenyan from us producing green. in the must it becomes difficult for a bureaucrat who wants to skim off ten percent to grow moving from village to village asking that i need ten percent of the grain for my stuff but if it's food aid you can put it tonnes of the same it to becomes easier for you to skim off from that the food if it's not about food aid it could be about import food importation

such becomes easier to make more money in putting food. at the expense of because of the starving people as opposed to having opinions producing more food for themselves. however before nine hundred eighty kenya not only produced but also exported products. the government had police because guaranteed minimum returns g.m. are weak means that. if you. invest in one because. and they needed it's not enough to recover you a cost the government would top up so that you don't go at a loss because if you do if you go at a loss you will not. plan to the next this is and the country would stuff

and that's why in the one thousand sixty is the name hundred seventy s. when there was a mom. who was net food exporting countries. despite all this kenya was immersed in debt which couldn't be paid without international help. it's. a country that east coast by global forces to surrender policy making that ought to be of strategic importance to its own citizens why was kinda so enduring because they need aid from the world bank because they need aid from the i mean they were told if you don't change you don't get money from us. so everything

including education health communication transportation energy and water follows the free markets rules. agriculture was no exception governmental support was withdrawn and farmers were now on their own. asked us to actually that just meant the subsidies that were buying me into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services were removed and this is a cinch and services now have to be paid and because people do not have money to pay the never consulted extension workers so the food production just slumped and as near talking now it is a basket because we are a net food imported country. so what happens you don't have enough to feed the people so you have do

a they import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid. behind nairobi skyscrapers and the shadows of the kenyan capital's luxuries lies kibera. it is one of africa's largest slums. approximately three hundred thousand people try to survive here. many of them are

immigrants from rural regions who came to the city to escape hunger. i was a farmer but i didn't always has a crop. i needed money to feed the cows but i had none. when i had a good crop i needed money again. to pay the workers to plow the fields i couldn't live like this it was all too much for one person i couldn't cope with the expenses. cheery it is better because someone may pity and help here. without a welfare system the citizens of kabera must pay for everything even public toilets since houses don't have these luxuries. the average commuter is too

fluffy to dulles that is a must. and you have to pay for your room you have to buy a water you have to pay for the toilet to go to you have to pay full electricity have two. hundred square feet you have to buy food you have to buy food with the food yes. there's no legal issue it's free market. we have some really really people can't afford the billy food because of the bad because moved by everything to each. war. for decades now the world food program organization has been providing food to the pupils in canberra schools. at this school three hundred children receive aid.

some of these children sometimes it's the only mean if they did that they get so they get a school move so they have bad flu to meet and in addition it provides an incentive for children to come to school. i've only skimmed the maybe i could just grow up fast. and maybe help my phone. it is the chair is me is it's my mum moved dad leukoma to school kids would do over to do steve hungry but. the flip that each year to the much room that we would each other victims of being so moral. codes assume much. if maybe you haven't been to foods in that i. just say i just got to

say on that but i won't let someone know that i'm on the oh it's existing almost mayfield's i don't go to china how about just keeping. them so that even then they may just see that you fancy stuff love love as she is being floated as john she has a good rule of. law. it could be argued that there are certain countries that promote certain brands of islam that ultimately lead to that but i can see that there's a come to push because i don't think that this number is among the people in the country.

i. am used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear. came. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school work to my friends will be around to the tundra. can. the tundra is just in the ghettos the crack of my don't know how people can live there to get in there no t.v.'s in the tenth how could i send my child to boarding school i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter a life without knowledge of how to do basic things they don't get out of school. limitation and free credit take three months for charges free.

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ah. the food is many things it's a life support it is a saturday issue. it is an economic israel is a bug development it is so on many things and therefore as long as you of food dependent as long as you do not ours sovereignty in the means and the infrastructure of producing and distributing food. then. you cannot claim to be so free and not claim to be independent sixty percent of all. utter bollocks in africa just come to britain and and adopt tells you that only needs to then invest in these pups but again because

of baby pendency culture what we've seen is that the political elites are being silly and listen. to for us. we're not investing in farming us part of us to take security element for the country. if. the american company dominion among other things builds prisons in the united states in kenya it is rented seventeen thousand hectors and produces food like rice dish and bananas.