it was a. whistle blower on the run that edward snowden could be heading to latin america where the leaders of the three countries they are ready to plunge in political asylum. egypt is involved in a deadly clashes as you can see the live pictures are from cairo as efforts to form an interim government have so far ended in failure leaving many in fearing a conflict could lead to civil war. and gaza one time will be a prison not turning to harsh new tactics or to break the mass hunger strike by inmates which has now entered its sixth month.

you're watching r.t. for the week's a top stories as well as today's my name is to bomb would say it's good to have your company with us. venezuela says it's still waiting to hear if edward snowden a will take up its asylum offer as the monday deadline is set by caracas approaches as one of three latin american countries alongside bolivia and nicaragua are offering to help the men who expose the u.s. government's global surveillance web now the leaders of the three nations are say their decision to help the former n.s.a. contractor is prompted by washington's heavy handed manhunt artes and he said no it has more i think snowden's longer spice is out with a latin american twist a glimmer of hope after living in limbo for weeks then as well nicaragua and bolivia offered the n.s.a. leaker asylum after 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 did and this really it was thought ecuador might be a possibility but president caray is sentiment toward snowden shifted suddenly saying their help with initial transport documents was a mistake then as well as more durable made his country stand clear this weekend saying snowden can come and live in the land of chavez quote away from the persecution of american imperialism but only after bolivia's ever morale us was detained and denied airspace over europe for some fourteen hours while his presidential plane was searched for snowden in an exclusive interview with our team around reacted to what bolivia called a kidnapping. 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 their 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 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 our eyes 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 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 there for searching for snowden at all cost and he's now r.t. moscow nicaragua and the 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 authentic but let's take a look at what it says right now now snowden apparently says that he fears a you was a prosecution after exposing his the government's violations of the constitution and the u.n. treaties now the whistleblower doesn't think he will get a fair trial and will face life in prison or death penalty if he does return home service published a statement accusing obama of using his citizenship as a weapon and to war activist norman solomon agrees with this and say washington is trampling on snowden's a 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 innocent 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 a government has attempted to use the calling of those passport as a weapon and that's just wrong. more spying revelations continue to emerge and at this time brazil is in the spotlight so does that lead to documents that say the country was a major target for u.s. intelligence russia china iran and pakistan also highlighted as key data gathering targets this after some latin american leaders left out at washington during a summit in bolivia year ago i accused washington of political terrorism while venezuela's leaders said the united states' action to show the extent of its

control over european governments argentina as the president has 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 at a file of korea criticize washington for its colonial approach to latin america the leader of the host nation evo morales also had plenty to say as our correspondent chris your segovia reports. 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 since friends portugal italy and spain close their ers but used to believe u.s. presidential blame europe has become the new enemy also mentioned 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 anti european feeling people are angry their minds are going back to colonial times now if you

put together colonial memories and this vast skyjack happy so it becomes a nation can be a bomb meaning the relations between latin america and these four european countries might be meeting a new story and it might not be that bright. if you're looking for the latest updates on the edward snowden almost a key development over the past few days we've got it all for you on our website at r.t. dot com and now they've complete with fresh updates opinions and plenty plenty more . if you've slipped back into political deadlock this week opponents and supporters of also present morsi carvey holding rival rallies in the capital cairo right right now we're seeing live pictures of from the square where it's all been tens of thousands have flooded the streets they sparking fears of more clashes and that's one of their reports from the egyptian capital both

sides going up for further confrontation. egypt's back in the headlines but for all the wrong reasons a week of street battles massive 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 changes where the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster or i'm going to predict tonight's internet the real. 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 when on wednesday the

army took over across the bridge those who want him reinstated both sides are talking war i want to say to the american statesman to the wall to the wallet to the west to europe be careful if you join the army there gyptian army or the head of the egyptian army to destroy. roy the islamist that means that your turn in this country to up plays that will produce what 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. 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 something that completes the first evolution. the decision was incomplete but i have been. the military taking control of the country for more than a year and then. using a democracy in a very bad way by giving. the country to the muslim brotherhood which was the worst people to control the country this is a matter 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 of mid-city because one of the few taking advantage of the constant turmoil he offers foreign tourists of the r.p. revolutionary to a it includes a quick look at a few well that mostly through the cause window and now i'm 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 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. . and while the situation in egypt remains polarize the military has come together with politicizes in an effort to form an interim government middle east analysts and i believe dani believes that the army in egypt it's want to involved in the politics of the country 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 a 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're delivering now

already 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 it in the sea of the people to be restricted 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 highlight the fact that they have a major stake in the economy something that they are unlikely to give up any time soon. artie's or cairo correspondent belt shoe caught up with the former head of the arab league who's now one of the top opposition figures in egypt i'm told why he believe that the army kicking the president out of office is not necessarily a clue. 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 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. 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

egypt is and in. president the exceptional circumstances some precautionary measures would be taken but i hope it is fed to us and the rule of law that we pay for it by coming up for you a new diet for your britain urges. its restrictions on genetically modified products despite ongoing concerns that consumers are being treated a guinea pigs that story. could argue. their city country. so. ultimately only to. say that there's a con to push through because i don't think that this number is a monopoly over the country.

but if china were a military superpower on par with the united states what kind of world would be living with china put in to check washington's appetite for unilateral military action and manipulation of the global economy or would we witness another cold war where both beijing and washington maintained a chilly the relatively peaceful world. mission. couldn't take three years for charges free. range missile three. three stooges free. old free blog live video for your media project a free media. tom. thank you for staying with us here on our team at guantanamo bay detention facility

stepping up efforts to end the hunger strike which. is now in its sixth month according to reports inmates are now subjected to sleep deprivation as water is intentionally slam cell doors hundreds of times during the night but new tactics on a ledge leading to the upcoming ramadan fast when force feeding will be conducted at night the detainees lawyers one that 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 of forty five are being subjected to force feeding the u.s. government has defended the practice of the face of criticism from human rights groups archies washington correspondent dan if you can't accept the story. the u.n. 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 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 pen and ink cartridge or this or this is not an actual feeding tube but it gives you an idea this area is very rich in nerve endings in patients report extreme pain during the procedure and the nurse pushes the troop further down the throat creating a tightness that makes breathing difficult at that point patients typically feel pressure on their chest along some say it feels like they were drowning then the staff tapes the troops to the detainees know so that they can buy it or swallow it and then two cans of nutritional substances are being funneled through the tube now we rode 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. olive oil to lubricate the to us of her shells are trying to make it sound like it's not as bad but here is how one of the detainees a yemeni man somewhere in a jailhouse on the bell the squires what for speeding 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 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 entrained 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 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.

former senior military interrogator tony camerino served in or the u.s. air force for over eighteen years and conducted more than a thousand interrogations and he says the treatment of guantanamo plays a directly into the hands of al qaeda recruiters. i still work in the the middle east in and i still hear time in and 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 happened it would be in the past regardless of how well you know hard we try going 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 innocent people is a great selling point for al qaeda to recruit new fighters that america is not the country that says it is.

right let's not take a look at what online stream hasn't picked up today someone turns out to be hot a full russian train tracks now a lot of rails well you want to buy they intend some of the sunshine you need causing the tragedy but i do re think a passenger train that left more than one hundred to. get the full story online plus. a second life or killing machine at the u.s. state of missouri wants to bring back the gas chamber to execute days and death through a let's keep going to move in and out and actually to. britain

is pushing for the e.u. to lift his regulations on genetically modified food which remain among the most strict in the world to change that to the u.k.'s environment secretary has gone as far as labeling g.m. food not only safe but beneficial for people's health but also like he hasn't convinced many so far as even the restaurants at the house of parliament in london are said to have banned such foods g.m. products are usually associated with staple crops like corn and rice and meat but they can also find their way into regular ranging food milk chocolate around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the u.s. giant one son joe which is accused of stabbing feeling small businesses and then driving some farmers to even committing suicide now meanwhile concerns remain over the potential have truth of a genetically dr food ranging from allergies to immune system deficiency to liver

problems as well as sometimes death artie's politico has more for us. 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 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 for the alliance for natural health which campaigns against g.m. foods. there are a billion hungry mouths in the world and we're being told that this technology is safe shouldn't we embrace it in that case well if you look at all the real

developments in raising eels it hasn't actually occurred through g.m. it's occurred through conventional breeding practices and we know that the european authorities have probably one of the most comprehensive evaluation systems compared with other parts of the world but only two crops have actually got through the net for cultivation over fifty have been approved for consumption but of course the majority of it'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 reese. and particularly seemed to fly in the hands of the 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 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 couldn'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. now to some other news making headlines around the world to canadian officials though say five people have been killed by a wide train explosion in tibet is more said to be missing after the blast which caused devastation in the town of love not letting the runaway train loaded with

fuel do wailed and blew up although the cause of the disaster remains on pm firefighters are still battling with the blaze and a few years of another explosion. jordan has charged radical muslim cleric abu qatada with terrorism after he was deported from the quay pleaded not guilty after being immediately handed over to prosecutors upon landing on sunday britain for a costly ten year battle legal battle to extradite him to his home country is known as a key figure in al-qaeda linked activities and was viewed by the u.k. as a national security threat. irish police say at least fifty thousand protesters have marched in dublin against government plans to legalize abortions for women with life threatening pregnancies of the bill was drafted up the doctors refused to use the procedure on an indian woman having a miscarriage the woman constrained by the republic strict anti abortion laws died

a week later the irish constitution argonaut abortion in one thousand nine hundred eighty six with multiple governments refusing to view the art. even if it's free medical emergencies. and after the break a look at the battle that many muslim communities are face in trying to defend their religious reputation and that's. remember how all of a sudden an afghan 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 a german actress on a book the actress claims a german t.v.

channels e.d.f. paid her a large undisclosed amount of money to come out on behalf of the activists banned show 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 may have been given a little extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of 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 fascist my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are is a big picture. hello

and welcome to worlds apart this is our town's program and if you've watched any of our previous shows you would know that this is not a conventional interview and they probably are about to present to you today is a good opportunity to explain why the traditional q. and a format is no longer serving jamey and public discourse which has been said about the need to promote a better understanding of islam in the last. to standing common to share it and tolerance exist within muslims themselves well to discuss that i'm now joined by a militant exxon a little secretary jeh.