whistleblower on the run edward snowden could be heading to the latin american though with the leaders of those three countries they ready to grant him political asylum. and that's as there was a blow as most recent revelations are suggesting european nations are poorly called breaking with the n.s.a. surveillance program which is in marked contrast to their public anger of the extent of your snooping. egypt is and gulped in deadly clashes says efforts to form an interim government have so far ended in failure leaving many period the conflict could be to civil war. and. prison are turning to harsh new tactics to break the mass hunger strike by inmates which is now into its sixth month.

long from moscow this is our chief for the week's top stories with me tom with a let's take a look. venezuela says it's still waiting to hear if edward snowden will take up asylum offer as the monday deadline set by caracas approaches one of three latin american countries alongside bolivia and nicaragua offering to help the man who exposed the u.s. government's global surveillance web all the leaders of the three nations say the decisions there to help the former n.s.a. contractor as prompted by washington's heavy handed manhunt dottie's and it's an hour has more things 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 offer the n.s.a. leaker asylum after

a 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 far 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 more durable made his country stands clear this weekend saying snowden can come and live in the land of chavez quote away from the persecution of american imperialism but only after bolivia's ever morose 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 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 rocketed 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 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 while searching for snowden at all cost and he's now r.t. moscow the most recent revelation to merger from snowden's disclosures suggest the e.u. states enjoy a closer relationship with the n.s.a. than many would like to admit in an interview published in the field goal of the whistleblower alleges that the n.s.a. is in bed with germany and most other western states regarding secret surveillance operations he also says that the partnership is structured to protect top level politicians from any backlash should a word of the collusion between spy agencies ever get out now the revelations of one country to billions a show of surprise at the scale of you with electronic snooping with chancellor angela merkel accusing the us of these and cold war tactics now manuel of the night and says of the outrage of german politicians spurred not by the spying but because of it now it's all out in the open. they are angry that it came to public that not

all the facts are that the citizens can see what was going on because i wouldn't believe and you heard right now all the government politician by the way on oppositional politician in the driven parliament and when we listen very well to. the mainstream politicians in germany we are right now all of. this let us say co-operation how they call it they say it's for our security they say that this is a partnership that this is a friendship but of course it's pure spying and we have to watch a little bit bank in the past we had in the one thousand nike's that. it was also it was. in europe especially in germany and this was especially for economic and spew and german companies the german economy was. prior to the u.s.

secret service so what we see here is that germany has behaved the moralists like. state fully on the profile of the us without any independence and the scandalous not that you are doing that the real scandal is that the german politics are not doing something against them and. if you're looking for the latest updates on edward snowden or anything that you have missed in terms of key development of the pontiff you dave we've got it all for you on our website at r t dot com you can check out the timeline complete with fresh updates and opinions as well as the plenty more. egypt was routed this week after the army moved in and remove the president from power triggering a fresh wave of unrest ponens and supporters of mohamed morsi have been staging rival rallies in the capital cairo right now we see those live pictures there from

a square where thousands have gathered flooding the streets sparking fears of more clashes after the deadly protests seen earlier this week and that's paula slayer reports of from the egyptian capital both sides are gearing up for the confrontation. 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 move in 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 is not taking any chances if no clear government changes where the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster terms on an upper egypt to an arts and internet to real morsi and

real change is on the one side the millions who rallied for the ouster of the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi they got what they wanted went on wednesday the army took over across the bridge those who want to be reinstated both sides are talking war i want to say to the american statesman to the wall and to the wall it to the west. so 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 there's a strong feeling of deja vu after just a year in office the muslim brotherhood leaders have joined the predecessor 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 news papers mean i'm a hair watches events unfold from his balcony this cup question lives in an apartment overlooking to his square he says it's now each option pitted against each option this is something that completes the first evolution. official position was incomplete but i have been. limited to retake in 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 was the worst people to be told the country this is a much 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 an evolution of a city because one of the few taking advantage of the constant turmoil he offers foreign tourists a v.i.p.

with illusionary to it includes a quick look at a few well that mostly through the cause window and now i'm i'm so well spoken thanks to that evolution i used to stammer and stutter and flounder now you see my speech flows like a mighty stream momus like 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. . and while the situation in egypt remains polarize the military has come together with politicians in an effort to form an interim government middle east analyst and danny believes that the army in egypt just want to be 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 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 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 anytime soon. aren't his cairo correspondent well true caught up with a former head of the arab league who's now one of the top opposition figures in egypt really told why he believes the army kicking the president out of office is

not necessarily a coup. 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 who are 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. an unprecedented exception. some precautionary measures would be taken but i hope it is fruitless and that would be very. summing up of for you a new diet for europa britain urges the e.u. to ease the strictures on genetically modified products despite ongoing concerns that consumers are being treated like guinea pigs plus. the rebel cyber currency big point tricks of the serious investments are from the brothers who are bags of facebook's most of faber's winds. gaza guantanamo bay detention facility are stepping up efforts to end the hunger

strike which is now in a six month according to reports inmates are now subjected to sleep deprivation as a ward is intentionally slam cell stalls hundreds of times during the night a new tactics are measured to be linked to the upcoming ramadan fast when force feeding will be conducted at night the detainees lawyers will warn 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 or forty five are being subject to force feeding the u.s. government has defended the practice in the face of criticism from human rights groups our chief washington correspondent guy raz you can take up the story. 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 we first the guards strap that it 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 a nasal cavity the feeding tube which is roughly the size of a prince in cartridge or this or this is not an actual feeding tube but it gives you an idea here and this area is very rich in nerve endings in patients report extreme pain during the procedure and the nursed. 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 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 of oral to lubricate the to 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 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 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 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 any more. 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 from a one ton i'm a prisoner was i'm back says that every detainee at the facility is being tortured

in one way or another. i say that everybody who had been held in gaza has been tortured tortured or abused in one way i mean when i was first taken into custody it was the most torturous process i think that any person could ever of the moment being stripped naked it meant being in basically your body begins to cavity searches as they call it being i mean you're shaved of being posted on. one occasion it was in the background facility before i went to tell them oh i was subject to the sounds of a woman screaming i was there to believe was my wife being tortured so everybody in a sense has been tortured in the worst sort through of course is a psychological sort in which she was in solitary confinement other people to know what it is that you've done for which you're paying the ultimate price which is your freedom if the hunger strikes continue in the way that they are then force feeding is not the solution the solution is to give them justice and that's the reason why they're doing it they're not doing it because of all the abuses those of peripheral they're doing it because of health of

a twelve years they're almost without charge or trial in any normal legal normative system. let's not take a look add to what our online team have picked up to day turns out to be hard for some russian train no track third rail to have very few walks by the intense summit sunshine really tragedy by two waving a passenger train that left more than a hundred injured get the full story online plus. a second life for a killing machine in the u.s. state of missouri wants to bring back the gets to execute those on death row what's behind the move or find our dead our teeth dot com.

thanks. thanks thanks. thanks . britain is pushing for the e.u. to lift its regulations on genetically modified food which remain among the most strict in the world to change that to the u.k. the environment secretary has gone as far as labeling g.m. foods not only faith but beneficial for people's health but it looks like he hasn't convinced many so far as even the restaurants at the houses of parliament in london are said to have banned assad's food supply usually associated with a staple crops like corn and rice it's now possible to find that g.m. in milk and chocolate are on ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the u.s. giant sun two which is accused of stifling small businesses and driving some farmers to ruin and sometimes even to suicide meanwhile concerns remain over the potential

risks of health risks of genetically doctor food ranging from allergies she muses to damages of the liver and even death artie's playboy has more. 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 a safe as they and the government to shore it is then the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must have produces of the stuff and the british government says the u.k. shouldn't be getting left behind 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. source 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 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 come to you with is that. 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 u.s. officials are saying that the boeing triple seven that crash landed at san francisco was descending at a dangerously low speed do they also reveal that the pilots tried to abort the

landing just moments before crashing all but two people survived out of the three hundred seven passengers and crew on board the asiana airlines flight from south korea and investigation into the possibility that one of those who died was run over by a rescue crew vehicle is now underway. canadian officials are say five people have been killed by a wide train explosion into a bag dozens more are said to be missing after the blast which caused devastation in the town of luck a main gun a runaway train loaded with fuel derailed and blew up over the causes of the disaster remains unclear firefighters are still battling with the blaze and there are fears of another explosion. jordan has charged radical muslim cleric abu qatada with terrorism up to you was deported from the u.k. qatada pleaded not guilty after being immediately handed over to prosecutors upon landing in amman on sunday britain fought

a costly ten year legal battle to extradite him to his home country who is known as a key figure in al-qaeda linked to the tease and was viewed by the u.k. as a national security threat. the alternative cyber currency big point has got its chance to go mainstream the winkel boss twins best known for suing facebook founder mark zuckerberg over claims he stole their social network idea of planning to float a bit coin trust they say the move is they bring a major investment into the car and see that has been attracting people mainly for its anti establishment. much is known about my experience. it's happy hour in midtown manhattan dozens of bars are filled with after work crowds but here at ever. is where you'll find the big apple's expanding community of because investors think. it's the first new

york city establishment to accept the digital currency a monetary system free from government and bank control as well as credit card processing fees i'd rather everyone pay with the coin than i would with a credit card twenty three year old charlie shrem is co owner of ever and founder of big instant one of the first bitcoin payment processing companies when i first came into the space. i was the only person new york city had heard even heard of the coin i was left out of every v.c. firm in the city and now fast forward to two years there are so many startups that i started meet ups we're all friends of the each other there's kind of like a culture it's more predatory if you i'm good i you know a culture of young financially savvy new yorkers determined to build an unregulated financial system i'll buy a big corner and hold on i'm going to big josh rossi hosts a weekly bitcoin meeting in union square where people can buy and sell the digital

coins a gathering that attracts even hedge fund and high frequency traders you can finally opt out of a system that you don't agree with like bernanke you can keep printing as much money as he wants to corn users are in effect here holding declines it only makes our big points worth more dollars it's a natural hedge against inflation in a city that serves as the global headquarters for most of the world's largest banks the big quite economy is slowly being embraced by respectable businesses domino's pizza the howard johnson hotel chain and a new york based limo service now accept the digital currency fair to say that new yorkers are able. eat sleep and commute without spending a dollar online popular sites like reddit and ok cupid except to be queen cars furniture and tech gadgets have been put up for sale on the trading website craigslist with dollars or digital coins equally accepted and for the anti prism privacy defenders the big b. will soon have purchased power with these burner phones which feature disposable

numbers many economists remain skeptical of the long term stability of a currency that lacks backing from a single government but not a problem for big queen believers if they were complete with the monetary system if they felt it was fair then they wouldn't be looking for an option like the point so you see already the loss of confidence the loss of commitment it's a sign of where the society is going the u.s. government though isn't too happy with the coins popularity it recently shut down our virtual exchange system for the currency claiming it was a money laundering platform i think we've had one hundred years now of what the u.s. government can do when it gets to manipulate a currency and a lot of people are kind of tired of that and they want to expose experiment in a space where you can't manipulate a currency just what would that even mean for money and i think that's why a lot of people are really interested in the space growing enthusiasm for an invisible currency presented to rival the printed greenback marina porton i.r.t.

new york. so with us here on our team for. what 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. it does sometimes you see a story and it seems so it's all a.