thank. you. that's not a word snowden's invited to venezuela after at cvs his official asylum request we learn why the whistleblower felt compelled to go on a crusade against global surveillance. egypt on the edge the muslim brotherhood plans mass rallies ignited by monday's bloodshed in cairo while the interim leader lays out a post-coup road map. and we look at why waves of high spending chinese tourists are splashing their cash across europe but not in britain. great to have you with me this morning nine am here in the russian capital i'm lucy

catherine of and of course you're watching our t.v. well into our top story america's most wanted man the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden has found himself weighing not one but potentially three asylum offers venezuela nicaragua bolivia have all spoken favorably of granting him safe haven this despite threats from the united states but it's going to show you can explain getting there won't be easy. edward snowden submitted his request after of venezuela's president indicated been very strong terms that his country was ready to accept him this is what nicolas maduro said about snowden he's a young man who in the spirit of her belly and has told the truth about the united states spying on the whole world so we see that snowden will be very much welcome. but the question is how is he going to get there we understand that he is still in the transit zone in a moscow airport there are no direct commercial flights between moscow and caracas and the usual route involves changing planes in havana it is not clear if the cuban authorities would let him transit besides using european airspace would not be

completely risk free for snowden just last week a number of european countries bad believe the president's plane from using their airspace because they were told snowden was aboard one alternative flight plan would involve an aircraft taking off from moscow refueling in velocity of our stock and then continuing east over the pacific to south america it's really not clear how it's going to happen but he's transit limbo in moscow may come to an end very soon moscow has indicated that they want snowden to choose his this nation and leave russia as soon as possible in the meantime the guardian newspaper has published the second part if it were snowden's video interview from which we learn more about what drove him to sacrifice his seemingly comfortable lifestyle and blow the whistle on u.s. government secret surveillance activities he describes it as a journey of conscience basically remember at one time snowden enlisted in the u.s. army because he wanted to fight in iraq he thought it was

a noble war then he has worked with a number of government agencies but as he grew familiar with the system from the inside he's the use have evolved snowden says he hoped that with a new president things would change but he says instead he witnessed the opposite the growth of the surveillance state take a listen increasingly was exposed. true information that had not been propagandized in the media. that we were actually involved in misleading the public and misleading all publics not just the american public in order to create a certain mindset in the global consciousness and i was actually a victim of that i grew up with the understanding that the world i lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with them each other in privacy without it being monitored without being measured or analyzed or or or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems i think

a lot of people of my generation anybody who grew up with the internet that was their understanding the obama administration tries whistleblowers spot snowden is wanted on espionage charges and whistleblowers in the u.s. these days risk the death penalty in the u.s. has certainly gone a long way from the days of danial ellsberg and his pentagon papers nowadays politicians and pundits on television say if snowden were a real whistleblower or a good whistleblower he would have stayed in the west and almost certainly gone to jail so a lot of talking heads on television constantly questioning snowden's motivation and because he fled and is now asking for asylum in all these different countries it's easier to portray him as a traitor undaunted by a scandal and global uproar and as they recruit others are scouring colleges and universities for fresh face the but their job is now harder than it was but many students are wary of signing up to work in surveillance industry are here she is a student studying at wisconsin's university and she got to see their recruitment

drive firsthand take a look. i think they were completely caught off guard they were confused you can hear that on the tape it sounded like they've never had to actually justify or even critical you think about the work that they're engaged in and they simply didn't know how to answer the questions and these are very basic questions about the nature of their work that speaks to the bubble i think that the intelligence community lives in that they are so disengaged they think that they actually don't have to answer any questions that they can go on recruiting just they have just as they have it they ended up by telling us that the n.s.a. is simply an apolitical organization that fulfills requests that are sent to it by other departments i mean they seem to be taking you there in your embrace defense where they were just doing their job which is not a defense at all edward snowden's leaks appear to be eating into support for president obama whose approval rating has plummeted almost ten percentage points in recent weeks now bad news for him worse for the government with a recent poll saying one in six americans now trust washington to do the right

thing when a partner has more on what some are calling the litany of lies separating the people and the state tell the truth or someone might just tell it for you does the n.s.a. collect any type of data. on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect but not wittingly in america it's a crime of violation of federal law to lie to congress during testimony i responded in what i thought was the most true for least on truthful manner by saying no the us director of national intelligence james clapper publicly acknowledged his error only after n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden spilled the beans on america's clandestine espionage activities the director of national intelligence is now apologizing for what he

calls his erroneous response to congress over n.s.a. surveillance programs one of those covert programs indiscriminately collects the phone records of hundreds of millions of americans secret surveillance once criticized by a familiar face no more illegal wiretapping of american citizens no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime but upon entering the white house u.s. president barack obama seems to have had a change of heart my assessment and my team's assessment. was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks government lies surrounding the n.s.a.'s programs has raised questions about the possibility of additional untruths being told in the name of national security i have been crystal clear about my position on iran possessing a nuclear weapon that that is a red line for us the fact is u.s.

intelligence officials and the united nations have concluded that iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon but that hasn't stopped washington sanctions if we're throwing accusations that are not true that cloud the domestic debate the political debate and also negative signals to the other side we make it much more likely that diplomacy can succeed and we end up. going into a war that was all avoidable but. in the case of syria's civil war the french and others had already. concluded that he's using this sarin gas in small quantities but again here's this is the red line and we allege they killed between one hundred nine hundred fifty people washington recently began arming the rebels after independently concluding that damascus used nerve gas against the opposition findings u.n. investigators have not supported i think it's reasonable. here in

haiti we have been in the british group you know u.s. government under well as for the whistle blowing website that aims to expose the truth the u.s. has listed wiki leaks as an enemy of the state until the obama administration comes forward with a way to roll out open this into the national security debate there's going to be a problem of people trustworthy ministration is up to the american public has witnessed a top u.s. official lie about the nation's pervasive surveillance program and an n.s.a. contractor reveal the truth yet only one of those men is being punished and prosecuted for their actions and if people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust congress and don't trust. federal judges to make sure that we're abiding by the constitution due process and rule of law

then we're going to have some problems are. welcome to your problem mr president. our team members. the raises on to being the next leader of trouble torn mali but as we report soon the winner of this month's presidential poll won't just have to take security of the situation by the scruff of the neck but also have to confront the plan of poverty that blights rural areas. also the holy month of ramadan begins with right activists strengthening calls for guantanamo guards to end the force feeding of hunger striking inmates. egypt is bracing for more violence as the muslim brotherhood calls for nationwide rallies a day after a deadly confrontation between its supporters and the army in cairo more than fifty people have died in what's claimed to be a crackdown against peaceful sit in backing the ousted president mohamed morsi meanwhile egypt's interim leader announced plans to get the country back on track

within five months now they include amending the constitution a referendum to ratify it followed by a parliamentary elections the chief editor of one egyptian news wire told us how it's going to be a tough challenge. of course we have a lot of fears now that what happened throughout the night is going to say. crackdown on anyone. for different reasons and we've seen this happen in the past even in the eighteen month interim rule of the military so many of us actually if you do that there is many of us are expecting a lot of human rights violations in the context of the army basically saying that it's trying to defend state institutions and it's a very dangerous. look you just living through i think the only solution is to find a political way out of the current still me and. it is because we are.

basically ending violence from both ends from the archives and of course from the brotherhood and. the u.s. which hailed egypt's revolution two years ago doesn't seem to be rushing to take sides this time around it's also reluctant to describe the upheaval there as a coup doing so would require washington to cut its military aid to egypt political analyst dr ahmed ghonim explain to us why he believes the u.s. is waiting this one out. they united states is not they can find the stand yet and they want to stand on the fence now they are friends with everyone they are friends with the army and they are friends of the people they say it what what everyone wants to hear they go to the er and say yeah we support you're going to the better team and they go to the people and say we're not sure if it's a military coup or not it's course of the military coup if people came back and change out reinstate democracy they would support the people they waiting to see what's going to happen on the ground.

to stay with us from our parish arc break. i'm not used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear. oh. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school to my friends will be around to the tundra. believe. that the tundra is just a mosquito that practically i don't know how people can live there to get in there no t.v.'s in the tents how can i send my child to boarding school because 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 that in school.

now the chinese are the world's highest spending tourists they shelled out over one hundred billion dollars traveling abroad last year about one country that is not getting a share though is the u.k. r.t.s. playboy co explains why. it's one of the top global terrorist destinations but according to new research securing a visa to come to the u.k. spreading to be more trouble than it's worth for hundreds of thousands of chinese citizens while the schenn getting visa to the european union will cover

a visit to up to twenty six countries a visit to britain requires another lengthy and costly visa application process for would be true. chinese terrorists my cousin she studied here as well should parents want to come here to visit here and we chipped away to texas thinking turn them all rolls and everything is more expensive as in britain always people would spend a lot of money u.k. and chinese they're still holds true to their. word towards you so if you just want a model it's just so complicated for the you can see india is different i see it as the way. the problem isn't just confined to extra paperwork for chinese citizens britain's economy is suffering as a result in particular the luxury retail sector the average chinese citizen spends

over one and a half thousand pounds in the u.k. but not enough are coming over to spend that money the situation's got to a point where representatives of the u.k. travel and tourism industry according on the government to drastically reform chinese visa processing they argue that if the rules were relaxed british businesses would be pulling in an extra one point two billion pounds every year we . chinese visitors coming to europe coming to britain if you all prefer destination would be london would be top the list part because we're marching machine gun we're not getting anything like the potential that we could have in numbers the u.k. china visa alliance argues that easing the process could create up to twenty four thousand jobs that britain is in desperate need of the behalf small worrying of reports that major chinese torah parades has simply cussing britain out of their customers european travel itineraries and although they might not get to sample the

delights of the tower of london or even shopping on bond street because of all that money that chinese tourists aren't spending in london this time it looks like it's britain's last pretty boy came out see london. is not only chinese tourists rushing into europe big business is also rushing in to buy assets and prices head countries or business correspondent katie pilbeam now on who is cashing in. the chinese are enjoying a shopping spree and europe is benefiting chinese investments in the e.u. tazers over twelve billion dollars last year a fifth from the year before considering china has plenty of cash to spend with a multi-billion dollar wealth fund that its disposal is no wonder the e.u. still stuck in financial strife is keen to drum up even more chinese business interests china is the biggest source of imports someone of the e.u. is fastest growing export markets which manes it to economies trade well over one

billion dollars a day chinese companies have been snapping up european businesses ranging from a check cigarette companies to pharmaceuticals to a british would producer and wineries across the region one of the biggest recent european deals was a seven hundred million dollars buy out of france's club med holiday business partly by chinese investment china's focus on international so what's behind china's spending spree while one of the reasons is to diversify the countries over three trillion dollars worth of foreign exchange assets away from the low yielding investments like u.s. treasuries with europe during troubling times china is busy snapping up the bargains. china's interest in snapping up europe's businesses doesn't look likely to die down soon with nations they're still in financial turmoil but max kaiser takes a look at what's fuelling their crisis at seven thirty am g.m.t.

. money printing to the west bank of england bank of japan and then reserve bank of america is to those economies what oil is to opec and the opec nations because the oil is the socially controlled by the state they don't need people to vote they don't need people to work the people live in a stipend in those countries in america in japan and in the u.k. increasingly people are living on a stipend set by the state who doesn't need them because they can print all the money they want to make themselves as rich as they want just like having an oil well if you pump the oil and you become a sheik and you come to london during the summer to escape the heat in the mideast if you're of j.p. morgan banker or nature's b.c. banker you print trillions of dollars and you live like your sheik at the expense of a thriving economy. and

u.s. district judge has ruled that only president obama has the necessary authority to stop the force feeding at the guantanamo bay detention facility now that is after dismissing a request from a syrian prisoner who has asked for the painful practice to be stopped the same was demanded by leading muslim figures in the u.s. who say guards should respect the religious fast of ramadan which is now under way most of be inmates have been refusing food for over five months now this in protest against their indefinite detention and harsh conditions allegations have also emerged that the guards have been using fleet deprivation against the detainees to end the strike him cooper from the council on american islamic relations believes they won't stop until there are real improvements at the facility. our position has always been that it's wrong to force feed detainees that's a position of the international legal experts it's a position of medical ethicists it's a position of every right thinking person who doesn't want to see detainees abused

in this way and whether you do it during the daylight hours or it after sunset it doesn't really matter wrong is wrong the only reason these people are carrying out this hunger strike is because they feel desperate they feel that nothing will ever change for them you have to give them some hope somehow that the situation is going to change otherwise what do they have left. time for world news update and we begin in canada passengers are being rescued from a friend a commuter train in toronto after heavy rains triggered widespread flooding hundreds have already been helped out of windows by emergency services and taken to safety on dainties now the intense downpour had caused huge blackouts across the city after a month's worth of rain fell in just one day. in turkey clashes between anti-government protesters and police flared again after the government reopened to

get the park to the public and then closed it after protests there were announced dozens were injured more than thirty people detained by the police running street battles plans to develop the park in the center of instable had set off two weeks worth of violence that had found out across the entire country. truck drivers have converged on argentina's capital this as part of a nationwide protest against new taxes on workers' wages fifteen thousand have turned out dressed in the green and white colors of their union halting mail and food deliveries across the country in the process the powerful labor group wants workers to vote against senators who support the taxes in upcoming elections. the people of mali will vote in a landmark presidential election in just a few weeks and the state of emergency there had been lifted but candidates can actually start campaigning now running the war torn country will certainly be no easy task as well shoring up state security at the victor will also need to find

a way to get basics like food and water to its struggling rural population as archie's worried if an ocean explains. the west african state of mali unexpectedly entered the spotlight over the winter after france sent its military forces to the country to help battle islam missed fighters backed by international terror groups threatening to take over a secular democratic state of fifteen million people now they've gotten islamic symbols are painted over but the country is facing an enemy of a different kind poor verty the recent crisis only made a bad situation worse over thirty five percent of mali and leave in extreme poverty that's around six million men women and children which travelled to just outside the capital bamako where weakness these scenes a common side of the country's economically depressed rural areas. it's very difficult to get well here there is no running water we have to buy it it expensive

i have many children i don't have enough money to feed them properly or send them to school. people live in houses built by themselves from handmade mud breaks apart from running water these homes often like electricity. yellow a driver among the few employed residents of this village says the hardest thing is to leave hand to mouth while knowing your country and its people could and should be there reach malise full of diverse national resources we mining for any significant part of the country's g.d.p. . there are many mineral deposits but we don't see this richness elite may be they feel corruption is terrible and revenue distribution is lame. i mean not to believe mostly foreign companies extracting the country's natural resources is as big if not a bigger problem than corruption. international firms exploit our sites but they're

not interested in developments on the ground they're afraid that if that happens we'll not need them and we'll get all the benefits. major governmental programs are aimed at attracting more foreign investors with palm and even adopting legislation for they any use of ontario so that money has resources but they're not exploited well we need long term development and infrastructure support so that people would feel more comfortable. but many doubt that foreign money will go to improve people's living standards they have a journalist from the north says resources may even bring harm he's among those who think that it's the country's uranium deposits and mountain to thousands of tons that's really behind the recent french intervention in its former colony. i heard they found uranium and i think they came here to protect us from terrorists but

also to protect themselves from risks of losing such a valuable resource apart from uranium the raw diamonds oil coal power iran which a role just waiting to be extracted while millions of mali and swung if their countries haydon treasures will ever translate into a better life for them mali one of the world's poorest countries face west african states where people survive on just a few cents per day is now at a crossroads whole global interests businesses and threats how tackles those after months of conflict is far from certain now what is spitzer make clear is that it will be many years before ordinary muslims like these ones can benefit from simple necessities like regular meals or electricity in their homes. from mali. so what's life like in the i think tundra arctic tundra will stay tuned for a special report on how kids are actually living in that part of the world.

remember how all of a sudden the oven guard protest group became world famous and then were completely forgotten by the next month yeah i'm talking about the firmest punk rock group pussy riot that performed a vulgar and a prayer or of moscow's most famous. rules 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. paid her a large undisclosed amount of money to come out on behalf of the activist band 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 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. choose your language. killing the kid with the infidels going to kill some. choose to get to. choose the stories but if you. choose access to.

a child born in the tundra is always nomadic by nature as an early age he knows that life is perpetual motion. for nine months every year and its children are taken from their homes in the tundra to special boarding schools and each time all they want is to go home again as soon as they can and. some can't wait for the holidays and head for the tundra. that at the represents the third generation of a new nets breeding family he too went to a boarding school before graduating as a vet. back home in the tundra he found a wife and now has three children.