as edward snowden's invited to venezuela after it receives his official asylum request we learned 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'll walk out why waves of high spending chinese tourists are splashing their cash across europe but not in britain .

this is r.t. coming to you line from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program america's most wanted man the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden has found himself weighing not one but potentially three asylum offers one as well and they believe you have all spoken favorably of granting him safe haven despite threats from the united states but as granted she can explain getting there won't be easy. edward snowden submitted his request ask to have been his well as president indicated in very strong terms that his country was ready to accept him this is what you call a small dual 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 in been a soil 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 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. from using their airspace because they were told snowden was aboard one alternative flight plan would involve an aircraft taking off from moscow refueling invalid the us talk and then continuing east over the pacific to south america but 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 chooses this nation and leave russia as soon as possible in the meantime the guardian newspaper has published the second part of edward snowden's video interview from which we'll 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 agents but as he grew familiar with the system from the inside is views 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 i increasingly was exposed to 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 enjoy a sort of freedom to communicate with them each other in privacy without of being

thought of 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 that the us has certainly gone a long way from the days of they know ellsberg in his pentagon papers now days paul patients and pundits on television say if snowden were a real whistleblower or a good whistleblower he would have stayed in the western almost certainly going 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 scandal and global opera and to say recruiters are scouring colleges and universities for a fresh faces but there are jobs now harder than i was with students wary of

signing up to work in the surveillance industry but they got to hear a who's studying at wisconsin university got to see their group and drive last week and tell us how it went i think they were completely caught off guard they were confused you can hear that on the tape it sounded like they had 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 were 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 been 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 their own urine break defense and they were just doing their job which is not a defense at all. now edward snowden's leaks appear to be eating into support for obama whose approval rating s.

plummeted almost him for sandwich points in recent weeks bad news for him but worse for the government with a recent poll saying only one in six americans now trust washington to do the right thing marina organize more on what song 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 gate at all 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 at least untruthful 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 overall u.s. 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 send 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 of avoidable. in the case of syria's civil war the french and others had already. concluded that he's using the sharon gas in small quantities but again here's this is the red line and we alleged they killed between one hundred one 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 who are 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 is for president marina porn i our team i mean. the race is on for the next leader of trouble torn mali but as we report soon so when there are this month's presidential poll won't just have to take the security situation by the scruff of the neck and also have to confront the chronic poverty that blights rural areas. also the holy month of ramadan begins with rights activists strengthening calls for guantanamo guards and the force feeding of hunger striking inmates. it is bracing for more violence as the muslim brotherhood calls for

a nationwide rallies a day after a deadly confrontation between its supporters and the army in cairo more than fifty people died and what's claimed to be a crackdown against a peaceful sit in backing the ousted president mohamed morsi policy or has more details. the brotherhood is calling for mass protests today choose day now this is in response to the killing yesterday of some fifty one pro morsy supporters in front of the headquarters of the republican building and that is where it is believed that the ousted president mohamed morsy is still being held we are hearing very differing accounts of what transpired during those clashes according to the brotherhood its supporters were knelt in prayer they were holding a peaceful city in front of their building when they were fired on and provoked by the military that is their point but the military having a very different story they say that they were fired on the thursday by armed gunmen and they have released video footage showing gunmen on the roofs of

buildings in the vicinity hurling molotov cocktails huge stones and firing at the soldiers so the army is response is that they were acting in self-defense nonetheless there's a nationwide call by the muslim brotherhood is not only in response to yesterday's killings but it is also a call for morsi to be reinstated and again we're hearing the same kind of message coming from the brotherhood and that is that they're not going to beat the street and till morsy is put back in office well the interim president adly mansour has issued a statement in which he says he deeply regrets the killing of fifty one people at the same time he says he has said time and you dish will committee to investigate what transpired he has also given a timetable for a transition to a democratic government here in egypt this has been laid out in a five month roadmap now the first thing that we understand will happen is that there will be a review and an amendment of the current draft constitution and then there will be a referendum held which will ratify the new proposed constitution following which

they will be parliamentary elections but you need to remember that this country is so deeply divided and the potential for violence is so intense that it really is going to be a tough job trying to pull all the parties together. the u.s. which hailed agent revolution two years ago doesn't seem to be rushing to take signs this time it's also reluctant to describe the upheaval there as a coup doing so would require washington to cut its military aid to egypt but atlanta is dr ahmed ghanem explain to us why he believes the u.s. is waiting this one out the united states is now they can find that stand yet and they want to stand in the fence know they are friends with everyone they are friends with the army and they are friends of the people they say what everyone wants to hear they go to me and say yeah it was 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 reinstate democracy they would support the people they waiting to see what's going to happen on the ground. here watching our team stay with us for more world news after a short 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 with two of my friends we ran to the tundra. the tundra is just miskito the traffic i don't know how people can live there to

get in there no t.v.'s in the tent how can 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 is though they don't get that in school. welcome back you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow the chinese are the world's highest spending tourist and they shelled out over one hundred billion dollars traveling abroad last year one country that's not getting

a share though is the u.k. artie's playboy explains why. it's one of the top global tourist 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 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 chinese terrorists my cousin just study here as well should parents want to come here to visit. every chip is always a texas thing you turn. rolls everything is more expensive as in britain always people spend a lot of money. it's on news it is difficult to get their. toys so if you just want to come along it's just so complicated for the you can see and

it is different as it is now 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 calling on the government to drastically reform chinese visa processing they argued 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 are the preferred destination would be london would be top the list part because we're marching ashamed and we're not getting anything like the potential that we could have in lumberton the u.k. china visa alliance argues that easing the process could create up to twenty four

thousand jobs that brits. it is in desperate need of the behalf small worrying of reports that major chinese torah parade 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 on spending in london this time it looks like it's britain's loss. azzi london. and online at r.t. dot com right now and new world in half a liter of water over a thirty five hundred unique lifeforms have been discovered in samples from an antarctic lake an astonishing eco system isolated for fifteen million years in the coldest place on earth. and school shooting rampages are no longer and insurable risk in kansas where cover is being refused to schools

where teachers are allowed to carry guns the details are online right now. a 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 that's after dismissing a request from a syrian prisoner who asked for the painful practice to be stopped the same was demanded by leading muslim figures in the u.s. would say guards should respect the religious fast of ramadan which is now under way most of the inmates have been refusing food for over five months now in protest against their indefinite detention and harsh conditions allegations of also emerged that guards have been using sleep deprivation against detainees to and the strike abraham hope her 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 detainees that's

a position of the international legal experts it's a position of medical ethicists it's a position to have 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. a journalist been shot down in russia's restive dagestan republic by identify gunmen the man who was the political editor for a newspaper into regent was reportedly wanted by militants because of his work. reports. to be i have was shot dead fifty meters from his home in russia's

region of dagestan in the north caucasus he was shot several times in the head in his car and died at the scene now he was a deputy editor of a local newspaper with a cycle of around twenty thousand but he was also the political editor and was highly critical of all florida keys and was thought to be investigating corruption in the suggestion is that that has made him a little target for assassination now he has survived two previous attempts on his life most recently in january when gunmen opened fire on him but missed the target and in two thousand and nine his name was included on a list that was published anonymously of journalists human rights activists and lawyers that the authors claim were legitimate assassination targets because of their line of work with which the authors claim endangered the lives of people from now this case will ever to billy draw parallels with the high profile case of journalist and human rights activist politkovskaya who was shot dead in moscow in

two thousand and six now a former policeman has since been sentenced to eleven years in prison for pleading guilty to involvement in her murder and nobody has yet claimed responsibility for today's attack but pakistan is a restive region as you mention within recent increase in islamic terrorism and organized crime and it's yet to be saying whether today's events will inflame an already volatile situation in the region. now the people of mali you will vote in a landmark presidential election in a few weeks and the state of emergency has been lifted so that candidates can start campaigning running the war torn country will be no easy task as well as shoring up state security the victor also needs to find a way to get the basics like food and water to its struggling rural population as marie finished their reports. 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 ist fighters backed by international terror groups threatening to take over a secular democratic state of fifteen million people now they've done it with 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 travel to just outside the capital bamako where weakness these scenes a common sight 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's 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 each mollies full of diverse national resources we do mining for a really significant part of the country's g.d.p. . there are many mineral deposits but we don't see this richness elite maybe they feel corruption is terrible and revenue distribution is lame. i mean not to believes 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 their needs. molly 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 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 a 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 copper iran which are role just waiting to be extracted while millions of mali and swung if their

countries hidden treasures will ever translate into a better life for them mali one of the world's poorest countries this west african state where people survive on just a few cents per day is now had to cross roads whole of global interests businesses and threats how tackles those after months of conflict is far from certain now what is spitzer like. many years before ordinary moments like these ones can benefit from simple necessities like regular meals or electricity in their homes. our team from mali. now take a look at some other stories from around the world all passengers have now been rescued from a commuter train in toronto was stranded after having rains triggered widespread flooding there were almost a thousand people on board in towns down for caused huge blackouts across the city after a month's worth of rain fell in just one day. in southern barely

weeks been rocked by huge car bomb the areas known as a stronghold for the shia political and militant group hezbollah fire fighters have sealed off the area which is still a blaze at least thirty seven people are reported injured several rowsell said to be killed but there is no official confirmation yet some of syria's rebel groups have threatened to attack lebanon after has joined president assad's forces against the opposition. well next meet some really cool kids they're growing up in the icy arctic tundra was no t.v. no internet. remember how all the sudden an afghan guard protest group became world famous and in 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.v.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 extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of what had her public revelation 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.

a child born in the tundra is always nomadic by nature as an early age she 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. wait for the holidays and head for the tundra.