but as well it becomes the third latin american country willing to offer political asylum to edward snowden but the u.s. whistleblower on the run still faces a tough challenge to get there. the muslim brotherhood in egypt urges the nation to rise up against the military following the ousting of the president and monday's deadly clashes in cairo this as the interim leader reveals a transition timetable for a new government. and our teen vesta gates why globetrotting high spending tourists from china are leaving the u.k. out of their travel plans. by fam in moscow you're watching r t with me marina josh. advert snowden's plea for

political asylum is increasingly promising the fugitive u.s. whistleblower and now has three latin american countries willing to accept him venezuela nicaragua and believe all offered him refuge from prosecution and his homeland with cuba a possible transit country for snowden also expressing support but actually getting from where he is now to any of those countries is not going to be easy as now explains. edward snowden submitted his request ask to have been his while this 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 business or a lot of it 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 banned believe the president's plane from using their airspace because they were told snowden was aboard one alternative flight plan would involve an ear profit taking off from moscow refueling in vladivostok 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 fed which is known as video interview from which we'll learn more about what drove him to sacrifice a 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 and then he has worked with a number of government agencies but as he grew familiar with the system from the inside he's 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 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 and privacy without of being

thought of being measured analyzed or or or sort of judged by these shadowy figure 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 spies snowden is wanted on espionage charges and whistleblowers in the u.s. these days risk the death penalty the u.s. has certainly got a long way from the days of de niro ellsberg and his pentagon papers nowadays 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 of the national security agency which snowden used to work for as a contractor seems to be undaunted by the scandal surrounding it and scouring u.s.

colleges for new recruits but it isn't going smoothly at a q. and a session and one university recruiters found themselves facing tough questions from students over the legality of the n.s.a.'s actions. wisconsin tell us what happened 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 critically 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 the intelligence community lives in that they are so good 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 their in your embrace defense where they were just doing their job which is not a defense at all. well all of that leaked information from average snowden is

building up a picture of how america's global surveillance operations are structured let's not have a look at what we know so far well first off there is the futuristically named nucleon system this is what listens in to your phone calls wherever they may be the wrecked it and it's thought that if it catches a suspicious keyword you'll be flagged and then subjected to further scrutiny then there is a similarly critically title penwell system this program is set to trial for suspicious activities through videos on the web whether that's your live skype call with your friends or family or you tube video that's been uploaded up next who you phone where your phone from and when you call them is all stored by what's known as main way this system is reportedly capable of building a facebook like friends list to profile you just from your calling habits and

lastly we now know of marina a program in charge of recording your online life this is sad to be able to catch store and record your sent e-mails before they even reach their. recipient well these four are just some of the systems that make up america surveillance network the ones that we know the workings of. and with all this information on us snooping practices now coming to the surface support for the government is declining president obama's approval rating has dropped by almost tan percentage points in just one month but it's not just the spying controversy itself but also the fact that officials in washington lied about it that is angering the public as marina poured nine are reports 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 u.s. 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 sarin 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 haven't in the british rule you know u.s. government under well as for the whistleblowing website that aims to expose the truth the u.s. has listed wiki leaks as an enemy of the state until you 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 biding 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 member of the muslim brotherhood movement in egypt is calling for a nationwide uprising against the military which ousted their leader mohamed morsy from the presidency last week this comes after a deadly army raid on

a mass sit in in cairo which the islamist group held in support of morsy are just fall asleep reports the brotherhood is calling for mass protests today choose day now this is a 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 an armed gunman and they have released video footage showing gunmen on the roofs of buildings in the vicinity hurling monitor of 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 morsy to be reinstated and again we're hearing the same kind of message coming from the brotherhood and that is that they are not going to be the street until morsy is put back in office while the interim president adly mansour has issued a statement in which he says he deeply regrets the killing of a fifty one people at the same time he says he has to attack edgy dish will committee to investigate what transpired. table 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 then they 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. correspond policy or is posting regular updates on the situation in egypt online so follow her twitter feed to get the latest. coming out a look at the guantanamo bay hunger strike and the controversy over the force feeding of inmates during the ramadan fast that's after the short break here on araa. i'm not used to the tundra to freedom 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 crack and 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 when i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter a life without knowledge of how to do basic things as though they don't get that in school.

welcome back here with r t r us federal court has can damn the force feeding of guantanamo bay for his nurse as a painful humiliating and degrading practice but at the same time hearing the judge turned down a request for one of the detainees to and the practice rolling down the only person with the authority to make such a decision as president obama calls to and force feeding have also come from leading muslim figures in the country who say guards should respect the really just fast of ramadan which has just started the hunger strike in one time a prison has been carrying on for over five my. now with one hundred six out of one hundred sixty six inmates taking part in a protest against inhumane treatment and indefinite detention without trial of those forty five are being force fed abraham hooper from the council on american islamic relations believes the pro das won't stop until real changes are made 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 now is no lab to the situation at guantanamo activists are trying to show the public just how bad force feeding really is abby martin look at one such attempt in breaking the set some

viewers might find a following food it's upsetting. case you still don't realize how horrifying this procedure really is rapper most deaths recently volunteered to take part in the standard operating procedure for force feeding get no prisoners and here's what happened when he tried. when it was seemed. to demonstrate the standard operating procedure for its treating detainees at guantanamo bay. and. for that. job.

no. drugs have. no i mean to. me he's got to do it. i don't know about you but i was very difficult to watch in fact he couldn't even do it he later said it felt like an object to syrian his brain just imagine enforced against your will to encourage this kind of treatment not once but twice daily so cruel as to most def or even attempting to do it just to send us a powerful message now it's our job to make sure that message doesn't fall on deaf ears. it looks like. you've never seen anything like that. now corruption has worsened all over the world over the past two years according to

a newly released international poll a report from transparency international shows that people in most countries from the richest to poorest increasingly view their governments split all parties and police as corrupt while to get some insight into this we're now joined live from berlin by a sin heinrich who is research director at transparency international thank you so much for joining us here in the program so what do you see as the main cause behind this perception data corruption is getting worse yeah i think obviously the cost as a country specific but we see two large friends and in the countries in the global solve this particular in africa we see bribery so really petty corruption where people have to pay bribes to get their kids into school have to pay bribes to do police when they get stopped that is an increase that is an increasing worry for people. and of reality in those countries in the in the west and in the north so i

think it's it's different community their main concern is not bribery in your day to day interactions with the public services but it's really corruption at the higher level it's this confluence between business and polly politics and money and how corruption really corrupts the political process and that's a clearly a growing worry for people particularly those countries well what's interesting here is the geographic spread of corruption and there is a commonly held view that the poor countries or developing countries have more corruption it's in fact worse there than in the richer countries so is that a myth or there is more to it. yeah it's well one has to look at corruption has many different forms and as i said when we look at day to day bribery you see that spread very clearly you see the list of countries where private area is the most common are topped by what you would call the usual suspects of sub-saharan african countries where more than three out of four people

have experienced being asked for a bribe or having paid a bribe in the last twelve months and countries which normally are seen as very corrupt free as such as many always to do countries the they don't have much experience and prevalence there but then when you ask people how corrupt the key institutions are political parties do traditionally and others people in the west and in the other northern countries are really saying no they are highly corrupt we don't experience corruption day to day lives but we know it's there we know it's affecting i was indirectly and maybe even worse so well your report also looked at the situation in arab countries and specifically before revolutions in after and it revealed that the situation with corruption there has gotten much worse so what do you read into that. yeah i think it's a it's a common problem and in order to fight corruption you need to really be in it in

the long term you can't expect very quick gains from the fight against corruption so i think what we see in many of those countries those are pupils which you find in many countries including many post communist countries after the revolution where the old systems are no longer intact the new system still have to be build so in those situations corruption is on the rise but we hope that the new leaders compared to the previous us are really taking the challenge of setting up systems of integrity systems of transparency and accountability to their people much more serious and our hope is there mr i work very briefly why is corruption such a difficult problem to tackle. well corruption it's a difficult problem because it happens underneath you don't see it the people who are involved in corruption have no incentive to actually reveal it it's happening in various different places so shining the light on corruption and dealing with it requires a really quite holistic approach we always say you don't fight corruption by

fighting individual corruption cases you need to build systems of integrity a system of transparency it needs quite a comprehensive effort involving the government but citizens as well and here our report shows that citizens indeed are ready to put in their share and to act finneran rick research director of transparency international thank you so much for joining us live from berlin to discuss this. and china's rapidly growing middle class is traveling the world like never before and providing a massive boost to tourist destinations in the process spending over a one hundred billion dollars last year alone but the benefits are not being felt area were are these playboy go has been looking into why the chinese are leaving the u.k. out of their travel plans. 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 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 chinese terrorists my cousin to study here as well should parents want to come here to visit here and we chipped away to texas thinking turner. roles everything is more expensive as in britain. people would spend a lot of money. and so on this is a different culture there. are tours so. if you just want to come along it's just so complicated for the you can see and hear is different i think is 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 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 ashamed and we're not getting anything like the potential that we could have in london 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 bahamas more worrying of reports that major chinese toro parade has simply cussing britain out of that custom is 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 last. aussie london and separating financial facts from the fantasy prime interest is up next on our. remember how all of a sudden an afghan card 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 german actress on a tall buck 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's e.d.f. may have been given all motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of what talbott said 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. right to see. her strip. and i would think that you're. on a recorder's twitter. instagram. to

be in the. good afternoon welcome to prime interest i'm bob english here in washington d.c. here's a story we're telling today the world is turning or is it looks like we have the slightest inkling of a crack down on wall street but is it too little too late the press have corridor not told though it may be continues against john corazon and ex goldman i gary gensler is being painted as a tough new sheriff even though he abdicated oversight of the entire futures industry one m.f. global ago and its age of whistleblowers today actually yesterday snowden and then today bank of america thanks to two lawsuits we learned how the two big build giant systematically built homes promise and loan modifications.