but as whale a becomes the third latin american country willing to offer a political asylum to edward snowden why the u.s. whistleblower on the run still faces a tough challenge to gather 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 has the interim leader reveals a transition timetable for a new government. and our team best to gauge why globetrotting high spending tourists from china are leaving the u.k. out of their travel plans.

this r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program . and word snowden's plea for political asylum is increasingly promising the fugitive u.s. whistleblower now hess real latin american countries willing to accept him venezuela nicaragua believe you have all offered him refuge from prosecution in his homeland was 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 artie is going to canada 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.

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 banned believe the president's plane from using their airspace because they were told snowden was aboard one alternative flight plan would involve an era prior to taking off from moscow refueling in velocity of our stock 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 if it were 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 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 each other in privacy without it being monitored without being measured or analyzed or or or sort of judged by these three 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 and spies 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 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 now the national security agency which snowden used to work for as

a contractor seems to be undaunted by the scandal surrounding it out of scouring u.s. colleges for new recruits but it isn't going smoothly at a q. and a session at one university recruiters found themselves facing tough questions from students over the legality of the n.s.a.'s actions medea had to hear a student at the university of wisconsin told 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've 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 that the intelligence community lives in that they are so disengaged they think that they actually don't have to answer any questions of that 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 the nuremberg defense that they were just doing their job which is not a defense at all. well all of that leaked information from our word snowden is building up a picture of how america's global surveillance operations are structured was that have a look at what we know so far first off there's a futuristically named nucleons system and this is what listens in to your phone calls wherever they may be directed it's thought that if it catches a suspicious keyword you'll be flagged and then subjected to further scrutiny than there are similarly cryptical you title pin whale this program is said to troll for suspicious activity three videos on the web whether that's your life 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 cold them is old stored by what's known as made a way this system is reportedly capable of building

a facebook like friends list to profile you just from your calling habits and lastly we know of marina a program in charge of recording your online life this is said to be able to catch store and record you or send emails before they even reach the recipient now 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 ten percentage points in just one month but it's not just the spying controversy itself but also the fact that a fish about it that is angering the public as more important than our 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 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 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 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 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 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 alleged 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 a reasonable reader. here in haiti we haven't had 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 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 trusting working 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 marina our team member. and artie's financial guru max kaiser is pulling no punches on the annecy scale he says the theft of first of

all data by the u.s. government harks back to nazi germany so had to r.t. dot com for that and much more. 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 artie's polis leader now reports. well funerals are being held for the victims who were killed during monday's massacre that is according to the muslim brotherhood who is tonight in that way some fifty one people killed it comes amidst the muslim brotherhood calling for supporters to go to the streets in a nationwide protest demanding again for the ousted president mohamed morsi to be reinstated there is still a lot of confusion in terms of what actually transpired on monday morning according to the brotherhood it's protesters were holding

a peaceful citizens were holding dorna prayers in front of the republican guard headquarters building where it is believed that morsy is currently being held when they suddenly came under fire from the army they were provoked this is in stark contrast to what we're hearing from the military they say that they came under fire that it was armed gunmen who scaled the roofs of nearby buildings they were hurling molotov cocktails firebombs as well as huge stones at the army who were forced to respond in self defense the army saying the fact that two policemen and one soldier was killed is evidence that they were under fire and that there was simply trying to protect both their lives the lives of the protesters and the installation that they were protecting well the first point that is worth making is that we are hearing from the interim president adly mansour now he has issued a five month roadmap to taking this country toward some kind of democracy and according to the roadmap the constitution will first be amended this will be in be ratified in a referendum in december you will have parliamentary elections and then in february

a presidential poll the muslim brotherhood has rejected this hour flight but when you talk to people here on the streets they say that the real culprit is in fact washington now washington has kept mum it hasn't really made any statements calling this a military coup and this is largely because it puts washington in a very difficult position as a cause of a military coup it will be obliged to stop its military aid to egypt the if it. it's all startling since nine hundred seventy nine the u.s. has spent some sixty eight billion dollars on funding of military of the egyptian military and the us covers some eighty percent of egypt's military spending the figures again are huge some eleven thousand five hundred egypt and offices were trained in the united states between the years of two thousand and two thousand and nine now this translates into about two point five percent of the current egypt to

military who've received training across the atlantic and the most notable among them is the current head of the army general sisi when you talk to people here if you don't see that even though washington hasn't come onboard and actually said this was a military coup ultimately washington will end up supporting be army they point to history the fact that america supported mubarak he was and overthrown him a place by morsi they supported morsi and this is why you have these probles he supporters so angry today they accuse washington of double standards. policy here is posting regular updates on the situation in egypt on her twitter feed and there she has details on a report showing that the army general behind the ousting of president morsy attended a u.s. military college all her with all the latest on that. and

coming up here on our take a look at the guantanamo bay hunger strike and the controversy over the force feeding of inmates during the ramadan fast that's 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 to my friends will be around to the tundra. the tundra is just miskito that practically i don't know how people can live there to get in there no t.v.'s in the tenth 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 they don't get that in school. she could laboratory to mccurry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. welcome back this is our u.s. federal courthouse can damn the force feeding of guantanamo bay prisoners is a painful humiliating and degrading practice but at the same time the same hearing rather in the judge turned down the request for one of the detainees to and a practice ruling 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 religious fast of ram it down which has just started the hunger strike in one time a prison has been carrying on for over five months now with one hundred six out of one hundred sixty six inmates taking part in a program asked against inhumane treatment and indefinite detention without trial of those forty five are being forced fad abraham hope her from the council on american islamic relations believes the pro asked won't stop until real changes are made 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. and with no lab to the situation at guantanamo activists are trying to show the public just how bad force feeding really is abby martin looked at one such attempt in breaking the set some years might find a following food upsetting case you still don't realize how horrifying this procedure really is rapper most def recently volunteered to take part in the standard operating procedure for force feeding get no prisoners and here's what happened when he tried. running the scene. here to demonstrate the standard

operating procedure for speeding detainees at guantanamo bay. through the. job. just so. i'm not. going to. me like you do in. 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 steering his brain just imagine in

forced against your will to incur this kind of treatment not once but twice daily so kudos 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. like. you've never seen anything like. china's rapidly growing middle class is travelling the world like never before and providing a massive boost to tourist destinations in the proses spending over one hundred billion dollars last year alone but the benefits are not being felt there were a boy who has been looking into why the chinese are leaving me 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 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 she studied here as well should parents want to come here to visit her every chipped away detoxes that you turn the ball rolls and everything is more expensive as in britain always people spend a lot of money you'll carry it and this is difficult to judge their. will towards you so. if you just want to come along it's just so complicated for the you can stand there 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 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 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 britain. is in desperate need of the behalf of small wearing of reports that major chinese torah parades has

a 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 aren't spending in london this time it looks like it's britain's last. azzi london and on to some international news in brief now in lebanon a powerful explosion has hit a stronghold of the political and militant group has ball in south beirut injuring at least thirty seven people several people were killed according to unconfirmed reports officials say the attack was an effort by extremists to provoke secure in violence syrian rebel groups earlier threatened to launch attacks on lebanon in revenge for house was support of president. elite pakistani government report has accused the country's military of incompetence in its attempts to capture osama bin laden it also strongly criticizes the national

intelligence service for a failing to track down bin laden over a period of almost a decade however it can damage the assassination of a terrorist leader by the united states two years ago as a criminal act of murder on foreign soil. a journalist has been shot dead by identify gunmen in the south russian republic of dagestan ahead libya had to be of who was the deputy editor of a local newspaper was reportedly had out of by militants for his reporting artist scott has details. was shot dead fifty meters from his home in rush'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 ation of around twenty thousand but he was also the political editor and was highly critical of all florida 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 darkest now this case will ever to plea draw parallels with the high profile case of journalist and human rights activist. 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 nobody has yet claimed responsibility for today's attack but dr stone is a restive region as you mention within the 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 and x.p. the children growing up in the icy arctic tundra a long way from the world of t.v. and internet. remember. how all of a sudden an afghan card protest group became world famous and and were completely forgotten by the 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.t.f. paid her a large undisclosed amount of money to come out on behalf of the activists banned

show said on a t.v. discussion that she doesn't even remember what she said except for wishing them well with dealing with their incarceration it would be very odd for an actress to just make up a bribery scandal especially one she was complicit in but it makes you wonder just how many other people may have been given a little extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of 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.

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 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 deliberating 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.