the international stalemate over and word snowden looks set to be resolved with a fugitive u.s. whistleblower expected to accept an offer for political asylum in south america. 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 hour as 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.

at seven pm the russian capital you're watching our team is going to have you with us i'm marina joshie welcome to the program edward snowden's plea for political asylum is looking increasingly promising the fugitive u.s. intelligence leaker now has three latin american countries willing to accept him but as well in nicaragua and believe you have all offered him refuge from prosecution in his homeland and a senior russian lawmaker has suggested that snowden has picked venezuela that information appeared on his twitter feed but was promptly delete it whichever it's on destination snowden chooses getting there will be no simple matter as he is going to now explains. 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 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

in business or law but the question is how is he going to get there we understand that he is still in the transit zone in moscow's sheremetyevo 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 ear proft 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 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 as 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 called simply 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 and national security agency which snowden used to work for as a contract or seems to be undaunted by the scandal surrounding it and as scouring u.s. colleges for new recruits but it isn't going smoothly at a q. and a session now one university recruiters found themselves facing tough questions from students over the legality of the n.s.a.'s actions but do you want 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 in your emberg defense as they were just doing their job which is not a defense at all. well all of that leaked information from outward snowden is building up a picture of how america's global surveillance operations are structureless now take a look at what we know so far well first off there is the futuristically named nucleons system and this is what listens in to your phone calls were ever 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 is the similarly cryptically titled ten whale system the program is said to trawl for suspicious activity through videos on the web whether that's your life skype call with your friends or family or a youtube video of dad's been uploaded up next who we have 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 know now all of marina a program in charge of recording your online life this is said to be able to catch store and record your send e-mails before the even reach the receiving end well these four are just some of the systems that make up america surveillance network the ones that we know the workings off. an r.t.s. financial guru max connoisseur is pulling no punches on the n.s.a. scandal he says the saft of personal data by the u.s. government arcs back to ninety germany so i had to r.t. dot com for that and much more. at least six hundred fifty people have been arrested in egypt as authorities look into

monday slashes which claimed at least fifty lives most of the detainees are supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and his muslim brotherhood movement earlier the group called for a nationwide uprising against the military which is currently holding power artie's policy or 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 timid in one 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 city there 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 it hasn't really made any statements pointing this is 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 be figure the . 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 egyptian 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 then overthrown in a place by morsi they supported morsi and this is why you have these probles the supporters so angry today they accuse washington of double standards. and our correspondent policy your is posting regular updates on the situation in egypt on her twitter feed there she has details on a report showing that the army general behind the ousting of president morsy attended a u.s. military college so follow her for all the latest on the up. and coming up a look at the guantanamo bay hunger strike and the controversy over the force feeding of inmates during the ramadan fast that's after

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welcome back you're watching our team a u.s. federal court has can damn the force feeding of guantanamo bay prisoners as a painful humiliating and degrading procedure but at the same hearing of a judge turned down a request for one of the detainees to and a practice ruling that the only person with the authority to make such a decision is president obama holds to and force feeding have also come from leading muslim figures in the country who say guards should respect the religious fast of ramadan which has just started that's as prison authorities claim bad jury

month of ramadan and force feeding will take place only at night the hunger strike and one time of a prison has been dragging on for over five months 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 muslim activist and mom dual joins us live now from washington to talk more on this issue. so the holy month of ramadan that i'm on starts today and guantanamo staff will be force feeding forty five detainees during the night hours how do you expect the situation to develop. well all i can do is explain to you how it effects a muslim first of all fasting during the month of ramadan is something between a believer and his creator so it's between us and

a lot so we fast doing this much for a special reason the main reason is that the human being is made up of spirit made up of of body and made up of desires and done no amount of ramadan fasting is designed or prescribe for the human being for the muslims that they learn how to control what we call not so desires so this is the purpose of fasting ok now when someone a system of government like the us government interferes with the process of fasting specially doing the most of ramadan we believe this number one is going against the constitution of the united states where the constitution will not interfere the government will not interfere with the practice of religion so when the government is force feeding someone is specially doing them out of

ramadan they actually interfering with the process of our religion whether the main pillars of our way of life i d.m. is this is fasting so we feel that the government is number one acting illegally according to the constitution it's affront to this it's also a humiliation in that. number one most of the people in guantanamo have been cleared to leave but they won't let him go well in addition to what i have just sadness in addition to what he just said it's not just a humiliating procedure it's also very painful as well as our colleague abby martin is explaining in her program but focusing now on of the plight of the hunger strikers what will happen if force feeding is suspended what will happen to them

if they would happen to them if they cease force feeding yes if it is a span and if they for the seeds for fish or a yes if it is suspended during ramadan if this expanded is again it is it's so so worse problem for a muslim to be forced to be said that means that they are directly in a fearing it's like interfering in any ritual in religion interfering in your prayer interfering of your burial system interfering in anything that that's a part this a specific part of your way of life so i just want to clarify their abdul alim musa i just want to clarify the question here you know at the moment hargus strikers are

being force fed right but what if this is stopped what is this procedure is stop what will be happening to the inmates to those hunger strikers if they don't know anything at all what good will they do bay would ok. they possibly have my to go in. and put dissipate in their own. practice of ramadan which would be doing the daylight hours they wouldn't have any food they wouldn't have any any water or what have you and then in the evening they would they would they be very religious they would probably break their fast they would probably break their fast and they would consume enough to. carry on and possibly resume. their protests ok i have one question for you after the monthly ramadan obama has on many occasions promised to

close the facility and he's actually criticized the practice now what's stopping him to actually. stop this is like to give you overall answer that the muslims in the united states are living on the conditions worse than nazi germany they've thrown out all of the constitutional guarantees bayville and eyes of muslims and so we expect anything harmful coming from the government and we don't expect anything good coming from the united states government does a global war on islam we don't expect them to do anything good to us we are living under nazi five condition. right now is this condition we don't expect them to do anything good or right mamadou and most of think it's so much for sharing your views with us here on our t.v.

thank you ok. and it was no let up to the situation at guantanamo activists are trying to show the public just how bad force feeding really is added martin looked at one such attempt in breaking the set of the war and you 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. when it was seen. to demonstrate the standard operating procedure for speeding detainees at guantanamo bay.

no drugs. no no no no i didn't. mean 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 syrian his brain just imagine in force against your will to incur 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. like. you've never seen anything like that.

and reckless british bankers could soon face jail terms for misconduct while managing banks chancellor george osborne has backed tougher rules for the industry but his response to proposals from the parliamentary commission on banking standards is already drawing criticism or he says are still he joins us now from london with the details so tasso why exactly does osborne support for a new banking rules mean. well first of all let's remember that george osborne's call out for the for jail time for bankers who are accused of reckless behavior it has gotten a lot of coverage because of the how big that statement is he is supporting in the parliamentary backing commission's recommendations essentially on stricter guidelines we know now that the banking reform bill is up for debate in a part of the whoever the critics are pointing out that osborne basically don't believe what he is saying that it would that it will actually amount to anything

basically they're saying that the legitimacy of banks have been eroded so much out of financial crisis that was simply forced to say something like that in order to appease his critics well let's get more insight on what this all actually means from studies of financial trader you are in the industry should bankers be shaking in their shoes right now because of this big statement from osborne. well some would argue that the best punishment for the banks would not be jailed them but to stop what has been going on last few years bailing them out of public money every time they get it wrong and every time to bring the economy to its knees so perhaps some would argue the best punishment for them would be next time you screw up with bill you out in public money however i don't necessarily think is going to be enough we need some element in terms of banks from fortune we have lost just acquired lost trust with the public banks need to realize that most important

currency in the world is not sterling it's not the dollar it's not the euro it's not even gold it's trust you lose trust of the public lost but perhaps that trust will be regained if they start seeing bankers who are guilty in handcuffs but will it actually take place i mean there are those who argue that this is simply was or was simply dragged into saying something like this will it actually happen i'm sure there is some political element to this to win populist votes with the electorate there's no doubt about that and will it work as you correctly point out. here's one thing my background actually is a law i used to work with some of the best barristers and judges in this country the criminal law firms courts one thing barrister will tell you is that satisfying the british criminal definition of criminality is going to be very difficult specially when it comes to something like this in the banks to prove because in british law we have something called the mental elements of a crime how will they prove the mental element the mystery of recklessness you know

in response to banks because how can they prove their recklessly did what they did they are saying that it's just impossible to prove reckless on the other i would say it's impossible a good argument can be made for it proving it is what i think an extremely difficult to prove is going to be very difficult indeed and frankly you aren't in this for your insight it are there a lot of tricks of the trade that the government simply don't see or cannot get through at this will continue and nothing will change there are definitely some tricks of the trade but the most pressing probably question is going to be the government probably one of the most important arguments that we've faced any prosecutor will be faced would be the bankers can argue look we had our equations we had our formulas even though there are bogus formulas they had which told them that the. possibility of the probability of a banking crisis or a housing crisis was impossible and that that's what they were formalised told them even though it's crazy the sounds you know of that how and how in god's earth is it

possible that those equations told them that housing crash was near impossible or unlikely but that's what they've worked with looking forward i just want one aspect of this question yes or no do you think anything will change no the public should realise that the essentially unless they wake up and wise and up the market is rigged against you ok the market will always be rigged against them so it's nothing going to change thank you very much for that. well as you know there are stricter guidelines being debated in parliament however financial regulators having found the twenty seven point one billion pounds hole in the balance sheet of some banks now is really. the confusion of the disconnect between the talk and what is actually being done. right now as our. financial. life from london thank you so much. apa hand here in our t. it's breaking the set.

remember how all the sudden an afghan card protest group became world famous and then 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 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 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 all extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of what 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. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you say. i'm tom parker is a big issue. if you live on a hot. thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i

mean cameron and i know that i'm. really messed up. in the old story so. it's a little worse if you're going to. lie down to the. radio guy and for a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm still. going on guys i'm out of money this is a break in the set with a three latin american countries a bolivia nicaragua in venice will have all this really offered asylum for n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden hardly a surprise considering the attitude the us has taken toward the leaders of these countries you know like blatantly disrespecting the president of bolivia by kidnapping in mid-flight and forcing a head of state to be grounded in an airport.