gyptian prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for the muslim brotherhood leader after monday's deadly clashes while rival political factions failed to agree on a transition plan leaving the country in deadlock. russia says it's evidence that syrian rebels not government troops have used chemical weapons is ready to be made public that's according to russia's foreign minister also his back and u.s. efforts to put the blame on the syrian regime. that were still too widely expected to receive political asylum in venezuela so i they're ready for the fugitive whistleblower is growing across led america r.t. speaks to happen or us foreign minister about what's behind this support.

in r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshua welcome to the program lead gyptian prosecutor's office has ordered the arrest of a muslim brotherhood leader mohamed badie is accused of provoking deadly clashes at a rally on monday in support of the ousted president mohamed morsy archies polis leader has the details. well egypt's prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for mohammed badia the leader of the muslim brotherhood the charges are on inciting violence for the fifty five people who were killed in those bloody clashes back on monday between the pro morsy supporters and and the military in front of the republican guard headquarters building we're also hearing that at least nine other a west warrants have been issued for high ranking members of the muslim brotherhood the question though is where is this muslim brotherhood leader it is widely thought that he could be inside the rubber mosque now this is where hundreds of thousands

of pro morsy muslim brotherhood supporters have been holding a vigil calling for morsy to be released from detention and the reinstated so the question needs to be answered as to how the police are actually going to enter this massive crowd and a wrist mohamed badie the concern however is that this is going to be more provocation if will ultimately lead to more violence from both sides awaiting the announcement has been greeted with great anger by muslim brotherhood supporters what we have seen is both sides both being pro more cv anti morsi and also the military itself being extremely hot headed and adamant that they're going to stick to their guns and make sure that this side of this whole uprising and this whole demonstration is made the there are many here in egypt that i speak to who are concerned that the longer this violence drags out the more likely it is that we could see this country on the brink of some kind of civil war there have been talks throughout the day today wednesday with various political factions by the interim

prime minister and he really is trying to get them on board but he's facing a lot of opposition he has put forward a five month roadmap plan and according to this that the constitution will be amended in the next fifteen days and then within four months they will be some kind of referendum here in which the public will be asked to ratify the constitution the plan man is that by early two thousand and fourteen they will be neutral. elementary elections followed by a presidential poll that both the muslim brotherhood and your various islamic groups as well as your liberal opposition have rejected this timetable the muslim brotherhood rejects the whole process it says it's all you legal and until they president morsi is reinstated they can be no political progress your thirty five noble opposition parties who belong to the national salvation front which is headed by mohamed el baradei the former head of the international atomic energy agency they also rejected it outright they said the timetable was inaccurate today they're

saying that they were not consulted on the whole process and that there are articles inside it that they do not agree with the fact that you have such a lack of agreement is only going to be to more destruction on the street. earlier i talked to. a senior advisor to the muslim brotherhood and he told me that what's happening in egypt right now has nothing to do with democracy. i think it's time again think it's protect the will of the people of the whole that we are going on this is a police state that filed a criminal for the. evidence and they're going to complete the job but. the issue of justice in the self basically takes on the damages and fabricate the cases needed to put the find it difficult to get a cold in the cruise. missile including the main cause of the rest are different for the time around the society we have nothing to try and together except the fact that they oppose him and it's because we've seen minutes on t.v. from two sides on the street arrests was roughly around the country with most wild

dissension within the sound over a hundred people killed. her little son negotiation table if you want to write someone to a negotiation table. you know you don't get that on the street anybody that leaders in prison because learning location is a low cost for a minute what we're saying is that the only one we want to get. democratically elected president and then everything else is negotiated on the table i think. even often but. that means not certain if you're going to. while political rivals an egyptian resort to force and touch and tough rhetoric the country's economic woes remain on addressed deadly clashes across the country have wiped out i majored source of income tourism as artie's beltre now claims. behind me is the egyptian museum one of the most popular tourist destinations in the whole of the country is the first port of call for many tourists coming off the plane here in downtown

cairo however it isn't empty this is a scene that's been seen across the country in all the most popular tourist destinations putting a week of political turmoil after the ouster of mohamed morsi egypt's tourists and history which makes up eleven percent of the country's economy has taken a massive beating since the tiny way to define revolution particularly as terrorists are becoming increasingly scarce in the last week we've seen massive nationwide demonstrations followed by clashes between rival groups and on sunday fifty people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters all for the post president's lead in money to pay the tourists won't come to egypt in the future not been travel warnings are big issues by embassies including the u.s. embassy who's actually sent most the non emergency stop time after any u.s. citizen was stopped last week in these bloody clashes made to international tour operators that are becoming can also come so that tourist to my oldest and september during the fiscal time i will continue to do through this this is a free like but still work this has most kids however local tour operators on

souvenir shops and we don't have international backing fail to plug the gaps before woman moans. we need to do stupid. but the mail lists don't play for so young then we seem to be doing that some place goes and you fees it as you choose you know most world if you see the steep people thank you very much such a. service people are fearing meant as those supporters of the previous leader mohamed morsy remain in their sit in and refuse to go home in various parts of the country never going to see further clashes but those like shockey working in the tourist industry and they feed this means tourists are going to continue to be scared from coming to egypt and actually the future of egypt's tourism is going. even one. by some help is at hand for egyptian ever all gulf state have chipped in to keep the economy afloat well saudi arabia is giving five billion dollars in

fuel weight and cash and three billion more is being provided by the united arab emirates and loans and bank deposits artist contributor of she says the timing of the help is significant the u.a.e. and saudi definitely did not like the muslim brotherhood and so the saudi station al-arabiya quite called it in dubai in the u.a.e. backs the rebels and you go. back to qatar which is backing the mostly government is against a military coup so you have both sides using media using financing using weapons sales to back them in egypt all the time the united states we must remember that president obama was backing mubarak dictator up until the end seemingly not quite knowing what he's going to do and perhaps the saudis are threatening him even john mccain the presidential candidate used the word coup for obama we get nothing

and in the mainstream media all we get is mom and el baradei another nobel prize winner like obama who is saying nothing about the house arrest without charge of a democratically elected president let alone the ending of a parliament and the destruction of a free media which continues at the moment in egypt. now the fall of age of president and the return of the revolution will be under discussion in today's edition of crossfire. you know it's easy to want to call it a revolution it's easy to want to call it a coup it does fit the textbook definition of a coup but at the same time secy isn't sitting here trying to walk to be the new dictator he's not trying to be the new mubarak hold on a minute let's do this first of all of the facts on that drug what city which who is general since you is that defense minister did when you first giving. out a huge mess which was absolutely impossible if they knew fully well that he was going

to spectacularly failed because he's been trying to get that money for you and you know maybe i need to defend don't get me wrong. now russia says the avett ends its uncovered implicating syrian rebel forces in the use of chemical weapons is solid and can be made public that relates to a nerve gas attack on the city of aleppo back in march speaking at a news conference in moscow just a few minutes ago russia's foreign minister said washington's earlier claim down of the syrian government was responsible or based on a flawed analysis argues and he said now it joins us with more details so i mean what exactly did sergei lavrov say on these new findings regarding the use of chemical weapons in syria. well what sergey lavrov really highlighted here in moscow today just after vitaly churkin made it clear that this evidence was being

passed on to ki-moon was that the investigation that took place that was conducted or at least put together by the u.s. was very different from the investigation that we now have the results from these russian investigators which were conducted basically at international standards where the u.s. investigation certainly according to rove was done under very very shady circumstances let's take a listen to the russian foreign minister. good as you are and we hearing we see that these samples were taken by a russian experts. and they kept the samples in their hands. until they were taken to the conclusions that the u.s. for ainge and other partners made concerning the use of chemical weapons but the regime did not have such evidence they did not a specific location or time and they were not the firm you

know you the same way they said that the use to meet these conclusions. do not confirm that this sample was taken specifically it's it's by their labs the simples one from hans from people to know there are some of the samples were received from jordan always says. this is definitely does meet the standards that the organization against the use of chemical weapons has. but they're going to throw went on to point out that this revelation of this investigation and the result of course has a back story and it goes back to damascus asking the u.n. really pushing the u.n. to conduct an investigation on site that never happened and according to sergei lavrov very frankly he says he believes it's because of pushing and demanding by western partners at the u.n.

security council and this is why russia went ahead with this investigation on site on the ground i do to damascus and their claims that this was in fact that attack that took place in march in the suburbs of aleppo that it was by the armed rebels that it wasn't by the regime and they were the result of course have been washington is aware of them but so far the only reaction we've had is that they think it's very unlikely that this evidence will prove that the rebels are behind this. well as we know earlier washington of course a. regime of using the chemical weapons to use it as a pretext to justify arming the syrian rebels but now this initiative has been held back by congress does that mean that american political establishment is sort of divided on this issue certainly it doesn't it seems to be very clearly divided i mean that legislation to ship arms to syria began after these allegations that the

assad regime was behind this chemical attack with no proof congress has not given that the green light there seems to be a lot of i disagree on both sides of the aisle you have the white house you have very clear representatives from the white house the vice president the secretary of state trying to lobby to get that green light to get those weapons to the opposition in syria you have people adamantly against that congress so far holding up and blocking back and then in congress you also have committees so-called war hawks one of them led five carl levin where he openly calls for the friends of syria group to start precipitation airstrikes on the assad regime so it is but the opinions seem to be very clear either for or against military action ronnie's thanks very much for this update and he's now in there and more news coming your way and cloying el look at where and where snowden to be having next that's after the break to stay with us.

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how would your mobile device if you could watch your t.v. any time anyway. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow u.s. intelligence leaker edward snowden is weighing up offers for political asylum from three eleven american nations with speculation mounting that he will be heading to venezuela support for the with the blower on the run is growing on the continent speaking exclusively to r.t. ecuador's foreign minister called on other countries to follow the example set by venezuela levy and the corrado and offer refuge to victims of us political persecution maureen of archive picks out the highlights of the interview. as the world waits to see which country edward snowden will pick as his new home r.t.

spoke exclusively with ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino about the n.s.a. whistleblower and the fallout following his revelations now ecuador was the first to initiate an emergency summit among south american states after a plane carrying bolivian president evo morales was grounded in vienna last week it was grounded according to reports on suspicion that snowden was on board in route from moscow foreign minister put seno says the unprecedented violation of international law should prompt more countries to offer their assistance to snowden . after the incident with a bomb around as we have no doubt to the news being pursued at an international level i mean the country has to offer him asylum in ecuador is also considering this option but it'll be better if it's not just three countries that come forward to offer him protection but ten twenty or one hundred states ecuador's foreign

minister told r.t. that he was thoroughly surprised at the scale of the u.s. surveillance system in particular that programs were created to indiscriminately spy on people in latin america and even friendly states in europe now pitino said he was also shocked that instead of being persistent in demanding immediate explanations from the u.s. about its pervasive spying some european countries allegedly work together to ground the plane of a world leader and put the life of bolivia's president in danger. it's just outrageous if it had been a european leader or the american president it would have triggered a war so if any latin american country had done this then troops and fighter jets would have been sent in to rescue the leader you can't just discriminate against countries so that some nations see their international rights observed while others are ignored. now the foreign minister of ecuador argues that the plane incident

indicates that europe he says now functions as america's back yard a position that latin america has rejected to serve. artie's marina part nine there and don't miss the full version of our exclusive interview with the ecuadorian foreign minister here in r.t. at six pm g.m.t. snowden survey on sleek are threatening to complicate a key u.s. china conference that kicks off on wednesday morning and washington the theme is strategic and economic dialogue but cyber security could become the made hot topic following revelations of massive scale u.s. hacking into chinese companies and university databases hong kong based political commentator francis lui says washington will have a hard time defending its actions two months ago the u.s. congress was waiting. for people who liberation army. had been taken to the. u.s.

government offices. you as cooperation is for trade secrets but at that moral high ground speed since last month since june when edward snowden disclosed that actually the u.s. government spy on everybody around the world so. we've. seen that you as through the of the defense if it is. economic summit and they were trying to explain to china what they did was really in those same day we need to get you a bull but of course that is. rubbish. and in today's breaking the sad host abby martin also speaks with a man credited with being the first annecy agent to blow the whistle on government misconduct and here's what's coming up at four pm g.m.t. . the very first person to claim the title of n.s.a.

whistleblower is a man you've probably heard the least about his name is russell tice and he served twenty years with the various government intelligence agencies including me and has a two thousand and five ties blew the whistle on the n.s.a. and gave an unlawful and unconstitutional surveillance of american citizens so here to tell us his story and why he thinks that snowden's leaks are just barely scratching the surface rust tice thank you so much for coming on thanks for what did you see that made you come on board the whistle initially well the first thing you are sol was i'm a satellite system specialist so with the things that i was doing with satellites i felt sort of inadvertently that american citizens were being spied upon by or its capabilities so that was my first sort of heads up in the what was going on and i was just shocked because that essay was not supposed to do this it was against regulation that was against the law it was against our constitution. where

you never seen anything like the. outrage over the force feeding of hunger strikers ad one tunnel bay prison has now gone beyond activists and human rights groups concerns are now being raised among the u.s. political elite two leading democratic senators have a cold for an immediate hold to the procedure which has been branded inhumane by the hand of the senate intelligence committee. well that's after a u.s. federal court condemn the practice as painful humiliating and degrading but ruled that only president obama can order it to stop prison authorities appear to have offered a partial concession joining the ramadan fast which started yesterday force feeding prisoners only at night but the hunger strikers complaints remain unaddressed and mando would waleed from the council on american islamic relations says indefinite

detention is the key issue that's led prisoners to take such drastic action is just ridiculous and then to say that they're having some sort of religious accommodations by. basically torturing the people at night is to makes the situation you know no better and this discussion about force feeding you know this is only a symptom of the bigger disease in which there are over eighty individuals in guantanamo bay who are being cleared of any wrongdoing and they're being held it indefinitely against their will and really what a person gets the stage we need to be worse but they've really given up hope that they can get any type of justice and this is really the bigger problem or the bigger issue at hand that we really need to be addressing. and now take a look at some other stories from around the world in turkey and anti-government protesters has died in hospital bringing the death toll from the ongoing unrest to five nineteen year old student spend seven weeks in a coma after being severely beaten during a rally against

a prime minister nationwide protests began back in may with a peaceful rally against the demolition of a park and a stamboul the brutal police crackdown that followed sparked a wave of public anger across the country. police have launched a criminal investigation into a deadly rail accident in canada of it killed at least fifteen people the train operator has pointed the finger at firefighters for failing to prevent a disaster after a small aboard fire was put out a short while before the accident occurred the freight train was carrying crude oil when it hurdled off the tracks in a small town in quebec on saturday exploding into a huge fireball that engulfed shops and buildings. one of mexico's most active volcanoes has erupted near the capital spewing a cloud of ash and vapor three kilometers high during several days of activity flights in and out of the capital have been canceled leaving hundreds of people

stranded authorities have raised the alert level but have stopped short of evacuating surrounding areas. moscow's gehry up for its first mayoral election in a decade with almost all candidate names now submitted the vote itself is scheduled for september the eight and there is no shortage of hopefuls with forty candidates applications put forward so far of those though just a few are expected to meet their registration requirements which include collecting over one hundred signatures from city lawmakers and however emerges to have actual winner will have a daunting task ahead of them running a one of europe's largest cities and bringing a severely overloaded transport system under control. he has a story. those who last visited more than two decades ago would hardly recognize it today.

from a grim open unfriendly city it has turned into a major european capital with glossy lights and vibrant lifestyles. however the facelift came at a cost traffic jams overground human jams on the ground and the never ending din of construction have reached a critical point six generations. believes the time has come for change it has all the got to solve real global city from top to. bottom pushing the business some somebody. who can see that it isn't a station much appreciation did not touch the being creative how to provide the will be to say see saw now or have what with that destruction task the collapse but but if people do this and that change may well be on the way to acting mayor said bannon handed in his resignation letter

a snap election was called and the reaction from mayor want to be said has been swift the fight that's underway for the mayoral seat is unprecedented not only due to the number of candidates which. cedes thirty but also because the last time russia's capital elected its boss was a decade ago this position long has been appointed one and this is part of a huge process i think this is a second major step in reforming the political system of the russian federation this position is very important and it's crucial to the future and the current state of the country not just moscow itself in this battle for more school candidates of radically contrasting profiles and backgrounds are coming up with very different ideas from charging car owners for driving into the city center to replacing labor migrants from central asia with robots the acting mayor said who is this time running without the ruling party support wants to build on his current achievements and is offering to implement more high tech features into everyday

life opposition activist and blogger alexina miley currently on trial for allegedly prioritizes the fight against corruption and introducing younger faces into local authorities this eccentric candidates. better known the spyder a former heavy metal front man has promised to hand a new sun over the russian capital and build a new imperial moscow each political party has its own contender forward but regardless of who wins everyone agrees that this job will be no walk in the park. moscow is often called a country within a country so whoever takes that rain here may have to be more than just a talented manager so after years of practically nonexistent elections the russian capital braces itself for an unprecedented heated political battle and that campaign is gaining intensity with every day. lexy recessed the artsy reporting from moscow. at baxter how global finance a stake in it have

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