egyptian prosecutors issue 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. the syrian chemical weapons controversy takes a new twist as russia's foreign minister says that compelling evidence implicating the rebel forces should be made public but also questioning u.s. efforts to put the blame on the syrian regime. with edward snowden widely expected to receive political asylum in venezuela solidarity for the fugitive whistle blows growing across latin america speaks to ecuador's foreign minister about what's behind this support.

your live from moscow eleven pm this is r.t. international me kevin now in the top stories in the egyptian prosecutor's office has ordered now the arrest of the muslim brotherhood's leader mohamed buddies accused of provoking deadly clashes at a rally on monday in support of the ousted president mohamed morsi. well egypt's prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for mohammed but 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 also hearing that at least nine other of 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 rubble a mosque now this is where hundreds of thousands of promo 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 mohammed badie the concern however is that this is going to be a 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 the promo cd and he 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 pad 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 then is that by early two thousand and fourteen they will be new. parliamentary 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 and liberal 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 they were articles and find 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. north africa middle east correspondent. deb a senior advisor to the muslim brotherhood he told me the interim leader who has been backed by some of the wealthiest countries in the region has no authority to leave the country. well any everything in the there's something wrong is that we have a government does a lot of things wrong but that's not an excuse for a military coup and i can't see how many people are making that excuse that it's ok to have a military coup similar to what the idiocy that we've heard from some of the world leaders and other western leaders that all military coups are a new form of bringing about democracy that is this is a new level of intellectual look this is not acceptable now this is the twenty first century political scenes are governed by politicians by democratic means if you want to bring down a government you go to the ballot box and you don't go brushing up to the military because you failed as a political leader or you failed as a political party at the end of the day it's easy to collect all the people that are angry at one thing it's very difficult when you ask them to make a choice with responsibility because then they have to man up to the policies that

are they asking for there are certain countries in our region that don't enjoy democracies and would rather not see a democracy succeed otherwise perhaps more people in the region want democracy and that's exactly why we're seeing here in egypt now in a military coup happened suddenly everyone wants to help egypt and suddenly the money's putting in on the military government i think that says a lot about the world today in washington the world leaders are taking the world into although we've had a lot of saudi speeches and apologetics from the u.s. side that we've supported a dictator like mubarak for thirty years and we're not going to do it again it didn't take them much to revert on their word and they still back to the same old record the same old broken record always it's the not a military coup there are certain elements of it it's not a military coup you've got to hunt down the street on t.v. running a government swearing in a nose to the ministry of defense political prisoners in jail close down of the major parties in the media channels that are anti the coup and killing a protest in the street while more do you need is the classical ingredients of any military coup. or wall of political rivals in egypt result to force tough rhetoric the country economic woes remain on dress and address to deadly clashes across the

country of wiped out a major source of income tourism as artie's bell true explains. behind me is the egyptian museum one of the most popular tourist destinations in the whole of the country it's 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 this 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 january defined evolution particularly as terrorists are becoming increasingly scarce in the last week we've seen massive nationwide demonstrations funded by clashes between rival groups and on sunday fifty people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters all the deposed president early even many to face the terrorists won't come to egypt in the future that bin travel warnings are being issued by embassies including the u.s. embassy actually sent most then on 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 soledad better as to my oldest and september during the fiscal time i will continue to do this this is a free to like but still work this has most kids however local tour operators on souvenir shops and we don't have international backing to fail to plug the gaps the poor woman's. we need to do is to pull the plug the mail list don't play for so young we seem to be doing that some ploy plaistow isn't your fees it is usually no more will be to you steve thank you very much sorry. sir people are fearing meant i was very supportive of the previous leader mohamed morsy remain in my city and refused to go home in various parts of the country never going to see further clashes but those like shoki working in the tourist industry they feed this means tourists are going to continue to be scared

from coming to egypt and i watching the future of egypt's tourism is going to be even worse. well true they will it's not just tourism at stake the political crisis is having a devastating impact on the whole economy my colleague maria joshie talked about this with his business correspondent katie. well right now egypt is stuck in a bit of a vicious cycle because of that which accounts for over a tenth of the g.d.p. of the growth of the economy it's already lost two point five billion dollars as a result so tourism is had a big dent well that sounds like a lot of money and surely a big blow to their industry so work in egypt turned down well so far at the moment there's an i.m.f. loan lays in the balance of four point eight billion dollars one that this was negotiated with with morsi at the time during his rule and at the time the i.m.f. they insisted on high taxes and fuel subsidies to be phased out but that was never

really concluded and while that was being negotiated council was subsidizing the economy but they were connected to deal with the the muslim brotherhood and now that that has disbanded the money from council is also bang in the balance as well as all these question marks as to whether going to be getting their money externally from surely you sounds like a tough situation there and it also sounds like both sources are in danger of drawing up then but what about the united states is it a situation where does it go well this one point five billion dollars in aid actually being held up by event and that's because the u.s. law forbids loans to countries where the military is involved in an unconstitutional change of government so again money from the u.s. is real question mark as well as the many question marks and also foreign investment to we know that investors they hate instability and you've got that in abundance right now in egypt it doesn't help that egypt has been downgraded

consistently by credit rating agencies so at the moment instability uncertainty isn't helping the economy also well the country does sound like it is in dire straits but although egyptian economy is revolving largely around chores and it still remains a large oil exporter it does is a large oil exported. also makes money and lots of other commodities as well so the result is a mess all cotton textiles chemicals as well and right now they are getting money from other external sources too we've got gulf states providing the u.a.e. saudi arabia kuwait all offering up money some money from eight to twelve million dollars which egypt is certainly not in a situation to turn down right now. russia says the evidence is uncovered implicating syrian rebel forces in the use of

chemical weapons is solid and can be made public relates to a deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the city of aleppo back in march speaking of the news conference here in moscow russia's foreign minister said washington's earlier claim that the syrian government was responsible was based on a flawed analysis. but sergei lavrov really highlighted here in moscow today just after vitaly churkin made it clear that this evidence was being passed on to ban ki moon was that the investigation that took place that was conducted or at least put together by the us was very different from the investigation with that we now have the results of from these russian investigators which were conducted basically at international standards where the u.s. investigation certainly according to our program was done under very very shady circumstances to you which was during your statements from france's u.s. sizing evidence that the assad regime used chemical weapons do not indicate time or

place will specify whether the samples were taken by the same people who carried out the tests they were passed from hand to hand and some were obtained from journalists this does not meet the standards of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and our investigation comply fully with these standards and unlike called upon is we are not concealing our findings they have been submitted to the u.n. secretary and the security council members if the secretary's degrees the evidence can be made public it is conclusive and i think it will eliminate a lot of questions. that they're going to have rove went on to point out that this revelation of this investigation and the results 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 in according to sergei lavrov very frankly he says he believes it's because of pushing and demanding by western partners abt 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 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 and that legislation to ship arms to to syria began after these allegations that the assad regime was behind this chemical attack. has not given that the green light there seems to be a lot of disagreeing 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 that and then in congress you also have committees so-called war

hawks one of them led by 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 i spoke to a british labor party m.p. jeremy cole but he thinks the issue of chemical weapons should not be allowed to block the start of the peace talks. let's get it on the table first of all that any use of chemical or biological weapons by anybody be it the opposition or the regime in syria is simply wrong it's illegal within the nine hundred twenty five geneva convention and with any decent sense of humanity and i cannot speak for the british or or u.s. governments but they made these allegations about the use of chemical weapons and there are apparently stocks of chemical weapons being held in syria which may well have fallen into opposition hands or may well be still in government hands or maybe

both but the assertion was made that they had been used but no hard evidence came up and indeed it was a great deal of skepticism surrounding the evidence that was never really presented and then the russian of the. appears much stronger and they said very clearly they were going to put that evidence in the hands of the united nations that is going to be a good thing however proving or not proving this doesn't end the congress is there has to be either rapid resumption of talks by geneva two all parties must be involved in geneva two including iran if we're to bring about a settlement there's got to be involvement of iran as well as obviously all the different parties in syria. will be looking at the global impact of the snowden case and also a new way of protecting your private data is coming up and out. with

the military getting control of troops who what is the future hold for egypt is this country's experiment with democracy a thing of the past what signal does this to send to islamic parties in the region it will want to contribute taishan among egyptians ever be redeemed. do we speak your language or not at the end. music programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news it will turn it into angles stories. for you here. the spanish find out more visit i to our.

hello again u.s. intelligence leaker edward snowden is weighing up offers for political asylum from three latin american nations now with speculation mounting that will be heading to venezuela support for the whistleblower on the run is growing on the continent generally speaking exclusively to us it out see ecuador's foreign minister called on other countries to follow the example set by venezuela bolivia and nicaragua and to offer refuge to victims of u.s. political persecution but important picks up the highlights of that 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 woman around us we have no doubt that snowden is being pursued at an international level and the country has to offer him asylum 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 but senior

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 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. 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 his one important. we value not to miss the full version of the exclusive interview with the

ecuadorian foreign minister it's here on r.t. next hour infighting in court already today well the muss of ailing system available edward snowden understandably prompted people to look for ways of protecting the private data co-founder of the fall sharing service pirate bay is one of those he's developing a private messaging application that would prevent governments from monitoring who can communicate with a new mobile phone eventually wants to catch up with a pita somebody explain to us how it all works. i think that the biggest trigger was that the snowden leak actually showed the extent of the surveillance and how far it went and that it wasn't just the traffic at borders but it was also every single. big player on the market like facebook and google and apple and all of these that actually cooperated with the u.s. government about getting the data back to the government through an analysis and we think that it's gone way too far so it's just like it was just like the last drop that we needed in order to start doing something the big goal with the new system

in to make sure that everyone has a possibility to use it for free the big difference between our application and other applications is that we are making a system that has the whole infrastructure in place to make people secure so we know how to encrypt the traffic and we also know we're which countries we can have a service in which countries we can allow traffic so we're building. like a network on top of the normal internet in order to pass messages along encrypted. and a break in the set to instantly host abby martin speaks with a man credited with being the first and ice agent to blow the whistle on government misconduct you can see that show online from a streaming whenever you like call it a quick taster was. the very first person to claim in the title of n.s.a. whistleblowers a man you've probably heard the least about his name is russell tice and he served twenty years with the various government agencies including the n.s.a. a two thousand and five ties blew the whistle on the n.s.a. engaging in 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 and nationally well the first thing our soul was. a satellite system specialist so with the things that i was doing with satellites. 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 n.s.a. was not supposed to do this it was against regulation that was against the law it was against our constitution. of the world to do if you've ever seen anything like that. around the world tonight in turkey first of all anti-government protesters died in hospital

it's brought the death toll there from the ongoing unrest farai nineteen year old student spent seven weeks in the khobar of being severely beaten during a rally in surprise minister the nationwide protests started back in may with a peaceful rally against the demolition of a park in istanbul the brutal police crackdown that follows about a wave of public anger across the country. one of mexico's most active volcano has erupted near the capital spearing a cloud of ash or vapor three cologne. his hijacking several days of activity flights in and out of the capital not surprisingly have been canceled that's left hundreds of people stranded though authorities have raised the alert level but have stopped short of evacuating surrounding areas as of yet. place of launched a criminal investigation into that deadly rail extant in canada that killed at least fifteen the train operators now pointing the finger at firefighters for failing to prevent a disaster after a small on board fire was put out just a short while before that accident happened and those of carriages runaway freight train was carrying crude all when it hurtled off the tracks into

a small town in quebec on saturday exploding into this huge fireball that leveled everything in its path engulfed shops and buildings real mess there. moscow's gearing up for its first mayoral election in a decade with candidates rushing to meet the deadline to father applications voted selfish edge of september the eighth there's no shortage of hopefuls with forty candidates declaring their intention to run but all of those just a few are expected to meet the registration requirements which include collecting over one hundred signatures from city lawmakers and whoever emerges the eventual winner is going to have a daunting task ahead of them running one of europe's largest cities and bringing a severely overloaded transport system under control at his election ski report. those who last visited more school more than two decades ago would hardly recognize it today.

from a groom off an 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 generation most coverage maxime bureau of believes the time has come for change because all the characters. real global sea to from top to. bottom pushing the business some somebody else. would concede so it would give us many station much appreciation did not think. how to provide the will be to say see a show now or have what would have a structure past but collapsed but many 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 beast has been swift

the fight that's underway for the mayoral seat is unprecedented not only due to the number of candidates which exceeds 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 blood ical 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 the 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

alleged the mezzo meant prioritizes the fight against corruption and introducing younger faces into local authorities this eccentric candidates ski or as he's better known the spider 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 put 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 the 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 complaint is gaining intensity with every day. let's see reporting from moscow coming up right on topic as always people of our lives guess look at where the chaos in egypt could be leading next cross-talk after the break.

for the. money it's technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how 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 thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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