edward snowden has called a conference at the moscow airport he's been holed up in sources saying he'll find . also surveillance really does pay so says a new report finding that american corporations are raking in millions. to government agencies. to take to the streets all across egypt as the country remains political turmoil. playing straight into the hands of the army. calls in six hundred extra police to keep order at the upcoming. as unionists protest the decision to shorten the route.

well thanks for joining us here on r.t. today i'm live in moscow where it's now. after two weeks in hiding edward snowden is finally set to speak out he's calling together a meeting with prominent russian and international human rights activists and lawyers there was hiding is said to be. right here in moscow where the conference is set to take place there were reports now on snowden's intentions. i personally can say that i've been waiting for this moment for almost two weeks now that's how long no one has been in the transfer zone off the airport remaining mom on the whole situation while the world was going completely insane over it and now we're getting information from the airport representatives who are saying that the former

cia agent will be talking to the representatives of human rights groups as well as some prominent russian lawyers about the complaint that has been unleashed unleashed against him by the united states which really at the way they put it is putting it in danger lives of passengers on the on airlines who are going to a number of countries in latin america he's also expected to make a statement the details of which are yet unknown still very intriguing we're waiting for the meeting which is going to happen around five o'clock in the evening moscow time we have to make a note of the fact that one of the groups to which snowden has extended extended his invitation human rights watch which is based in the united states there presented to all of this group has already declined to attend not to make any judgments here but just keeping in mind exactly what kind of been seeing least against snowden ever since his interview to the to the guardian newspaper where he essentially. talked about the cia and they say watching not just the

everybody pretty much everybody in america but also citizens and a lot of other countries in the world he's essentially one of the if not the most wanted man by the united states and certainly on top of the list so of course we'll be keeping a close eye on this and we'll bring you as much as we can when we get the details. patriotism may be driving the ted johnson through them for washington's surveillance program from microsoft to google and some companies are raking in cash by selling off your data to the government of course the taxpayers who are stumping up the cash. has more on the so-called surveillance price list. if you are a u.s. taxpayer whether or not you agree with the government's wholesale electronic snooping you are paying for it and you will probably never know how much exactly because for the covert world of its unaccountable spying activities the government

has a black budget but some numbers or available they refer to law enforcement requests so according to last year's disclosures america's telecommunications giants bill the government just as they build their clients we have some specifics each wire tap for example charges an activation fee of three hundred twenty five dollars plus ten dollars a day to maintain it rise then another telecommunications giant takes seven hundred seventy five dollars for for the first month and five hundred dollars each month after these numbers may not shock you into you learned that the average wiretap cost u.s. taxpayers fifty thousand dollars given the scope of surveillance that could amount to a lot of money but again these figures are based on disclosed dida as we learned from a number of whistleblowers and not just edward snowden the u.s. national security agency operates under wraps under secret orders nobody knows how

much exactly they spent to tap fiber optic cables or to collect data on americans and the rest of the world but we do know that the n.s.a. storage facility alone cost some one point seven billion dollars that the center in utah is capable of storing every e-mail voice mail and social media communication it can get its hands on the government is certainly very reluctant to discuss its snooping activities with the public they just repeat the mantra it's done to keep america safe but as americans learn more about the price they pay for the presumed safety they are becoming increasingly wary in the latest polls we see a significant shift in public opinion you see three years ago twenty five percent of americans thought that the government went too far in restricting civil liberties. three years later we see forty five percent of americans think so we see that with knowledge comes opposition how can you oppose something that you know nothing about right so perhaps not surprisingly the government is doing everything

it can so that the public knows as little as possible about these programs in washington i'm going to check out. now n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden's latest leak particularly targets microsoft going far beyond the call of duty at the firm allegedly installed back door access to its services exclusively for government surveillance and if that is the case microsoft's denial of giving out ball data would still be true because the government wouldn't need to ask for it right mcgovern overtired cia officer he says the setup exemplifies the problem. what's happened here is the u.s. companies have become joining in a way with the united states government in such a way that you have the cooperation of the government or just the media and the congress and judiciary all pretty much joining in on a blizzard attempt to circumvent the constitution of the united states there is

zero concern on the part of the communications companies to violate the law they know that they'll be protected even that if it's as post facto so skype of course is where we're communicating my greetings to the n.s.a. people who are watching us by simulcast i just learned from this latest revelation that not only can they intercept our voice but they share images so hello to all the n.s.a. monitors out there. well if you want to find out exactly how far microsoft went to provide the government to its skype programs and the full article right now the dot com.

world wide news live from moscow where he and fears of imminent clashes are running high in egypt as friday's expected to see mass rival rallies all across the state and the muslim brotherhood and its supporters to protest until the islamist president mohamed morsi is re install this while the anti morsi will be out celebrating the coup which unseated the elected leader but it's also true reports are getting stronger over the military's ability to transition properly. this is the moment that egypt found out that the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi had been ousted. square erupted in the chant of the army and the people of one hand chief of the armed forces defense minister sisi became the hero of the moment however after clashes between morsy supporters and the army left over fifty people

dead just days after a new interim president had been sworn in some began to fear the army would wrestle power from civilians with a heavy hand why is the army in disguise making a hard stand interfering in politics but they're not really helping civilians on the ground and then you see something like the massacre by the presidential guard club and what happened even if it was a muslim brotherhood was started this at the end of the day there is a human rights violation which is massive and severe because if you are going to shoot people who are trying to get into a building of that importance you don't actually shoot to kill egyptian n.g.o.s maintain the military had a terrible human rights record during their last period of rule after the ouster of hosni mubarak they were involved in killing protesters that was the accountability for any of the military crimes they torture protesters they arrested they also try to restrict freedom of expression and most of all they really monopolize this isn't making power i mean they wrote the road map at the time the military for their part

promised in a number of televised press conferences that they were not interested in politics or ruling and instead are assisting the country's movement towards civilian democracy. armed forces have issued more than one statement saying we want a real democracy in the country. the new president doesn't have enough experience with the political situation in egypt so the military is merely supporting him in the way the muslim brotherhood attacked the military which was defending itself its offices and the institution. as the chance of the place where. heinie indicates people turn to the army in moments of on rush the military is the real power base here in egypt every one of the country's presidents has hailed from the armed forces except for mahmoud morsi was ousted after just one year in office but apart from minute tree money and political clout they also have significant economic interests owning several business monopolies and factories as one of the only

functioning state institutions at the moment and with nicole civilian alternative to morsi am says missing by the head many people fear that the army whether it wants to or not once again run the country. through r.t. . in the meantime the u.s. lawmakers will vote on legislation next week to allow aid to egypt during case america fishley acknowledges the ousting of president morsy was a coup or currently such a position would require the u.s. to curb any assistance so far washington's been avoiding such wording calling for swift democratic changes instead of here at r.t. we did speak to middle east come and had a call shero he believes democracy can only be achieved through simple means. let's remember what derrida interest of the military if it is it's not that continuation of a democratic rule your sense that many interested being in and effectively carrying out this school is just stop this threat of

a genuine popular uprising and that end of the day the muslim brotherhood was elected with people who not only would they where not only if they won the presidential elections with the help of course i'm their political affiliations but they also want to parliamentary election people tend to forget that there is not a which were cast down the parliament was also know that and despite that egypt should have given the chance to transition towards a more democratic future and carry out the process and for the muslim brotherhood to be kind of kicked out of office by resorting to the democratic process not military means. and later today here on ars he is going to be in his guests looking ultimately where is egypt going post-coup and whether the rule of law has been diminished within the arab world it's still to come a bit later here on the program. when i go to see two to one up our lives in all of you and seek to implement the population with much diplomacy with how

much you give and take as what's happening as we've seen with president former president morsi this would be. more than expected consequences of that mode to see . where you want to go what that will give you. why not wait until the next election to voted out of office if that's the case. thank you for joining us here on r.t. belfast police have been reinforced now by more than six hundred officers from other u.k. branches as the city anticipates the annual unionist parade at the marches route has been shortened this year with a ban on an evening walk through sectarian flashpoint now unionist leaders have expressed outrage that decision but have promised to keep any protests peaceful. reports from belfast. this parade takes place annually and considered one of the

most controversial of the unionist orange orders marching season out this year there's been some contention over the routes now normally the parade would pass the are doing shops that's considered a flash point aaron is actually about two hundred meters up the road from where i'm standing now now in the morning the small d. the parade is going to be able to march past that area enjoying the main parade but the parades commission has ruled that after the parade spanish they won't be allowed to return past that flashpoint area now that the area were in the past we seeing tensions flare up in some violence breaking out between the unionists and the nationalist community to live this year the marches are going to be stopped on their way back in a small feat a parade right here now that has caused some anger amongst the unionist community we've heard the orange order saying that there would be some protests in the coming

days although they did say that their intention was for those to be peaceful of course that has caused some concern that perhaps that statement from the orange order an indication that we could see some destruction later on today and we'll be bringing you updates throughout the day as that great gets under way shortly. i know many more stories to cover here on ars who today for example scrambling to get its economy back on the straight and narrow the french government tries to fit its budget black hole with the hard earned money of its entrepreneur i do stay with us here on our t.v. to find out how it's something the country's economic lifeblood. and russia remembers a key turning point in world war two commemorating and reenacting the decisive battle that broke the nazi assault on the soviet union that's coming your way shortly here on just a break. with

. science technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've got the future covered. this journey is not about seeing the world. it's a mission that i could to myself the project will succeed if i stay in the same place all the time. i've been travelling around the world for twenty days so far in all the time i haven't spent any money at all the main idea of the project because of the artist paints people's portraits in return for some kids. that yes we have to get used to each other i think is a little disappointed about the bus a thing because we're still spending a lot of money i mean i spend it shouldn't worry about that right now i don't think

so goes a great artist but i don't think it's a trauma you know if you don't like the painting you just don't give anything. more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. i will get to be shortly here on the program for now though we come to you live from moscow on. economic scrambling to raise money to bring down its deficit

and the french government has again turned to taxes to get its economy back on track already after a host of tax increases this year alone the finance minister has now refused to rule out yet more tax hikes and twenty fourteen. reports the heavy burden is pushing independent businesses to the brink of bankruptcy. it's that's half the time of slashed prices in the stores of paris but behind some of the red cross tags there are said stories for pascal whose flour and gift shop has been in business for twenty five years it's a closing down sale for many months the taxes he pays have been eaten up all his profit his simply doesn't make money any more. they don't understand the way small business men are the engines and guarantor of the country's development and they are stifling us i can't afford starr and i do all the work myself for twelve hours

a day but that isn't enough. to businessmen from china and the arab world have already responded to his almost two hundred thousand to your offer to sell up prescott is not surprised at the lack of domestic interest french pockets he says are empty. it's a dramatic situation the same as in greece spain italy unemployment story. just around the corner mario a pizza restaurant owner puts on his apron heads to the kitchen his still hopes he can save his business and avoid sewing up. your george too much i pay around sixty five percent of what i earn but i also have to pay my staff and i need to buy produce this means i affectively or nothing. slashing public spending and hiking taxes while introducing new taxes as well was part of the social discussions

and to crisis strategy on the way when it came to power loss here and it seems of treatment has had the opposite of the desired effect where we are suffering more and more taxes more and more relation and more and more uncertainty for building all the there will be a trigger for type one to you and next year maybe the next month or so it's very difficult for them to to plant your activity to to plan what you have to do what you have to divest so that we no investment. no problem and if we have another president we are not sure you know consumers to purchase more more than he said no growth. but another tax lawyer the most so tough to specialists these days so as that business meant a constantly in defensive mode and that this stops them from developing an advance in the economy and then to your memo to some thirty years ago there are many small

businesses from paris and they punch and wells but no dubious appeared that means normal production and people that used to work there are most likely unemployed you know it's a dramatic situation. some say things could become even more dramatic very soon september's the month when the french return from their vacations and realize that they've spent all that money and it's also time for them to feeling that tax to corrections public anxiety is growing on a such a burden and many here believe that if things keep going bass way anger could soon manifest itself on the streets or even not seen from paris. loads of stories of the website right now for this hour for example.

the video. journey in a few minutes it was a. world war two one of the. battles in history fifteen.

commemorations underway at the scene of this epic. throughout the day. seventy years ago this area and hundreds of kilometers around it would have been full of sites like this it was summer one nine hundred forty three the site of hitler's last great offensive on the eastern front. millions of men and thousands of tanks and guns turned this whole area into a giant military camp as these reactors were trying to show attacking from the north and south the germans wanted to trap soviet forces and destroy them they breached to the red army's three main defensive belts but met with ferocious resistance after a week of fighting many of the german forces were near exhaustion it was at that point that perhaps the battles most iconic moment came here on the fields around

the village of profit off a german tank formation and a soviet one ran headlong into each other the ensuing battle raged for hours amid the chaos tanks rammed each other firing at point blank range and men screamed as they burned alive inside their vehicles thousands died on that day but it was perhaps the last attempt of the germans to assault the soviet positions even today bullets shells and metal debris from the battle of being found in the surrounding fields and woods the numbers of those directly involved in the battle is dwindling but only they like ninety year old abrams he lives ski can remember the true horror of it all. there were moments when times were simply ramming each other one and top of another everything was burning nothing like this is ever happened in history of mankind. shortly after that the germans called off their attack and began to lose territory the red army had finally beaten the germans at their own game in

a large summer offensive there would be no more great german attacks on the eastern front. well i dwelled at a time here on the program let's get straight to it serious number one al-qaeda linked militants of killed a senior free syrian army commander this according to the opposition group it's reported he was meeting members of radical islamist movements to discuss battle plans including setting up with just six to deliver imported weapons to the rebels one of the radicals leaders phoned opposition representatives to claim responsibility for the murder he also threatened to kill all the other western backed free syrian army commanders. to brazil where clashes have broken out between protesters and police in a number of regions following a one day nationwide general strike at the action was called to capitalize on a wave of mass demonstrations last month of a puppet the levels and working conditions at the speed of which the protests spread forced the government to quickly announce a referendum on various political reforms. and rioting also erupted in the chilean

capital santiago when a similar day of protests called by the country's biggest union almost seventy people arrested six injured during the demonstration for labor reforms working conditions now shaping up to be one of the major issues in elections to be staged in four months. and to indonesia at least five prisoners have been killed in a mass jailbreak in which two hundred of them escaped analogy huge police manhunt underway officials say the riot may have been triggered by poor conditions with power blackouts and water shortages were started and fifteen prison guards taken hostage during the violence that some of the prisoners may have been suspected terrorists. and dozens of activists have interrupted of session in the portuguese parliament angry at the government handling of the financial crisis tossing yellow a red confetti at m.p.'s usually done during sporting events that was done before

then being escorted out by the police of the ruling government has come close to collapsing off the ten days of political deadlock over its heavy debt. all of the documentary cashless journey is coming your way just a moment. many in latin america are furious with the forced grounding of bolivia's president evo morales is playing in austria and even twelve nations in latin america are coming together to discuss the consequences of the event the plane was forced to the ground while flying over the e.u. because it was believed that that sneaky snowden was hiding on board trying to get to asylum in bolivia and beyond some might say that this is no big deal so president of some contra since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man but you've got to get that still guy at all costs

right well one is delayed flight is another man's imperial skyjacking you see the countries of latin america have a common history as being on the bad end of brutal western european imperialism and when the president of a former colony could just be abducted at the will of the you would have his plane search it sure makes you feel like you're still under the lash of foreign control doesn't it do any of you think for a moment that any e.u. officials who are so willing to groan morales would dare do the same thing air force one i don't think so morose clearly was treated like some sort of second class president and despite this insult they didn't even catch oden this is what i call a double fail but that's just my opinion. language . we can't with any financial system still some. choose to. choose to get to.

choose the stories but if you. choose access to. well for everything was fine until the moment i came to sim for opal. just for local journalists wrote that a tramp artist had painted the minister of culture. which the media reacted immediately. saying bad ukrainian papers had dared to call a famous painter from boeing is a tramp.