edward snowden says he wants to stay in russia. with the. u.s. . providing a platform to the. lawyers for the guantanamo detainees say there's no indication the. u.s. officials most of the protesting prison is a meal for the first time since february. as clashes broke out at the annual. despite a very heavy police presence. in the war with. the.

morning with us here on. live from the russian capital with. lawyers support for edward snowden's application for refuge in russia following his meeting with russian and international human rights activists. of course that's where he's been holed up for the past three weeks or so details now. after three weeks in hiding edward snowden has finally been seen in public he called yesterday's meeting with human rights activists and lawyers not just from the international scene from international groups but also prominent russian figures as well now in this meeting

he laid out his current plight now it seems that he needs assistance in trying to reach his end goal which it seems still appears to be asylum in latin america hey expressed his gratitude to the countries that have suggested they would take him in these include the likes of venezuela bolivia and nicaragua but it's becoming apparent that it's increasingly difficult for him to get to these countries not only because of a lack of paperwork but also because of america's aggressive pursuit of him which led to the grounding of people living in president's plane over european air space of course last week and edward snowden says that such the such an aggressive pursuit is not just in danger in his life but also the lives and liberties of other people as well which is why he's got these human rights groups and lawyers involved in it also because of the difficulty in traveling is why he's got russia involved as well applying for political asylum and whether his application is successful or not only time will tell but the indication is that it will be granted russian

lawmakers. in the meeting yesterday i mean dictated that snowden's application would be looked upon favorably snowden though says that conditions are acceptable he can get it and i think he really. satisfies the requirements for a political refugee human rights activists of lawyers who are there. who are at the end of the war agreeing to it he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than legal grounds that russia has played this very much by the book from the start initially of course when he was in the transit zone the argument was simple from russia's point of view he doesn't come under our jurisdiction he hasn't crossed the border he's not in russian territory we don't have a decision to make. the president starts and russia's stance has always been that it was snowden will not be extradited to the united states of course america a country that still has the death penalty that remains the case now he's applied for asylum in russia and says he will meet the criteria laid out is the decision for the russian authorities to make but i think it's becoming increasingly apparent

as well that president vladimir putin doesn't really want this to become a major issue between the united states and russia tensions between the two countries great at the moment and i think this is an issue that both countries could do without now both presidents barack obama and vladimir putin did have a phone conversation late on friday the exact details of what was discussed is unknown but i think it's fair to say that russia will be keen to maybe try and score some simple points over the united states but this doesn't become too much of a thorny issue between the two. meanwhile the whistleblowers meeting with human rights activists has caused yet another outburst of criticism from washington which demands snowden be handed over a guy in a chicken has the story. the white house has basically accused russia of providing quote a propaganda platform for edward snowden this is washington's reaction to edward snowden's meeting with russian human rights activists at the moscow airport take a listen i would simply say that providing

a propaganda platform for mr snowden runs counter to the russian government's previous declarations of russia's neutrality and that they have and that they have no control over his presence in the airport it's also incompatible with russian assurances that they do not want. mr snowden to further damage u.s. interests we know that president obama and president putin discussed edward snowden over the phone we don't know how that conversation went but the obama administration's latest statements can give us an idea the state department has earlier reiterated washington's disappointment over snowden's meeting with human rights activists suggesting that somehow russian authorities could have been should have barred edward snowden from speaking take a listen we are disappointed that russian officials and agencies facilitated this meeting today by allowing these activists and representatives into the moscow airports transit zone to meet with mr snowden despite the government's declarations

of russian's neutrality with respect to mr snowden sorry you're disappointed that they let someone into their own airport i don't know that well that they facilitated this event of course why because this gave a forum going to be should have before there's a for you forfeited his right to freedom of speech as well met miss mr snowden as we've talked about let me just say this because i think it's important he's not a whistleblower he's not human rights activists he's wanted on a series of serious criminal charges brought in these certain eastern district of virginia in the united states i'm sorry but i didn't realize people wanted on charges forfeited their right to free speech it's very interesting how washington now uses the word pop again. referring to edward snowden's speech basically suggesting that somehow russia should deny him free speech the journalist who challenge the state department spokesperson sort of showed how ridiculous that sounds coming from the u.s. it almost sounds like would you please silence that guy we don't like what he's

saying one could just imagine what the u.s. reaction would be to a similar call from russia if it were let's say some russian whistleblower who stood up for civil liberties in russia and was asking for asylum in the u.s. not hard to guess what the reaction would be regardless of what russians think about snowden according to the most recent polls fifty five percent of americans do snowden as a whistleblower and only thirty four percent consider him a traitor so the majority of americans do not think what edward snowden is saying is propaganda. he's going to educate and washington stephen cohen professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university he believes edward snowden's case has landed moscow and washington in quite a predicament this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader neither obama nor prudent can be happy about sitting in the moscow airport

didn't invite him to show but he. very much obama needs to show he's tough on the snowden. i can't believe that the united states actually wants to put on trial because it was a fair trial a legal trial all she would have the right to subpoena american officials who have knowledge of all this intelligence he's exposed that would not be so i think there is a vested interest. to find a way to solve this problem so that neither is damaged politically so we'll never see what kind of leaders they are. when it comes to reactions here on r.t. south american nations belonging to a regional trade bloc of recalled their ambassadors for talks from european countries involved in the grounding of the bolivian president's plane that's according to the euro gwion foreign minister members of the bloc include among others both brazil and argentina meanwhile american embassies across the region

have issued a warning against letting snowden into latin america where washington's unrelenting pressure on the governments is a blatant disregard of international law that's according to human rights activist peter tatchell what the united states government is doing is seeking to obstruct edward snowden's bid to seek asylum not to get asylum but to seek asylum if his bullied and managed to threaten other countries around the world to not grant him asylum and to not give airspace so that a flight can take him to another country that is a direct attack upon the united nations refugee convention and it is shocking and appalling there's supposedly democratic government the united states with the collusion of european governments including the government here in britain has been conspiring together to not allow mr snowden to make

a valid asylum application there is no way that he is a spy he has not contacted any foreign spy agencies he's not divulge any information to foreign governments here simply expose the fact that the united states national security agency and britain's spy agency g c h q have been snooping in spying upon millions of innocent private citizens that is not spying charge he is a whistleblower and he deserves asylum. of course here at r.t. we've been following the developments in edward snowden's case since the very start you can find all the latest on the leaks and the asylum controversy right now at r.t. tako. now u.s. officials claim that most of the hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay prison have now eaten a meal that's for the first time since the protests began more than five months ago but lawyers for the captives say that doesn't mean the strike is going to end forty

five prisoners are still being force fed in what a u.s. federal judge islam as a quote painful humiliating and degrading process. the story. ninety nine of the one hundred and two men on strike have eaten a meal within the past twenty four hours according to the deputy director of public affairs at good mo samuel house he says that most of the prisoners took part in a meal of lamb to break the first day of fast during the muslim holy period of ramadan which lasts through the month during ramadan observance abstain from food or drink from sunrise to sunset the prisoners who have eaten are still considered hunger strikers because the u.s. military requires several days of sustained eating and minimum caloric intake before a prisoner is removed from the list of hunger strikers the u.s. military officials say forty five of the prisoners are still on the force forced

feeding list meaning they can be strapped down and fed a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal gastric tube on monday a u.s. federal judge called the procedure of quote painful humiliating and degrading process that comment was made in a ruling in which she said she had no with already to order a stop of of the force feeding that's been ongoing at guantanamo bay now get moved fishel say out of respect for the prisoners religious beliefs the forced feedings full only be carried out at night during ramadan now so far what's not clear is if they get moved detainee's in time to completely abandon their hunger strike or if the evening is a temporary reprieve during the holy month of ramadan now some lawyers for the prisoners remain very skeptical of the lead us reports coming from u.s. officials because they say the u.s. military has tried to downplay the hunger strike from the very beginning the very

beginning which is dated back more than five months ago now the protest at guantanamo has continued to raise awareness in the u.s. and throughout the world and it has forced u.s. president barack obama to renew his efforts to close the island prison where one hundred sixty six men are still languishing. and u.s. public defender kahlo so i want to he represents eleven of the detainees he says they don't intend to stop the hunger strike while that is until barack obama delivers on his long running pledge to close the prison the president has the power to released eighty six men right now and we've heard noises that he intends to do so but we've seen no action since that speech and i believe you're still going to have a number of hunger strikers until we see people transferred that's just the bottom line hopefully the military has started to engage the men and it's doing positive steps to end the hunger strike again all of us hope that it does and i hope that my

clients are eating i don't want them to starve i don't think any lawyer does but at the same time we are waiting for president obama to do what he said he would do and that is to transfer the innocent men eighty six innocent men. thank you so much for joining us here on our team today still to come for you in the program that of atomic rage when we investigate why the launch of india's largest power plant has sparking mass protests and what could be behind the environmental drive to get rid of that of nuclear energy. well. it's technology innovation all the developments from around russia. the future of covered. sometimes you see a story. you think you understand it and then. you hear or see some other part of

it and realize. download the official. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. it's a saturday morning here in moscow this is r.t. four police officers on an m.p.

have been injured in belfast after the annual orange order parade turned violent with several fires burning across the city and more than six hundred police drafted in from across the u.k. used water cannons to disperse angry mobs. right in the thick of it right there in central belfast. right that's. what. this is. probably. the. wrong. sort of. think that.

once again. around the. potential to. be able. to. question the will be all about whether anything. to prevent this from happening. a civil war within a civil war the situation said to be brewing in syria or a top rebel commander has been shot dead by islamist militants the moderate free syrian army officer was by fighters from the radical front and f.s.a.

official says they've since received threats from the islamists to kill all of the rebel army commandos and the various factions of the syrian opposition unable to form a united front against government forces which on a continued offensive across the country the latest outbreak of infighting has also stoked fear is that weapons smuggled through the rebels could end up in the hands of extremists the free syrian army spokesman. he says the front is being weakened by the internal feud. this problem the train the opposition on the ground will escalate and we could possibly see. an internal all their fight between the rebels themselves who are the free syrian army and. and that's what i fear i fear that once as that is going on. there might be a potential conflict between the rebels themselves

a free syrian army and and then the such as just with the muscle and that's the very concerning one you know they have an object to and that is to oust and get rid of asset and the regime and now that you create this internal problem within themselves it's going to be a further backlash for the opposition in order to advance to take out assets so that's just a problem right now you've got internals who are fighting themselves with an opposition and i said and his regime a sitting back and laughing. and to egypt it's seeing more rallies now tens of thousands joining marches demanding the ousted president mohammed morsi be reinstated and the protests come amid a crackdown on the country's islamist movement with chants led to further bloodshed and arrests the muslim brotherhood says morsy supporters will stay in the streets until their demands are met and his opponents of more demonstrations of their own the country's military which removed the president from power is currently preparing for a fresh parliamentary and presidential elections the u.s.

meanwhile has joined the german foreign ministry and calling for morsi to be released. to the world of the now some of the global headlines for you this hour and more than thirty have been killed after a blast tore through a crowded t. shopping cart a cook that's in northern iraq the oil rich city is rocked by frequent sectarian attacks it's home to arabs kurds and turks all competing for influence in the area according to u.n. statistics more than seven hundred people were killed nationwide last month as iraq struggles to deal with escalating violence. at least six people have been killed and dozens injured when a passenger train derailed and hit a crowded platform in a southern suburb of the french capital rescuers have been searching for people trapped under the debris of the french president francois hollande who visited the crash site he promised a thorough investigation into the cause of the accident. now the british police are investigating a nail bomb explosion of a mosque in the u.k.

town of tipton it's the fourth such attack in a month and this incident came on the day of the funeral of soldier lee rigby he was murdered in broad daylight by alleged it's lawmaking extremists. as more. the most cap'n to be nearly empty and luckily nobody was hurt but people in the area saying that they're extremely shaken that they're now going to be looking over their shoulder next time they go to their place of worship now this is happened on the day of the funeral the private funeral of a british soldier drummer lee rigby who was killed in an islamist terror attack in which in may since then there's been a real spike in islamophobia tax across the country so tensions are starting on the rise and people speaking outside the mosque saying that they're not feeling very comfortable a tall about this now as to who may be responsible for this attack it's much too early to speculate the police haven't said anything yet but there's already

speculation on the internet they're saying that this potentially could be a reprisal for the death of drummer lee rigby by perhaps the far right movement we've seen a number of attacks against most mosques in the past months so it's definitely part of a worrying trend now to talk about this further i'm joined by fear as a gal from the charity faith matters now there's a very worrying survey that recently came out saying that two thirds of britons believe that there's going to be a clash of civilizations between white britons and between muslims living in the u.k. do you envisage these sorts of tensions getting worse in the u.k. and i think certainly we are seeing blue closed areas where there are where there are heightened tensions particularly with mosques to revolve i think the general. theory of a clash of civilizations will more take place and take root in the united kingdom but a lot of the incidences of coups and localized issues and localized tensions particularly with the english defense league that comes in and tries to manipulate those

tensions we sold out. and other areas so really low clouds tensions within the national picture of. these kind of issues play out much more why delivery systems are thank you very much for your comments. well the investigation into this incident at the mosque and had to still underway is being treated as an attempted terrorist attack and already a number of muslims in the area as i said saying that they feel extremely unsafe in the light of the most recent attack. india's supreme court may have given the final nod to the commissioning of the country's largest power plant with the scandal surrounding it and the station has split locals into those who claim it's crucial for the economy and those insisting it's a major health hazard. has been investigating what's driving the nuclear camp this may have seemed as a mine a peaceful protest but it seriously stalled one of india's most ambitious projects

the first energy block of the nuclear power station destined to solve a growing electricity problem for millions was due to be launched in twenty eleven but because of these fishermen protesting against what they see as an environmental threat india's high court refused to give the go ahead for the station to start working however protesters were forced to declare they were acting in good faith with no foreign financing a small amount of money that we need comes from our own people the fisherman. but not everyone quite bought that india's prime minister accused western states of derailing india's nuclear program the atomic energy program has got into difficulties because these n.g.o.s mostly i think based in the u.s. don't appreciate the need for countries. this protest is not a one off rallies organized by non-governmental organizations targeted to other projects in india mining was also hit by unrest leading to multi-million dollar losses and severely hampering development and you'll be. a lot of

people who are. that these people are coming through. and you can do a lot of. things after one of the program. u.s. officials have been staunchly denying all allegations that washington had a hand in stalling projects in india but experts say this has been a tactic employed by the state department for more than a quarter of a century so the state department or any agency for international development spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fund a series of n.g.o.s which are not the governmental organizations the organizations that supposedly promote democracy official line is n.g.o.s really are the tip of the iceberg. is a question of a larger agenda of the united states and of the western powers of transnational

elites he is going to follow the same pattern we've seen. around the world with this n.g.o.s asian indian leadership is clearly concerned about these prospects the last known date on the financing of indian n.g.o.s was published in twenty eleven back then the government established that twenty two thousand organizations had received a total of more than two billion dollars coming from abroad six hundred fifty million of which allegedly came from the united states this year new delhi has yet to publish such reports but government sources claim that nowadays this funding has dwindled to almost nothing the bank accounts of more than seven hundred such organizations have been frozen and legislation against foreign agent activities has been toughened and while activists bristle over what they believe to be a suppression of freedoms in the country often described as the world's most populous democracy india's economists say that numerous vital projects including the nuclear power station will now get the green light.

thanks for being with us here on out to you this saturday morning are still to come for you there we follow a man who's traveling around the world without even spending a single dollar a softer the break through a nazi. 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 some present of some contras since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man plus you've got to get that still guy at all costs right well one man's 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 to any of you think for a moment that any e.u. officials who are so willing to ground morality would dare to 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. everything was fine until the moment i came to simferopol. use the local journalists

road that a tramp artist had painted the minister of culture. was. still the onus media. reacted immediately. saying that ukrainian papers had dared to call a famous painter from following you as a tramp. the main idea of the project as a b. artist paints people's portraits in return for some goods things like. supplies or things that might be useful for traveling he doesn't use any money at all today is the twentieth day of my journey around the world for all those twenty days i haven't spent any money at all.