down a a. edward snowden says he wants to stay in russia and will comply with the kremlin's conditions to stop harming the u.s. however washington meantime. providing a so-called propaganda platform for the whistleblower. lawyers for the guantanamo bay detainees say there's no indication the mass hunger strike is ending despite u.s. officials claiming most of the protesting prisoners have had one meal the first though since february. and violence in belfast clashes broke out at the annual orange order parade despite a very heavy police presence. within a syrian rebel spokesman tells us the west should be very careful about supplying the. which he claims has been hijacked by al-qaeda linked militants.

worldwide news live from moscow this is r t with me wrong and welcome to the program today. lawyers have pledged support for edward snowden's application for refuge in russia following his meeting with russian and international human rights activists at moscow's sheremetyevo airport of course that's where he's been holed up now for about three weeks let's get the details live from joining us here on the program hello to you paula so what's next well are to confirm that russia's federal migration committee has yet to receive a formal application for asylum from edward snowden this is despite yesterday's meeting the shutter met or the airports with human rights activists in which he

requested assistance in getting to his final destination which is still believed to be. in latin america of course bolivia venezuela and nicaragua have all suggested they would take him in but it is proving very very difficult for him to get there not only because of america's aggressive pursuit of him which led to the grounding of the bolivian president's plane over european airspace this week but also he doesn't have the valid travel documents to go to remember he's had his passport revoked that's why he's been stuck in transit that's why he's turned to russia for temporary refuge and the suggestion is that lawyers would be king to help him with that application and the suggestion also ways that his application when it arrives will be looked upon favorably. snowden no says that conditions are acceptable he can get it i think he really. satisfies the requirements for a political refugee human rights activists or lawyers who are there.

to worry green. he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than on legal grounds. so i suppose our poor fairly rough times at the moment between moscow and washington are perhaps obama and putin not exactly enjoying a fruitful bro. you could say that i think russia has played this quite straight laced and by the book from the start of course the suggestion has always been that he hasn't crossed the border into russian territory and therefore doesn't come under russian jurisdiction therefore any suggestion of an extradition is is academic and completely irrelevant and also putin saying that there will not be any extradition especially as america is still a country which has the death penalty of course he did apply for asylum in russia just around a fortnight ago would snowden but then later withdrew his application when president vladimir putin said that there were certain criteria that needs to be met and that criteria was that he stopped his actions and i quote harming our u.s. partners now russia's stance on this hasn't shifted but glenn greenwald the

guardian journalist who's been working very very closely with edward snowden on these leaks says that he is now in possession of all the relevant documents therefore suggesting basically the edward snowden's leak is over he is now a bystander in this and it is it glenn greenwald's discretion as to what is leaked and when meaning as i say that snowden's leak is over he's a bystander and therefore he probably does fulfill russia's criteria for asylum of course the two presidents relations are great at the moment they did have a phone call we're led to believe on friday the exact topic of discussion this is unknown but the topic of edward snowden was no doubt discussed but i think it's becoming increasingly apparent that neither president and neither country really want this to become a diplomatic route to escalate in asia and and both keen for this to be resolved through diplomatic means as friendly as possible and i think this is probably also turning into a headache that russia could have done without. live right in front of the kremlin

thank you. well in the meantime other whistleblowers meeting with human rights activists is cause yet another outburst of criticism from washington which demands snowden be handed over more on this to a guy nature can. 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 so 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 as he for you forfeited his right to freedom of speech is 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 speak to free speech it's very interesting how washington now uses the word pop again there. referring to edward snowden's speech basically suggesting that somehow russia should deny him free speech the journalist who challenged 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 i was on he's gonna touch down in washington stephen cohen professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university he believes it would snowden's case has landed moscow and in washington rather a quite a predicament this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader the obama nor prudent can be happy about sitting in the moscow airport who didn't invite him to show but he can't seem very political reasons obama needs to show he's tough on 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. 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 see what kind of leaders they are. and in the meantime south american nations belonging to the 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 uruguayan foreign minister the member states of also slammed washington for what they called a neo colonial mindset washington's unrelenting pressure on latin american 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 in his bullied and managed to threaten other countries around the world to not grant him asylum and to not give airspace over 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 our 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 inspiring upon millions of innocent private citizens that is not spying charge he is a whistleblower and he deserves asylum. well there are three of course we've been following

the developments in edward snowden's case from the very beginning you can find all the latest on the leaks and the asylum controversy that's online at r.t. dot com. now here on the program u.s. officials claim that most of the hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay have eaten a meal for the first time since their 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 are u.s. federal judge has slammed as a quote painful humiliating and degrading process more important i reports. ninety nine of those one hundred and two men on strike have eaten a meal within the past twenty four hours according to the director of public affairs at get 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 print a prisoner is removed from the list of hunger strikers now u.s. military officials say forty five of the prisoners are still on the forced 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 a 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 get moved fishel say out of respect for the prisoners religious beliefs the forced feedings will only be carried out at night during ramadan now so far what's not clear is if

they get mowed 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 leaders 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. now u.s. public defender. represents eleven of the detainees and says they don't intend to stop the hunger strike all that is until barack obama delivers on his promise to close the notorious 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 see no action since it's 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 is doing positive steps to end the hunger strike again all of us hope that it does and i hope that my clients are eating and 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 man. still to come out of atomic range a very soon in the program we investigate why the launch of india's largest power plant is sparking massive protests and what could be behind the environmental drive to get rid of nuclear energy.

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a visit. from moscow it's. a full police officers have been injured in belfast after the annual pro british protestant parade turn violent with several fires burning across the city and more than six hundred police drafted in from across the u.k. they went out to use water cannons to disperse the angry mobs. reports from the thick of it. i didn't write that. was.

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let's turn our attention now to syria a civil war within a civil war the situation said to be brewing for a top rebel commander has been shot dead by islamist militants of the free syrian army officer was bushed by al-qaeda linked fighters an f.s.a. official says they have since received threats from the islamists to kill all of the rebel commanders now the various factions of the syrian opposition have been unable to form a united front against government forces which are on the offensive across the country and the latest outbreak of infighting is also stoked fears that weapons smuggled to the rebels could end up in the hands of extremists free syrian army spokesman. he says radical islamists have hijacked the struggle against assad and the west should be very careful in. there's no guarantee that these weapons. won't be war with you know the job at the most strongly and there's no guarantee

that the police and army can contain these weapons i think initially. as you know and if america wants to see these weapons they should sit down with. the judge had almost sort of. caught off and say listen guys we are willing to argue so long as we work out a contract that. said he dropped the are going to drop the arms and give them back to the rebels who then supplied will give about two hours or just completely dropped them and then the syrians themselves of sort out their internal issues are to have a problem with the world right now sitting down and negotiating something with you know the so-called al qaida would jump at the mossad because jughead the looser are now a leading forefront in these fights against said they are the ones that you would find that most of the front lines they're the ones who have put into the heart of forces so i think if you want this revolution to come to an end and

a successful one i think that the world should sit down work at a temporary contract with the rebels including. how to look and work out something where they can oust as said sooner than later. now israel could have been behind recent explosions at the key syrian port of attack that's according to comments by three anonymous u.s. officials in the pre-dawn blasts struck the port on july the fifth in a believed to have targeted a russian made and see ship missile battery which had been supplied to syria two years ago that attack you know is around eighty kilometers from russia's naval base in syria the rebel free syrian army denied responsibility for the attack stating it was beyond the firepower available to its forces israel has so far stopped short of confirming or commenting on allegations it carried out the raid if the claims turn out to be true it would mark the fourth israeli strike on syrian territory in just the past six months. british police are investigating

a nail bomb explosion at a mosque in the u.k. town of tipton the fourth such attack in a month and the incident happening on the day of the funeral of soldier lee rigby he was murdered in broad daylight by alleged islamic extremists plenty of reports 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 that place of worship now this is happening on the day of the funeral the private funeral of a british soldier germany rigby who was killed and then is a missed terror attack in which in may since then there's been a real spike. 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 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 the rigby by perhaps the far right movement we've seen a number of attacks against loss in 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 the 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're seeing localized areas where there are where there are heightened tensions particularly where. i think in general. this theory of a clash of civilizations will take take root to the united kingdom but a lot of the incidences of coups and localized issues and localized tensions particularly with the english defense league comes in and tries to manipulate those

tensions with posts which we see there and other areas so really low clouds tensions may take place but the national picture of. these kind of issues play out much more why the level mr mandela thank you very much for your comments while the investigation into this incident at the mosque in tipton is still under way 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 or to india now where the supreme court may have given the final nod to the commissioning of the country's largest power plant . has not calmed down around the station has split locals into those who claim it's crucial for the economy versus those who claim it's a major health hazard. the story. this may have seemed as a minor peaceful protest but it seriously stalled one of india's most ambitious

projects the first energy block of the couldn't call on nuclear power station destined to solve a growing electricity problem for millions was due to be launched in twenty eleven 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. part of every once in two weeks 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 us don't appreciate the need for all countries to increase energy. 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. local. tribal

people. that people are coming to expect. anything to go. after one of their program. u.s. officials have been staunchly denying all night edition is that washington had a hand installing projects in india but experts say this has been a tactic employed by the state department for more than 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 governmental organizations they appear organizations that supposedly promote democracy that's their official line is n.g.o.s really are the tip of the iceberg. is a. larger agenda of the united states and of the western powers transnational

elites he is going to follow the same we've seen. around the world n.g.o.s ation the 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.

and in just a sec it's prime interest thanks for watching. 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 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 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. that afternoon and welcome to prime enter f. i'm perry amboy a number of english life gets it today's headlines are the read scampering off the sinking ship the shipping the fed gov elizabeth two just wrote her own pink slip yesterday in

a surprising to. end of events this is ahead of the expected departure of treatment that bernanke will likely not seek a third term this january all while the media is busy floating larry summers as bernanke is replacement but let's not forget he's the guy who helped tank the harvard endowment fine ignoring warnings from now that it was loaded with toxic derivatives so let's just put him in charge of the fed's three trillion dollar balance sheets. and speaking of derivatives today was a critical deadline were an exemption to dodd frank was set to expire the likes of j.p. morgan to have been able to trade in london and evade u.s. rules we know how that worked out thanks to a certain city of london will but a turf war compromise has been reached between the u.s. and europe so don't worry the seven hundred trillion dollar derivatives juggernaut will continue unabated. and that they're finally be at fannie and freddie wind down and the words congress has been debating here for a while and house republicans are pushing for a bill and.