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news and comments live from moscow this is us he was me hello and welcome to the pool. and i say leaker edward snowden has really need his request for asylum in russia as he lives to put an end to his life in limbo at a moscow airport he spent nearly three weeks trended in the transit zone of sheremetyevo and found nearly two dozen asylum requests around the world paul scott is following the whistle blowers attempts to escape u.s. prosecution 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 a shadow matter airports with human rights activists lawyers in which he requested assistance in getting to his final destination which is still believed to be 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 is that his application when it arrives will be looked upon favorably snowden knows that conditions are acceptable he can get it i think he really. satisfies the requirements for a political refugee human rights activists and lawyers who are there. to worry green he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than legal grounds well russia has played this by the book from the very start and played this straight lace this gesture in being of course that edward snowden was not under

russian jurisdiction because he never crossed the border and never entered russian territory and of course not in the nation did apply for asylum in russia around a fortnight ago but later withdrew his outlook and. after president vladimir putin said there were certain criteria that needed to be met and that criteria was that he stopped his actions and i quote harming russia's u.s. partners now russia's stance hasn't shifted the two presidents barack obama and vladimir putin will lead to we believe to have a phone conversation on friday the exact topic so what was discussed are known but it's believed that snowden was of course mentioned and i think both nations came for this not to escalate into a further diplomatic row and i think this is gestures also that russia this is becoming a headache that really they could have done without snowden's meeting with human rights activists at moscow's sheremetyevo airport sparked anger in washington the u.s. criticized russia are allowing it to take place and again demanded be handed over

to us he's going to check our city's health. the white house has basically accused russia of providing quote a propaganda platform for edward snowden this is washington's reaction to edward snowden 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 and well it well that they facilitated this event to force why because this gave a forum going to be should have before as before 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 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 view 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. so snowden pledged to stop leaking u.s. secrets but the guardian journalist and glenn greenwald who's been breaking the

news about n.s.a. snooping said he has no plans to stop publishing reports on the classified document is a re received and stephen cohen professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university says the whole situation with snowden's asylum is a tough test for russian and american natives this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader the obama nor putin can be happy about mr snowden sitting in the moscow airport who didn't invite him sure but he can't toss him out for various political reasons obama needs to show he's tough on snowden. i can't believe that the united states actually wants to put snowden on trial because it was a fair trial a legal trial all she noted have the right to subpoena american officials who have knowledge of all this intelligence is exposed there would not be so i think there is a vested interest for those with obama and putin to find

a way to solve this problem so that neither is damaged politically so we'll know what kind of leaders they are. for south american nations belonging to the america trading blog recalling the ambassador the strong european countries involved in the grounding of the bill even president's plane the euro one foreign minister says talks will be held with the representatives the member states also have tough words for washington defending their rights or other to offer asylum to edward snowden and human rights activist peter tatchell believes the pressure being put on last american governments is violating international. what the united states government is doing is taking jobs dropped 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 to air space 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 those opposed to a democratic government 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 united states national security agency 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. and of course we're closely following the

snowden side up online as well had to ask dot com for an extensive timeline on the leaks asylum beds and international reaction. the majority of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay have had their first me were nearly half again according to u.s. officials but inmates lawyers don't believe the food protest is finished and the military one for move anyone from the hunger strike list until they eat consistently for several days actually is very small. 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 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 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 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 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 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 were one hundred sixty six men are still languishing. the hunger strikers are protesting against indefinite detention without charge on the treatment they have been receiving us public defender conus war ever present and i don't know those prisoners and hanks bad they hunger strike to continue until bows in may thirtieth for

a s n let. 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 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 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. this is on c.n.n. still to come up for you this hour a fresh wave of sectarian violence hits the streets of northern ireland clashes break out of the i know pro british parade in belfast despite heavy police presence . total destruction there are allegations that israel has carried out and not as strike on syrian terror trade this time targeting a k.

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it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. the. arabic to find out more visit our big don't go t. dog called. you're watching i'll see you live from moscow it's good to have you would as let's move all know eighteen people have been killed one child among them in a bus crash outside mosco that's according to imagine surface. but some reports say there are up to twenty fatalities imagine security to clinic with two children is said to be among them four people died in hospital over twenty still being treated some of them in intensive care the boss caring for she won passengers split into the one that was hit by a truck trying driver appeared to have a record of dangerous driving this crash is one of the deadliest road accidents in

russia they say. israel carried out and the top on the key syrian port of the time can last friday according to statements made by three enormous u.s. officials the predawn blasts allegedly targeted a russian made missile battery which see where it received two years ago. is around eighty kilometers from russia's unable base in syria the rebel free syrian army said they had nothing to do with that because they don't have that kind of five power available the israeli government hasn't confirmed commented on the show either. u.s. claims turn out to be true that would be false has rated as track and syria in the past six months and. months written extensively about the syrian conflict as israel is trying to help the syrian rebels are losing the war against the government. that i think that the reason they carried out is because the rebels are losing every foreign terrorist the farmers are just they're losing the battle into israel i

think giving them a helping hand. the last exactly member in may was against a military training center in damascus i was very frightened because the syrians have had to retrain the soldiers since the start of this war in order to be able to deal with the known conventional warfare techniques being used against them so again they're really military as i just curious and as far as your strategy so i think they're what they're essentially trying to do is give the rebels a helping hand because at this stage they lost the war and this is talk of you know keeping the you get the war going and also provoking the. with the syrian conflict continuing on the ground there is growing dissent among the ranks of the opposition who are fighting to oust president assad a sunni

a free syrian army commander was ambushed and killed by al qaeda linked fighters and an f.s.a. official promised to retire early age after islamist threatens to kill all over command is the syrian faction of the rebels are struggling to work out as differences with foreign radicals fighters who see this war as part of global jihad western and arab nations have agreed to step up support for the opposition but there is a real concern weapons could fall into the hands of extremists free syrian army spokesman as. the struggle has been hijacked. there's no guarantee that these weapons. one be war with and you know the judge had the most wrong in 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 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 will jump at the mossad because jughead the looser are now a leading forefront in this fight against as said they are the ones that you would find that most of the front lines they're the ones who have to tear up 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 for work at a temporary contract with the rebels including. how to live and work out something where they can oust as said sooner than later. and as all see it all called for you our online team has a whole host of stories for you that nasty blue scientists are excited about

a new discovery beyond the solar system revealing the color of an alien planet which is six to three light his away from us and possibly rains melting glass check now because make blunders on our website. while the other i visit our emotion page where we struck the best media is for you on the latest events and today it's a brazilian workers protest which ended in flames as police whine and plea depressed rioters dispersed i should say have to call right now for that and much more besides. in northern ireland more than a thousand police from across racial one have been drafted into belfast after violence left iran fleshy offices one m.p. and eight riot has injured trouble at a pro british orange order march attended by fountains fled because the traditional route will stretch out and to stop at passing through a sectarian flashpoint police have to resort to water cannons to stop the angry mob

and trying the nationalist the nationalist neighborhood reports now from belfast like. i did the right next to. zero. zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. but this is the big brother like bull but you can see in the background that in between the police and the brother in law it is ready to develop the core of the. bronx the buffaloes being flooded with by the people already being the will to cut it deployed you've got to be really not the sort of body of the public. that if you look down there you can see the bridge that they think that the slope of the. then what was it that the once again being pulled around the world it was the right that tends to be called that this will be able to

be avoided that i think that extremely ugly place. that we will anything to number believe the good while the other the protests and the love and it being not the little bit of mediation. all that the bible but the beautiful strong words the community leader of my feet and play football for the leader is going to be a lot of questions that will be off the boat whether anything could have been done to prevent this kind of thing from happening. and another news this hour demonstrators borrowed against muhammad mills to continue to occupy the streets of egypt's capital cairo the city is bracing itself for a move islands supporters of the ousted president have marched against the country's military leaders they say they are defending democracy against a coup while beyond he continues its crackdown on muslim brotherhood me to. morsi is still on our. turkish parliament was amended in law which allows the

military to oversee internal political disputes on friday much slater's redefining the military's duties as towards outside threats only preventing them from intervening in domestic affairs and this is seen as an attitude falling germans on the government. is thought a fool to mechanism which switches rails may have caused a fatal train wreck outside of paris on friday six people were killed and dozens were injured when the train hit a crowded want fall and services are still suspended on the line officials. collision with another train was narrowly avoided by the driver who ran and the alarm within seconds of the accident. the death toll ranks latest suicide blast has risen to thirty eight with another two dozen injured in. five time explosion ripped through a cafe in the northern city of pure kurth as locals broke ramadan fast police have

shut down a local car phase for the time being so they're unable to guarantee people security . british police are investigating a target on a mosque in the u.k. time of tipton the fourth and a month incident took place on the same day as the funeral of the soldier lee rigby was murdered in broad daylight by alleged islamic extremists so on his point of hospital 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 could tax across the country so tensions are certainly on the rise and people speaking outside the mosque saying that they're not feeling

very comfortable it's all 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 possible worrying trend now to talk about this further i'm joined by fear as i'm 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 with the. volved i think in general. this

theory of a clash of civilizations will not take place and not take root in the united kingdom but certainly a lot of the incidences of coups and localized issues and localized tensions particularly with the english defense league then comes in and tries to manipulate those tensions we shored up. we see that in other areas so really localized tensions may take place but in the national picture thankfully we're not going to have these kind of issues play out at a much more why level this rebel thank you very much for your comments while the investigation into this incident at the mosque in tipton is 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. and on the way in accounts for the span of mainstream media that's breaking the.

remember how all the sudden and often card protest group became world famous and in were completely forgotten by next month yeah i'm talking about the feminist punk rock group pussy riot that performed a vulgar anti prayer and one of moscow's most famous orthodox cathedrals one possible reason for their explosive popularity in the media's eyes was revealed recently by german actress on a tall buck the actress claims a german t.v. channels e.d.f. paid her a large undisclosed amount of money to come out on behalf of the activist band show said on a t.v. discussion that she doesn't even remember what she said except for wishing them well with dealing with their incarceration it would be very odd for an actress to just make up a bribery scandal especially one she was complicit in but it makes you wonder just how many other people's e.d.f. may have been given a little extra motivation to cry travesty overall i think that most important of

what said her public revelation is that she said that you know what it's a bit dumb when actors talk about politics and i couldn't agree with her more but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous. i mean. i guess i was really messed up. really so most of the. worst year for the. white house it was a. great guy and four minutes. what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling.

you guys i'm out in martin and welcome a break in the set surely if you've been watching the queer brits news if you're already aware the jury is about to make their decision on the fate of george zimmerman yes this lone court case that has completely dominated mainstream media for weeks is finally coming to an end believe it or not amidst the zimmerman the hype another or case began this week that has much more relevance to you and i on wednesday the trial of alleged boston bomber nineteen year old dzhokhar sarna it began appeared before a federal court and pled not guilty to thirty separate charges related to april's boston marathon bombings according reporters inside the courtroom sorry to have appeared to be still recovering from injuries endured from the police and gun fire citing that he was wearing a cast and half of his face was extremely stolen and despite the media incessantly covering the boston bombings for weeks and weeks along with the high profile chase of this kid the story of his trial seems to be completely omitted.