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fugitive cia whistleblower edward snowden says he wants asylum in russia and is ready to stop the u.s. washington. providing him a propaganda platform. hunger strike. officials claim inmates have started eating again but prison is noise say it's not the end of the protest over an indefinite detention almost. to the constant hardliners clash with police trying to block them from entering a catholic district.
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live. in moscow where it's just eight pm this is twenty four hours a day. and i say leaker edward snowden has renewed his request for asylum in russia as he looks to put an end to his life in limbo at a moscow airport he spent nearly three weeks stranded in the transit zone and sent nearly two dozen asylum requests around the world for scott is following the whistle blows attempts to escape u.s. prosecution. r.t. you 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 and 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
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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 or lawyers who are there. who are. worried green he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than on legal grounds well russia has played this by the book from the very start and played this straight laced this gesture in being of course that edward snowden was not under russian jurisdiction because he never crossed the border and never entered russian
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territory and of course not in and they did apply for asylum in russia around a fortnight ago but later withdrew his application after president vladimir putin said there were certain criteria that needed to be met and that criteria was that he stopped his actions that 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 we believe to have a phone conversation on friday the exact topics of what was discussed the unknown 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 gesture is also that russia and this is becoming a headache that really they could have done without. snowden is meeting with human rights activists at moscow's sheremetyevo airport sparked anger in washington the u.s. criticized russia for allowing it to take place and again demanded he be handed over and he's going to khan has the details the white house has basically accused russia
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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
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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 looked on into their own airport and well that they facilitated this event of course why because this gave a forum going to be should have before as before 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 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
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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 you say 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. snowden pledged to stop leaking u.s. secrets but guardian journalist 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 documents
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he's already received 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 leaders this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader neither obama nor putin can be happy about mr snowden sitting in the moscow airport who didn't invite him to show but he can't toss him for various political reasons obama needs to show he's tough on snowden it 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 snowden would have the right to subpoena american officials who have knowledge of all this intelligence is exposed that would not be so i think there is a vested interest with obama and putin to find a way to solve this problem so that neither is damage politically so will now see
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what kind of leaders they are for south american nations belonging to the mercosur trading bloc recording the ambassadors from european countries involved in the grounding of the bolivian president's plane the year of one foreign minister says talks will be held with the representatives the member states also had tough words for washington defending their right to offer asylum to edward snowden and human rights activist peter tatchell believes that the pressure being put on latin american governments is violating international law. 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. suffer 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
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appalling there's supposedly 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 he has simply exposed the fact that 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. bola closely following the snowden cyber online as well as on the screen had to r.t.
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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 meal in nearly half a year according to u.s. officials but inmates lawyers don't believe the food protest is finished and the military won't remove anyone from the hunger strike list until they eat consistently for several days. has more. ninety nine of those 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
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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 now 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 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
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the evening is a temporary reprieve during the holy month of ramadan 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 were one hundred sixty six men are still languishing. the hunger strike is of protesting against indefinite detention without charge and the treatment they've been receiving us public defender call us want to represent eleven of those prisoners and he expects the hunger strike to continue until those inmates cleared for release. the president has the power to released eighty six men right now and we've
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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 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 lower same time we're 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. a fresh wave of sectarian violence hits the streets of. clashes break out of the annual british parade in belfast despite heavy police presence. around. syrian territory this time targeting. people expect.
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in russia this year. israel carried out an attack on the key syrian port of the tuck in last friday according to statements made by three anonymous u.s. officials the last allegedly targeted a russian made anti ship missile battery which syria received two years ago the talk here is around eighty kilometers from russia's naval base in syria the rebel free syrian army said that they had nothing to do with the attack because they don't have that kind of power available israeli government hasn't commented on the . fees u.s. claims turned out to be true that would mark the fourth israeli air strike in syria in the past six months coleman's written extensively about the syrian conflict and says that israel is trying to help the syrian rebels who are losing the war against the government. i think that the reason is because the rebels are losing i mean foreign terrorists. they're losing the battle into israel i
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think giving them a helping hand. the last attack member in may was against a military training center in damascus i was very very wrong because the syrians have had to retrain soldiers since the start of this war in order to be able to deal with the non conventional warfare techniques used against them so again that really trying to change and this is for israeli strategy so i think they're what they're essentially trying to do the rebels because at this stage they lost the war and this is. you know keeping the keeping the war going and also provoking the. need. with the syrian conflict continuing on the ground there's growing dissent among the ranks of the opposition who are fighting to else to president assad a senior free syrian army commander was ambushed and killed by al-qaeda linked fighters and across
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a official promised to retaliate off to islam has threatened to kill all opposition commanders the syrian faction of the rebels is struggling to work out its differences with foreign radicalism fighters who see this war as part of global jihad western and arab nations have agreed to step up support for the opposition there is real concern weapons could fall into the hands of extremists a free syrian army spokesman says that the struggle has been hijacked. there's no guarantee that these weapons. won't be warped within 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. you know and if america wants to see these weapons they should sit down with. the judge had almost sort of you know call it off and say listen guys we are willing to argue so long as we work out a contract that our guys asked said he dropped the arm to drop the arms and give
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them back to the rebels who then supply it will give about two hours or just completely drop 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-qaeda or just at the last hour because just had the most right now are a leading forefront in this fight against as they are the ones that you would find that most of the front lines they're the ones who have 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 to sit down work at a temporary contract with the rebels including. and work out something where they can oust and said sooner than later. well over dot com our website our online team as a whole host of stories for you there at the moment an earthly blue scientists are excited about a new discovery beyond the solar system revealing the color of an alien planet
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which is sixty three light years away from us and possibly brains melting glass check out the cosmic wonders on our website. and visit our in motion page where we stock up the best videos for you on the latest events and today it's a brazilian workers protest which ended in flames the police van to be dispersed. right now for that and much more signs. and northern ireland more than a fells and police from across britain have been drafted into belfast after violence left around thirty officers one m.p. and eight rogers injured trouble at approach british orange order march attended by thousands flared up because the traditional route was shortened to stop it passing through a sectarian flashpoint police had to resort to water cannons to stop the angry mob entering the nationalist neighborhood reports now from belfast.
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of the. little bit of. all that. was. a lot of questions there will be all about whether anything being done to prevent this from happening. in other international news demonstrations both for and against mohamed morsy continue to occupy the streets of egypt's capital city is bracing itself for more violence as supporters of the ousted president marched against the country's military leaders they say they're defending democracy against a coup well the army continues its crackdown on muslim brotherhood leaders but what about the morsi is still. turkey's parliament is amended a law which allows the military to oversee internal political disputes on friday and i just need to find the military duties as towards. outside threats only
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preventing them from intervening in domestic affairs this is seen as an antique too strategy. and pretty. sort of faulty 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 had a crowded platform and services are still suspended on the line officials say a collision with another train was narrowly avoided by the driver who rang in alarm within seconds of the accident. and also in a world update the death toll of iraq's latest suicide blast has risen to thirty eight with another two dozen injured it's night time explosions ripped through a cafe in the northern city of kirkuk because locals broke that ramadan fast police should shut down all local cafes for the time being saying they are unable to guarantee people's security. british police in the u.k. town of tipton of carried out a controlled explosion a day after a nail bomb attack on a local mosque a small part of the same device was reportedly found in the garden friday's blast
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came on the same day as the funeral of soldier lee rigby who was murdered in broad daylight alleged islamic extremists. as more. 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 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 tags across the country so tensions are starting on the rise and people speaking outside the mosque saying that they are 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
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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 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're seeing localized areas where there are where there are heightened tensions particularly with volved i think in general. this theory of a clash of civilizations will take place might take root in the united kingdom but a lot of the incidences are caused localized issues of localized tensions particularly with the english defense league that comes in and tries to manipulate those tensions we should. we see that in other areas so really low clouds tensions
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may take place within the national picture of really we're not going to have these kind of issues playing out a much more why delivery system in dallas thank you very much for your comments well invest. geisha an end to 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 just turned twenty six minutes past the hour here in the russian capital it brings you up to date i'll be back with the news team with more for you in just over half an hour from now in the meantime it's all about rigged markets and vigilante justice it's the cause report up next after the break here on.
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science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. mission free credit taishan free. for charges free. free. free. free. and free blog videos for your media projects free video done to our t.v. dot com. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know the free markets punish dumb
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investment decisions and the stupid investors who made them that's the textbook theory it's called market justice and rigged markets douma investment decisions and stupid investors are rewarded and coddled with money printing and belts that's the american way the american fact is it rigged market injustice and the more don't investors and their stupid investment decisions are allowed to thrive the more rigged the markets necessarily become but when justice is tonight the world is all was turned to the vigilante. whether it was the bond vigilantes in the days gone by or the balance sheet vigilantes in our first deadline anonymous analytics tell us i got to find out more about this i need to know more stacy herbert tell me more well max keiser anonymous is in the first headlines and they have a headline about one of your favorite companies out there corrections corps of america that c.c.a. anonymous exposes us as biggest private prison company as
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a bad financial investment so this is anonymous analytics and they're looking at correction score from merica c.c.a. their stock market symbol on the new york stock exchange is six w. and they list themselves by the way as a real estate investment trust and their market cap is three point two billion dollars and they're saying it's a bad investment yet well this is fantastic news because as we reported on the show before and as i've been going back you know years with my common bank idea is to get a group like anonymous to put out the analytics they anonymous analytics to attract hedge funds to attack a company like prison corrections corps of america with short sales make it yourselves it's capitalism versus capitalism it's dirty capitalism versus faire capitalism because corrections court america is a dirty company they do deals with disabilities to get local sheriffs to put people in jail innocent people to make their business model their real estate vesper trust work it's dirty.

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