i. rejected cia whistleblower edward snowden says he wants asylum in russia and is ready to stop the u.s. . providing him a propaganda platform. hunger strike. inmates have started eating again but. it's not the end of the protests over indefinite detention and. street battles in belfast. clashed with police trying to block them from entering a catholic district.

live from our studio center here in moscow it has just turned nine pm this is r t with you twenty four hours a day. and i say leaker edward snowden has renewed his requests 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 of. nearly two dozen asylum requests around the world but he's pulled scott is following the whistle blows attempts to escape u.s. prosecution. atiq 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

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. who are. worried green he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than on legal grounds well russia has played by the book from the very start and have 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 ended russian territory and of course noted 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 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 unknown but it's believed that snowden was of course mentioned and i think both nations king 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 it's part and in washington in the u.s. criticize russia for allowing it to take place and again demanded he be handed over what he's got to come has the details the white house has basically accused russia

of providing quote a propaganda platform for edward snowden this is washington's we action 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 a 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 looked on into their own airport and a lot of other well that they facilitated this event of course why because this gave a forum going to be you 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 one of under 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 speak to free speech it's very interesting how washington now uses the word

propaganda referring to edward snowden's speech basically suggesting that somehow russia should deny him free speech to journalists to 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. snowden pledged to stop leaking u.s. secrets but god in journalist glenn greenwald we've been breaking the news about n.s.a. snooping said he has no plans to stop publishing reports on the classified documents

he's already received stephen cohen professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university says the whole situation with snowden 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. i can't believe that the united states actually wants to put snowden on trial because it was a fair trial a legal trial or 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 bills with obama and putin did find a way to solve this problem so that neither is damage politically so will now study

what kind of leaders they are. for south american nations belonging to the markets or trading block recalling their ambassadors from european countries involved in the grounding of the bolivian president's plane the year of 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 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 to seek asylum not to get asylum but to seek asylum bullied and managed to threaten other countries around the world to not grant him asylum and to not. so that 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 a clue sion 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 britain's spy agency g c h q had been snooping inspiring upon millions of innocent private citizens that is not spying charge he is a whistleblower and he deserves a saddam. closely following the snowden saga online as well as on the screen had to r.t. dot com for an extensive timeline of the leaks asylum visits and international reaction

. the majority of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay have had their first meal in nearly half a year. u.s. officials in makes noise don't believe the food protest is finished in the military won't remove anyone from the hunger strike list until late consistently for several days report 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 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 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 the for speeding that's been ongoing at guantanamo bay now 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 david bach 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 it's a protesting against indefinite detention without charge the treatment they've been receiving us public defender calls want to represent eleven of those prisoners and he expects the hunger strike to continue until those inmates cleared for release on that. 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 man 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. still to come for you this hour a fresh wave of sectarian violence hits the streets of the law and clashes break out at the annual pro british parade in belfast despite heavy police presence. and for some destruction there are allegations that israel has carried out another airstrike on syrian territory this time targeting a key point you go next but analysis right after this break.

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a deaf angle kid story. here to. find out more visit. continues here in r.t. eighteen people have been killed one child among them in a bus crash outside moscow that's according to emergency officials but some reports say there are up to twenty fatalities emergency crews took the injured to a hospital with two children said to be among them four people died in hospital over twenty is still being treated there some of them in intensive care. when it was hit by a truck driver which reportedly has a record of dangerous driving this crash is one of the deadliest road accidents in russia this year. israel carried out an attack on the key syrian port of attack an

os for an according to statements made by three anonymous u.s. officials the predawn bloss allegedly targeted a russian made and t. ship missile battery which syria received two years ago and the talk is around eighty kilometers from russia's naval base and syrian rebel free syrian army said they had nothing to do with the attack because they don't have the kind of. israeli government hasn't confirmed all commented on the issue why the but if these u.s. claims turn out to be true that with the fourth israeli air strike in syria in the past six months coalmines 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 they carried back is because the rebels are losing i mean foreign terrorists part of mercenaries they're losing the battle into israel i think giving them a helping hand and. 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 in use against them so again that really trying to change and this is for israeli strategy so i think what they're essentially trying to do is the rebels a helping hand because at this stage they've lost the war and this is. you know keeping the keeping the war going and also provoking the. new government. with the syrian conflict continuing on the ground there is growing dissent among the ranks of the opposition who are fighting to elst president assad a senior free syrian army commander was ambushed and killed by al qaeda linked fighters and efficient officials promised to retaliate for it is numerous 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 but there is real concern weapons could fall into the hands of extremists free syrian army spokesman zaki muller says that the struggle has been hijacked. there's no guarantee that these weapons. won't be bored with you know the job at the most strongly in 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 ask said he dropped the arm to drop the arms and give them back to the rebels who then supplied or give about two hours or just completely dropped them and then the series themselves of sort of 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 will jump on the side because jughead the looser are now a leading forefront in this fight against assad they are the ones that you would find that most of the front lines they are the ones who have put iraq 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 the last straw and work out something where they can oust as said sooner than later. well over at a website online team as a whole host of stories for the moment honestly blew excited. away from. the. website.

protests which ended in flames as police. in northern and more than a thousand police from across britain have been drafted into both. left around thirty offices one m.p. eight injured trouble at a pro british orange order march attended by thousands fled up because the traditional route was shortened to stop it passing through a six point police had to resort to water cannons to stop the angry mob entering the nationalist neighborhood. reports from belfast. that's.

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question though will be also about whether. to prevent this from happening. in other international news egypt's interim government has announced a criminal investigation against deposed president morsi as part of a crackdown a muslim brotherhood leaders he's accused of spying in saudi involvement in the country's economy this comes amid a backdrop of protests both for and against the ousted leader despite the beginning of ramadan some of the celebrations on saturday tens of thousands of run it in the capital in support of morsi whose whereabouts are still. so i guess parliament has amended a law which allows the military to oversee internal political disputes and friday legislators redefine the military's duty as towards outside threats only preventing them from intervening in domestic affairs this is seen as an antique to strategy for june's anti government protests. thought

a 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 hit a crowded platform and service is a still suspended on the line officials say a collision with another train was narrowly avoided by the driver who rang in a law within seconds of the accident. the death toll of iraq's latest suicide blast has risen to thirty eight with another two dozen injured in the time explosions ripped through a cafe in the city of cook as locals broke that ramadan fast these are shut down or local cafes for the time being say they are unable to guarantee people's. british police in the u.k. town of tipton have carried out a controlled explosion a day off to a nail bomb attack on a local mosque a small part of the same device was reportedly found in the garden friday's bloss came on the same day as the funeral of soldier lee rigby who was murdered in broad

daylight by alleged islamic extremists. as. the most cap'n to be nearly empty and luckily nobody was hutch 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 drummer lee rigby who was killed in an islamist terror attack in woolwich in may since then there's been a real spike in islamophobia attacks across the country so tensions are certainly on the rise and people speaking outside the mosque saying that they're not feeling very comfortable i told. 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 drum of the 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 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 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 and localized tensions particularly with the english defense league that comes in and tries to manipulate those tensions we should approach bleach in other areas so really low clouds tensions may take place within the national picture of we're not going to have these kind of issues playing out much more why delivery systems are thank you very

much for your comments well 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. well in a couple of minutes here an aussie prime interests from washington brings us the latest financial intrigue from across the atlantic and i'll be back with the with the news they just have a home for that. 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 onboard trying to get to asylum in bolivia and beyond some might say that this is no big deal so president of some contra since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man 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 searched 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 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. that af. and welcome to prime interest i'm perry i'm boring and i'm bob english and let's get suits today's headline are the road scampering off the so you can ship the ship being the fed elizabeth two just wrote her own pink slip yesterday in a surprising turn 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 replacement but let's not forget he's the guy who helped change 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 have been able to trade in london and a big u.s. rules we know how that worked out thanks to a certain city of london will but it 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 could there 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 that would quote virtually remove the government from the housing market except it won't because the replacement would be an insurance scheme a similar to the suiting the current student loan scheme and there is an additional sticking point according to crass things i knew a shareholder lawsuit against the mortgage giants would make it difficult to exterminate mortgage giants. because by.