edward snowden still without asylum is russia says it hasn't gotten an official request yet from a fugitive whistleblower while washington scolds moscow for giving him a quote propaganda blood for. strike on pause guantanamo jail officials claim inmates have started eating again but prisoners lawyers say it's not the end of the protest against a definite detention that's been dragging on for more than five months. street battles in northern ireland clashes continue in belfast following the annual pro british parade with skirmishes between protestant hardliners and police for the second night in a row. it's

four am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour a fugitive n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden seeking refuge in russia breaking almost three weeks of silence as he remains stuck in moscow's sheremetyevo airport the leaker says he's willing to stay in moscow until he can secure a safe passage to latin america where he's been granted asylum by several countries or he's paul scott is following his attempted attempts to escape u.s. prosecution. confirm that russia's federal and migration committee has yet to receive a formal application for asylum from edward snowden this is despite meeting with human rights activists and noise in which he requested assistance in getting to his final destination which is still believed to be latin america of course believe the venezuela nicaragua have suggested they would take him in but is proving very very difficult for him to get. 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 you've got 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 though says that going to shows that acceptable he can get it i think he really. satisfies the requirements for a political refugee human rights activists of lawyers who were there. at the end of the war agreeing to it he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than on legal grounds well russia has played 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 a 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 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 well let's 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 a 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's meeting with human rights activists at sheremetyevo airport sparked anger in washington the u.s. criticized russia for allowing it to happen and again demanded he be handed over or he's got an agent has more from washington. 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 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 flees 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. referring to edward snowden's speech basically suggesting that somehow russia should deny him free speech the journalist

who challenge the state department spokesperson sort of showed how ridiculous that sounds coming from the u.s. it almost sounds like would you please silence that guy we don't like what he's saying one could just imagine what the u.s. reaction would be to a similar call from russia if it were let's say some russian whistleblower who stood up for civil liberties in russia and was asking for asylum in the u.s. not hard to guess what the reaction would be regardless of what russians think about snowden according to the most recent polls fifty five percent of americans 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 snowden said he's willing to stop leaking u.s. secrets to gain russian asylum but guardian journalist glenn greenwald who's been covering the news about snowden's n.s.a. snooping so he told the dangerous information that would be america's quote worst nightmare if it were revealed stephen cohen a professor of russian and slavic studies at n.y.u. says the situation with snowden's asylum is a tough test for russian and u.s.

leaders. this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader neither obama nor prudent can be happy about help mr snowden sitting in the moscow airport and didn't invite him to russia 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 to our whole snowden would have the right to subpoena american officials who have knowledge of all this intelligence these explosives that would not be so i think there's a vested interest with obama and putin defined a way to solve this problem so that neither is damaged politically so will now see what kind of leaders they are or south american countries boring to the mercosur trading block or recall an ambassador is from european nations that were involved

in the grounding of the bolivian president's plane you're away as 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 human rights activist peter tatchell thinks the pressure being put on line american governments may violate 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 it is bullied and menaced and threatened other countries around the world to not grant him asylum and to not give airspace so that a flight can take him to another country that is a direct attack upon the united nations refugee convention and it is shocking and appalling there's supposedly democratic government the united states with the collusion of european governments including the government here in britain has been

conspiring together to not allow mr snowden to make a valid asylum application there is no way that he is a spy he has not contacted any foreign spy agencies he's not divulge any information to foreign governments he has simply exposed the fact that the united states national security agency and britain's spy agency g c h q have been snooping in spying upon millions of innocent private citizens that is not spying charge he is a whistleblower and he deserves a saddam. or a closely following the snowden saga online as well as on air click on r.t. dot com for an extensive timeline of the leaks asylum bids and the international reaction. turn into some of the day's other top stories most hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay have had their first meal in more than five months according to u.s. officials but lawyers for the detainees say they don't think the protesters over

the military won't remove anyone from the hunger strike or a list until they need consistently for several days are very important i has more from new york. ninety nine of the one hundred and two men on strike have eaten a meal within the past twenty four hours according to the deputy director of public affairs at good mo samuel house he says that most of the prisoners took part in a meal of lamb to break the first day of fast during the muslim holy period of ramadan which lasts through the month during ramadan observance abstain from food or drink from sunrise to sunset the prisoners who have eaten are still considered hunger strikers because the us military requires several days of sustained eating and minimum caloric intake before put 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 of the force feeding that's been ongoing at guantanamo bay now get moved fishel say out of respect for the prisoners religious beliefs the forced feedings 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. . yes and throughout the world and it has forced us president barack obama to renew his efforts to close the island prison where one hundred sixty six men are still languishing under strikers are protesting against their indefinite detention without charge or trial and alleged humane treatment u.s. public defender carlos warner represents eleven prisoners and he expects the strike to continue until those inmates cleared for release walk free. 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 his duly positive steps to end the hunger strike again all of us hope that it doesn't i hope that my

clients are eating i don't want them to starve i don't think any lawyer does but at the same time we are waiting for president obama to do what he said he would do and that is to transfer the innocent men eighty six innocent men still to come on r t a wave of infighting the free syrian army seeks more on this from the west after radicals within the opposition kill an f.s.a. commander yassin that allegations in israel carried out another airstrike on syrian territory this one targeting a key port plus. loyalist rioters in belfast clashed with police for the second night as the annual progress parade turned violent this and more after a short break. this journey is not about seeing the world. it's a mission that i could to myself the project won't succeed if i stay in the same

place all the time. i've been travelling around the world for twenty days so far you know at a time when i haven't spent any money at all the main idea of the project is the deltas pains people's portraits and the thompson kids. we have to get used to each other i think is a little disappointed about the boss a thing because we're still spending a lot of money i mean if i spend it he shouldn't worry about that right now i don't think so go is a great system you but i don't think he's a con man who you know if you don't like the painting that you just don't give anything.

at least eighteen people have been killed including two children in a bus crash in southeast moscow according to emergency officials but some reports put the figures as high as twenty fatalities four people have died in the hospital with more than twenty still being treated some of them in intensive care the bus was split in two when it was hit by a truck the driver of which is reportedly a record of dangerous driving he's now at the center of the criminal investigation but can't be questioned because of his grave condition monday's been declared a day of mourning following what is one of the deadliest road accidents in russia this year. israel carried out an attack on the key syrian port city of latakia on friday according to statements made by three anonymous u.s. officials the pre-dawn blasts allegedly targeted a russian made anti ship missile battery that syria got two years ago lot to key is

about eighty kilometers from russia's naval base in syria the rebel free syrian army said they had nothing to do with the attack because they don't have that kind of firepower israeli government hasn't confirmed or commented on the issue yet but if the u.s. claims turn out to be true it would mark the fourth israeli air strike in syria in the last half year gerardo coleman's written extensively about the syrian conflict and says israel's trying to help the syrian rebels who he thinks are losing a war against assad forces. i think that the reason they carried it back is because the rebels are losing i mean the foreign terrorists the farmers are just they're losing the battle of the israel i think giving them a helping hand and. the last exactly member in may was against a military training center there in damascus i was very frightened because the syrians have had absolutely trained soldiers since the start of this war in order to be able to deal with the non conventional warfare techniques being used against

them and so again i really am getting scientific ancient history of the strategy so i think they're what they're essentially trying to do is the rebels are hoping happens because at this stage david lost the war and this is park's own you know keeping the keeping the war going and also provoking the. need. meanwhile the free syrian army has asked the international community for more weapons they say they want revenge killing fighters who recently killed a senior f.s.a. commander and threaten to target the rest but the growing dissent within the syrian opposition demonstrates is instability and a spark fears that the weapons could get in the hands of radicals. western and arab nations have agreed to step up support for the opposition syrian rebels struggling to work out their differences before the radical fighters see the war as part of a global jihad the free syrian army spokesman zacky malo says the struggle has been

hijacked there's no guarantee that these weapons. be warped within you know the judge at the most strongly and there's no guarantee that the police and army can contain these weapons i think initially. you know that if america wants to see these weapons they should sit down with. jump on the 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. said he took up the option to drop the arms and give them back to the rebels who then supplied will give about to us a little disconcerted drop them and the syrians themselves of stood up there in similar issues ought to have a problem with the world right now sitting down and negotiating something we thought you know the so-called al qaida would jump at the loose all because just had the most right now a leading full front in the sports against as they are the ones that you would find

that most of the front lines now the ones who have zero into the heart of forces so i think if you want this privilege to come to an end and a successful one i think that the world should sit down would get a temporary contract with the rebels including. just how to live and work out something where they can oust and said sooner than later. one more stories for you on line including this u.k. immigrants breaking the stereotype of newcomers working blue collar jobs like an r.v. dot com to read more on the growing number of foreigners in the u.k. lending better jobs than native britons plus. scientists are now able to detect what planets beyond the solar system look like on line a story on astronomers who managed to determine the color of a planet located about six hundred trillion kilometers from earth. police have been attacked by loyalist rioters in north belfast for the second night in a row hundreds of additional police have been drafted into northern ireland after the

clashes left dozens injured the prober orange order march turned violent because the traditional route was shortened to keep it from passing through a sectarian flashpoint or he sarah firth has more from belfast. tonight for that much. that. many very very. angry and she can. bring. the brain. function to. find. violence has flared up during anti-government demonstrations on the streets

of istanbul officers using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd clashes come after all i'm in turkey amended a law that prevents the military from stepping in and internal political disputes considered meant to measure as protests against the government continue in turkey's main cities. egypt's interim government announces a criminal investigation against deposed president morsi is part of a crackdown on muslim brotherhood leaders he's accused of spying inciting violence and ruining the nation's economy this image a backdrop of protests both for and against the ousted leader despite the beginning of ramadan celebrations saturday tens of thousands of islamists rallied in cairo in support of the deposed president is where abouts are still unconfirmed. a fresh wave of sectarian violence erupted in iraq's capital baghdad an explosion shook a sunni mosque leaving at least twenty three dead this after a series of bombings and shootings across the country including attacks in your

post were killed more than fifty people over the last two days in iraq seeing a spike in sectarian violence since two thousand and eleven when u.s. troops left the country since april violence has claimed the lives of more than twenty five hundred iraq. thousands gathered on israel's streets trying to give a second wind to a campaign against the government's economic policy demonstrators came out in huge numbers in tel aviv showing their discontent with high taxes and low salaries problems the government pledged to resolve in two thousand and eleven more than four hundred thousand to rally and throughout the country angry the say at the nation's high cost of living. at least seven as indian peacekeepers were killed and scores wounded in an attack in the darfur region of sudan they were part of un team ambushed by a large group of armed men according to un officials it marks the deadliest assault on international forces in the country since they were deployed there five years ago finally in the news block india's supreme court may have given the final nod to

the commissioning of the country's largest nuclear plant but the move hasn't calmed the scandal surrounding it the station is split locals into those who claim it's crucial for the economy and those insisting it's a health hazard or tease alexei or a chef ski takes a look. 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 cool on nuclear power station destined to solve a growing electricity problem for millions was due to be launched in twenty eleven but because of these fishermen protesting against what they see as an environmental threat india's high court refused to give the go ahead for the station to start working however protesters were forced to declare they were acting in good faith with no foreign financing a small amount of money that we need comes from our own people the fisherman country part of it 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 other projects in india mining was also hit by unrest leading to multi-million dollar losses and severely hampering development and your. local. tribal people who are. that good people are coming to expect. and do laundry and you can do all good things after one of the program. u.s. officials have been staunchly denying all that a geisha 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 a quarter of a century so the state department or any agency for development spends hundreds of

millions of dollars each year to fund a series of n.g.o.s which are not the 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. this is a question of 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 asian indian leadership is clearly concerned about these prospects the last known date on the financing of indian n.g.o.s was published in twenty eleven back then the government established that twenty two thousand organizations had received a total of more than two billion dollars coming from abroad six hundred fifty million of which allegedly came from the united states this year new delhi has yet to publish such reports but government sources claim that nowadays this funding has dwindled to almost nothing the bank accounts of more than seven hundred such organizations have been frozen and legislation against foreign agent activities has

been toughened and while activists bristle over what they believe to be a suppression of freedoms in the country often described as the world's most populous democracy india's economists say that numerous vital projects including the nuclear power station will now get the green light. coming up the travels of a man who is going around the world but doing it without trying to spend a single dollar that's after a short break stay with us here on our team. remember how all the sudden an afghan 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 book 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 activists banned 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 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.

of everything was fine until the moment i came to sim for opal. just the local journalists rode that a tramp the artist had painted. minister of culture from. which the media reacted immediately. saying that ukrainian papers had dared to call a famous painter from boeing is a tramp. the main idea of the project as a b. artist paints people's portraits in return for some goods things like. supplies or things that might be useful for traveling he doesn't use any money at all today

is the twentieth day of my journey around the world for all those twenty days i haven't spent any money at all. that much so that every person can evaluate my art the way they want i do not set any price some will give a roll of toilet paper forwards with another will present a laptop. i like it a lot. now i don't think about money. to shift and well this journey is like you know what about seeing the world.