fugitive n.s.a. leaker edward snowden also to russia for asylum asked struggles to put an end to his legal limbo in a moscow at the transit zone sparking american outrage towards kremlin. also this week israel's accused of carrying out as trikes on arms adepero in a case where important information coming from anonymous u.s. officials. and a criminal probe the next president egypt's former leader is investigated for allegedly spying killing and bragging they call me even as his backers continue to protest for his return.

the latest news on the week's top stories we're watching the weekly here on out she was me thanks for joining us. more than three weeks after arriving the world finally got sight of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this week when he surfaced from his hideout in a moscow airport transit zone he met human rights activists here and asked for their help in requesting temporary political asylum here in russia let's get all the details from. her has been closely watching the snowden saga they are really nice to see you so how we heard any official reaction from russia regarding mr snowden's asylum bid years. we have heard that he is not there his peepers haven't been received by the. authorities at this particular moment but you have to understand that it is the weekend at this point and obviously we'll

probably have to wait until the coming days like monday or tuesday so that they can actually get the papers he did say that he's planning that he's going to apply for asylum at the end at the end of friday on friday night. obviously this was done during the meeting with several with a number of human rights activists at the show me to worry airports this was the first time like you said that anybody has even seems not in the three weeks that he's been sheremetyevo now we do know that his applied for asylum in more than two dozen countries the well being of the emitter or he doesn't have a way to get out of the country out of russia at this point because his american passport has been obviously he cannot even buy a ticket so we do know that the asylum that he's seeking in russia could probably not be permanent it's a temporary type of asylum in order for him to have at least some sort of documentation on his hands those are documents that he could transfer to

a country of his choosing because we do know that at least three south american countries have said that there will. going to see snowden on their soil yeah not enough of course used to enjoy a career as an as. a say contract and now he's one of america's most wanted criminals well made him give up his normal life well it's probably. the fact that the he's given the experience in conflict what he actually believes and what he has been doing and he actually has explained it partly during the meeting with a human rights activist a little over one month ago. family home in paradise and i lived in great comfort. i also had the capability without any warrant of law to search for see and read

your communications anyone's communications at any time there is the power to change people's speeds it is also a serious violation of the war. or snowden has been working as a cia and then this a contractor and obviously. has exposed to the superiors program of the n.s.a. which was a lot. which was a lot more broad than it was initially even suspected and he has also described that in an interview to the guardian newspaper the interview that started it all the second part of which has just recently come out. increasingly was exposed to true information that had not been propagandized in the media. that we were actually involved in misleading the public and i was actually a victim of that i grew up with the understanding that the world i lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other and privacy without of being under

threat of being measured or analyzed or or or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems. so really the ball is in russia's court at this point it's all up to russian officials to decide whether or not they want to grant the status of stylee to edward snowden and of course we'll be keeping a very close eye on what turned on what happens there. thank you very much indeed for that update every now franks snowden's meeting with human rights activists at a moscow airport triggered an immediate reaction from washington the u.s. criticized russia for providing him a propaganda platform although that accusation was met with a certain bemused mint at the state department's briefing. we are disappointed that russian officials and agencies facilitated this meeting today by allowing these activists and representatives into the moscow airport's transit zone to meet with

mr snowden despite the government's declarations of russian's neutrality with respect to mr snowden you're disappointed that they looked on into their own airport and well it well that they facilitated this event of course why because this gave a forum. that you should have before there's a full use 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 the series of serious criminal charges brought in these eastern district of virginia in the united states and i'm sorry but i didn't realize people wanted on charges forfeited their right to free speech. all of that leaked information from edward snowden is building up a picture of how america's global surveillance operations are structured and let's not have a look at what we know so far about it and far stop there's the futuristic named

need clearances them so this is what listens into your phone calls or read a they may be directed it so bad if it catches suspicious keywords and you'll be flagged and subjected to further scrutiny probably than those as a cryptically titled pin well system and this program is set to troll for suspicious activity with reveres on the web whether it's your live skype call with your friends or family or you tube video has been uploaded also up next to your file and where you fired from and when you call them is all sorted by what's known as main way so this is tim is reportedly capable of building a facebook like friends list to profile you just from your current habits. and last . we now know the arena a program in charge of recording your online life on this is said to be able to catch store and a record he'll send emails before they even reach the recipient so these the

fortress some of the systems that make up america's surveillance network the ones that we know they were kings of. and the revelations from snowden continue to pile up it's appears microsoft has been walking hand in glove with the u.s. intelligence helping them to access personal communications and data and that's according to britain's guardian newspaper which has access to secret documents provided by snowden and ray mcgovern a retired cia officer believes the internet and telecom giants and we teamed up with the government just don't care about breaking the little what's happened here is the u.s. companies have become joining in a way with the united states government in such a way that you have the cooperation of the government or the media and the congress and judiciary all pretty much joining in a complicit attempt to circumvent the constitution of the united states there is

zero concern on the part of the communications companies to violate the law they know the deal we've protected even if it's as post facto so skype of course is where we're communicating my greetings to the n.s.a. people who are watching us by simulcast i just learned from this latest revelation that not only can they intercept our voice but they share images so hello to all the n.s.a. monitors out there. you can check around the timeline on this note at song or at l.t. dot com to follow all his revelations attempts to escape us prosecution and the international tension caused by his leaks and also one guardian journalist said being from a show snowden still has can i can do more damage to america's than anyone ever has before read all about that at r.t. dot com.

and on as u.s. officials claim is zero carried out and air time on syria's port city of latakia the strike allegedly targeted a russian made and to ship missile battery which see where it received two years ago our middle east correspondent paul is here has the details. american officials speaking anonymously have revealed that explosions reported at a key syrian port some nine days ago would likely the result of an israeli air strike now the allegations refer to pre dawn explosions in the city of latakia and they allegedly targeted russian made and he ship missiles not your current missile battery was supplied by russia to the syrian armed forces back in two thousand and eleven a permanent russian naval base in the city of type two us which is about eighty kilometers from the turkey or what we're hearing from the syrian observatory for human rights is that fighter jets were seen in the skies around the city of haifa

which lies east of latakia now several troops were reportedly killed and wounded in the explosions the syrian rebels do acknowledge to quote them that foreign forces destroyed the advance and missiles and they hinted that is what might have been behind the attack the spokesperson for the free syrian army said that the attack was either by an air raid or long range missiles fired from boats in the mediterranean what we're hearing now according to iranian media however is that syrian officials have denied reports that israel was behind this attack so far the israeli government has declined to comment all confirm over future allegations that it is responsible for these attacks but however if these reports are true this attack would mark the israeli strike on syria within the past six months. and let's now trey's some of those air raids over sea where which have only been

confirmed and known to mislead by israel's military officials and military compound just outside damascus was bombed from the air on january the thirtieth fast a second similar operation reportedly took place on the third of may rockets struck a warehouse at damascus international airport allegedly containing surface to surface missiles and just two days later massive blast that were described as earthquake like sure of the same military base that was targeted in january and on all occasions that time the attacks were justified as operations to wipe out why it wipe out a rainy and missiles bound for hezbollah and lebanon and army or in senior correspondent at israel's haaretz newspaper told my colleague larry sushi this month reported raid had the same intention israel's defensive agenda of not. syria but when terrorist organizations such as bill are tries to get its hands on such

a sophisticated missiles we have no current confirmation or direct hezbollah involvement we also know that these russian weapons were actually sold to syria more than two years ago now if indeed israel is involved in these airstrikes what's the motivation here israel does not go out and preempt syrian missiles it does so only when syria seems to be on the verge of transporting transferring those missiles to hezbollah so rather than wait until these missiles reach the root or side of israel probably decided to. hit. and this week russia slung the you are still claiming the syrian government he used chemical weapons against civilians moscow revealed it had conducted its own investigation and concluded syrian rebels were actually to blame killing more than twenty people as relates to a deadly sarin gas attack near the city of aleppo back in march russia's u.n.

ambassador said western claims appear to be aimed at undermining investigations into the chemical attack when he explained the findings the results of the analysis clearly indicate that the ordinance used in qana last cell was not industrially manufactured and was filled with sudden the sudden technical specifications proved that it was not industrially manufactured either the project allen gold is not is standard once again the use therefore there is evident you seem to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in khan. this is a chance that i had for you this violence breaks out in belfast shortly were poured on the maze of trouble to flare up in northern ireland's capital which has seen a second night of sectarian violence you know what.

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download free blog videos for your media projects free media oh god r t dot com. this is the weekly on aussie welcome back former neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman has been found not guilty of murdering blunt teenager trayvon martin of a date which has caused a few across the u.s. . he said it we live in a place called the united states of america always cameras and this is the place to come. african-american because we've been saying we've been working since we've been here we have a big system always killing we don't know the color kill us. demonstrators outside the courthouse chanted justice for trayvon and called for a nationwide protest they consider it to be of racial justice similar protests took

place in other u.s. cities including new york chicago and los angeles is a man to face life in prison for shooting seventeen year old martin in february last year something you claim is always in self-defense and even though it turned out the teenager was unarmed and zimmerman was still not charged for over two months the case has become a cause for few is a fierce debate about racism and guns all over the country. so a case which divided the united states has a reached a controversial conclusion and here's the verdict of some a lot of yours if you go to r.t. dot com let's now to see how you've been voting so far and at this point around thirty six percent of our visitors at our website at a dot com say that the court decision it wasn't long since it was a month started the fight because martin was black around twenty six percent of you

see no problem with that decision since he's entitled to sell de france just as many people simply don't care at all and didn't follow the case and just over twelve percent of you don't feel there's enough evidence so log on to our to dot com right now and to have your say. egyptian prosecutors are investigating the country's president mohamed morsi for allegedly spying killing protesters and a warning the economy. president was opposed by the militia early last week and the army has been clamping down on its limits the muslim brotherhood organization of

a sense most his opponents have celebration on the streets of cairo but he's also got plenty of supporters who are demanding his reinstatement on monday after seven people were killed in clashes between the army and his backers they claimed it was a massacre by the authorities and the muslim brotherhood said there will be protests until morsi is released and returns to power and we spoke to the organization senior adviser. had died and he says changes in the country should be carried out through the ballot box and military coup. everywhere the there's something wrong and certainly every government does a lot of things wrong but that's not an excuse for a military coup and i can see how many people are making that excuse that it's ok to have a military coup similar to what the idiocy that we've heard from some of the world leaders and other western leaders that all military coups are a new form of bringing about democracy this is a new level of intellectual low this is not acceptable now this is the twenty first century political scenes are governed by politicians by democratic means if you want to bring down a government you go to the ballot box and you don't go brushing up to the military

because you failed as a political leader or you feel that a political party at the end of the day it's easy to collect all the people that are angry at one thing it's very difficult when you ask them to make a choice with responsibility because then they have to man up to the policies that are they asking for you got turned down the street on t.v. running a government swearing in a note to the minister of defense political prisoners in jail close down of the major parties in the major channel there and to the coup and killing of protesters in the street what more do you need is the classical ingredients of any military coup. egypt's interim leader has promised new elections early next year to get the country back on track but the constant and rest means the nation known for its permits and other tourist attractions is seeing fewer and fewer visitors come its way and his cairo correspondent beltran looks now at what's happening to the country's vital tourism industry. behind me is the egyptian museum one of the most popular tourist destinations in the whole of the country is the first port of call for many tourists coming off the plane here in downtown cairo however it isn't

empty this is a scene that's been seen across the country in all the most popular tourist destinations putting a week of political turmoil after the ouster of mohamed morsi egypt's tourists and history which makes up eleven percent of the country's economy has taken a massive beating since the tiny way to define revolution particularly as terrorists are becoming increasingly scarce in the last week we've seen massive makes my demonstrations funded by clashes between rival groups and on sunday fifty people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of the deposed president early even many to feed the terrorists won't come to egypt in the future that bin travel warnings have been issued by embassies including the u.s. embassy actually sent most spend on emergency stop time after a u.s. citizen was stopped last week in these bloody clashes made to international tour operators that are becoming can also come so that tourist two my oldest son september fearing the physical trauma will continue to do through this this is a free like church but the work place has most kids however local tour operators

and souvenir shops who don't have international backing to be able to plug the gaps be pooled one month. we need to see pump the the mail list them five percent and then we see if he did that somebody placed those and you feel as if the job was you know will be you see these three people thank you very much starkey. so people are fearing ments as those supporters of the previous leader mohamed morsy remain in my city and refuse to go home in various parts of the country and we're going to see further clashes but those like shoki working in the tourist industry they feed this means tourists are going to continue to be scared from coming to egypt and actually the future of egypt tourism is going. even worse. and you can stay up to date with all our stories on air and online as well and here's a peek at what's waiting for you there right now on our web site and you report the

u.k. immigration just pals all believe that you can these are mostly low educated workers it reveals foreigners often have better degrees and better jobs than native britons track on days the districts at home. and another click away online now in motion page which take you to spain's bloody boron festival in which dozens were trampled in a stampede trick on this and other videos lined up for you at r.t. dot com. a second night of violence has had become a bit of northern ireland with program loyalists clashing with hundreds of police brought in to provide security the trouble flared as protestant marchers who hold parades every summer to show their loyalty to the united kingdom past a rival group of catholic nationalists who threw projectiles at the un reports from about just. a tinderbox of tensions once again ignited police on the

front line feeling the heat the belfast most recent riots all the thousand police officers from across the u.k. drafted in to assist the police force and a surrounding the july twelfth grades spilling over into its second night rising to the scene of the disturbance once again just here in the loyalist. barely more than a stone's throw from the republican are doing district police to enforce the controversial ruling from the parades commission but the march could not pass the arduin shops on its return rate sparking the latest on rest but was the first light riots who waged by the way live and taking part in the great these riots is a younger and smaller number seems like these at the flare. up with the decision to restrict the flying of the union flag as winter but then protests occurred almost daily and the cost of policing these right is estimated to run into the tens of

millions of pounds these why it's taking place in a loyalist streets riot is waging this fight. steps i mean having do you want to see happen for younger people would. want all the stuff i want to live i don't want to. live. that's obviously. never stopped you need to vote party tools to see the housing. led by american diplomat richard haass the questions many will want to see addressed the surrounding cultural expression the flags parades still most some of the most inflammatory issues tween northern ireland protestant and catholic communities scratch below the surface of all the law in this peace plan and it's clear to me that the sectarian divisions for maintenance the big question right now need to be all things given the events everything they can that is going to make me up coming

home. headed by members of the international community all the more crucial. odd thing. in russia's republic of dagestan full police officers have been killed in an ambush by unknown gunmen and security forces drove to a nearby village after they received reports of a robbery several were shown died as they were leaving the area to return to local police station additional forces were brought to the scene of the shootout the under shop and in a mountainous area which they search for the target. right after the break alice he follows the extraordinary story of growing up against the elements in the children of tundra.

remember how all the sudden auburn card protest group became world famous and in were completely forgotten by the 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 a 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. a child born in the tundra is always nomadic by nature as an early age she knows that life is perpetual motion. for nine months every year and its children are taken from their homes in the tundra to special boarding schools and each time all they want is to go home again as soon as they can and. some can't wait for the holidays and head for the tundra. that at the represents the third generation of

a new nets deliberating family he too went to a boarding school before graduating as a vet. back home in the tundra he found a wife and now has three children he's taking his eldest son daniel and his nephew from the boarding school to visit their grandfather for a short summer break before his day the main annual festival. as. meanwhile other parents also pick up their kids for.