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own. n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden could finally set foot on russian territory today he's waiting for paperwork which would allow him to leave the. airport and according to a lawyer. to stay. according to the man lending edward snowden legal counsel during his time here in russia the danger of leaving russia and heading to a country that has offered him asylum is just too dangerous it would be too easy for the u.s. government to catch up with snowden he points to the fact the president of bolivia is plane being forced to land on july third because of

a suspicion that snowden was actually on board that flight that today snowden is hoping to receive a formalized notice that his temporary asylum has been received and as it is in process that when he gets that document in his hands he will then be released from his temporary home here at sheremetyevo airport for the last month and will be able to go freely about the russian federation now after that three months whether the decision is favorable or not snowden and his team here in russia say that plans are in place either way. if the russian federal migration service denies mr snowden's request we still have the option of appealing against this decision in court i explained all the legal aspects to edward and he intends to use this right of appeal should there be your fusil mr snowden's planning to settle down here find a job and just add to the circumstances that the lawyer who is offering his expertise to snowden at this time says that the temporary asylum granted i would

last one year and a yearly indefinitely. will reach the hands of edward snowden and allow him to be released after his one month stay here at the airport into the russian federation. while snowden's become. showing the world just how much u.s. security. people all around the planet stranglehold on digital communications makes privacy seem like a thing of the past so i want to try to see if she could avoid big brother all going about her daily business in new york. in a post prison usa anonymity has become a rare commodity some accept it others are outraged but at the end of the day there is no easy way of escaping the prying eye of the n.s.a. five years ago i would have a cell phone little snatch in your pocket dump it don't bring your cell phone with

you all the time now it doesn't matter now you have an automatic license plate readers to track where you are now you have metro pass. e.z. pass through the city bike system and facial recognition like it or not every american armed with technology has been cast in their own twenty four hour reality show the national security agency is the uninvited paparazzi you never see or hear it makes me want more careful about what i speak about on the phone and the way i conduct my business and i think it creates a certain consciousness that that weighs on us i feel like at this point i'm just a number in all of their data everything these days is so it's so critical the use in that technology is just part of our lives now and it's kind of unavoidable if you want to keep up with what's going on he says what are you going to do not have a cell phone out of a car not live in a city. the only solution for living n.s.a.

free is to divorce from all things digital experts say using encrypted search engines or changing security settings on social networks isn't enough the truth is you have to maintain all together that produce and compartmentalize that you have to behave like an intelligence agent you have to constantly be thinking what tracks do i leave clearly retaining privacy under america's web of surveillance requires some sacrifice and here is where we're going to figure out how much so first things first i use as a way to get to work now if i use my credit card to buy my metro card then i can be tracked so instead. but he's. easy. i usually check emails and voice mails during my my block walk to work but living in a safe three wires living without a cell phone i'm not missing any use right now. so now

i am at my office i need to swipe a key card to get inside the security company knows where i am. at my desk i'm still and i say free i log into my corporate email but i can't use skype i can't use twitter i don't have a facebook account so there's no sacrifice there but here's the problem i can't use the web to research or read the news because all my activity can be tracked. newspaper yesterday's news but better than nothing this is about the time that i check my producer. invalid number my phone calls wouldn't go through and my only other. option and that is. a slower but surveillance free alternative. or so i thought maureen up or deny our team new york. now obama administration officials insist that the

wholesale vacuuming up of data is in the best of the public interest and does not breach the constitutional rights of american citizens but a christian could see the founder of before us news dot com he says the collected information is used for much more than just ensuring the safety. what's happened now is it's become a sheen because they now have people's emails that are sitting in a row positon already in utah now and if they decide for whatever reason they want to go and find something out about you can just go and do through all your old emails if you want to g.-mail you use the terms of service you sign on g. mail and yahoo hotmail all these public services you basically gave them the right to do whatever they want to do with your with your information they're taking your e-mails they're indexing you forever ties and purposes they're using it and they're handing it over to the government so the reality is if your person of interest

there's really not much you're going to be able to do about that except maybe go live in a queue somewhere. that much more about the n.s.a. whistleblower and his spying revelations on our website dot com you can go there now to check out our n.s.a. leak timeline it chronicles all the key developments in the edward snowden saga. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today to north east syria we go where al qaeda linked extremists are holding around two hundred civilians hostage that's according to the russian foreign ministry the kurds in the area have long been trying to protect their homes amid heavy fighting between jihadist forces and syrian government troops details here to ati's paul asleep. more than two hundred civilians and let me stress that we're talking here about innocent men women and children all being held hostage by extremists in northeastern syria now we understand that the hostages are being used as human shields the russian foreign ministry saying that they're mostly from kurdish

families whose members are fighting extremists in the region now fighting broke out a few days ago between syrian kurds and al qaeda linked militants in the towns of i've said and rice along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where al nusra and other al qaeda affiliated groups have been operating it looks as if these extremist groups are now literally control there are attempts by the kurds to form some kind of interim government while the al qaeda affiliates one to form an islamic state what the fighting shows is that attempts by al qaida to secure kurdish support has failed although there are some kurdish jihadists of course there are still tensions between the kurdish groups themselves but it seems that at least for now they have found common ground against the extremists turkey of course is looking on with concern it's worried that if the kurds fight al qaida they will

get support from the waist but on the other hand the kurds in cells are not keen on the syrian national council either and they have refused to join the turkish backed syrian opposition that has not given them any assurances of promises as to a division of syria off to president bashar assad. and while the opposition syrian national coalition has undergone a series of shifts in its leadership it still lacks unity comprised of several different groups torn by divisions and infighting so watch these poll scored as a close look at exactly who and what makes up the opposition fighting president assad. while the opposition are united in their desire to overthrow president bashar al assad that seems to be where their similarity ends the syrian national coalition is the umbrella group recognized internationally as the legitimate representative of the syrian people but they don't represent all factions opposed to a saddle one group operating out of their control for example is the al qaeda linked

al nusra front the coalition say they've hijacked the revolution or they've been classed by many in the west as a terrorist organization elsewhere a separate syrian group affiliated to al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq over the weekend freeing high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters and this was agenda seems separate from out of the coalition and it's even led to infighting on f.s.a. commander was killed by a rival group and the f.s.a. feel they could soon be fighting on two fronts but when we use the phrase opposition exactly who are we talking about well the coalition alone is made up of at least eleven different groups including the muslim brotherhood who have recently called on the u.s. and the e.u. to send arms in the battle with assad while only offering loose guarantees they won't fall into extremist hands there's also the coalition of secular and democratic syrians the syrian democratic people's party supreme council of the

syrian revolution and so it goes on the disparate nature of the syrian opposition combined with the presence of islamic extremists means any nation looking to support the rebels are walking a continual tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually encourage the one thing that trying to fight elsewhere. scott that now some western states including the u.k. have started to voice concerns about the threat of extremists in syria but the free syrian army has admitted it will accept help from anyone including al-qaeda my colleague bill dog he spoke to a rebel army spokesman that of zaki malala. the situation in syria with your position is pretty much our complicated you here on the idea that there's a lot of divisions within the free syrian army. there are divided let's say you say it's complicated there are divisions basically you've been hijacked by radical extremists by the likes of al qaeda. so we've

been hijacked by the looks of al qaida al qaida took the advantage yes and they will look brothers are being killed by these torrent and the world is doing nothing about it just sitting back on the back saws and doing nothing while we get a stiff feed and the free tsunami a lot anyone is willing to hold us in advance to take on this torrent we are willing to accept him whether he looks like bin ladin what he looks like good luck the u.k. prime minister he says there's too much extremism on the ground there in syria so if extremist groups fighting the government felt supply do you actually fear losing support all the all foreign allies because you know the prime minister of some western country says there's an extremism within the opposition i mean it's still not a justifiable reason not to call the moderates. so i had few here on r t detainees in guantanamo would receive hearings after years behind bars where the u.s.

is set to decide whether or not they still pose a threat or more on that in just a few. nobody chooses to be homeless nobody chooses to me and my sorrow. is that was for the show to. get in the six pm get out six be the six. day war or a. three day school day. had to pass me the class people in the. days that were against the war. it's tough to think about. it. and to know that many may not have only been wrong. should've never been me but there are also

do different. it's a quarter past the hour moscow time it's odd to see four year after years of indefinite detention almost half of the guantanamo bay prisoners will finally see their cases reviewed and the news comes as the hunger strike at the jail nears its sixth month legal reviews were actually ordered by president obama now more than two years ago but it's only now the actual preparations have begun so out of the one hundred and sixty six prisoners currently held at guantanamo bay seventy one inmates will get

paroled style hearings and most have been charged with any crime because there isn't enough evidence to hold a trial but they were still considered too dangerous to be released now if the rest only nine have been charged six of which are awaiting death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes all of that while eighty six others are also in eligible for abuse because they were already cleared for release a long time ago now while all this is a welcome step towards a shutting down guantanamo it's not enough to make intimate stop their hunger striking and that's according to john eisenberg one of the prisoners lawyers. in the case of these detainees the statement they're trying to make is stop our indefinite detention it's inhuman it's brutal half of us have been cleared of cleared for release let us go the only way they can express is by hunger striking and it is very much getting the world's attention that's the purpose of it i believe international pressure i believe pressure from members of the senate in the

tap and through letters written by senator feinstein senator durbin and next i hope pressure from the senate committee i hope all of this together will continue to put pressure on the president to do something positive about the problem that has become. so you can stay quite easily up to date with all the stories on air and online as well here's a pic of what's waiting for you on the website for this hour at. the quarter of a gamma lot in siberia there are about russian region moved to the forefront of science with the world's biggest facility to detect mysterious and gamma rays at the end of the unit us. and just another click away at all to dot com for your killer style in new york find out why immigration officers decided these replica gun heels just won't fly the full story of this fashion folks as on the web site

right now. right to see. first rate. and i would think that your. orders twitter. instagram. the. joining us here on r t today egypt's new interim leaders are still finding peace elusive a bomb blast outside a security headquarters in the city of money north of cairo injured at least nineteen including thirteen policeman security forces exchanged gunfire with unidentified men inside a nearby abandoned building afterwards clashes and gunshots also reported approach morsy rallies overnight. me the editor of

a lot of the newspaper it believes it's the muslim brotherhood supporters who are probably instigating the violence. the violence that the brotherhood is committing is undermining their credibility. actually. while they are already in the hole refused to begin every day we have. most of it not actually between the. police or the army actually. between brotherhood and the people. frustrated and angry. so. i would dare to say that what we are seeing now is the end of not only the brotherhood. in egypt and eventually in the whole

region. all right to the ball there in capital sofia to open up the world update where protesters have started to build barricades around the parliament demanding the government's resignation five people were injured when clashes broke out with police trying to disperse the rally around one hundred officials and journalists actually stuck inside that building people in the country have been taking the streets for weeks outraged by what they claim is inaction over corruption and crime . an asylum seeker boat bound for australia has sunk off western java in indonesia with three people confirmed dead there what is expected dozens more may have perished it was carrying about one hundred seventy people mostly refugees from sri lanka and iran the incident comes in with the latest shift towards a hardline immigration policy in australia which remains one of the hottest issues ahead of looming elections a recent decision to send illegal new comers to refugee processing cams was met

with rioting and human rights protests. and a desperate search for survivors still underway in devastated hillsides after twin earthquake struck northwest china as many as ninety seven now confirmed dead but that number could still rise thousands of soldiers and police were drafted in to help the rescue effort the deadly quake caused massive mudslides which trapped dozens of villages and left almost forty thousand homeless. now with the u.k. slashing spending to balance the budget authority is in london and taking a big bite out of the fire rescue services a proposed station closures and job cuts have sparked outrage among workers and let the concerns of a people safety. report on how the firefighters are fighting the cost cutting drive . when there's a fire you may have to wait a little longer for help to arrive that's the fear of those campaigning against

london mayor boris johnson's proposed cuts to the not going forward rescue services that could lead to the closure of their neighborhood station is a tragedy for the borough of. schools businesses houses and if we don't violate have to wait for a fire engine from other regions there's just craziness as a steady continues to bite someone and firefighters question why such a move despite david cameron's pre-election pledge of not cutting frontline services london could see a total of twelve fire stations closed engines axed and five hundred twenty jobs cut all to save forty five million pounds by twenty fifteen we think i was taught us would be dangerous we think wrong we think that reckless and if someone is trapped in a fog the difference between three minutes and. could be the difference probably will in many cases be the difference between life and according to recently

released figures a corking about fire station right here is one of the busiest in london the night that fact according to reports but it may not be around much longer as it's one of those earmarked for closure. for years all such being here for world was kings cross for seven seven zero instances we've attended grant edwards head of the save clark in well campaign has made it his mission to get the word out on the future of this station. one of the choices that. it's possible we can believe that they're drawn so a false. christ. before. a firefighter and now government advisor has to streamline and and fire. rescue services across england to seize two hundred million pounds getting rid of

so-called inefficiencies the reality is that we're in a very difficult period of austerity austerity down fraud deaths are down far calls are down so is roy to look again at the services he doesn't need to be the same for our service where we had high numbers of deaths high number of calls and should it be reengineered transformed in a different way so are you confident that should your report all your recommendations be taken into consideration that it will not impact public safety very comforted about that there are small victories though as the battle continues for firefighters hoping to change the fate of dude stations london fire chief just you turned on plans to close to stations initially earmarked clark and well however is still on that list we continue following last night's. carry on. tests are still the r r t one day. the german business community is unhappy with relations between moscow a developing and they're blaming chancellor merkel

a group lobbying for the interests of germany's economy in eastern europe now criticizing politicians and the media for the negative portrayal of russia critter all of our reports. over the last twenty years or so russia and germany have become firm economic partners however in recent months there has been something of a cooling in the diplomatic relationship between the in and moscow now to talk to me a little bit more about what that means and how it came down time joined by dr. lynn the director of an organization that takes the economic temperature of the relationship between the two countries now your organization of just published some information about the relationship between germany and russia and it seems that there has been a deterioration in that relationship why is that happened there of course there are some cooling as you mentioned in the political relationship but as you know the

economy is still isn't a good shape we had a turnover of eighty billion euros last year in two thousand and twelve and i think we keep on going in this road now is this down to the personal politics of some german politicians has mrs merkel essentially got her policy wrong when it comes to dealing with russia i think she will make some clear statements also to the russian society that is what germany stands for but you know our business is really to to have the fundament to have the relationship very close and i cannot make ties we have a lot of energy ties we have thirty percent of our energy comes from russia that is true for germany and for the european union but also we want to export our machinery our cars to russia and we do so and have a lot of working places created in russia one point five million working places in germany depends on the german russian trade. the story of those who

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