this is why you should care only on. edward snowden's legal limbo could be drawing to an end with the n.s.a. leaker about to get the papers he needs to leave a moscow airport transit zone and officially. anyone who's willing to hold us in advance to take on the storm and we're willing to accept him whether he looks like bin ladin what he looks like a good look we challenge a free syrian army representative for his group's accomplices as al qaeda linked militants hold around two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria. and the u.s. will finally hold long deferred hearings for dozens of guantanamo bay in maids while eighty six others cleared for release still unable to leave the press.

news a live from moscow this is r t with me rory sushant thank you for joining us today the 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 transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and according to his lawyer the man who leaked secret u.s. documents is here to stay. right outside the airport let's get the latest from her right now and good to see you this morning so it's possible here that russia could become the official home all former n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. rory that is a distinct possibility in this case the announcement came as a surprise to many seeing as how the applications had. and submitted far and wide

for asylum in other areas and after a month staying here at sheremetyevo airport it turns out that he may be seeking asylum temporarily here in russia now the reasons for this are fairly straightforward according to one of the men here in russia supplying him with legal counsel it is far too dangerous for snowden to take to the skies in an attempt to get to the other countries that have offered him asylum because the chances are too great the u.s. government could ground that plane now this is a direct reference to the july third incident whereby the president of bolivia as plane was forced to land on suspicion that snowden was on board now today snowden is hoping to receive a formalized notice that his bid for temporary asylum is in process that when and if he receives that notice he will then be able to leave his temporary one month home here at the airport and to go about freely throughout russia now that should take about three months until. the formal process has ended and the word comes from

the federal migration service is that he will be granted temporary asylum now whether or not that the news to him and his team is favorable or not his counsellors here in russia do say that the team has a plan let's take a listen to your movies the blizzard conditions 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 or fusil mr snowden's planning to settle down here or find a job and just adapt to the circumstances you. know that temporary asylum bid if granted if that temporary asylum bid if granted would last one year it would then need to be renewed every year indefinitely so we're here at sheremetyevo airport waiting with bated breath along with. large groups of

the world's media are waiting to see if he will receive those fateful documents allow him to leave the entrance of the airport and possibly start a new life and start to possibly even make a living here in the russian federation. also with the latest on edward snowden thank you. for the snowden has become a wanted man off to of course showing the world just how much u.s. security services want people all around the planet the n.s.a. stranglehold on digital data communications makes privacy perhaps seem like a thing of the past so ati's more important 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's no easy way of escaping the prying eye of the n.s.a. five years ago i would have cellphone little such in your pocket dump it don't bring your cell phone with you all the time now it doesn't matter now you have

automatic license plate readers to track where you are now you have metro. 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 of 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 this is what do you know do not have a cell phone out of a car not live in a city. the only solution for living and a safe 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 to do some 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 a subway to get to work now if i use my credit card to buy my metro card then i can be tracked. instead but he's kept. easy. i usually check emails and voice mails during my five block walk to work but living in a state three wires living without a cell phone fingers crossed i'm not missing any breaking news 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 prison option and that is snail mail a slower but surveillance free alternative. or so i thought maureen up or deny our tea in new york. now obama administration officials insist the wholesale vacuuming

up of data is in the public interest and does not breach the constitutional rights of american citizens but our chris could see the founder of before it's news dot com he says the collected information is used for much more than just ensuring security. what's happened now is it's become a. sheen because we 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 you know about you into school do through your old even if you want to g.-mail you use the terms of service. yahoo hotmail all these public services you basically gave them the right to do we really want to do with your with your information they're taking your e-mails they are indexing you forever ties and they're using you know and they're handing it over to go so the reality is if you're a person of interest there's really not much you're going to be able to do about that except maybe go live in kiev somewhere. so what your country spied on and

wasn't working perhaps with the u.s. intelligence you can find all the details right now at odyssey dot com you can go to edward snowden timeline and click on an interactive map that shows the scope of the n.s.a.'s global operations. and why you that you can find out what the u.s. intelligence agency is doing to carry on spying a story about the n.s.a. to wrangling with congress of a wide scale surveillance that's now just a click away. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today to north east syria we go al-qaeda linked extremists are holding around two hundred kurdish civilians hostage starts according to the russian foreign ministry and the kurds in the area have long been trying to protect their homes and made heavy fighting between jihadist forces and syrian government troops details here to watch he's pulled a sweat. 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 north eastern syria now we understand that the hostages all been 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 out of the head 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 out of 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 could jihadist 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 they could 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 in 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. that there were some western states including the u.k. so far back tracked on their supply of the opposition and of voicing concerns about the threat of extremists in syria but the free syrian army has admitted it will accept help from anybody including al-qaeda my colleague bill dog spoke to a rebel army spokesman out of zaki mullah. the situation in syria with your position is pretty much complicated if you hear on the that there's lot of the

visions within the free syrian army there are the one that let's say you say it's complicated there are divisions basically you've been hijacked by radical extremists by the likes of al qaida no you see. so we've been hijacked by the logs of al qaida who. took the advantage yes and they will look brothers are being killed by this tyrant and the world is doing nothing about it just sitting back on the backs of us and doing nothing or what will get us there being so you know like anyone who's willing to hold us in advance to take on this torrent we are willing to accept the weather looks like bin laden when he looks like 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 multiply do you actually fear losing support all of you all for an ally because you know the prime minister of some western country says there's extreme within the opposition i mean it's still not

a just of all reason not to hold the moderates. meanwhile the syrian opposition figures a lot being paris for advanced weapons and then we'll go to the us and the syrian national coalition has undergone a series of shifts in his leadership but it's still lacks major unity comprised of several different groups it's torn by divisions and ongoing infighting. scott looks at exactly who makes up the opposition who continues to fight president assad. it's 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 to 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 for the eighty two al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq over the weekend freeing high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters all mysteries agenda seem separate from lot 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 us 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 ten year old tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually encourage the one thing that trying to fight elsewhere. his full scope right that now red light green light off the detainees in guantanamo bay yet to receive hearings after years behind bars the fate of all those already cleared for release that remains unclear more on that and they also balled up. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our. right to see.

first rate. and i think picture. on our reporter's twitter. instagram. could be in the. clip. from moscow it's all it's he with me rule re sushi i after years of indefinite detention almost half of the kuantan of my bay prisoners will finally see their cases reviewed other news comes as the hunger strike of the notorious jail six

month legal reviews were actually ordered by president obama now more than two years ago but it's. only now that actual preparations have finally begun let's look at the numbers for you right here on r.t. so out of one hundred sixty six prisoners currently held at guantanamo seventy one inmates will get parole style hearings and most haven't been charged with any crime because there's enough evidence to hold a trial but they were still considered a too dangerous to be released all of the rest though only nine have been charged six of which are awaiting a death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes all of that though while eighty six others are ineligible for abuse because they were cleared for release a long time ago i want all this is a welcome step towards shutting guantanamo is not enough to make inmates stop their hunger strike so says john eisenberg one of the prisoners lawyers in the case of these detainees to see when they're trying to make is stop are

a definite detention of its inhuman the 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 get in 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 guantanamo bay has become. and you can stay up to date with all of our stories on air and online as well here's a peek of what's waiting for you right now on the web site dot com a quarter of a lot in siberia remote russian region it moves to the forefront of science with the world's biggest facility to detect mysterious gamma rays right at the edge of

the universe. and another click away for you what i call this our talk about killer style in new york find out why immigration officers decided these replica gun heels just won't fly with the full story of this fashion right now on the web site. all right so let's turn our attention now to that of egypt where new interim leaders are still finding pieces to be very elusive a bomb blast outside a security headquarters in the city of money just north of cairo it injured at least nineteen including thirteen policeman security forces exchanged gunfire with unidentified men inside a nearby abandoned building afterwards clashes on gunshots were also reported approach morsy rallies overnight and. the editor of the newspaper he believes it's

the muslim brotherhood supporters who are most likely instigating the violence. the violence the brotherhood. is undermining they're. actually one. of the few. every day we have. actually between the. police or the army actually. between. people. angry. so. no. i would dare to say that what we are seeing now is the end or not only of the brotherhood but the end of political islam in egypt and eventually

in the whole region now with the u.k. slashing spending to try and balance the budget authority and london are taking a big old bite out of the fire rescue services a proposed station closures and job cuts have sparked outrage among the workers and led to concerns of a people's safety. reports 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 proposed cuts to the london fire rescue services that could lead to the closure and their neighborhood station is a tragedy for for the borough of is this. is being a schools businesses houses and if it cuts don't viable have to wait for a fire engine from other regions is just craziness as

a stand he 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 minutes could be the difference probably will in many cases be the difference between life and death according to recently released figures the parking of all fire station right here is one of the busiest in london the night that fact according to reports that it may not be around much longer as it's one of those earmarked for closure. for hundred full years all such pain here for world was king's 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. it will be one of these consultations that they're trying to do is quietly as possible we can believe that they're drawn so far spice and such a. price for the paper and even this direct barrier for stationery going to say that. the fire fighter and now government advisor has been to streamline and fire in. 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 will stare at austerity for down for our deficit down for calls are down so it's 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 stations london fire chief just you turned on plans to close to stations initially you are marking well however is still on that list we continue following last night. we carry on to. test our sylvio r.t.e. london. and before we get the prime interest for now the german business community is on happy with how relations between moscow a developing and the blaming child lobbying for the interests of germany's economy in eastern europe now criticizing politicians on the media for their negative portrayal of russia critical of the house has. 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 berlin and moscow now to talk to

me a little bit more about what that means and how it came down time joined by dr renaud . the director of an organization that takes the economic temperature of the relationship between the two countries your organization of just published information about the relationship between germany and russia and it seems that there has been a deterioration in that relationship why is that happened and 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 shave we had a turnover of eighty billion euros last year in two thousand and twelve and i think we keep on going on 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 or also to the russian society that is what germany stands for but you know our business.

government 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 it true for germany and for the european union but also we want to export our machinery our cars you know to russia and we do so and have a lot of work in places created in russia one point five million working places in germany depends on the german russian trait. right after a short break or an artsy thought of market manipulation it sounds perhaps like a new concept but it's not quite my interest targets the titans of the industry conducting financial fraud in broad daylight.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. make you know if you want to stay still so much. choose the news that concerns you. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your office.

good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry i'm going in i'm buggin good and here's the stories that we're tracking today more details are emerging on the commodity manipulation front and federal reserve is reviewing the decision it made ten years ago to allow banks to use customer money to speculate and physical commodities such as copper crude oil an aluminum no word on the gold as that might actually force the fed to admit that it's being manipulated for that bernanke you know something about it but even if the fed reverses itself and bends bank commodities trading guess who gets a pass that's right goldman sachs and morgan stanley since they only became banks in two thousand and eight and they were grandfathered in end users of aluminum cans

central to the goldman commodities dominance such as miller coors they are not police and they're pressuring the thread to end the practice field so it goes don't fight the fed but in this case we can't help but root for the show here and speaking of market manipulation and barton chilton's dream is slowly coming true no he hasn't put a good housekeeping seal of approval on every high frequency trading algo yet yes the actually asked for that winds but under a new adopted frank authority his commodity futures trading commission is the launching its first to market munich manipulation caves against any firm and just another unintended consequence of monetary policy nearly five years into near zero interest rate where most of the printed money ends up right back at the fed we now have hedge funds instead of banks lending to troubled small businesses they were all about free will and free markets here but when shadow banking and that would be had.