and breaking news this hour here in r.t. of the lawyer assisting outward snowden says the whistleblower won't leave the transit zone today because he's paperworks not yet ready. linked militants holed around two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in northeastern syria we try to gauge the merry faces of the country's opposition. and across the border in iraq al qaida is pushing the situation out of control with a group carrying out prison break some fresh terrorist attacks and what's been the bloodiest months in the country this year.

in the russian capital and watching our t.v. with me marina josh and we are starting with our breaking news story this hour of course the lawyer assisting adverts snowden has announced the whistleblower will not be leaving the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport today because his paperwork is not ready well let's get the very latest from artie's lindsey france. when we know that edward snowden will not be stepping out of the airport today what more do we know at this point. but we do know that the paperwork that he needs in order to step out of the airport on to russian soil officially has not come through in fact it should be another couple of days this is according to his adviser a russian lawyer anatoly. he just spoke with us just minutes ago and he gave us an interview and essentially said that. the federal migration service is still

processing the documents that edward snowden needs in his hands before he can step out of the airport where he stayed for the last month now what this document is it's essentially a formalized notification that his bid for temporary asylum is in process and then gives him around three months to move freely about the country at the end of that three months is when the temporary asylum bid will either get a thumbs up or a thumbs down but at that point edward snowden and his team do have plans in place now if it is a favorable decision on the part of the effect of migration services to give him temporary asylum it means that to edward snowden plans to pursue work here and to call russia his home learning the language and assimilating himself. and then if the decision on the on the other side is negative that russia will not grant him temporary asylum he actually plans to appeal that decision that points just how

serious he is in this case to call russia home so there he's he's got a lot of plans in place but he still needs that document that is giving him formal notification that that that that application process is underway and until he gets that he is still in the airport now journalists have been waiting almost from sun up today to see if his advisor did show up with that documentation and lo and behold he showed up at four pm and police began heavily guarding a first floor area of terminal eat here at sheremetyevo airport it happens to fall just five floors of the meat of the hotel in the terminal where it's reported that edward snowden had been staying for the last month sure enough the police began to congregate and sort of blocking off the area and that is when his advisor moved through the crowd with a paper bag and many believed he had the documentation. on him that's not it was

looking for and it turns out he had rocks books by russian authors and some fresh clothes for him and some unfortunate news that he will be needing to stay in the airport for the next couple of days until everything all the t.'s are crossed and the i's are dotted according to that advisor so right now it is still inside the airport and journalists are still waiting with bated breath to get their first glimpse of it here on russian soil and indeed we are lindsey thanks very much indeed for following all the twists and turns of the day for us here and bring us the very latest information from inside here major airport lines of france they are well into early year we've managed to talk to the human rights lawyer who's been assisting snowden and overseeing the entire process gave us more details about today's goings on at the airport let's listen. i'll just say that i did not expect to see so many journalists at the authorities well but there is a procedure and a certain procedure for the federal migration service to follow it has to consider

is the request that we had word snowden. on the sixteenth of this month well according to russian laws. you know there is a government decision that such matters. for example it says that a request for temporary asylum should be considered for three months. some initial peepers were issued. but i'm quoting to the general rules. this is what the federal migration service when this ten year old the papers that come in for the. temporary document and they then they consider the request. today there was some misinformation. saying that this paper has been issued no this paper has not been issued in the papers are

still being considered i talk to migration authority almost daily as they work on edward snowden's case so how long might it take for exists or piece of document for this temporary certificate that will enable snowden to leave the airport take to issue. well i think this situation will be resolved shortly at this point on the it's ready to give you a specific date because i want to avoid confusion as much as possible. because there was. one of many journalists present today probably because of this misinformation that we had in the media ok well i was on a tele everyone's out curious about the brown bag that carried into the airports or to hand over to snow in the what was inside that bag if you can share that information with us at this point. frankly i actually did not want the journalist to see me with his bad but unfortunately i was on the able to do anything because

they were around this place and they saw me mediately when i came in. i had some of their. history of russian history of. those books in english. and i had several shorts pants because. he has been wearing the same clothes for about a month so i was brought some clothes for this point he doesn't have a way to get good for us clothes because he's seen this special area inside the airport. so you know this is what i had in the brown bag. well our snowden has spent more than a month in the transit zone of chairman to airport in what's turned out to be a very long layover let's not discuss the whistleblowers possible plans with our teams either crotty i ever get on a day yeah i mean did she actually expect snowden to leave the airport today or

maybe you had some doubts creeping in you know at some point. as bureaucracy is involved i think you've always got to reserve an option and say to yourself ok look you know what your goal is everybody wants. their student to come walking out and greet the waiting media there was never a realistic option ever and i don't believe he'll make himself readily available to the media if and when he does eventually walk out of the out of his monthlong limbo i mean i lot of journalists are gathered today at her mental airport i'm sure they were disappointed that he didn't come out to greet of them say hello but how do you feel about this i mean just listening to and the interview that he gave to us earlier i mean do you feel optimistic for snowden that i mean he's sort of they the airport limbo is finally nearing the end or there might be some other twists and turns in this matter well i think that's a look at the evidence and this was

a point that you made while we were off air but i think the evidence suggests that he's just taken on a couple of thousand pages of pretty heavy literature and i'm not suggesting he's going anywhere. and it's not even i want to food for thought and guys going to set out to try and learn russian as well from scratch that that's going to be a pretty long process that he could be in there years. seriously though it seems to me that. is making headway i think the message that he's giving out is that definitely he's making progress we're close to some form of decision from the russian authorities but because of the unprecedented nature of the case that there are probably a few extra eyes that need to be dotted and t's that need to be crossed so everything has to be in place properly before he steps out of the airport and then . then again he has to get his a temporary asylum paper absolutely to start as everybody is saying and hoping for a new start and you live here speaking of which i mean what sort of options lined the table for snowden even you mean should he choose to stay in moscow well you

know it was an enormous metropolis about fourteen million people live here it's full of shit it was literally surprised want to see it once he comes out of the airport and the chance to look around well of course he will i mean anybody who's lived here will tell you that the quality of life here is definitely improved the park parklands are absolutely fantastic now and i think people are a lot happier with their lot than they were a few years ago having said that there's also a new story that we've been looking at online that says that moscow is the second most expensive city in the world for experts so snowden snowden might be able to take a position perhaps as a security agent for one of the big banks based on a specific whatever it is has got to be a high paying job all right well ira for now thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and views with us throughout. the day and right now we can get more perspective on what's happening with edward snowden from political activist jim killick who is joining us live jim thank you so much for being with us first off will snowden be safe from persecution once he leaves the share medo airport.

well i think that's a very hard thing to want to put or assume that he will be protected by the fact that not only has he applied for asylum into a government but also. in the world spotlight so we have to hope that of course he will be safe because i think he's got more things to tell me still the world a favor by exposing precisely what has been going on in the united states in the united kingdom gathering the world's information and making it readily available to the security services with very little oversight well you know at this point the information that we've had. that snowden's papers are being processed now as there are for. to be completed before he has a chance to leave the airport and than he is in for a way to get his asylum so before he gets that what are your thoughts do you think russia should grant the whistleblower temporary asylum. well i do i think i think

russia should i also think actually lots of other countries including the western european countries in the european union countries should have. offered him asylum as well no i think it's pretty disgraceful that a lot of countries including britain did their best to stop snowden from seeking asylum you know people have a right to asylum. it's important that people from whatever government can say i think my government has been doing wrong and has been breaching people's human rights and i need to apply for asylum in order to be able to speak out about it edward snowden if he went back to the states i think he would face enormous problems speaking out he may well be confined there in the way that the united states is treated bradley manning gives nobody any comfort that he would be treated fairly and humanely so i think you know the country should have been offering him

asylum and european union is currently trying to negotiate tougher previously laws through the data protection regulations and we find the not only the united states but the united kingdom and been breaching people's privacy rights and merely for stating this and letting everybody know he should have been entitle to asylum in france or britain or any of those countries. well let's now. talk about how our granting asylum to edward snowden by russia will affect the relations between the u.s. and russia what's your take very briefly for cancer well again. yes very briefly i'm sure that the united states will be very angry about this i'm will want russia to let make edward snowden even sponsors possible or even hand him over

russian should resist not because the right thing to do for the american people is to let him speak freely and give him his freedom political actors jim kelly thank you so much for joining us here in r.t. and sharing your views of us here. and i'll be back with more news after her abroad to stay with us. after costing trillions of dollars charge for fighting personal freedoms and ingratiating rent seeking corporations can anyone claim the u.s. in the world is any safer from the insidious plans of terrorists and what is the difference between an act of terrorism in western style humanitarian intervention.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images are world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled the day.

live. welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now let's turn to the rest of the day's stories and july is not over yet but it's already become the deadliest month in iraq this year the country's north has just suffered a brutal gun attack on a police h.q. followed by a roadside bomb blast that claimed the lives of at least fourteen people citizen towns all across iraq are being devastated by similar attacks and suicide bombings by insurgents i don't know most daily basis but late on sunday the terrorist group

took the scale of their attacks to a different level by laying siege to to keep prisons and freeing up to a thousand inmates including al qaeda followers more than fifty people were killed during those brazen prison assaults by adding this number to the soaring casualty figures coming from various parts of iraq since saturday we get to a shocking death toll of one hundred eighty seven in four days alone this brings us to the latest estimates which sadly show july's already seen more than seven hundred twenty civilians die in the bloody turmoil middle east blogger says past assurances that iraqi authorities will be able to get a grip on security in the country we're nothing but a myth. let's go back and look at the backdrop of the american with the role was sold on the back of there is a government now that can maintain security that it has troops that have been trained by the americans but we're seeing now is they're being completely exposed i mean they cannot protect their own facilities and obviously there's hardly

a threat isn't an easy threat to contain but again it speaks of the weakness of the iraqi government but that weakness isn't only a security weakness really weakness there is not having a broad political consensus on the direction that iraq needs to move forward into because you can't have security solutions in isolation from genuine political party participation and political. solution that such as fire all the major forces in iraq. kind of linked extremists are continuing to hold about two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria including women and children the kurds in the area have been trying to protect their homes and have a fighting between jihad as forces and syrian government troops are disposed in your reports 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. and rice along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where i'll notice where and other al qaeda affiliated groups have been operating it looks as if these extremist groups are now literally 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 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 themselves 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. meanwhile washington's eased congressional hurdles to arming the rebels moscow has reiterated weapons deliveries would go against previous agreements and the future peace conference on syria the opposition coalition has undergone a series of shifts in its leadership but still suffers from a chronic lack of unity. looks at who exactly is fighting present. 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 sad 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 to the eighty two al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq over the weekend freeing high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters on the issues agenda seem 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 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. now the days of harsh copyright regulation could soon be gone for good in finland as you can learn right now by logging on to our website all the finnish farmlands will malo law called the common sense in copyright act which was completely drawn out by the public more on the breakthrough legislation at ardsley dot com. and just another click away online these replica gummy heels look quite real but can shoot at that however was no argument for security staff at a new york airport who banned them from being taken on board.

now a number of leading companies and german industry have accused the chancellor of following policies toward russia there are damaging the nation's business interests giants like tons siemens and volkswagen were among one hundred eighty companies and the unions lobbying for their interest in eastern europe the group believes merkel's government is not paying enough attention to its relations with russia and wants to see a new strategy to prevent relations cooling and further here that are closer ties between the markets of russia and the european union with business leaders also criticizing politicians and the media for their negative portrayal of russia are just bitter all over reports from berlin. this report has come out it's been published by the committee on eastern european economic relations now what that is essentially is a group of almost two hundred of the the biggest companies in germany now they were polled about. how they do business and how they see the relationship between

between germany and russia with fifty four percent of them saying that the relationship has deteriorated in recent times now fifty percent of those who were polled said the reason for that deterioration was the foreign policy of chancellor angela merkel and the fact that russia hadn't been given the required importance in that foreign policy. germany is russia's major trading partner in europe it's billions worth of euros of trade between the two countries free every year so it's seriously a quite a big deal economically also this could be seen as something of a a warning shot to chancellor merkel there is an election coming up in september and her main opposition in that election is. now he has called for a change of attitudes towards russia saying that germany should be less competitive

and more understanding to its russian partners and this is what's being echoed by the business leaders the as the director of this committee for eastern european economic relations told me those jobs that generated by the russian market are integrity to germany. our business is really to have to have the fundament to have the relationship very close and i cannot make ties we have a lot of energy toys 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 or 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 trade now nearly half of guantanamo prisoners will have their cases reviewed the boards are to decide whether the inmates still constitute

a threat to america that merits continued detention it took the u.s. government more than two years to carry out this plan or by president obama out of one hundred sixty six prisoners currently held at guantanamo bay seventy one inmates will get paroled style hearings most haven't 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 of the rest only nine have been charge six of whom are awaiting death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes eighty six others are also ineligible for reviews because they were cleared for release long time ago well earlier we talked to john eisenberg one of the prisoners lawyers he says that while parole hearings may be a welcome step toward shutting the facility it's still not enough to make inmates stop their hunger strike which is nearing its six months in the case of these detainees the see when they're trying to make is stop are indefinite detention and

it's inhumane that 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. so the senate and that's happened 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 on tom obey has become now a reminder of our breaking news this hour the lawyer assisting added snowden has announced the whistleblower will not be leaving the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport today as have been expected because his paperwork is not ready and he said he can't name an exact date when the x.e. i eman will be able to enjoy refuge in russia on

a daily to rana confirmed that the whistleblower wants to remain in russia indefinitely and has been stuck in sure made for more than a month now ever since arriving from hong kong well it's not yet mill where snowden will had now but we'll be bringing you the very latest as we get it and some cotton thrust abate next here on our t.v. crossed up with peter lavelle. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports but i'm like. no i'll leave them to stay please comment on your latter point to say it's secure yeah they can it's on the docket no.

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