the lawyer assisting edward snowden says the whistleblower don't believe the. had been expected because he's paperwork is not yet ready. to. try to gauge the many faces of the country's opposition. cross the border in iraq pushing the situation out of control group prison breaks and fresh terrorist attacks in what's been the bloodiest month in the country this year our top stories this hour.

a day. after more than a month the transit center. it had been expected whistleblower edward snowden would finally be allowed entry into russia today but the lawyer assisting him as announced that won't be happening as the paperwork is still not ready when it's got the latest now from. the airport what exactly is being going on there today. well the long and short of it. remains. he remains in the transit zone and it was widely thought that today was going to be the day that he would finally be allowed to enter russia he's waiting for a piece of paper now we know that he's applied for temporary asylum in russia. are considering whether to. when they make that decision he will be given

a piece of paper a temporary visa if you like that will help him to enter russia properly now it was widely expected that today was going to be the day that he was going to get his hands on that piece of paper but basically the paperwork still hasn't been processed in the federal migration service still haven't decided whether they're going to process his application or not by his legal representative anatoly did arrive. at around four o'clock this afternoon and he was carrying a bag and the world's press was watching and waiting with anticipation expecting him to hand that piece of paper over to edward snowden which would then allow edward snowden to a much however it transpires that in the was in fact just some books by russian office and a fresh change of clothes not the piece of paper edward snowden still stuck in transit at the moment now in terms of the actual process from here once he does get his hands on that piece of paper and he is allowed to enter russia that's when his application for temporary asylum will be processed and that could take up to three

months so this piece of paper will allow him into russia to move around freely for free for three months if the temporary asylum is then granted he's allowed to stay in russia for twelve months for a twelve month period and then that will be renewed on a rolling basis if he decides to settle and all indications from his legal representative from his legal advisor is that edward snowden is keen to remain in russia if he says asylum application is granted and not move on elsewhere as we were expecting of course to latin america so it looks as if he's keen to stay in russia but for the time being for at least several more days he has to remain in the transit zone here at sheremetyevo airport thanks very much indeed for that update from. scotland. well earlier we managed to talk to the human rights lawyer who's been assisting snowden and overseeing the entire process he gave us more details about today's goings on at the airport. there is

a procedure certain procedure for the federal migration service to follow it has to consider the request that had snowed in the. on the sixteenth of this month a request for temporary asylum should be considered for three months so some initial peepers were issued. but i'm quoting two general rules with the. this is what the federal migration service does when they study old papers but to come in for the. temporary document and they then they consider the request is in the front of today there was some misinformation peepers are still being considered i talked to migration authority almost daily as they work on edward snowden's case so how long might it take for this piece of documents that will enable snowden to leave the airport take to issue. i think this

situation will be resolved shortly to get to this point i'm not ready to give you a specific date because i want to avoid confusion as much as possible. because there was so many journalists present today probably because of this misinformation that we had in the media everyone's out curious about the brown bag that he carried in syria airports are 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 to see me with his bat but unfortunately i was on the able to do anything because they were showing us around this please send me some immediately when i came in. i had some of their. 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 him on this point he doesn't have a way to get you for a school because she's seen this special area inside the airport let's talk about his mood how do you look to you i mean did he feel excited of course he's trying to look for a. try institute of the situation he was in and he asked me to say hello to all the journalists covering this story in an objective. he said hello to all of them and for all the people who call them all for money all for their homes temporary is against this is basically what i talked to him about. when edward snowden has spent more than a month in the transit zone of water much turned out to be a very long layover let's not discuss whistleblowers possible plans with ortiz live across he and of course his immediate predicament. he was there at the airport as

a lot of expectation he was going to see the papers today and hundreds of journalists were there expecting the same why did a why was everybody expecting that to happen. had told the media that it would take about seven days normally for the federal migration service to make a decision today was day seven and hence there was a lot of media interest and that's what that's what brought the media scrum out to the airport to say this afternoon something gone wrong because he didn't get the paperwork well yes what happened was that legal and airport security sources had briefed a couple of russian agencies that there had been some movement on that something would happen today but you've got to you've got to look at the fact that this is an unprecedented case and i think it really came up against a couple of bureaucratic obstacles that perhaps he didn't expect and this is talk of temporary asylum and yet yesterday his lawyer was saying he's looking to putting his roots here in russia even getting at your peers so there's some confusion isn't there what is your talking about well i think snowden basically trying to get a piece of paper that gives him some form of status that he doesn't have right now

so he's looking at a one year visa culture and has told the media that if snowden's out asylum application is granted it will be for a one year visa and the message is also now that his final destination for the moment is russia. whether whether you take that at face value or not is down to your own opinion but he did say like it's interesting that he's bringing out they have ski and check of and and even there some russian language books for snowden to climate science is that really what the russian authorities want pushing was saying he doesn't want to upset he's american partners shouldn't they rather him leave well before a year yes yes there's a couple of issues there i mean if the former migration service official has said that while snowden would in principle be free to move around russia guaranteeing his security. could be a tricky issues there's a myriad of complex complications there that perhaps haven't been thought through but yes it's very clear that moscow does not want to snowden muddying the waters of the bilateral relations with the u.s.

and there's no question though that he will get this inside eventually or is there a question mark over the fact that the authorities here in moscow will grant him asylum but all we have to go on for that his statements and which are in his seems reasonably confident that some form of asylum will be handed over to to snowden and in the not too distant future whether snowden will come come out to the media and greet them and deliver a big press conference i doubt very much that comes back to vladimir putin's conditions that he does not want the n.s.a. whistleblower getting involved in bilateral relations between moscow and washington or you make a good point because clearly all the journalists the media today were expecting to see snowden in person when that time does come and he can step official to russian so will it be a public appearance i think all very discreet we won't know much about it in my opinion i don't believe snowden will be allowed near the media i think he'll be kept well away and i don't think moscow will allow him to issue any statements that may complicate relationships with washington i think putin's playing that very carefully well and the mystery continues in the meantime our thanks

a lot i have across here keeping abreast of the situation with the snowden saga frank you. well early in my colleague marina joshi spoke to a political activist jim killer can he says that edward snowden should be safe if and when he is granted asylum by russian feels that the countries that didn't stand up for the whistleblower should be ashamed. assume that he will be protected by the fact that not only has he applied for asylum to a government but also is 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 news to 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 i think russia should grant the whistleblower on temporary asylum. well i do i think i think russia should i also

think actually lots of other countries including the western european countries you know the european union countries should have. offered him asylum as well and i think it's pretty disgraceful that a lot of countries including britain did that 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 is being breaching people's human rights and i needs to apply for asylum in order to be able to speak about it. he live here moskos still to come this hour red light green light almost hall will be going to my detainees get parole style hearings all those who've been cleared for release unless kept inside prison walls or and that's after the break.

i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my fellow larry king now right here on r.t. question more. continues

here on r.t. let's turn to the rest of the day's news now 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 they claimed the lives of at least fourteen people cities and towns all across iraq are being devastated by similar attacks and suicide bombings by al qaeda insurgents on an almost daily basis but late on sunday the terrorist group took the scan of their attacks to a different level by laying siege to two key 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 just four days alone while this brings us to the latest estimates which sadly show that july is already seen more than seven hundred twenty civilians die in the bloody turmoil middle east blogger karl shadow's says that past assurances that the iraqi authorities will be able to get a grip on security in the country were nothing but a myth. let's go back and look at the backdrop of the american withdrawal was stored on the back of there is a government now that can maintain security that it has troops there have been trained by the americans but we're seeing now is that being completely exposed i mean they cannot protect their own facilities and obviously. this threat isn't an easy threat to contain but again it speaks of the weakness of the iraqi government but the weakness isn't only a security weakness really can is 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 all the major forces in iraq. are calling to extremists who continue 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 amid heavy fighting between jihadist forces and syrian government troops 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 north eastern syria now we understand that the hostages are being used as human shields the russian foreign ministry saying that they're mostly from could is 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 and right along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where al no

swear 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. 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 and 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 after president bashar assad pull a sliver in the israeli military intelligence says syria is turning into a center for global jihadists which will influence the entire region and they were taught to terrorism expert your time schweitzer from the israeli think tank the institute for national security studies users of push comes to shove israel can take up the challenge against the jihadists in syria. it seems time passes by buses by the the. salafi jihadists growing in numbers and the ineffective in the conflict and considered to be the most violent and the most professional among the be a position to fight them i think israel is not interfering in the same syrian conflict some elements for their own reasons trying to accuse israel of this kind of involvement the second i don't think that these are the should be interfering in this conflict. and. unless the

ease they wrecked attacks by the global jihadist against israel and the syrian army will not be able to contain them then in these cases it will have to do with the program by itself the syrian army on its side is very cautious not to get into fights with these because they know the results of. and you can check out the stories we don't show in our news bulletin on screen but still keeping an eye on r.t. dot com our web site no mercy for a member of the scandalous punk band more on why a russian court once again denied parole from earlier i love you it's lined up there for you right at the moment and. also drowning in drones the u.s. expands its much debated program by developing a brand new technology which will see a manned crafts launched under the sea. all

that and more on our web site at the moment r.t. dot com a number of leading companies and german industry have accused the chancellor of falling policies towards russia that are damaging the nation's business interests giants like tanser siemens involves five among one hundred eighty companies and unions lobbying for their interests in eastern europe the group believes that merkel's government is not paying enough attention to its relations with russia and wants to see a new strategy to prevent relations cooling any further or key to that of closer ties between the markets of russia and the european union with business leaders also criticizing politicians in the media for their negative portrayal of russia on artie's piece of reports now from burning. reporters 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 the relationship has deteriorated in recent times now fifty percent of those who were polled said the reason for that to tear ation was the foreign policy of chancellor angela merkel and the fact that russia hadn't been given the required importance in foreign policy. germany is russia's major trading partner in europe 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 been echoed by the business leaders 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 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 or 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. nearly half of the prisoners at guantanamo bay will have their cases reviewed to decide whether the inmates still constitute a threat to america that merits continued detention to the u.s.

government more than two years to carry out this plan ordered by president obama when out of one hundred sixty six prisoners currently held at guantanamo bay seventy one inmates will get parole style hearings most haven't been charged with any crime because there isn't enough evidence to hold a trial but it was still considered too dangerous to be released or the rest only nine have been charge six of whom are awaiting death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes or eighty six others are also in illegible for reviews because they were cleared for release long ago and earlier we talked to john eisenberg is one of the prisoners lawyers and he says that while parole hearings may be a welcome step towards shutting the facility it's still not enough to make inmates stop their hunger strike which is nearing its six month. in the case of these detainees the see when they're trying to make is stop aren't definite the attention 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 good 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 tappan through letters written by senator feinstein and senator durban 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 well when you need to slash spending even the most needed services can get steamrolled that's what's happening in london where authorities are taking a bite out of its fire brigades proposed station closures and job cuts of sparked outrage among workers and led to concern over people's safety on syria as mine. 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 network fire rescue services that could lead to the closure and the neighborhood station is a tragedy for for the borough of is that on. its schools businesses houses and if it catches on fire would have to wait for trying to and 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 eighteen engines axed and five hundred twenty jobs cut all to say forty five million pounds by two thousand and 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 a corking of all 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 this 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. one of the choices that is quietly as possible we can believe that they're drawn so far spice and such a. high priced for the paper and even before starts negative to say that. the firefighter and now government advisor has been to streamline and fire in. rescue services across england to save two hundred million pounds getting rid of

so-called inefficiencies the reality is that we're in a very difficult period of austar austerity down fraud deaths are down calls are down so it's roy to look again at the services he doesn't need to be the same fast 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 earmarked clark and well however is still on that list we will continue following tonight. we carry on to. test our sylvia our team one day. i'll be back with the news team in just over half an hour with more news for you here not in the mean time breaking the set from

washington is next after the break. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm likely to push you know i will leave that to state department to comment on your latter point i come to save. the security of a car as i'm going to talk you know it's going to. take you know more weasel words . when you paid a direct question me prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and let down the freedom to question. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly you think you understand it and then you glimpse

something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck is a big issue. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean. i believe that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so actually. it's a little worse for the little thing the white house or the. radio guy and for a minute. i want to look for a politician because you've never seen anything like this until.

you guys i'm out in march and this is breaking the sat so in today's chapter of corrupt cops i tell you what the case of pamela held a long island resident was pulled over because her card in the have an inspection sticker however when new york police found prescription drugs in the car she was taken to the station while there the n.y.p.d. began to interrogate her about where she had been that night so to prove that she is this it in a friend held gave one of the officers a security code to her cell phone and the cops left with their phone in hand and it wasn't until it held was released three hours later that she got the phone back but that's when she realized that twenty personal risque photos and five videos saved on her phone had been forwarded to the personal cell phone of one of the cops would interrogated her you heard me write this disgusting police officer take advantage of held attempt at providing her innocence prove your innocence sorry by forwarding her new photos and video.