the lawyer assisting edward snowden says the whistleblower won't leave the transit zone today as had been expected because the paperwork is not yet ready. in iraq is spiraling out of control with. prison breaks and fresh terrorist attacks setting record death tolls. and militants holed around two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in north eastern syria try to gauge the many faces of the countries. from our studio center in moscow this is r.t.

with you twenty four hours a day after more than a month cooped up inside the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport it had been expected whistleblower edward snowden would finally be allowed entry into russia today but the lawyer assisting him has announced that that won't be happening as the paperwork is still not ready for scott has the latest from outside the airport. edward snowden 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 on the federal migration service considering whether to process or not 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 proper 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. did arrive. at around four o'clock this afternoon and he was carrying a bag and. watching and waiting with anticipation expecting him to hand that piece of paper over to edward snowden which would then allow edward snowden to emerge however it transpires that would just simply. exactly to supply so edward snowden does remain in the transit. in terms of the actual process from here once he does get his hands on that piece of paper to 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 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 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 well earlier we managed to talk to the human rights lawyer who's been assisting snowden and overseeing the process who gave us more details about today's goings on at the airport. there is a procedure and a certain procedure for the federal migration service to follow it has to consider the request that we had word snowden. on the sixteenth of this month a request for temporary asylum should be considered for three months in the thought about today there was some misinformation peepers are still being considered but i

talked to migration authority. as they work on edward snowden's case so how long might it take for this piece of document that will enable snowden to leave the airport take to issue. i think this situation will be resolved shortly at 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 journalists to see me with his bag but unfortunately i was on the able to do anything because they were all around this place and they saw me mediately when i came in and. i had some. 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 would write some clothes for him on this point he doesn't have a way to get it for us clothes because he's seen this special area inside the airport let's talk about his mood how do you look to your i mean there he feel excited of course he's trying to look. he's trying to figure out the situation he was in and he asked me to say hello to all the journalists covering this story in an objective voice said hello to all of them and for all the people who call them all for money all for their homes temporary residence this is basically what i talked to him about edward snowden who spent more than

a month in the transit zone a shot to the airport in what's turned out to be a very long lead when i discussed the whistle blows possible plans with ortiz across. 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 of the airport to do something gone wrong because we 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 and 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 you didn't expect and there's talk of temporary asylum and yet yesterday his lawyer was saying he's looking to putting his roots here in russia even getting a job here so there's some confusion isn't there what is the other talking about well i think. 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. your own opinion but you 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 a climate science is that really what the russian authorities want putin was saying he doesn't want upset he's american partners sure wouldn't they rather him leave well before a year yes yes there's a couple of issues there i mean 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 complet 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 society eventually or is there a question mark over the fact that the authorities here in moscow will grant him asylum well. all we have to go on for that is statements and culture and it seems reasonably confident 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 there 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 you 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 earlier my colleague marina joshi spoke to political activist jim killer who says that snowden should be safe if and when he is granted asylum by russia and feels the countries that didn't stand up for the whistleblower should be ashamed. 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 new start the world a favor by exposing precisely what has been going on in the united states and 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 in

the european union countries should have. offered him asylum as well no think it's pretty disgraceful little 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 and to r.t. dot com to get all the latest updates expert analysis and background on the stand off between the u.s. government and the n.s.a. whistleblower. right to see it. first. and i think you're.

i. now let's turn to the rest of the day's news here on r.t. 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 the country 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 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 now 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 and this brings us to the latest estimates we showed that your lives already see more than seven hundred twenty civilians die in the bloody turmoil while middle east blogger culture shero says that past assurances that the iraqi authorities would 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 them american with the role was sold on the back of there is a government that can maintain security that it has troops 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. this 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 type security solutions in isolation from genuine political party

participation and political. such as spy all the major forces in iraq thirty minutes past the stilted red lights green light almost all of the guantanamo detainees will get a role style hearings and others who've been cleared for release trapped inside the prison. the next button on this is the break. more news today. these are the images.

from the streets of canada. operations are old today. choose your language. for the sake of it oh if you're going to. choose the consensus. choose to. choose the stories that if you. choose to accept. news continues here naughty extremists are continuing to hold about two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria including women and children because 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 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 ad and rice along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where are most where 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 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 off to president bashar assad and israeli military intelligence says that syria is turning into a center for global jihad is which will influence the entire region earlier we talked to terrorism expert your time schweitzer from the israeli think tank the institute for national security studies and he says if push comes to shove is road

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 effective in the conflict and considered to be the most violent and the most professional among to be a position to fight them i think israel is not interfering in the same syrian conflict some elements fold their own reasons trying to accuse israel of this kind of involvement the second i don't think that these are the should interfere in these conflicts. and. unless the ease they wrecked attacks by the global jihadist against israel and the syrian army would not be able to contain them then in these cases and we have to deal with the program by itself the syrian army on each side is very cautious not to get into

fights with these because they know the results of it. or check out the stories we don't show in our news updates but still keeping an eye on at r.t. dot com is a website online all the time no mercy for a member of the scandalous pussy riot punk band or m y a russian court once again denied parole for maria he had signed up there for you right now also. drowning in drones the u.s. expands its much debated program by developing a brand new technology which will see unmanned craft launched under the sea. a number of leading companies in german industry accuse the chancellor of following policies towards russia that a damaging the nation's business interests giants like lufthansa siemens and volkswagen were 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 well key to that a 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 and r.t. peter one of the reports now 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 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 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 fund arm and drew 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 work in 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 it's 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 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 they were still considered too dangerous to be released of the rest only nine have been charged but six of whom are awaiting death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes eighty six others are also in a legible for reviews because they were cleared for release long ago when it's have more on this now on the guantanamo plight from human rights campaigner carol grayson joining me live from the u.k. carol is this an effort to appease the critics to make it appear that there's some sort of legal path now being pursued at guantanamo because it's not clear that these parole hearings will actually make a decision on whether a prisoner should be released or not. it isn't etheridge but basically america has been abusing human rights for some time and has not been going along with with proper legal justice so i think this is basically the top show and we understand that eighty six of the inmates who have actually been cleared for release will not get these parole hearing so you do wonder why you're having these parole hearings

because if somebody is cleared for release are still going to stay in jail. exactly i mean for example. a number of people that have been cleared for release such as shock or arm or who should be coming home to the u.k. has been waiting for a long time and there's no movement on this and you know we're very disturbed by this act but are you encouraged by the fact that the u.s. authorities are now carrying out these hearings no not very encouraged. i mean obama said he was going to close down guantanamo you know when he came for his second term and i don't see this as going as far as it should. i mean i think basically in that people need to be heard for hotter than they are than they are being that they're not being heard at all and i'm very disturbed really about this hunger strike has been going on what since the beginning of the year it's got a lot of

a media lot of media attention now do you think perhaps this gesture by the authorities to have these hearings is as a result of this hunger strike in in effect is the hunger strike having some sort of impact. i think it is because it's drawing a lot more attention towards guantanamo i mean for example human rights lawyers reprieve they've organized a home to strike in solidarity with people in guantanamo detainees and a number of us are taking it in turns ourselves to go on hunger strike for example comedian frankie boyle went on hunger strike clive stafford smith lawyer was on hunger strike on hunger strike for a week and we're going to do this until there is some movement on guantanamo prisoners location of movement and reaction are you looking for from authorities or do you think the fact that you're going on hunger strike is this grabbing the people's attention in the u.k. for example do the people in the u.k. really bother about what's going on in guantanamo i think they are now because i mean for example before they the assumption was that everybody was in there that

was in there was guilty and now of course we know that many people have been cleared for release and they should in fact be going home so i think the hunger strike is definitely grabbing attention and we want to highlight the fact that we very strong very strongly against force feeding because what's happening now is that detainees are being force fed which is against their human rights it's a very humiliating and degrading process but there's a really be a violation of human rights of people who actually died in the prison and that is actually the responsibility for it is to keep people alive. well if you think about it everything is been taken from these detainees that had the freedom taken they've been taken away from the families the only thing that they have left to protest. is with their body and i am a former nurse i trained as a nurse and i would find it deeply an ethical i would not as

a nurse participate in force feeding i think it's against human rights there have been rulings on this and i think it's deeply disturbing that this is going on and also now of course it's ramadan and so there are you know there are big issues about force feeding at any time particularly now this is so abusive and against prisoners human rights and not respecting their religion and just briefly carol you talk about human rights when you don't challenge by people say well these these inmates are in there for a reason they're a threat to world security there for a very good reason and should stay there what do you say to that just very briefly we're very briefly many of these prisoners there's not been enough evidence to say that there is a danger to anybody so i know i mean frankly i would say look at america and the human rights record there. you know if you're going to look at terrorists look at the u.s. as a terrorist state and start asking questions about america's behavior in the world

caroline grayson thank you very much indeed for your thoughts live from new castle there in the u.k. thank you well this is all about where the news team in just over half an hour from now up next prime interest targets market titans accused of conducting financial fraud in broad daylight after that in half and i'll be back with more news with the . i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more.

good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry i'm going you know in both english and here's the stories that we're tracking today more details are emerging on the commodities manipulation front a 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 or that bernanke he knows 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 pleased and they're pressuring the thread to end the practice field so in goes don't fight the fed but in this case we can't help but root for the show here and speaking of market mean 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 he actually asked for that winds but under a new adata frank authority has commodity futures trading commission is the launching its first a market manipulation cave's against any firm and just another unintended consequence of monetary policy nearly five years in.