the lawyer assisting edward snowden says the whistleblower won't leave the transit zone today as had been expected because his paperwork is not yet ready. situation in iraq is spiraling out of control with al qaida prison breaks and fresh terrorist attacks. death tolls. and just across the border in syria militants linked to the same terrorist group holed up to two hundred kurdish civilians hostage to try to gauge the many faces of the country's opposition our top stories this hour.

live from our studios this is our t.v. twenty four hours a day after more than a month 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 won't be happening as the paperwork is still not ready. has the latest from outside the. 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. 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 properly now it was widely expected the 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 still haven't decided whether they're going to process his application or not now 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 out piece of paper over to edward snowden which would then allow edward snowden to emerge however it transpires that would. exactly. remain in the transit. in terms of the actual process from here once he does get. into russia that's when his application for temporary asylum will be processed and

not 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 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 asylum application is granted or for the time being he has to remain in the transit zone here at sheremeta airport. we managed to talk to the human rights lawyer who's been assisting snowden and overseeing the entire process who gave us more details about today's goings on at the airport. there is a procedure and it's 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 request for temporary asylum should be considered for three months. today there was some

misinformation peepers 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 this piece of document that will enable snowden to leave the airport take to issue . i think this situation will be resolved shortly to get to this point on that it's 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 when 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 this bad but unfortunately i was on the able to do

anything because there were journalists all around this please send me some immediately when i came in. i had some. tough times in. the history of russia history of. those books in english. and i had several short expanse 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 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. he 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 with him this is basically what i talked to him about it would snowden spent more than a month in the transit center shown to the airport in what's turned out to be a very long layover when i discuss the whistle blows possible plans and his predicament with auntie's i have a coffee. 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 there's something going 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 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 we 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 snowden's snowden is 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 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 they're 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 issue so 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. washington meanwhile is insisting that russia should hand over the whistleblower so he could face the multiple criminal charges filed against him what he's going to turn as more. the u.s. definitely wants him and one seemed really badly although president obama said the u.s. would not scramble jets to get snowden but we remember the incident with the with the plane of the belief in president the u.s. has allegedly put pressure on many countries not to accept snowden not to even let . lending their country send most of those countries did not want to spoil relations with the u. was over edward snowden including russia by the way russia from the from the very beginning moscow made it clear that they were not happy to receive so and they were surprised by that and that they would. rather see him leave the country as soon as

possible but we would he chose to stay because all the other routes were cut are for him he even had to agree to the condition put forward by president putin that he would not harm the u.s. while in russia but at the same time president putin made it clear and that's a quote for him from him he said russia's not going to extradite eighty one so washington should not expect that because he said no one extradite anyone to us remember russian officials point to twenty extradition requests in the past ten years which the u.s. never acted upon. and political activists jim says that it would snowden should be safe if and when he is granted saddam by russia and feels the countries that didn't stand up for the whistleblower should be ashamed. hume 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 in the united kingdom gathering the world's information and making it readily available to the security services with very little oversight 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 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 and you can head to r.t. dot com to get all the latest updates expert analysis and background on the

standoff between the u.s. government and the n.s.a. whistleblower. now let's turn to the rest of the day's news in 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 headquarters followed by a roadside bomb blast they claimed the lives of at least fourteen people cities and towns all across iraq have been 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 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 four days alone well this brings us to the latest estimates which show that your lives already see more than

seven hundred twenty civilians die in the bloody turmoil let's not discuss iraq's many wins with jim brown who's a spokesperson for stop the war coalition he's live there in london jim one would assume it takes a lot of planning and coordination to organize a breakout from these high security prisons is this indicative of just how powerful al qaeda is now in the country well it might be and it might be there is collaboration within the within the state. services within the prison service and so on. it's very hard to say how genuinely independent their days. but clearly it's a new stage or something something that hasn't happened in that way before and if iraqi authorities can keep these high secure prisons secure then just two civilians rely on now for security throughout the rest of the country.

yes i mean you've clearly got the makings of a sectarian civil war or the really stoking all of it and in a sense that's been on the cards on and off since right since the invasion of two thousand and three and clearly there are outside forces that are very much interested because it's a very very it's not just an internal or an arche thing it's very much a geo political thing concerning the whole region and of course it has to do with it reigne an influence or curbing iranian influence it has to do with neighboring states and so on and so it's very much power the cake so therefore doesn't that make the case solved western intervention is required once again. oh i don't i mean no i don't think i don't think that's acceptable at all i think

that can only aggravate the situation. i just don't think that they have any useful role to play but there is a chance is there not that al qaida could become more and more strong not just in iraq but syria and elsewhere throughout the region surely something has got to be done. i don't think they have that much of an independent existence. clearly they have to have some base in saudi arabia whether or not it's officially sanctioned and. they certainly they certainly rely on. gulf oil money and so on. so i don't think i don't think adding to the outside influence how things are told so where do we see this thing going jim it's getting worse and worse we just showed that the statistics before you and i were talking just how far is this

all going to go for the country what's its immediate future. may have to. it may escalate to the levels of two thousand and six two thousand and seven which is the worst since the invasion. but unfortunately don't think any other outside initiative can possibly persist with it of course you can you can hope that outside forces restrain themselves but. there's no central authority to convict. and to say that. there is no outside forces. not a negative thing it's just facing reality i think jim brown from stoppable coalition live in london thanks very much indeed fuel respectable not well still to come this hour red lights green lights almost all of the detainees will get parole

still be released while others to be cleared for release are left trapped inside the prison walls that after the break. nobody should. this is to me holds. to me and our sorrow. is that was for the show to. get in the six pm get out six be the six. day war room. school. to me the class people in those. days the word against her. it's hard to think about. and to know that many

may not have only been the last. should never be but there are also due to foreclosures that never should have. these continues here in r.t. al-qaeda linked extremists who continue 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 and made heavy fighting between she had his forces and syrian government troops on reports. in 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 of the ad and rice are 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 kurdish jihadists of course

there are still tensions between the kurdish groups themselves but it seems that at least for now they have found common ground against the extremists turkey of course is looking on with concern it's worried that if the kurds fight al qaida they will get support from the waist but on the other hand the kurds in cells are not keen on the syrian national council either and they have refused to join the turkish backed syrian opposition that has not given them any assurances or promises as to a division of syria off to president bashar assad. and israeli military intelligence as syria is turning into a center for global jihad as which will influence the entire region earlier we talked to terrorism expert your time schwarzer from the israeli think tank the institute for national security studies and he says that if push comes to shove israel can take up the challenge against the in syria. it seems time passed 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 opposition fighters i think israel is not interfering in the same syrian conflict some elements for their own reasons for trying to accuse israel of this kind of involvement the second i don't think that these are the should interfere in this conflict. and. unless. they wrecked attacks by the global jihad east 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. check out the stories we don't show in our news updates but we're still keeping an eye on for you at r.t.

dot com one story we're following for a member of the scandalous pussy riot a punk band with more russian court once again denied parole for maria alyokhina it's lined up there for the moment 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 have accused the chancellor of following policies towards russia that are damaging the nation's business interests giants like siemens and vaults fagen 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 peter 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. 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 that 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 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 to tension to the u.s. government more than two years to carry out this plan ordered by president obama well out of the 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 they were still considered too dangerous to be released of the rest only nine have been charged six of whom are awaiting death penalty trials and three have been convicted of war crimes and eighty six others are also in a legible reviews because they were cleared for release long ago while only were

told to join eisenberg is one of the prisoners lawyers and he says that while parole hearings may be a welcome step toward shutting the facility down it's still not enough to make inmates stop their hunger strike which is now nearing its sixth month. in the case of these detainees the statement they're trying to make is stop our indefinite detention it's inhuman it's brutal half of us have been cleared of cleared for release let us go the only way they can express that is by hunger striking and it is very much getting the world's attention that's the purpose of it i believe international pressure i believe pressure from members of the senate 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

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