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

from all studious internal screen this is on t.v. twenty four hours a day after more than a month cooped up inside the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport 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 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. 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 out piece of paper over to edward snowden which would then allow edward snowden to him however it transpires that would just simply. exactly what we. saw edward snowden does 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 his asylum application is granted for the time being he has to remain in the transit zone here at sheremetyevo airport. we managed to talk to the human rights lawyer who is been who has been assisting snowden and overseeing the entire process he gave a small 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. today there was some misinformation peepers are still being considered but 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 that will enable snowden to leave the airport take to issue. well i think this situation will be resolved shortly at 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 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 this bad but unfortunately i was on the able to do anything because they were around this please send me some immediately when i came in and. i had some of.

those books in english. and i had several shorts pounce 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 you for a school because he'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 is trying to look. 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 he said hello to a lot of them and for all the people who call them for money all for their homes temporary is against this is basically what i talked to him about edward snowden spent more than a month in the transit center in what's turned out to be

a very long layover. discuss the whistle blows possible plans with auntie's 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 that's what brought the media scrum out of the airport to something gone wrong because we didn't get the paperwork well yet 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 snowden is snowden's 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 they're really what the russian authorities want putin was saying he doesn't want to 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 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 issue so 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. washington meanwhile is insisting that russia should hand over the whistleblower so

he could face the multiple criminal charges filed against him but he's got a chicken has more on this. 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 lady lending their country send most of those countries did not want to spoil relations with the u.s. over edward snowden including russia by the way and russia just 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. can now get to more reaction on the snowden saga by speaking to the leader of the u.k. power apology laws. snowden says he wants to stay in russia on the condition that he will not now do any more harmful leaks for which could affect the u.s. so what sort of message is he sending to whistle blows in effect is he surrendering now. well i'm hoping that at least today's developments signaling at least the beginning to the end of the legal limbo that snowden has found himself in

but it's clear that actually that we he needs he needs to find a final destination that will allow him to continue to speak out and offer him the kind of protection that whistleblowers deserve now a lot of people have been criticizing snowden's. actions and where he's ended up but the real point is this he has no other options he's had no other choices and that's because the european governments failed to step up it's i'm very sorry that european governments have chose to rebuff his applications for asylum if we want to protect the principle of freedom of speech of the right to know the what the right to work blow the whistle then we need to be acting as europeans to offer him the kind of protection that he needs so why do you think he has been shunned by those european countries which after all were being spied on by the. well

absolutely this story is the effects all of us in europe and it affects all of us globally this is about global mass surveillance but the reason is clear that that european politicians have far far too long actually fallen in to after the americans it's time that we had politicians that stood up and said stop enough we will we will actually stand up for the principle of freedom of speech we will stand up for the principle of asylum that's for example why we as a pirate party movement of been putting pressure on the european parliament to stand up for these rights that's why the pirate party m.p.'s put forward a bill in the icelandic parliament. that would give snowden citizenship there that would give him the protection that means but that will only happen if we get more pair of politicians like us who are willing to stand up and say no the

plight of. manning surely doesn't that not put off whistle blows though and people like yourselves you're saying this should be much greater freedom of information and what they've done if they really achieved anything though at the expense of their own lives is in effect i mean their lives will never be the same whatever that. yes well we've seen that this is very broad horrible chilling effect and but i'm glad there are people like manning and there are people like snowden who are willing to stand up and these will not be the last whistle blowers if this if the united states government thinks that this story is going away they're very much mistaken and there are far too many questions still to be serves which been brought up by the snowden revelations for example here in the united kingdom what is the what is the u.k. government's role what about the temple or a program about the scooping up of masses of information the fiber optic cables

between the u.k. and the united states far from actually stopping stopping people wanting to speak out there's actually more people are now rallying to say it's time to stop mass surveillance snowden's biggest fear was actually there would be no effect from this but that's the reverse that we're seeing more and more people are willing to step up and ask the questions that need answering about mass surveillance this mass surveillance will not keep us more secure it puts is more dangerous citizens it turns us from citizens into suspects little u.k. parvati thank you very much indeed for joining us live on r.t. thank you well i just remind you can head to our web site 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. 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 roadside bomb blasts 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 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 and by having this number to the soaring casualties 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 which show that july is already seen more than seven hundred twenty civilians die in the bloody turmoil middle east blogger col sharon says that close to shore it says that the iraqi authorities will be able to get a grip on security in the country with nothing but

a myth bets go back and look at the backdrop of the american withdrawal was told on the back of there is a government now that can maintain security that it has troops out been trained by the americans but we're seeing now is they 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 weak. but the weakness isn't only a security weakness really weakness there is not. sensors 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 satisfy all the major forces in iraq. red lights green light almost all for the guantanamo detainees will get the old style hearings on all those who have been cleared for release trapped inside prison walls . after the break.

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. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations today.

wealthy british style holds a. right. to. find. out what's really happening to the global economy. the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. used continues here in ontario canada linked extremists are continuing to hold about two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria including women and children because in the area been trying to protect their homes amid heavy fighting between jihad his 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 our of the ad and rice are 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 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 the turkish backed syrian opposition that has not given them any assurances of promises as to a division of syria after president bashar assad. just reminder you can check out the stories we're not covering in our news updates but still keeping an eye on it all t. dot com mostly for member of the scandalous to see rather than. a russian court once again denied parole for maria alyokhina it's lined up there for you at the moment and also. drowning in drones the u.s. expands as 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 love tanser siemens and votes five and 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 key to that or 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 artie's peter of a reports now from. 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 to tear ration 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 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 true 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 would 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 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 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 eighty six others are also in the legible for reviews because they were cleared for release long ago when earlier we talked to john eisenberg he's one of the prisoners laws and he says that while parole hearings may be a welcome step toward shutting down the facility still not enough to make him stop the hunger strike which is nearing its six month. in the case of these detainees the statement they're trying to make is stop are a definite 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 is by hunger striking and it is very much get in the world's attention that's the purpose of it i believe

international pressure i believe pressure from members of the senate in the 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 we 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 a spot outrage among workers and led to concern over people's safety. has been. when there's a fire you may have to wait a little longer for help to arrive that's the fear of those campaigning against london mayor boris johnson proposed cuts to the london fire rescue services that could lead to the closure of their neighborhood station is

a tragedy for for the borough of is that on. schools businesses houses and if we don't viable have to wait for trying to and from other regions there's just craziness as a stanley 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 reckless and if someone is trapped in a fog the difference between three minutes and minutes could be the difference probably will in many cases be the difference between life and death according to recently released figures the clocking of all fire station right here is one of the busiest in london the night that fact according to reports that it may not be

around much longer as this one of those earmarked for closure. for years all so it's been here for world was kings cross for seven seven zero one instance that 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 places that they're trying to do is quietly as possible we can believe that they're drawn so a false. sense of christ. before going to say that. the fire fighter and now government advisor has to streamline and and fire. 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 deaths are down calls it out so

it's roi to look again at the services he doesn't need to be the same for service where we had high numbers of deaths high number of calls and should it be reengineered transformed in a different way so 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 chiefs just don't want to close to stations initially earmarked glaucon well however is still on that list we continue following tonight sort of what we've done we carry on to. test our sylvia our team one day. i'll be back with more news with the new stephen hoffa now if not i mean tom how does an act of terrorism differ from western style humanitarian intervention going about and he's crossed all guess get to the bottom of that issue in just a few minutes after the break. the

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