edward snowden could make russia his home but still lacks the paperwork to walk out of. the us was a blow is still waiting for a decision on his asylum application. the n.s.a. data collection program the snowden exposed will stay in place as the u.s. congress narrowly rejects legislation that was aimed at curbing the government spying activity. at. northwestern spain killing at least sixty and injuring more than one hundred in one of the worst accidents in decades. and the u.k. launches an ad campaign to persuade illegal immigrants to text for advice on how to become legal.

a very good morning to you from all of us here. live on our t.v. with your world headlines the fugitive american whistleblower edward snowden is still waiting for the paperwork which will allow him to leave his limbo when a moscow airport transit zone if he receives it today as some expect he'll be greeted by the glare of the world's media who've been waiting for him to come out since he arrived from hong kong over a month ago snowden has applied for temporary asylum here in russia is apparently willing to settle down. joining us live from just outside the airport for the latest on this good morning to you lindsay the media circus continues everyone waiting for him yesterday he didn't show his head any chances today what do you know. good morning roy well according to his advisor anatoly could

check into it could be today it could be tomorrow it could be early next week he says the document should be in edward snowden's hands in the coming days but let me tell you something for those of us waiting outside it feels like an eternity and i'm sure to mr snowden it does as well yesterday was a very active and stressful day here at the hair port for everyone waiting for mr snowden to emerge and when that document didn't show up there was a lot of disappointment he's been inside for over a month and it's just it's just keeps on going and going now it's important to clarify what this document means now it's a formal notice essentially that federal migration services is considering his bid and it is officially in process what that gives edward snowden is close to three months to move about freely in the country until he gets that document in his hands he cannot leave the transit zone so it's a very important document for him to get before them and now after that three

months that's when the final decision from federal migration services will come through if it is a favorable decision on edward snowden's behalf he plans to settle here pursue work and call russia home if it's unfavorable he plans to appeal that decision that points to just how serious he actually is about calling the russian federation his future home now this came as a huge surprise to the world's media to diplomats and politicians like it was initially seen as a transit area for edward snowden a russia that is on his way to another country but as we all saw just after he landed here coming out of hong kong when he didn't appear on the flight to cuba suspicion started to grow what is the next move and now we know from him that it does seem to be calling russia to his home and of course leaving the russian airspace to get to another country for him is dangerous if you want to stay out of the clutches of u.s. government. saw this on july twenty third incident of the president of bolivia

a plane being forced to land on a suspicion that edward snowden was on board so it behooves him to stay out of the us. to stay here in russia this is playing out much like a catch me if you can situation he could if given those documents. all of our. downtown. moscow unbeknownst to the world's media could slip out a side door but for those of us who've been on stakeout night and day it seems since he landed we will be keeping a very close eye on not only doors that. suspected that he will be using the airport but also on police presence here because yesterday when those dozens of police started gathering on the first floor of terminal we knew something was up and of course we will keep our eyes and our twitter accounts locks on the door all day today you can be sure.

thank you well in the meantime i was. again. reiterating to. display of double standards saying the u.s. routinely ignored. extradition of individuals wanted on charges as serious as terrorism now if he was sent home snowden could be tried for espionage for revealing the scope and details of america's surveillance program. explains obama's war on whistleblowers that leaves little doubt as to what would happen. by relentlessly going after whistleblowers here we picked some of the most notable ones the us government is sending a message this is what's going to happen to you if you speak out even if you think you're doing it for the public good even if the public things you did the right thing in edward snowden's case fifty five percent of americans consider him

a whistleblower not a traitor and yet even as many americans are thinking to snowden for greater awareness about the government's blatant snooping on millions of absolutely innocent people snowden still had to flee the country so was not to share the fate of his fellow whistleblowers had he state he would have been in jail facing life in prison or maybe even the death penalty the example of bradley manning is right there the twenty five year old u.s. army private bradley manning has been in custody for three years now and is facing more than one hundred fifty years in jail many leaked documents and videos that exposed war crimes committed by the u.s. the military judge has recently ruled that manning still has to face the most serious charge the charge of aiding the enemy despite many claims that he's sole intent was to make the public more aware of the cost of war the human cost another whistleblower former cia analyst john king also thought he was doing the right thing when he spoke about the cia's torture practices and became the first government official who confirmed waterboarding at one time to get out who was the

head of the cia's counterterrorism operations in pakistan father of five kid out who is now in jail serving his two and a half years sentence former n.s.a. employees william binney and thomas drake were very close to jail time after they separately blew the whistle on the government's massive surveillance program which they saw as ineffective an illegal they were both indicted on the espionage act needless to say their careers were destroyed edward snowden's revelations have only confirmed would be drake had been saying for years but possibly unlike binney and drake snowden has also made public indisputable proof of the existence of the programs i had the chance to interview three of these men john kiriakou william binney and thomas drake they talked to me about what it's like being targeted by the u.s. government take a listen to your in its soul his control. and what people will do when they're fearful is they were you will begin to censor themselves so much of what's

happening now particular my case it sent it extraordinarily chilling message that anybody and i was a senior executive the government had a very high position and. it sends that extraordinarily chilling message that if you speak out if you speak up we're going to hammer you and we're going to hammer you hard because look what we did to mr drake i never believed i would be going to prison under a president obama never. that's been i think my biggest disappointment the classified documents that daniel ellsberg leaked four decades ago revealed that the u.s. government had lied about the vietnam war and those revelations contributed to the erosion of public support for the war daniel ellsberg was the first whistleblower who was charged under the espionage act the government went after him with all he had wiretapped him without a court warrant broke into his therapist's office trying to find something to discredit him with the judge dismissed all charges against ellsberg due to the

gross government misconduct and illegal evidence gathering today daniel ellsberg stands in support of all these whistleblowers arguing had he been charged today he would have most probably gone to jail in washington i'm going to shake him and in the meantime the u.s. house of representatives has blocked an amendment that would have curbed the n.s.a.'s vast collection of phone records it was a narrow defeat of just twelve votes for the legislation reflecting deep divisions in congress early and my colleague bill dog he discussed the amendment with pete ashdown the owner of an internet service provider which has been shielding his clients data from the n.s.a. for years. i think that the only solution for keeping the n.s.a. from spying on people on the internet is people using encryption and then having service providers that are willing to stand up and stand against broad surveillance and wholesale monitoring now what about this amendment is it more about party

politics and trying to embarrass obama than generally really trying to protect people's interests. well i. hope that something good is coming out of washington but you know i'm certainly there's there's a lot of that going on and i want to put it past the republican party for trying to do that but you know there are many in congress who are calling edward snowden a traitor and a criminal when in fact i think it's a people in the n.s.a. who are the criminals who are not following the constitution and have perjured themselves in front of congress these are these are people we cannot trust and it's a time that we saw that them or shut them down the whole self surveillance the doing of americans is part of my america i would like to see it stop. well with or without legislation against collecting phone data threat to personal information is apparently still out there leading german cyber security specialists has discovered that millions of sim cards can be hacked in just one minute with

a single hidden text message today on our website r.t. dot com we're asking if that makes you worried about your phone being broken into ok we're taking your policy at r.t. dot com and see how our voters are stacking up for this hour here are the numbers well the overwhelming majority seventy percent ultimately saying they're unimpressed by the threat saying there are plenty of ways to steal data besides this down to a very distant second position sixty percent young people are alarmed they could even stop using their cell phone over this though it's probably pretty unlikely ten percent though it's hoping it's a floor that can be fixed by the manufacturers down to four percent now well perhaps they don't believe they don't believe it's actually possible to hack the phones it's too hard to carry out such a threat was still a gauge in your opinion r.t. dot com don't hesitate to get involved with just cast your vote whenever you feel like. the mean time here on the program or at least sixty people were killed when a high speed train ran off the rails in northwestern spain more than one hundred

other passengers were injured in the dead leaves to crash in decades and more the chief forgive us madrid based correspondent now has to do shows on this horrific accident. this is of course one of the worst accident train accidents had that happened spain the worst certainly that we can remember for the past four years and the first one to you know how to speak lane like the one involved as far as go there's still no confirmation from the governess what could have caused the train to derail at least the ministry of homeland has discarded completely the possibility of a terrorist attack and now speculation leads to believe that this accident could be the consequence of speeding as a lot of people arriving at the scene actually emergency services asked the neighbors to help with. even with to turn on the lights sell their cars to eliminate the zone emergency services have of course. and just install their phone

number for the family for the families to call to. make contact with the services. we know that local authorities are already the minister of. one we have two of the government is already there. you can log onto our website r.t. dot com for the very latest on this accident you'll find the photos and the reports from the witnesses as well as reaction from spanish officials. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today i'm wrong re sushi the u.k. government is opening up

a new front in its struggle to deal with illegal immigration vans carrying signs urging immigrants to seek free advice on how to go home and how to appear on the streets of london and this isn't the first initiative like this and the fight with immigrants begins or even before they arrive earlier ministers considered an advertising campaign to stress the negative parts of life in britain hoping to thwart off the potential immigrants of those who still arrived there were especially people from asia and africa will be forced to pay three thousand pound bomb before they enter britain and the money will be returned only upon that departure and if you want to apply for citizenship well there's a new version of the citizenship test coming into force this week with questions about the u.k.'s our history and culture and you can see a few examples of the questions are on the screen right there. looked at the collapse of the idea of multiculturalism and whether the new anti immigration initiative will cut the immigration waves even further. this is barking and

dagenham one of six london boroughs where vans with massive billboards like the one behind me with a message go home or face arrest will be driving around london in the next week this is the latest attempt of the u.k. a home office to would deal with illegal immigration in the country they say they want to encourage a voluntary leaving of the country and i would also advertise a number that can be texted by immigrants to ask for help and how to leave the country on their own accord now the home office says that voluntary returns are the most cost effective way of dealing with illegal immigration with about twenty eight thousand departures last year and the immigration officer minister mark harper had said of the message essentially is that there is an alternative to being led away in handcuffs however this program has received a lot of criticism and we have spoken with a david colburn of the u.k. independence party we're awfully horrified i mean this is like the one who is like

the nazis going around was to with trucks it's dreadful it's discriminatory it's unpleasant it makes the country luke extremely unpleasant indeed and not something that i told british and something that i'm absolutely convinced the vast majority the british public would not put up with it's not the fault of the immigrants is the fault of the government collecting them in the control over the great britain should be controlled by our parliament and should not be controlled by the european union we also spoke with the migrant rights network to see how this might impact communities and what kind of reaction it could get from illegal immigrants and the locals alike. the minister has chosing very diverse areas of london to drive this vine around and what it will do is actually create suspicion of immigrant communities people who might look for in one way or another and we think the government should be trying to be promoting good community relationships

rather than trying to to be stoking fear within communities and all of this falling under an active push by the government to make britain more difficult and as has been reported a more hostile environment to unwanted immigrants reporting from london i'm tests are cilia and i'm mohammad but councillor in the london bar of bradenton believes the government risks radicalising and isolating those who are illegally staying in the u k. illegal immigrants they are here for a reason the probably scared of going back home because return back home i just cannot see how this trip they're trying to use to flush out people is going to work just cannot work because i can't see people responding to these text it could actually backfire on the home office there is bound to be some impact on the community in my community where people feel stigmatized isolated and divided the top of language that's being used from the holding will actually push people

further underground marshallese right the most vulnerable people like women and children who end up being exploited and end up in criminality all right still ahead for you here on r t a the hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison could finally be getting a reaction at the u.s. senator biden he said to debate the possible closure of the facility with the status of dozens of inmates also finally getting a review. it's good to have you with us or not to you today at two point five billion euro bailout tranche for greece has been held back and told the country delivers on the last condition that involves transferring thousands of public sector workers greeks are now desperate for help quarter of them living below the poverty line and even the brightest are unable to find a job. going off this report. forties has a master's degree in engineering management you got it in the u.s. and hoped it would help him find

a job in greece but for months now this logistics mastermind hasn't been able to find a use for his skills he says business is are simply afraid of hiring new staff because there is all these unstability they don't know what will happen in the two or three months later so there is zero investment going on in the market highly educated people are unable to find work are becoming as common pleas here as strategies in a greek salad officially two out of three grads in greece or now unemployed it's not only about graduates most of all can find a decent job even of a master's degree have also decided to stay in science often forever as well leading to an academic deadlock that so far even the brightest minds haven't been able to crack because of the latest star city measures by greece's creditors the so-called troika around seven hundred fifty scholars all ph d. holders elected to serve as faculty members of the national academy can't be officially appointed to their ports stuck in unpaid limbo they're also unable to

use existing research facilities even if they are willing to do so for free but that just finished their ph d.'s and want to give things to education and to thirty veltman of the country cannot have it just held hostage just waiting for their plane men they don't have money they are looking for other jobs to survive according to a recent study by the university of bristol or nicky over one hundred twenty thousand professionals including scientists have left greece since two thousand and ten and as the troika continues pressing athens with the new austerity measures in exchange for financial aid the potentially catastrophic brain drain the country is experiencing is either being noticed or deliberately ignored you go to school of athens greece and a financial adviser george got sick yes you told us here at r t that the greek government needs to think outside of the box in order to try and combat the high level of unemployment. from this point where you know there needs to be

a major shift in policy to address the issues of unemployment and the middle class suffering which is a huge problem with this lesson with the medical condition the banking sector has been saved the structural reforms which are needed for the general population to benefit from these measures have not taken place here that there are a multitude of deeper forms at least be made especially in the public sector which are given. i think this is the main problem. i think like cyprus which was a very similar and the problems recently a lot of people feel that the solution outside the union makes sense and also brings a rather alternative point of view to the table as he looks at the state of europe's public debts and the growing unemployment for the full show beginning at seven thirty am g.m.t. for now though a short period. the u.k.'s business secretary vince cable as compared the

bank of england to the taliban vince cable saying that the bank of england are jihadi for insisting banks have minimum capital reserves then then this is all boy as i've said for years the bank of england are indeed like the taliban but only because they provided this safe haven for their jihadi banking fraud is strapped on the debt pact suicide vests and blew up the entire frickin economy. and that same taliban central bank is now papering over the bloody aftermath with little pieces of digital paper. do stick around if you can for the cars report here on r.t. for the meantime though on the program the u.s. senate has held a hearing on the closure of guantanamo bay prison at the first since two thousand

and nine and five years after obama's pledge to close it down many detainees will now have their cases reviewed by a special panel which will decide whether they should remain behind bars most haven't even been charged with any crime due to a lack of evidence but they were considered too dangerous to be released this report to. this is the first significant congressional hearing that has been held since two thousand and nine course president obama vowed to close this base back in two thousand and nine and that has not happened to date this hearing comes as a hunger strike is underway act one tottenham obey dozens of detainees are still engaging in that strike some of them are being force fed we heard some testimony today there were some activists that showed showed up in their orange prison jumpsuit in protest of this we had some lawmakers testify against this calling it

a moral we also heard from a military physician that said that this is contrary to the military code of ethics certainly a lot of fear there among several republicans that what exactly these detainees would do where they would be sent so whether or not this hearing would have gone on to if this hunger strike did not take place it's unclear but certainly lawmakers here have taken notice and a. lawyer for one of the prisoners at guantanamo bay she says of the time for hearings and just pasta long time ago when frankly the u.s. government has got to act. what we heard today were not any concrete steps that the congress or the president are going to take to close the base but we heard more talk which is heartening that the base will be closed but at this time we would like less talking a little bit more action as president obama still has not appointed an envoy in the department of defense to effectuate the closure of the base and there's still not

been designated a separate and alternate site for the prisoners that will be transferred reviewing the status of these men is again another step towards possibly clearing their men for release but again the review boards decisions are in no way binding it is as we've seen eighty six men have been cleared by previous reviews and remain held at the camps. before we get to prime interest or let's jump into the odds you will start with iraq this morning or at least twenty two people have been killed dozens injured in a spate of attacks and bombings in the deadliest of. truck drivers were shot dead after militants stopped the cars of a makeshift checkpoint that followed attacks on security vehicles and checkpoints as well as a bomb blast at a market in baghdad the violence has claimed over seven hundred lives in july of. egypt where the public prosecutor has ordered the arrest of the leader of the

muslim brotherhood mohamed that by the age of a senior is the most officials are accused of inciting violence and instability a body has been detained before but was later released after the army ousted president morsy about three weeks ago. and hard line islamists have already called on their supporters to again hit the streets more mass rallies expected for friday . and to the philippines hundreds of taking to the streets of manila to protest against beijing's claims on islands in the south china sea and the machos them on china leave the disputed area and huge state of being overbearing and arrogant beijing seized shoal outcrop last year an area which the philippines considers its own territory. just an in-depth look in just a moment here at odds with the financial headlines about coming up with prime interest however i'm back in half an hour with more of the world's top headlines.

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allow and welcome to prime interests i'm perry and boring and i'm bothering bush and here's the story that we're tracking today. on the team and what the headlines in the media suggest the security intervenes for the mission and alleging however the f.c.c. is simply investigating whether the new crypto currency they're being used as a tool to war investors and to an illegal investment scheme now whether or not this is true the smear campaign against alternative currencies continues in a press release the f.c.c. stated quote investors should understand that regardless of the type of investment the promise of high returns with little or no risk is a classic warning side of fraud well don't tell that to fab you and freddie at least try.