find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. the fierce confrontation between the egyptian army and the muslim brotherhood turns of bloody more than seventy people are confirmed dead in cairo clashes with each camp blaming the other for inciting the violence. it's the stories that shaped the week here on our t.v. still transit limbo for edward snowden he was waiting for paperwork that will allow him to leave a moscow airport amid fresh threats from washington. the syrian national council agreed to take part in a peace conference but first demands that assad step down asked us to ship foreigners to the opposition now this comes as divisions within the rebel camp highlights the possibility of internal strife.

and joining in this hour you're watching the weekly right here on our t.v. with me catherine of where we begin in egypt where the confrontation between the military and the muslim brotherhood has intensified clashes between the supporters of the deposed president morsy and security forces on saturday have resulted in the deadliest violence since the military took power official figures but the number of those killed more than seventy the muslim brotherhood says another sixty people are out on life support r.t.l. true is reporting from cairo. i went back to the city in. the violence to end it and spoke to many of the eyewitnesses and also the medics running these very makeshift hospitals inside the city and speaking to eyewitnesses they told me that about a few hundred of them had decided to extend their sittin down the main road toward sequel to the bridge which is the main thoroughfare at about one o'clock in the morning at this point so security forces attempted to disperse them using take ass

off to this they say they reported a call to show which is the pilots and also an off the bat they then were fired on with live ammunition which went on until nine o'clock in the morning leaving dozens dead speaking to the medics they said by about four five o'clock in the morning they started to get the bodies in with ammunition and wings mostly to the chest not in heads they say implying this was the shoot to kill now this is the security forces but they're part denying this the protesters say they were not armed however the minister of interior said saturday evening that the protesters were armed and shot back at them including injuring several of the soldiers they maintain they did not fire on any protest is only used tear gas when it was in fact the protesters themselves because the most of the violence so we really don't have any confirmation of how this exactly stone states however looking at the wounds of the people on the sheer number of dead it does imply that live ammunition was used at

a muslim brotherhood have said they will stay put in the sit ins and they will keep protesting to fight for justice and also you for the reinstatement of mohamed morsy the military for their part maintaining that they will clear these sit ins the minister of interior released a statement to saturday saying that it is working together with the minutes three to devise a plan to leave the sit ins on using legal means they say however this is being slammed by rights groups who say it's not possible to legally nearest attend the have been phase that will be for the violence because we've seen such a heavy handed response from the minute she and the police force towards those protesting so it's very divided egypt extremely tense with the expected violence on the horizon. where the blame game master who is responsible for the carnage in cairo gaining momentum the country is more divided than ever anti morsi activist up to someone believes the muslim brotherhood is exaggerating the casualty figures to

convince the foreign allies that they are in help in need of help against the military what do you expect people what in the. in the government. all the egyptian people did not accept that. we did not accept the terrorism we did not accept the fascism we did not accept what do you expect from losers of course they're trying to justify their trying to pull over to the two of course their supporters the united states for help. we will never ever let anyone in defeat in our country if they accept the. americans except that's people we go and shoot soldiers in the pentagon we will accept there was a number as it was to shoot our soldiers. meanwhile mona as a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood in the u.k.

believes the military and side of the violence by attacking those who are exercising their rights to peacefully protest. i personally do not want any violence they are my family my friends everyone i love and i care out for they are out there exercising their legitimate right to freedom of expression and they should be protected the military should not be on the streets the military should be back in the barracks the military should not be interfering in politics the military this is not the old gentleman the c.c. with all due respect to him he is an appointed minister of defense the people did not choose him and now he thinks he has given himself super constitutional powers to be able to decide what the one of the people as well as the whole one knows what the one of the people is through the institution of democracy the process what we're seeing though is a hijack of the people's will and the people do not want any form of violence people just want peace for the peaceful protests people want to peacefully protest and peacefully demand the roads. the egyptian army has started to make good on its promise of bringing an end to what it has called terrorism within the country

a large scale counter extremist operation has been launched on the sinai peninsula bordering with israel it comes amid a spike in attacks on soldiers and policemen there in the wake of mohamed morsi is ousting our middle east correspondent paula slayer brings us those details what we do know is that the egyptian military has closed all interns those in and out of the sinai it's launched a forty eight hour operation to deal with a sudden increase in the number of islamist operating the the information that we have is that there have been violent clashes in the area is the way it not only center there but also in areas like elevation other villages in the surrounding area these clashes between the army and extremists that have been operating there for quite some time now let me remind you that the situation in sinai has been on ever since the overthrow of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak and since then we've witnessed an increase in these kind of attacks these kind of violent

acts happening in the sinai but we're hearing from the army as that there are at least five hundred extremist militants operating in an area of four square kilometers now the army says that they are heavily armed it says that they could use civilians in those areas as human shields and at the same time the army has deployed both its if force and on the ground troops who are heavily armed and they took the muslim brotherhood supporters are taking up arms and are going to the sinai where there are joining these islamist groups from the army we hearing that they've been fired on that they have been attacked by these extremist elements more than sixty bedwyn tribes signed a memorandum that they support the egyptian army and that this is a support for the egyptian people they're trying to put some kind of order there but the situation is merely continuing to descend into chaos. we will be keeping you up to date on the situation in egypt here on our team for the latest

developments as well as a full timeline of the events photos witness accounts and expert opinion you can also log on to our web site r t v dot com. there's been a fresh round of diplomatic wrangling over edward snowden between russia and the united states this as the world had expected the fugitive whistleblower to leave a moscow airport earlier this week the former n.s.a. contractor has been stranded in the transit zone there for a month now currently waiting on moscow's decision on his temporary asylum request artie's lindsay friends recaps the snowden saga. the world's media and u.s. law enforcement may not be chasing edward snowden from country to country at this point but there is plenty of chasing going on at the airport and there's no sign of it slowing down as the weeks passed the kremlin has stuck to its guns on allowing snowden to stay as long as he does not harm the united states by disclosing any more information tension mounted wednesday when reports emerge that snowden's russian advisor anatoly. was en route to share the metro airports terminal with

documents allowing snowden's temporary release from the transit zone while his asylum bed is considered but he showed up toting a brown paper bag filled with nothing more than new clothes and a few copies of russian classics translated to english along with some rather dismal news for snowden the paperwork was delayed. it is in weighty mode now and we can all imagine how he feels being unaware of what's ahead of him and whether he'll get a yes or no answer from the russian authorities and for me procedures can take up to three months anyway he's very grateful to russia which didn't abandon him and to the people who are trying to help him needless to say snowden was nowhere in sight for the media's hungry lenses meanwhile the game of diplomatic ping pong gets better and better while russia allows snowden's remain in the transit zone the white house demands he's returned without delay the kremlin returns the volley by

pointing out the absence of an extradition treaty with washington u.s. ambassador to russia then takes to twitter claiming they're not asking for extradition just to return russia points out the absence of an international law requiring a return secretary of state john kerry call snowden a traitor to his country russia states part of the reason for sheltering snowden is worried that he could face capital punishment it's then that u.s. attorney general eric holder pens a letter to russia's justice ministry no torture no execution russia points the fact that snowden has been stripped of his passport he can't travel to which. holder scrambles to offer a temporary pass for for direct travel to the secure embrace of american law enforcement the kremlin is unmoved while the white house asks for clarification on snowden status i think edward snowden has really been in many ways a hero and he has sacrificed his entire future i think as an american how much it's clear he loves this country he will never again see the golden gate bridge or the

blue ridge mountains or the grand canyon all the things that we americans take for granted other irons in the fire congress accelerated a bill applying sanctions to any country offering asylum to edward snowden and some hawkish senators are calling for everything from a change of venue for september's g twenty summit in st petersburg to a boycott by the u.s. olympic team of the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi outside the states there are plenty of people lining up to make sure snowden is not thrown to the washington wolves anytime soon the simpleton the 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 is while all sides battle it out back and forth back and forth where is their querrey he's quietly hanging out in duty free or possibly thumbing through his new copy of dostoyevsky's crime and punishment back at sheremetyevo airport in moscow lindsey

france r t. despite washington's promises that snowden will not face the death penalty he would still be tried for espionage for viewing the scope and the details of america's surveillance program more now from our she's going to japan in washington by relentlessly going after whistleblowers here we picked some of the most notable ones the u.s. 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 the 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 and other 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 kids 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 needless to say their careers were destroyed

edward snowden's revelations have only. would be me and drake had been saying for years but possibly on like beanie 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 if you're in itself is control and what people will do when they're fearful as they were being will begin to censor themselves so much of what's happening now particular my case it sent it extraordinarily chilling message that anybody who i was a senior executive the government had a very high position and say it sends it 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 the court is supposed to protect the constitution all these all these people in government take an oath to defend the

constitution and they're not living up to their oath of office 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 whistle blower 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.

meanwhile the u.s. house of representatives has rejected an amendment that would have curbed the n.s.a.'s ability to collect electronic information it was a narrow defeat of just twelve votes for the legislation reflecting divisions in congress could ashdown the owner of an internet service provider which were buffed n.s.a. attempts to access his client's data told us the amendment wouldn't have been enough to stop the snooping even if it had passed but 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 on a hope that something good is coming out of washington but i want to put it past the republican party for trying to do that but you know there are many in congress who are are calling edward snowden a trim a traitor and a criminal when in fact i think it's the 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 were shut them down i don't envision that surveillance society that surveillance. the whole self surveillance the doing of americans is part of my america i would like to see it stop as always we are eager to hear your views on the stories that we cover so lock onto our website r t dot com and let us know whether you believe russia should grant edward snowden temporary asylum. now more news after a short break including a look at how the greeks are falling victim to their government's budget cuts this in an attempt to repay the country's debts plus more stories for you in just a few moments to stay with us you're watching r.t. . the judge is essential. killed in the streets. that women kidnapped and converted to islam but. will there be another layer of

moses for the coakley christians of egypt to the cross to. future victims. the way of the cross. the interview.

this week the syrian national council met with the u.n. security council and had agreed to take part in the long awaited peace conference but only if assad agrees to a transitional government the rebel group also met with the u.s. secretary of states to urge the white house to speed up arms shipments to anti assad forces with promises that the weapons would not fall into the wrong hands but the pledges come as divisions within. opposition deepen and as artie's pasqual reports a former allies could soon become a sworn enemy. while the opposition are united in their desire to overthrow president bashar al assad that seems to be where their similarity ends the syrian national coalition is the umbrella group recognized internationally as the legitimate representative of the syrian people but they don't represent all factions opposed to a saddle one group operating out of their control for example is the al qaeda linked al nusra front the coalition say they've hijacked the revolution or they've

been classed by many in the west as a terrorist organization elsewhere a separate syrian group affiliated to al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq over the weekend freeing high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters on issues agenda seem separate from the heart of the coalition and its even led to infighting on f.s.a. commander was killed by a rival group and the f.s.a. feel they could soon be fighting on two fronts when we use the phrase opposition exactly who are we talking about where the coalition alone is made up of at least eleven different groups including the muslim brotherhood who have recently called on the u.s. and the e.u. to send arms in the battle with assad while only offering loose guarantees they won't fall into extremist hands there's also the coalition of secular and democratic syrians the syrian democratic people's party supreme council of the syrian revolution and so it goes on the disparate nature of the syrian opposition combined with the presence of islamic extremists means any nation looking to

support the rebels or walking a continual tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually encourage the one thing they're trying to fight elsewhere meanwhile president obama's plans to send arms to the forces fighting assad were condemned by some lawmakers in the united states senator rand paul claims the white house is playing a dangerous game of double standards over syria. as we continue to aid in armed despotic regimes in egypt we were also about to send weapons to islamic rebels in syria this is problematic on multiple levels the assad regime is no friend of freedom or the united states but this does not mean that the enemy of our enemy is our friend there are currently seventeen different rebel groups in syria including the largest group of al nusra al nusra fighters are radical anti-american

geodes and they're affiliated with al-qaeda but your politicians in washington are eager to send weapons they promise oh these weapons won't get into the hands of the enemy i don't believe it does anyone believe that how can we ask our brave young men and women to fight against al qaeda in some countries and with al qaeda in other countries. situation in syria and the fate of civilians trapped between the fighting sides is up for debate with sir john holmes the u.k. chair for the international rescue committee and world apart is coming your way later today but here's a quick preview. most of the casualties we're talking about around one hundred thousand smoked of the casualties have been civilians and very many of them it's very hard to say how many have been killed by the government to solve fighting the war by shelling and bombing civilian towns but i don't want to oversimplify it but

in legal terms complet combatants can be purposefully targeted and killed while the government has the responsibility and all the sides actually have responsibility to protect civilians as much as possible so why do we have all these leaders president obama prime minister cameron and others. calling rabble savelli and so i think that truly not only misrepresents the conflict but that actually undermines the already fragile security that could be afforded to civilians of course it's not legitimate for rebels to use civilians to hide in and to use them as human shields that's also contrary to international humanitarian law. greece is set to receive a further two point five billion euro bailout from european lenders that money

should keep the country afloat until the next round of debt relief talks planned for the end of next year but in order to get this cash athens had to agree to thousands of public sector job cuts that's not the first time that greece has pressed on what the cuts demanded by its international creditors now the world financial crisis that caught the country with less than ten percent of its workforce full force unemployed but five years of biting austerity measures devastated the jobs market and now more than a quart. of the population is out of work and the latest finance ministry data shows that almost twenty three percent there live below the poverty line all that has forced people to seek better luck elsewhere meanwhile according to another report one hundred twenty thousand young scientists have left the country since twenty ten. this kind of has more on the greek brain drain. forties has a master's degree in engineering management he got 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 businesses are simply afraid of hiring new staff because there is all these unstability even 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 unable to find work are becoming as common pleas here 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 in front of us while 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 plan when 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 unnoticed or deliberately ignored you go to school of athens greece. as the unemployed seek jobs farther afield some european countries are trying to unconventional tactics to round up by legal immigrants the u.k. government has launched a hard hitting ad campaign that critics say intimidates illegal immigrants to turn

themselves in you know watch our full report later on in the program. molly is preparing to go to the polls to choose the country's next president and the election comes after an eighteen month political crisis as well as a french led military up like operation against the islamists there the european union wants the voting to go ahead before billions of dollars worth of aid can actually start flowing into that country meanwhile by only as a kiwi at it's the pan at the blog patrick a news wire and he says that france will be keen to show the ballot as a success. i am certain that the united nations are will put its stamp of approval on the elections perhaps the general economic community of west african states but it remains to be seen exactly how much credibility is going to have inside the country france of course which carries a lot of weight the european union is looking for a mechanism to exit mali they intervened in january of this year they had approximately six thousand troops on the ground inside the country now there are

about four thousand french troops they feel that this election can present some type of credibility for the incoming government as well as the united nations presence there and they can accelerate their exit from the country they still plan on having some one thousand french forces even by the end of the twenty thirteen. time for a brief world update we begin in somalia in the capital of mogadishu a bomber has around an explosive laden vehicle into the gates of the chart this embassy three people including the suspected attacker a talker have been killed two more wounded the radical islamist movement has claimed responsibility for that assault the group explains the attacks saying church he had supported the somali government attempts in attempts to stop the establishment of sharia law in that country. fifteen protesters helping arrested by a peruvian police after thousands rallied in the capital lima security forces had

used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the mass demonstration students and human rights groups had voiced their anger over proposed education reforms and looming job cuts to state jobs. morris news still to come this hour including a look at the daunting legacy of the u.s. led intervention in iraq that still haunts those born years after the war. i talk with you and many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they have a gun that shoots bubbles or various people getting punished for their tweets and facebook posts it's all really abstract it's hard to truly get angry over until you see the results or put a stupid video game just carter sarcastically said to someone who called him crazy or your i really missed up in the head i'm going to go shoot.