i'm going to. breaking news and i'll see whistleblower edward snowden has left the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport after being given temporary asylum in russia. and welcome to all the t twenty four hour news line for most of all telling a story now under whistleblower edward snowden has been given temporary asylum by russia allowing him to leave the transit zone of roscoe's sheremetyevo airport to find weeks in limbo they know assisting him and that's when he could sure anis as the paperwork issued today allow snowden to walk and remain in russia for up to

twelve months let's get the latest now from lindsey franz who is out of the airport means a nice to see it so any suggestion any clear where edward snowden is about to spend his last free evening in five weeks. well that is the million dollar question something all of us would very much like to be answered but unfortunately that information was not forthcoming from his adviser here at the airport now according to wiki leaks edwards noted and his his advisor sara harrison did leave the airport this afternoon after the people work was issued snowden says legal advisor of sorts here on the ground in russia china did approach journalists today with the documentation that had been officially given to us snowden from the federal migration services it shows that he does have that all important twelve month temporary aside. permission that he so badly wanted now one thing that

mr crittenden a did point out is that keeping edward snowden's location at this point secret is very very important let's listen to what he had to say about that. you would do to the fact that he's the most wanted person on planet earth to do hew be concerned about the issue of security that includes questions of safety in the place where he is going to live that's all up to him. to consult and advise him but on other issues it's up to him as for meeting the press yes he's ready to meet the russian media but you need to understand you still need some time to adapt to russian realities. and the next steps in this case for snowden are according to him and his advisor to look for work here in russia and to get settled and learn the language is also helping law and snowden edward's father to finish the required paperwork so that he can obtain

a visa permit to come to russia and finally communicate and see his son so did say that he will be helping with that but at this point the whereabouts of edward snowden's first official night in russia are unknown but you can bet your bottom dollar that every journalist in the city is scouring the place and keeping a very sharp eye out for him wherever he may be you know absolutely thank you very much indeed for that update. so snowden i run into at moscow's sheremetyevo airport on during the twentieth sad and stark and legal limbo which sparked a diplomatic standoff involving new countries and for those who are not enjoying life by overseas people going oh you were nice to say how did snowden task the diplomatic relationships between the states and virtually everyone else well from the very beginning of the story president putin said that russia did not invite snowden to come here it was a zone. personal decision and now we've heard from presidential aides who said that

he didn't think this whole situation would school relations with washington on the other hand the u.s. did warn anyone who says snowden in any way would have some serious problems with them and they've also been asking russia to extradite him even though there's still no extradition agreement between the two countries but also initially snowden was heading to a latin america he did ask ecuador for political asylum first then venezuela and bolivia said that they were ready to receive them on their soil if he wanted but then there was always all the speculation that ecuador was under pressure from the you worse since it already granted asylum to julian assange then this whole incident around believe in president's plane which was stopped and searched in europe i mean rumors that snowden may have been on board against all existing international rules and regulations and according to snowden's lawyer mr quinn it

was then that the whistle war thought it may be safe for him to continue the journey and that's when he began looking at the possibility of staying here in russia maybe even finding a job as just said but he even agreed on putting conditions the president earlier said that he could stay if he wanted but then he would have to stop harming washington's image and when it comes to all his latest revelations he did pass them over to the media to journalists before he actually arrived in the transit zone airport. live from central moscow you are thank you very much. and let's now get more reaction from laws they need the u.k. pirate party let's take a welcome to our c nice to see so how does this this latest news affect the global trends the global whistleblowing movement. well it's at least good that the

current legal limbo that stranded at would snowden in the airport for weeks now is come to an end but this is just a kind of temporary solution of course because obviously he's only been offered asylum for one year so it still poses great questions for the global whistleblowing movement mainly because no one has stepped up really to find a more permanent solution to the to the leap legal limbo that has found itself in for us in the pirate party movement we've been pressing european countries with a solid tumen rights record with solid commitments to to media freedom to step up off edward snowden the kind of protection that whistleblowers deserve but until they do that it will remain will remain to have a chilling effect on whistleblowers and after all the freedom to speak out is absolutely vital in a democratic society yes unfortunately we haven't seen

a lot of help from europe many european countries can dand america's actions why was that. well it seems like that europe is willing to make a few noises but actually not take action we saw for example that the european parliament also voiced concern but when it came to actual action from governments it seems to be that they've actually rebuffed his they've rebuffed his requests for asylum this is because obviously the n.s.a. mass surveillance programs also have huge implications for european countries too for us here in the united kingdom for example we've seen how the tempore program also scoops up huge amounts of data in between in between the united kingdom and the united states which obviously has implications for all of europe so i think

it's also because these stories have huge implications and possible embarrassment for governments in europe. u.k. pirate party mr coyote thank you very much indeed for your. u.s. official says america is not surprised by the news that snowden has been given temporary assignment that follows weeks along. with his extradition. from church account there is joining us now from washington so tell us what washington to these developments. well you later what u.s. officials told journalists that they already you know what here that they were not shocked or even surprised that russia granted some already. there were no expectations that it was that russia would extradite snowden first of all because they probably heard president putin say russia is not going to extradite anyone we

heard from the chair of the said for an association with us what it calls to punish russia first snowden what that some senators have introduced a resolution that you know doesn't over snowden the white house had to reassure the camera but not lest you get so you and jeff it was furious over sort of the. way it's your. problem with that's created a critical issue for us avoided so his passport with no choice but to be they also say extraditing still going is not an option for russia because of the history of russia's request that the u.s. has ignored including one for the extradition of a man wanted for terrorism with the reaction of snowden's father was very clear he should require the courage they had to keeping his son safe snowden's father because i think it's sort of get over i'm going to what you did i wish i might simply if the people call the police but he says the. latest news comes just a day for the public to say you. know first of all about the consequences of an

internet services every deal that people face book i don't think that word from defies the courts those are sort of the fourth quarter medications that you can communicate at one of those who gets in. the guardian. keyscore which allows you to search through a vast. difficulty by what we're told it will appear from that pretty frightening senior intelligence officials have testified in congress releasing classified documents in response to snowden's revelations of course those documents were carefully redacted and did not reveal much but the fact that the government has to respond to those concerns is already a win for edward snowden and many people are genuinely concerned about the growing power of the n.s.a. but whether or our legislators will act to reverse any of these programs that's a big question last week congress kill the legislation that would make the n.s.a. walk back some of its powers but that bill was killed by just twelve votes and even though the bill was killed we see a substantial support and demand for transparency and it's all happening because of

snowden's revelations and we wouldn't be having this conversation if it were not for him indeed. from washington d.c. guy and i thank you very much indeed for that. and let's remind you breaking news story this hour whistleblower edward snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia and has left moscow's sheremetyevo he did so in a taxi accompanied by we can mix representatives summerhouse and they knew assisting him on the toilet says the paperwork issued today allows him to walk and remain in russia for up to twelve months his whereabouts is unknown according to the lawyer snowden went to a quote a safe place and to remind you it's not as the is the says he year old intelligence on them is from north carolina who needs details of a number of top secret surveillance programs the revelations sparked massive public outrage with a wave of criticism coming from across the u.s.

and around the world well the use continues here and on scene just a moment. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. this is the media leave us so we leave the media by the sea motions to cure the play your part of the musical. pushes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our team.

welcome back this is here let's now take a look at some other news does been dominating the global headlines syria could see the influx of european weaponry bats if e.u. leaders make a decision on supplying lethal aid to rebel fighters says de is an unofficial deadline for a decision to be made it was said in may and little bit by the u.k. and france however it says that ministers seem to have had a change of heart concerned by

a surge of foreigners now fighting in the country and many of those come from a u.s. states and french officials as this flow is unprecedented during the nine year years of the afghan conflict only fifty jihad it's were identified as going to the country while in syria in one year alone more than a hundred left france to fight against president assad experts say most of those westerners are self radicalized and join the terrorist ranks of al qaida and their own front their fishel estimated number of your peers fighting in syria is up to six hundred while the actual number could be much higher and. discovers this is feeding has a tendency. for the u.k. arm the syrian rebels or not that's a question that's been answered number of different ways it's a call that began to mostly in very degrees to the right but ultimately i always said the signals of support for the opposition it would be new political progress unless the opposition is able to withstand the street and put pressure on assad to

hear if there isn't a military victory so we should increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition we are prepared to. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national coalition no one else to what a half years on syria continues to pay the delicate complex picture a battleground constantly shifting as it is with western leaders rhetoric in american twelve hour meeting in may leaders agreed to disagree on syria with the u.k. and france successfully getting their way even though they were at odds with the twenty five other member states the european union has agreed to bring to an end the arms embargo only syrian opposition bases the outcome of the united kingdom it wanted rhetoric in the militants of the meet up to the libyan intervention also led by the same players it's remarkable there you go they could simply try and override

the experience of libya because as a recent report said the. supermarket for the entirety of the of the middle east and if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of attorney on august first e.u. countries can reassess their positions on syria and those who wish to arm the rebels may do so but as that day drew closer hesitation grew louder with david cameron acknowledging that there are quote unquote a lot of bad guys amongst the rebels and recent reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to establish an islamic caliphate and dissolution rebels and defecting back to the government side before the the war in afghanistan and before the attack on iraq there was no al qaida in iraq there was no al qaida in yemen there was no al-qaeda in somalia there was no al qaida in syria but there is now an idea that's not lost on the british prime minister there's too much

extremism among some of the rebels but frankly we do need to do more to help promote those parts of the opposition that want a free purchased a democratic syria and so we're not being the rebels this are cilia r.t. london. and with the western allies of the seaward opposition where we are arming them likely cohen our state free syrian army spokesman if he could provide any rational. you so you want more arms them from the west but what would you say to the extremely worried politicians in both europe and the us that have raised concerns of extremist elements within the opposition could get hold of those sophisticated western arms what guarantee can you give them but that won't happen. we're talking about extremists or terrorists that entered syria they didn't parachuted in they crossed borders and we must find out how more than a thousand taliban fighters entered the country and how it kind of members escaped

from iraqi prisons and syria so there's international will to get all the islamists and terrorist elements into syria to change the military and political equation of the country downplayed the syrian revolution we asked the foreign fighters al qaida and the al nasra front to leave syria we won't allow any extremists or terrorists to dictate their agenda on the future of the country are you certain that the f.s.a. really can control the extremist elements fighting alongside your movement. we need help on that we need help to get rid of the syrian regime and extremist elements who are against terrorism and massacres we don't want to kill people supporting the government because this syrians we want all extremists to get away from syria asad syria there's no place for islamists in the country. some saying today russian websites which infringed compromised could be taken down that's an you know designed to choke thriving piracy critics however flamming it as

a tool for online censorship thousands are websites on blacking out their pages today in protest and takes a closer look at the legislation and come and comparisons to similar laws in the country. despite that statistics on the internet piracy in russia have improved greatly over the last decade dropping from ninety three percent in two thousand and one to a little more than sixty percent last year still it poses a huge problem for the country it is rated in top five world countries in terms of piracy let me demonstrate what you can do in russia for instance you want to watch a fresh movie which has been just released but you do want to pay for it you go to one of the social network websites in russia find the movie you like and voila you have it created to the administration of the website they are trying to fight this problem they're blocking the users who are uploading illegal content but still with more than fifty million users registered for this network alone it is an uphill task something the new legislation is destined to mend from now on if any website

is suspected of having illegal content it will be reported to a special watchdog body called us and then in three days the website owner must remove this illegal content if he refuses to do so then his website would be suspended until trial then in court he may prove his innocence and a half years website relaunched or the website will be shut down for good if it's proven that he's content was illegal now even before this law became reality even before it passed the russian parliament it caused a fury online and even offline with some minor street protests the internet users have been saying and have been believing that this would suppress internet freedoms that this would cause a massive crackdown and censorship on line and today when the law is affectively went into force some of the big russian websites including one of the biggest music download websites in russia have gone on strike putting some black screens instead of their starting pages so people have been essentially believing that this may suppress freedoms which is not quite the case if you read into this law but now

let's compare how other countries worldwide are fighting the very same problem in two thousand and nine france adopted the so-called a law which stipulates that anyone violating content distribution rules is give. two warnings before the internet service provider is forced to cut off the use of internet access if the culprit persists he risks a fine of up to three hundred thousand euros and after three years in prison the most liberal anti-piracy law is believed to be in the netherlands torrent websites are technically outlawed but still downloading content for noncommercial use is not illegal uploading it means breaking the law and possible prosecution japan adopted its anti-piracy law last year and was immediately branded as draconian quite understandably some may say because violating it would land you a fine of one million a year and that's roughly ten thousand dollars and a two year prison term and often the violators are punished with both it's worth mentioning that none of the above mentioned countries have registered an increase in purchases of legal canton since adopting these laws how the new legislation

works in russia which stands in between not only geographically but in terms of the law strictness but has a far more serious piracy issue will become very clear. german taxpayers are already doing a lot to bail out greece's debt ridden economy and set to further the bell just days after they sent its latest two point five billion euro installment the i left came out saying the greek economy faces an additional financial shortfall of nearly eleven billion euros and one of the reports german citizens had no idea they are once again picking out that. germany's politicians are being accused of keeping the country's taxpayers in the dark when it comes to just how much they going to be asked to fork out to try and get greece it's feet financially the international monetary fund is highlighted in almost eleven billion black hole in the plan to try and get greece greece's economy working it also highlighted the need for the

writing off of many loans that are being given to the mediterranean country now all of this comes against the backdrop of the german finance minister being in athens talks there in amongst there will be giving a one hundred million euro gift to the greece to greek people this is a one hundred million euro piece that supposed to help the development of. small businesses in the country not new in the news that they are well almost eleven billion euro short of what's going to be needed for fiscal renewal well that's not going to come is great news to the greek people or to the german people who are going to of course they got it is it going to the neighbors in the south. is almost assured that she will get the money that it's required however the german people it will be giving it that money best pleased about having to do it i think. will still

manage to convince people without any proper explanation they would just trust i don't think that's a good thing because we forget about one of the paramount principle softer more prosy people controlling the budget but unfortunately i think this will happen i'm sick and tired of this you know my money that the tax i'm tired of it it shouldn't happen that some of the regarding greasiness point that there's still an awful lot of work that needs to be done before greece can be a threat that its openness to its fun and to trying to salacious. in breaking the set. remember we talked about calling for regular folks like you and me that can make

you invisible drones well for them fashions as i like all them are content on the fact that owns works the cameras are way below likely to want to average day the substance and saw all the camera will see is an anonymous the out pay think i should mention shouldn't need to it shouldn't have to national.