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breaking news on r.t. whistleblower edward snowden has left the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport after being given temporary asylum in russia. international news and comment this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day live from moscow where it's now just turned eight pm edward snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia allowing him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport after five weeks in limbo and the system him an attorney says that the paperwork issued today allows snowden to live work and remain in russia
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for up to twelve months when he fronts reports. edwards noted and his his advisor sara harrison did leave the airport this afternoon after the paperwork was issued snowden's legal adviser 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 asylum 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 today he would be concerned about the issue of security that includes questions of safety and the place where he is going to live
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that's all up to him. consoled or not by of 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 that 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 edwards' 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 in a 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. in the front reporting there snowden arrived at moscow's sheremetyevo airport on june the twenty third is since
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being stuck in a legal limbo which sparked a diplomatic standoff between a number of countries well for more on this we're now joined by a piskun of so eager to tell us how the snowden saga really has tested the diplomatic ties between the u.s. and the chile everyone else well from the very beginning of the story president putin said that russia never invited snowden to come him here it was his own personal decision we had heard earlier on thursday from presidential advisor you said he didn't think this whole situation would spoil relations with the u.s. however washington did warn earlier anyone that would assist snowden in any way he would have some serious problems with them have been asking russia to extradite him even though there's still no it's tradition agreement between the two countries but initially snowden was heading to latin america he did ask ecuador for political asylum in venezuela and bolivia said that they were ready to receive them on their
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soil if he wanted but then there was all speculation about ecuador being under pressure from washington's and it's already granted asylum to julian assange then this whole incident around the bolivian president's plane which was stopped and searched in europe amid speculation that snowden may have been on board which is against all existing international rules and really regulations and according to snowden's lawyer mr it was then that he decided it may not be safe for him to continue his journey and he began looking at the possibility of staying here in russia maybe even finding a job he even agreed to president putin's conditions and said that he could see if you wanted to but then he would have to stop farming washington and concerning all his latest revelations he did pass them over to the press before actually even arriving to the transit zone airport. you got things very much. that's ok you got a person of life in moscow now to discuss this i'm now joined live by political
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right to donna jones and diana you have said in one of your articles that this whole snowden saga tells us more about europe than actually the united states can you tell us what you mean by that well what i mean by that is that i think you know a lot of people that did something on the stewart. would not reveal all the much bigger people. but isn't this a nice thing to do really do believe. the european countries. in this case which was illustrated by the general. forcing down of the plane as a living i've been all connected and was a new thing on the suspicion snowden was on the plane this is really extraordinary and it was very very revealing about the degree to which europe as well as all
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independent united just amazing or what about the situation there between moscow and washington despite the fact that some authorities in moscow try to downplay this this will surely have a major impact on relations between the two well let's face it the relations been marred anyway and and you know i just i know that media cartoon is the new nine is there already thirty scenting and russia is the enemy and the enemy russia is not the enemy. that's been made very clear but you then need an enemy the united states doesn't the military industrial complex needs you know needs in order to keep pumping. money that the united states doesn't have into military just to be finding enemy so that. they they keep on. anybody who doesn't behave in the enemy now on the origin sure
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no rest. is not on our i am. actually not the night and day and yet rather than i was. in. the united russia and enemies only because. we didn't know who were. meeting in. russia not being obedient but i think it very well known and they don't like russia big enough to stand up to. i think you may for there. donna thanks very much and if your thoughts on this donna johnson political right have lived here an ati thank you well a u.s. official says that america is not surprised by the news that snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia that follows weeks of washington pursuing the n.s.a. whistleblower with hopes of his extradition let's get the details now from. donna
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johnson's reaction to how she thinks relations between washington and moscow could be affected so tell us more you will that in washington tell us more about the u.s. reaction so far at this stage. well there is no official statement from the white house but from what we hear u.s. officials say they're not shocked or even surprised by the fact that russia granted snowden temporary asylum they heard president putin say russia is not going to extradite anyone so washington knew what to expect the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee said moscow's decision will harm u.s. russia relations we heard calls in congress to punish russia for snowden to boycott the g twenty and things like that some senators have introduced a resolution asking to change the venue for the g twenty summit in case moscow does not hand over snowden the white house however says obama will travel to russia for the summit in september nonetheless you get the mood it's pretty tense some even
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suggested because of snowden security services of the two countries won't be able to fully cooperate in preparation for the olympic games in russia next year moscow in the meantime says calls to punish russia for the problem which the u.s. has created all ridiculous russian officials say the u.s. as a boy did notice passports which left russia with no choice but to deal with the issue they also say extraditing snowden 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 in russia for terrorism now the reaction of snowden's father was of course very different from that of the u.s. government and the u.s. congress he thinks russia for quote unquote the courage they had shown in keeping his son's safe zone his father does not think his son would get a fair trial in the u.s. he also said this as a father it pains me what he did i wish my son could could simply have sat in hawaii and taken the big paycheck lived with his beautiful girlfriend and enjoyed
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paradise he says but as an american citizen i apps i am absolutely thankful for what he did well so are more than fifty five percent of americans who consider snowden a whistleblower not a traitor or it just gives a brief overview of what snowden did do to get him so self in so much trouble briefly just a reminder for those who may be in store at this stage. well first we learned about the prison program a system that the n.s.a. uses to gain access to the private communications of users of nine popular internet services edward snowden revealed that prism collects unable collection directly from the servers of microsoft yahoo google facebook and other online companies the government said the n.s.a. does does that only with a warrant from the five the court these are secret court orders snowden said to fight the court merely rubber sense such warrants and he revealed one such court orders secret court order for communications company to hand over its client data
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in bulk the government has acknowledged bulk collection of communications but said no one to look at the content of those communications without a warrant snowden said yes they can he said i sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge or even the president if i had a personal e-mail no words need it and this week the guardian relying on the documents that we had earlier provided as revealed details of the program that makes it possible we learned about x. keyscore which allows us to search through vast amounts of data collected by other programs this build up of confrontation with russia over snowden is supposed to take this thunder away from the national conversation on the surveillance state but the conversation is nonetheless happening 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 these concerns is already
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a win for edward snowden and many people are genuinely concerned here about the growing power of the n.s.a. but whether or not legislators will act to reverse any of these programs that's a big question last week congress killed the legislation that would make the n.s.a. walk back some of its powers but the bill was killed by just twelve votes even though the bill was killed we see a substantial support demand for transparency and it's all happening because of snowden's revelations we wouldn't be having this conversation if it were not for him going to come live in washington thanks very much indeed for that. well let's remind you of our breaking news story this hour whistleblower edward snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia and has left moscow's sheremetyevo airport he did so in a taxi accompanied by wiki leaks representative sarah harrison the lawyer assisting him says the paperwork issued today allows him to live work and remain in russia
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for up to twelve months his whereabouts is unknown according to the lawyer snowden went to quote a safe place and to remind you he is the thirty year old intelligence analyst from north carolina who leaked details of a number of top secret surveillance programs this guy has just told us the revelations sparked massive public outrage with a wave of criticism coming from across the u.s. and around the world he has now left moscow's sheremetyevo airport. r.t. live here in moscow the news continues in just a moment. the british.
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market. to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything is. hard. to.
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continue to take a look at some other developments that have been dominating the global headlines up to this hour syria could see the influx of european weaponry that e.u. leaders make a decision on supplying lethal aid to rebel fighters thursday is an unofficial deadline for a decision to be made it was set in may and lobbied for by the u.k. and france however since then ministers seem to have a change of heart by a surge of foreigners now fighting in the country and many of those come from e.u. states and french officials says this flow is. dented during the nine years of the afghan conflict only fifty jihadists were identified as go to the country one in syria in one year alone more than one hundred left france to fight against president assad and experts say that most of those westerners a self radicalized and join the terrorist ranks of al qaeda and the al nusra front
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fishel estimated number of europeans fighting in syria is now up to six hundred while the actual number could be much higher. discovers this is feeding e.u. hesitancy. for the u.k. on the syrian rebels or not that's a question that's been answered in a number of different places a conflict began a mostly in varying degrees of life but ultimately always sending signals of support for the opposition it will be no political progress in less the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad so he is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition we propose to a man. arms embargo. we must ensure that these arms go to the syrian national coalition and no one else to want
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a half years on syria continues to pay the delicate and complex picture a battleground constantly shifting as it is with western leaders rhetoric in american twelve hour meeting in may e.u. 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 this is the outcome of the united kingdom and the wanted rhetoric in the middest sense 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 cited in the. supermarket for the entirety of the of the middle east and and if they were to go into syria that would be true to the power of tenet on august first e.u. countries can reassess their positions on syria and those who wish to arm the
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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 recent reports from syria show all kind of affiliated groups wanting to establish an islamic caliphate and dissolution rebels 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 about some of the rebels but frankly we do need to do more to promote those parts of the opposition that want a free purchased a democratic syria and so we're not all being the rebels this are cilia r t london . i'm now joined live by dmitri think whose son has gone to syria to
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join the jihad us forces so tell us what happened to your son did you foresee that he would be radicalized in this way. yes of course absolutely. it just became eighteen years twenty nine january two thousand and two years ago he was a western child who had the best education there you can ever imagine he was a jesuit he went to school in. college he had to come to look at the cation i'm an atheist his mother is. and at the age of fifteen years of experience with the girls and it was a beautiful boy a flemish talent dancer in many movies and the acting many music clips of belgium dancers and how we can avoid muslim. teenager off
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affair and it gets felt in this. in feeling sad you get involved with a modern lady a monocle girlfriend who changed his mind to become muslim and then start to go to the mosque a you start to became a normal muslim which one was nothing wrong with it but it's inside that mosque a he selected they're recruited by members of them and they brought my son to the headquarter to camp of show you have a belgian and they're you know not want to know how much transformation our son makes we don't even recognize of someone anymore so they really indoctrinate them in many ways start to having a. say in effect he was a self radicalized he was actually influenced and reading all radicalized told me then did you know. did you know that he was going to fight in syria did he tell you he was going to end up fight no no how did you know he was no no no no no because
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he went to you first or went to holland with friends with muslim brothers when he became eighty and there's nothing wrong with that to go holiday for the walls you know and after is sent. they may send those much of theirs in cairo that they give him money that they give him a scholarship that they pay money to study to continue the study of this muslim religion and salafi. you know but i didn't trust it to have the feeling that something was going wrong because i received news from other parents in the western europe not only belgium but also from france and the u.k. that their children were gone for holiday and studying in england and other places in the walls but at the end they received news that they were dead that they were in syria so then i hear the news that all these members of shade of a belgian man not only from shade of a belgian but even from other european countries that are mentioned in syria do you just have just we have to look inside tell us yes you have there we went just syria
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i know and i'm going to make it fast as you tell us if you want to serious i start to discover every day thousand pictures and videos of syria and one day i recognize my all son in the video with other belgian guys by jim young guys all members of them video is made by the television station. l. and then the. station available i recognised my also on the side me to move up to syria so i moved to c.d.r. i've been taught the six days in syria the search mission to look for miles which are. not not easy believe me i was in the way i have seen some. one of the fighting groups not me that put the cuffs on me i was almost there it's this is partly that i was a spy working for the cia so it was amazing a mission. because these radical people the leaders this show you know don't give me the opportunity to see my own some i don't know what
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what are your thoughts now as to see some what about your son's safety is his life in danger no we don't we don't know anything and he's not only we but all the other belgian parents are in the same situation as me until today no contact no. nothing we don't know anything about our children we don't know anything about our sons and daughters do you think if you experience the horrors of war do you think you would want to come back but they may not let him in effect has he been kidnapped. because. we're standing above all these children from the west not only from the west but many young guys from all over the walls they. are using this young children and the months that they see their family are they go back to europe right to be what you say to parents. they. are western children it's a clearly a very very traumatic it's
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a very traumatic time for you what do you say to other parents who could well experience the same thing what do you say offer in terms of advice that this could happen to their children. no now is the same is the same is the same is the same of pollution they day day is a late all this western western children from from from their parents from their own family all this radical muslims that are on their own want to give the chance to two parents and family to see their own children so it's action time five to twelve that the international community need to stand up and react because this is like kidnapping you know do you believe you may not do you just finally believe you may never see your son again. the chance is very small i am very realistic and not only me but this is much as follow the parents and that's why the international community in the directs because it's five to twelve doing nothing doing nothing
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the rest is doing nothing to bring our children back they get a chance even sabbat this radical fighters to fight against the regime. so what you say they don't think so you say to yourself unless you are telling to western governments you are now talking about perhaps owing the rebels your final word to them what you say yeah yeah how how how this who we are talking about the western children my son and other children and other. governments is doing nothing is doing nothing to bring our own children back well i think them's the victims in the hands of for radical groups radical evils radical evils while using ad western children fast to send them to the hearts of fighting in the way and giving and saving their own cd unfairness dimitri thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and sharing your experiences this clearly a very difficult time for you and clearly great interest to many people viewing who have probably no idea that this is happening so thank you very much indeed for your
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thoughts a difficult time for you we wish you well dimitri life here on r.t. thank you. you're local man you're also right he's a german journalist who's just come back from syria he says the conflict is being misinterpreted in the west we should see it's one thing clearly we are not talking about the civil war i strongly disagree with the term civil war we are talking right now about a proxy war why we are talking here militants from more than twenty five from nations already in syria fighting and they become more and more every day and we know already that the syrian army was finding in rebel strongholds a lot of western arms sold the western arm delivery gould's on maybe already since two and a half years or maybe even before the weapons are already delivered they are delivered every day and what is taking place now sounds for me a little bit like a legal justification for this taking place so i don't believe that this will bring
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a strong change on the battlefield it just will bring a change maybe in the official discussion inside that you. that brings you up to date for the moment i'll be back with the news team in less than just over half an hour from now in the meantime as promised next kaiser and his view on today's global economy that's after the break. remember we talked about clothing for regular folks like you and me that can make you invisible to drones well freedom fashions as i like to call them are continuing to expand although the fact that our drones infrared eyes are very scary the more common street cameras are way more likely to one average day violate your privacy
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and thus they invented the justice cap this hat blocks your face with the lights from face recognition software all the camera will see is an anonymous glowing ghost i personally haven't tested this thing out nor have i seen it with my own eyes and wearing three aaa batteries on your head at all times does seem like a bit of a bother but hey if you really want to be left alone and you're willing to throw down a few dollars this looks like a pretty good fashion statement to me the sad thing is that this sort of invention shouldn't need to exist people shouldn't have to live with the constant fear of unlawful consent less observation but sadly they do so inventors keep the freedom fashions coming but that's just my opinion.
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welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are talking the who and how it just sipping some kool-aid it's a technique called method reporting i'm trying to get into the minds of those in today's headlines you say nine out of ten called members prefer to drink kool-aid before partaking in a mass suicide or wanted tempting to assassinate a public figure you don't hear much these days about cult leaders and their crazy followers but we've got some in our headlines stacey herbert tell us more as my.
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