video for your media project free media. dot com. breaking news on the whistleblower edward snowden has left the transit zone of moscow's airport after being given temporary asylum in russia. international news and comment this is a party with the twenty four hours a day live from moscow where it's just turned nine 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 the lawyer assisting him says the paperwork issued today allows snowden to live work and remain in russia for up to

twelve months well let's get the latest now from lindsey france so what sort of reaction has this development now because lindsey. well bill the reaction around the world was sort of a pleasant surprise that by many that he had finally been lots outside the airport as anyone can match thirty nine days inside any terminal no matter what type of hotel you may be staying in would be a bit of a stretch for anyone's patience there were many american government officials that were not happy at all that he had been allowed on to the official grounds of the russian federation but the two reactions that a lot of people really wanted to hear from which were edward snowden himself and wiki leaks founder julian assange did they do what were made public just a very short time ago and here they are just to give you an idea of the emotions

that both these men are feeling right now is for mr snowden's part he says over the past eight weeks we have seen the obama administration show no respect for international or domestic laws but in the end the law is winning i think the russian federation for granting me asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations now now with this statement wiki leaks also says that even though it's publishing organization it has helped edward snowden a lot and in finding protection that he says he needed in blowing the whistle on what was going on at the n.s.a. assange says this is another victory for the fight against obama's war and whistleblowers this battle has been won but the war continues the united states can no longer continue the surveillance of world citizens and its digital colonisation of sovereign nations the public will no longer stand for it whistleblowers will continue to appear until the government abides by its own laws and rhetoric so you see neither of those men are backing down in their philosophical stances in this

situation and edward snowden even after thirty nine days. inside the walls of sheremetyevo airport still stands strong in his stance and he slipped through the net lindsey. nobody saw him leave the course the question is now any indication as to where he'll be spending is for. five weeks of being. oh wouldn't we love to know the answer to that question i think a couple of journalists shed a few tears when it was around that he had actually left the airport and hadn't actually gotten to see it happen after all of this time camping out here but there is no news officially of where he is this first night in the russian federation but we do know that wiki leaks did tell us this afternoon that he left the airport with . wiki leaks advisors accompanying him what many believe to be proper that they are they're going to be staying in moscow but as i said there are

no official reports now anatoly who has been. taping a lot of snowden's communications on the ground here in russia has come forward today with the documentation the official piece of paper issued by the federal migration services that shows that. allowed to stay here for twelve months it's got to be renewed in the next year but he is allowed to be here what he did say also is that. the secrecy around snowden's location is just as important as ever let's listen to what he had to tell us about 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 in the place where he is going to live that's all up to 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 for his part is not stopping simply at securing helping edward snowden. with the paperwork to get his visa. and finally. with his son and to communicate with him finally. in the meantime the next step for edward snowden according to his advisors is that he will be pursuing a job and looking. pool on june the twenty third and has since been stuck in a legal limbo which sparked a diplomatic standoff between a number of countries and. has the details on this. 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 adviser you do so called who said he didn't think this whole situation would spoil relations with the u.s. however washington did warn earlier anyone that would assist norden in any way he would have some serious problems with them the 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 soil if he wanted but then there was all speculation about ecuador being under pressure from washington since it's already granted asylum to julian assange then this whole incident around the believe in 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 made not b.c.

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 who said that he could see if you wanted to but then he'd 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. because you know if there were a london based legal expert had examined him a curious joins me now live from london and i saw that from a legal perspective is snowden in the clear now in effect disease a free man. well he's a fleet he's a free man in the russian federation the russian federation has granted temporary asylum so he is has a right to be resident there and he has the same residence rights as essentially russian citizens to side the russian federation he is not

a free man if he were to come to germany or france or britain or of course any one of those countries he would quite definitely face extradition demands from the united states so there's nothing legally that the u.s. could do now the fact that he is in russia and that he steps out of russia he is in effect safe or is there something they could do well there is there is the city being granted temporary is asylum the answer is that they cannot do anything in russia the russian authorities have any way made it very clear that they are not going to return mr snowden to the united states and if you look at the nine hundred fifty one refugee convention which is the convention which governs these matters one can see why the russian authorities would say that and legally speaking there right do you see that this will be a temporary asylum or perhaps could it turn in to being something a little more permanent because many are saying it's going to be very difficult for

snowden to get out of russia. well if i can just explain that russia has basically two types of asylum this temporary asylum which is what mr snowden now has and then there is refugee status which is rather more permanent my impression is that the intention eventually is to apply for refugee status the reason he applied for temporary asylum is in order to get himself out of the airport with much more quickly it's the barrier that he has to cross in order to show that he's entitle to that asylum is easier so he's a lawyer and he decided to apply for temporary asylum to get him out of the airport now that he is in russia proper i think he the intention will be to apply for full refugee status and the exotic just which will large into stone russia right what are the implications here for the relations between the two this couldn't come at a worse time could it we've got tensions over the magnitsky case we've got the

missile defense system in europe we've also got the disagreements over syria this couldn't happen a worse time. well. the ball in a sense is in the american court the russian authorities have been extremely careful to do this by the book they insisted on mr snowden making a problem. he's done it through a lawyer there is a well founded case here for asylum are not just the person who says that anderson international says it cumin rights watch says it given that this is so the u.s. has no legal grounds to object to this now if the u.s. nonetheless wants to jeopardize its very important relationship with russia because russia has done something which it is legally fully entitle to do that is a decision for the u.s. but many people will i think feel that if the u.s. does that then the u.s.

frankly is behaving in a very strange and self destructive way what about the fate of snowden's father whistleblower manning he's been charged for espionage but could perhaps load if he is brought to trial face the charges of aiding the enemy and in effect be facing a far stiffer sentence and worse predicament than the manning. i don't think so the charges which have been brought against snowden are charges under the espionage act. the united states has not gone so far with snowden as to allege that he's actually helped the enemy of course were he to go to the united states one just doesn't know what might happen but at the moment the charges against noton are under the espionage act and for theft three charges under the espionage act one for theft because finally the predicaments facing manning and mail snowden is suggesting perhaps the law is really going to crack down on these people and other

whistle blows in the future is that it will whistleblowers now shut up because the law is going to really be very severe. well the united well they're not they're not shutting up for the moment i mean we've already seen what's happened to manning we've already seen what's happened to a sanj and yet here is mr snowden nonetheless in spite of all of that going ahead and being a whistleblower the simple fact is the u.s. authorities are taking very vigorous steps against whistleblowers. there are concerns about the way they're going about doing that but at the moment that doesn't seem to be preventing people from coming forward and just briefly how exactly will we ever see snowden in the public eye do you think would be very wise for him to keep a very low profile or could he actually go and get a job and walk around moscow or wherever in russia in effect saying i'm a free man or should he be playing it very discreetly. i think he will play

somewhat the streatley but i'll be very surprised indeed if this is the last we've heard of him i am sure he will be appearing again he will have he obviously has the story to say he's obviously got to abide by the conditions the russian authorities have set which is that he doesn't do more harm to the united states here of course as he's never done any harm to the united states but we all know what that means nonetheless there's nothing in this granted temporary asylum that prevents him getting a job on the op the contrary i mean he's entitled to do it there's nothing that says he can't wander around moscow and i am fairly sure if i'm absolutely sure that he will want to tell his story at some point to the media and there's nothing there's no reason why he can't no legal reason why he can't well it's been great to talk to alexander thank you very much for your time fascinating to get your phone with you very much on the cure is live in london. well the white house says it's

extremely disappointed with russia's decision to grant edward snowden temporary asylum now that follows weeks of washington pursuing the n.s.a. whistleblower with hopes of his extradition let's get the details now from marty's going to chicken so god just bring us up to date with exactly what washington is saying as they actually have officially made a statement or these are just the noises of coming out of capitol hill. no no no they have they have bill the white house spokesperson says the u.s. is extremely disappointed was russia's decision to grant snowden asylum he said snowden is not a whistleblower he's been charged with a crime and has to be expelled to the united states and by the way a majority of americans disagree with what they think. is a whistleblower so jay carney the white house spokesperson also said this will undermine the growing cooperation between security services of the two countries he was asked why would russia do that knowing about the adverse of fact that this

will have on the relations and carney said. he would refer to the russian government to explain their motivation well moscow says calls to punish russia for the problem which the u.s. has created are ridiculous so we heard russian officials say because the u.s. has avoided passport it 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 so this buildup of confrontation with russia over snowden takes the thunder away from the national conversation on the surveillance state but the conversation is nonetheless happening we know that the president just today was having of congress over in the white house to discuss these programs the n.s.a. program some of the members of congress who are very critical of. these programs

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 a win for edward snowden and many people are genuinely concerned about the growing power of the n.s.a. but whether or not legislators are actually going to act to reverse any of these programs that's a big question lad. congress killed the legislation that would make the n.s.a. walk back some of its powers but that bill was killed by just twelve votes so even though the bill was killed we see a substantial support demand for transparency in there is another. right now there is that there is another legislation that that is being introduced in congress that that will that is looking to make the feis of court this secret of five to court more transparent so this is all happening because of edward snowden's revelations and we wouldn't be having this conversation if it weren't for him going to thank

you very much indeed for that going to a judge can live in washington well we'll continue with our coverage of the snowden saga of to the break this is all to life here in moscow. there been only five cases in the history of the united states when a military engagement has been formally endorsed by the congress five out of more than two hundred fifty military engagements and brought the fact that democracy has spread since the countries have been liberated from to the great deal to the resolve of the english speaking peoples and their readiness on occasion to deploy a proportionate force in defense of.

the sea. first strike. and i think the. orders. and. the. use continues here on r.t. edward snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia allowing him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport off to five weeks in limbo the lawyer assisting him an attorney could enter says the paperwork issued today allow snowden to live work and remain in russia to twelve months well for more now joined live by jerome right he's white he's a writer for the world socialist website jerome thanks very much indeed for joining

us we've heard officially now from washington that they are all disappointed this surely will have a serious impact on what already strained relations between the u.s. and russia going to. well then the main concern of the obama administration in. the further exposures of the government spying on the people of the united states and on the people of the world you have in the case of snowden in a sign gender bradley manning an effort by the government to criminalize anyone who actually exposes the criminality of the u.s. government so i think they're very concerned about the an effort they're trying to chill and intimidate anyone who would expose such crimes as you know oh just the other day before a military kangaroo court private bradley manning was convicted of espionage just start as he could face up to one hundred thirty six years in prison and that has

set the legal precedent for the prosecution both of assigned jazz well as snowden well in what the u.s. has just done then it clearly is working isn't it because snowden has said he's not going to release any more information now that could harm america on the basis that he now has asylum in russia so in effect is he backing down. well i have a feeling that. you know that we're going to hear from mr snowden we're going to hear from others there's millions of people around the world who are outraged about their cell phone calls and their internet usage being spied upon there's a latest poll that showed for the first time since nine eleven that more people are concerned about a civil liberties than the bogus six explanation of national security to justify the trampling of the bill of rights i think that while well snowden at this point and it's important that he has perhaps some immediate. personal secure

already the fact that the putin government demanded that he be muzzled that he not be allowed to speak is completely condemned it will on the part of the putin government they see mr snowden as a as a football that they can be used to engage in diplomacy and geo should teach it maneuverings with the in the united states. i think that really it's up to the working people of the united states to the world of europe to demand the dropping of all charges on snowden. he has done nothing illegal he is only told the american people and the people of the world the immense criminality that the united states government has carried out just says private bradley manning did in regards to the war crimes the united states carried out in iraq and

afghanistan so i think they were snowden has to have unconditional right to asylum and that no government including the russian government has taken such a principle stand and it must be the demand as i said of working people and all those who defend democratic rights throughout the world for all the dropping of all charges against snowden as sons and bradley manning and jerome wide live from detroit thank you very much and they feel thoughts on this. thank you no further snowden leaks now will show that not only was britain's g c h q spying extensively on u.k. citizens but it was receiving funds from washington to do so the shocking revelations have been published by the guardian newspaper looked so. pretty boy who is in london for more on this so poorly tell us more this is a very intriguing development here yeah well it turns out that the u.s. government has paid at least one hundred million pounds to the u.k.

spy agency over the past three years now in return for this money they've got access to and influence over britain's intelligence gathering programs now these were allegedly top secret payments still and they were set out in documents that as you said the guardian newspaper have seen now these documents make clear that the the americans expect a return on their investments in g c h q so d.t.h. who has got to work very hard to meet the n.s.a.'s demands which almost makes it sound as though that the u.k. intelligence agency is working for the n.s.a. i mean for such a prestigious agency these revelations are likely to be extremely damaging one g c h q strategy briefing that the guardian has seen says to quote g c h q must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight which gives you an impression of the sort

of the work ethic behind. in d.c. h.q. and the how hard they're trying to please the americans really the guardian seen other documents that reveal that d.c. h.q. is actively pouring money into spying on personal mobile phones and applications they want to quote exploit any phone anywhere any time and according to the guardian some staff that work for d.c. h.q. have explained. about the more reality and about the ethics behind what it is they do they are given the level of deception in their work as well apparently a number of employees have been concerned about that now the leaked papers also show that the u.k.'s biggest fear is that the u.s. becomes dissatisfied with the work that d.c. h.q. is doing and as a result will invest less money into the u.k. spy agency which brings us to watch a number of observers are concerned most about in this story which is just how

close the relationship between g.c. h.q. and the n.s.a. really is certainly considering the amount of money that's been poured in and just to remind you that it's over one hundred million pounds over the past three years it would seem as though the british side is almost dependent on their american counterparts so while these revelations have just come out they're unlikely to make pleasant reading for the british government and it looks as though that special relationship between the usa and the u.k. is very much alive and kicking bell or to put a book or live in london thank you very much indeed for that this is r t live in moscow and we'll be back with more news so before that i can assure marge of our breaking news story before we go to the break whistleblower edward snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia and has left moscow's sheremetyevo airport the lawyer assisting him says the paperwork issued today allows him to live work and remain in russia for up to twelve months his whereabouts is unknown according to

the lawyer and we'll bring you more on the snowden saga as it continues here in moscow in about half an hour from now in the meantime euro skepticism is there any hope that's the discussion next on worlds apart after this short 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 want to average day violate your privacy and thus they invented the justice cap this hack 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 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.

of welcome to won't apply your skepticism is the popular mood in britain these days critics of the european integration adamant about the need to preserve financial and political independent health in times the very same critics. essentially said rendering it from tire point policy in the united states why keep your name brace that arm's length and to get. emigres the imperatives of a distant valley to discuss that i'm now joined by. a member of the european parliament for britain mr hannan thank you very much for your time i understand that there are probably many points in my introduction that you would live to contest so let's take them one by one starting with the euro skepticism you have long been the strong opponent of the european integration what is so disagreeable to you about the european union well the difference between the united states and

the european union is that the united states isn't trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't subverting democracy it isn't intervening essentially offense for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with that well there's two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire and fire the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on the economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are.