this because. i'm not sure that my child will be returning to the us again that's his decision. breaking news this hour the father i'll bet it's a whistleblower edward snowden a rise in moscow that we can now see live pictures from or later so i should say from the show metro airport where he'd just spoken to the media. who managed to speak to mr snowden just a few minutes ago find out what he said in a couple of moments. and another major development this hour even prime minister ali's a done that has been kidnapped by owned militants in tripoli also. come from. the horror of the biggest terrorist in the world. never grow.

which would. bring now and american intellectual chomsky talks to. driving global politics and the controversial role of the us. hello and welcome to twenty four hour news live from moscow ptomaine story now snowden is seen here has given his first interview since arriving in moscow this morning he will now try to reunite with his son who's been at an undisclosed location here in russia and is kind of is at sheremetyevo airport for as long snowden just landed there you are so you have spoken to me just. no i didn't see

the ad and what's your impression about him what did he have to say. paul despite the fact that mr snowden just stepped off a transatlantic flight from new york to moscow which last over eight hours he still found the strength to meet him despite the jetlag and all that to meet with the journalists and while there were lots of questions obviously since we haven't even heard about edward snowden his son for a few months now now his father says that he isn't sure whether or not he's going to be able to meet him but he does hope so he also said that he isn't sure whether or not edward snowden will ever be able to come back to the united states but he stressed that that's going to be strictly his decision and he also talked about the fact the latest allegations coming from edward snowden saying that even in fact they came from the media after he passed them over to journalists commenting on the

russian president's conditions which he voiced in mid summer when the whole question of providing temporary asylum to mr snowden was being discussed and back then was going to police and said that snowden could stay in russia if he wanted but then he'd have to stop harming the image of the u.s. i also managed to ask. edward snowden's father a question i asked him what's he planning to do today this is his first day in russia let's listen to what he had to answer. last certainly believe in justice and in him the importance and the rights that are afforded by our constitution but the fact is. many of the questions you're asking it's best left to . know who represents my son in russia and my son and if it's some point in a future. date choose to have a press conference. the appropriate people present so be it i cannot speak

for my son and really the legal issues father i don't want to really share my opinion at this point in time i'm shipley thankful that my son a shaved and free. father is being in the company. this is the lawyer who's been pretty much devising edward snowden and he's been his basically representative ever since he arrived to the transit zone of me to airport in june and while his father is saying that he's clearly fully leaning on mr country and i want to come to stay here he also said that he is considering himself as his guest so i guess fairly really not on snowden's father but on the conditions for whether or not he is going to meet with his son. this kind of light that moscow's sheremetyevo airport

was more on the developing story about the arrival of edward snowden's father in moscow thank you very much indeed and of course we'll be speaking to you later on again because it's a developing once again story and we're closely following thank you. and an update now on our other developing story a libyan prime minister ali they done has been kidnapped by armed militants in tripoli and let's now get more from belcher he is following the latest developments from cairo hard about so what do we know so far. where the motorist is the government is concerned. was taking this morning from the corinthians internal in tripoli it seems like no fuse behind the attack but according to eyewitnesses he was taken by armed gunmen rather quietly in such people guarded almost as an arrest to convoy of leaching cars i'm going to take

a look for an undisclosed location initially you can't object called it but actually we live on it because your facebook page but they consider not saying it was being cool was our kidnappers denied reports it was a very strange and this happened this morning libyan militants had really rampant revolution algernon moment to get back in two thousand and eleven until they believed to be behind this situation the country's become very difficult to look into the latest and quite dramatic extension of the. chain exactly huge behind this where the damage has been taken exactly do we exactly why he was taken but chances are all we know is that it wasn't a particularly as violent arrest but that he was taken by armed groups. about your line from cairo well thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to speed and of course we'll be talking to you again later. they are now the

u.s. government shutdown as well until the second week now and the country could default in another seven days and while officials on capitol hill wrangle over politics the lives of many ordinary americans are literally depending on an outcome i'll have more in a partner i explain. the ten day u.s. government shutdown is not only jeopardizing our america's economy and credibility it has also turned into a life or death situation for hundreds of citizens for each week the shutdown continues roughly two hundred sick patients cannot be accepted to clinical treatment trials at the national institutes for health that's nearly four hundred sick americans desperately in need of medical treatment for illnesses including cancer the n.i. age says among the patients being turned away include children with cancer are reported seventy five percent up and i h's employees thousands of people have been furloughed because of washington's self-inflicted shutdown as

a result michelle langbehn who is battling star coma hasn't been able to receive the treatment and medication needed to save her life the new mother along with hundreds of others couldn't begin trial treatments and i age at the start of this month now langbehn started a petition designed to put pressure on congress to reopen the government and as of wednesday one hundred thousand people have signed on to support her effort the problem is us leaders who have the power to change the situation have failed to agree on a budget a political deadlock that leaves the lives of cancer stricken adults and children in limbo reporting from new york marine upward are to. their own growing government impasses having an impact on foreign policy today with president obama care from his four nation asian told us today secretary of state john kerry warned that big u.s. won't be able to sustain its goal was abroad if the deadlock continues and he said

now is spoke to one of america's most prominent political analysts and linguists noam chomsky who broke down what his sees as the shortcomings of u.s. foreign policy. chomsky i'm right on the faculty at mit and i'm. getting more and more heavily involved in every war activities for the last few years i think are right or linguists cognitive scientists and non-conformist for decades. like the recent very very serious defects flaws in their. church officials. chomsky's work that goes well beyond the walls of the massachusetts institute of technology the author of over a hundred books has long been debating the other side of us foreign policy and say it is going to set it all seems so special interest in search space decided most will never hear the press responded because. straightforwardness with the powerful

let's just say get over it because. we want to we we have for sure the world but for the present chomsky invited our two to sit down with him in boston to discuss some of today's press global it seems he began with iran and hopes of a new u.s. policy term ski is pessimistic. last december there was supposed to be an international conference in finland to carry forward long. efforts to establish a. zone free of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in the middle east didn't happen the first thing that happened is israel announced they wouldn't participate. was waiting to see what was interesting was where did she would iran which is your room so that it would participate with no conditions immediately obama called for. giving the reasons which are the

official israeli reasons can have a conference and it was really you know it's. of course in the background it can't be a regional peace settlement until the u.s. and israel stop blocking the international consensus and israel. as they're doing. thirty years so no meeting people in the united states have done very almost nothing about it for a very simple reason not a word about this is appeared in the american press literally you can read about it in arms control journals or international affairs drawers or in articles that i write things. with the presses so i don't so no pressure on syria chomsky says getting rid of chemical weapons is a good first step but not enough great opportunities are being missed syria's chemical weapons are not there just for fun they were there as

a counter to israeli nuclear weapons it was the only thing. you know. so there's a broader issue just goes back to the question of the weapons of mass destruction freed zone in the middle east which the us is blocking for the same reason so this is a partial. it's good in itself but very partial on the broader opportunities are not being pursued we also talked about one of the most pursued men in the world chomsky doesn't buy edward snowden is a threat to u.s. national security and security is almost always relevant but its security of the government from its own population that's the security concern genuine security like security of the population. and very low.

and drones according to chomsky are a direct threat to america. where four of the biggest terrorist. never wrote. which would. prove a moratorium or it's generally. from the highest level in the most sort of. record. that. create will. thank you very much for your time for inviting us to your office here at mit that was gnome tomsky and i mean it's in our way for our team. and the dr chomsky gave plenty more insight into how the u.s. operates domestically and abroad so make sure you logon to r.t. dot com for our falling to the. in a show of an optimism the greek government to draft a budget is assuming the economy will slowly start to pick up next year but there are many who die and greece will return to growth so soon with unemployment

expected to remain critically high the forecast for october promises a new record with around twenty eight percent of greeks out of a job thousands a walk as thread by the authorities cost cutting drive as always and your farmer reports. there was a time when the bay of the just north of athens could only support a small fishing community but the arrival of the lark a smelting plant on its banks changed all that i employing a thousand strong workforce for decades however its days could now be numbered the government is considering closing it as part of radical cutbacks and workers turn up fearing what lies ahead. now by can any worker imagine his future without work i live here i was raised here my grandfather worked here so how can i imagine my future without this plant. lark ohs commercial manager gave me

a tall amid the grime and flames he pointed out the plant is among the biggest and most modern in europe a recent slump in profits he says is a result of a short term plunge in the price of nickel and the government's doubling of the price of electricity closure in his eyes is not an option he wants privatization it is a money making machine that when you meet. one side let it all go no government is good. business but. that. we want to be private. but we want it to be for over there is the good way as it is. the greek government has tough choices to make to meet i.m.f. bailout conditions it has to x. four thousand public sector jobs and reduce the salaries of twenty five thousand

more by the end of the year in the meantime workers at largo have rallied and handed their own plan to be i.m.f. who they believe is wrong to question the plant's viability. or we can prove the i.m.f. is wrong. this factory is profitable and has a future and we have made a plan to counter the lies and tell the truth the future of this plant will also determine the fate of the surrounding economy and that's because around twenty thousand people are employed in industries that either supply or services including this port glasgow disappears those jobs due to. across the water the people of low remain quietly go back their business not only his lark oh created jobs it spawned a community generations have lived and worked here the burning question is for how much longer andrew farmer r.t.

. and the lecture given in london hunger area prime minister viktor orban criticized the e.u. for losing its optimism confidence and lacking a clear image of the future and push for member nations to push forward with their own policies while praising the way his own country has performed arti is laura smith asking why he was speaking out against brussels. went back to oban hungary controversal prime minister gave a talk at chatham house in frogs of journalists and members of the institute he started his new mexico on i am on gary and he's that we have a unique and we produced more history that we can possibly manage it so as if by telling the story of hungary's relationship with the european union first the stories of this sort of unattainable land of promise and opportunity but increasingly he said hungary and see a european union which is on the scene and unclear where it's going in the future

politically that hungary still has very positive feelings about being a member of european union but the crisis which opened up an opportunity for renewal and regeneration of the institutions in his country has shown he says that things cannot go order as they are to snip blacks the differences between the e.u. countries he was very clear about saying no in years and members should have the right to dictate their own economic policy with three of an ideology and knowledge the diversity between them did this concept of patriotism a nation could still exist inside the european union what i also am about the risks of doing almost that brings to mr policy with regards to the do you feel you came to talk first by brussels the further political and economic integration he was very clear about the baltic allies the nation in the modern good instrument rated to success. if hungary be a successful country if it be not isolated if you treat everything it's all bad

news day his push to politically differentiate hungary from the rest of europe is an experiment in the forestry and hungary that includes a profile pic that's for us. this is our city and coming up for you later this hour what the company is exploring anything. the war between washington and tehran to move into iran's most kids has the country's car industry attract investors despite top sanctions the story in a few months. the recent history knows quite a few examples when humanitarian concerns were used as a onsets a partial political action when you call a military intervention in a country a humanitarian intervention you participate in the descriptive taishan and danger

to. neutral an impartial humanitarian mix and. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by georgians of thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air and sea and others face. a limbic torch relay. on r t r g dog congo. this is coming to life for most let's move on now. as western bank sanctions take

a toll on a rainy and oil sales to run seems to have found another way to boost revenues with the country's automobile industry iran rang says the middle east the biggest culprit and thirteenth in the wild it produces one point six million vehicles here and industry which accounts for ten percent of g.d.p. five of the top ten cars produced in iran are based on french designs as you can see here some of the most popular and reno models made in iran and while european producers are tied by west and impose sanctions u.s. businesses are already moving in to secure positions in the country and among the most active is u.s. automaker general motors and george noyes journalist for the french go figure our newspaper has been closely following the industry and he believes u.s. companies are preparing the ground to take over iran's market. i think already

there of been some secret contacts between u.s. firms and iranian counterparts in order to to group reaper to anticipate a political deal between iran and the united states mainly these contacts of kurds in the automobile sector and fortunately for us in france we are the brother the last one in europe who tried to to to go to iran because for the last the last years france was extremely active in the in the fighting against the iran from syria is exerting a lot of pressure you know for the last twenty years the us where outside from iran and the the french businessman i do quite good position in iran to. put them in a complete secular and now they're afraid that these all these years of the force will be cleaned by the new deal which will happen between us and iran for sure that

the european companies will be most probably losers in this kind of agreement. the u.s. government shutdown is affecting many thousands but not the employees of essential federal services which includes drug enforcement agents america's been engaged in a war on drugs since the one nine hundred seventy s. costing the taxpayer billions of dollars a year but it seems that it has hardly been winning this battle with many questioning its economic sense and according to the latest numbers over the last forty years it cost washington at least one trillion dollars despite all america's efforts in the years between one thousand nine hundred ninety and two thousand and seven the average price of heroin cocaine and kind of is has suffered a nosedive oh about eighty percent but not only have the drugs become cheaper the piri see on the contrary has risen. from the international center for science and drug policy says the u.s.

will and drugs is based on long strategies given the billions that has been spent over the past two decades in particular on the war on drugs and just the increasing volume of drug seizures over this time it's surprising that these trends towards lower prices increasing truly are so stark at present you know i don't think there is a lot of interest in moving towards more effective approaches i would suggest that you know it doesn't matter what you do to try to contain this market when it's worth three hundred fifty billion a year globally it's going to be incredibly difficult to to constrain it but instead i think what needs to be happening is a movement by governments by international bodies like the united nations towards using metrics that you know are more focused on reducing demand for drugs rather than trying to you know continue on this costly and ill fated attempt at reducing

supply. time now for aussies world update this hour and first china shanghai city has closed dozens of zoos and parks as a deals with flooding the amount of rain was the highest in a single day for half a century thanks to typhoon roads and houses were inundated and the storm caused rivers to reach and also power failures schools and factories have been suspended and some residents have nothing to eat and drink at least seven million people across china have been affected. sixty people have been reportedly killed in sectarian clashes near the mining village of ganga in the central african republic finds is mostly from neighboring chad and sudan attacked questions and forth with local militias in retaliation for a previous assault on the reach and resources but with a poor economy the african country has descended into and mayhem since mostly muslim seleka rebels took control of the capital that prompted france to call for

international intervention and the un security council. up next it's on a boy with the latest wilds upon. you know it's getting old trying to beat the war drums to invade iran i think the let's invade iran talk has been going on since i was in college to keep the saber rattling rolling israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declared in front of the un that iran is building nuclear weapons that could hit new york in three to four years no he said new york obviously he was trying to spook a certain country with nuclear destruction the delegates from namibia were probably unmoved sadly this time netanyahu failed to bring

a funny cartoon bomb picture with him like in his two thousand and twelve un speech in which he also warned the world about the threat of a nuclear iran you know i might be more optimistic about israel accusing other countries of being nuclear threats if they had a better track record themselves although israel is a bit candid with their arsenal according to a b.b.c. article the federation of american scientists believes that israel's arsenal has grown to about two hundred nukes based on their surveillance of ever expanding facilities inside the country also let's not forget that israel has plenty of ways to deliver those two hundred nuclear bombs if the need be. so my question is why should we automatically trust israel with a lot of nuclear weapons but not iran is it because they're bureaucrats we're european suits and shave i don't know it just seems to me that disarmed countries are better advocates for nuclear disarmament but that's just my opinion.

along the welcome to worlds apart the plight of civilians has been used as a rallying cry in many conflicts especially so in syria and at the time when humanitarianism and interventionism go hand in hand how do you how those who are suffering without assisting those who may be contributing to the south are involved to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by peter moore president of the international committee of the red cross thank you very much for your time sir now you just had a series of meetings with the russian officials which focused on the urgency of

delivering aid to syria what are the main obstacles there. well the main obstacle is definitely the expansion of war fear of the combat scene syria which leaves the civilian population trapped amongst fighters of the government on the one side the armed opposition on the other side and the challenge is indeed to negotiate access and independent humanitarian actor to negotiate access with both sides this is increasingly difficult the problem as far as i understand you work in conjunction of with the syrian arab red crescent and they have an extensive network on the ground so theoretically speaking you would have a much larger access you many of the neighborhoods in syria than some other humanitarian organizations i wonder from your own experience on the ground do you aid providers in syria discriminate between supporters of the government and opponents of the government indeed our.