first of. all the. first video of whistleblower edward snowden. leaks about the n.s.a. force the former intelligence analyst on the run from washington's prosecution. of . the world against so-called frankenfood activists and hundreds of cities across the globe take to the streets in protest at the g.m. giant. bosses u.s. politicians pick or over the budget the government shutdown continues we speak with a cancer patient who is among hundreds being denied treatment because of the deadlock in washington. it's a matter of life or death it's not a matter of inconvenience or just an irritation for us we need this treatment.

a lot from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned eight pm this is . the first videos have surfaced of washington's most wanted man edward snowden who was spotted in august walking out of moscow sheremetyevo airport after being granted asylum in russia the images come after the former n.s.a. contractor was presented with an award for integrity in intelligence given to him by a group of former u.s. officials auntie's lucy coming off the details. the n.s.a. whistleblower was very passionate in talking about the problem of government surveillance in the united states now he said the issue wasn't with any specific spying program rather the relationship between the state and the american people a relationship which he described as increasingly coming into conflict with democratic values snowden also lashed out at the prosecution of whistleblowers

accusing the government of what he called effectively misplaced priorities it's lettuce. you know relationship to god where we didn't exactly. just this on the last. night. to the bombs. but this stuff the. person. holding the snowden maybe is remarks at a ceremony right here in moscow at an undisclosed location where he was given the sam adams award for integrity in intelligence now that award was presented to him by a group of prominent american was the blowers and former government officials they joined our t.v. for an in-depth studio discussion on thursday this is of course the first time that the ward a world has been able to catch a glimpse of mr snowden since he got asylum here in russia the last time we saw him was at the sheremetyevo airport transit zone back in july and while snowden himself

may be safe and sound there have been questions about the fate of those who have worked with them and of course that is a worry that's been expressed by wiki leaks founder julian assange and i'm more concerned in terms of prison people at risk. journalists sarah harrison as we know the newspaper was rated griddles partner at the time for nine hours and a formal investigation before the terrorism has to go she has thought it all so there you have it julian assange describing a difficult political climate for whistleblowers and those who help them it's not only himself meanwhile we are told at least has no regrets about what he did and believes that it was the right decision. eventful week for edward snowden between being reuniting with his father and receiving the sam adams award you can log onto our website r.t. dot com to stay updated on the latest developments in the life of the whistleblower . activists from across the globe have been taking to the streets in

a worldwide rally against genetically modified food giant monsanto the protesters claim the g.m. crops it produces could be harmful to humans hundreds of cities across more than sixty countries are set to take part in the march. is in berlin. i mean straight is all around the world not just here in germany coming out to say no to genetically modified foods people saying that they don't know the dangers that they could pose that they they they on right for human consumption can find out why people are demonstrating against g.m. foods i'm joined by a few guests right now first of all heidi alston who's the founder of the true food foundation heidi thanks very much. sun so you said that they were pulling out of europe apparently that's not the case though is it well peter it does appear that they're pulling out but they're just regrouping in north america and i think they're going to sneak through the back door using the new european north america

trade agreement there is going to be a low level presence that's introduced in the past maybe one percent g.m.o. would be acceptable to your government to import our canadian probs or our north american props it'll be raised to two percent and three percent and four percent as more and more crops become contaminated with g.m.o. has it's very hard to contain so europe will be receiving these products and what's more frightening and most germans don't know is that there is a smart stax corn that monsanto has made and this is the most evolved technology ever and it's not tested whatsoever it is a corn that resists a six different types of herbicide so you can spray it with six different chemicals and it won't die and it also produces two insecticides in its own kernels that you can wash that off so i don't even know if technically that's food in my mind as a nutritionist that that's no longer food which just what those chemicals are doing to us is still something that we don't really know and i'm joined by another guest

now to talk a little bit more on some joined by dr dietz. thank that's correct. what could be the potential hazards of g.m. foods but genetically modified it's foods have been on the market for about fifteen years now and only last year we've seen the first long term animal study for. france and i have the pictures here all of the scientific bring the camera down here a little bit what is it showing us that we're showing the rats that we're fed these are the corn that is genetically modified for their lifetime all animal studies until then have been for ninety days only and usually not much shows in those ninety days even though there are subtle signs of organ damage even in ninety days spike in two years. the lifetime a life time of a rat is shortened they have massive organ damage massive to immerse in the female rats and humans see effects will only not show for another twenty years speak.

much longer lifespan than a rat so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as a result of we've got to wait thank you very much a huge issue and what we're seeing here in philly and as well as around the world is people coming out and saying no to genetically modified foods but protesting against the use of potentially harmful chemicals in food production monsanto has been saying its product is the only way to feed the world's growing population. to get close enough. in the land of supersize approximately eighty five percent of all processed foods contain genetically modified organisms g.m.o. is an acronym that owns its notoriety largely to the agriculture giant monsanto a multinational billion dollar corporation generating global criticism revolving around the safety of its products and growing a monopoly over the world's food supply they are able to patent their genetically modified foods with a very strong patent for farmers can only be for the seeds from monsanto each year

and they can save the sea researchers have documented dozens of health risks associated with the consumption of modified foods and the majority of americans have campaigned for g.m.o. foods to be labeled just like these organic fruits are labeled but so far the will of the people has been silenced by the money of monsanto according to open secrets dot org the companies spent nearly six million dollars last year lobbying federal lawmakers and food regulators to payoff came this year with the passing of the so-called monsanto protection act a bill that gives the biotech companies immunity from lawsuits pertaining to the production and sale of genetically modified seeds the new reality of the world is that chemical companies are feeding us and our families to now sort of lack or to table rather than farm to table and in an effort to widen its power and profit the agriculture giant has recently purchased

a corporation which sells climate data to farmers the price tag of nine hundred thirty million dollars of wasn't a problem for monsanto which grossed a reported thirteen point five billion dollars in revenue last year but decades before g.m.o. foods and fears about modified foods came along monsanto was already in the business it helped bring pesticides agent orange and terminator seeds to the market agent orange was used by the you. military during the vietnam war where it's estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people its effects are still being felt today vietnam says some half a million children have suffered birth defects due to herbicide monsanto's current practices have ignited protests around the globe. millions are taking to the streets demanding that big food comes clean by either label eat genetically engineered products or not selling them at all. new york.

he's from the center for food safety in the u.s. claims john corporations like monsanto pressured governments worldwide to get their products on the market. these marches are raising awareness about the issue and bringing awareness not only about monsanto and its influence in agriculture but also other chemical companies that have become major agribusiness influences on capitol hill i think we see an overwhelming influence in governments and that really has to do with money that these are major chemical companies the top i mean fifty three percent over fifty three percent of seeds are owned by just a handful of these major agribusiness chemical companies so they exert tremendous influence in politics and have millions upon millions of dollars to spend to ensure that their products get spread through reviews and also to ensure that consumers

are not informed about what the products they are eating so for instance not labeling genetically engineered foods. and we go live updates on the global action against monsanto online at all if you don't call there's also more opinion and analysis waiting for you. if you live here moscow coming up this may have been home to the olympics but that's not making a nice place to call home london is being made the worst place in britain rocketing house prices queues and. more on that in just a few minutes. as afghanistan prepares for a presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak of the country's first democratic transition but it's less talked about is the dire security situation on the ground where the karzai is angling to succeed him so the powerful presence of the taliban and whether the u.s. will ever actually leave afghanistan. or the gaza strip should

not be a launching side for rocket attacks on israeli women children and civilians to the palestinian leadership is responsible for this but this is why israel. it is not willing to repeat this experiment in judea and samaria so israel is not willing to be the sucker of the middle east to make long term concessions sacrificing the security of its own citizens only to find out in the end the conflict isn't over or that it is going on as before except that israel is now in a much worse position. if

you just joined us a very warm welcome here in moscow the news continues now the u.s. administration is in deadlock with congress over raising the debt ceiling with just five days left to strike a deal and avoid a catastrophic default republicans won't be boring limit extended by six weeks but president obama is calling for a solution and here's the latest statement from the white house. we cannot have

a situation where we the ceiling is extended as part of a budget negotiation process for only six weeks which would put us right back in the same position that we are in now meanwhile the government in key institutions remain in the shutdown which has put hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave the crisis response after republican lawmakers refused to sanction the affordable health care program known as a bomb a cat the shutdown does not cut off a vital lifeline for many cancer patients who have been denied treatment one of them the shelling then some of the grievances to. lives are at stake two hundred people are trying to get into trials at an age each week and each week passes that's another two hundred that are turned away at this time and it's a matter of life or death it's not a matter of inconvenience or just an irritation for us we need this treatment we show was dog nose was suck it's a rare form of cancer after nine months of chemotherapy she applied for additional

treatment at the national institutes of health but she and hundreds of others were turned away when the government shutdown took effect we also be shell what she'd like to say me to the politicians in washington whose bickering set off the deadlock. i have heard a couple of instances where they find that this is just the game between them and that it's a matter of winning and i'd like to say that it's not a matter of when or lose i mean it's a please listen to the people and know that it's affecting so many that. we've got some stunning videos free online at the moment. this. luckily the dr all this truck managed to get out just minutes before train smashed into it and drag it along the tracks you can check out the full video and find out exactly what happened.

six hundred million users worldwide could have been snooped on by the n.s.a. and one european country that's not willing to put up with it wants to challenge the internet giant in court. first. and i think the. orders.

down in the final. and the rest. will be. bridge buckingham palace and some paul's cathedral but there will be little boasting about london's newest title is britain's worst at least that's according to a tongue in cheek book identifying the you case if the least desirable locations on his door smith also behind it would y. be capital fat so badly. it's interesting the dreary day here in london typical i'll tell you the weather which made it the perfect day for me to tell you that nothing has been facing the worst area in the u.k. to live in despite the fact that within a mile radius from here it houses the parliament westminster abbey the london eye

and other really famous landmarks it's a book called crush pounds return which named the fifty was raised since it be in the u.k. i don't think nuns know i didn't really understand this because they said of london being the what place but luckily i'm told since he had to explain that to me with an umbrella and his copy across town to tell them that i mean i can think of ten worst places just off the top of my head what your criteria are all kinds of criteria i think one of the things that people writing about a lot is that davy cried so hard in london getting on the northern line having your all but i mean you'll no use jammed into someone else's all. the time the expense the fact that it costs so much to to buy property or is in fact impossible for most people to buy property in the center of london is be hollowed out and you billionaires can afford to stay there not even professionals like doctors can and there's also a lot of anger with london coming from the rest of the country you had the banking

crisis which was all centered around london and then we're told that subsequently the recession is over and there's growth but only london really seems to be getting the benefits and is staking up another housing bubble it's primarily it's a book that people read in the toilet and it's made to make them laugh but it does it doesn't seem to provoke to mind. people thinking about times and the way we treat and the way we live and hopefully start a conversation quite serious conversation it's certainly easy to say on a day like today why london might not be everyone's idea of paradise because because it's the capital fit to get inside and out space it is from the outside they it's incredibly expensive to visit. trying to make it very reliable and people are very real it might just be possible for london to pick up its behavior in the next ten years because you know what so. what we start off. with some dramatic pictures of sea rescue operations in the

mediterranean thirty four people have so far been confirmed to a boat carrying african migrants sank off the coast of sicily on friday however as you can see the majority of the two hundred or so on board were rescued and transferred to land by italian maltese ships in a similar tragedy last week three hundred fifty people mostly from eritrea and some drowned near the italian island of lampedusa. three people including two police officers have been killed in a suicide car bombing in eastern afghanistan tac apparently targeted a police compound last struck its main entrance and insurgents have been creasing their time as foreign forces withdraw from the country. militias have marched through the streets of the libyan city of benghazi they were chanting and waving banners in support of suspected terrorist abu anas al libi he was seized last week by american forces for his alleged involvement in the bombings of two embassies in africa it's believed the u.s.

led operation provoked the kidnapping of prime minister earlier this week he's been accused of collaborating with washington over the capture of. and also in a world update this hour two mortar shells of hit syria's capital damascus killing an eight year old girl and when the eleven other people one of the shells fell near a school while the other damage several cars in the by shops explosions also occurred just three hundred meters away from the hotel where chemical weapons inspectors stay hoping to dismantle about a thousand tons of toxins by mid twenty four team. meanwhile the international strikes against syria now on hold another battle is raging the one in the media talk of the country's humanitarian crisis has always been one of the main arguments for western states to intervene militarily or want to see for herself. now that we have been able to make progress on the chemical weapons issue we should not forget we also needed to make progress on the humanitarian issue

a warning echoing throughout many corridors of power in the west is on track to be . the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the twenty first century and this is building into one of the great humanitarian crisis on the face of the planet. no this is not true we have enough food they are all liars we don't care what they say here as you can see we have no trouble in this bakery in downtown damascus tens of thousands of traditional reflow are churned out each day the machines work sixteen hours a day six days a week. we have extra quantities enough for another fifteen days. while in this public market and the thousands like it across syria shoppers and management tell us in two years they've never been any shortages in this growing rice and sugar there are always available you never have a shortage of them in our warehouses aromas full. isom adani recently arrived in

the country and was shocked to find that local stores are full i thought that there would be nothing nothing at all everywhere in the supermarkets and nothing to eat and i was really very agreeably surprised there is a lot of everything fruits. vegetables. ok the reality is that most people here are going about their daily routine far removed from the hardships depicted in the foreign press but when it comes to shortages there is one that is crippling the economy queues like this are commonplace for gas stations around the country caused by sanctions imposed by the united states and the european union ironically the very countries that are calling for humanitarian intervention. the syrian people need a solution not the governments or the media who are trying to use everything we have even the small things like bread to justify their own objectives the fight for

syria is far from over and the psychological war the battle of perceptions over reality is likely to be fought for as long if not longer than the sides have taken up arms against each other. r.t. damascus. since nine eleven america's done a lot to boost surveillance and increased security however the policies don't necessarily make people feel safe and risk fueling paranoia of terrorists around every corner. of the martin looks at that issue in breaking the set in about two hours from now is a pretty pretty. and nice and light from d.c. to orlando hosted what can only be described as a terrorist. take a look at how they figured it out. crewmembers say that shortly after takeoff a group of four quote middle eastern men caused a commotion the witnesses claim one of the men ran from his seat in coach toward the flight deck door he made a hard left and entered the bathroom called for

a considerable length of time you know the reason stories like this even gain traction in the first place is because of the fear of the other or by that i mean anyone who remotely looks brown and to prove my point it just so happens that i have acquired some rare footage of what really went down on that flight. yeah i think you get the idea. of. breaking this at two hours from now here in r.t. up next the ruthless mexico blasts book cooking corporations that's after this break more news in just over half an hour from now.

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bed ins and prophets versus global protest. march against monsanto today on r g r g dot com. welcome to the kaiser report. as are you know recently the prime minister here in the u.k. david cameron claimed the profits were not a dirty word i have news for you dave profit is the even a word now with any objective meaning anyway thanks to accounting fraud it's whatever some shimada with the bean counter wanted to be and so so you do have all these units of accounting fraud let's call them profits then what stacy exactly max because we hear all the time profits are up profits are down profits are up profits are down and nothing ever seems to change in the real economy this first headline

year the profits profit profits have been booming in america reaching the highest proportion of g.d.p. since the second world war given such buoyant conditions you might imagine that businesses are investing like crazy to take advantage of all those great opportunities correct no they're not max because instead businesses are handing cash back to shareholders a tactic once reserved for executives who had run out of ideas in two thousand and eleven the value of america's share buybacks was equal to two point seven percent of g.d.p. in britain the figure was three point one percent or yeah you bring up a couple points are they the important point here is that when the corporations report on their profits that is a number that is delivered to them by one of the big four accounting agencies to report as their profit but what we've discovered is that these big four accounting agencies like the banks on wall street like the hedge funds like the rating

agencies are also committing massive fraud and they simply cooked the books on the mandate of the c.e.o. who wants to report numbers that they feel are the best. terms of how to affect stock price except jack welch of general electric very famously was a book cook or every single quarter they reported this earnings number that was cooked by whoever their accounting was at the time and of course you'll have big four of big four left of the accounting agencies or used to be the big seven in the big eight except for but they've all been systematically closed down for accounting fraud now we've got four left they're all involved in accounting fraud and i'm sure that pretty soon there won't be only three left well the article on the economist is looking at a new book and it's called the road to recovery how and why economic policy must change is by andrew smithers an economist and he knows that in the early one nine hundred seventy s. american companies invested fifteen times as much cash.