from a. look. at the. first song for. the first video whistleblower edward snowden emerges leaks about the n.s.a. force the former intelligence analyst on the run from washington's prosecution. the world against so-called frankenfood activists and hundreds of cities across the globe take to the streets in protest of the g.m. john. us politicians because 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. the matter of life or death it's not a matter of inconvenience or just irritation for us we need this treatment.

from austria center here in moscow where just ten ten pm this is. the first videos have surfaced of washington's most wanted man edward snowden who was last spotted in august walking out of moscow's airport after being granted asylum in russia the images come days 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 coming off as 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 states 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 or you know relationship to god where we know exactly for sure it's on the rocks. to the bombs. but they'll stop the. person. holding the snowden made these 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 whistleblowers and former government officials they joined our t.v. for an in-depth studio discussion on thursday this is of course speak first time that the war and the 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 our guardian newspaper was rated grills part of the time for nine hours and a formal investigation before the terrorism investigation has started up so there you have it julian a songe describing a difficult political climate for whistleblowers and those who helped them it's not a man himself meanwhile we are told at least has no regrets about what he did and believes that it was the right decision. well it's been an eventful week for edward snowden between being reunited with his father and receiving the sam adams award you can log onto our web site called the stamp they did on the latest developments in the life of the whistleblower. activists from across the globe have been taking

to the streets in a world wide running against genetically modified food giant monsanto the protesters claim the g.m. crops it produces could be home full to humans hundreds of cities across more than sixty countries are set to take part in the march. is in bunim in straits 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 it could pose that 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 also the man 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 crops or our north american products 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 cord 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 does food in my mind as a nutritionist longer food well we just want 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 joined by dr dietz. thank that's correct. what

could be the potential hazards of g.m. foods a genetically modified its foods have been on the market for about fifteen years now and only last year we seen the first long term animal study from france and i have the pictures here all of the scientific bring the camera down here a little bit what is it showing. 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. to immerse in the female rats and humans see effects will only not show for another twenty years speakers have a much longer life span than iraq so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as

a result of the most we've got to wait thank you very much a huge issue and what we're seeing here in berlin as well as around the world is people coming out and saying no to genetically modified foods but one activists are protesting against the use of potentially harmful chemicals in food production monsanto has been saying its products are the only way to feed the world's growing population. takes a closer. 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 the genetically modified food with a very strong patent for farmers can only base the seeds from monsanto each year and they can save the seeds and researchers have documented dozens of health risks

associated with the consumption of a 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 company's 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 now sort of already to the 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 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 u.s. the. 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 labeling genetically engineered products or not selling them at all. new york. and colin o'neill 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 you 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've got live updates on the global action against monsanto online ability don't call me where there's also more opinion and amount of waiting for you. to live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day coming up this may have been home to the olympics but that's no place to call home london has been named the worst place in britain because of the house prices and blame. 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 because this is. why israel is not willing to repeat this experiment in judea and samaria so israel is not willing to be the sucker of the middle east and to make long term concessions sacrificing the security of its own citizens only to find out in the end the conflict isn't. going on as before except that israel is now in a much worse position. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge.

and we think that. there is no. evidence any problem with. this golden rice. continues her naughty the us 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 the republicans won't be boring limit extended by six weeks but president obama is calling for solution here's the latest statement from the white house. we cannot have a situation where we use 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 and key institutions remain in shutdown which has put hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave the crosses respond to republican lawmakers refused to sanction the affordable health care program known as the bomb attack the shutdown has now called off a vital lifeline for many cancer patients who have been denied treatment and one of them michelle lunde been summoned up grievances to r.t. . 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 air taishan for us we need this treatment.

michelle was diagnosed with zakouma 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 michel what she'd like to say to the politicians in washington who's been sent off the. i have heard a couple of instances where they find that this is just the game between them and 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 are in need of help. it may boast tower bridge buckingham palace and some paul's cathedral but they'll be a little boasting about london's newest title as the britain's worst at least that's according to a tongue in cheek book identifying the u.k.'s fifth the least desirable locations

or smith also the man behind the award why the capital fared so badly. it's interesting dreary day here in london typical for you which may be the perfect day for me to tell you that london has been the worst area in the u.k. to live in despite the fact that within a mile radius from here to house the parliament westminster abbey the london eye another really famous. book called pounds return which may be the worst places to be in the u.k. . you know i don't really understand this. place but luckily sam jordan 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 there are all kinds of criteria i think one of the things that people write in about a lot is that davy cried so hard in london getting on the northern line having your

all but i mean you have no use jammed into someone else's all the time expense the fact that it costs so much to to buy property or is in fact impossible for most people to buy property of the center of london as be hollowed out a union as 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 had the banking crisis which is 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 sticking 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 it does it does 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 city to get inside and out space it is from the outside

say it's incredibly expensive to visit the transport system isn't very reliable and people are very rude it might just be possible for london to pick up its behavior in the next ten years and become not quite so awful. doris with reporting from a city quite literally under a cloud but it's not all gloomy news online where we've got some stunning video including this. the good news of the driver of the truck managed to get out just minutes before train smashed into it and drag it along the track you can check out the full video and find out exactly what happened on you tube channel. six hundred million users worldwide could have been snooped by the n.s.a. and one european country that's not willing to put up with it wants to challenge the internet giant. leap right

see. first rate. and i think that you're. on our reporters. on instagram. to be in the. mornings today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations the day.

since nine eleven america has done a lot to boost surveillance and increase security however the policies don't necessarily make people feel safe and risk fueling paranoia of terrorists lurking around every corner every martin looks at bat issue and breaking the set coming away in just under ten minutes from now here's a preview. and this in 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 man ran from his seat and colts toward the flight deck door he made a hard left and entered the floor bathroom called for a concert of all one to try and 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.

so yeah i think you get the idea. coming your way in ten minutes from now it's time now for some international news in brief u.s. secretary of state john kerry says a partial agreement has been reached with afghanistan regarding how many u.s. troops will stay in the country after the nato pull out next year discussions have repeatedly stored in the past few weeks and both sides have agreed for more negotiations and because i was demanding american guarantees against cross border militant incursions from nations such as pakistan where the u.s. wants a green light to run in counterterrorism missions post twenty fourteen and to keep

leasing bases around the country afghan security has been steadily worsening raising fears over what happens after allied forces leave. a massive cyclon has hit eastern india battering its coastline with heavy rains and winds and forcing hundreds of thousands of locals to move inland in search of shelter among the hardest hit as the entire villages have been swamped by high waves indian ocean is considered a hot spot for such a cycle and with one of the deadliest killing ten thousand people back in one nine hundred ninety nine. moving on with some dramatic pictures now of sea rescue operations in the mediterranean thirty four people have so far been confirmed dead after 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 and maltese ships in a similar tragedy last week more than three hundred fifty people mostly from eritrea and somalia drowned near the italian island of lampedusa. and finally in

our world update this hour two mortar shells of hit syria's capital damascus killing an eight year old girl and wounding eleven other people one of the shells fell near a school while the other damage several cars and nearby shops explosions also occurred just three hundred meters away from the hotel where chemical weapons inspectors are staying hoping to dismantle about a thousand tons of toxins by mid twenty fourteen. meanwhile with 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 he went to see for herself what life is really like in damascus at the moment now that we have been able to make progress on the chemical weapons issue we should not forget we also needed to make progress until you meet terry in issue a warning echoing through many corridors of power in the west this 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 hardly know we're all liars we don't care what they say outside here as you can see we have no trouble in this bakery in downtown damascus tens of thousands of traditional floats are churned out each day the machines work sixteen hours a day six days a week sure 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 big and growing rice and sugar there are always available you never have a shortage of them in our warehouses are always 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 nothing i was really very agreeably surprised there is a lot of everything in the fruit bread. 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 who have taken up arms against each other. r.t. damascus. one is with a news team and just dive off an hour from now to mean time abby martin is next as promised after the short break. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such. a one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by

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came out with the stunning reports apparently and recent flight from d.c. to orlando hosted what can only be described as a terrorist dry run take a look at how they figured it out co. crew members 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 floor bathroom quote for a considerable length of time where let me get this straight a guy that may have been arab booked at the bathroom at a flight because he may have had a bad case of diarrhea side effects from bad airline food yep definitely a red flag but i can't be the only reason you're right. while he was in there the other three men proceeded to move about the cabin changing seats opening overhead bins and quote generally making a scene but ten news investigators contacted both us airways and t.s.a.

and both from b. incident well i'm glad that the t.s.a. confirmed that three men were shuffling around in their overhead bins on by the way the t.s.a. also followed up by saying that there is no need to investigate this incident any further basically this isn't news at all and these concerns completely baseless so what is this really all about. you will remember this day as long as you live with memories and images of nine eleven or shared in the minds of almost. that's how this news report started as it seems like we can't go one day without being really traumatized about the nine eleven terrorist attack that happened twelve years ago 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.