this. person. told the truth edward snowden speaks out about washington's witch hunt on fellow whistleblowers as wiki leaks releases the first footage in over two months. that will begin so-called frankenfood activists in hundreds of cities across the globe take to the streets in protest at the g.m. giants monsanto. glasses u.s. politicians because over the budget 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 our studio center here in moscow where just turned one am on a sunday morning this is. the first video is of surface of one of washington's most wanted men edward snowden who was last spotted in august walking out of moscow's sheremetyevo 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 and. has 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 this latest story you know leads you to go where we didn't exactly. just on the news last. night. live to the bombs. but they will stop the. person. holding. 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 the first time that the warden 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 on more. in terms of prison people at risk with journalists sarah harrison as we know our guardian newspaper was rated grills part of the time for nine hours and for more investigation reform and terrorism as the good she has started off so there you have it julian a son is describing a difficult political climate for a 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. well it's been a vent full week for edward snowden between being reunited 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 . people around the world are rallying as part of a day of protest to vent their anger at genetically modified food giant monsanto

demonstrators claim the g.m. crops produced by the company could be harmful to humans even resulting in death they also accuse the biotech multinational of aggressive lobbying influence in food safety research and monopolizing the industry from australia to europe hundreds of cities across more than sixty countries have witnessed demonstrations in the u.s. thousands have joined marches many of which are still underway and he said now he is in washington with the latest for us. many cities across the u.s. took part in this second organize march against the agricultural giant monsanto protesters rallying against the company's use of genetically modified organisms and trying to raise awareness about its corporate practices some protesters told us that even though the government is shutdown months onto a lobbyist are hard at work here in washington many pouncers by actually came up to activists what we were standing there holding and g.m.o.

signs and asked what is the g.m.o. so awareness is very low in terms of what exactly genetically modified foods are let alone the dangers they cause in the capital the protests began with activist going into large grocery stores and retailers trying to ways raise awareness about controversial insecticides which affect the nervous system and have been repeatedly linked to. well the demonstration then made its way to the white house all sorts of activists students even young children our gannett farmers caterers chefs so real wide range of people there are a lot of veterans actually showed up to talk about the dangers of g m o's just outside the white house they then began to march made their way through the i.m.f. world bank and eventually to monsanto offices here in washington d.c. now other cities across the u.s. los angeles portland denver orlando just to name a few held similar demonstrations also up in canada and vancouver british columbia

there was quite a large turnout for their march against monsanto organizers say this is just the beginning that momentum is going to pick up and they will continue their fight against the g.m.o. giant monsanto reporting from washington and he said no way. but all the activists protesting against the use of potentially home for chemicals in food production monsanto is being saying its products are the only way to feed the world's growing population. takes a closer look. 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 foods with

a very strong patent for farmers can only be the seed 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 now for the last 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 u.s. 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 illegally genetically

engineered products or not selling them. new york. and o'neill he's from the center for food safety in the u.s. claims john corporations like monsanto pressure governments worldwide to get their products on the market these marches are raising awareness about the issue and bring awareness not only about monsanto and its influence in agriculture but also other chemical companies that have become a major agribusiness influences on capitol hill i think we see an overwhelming influence in governments and 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 spread through reviews and also to ensure that and about

what the products they are eating so for instance not labeling genetically engineered foods. and we go. home where there's also more opinion and. still ahead the. claims made by western politicians that syria's civil war has left the country with critical food and water supplies. a new book is published the place is in the u.k. and the number one choice of where you don't want to be if you are in britain is coming up right after the break. please.

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continues here in r.t. 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 want the boring limit extended by six weeks but president obama is calling for a long term solution is what the white house had to say earlier we cannot have a situation where we are seen as extended as part of a budget negotiation process for only six weeks which would put us right back in the same position that we're in now meanwhile the government in kiev situations remain in a shutdown which has put hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave the crisis response talk to republican lawmakers were fused to sanction the affordable health care program known as the bombing and the shutdown is now called off a vital lifeline for many cancer patients who have been denied treatment one of

them learn best summed up her 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 irritation for us we need this treatment michelle was diagnosed with sarcoma 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 michele what she'd like to say to those 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 louis i mean it's a please listen to the people and know that it's affecting so many that are in need

of help. a marathon day of negotiations on afghan security has left us secretary of state john kerry with very little to celebrate he says only a partial deal was reached on just how many american troops will stay in the country after the nato put out next year washington wants to take the lead in running counterterrorism missions off to twenty fourteen as well as to keep policing bases around the country lawrence freeman of the executive intelligence review i spoke to madeleine and he says given its checkered history with the states kabul is likely to move closer to its asian neighbors president karzai is going to be leave you office he will not be the president in two thousand and fourteen he wants a agreement from the united states that they will defend afghanistan from an attack of about kate or from pakistan after we have been in afghanistan been a force and we've left the country in no better shape there's no pouncey for the

future of afghanistan right now the country actually increased the growth of its poppy opium production during the period of the occupation by the west and therefore you have even more drug infested economy than you had with before the invasion started so there's been no power to develop in the future as i'm saying with lyingly leadership it's gallantly aligning itself with china. corridor of economic development that includes the countries that are in the atlanta state because not just this would be a different approach a different geometry to the current policies that have dominated afghanistan for the last dozen years. since nine eleven america has done a lot to boost surveillance and increased security however the policies don't necessarily make people feel safe and risk fueling paranoia about to eris lurking around every corner everybody looks at that issue and breaking the set and that's

coming your way in about ten minutes from now but in the meantime here's a brief preview. it's a flight 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 and colts' toward the flight deck door he made a hard left 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. and that's coming our way in about ten minutes from now here in r.t. when it may boast how a bridge buckingham palace and some paul's cathedral but there will be little boasting about london's newest title is britain's worst town or least that's according to a tongue in cheek book identifying the u.k.'s fifty least desirable locations on his door smith asked the man behind the accolade why the capital fared so badly. it's interesting the dreary didn't the day here in london typical for you the weather which may be 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 cracked pounds return which named the fifty worst places to be in the u.k. as an adult to london i didn't really understand this is a city of london being the what place but luckily i'm doing since here to explain that to me with an umbrella and his gopi across town to tell them london 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 things that people are writing about a lot it's the daily grind it's so hard in london getting all that the northern lights have your on 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 in the center of london to be hollowed out to be in as going to the state 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 we're told that subsequently the recession is over and there's growth but are you 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 toy that it's made to make them laugh it does it doesn't seem to provoke to mind. people thinking about the times and the way we treat them 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 get inside and out space it is from the outside they think crazy 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. nora smith reporting from a city quite literally under

a cloud but it's not all gloomy news online where we've got some stunning video clued in of this. blaze but the good news luckily the driver of the truck managed to get out just minutes before train smashed into it and dragged it along the tracks you can check out the full video and find out exactly what happened and where you tube channel. plus six hundred million skype users worldwide could have been snoop told by the n.s.a. from one european country that's not willing to put up with it wants to challenge the internet giant. please write the scene. first trip. and i think that you're. on a reporter's. instrument. could

be and. i'm talking obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he's a hero only if he is a criminal what do you i believe you say hero i believe he's coming directly from his heart that he feels some goodness that he wants to be truthful to the american people that he believes in and loves his country america so strongly and i wish that somebody in the same situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing. coming up to twenty two minutes to the hour i should say past the hour here in the russian capital and time now for our world update a massive cycle owners 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 is the arista state where entire villages have been swamped by high waves indian ocean is considered a hot spot for such cyclons with one of the deadliest killing ten thousand people back in one nine hundred ninety nine moving on with some dramatic pictures 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 when the eleven others one of the shells fell near a school while the other damage several cars in nearby shops the 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 two thousand and fourteen. meanwhile with international strikes against syria now on hold another battle is appearing to rage the one in the media where the country's humanitarian crisis has always been one of the main arguments for western states to intervene militarily when artie's paullus lire went to see for herself what life is really like in damascus now. 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 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 they are 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 with loads of churned out each day the machines work sixteen hours a day six days a week short 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 and never have a shortage of them in our warehouses aromas. isom adani recently arrived in the country and was shocked to find that local stores of food 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 fruits. vegetables

were 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 at 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 of of reality is likely to be fought for as long if not longer than the sides have taken up arms against each other. damascus. so that brings up today for the moment call in fact the news to move about with more news for in just over half an hour

from now in the meantime coming away as promised earlier in the program it's breaking the set with abby martin stay with us for that if you can't. 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 why. 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 their bureaucrats wear 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.

guys i'm at a martin and this is breaking the sat so tampa bay local news just came out with a stunning report 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. 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 forward bathroom quote for a considerable length of time well let me get this straight a guy that had been arab looked at the bathroom made 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 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 u.s. airways and t.s.a. and both confirmed the incident. well i'm glad that the t.s.a. confirmed that three men were shuffling around in their overhead bin 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 the memories of images of nine eleven are shared in the minds of almost every member. that's how this news report started yes 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.