video for your media. free media. it's. the. first song all the. edward snowden speaks out about what he calls washington's witch hunt on fellow whistleblowers this week the leaks release of the first footage of him in more than two months. activists stage a global march against monsanto in hundreds of cities across the world with thousands rally against what they see is the dangers of genetically modified foods and its biggest producer. as budget figuring in the u.s. brings the country closer to default the federal government shutdown stopping millions from getting vital services including this cancer patient. the matter of life or death it's not a matter of convenience or just in your case we need this treatment.

five am in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story footage of edward snowden being honored for his contribution to integrity and intelligence work has emerged courtesy of wiki leaks and his first public appearance since august when he was granted asylum in russia the former n.s.a. contractor was presented with the sam adams award by a group from the u.s. at the event snowden spoke out about washington's alleged persecution of fellow whistleblowers or he says he reports. 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 news last. night. to the bombs. but they will stop the. first stop for 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 was the blowers and former government officials they joined our team 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 police

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 the formal investigation reform terrorism investigation has started up so there you have it julian aslan is 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. all the whistleblowers and activists who presented snowden with the sam adams prize of leaked secrets themselves in the past after being among the few who've met snowden in person in the past couple of months they gave r.t. a glimpse into his life during their visit to the channel earlier this week also explained how his example may encourage more people to follow in his footsteps you can watch the full discussion on our youth to chop. activists around the world

rallying as part of a day of protest venting their anger they say it biotech company monsanto demonstrators claim the genetically modified crops produced by the company could be harmful to humans even leading to death also accuse the multinational firm of aggressive lobbying influencing food safety research and monopolizing the industry from australia to europe the demonstrations were chained were staged rather in hundreds of cities across more than sixty countries in the u.s. thousands joined nationwide marches and he said now it has more from washington. 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 concerts by actually came up to activists while we were standing there holding anti 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 controversal insecticides which affect the nervous system and have been repeatedly linked to death while 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 to 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 all through 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 you see now way. monsanto has been defending its products saying the food it produces is the only way to feed the world a growing population they also say that many people already consume g.m. foods with no ill effects or to use marine important takes a 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 seeds that 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 laugh or 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 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. 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 it's of facts 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 at all or in

a point nine new york. collar no needle from the center for food safety n.g.o.s a giant companies like monsanto pressured governments to get their products to 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 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 yet 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 we live updates on the global action against monsanto online and r t dot com where you'll also find opinion and analysis well still ahead this hour the panic attacks promoted claims made by politicians that series of deadly civil wars left the country without critical food and water supplies plus. a new book published in may mean the worst places in the u.k. number one if you place it where you don't want to be if you were in britain well we'll tell you that coming up after this short break.

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perfect. to have you with us today. thirteen minutes past the hour the u.s. treasury secretary is sounding the alarm that america might run out of cash in a few days while republicans and democrats continue their battle over spending confrontation scene the government shutdown sent almost

a million people home on paid vacations and but vital federal programs on hold artie spoke with a cancer patient whose trial with the national institutes of health was one of the programs affected by the standoff michelle lang better explain what the shutdown meant to people like her. lives are at stake two hundred people are trying to get into trials at an age each week and it's 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 diagnosed with sarcoma a rare form of cancer nine months after chemotherapy she applied for additional treatment at the age but she and hundreds of others were turned away when the government shutdown happened we asked michelle what she'd like to say to the politicians in washington whose disagreements started 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 win 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. more news here. not alone after all the water heavy. scientists believe there might be more hospitable worlds beyond our solar system. in the u.s. . with drugs. supplies and a number of. lethal injection.

negotiations on afghan securities left the u.s. secretary of state john kerry with so far little to celebrate he says the only partial deal was reached on just how many troops will stay in the country after the nato pullout next year washington wants to take the lead in running counter terror missions after two thousand and fourteen and keep leasing bases in the country lawrence freeman from the executive or ten executive intelligence review says given its checkered history with the state's couples more likely to move closer to its asian neighbors. president karzai is going to be leaving office so 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 from 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 policy 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 a more drug infested economy than you had with before the invasion started so there's been no positive build in the future as i'm saying with lyingly leadership it's gallantly aligning itself with the chinese so the road corridor of economic development that includes the countries that are in the land is not their state and this would be a different approach a different geometry to the current policies that have dominated afghanistan for the last dozen years now says that i live in terror attacks the u.s. has done much to boost intelligence and increase its security priorities abby martin says the policies aren't necessarily making people feel safe and maybe even

a risk fueling paranoia about terrorists lurking around every corner that issue coming your way and breaking this set at three am g.m.t. here's a preview. 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. turning to syria now where two mortar shells hit the capital damascus killing an eight year old girl and wounding eleven other people the blahs which is three hundred meters from the hotel where chemical weapons inspectors are staying international team overseeing the disarmament of the country's toxic weapons arsenal meanwhile some politicians claim that syrian people face not just civil war but critical water and food shortages artie's policy or want to get the view from the capital damascus 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 clothes of power in the wastes 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 morning rice and sugar there are always available we never have a shortage of them and our warehouses are always full. i said madani 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 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 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 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. almost seventy people have been detained following clashes at a gay rights rally in russia's second largest city of st petersburg around two dozen l.g.b. t. demonstrators that gathered in the city center protesting against a recently adopted law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors the group was confronted by a crowd of religious and conservative activists and police stepped in when scuffles broke out between the two sides. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe in barcelona thousands rallied against independence for a how to loan you had time to go inside the spain's national day festivities marchers chanted slogans against separating from madrid a move overwhelmingly supported by the cattle and population and whatever demonstrations were staged by far right parties that were met by left wing activists. five people killed after

a psych loan filing made landfall in eastern india burying winds in excess of two hundred kilometers an hour so far orissa state hardest hit where huge waves swamp villages rescue workers and soldiers on standby but the full extent of the damage is only likely to be known after sunrise hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes. in iraq at least fourteen people killed more than thirty wounded when a car blew up in the city of samarra civilians that made up most of the casualties many of whom gathered in an over crowded shopping center still unclear who was behind the attack iraq has been struggling against a record spike in violence that's claimed more than five thousand lives since the start of the year. at least seven dead in the east chinese port of new boeing a three hundred ton tanker exploded and initially the vessel caught fire during repairs most likely because of so-called hard work like welding or touting the

tanker is already been removed from the water and workers are at the scene tackling the slick that emerged after the blast and investigation is underway. the tower bridge buckingham palace st paul's cathedral all of them couldn't save london from being named britain's worst town according to a tongue in cheek new book identifying the case fifty least desirable locations artie's laura smith talked to one of the authors of the tome about the reasons why he said the capital fear fared so poorly. it's a drizzle the dreary didn't see 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 has the parliament westminster abbey the london eye and other really famous landmarks it's a book called crack down for fun which may be because he was raised in sympathy in the u.k. i think it took six months now i don't really understand this is

a city of london being the what place but luckily i'm going to continue to explain that to me with an umbrella and his gopi and perhaps having 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 things that people write in about a lot it's the daily grind it's so hard in london getting all that the know all the lard 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 in the center of london to be hollowed out or nearly in as good a boat so as to stay there not even professionals like doctors can and there's also a lot of anger with london going from the rest of the computer had the banking crisis which is all centered around london and we're told that subsequently the recession was very but there's growth london really seems to be getting the

benefits and the stocking up in the housing bubble it's primarily it's a book that people read in the toy that is made to make them laugh it does it doesn't seem to provoke to mind and get 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 fit to get inside and out space it is from the outside they think could be expensive to visit that's. that system isn't very reliable and people are very rude and mike duffy pope pope a nun didn't have pick up its behavior in the next ten years and become you know why it's so awful. as protesters voice their anger at biotech firm monsanto we take a look coming up at genetically modified crops the corporations say can save the world from hunger crisis that's after this short break.

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