whistleblower edward snowden raises his head above the parapet as he makes his first public appearance and months outlining the modern day threats to privacy. a global day of action against genetically modified crops as biotech giant monsanto called m h a backlash from consumers scared about how. and cancer patients are denies cat workers lose pay tracks on the poll the food turns out as deadlocked and no design to compromise leave the united states just days away from a catastrophic default. the

latest news on the week's top stories this is the weekly he'll announce he was an e.u. national thanks for joining us at snowden has returned to the media spotlight breaking his silence for the first time since july a camera filmed him at a ceremony in moscow where the liko was awarded for integrity in intelligence by a group of american whistle blows. discovered some of what snowden has been up to during his stay in the russian capital. for over two months this footage of edward snowden leaving moscow's sheremetyevo airport was the only evidence he's alive well and in russia since after getting in that cab the only thing we're told about him is that he's somewhere in a safe place while this week america's most wanted man returned to the public eye snowden appeared on camera and meeting other former u.s. security service officials turned whistleblowers they flew into moscow toward him

with the same atoms prize for intelligence and integrity the whistleblower awards. this time snowden leaks his personal view on the fate of those spilling official secrets this letter still going you know relationship to god where we have an executive mark just on the last. night. live to come. on but they're stuck. to the first song all the courtly the whistle blowers who would have him paid a visit to our moscow studio as well but it was a long awaited family reunion that was likely to have been the highlight of his week i cannot speak for my son and really the legal issues i miss father mr snowden sr was finally able to make it to moscow after months of being separated from his son washing his feet played out in global headlines but i don't want to really

share my opinions at this point in time i'm shipley thankful that my son is safe and free free in russia but wanted at home before arriving in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport the former n.s.a. contractor leaked thousands of documents with details of how u.s. security services spy on officials and ordinary people all across the world washington has been calling for his extradition accusing him of espionage but russia granted snowden temporary asylum lawyer say his father may not be the only family member heading over to visit since it's really unclear. whether the former n.s.a. contractor will ever be able to return to the u.s. again you've got to skim off moscow public. there are say leakers fate has been the main focus of discussion our studio this week as we interviewed the group of you ask whistleblowers who award it snowed for integrity in intelligence they discussed how the american future of on the run is getting used to his new life in

russia and what his main concerns are either doing remarkably well under the circumstances in which he came here and we we've obviously came to find out personally i was you know what to look at these days. i thought he looked great he seemed very centered and and. brilliant smart funny very engaged. i thought he looked very well considering the amount of pressure. to think that's taking any toll and psychological toll i think it would in ordinary circumstances but this is an extraordinary person he's made his peace with what he did he's convinced that he put he did was right he has no regrets and he's willing to face whatever the future holds for him is that the person you saw in front of you colin yes actually we discussed this intel integrity and intelligence issue quite extensively and we talked about prior examples of great people in history that had themselves been under this type of pressure and he's remarkably centered i

found that continuing pattern the more secret the us became and the more we grew into a surveillance state the more people who were willing to just do their job and tell the truth and obey ethics rules were getting in trouble so while i suffered i was under criminal investigation and put on the no fly list things like that i thought were very draconian i could never have imagined in a million years that president obama would begin indicting and prosecuting people like thomas drake and edward snowden and bradley manning and john kiriakou and a number of other people under the espionage act which is the most serious charge you could level against an american what was the reaction from snowden last night when you told him that he had won this civil war he already knew because we awarded to two months ago that the problem was getting it to him and it is our tradition

starting with colin that we physically present this it's sort of like it and me or not what it is is a candlestick holder for someone who has shown a bright light into the dark corners. so he knew he was he didn't know about the candlestick holder you know that he had received the award and you were coming you know the reception we got was just so hoarse warming it was a person now realizes that he has very senior people you know some of the size. people who speak for a lot of people still within these organizations that admired greatly. hopefully will summon the courage to follow his example. and as he also discounts noted on security in an exclusive interview with the walls most renowned whistleblower judy an astonishing little interview is available on our website ask you. have how dozens of rallies as

part of a global day of action against genetically modified foods with biotech giant sun bearing the brunt of the anger organizers say four hundred cities across the world stretching from australia to the united states were involved they say crimes grown from seeds made by the company can be dangerous to human health peace all of our ports from delhi where hundreds of people turned out to put pressure on the genocide plate modified food industry. well what we've seen is that demonstrates 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 have the dangers that they could pose that they write for human consumption over two million people to and out on the streets across the globe in may of this year for a similar demonstration to find out why people are demonstrating against g.m. foods people are saying no to. thank us

correct here. could be the potential of g.m. foods but genetically modified foods have been on the market for about fifteen years now and only last year we've seen the first long term animal study from france and i have the pictures here we're showing the rats that were 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 but 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 that is really really frightening recently a study from australia has shown that pigs that are fed these products get massive stomach ulcers and you know what i mean. a lot of people live a lot shorter life than in europe and the health care system is burdened by

seventeen percent costs of g.d.p. . more and more people have chronic stomach upset which i have seen in my practice and it's probably in part to do with the genetically modified food which are for the average consumer in about sixty to seventy percent of their food products from the supermarket how does not transfer to what we see in humans while in humans the effects will only not show for another twenty years. have a much longer. so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as a result of fear most we've got to wait or we should just shut the stone has these things properly 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 become pretty itself says it makes disease resilient crops that need less water to grow monsanto also maintains many people already consume genetically modified food with no ill effects

but jeffrey smith has written extensively about the dangers of so-called frank and says this couldn't be further from the truth. when you look at the animal feeding studies are genetically engineered just the american academy of environmental medicine they said there's gastrointestinal problems immune system problems excel aerated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are all going wrong with the animals that are being fed g m o's and now we're seeing those things rising in the u.s. population seems geos were introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world eradicating poverty so this is just been a public relations and they spent two hundred fifty million dollars over five years trying to convince americans that they needed to accept g m o's because it would feed the world i ask farmers all the time what do you think about santa even those

farmers that use monsanto seeds often hate monsanto or fear might said joe or both so that's why one standard has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. this four days left until the united states defaults on its debts bass's unless it's needed and see weeks of deadlock that has seen hundreds of thousands temporarily laid off and fast swathes of government shut down even the while the bank's chief declared the situation is desperate warning of impending disaster but as aussies marina park not found out the sun career has come fast. u.s. president barack obama's signature health care legislation is supposed to provide millions of americans with the medical coverage they desperately need but the political debate over obamacare has also ironically created

a life or death situation for hundreds of citizens for each week the shutdown continues roughly two hundred patients cannot be accepted for clinical treatment at the national institutes of health that's nearly four hundred sick americans desperately in need of medical treatment and the and i says among the patients being turned away includes roughly thirty people with cancer and many of them being children about seventy five percent of and i was employees thousands of people have reportedly been furloughed because of washington's self-inflicted shutdown as a result michelle langbehn who is battling sir coma a rare form of cancer was supposed to begin receiving medical treatments at the beginning of this month until the october first shutdown forced and i to temporarily turn her away langbehn a new mother started an online petition to put pressure on congress to reopen the government the movement has garnered more than one hundred thousand signatures in

an interview with r.t. langbehn says she's been able to restart her treatments after receiving financial donations but says hundreds of other people in her position have been denied a chance to live because of washington's political partisanship it's a matter of life or death it's not a matter of inconvenience or just an irritation for us 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 u.s. leaders who have the power to change this situation have so far failed to agree on a budget a political deadlock leaving the lives of cancer stricken. adults and children in limbo reporting from new york marina port not artsy. renowned american political commentator known chomsky told us he believes the united states has turned into a one passes state ruled by the business. section in the history forum entry

democracy and it's interesting to see what's happened. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation where the economy struck no time to go into it but one of the structure of the street groups specifically the neo liberal programs and they're having the same kind of effect they have everywhere they now are the. direct wealth to a very narrow sector the increasing inequality it was an immediate effect on politics. problem and democracy as power begets more concentrated political power as well so by now elections are almost boy it's so plutocracy democracy both political parties are the right the u.s.

is a one party state the business forty and while the u.s. waters its economic fortunes dissipates chinese boss came is all over. but it's not going under but it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies. after the break or of course on the monumental buying spree that saying prices want to european i can is for one of our insatiable chinese invest. i'm talking obviously about edward snowden and you know that some americans believe he is the hero of all they really feel the criminal why do you stand i believe he's a hero and 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 five in the same

situation i hope that i have the courage to do the same thing. of the gaza strip should not be a launching side for rocket attacks on israeli women children and civilians to a palestinian leadership is responsible for this but this is why israel is not willing to repeat this experiment but 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 over or that it is going on as before except that israel is now in a much worse position. welcome back this is the weekly hail analyse. having amassed

a three trillion dollar war chest chinese firms have gone on a shopping offensive in europe just today it's been reported that beijing is on the brink of a multibillion deal to snap up shares in the u.k.'s nuclear industry and not even iconic london taxes have been spared the interest of cash businessmen from beijing as r.t. is going to boycott or. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cap would be consigned to the history books after its may cut the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer g.t. which already owns volvo has stepped in and bought the company for eleven million pounds the factory is now back in business this part of the assembly process is called the marriage of the carriage where the shape of the time. meets with the shafi of the taxi here but it's a marriage between the chinese manufacturer and she and the london taxi company

that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledge to invest hundred fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines to the future really previously when we were a company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to. gives us the ability to develop. i wish we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have called it a win win situation the london cab comes back from the brink of extinction while a major chinese manufacturer gets to invest in an exciting new project but what does it say about the state of british industry business secretary vince cable called the chinese buyout a clear demonstration of the strength of the british car industry but the london cab is just the latest in a raft of u.k.

businesses being sold off to foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american indian and the british airports authority spanish to some it represents a hollowing out of corporate britain and i'm happy that it's not going on but it shows government policy for a long time now as encourage foreign companies to take over our british companies that means our british companies are not competitive across the globe. so we're not putting in the right tax policies we're not dealing with regulation industries come welcome to have new investment it always is in the long term this takes away economic productivity from this country it means that stuff and jobs are more liable to go because there's allegiance between the companies that are owned by foreign entities and their country rather than britain peace has been a cabbie for over forty years and has seen the london taxi company go through several british owners i hopped in for a ride and asked him how he feels about turning chinese this is a shame that it's not owned by

a british company but it's better than going to the wall or the companies that are still british they would be faced with any. r.t. london so let's have a look at some of china's recent investments in twenty ten a chinese carmaker flush with money decided it would be easier to buy out sweden's troubled volvo than compete with it in january last year one of germany's premier concrete pump makers also fell to beijing's riches and that's a month's italian build earth already or snapped up by a company controlled by the communist regime and just a few weeks later french fashion brand sonia rykiel was taken over by a hong kong based firm in keeping with the growing fondness for luxury and roger at nightingale founder of an economic strategy can sometimes see consultancy says many european countries believe chinese investment poses a threat. a lot of european countries are very nervous about

except seeing chinese cash who many of them and i think you find this in southern europe you find it in france you find it to some modest degree in germany also some countries think that they are threatened if china buys into their industrial base my own view is that that is entirely wrong my own view is that the industrial base of these countries will fail if you don't get the investment into them that will allow them to raise their productivity and to raise raise the profile of their products it's something comparable to that which afflicted the africans earlier they think that by selling out their assets they actually somehow undermine their capacity to have an economy that is viable in the future i think they're wrong but

time will tell. and let's now have a look at some other world news in brief riot police have dispersed a protest against this sunni ruling family in bahrain's capital managua they reportedly used buckshot tear gas and sound grenades injuring several dozen streeter's the protests started after the funeral of a shared detainee who died in a prison hospital center for human rights claimed his death was caused by torture and neglect. exposures her once again route through iraq officials say at least thirty one people have died and dozens have been wounded lost took place in seven cities across the country mostly targeting crowded outdoor markets and boss stops one of them hit a gathering of mourners for the seventeen victims of saturday's our time these years massive surge of violence has already claimed more than six thousand lives. understand peed on a bridge at a hindu temple in northern india has killed at least eighty nine pilgrims dozens

were also injured as huge crowds attended a religious festival reports say police used buttons to restore order which caused an even greater panic the stampede began when a group claimed the bridge was about to collapse in order to speed up using. the elimination of syria's chemical arsenal has been praised by the nobel committee as this year's biggest leap towards global peace the international team currently working with the government on the destruction of the stockpiles has been hundred the annual award and political analyst martin mccauley things there's a saudi pass ahead of the group. but there was some of the chemical weapons maybe you'd rebel held territory. how do you access loose rebels who say they don't have it it. will have to verify that that would be very tricky because they left with rebels and how many rebel groups all of the dozens of them this is the first time

really got involved the middle of a civil war and issued a challenge for them they may in fact put a hundred people in there i would hope that they are secure and that they actually get on with the business of eliminating weapons but it will be very very difficult the first task is to eliminate the wherewithal which makes weapons. get the. area and destroy them and this is going to be a long process no one really expects one hundred percent of the weapons to be eliminated by the middle of next year or even the end of next year. this week the olympic torch began its long journey from moscow to salt share on the twenty four same winter games the flame embarked on a four month relay covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia and even space luton greece had was then taken to russia by plane last sunday there is quarter to red square by a two hundred strong carol kate of bikers present creative person

a live the ceremonial cauldron kicking of the relay torch stand toward moscow for two more days before setting off on its epic trip across russia it will visit nearly three thousand cities and towns and it will scale the country's tallest peak and descended to the bottom of its deepest lake it will even be taken for a space walk for the first time in history and on the seventh of february nineteenth fourteen it will finally end up in sochi to herald the start of the gains you can enjoy the highlights and see reports from the relay ceremony over at our website. and up next find out the views on the n.s.a. leaks scandal from apple's co-founder resembles a part. i

recently read had large all over the russian internet screaming in full paranoia mode that china has just bought five percent of ukraine now they're writing that china will lease five percent of ukraine over ukrainian officials themselves claim that china will be getting out of there and that this is a deal about some drip irrigation system this is jewish it didn't explode out of the internet to the families of bloggers the south china morning post. that one company does have a crop in pig farming plant design utilized nine percent of ukraine's territory also last year the ban on foreigners buying land of ukraine. been lifted although i am the distrustful pro sovereignty type getting a rich foreign country to pay to develop your nation's agriculture might not be too bad of a deal it would definitely take

a lot of money to restore ukraine's farming to its former glory they see that ukraine used to be the bread basket of europe agree that status spec could really help the country but selling off or even just leasing nine percent of the nation's territory is absolutely unacceptable doing a large project with the chinese that is mutually beneficial is one thing but selling or leasing off your country is another and by another i mean treason but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to all the part it came to the promise of liberation from hard labor but some turned into yet another and direction is technology giving humanity more than it's taking from it to discuss that i'm now joined by a co-founder of apple and

a god like figure in the i-ching while steve wozniak he said wasn't thank you very much for being on the show i know that you describe yourself as an agnostic or an atheist but it seems wherever you go you have. doesn't. you know what i am so glad that technology has gone so far as change our life so much that people actually feel a kind of a love and a club and they look for a symbol to worship and i'm an accidental symbol i was just you know a lucky great engineer at one time well you know i don't think it's so accidental and speaking about apple and worshipping i think apple was one of the first companies to really put man and human. and in the center of the design the company really tried to create a context that would be the extension of human skills human capacity it's very comfortable obviously but on the other hand. isn't there a danger of that lose our ability to innovate because you know it's been sad many times the necessity and maybe even frustration is the mother of invention i thought

if i get that right it's like everything has been done for us so well that oh my god i think i'm becoming more lazy and yes becoming laser we don't have to think we don't have to innovate. i disagree because all of the factors that are making it possible for our products to do these things it feels like wow i used to have to work and i used to think hard those still lead they need thinking to get developed so hey at least become one of the developers. you know and apple's always had this mission to make things that are easier for the human put the human first and that means saving us exercise from physical labor saving us from mental labor saving us from thinking hard and i really i really like it i enjoy it i think i'm getting a lot more use out of my products when i just sort of speak naturally to them and get done what i want to do will we get to will it get worse than it is today are we on a trend towards devices doing so much for us.