chaos on the streets of moscow and up to three thousand people demand justice for the murder of a man who was stopped to death trying to defend his girlfriend. also this hour 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. counsel patients denied care workers lose pay tracks on the poll food handouts as deadlocked no desire to compromise or leave the united states just days away from a catastrophic default.

on to a global day of action against a genetically modified crops as biocide giant monsanto cops and major backlash from consumers scared for their belts. the latest news on the week's top stories you're watching the weekly here on ars here with me thanks for joining us and massive riots have shaken southern moscow on sunday as locals spilled out onto the streets outraged by the recent killing of a young man that they argue an uncontrolled flow of illegal migrants has turned their neighborhood into a crime center all season. it's

a confident phrase that wouldn't exist high that you say so i would say you know i there will and i'm what we're hearing so far basically is that violent clashes have erupted this is after a demonstration over the murder of a local young man now this is the district in the south of moscow it's mostly an industrial area with a lot of storage facilities things like that details are murky at the moment but we're hearing that protesters reportedly smashed the windows of a shopping center there they threw a flare inside one of the stores we've heard that with group of demonstrators including football player fans had allegedly broken into the shopping center and self chanting nationalist slogans we also heard that one police officer received minor injuries following clashes between riot police and the demonstrators unconfirmed and a number of people reportedly detained for attempted lookin as i mean there is still a substantial crowd we're hearing in the area from possibly one thousand to three thousand people but again that's unconfirmed at the moment this tension doesn't

follow the feeling of a twenty five year old local resident by the name of your show bako khan a child or nine he was stabbed to death following a quarrel over his girlfriend by an unidentified assailant now that assailant reportedly fled or died on the spot from stab wounds to the heart it's believed by some of the locals that the killer may have been a migrant worker but i should stress there is no official confirmation of this at all however it does comma amid increasing tensions between the russians and central asian migrant workers here in russia many of whom work in harsh conditions low paying jobs and so the murder certainly exacerbated that at least the rumors over the assailants identity although again we don't really know who that is authorities are still searching for this man they reportedly offered a reward of up to one million rubles for any information that might lead up to the arrest but that is all the info that we have. received lisa caputo purporting values to thank you very much. indeed for that offer you lucy catherine of and of

course will bring you more information on this developing story as we get it as a way out keeping a very close eye on it right now. edward snowden has returned to the media spotlight this week breaking his silence for the first time since july and it was filmed at a ceremony in moscow where the leak i was awarded for integrity in intelligence by a group of american whistleblowers. could not discover at 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 so the public snowden appeared on camera 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. you know they should pick up where we can't exactly. just this one last. night. live to the summit. but they'll stop at the. first song all the way around 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 or to moscow. the n.s.a. leaker's fate has been the main focus of discussion in our studio they sweet as were interviewed the group of former u.s. officials turned whistleblowers who are awarded snowden for integrity and intelligence and they discussed how the american fugitive on the run is getting used to his new life in russia and what his main concerns are i think doing

remarkably well under the circumstances in which he came here and we've 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 a deep what he did was right he has no regrets and he's willing to face whatever the future holds for him the person you saw in front of you colin yes actually we discuss 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'd 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 an emmy 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 she didn't know about the kill she called her he knew that he had received the award and you know we 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 alumni 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 dance he also discounts noted on security in an exclusive interview with julian assange the pointer here is available on our website r.t. dot com. there are four days left until the united states default on its debt that is unless its leaders and two weeks of deadlock that has

seen hundreds of thousands temporarily laid off and vast swathes of government shutdown even the world's bank chief declared this iteration is desperate and warning of impending disaster as are his more important i have found out for some careers come. 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 choose 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 mothers 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 them reporting from new york marina port not artsy. underground american political commentator i know chomsky told us he believes the united states has stunned into a war policies state ruled by the business policy it's a perception in the history of entry democracy it's interesting to see what's happened. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation with. no time to go into it but one of the sets of the street it's basically neo liberal programs and they're having the same kind of the same they were.

the. direct wealth to a very narrow there's increasing inequality it was an immediate effect on politics in the parliamentary democracy as higher begets more concentrated political power as well so now elections are almost void it's so plutocracy. both political parties are the right the u.s. is still a one party state the business party. now from veterans storming memorial barricades the crime aspect has sting at the gates of congress the angle of the shutdown is clear even truckers have driven to circulate in washington are demanding obama be held accountable and here's what one driver told us of their practice part of our agenda is we're counting for his resignation or impeachment

like marci in egypt and if we raise one hundred million americans across the country we will demand his resignation or pressure of the house and senate to call for his impeachment on trees and fraud. they wrote in protest has also called out obama's policies since he came to power and i was under over the presidency perceived support for islamist militants government surveillance and a willingness to saying that the us father into debt the campaign received a knowledge amount of support on facebook on twitter. and while the u.s. launches its economic fortunes dissipates chinese basking in its own. happy that it's not going under but it shows government policy for a long time now has encouraged foreign companies to take over our british companies . offer the rake more important a monumental buying spree in that same crisis want to retain icons for one option

not the insatiable chinese investors that's not to the right. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetically modified products are free to have there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the most trying i don't believe. that free. enterprise is profit.

for this golden rice barkeep. you're launching the weekly on r.t. welcome back actually it's a hell dozens of ra is as part of a global day i actually gave genetically modified foods with biotech giant santa bearing the brunt of their anger organizers say four hundred cities across the world stretching from australia to the united states who are involved they say crops grown from seeds made by the company it can be dangerous to human health and peta all of the reports now from berlin where hundreds of people turned out to put

pressure on the genetically 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 it 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. talk to. thank us correct. could be the potential of g.m. foods 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 spurt 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 that is really really frightening recently a study from australia has shown that pigs that are fed these products get massive stomach ulcers and in north america where a lot of people are 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 foods which are for the average consumer in about sixty to seventy percent of their food products from the supermarket how does not what we see in humans while in humans the effects will

only not show for another twenty years. have a much longer. span in iraq so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as a result of what we've got to wait for we should just shut the stone. 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. having a mostest three trillion dollar war chest chinese firms have gone on a shopping offensive in europe just today it's been reported that by using is on the brink of a multibillion deal to snap up chavez in the u.k.'s nuclear industry even iconic london tuxes have been spared the interest of cash rich businessmen from beijing as also he's going to boycott reports this time last year it looked like the iconic london cap would be consigned to the history books after its maker the financially troubled london taxi company went into administration chinese manufacturer g.t.

which already owns volvo 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 tag. meets with the shafi of the taxi over here but it's been marriage between the chinese manufacturer and he and the london taxi company that managed to save a british icon from going out of production g.-d's pledged to invest in getting fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines to future really previously when we were an independent company with the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to now that we're part of the finances. and that gives us the ability to develop. which 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 cap is just the latest in a raft of u.k. businesses being sold. after foreign companies cadres chocolate is now american. indian and the british airports authority spanish some represents a hollowing out of corporate britain and i'm happy that 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 and what that means is that 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 staff and jobs are more liable to go because there's allegiance between the companies that are rode by foreign entities and their country rather than britain peace has been a cabbie for over forty years and is 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 die lead the companies that are still british they would be faced with any time soon. i see london let's not have a look at some of china's a recent investments in twenty eight then a chinese can make her flush with money decided it would be easier to buy out so we don't trouble volvo that would compete with it in january last year one of germany's premier concrete makers also fell to beijing's richest and the same month

it turned in your belt to retie was 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 nightingale founder of an economic strategy consultancy firm 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. look at some other news stories from around the world riot police have dispersed a protest against the sunni ruling family in bahrain's capital manama they reportedly used bank shot tear gas and the sound grenades injuring several demonstrators the protests started after the funeral of a shared me who died in a prison hospital bahrain center for human rights claims his death was caused by tall truck neglect. a stampede on the bridge temple in northern india which has killed at least eighty nine pilgrims dozens were also injured as huge

crowds attended a religious festival were false a police used botanists to restore order which caused an even greater panic the stampede began one group claimed the bridge was about to collapse in order to speed up queuing. iran will sit down for a fresh round of nuclear talks with the you asked and five other world powers on tuesday a leading american sanctions expert is taking part which could mean the possibility of economic restraints on to iran being eased however despite the sanctions biting iran's oil sector there's one industry that is still growing well iran is the world's thirteenth largest can't manufacture producing one point six million cars every year that industry accounts for ten percent of the country's g.d.p. despite a ban on shipping parts some of the most popular. reno models are still made in iran and the country produces its own cars based on french designs sanctions prohibit official business between the u.s. and iran but american companies such as general motors are already said to be

moving in to secure their positions and journalist george bruno believes the u.s. is just waiting for the right time. i think already there of been. secret contacts between us for and iranian counterparts in order to to prepare or to anticipate a political deal between iran and the united states mainly these contacts of kurds in the automobile sector and fortunately for us in france we are the brother the last one in europe who tried to to to go to iran because for the last the last years france was extremely active in the fighting against that you ron brownstein is exerting a lot of pressures you know for the last twenty years the u.s. where outside from iran and the the french businessmen i do quite good position in

iran to. know the automobile sector and now they are afraid that these all these years of the force will be cleaned by the new deal which will happen between us and iran for sure that the european companies will be most probably losers in this kind of agreement. and always more dot com for you including needs phone books the employees of the u.k. ministry of defense it seems they racked up a phone bill of more than a quarter of a million pounds by simply calling directory enquiries and talking. thought of starring in an ad what you now well whether you want it or not to buy liking something on you tube or google plus the internet giant can use your name and image in ads across its past network find out how this works or not it up.

this week the olympic torch began its long journey from moscow to sochi and the twenty fourth in winter games the flame embarked on a full month a relay covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia and even space little agrees it was taken to russia by a plane last sunday it was a scorcher to red square by a two hundred strong cavalcade of bikers president putin personally lived a ceremonial call drawn kicking of the relay the torch then toward moscow for two more days before setting off on its epic trip across russia it will visit nearly three thousand cities and towns that will scale the country's staller speak and descend to the bottom of the deepest lake it will even be taken on 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 games you can enjoy the highlights and see reports from the real a ceremony at our website.

and perhaps as a voice that anger at biotech fund one center would take a look at the genetically modified crops the corporations say can save the world from hunger crisis that's not a break. 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 is trying to spook a certain country was.