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i. was up to three thousand people demand justice for the murder of a man who was. trying to defend his girlfriend. raises his head above the parapet as he makes his first public appearance and. threats to privacy. cancer patients are denied care workers lose paychecks and the poor that food handouts as deadlock and no desire to compromise leave the united states just days away from a catastrophic default. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. our breaking news this hour two massive blasts of ripped through

damascus one of them targeting the hotel where the u.n. chemical experts are staying. is near the site there in damascus and joins us live with more paula. well as you say two massive blasts have ripped the heart of the syrian capital damascus they happened just minutes apart at the square which is not far from the syrian state t.v. building as well as the hotel where foreign experts are staying now these experts have been in the country for a little more than two weeks they are investigating syria's chemical weapons stockpile we are some two hundred meters from the scene of these blasts and in the last hour the ambulances have been here in forward and backwards we can still smell there's heavy explosiveness in the air the initial reports suggest that at least two security guards have been killed and we're starting to see dramatic footage of dead bodies on the pavements in front of the syrian state t.v.

building at the same time there is a massive fire as you can well imagine there's a lot of confusion the crowds are gathering and the this part of the city is in lockdown all checkpoints in and out have been closed this is a hotspot just hours ago there was a warning posted online by armed rebels warning that they're going to target the syrian state t.v. building and just yesterday they were mortar bombs that were fired at this hotel where the foreign experts are staying now all of this comes just hours after syria's top opposition group announced its refusal to take part in peace talks in geneva the mood in the syrian capital as you can well imagine is one of extreme nervousness confusion and trepidation paula thanks very much indeed for the latest update there live in damascus ortiz porters from the. massive roots of shaken southern moscow as local spilled out into the streets outraged by the recent

killing of a young man that they argue an uncontrolled flow of illegal migrants has turned the neighborhood into a crime center police have arrested around three hundred people there and sixty others in the north east of the capital or reports. now this is probably the least disturbing visual evidence of the clashes that took place here in southern moscow where we're standing right now was the scene of violent protests demonstrators furious with the murder of a young man who's from this neighborhood had gathered to protest a killing they believe by a migrant worker they had gathered here in a largely peaceful rally one a bunch of many young men erupted into a violent clashes with riot police officers they stormed a shopping center they also came here broke up a vegetable stand and what you're seeing right now massive damage to cars completely flipped over in a show of anger when this group of young men had come here clashing with riot police and one another

a group of men was arrested for hooliganism. but what sparked all of this was again the murder of a young man by what locals believe it was a migrant worker not confirmed evidence from the police officer who was killed on thursday over a quarrel with his girlfriend stabbed in the heart and the assailant remains missing police have offered an award of up to thirty five thousand dollars for any information leading up to his arrest but of course that murder did spark a massive tensions in a neighborhood that's already been seeing some problems between russians and some ethnic minorities over the past few months reporting from southern moscow for our team. this is the weekly hearing altie edward snowden has returned to the media spotlight breaking his silence for the first time since he was filmed with the sort of money the leaker was awarded to intelligence for a group of american. 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 scent adams prize for intelligence and integrity the whistleblower awards . this time snowden leaked his personal view on the fate of those spilling official secrets. you know relationship to god where we have an executive for just this one last. night vision live to the summit. but they'll stop at the.

first someone pull the trigger. 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 why. the former n.s.a. contractor will ever be able to return to the u.s. again you've got to come off moscow. well the n.s.a. leaker's fate has been the main focus of discussion in our studio this week as we interviewed the group of former u.s. officials turned whistle blowers who awarded snowden for integrity in intelligence 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 he's 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. do you think that's taking any toll at all on the 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 the problem was getting it to him and it is our tradition starting with colin that we physically present. this is sort of like an emmy or what it is is a candlestick holder for someone who has shone bright light into the dark corners so he knew he was he didn't know about the candlestick holder he knew that he had received the award and he knew we were coming and the reception we got was just so warming it was a person who now realizes that he has very senior people alumni you know some of the size senior people who speak for

a lot of people still within these organizations that admired greatly. and hopefully will summon the courage to follow his example. to discuss snowden and security in an exclusive interview with wiki leaks. the full interview is available on our website but. there are four days left until the united states defaults on its debt that is unless its leaders and two weeks of deadlock that the scene hundreds of thousands temporarily laid off and vos waves of government shutdown even the world bank's chief declared the situation is desperate warning of impending disaster. for some careers come first. 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 air taishan 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 us 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 r.t. . and renowned american political commentator chomsky told us he believes the

united states is turned into a one party state ruled by the business policy. it's exceptional in the history of parliamentary democracy it's interesting to see. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation. but one of the least specifically neo liberal programs in there having the same kind of effect. direct wealth to. the increasing inequality it has an effect on politics and. democracy. gets more concentrated political power goes as well so now elections are almost boy it's so plutocracy. both political parties are to the right.

of one party state the business party. global day of action against genetically modified crops. faces a major backlash from consumers for the health that. oh no. never said. it's a good story. it's going to be. everyone's .

going to make it to the end. look he's still filming some just about gone up in left i don't know what to do. right to see. first street. and i think your. orders. this is the weekly here in r.t.e. activists have held dozens of rallies as part of a global day of action against genetically modified foods with but tech giant monsanto bearing the brunt of their anger over nice to say four hundred cities

across the world stretching from australia to europe where involved they say crops growing from seeds made by the company can be dangerous to human health and some of the biggest rallies took place in the united states where people also accuse the multi-national company of aggressive lobbying and suppressing food safety research and he said now he is in 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 shut down monsanto lobbyists are hard at work here in washington many pouncers 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 activists

going into large grocery stores and retailers trying to ways raise awareness about controversal in fact just size 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. 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 how 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 you so now we are. well the company itself says it makes disease resilient crops that need less water to grow one son to also maintains many people already consume genetically modified food with no ill effects but jeffrey smith who's written extensively about the dangers of so-called franken foods 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 like celebrated aging organ damage reproductive disorders there's massive infant mortality multiple massive tumors early death there are so many things that are 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 since g m o's 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 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 send more so that's why monsanto has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. police have dispersed a protest against the sunni ruling family and bahrain's capital manama the rally started at the funeral of a shared detainees who died in the prison hospital security forces reportedly used to gas and sell grenades injuring several demonstrates as well to not a day for the head of the bahrain we have paid attention an anti-violence organization i spoke to earlier she says the police often target shifts in roles.

it's a it's a getting like a common practice by the security forces that attack the funerals are the of the relations specially the if they did one is related to political. comedy and this imagery is the mass. joining the if you know there are many. attacks and happened at the common practice iran will sit down for a fresh round of nuclear talks with the u.s. and five other world powers on tuesday a leading american sanctions expert is taking part which could mean the possibility of economic restraints on terror binny's however despite the sanctions biting iran's oil sector there's one industry that is still doing well iran is the world's thirteenth largest car manufacturer producing one point six million cars every year

and that industry accounts for ten percent of the country's g.d.p. despite a ban on shipping parts some of the most popular persia and row 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 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 talk. to and dissipate a political deal between iran and the united states mainly these contacts. in the automobile sector and fortunately for us in france we are the brother the last one in europe to who tried to to to go to iran because for the last the last

years france was extremely active in the fighting against iran france was exerting a lot of pressures you know for the last twenty years the us where outside the the french businessmen i do quite good position around the bush or know in the automobile sector and now they're 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 more probably losers in this kind of agreement. and i look at some other world news this hour a stampede 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 a police used batons to restore order which caused an even greater panic a stampede began when a group playing the bridge was about to collapse in order to speed up queuing.

explosions once again ripped through iraq official said he's thirty one people have died and dozens have been wounded blast took place in seven cities across the country mostly targeting crowded outdoor markets and bus stops one of them hit a gathering of mourners for the seventeen victims of saturday's attack is massive surge of violence has already claimed more than six thousand lives. thousands of protested in remaining are against plans to build europe's biggest goldmine. under the scheme four mountains will be razed to the ground inside used in the extraction process parliamentary vote is to take place in the next couple of weeks whether to greenlight the proposals the canadian firm behind the plan has been seeking permission for the last fourteen years saying it would create jobs and provide much needed foreign investment. this week the olympic torch began its long journey from moscow to sochi and the twenty fourteen winter games the flame in a four month relay covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia

and space lifting greece it was then taken to russia by plane last sunday it was escorted to red square by a two hundred strong cavalcade of bikers president putin personally loop the ceremonial cauldron kicking off 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 in the country's tallest peak and descend to the bottom of its deepest lake it will even be taken for a space walk for the first time in history and. finally. to herald the start of the games and enjoy the highlights and see reports from the relay ceremony on our website. with more news for in about thirty minutes from now with the team but coming up we

sent one of our own to take part in the rigorous training of russia's paratroopers a special report next. 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 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 ways 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 they're bureaucrats where 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. it could be the most exciting of the most terrifying. when you away from everyone you know and love one in the complete some no. it's a rite of passage for thousands of young russian. a chance to find out what they're

really capable of. i was joining them on this journey of discovery. god knows it was going to be tough. deep breath and hold it. was your full name wrong james pellet ever done in a sports. club and i swim. back everything's fine you could lose from. take these two or the a rat ten to arm to a side squeeze you hold a. perfect. sauna i can't believe i'm actually writing this i'm going to join the russian paratroopers the video of it. my fellow recruits are all just a seed and they look it this is their first sign away from their parents but at least.