pre-booked video. free video. two blasts ripped through damascus a government t.v. station. chemical weapons removal. we have the latest report from the city. streets of moscow is up to three thousand people demand justice for the murder of a man who was stabbed to death trying to defend his girlfriend. whistleblower edward snowden raises his head above the parapet as he makes his first public appearance in months. of patients. paychecks and the poor food handouts.

and no desire to leave the united states just days away from a catastrophic. within seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. two massive blast of ripped through damascus one of them targeting the hotel where the chemical experts staying and. reports from near the site of one of the blasts. two massive blasts have ripped the heart of these 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 going forward and backward so we can still smell there's heavy explosiveness in the air and we're starting to see dramatic footage of did 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. ortiz paulus flew there want to discuss the situation in more detail let's go live now to journalist manual oxon writer who's been analyzing the syrian crisis syrian rebels had just recently posted a video on loan about wanting to target the state t.v. station but never mention the hotel where the chemical weapons removal t. was doing so is this merely a coincidence. i don't believe in a lot of coincidence and. i don't think so and this is some coincidence we. we have to see that such bomb blasts such explosions all troll in western mainstream media we don't report very often about this but they are almost every day for not going in syria this terror or bombings terrorizing off the population so when it comes to the bomb blast against the journalistic building against the syrian t.v.

building this is also a long history that they terrorized journalists who one day say are cruel regime. the bomb blast or attack against the you and inspectors is also a thing where the rebel site benefits because it's not in their interest that the u.n. team can vary in a proper way so you think there could well be some credence to the fact that these chemical removal experts could well have been targeted deliberately. yes we had this already in the past we if we think we know that u.n. employees where were captured by rebels we had the u.n. inspector team which was investigating ngata a couple of weeks ago which we are attacked by sniper fire so it's not in the interest it's not at all in the interest of the so-called armed opposition that those teams can you know proper way or i don't know what would happen manuel if

those experts did actually leave the country because it's too dangerous to work in what would be the consequences of that very all the diplomatic achievements that have got about to get this project underway all of those diplomatic achievements you were mentioning are in chief men's they are not at all in the interest of the so-called rebel side not at all so this could be indeed i think they're scenario they wish what should happen in syria. this would mean at the end that all those that remained couldn't be kept it would mean. that all the chief amends which gave the syrian government as well as the whole earth which was almost expecting a regional war or even overt war in that area would complete remove the situation and this is in the interest of the rebels they don't want that there is coming.

time of agreements and of negotiations this is what they want to prevent and they will prevent it with islands all right there they are the top opposition groups saying they're not going to take part in the didn't even peace talks and then we hear perhaps rebels could be responsible for these latest attacks how will western gulf backers of these opposition groups react to all of this now i'll just briefly . i'm sorry that there will nothing happen because of what i said already there are plenty of blasts and plenty of attacks in the past and never have been something never just give let me give you one m. one example there are a lot of relativities around the city of latakia where hundreds of syrian civilians were captured were killed were tortured and there was no what seemed a reaction from the west or from their own because of state so this time also there will be nothing when you look to write a journalist and syrian crisis expert thank you very much indeed your thoughts here on r.t. and. massive rights of shaken southern lost goes local spilled out onto the street

outraged by the recent killing of a young man there police were forced to move in when violence erupted eventually arresting around three hundred eighty people the protesters claim an uncontrolled flow of illegal migrants has turned their neighborhood into a crime center or he's mostly coming off reports. in the southern moscow all available moscow police crews had been called to this area to try to calm down the on the rest this was the scene of violent clashes between protesters and riot police following a demonstration over the murder of a young local man here 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 in what sparked all of this was again the murder of a young man by what locals believe 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 be a male and remains missing. starting tomorrow i want you to intensify the work on bringing all these stories industrial areas to their constant source of tension or brown mosco especially in the neighboring areas the 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 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. edward snowden has returned to the media spotlight this week breaking his silence for the first time since july he was filmed at the ceremony in moscow where the leak was awarded for integrity in intelligence by a group of american whistleblower has. discovered some of what snowden has been up

to cheering 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 leaked his personal view on the fate of those spilling official secrets. you know relationship to god where we have an executive mark just on the last. night. live to come. on but they'll stop at. the

first sound 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 here i'm a 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. well the n.s.a. leaker's fate has been the main focus of discussion in our studio this past week as we interviewed the group of former u.s. officials turned whistleblowers who were in moscow to give snowden that award they discussed how the american fugitive 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've we've obviously keen to find out personally how easy you know what to look like 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 and 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 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'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. it 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 he didn't know about the candlestick holder you know that he had the award and he knew we were coming and the reception we was just so warming it was a person who now realizes that he has very senior people alumni you know some of the. senior people who speak for

a lot of people still within these organizations. and hopefully will summon the courage to follow his example. also discuss snowden and security in an exclusive interview with wiki leaks julian assange the full interview is available on our website. for four days left until the united states defaults on its debt that is unless its leaders end two weeks of deadlock the scene hundreds of thousands temporarily laid off from vast swathes of government shutdown even the world bank's chief declared the situation is desperate warning of impending disaster. for some career is 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 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 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. reporting from new york marina port not artsy. or not american academic completable commentator noam chomsky told a c 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 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 affects of the strangers specifically the neo liberal programs and they're having the same kind of effect they have everywhere they. direct wealth to a very narrow sector increasing inequality it has an immediate effect on politics and parliamentary democracy as higher begets more concentrated political power at those as well so by now elections are almost boy it's so plutocracy. both political parties are to the right the us

is a one party state the business party. while the u.s. watches its economic fortunes dissipate china is. for a long time now let's encourage. our company after the break. europe . insatiable chinese investors. faces a major backlash. for this is the way. down

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music continues here in r t activists have held dozens of rallies as part of a global day of action against genetically modified foods with biotech giant monsanto bearing the brunt of their anger organizers say four hundred cities across the world stretching from australia to the united states were involved they claim crops grown from seeds made by the company can be dangerous to human health peta all of the reports 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 and the danger is that they could pose that they write for human consumption over two million people

turned 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 why people are saying no to. talk to. thank us correct. what could be the potential hazards 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 spike in two years. the lifetime a life time of a rat is shortened they have massive organ damage massive tumors 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 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 foods which are for the average consumer in about sixty to seventy percent of the food products from the supermarket now how does not transfer to what we see in humans well in humans the effects will only not show for another twenty years speak. much longer. so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as a result of fear most we've got our weight or we should just shut this down. 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 well the company

itself says it makes disease resilient crops that need less water to grow and also maintains many people ready consumed genetically modified food with no ill effects but jeffrey smith who's written extensively about the dangers of so-called frankenfood say is this couldn't be further from the truth. when you look at the animal feeding studies of genetically engineered foods 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 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. of those 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 senator or both so that's why i'm standing has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. always more dot com for you including who needs phone books from the employees of the u.k. ministry of defense it seems they've wrapped up a phone but of more than a quarter of a million pounds by simply calling directory enquiries the talking clock. and ever want to start an advert well google will give you little choice whether you want to a lot just by liking its content the internet giant can use your name and image in

ads across its vast network can find out how this works on l.t. dot com. police have dispersed the protests against the sunny ruling family and bahrain's capital managua the rally started at the funeral of a shia taney who died in the prison hospital security forces reportedly used tear gas and sound grenades in injuring several demonstrators dr not at the heath the head of the bahrain rehab but the. elements organization i spoke to a little earlier says the police often target shia funerals. it's a it's getting like a common practice by the security forces attacked the funerals of the. relation specially the dead one is this is related to our political. comedy in this it mysteries the mass who is

joining the if you know there are many. attack and happen as a common practice. tensions were rekindled in egypt this week as dozens died in running street battles between muslim brotherhood supporters and those running behind the interim government. and western car produces a sneaking into iran despite current trading bans the country's managing to keep its bottom a bill industry going to spike mounting economic sanctions those stories and others coming your way a little later this hour. but before all of that economic news from all around the world in venture capital with katie probably. switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out thousands of dollars in

cash to every adult citizen in the country you heard me right there's a grassroots campaign that is trying to get the government to give out to every adult citizen two thousand five hundred swiss francs approximately two thousand eight hundred dollars per month the motivation for the project is that many in switzerland fear that the financial crisis has caused wealth inequality to skyrocket you know i'm not an expert at swiss culture so maybe people there are different but if they gave out thousands of free dollars per month anywhere i've lived you would see the majority of people going into early retirement and not working at all and sort of like how they tell people not to feed the bears at parks because then the bears lose their instincts and will go hunt because getting a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go through the effort of auditing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates law according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this plan is making headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet

it would create almost utopia like levels of wealthy quality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve p. ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just my opinion. and i want to thank stepson case until they make me talk about the us sat down and the effect. on. as well as that we are a singapore based alice for his take on the situation our view of a russian oligarchy corporately zuckerman our in-house best mrs john thomas he's back he was sick last week but we're going to see how healthy he is for areas but

first let's start with the story that has been dominating the financial headlines this week so the day that the u.s. will exhaust their boring capacity is looming but what does the ongoing deadlock mean for china the largest foreign holder of u.s. debt china's vice finance minister voiced his concern earlier in the week saying that the u.s. has a responsibility to resolve the debt ceiling round china's premier league chairing them expressed his concern the chinese leaders are calling for the situation to get resolved in order to ensure the safety of chinese investments in the united states which stands at around a course at over one point two trillion dollars taking over from japan in two thousand and eight is now added to this china also have a three and a half trillion dollars worth of u.s. dollars or another reason for beijing to worry about a potential u.s. default now in total taiwan has roughly six.