moscow suburb becomes a battleground after the killing of a local man fuels massive anti immigrant riots with almost four hundred people arrested. the us government shutdown sparks angry scenes in washington as the world bank warns deadlock is just days away from causing a global financial catastrophe. to blast ripped through damascus one targets a government t.v. station the other one goes off near the hotel where the chemical weapons inspection team is staying we have the latest report from the city. and in the weeks news whistleblower edward snowden raises his head above ground as he makes his first public appearance in months outlining what he says are modern day threats to privacy.

six am in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news massive riots have shaken a neighborhood in the south of moscow where crowds spilled onto the streets after the killing of a local man almost four hundred people arrested as mobs went on an angry rampage protestors claim the uncontrolled flow of illegal immigrants has turned the area into one big crime scene are reports from the troubled suburb. we're in the southern end of moscow all available moscow police crews had been called to this area to try to come calm down the on the rest of 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. a migrant worker not confirmed evidence on thursday he was stabbed to death after a quarrel over its growth friends by an unidentified male and to have fled the scene the police have offered an award of up to thirty five thousand dollars for any information leading up to his arrest starting tomorrow i want you to intensify the work on bringing the stories industrial areas to their constant source of tension. especially in the neighboring areas of murder did massive tensions in a neighborhood that's already been seen as some problems between russians and some ethnic minorities over the past few months reporting from southern moscow for our team. in the u.s.

warnings are south of the country could be in danger of driving the global economy down amid the ongoing standoff on capitol hill the world bank head calls the situation desperate saying there is an impending disaster if the u.s. doesn't reasons a debt ceiling and avoid default that is almost lawmakers and two weeks of deadlock that's seen hundreds of thousands placed on unpaid leave and fast was of the government shuttered meanwhile anger over the current standoff has led to protests in the u.s. capitol take a look. a group of veterans accompanied by politicians converged on the world war two memorial in the heart of d.c. it was closed to visitors during the shutdown just like other national monuments and parks the crowd broke through the metal barricade around the landmark and terry pieces of the fence to the gates of the white house and the obama protesters made the landmark a rallying point blaming the white house for the continuing impasse in budget negotiations and the impact of the political crisis is widening with every passing day as our teams marina porno approach. us president barack obama's signature

health care legislation is supposed to provide to 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 h. 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 sarcoma 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 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 louis 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 artsy. rhode island u.s. academic and a leftwing political commentator noam chomsky told us he believes the u.s. is turning into a one party state ruled by big businesses. some of the history for men to democracy it's interesting to see which. there have been significant economic changes in the past generation. but one of the sort of the straight specifically neo liberal programs and they're having the same kind of a. direct will to a very narrow there's increasing inequality. as an immediate effect on politics. all of the democracy is harder because it's more concentrated

political power as well. right now elections are almost boy it's so plutocracy. both political parties are the right. one party state the business forty. still ahead for you this hour on our global day of action against genetically modified crops as biotech monsanto faces a backlash from consumers saying they're scared for their health that's at about ten minutes. but first edward snowden back in the media spotlight this week breaking his silence for the first time since july we keep leaks releasing a video where he was seen getting an award for integrity in intelligence work from a group of fellow u.s. whistleblowers in moscow are going off as more. 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 well 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 adams prize for intelligence and integrity the whistleblower awards. this time snowden leaks his personal view on the fate of those spilling official secrets it's let us know what you know they should pick up where we have an executive for just this on the last. night lying to congress and they want 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 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 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 public with the whistle blowers fate was up for

discussion in our studio this week we spoke with a group of former u.s. officials who exposed some secrets in the past and more in moscow to present snowden with the award they discussed how the u.s. fugitive is getting used to his new life in russia and what his main concerns were 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 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 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 prison and. it's sort of like it and me or 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 he knew that he had received the award and he knew we were coming and the reception we got was just so for the 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 what it would snowden has done and hopefully will summon the courage to follow his example r.t. also discussed the snowden case with julian assange and the wiki leaks co-founder

explain why he thinks journalists helping snowden could be in jeopardy full interview available on our website there are t.v. dot com. twin bomb attacks tore through damascus one of them apparently targeting the hotel where the chemical weapons inspections team is staying or his policy paula reports from near the site of one of the explosions. 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 glass the ambulances have been hearing forward and backwards we can still smell this heavy explosiveness in the air 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 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 and 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. meanwhile the red cross are now seven of its workers were kidnapped by gunmen on sunday in northern syria earlier we talk with berlin based journalist and syrian crisis expert and well arcsin writer who thinks the rebels aren't interested in negotiations and will do everything to undermine directional peace efforts. we have this already in the past we if we think we know

that you will and will ease where. we had the u.n. inspector team which was investigating and go to 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 those teams can wait this will mean at the end then all those that remained couldn't be kept it would mean that all the de france which gave the syrian government as well as the whole earth which was almost expecting a reach in the war or even overt war in that area were to complete. the situation and this is in the interest of the rebels. on our website a new report reveals an apparent conflict of interest behind some public debate over military intervention in syria several major media outlets stand accused of

talking to nearly two dozen guess about the military action against damascus but failing to reveal the experts connection to u.s. defense industry line for the details on that plus. the case of selling off the family jewels on a grand scale italy planning to put many historic castles villas even every nation island for sale at a big deployed holes in the country's budget the full story on our team. it's easy for you to. activists around the world have had have held dozens of rallies as part of

a global day of action against genetically modified foods and biotech for monsanto in particular bearing the brunt of their anger some four hundred cities across the world from australia to the u.s. for involved protesters saying crops grown from seeds made by the company could be dangerous to human health or he's peter all 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 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 why people are saying no to i'm joined by dr dietz. thank that's correct. what could be the potential hazards of g.m.

foods genetically modified it's 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 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 their food products from the supermarket how does that transfer to what we see in humans well in humans the effects will only not show for another twenty years speaks. much longer lifespan than a rat so if we are waiting for a cancer to show as. you gotta wait or we should just shut this down to test 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. monsanto itself says it makes disease resilient crops that need less water to grow the company also maintains that many people already consume genetically modified food with no ill health effects jeffrey smith who's written extensively about what he calls the dangers of so-called franken foods says he begs to differ. 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 they accelerated 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 seems to have those who introduced the current generation of g m o's has nothing to offer feeding the hungry world or about a kid in poverty so this is just been a public relations pin 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 send or

both so that's why monsanto has been continuously voted as the most evil company on the planet year after year with stiff competition. riot police have dispersed a protest against the sunni ruling family in bahrain's capital my mama there ali started at the funeral of a shia detainee who died during custody in a prison hospital security forces reportedly used buckshot tear gas and sound grenades that injured several demonstrators dr not a diy the head of the bahraini and rehabilitation antiviolence organization says the police often target she a funeral. it's getting like a common practice by the security forces that act the funerals the office the cia operative agent specially the is the dead one this is related to so politically even. that is commonly done and it's the mysteries the

mass is filling the the funeral there are many years we all get attacked and it happened as a common practice. starting out at some other stories making headlines across the globe a stampede on a bridge in a hindu temple in northern india killed at least one hundred ten pilgrims more than one hundred others also injured as huge crowds attended a religious festival reports say police used to tons to restore order but that caused even more panic the stampede allegedly started when a group claimed the bridge was about to collapse in order to speed up standing in line. in iraq at least forty two people killed dozens wounded in multiple bombings across the country most of the blasts in busy markets in bus stations it's not clear yet who was behind the killings but militant groups including al qaida carried out similar attacks in the past according to the u.n. more than five thousand people have been killed militant attacks this year alone.

in eastern china a day out almost ended in tragedy for dozens of people who plunged into waters when a wooden footbridge to a ferry boat collapsed fortunately a nearby park employees rescued those who fell by throwing in the life rings only ten people needed hospital treatment and investigations underway as to why the foot bridge that was only opened in september collapsed. having amassed some three trillion dollars in a war chest chinese firms have gone on a shopping offensive a new europe over the weekend has reported that beijing is close to a multi-billion dollar deal to snap up shares in the u.k.'s nuclear industry not even london's iconic black cabs have been spared the interest of cash rich chinese businesses or he's probably boyko reports from london. this time last year it looked like the iconic london cab would be consigned to the history books after it's made because the financially troubled london taxi company went into

administration chinese manufacturer g.d. 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 taxi. 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 pledged to invest a hundred and fifty million pounds into the coventry based business over the next five years promising to create jobs and develop new engines so future really previously when we were an independent company the financial resources to continue to develop the product as we would like to now that. gives us the ability to develop. a which we could have only dreamed of financial analysts have

called it a win win situation 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 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 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 that hinders these companies 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 job some are liable to go because there's a allegiance between the companies that are owned by foreign entities and their country rover than brisson piece has been a cabbie for the forty years and has seen the london taxi company go through several british. 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 to then go into the wall dynamic the companies that are still british they would be faced with and you see. i see london. i have a look at some of china's recent investments as our report mentioned in two thousand and ten a chinese car maker flush with cash decided it would be easier to use buyout sweden's troubled volvo than to compete with it in january of last year one of germany's premier concrete makers also fell to beijing's riches that same month italian yacht builder for ready was snapped up by

a company controlled by the communist regime a few weeks later french fashion house sonia rykiel was taken over by a hong kong based firm in keeping with ease a growing fondness for luxury roger nightingale fund founder of an economic strategy consultancy firm says many european countries think 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 they're all 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. the olympic torch started its long journey to sochi to the two thousand and fourteen winter games after the lighting ceremony on a red square last week the flame embarked on a four month relay that will cover more than sixty five thousand kilometers across russia and even into space lit in greece it was taken to russia by plane last sunday it was a scorcher and square by a two hundred strong cavalcade of bikers president putin personally lit the ceremonial cauldron kicking off the relay the torch and toward moscow for a couple of days before setting off on its epic trip across the country it will visit nearly three thousand the cities and towns scale the country's tallest peak and descend to the bottom of its deepest lake leaving be taken for

a space walk for the first time in history and on february seventh it will finally end up in sochi to herald the start of the games you can enjoy all the highlights and see the reports from the relay ceremony on our website or t. dot com. up next find out the apple co-founder his views on the n.s.a. leaking scandal with worlds apart what oksana boyko stay with us. as afghanistan prepares for a presidential election many in the political and media mainstream speak of the country's first democratic transition but it's less talked about is the dire security situation on the ground where the karzai is angling to succeed him self the powerful presence of the taliban and whether the u.s. .