the storms could impact the. two. years since his escape from the hands of washington and a dramatic flight to russia snowden remains in hiding but the revelations keep coming we report on the latest. a russian spy used the road in eastern ukraine after a blast rocked the tracks meanwhile video showing ukrainian artillery fire close to the russian border. you had is the right to advance to the west of the country taking control of four more towns and border checkpoints we were pulled from it seems. to.

me watching r.t. international now this man alone has managed to change the vision of the world he is a number one on the list of whistle blows the u.s. wants behind bars this state a year ago former n.s.a. employee edward snowden landed in russia his asylum ends next month and it's still not clear what is next for him but for now his whereabouts shrouded in mystery and he's worried that the white house won't let him go so we see the pieces of looked at how he managed to slip through washington sphinx. c.n.n. now has the word that edward snowden has left hong kong there are many questions about why snowden is able to stay one step ahead of american authorities snowden is reported to be on a flight to moscow in the arrivals hall of moscow's sheremetyevo airport sector a terminal on june twenty third two thousand and thirteen this is where that flight from hong kong with edward snowden on board arrived these doors were surrounded by

a whole army of journalists with cameras and microphones some broadcasting live pictures of everything that was going on here but when the last passenger finally came out and there was still no sign of them became clear the next most probable place there could be if not here then inside the transit zone. this whole place was swarming with journalists photographers t.v. radio press agencies you name it and everyone was looking for snowden everywhere in every corner in every bathroom in v.a.p. rooms even under seats but no one could find him but soon information quickly spread that it was inside the capsule hotel right here in the transit zone that the former n.s.a. contractor was in. this capsule hotel is really only called capsule because in reality these or almost like regular rooms just in a regular hotel there is a decent bathroom here and the beds and even a t.v.

set just no window that's pretty much the only difference so as all this chaos was happening outside the hotel most likely edward snowden was sitting in one of these rooms planning his further actions the plans that no one guessed in the end it became known that snowden and his advisor had been checked in for a flight to cuba so naturally dozens of rush to get on that flight some even coughed up the cash for business going. to be interviewed but once again the former contractor. let's cross out our team who is aboard the fly. so your joining us by phone tell us what you can see on the plane is snowed in there or is there no sign of a. remarkable just walk to the doors of the plane we're actually now taxiing onto the air strip or we're about to take off shortly so you were one hundred percent one hundred fifty percent. not on this plane the

plane packed with journalists took off with the two seats allegedly built for snowden and his advisors. so what we thought might be the end of the russian chapter was actually just the beginning after spending weeks in the transit zone finally received temporary asylum in russia where he is today but even a year on security and safety concerns mean exact whereabouts are still shrouded in secrecy. moscow. what america's national security agency has been collecting phone records of millions of citizens it tapped into the data of apple google and other britons intercepted foreign politicians communications at g twenty summits and these are just a few of the headlines that have been hitting the media since edward snowden leaked the documents of joint us. well his revelations left the world shocked and events throughout the world sort of throughout the year have brought some peculiar facts

let's just look at some of them his leaks expose that phone and video calls as well as the e-mails of millions of americans were being routinely intercepted by special services tech giants like google yahoo and facebook were found to have shared users private data and a major u.k. newspaper became a target of police raids for publishing the scandalous revelations meanwhile a presidential power was grounded over suspicions it was carrying the whistleblower that's what happened to believe in leader even more are as friends do spy on friends too is the n.s.a. has been tapping into germany's angela merkel's phone and that's not all the latest leak from snowden shows germany has actually been a launch pad for america's espionage in europe artie's peter all of a as the details of that story over the last twelve months edward snowden's revelations of showing that not only is germany at the very heart of the n.s.a.

surveillance program but that the germans themselves are among the most spied on and listened to in the world with millions of data connections being tracked putting them alongside the likes of afghanistan and iraq and it's not just suspected of having committed a crime that of being snooped on here at the german chancellor rhee there was a breach of security when it was revealed that angle america's private cell phone had been listened in to by the americans prompting a few angry phone calls and general all round embarrassment. it now seems unlikely there will be a full investigation into what went on leaked n.s.a. documents talk about an intimate relationship between the german and us government something which is upset people here because they fear they'll never find out the true scope of the snooping that went on and how involved germany was in spying on its own people. cia officer right mcgovern believes that no one in the american government wants the surveillance to stop as all three branches of power are in

fact complicit with the n.s.a. . what has changed is that the all american citizens who are willing to be informed and do not wish to remain in denial realize that a very very draconian dragnet type operation is being worked on whereby all our emails all our telephone calls and not just the message that is so to speak not just the addresses of whom they're speaking with and along with the content it's all being. read out and stored in case they want to find something you can show you the surveillance continues because in a very odd way all three branches of our government are complicit the executive branch which runs the n.s.a. the legislative branch congress which approved what she is doing and do dishes every day to have become complicit. but if you want to know more about snowden to

skate the events that followed it all of the revelations that he made you can log on to our website at r.t. dot com all the information you need just a click away. now a trackside explosion has derailed a russian freight train and eastern ukraine with minutes a second within minutes the second blast rocked a nearby part of the railway no injuries have been reported but several train raids have now been claes let's get the details from our teaser one cause that i have he joins us live now from ukraine rome and do we have any indication of who might have been behind the attack. well that information is yet to be determined however we do know that no one's been hurt and those that suits when blast a total of fourteen train cars have been derailed as a result of that and service crews are currently working on the scene on restoring

the tracks another blast took place a nearby in damage to another track and. the investigation is now under way now this is all happening and despite an announcement of a ceasefire bar ukraine's president. shang call and moreover we received a video all continued to artillery shelling about say one kilometer away from the russian border the shelling apparently lasted for about thirty minutes and a report that came from the positions of ukraine's and national guard i mean while military crags anchored continues in other regions of eastern ukraine as well and you've been there for a few weeks now oh man how are people coping. well speaking about dun dun it's in particular well when people are experiencing a water shortage here now this is very recent meanwhile the city of slovyansk all

of that place is indeed heading for a humanitarian catastrophe the water is already long gone there so are the food supplies and city as well the shelves and stores are empty and people are lining up but water disperse resigned those queues are sometimes a kilometers long and local officials are actually saying that said the city of slovyansk is heading for an epidemic as a lot of people have already become refugees ok thanks for that one cluster of live there from venus can of course we'll keep across what's happening in ukraine for you and bring you the one thousand as it happens. now in iraq the jihadists from the so-called islamic state of iraq and syria group isis have managed to take over much of the country's western border recently they occupied four cities in iraq and three checkpoints on the border with syria and jordan that as the country dive deeper into sectarian division along with the kurds

in the north seeking independence artie's losing caffein off is in iraq for. the march on baghdad for now on hold instead just harvest fighters tech until grip on western iraq this weekend's gains three border crossings into syria and jordan and for nearby towns territory now for only in the hands of insurgents from the islamic state in iraq and syria. despite the chaos spreading across the country and eerie calm in the kurdish capital the city is just sixty kilometers from the isis front line but it downtown or bill it was business as usual kurdistan has often felt like a separate country altogether even at the height of iraq's most violence and bloodiest moments now but the current crisis treading the country to pieces it's closer than ever to becoming kurdish soldiers are now in control of territory that

used to be disputed but no one here seems to think that just harvest would dare march on them but i have full faith in the forces we won lets anything happen. for some the prospect of a divided iraq was a welcome one do you think that iraq will remain one country as we know it's after this crisis maybe it may be that iraq will have to be divided will have area and the sunnis and shias will have there is no one in kurdistan is more and we have oil we have a strong army. they may help oil but fuel is running scarce for days now iraqi forces battled with isis for control of the country's largest oil refinery this is one of the first things you notice here in our buildings massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many people in fact camped overnight to try to get online so they can get gas frustrated

residents line up to get their share authorities have limited each individual to thirty leaders that's less than what it takes to fill two tanks. seen entering their newly purchased supply into containers in order to go back for more it's a very unusual situation where supporters police officers starting to gas stations here just to prevent fights and conflict from breaking out the people we've spoken to said there haven't been lines like this for fuel since the outbreak of the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and three and although there are shortages here in erbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas even on the black market and so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what will bring the fear is that it will get a lot worse before it gets better. that's a sentiment we heard from many here this man fled the sunni dominated and our province it's not ice is that he was afraid of stardom and making it less because we're scared of shelling from the iraqi army should be this and it's not just

a nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to talk to the job or came here six days ago from baghdad and in baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse as and people are arming themselves in the pen my ready to fight one another notch them on all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something does not change iraq will be a country of orphans and not all that doesnt it. r t erbil iraq not like happy marriage or a liberating force in a few minutes we will tell you about the scottish independence referendum and how the pro and anti camps are stepping up the fight for votes also later in the program to give you a heads up will strangest rules like how to handle fish in the u.k. and why you shouldn't. be in france just.

one of. the. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. there's a media leave so we leave that maybe. i will see motion see your. part of the physical. issues that no one is that with to get that you deserve answers from. politics.

and i welcome back my schoolfriend is to you mark victoria seven hundred years ago brought the country independence from england my part of the united kingdom the country is set to vote on whether it wants to go small but the u.k. government is keen to remind scottish decisions what is at stake with the referendum less than three months away. reports. frannie scott still undecided about which way to vote come september i knew brochure is about to land on every single doorstep in scotland setting out the british government's argument for the united kingdom to stay united forever on else antti has done the hard work and summed it all up for you it begins with an issue that central to the debate the pound the british government insists staying in the u.k. is the only way scotland can keep the scottish power and the argument goes that a bigger britain means a bigger economy with the u.k.

scout helping to keep interest rates low saving secure and energy bills cheap next scotland uses many of the u.k.'s public bodies from the departments that issue driving licenses for example to the passport office the national lottery and the b.b.c. leaving the u.k. would mean setting up new scottish equivalents from scratch and true to its roots as the home of the gentlemen's club the u.k. is the only country in the world that can boast membership of nato the e.u. the commonwealth the g seven the g eight and the g twenty if scotland decides to go solo its name will be struck off a lot of guest lists and the british government points out it was planning to devolve more power to the scottish parliament from next year anyway from twenty fifteen the scottish parliament will get more powers to set tax rates and decide if and when to borrow money even if it's not independent lilly's it also points out that the u.k.

represents scottish interests abroad take for example scottish whiskey for billion pounds of the stuff was exported last year but if scotland the whisks itself away from the union it would have a small a network of embassies promoting its barrels abroad business could suffer which could leave the industry nursing an independence hangover discusses government told r.t. that it won't be posting its owed pro independence brochures in. funds anyone interested in the scottish government's blueprint for independence can request a copy of the white paper where their plans are will set out twenty point zero x. . well at the moment the majority of the population seems to be in favor of staying in the u.k. but the support for independence has been growing in the past few months with that more than a third of scots now willing to say yes to independence while u.k. authorities insist that scotland is going to suffer a major economic losses if it leaves advocates of independence have their

counter-arguments they say that the country will have its own laws and foreign policy weekly weapons for example will also be removed from its territory and they also think that keeping north sea oil revenues within scotland and rejecting u.k. susteren policies will boost the economy. we've got plenty more stories for you online including a controversial business reopens its doors in indonesia is a nazi thing cafes again welcoming customers after sparking international outrage last year all the details you can read them at r.t. dot com also their get the story on the six fingered family in brazil that's got them all crossed the countries will. write the same. first strike. and i think.

on our reporters i i . now the u.s. has pledged to support egyptians in their fight for the future of the country as the secretary of state john kerry met with newly elected president sisi washington is also putting money where its mouth is saying it will give nearly six hundred million dollars in military and middle east specialist lawrence davidson believes the u.s. would befriend anyone who could help it civi sculpts. america is on the side of her. there or they are sovereign over territory the authority over egypt if you've got a stable government and. the rotary or the partners the

president oh oh oh we won't accept what government control who turned to work. well to underline the point just two years ago the same words of support were addressed him in cairo and his john kerry saying almost the same thing to these are misleading as he did to c.c. he spearheaded last year's revolution and eventually replaced morsi israeli sure separated artie's office in the west bank wrecking equipment and seizing records the so apparently part of a crackdown on local media centers in a broader campaign against the palestinian authority saying television holds responsible for the for the abduction of three israeli teenagers all middle east correspondent paula slayer has got the details. artie's offices that are situated in the building of the service provider pile media in the west bank city of ramallah have been raided in their grade r.t.

studio was damaged our internet signal was lost the archives of both video and all the material have disappeared and at the same time all furniture has been destroyed now the doors have even weren't computers and disks have been confiscated all of this has resulted in a conversation between us and the i.d.f. where we are asked them what was all of this about now they responded initially by saying nothing the raid was against the al aqsa channel and now we've been pointed out that that was actually housed in another building to which the idea for sponsored a well in that case the raid was against our could stevie our follow up question then was so why have you confiscated r t arabic equipment which the i.d.f. responded that they had to since the operation targeted the whole complex now these confiscations form part of what is being called operation brothers keeper it is an operation that is intended to risk you three israeli teenagers who were kidnapped some ten days ago the dip he hid of r.t. arabic has said that the i.d.f.

never acts without any kind of documentation that proves that whoever it is raiding is in fact affiliated with terrorists but when he asked where it there was proof that r.t. in fact this affiliated with any party that proof was very short in coming i can tell him now where is the intelligence that you've got to prove that r.t. was somehow or related to any political movement the i.d.f. has said that if after the examination of the discs and equipment that it has confiscated it is clear that there is no terror related content in the equipment will be returned to r.t. arabic meanwhile israeli fighter jets have struck nine military targets including a command center in syria this came in response to shelling that killed a fifteen year old boy in. disputed golan heights brothers including the boy's father were injured in the attack it's not known whether the first strike was carried out by syrian rebels or government troops. islamists from the militant

group boko haram have reported raided two villages in nigeria killing at least ten people eyewitnesses say they first went on a shooting spree and then chased fleeing residents. which seeks to establish an islamic state has repeatedly targeted civilians and security forces killing hundreds the group still holds over two hundred girls captive who were abducted in april. and ethnic albanians clashed with police in the city of me in kosovo the rally came after local minority serbs rebuilt a barricade at a key bridge dividing parts of the city and both communities security forces fired tear gas at stone throwing protesters several police officers and civilians were injured ties between kosovo albanians and serbs have been strained few days. now easy to get lost or story might be easy to get lost when traveling but more

worrying is falling foul of a country's law while on a trip especially when it comes to legislation even the locals never knew existed artie's marina costello reports from now from. imagine walking through a train station with your headphones on minding your own business and suddenly you're slapped with a three hundred seventy five euro fine because someone decided your music was too loud well that actually happened in france where twenty first century reality meets the legislation of yes the year the country's state's owned railway company justified itself with a nine hundred forty two law which forbids any person from using in train cars or waiting rooms on platforms or in train stations sound like in devices or instruments completely happy i understand fining someone for throwing a cigarette by chewing gum but someone with headphones i don't see how it bothers anyone. a person wants to listen to their music they have a right to according to me i think it is strange that we find someone was just

listening to music i listen to music all the time i find with strange you. get all of us to be picking our nose at the train station and they will find us they will make us pay you scratch your bum you will have to pay france is this way now reducing civil liberties step by step. so exactly what else is forbidden in france . name in the pig napoleon. kissing on the railways what is legal however is getting divorced because your partner smokes too much or is a little too obsessed play football and it's even legal for french parents to prevent their adult children from getting married as you see in your work i think that law made sense at the time when it was created but nowadays it could be interpreted in a completely different way depending on the person who finds you i think we need to review and adapt to the now. puts you under the years women in france had to wear skirts or dresses if they wanted to be law abiding citizens they were only allowed

to wear trousers if they were holding the reins of a horse or a bicycle handlebar well that law was scrapped last year so there is hope that the presidential system or eventually answer the twenty first century but in the meantime if you plan to calm here bear in mind that you might end up breaking the law without even knowing it during the course of our reporting from paris for our thing. but it's not only french laws you might find a little odd in saudi arabia for example you can get married no matter how young you are or you would not want to get angry with that region in the philippines and h.i.v. suffer for example you must avoid the police in greece you might be arrested the same goes for those of you trying to handle salmon suspiciously in the u.k. you better think twice about that and you certainly don't want to try stepping on money in thailand who knows where you'll end up flushing a toilet after ten pm in switzerland sounds like a reasonable thing but you don't don't let that fool you and samoans know how to

keep a marriage strong they made it illegal to forget your wife's birthday and last but not least don't grow a moustache and go kissing in public they're either legal in the u.s. state of iowa. coming up on aussie international side shevardnadze looks at why some euro skeptics want to stay in the e.u. but if you're watching us in the u.k. as she returns see what is taking you underground. his name was joseph goebbels he was nazi germany's minister of propaganda the myths that he created exist to this day.

it was google's propaganda was both actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german soldier steams who. keep its complete use of goebbels knew precisely what the masses needed to hear in order to make them follow him he was like the pied piper from the fairy tale to me brats fall to the tune of his plight. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for tal saw in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who was in the second world war. will come to the truth. show thirty four can just bend over fifteen billion euros of culture that says to each one hundred fifty million degrees.