to picture old days. from roads to. drop. a year since his escape from the hands of washington and a dramatic flight to russia edward snowden remains in hiding but the revelations people coming we report on the latest. russian trains derailed in eastern ukraine after a blast rocks the tracks meanwhile r.t. attains a video apparently showing the crimean artillery fire close to russia's border. and his job is to interact and their advance to the west the country taking control of four more towns and border checkpoints we report in the collapsing state.

it's nice to have you company you're watching r.t. international that this man alone has managed to change the vision of the world he's a number one on the list of whistleblowers the u.s. wants behind bars this day 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's next for him but for now his whereabouts are shrouded in mystery he's worried that the white house won't let him go so easily. looks at how he managed to slip through washington sphinx. c.n.n. now has 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 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 broadcasting life 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 advisors had been checked in for a flight to cuba so naturally dozens of rushed 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 now to our to who is aboard the fly. so your you're joining us by phone tell us what you can see on the plane is snowed in there or is there no sign of a. more just watch to be told that the plane actually now taxiing onto the earth strip were about to take off.

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 booked for snowden is it wiser still empty 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 or still shrouded in secrecy. or to moscow but america's national security agency has been collecting thousands of e-mails and britain's spied on every facebook google and twenty user and german intelligence used the n.s.a. spy program these are just a few of the headlines that have hit the media since edward snowden leaked documents of the u.s. u.k. spy program which revelations left the world shelton events throughout the year have brought some peculiar facts so what have we learned

a year on from his first revelations well if you're an american citizen your phone and video calls as well as your e-mails could be reaching the intercepted by special services have you trusted your private data with google yahoo or facebook well they are sharing it with the government so freedom of press is nothing when it comes to the scandal of such proportions either a major u.k. newspaper became the target of police raids for publishing the revelations and even being a president won't help they will ground your plane over suspicions you have a whistleblower on board in fact that's what happened to believe in lida even morale. i'm friends to spy on friends the n.s.a. has been tapping into jim needs angle of course 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 out of a has got the details on 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 is 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 is being 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 well x.e. i.a.s.

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 them whereby all our emails all our telephone calls and not just the message that is so to speak not just the addresses whom they're speaking with and how long but the content it's all being scooped right up and stored in case they want to find something against you will 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 british erie they too have become complicit. if you want to know more about snowden's escape the events that followed it all the revelations he made you can log on to our website at r.t. dot com all the information you need is there and is just a click away. trackside explosion has derailed a russian fright train in eastern ukraine within minutes a second blast rocked a nearby part of the railway they were injuries have been reported but several train routes have now been placed on seats that only cause the death as the details . well the information as to who the salience war is still available however we do know that no one was hurt it's also all fourteen cars have been derailed and service crews are now working on restoring the track and other blasted damage to a nearby railway as well and it is to geisha as to what is happening is now

underway now this is happening on the back call for a cease fire however that cease fire has been violated by both sides as they continue shooting at each other we at r t were received a video apparently all following their heavy artillery fire taking place near the russian border the shouting lasted for about thirty minutes and reported it came from the positions of ukraine's national guard and of course the minutes are a crackdown is definite taking its toll on the inside our region here in the eastern ukraine people are experiencing water shortages here in donetsk meanwhile the nearby city of slovyansk which was say hit the hardest by this so-called anti-terrorist operation wall that place is now heading for a humanitarian catastrophe water is long gone over there they haven't had it for weeks and so is an extra supply and food as well seems like five kilometers used to

that the water just bursaries have become a regular occurrence very myself down because there is no drinking water city officials are saying that's like council is heading for an epidemic meanwhile the city is now turning into a ghost town as well as residents are fleeing the shelling by the ukrainian army. now in iraq the jihadists from the so-called islamic state of iraq and syria a green pool isis have managed to take over much of the country's western border recently three checkpoints on the border with syria and jordan fed into the hands along with four times in anbar province that as the country dives deeper into sectarian division along with the kurds in the north seeking independence calf north is in iraq for us. 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 at downtown erbil 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 with the current crisis treading the country to pieces it's closer than ever to becoming one kurdish soldiers are now in control of territory that used to be disputed but no one here seems to think that the hardest would dare march on them but i have full faith in the forces we won let's 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 may be as good 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 worried we have oil we have a strong army. they may have or 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 build these massive gas lines some of the cars have been here for hours since the morning many people in fact camped out 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. were seen entering their newly purchased supply into containers in order to go back for more it's a very unusual situation where it's kurdish police officers guarding the 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 and the fear

is that it'll get a lot of works 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 that argument is that because we're scared of shelling from the iraqi army. and it's not just a nice fleeing the violence we encountered shia refugees to. foxtel donzy job or came here six days ago from baghdad in baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse and people are arming themselves and getting ready to fight one another all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something doesn't change iraq will be a country of orphans and would almost. be caffein of r.t.e. erbil iraq. now a happy marriage or a liberating divorce in a few minutes we'll tell you about the looming scottish independence referendum and

how the pro and anti camps are stepping up the fight for votes on the prize and we give you a heads up on some of the world's strangest laws why you shouldn't for example when you'll pick napoleon in france or go kissing in public if you've got him a stash in america's midwest is stories just ahead. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the pollution i know i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point. to carry out a call as on the job you know god i. think you know more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you punch be ready for a. critical speech and

a little down the freedom to crush. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others use in the same. fix is changing the world right. so picture. from around the. globe to. welcome back to scotland is to mark victory at bannockburn seven hundred years ago brought the country independence from england now a part of the united kingdom the country is set to vote on whether it wants to go it alone one small but the u.k.

government is cane for a mind scottish citizens what is at stake with the referendum less than three months away artie's party boy has this report. for any sport still undecided about which way to vote come september a new 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 for everyone else r.t. 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 pound 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 for 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 four billion pounds of the stuff was exported last year but if scotland 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 discourses government

told r.t. that it won't be posting its ode pro independence brochures in responds. 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. . while u.k. authorities insist that scotland is going to suffer a major economic losses if it leaves out the cuts of independents have their counter-arguments they say that the country will have to well have its own laws and foreign policy nuclear weapons will also be removed from its territory and they also think that keeping north sea oil revenues within scotland and rejecting you cases stereotype policies will boost the economy so could a three hundred year old history and in just three months time well at the moment the majority of the population seems to be in favor of staying in the u.k. but support for independence has been growing in the past few months with more than

a third of scots now willing to say yes to independence. but more stories on line few including a controversial business reopens its doors in indonesia as an artsy thing cafes again welcoming customers after sparking international outrage last year you can read about that at r.t. dot com also there you get the story on a six being get family in brazil has got them all across the country world cup but i kid you not you can read about it online. right now see. first rick. and i think. on our report. i.

the u.s. has pledged to support egyptians in their fight for the future of the country as secretary of state john kerry met with needing elected president sisi washington is also putting money where its mouth is saying it will give cairo nearly six hundred million dollars in military aid well middle east specialist lawrence davidson believes the u.s. would befriend anyone who could help it change it sculpts. america is on the side. over. there oh they're sovereign territory the authority over egypt if you've got a stable government and. mary roach you're a bore with the partners the president oh oh oh. what government control who turned to work. to underline the point just two years

ago the same words of support were addressed to the now asked to design as president mohammed morsi when former secretary of state hillary clinton met with him in cairo and here's john kerry saying almost the same thing to the islamist leader as he did to c.c. he spearheaded last year's revolution and eventually replaced morsi israeli troops have rated r t's office in the west bank wrecking equipment and seizing records these sold was apparently part of a crackdown on local media centers in a broader campaign against the palestinian authorities whom tel aviv holds responsible for the abduction of three israeli teenagers a middle east correspondent paula slayer has got the details. artie's offices that are situated in the building of the service provided pile media in the west bank city of ramallah have been raided in their grade our t.v. studio was damaged our internet signal was lost the archives of the video and all the material have disappeared and at the same time that 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 aksa channel now we then 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 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 has been called operation brothers keeper it is an operation that is intended to rescue three israeli teenagers who were kidnapped some ten days ago the did it 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 was affiliated with any party that proves it 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. and staying with israel countries five jets have struck nine military targets including a command center in syria this case in response to shelling that killed a fifteen. year old boy in the disputed golan heights three others 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 on the radio seen villages in nigeria killing at

least ten people eyewitnesses say they first went on a shooting spree and then chased fleeing residents boko haram 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. ethnic albanians have clashed with police in the city of me in kosovo the rally came after local minorities built 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 annele serbs have been strained for years. now it's sorry it 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 locals never knew existed artie's marine across the river reports from now from. imagine walking through

a train station with your head thorens 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 the year the country's state's own trail way company justified itself with a nine hundred forty two law which forbids any person from using in train cars awaiting groups on platforms or in train stations sound like in devices or instruments 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 it strange. at all of us could 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 pagan the polian. 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 because you know what 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 for the

presidential system or eventually i'm sure the twenty first century but in the meantime if you plan to calm here bearing in mind that you might end up breaking the law without even knowing that we're in a cost of our reporter from paris for our three well it's not only french laws you might find a bit odd in saudi arabia for example you can get married no matter how old you are you certainly don't want to step on money in thailand either because you just might offend mccain samoans know how to keep a marriage they made it illegal to forget your wife's birthday and last but not least don't go kissing in public if you have a misstep that is illegal in the u.s. state of iowa. up ahead here in international we look at the biography of the mastermind of nazi ideology during world war two and feel a lot in the case i've shifted not to find out why some you are skeptics and i want to stay in the you.

some people say freedom isn't free and they're right in fact freedom may only cost the price of a bottle of water or an old t. shirt fans celebrating the recent victory of the l.a. kings noticed that they were not alone what was believed to be police traumas flying over them filming them either out of moral contempt for drones or just for the hell of it the crowd began to throw random objects out until it was brought down i think this event makes two very big points firstly a lot of the surveillance state is not that hard to stop i mean there are satellite photos being taken of us all the time and n.s.a. spying on a communications but any camera or other device been throwing distance of a brick is at the mercy of us ninety nine percent and secondly generally if a crowd of people does something few ever get punished i mean if this drone was actually a police drone would they try to lock up the entire crowd for breaking it no they wouldn't and they couldn't for some reason if one person commits an act of civil

disobedience they are in ford but if a crowd does that they generally get away with it so if you're going to defend your right to privacy from drones bring fifty guys with you and everything will work out just fine but that's just my opinion. you can. excuse. you if. you if you if. you if you come. alive repeated a thousand times becomes the truth the man who sent that even proved it the lie became part of the.