i. could be. a year since his escape from the hands of washington and a dramatic flight to russia edward snowden remains in hiding but the revelations keep coming we report on the latest. in train has derailed in eastern ukraine after a blast rocks the tracks meanwhile r.t. obtains a video apparently showing ukrainian artillery fire close to russia's border and as to how it's in iraq to advance to the west of the country taking control of four war times and border checkpoints groupon in the collapsing stock.

they're welcome to watching international now he's a man who's changed our vision of the world and is among america's most wanted 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 is next for him but for now his whereabouts are shrouded in mystery as he's worried that the white house won't let him go say we silly. looks at how he managed to slip through washington's fingers. 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 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 sooner regular hold on 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 us rushed to get on that flight some even coughed up the cash for business going. to the interview but once again the former n.s.a. contractor. let's cross now to our to who is aboard the fly. so you know 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. remarkable just walked the doors of the plane actually now taxiing onto the airstrip about to take off very shortly and i can tell you with one hundred percent one hundred fifty percent that he's not on this plane the plane packed with journalists took off with allegedly his advisor.

so what we thought might be the end of the russian chapter was actually just the beginning after spending weeks in that transit zone finally received temporary asylum in russia where he is today but even on security and safety concerns mean exact whereabouts are still shrouded in secrecy. moscow. well america's national security agency has been collecting thousands of e-mails annually britain's g.c. h.q. spied on every facebook and twitter user german intelligence use 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 his revelations left the world shocked and events throughout the year have brought some peculiar facts so what have we learned a year on from his first revelations well if you are an american citizen your phone and video calls as well as your e-mails could be routinely intercepted by special

services have you ever trusted your private data with google yahoo or facebook well they are sharing it with the government too 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 leading. friends do spy on friends to the n.s.a. has been tapping into germany's angela merkel's phone freedom of press is nothing when it comes to a scandal of such proportions either a major u.k. newspaper became the target of police raids for publishing the revelations 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 has 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 of being snooped on here at the german chancellor rhee there was a breach of security when it was revealed that angela merkel'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 and a cia officer right mcgovern believes that no one in the american government wants the surveillance to stall because all three branches of power are in fact can place it would be n.s.a.

what is changed is that 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. key addresses whom they are speaking with and how long but the content it's all being who cried out and stored in case they want to find something against 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 due to sherry they too had become complicit. and if you want to know more about snowden's this guy the events that followed it all the revelations that he made you can log on to

our website at r.t. dot com all the information needed is there and it is just a click away. a trackside explosion has derailed a russian fright train in eastern ukraine within minutes a second blast rocked and they buy pot at the railway no injuries have been reported but several train routes have now been closed. as the details. well the information as to who the assailants were is still available however we do know that no one was hurt and tell us a little while fourteen cars have been derailed and the service crews are now working on restoring the track another blasted samaj to a nearby railway as well and investigation 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 are at sea received

a video apparently all following their heavy artillery fire taken place near the russian border the shouting lasted for about thirty minutes and reportedly came from the positions of ukraine's national guards and of course the military 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 interesting supply and food as well seems like five kilometer accused to lead the water just bursaries have become a regular occurrence there in the slowdowns because there is no drinking water the city officials are saying that's like johnson 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. in iraq the jihad is for me so called islamic state of iraq and syria group or isis have managed to take over much of the country's western border recently three checkpoints on the border with syria and jordan fell into their hands along with four towns in anbar province that as the country dives deeper into sectarian division along with the kurds in the north seeking independence artes you see kavanaugh 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 a downtown air built 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 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 after this crisis maybe you did maybe 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 help 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 all. there are shortages here in arbil parts of northern iraq have run out of gas on the black market so people are stocking up they say that they don't know what the rate of 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 telling them to do it 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 october job or came here six days ago from baghdad in baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse and people are arming themselves in the ready to fight one another all they see in the future is bloodshed and violence if something does not change iraq will be a country of orphans and all that doesn't. do see caffein of r t erbil iraq. still to come 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 stepping up the fight for votes also. give you a heads up on some of the world's strangest rule was why you shouldn't name your pig napoleon for example in france kissing in public if you have a missed stosh in america's midwest they stories just ahead.

well. it's technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. his name was. he was nazi germany's minister of propaganda the myths that he created exist to this day. propaganda was actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german self esteem. keep it's. precisely what the masses need to hear in order to make them follow him he was like

the great paper from the fairy tale that made the rats fall that you know despite. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for tile soil in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who walked in the second world war. again. victory seven hundred years ago brought the country independence from england my part of the united kingdom the country set to vote on whether it wants to go it alone one small but u.k. government is keen to remind scots what is at stake with the referendum less than three months away. as this report. 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 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. scouts 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 whisky 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 the scottish government told r.t. that it won't be posting its own pro independent brochures in response. anyone interested in the scottish government's believe credit for independence can request a copy of the white paper when their plans are all set out. but

while he insists that scotland is going to suffer 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 nuclear weapons were also be removed from its territory and i also think that keeping north sea oil revenues within scotland and rejecting the u.k. to stereotype policies will boost the economy still 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 over the past few months with more than a third of scots now waiting to say yes to independence. out of more stores be on line including a controversial business reopens its stores in indonesia as a nazi thing cafes again welcoming customers after sparking international outrage last year you can get the details at r.t. dot com also there you can read the story about the six fingered family in brazil i

kid you not that's got them all crossed for the countries will come. right the same. first strike. and i think. on the reformers like i i. i i i i. the u.s. has pledged to support it gyptian z. in their fight for the future of the country as secretary of state john kerry met with newly 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 middle east specialist lawrence david some believes the u.s.

would befriend anyone who could help it achieve it sculpts. america is on the side of her and those that wish there are they are sovereign over territory the authority over egypt if you've got a stable government here in the american mary roach reborn department of state president oh oh oh let me leave all except one government controlled who turned to work and to underline the point just two years ago the same words of support were addressed to the now state islamist president mohammed morsi when former secretary of state hillary clinton met him in cairo and his john kerry saying almost the same thing to the misleader as he did say to cease and he sisi he spearheaded last revolution and eventually replaced morsi. israeli troops have raided artie's office in the west bank wrecking equipment and

seizing records sold was apparently part of a crackdown on local media centers in a broader campaign against the palestinian authority saying television holds responsible for the abduction of three israeli teenagers on 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 r.t. studio was damaged our internet signal was lost the archives of you know the video and all the material have disappeared and at the same time all foolishness 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 idea if we 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 and now we've been pointed out that that was actually housed in

another building to which the idea for spawn did well in that case the raid was against out could steve eat 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 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 was proof that r.t. in fact was 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 anyhow related to any political movement the e. 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 to be in the equipment will be returned to r.t. arabic. will stay with israel because the countries why the 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 the disputed golan heights three others including the boy's father were injured in the attack is not known whether the first strike was carried out by syrian rebels or government troops. islamists from the militant group boko haram have reportedly raided two villages in nigeria killing at least ten people five witnesses say they first went on a shooting spree in maine 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 have clashed with police in the city of me to read 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 and serbs have been strained for years. that might be easy to get lost when traveling but more worrying is falling foul of a country's laws while on a trip especially when it comes to legislation not even local was knew existed are . 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 guess 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 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. that 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 as you see in the world 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 all eventually ends for 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 wearing a cost of our reporter from paris for our thing 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 because you might use defend the king there and samoans know how to keep america strong they made it illegal to forget your wife's birthday and last but not least i don't go kissing in public if you haven't missed studies in fact date of iowa. not coming up a notch international not some look to watch some euro skeptics want to stay in the e.u. but if you're in the u.k. is crossed over. the series of explosions going off base and try to clear out the squares of people are going to be going to want to come to life or destroy the teaching everybody.

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