can't name an exact date when the axiomatic will be able to enjoy a refuge in russia well on a toy katriona confirmed that the whistleblower wants to remain in russia indefinitely and has been stuck in trim a table for more than a month now ever since arriving from hong kong snowden's formal asylum request could still take up to three months to process and he'll then get asylum for a year and will be able to renew his state annually well wolf course be keeping you up to date on the story right now though we can talk to the human rights lawyer who's been assisting snowden and overseeing the entire process on until he joins us live now from outside cherami to airport on tell you thank you so much for joining us here today to discuss this well everyone all of the journalist at the been there at the airport that we're closely watching the developments and everyone to be honest with you was expecting snowden to step out of the airport today but obviously he's not going to do the. what seems to be the problem. look on your screen. just say that i did not expect to see so many journalists at the a