terminal to give us a closer look at what is actually taking place there and now we've got our tease tom barton now bear with us everybody the connection there is very shaky there's a lot of bad with being used up in that room right now now tom back to give us a look at what's going on with you right now. to find the lindsay yet here inside to the next to the transit area we suspect inside sure and next to the airport the journalists rule counted and they all swapped around on the told to children as he arrived earlier she passed straight through the crowd of journalists and into that closed door which is guarded by police suspect to be carrying pop's fresh clothes for edward snowden and perhaps also the documents in the federal migration service could have allow him temporary access suit russian soil just trying to do a little view of the the crowd here at the moment the press pack. apology the. the cat. is a bit shady. it's really big break and. all those things gathered here to tim's perhaps anatoly could serenity comes out to a press conference or perhaps even snowden the man himself. thank

receiving asylum offers after being stranded in the transit zone of moscow's airport for two weeks tom barton is at the airport and joins us live now so tom it seems that the whistle blower has a few more options now. it does potentially bill doesn't it i mean the big question could it be the end for edward snowden's period. here at the transit area of moscow's sheremetyevo airport for two weeks the world has seen no public appearance of the man and now once it's just as it seemed his options were running. three potential asylum requests come in just in the last couple of hours it's been revealed that bolivia has added its name to the list of countries that could offer edward snowden asylum that follows ecuador earlier on ecuador's president nicholas i beg your pardon not ecuador venezuela's president nicolas maduro giving his announcement that they would give edward snowden asylum. but as you know carol i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar a new coach others and snowden come live here away flu shot you should the am

to turn snowden away most of the whistleblowers asylum requests have been rejected but as artist tom barton reports even getting to the various countries that have given him asylum or have given him the option of asylum is going to take a lot. might it be the end for edward snowden's two weeks of isolation here at the transit zone at moscow's sheremetyevo airport nobody's actually seen him for those two weeks but there seems to be a glimmer of hope for the whistleblower with three countries now having offered him asylum the latest of a libya that followed venezuela earlier president nicolas maduro said that they would offer the whistleblower asylum if you could get them but also your carol i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar and chavez and snowden can come and live here away from the persecution of american imperialism we've also had heard from evo morales the president of bolivia who issued a similarly strong statement after his plane was forced to touch down in austria amid reported fears of e.u. states that sno

commemorations underway at the scene of the engagement with the festivities and memorial service is planned tom barton takes a look back. seventy years ago this area and hundreds of kilometers around it would have been full of sites like this it was summer one nine hundred forty three the site of hitler's last great offensive on the east front of . millions of men and thousands of tanks and guns turned this whole area into a giant military camp as these reactors were trying to show attacking from the north and south the germans wanted to trap soviet forces and destroy them they breached to the road on these three main defense belts but met with for russia's resistance after a week of fighting many of the german forces when exhaustion it was at that point that perhaps the battles most iconic moment came here on the fields around the village of profit off a german tank formation and a soviet one ran headlong into each other the ensuing battle raged for hours amid the chaos tanks round each other firing at point blank range and men screamed as they burned alive inside their vehicles thousands died on tha

a reporter for the russia today network with a very unrussian name, tom barton, was covering a protestn turkey. its with a dangerous situation, but it earned him the distinction of being named tonight's recipient of our award for excellence in reporting. ♪ >> here come the police to break up another night of protests here in ankara. and here's the water cannon just coming in as well. it's not known whether these protests -- it's not known whether these protests -- >> jimmy: it won't ever be known. [ applause ] this is a weird story. you don't hear about innovations in the funeral business much, but carl eggleston, he owns the oliver & eggleston funeral establishment in farmville, virginia. just added a drive-thru to his funeral home. you drive up to the window, view the body, and then drive to the next window to pick up your fries. i don't know exactly. there really is. there's a special window on the side of the funeral home where they'll put an open casket so you can pay loved ones the same kind of respect you'd pay an egg mcmuffin. [ laughter ] it's a great way to say i care but not

steve barton joined other victims of gun violence friday to remember the aurora victims and call for stiffer gun laws. tom sullivan lost his son alex during the aurora shootings and would like to see restrictions on high capacity magazines. >> a guy walked into a movie theet wer a hundred-round drum and one second my son was watching a movie and the next second he was dead. >> she died shield herg students from the gunman. >> carly soto's sister victoria was a first grade teacher killed in the newtown massacre. she came to aurora to honor the victims who died in the theater shooting. >> from a movie theater to an elementary school to a church, it's all different but we all share the same grief and we all share the, you know, the wanting to change our gun laws. >> a handful of gun rights advocates were also there peacefully protesting the event. police kept the two sides apart. >> why come to their event on this day? >> well, it is an event for all colorado coloradoans to remember that tragedy and also a tragedy that a fire arm was not allowed to be used in the theater that may have prevented that tragedy.

steve barton joined other victims of gun violence friday to remember the aurora victims and call for stiffer gun laws. tomx during the aurora shootings, he'd like to see restrictions on high capacity magazines. >> the guy moved into the movie theater with 100-round drum and one second my son was watching a movie and the next second he was dead. >> she died shielding her students from the gunman. >> reporter: she came to aurora to honor the victims who died in the theater shooting. >> from a movie theater to an elementary school to a church it's all different but we all share the same grief and we all share the, you know, wanting to change, the, you know, our gun laws. >> reporter: a handful of gun rights advocates were also there peacefully protesting the event, police kept the two sides apart. >> why come to their event on this day? >> well, it's an event for all coloradans to remember that tragedy. it's also a tragedy that a firearm was not allowed to be used in the theater that may have prevented that tragedy. >> grace mcdonald. age 7. >> reporter: for more than ten hours volunteers took turns reading

steve barton joined other victims of gun violence friday to remember the aurora victims and called for stiffer gun laws. tom during the shootings. he'd like to see restrictions on high capacity magazines. >> a guy walked into a movie theater with 100 round drum and one second my son was watching a movie and the next second he was dead. >> she died shielding her students from the gunman. >> reporter: carly soto's sister was a first grade teacher killed in the newtown massacre. she came to aurora to honor the victims who died in the theater shooting. >> from a movie theater to an elementary school to a church, it's all different, folks. we all share the same grief and we all share, you know, the wanting to change our gun laws. >> reporter: a handful of gun rights advocates were also there peacefully protesting the event. police kept the two sides apart. >> why come to their event on this day? >> well, it's an event for all coloradans to remember that tragedy. it's also a tragedy that a fire arm was not allowed to be used in the theater that may have prevented that tragedy. >> grace mcdonald, age 7. >> reporte