alexei set his camera to rolling at next stop.n the train took off. >> get in, get natural air conditioning. >> but it's not safe. >> girls are walking up to it. what are they doing? and it's not like these trains are slow. >> don't peek your head out. you don't know what's coming? >> alexei wanted to give us a bird's-eye view of what it's like to stick your head out the train, like what a dog would do. >> they like to live on the edge in russia. >> this is not a standard practice. >> they didn't want to interrupt the subway schedule. >> keep running doors -- >> the two girls get up, look around. notice the guy at the end of the train. his girlfriend's like you better sit down. she messed up all his fun. >> beth, two videos that both end in a big fat nope. first one, it's at a car show. you see this guy clowning around, standing up and decides, watch this, i'm going to moon the crowd because i'm a funny guy, ha, ha, ha. and then -- >> with his pants down no less. >> totally embarrassed. tries to play it cool. >> fixes his shades a

international economic performance and petersburg not to share scheme is there for us and joins us live now alexey will tell us a bit more then i'll give us all the details. of the russian president has once again been very critical of the latest developments surrounding the syrian conflict in particular the calls coming from across the atlantic to supply the syrian opposition rebels with weapons this is something. believes should not happen especially considering that syria would not have been in the say in this position if the without the. arms shipment coming from abroad saying that you know having talks of installing a peace conference to have both members of the syrian opposition and the syrian government at the same table at the same time talking about arming the syrian rebels or one side of the conflict is just plainly wrong especially considering that some parts of the syrian opposition are in fact terrorist groups let's listen to what the russian president had to say. i can't imagine why weapons should be supplied to illegal militant groups in syria when the us recognized that one of the

so scared he said i asked them alexei how do i hit him like this you come up to him and then whack when a new green pup was born you can't help but to feel sorry for him you take them under your arm and go and you can take him anywhere and only the devil knows how but his mother will find him but if you take a white coat under your arm it will bite into you had once. seal hunting. the whole working day and paid well. pay off your debts buy something for the house like some furniture we used to buy t.v. sets and refrigerators but now they tell us don't kill the white coats don't catch seals before we had fewer seals of a bear left at once and we had fish but now that they've banned seal slaughter seals go into the river and they can even crawl into the forest on the lakes white coats and females crawled on the coast before dogs chase them away now they don't even look at them the dog will lie on the ground in the seal will crawl right beside it it's better to live like we used to before we caught seals and brought them to the slaughter house they should be hunted little by little. founde

allegedly using chemical weapons but damascus called the ads fabricated a moscow xpress to skepticism alexei got a chef discuss the developments with my colleague much reza. this week washington confirmed it has ample proof of assad's troops using chemical weapons against the opposition but the timing seems to be rather strange for that the incident in question allegedly happened in december last year but it's been brought up only now when the government troops are winning the battle after battle according to the russian foreign minister this makes no sense at all from the military point of view and the follow up statement by president obama that he wanted to see the balance of power is restored in the country and possibly even the syrian rebels is creating even more grounds for concerns in russia and europe as well so we have russia being skeptical about it the only voice or other others were skeptical about the u.s. evidence not everyone is buying it the e.u. the main allies of the united states they are asking additional checks from the u.n. investigators russia says that the proof gather

committee claims the evidence of the use of chemical weapons by outside forces is being fabricated alexei pushkov says president obama are simply making the same mistakes as his predecessor george w. bush now author and historian gerald hall and he believes that washington's allegations will simply only serve to escalate the conflict and it seems to me this is a very dangerous an ominous moment particularly since sunni clerics of just met in cairo egypt in a call for a holy war against the regime in damascus and instead of trying to calm things down it seems to me the obama administration is about the throw gasoline on the flames keep in mind also the just a few weeks ago the turkish authorities now that some of the rebels housed in turkey had syrian weapons that's weapons in their possession keep in mind as well that it's difficult to say if these weapons were used if they were used who used them for example what was the chain of custody that allows the obama administration to conclude that it was damascus and not the rebels how did those samples get from the battlefield to washington ho

means students never actually crossed into russia and so is beyond the government's reach artie's alexeior shows he has more from sheremetyevo airport. ever since edward snowden touched down in moscow on sunday it's been the biggest mystery for the last seventy two hours or so what his next move would be he was supposed to fly to have on the from moscow on monday he was checked in supposedly for that flight but never made it this blind carried more than a hall full of moscow's international press corps basically they want to a three day holiday to the caribbean ever since it's been speculated that he may have left the country on a different flight he may have left it elsewhere even some have been alleging that he may have been detained by the russian authorities to later to be extradited to the united states both of these claims were in fact quashed by the russian president who compared mr snowden to the case of another very famous whistleblower . snowden's case is similar to that of julian assange both called themselves defenders of human rights and fight for the freedom of information

defense shield in europe while the head of the state duma international affairs committee committee alexei pushkov thinks obama is ideas need more work a nuclear arms reduction is a matter for the distant future as they put it. still to come barack obama's e.u. trip started with the g eight summit in northern ireland where world leaders backed peace talks in syria with a final statement of no call for president assad to leave got the details ahead. well months died at least forty one of the injured in a series of blasts in a fire at an arms depo in central russia witnesses are now reporting fresh explosions to. over six thousand people evacuated from the small town of pio square the first blast went off on tuesday night the town still in a state of emergency. is following the situation there. around two thousand people are now involved in the operation at the scene rescuer is fine man in the next prayers helicopters and tanks have been used as well but despite all the efforts unfortunately it looks like that blaze still continues the rescues have only managed to stop the fire from spreadin

foreign affairs committee claims there is no evidence on the use of chemical weapons by assad's forces alexei pushkov says president obama is just making the same mistakes as his predecessor george w. bush in iraq he also added that arming the rebels will mean direct u.s. involvement and could potentially make matters worse well a u.s. plan for a limited no fly zone over syria has also been drawn up although american officials admit it would be costly we're talking up to fifty million dollars a day and they say it wouldn't make a huge difference on the ground and it has not been ruled out now it could stretch about forty kilometers in to syria it will be enforced using aircraft flown from bases down in jordan though without without such as only to hold syrian aircraft back at the white house sees it perhaps too risky to arm the rebels and therefore the restricted area could end up being just less than one hundred kilometers from the syrian capital damascus now u.s. officials say washington could also authorize sending arms and training rebels in jordan even without giving a green light to the

live to watch news alexina chef at the airport with snowden is a believed to be good morning to you alexey the russian president laying it out all pretty clearly i thought. well ever since edward snowden touched down in moscow on sunday it's been the biggest mystery for the last seventy two hours or so what his next move would be he was supposed to fly to have on the from moscow on monday he was checked in supposedly for that flight but never made it there ever since it's been speculated that he may have left the country on a different flight he may have left it elsewhere even some have been alleging that he may have been detained by the russian authorities delighted to be extradited to the united states both of these claims were in fact quashed by the russian president who compared mr snowden to the case of another very famous whistleblower . snowden's case is similar to that julian assange both called themselves defenders of human rights and fight for the freedom of information you have to ask yourself do such people need to be hunted down and put in prison but i personally would like to

whatsoever for the syrian army to resort to such tactics for more details i'm joined by our teams alexei or ski here for us in moscow give us more on russia's reaction to the chemical weapons claims coming out of d.c. . well first of all the russian foreign minister revealed that it was very regrettable that when the allegations of rebel syrian rebels using chemical weapons at the town of aleppo were made public by the syrian government it's time to ask the u.n. commission to investigate nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of the syrian government using the chemical weapons weapons appeared to them experts thought it was conduct a certain investigation on this and that also revealed that for some time his partners in the west and israel have been saying all along that the syrian government would only use chemical weapons if it's backed against the wall that's why using the chemical weapons by the government right now makes no sense whatsoever from the military point of view. the syrian regime hasn't been pushed into the corner the regime according to the rebels is a

russia is preparing to host their maiden well cup finals in twenty eighteen and as chief executive alexey several king told richard van port fleet the country is looking to learn from the euro two thousand and twelve experiences of co-host ukraine who won out over initial skeptics to produce a successful tournament. crain is exactly the example of how you can fall with to victim of bad p.r. i think they in the end they delivered a very good tournament but suddenly they they were not in the position to in time offset these strange attempts to bring down their effort and to diminish. in the media the endeavor that they embarked on. we will certainly learn from that and will be ready to to fully display what we're doing and to be open to to the interested audience what your general impressions just self of ukraine was very core duo very well organized. i expected more people to come there but. still there was there was a lot there was a an amazing number which i heard in the media of in excess of one billion euro was exchanged in the in the banks of only ukraine that means a lot of visitors

thirty year old hasn't committed any crime by exposing a vast global surveillance project or he's alexei or shows he has more. while the world decides where the edward snowden is hero or villain russia's human rights activists have clearly made their minds up it's not too often they see eye to eye with russia's president but they will complete his decision not to extradite him to the summer and say absolutely still outraged by washington street window of the whistleblower the oscar more school to take more than just a neutral stand but as such she says this is what's in the current situation russia has to do everything in its power to aid snowden he thought it was those exact principles that the us down but in fact transgression yet he had and i think russia should now act according to the law but to not let the man be led like a lamb to slaughter. the head of russia's anti-corruption committee went even further can you come on of says he's ready to write a letter to putin urging him to keep snowden in russia is it on the. screen the fact that he has no passport let him go to those count

more on this let's go to geneva where i'm joined by russia's ambassador to the united nations there alexei bardach and thank you for joining us here on our to you so we understand that this resolution places the majority of blame for the atrocities and human rights violations on syria's government forces forces of the assad regime do you think that's fair. just now ago another resolution on syria was supposed to by the un human rights council on this resolution is imbalanced and counterproductive it actually undermines the efforts to convene the conference on syria on syrian settlement and we'll have a lot of evidence which testifies that. position extremist opposition forces are committing terrible crimes horrible crimes exhibit. murders. taking hostages son saw and so forth and thank you for you too you journalist school collected this evidence and we're trying to make it public here in geneva and as far as russia is concerned with think that both sides are not angels in syria and the old commit crimes but. this vicious circle of. violence could be only broken by convening the internatio

of the state duma foreign affairs committee says there's been no evidence shown to back the claims alexei pushkov says president obama is making the same mistakes as his predecessor in iraq a u.s. plan for a limited no fly zone over syria has been drawn up although u.s. officials admit it would be costly up to fifty million dollars a day and not make a quote huge difference on the ground but it hasn't been ruled out it could stretch up to forty kilometers into syria and be enforced using aircraft flown from jordanian bases without such as zone to hold syrian aircraft back the white house sees it as too risky to arm the rebels therefore the restricted area could end up being just less than one hundred kilometers from the capital damascus u.s. officials say washington could also authorize sending arms and training to rebels in jordan without giving a green light to a no fly zone the pentagon's already moved patriot air defense batteries and f. sixteen jets to jordan let's get more on this from a political analyst and author john white thanks for joining us here on r.g.p. so the u.k. has ann

missile defense shield in europe while the head of the state duma international affairs committee alexei pushkov thinks that obama's ideas need more work nuclear arms reduction is a matter for the distant future as he put it well many in a barber's audience in berlin today said they came away under the impression analysis from. her in chief for the german su worst news magazine either we wonder in press two or did he win you over. and over doing well and we see a big difference between obama's first visit to berlin in two thousand and eight where almost two hundred thousand people where visiting his speech today where four thousand six hundred people where chosen for listening to him but i think it's not so important for him to win the hearts of the population it's more important for him to win the heart of our chancellor angela merkel and of the mainstream media and of course of the established politicians and the deutsche upon the stock and i think this is what he has until today this was not a big challenge for him what role did he charm her out of the trees than today i mean what do

the head of alexei, head of the national affairs committee said by promising asylum to snowden, it takess in the u.s. uh-huh. >> computer says yes. >> stephanie: they only recognize this right for themselves. was he implying that russia -- they don't recognize that right for their own people. huh? >> well. sort of. not the soviet union anymore. >> yeah, but it's not the beacon of freedom. >> stephanie: sure. you speak out against putin they treat you badly. >> if you even say the word gay they put you in a gulag. >> stephanie: well-known human rights activist, russia. what? he said listening to telephones and tracking the internet, the u.s. special services broke the laws of their country. no, they didn't. that's the problem. it is the law of our country. whether you believe in that or not, believe in the patriot act it is incorrect. snowden is a human rights activist. >> computer says no. >> [ whatever! ] >> stephanie: the country -- russia has -- i like that they add this in the story. russia has a poor reputation for human rights. with people regularly persecuted for their political b

alexei ramirez. how about this one -- chicago wins it in walkoff fashion. the mets lose.o it wasn't even good luck. mika, how about this one? >> let me see. >> since you liked the giraffe getting its head taken off. >> why would you think. >> 120-mile-an-hour be at wimbledon. that's going to leave a mark. that was from mardy fish. >> why. >> i don't know if a human reaction time, the be was out. she got the call correct. >> can we make it even slower? >> ouch. >> okay, come on now. >> still ahead on "morning joe," a t-shirt and jeans is apparently all you ped to complete a high wire act across the grand canyon. crazy jesus lord, help this cable to calm down. command it in your name, jesus. it's the authority of god. praise you. >> i'm going to say the same thing about this set sometimes. >> daredevil nik wallenda is going to be here live on set and a war of words between serena williams and maria sharapova. could the two settle their difference on the court? we're going to have that straight ahead. first, mika's must read opinion pages. you're watching morning are joe" br