let's get now more reaction analysis on what's happening there in the country from correspondent jonathan steele and he reports extensively on the middle east and we just heard that the head of the muslim brotherhood has vowed to continue to protest and till morsi is put back into power but that's pretty unlikely now isn't it it's pretty unlikely but what the military is doing is also disastrous because by rounding up the muslim brotherhood leaders they're undermining any chance of a real compromise dialogue to end this crisis they talk about they want national reconciliation well how can you have reconciliation if you lock up a president who is elected freely by an enormous number of egyptians what they need to do now is to have a round table talks and get the opposition leaders the secular opposition who refused before to talk to morsi to sit around the table with him and try and hammer out some program of early i'll eventually actually particularly new constitution and leave the presidential issue for the time being and that's not happening at the moment instead we are seeing some blood shed

ago has so far failed to give its verdict over what is happening in the country correspondent jonathan steele who reports extensively on the middle east believes egypt's deadlock and the situation is not being helped by the reluctance of those past backers to move off the fence by rounding up the muslim brotherhood leaders there undermining any chance of a real compromise dialogue to end this crisis they talk about they want national reconciliation well how can you have reconciliation if you lock up a president who is elected freely by an enormous number of egyptians it is a military coup you can't get around that it's hard for the u.s. to come out publicly in support of a military coup so they have to make these noises ritual noises about. return to civilian rule but they're not really sure what what to do so i think the best solution is some sort of compromise and i wish we would hear that from some of these western leaders a train carrying seventy tankers of petrochemicals de railgun burst into flames in canada's french speaking province of quebec during the early hours of saturday morning

other country they don't have much funding inside syria all right jonathan steele gone and also thank you very much indeed for your insights. and breaking news on aussie edward snowden house reporter they asked for political asylum in russia that's according to a human rights watch representative one of the participants of the meeting with the n.s.a. whistleblower that's taking place in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and n.s.a. whistleblower has been stung that in limbo for more than two weeks since arriving in russia and an isa now is at the airport and joins us now live on you so what's the latest what can you tell us about say what's going on there what's happening there right now. well the latest that we're hearing from inside the transit zone and i want to underline that this is still unconfirmed it's just reports that edward snowden is for political asylum in russia when we spoke earlier i had said that one of the people that he invited to this impromptu meeting with human rights activists was a prominent russian lawyer who predicted and told r.t. that he thou

the violence and expressing a general wish for things to get back to normal now correspondent jonathan steele who reports extensively on the middle east believes he believes the country is in deadlock and that few in the west are calling for compromise by rounding up the muslim brotherhood leaders there undermining any chance of a real compromise dialogue to end this crisis they talk about they want national reconciliation well how can you have reconciliation if you lock off a president who is elected freely by an enormous number of egyptians it is a military coup you can't get around that it's hard for the u.s. to come out publicly in support of a military coup so they have to make these noises ritual noises about to. return to civilian rule but they're not really sure what what to do so i think the best solution is some sort of compromise which we would hear that from some of these western leaders. britain is trying to get the e.u. to ease up on genetically modified food that is despite claims that kevin klee enhanced crops cause health problems on that story shortly. u.s. military authorit

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