i think when it comes to russia latin america was was very angry with what happened that's putting it lightly ever morale is international law is broken or possible board there but i think it's fair to say that while latin america is braver and standing up to the u.s. russia is no latin america and both sides are going to try to very carefully i must not forget that edward snowden is not seen as a spy in russia in fact it's interesting enough in a recent poll in the us he was seen as more of a hero in a poll then there. that's why so it's the american government it's the obama administration that sees this man as a spy these human rights activists are are going to support him and they're going to fight for him to the end of whether that means getting political will fly them in russia others certainly going to do their best to make sure he stays safe and that he's not handed over to the united states sure and she said thank you very much we'll be back of course and we'll chat to you more but right now our. n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has reportedly promised to stop releasing le

certainly is not going to like this but russia is not latin america i think will hear experts say they're not going to be pushed around by the united states and he said i'm just reading some of the latest quotes from that meeting and one of the participants whose name is stuck on a lot. one of the members of human rights watch says that mr snowden wants to stay in russia until because right now he's not he's not able to fly to latin america right now so until he's going to stay here in moscow of course we're waiting for more reports coming out from moscow's sheremetyevo airport and he said now is standing by for us and waiting for more information of course we'll bring you as we'll bring you more information as soon as possible and he said thank you very much indeed for that. all right let's let me figure out now what we're doing next. all right let's take a look at what we're having for you right now on our web site which is dot com. and if you go the you can see our online poll and this is how you've been voting so far so the majority believe snowden should leave moscow for how vonna an

and not to help safe passage to latin america. i can't imagine the u.s. having the pressure to push russia into sending him back i don't see that happening i think it would be you millie it into russia in the extreme and it wouldn't happen with what i'm actually curious to see is whether the newspapers that he's already released the files to are are going to feel bound at all to not continue releasing things that they have about the n.s.a. and i'm curious to know what russia's response to that would be. in terms of their grief but with him not to release documents i don't think he can tell the washington post or the guardian what to do with them. they already have they thanks very much indeed for that dave lindorff live there from philadelphia. well political analyst babiche believes that snowden recognize that saddam in russia was the only option left to him. you see is that it is not a very secure america right now because just recently we had been used to that american vice president biden personally called the ecuadoran president rafael carette and ba

latin america united with their condemnation social media rock did with claims the u.s. was behind the move and europe our puppet washington remains silent they have made a serious mistake because this is just one more example of the way things are going to be not only throughout latin america but throughout the world already where you have powerful hegemonic totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries even their allies snowden's leaks help reveal how the u.s. was cold war style tapping their closest e.u. partners even when you expose the truth in even when you give it this truth to the people who are being spied on they won't step in and support truth so yeah it is a bit frustrating to see these european nations just kind of ignore this outright spying that's out of thirteen for snowden at all cost anything now r.t. moscow when i correct you and media publish was said to be an official asylum request from snowden the letter said to be written last sunday the government has confirmed whether the letter is authentic ballistically of what he say

on the run edward snowden could be heading to latin america with the leaders of three countries there saying they're ready to grant him political asylum this after his latest leaks reveal that brazil and russia have been targeted by the u.s. snooping program. and more top stories most of the week egypt rocked by more deadly clashes between backers and opponents of the ousted leader mohamed morsi as russia's president putin wants against escalation into an all out civil war. and no sign of a letter from the guantanamo bay hunger strike now if you had six months prison guards are resorting to new harsh techniques to end the standoff. is joined is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight this is the weekly right at the top stories of the last seven days first latin american countries have said that they're ready to grant asylum to edward snowden the leaders of bolivia venezuela and nicaragua are all offering a helping hand to the man who's exposed the u.s. government's global surveillance web washington's aggressive pursuit of the whistleblowers prompted those leaders to rally around the former n

latin america is livid the e.u. states refuse their airspace and demand to search the poor libyan president yet all of this over discredited rumors it may have been smuggling edward snowden to safety . egypt ongoing political crisis leads to more bloodshed on the streets of the capital cairo and the president says he is the legitimate leader in defiance of an ultimatum by the army that's sparking fears a military coup could be imminent. and down and out youth unemployment reaches another high across europe and the economic powerhouse of germany they take to the streets in protest at government inaction. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today. live in moscow let's go straight to your world's top headlines right now and continental scandal is a rupturing in europe where the bolivian president's jet was forced to ground after being denied air space causing it to run dangerously low on fuel furious latin america is a response calling the situation and offensive reportedly it all happened because e.u. sta

in austria and even twelve nations in latin america are coming together to discuss the consequences of the event the plane was forced to the ground while flying over the e.u. because it was believed that that sneaky snowden was hiding on board trying to get to asylum in bolivia and beyond some might say that this is no big deal so president of some contra since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man plus you've got to get that still got all costs right well one may have delayed flight is another man's imperial skyjacking you see the countries of latin america have a common history as being on the bad end of brutal western european imperialism and when the president of a former colony could just be abducted at the will of the you would have his plane search it sure makes you feel like you're still under the lash of foreign control doesn't it to any of you think for a moment that any e.u. officials who are so willing to groan morality would dare to do the same thing air force one i don't think so morose clearly was treated like some sort of second class president an

the toughest situations that the world faced take for example the last century in particular in latin america so many blood soaked dictatorships and many cases of political persecution as well the what many european countries did of these cases and what latin. american countries did this was to protect the persecuted peaceful place and no one asked them if they had a passport reveals or or a guaranteed safe passage if those were obviously cases of political persecution so we took these people under our protection at least transported them to other countries i'm talking about all the countries in the world maybe not all but most of the countries that claim to be democratic and committed to protecting human rights we took these people under our protection of the book at the us for example many chileans argentinians in europe while as came to ecuador and asked for asylum said that if they left their home countries in any way they could to save their lives but most european companies also protected us somewhat that they didn't ask her security to show birth certificates or passports or visas you

i'm big in latin america. i think we're neglecting latin america. look what is happening with snowden. we'd lose an osa vote in latin america and this is a region that is close to us. >> one thing i'd say as we draw to a close is what has been going on at syracuse university for more than ten years. they approached me more than ten years ago saying we took information technology into the soviet union in china. by so doing we feel we've hastened the change in those two countries. can we do anytime north korea? they are doing it in north korea. there is a twin lab relationship between the university and pyongyang. we have trained technicians in beijing. they are almost as good at it as the south koreans are. why do we do it? we feel the more information that comes into north korea, the more easily they will adapt to the fact they have to join the family of the world and begin to treat their own people with the respect that they deserve. >> i'm afraid we've run out of time. we could spend all evening talking about this fascinating subject but governor

snowden's revelations not harming his friends the united states he will then go on to latin america what was shown by the grounding or the hijacking of evo morales his jet in european powers of the past weeks or so those events the other week is that snowden realize he just is not safe the united states president obama has shown that enemies of the state as he perceives it will either be detained tortured in the case of bradley manning or killed in the case of drone strikes and so snowden obviously realizing that great danger decided to him to invite these thirteen human rights groups to the airport for this quite unprecedented. meeting head of when he speaks to the press because we have that first picture as well the the second question to you why did he ask human rights activists not politicians right now. presume he's hoping the intervention of human rights watch amnesty international has to be said some of these human rights groups have their own agendas and sometimes allied quite closely with the u.s. state department i presume snowden and his wiki leaks team of aware of all of that

needs assistance in trying to reach his end goal which it seems still appears to be asylum in latin america hey expressed his gratitude to the countries that have suggested they would take him in these include the likes of venezuela bolivia and nicaragua but it's becoming apparent that it's increasingly difficult for him to get to these countries not only because of a lack of paperwork but also because of america's aggressive pursuit of him which led to the grounding of people living in president's plane over european air space of course last week and edward snowden says that such the such an aggressive pursuit is not just in danger in his life but also the lives and liberties of other people as well which is why he's got these human rights groups and lawyers involved in it also because of the difficulty in traveling is why he's got russia involved as well applying for political asylum and whether his application is successful or not only time will tell but the indication is that it will be granted russian lawmakers. in the meeting yesterday i mean dictated that snowden's application would

of the fact of the reality so we can have of lenses or a framework to look at the framework of latin america. in the first i talk about the roots of the revolution. that only venezuela such as ecuador, nicaragua, bolivia, in the explanation eddie merge -- can emerge all the way could identify those economic reasons but mostly i attribute the emergence of these revolutions to the fact these are inefficient democracies. were they are unresponsive to activities and it was limited to just the act of voting then they would wait until the next election there was no connection. with the emergence of democracy from the 1990's wore in more marginalized groups in those that were previously marginalized then they get mobilized. in to absorb the new forces in what they do is to act in the way that i described for. for instance you have some cases like ecuador the throes items to the indigenous population and they promise to respond and when it comes to power some of the use political structures radicalizes the legitimacy of the system it collapses and that vacuum is filled to come out of the establishme

contractor asks for assistance in getting asylum in russia until he can legally travel to latin america he underlined that his asylum status is official off to venezuela provided him with refuge but that unlawful threats from the u.s. makes it impossible for him to get there he also condemned western european states willing to act outside the law to appease the u.s. and he stressed he was not in partnership with any foreign governments or seeking to enrich himself he insisted he is acting solely out of conviction that the public should know about america's unlawful spying activities well now let's go live to washington and where will join our correspondent going to check and she has the latest from the official reaction there gonna in washington tell us what has the u.s. said about the latest developments so far well bill the white house calls for russia quote not to provide edward snowden with a propaganda platform the president's press secretary referred to president putin statement that snowden had to stop harming the interest of the united states if you wanted to stay in russia how

which he requested assistance in getting to his final destination which is still believed to be latin america of course bolivia venezuela and nicaragua have all suggested they would take him in but it is proving very very difficult for him to get there not only because of america's aggressive pursuit of him which led to the grounding of the bolivian president's plane over european airspace this week but also he doesn't have the valid travel documents you've got to remember he's had his passport revoked that's why he's been stuck in transit that's why he's turned to russia for temporary refuge and the suggestion is that lawyers would be king to help him with that application and the suggestion also is that his application when it arrives will be looked upon favorably snowden knows that conditions are acceptable he can get it i think he really. satisfies the requirements for a political refugee human rights activists of lawyers who are there. who are. worried green he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than on legal grounds well russia has played this by the book from the very start an

whistle blower on the run that edward snowden could be heading to latin america where the leaders of the three countries they are ready to plunge in political asylum. egypt is involved in a deadly clashes as you can see the live pictures are from cairo as efforts to form an interim government have so far ended in failure leaving many in fearing a conflict could lead to civil war. and gaza one time will be a prison not turning to harsh new tactics or to break the mass hunger strike by inmates which has now entered its sixth month. you're watching r.t. for the week's a top stories as well as today's my name is to bomb would say it's good to have your company with us. venezuela says it's still waiting to hear if edward snowden a will take up its asylum offer as the monday deadline is set by caracas approaches as one of three latin american countries alongside bolivia and nicaragua are offering to help the men who expose the u.s. government's global surveillance web now the leaders of the three nations are say their decision to help the former n.s.a. contractor is prompted by washington'

that skyjack happy so it's the combination can be a bomb meaning that relations between their latin america and these four european countries might be meeting a new story and it may not be that bright so show unity by the latin american states of the granting of a role as is plain in europe hit a nerve across the region as well to dr francesco demand they get to know about that he said of the latin american studies at the university. in middlesex he told me that the diplomatic fallout could have serious consequences for the u.s. this. sounds like you know the united states seems to be a pretty badly. for the latin american nations to such but way it's a pity that the european nations do not have an independent point foreign policy of the united states who's going to lose much more out of these in the united states country after country latin america and distancing themselves canonically politically and even militarily from the united states in their geopolitical bridgette rearrangement that is taking place as we speak and that in many cases very very strongly the stability was asia particul

yeah exactly bill actually this is a very hard issue right now here in latin america because now latin america is that really acting like a bloc you know and that right now we can feel anger rage and deception there's just wrote there's been brought about one concept that is very interesting it's the concept of you know colony you know latin american countries this being. harmony's first hand and now they are saying that it's actually encounters which are actually like colonies colonies of the us what they hang orders from the us and this is actually why they are doing they are violating by omitting international law in order to keep hostage. graeme's time the president evo morales in the end of this is actually watch out when he sees how to believe in government saw it and yesterday after a number of emergency meeting albeit government west met all night long trying to find a solution for president omar morale is now was it may not be shoot you know they were saying that european countries are behaving like colonies now and that's why we say it was some distraction but you need to eat

the fact is, latin america is humanitarian territory, and it is growing every day. >> on monday, thousands of rallied outside the embassy in bolivia to protest the forced landing of bolivian president a evo morales. to land inas forced brussels because of false rumor that snowden was aboard. as thepute comes just u.s. and european union have opened talks in washington on creating the world's largest free-trade zone. negotiations were briefly thrown into doubt last week after it emerged the u.s. has been spying on european union offices and member country offices. we will have more on the spying with a newly released interview with edward snowden, and then we will speak with the ecuadorian foreign minister patiÑo lawyers for brandi manning have opened their defense at his military court martial. on monday, his attorneys began playing the video that he leaked of shooting iraqis from a u.s. helicopter. the prosecution had sought to block the video from airing in court, calling it not relevant. lawyers also submitted a transcript in the book "the good videors" to show that the had already been

is that is skyjacked happy so it's the combination can be a bomb meaning it relations between latin america and these four european countries might be meeting and new start and it may not be that bright so show of unity them by latin american states after the granting of a role as is plain in europe nerve across the continent different cisco domain gears who's head of latin american studies middlesex university spokesman earlier on he says the diplomatic fallout could have serious consequences for the us sounds like you know the united states so. seems to be a pretty actually. the latin american nations to such but way it's a pity that the european nations do not have an independent point foreign policy of the united states who's going to lose much more out of these in the united states country after country latin america and distancing themselves of canonically politically and even militarily from the united states in geopolitical great rearrangement that has taken place as we speak a lot in. very very strongly and stability was asia particularly china and the united states should be more

knows that he cannot stay forever snowden is intending to apply for asylum in russia and then in latin america. and earlier i spoke to all taken tribute to action returns here and having snowden hopes to use russian asylum papers to say for escaped a lot in america think. some analysts might be saying that basically edward snowden is going to seek temporary asylum in russia and of course right away put in was very clear about. snowden's revelations not harming his friends the united states he will then go on to latin america what was shown by the grounding or the hijacking of evo morales his jet in european powers of the past weeks or so those events the other week is that snowden realize he just is not safe the united states president obama has shown that enemies of the state as he perceives it will either be detained tortured in the case of bradley manning or killed in the case of drone strikes and so snowden obviously realizing that great danger decided to enter invite these thirteen human rights groups to the airport for this quite unprecedented. meeting head of when he speaks to the press

does that have special resonance in latin america even today? >> yes, it does. ially fact that he's taken the name francis which, of course, was st. francis of assisi. there has been no other francis. and st. francis of assisi to latin americans is a very big figure, very worsúiuhed figure. so that means a great deal to them as well. the fact that the pope has also expressed concern for women because he is a very deep believer in the virgin mary. when he went today to visit the aparecida, he was making a statement then. so that means a great deal to latin americans as well. >> warner: what explains, though, that there has been this dropoff in the number of brazilians who identify as catholics? >> well, i would say for the past 50 years in latin america the church has associated itself with the powerful and with the moneyed classes. and this has turned the tables on the church a bit. so there has been great bleeding away of people from the catholic church. in brazil 90% -- almost 890% used to count themselves catholics in 1980 and today it's almost -- you know, ba

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of all the seaborne goods where the capital the pacific rim connected to china and korea mexico latin america you know we are in a unique juxtaposition to be able to take advantage of that so i think america should take advantage of its diversity as well we've got to educate these people very definitely we've got to integrate them and if we fix the broken immigration system we've got to bring them from out of the dark and into the life. of a thing is you a co-chair of hillary's presidential campaign and we've been in touch with just perhaps i have when she spoke in l.a. i actually had dinner with her afterwards and we had a great discussion i was with her think i went five times to iowa for her i was with her flew with her when she won in new hampshire i was with her when she won in nevada went all over the country for her afterwards i went all over the country for . president obama and i can tell you that we have talked and you know she's mulling over the future i don't think she should move too quickly you don't want a four year campaign and then an eight year presidency she's in a really g

it in danger lives of passengers on the on airlines who are going to a number of countries in latin america he's also expected to make a statement the details of which are yet unknown still very intriguing we're waiting for the meeting which is going to happen around five o'clock in the evening moscow time we have to make a note of the fact that one of the groups to which snowden has extended extended his invitation human rights watch which is based in the united states there presented to all of this group has already declined to attend not to make any judgments here but just keeping in mind exactly what kind of been seeing least against snowden ever since his interview to the to the guardian newspaper where he essentially. talked about the cia and they say watching not just the everybody pretty much everybody in america but also citizens and a lot of other countries in the world he's essentially one of the if not the most wanted man by the united states and certainly on top of the list so of course we'll be keeping a close eye on this and we'll bring you as much as we can when we get the d

united states and mr animals very quickly if you can what kind of response are you expecting from latin america on their threats and outrage also going to rain. i can perfectly understand the anger in the south southern america because what happened to their president is unprecedented and i think that european excuse this would be the only thing that could come from europe to the american states. get off on amongst the belgian. party mr animals thank you very much i think you. and consultant adrian salvucci believes the forced landing of the believe in president sends out a clear message that anyone can be washington's next stop it. i think that they have made a serious mistake because this is just one more example of the way things are going to be not only throughout latin america but throughout the world already where you have powerful hegemonic totally disrespectful towards the national sovereignty of all countries bolivia has already the support of other countries that are also modeling to united states like venezuela in a way argentina probably brazil and definitely ecuador ecuador venezue

venezuela for asylum while artie's speaks to ecuador's foreign minister on the reasons behind the latin america's backing for the whistleblower on the run. great to have you with us this morning and i am here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine of you're watching our t.v. well it may have been the syrian rebels not president assad's forces behind a chemical attack in aleppo that left two dozen dead earlier this year now that is according to a russian team that conducted an on site investigation it believes the chemical trail leads straight to the rebels the details now from our. as you probably remember the u.n. investigation into the use of chemical weapons near our never materialized the syrian government requested such investigation but some un officials demanded access into all syrian facilities which syria denied insisting on the investigation of that particular incident in march anyway the i.q. and investigation never happened but nonetheless the u.s. came forward and said it had evidence that syrian the syrian government used chemical weapons but there were lots of questions as to th

in austria and even twelve nations in latin america are coming together to discuss the consequences of the event the plane was forced to the ground while flying over the e.u. because it was believed that that sneaky snowden was hiding on board trying to get to asylum in bolivia and beyond some might say that this is no big deal so president of some contra since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man busted got to get that still guy at all costs right well one man's delayed flight is another man's imperial skyjacking you see the countries of latin america have a common history as being on the bad end of brutal western european imperialism and when the president of a former colony could just be abducted at the will of the you would have his plane searched it sure makes you feel like you're still under the lash of foreign control doesn't it do any of you think for a moment that any e.u. officials who are so willing to ground morality would dare to do the same thing air force one i don't think so morose clearly was treated like some sort of second class president and

well indeed things are looking grim for european diplomats working in latin america some of them could be expelled following this incident with the bolivian president steps like these will be more or less clear after the with us or countries the organization which unites most of latin american states will gather for an emergency summit on thursday and probably they will will enlighten us on their next steps but clearly after ever more honest suffered this nightmare flight from moscow to believe you're having stayed for twelve hours in vienna airport having. plane surge which is deemed as a violation of international law the reaction coming from latin american countries has been needed most and there's been so much so solidarity in the criticism of what exactly happened let me just quote several several statements coming from latin american leaders so you can understand the magnitude of their anger now the president of argentina cristina kirshner said that this was humiliation of the south american continent president of readers where the nicolas maduro said this was dangerous dispropor

of all the seaborne goods where the capital the pacific rim connected to china and korea mexico latin america you know we are in a unique juxtaposition to be able to take advantage of that so i think america should take advantage of its diversity as well we've got to educate these people very definitely we've got to integrate them and if we fix the broken immigration system we've got to bring them from out of the dark and into the life. of a thing is you a co-chair of the marie's presidential campaign and we've been in touch with just for have no way i have when she spoke in l.a. i actually had dinner with her afterwards and we had a great discussion i was with her think i went five times to iowa for her i was with her flew with her when she won in new hampshire i was with her when she won in nevada went all over the country for her afterwards i went all over the country for . president obama and i can tell you that. you know she's mulling over the future i don't think she should move too quickly you don't want a four year campaign and then an eight year presidency she's in a really good posi

valor is believed to be snowden's most likely transit point where not if he decides to fly to latin america where three countries have offered him political asylum or discuss this. mccauley. usually the su one hundred flight from moscow to havana so passes the atlantic over europe partly passing the greenland the u.s. territory and then lands in havana now we're getting reports the plane is taking a route directly across the atlantic right now ok you look at the map that's the obvious way to go because it looks more straightforward but of course it's a globe this is actually the more straightforward route than this one well in the first place this route as far as i know is deemed more risky because flying above ocean is always more risky and arafat in fact has been has been flying this route with the red dotted line for for many years now it's really hard to understand why exactly decided to change the world now but we'll know that for sure when the plane lands in havana at about midnight g.m.t. in about five hours from now so just spelling you know if it goes this way that way it's avoidin

snowden said that he is planning to move to latin america when he has the right travel documents why not just ask for permanent asylum here in moscow or do you think. probably because the russian government has a reputation also for surveillance not always being very kind to leaks. to american governments on the other hand you've had a political process there for the last ten years that they've strived for autonomy and also to some extent human rights so. with those governments welcoming him with open arms it's no. wonder really that he's trying to go there. actually before snowden got stuck in the transit zone in moscow apple before that we can leave that he was on return democratic country does that only include latin america. i mean the democracy is a form of governance but i think what you can tell from mr snowden's. is that it's not just the election process as trade but he also believes it values stake human rights the dignity and sanctity of like a person's private lives and the importance of granting people a private life in order to usefully participate in a democratic proce

nation i don't think you can compare the reaction the very very very strong reaction by the by latin america with what europe is doing. what is much more a moderate when it comes to losing out the battle of either side when it comes to washington latin american states who is set to lose the most if this gets worse we talked about the oil losses as well as all losses just now potentially who is going to come on the. come over on the wrong foot here. i think it is sounds like you know the united states seems to be a pretty badly. latin american nations to such a way as somebody already mentioned these are pieces that the european nations do not have an independent point foreign policy of the united states who's going to lose much more out of the united states country after country latin america and distancing themselves of comically politically and even militarily from the united states in geopolitical bridgette rearrangement that is taking place as we speak a lot in. very very strongly and steadily towards asia particularly china and the united states should be more careful i mean it doesn't