n.s.a. whistleblowers a man you've probably heard the least about his name is russell tice he served twenty years with the various government agencies including the n.s.a. a two thousand and five ties and blew the whistle on the n.s.a. engaging in unlawful and unconstitutional surveillance of american citizens so here to tell us his story and why he thinks that snowden's leaks are just barely scratching the surface rust tice thank you so much for coming on thanks for what did you see that made you come out and blow the whistle and nationally well the first thing our soul was. a satellite system specialist so with the things that i was doing with satellites i sort of inadvertently that american citizens were being spied upon by your base capabilities so that was my first sort of heads up in the what was going on and i was just shocked because n.s.a. was not supposed to do this it was against regulation that was against the law it was against our constitution. that. if you've ever seen anything like driving. through it's a nice big stories making headlines right now in turkey and the governmen

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden asked russia for asylum as he struggles to put an end to his legal limbo in a moscow airport brands of zone sparking u.s. outrage toward the kremlin. five am in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news syrian state television says the army has found a chemical lab where rebel forces are making poisonous materials military sources claim the substances were meant to be packed into mortars and used to attack government forces in damascus our middle east correspondent paula slee are has the latest. the syrian army has found chemical materials in the town of jobar which is on the outskirts of the capital city of damascus initial reports said that the syrian army seized a factory that was occupied by a group of foreign backed militants and that chemical materials were found inside their factory now we do see canisters we do see white packages that they have uncovered and it does seem as if they were producing chemicals in the laboratory it says poison chemical substances made in saudi arabia so we do see that the fa

n.s.a. whistleblower from american prosecutors and. supporters and opponents of the ousted egyptian president of our more protests as the country's army basque. tries to regain control of the streets after a week of the rallies and violence. and want to mow gars allegedly step up aggressive efforts to break the mass hunger strike at the prison which has entered its sixth month.

n.s.a. whistleblower and his spying revelations on our website dot com you can go there now to check out our n.s.a. leak timeline it chronicles all the key developments in the edward snowden saga. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today to north east syria we go where al qaeda linked extremists are holding around two hundred civilians hostage that's according to the russian foreign ministry the kurds in the area have long been trying to protect their homes amid heavy fighting between jihadist forces and syrian government troops details here to ati's paul asleep. more than two hundred civilians and let me stress that we're talking here about innocent men women and children all being held hostage by extremists in northeastern syria now we understand that the hostages are being used as human shields the russian foreign ministry saying that they're mostly from kurdish families whose members are fighting extremists in the region now fighting broke out a few days ago between syrian kurds and al qaeda linked militants in the towns of i've said and rice along the syrian turkish border this

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden could finally set foot on russian territory today he's waiting for paperwork which would allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and according to his lawyer the man who leaked secret u.s. documents is here to stay. outside the airport let's get the latest from here right now good morning to you lindsey so edward snowden poised to make russia his official perhaps. this is the possibility now according to edward snowden's lawyer the danger of leaving russia for another country that is offering him asylum. is just too great he could very easily be caught by the u.s. government this is especially true up to be july third incident whereby the president of bolivia is plane was forced to land on suspicion that snowden was on board now today snowden is hoping to receive here at sheremetyevo airport a formalized notice that his bid for temporary asylum is indeed being processed thereby freeing him from his one month stay here at the airport and allowing him to move freely about the russian federation for up to three months and that's the ti

n.s.a. whistleblower is accusations towards towards out of washington fully justified. the conduct of the u.s. government including statements made publicly by president obama and vice president biden from the very beginning several weeks ago intended to deprive edward snowden of basic rights innocent until proven guilty first amendment are and the freedom of speech that he had isn't total to you as are all american citizens so i think the statement put out today by edward snowden is quite reasonable quite accurate and the united states from a tactical standpoint as the government has attempted to use the calling of stones past were i as a weapon and that's just wrong and currently president barack obama is in damage control mode after the latest bunch of damning revelations from edward snowden suggesting washington has been spying on its e.u. allies obama said well this is how things are usually done when it comes to big politics and european states are doing exactly the same even the u.n. chief though is trying to distance himself and the international body from all o

n.s.a. whistleblower snowden show america has been bugging tapping and cyber monitoring the new offices. meanwhile snowden is still stranded in a moscow airport with ecuador pointing at russia to decide his fate while the kremlin says the n.s.a. leaker's case is not on its agenda at all.

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden spilled the beans on america's clandestine espionage activities the director of national intelligence is now apologizing for what he calls his erroneous response to congress over n.s.a. surveillance programs one of those covert programs indiscriminately collects the phone records of hundreds of millions of americans secret surveillance once criticized by a familiar face no more illegal wiretapping of american citizens no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime but upon entering the white house u.s. president barack obama seems to have had a change of heart my assessment and my team's assessment. was that. they help us prevent terrorist attacks government lies surrounding the n.s.a.'s programs has raised questions about the possibility of additional untruths being told in the name of national security i have been crystal clear about my position on iran possessing a nuclear weapon that that is a red line for us the fact is u.s. intelligence officials and the united nations have concluded that iran is not currently build

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden's latest leak particularly targets microsoft going beyond the call of duty the firm allegedly installed back door access to its services though exclusively for government surveillance if that's the case microsoft's denial of giving out ball data would still be true as the government wouldn't need to ask remedy government a former cia officer he says a set up exemplifies the problem what's happened here is the u.s. companies have become joined in no way with the united states government in such a way that you have the cooperation of the government or just the media and the congress and judiciary all pretty much joining in a complicit attempt to circumvent the constitution of the united states there is zero concern on the part of the communications companies to violate the law they know that they'll be protected even if it's as post facto so skype of course is where we're communicating my greetings to the n.s.a. people who are watching us by simulcast i just learned from this latest revelation that not only can they intercept our voice but they share images sh

n.s.a. whistleblower for taking on what he called us empire. supporters and opponents of the ousted egyptian president battle it out on the streets thirty dead two hundred wounded at the nation's splits apart. and the capital of russia's republic of tatarstan welcomes the twenty seventh summer universe it's a step along the road to hosting future high profile sporting events. thank you for joining us on this saturday here on r.t. i'm live in moscow with your worldwide headlines now the stranded n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden finally has a place to go venezuela has decided to offer him asylum. in the legal limbo which has left him stranded here in moscow airport since last month snowden wanted in america on espionage charges for leaking details of its global spy program details now to. well the offer came from the new zealand president nicolas maduro hot on the heels of an emergency meeting by me in a store the union of stuff for american nations which in turn happened after the incident with the train off the believe in president which doe

n.s.a. whistleblower and the fallout following his revelations now ecuador was the first to initiate an emergency summit among south american states after a plane carrying bolivian president evo morales was grounded in vienna last week it was grounded according to reports on suspicion that snowden was on board in route from moscow foreign minister put seno says the unprecedented violation of international law should prompt more countries to offer their assistance to snowden . after the incident with a bomb around as we have no doubt to the news being pursued at an international level i mean the country has to offer him asylum in ecuador is also considering this option but it'll be better if it's not just three countries that come forward to offer him protection but ten twenty or one hundred states ecuador's foreign minister told r.t. that he was thoroughly surprised at the scale of the u.s. surveillance system in particular that programs were created to indiscriminately spy on people in latin america and even friendly states in europe now pitino said he was also shocked that instead of being pers

n.s.a. whistleblower wants to settle down in russia. one month since landing at the moscow airport where he's still waiting for his asylum papers. and the think tank of a dramatically wide gap in britain due to welfare reforms described. naturism. this is r.t. with the twenty four hour a day hackers have the ability to hijack one in every eight. with a single text message that alert has come from a leading german cyber security expert he claims the trick gives criminals instant control over mobile devices and can even provide them with access to personal banking data. explains how. turns out that as many as seven hundred fifty million cell phones around the world could be carrying flawed sim cards that could potentially leave their owners vulnerable to financial fraud and surveillance now sim cards hold key user data and have up until now been generally known to be one of the most secure parts of a mobile phone however the recently discovered bugs could allow hackers to access personal information and carry out illegal transactions and

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden stay in the moscow airport may be coming to an end so will he be staying in russia or headed elsewhere an update on the case ahead and it's not only members of capitol hill who have a bone to pick with the n.s.a. over a dozen organizations are now filing a lawsuit against the n.s.a.'s expanding surveillance program more on this developing story coming out also protests continue still days after george zimmerman received a not guilty verdict efforts are also being made to repeal stand your ground laws and to limit racial profiling that story later in today's show. it's wednesday july seventeenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm sam sax and you're watching our team and we begin in an airport in moscow which has been n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden's home for more than three weeks now but his stay there may soon be ended in an interview with r.t. one of snowden's lawyer suggested snowden could be leaving the airport transit zone in the next few days if he receives the necessary paperwork from the russian government while his asylum request is being processe

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this week when he suffers from his hideout in a moscow airport transit sewed him out human rights activists. and ask for their help in requesting temporary political asylum here in washington and let's now get all the details from. who has been closely watching the snowden saga high that arena nice to see you so how can we had any official official reaction from russia regarding mr snowden's asylum well we do know that russia has immigration officials say they have not received snowden's official requests for asylum you have to understand though that snowden did say that he's planning to officially ask russia for a temporary asylum on friday nights or perhaps it's because of the weekend that we haven't seen any movement in that direction and perhaps in the coming days we will see more in that regard snowden does need some sort of people work in order for him in order to provide safe passage to whichever country he will end up staying at permanently he has applied to more than two dozen countries for political asylum three latin american states are willing to s

n.s.a. whistleblower for taking on what he called a villainous u.s. empire. supporters and opponents of the ousted egyptian president battle it out on the streets at least thirty killed over two hundred wounded as the nation splits apart plus. the capital of russia's republic of tatarstan welcomes the twenty seventh summer universe a step along the road to hosting future high profile sporting event. good morning from moscow on this saturday it's now ten am here in the russian capital on . top headlines the stranded n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has finally a place to go venezuela decided to offer him asylum and an escape from the legal limbo which is left him stranded here at moscow at an airport since last month snowden is wanted in america on espionage charges for leaking details of its global spy program details a bit earlier in the program. now the offer came from the new zealand president nicolas maduro hot on the heels of an emergency meeting made by me in a story the union of south america nations which in turn happened after the incident with th

n.s.a. whistleblower. well guess of course now the question is how he is going to why to them as well but that is something to be tinkered out a lot later like i said he has applied for asylum in several countries a lot of them have actually refused them so far. he has been on the run for the he has been on the run for the past several weeks after making. after appearing on the guardian. in which he was exposed to the surveillance network conducted the surveillance conducted by in the se and the cia which essentially was a lot broader than anybody could have ever suspected several several diplomatic scandals have already broken out because of that because it does look like the united states has actually been spying even on its european allies of this point really listening to everything people the world over have to say or to write in their e-mails and he has been it is believed that snowden has been in the transfer zone off the airport for the better part of the last two weeks we have tried to look for hi

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has rejected moscow's offer for him to stay in russia the offer basically saying you can stay here if you stop damaging ties between moscow and washington and if you stop doing your leaks as well all right all season he said the way the latest on this breaking news thank you. for the meantime though the american president barack obama will he's in a state of damage control this off to the latest bunch of damning revelations from edward snowden suggesting washington has been spying on its allies obama said well this is how things are usually done when it comes to big politics and european states are doing exactly the same thing but even the u.n. chief is trying to distance himself on the international body as on his more important reforms in nations secretary-general ban ki-moon is urging nations to protect the integrity of diplomatic missions on their soil the u.n. chief's comments common made allegations that the u.s. has been spying on the european union and other allies over port by german weekly der spiegel says that the national security agency blog to

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this week when he surfaced from his hideout in a moscow airport transit zone he met human rights activists and asked for their help in requesting temporary political asylum in russia. has been closely watching the snowden saga. immigration officials say they have not received an official request from edward snowden regarding his political asylum in russia but that request has been filed on friday evening so perhaps due to the fact that it's the weekend in russia right now the people would simply hasn't hasn't been properly process just yet russia's conditions were that snowden has to stop his anti american. something which snowden promised he will no longer do three latin american countries said they're willing to take him on now he does not have any people want to travel with his american passport has been the knowledge he doesn't have any other people work he cannot even buy a ticket and he does need some something in order for him to move to another country so that a safe passage could be provided in that he's relying on russia as snowden himself has e

n.s.a. whistleblower. right to see it. first. and i think you're. i. now let's turn to the rest of the day's news here on r.t. and july is not over yet but it's already become the deadliest month in iraq this year the country's north has just suffered a brutal gun attack on a police h.q. followed by a roadside bomb blast they claimed the lives of at least fourteen people cities and towns all across the country are being devastated by similar attacks and suicide bombings by al qaeda insurgents on an almost daily basis but late on sunday the terrorist group took the scale of their attacks to a different level by laying siege to to keep prisons and freeing up to a thousand inmates including al qaeda followers now more than fifty people were killed during those brazen prison assaults by adding this number to the soaring casualty figures coming from various parts of iraq since saturday we get to a shocking death toll of one hundred eighty seven in four days alone and this brings us to the latest estimates we showed that your lives already see more than seve

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. rory that is a distinct possibility in this case the announcement came as a surprise to many seeing as how the applications had. and submitted far and wide for asylum in other areas and after a month staying here at sheremetyevo airport it turns out that he may be seeking asylum temporarily here in russia now the reasons for this are fairly straightforward according to one of the men here in russia supplying him with legal counsel it is far too dangerous for snowden to take to the skies in an attempt to get to the other countries that have offered him asylum because the chances are too great the u.s. government could ground that plane now this is a direct reference to the july third incident whereby the president of bolivia as plane was forced to land on suspicion that snowden was on board now today snowden is hoping to receive a formalized notice that his bid for temporary asylum is in process that when and if he receives that notice he will then be able to leave his temporary one mo

n.s.a. whistleblower for taking on what he called a villainous u.s. . supporters and opponents of the ousted egyptian president on the streets at least killed two hundred wounded as the nation splits apart. in the capital of russia's republic of. the twenty seven university. high profile sporting events. it's just after twelve pm on saturday here in moscow this is real research i live want to thank you for joining us today the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden finally has a place to go venezuela has decided to offer him asylum. in the legal limbo which has left him stranded here in moscow at an airport since last month snowden is wanted in the u.s. on espionage charges for leaking details of america's global spy program details now. now the offer came from the new zealand president nicolas maduro hot on the heels of an emergency meeting to buy in a store the union of south american nations which in turn happened after the incident with the plane off the believe in president which was essentially pushed out of the european airspace after flying out fro

n.s.a. whistleblower what it says and what more we can expect from this man of mystery coming up and on the international front european union members are in disarray about the n.s.a. scandal the latest snowden document drop reveals that the agency intercepted information from the embassies of european allies more on this up ahead. millions of protesters fill up the streets of egypt demanding the resignation of president mohamed morsi and new elections more on the unrest in egypt and tonight show. it's monday july first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r.t. well we begin tonight with a developing story out of russia the anti secrets web site wiki leaks has now released a letter that was allegedly written by edward snowden here's part of that letter the obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon although i am convicted of nothing it has unilaterally revoked my passport leaving me a stateless person without any judicial order the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right a right that belongs to everybody

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this week when he surfaced from his hideout in a moscow airport transit zone he met human rights activists that showed him a ten pm and also for their help in requesting temporary political asylum in russia an english guy has been closely watching the snowden saga. russian immigration officials say they have not received an official request from edward snowden regarding his political asylum in russia but that request has been filed on friday evening so perhaps due to the fact that it's the weekend in russia right now of the people it simply hasn't hasn't been properly process just yet russia's conditions were that snowden has to stop his anti american. something which snowden promised he will no longer do three latin american countries said they're willing to take him on now he does not have any people want to travel with his american passport has been the knowledge he doesn't have any other people work he cannot even buy a ticket and he does need some something in order for him to move to another country so that is safe passage could be provided in that

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden finally submit a request for temporary asylum in russia. seven people are killed and over two hundred injured during the latest violence overnight in egypt as backers of the ousted president morsy clashed with police and. protests across the u.s. reach a third day after neighborhood watch volunteer was cleared of murder despite shooting dead an unarmed black teenager.

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is in no hurry to leave moscow meeting with human rights activists today snowden declare that he is seeking political asylum in russia more on this developing story up ahead. and true color of diplomacy may actually be green obama's nominee for and bastard to the u.k. happens to be his top twenty twelve campaign bundler is this an example of pay to play and what does it say about diplomatic positions more on this coming up. and a pig virus may soon cause rising port prices multiple states have now experienced a virus that's most fatal for piglets an in-depth look at the virus later in tonight's show. hello there it's friday july twelfth eight pm in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our t.v. . in a developing story this evening for south american countries say they will recall some of their ambassadors after the bolivian president's plane was banned from european airspace last week evo morales his plane returning from russia was rerouted to austria amid rumors that american fugitive edward snowden was on board brazil argentina venezuela and uru

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden turns to russia for refugees here remain stranded in moscow's sheremetyevo airport for more than three weeks now we will get his asylum or. attempts and his quest to evade u.s. prosecution plus angry protests across the u.s. father controversial court decision to free george zimmerman who shot dead a black teenager trayvon martin in florida your stories and more after a short break stay with us. jack and now the significant amount of small arms into these already extremely volatile region of the porous border. what kind of implication could it have not only for syria but also for the rest of the region it's a power game i mean if the opposition gets more weapons which can really strategically hurt the government it could change to the equation very rapidly. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harkin it was a big picture. privacy has a better chance now then it has had for the p

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden details on the story just ahead. and with revelations coming out about the n.s.a. as massive surveillance program there's new concern over the u.s. government's efforts effect on the three press for more on that later on in today show. it's wednesday july third five pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret now while you're watching r t. we begin with breaking news in egypt where a military has just ousted president mohamed morsy and suspend the constitution the leader of the armed forces and those that morsi it the first officially democratically elected president in the country's history is no longer in power you're looking at a live picture from tahrir square as protesters are absorbing news that almost four days a rallying has resulted in a change of power tens of thousands of egyptians protested and what's being called the biggest demonstration in history morsi is a member of the muslim brotherhood a political party that's calling the military action a coup top advisers morsy warn that quote considerable bloodshed could

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden says that he wants temporary political asylum in russia and promised to stop releasing leaks that harm washington to security he told russian and international human rights activists that moscow's airport where he's been stuck in a transit area for more than two weeks. is following the developments out. and discussed snowden's request for asylum with a russian politician who was at that meeting. well it seems pretty clear cut at least the announcement edward snowden will apply and is going to request political asylum in the russian federation a couple of weeks ago president putin laid out conditions on which he might be welcome to stay in the country the top one being that he would have to stop doing his work that quote harms russia's u.s. partners it seems in the past two weeks he's decided that he's ready to do that although it still could be debated what exactly harming the u.s. means he made it clear that he thinks his work is helping the u.s. he sees himself as a patriot he met in the airport in the transit zone possibly we'll find out more we have a

n.s.a. whistleblower will agree to take up the offer of refuge on its territory. divided egypt opponents and backers of ousted president morsi valborg rival rallies as tension continues to rise amid the country's political deadlock. and the twenty thirty to world university games a gets off to apply restarted russia city. with a truly spectacular as a city welcomes of thousands of athletes to the gave the olympics little brother. but more news is coming your way in iran's in the hour before that kaiso ruffles of .

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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 thought that this might be the case how he knew who knows but it looks like we could have we could have edward snowden asking for political asylum in russia why is this strange why is this an unexpected turn of events because just a couple of weeks ago edward snowden turned down asylum in russia when the president putin basically gave him the terms tha

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is in no hurry to leave moscow meeting with human rights activists today snowden declared that he is seeking political asylum in russia more on this developing story up ahead. and the true colors of diplomacy may actually be green obama's nominee for ambassador of the u.k. happens to be his top twenty twelve campaign bundler is this an example of pay to play and what does it say about diplomatic positions more on this coming up. and a pig virus may soon cause rising pork prices multiple states have now experienced a virus that man that's most fatal per piglets an in-depth look at this virus later on today show. hello there it's friday july twelfth four pm here in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our t.v. this morning n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden emerged from his airport hideaway telling human rights groups that he wants temporary asylum in russia but still hopes to travel to latin america to avoid prosecution by u.s. authorities it was the world's first glimpse of the self declared leaker who's been holed up in a transit zone of the mo

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden these hells on that story just. and with revelations still coming out about the n.s.a. its massive surveillance program there's new concern over the u.s. government's effect on free press more on that in today's show. well it's wednesday july third four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret how well you're watching our team. we begin with breaking news in egypt where the military has just ousted president mohamed morsi and suspended the constitution the leader of the armed forces announced that morsy the first democratically elected president in the country's history will no longer be in power we are looking at live pictures of cairo tahrir square in cairo tahrir square as protesters are absorbing news that almost four days of rallying has resulted in a change of power millions of egyptians protested and what's being called the biggest demonstration in history morsi is a member of the muslim brotherhood a political party that is calling the military action a coup a top advisor to morsi warn that quote considerable blood

n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden finally submits a request for temporary asylum here in russia. and also on the program seven people are killed and over two hundred eight hundred during the latest violence overnight in egypt because of the ousted president morsy clash with police. until he denies claims israelis want to its ministry bases to launch a strike on syria a report based on and off the souls. new song rush on the.