his search for asylum and blames washington for the whistle blows extended stay at moscow's sheremetyevo airport. outrage in america after the killer of a blank teenager walks free with racism to choose hazing up made continuing protests nationwide. and takis in denial with a highly sensitive altie report that israel used to take a schmoo tree base during a recent and strike on neighboring syria. this is all see coming to life from moscow how very well welcome to the program. former n.s.a. and cia contractor edward snowden will need moscow as soon as he can that's according to russia's president vladimir putin it's not and has been holed up in the transit zone of sheremetyevo airport just outside the capital for more than three weeks and i am my colleague why are we so shy spoke to aussies and your farmer the latest was clear in his tone that the still no end in sight really to this snowden saga and he also said that a large large part of the responsibility for that should be laid at america's door just three days ago edward snowden did say he was going to apply for political asylum from russia

as a crucial paperwork has been issued to allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport well let's get to the details now from artie's lynndie france hotel insist now edward snowden is about to see the outside of the airport and. well that is what it appears very recently in fact just a couple of minutes ago heavy police presence became very noticed on the first floor of the terminal the police are heavily guarding a by the dozens a certain door there on the first floor is cordoned off to press and passers by and more and more security is being brought in and here's what we know so far that that interfax is reporting that if formalized notification from the federal migration services has indeed come through allowing edward snowden to move freely. about russia for the next three months until such time as the immigration services decides whether or not he can stay in russia for the next year on temporary asylum it's also been reported that anatoly katrina and advisor to snowden during his time here in russia was spotted at the federal migration services office today and he

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 time it will take for a final decision on his temporary asylum bed to be reached now whether this bit is favorable or not i his russian lawyer has said that there is a plan in place. if the russian federal migration service denies mr snowden's request we still have the option of appealing against this decision in court i explained all the legal aspects to edward and he intends to use this right of appeal should there be your fusil mr snowden's planning to settle down here find a job and just adapt to the circumstances. that the lawyer who is offering his expertise to snowden at this time says that the temporary asylum granted i would last one year and need to be renewed a yearly indefinitely so we're here at sheremetyevo airport to see if this fa

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. right outside the airport let's get the latest from her right now and good to see you this morning so it's possible here that russia could become the official home all former 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

today he's waiting for paperwork which would allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and according to a lawyer who is helping snowden the man who leaked secret u.s. documents is here to stay. france has this report from the airport. according to the man lending edward snowden legal counsel during his time here in russia and the danger of leaving russia and heading to a country that has offered him asylum is just too dangerous it would be too easy for the u.s. government to catch up with snowden he points to the fact the president of bolivia is plain being forced to land on july third because of a suspicion that snowden was actually on board that flight that today snowden is hoping to receive a formalized notice that his temporary asylum bid has been received and as it is in process that when he gets that document in his hands he will then be released from his temporary home here at sheremetyevo airport for the last month and will be able to go freely about the russian federation now after that three months whether the decision is favorable or not snowden and his team

not to blame is edward snowden now went is his fourth week in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport this is what he said. i'm not sure. we didn't invite edward snowden and russia wasn't his final destination anyway he was in transit but as soon as he began his journey his route was revealed in our us partners effectively blocked for their flight they even made other countries afraid of taking him no one wants to so he ended up blocked on our territory you. know to remain stuck in a basically in a state of legal legal legal limbo here around you but what about further leaks of classified data any more to come do we know well if you go by what said just on friday when he held that press conference at sheremetyevo airport we should not expect the leak simply because he said he was prepared to accept russia's precondition for asylum and that was he would not damage the u.s. but it is clear he has plenty of information up his sleeve and that was the comment made by the journalists who broke this story on the guardian newspaper. he's in possession of literally thousands of documents that

he's tom thank you very much and it hurts update on boston live from that moscow's sheremetyevo airport thank you. so snowden applied for asylum all over the world but his requests have been rejected by a host nations including european ones found a wide awake news china among grath. nations don't want to upset the u.s. despite snyder revealing how much washington's spied on. the laundry list of nations that snowden has applied to for asylum include scores of these european nations that are just all giving the same excuses that he's got to either show up on their soil or in their embassy you know the information that's been released has shown that our allies in europe were the one the in a lot of cases the ones being spied on so for them just to play the well we don't want to we don't want to upset the americans so we're going to give the standard answer no you know no comment or he's got to show up at the embassy it's it's very much a pressure rating for people like me that want to see the truth come out but when even when you expose the truth even when you give it this truth to the pe

today he's waiting for paperwork which would allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and according to a lawyer who is helping snowden the man who leaked secret u.s. documents is here to stay. reports from the. it is a distinct possibility that edward studied could soon call the russian federation home and even be looking for a job here on russian soil but now the announcement came as quite a surprise to many people but the reasons for it are fairly straightforward according to one of his legal advisers here in russia leaving the country at to get to one of the other countries that has offered edward snowden asylum is just too dangerous and started could very easily end up in the hands of the united states now this is a direct reference to the incident on july third when the president of bolivia as plane was forced to land on suspicion of actually carrying snowden in the aircraft today snowden is hoping to get his hands on a very important document that will allow him to finally leave this temporary home here at sheremetyevo airport for the last month and move freely a

data any more to come well if you go by what he said in his press conference on friday at sheremetyevo airport then we shouldn't because in principle he said that he had agreed to back track and except russia's precondition for asylum and that was he was not going to damage the u.s. further but we do know that he has plenty of information up his sleeve which could do that and that was explained by the journalist who broke this story on the guardian newspaper he's in possession of literally thousands of documents that contain very specific blueprints that would allow somebody who. to know exactly how the n.s.a. does what it does which would in turn allow them either to evade that surveillance or to replicate it and that's what i was talking about that he has basically the instruction manual for how the n.s.a. is built. so we can hear from that response the u.s. should perhaps still be worried although they will be keeping their fingers crossed that he does keep his pledge in his pursuit of this asylum from russia it's also worth noting that of course russia does not have an extradition treaty w

asylum application is granted for the time being he has to remain in the transit zone here at sheremetyevo airport. we managed to talk to the human rights lawyer who is been who has been assisting snowden and overseeing the entire process he gave a small details about today's goings on at the airport. there is a procedure and a certain procedure for the federal migration service to follow it has to consider the request that we had word snowden. on the sixteenth of this month a request for temporary asylum should be considered for three months. today there was some misinformation peepers are still being considered but i talk to migration authority almost daily as they work on edward snowden's case so how long might it take for exists or piece of document that will enable snowden to leave the airport take to issue. well i think this situation will be resolved shortly at this point on that it's ready to give you a specific date because i want to avoid confusion as much as possible. because there was so many journalists present today probably because of this misinformation that we had in the media eve

status right now we know that mr snowden's three record deal in the transit area of moscow's sheremetyevo airport could soon be over that's because the russian migration service has confirmed it has received an application from mr snowden for temporary asylum within russia and although that. will take three months to process in the meantime they will issue mr snowden with documents within the next five days we believe which will allow him to leave the transit zone and walk on russian soil so that's good news for him it's worth noting that on friday when he held that press conference at the airport he did stress he was prepared to accept a pre-condition from russia in order to gain asylum that was he would no longer damage the u.s. i.e. he would not release further documents that could damage the u.s. government is also worth pointing out that he believes that gaining temporary asylum in russia is part of a wider plan he hopes he said to eventually travel to latin america where he has been offered in principle asylum there from three countries venezuela. bolivia as for president putin he has also

up at four pm and police began heavily guarding a first floor area of terminal eat here at sheremetyevo airport it happens to fall just five floors of the meat of the hotel in the terminal where it's reported that edward snowden had been staying for the last month sure enough the police began to congregate and sort of blocking off the area and that is when his advisor moved through the crowd with a paper bag and many believed he had the documentation. on him that's not it was looking for and it turns out he had rocks books by russian authors and some fresh clothes for him and some unfortunate news that he will be needing to stay in the airport for the next couple of days until everything all the t.'s are crossed and the i's are dotted according to that advisor so right now it is still inside the airport and journalists are still waiting with bated breath to get their first glimpse of it here on russian soil and indeed we are lindsey thanks very much indeed for following all the twists and turns of the day for us here and bring us the very latest information from inside here major airport lines

and he said now he's been following the developments at sheremetyevo airport and discussed snowden's requests 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 guest for you was in that meeting but he met with human rights activists duma deputy with prominent lawyers and made this announcement and. we'll hear a little bit more about what exactly you have to say but it seems clear that he's going to ask for this

from rene it's been a very long day waiting for this fateful document to arrive to sheremetyevo airport effectively allowing edward snowden to step out of the confines of the airport after his month long waits and on to officially russian soil now just to give people an idea of what this document means if the federal migration services a formal notification that it is officially considering his bid for temporary asylum so the three month wait that it takes for the federal migration service to reach that that decision will be a free time for him he can move about the country freely that decision will then be reached within three months and he will find out whether or not russia will give him temporary asylum so all indications point to the fact that that document arrived in the hands of the russian lawyer who is the. point an advisor to mr snowden anatoly. and he came into the airport. with it and bag that is reported to to hold some fresh clothes and those all important fresh documents for mr snowden pushing aside the police and the and b. journalists waiting with bated breath near the

as a crucial paperwork has been issued to allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport while we now get the very latest from our correspondent lindsey france who is outside of the airport so lindsay what is the latest on snowden is he about to come out anytime soon. well everything is pointing to that at this point we just saw one of his very close advisers and it's wholly. walking through the journalists and security with a brown paper bag now it's reported according to our sources that some fresh clothes and perhaps those very important documents from the federal. services that would then free edward snowden from the airport and allow him to move about freely within the russian federation might be in that bag that he may have been delivering those just now to edward snowden now as we have been reported before today just an hour ago police began very heavily guarding a certain door on the first floor of sheremetyevo airport here at terminal the area was then sectioned off very quickly and the press was was kept back and then his his advice snowden's advisor showed up w

could it be the end of edward snowden's long isolation here at moscow's sheremetyevo airport his limbo in the transit area here or so we think as best we can tell we've not seen him for two months it seems his options were running out but now after these two weeks two offers possible offers of asylum the first one from venezuela as we heard announced by president nicolas maduro but a single carol i have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar and others and snowden can come and live here away from the persecution of american imperialism another possible offer coming from president daniel ortega of nicaragua he's saying that if the circumstances permitted snowden may be able to go there as well so possibly to safe havens to exit routes for the now famous or infamous depending on how you look at six mass surveillance whistleblower edward snowden's main obstacle really at the moment is the fact that he has no documents that would allow him to travel his passport his u.s. passport having been a know he would need paperwork

temporary asylum after more than three weeks in limbo of it within the transit zone in moscow's sheremetyevo airport. the u.s. government is facing domestic pressure over a court ruling that has sparked public outrage thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in cities all across the united states following the acquittal of george zimmerman a neighborhood watch volunteer in florida who had faced second degree murder charges over the killing of an unarmed black teenager trayvon martin last year now law professor charles rose says that aside from the racial profiling issues in the case it has also highlighted the need for title tighter pardon me gun controls. to the ease with which you could not only purchase a weapon but then use that weapon to defend yourself in the state of florida in approximately twenty other states is really what led to this tragedy not the issue of race i prefer to think that what it gets us in the united states to do is to what we as a nation of immigrants always need to do to talk about how we come together and that asia of race is an issue that's always present withi

snowden's meeting with human rights activists at moscow's sheremetyevo airport sparked anger in washington the u.s. criticized russia for allowing it to happen and again demanded he be handed over or he's got he has more. the white house has basically accused russia of providing quote a propaganda platform for edward snowden this is washington's reaction to edward snowden's meeting with russian human rights activists at the moscow airport take a listen i would simply say that providing a propaganda platform for mr snowden runs counter to the russian government's previous declarations of russia's neutrality and that they have and that they have no control over his presence in the airport it's also incompatible with russian assurances that they do not want. mr snowden to further damage u.s. interests we know that president obama and president putin discussed edward snowden over the phone we don't know how that conversation went but the obama administration's latest statements can give us an idea the state department has earlier reiterated washington's disappointment over snowden's meeting wi

well it does appear that his three week ordeal in the transit area of moscow sheremetyevo airport will soon come to an end and that is because the russian migration service has said it has now received an official application from him for temporary asylum in russia and although that will take three months to process in the meantime we think within probably five days he will be issued documents which will allow him to leave that transit area to pass through passport control and effectively walk on russian soil a free man we do know a couple of things about his application firstly a lawyer that has been consulting with him has said that on that application mr snowden has made it very clear that he feels that he would be tortured if he returned to the u.s. we also know that mr snowden has agreed russia's precondition of giving him asylum and that was that he should no longer damage the u.s. as to snowden has said that he will not harm the u.s. while he is on russian territory this is probably part of a much wider plan for edward snowden even though if he was granted asylum he would be all

seeking refuge in russia breaking almost three weeks of silence as he remains stuck in moscow's sheremetyevo airport the leaker says he's willing to stay in moscow until he can secure a safe passage to latin america where he's been granted asylum by several countries or he's paul scott is following his attempted attempts to escape u.s. prosecution. confirm that russia's federal and migration committee has yet to receive a formal application for asylum from edward snowden this is despite meeting with human rights activists and noise in which he requested assistance in getting to his final destination which is still believed to be latin america of course believe the venezuela nicaragua have suggested they would take him in but is proving very very difficult for him to get. 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 l

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 american people in the here leaders in the. know even the raw lists the president of bolivia has added how did his voice to that list as well it may or may not be connected with the incident with evo morales his plane which had to touch down in austria on his way back from russia a few days ago it's reported after bein

a very important document that will allow him to finally leave this temporary home here at sheremetyevo airport for the last month and move freely about the russian federation for the next three months if he received this form you like this formalized document today sitting at the federal migration services is processing his bid for temporary asylum now at the end of those three months word will will arrive to him whether or not that asylum bid has been approved or turned down now whether the news is favorable or not there is a plan in place let's listen your movies if the russian federal migration service denies mr snowden's request we still have the option of appealing against this decision in court i explained all the legal aspects to edward and he intends to use this right of appeal should there be your fusil mr snowden's planning to settle down here find a job and just adapt to the circumstances that temporary asylum bid if granted would need to be renewed every year indefinitely to stay current so we're here at sheremetyevo airport waiting with bated breath to see whether or not he receiv

issued documents which will have allowed him finally to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport although those documents still to be issued but that should happen shortly as we understand it's also worth noting that this is part of a much wider plan for edward snowden he hopes to use this temporary asylum in russia to allow him to travel on to latin america where he has been offered in principle asylum in three countries if any is way lower. and bolivia and nicaragua so that's something to bear in mind when he's applying for this this is only a temporary solution to the problem the much wider problem has not been solved as yet mr putin took the opportunity to stress that he felt that russia was still not to blame for the fact that edward snowden is now entering its fourth week in that transit zone a sheremeta airport and he said that the blame really should lie at america's door and these are the reasons he gave. you know i'm not sure. we didn't invite edward snowden and russia wasn't his final destination anyway he was in transit but as soon as he began his journey his route wa

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 bolivia that followed spent his whaler earlier president nicolas maduro said that they would offer the whistleblower asylum if you could get them but also look here no i have decided to offer humanitarian in the silence of the young american edward snowden in the homeland of simon bolivar and. and snowden who come and live here away from the curse of fusion 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 snowden was on board and that they reportedly stopped his years and made his plane land because of that he gave a tongue lashing at the time and he has lashed out again now here's your job they think they can humiliate and some jew or spy blackmaili

know well if you go by what snowden said just on friday when he held that press conference at sheremetyevo airport we should not expect the leaks simply because he said he was prepared to accept russia's precondition for asylum and that was he would not damage the u.s. but it is clear he has plenty of information up his sleeve and that was the comment made by the journalists who broke this story on the guardian newspaper he's in possession of literally thousands of documents that contain very specific blueprints that would allow somebody who. to know exactly how the n.s.a. does what it does which would in turn allow their by their to evade that surveillance or to replicate it and that's what i was talking about that he has basically the instruction manual for how the n.s.a. is built. us would be worried into hearing that we also know that. snowden does not intend to stay in russia permanently he hopes to use any asylum granted here as part of a wider plan to then travel to latin america where he has in principle been granted asylum from venezuela bolivia and mickey regular but at the moment we thi

step for edward snowden under andrew right now we have our correspondent maria of moscow's sheremetyevo airport she's joining us now live from where snowden's applied for asylum maria so what's happening that way yaar. well you know today is a breakthrough day in the story of former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden because for the first time he has a chance of possibility to leave the airport where he has been holed up for almost a month now but actually nothing is happening right now it should eventually bought or snowden international airport as journalists call it as andrew has just sad indeed. following snowden's request for a temporary asylum in russia and examination could take up to five months snowden has to be given papers again temporary papers that will allow him to cross the russian border to move freely all around the country and to stay in country for a while until his request is examined and this may happen within the next five days the legal procedure takes up to five days but what exactly these happen is no one can say for sure so far. so andrea back to you now snowden is askin

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

secure it he told russian and international human rights activists of his wishes at moscow's sheremetyevo airport today where he's been stuck in a transit area for more than two weeks with a little later we hope to cross live to our correspondent. who's been there in that transit area and she'll tell us more on what snowden had to say that i hope will be able to do very soon here in r.t. now the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has released edward snowden statement rights groups in moscow and in it the former n.s.a. contractor for assistance in getting asylum in russia and till he can legally travel to latin america. when he underlined that his asylum status is official after 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. snowden stressed he was not in partnership with any foreign government or seeking to enrich himself insisted he is acting sorely out of conviction but the public should know about america's little falls buying activi

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 and try to reach venezuela at three percent of you think it's better for the whistleblower to remain in transit so don't have that further leaks may help him gain support from the european union fifteen percent say snowden should stay and have the kremlin's conditions to stop leaking secret u.s. cables and finally a minority of you believe you should stop hiding as washington will capture him so you know. just to do you get involved and cost you about at home you can go there

to the plight of edward snowden the whistleblower remains in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport however he did manage to talk to representatives of human rights organizations and replaced his bid for refuge here in russia meanwhile guardian journalist glenn greenwald who's been breaking the news about the n.s.a. snooping he claims snowden holds information which would be america's worst nightmare if revealed let's bring in our teams are going to go on this right now joining us live here on this sunday morning arena good to see you so edward snowden a good job a good salary what is it that happened that changed him so much well he pretty much explained it during his meeting with human rights activists in moscow's sheremetyevo airport which incidentally was the first time in almost three weeks that we have even heard from edward snowden until now it was all it was all guesswork where is he what is he doing and what is his next step well the meeting took place during which edward snowden has pretty much described his situation how he was living and what drove him to where he is rig

his search for asylum and blames washington for the whistle blows extended stay at moscow's sheremetyevo airport. outrage in america after the killer of a blank teenager walks free with race i choose heating up i made continuing protests nationwide. and takis in denial with a highly sensitive altie were poor that israel used to take a schmoo tree bays during a recent and strike on neighboring syria. this is all see coming to life for more.