. >> the case of edward stoughton followed obama on thursday. he was asked how far he would go to bring the accused intelligence leader to justice. >> i will not be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. >> obama said he would not damage relations with hong kong, china, or russia just to get snowden. he said there is a bigger issue to tackle, whether the u.s. should be collecting information on every u.s. person's phone and e-mail communication, a program snowden recently leaked to several newspapers. >> i am focused on making sure that we have a healthy, effective debate in the united oures about how we balance security and our privacy concerns, because these programs, which i believe make america safe, helped make america safe, and i believe draw rightpropriate balance, now are generating a lot of questions in the press and in the american public. >> that debate may be getting hotter. on thursday, the guardian newspaper reported that the national security agency had been tracking internet communications since the september 11 attacks. at

will get him even in ecuador and prosecute him twenty seven percent same stoughton had better stay in russia they think his chances may be better in that country of getting. continuing to evade being in u.s. custody twenty seven percent saying only if he doesn't get you near u.s. airspace will he make it to ecuador and to asylum there and the minority ninety percent saying probably you will make it but he should be in hiding along the way just to make sure about that well we're going to be covering this story throughout the day here on r.g.p. coming up soon we're going to be hearing from marty's lindsey friend stationed outside moscow's ecuador embassy with more on the story stay with us after this short break here on r.t. . cut. to. wealthy british style some time to. market. canada. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our t.v. . screens be told language. will programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world's hot spots th

russian officials are vowing to let snowden leave their country freely america's chances of winning stoughton's extradition becoming slimmer and slimmer also in a sweeping ruling this morning the supreme court all but declared that racism in america is a big a blow of equal rights in america suffered and is the supreme court placing too much faith in our nation's do nothing congress and in the wake of the supreme court's voting rights ruling what could be.

later that evening that the tweet was found online by the foreign minister ecuador saying that mr stoughton's a request for asylum was being processed as a rule but now the u.s. and ecuador do have a joint extradition treaty but it does not apply to crimes or offenses of a political character other the u.s. justice department has made no secret of the fact that it will seek cooperation from any government that mr snowden does end up it means you would have also we're hearing reports of it all to you that mr snowden's being accompanied by wiki leaks advisor any truth to that as far as you know. yes it's reported so far that he is being escorted by sarah harrison one of julian assange his closest adviser she's been with the organization for over two years and she has been accompanying him she has helped to orchestrate his safe passage out of hong kong into russia and through to his final destination so it's something that wiki leaks has made no secret of the fact that it is always of course advocated the protection of whistleblowers chilliness on just being sheltered by the ecuador as we speak

rules the world for more information and perspective on how this could affect us beijing relations stoughton's departure sparing though some likely upheaval for hong kong but washington still uneasy about this relationship over and word snowden what do you think are the likely political consequences here. well i think in terms of relations between china and the united states there is unlikely to be much negative consequence i think i mean the americans are really on the back foot in the whole of this they went to the week's summit there was a. bad publicity propaganda against the chinese on the grounds that they were you know the the big rogue player when it came to cyber espionage and then no sooner did that summit get going and oldest news broke and what was revealed what's the most extraordinary exercise in global espionage by the united states which made all the accusations against china look totally hypocritical and you know the question that he's getting out of that america i think going to be very difficult for them and i think the whole mood music around the issue of cyber espionage ha

founder had asked the consul there to issue something that's called a safe travel pass document for stoughton which was not actually authorized by the country's government what is meant in a coach has been has been following the story for us. the wall street journal has recently published information containing diplomatic correspondence with an the door and government and particularly there was information concerning one ecuadorian diplomat who works at the country's embassy in london now it was the diplomat who issued the controversial travel documents for mr snowden and that's a later sparked a lot of debate now according to the car despondence the diplomat who works closely with the weekend leaks julian assange lynch and that information really provoked a lot of thoughts that mr sunshine could be perceived as running the showing that her door and he could actually be in the middle of handling the situation now in response to that mr asuncion said that all that are just another terms to really take away the function from the c. rist exposures there were made to boy mr snowden and really the

russian officials following a lot snowden leave their country freely america's chances of winning stoughton'sxtradition becoming the slimmer and slimmer also in a sweeping ruling this morning the supreme court all but declared that racism in america is big a blow of equal rights in america suffered and is the supreme court placing too much faith in our nation's do nothing congress and in the wake of the supreme court's voting rights ruling what can be done to preserve the.

everyone should go to their local properly titian's and press and demand they step forward and offer mr stoughton asylum in their country it will be telling to see which countries genuinely protect human rights and genuinely protect the privacy of the public so lives talk about this was anything said about edward snowden today. well not in the trial but i can tell you up on the media there. yeah it's impossible not to draw these parallels between bradley vetting edward snowden they're both relatively young they have bradley manning who admitted to one of the largest military leaks in u.s. history snowden now accused or it also admitted to one of the biggest leaks and the national security administration's history so of course. we did hear from snowden trying to said apart from adding saying that he scrutinized the document a little bit more or of was very very careful in terms of what information he released and released the information to kind of drawing that distinction between him and bradley manning but i did speak to the press spokesperson of the bradley manning support network today and he

development was revealed at a press conference by the country's government in the ecuadorian capital stoughton himself remains somewhere in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and of has the latest. he got to russia because originally he was supposed to fly to havana cuba presumably on the way to ecuador that's how he was able to get to russia on a transfer flight he doesn't actually have a visit visa in order to russia and he ran into a few problems number one is that the united states has cancelled his passport so because he missed that original flight to cuba he has to book another one how do you do that without a passport good question the second problem force is there's now issues with ecuador in order to apply for asylum here portly needs to be an ecuadorian soil and actually we did hear from the secretary of political affairs abedi told about this issue at a press conference earlier thursday and here's what she had to say the kodori and government has not authorized and is sort of safe passage document allowing mr snowden to come to a country we also have not considered sn

think that the united states is telling britain to beef up their way six g c h q budgets because as stoughton is revealed britain is basically a spying outpost for the united states and yet the poorest of society have paid for this well mr obama may be telling all its board and david cameron to do just this before the security services. also ahead this hour with strings attached we investigate whether u.s. ally qatar's multi-million dollar fund that supposedly for rebuilding efforts have been all teary emotive that is coming up also. to convene in brussels where you think joblessness on the agenda will bring you more on that quick. it was not only politically motivated in delivering a judgment but it was actually playing a very active role in influencing the band from the ground that's quite a charge for any given court let alone the international criminal court don't you think. when you review all this the very very black and white propositions like absolute indictment. speak your language anything about the war nobody. will use programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you. a l

julian assad said that he suggested stoughton should go to possibly russia south america do you think he's following that advice. it would appear so whether the advice comes from wiki leaks or not certainly their experiences will have been quite similar in recent times so so listening to their advice would make a lot of sense for him in terms of what his his destination of choice is going to be he would have spoken to a lot of people about it i'm sure and those countries you mention are set nehemiah is he would consider. my own guess is given julian assange has own situation that ecuador is obviously a possibility iceland is the other country that has been mentioned including by yourselves of course there it's not quite clear how they would respond to united states pressure while you know more about russia than i do but again i think he might feel that this is the country that would not bow to u.s. pressure because obviously many countries have been in military and political alliances with the u.s. over recent years are unlikely. to give safe harbor to to someone like edward snowden e

russian officials vowing to let snowden leave their country freely america's chances of winning stoughton's extradition becoming slimmer and slimmer also in a sweeping ruling this morning the supreme court all but declared that racism in america is how big a blow of equal rights in america suffered and is the supreme court placing too much faith in our nation's do nothing congress and in the wake of the supreme court's voting rights ruling what can be done to preserve the legacy of our nation's founders and the integrity of our democratic republic. we do know this russian president vladimir putin announced earlier today that edward snowden is still inside the transit zone of moscow's international airport speaking in finland putin said that despite claims from u.s. officials russia has nothing to do snowden's plans and he reiterated that russia would not be extradited snowden to the u.s. the russian president told reporters that as regards handing him in we can hand over foreign nationals only to a country with which we have an agreement about handing over criminals we do not have such an a